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Ontario mulls reforms that could make evictions easier Luke Simcoe

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Tenant advocates in Toronto say proposed changes to the Residential Tenancies Act tip the scales in landlords’ favour and could lead to renters being unjustly evicted. The provincial Liberals are mulling reforms that would allow landlords to more easily evict tenants for smoking or owning pets. Other proposals include changes to how eviction appeals and hearings are handled and a review of rental increase guidelines. Municipal Affairs and Housing Minister Ted McMeekin’s office says the changes will encourage mom-and-pop landlords to rent out secondary suites in their homes, thereby increasing supply and affordability. “We need to do something to give smaller landlords the confidence to get into the market,” said ministry spokesman Mark Cripps. However, by making it easier for landlords to evict tenants, advocates say the proposed laws could make things less affordable — not more. “Big landlords will use this as an opportunity to get rid of more people so they can raise the rent in the units they have,” said Donna Borden, a tenant in

tenant story Gillian Hlinyanszky said she and her husband were threatened with eviction after the bathroom ceiling in their Queen’s Quay apartment collapsed last June and she complained about inadequate fireproofing between units. She claims her landlord agreed to stay the rent until repairs were made, but the couple has been ordered to pay back rent even though the work was never done. She’s fighting the order through the Landlord and Tenant Board, but said it’s been difficult. “The law favours the landlord and tenants are treated as guilty until proven innocent,” she said.

Toronto and member of the national anti-poverty group ACORN. “The rent will just go up and up and up.” Geordie Dent with the Federation of Metro Tenants’ Associations said the province’s list of reforms is similar to requests landlords, including the Federation of Rental-Housing Providers of Ontario (FRPO), have been making for years. Cripps said it’s premature to evaluate the government’s plans, as the changes haven’t even gone through public consultation. “Allegations that landlords are driving this process are 100 per cent false,” he said.

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Metro | Toronto Jon Gauthier enjoys picking up an iPhone and looking up an address where his next delivery trip will be. “Google Maps certainly has to be your best friend,” said the 42-year-old delivery service veteran. And he prides himself in surviving in a modern era while employing traditional means. Good Foot Delivery, a company he co-founded seven years ago — before disruptive economies such as UberX became rampant — is still making strides delivering items across the city on foot, or by public transit. The company employs dozens of people with disabilities in offering delivery services. Through its website, anyone can register and have relatively light items — such as documents, food and gifts — picked up and dropped off anywhere in the city. “I believe we’ve survived because of our reliability,” said

People love our story. It’s like we’re breaking down barriers by providing a muchneeded service. Jon Gauthier

Greg Kasparian, left, and Jon Gauthier are at the forefront of the company still offering delivery services on foot. CONTRIBUTED

Gauthier, who initially was the sole courier before the company grew. “People like to put a face on the services they’re getting.” Gauthier, who has a developmental disability, had never been able to hold a full-time

job before. He said those using his company’s services are also touched by the cause it serves. “People love our story,” he said. “It’s like we’re breaking down barriers by providing a much-needed service.” That social purpose aspect

of the business is what might be unique in an otherwise “saturated” world of sharing economies, said company’s managing director Greg Kasparian. “You can’t work for Uber if you don’t have a driver’s licence, for example,” he said,

noting it’s hard to find any other sharing economy model that puts an emphasis on advancing people with disabilities. “Our customers understand we may not be the fastest, but our reputation of being reliable takes us far.”

The ride-hailing company Uber is now moving beyond recruiting drivers and cars, looking now for bike couriers. The company places notices on bikes in parking racks in the downtown entertainment district on Thursday, with notices about its UberEats meal delivery service. It urged people to sign up to as bike couriers. “Want to get fit and earn money?” the paper hangers ask, urging cyclists to go to an Uber website that promotes both food delivery and other courier deliveries. Uber Canada spokeswoman Susie Heath said delivery methods vary, with New York using bike couriers and Paris using scooters. “As the business continues to grow, we have been looking at new ways to meet demand. That includes determining interest from bicycle couriers in partnering with UberEats, just as many other delivery services do in Toronto.” A slew of food delivery services have cropped up in Toronto including Just Eat, Feast, Favour and Foodora, formerly known as Hurrier. Uber says the need for bike couriers is unrelated to plans to launch UberRush, which operates in New York, Chicago and San Francisco. That service makes deliveries for small businesses — such as a florist with a bouquet or a tailor with alterations, as well as for big companies like T Mobile and Nordstrom. torstar news service

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SIU’s report will be public: Wynne andrew loku death

Just a matter of when, premier tells reporters Premier Kathleen Wynne says it is a matter of when — not if — the secret Special Investigations Unit report into the police shooting death of Andrew Loku is made public. “What we need to do is sort out how to make the information in the SIU report public. All I mean by that is that where there are privacy considerations, where there are issues that need to be considered, I need to know what those are,” Wynne told reporters Thursday, as the opposition again demanded in the legislature for the document to be released. “But I want the information that is in the SIU report to be in the public realm. It’s not a matter of whether, it’s a matter of how we do that and that’s the work that we’re doing now.” Asked if that means releasing the report with the unnamed officer’s identity censored, Wynne nodded. “It may mean that. Again, I can’t pre-empt that discussion. But I do make a commitment

Andrew Loku was shot dead by police July 5. torstar news service

to work to find a way for the information that’s in the SIU report to be made public.” Sandy Hudson, co-founder of Black Lives Matter Toronto, said it’s encouraging that the government is now committing to making some form of the report public, but said the group will keep pushing for all reports and all the details

contained within, including the names of police officers, to be released. “What is there to hide? For all of us, this is information that is going to be useful in holding the powers accountable,” she said, adding that it’s “urgent” the report come out now. torstar news service

