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Islamophobia found around city for third time this month Ameya Charnalia
For Metro | Edmonton
A Muslim man says Islamophobic posters circulated over the weekend in a north-east Edmonton neighbourhood make minorities feel unsafe. Explicit posters calling for a ban on Islam, which are too graphic and hateful for Metro to share, were circulated in the Evansdale area over the weekend. “It does create a certain sense
of fear because there’s a lot of ignorance out there and there’s a lot of racism,” said Noureddin Zaamout, a graduate student at the University of Alberta. “It makes you feel like you’re part of a different world.” It is the third time in October that Islamophobic posters have popped up in Edmonton, said Aurangzeb Qureshi, vicepresident of communications
for the Alberta Muslim Public Affairs Council. Edmonton police said they are investigating both the Evansdale posters and Islamophobic flyers distributed in the Calder area earlier this month. Qureshi said the city and law enforcement need to take more steps to deter people from circulating the posters, which can promote violence against Muslims.
“That’s where the line needs to be drawn and that’s what law enforcement needs to understand — that you know what, a crime may not have been permitted per se, but this kind of stuff can lead to a crime.” The poster, which calls all Muslim men pedophiles, has a URL link at the bottom to an anti-Muslim group called “Stop Islamization of the World.”
An antidote to the rising tide of bigotry is increasing education and cultural dialogue, said Zaamout. “Fear and hatred emerges out of ignorance,” he said. “Promoting through education how diversity makes us unique as Canadians and what it means for us as Canadians, I think these are very important things to keep in mind.”
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Time for diversity: Councillor REPRESENTATION
Bev Esslinger says city policy should reflect the city itself
Every policy that we have must consider everyone.
Jeremy Simes
For Metro | Calgary It’s not just old white guys who live in Edmonton (though they do seem to be in power). On Tuesday, Coun. Bev Esslinger will present a notice of motion that could change the way Edmonton’s policy makers do their job. The motion, Esslinger said, will call on city administration to look at how Edmonton’s policy makers create decisions with other perspectives in mind. That includes perspectives from women, men, and people of all cultures and backgrounds. Marian Bruin, who oversees work with the Women’s Advo-
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Coun . Bev Esslinger says Edmonton is made up of people with a variety of backgrounds, so she wants city policies to reflect that. JEREMY SIMES /METRO
cacy Voice of Edmonton, said people aren’t always thinking of different points of view. “We don’t realize how biased we are,” she said. “It’s not necessarily a negative thing. It’s
just we know our own world and our own lives, and we don’t realize the difficulty or discrimination some people face when they walk out the door.” Esslinger said it’s possible
the city could hire experts for each department to make her idea feasible. Associated costs will also be calculated. She said the experts would bring perspectives from all
walks of life. “Our city is made of all genders, all backgrounds and all ages,” she said. “So every policy that we have must consider everyone.”
For example, the project could possible change for whom public spaces are designed. When sidewalks are designed to accommodate women with strollers, they also help people with disabilities or seniors, Bruin said. With an additional lens, you’re being even more inclusive, she added. “Women, ethnic minorities and indigenous people are not represented in government,” she said. “And yet, they are a big part of the population. So we need to know how they feel about policies. “All of these diverse groups need a voice in government, when we’re designing neighbourhoods, streets and programs.” Esslinger said she could see the implementation of the initiative by next year. If passed, it will take about 12 weeks for administration officials to present their findings on the motion.
ZONING
Forest Heights neighbours fear ‘big, honking’ building In less than 10 years, Allan Wright and Trudy Watson could be looking at a “big, honking” building in their community park. On Monday, city council passed a bylaw to rezone land in Forest Heights so that both mid- and highrise developments
can be built. But it didn’t come with scrutiny from Coun. Ben Henderson, who represents the community. In fact, the same proposal came to council five years ago. No action on the site has occurred since then. As a result, the proposal came
with some provisions. If the developer can’t demolish the existing motel within two years or obtain a building permit to construct the tower in six years, height for the highrise will be reduced. Henderson said the community wants the motel site demol-
ished, adding they would prefer an empty parking lot. “I’m nervous it’s not going to happen in the way it’s supposed to,” he said. “I fear in another five or six years, we’ll be doing this again. But I hope that isn’t the case.” The building will be in the
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would be hard for construction to begin in six years. His company must notify renters in the motel of demolition. Council also passed an amendment that would require the developer to accommodate at least 70 units for assisted living. JEREMY SIMES/METRO
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Theory on dinosaurs takes off An ancient bone bed in a remote Mongolian desert presents tantalizing clues that dinosaurs of a feather may have flocked together for the same reasons modern birds do. “We’re starting to realize how much birds have inherited from their dinosaur ancestors,” said Gregory Funston, a paleontologist at the University of Alberta and lead author of a paper published Monday in the journal Nature. Funston and his co-authors have drawn their conclusions from an extensive bone bed of Avimimus fossils discovered a decade ago. The bed is likely to contain the remains of dozens of individuals of the feathered, warm-blooded, beaked dinosaur. Scientists have long known that some dinosaurs lived together in groups but the Avimimus deposit is unique for two reasons. The first is that remains from this type of dinosaur have only been found in a group fewer than six times anywhere in the world. The second reason is even more interesting. Normal flocks would include both adults and juveniles, but almost all the individuals found in the Mongolian bone bed were adults. “It suggests to us this is the result of behaviour, in which the adults group to exclude young individuals,’’ said Funston. the canadian press
IN BRIEF
Entrepreneurship and innovation are alive and well in Edmonton. Randy Yatscoff
A running start for entrepreneurs Randy Yatscoff is getting the Adam Chowaniec Lifetime Achievement Award at the Startup Canada Awards. ALEX BOYD/Metro
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Startup Canada Awards honour future titans of industry Alex Boyd
Metro | Edmonton The Startup Canada Awards are coming to Edmonton for the first time Tuesday, and organizers say this recognizes the city’s growing prominence as a hub for entrepreneurs.
