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Painting on crosswalk a fowl idea City says no to road art near Sullivan’s Pond Yvette d’Entremont Metro | Halifax
It was a case of not having their ducks — or even geese, for that matter — lined up in a row.
Tim Rissesco, executive director of the Downtown Dartmouth Business Commission, lamented on Twitter this week that municipal traffic engineers wouldn’t allow ducks — others wanted geese — to be painted on the crosswalk near Sullivan’s Pond, due to safety concerns. This led to a Twitter discussion about safety, urban art, advertising billboards, and a failed proposal to have geese painted on the same crosswalk.
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The municipality hadn’t received a formal request to paint fowl on the crosswalk in question, but city spokesman Brendan Elliot said a Dartmouth resident had called to ask if such a project would be possible. He said the municipality’s response was they wouldn’t support the use of non-standard markings or graphics for that particular marked crosswalk. “We have our Heads Up Halifax campaign where there’s a
recognition within the municipality that drivers and pedestrians are not necessarily the best at using these crosswalks properly,” Elliot said. “Anything we can do to make it a predictable and safe part of the road for both pedestrians and motorists we will do.” A set of guidelines dictates where public street art can go. Permission is given only to streets or intersections with less than 2,500 cars per day and no
streets with bus routes will be considered. Contacted by phone Thursday, Rissesco said he had changed his stance on the issue overnight after learning more about crosswalk safety and marking guidelines. “The hard part is balancing the whimsical with important safety considerations.. We would never want to see the public endangered,” he said. “We will find other places to do public art.”
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Two incidents reported on city transit buses in a week Philip Croucher
Metro | Halifax You can’t help but get itchy just thinking about it. Halifax Transit says a second complaint of a bed bug on a city bus has come in, one day after a reported bed-bug sighting by a passenger on Monday. Tiffany Chase, a city spokeswoman, said a caller to 311 on Thursday morning reported someone had come across a bed bug while taking the No. 7 bus on Wednesday. In the first incident reported, Jason Johnson said he took a photo of the bug Monday on a Halifax Transit bus — then bolted home, stripped down in the snow and put his clothes in bags, fearing they might be contaminated with the biting, blood-loving pests or their eggs. Chase said both of these buses — the other was the MacKay bridge shuttle — have been
Following an incident on Monday, a second bed-bug report was filed by a Halifax Transit commuter Thursday morning while riding along the No. 7 bus route. jeff harper/metro
pulled from service and will be fumigated as a precaution. “We’ve asked to conduct visual checks until we’re sure that it’s not a widespread issue. And we don’t think it is,” she added about the remaining fleet in service. The union president for transit operators in Halifax says he’s
You could fumigate every bus tomorrow and they could (still) show up every day. Ken Wilson
not “overly shocked” to learn of bed bugs on city buses but is concerned neither he nor his operators were told when it first happened. Ken Wilson, president of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 508, said on Thursday he learned about the first bed-bug complaint through the media on Wednesday. He said he’s had no complaints from any of his drivers directly, but through social media, has
noted they are concerned and worried about taking the hitchhiking insects home with them. “It’s no emergency, but it’s something that should be addressed,” Wilson said. Wilson said buses are swept only at the end of every day. A full cleaning is done every 90 days. “It’s going to keep happening,” Wilson said, adding there’s not much that can be done considering the amount of people coming on and off buses and ferries.
Amalgamated Transit Union Local 508 president Ken Wilson. Metro file
As the United States National Weather Service expands a blizzard watch for a storm that could “cripple” travel on the eastern seaboard this weekend, Environment Canada says its impact on Nova Scotia is still too early to predict with certainty. “We are still on the fence right now in terms of what to expect,” Environment Canada meteorologist Tracey Talbot said Thursday afternoon. Talbot said models are trending towards the storm remaining off the Atlantic coast. If the southerly tracking trend continues, she’d expect little more than significant cloud cover, some wind along the coast, and maybe just a “dusting” of snow. “If it tracks significantly further north it could be significant (snow), but as of right now we might not even get a dusting from it with this current track,” she said. The storm is still several days away, but Talbot said Environment Canada is closely monitoring its track. She expects a much clearer picture to emerge by Saturday morning and advises people to keep an eye on local forecasts. If the storm does impact the province, it would happen overnight Saturday into Sunday. “If this thing does change its track, it could bring us some significant weather for that time frame,” she said.
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Meet the District 6 candidates Residents of Harbourview-Burnside-Dartmouth East are heading to the polls Saturday. Here are the people running to represent the region. Zane Woodford
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People in District 6 head to the polls Saturday to send a new regional councillor to city hall. Harbourview-Burnside-Dartmouth East has gone without representation since August, when then-councillor, now-MP Darren Fisher took a leave of absence to run in the federal election. He officially resigned after winning the Dartmouth-Cole Harbour riding at the end of October. Fisher first won the seat on council in a 2009 byelection after now-MLA Andrew Younger resigned to join the legislature. He was re-elected in 2012 with nearly 70 per cent of the vote over Jerry Pye. Voter turnout in the district in that election was about 35 per cent. District 6 includes Dartmouth North, Shannon Park and Burnside, and stretches east to include Lake Mic Mac and the community southeast to Portland Street between Spring Avenue and the Circumferential. Metro asked each of the candidates why people in those communities should vote for them.
to be a strong representative for all residents of District 6. Visit www.donsmeltzer.ca for more information.
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Tony Mancini’s pitch: The people of District 6 should vote for me because I will base my decisions and priorities on what works best for the community; the councillor role is a job I want, not one I need; I have been a long-time volunteer with District 6 schools, scouting, youth, neighbours and community bodies; I have experience in bringing people together to find a common consensus; I can handle the high volume of workflow of the councillor; and I will strive to make HRM more walkable and bikeable. I will work on the right issues for the right reasons so we get the right things accomplished.
Don Smeltzer
Paul Boyd
Matt Spurway’s pitch: District 6 is a collection of diverse communities, and I have experience working with — and for — all of them. I have a clear list of priorities and goals based on affordability, livability, inclusion, and better communication with residents. I don’t take a go-along to get-along approach and I don’t stand on the fringes complaining. I get things done, and I’m committed to not leaving between elections to run for another political office. I have an immense pride in Dartmouth, and a firm belief that we can do better by asking hard questions, listening to different perspectives, and working together.
where to go Looking to vote at polls? These four polls will be open Election Day in Dartmouth.
Don Smeltzer’s pitch: Paul Boyd’s pitch: I have been a resident of Dartmouth since 2003 and have been involved in politics since running for council in 1999. I am currently employed as an owner/ operator for Bob’s Taxi and enjoy the opportunity it gives me to talk with all sorts of people. I am a grassroots candidate. I have experience and know how things work. I have proven my desire to improve lives and be a warrior in the community. I have done much from outside government and now is the time for the people to stand up for me as I have always stood up for them. We can do it.