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Group not part of Tory forum Black Lives Matter members will not be part of Mayor John Tory’s private gathering Saturday to discuss racial equity, but he says the group is welcome at a future public forum. Tory repeated Friday that Black Lives Matter leaders have rejected his past offers of a private meeting, while he rejected their calls for a public airing

of issues around “anti-black racism in policing.” He has invited about 15 other black community representatives for an initial private summit that will set the stage for at least one public forum. One of the black community leaders who will meet Tory and Police Chief Mark Saunders for two hours on Saturday mor-

ning says attending is not, in any way, a repudiation of the often-confrontational group. “We will arrive in full support of Black Lives Matter and to facilitate a public meeting and get them a seat at the table, and ensure issues they’re raising are addressed at the policy level,” said Andray Domise, a Rexdale activist. torstar news service

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Inuit art museum ends nine-year run culture

Harbourfront attraction set to close doors at end of May Gilbert Ngabo

Metro | Toronto Toronto’s lone Museum of Inuit Art is closing shop due to financial constraints. The small Harbourfront gallery has exhibited exclusive contemporary Inuit collections for nine years, showing art pieces in ceramic, print, sculpture and textile. It offers special programming for the public to learn about the history and culture of Inuit people and their art production. There were also public workshops involving notable Inuit artists, such as printmaking with Noah Mani-

Detail of MIA sculpture exhibit “Beyond Aurora Borealis: Abraham Anghik Ruben.” contributed

apik from Panniqtuuq, throat singing with Sylvia Cloutier from Iqaluit and carving with Jaco Ishulutak from Kinngait. “It is very disappointing to be losing this great resource,

which was somehow unique in the city,” said operations manager Brittany Holliss. The museum has always operated as a non-profit, running on donations and grants

as well as revenues from their small gift shop. But the gallery has seen a sharp decline in visitor numbers – especially since construction on waterfront started – and fundraising efforts haven’t reached the same levels as previous years. The board decided to cease operation by end of May. “Personally I’m going to miss this place a lot,” said Holliss, who has worked there for the past three years. “Everyone was sad to learn about the closure and we’ve been receiving condolences from the public. This doesn’t often happen.” Officials plan to have about 1,000 pieces of art transferred to other galleries across the city, where the public would be able to visit them after May 30. “I’d encourage everyone not to be too disheartened,” said Holliss. “New great places continue to spring up where people can still interact with Inuit art.”

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Bombardier order likely delayed again Transit officials are exasperated with Bombardier, because another promise for the delivery of new streetcars appears headed for derailment. In his monthly report to the TTC board released Thursday, TTC CEO Andy Byford said he shared his ongoing “frustration and dissatisfaction” with senior management of the Montrealbased transportation company but expected delays would continue. “At the time of writing, I am unable to confirm a delivery schedule, but it is evident that Bombardier will not hit the (target of) four vehicles per

month that we were promised as recently as last month,” Byford wrote. After problems at Bombardier’s Mexican plant and defects in the manufacturing of the vehicles put delivery behind by a year, the company promised the TTC this March that four streetcars would arrive every month, starting in April. There are currently 17 new light rail vehicles in service on the 510 Spadina and 509 Harbourfront routes, of the total 204 ordered as part of a $1.25-billion contract. torstar news service

AUTOPSY Remains in waste bins were human, female An autopsy conducted by the Office of the Chief Coroner has confirmed that the remains found in garbage bins behind a butcher shop in Riverdale are from a female human being. The human torso

was discovered in an industrial garbage bag behind Charlie’s Meat and Seafood, on Broadview Avenue just north of Gerrard Street East. It was initially unclear to police whether the remains were from a human or a large mammal. torstar news service

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Two men arrested on terrorism fear The RCMP are seeking to restrict the movements of two GTA men they fear will commit acts of terrorism. Samuel Augustin Aviles of Whitby, and Kadir Abdul of Toronto appeared in a Brampton court Thursday morning after being arrested on peace bonds. According to court documents, the RCMP fear Abdul may participate in an activity

of a terrorist group, travel to participate in an activity of a terrorist group, or facilitate terrorist activity. They fear Aviles may travel to participate in an activity of a terrorist group. An RCMP spokesperson said it is alleged the pair “attempted to travel to international conflict zones for the purposes of participating in a terrorist group.” Torstar news service

Deaths in detention spark calls for change Deportation

Two recent immigrant deaths alarm activists

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Kadir Abdul, left, and Samuel Augustin Aviles were arrested on April 15 for fear they “may” commit terrorism. Torstar news service Health

HPV vaccinations now to include boys Boys will be able to get free vaccinations against HPV infection and the cancers that can result from it starting in September. Health Minister Eric Hoskins said the human papilloma virus program — now limited to girls — is being expanded to all students in Grade 7. “The province will be protecting more youth from HPVrelated cancers at an age when the vaccine can be most effective,” Dr. David Williams, On-

tario’s chief medical officer of health, added in a statement. Hoskins said vaccinations for boys is an “evidence-based decision” and “the right thing to do” because HPV causes an average of 254 deaths and almost 1,100 cases of cancer annually. The vaccine, commonly known as Gardasil, has been approved by Health Canada and is recommended by the country’s National Advisory Council on Immunization. Torstar news service

The federal government needs to take a good look at laws on immigration detentions, advocates have said. In wake of recent deaths of two inmates at the Lindsay, Ont., detention centre, calls are mounting to end indefinite imprisonment of immigration detainees and to overhaul the judicial process for those waiting to be deported. Dozens of activists from local civil society and immigration rights groups are expected to go to the Liberal Party headquarters in Toronto Friday, voicing their concerns and standing in solidarity with families affected by the situation. “We don’t want people to be held in maximum security any longer,” said Macdonald Scott, spokesperson for End Immigration Detention Network, one of the leading groups. The coalition was particularly alarmed by the death of Francisco Javier Romero Astorga, a Chilean man who died in custody on March 13. His death came days after another

Francisco Javier Romero Astorga died last month at the Lindsay detention centre. His family has yet to know the details of his death. CONTRIBUTED

inmate, 64-year-old Burundian Melkioro Gahungu, committed suicide. “We want to know why our son, our brother died,” reads part of a letter Astorga’s family sent to the Canadian government. “We want to know what the Canadian government is doing to make sure this does not happen to anyone else again.” Inmates at the detention facility are on a hunger strike in an effort to draw more attention to their plight. They’ve also sent letters to MPs, copies of which will be delivered at the Friday rally. Canada — unlike other coun-

Deaths CBSA custody At least 14 immigrants have died in CBSA custody since 2000.