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Randy Yatscoff, former CEO and president of drug-development company Isotechnika, will receive the lifetime achievement award at the event, which is for the prairie region. The award is given out for “outstanding impact and enduring legacy” in Canadian entrepreneurship. “It’s an honour to get the award, but it’s really about the people that I’ve worked with and mentored, it’s all the people I’ve worked with over the past 35 years,” he said. Now the executive vice president for business development for TEC Edmonton,
Yatscoff pushed to bring the national awards to the city for the first time. He said Edmonton is a growing centre for start-ups, something he attributes to strong governmental support and growing enthusiasm for start ups. “Entrepreneurship and innovation are alive and well in Edmonton,” he said. That wasn’t the case when entrepreneur Shaheel Hooda, who will get the entrepreneur promotion award for his efforts to boost entrepreneurship, moved back to the city in 2002. Despite growing up and get-
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ting his start here—he was helping with family businesses at 8, did his undergrad degree and bought his first business here—he soon left for stints in Toronto and the U.S. He never thought he’d come back, but got recruited to take over a local company. He remembers it as a “very lonely time” to be running a startup in the province. Despite advice to move to a bigger centre, he stuck it out in Edmonton, heading up companies like CodeBaby Software and chairing the A100 Tech Entrepreneurs, which mentors the next generation of entrepreneurs.
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Green groups want climate targets made law Green energy groups have joined an environmental think tank in calling on the Alberta government to legislate firm targets for renewable power. The Pembina Institute and a number of green energy firms say in a letter to Premier Rachel Notley and others in her government that the province has shown strong leadership in its Climate Leadership Plan. The government is moving to phase out coal-fired power by 2030 and simultaneously triple renewable energy’s share of the power supply to 30 per cent. the canadian press Climate change fund tapped to help farmers Alberta is tapping into its industrial carbon levy fund to help the farm sector reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The province says it will spend $10 million to expand existing programs that encourage producers to use energy efficient equipment and solar power. Agriculture Minister Oneil Carlier says the program will help greenhouse operators, irrigators, the dairy and the livestock sectors but is open to all farmers. The government estimates about 700 producers are using the program and hopes to increase that number. THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Safety experts lukewarm on city’s lifeguard proposal Kevin Maimann
Metro | Edmonton A water safety group is lukewarm to the city’s proposal for underwater cameras in public pools. Barbara Costache, chief administrative officer with the Lifesaving Society of Alberta and Northwest Territories, said cameras could help lifeguards respond more quickly to emergencies in complex modern pools — but they could also be a critical distraction. The city issued a request for proposal last week to test underwater cameras in public pools, in response to two drownings in 2012. Underwater cameras are used in competitive swimming for officiating and for media
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purposes, but few are used in Canada for safety. “The problem is we have a distracted society, and technology is a part of that distraction,” Costache said. As a drowning prevention method, the cameras would potentially set off an alarm
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A sexual minorities expert says judges need to be better educated about gender identity after two Alberta family court judges ruled that a child born a boy couldn’t wear girls clothes in public. The case involves a couple in Medicine Hat fighting over custody of the five-year-old. The mother supports what she says is the child’s wish to identify and dress as a girl, but the father does not and blames the mother for the child’s gender confusion. Last year, a judge ruled the child could only wear girls clothes in private. A second judge later upheld the decision. A third judge recently removed the restriction and said the child can choose what clothes to wear. “These kinds of decisions shouldn’t be happening, particularly when our human rights legislation has changed,” Kris Wells with the Institute for Sexual Minority Studies and Services at the University of Alberta said Monday. The Canadian Press
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Colten Boushie shooting