Why Vote for Don Smeltzer? Because Don is the most qualified candidate running for council. His accomplishments as an educator and municipal management consultant are widely recognized. He is sincere and has the experience, knowledge, education and integrity to represent District 6 on Council. Don is also a small business owner and he understands the challenges. Most important, he is passionate about the need for municipal government that is transparent, accountable, participatory and inclusive. With Don’s background, he can hit the ground running
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Province approves proposal for underground gas storage An underground natural-gas of the project. storage facility proposed for “We wanted to have a refcentral Nova Scotia has been erendum with my community given the green light by the before them going forward,” province over the objections of said Indian Brook Chief Rufus two First Nations bands, who Copage. “It seems that no matsay they haven’t been properly ter what we say they are going consulted on the project. forward anyway.” The project by Alton NatBob Gloade, chief of the Millural Gas Storage brook First Nawas put on hold tion, said he was in late 2014 after also disappointed Mi’kmaq protestby the approval. You can talk ers complained He said the inthat the com- consultation but formation from pany had failed that doesn’t mean a scientific study to consult with was not given to consent. the local indigenhis band until Indian Brook Chief ous community. Dec. 17 and they Some environwere pressed for Rufus Copage mentalists and a response the the bands in next day. nearby Millbrook and Indian “That did not give us sufBrook also raised concerns ficient time to look at it, conabout the potential impact on sider it or even take it to disthe Shubenacadie River and cussion with our community members,” said Gloade. indigenous title. On Thursday the chiefs for The project calls for Alton both reserves said nothing had to develop three salt caverns changed, despite the province about 1,000 metres undersaying it had consulted with ground that would be linked the Assembly of Nova Scotia by pipeline to the nearby MariMi’kmaq Chiefs and was grant- times and Northeast pipeline. ing approval for the next phase Both bands say they have
concerns about the effects of salt being released into the river, which is home to fish including striped bass, salmon and eel. Energy Minister Michel Samson said the government believes scientific information has shown the project is safe and doesn’t threaten the environment. Samson also said he was satisfied the province had fulfilled its duty to consult with the Mi’kmaq, despite the fact referendums have not been held in Millbrook and in Indian Brook. “We have an established process here in the province.… The request to have a referendum on the First Nations is not part of that process and has never been.” Samson said although Indian Brook did not take part in the formal consultation process over the past 18 months, they were on hand as observers. He also said he had a twohour meeting with the chief and band council as part of wider discussions. THE CANADIAN PRESS
Major Alison Cowling, divisional commander of the Salvation Army Maritime Division, speaks with Minister Mark Furey during an announcement on Thursday. Jeff Harper/Metro
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Heating fund opened to more Nova Scotians Haley Ryan
Metro | Halifax Changes to eligibility for an emergency-heating fund mean more people can stay warm this winter, says the Salvation Army. On Thursday, Service Nova Scotia Minister Mark Furey announced the province will continue as they have for the past three years in providing up to $800,000 for the Salvation Army’s Good Neighbour Energy Fund, which helps low-income families heat their homes in emergency situations. Furey said those seeking as-
sistance can now qualify every two years for the fund, rather than every three as in previous winters. “We believe that the changes we made will have a positive impact in the sense that we’ll see more people applying,” Furey said after the event at the Herring Cove Road Salvation Army location. “There’s a greater need for accessibility.” The government funds are provided in two $400,000 instalments, with the first going to the Salvation Army in the next few days, and the second whenever additional funding is required. Furey said people are only eligible every two years for the fund, which provides a onetime $400 payment, because “we have to serve all Nova Scotians who experience emergency heating needs.” The fund runs from Jan. 15 to
April 15, and 1,757 homes last year were provided with heat through means like electricity, oil, or wood chips. The Salvation Army predicts about 2,200 people could receive assistance this winter with the new eligibility. Major Alison Cowling, divisional commander for the Salvation Army, said although families can’t receive the fund if they had it last year, someone in desperate need of help could meet with a case worker and find assistance some other way. Some might also qualify for the province’s Heating Assistance Rebate Program (HARP) to help with up to $200 of heating costs. “The financial situation of many of our families … (is) becoming worse, and more people are relying on organizations like the Salvation Army to help them in times of need,” Cowling said.
IN BRIEF Pedestrian hit by transport truck on highway ramp A 63-year-old man ended up with minor injuries after being hit by a transport truck while walking along a Halifax-area off-ramp early Wednesday, police said. The pedestrian, who is from Lower Sackville, was struck near Exit 2 off Highway 101 at about 6:20 a.m., according to a Halifax RCMP news release issued Thursday afternoon. The police investigation shows that the man’s left arm was hit by the mirror of the tractor-trailer, the news
release said. Charges aren’t expected at this point, police said. Metro
Report into prisoner escape expected soon A government report into the recent escape of a prisoner during a vehicle transfer behind the Truro Justice Centre could be available in coming days. “It’s coming. I don’t want to put a timeline on it, but we’ve been saying soon,” said Justice Department spokeswoman Chrissy Matheson, who added the
report could be released as soon as next week. Marc Joseph Pellerin, 43, escaped the custody of sheriff’s deputies during a transfer from one vehicle to another on Dec. 4 while being transported from custody in New Brunswick for a court hearing in Halifax. Pellerin bolted and escaped from the four sheriff’s deputies during a planned changeover from one van to another in the parking lot of the provincial justice centre in Truro. TC Media
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Spirits are high and whiskey is a go with Boys back in town Zane Woodford
Metro | Halifax The lineup stretched out the door and the pungent smell of marijuana drifted through the air as eager fans showed up at the NSLC to see the Trailer Park Boys on Thursday. The boys — Ricky, Julian and Bubbles — were at the Bayers Lake liquor store for a couple hours to talk to fans, share samples and sign bottles of their new hooch: “dirty, greasy, sassy” Liquormen’s Ol’ Dirty Whiskey. The boys teamed up with Dartmouth Spirits Inc. to make the booze, now being sold in Newfoundland and Nova Scotia. Bubbles said it wasn’t a tough decision to go ahead with the new venture. “These people came and said, ‘Do you wanna have a liquor with you guys on it?’ We said, ‘Yes, get ‘er goin’.’” “They gave us a bunch of free samples and we picked the best one,” said Ricky. “We’re supposed to get a free bottle each for doin’ this so that’s pretty cool.… Gettin’ drunk tonight.”
Darren Moreash shows the Trailer Park Boys a marionette he made during liquor signing at the Bayers Lake NSLC on Thursday. Jeff Harper/Metro
Julian — whose character typically handles the finances in the boys’ legal and illegal ventures — said he wasn’t quite sure what they’d do with any profits from sales of the liquor. “We gotta sell a s--t ton of it to make some money off this stuff,” he said. “Hopefully we’ll get it across Canada and the
These people came to us and said, ‘Do you wanna have a liquor with you guys on it?’ We said, ‘Yes get ‘er goin’.’ Bubbles from the Trailer Park Boys
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If we make changes that promote efficiency while ensuring safety, it’ll allow all groups ... to enjoy the roads. Halifax Cycling Coalition board member Paul Calderhead
Gregory MacDonald breaks in some new longboard wheels by heading down Citadel Hill last year in this file photo. Jeff Harper/Metro
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Halifax active transportation groups aiming to update rules Haley Ryan
Metro | Halifax There’s no penalty in Nova Scotia for opening a car door into a cyclist, and skateboarders must stick to the sidewalk — just two of many issues the Halifax Cycling Coalition
(HCC) and other transportation groups want to change. On Thursday evening, the HCC, Walk ‘n’ Roll Halifax, Ecology Action Centre, It’s More Than Buses and Bicycle Nova Scotia, were set to host a public session at the Halifax Central Library to gather feedback about possible amendments to the Motor Vehicle Act. “If we make changes that promote efficiency while ensuring safety, it’ll allow all groups … to enjoy the roads,” HCC board member Paul Calderhead said Thursday. Calderhead said the groups
have about 40 amendments they would like to get opinions on in hopes of narrowing them down and eventually taking them to the province’s transportation minister this spring or fall. Some ideas include increasing fines for distracted driving and creating penalties both for drivers who cross right in front of cyclists, and bikers who try to overtake a car on the inside that’s turning right. One proposal would also allow cyclists to treat four-way stops as a yield sign, a.k.a., the Idaho stop.