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The pop legend performs onstage at the Sony Centre For The Performing Arts last year. Cindy Ord/Getty Images Pop superstar Prince, who died Thursday, had a special relationship with Toronto, the city where he once lived. The notoriously private ‘80s icon married Toronto native Manuela Testolini in the earlyto-mid 2000s and settled in the Bridle Path neighbourhood. The pair divorced in July 2006, but the “Purple Rain” singer apparently never lost his affection for the city. Among his final public appearances were back-to-back shows at Toronto’s Sony Centre last month, surprise concerts announced just 48 hours earlier. “I love Toronto,” the singer told The Canadian Press in 2004 during an interview in Jacksonville, Fla. “It’s cosmopolitan,” he continued. “There’s all sorts

of different kinds of people everywhere you go in Toronto, there’s all sorts of great music, great restaurants, great night spots that don’t respond to a lot of American playlists and have playlists which I really dig. It’s a real melting pot in every sense of the word.” It was during his time in Toronto that Prince recorded his critically acclaimed “Musicology.” The CD jacket features the diminutive funk master in front of the gleaming Toronto skyline at night, and includes at least one veiled reference to the street where he lived. As news of his death spread, his fans — including R&B star the Weeknd — were wistfully recalling their favourite memories of the artist. The Weeknd tweeted a photo of Prince giving him a fist-bump

The mayor took to Twitter to say the city’s sign, now purple, will honour both the Queen and Prince. twitter while presenting the Torontonative with a trophy at the American Music Awards last November.

“I promise this was the greatest moment of my entire life,” he wrote on Twitter. “I wish I could relive it everyday.”

Toronto fans who attended the recent Sony Centre shows recalled how Prince offered up fresh interpretations of hits culled from his long and varied career, as well as covers. “With Prince, it was always the greatest night that you’d ever experience,” said Colton Eddy, a radio producer who was at the second show. “There was literally not a song that he didn’t play that you wanted to hear, and he played until he couldn’t play anymore.” Eddy said Prince seemed to have “endless energy” and performed with as much gusto as he had the previous three times he’d seen him in concert. “He’d walk off and walk away like, ‘There you go, I just gave you everything,’ and then he’d come back on five minutes

later and keep going,” said Eddy. “He didn’t really seem tired or anything indicative of poor health.” Reshma Modi said the audience in the Toronto concert hall represented just how wideranging Prince’s influence was, with teenagers and seniors rubbing shoulders. And Prince was there to impress them all. “He was dancing on top of the piano and dancing on the stage,” Modi said. During the time he resided in Toronto, Prince was occasionally spotted at local clubs and a Toronto Raptors game. DJ Amalia Leandro recalled Prince showing up to a Toronto bar where she was spinning. “He was just chilling in the parlour with his wife, Manuela, and he was very cool and chill.” the canadian press

Social mourning Torontonians tweet and gram their grief Toronto’s many Prince fans flocked to social media Thursday to express their grief over the sudden death of the music icon. The outpouring included several notable names, long-time fans and attendees of his final Toronto concert in March — many of whom remembered the trailblazing star for his vocal

appreciation of their city. @JeanneBeker: (Twitter) Doves are crying. Another musical legend is gone. Shocked to hear that Prince has died at age 57 #RIP @JohnTory: (Twitter) The Toronto sign is purple to celebrate the Queen and now it can also pay tribute to #Prince.

@liztrinnear: (Twitter) Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to get through this thing called life - @prince @badfish4479: (Instagram): RIP Prince. You loved Toronto and we loved you #Prince #RIP #Toronto #love #transformed #sexymofo #legend #gonetoosoon

@lovethe416: (Instagram): You loved our #Toronto. And we loved you back. RIP #Prince #1999 Dear God, You took our Beloved #DavidBowie and today you took our #Prince. You now have everyone from #JimmyHendrix to #JimMorrison so heaven must be the greatest concert hall ever. So can you please explain to

humanity what we did that was so terrible that you found it necessary to take a musical prodigy like #Prince but leave us still with #KayneWest? #1999 #Letsgocrazy #Whenthedovescry #rip @rogobin: (Twitter) #RIPPrince Still remember seeing him perform #PurpleRain in #Toronto at

the #aircanadacentre @dannyfai: (Twitter) R.I.P. #Prince, so tragic. Just saw you in #Toronto @KevinDTwomey: (Twitter) Can’t believe #Prince is gone, what an absolute legend and genius. Sounded so good when he played #Toronto Mar 25th metro

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Mike Duffy found not guilty by judge Court

Harsh words reserved for Crown, PMO Mike Duffy walked out of an Ottawa court a free man Thursday after a judge cleared him of all charges while at the same time delivering a scathing indictment of the Prince Edward Island senator’s former political masters. Duffy sat almost totally still throughout the four hours Justice Charles Vaillancourt spent dismantling the Crown’s argument that the senator had deliberately defrauded the public purse by claiming invalid living and office expenses and had engaged in corrupt behaviour when it came to

Mike Duffy leaves court on Thursday. The Canadian Press

paying that money back. Vaillancourt all but wagged his finger in admonishment at the Crown as he repeatedly questioned their decision not to extensively cross-examine Duffy or try to challenge his testimony with witnesses of their own dur-

ing the 62-day trial. But the justice’s harshest words were aimed at the Prime Minister’s Office under Stephen Harper and its conduct regarding a decision by Harper’s former chief of staff, Nigel Wright, to give Duffy $90,000 to repay his living expenses. Vaillancourt said he did not see it the same way as the Crown, which had argued Duffy’s actions were driven by “deceit, manipulations and carried out in a clandestine manner” when he took the cheque. “I find that if one were to substitute the PMO, Nigel Wright and others for Senator Duffy in the aforementioned sentence that you would have a more accurate statement,” Vaillancourt said. THE CANADIAN PRESS

PM Justin Trudeau spars at Gleason’s Boxing Gym in Brooklyn, New York on Thursday. Trudeau was there to train with kids from the Give A Kid A Dream program that works to provide mentorship to disadvantaged youths through boxing. THE CANADIAN PRESS

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PM boxes through questions Young people need to get more involved in politics, Justin Trudeau told an audience of university students in New York City this morning. “Young people need to demand more from their politicians, their business leaders, their community leaders,” the prime minister told students at New York University. Strolling among them with his sleeves rolled up and a microphone in his hand, Trudeau said that there’s plenty of work for everyone to do to make the world a better place. Trudeau is in New York City to sign the Paris climatechange agreement on Friday. His itinerary on Thursday

also included a photo-op at the legendary Gleason’s Gym, where boxing champions Muhammad Ali, Jake (Raging Bull) LaMotta and Mike Tyson trained (albeit in the gym’s previous locations). Trudeau acknowledged to the students that Canadians leave a high per capita carbon footprint through the use of energy, and that Canada’s relations with its First Nations communities present an enormous challenge. He said his government is striving to reflect Canadian ideals and values, and that includes getting more young people interested in the political process. Trudeau added that young

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England Long live the queen England’s Queen Elizabeth II greets well-wishers during a “walkabout” on her 90th birthday in Windsor, west of London, on Thursday. Thousands lined the streets of the town carrying cakes, cards, balloons and Union Jack flags and Prime Minister David Cameron leading a parliamentary homage. Cameron praised the monarch’s “unshakable sense of duty,” pointing out that she had provided counsel to 12 British prime ministers and met a quarter of all the U.S. presidents since Independence.

Harriet Tubman to be on U.S. $20 bill U.S. paper money is getting a historic makeover. Harriet Tubman, an AfricanAmerican abolitionist born into slavery, will be the new face on the $20 bill. The leader of the Underground Railroad is replacing the portrait of Andrew Jackson, the nation’s seventh president and a slave owner, who is being pushed to the back of the bill. And Alexander Hamilton, the nation’s first Treasury secretary who’s enjoying a revival thanks to a hit Broadway play, will keep his spot on the $10 note after earlier talk of his removal. The changes are part of a currency redesign announced Wednesday by Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew, with the new $20 marking two historic milestones: Tubman will become the first African-American to ever be featured on U.S. paper money and the first woman to be depicted on paper currency in 100 years. “This gesture sends a powerful message, because of the tendency in American history, the background of excluding women and marginalizing them as national symbols,” said Riche Richardson, associate professor in the Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell University. “So even the symbolic significance of this cannot be overstated.” Lew also settled a backlash

that had erupted after he had announced an initial plan to remove Hamilton from the $10 bill in order to honour a woman on the bill. Instead, the Treasury building on the back of the bill will be changed to commemorate a 1913 march that ended on the steps of the building. It will also feature suffragette leaders Lucretia Mott, Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Alice Paul. The back of the $20, which now shows the White House, will be redesigned to include the White House and Jackson, whose statute stands across the street in Lafayette Park. The $5 bill will also undergo change: The illustration of the Lincoln Memorial on the back will be redesigned to honour “events at the Lincoln Memorial that helped to shape our history and our democracy.” The new image on the $5 bill will include civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., who gave his famous “I have a dream” speech on the steps of the memorial in 1963, and Marian Anderson and Eleanor Roosevelt. The last woman featured on U.S. paper money was Martha Washington, who was on a dollar silver certificate from 1891 to 1896. The only other woman ever featured on U.S. paper money was Pocahontas, from 1865 to 1869. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

An image provided by the Women On 20s organization featuring abolitionist Harriet Tubman on the U.S. twenty dollar bill. AFP/Getty Images

IN BRIEF Teen Islamic extremists behind Sikh temple blast Two teenage Islamic extremists were allegedly behind an explosion in a Sikh temple in the German city of Essen that wounded three people, the city’s police president said Thursday, calling the blast an “act of terror.” Essen police president Frank Richter told reporters the two 16-yearold boys were under arrest. One had come forward while the second was arrested at his parents’ home. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

EU keeps sanctions threat on Thai seafood The European Union is maintaining the threat of a seafood import ban on Thailand because the global exporter is still not doing enough to improve its fisheries and labour practices, officials said Thursday. The EU is keeping up the pressure because even some Thai legislation enacted last year to curb illegal practices was not sufficiently followed up by action over the past months, two EU officials said. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Record could be set for international diplomacy As many as 170 countries are expected to sign the Paris Agreement on climate change Friday in a symbolic triumph for a landmark deal that once seemed unlikely but now appears on track to enter into force years ahead of schedule. UN officials say the signing ceremony Friday will set a record for international diplomacy:

Never before have so many countries inked an agreement on the first day of the signing period. That could help pave the way for the pact to become effective long before the original 2020 deadline — possibly this year, though countries must first formally approve it through their domestic procedures. “We are within striking distance of having the agreement start years earlier than anyone anticipated,” said Brian Deese, an adviser to President Barack Obama. The U.S. and China, which together account for nearly 40 per cent of global emissions, have said they intend to formally join

the agreement this year. It will enter into force once 55 countries representing at least 55 per cent of global emissions have done so. “There’s incredible momentum,” said former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark, who heads the UN Development Program. She said her agency is working with more than 140 countries on climate change-related issues, and that financing to make the Paris Agreement a reality is “critical, and let’s hope everyone lives up to commitments made.” The agreement, the world’s response to hotter temperatures, rising seas, was hammered out in December outside Paris. The