While there can be a feeling of hostility between cyclists and drivers in the city, Calderhead said a “large part” is simply not knowing what the rules are. They’d especially like to hear from skateboaders and longboarders, Calderhead said, since those people are stuck in “limbo” not being allowed to use the roadway, but must stay on sidewalks. Halifax MLA — and longboader — Joachim Stroink said having conversations about active transportation with all types of people is the best way forward.
“I feel way safer on the road on my longboard than on my bike, but people who don’t understand that say, ‘Oh no, that’s way more dangerous,’ and it’s not,” Stroink said. Amending the act to encourage active transportation will only become more vital as our culture shifts away from vehicles, Stroink said. “For the next generation, a car is no longer a status symbol … They’re going to be used to people being more active,” Stroink said. “It’s all about enhancing our city.”
ON THE TABLE Some other proposed amendments include: Letting municipalities post speed limits below 50 km/h outside school zones. Increasing the distance cars must stop before a crosswalk. Having cyclists cross the road at trail crossings without dismounting.
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Actor Lenore Zann thought she left Hollywood behind when she ran for the provincial NDP in Nova Scotia, but her welcome to politics was straight out of a celebrity gossip tabloid. Zann had been on the campaign trail for less than a day in 2009 when a Liberal party volunteer tried to sabotage her chances by leaking a topless photo of her from a gig on the racy lesbian drama “The L Word.” The stunt failed, the volunteer was fired, and voters overwhelmingly elected Zann to the legislature, where she hopes to return this spring as the NDP’s newest leader after a leadership convention next month. “If you’re an actor, you have to develop somewhat of a thick skin,” says Zann, 56, now in her second term as a member of the legislature. To fans of the slasher flick genre, Zann is considered Canada’s very own scream queen, with a number of 1980s cult classics under her belt, including “Happy Birthday to Me,” in which an elite clique of high school students are slaughtered in gruesome ways. In “Visiting Hours,” which also stars fellow Canadian William Shatner, Zann plays a spunky young woman murdered by a misogynistic killer stalking a psychiatric hospital. But Zann has no airs at Canada’s oldest legislature in Halifax, where she represents TruroBible Hill-Millbrook-Salmon River — the blue-collar riding where she spent her youth. Born in Sydney, Australia, to educator parents, Zann was a child when her family moved to Canada’s East Coast and settled in Truro, a town of about 12,000 an hour’s drive north of Halifax. By the age of 17, Zann was acting professionally at Halifax’s Neptune Theatre and later studied drama and political science at York University in Toronto. She has more than 100 credits in television, film and theatre — everything from guest starring on the procedural drama “Law and Order” to voicing the char-
Lenore Zann today, as an MLA. andrew vaughan/the canadian press
THE COMPETITION OTHER HOPEFULS Gary Burrill and Dave Wilson are also vying to be the next leader of the Nova Scotia NDP. Here are some things to know about each candidate: Gary Burrill The 60-year-old ordained United Church minister is a New Brunswick native who has also worked as an author and an educator. He was elected in the 2009 provincial election to the riding of ColchesterMusquodoboit Valley, a long-time Progressive Conservative stronghold. His pitch: “We need to make a long-term investment in our people and their skills knowing that it will not pay us back within the electoral cycle but that it will begin to pay serious dividends within the space of a generation.”
Dave Wilson Wilson was born in smalltown Quebec but moved as a child to Sackville. Wilson has the most experience of his leadership rivals, having first been elected to the riding of SackvilleCobequid in 2003. His pitch: “We need to get the confidence back of Nova Scotians and that’s, I believe, going to be a hard road and it could be a long road. But I think working together in party renewal is a key component to the new leader, making sure that our members believe in ourselves again.”
acter of Rogue in “X-Men: The Animated Series.” Zann counts “The Marilyn Tapes,” an offBroadway musical she wrote on the life of Marilyn Monroe, among her personal favourites. “I got a good review in the New York Times and that was very exciting,” she says, sitting
in her older home filled with books of poetry, plays and biographies that she shares with her two Shih Tzus, Aayla and Ruby. She hasn’t acted since her first year as an elected politician, she sold her homes in other cities and is a fixture in her constituency where she runs a Shakespearean theatre program during the summer and attends fish-and-chips dinners with her father at the local legion. “There is no ulterior motive behind this,” Zann says in her raspy lilt. “I don’t care about riches. I don’t care about fame.”
If people underestimate me, it’s just because they don’t know me. They might look and see the facade, but I’m much deeper than that. Which is why Hollywood couldn’t contain me, to be honest.
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Canada Burkina Faso attacks
Hanging up ‘felt good’: Victim’s husband
Maude Carrier was among the six Quebecers who were killed in the terrorist attack in Burkina Faso. Carrier’s husband says he hung up on Justin Trudeau when the prime minister called him earlier this week. Facebook.com
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‘Great’ meeting in Paris, says Prime Minister Netanyahu Benjamin Netanyahu, long seen as a close friend and ally of Stephen Harper, says he has since struck up a very good relationship with the former prime minister’s new Liberal successor. The Israeli prime minister, in Davos this week for the World Economic Forum, said he and Justin Trudeau had a “great” meeting at an earlier international gathering in Paris. “We have a very, very good relationship,” Netanyahu said. Strong, unwavering support of Israel was long a foreign policy pillar for the Conservative government under Harper, who in Israel in 2014 famously promised that Canada would stand with the Jewish
state through fire and water. Trudeau has pledged similar support for Israel, although he is greeted with skepticism from some corners of Israeli supporters in Canada. Not so Netanyahu, who insisted he has no misgivings about the Liberals. That’s even after Trudeau promised to pull Canadian fighter jets out of the battle against the militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) — a decision the Israeli leader insisted Thursday was entirely Canada’s to make. The conflicts in the Middle East have come up repeatedly at the Davos meeting, including minutes before Trudeau took the stage Wednesday for his keynote address. Iran’s foreign minister, sitting on the same stage Trudeau and Netanyahu would each soon occupy, argued there was no military solution to the crisis, only a political one. The Canadian Press
Federal Budget
Tax-bracket changes will cost feds: Study The Liberals’ tax-bracket chan- to different assumptions. ges will drain on average about The main difference be$100 million more per year from tween the two projections is the public treasury the fact that the Finance Departthan the government expects, says ment’s calculations a new analysis by do not take into the federal budget account the fiscal watchdog. impact of the LibEffective 2016, the But the parlia- government eral vow to cancel mentary budget lowered the income- income splitting office said the dis- tax rate to 20.5 per for families with crepancy between cent, from 22 per kids, said Mostafa its numbers and cent, on people Askari, the assistearning between those of the federal $45,282 and ant parliamentFinance Department $90,563 per year. ary budget officer. largely came down The Canadian Press