Emissions Under the agreement, countries set their own targets for reducing emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. The targets are not legally binding but countries must update them every five years.

pact was a major breakthrough in UN climate negotiations, which for years were bogged down with disputes between rich and poor countries. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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‘We saw the dead people with our eyes’ Two men who were among 41 people picked up over the weekend from a boat found adrift in the Mediterranean Sea described on Thursday surviving what they say was a shipwreck that might have killed up to 500 people. If confirmed, the sinking, which would have taken place sometime last week, would be one of the deadliest migrant boat sinkings in the Mediterranean. So far, there has been no independent confirmation of a mass casualty tragedy at sea. The coast guard authorities

They say: ‘You are gonna go to Italy. Today. Tonight. No problem. You are safe.’ Muaz Mahmud Aymo of Italy, Greece, Libya and Egypt haven’t confirmed a sinking, and there haven’t yet been any reports of bodies or debris washing ashore. Muaz Mahmud Aymo, a 25-year-old Ethiopian, and Mowlid Isman, a 28-year-old Somali, said they had been heading to Italy, leaving the Libyan port city of Tobruk at night on a boat with about 200 people

on board. They said smugglers forced them onto a larger boat, which they said already had about 300 people on board although it was dark and they couldn’t see inside. The larger boat sank during the transfer of people from the smaller vessel, they said, and all died except 31 people who were still on the smaller boat and 10 more, including the two

of them, who were picked up from the sea by Somalis who were still on the smaller boat. “The people all, they die on that ocean,” said Aymo, who said his 2-month-old baby and 20-year-old wife were among the fatalities. Isman said he lost his sister and his sister’s baby. Aymo said the smugglers had told them the journey, for which each passenger paid $1,800, would be safe. “We saw the dead people with our eyes,” Isman said, speaking through an interpreter. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Small things add up and can blow a budget, planner says Whoever said love doesn’t cost a thing wasn’t planning a wedding. Recently-engaged couple Camille Verschooris and Andrew Lounsbury knew tying the knot was expensive, but they didn’t realize how pricey it could be until they found out their $30,000 budget wasn’t enough to cut it for the wedding of their dreams. “The budget got thrown out of the window quickly,” said Verschooris, a 24-year-old producer’s assistant. “What we imagined was very different than what we could afford,” added 29-year-old Lounsbury. The couple was faced with a big decision: Do they scale back or do they bite the bullet and up how much they were willing to spend? Ultimately — with help from their parents — they decided to splurge on a wedding they would want to attend, complete with a guest photo booth and a $1,200 espresso bar to be rolled out at the end of the night. For Verschooris, the greatest sticker shock was not from the big-ticket items like the wedding gown ($5,000) or the photographer (another $5,000), but it was how quickly the small expenses added up. Having lights

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Any school kid can tell you what did the dinos in: The massive impact of a 10-kilometre-wide space rock near present-day Chicxulub, Mexico, 66 million years ago. But new research suggests all was not well in dino-land long before the asteroid apocalypse hit. Here’s why. ASTEROID ADAPTATION

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Biologists at the University of Reading put together dino family trees from the available fossil evidence. Then they used advanced statistics to draw conclusions about how many new species were emerging, and how many were

Why does this matter? Because with fewer species, there’s less genetic diversity, and with less diversity, it’s harder for a species to adapt to changes — like, say, the impact of an asteroid that tosses enough dust in the air to block the sun and change the weather. Would the dinos still be here if that fateful asteroid never hit? We’ll never know.

going extinct. They found that dinosaurs were starting to decline at least 40 million years before the asteroid hit — that’s when the rate of speciation (formation of new species) fell below the rate of extinction.

GIANT SPACE BUBBLE NASA’s Hubble telescope has photographed a massive bubble — seven light-years across — being blown into space by a super-hot, extremely heavy star. The Bubble Nebula is 7,100 light-years away, in the constellation Cassiopeia. ARTIFICIAL MUSCLE Muscles; Mother Nature’s miracle. They stretch by up to 70 per cent and heal themselves. Chemists at Stanford University have made a synthetic muscle that works the same way: Cut it into two stretchy slices, and the cut sides fuse back together perfectly. Sound Smart

CONTINENTAL CRACK-UP The authors guess the separating supercontinents Laurasia and Gondwana may have contributed to the decrease in speciation.

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The legendary musical chameleon has died at age 57 Prince could play guitar like Carlos Santana or Jimi Hendrix, sing like James Brown, turn out pop melodies worthy of Motown or lay down the deepest grooves this side of Sly and the Family Stone. But no one could mistake his sound for anyone but Prince. The dazzlingly talented and charismatic singer, songwriter, arranger and instrumentalist who died Thursday at his home drew upon the history of modern popular music and created a gender- and genre-defying blend of rock, funk and soul. With hits including 1999, Purple Rain and Little Red Corvette, Prince’s records sold more than 100 million copies and earned him Grammys and an Oscar. The Minneapolis native stood just 5 feet, 2 inches, yet made a powerful visual impact at the dawn of the MTV era, proving to be the Little Richard for the ‘80s, from his wispy moustache and tall pompadour to his colorful and suggestive outfits — the counterpart to the openly erotic lyrics that made him one of the most sexually daring artists of

From left: Prince performs during the halftime show at the Super Bowl in 2007; Prince at the Grammys last year; and the artist performing with Beyonce in 2004. Chris O’Meara/the associated press; Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images; Frank Micelotta/Getty Images

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Gender politics in Game of Thrones For every instance of full-frontal male nudity in GoT, there are on average at least two head-to-toe naked women in seasons one to five. Yes, we counted. But while actress Emilia Clarke calls for the HBO show to “free the penis,” experts Metro spoke to say creating a genital gender parity won’t actually add up to much. Colin McNeil

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When it comes to male nudity, the revolution will be televised. That is, if you think the recent rash of men stripping to the buff on the small screen is a revolution at all.