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The husband of one of the Quebecers killed in the Burkina Faso terrorist attack says hanging up on Justin Trudeau ”felt good” after the prime minister called him earlier this week. Yves Richard told Montreal radio station 98.5 FM on Thursday he was frustrated in the hours after last week’s tragedy with what he called Global Affairs Canada’s lack of tact and empathy. He did say the situation has
since improved and that the families of victims are being treated better. But Richard was not impressed with Trudeau when the prime minister rang him up Monday, three days after the attack that killed his wife, Maude Carrier, and five other Quebecers. “My prime minister called me and began speaking in such a canned manner, wishing me good luck, offering me his con-
dolences and talking about them as a source of Canadian pride,” he said. “That’s when I told him to stop his political blabbing. “If he’s going to call me, then at least he should know who the Carriers are. It wasn’t out of Canadian pride that they were doing what they were doing but rather because they were basically good people.” The six were on a humanitarian mission in Burkina Faso’s
capital of Ouagadougou when al-Qaida carried out the attack. Four of the dead were from the same family: Yves Carrier, his wife Gladys Chamberland, their adult son Charlelie Carrier as well as Maude, Yves Carrier’s daughter. Richard said his conversation with Trudeau ended with him telling the prime minister to go hug his wife and children. “Then I hung up on him and it felt good.” The Canadian Press
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atures from the burning of fossil fuels has accelerated glacial melting in Bolivia. As Andean glaciers disappear, so do the sources of Poopo’s water. But other factors are in play in the demise of Bolivia’s second-largest body of water (behind Lake Titicaca). Overturned fishing skiffs lie Drought caused by the reabandoned on the shores of current El Nino meteorological what was Bolivia’s second-largest phenomenon is considered the lake. Beetles dine on bird car- main driver. Authorities say ancasses and gulls fight for scraps other factor is the diversion of under a glaring sun in what water from Poopo’s tributaries, marshes remain. mostly for minLake Poopo was ing but also for officially declared agriculture. evaporated last More than Something could 100 families month. Hundreds, if not thousands, have been done have sold their of people have lost to prevent the sheep, llamas their livelihoods and alpaca, set disaster. and left. aside their fishAngel Flores High on Boliving nets and quit ia’s semi-arid Anthe former lakedean plains at 3,700 metres and side village of Untavi over the long subject to climatic whims, past three years, draining it of the shallow saline lake has es- well over half its population. sentially dried up before, only Only the elderly remain. to rebound to twice the area of “There’s no future here,” said Los Angeles. 29-year-old Juvenal Gutierrez, But recovery may no longer who moved to a nearby town be possible, scientists say. where he ekes by as a motor“This is a picture of the future cycle taxi driver. of climate change,” says Dirk Record-keeping on the lake’s Hoffman, a German glaciologist history only goes back a century, who studies how rising temper- and there is no good tally of
Expert ties loss of large body of water to climate change
A fisherman walks along the abandoned boats in the dried-up Lake Poopo — once the country’s second-largest lake — on the outskirts of Untavi, Bolivia. Felix Rojas, 78, who has paid his children’s education from fishing in Lake Poopo, doesn’t know what the future holds. A boy swats away mosquitoes in Untavi, near the shores of Lake Poopo, which was officially declared evaporated in December 2015. the people displaced by its disappearance. At least 3,250 people have received humanitarian aid, the governor’s office says. Poopo is now down to two per cent of its former water level, regional Gov. Victor Hugo Vasquez calculates. Its maximum depth once reached five metres.
Field biologists say 75 species of birds are gone from the lake. The head of a local citizens’ group that tried to save Poopo, Angel Flores, says authorities ignored warnings. “Something could have been done to prevent the disaster. Mining companies have been
diverting water since 1982,” he said. Environmentalists and local activists say the government mismanaged fragile water resources and ignored rampant pollution from mining, Bolivia’s second export earner after natural gas. the associated press
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Mos Def’s arrest in South Africa shined a light on the world passport, a document invented by a Vermont man in the aftermath of the Second World War. The 42-year-old rapper and actor, who is also known as Yasiin Bey, was accused of trying to leave South Africa while using a passport not recognized by that country. Mos Def has been living in South Africa for almost three years and had used a U.S. pass-
port when previously entering and leaving the country. He was arrested when he tried to leave Jan. 14 using a passport issued by the World Service Authority. Q: What is a world passport? A: The world passport is a machine readable travel document that resembles traditional passports issued by most nations of the world. The passports are now administered by a Washingtonbased non-profit called the World
Service Authority. Q: What is its history? A: In 1948, Garry Davis, a former Broadway actor and a former bomber pilot in the Second World War, renounced his U.S. citizenship and declared himself a “citizen of the world.” In 1953 in Ellworth, Maine, Davis declared the founding of the World Government of World Citizens. Q: Which states recognize it?
A: It’s unclear. The World Service Authority website lists 183 countries that the organization claims have recognized the passports by stamping a visa or exit or entry stamp in them. Q: How do you get one? A: Passport-seekers can fill out applications on the World Service Authority website. A 10year passport costs $100, plus shipping and handling. The associated press
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U.S. drivers brace for snowstorm Drivers in the Washington, D.C. area spent hours in icy gridlock ahead of heavy snowfall that’s predicted to arrive by the weekend from the Appalachian Mountains to Philadelphia and maybe farther north. On Thursday morning, Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe issued a state of emergency and said people should “take the threat of this storm seriously.” He warned of travel disruptions and power outages. McAuliffe said crews are treating roads before the weekend storm hits, but state transportation officials urged drivers to stay off the roads. Treated roads were clear, but some elevated roads, ramps and side streets were icy with drivers creeping along. In northern Virginia, minor accidents built to gridlock, and ramp closures continued through the night, Virginia Department of Transportation spokeswoman Jennifer McCord said. State police responded to 767 crashes over a 24-hour period ending early Thursday, and two troopers were involved in accidents, spokeswoman Corinne Geller said. The National Weather Service said in a statement Wednesday that up to 40 centimetres of snow could come down between Friday night and Sunday morning in the region. The storm will bring ice and freezing rain to Arkansas, Tennessee and Kentucky starting Thursday, prediction centre meteorologist Rich Otto said. the associated press
767 Virginia state police say the icy conditions resulted in 767 crashes over a 24-hour period ending Thursday morning.
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Fuel surcharges persist as oil slides The price of crude oil has plum- more than the loonie has. meted about 41 per cent since The Canadian dollar has this time last year, but many decreased in value by about companies, from airlines to 11 per cent compared to the couriers, continue to levy a greenback since January 2015, hefty fuel surcharge for their whereas the price of benchservices. mark WTI crude has tumbled Consumer groups are com- more than 40 per cent — from plaining that companies should about $48 a barrel to $28. be passing along the savings. With almost every major “It’s absolutely uncon- carrier in North America seescionable,” said Bruce Cran, ing record load factors there is president of the Consumers little or no incentive to reduce Association of Canada. prices, said Jason du Sautoy, Although executive directhese charges tor of the travare focused in el agency Flight the transporCentre Canada. tation indus- Who wants to blink “Who wants try, they ripple first and get rid of to blink first t h r o u g h t h e surcharges … and a n d g e t r i d surcharges economy and then attempt to of to gain mar“end up on our bring them back ket share, and dinner plates and everywhere then attempt again later? else,” he said. to bring them Jason du Sautoy, “The airback again Flight Centre Canada line one sticks later?” he said. in our craw. It Airlines doesn’t make any sense at all.” aren’t the only companies that Air Canada rolled fuel costs pile on a fuel fee. Canada Post into its base fare for North first slapped a 2.25-per cent American flights in 2008, when surtax on the delivery price of the price of West Texas Inter- parcels and packages in 2003. mediate crude was $137 US per Taxis and limos serving Tobarrel and rising. It introduced ronto’s Pearson airport began a fuel surcharge on internation- to charge based on the average al flights six years earlier. price of gas per litre in 2008. Crude is now under $30 US The Freight Carriers Associaa barrel. Yet even now Air Can- tion of Canada recommends a ada and a host of other com- fuel surcharge for the trucking panies have a fuel surcharge. industry, but each company Air Canada has blamed the sets their own rates. weak loonie, saying it has to Canadian Pacific and Canbuy fuel with U.S. dollars. But adian National railways imAmbarish Chandra, an econom- pose a fuel surcharge based ics professor at the University on the average price of U.S. of Toronto, says their argument Energy Information Adminisdoesn’t hold up because the tration diesel. price of oil has fallen much TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE Lawsuit
Publications target of Playboy lawsuit Playboy has filed a lawsuit against two Canadian publications alleging they illegally reproduced revealing photographs of supermodel Kate Moss taken for the U.S. magazine’s 60th anniversary. The copyright suit against Toronto-based Contempo Media and Montreal’s Indecent Xposure seeks up to $50,000 in damages from each outlet. Word of the claim took Nick Younes, founder of Indecent Xposure, by surprise. “Oh, wow!” Younes said Thursday. “It’s just very surprising that a big company like Playboy would crack down on small publications like us.” Indecent Xposure publishes the online IX Daily, which features articles on fashion,
music and culture in Canada. One such article was on the Kate Moss spread two years ago in Playboy. At the time, he said, the webzine was making no money and it took down the offending material as soon as Playboy objected in mid-2014. Younes said he believes the news article, which credited the images, was in line with Canadian copyright laws. THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Canada spreads deficit message World Economic Forum
Ministers tell countries to spend way out of downturn Canada’s plea to its international counterparts to open their wallets and spend their way out of a worsening global economic slump is resonating among the world’s economic power brokers.
At a time when some countries are looking at austerity to help them pull through a shaky economy, Canadian cabinet ministers have been telling anyone they meet at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum that deficits are the way out of the downturn. “Interest rates are at historic lows. We can make significant investments because we have that, plus an opportunity with our low amount of debt, especially in comparison with other countries,” Finance Minister
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Canada’s economic development minister says the federal government has received no firm commitments from General Motors about the future of its plant in Oshawa, Ont. Navdeep Bains spoke with Mary Barra, CEO of General Motors Company, before her closed-door meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Bains said the govern ment made the case for GM to keep its plant open, trying to play up Canada as a high-tech hub.
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‘Clean eating’ based on faith, not solid science Genna Buck
Metro | Toronto Many of today’s popular brand-name diets can be boiled down to a list of rules that start with “Thou shalt not.” As the new year’s dieting season drags on, every bookstore shelf and morning TV show has self-styled experts advocating all-out bans on whole categories of foods, all in the name of “clean eating.” I’d love to be able to quickly and efficiently debunk “clean eating,” but I can’t. It has no precise definition. What’s “clean” to a bodybuilder may not be to a paleo person. One “clean” regimen du jour is premised on the theory that wheat and dairy (and sometimes other stuff, depending on the specific strain of dubious science) cause a vague but scary-sounding inflammation.
If you believe some foods are “clean,” then others must be “unclean.” And that is a very, very old idea. Dairy and wheat, to the dairy-and-wheatfree crowd, aren’t unclean in any real-world way. They’re ritually unclean, like pork is to observant Jewish folks. And what do faith-based food restrictions do? They identify you with a tribe, whose members support and motivate you to stick with their rules, and shame you if you don’t. Modern-day food tribes — like the Bulletproof crowd, the Whole 30 club, the Wheat Belly people — fill the same role. If one of these programs is helping you build good habits and eat less junk food: Awesome. But know this: Almost no nutrition science is solid enough to indicate that anything — except trans fats — should be cut from healthy adults’ diets entirely. Last week, Julia Belluz at
Vox compiled a list of all the things that make nutrition research bloody difficult and expensive. First, it’s maddeningly individual. Different people respond differently to the same diet. People also don’t stick to diets, even when they’re told to as part of a study. Few researchers follow subjects more than a few weeks, which means the outcomes that are being measured are things like short-term changes in blood pressure, not, say, long-term incidence of heart disease. Observational studies, which rely on people’s reports of what they eat, are full of confounding factors that can’t all be accounted for. An increased recognition of these limitations is part of why conventional nutrition wisdom has about-faced on fat. That said, in general, author Michael Pollan’s advice (“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”) holds up in light of what evidence we have. To
my knowledge, there’s never been a study showing fresh vegetables are bad for you. Sugar isn’t poison. Your body can handle the occasional calorie wallop in the form of a large Coke, but don’t push your luck. Refined flour has a well-deserved bad rap, but whole grains are yummy and good for you. Minimize your consumption of additives and preservatives and what-not, not because they’re poison (your kidneys have your back), but because you can do better by choosing whole foods most of the time. The best advice is moderation, McGill nutrition professor Linda Wykes told me. If you dream of deep-fried Mars Bars, you can indulge once in a while without worry. Thank the higher power of your choice for that. Genna Buck is a science writer and a section editor at Metro. Follow her on Twitter @genna_buck.
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How to be a 21stcentury woman: The Instagram edition How to be a woman on Instagram. A bare ass is a good look. A young bare ass. Perky yet squishy, like baby’s cheeks. Wear a thong or transparent panties, high-end lingerie, and tag the designer. That’s a repost and hundreds more followers, easy. #lace. Right angle, right lighting. Framing is everything. My face is not great, so I only take outdoor selfies in the winter when the sun’s at three o’clock and my arm’s at a 66-degree angle. Write one supportive message every three and a half days: “Believe in yourself! All women are strong and powerful!! Love you guys! (Emoji, emoji.)” It might take 100 tries and I have carpal tunnel now, but no one said Instagram would be easy. My volleyball coach always said: “Perfect practice makes perfect.” I say: “Perfect perfect perfect perfect.” You’re the sum of your parts, you know? It’s not just this one round ass — it’s the body of your work, the complete work of your body. If I take a cleavage shot in an oversized men’s shirt while perching on the edge of a bed with rustled sheets — I’m not doing that tomorrow. One cleave shot a week. I’ll do a #greenisgood smoothie or an elevator selfie with my new Marc Jacobs
handbag. A yoga pose, a cut avocado (“Brunch!”). Stuff that’s real. Pre- and post-pregnancy bellies are huge right now. Also, post-breast-job shots with bandages. How will people know it’s really real? That’s not the point. Take that young, hot Argentinean artist, the one who’s now an art star. She was posting all these photos on Instagram and taking on all these personae — workout streetwear chick, frilly innocent-face-girl, post-boobjob vixen. It was all about her in Los Angeles, making it in the city, and people loved it. Thousands of followers. But turned out, it was all an act. It was art. For five months, she was pretending to be real on Instagram, to show the “construction of femininity.” And now all these galleries are actually showing her Instagram photos. The Tate Modern. I’m not kidding. The point is, she kept getting likes even when people found out it was fake! She has close to 90,000 followers — that’s real. That’s Instagram. And some stuff was really real. Word is, she really did get some minor plastic surgery. Just the boob job was a fake. Now she’s modelling for Gucci. She’s on a Forbes 30-under-30 list. Like I said: Hard work. But it pays. Now take my photo.