Earlier this year, a male full-frontal scene in BBC’s War and Peace miniseries prompted Twitter to lose its mind and create the hashtag #WarAndPenis. The same thing happened in March when Tom Hiddleston’s bare bum spawned #Hiddlesbum. Add full-frontal man-views from Outlander and Vinyl,

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Television and you can call it a trend. So what about the granddaddy of gratuitous nudity — Game of Thrones? We don’t know how much or what kind will be thrust upon us in Season 6, which premieres Sunday, but if the previous five are any indication, it’ll be heavy on disrobing women and light on exposed manhood. Last season was particularly unfriendly to women on screen. Christine Evans, University of British Columbia film studies lecturer, says the rape of Sansa and that Cersei Lannister scene (you know the one) were likely the last offensive straw for many viewers. Though, she notes, fans are likely to keep watching in spite of it all, “partially out of curiosity over what the show’s next big regressive move will be.” She says the show “is in tenuous territory” when it comes to gender politics. In a program infamous for baring it all, relatively few swords actually leave the scabbard. What we mean is, there just aren’t all that many penises in GoT. In fact, for every instance of full-frontal male nudity, there are on average at least two head-totoe naked women in seasons

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Megan Boler. They were “not even remotely” surprised. “It doesn’t surprise me at all,” says Boler. “Popular culture, and really most cultures, have traded in and cap-

italized on images of naked women since time immemorial.” She talks about the ‘male gaze’ — the idea that pop culture presumes a heterosexual audience of men, and

everything in it is meant to please them. Emilia Clarke, whose character was stripped naked in one of the very first episodes, must have noticed this below the waist imbalance, too. And she has a solution. She proclaimed GoT needs to “free the penis” while appearing on the Conan O’Brien show last week. But creating a genital gender parity won’t actually add up to much, say our experts. “Seeing a guy walking around with a huge powerful boner and smashing it into some lady’s face isn’t really going to help the gender politics of the show,” says Evans. The idea of “just throw more d— in for the ladies” isn’t going to work. “Context matters.” In other words -— breaking news -— Game of Thrones is not single-handedly toppling the patriarchy any time soon. But Boler has hope yet. If we get to see John Snow’s ’Longclaw’, for example, “maybe it’ll make people think ‘huh, now why is this surprising me?’” So Monday morning, while you’re hovering around the online water cooler discussing GoT’s latest bombshell plot twist — pause for a moment, and think of the penis.

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For Metro Canada In polite society no one would dare ask a stranger about his or her father’s violent death, but celebrity culture is not polite society. Over the years I’ve heard interviewers ask questions ranging from the innocuous —“What are you wearing?”— to the silly — “How do you keep your bum in such great shape?”— but rarely have I heard anything as unnecessarily meddling as the query aimed at Charlize Theron during a press conference I hosted several years ago. A reporter asked the actress about seeing her mother shoot her abusive, alcoholic father dead when she was a teenager. But instead of breaking down Theron said, “I’m not talking about that,” with an icy finality that made everyone freeze. I admired her for not over sharing, not spilling the intimate details of her life. She’s careful what she says to the press, avoids scandal and damage controls the ones that inevitably

pop up in every celeb’s life. For instance, recently she said, short and sweetly, “We both decided to separate,” when accused of “ghosting” on her romance with Sean Penn. She understands some things should only be spoken about when and where she chooses and not at the behest of an aggressive reporter looking to dredge up painful memories for the sake of “good television.” Theron is media savvy so I was surprised a few weeks ago when she caused a media hurly burly with comments about the burden of being beautiful. Chatting up her new film The Huntsman: Winter’s War with British GQ she said, “How many roles are out there for the gorgeous, BLEEPINGing, gown-wearing eight-foot model? When meaty roles come through, I’ve been in the room and pretty people get turned away first.” She is a beautiful woman, that is clear, but is she intimating that being beautiful has harmed her career? Turns out she wasn’t, or so she claims. Alleging a misquote, she later apologized, saying

that playing “deconstructed characters” appeals because, “how many characters really are there out there for a woman wearing a gown? You have to play real people.” The mea culpa was unnecessary. She works in a business where beauty is a commodity. The problem with her earlier statement is that publicly acknowledging one’s own looks carries with it a hint of arrogance, a suggestion that winning the genetic lottery somehow makes you superior, but she simply said something others already have. Keira Knightley claims she almost lost the role in Pride and Prejudice because the director thought she was too pretty and Jessica Biel says being Esquire’s 2005 Sexiest Woman cost her work. Theron may have missed out on a job or two because of her looks, but it’s also an element of what made her a star. That and talent, and just as you wouldn’t apologize for skin colour or having red hair or being tall or short, she doesn’t need to say sorry for being beautiful.

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That we know relatively little about the most famous — and most performed —playwright in the world is astounding. And what scant documentary evidence does exist is dissected and over-interpreted until all you have are the plays themselves, which “would scarcely have survived if his friends and fellow actors had not gathered together every scrap of every play they could find,” the Guardian wrote. And then they too are ripped apart and put back together again in the hopes of knowing Shakespeare. April 23 is the 400th anniversary of his death and the world is celebrating: Books, both new and

reissued, on the Bard are being published, film adaptations will be screened — from Franco Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet to looser interpretations including Ran (King Lear) and 10 Things I Hate About You (The Taming of the Shrew) — exhibitions held, and, of course, theatre companies will stage his 37 comedies, tragedies and histories. At our house? We’ll feud like the Montagues and Capulets over which Kenneth Branagh adaptation to watch. There is a lot of love in our house for the man who’s adapted, directed, and often starred in, five Shakespeare plays for the big screen. “It’s fascinating how different generations get Shakespeare through the leading interpreters of their day,” Simon said as I plated up dinner, a made-up casserole consisting of polenta, peppers and spicy Italian sausage, which tasted great but looked like garbage. “The day changes, and so does the interpretation. For our parent’s generation it was Shake-

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speare as he existed through Laurence Olivier and John Gielgud. For us, it’s through K-Bran.” “Excuse me?” “That’s what we’re calling Kenneth in this house from now on, FYI.” Fine, but which K-Bran production to watch? I suggested Henry V, Branagh’s directorial debut (he turned 28 while filming it!) that scored him Oscar nominations for best director and best actor, if only to revisit the end when he carries a young Christian Bale over

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his shoulder in that four-minutelong single tracking shot, a move that would become the director’s trademark. But Simon argued for Hamlet — the four-hour-long unabridged Hamlet — so, no. We settled on a comedy, Much Ado About Nothing. “This is perfect,” Simon said once we started. “It’s set in Tuscany and we’re having a Tuscaninspired meal.” “Ah, polenta is not Tuscan,” I said.