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Chloë Moretz has impressive run of strong, serious roles Richard Crouse
For Metro Canada Eighteen-year-old Chloë Grace Moretz played a young vampire in Let Me In, a would-be superhero in Kick Ass and cinema’s most famous telekinetic, Carrie. It’s a diverse group of roles, but Moretz says she can draw a straight line from character to character. “They’re linear,” she says, “in the sense that they’re all
strong characters. A lot of them are like me, the basis of them. They all have a big mountain in front of them but they are going to climb it and fight as hard as they can.” This weekend she stars in The 5th Wave, a world-underattack sci-fi flick based on Rick Yancey’s young adult novel of the same name. Moretz plays Cassie and her “big mountain” is an alien invasion that devastates the planet, separating her from her younger brother. Can she find her sibling before the deadly 5th wave hits? You’ll have to buy a ticket to find out. The only thing I can tell you for sure is that it is another spunky performance from the actress. Over the course of a short but eventful career spirited characters have become her
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stock in trade. She has made a habit of playing people with rich lives swirling around them. For instance, she’s a sparkplug teenage prostitute in The Equalizer, a confused best friend to Keira Knightley in Laggies and a movie star with a scandalous life in Clouds of Sils Maria. Here are her top three career defining roles: Spunky: In If I Stay Moretz plays Mia, a gifted teenage
cellist from a family of musicians. When a catastrophic accident throws her into a coma she has an out-of-body experience. The rest of the story is told from the perspective of her memories before the accident and in the present, as she observes, ghostlike, the aftermath of the car crash. Here she delivers what may be her best performance yet. As Mia she is a talented teen just discovering a life beyond the cello that has been her
constant companion since she was young. It’s a simple and uncluttered performance with a lot going on behind the eyes. Spunkier: In the 2013 remake of Carrie she put her own spin on Stephen King’s most famous character, originally played by Sissy Spacek in 1976. Where Spacek was a true outsider, an abused, naïve girl, Moretz plays her with a bit more pluck. Both are Ugly Ducklings transformed into swans and then monsters, unwitting and undeserving victims of horrible abuse, but Moretz gives Carrie more backbone than her predecessor. Spunkiest: Undoubtedly her signature spunky performance came in 2010’s Kick-Ass.
If Quentin Tarantino made a kid’s coming-of-age movie it might look something like Kick-Ass. It has most of his trademarks — clever dialogue, good soundtrack and some high octane violence — but there’s a twist. The bloodiest, most cutthroat purveyor of ultra violence in the film is an 11-year-old girl. The action scenes are plentiful and frenetic and once you get past the question, “Why would Chloë Moretz’s parents allow her to do this?” they’re really fun. It’s a little unsettling to see a young girl wielding a switchblade, gunning down dozens of bad guys and going hand-to-hand with a full grown man, but not since Natalie Portman in Léon has the screen seen such a sweetfaced assassin.
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THE TV DINNER Jessica AllEn
STAR POWER Coffee spat over copycat A George Clooney doppelganger is brewing up tensions between two coffee companies in Israel. Nespresso is suing the Israeli Espresso Club for using an actor with a striking resemblance to the Hollywood star in one of its ads. Clooney is the face of Nespresso. The ad shows the Clooney lookalike being schooled on the benefits of Espresso Club. A disclaimer on the screen warns that the actor, silver-haired and carrying what appears to be a Nespresso bag, “is not George Clooney.” Espresso Club says the tongue-in-cheek ad and the Clooney character were meant to target customers looking for a more “informal” coffee experience. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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African Americans make up 1 million of the total 2.3 million Americans in prison and are incarcerated at nearly six times the rate of whites
In the 50th anniversary year of Truman Capote’s genremaking masterpiece In Cold Blood, it seems suddenly everyone is watching, listening and talking about true crime. Last year’s compulsive true crime programs came courtesy of the inaugural NPR podcast, Serial, and HBO’s The Jinx. This year Nick Broomfield’s fascinating films about Aileen Wuornos have popped up on Netflix, along with The Central Park Five, Ken’s Burn’s 2012 documentary about five black and Latino teenagers wrongly convicted of raping a white woman. Maybe you’ve missed those.
But I know very few who over the holidays didn’t bingewatch Making a Murderer, the 10-part Netflix documentary about Steven Avery, a white man with an IQ of 70 from Manitowoc County, Wis., who spent 18 years in jail for a crime he didn’t commit, was released, and then arrested two years later for murdering a woman. It felt as though the show was all anyone could talk about: Did Avery do it? Or was he framed by the local police? Were the filmmakers onesided? I don’t know — because I didn’t finish it. It wasn’t the horrific and violent crime of which Avery was convicted; it wasn’t that the alleged police and judicial corruption didn’t rouse anger; and it wasn’t the potent display of how economic disparity in U.S. can make or break a life. There was something, which I’m anxious to admit, that I
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couldn’t stomach. But here goes: I didn’t want to spend any more time with Steven Avery, because why Steven Avery? “The reason we chose him was his unique status as an American who had been failed by the system in 1985, and had been repeatedly failed for another 18 years,” said comaker Laura Ricciardi, who filmed the documentary over a decade. I’m not sold on how unique
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his circumstances are: “One out of three African American men may well end up going to prison,” Hillary Clinton said in the most recent Democratic debate. “That’s the statistic. I want people here to think what we would be doing if it was one out of three white men, and very often,the black men are arrested, convicted and incarcerated for offences that do not lead to the same results for white men.” “Who in America is satis-
fied that we have more people in jail than any other country on Earth, including China?” followed Bernie Sanders. “Disproportionately African American and Latino.” According to the NAACP, African Americans make up 1 million of the total 2.3 million Americans in prison and are incarcerated at nearly six times the rate of whites. What’s more, “five times as many whites are using drugs as African Americans, yet African Americans are sent to prison for drug offences at 10 times the rate of whites.” But “African Americans serve virtually as much time in prison for a drug offence (58.7 months) as whites do for a violent offence (61.7 months).” Revenge is supposedly a dish best served cold. But when it comes to the reality of many Americans’ lives, it’s not even on the table. Sandra Bland, Eric Garner, Walter Scott, and countless others, didn’t get trials, which is why Making a Murderer made me lose my appetite. I’m going to re-watch The Central Park Five with a stiff drink, which won’t solve anything. Jessica Allen is the digital correspondent on CTV’s The Social.