“Stop talking because you’re missing all the bulges,” he said, as men on horseback in tight white pants filled the screen. “You stop because you’re missing Denzel Washington!” “Impossible,” he said. “I can’t take my eyes off him.” “I can’t take my eyes off their teeth,” I replied. “I’m pretty sure Emma Thompson and Kate Beckinsale have since had their choppers fixed.” And then there’s Keanu Reeves, who speaks approximately 10 words in the film in between brooding and maniacal laughing. “Wouldn’t you love to get KBran drunk and get him to talk about that casting?” Simon asked. “I mean, I know he’s good looking but he’s not so good looking that you’re distracted and miss the fact that he can’t act.” “I kind of like him,” I said, “in the same way that I enjoy Drew Barrymore: It’s like they’re both playing dress-up, or acting in a school play. It’s charming.” “God K-Bran is funny,” Simon said. “Can you imagine when he’s old enough to do King Lear?” “Actually, it’s Shakespeare that’s funny,” I said. “But K-Bran’s got a good sense of humour. I mean, he directed Thor.” Jessica Allen is the digital correspondent on CTV’s The Social.

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received bedazzled f lags, bejeweled f lags, painted f lags, embroidered f lags, stamped f lags, f lag collages, f lags on canvas, f lags on paper, and even some f lags sewn together from bed sheets,” Bunce says. “With each new f lag we received, a colourful and complex mosaic began to come together.” They quickly amassed more than 250,000 signatures, with a goal of reaching one million by Earth Day. People can still sign the Earth f lag online or at any Earth Day event where organizers have printed their own mini version of the Earth Flag. The f lag’s centrepiece — an image of a majestic moose on a cliff overlooking its domain — was created by worldrenowned artist and historian Charles Pachter, who shared his thoughts on the f lag’s significance:

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One Earth, one flag They represent nations and symbolize beliefs. And now, Earth Day Canada has a f lag of its own. The massive 30 x 60-foot Earth Flag, unveiled last week at the Green Living Show in Toronto, illustrates the collective resolve of Canadians to reduce their carbon footprint. It contains signatures and illustrations by people from all provinces and territories across Canada, including prominent artists, musicians and politicians, such as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Piecing it together was no small feat. Last April, Earth Day Canada sent a call to schools across the country with

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Texas ace Yu Darvish threw 47 pitches at batting practice Thursday and is closing in on game action for the first time since elbow surgery last year

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DeRozan gets on track as Pacers struggle with wave of Dinos DeMar DeRozan rediscovered his all-star form, and the Toronto Raptors took control of their playoff series against the Indiana Pacers on Thursday. DeRozan and Kyle Lowry scored 21 points apiece to lift the Raptors 101-85 over Indiana for a 2-1 series lead. DeMarre Carroll chipped in with 17 points, and was spectacular in stifling Pacers star Paul George, who had 25 points for Indiana. Cory Joseph had 10 points off the bench. DeRozan had averaged just 12 points in Games 1 and 2, and sat out the fourth quarter of Toronto’s Game 2 victory, but he and his teammates insisted it was only a matter of time before he got going. “Believe me, scorers don’t forget how to score,” Raptors coach Dwane Casey said pre-game. Pacers coach Frank Vogel, pregame, deflected any praise for his players shutting down DeRozan, saying “I just don’t think DeMar has found a rhythm.” The Raptors are also comfortable on the road — going 24-17 away from the Air Canada Centre

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in the regular-season - and have fared particularly well in Indiana. Their 5-3 record — including a pair of overtime victories — in Indianapolis since 2012 is the best in the NBA. They looked completely at ease against a backdrop of gold, courtesy of a Pacers T-shirt giveaway at Bankers Life Fieldhouse, and led by as many as 23 points in the first half. They took a 7159 advantage into the fourth quarter. Toronto pulled away in the fourth and when Joseph drove to the hoop for a pretty finger roll, it put the Raptors up 83-63. The Pacers pulled to within 16 points, but back-to-back threes by Lowry and Carroll took the wind out of any momentum the Pacers might muster, and Toronto cruised to an easy victory. Raptors fans who made the trip chanted “Let’s go Raptors!” as the final seconds ticked down, while back in Toronto, fans watching on the giant screen in Maple Leaf Square leapt and cheered. The Canadian Press

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Jake Arrieta of the Chicago Cubs pitched his second no-hitter in a span of 11 regular-season starts, shutting down the Cincinnati Reds in a 16-0 rout Thursday night. The reigning NL Cy Young winner threw the first no-hitter of the Major League Baseball season. Arrieta (4-0) struck out six, walked four and allowed only six balls hit out of the infield. He threw 119 pitches, retiring Eugenio SuarJake Arrieta ez on a routine flyGetty Images ball to right field to end it. Arrieta also no-hit the Dodgers 2-0 last Aug. 30, part of one of the best pitching stretches in club history. The Reds hadn’t been held hitless in a regular-season game since 1971, when Rick Wise did it for Philadelphia. In the 2010 NL playoffs, Roy Halladay of the Phillies pitched a no-hitter against Cincinnati. The ASSOCIATED PRESS