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Will Smith latest star to boycott Oscars Will Smith says he will not attend the Academy Awards next month, joining his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, and others in protest against two straight years of allwhite acting nominees. “My wife’s not going. It would be awkward for me to show up with Charlize (Theron),” said Smith on ABC’s Good Morning America on Thursday. “We’ve discussed it, but at this current time, we’re uncomfortable to stand there and say this is OK.” Smith, who some thought might be nominated for his
performance in the football drama Concussion, said his “Diversity is the American decision was “deeply not superpower ... When I look about me.” “This is about children at the series of nominations of the academy, it’s not that are going to sit down reflecting that beauty.” and they’re going to watch the show and they’re not goWill Smith ing to see themselves represented,” said Smith. Following the announcements Smith becomes the biggest by Lee and Pinkett Smith, acadname to join a boycott of the emy President Cheryl Boone Academy Awards following an- Isaacs has pledged “dramatic nouncements by Spike Lee (an changes” to diversity in the acad- Will Smith said he believes honorary Oscar recipient this emy’s membership. the movie industry can do year) and Pinkett Smith. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS better. getty Images
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Ranking Efron’s best topless scenes a frat bro in Neighbors. It’s no wonder at the end of the film, his character gets a gig as an Abercrombie & Fitch greeter.
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Metro | New York Zac Efron is more than just a pretty face. His body is desktopbackground worthy, too. After studying Efron’s, er, body of work, we roundup his ab-solute best shirtless scenes. 1. Neighbors Efron is at his shirtless peak as
2. The Lucky One This movie has few redeeming qualities, but it does gift us with Efron’s hottest sex scene yet. 3. Dirty Grandpa Whoever came up with the idea to make Efron do the macarena
half-naked deserves a sincere slow clap. 4. That Awkward Moment Efron’s shirtless scene in this movie was so good that he won an MTV Movie Award for it. He even manages to look sexy while planking a toilet. 5. The Paperboy Normally tighty-whiteys on a man are unappealing, but Nicole Kidman doesn’t mind.
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Is Zac Efron really a talented thespian? Maybe, at times Matt Prigge
Metro | New York This week, the first High School Musical movie turned 10 years old. You can’t say it’s too early to tell if its Abercrombie-and-abs male lead, one Zac Efron — the costar of this weekend’s Dirty Grandpa, in which he parties with Robert De Niro — is secretly a talented thespian. After all, he’s been in the game since the 1989 TV movie Triple Play. He should have figured what he’s capable of by now — or at the very least, we should have figured out what we think about him. And yet it’s still hard to tell. This much we do know: When he’s making fun of himself and his bro-ish stature, he’s very good. When he popped up as a Pabst-crushing, devious frat lord in Neighbors, it was a revelation. Not only did he prove a fine, smarmy foil to Seth Rogan’s discombobulating young dad, but he quietly telegraphed a real panic: Maybe boozing through college was his peak. Maybe he can do nothing but take his shirt off. You could even sense the real Efron freaking out underneath
his perfectly sculpted figure and six-pack abs. He had good reason to worry: When he’s tried for serious and/ or indie roles — in Richard Linklater’s Me and Orson Welles, in Ramin Bahrani’s At Any Price — he was bland and vacant. Director Lee Daniels used that well in his reliably insane The Paperboy, in which the pretty boy did little but bop about in his tighty-whities and, in one scene we still can’t believe exists, got peed on by Nicole Kidman. (He’d just been stung by a jellyfish. It totally makes sense.) When he tried to cut loose, with the rom-com The Awkward Moment, he came off as heartless, not funny and charming. (Please read Bilge Ebiri’s brilliant review, which jokingly reads it as a dark drama about a predatory sociopath.) And yet this summer he surprised us again. Yes, everyone hated the DJ drama We Are Your Friends, and it had one of the worst openings of any wide release in history. But Efron actually found a touching soulfulness to his young, precocious and foolish aspiring music maker, subtly — subtly! Zac Efron can be subtle! — conveying that point in dumb youth when we realize everything we assumed about ourselves and our futures is wrong. It suggested he might, in the right hands, as he comes upon his 30s, evolve into a strong dramatic actor — or at least better than he was as a soldier in the Nicholas Sparks outing The Lucky One.
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The first episode of Carter’s reboot of his sci-fi franchise had its world premiere last October at MIPCOM, the international TV marketplace. It was screened again last week for critics at the California Science Center in Los Angeles. Throughout both screenings, Carter squirmed in his seat. “Television is something you normally experience
in a small room with your friends and loved ones,” he said. “I rarely get a chance to see it with an audience. It was thrilling, but it filled me with anxiety.” With original stars David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson back and, as Carter noted, “looking fabulous,” The X-Files seems like a brand poised for a return to the world stage.
Duchovny and Anderson joined Carter last week at the Television Critics Association press tour. They were asked if the old chemistry was there. “We’ve gone beyond chemistry to history,” said Duchovny, who teased fans by adding, “We have chemistry and history; we’re going to try and have biology.” Both stars have enjoyed busy careers since The X-Files
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Carter feels the world has become more conservative, more paranoid — riper for his brand of storytelling. Television has also changed. Critics speak of a new “golden age” of TV drama, some of it made by people who got their start on The X-Files, including Homeland executive producer Howard Gordon and Breaking Bad’s Vince Gilligan. The X-Files also helped establish Vancouver as a main player in North American network TV production. The miniseries returned to the North Shore studios where it all began, with production wrapping a little over a month ago. Duchovny — often blamed for the series relocating from Vancouver to Los Angeles after six seasons — says it felt like home being back in B.C. “Although we shot in the summer when days were longer there and, ironically, it wasn’t dark enough.” torstar news service
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Koyasan, a mountain area con- plenty of impressive sights, insidered to be one of the most cluding the iconic Fushimi Inari sacred places in Japan. Koyasan shrine. Its is also the birthplace was full of surprises: from rid- of geiko (geisha) and maiko (aping the train up the prentice geiko), 800 metre Mount traditional female Koya to visiting the entertainers and Oku-no-in Cemetery performers who (which has more still work in than 200,000 tombKyoto and serve stones and 10,000 Almost 22,000 as cultural icons Canadians visited burning lanterns in Japan last October, for the entire the Hall of Lamps) to almost a quarter country. my overnight stay in more over the In modern times, geisha a mountain temple. same time last year. The highlight was are less common, watching Buddhist with less than 250 monks pray in the of them in Kyoto, morning. The entire ceremony and teahouses where they can was mesmerizing, from the be seen generally don’t accept chanting and banging of the guests without references (howdrum, to the billowing smoke ever, there are a few hotels that from the fire. will arrange this for you). Having the chance to observe one of these face-painted beauties Observing maiko in Kyoto Kyoto, 500 km from Tokyo, has was like catching a glimpse of
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Timo Meier torches Herd for 5 points Timo Meier tore up the ice against his former team Thursday night. The 19-year-old forward scored three goals and added two assists to lead his new team, the Rouyn-Noranda Huskies, over his former team, the Halifax Mooseheads, 8-4 on Thursday night in front of 1,567 spectators at Aréna Iamgold. Herd management dealt its former captain — and its star player up until mid-season trade period — to the Huskies in return for three draft picks. That deal paid off for the Huskies in their home rink, who jump up to first place in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League standings with a 34-8-31 record. Jean-Christophe Beaudin, Allan Caron, Gabriel Fontaine, Philippe Myers and Francis Perron also scored for RouynNoranda on Thursday night. For Halifax, first-year forward Anthony Sorrentino and veteran
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Putting her title on the line Defending national champion Gabrielle Daleman performs her routine during a practice session Thursday at the Canadian figure skating championships at the Scotiabank Centre. Go to skatecanada.ca for ticket and schedule information for the championships’ remaining events. Darren Calabrese/The Canadian Press
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Mooseheads forward Maxime Fortier notched three points in Thursday night’s road loss. Jeff Harper/Metro
Cole Harbour’s Walmsley on home ice this weekend Kristen Lipscombe Metro | Halifax
IN BRIEF Canada cruises into sledge hockey final Billy Bridges scored twice and added three assists as Canada rolled past South Korea 10-0 on Thursday in the semifinal of the world sledge hockey challenge. Canada will play the United States on Saturday in the four-team tournament’s final. The Americans beat Russia 2-1 earlier Thursday. Brad Bowden had a pair of goals and two assists for Canada, while Dominic Cozzolino scored to cap a five-point night.