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IN BRIEF Malkin dismantles Rangers Flashing his old brilliance, Evgeni Malkin scored two goals and set up two others and the Pittsburgh Penguins pushed the New York Rangers to the brink of playoff elimination with a 5-0 victory Thursday night. Malkin, whose four points tied his single-game playoff high, assisted on two of the Pens’ three first-period goals in helping Pittsburgh dominate the Rangers for the second straight game and go up 3-1 in the series. The Associated press

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Ex-WWE star Chyna found dead in California home Chyna, the tall, musclebound, raven-haired prowrestler who rocketed to popularity in the 1990s after taking on both women and men and later revealed her struggles with addiction on reality TV, has died, authorities said. She was 46. Police in Southern California said they were responding to a 911 call from a friend of the former WWE wrestler when they found her dead in her Redondo Beach apartment. The Associated Press

McGregor knocks out retirement talk UFC fans, rejoice. Conor Mc- sonality says “I can not dance for you this time.” Gregor is not retired. He’s even willing to reMcGregor posted on Facesume his spot in book Thursday the main event at that he needed UFC 200. to focus on himThe mixed mar- I’m doing what I self and not the tial arts superstar need for me now. massive hype of is simply fed up his megafights. Conor McGregor with the gruelling UFC said promotional depresident Dana mands that come with being White would not comment a pay-per-view star. until a scheduled press conferThe 27-year-old fighter ence Friday in Las Vegas. known for his over-the-top per- The Associated PRess

Past comes back to haunt Toronto FC

Coach hopes players ignore emotion from playoff exit As Toronto FC coach Greg Vanney took his usual place in front of a crest-covered backdrop Thursday, the group of reporters gathered outside the practice facility well outnumbered the norm. “Must be Montreal or something,” Vanney quipped. It is, and it’s not. Saturday afternoon is the first meeting of the regular season between the Canadian rivals, dubbed the 401 derby. But this isn’t just any match between the adversaries.

The Impact gave Toronto a rude awakening in its longawaited, first-ever playoff game last October, ending the Reds’ season handily with an easy 3-1 win. That fact is not lost on Vanney, who said the squad remains frustrated, upset and disappointed by the way last year ended. While he’s sure there will be a flashback or a two when the team enters the visitors’ dressing room in Montreal, the Reds boss said those memories must not haunt the players. “It’s important that it serves as motivation and not any other emotion to get us out there, ready to compete and battle and put our best foot forward as we step out there.” The team’s focus must shift to this season and laying the foundation so Toronto doesn’t

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find itself in a similar do-or-die situation in October. The first step toward doing so was shoring up its defence. Last

year, Toronto allowed a leagueworst 58 goals. After six games this season, the Reds’ five goals against is tied for the best. Montreal’s attack will be the biggest test of Toronto’s backline so far. The Impact sits at the top of the Eastern Conference, four points ahead of Toronto. It is the only team the Reds have faced so far with 10 goals. And unlike Toronto — something of a one-trick pony up front at the moment as Sebastian Giovinco has scored two-thirds of the team’s goals this year — Montreal’s attack is varied. “They have a lot of players who are interchangeable. Of their front four, there’s a lot of mobility there and different guys showing up in different spots,” Vanney said.

Weekend, Weekend, Apr.April 22-Apr. 22-24, 24, 2016 29 11 IN BRIEF Sanchez’s heroics lift Arsenal back into third Alex Sanchez’s double eased Arsenal back into third place with a 2-0 win over West Bromwich Albion on Thursday, smoothing the north London team’s pursuit of Champions League qualification after back-to-back draws. Arsenal moved two points ahead of Manchester City, which was held by Newcastle on Tuesday, and four ahead of fifth-place Manchester United. Securing a place in the top four of the English Premier League is the remaining target for manager Arsene Wenger, with Arsenal 10 points behind leader Leicester and only 12 points to play for.

Canada advances to semis at U18 hockey championship Tyson Jost scored three goals and set up two more as Canada’s men’s hockey team downed Switzerland 9-1 in quarter-final action at the under-18 world championship on Thursday. Brett Howden had two goals and three assists for the Canadians, Michael McLeod scored twice and David Quenneville and Cameron Morrison rounded out the attack with a goal and an assist each. Dante Fabbro chipped in with three assists. Evan Fitzpatrick stopped 25 shots for the win. Canada will play the winner of the Sweden-Slovakia quarter-final in Saturday’s semifinal game.

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There will be drug testing this season in the CFL. The league and the CFL Players’ Association jointly announced Thursday expanded testing for performance-enhancing drugs will take place in 2016. There was no drug testing last year after the CFL severed its partnership with the Can-

adian Centre for Ethics in Sports, which had conducted the tests. The partnership was rekindled this off-season with the CCES resuming its role. Under terms of the new agreement, the number of tests conducted will be equal to 100 per cent of the players in the league. But because testing will be ran-

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2 wds. 4. Happy 5. Shut out 6. ‘__ __ Before Serving’ (Orange juice carton message) 7. Record before broadcasting 8. Farm animal 9. Rd. type

10. Bush’s “Everything __” 11. Computer key 13. “...__ __ say...” = “...alas...” 14. __ green 18. Belinda Carlisle, band-style 20. Mother of Helen of Troy 23. British band, Dire __ 24. Song by Canadian band Timber Timbre, quite an attraction in Arizona: 2 wds. 25. Singer Ms. Turner’s autobiography: 2 wds. 26. “It must be _ __ news day.” 29. Music honour, e.g. 30. Miss Longstocking 31. Poi ingredients 33. __ __ Provincial Park, in Calgary 36. Roman sun god 38. Cher, Madonna, Beyonce or Sting 41. Rampage participants 43. Crooned 46. Film set job 48. Careens 52. “The Good Earth” (1937) Oscar-winning actress Ms. Rainer 53. Sir, in Spain 54. Ooze 55. ‘Tsar’ suffix (Russian empresses) 56. Li’l piece of furniture to eat at 57. Yes, in Japan 58. Tear 59. Particular pol. party

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