Clayton comes through in Montreal main event Dartmouth welterweight Custio Clayton stopped former French national champion Stanislas Salmon with two knockdowns in the second round for an easy victory Thursday at the Montreal Casino. The 28-year-old Clayton (6-0), a six-time Canadian amateur champion, turned pro last year and has been taking on progressively tougher opponents in a bid to fast-track into the world top-10 rankings by the end of this year.
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When Stephanie Walmsley was a young girl, she told her mother she “wanted to be a ballerina on ice.” So when her family packed up and moved from Pretoria, South Africa, across the ocean to Cole Harbour, her parents knew they’d be signing her up for skating lessons. “They enrolled me in CanSkate at the Dartmouth Skate Club,” she said Thursday of first lacing up her dancing shoes with an edge at just seven years old. “And the rest is history.” Well, actually, she’s making a bit of history. Walmsley, 18, is the only Nova Scotian competing in the senior program at the Canadian figure skating
Cole Harbour figure skater Stephanie Walmsley, 18, competes at the Skate Canada Challenge in December. Danielle Earl Photography/Contributed
championships, which started Monday and concludes Sunday at the Scotiabank Centre. Walmsley steps onto the ice Friday for the women’s short program and then again Saturday for the free program, during what is her second appearance at nationals. She went into last year’s championships in Kingston, Ont., as an alternate and placed eighth. This year she qualified by coming in 16th at the Skate Canada Challenge in Edmonton. “It’s an awesome opportunity,” Walmsley said of representing her city and province
on home ice. “I get to compete in front of a huge crowd, and most of it will be friends and family and people that are supporting me, because it’s in Nova Scotia this year.” Walmsley is studying life sciences at McMaster University in Hamilton, with plans on applying to Guelph University’s veterinary program after completing her undergraduate degree. When she’s not hitting the books, Walmsley can usually be found training with coach and two-time Olympian Bryce Davison, which includes between two and three hours on the ice
and about two hours off ice daily. “Quite a lot,” Walmsley said with a chuckle of her commitment to being that “ballerina on ice.” But she’s used to the hard work, having moved to Toronto at the tender age of 14 to train out of the prestigious Granite Club. “Now I can see that the work has paid off, and that the more I put into my figure skating, the more I get out of it,” Walmsley said just after her morning practice Thursday. Although she’s “a bit nervous” about this weekend, she’s “more excited” about performing in front of her Nova Scotia fans. “In the end, it’s just the feeling of doing a good program — there’s nothing like it,” she said. “That’s what I love about it.”
Reppin’ N.S. Bradley Keeping-Myra, 17, of St. Margarets Bay and his partner, 18-year-old Gina Cipriano of Wellington, Ont., finished 10th in junior dance earlier this week.
‘Big kid’ Cam is Panthers’ heart nfc championship game
QB Newton says he doesn’t get nervous as Arizona awaits In the waning moments of a strange 35-35 game against the New York Giants, as things seemed to be collapsing all around him and tempers were flaring after every whistle, Cam Newton stood calmly on the sideline, his hands tucked firmly inside his shoulder pads near his neck as he nodded his head confidently. Sure, the Carolina Panthers had just squandered a 28-point lead on the road, but Newton’s locked-in facial expression was that of a man who seemed to know he had the game in the bag. He just knew. Such is the demeanour of Newton, who has gone from Heisman Trophy winner and national champion at Auburn to No. 1 pick in the draft and now, in his fifth season, a leading MVP candidate for the NFL’s best team. “I don’t get nervous,” Newton said bluntly. “I’ve been playing football too long for me to get nervous. I have dreamed of being in this position.” Newton is in position to get the Panthers to the Super Bowl for the first time since 2003. All that stands in the way is the Arizona Cardinals in the NFC championship game on Sunday. “This,” Newton said, “is why
Cam Newton became the first QB to throw for 35 TDs and run for 10 in a season. Grant Halverson/getty Images
you play football.” Newton’s confidence is on display weekly. It’s there when he breaks the huddle, saunters up the line and looks over the defence. It’s there when he shakes off a 280-pound defensive end — what other quarterback not named Roethlisberger does that? — and finds an open receiver down the field. Centre Ryan Kalil said Newton hasn’t changed an iota as a per-
When you see me play, you see a kid out there. Some people call it immaturity, I could care less. Cam Newton
son since coming into the league in 2011, but what changed is his self-confidence — particularly in a season when he became the first QB to throw for 35 touchdowns and run for 10 in a season. “Honestly that comes from experience and playing more football. He’s grown up,” said Kalil. Well, sort of. Well, sort of. Panthers coach Ron Rivera calls Newton a “big kid” who likes to enjoy himself on the field. During training camp Newton can be seen singing on the field between plays or with his arms spread pretending to fly like a bird as he runs. It can be seen in his touchdown celebrations where he breaks into the dab or runs to the stadium wall and hands a child a football. It can be seen in the numerous communityrelated projects he does in the Charlotte area during the offseason, most of which revolve around kids. “When you see me play, you see a kid out there,” Newton said. “Some people call it immaturity, I could care less.” What opponents see is Newton’s energy and how it makes those around him better. “It’s contagious,” Arizona defensive tackle Calais Campbell said. “You can see the whole team feeds off of it. That’s what you want from your quarterback — a guy that’s going to bring the fire and lead the troops. I think the heart of their team definitely feeds off of his energy.” The associated press
Weekend, Wednesday, January March 22-24, 25, 2016 2015 27 11 afc championship game Inevitable trash talk aimed at Pats ahead of Broncos test Gronk pushes off. Brady whines. If it’s AFC championship week, somebody must be complaining about the New England Patriots. This time around, it’s the Denver Broncos, who have delivered a few hits through the media — both traditional and social — in a not-so-subtle attempt to get inside the heads of both the Patriots and, quite possibly, the officials who will call Sunday’s game.
The biggest pokes have, not surprisingly, been directed at Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski, with the Broncos suggesting he likes to push off and how it’s really best to tackle him by going after his delicate knees. Gronk didn’t appreciate that and responded in R-rated fashion on Twitter. Tom Brady took some shots, too, labeled a crybaby for complaining to refs. “Just talk. Just talk,” Broncos tight end Vernon Davis said. “I don’t think they would say anything to target anyone on
the Patriots side.” These early week doses of trash talk have calmed down now that the real preparation has begun. Still, they’ve made for a decent story line to go beside the hundreds of different takes on Tom Brady vs. Peyton Manning, Part 17. Broncos defensive back Bradley Roby finds all the back-and-forth highly entertaining. It’s juicy stuff. “We’re not worried about the trash talking, just makes it more exciting,” Roby said. “Brings more attention to the game.” the associated press
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