Key evidence has been compromised: Lawyer A key piece of evidence in the tion of Boushie’s body when he fatal shooting of a First Nations was shot in the back of the head, man on a Saskatchewan farm whether Boushie was hunched has been compromised, accord- over reaching for something ing to a lawyer representing the or whether he was upright, or possibly the angle of the shot, dead man’s family. Chris Murphy represents the he said. family of Colten Boushie, who RCMP did not respond to a was killed Aug. 9 after the SUV request for comment. he was riding in with four other Murphy said police have not people drove onto the rural told him if the SUV is back in property west of Saskatoon. their custody. Murphy said the Ford Escape That means any evidence colwas outside in a towing com- lected now could be tainted, he pany parking said. lot on Sept. 12 “The first and then moved thing it means the next day to a is that the RCMP I just cannot salvage yard for were, best case fathom how this scenario, negauction. “I notified piece of evidence ligent, because the Crown and there’s no way could just be the RCMP on that in a homireleased. Monday, the cide investiga12th of Seption the piece Chris Murphy tember, that of forensic evithis vehicle was not in police dence — this is probably the custody and that police had to No. 1 piece of forensic evidence do whatever they could immedi- that will be in existence for this ately to get that vehicle back,” case — should be destroyed by Murphy said from Toronto. the state.” “I was told by the RCMP that The man accused of shooting blood spatter analysis had not Boushie, farmer Gerald Stanley, been performed on the vehicle, could argue his right to a fair which is a very, very important trial is compromised because piece of forensic evidence that of how the SUV was handled. Stanley, 54, has pleaded not could have been taken from this vehicle because it can determine guilty to second-degree murder many things.” and is free on bail. That could include the loca- the canadian press
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Yazidis, their family displaced by Daesh attacks, stand in their temporary home on Nov. 7, 2015, in Zakho, Iraq. Immigration Minister John McCallum says the Liberal government is prepared to start bringing Yazidi refugees into Canada within four months. Getty images
Yazidis to arrive within 120 days immigration
Feds working to welcome refugees fleeing Daesh Immigration Minister John McCallum says the Liberal government is prepared to start bringing Yazidi refugees into the country within four months. He says the Liberals will support a Conservative motion calling for more support for the Yazidis, who have been singled out for particularly brutal treatment by Daesh. McCallum says his department
has dispatched people to the region to begin the immigration process, although he hasn’t committed to a set number of Yazidi refugees. One problem has been that the Yazidis have been mainly caught up in isolated combat zones, far from the refugee camps in Syria and Turkey that allow far easier access to officials seeking to screen and process newcomers. The Yazidis are a Kurdishspeaking religious minority who used to dwell in northern Iraq. They have been targeted by Daesh militants, who have used rape, torture and mass murder against them. The Conservative motion describes them as victims of geno-
In this case it is easy to make priorities. Michelle Rempel
cide and sex slavery and calls on the government to do all it can to aid Yazidi women and girls. McCallum said Monday that his department is working on bringing in Yazidis, despite serious difficulties. “It is not easy to bring the Yazidis here from the places where they are, but my department has sent an expedition out to the terrain and we are committed
to bring them in within, as the motion says, 120 days or less,” he told the Commons during question period. Conservative MP Michelle Rempel said it’s obvious what should happen. “In this case it is easy to make priorities,” she said. “We should be bringing Yazidi women here.” McCallum said his officials are on the case. “We are working very hard. We have just come back from a mission in the region to determine how many and from where and over what time period we will be welcoming more Yazidis to Canada. We have committed to do this and it will be done.” THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Morneau’s views anger millennials Politics
Minister says ‘we have to accept’ precarious employment Ryan Tumilty Metro Ottawa .
May Warren Metro Toronto
Opposition MPs, along with youth and labour advocates are hitting back at federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau for suggesting millennials should get used to working precarious jobs. Speaking to Liberal Party insiders in Niagara Falls Saturday, Morneau said high turnover and short-term contracts for youth are here to stay and the government should prepare for it. “How do we train and retrain people as they move from job to job to job? Because it’s going to happen. We have to accept that,” Morneau said during a question-and-answer session. Conservative MP Matt Jeneroux said Morneau’s comments show the minister is “out of touch with a lot of the younger generation.” NDP MP Niki Ashton, who’s been consulting with young people across Canada about employment, said Morneau’s remarks were
disappointing. “These comments are arrogant, they’re insensitive and they clearly speak to a disconnect between Mr. Morneau and his government and what millennials in Canada are facing,” she said. Morneau’s office did not respond to a request by Metro for comment by deadline. Aliya Bhatia, director of community engagement with the Toronto Youth Cabinet, said acknowledging precarious employment is not enough. Instead, she said the government must provide better protections for precarious workers. Insecure work affects more than just millennials, Bhatia said, noting that thousands of workers without benefits or job security will have a negative impact on the nation’s finances. “If the entire economy is depending on people like me to buy a house in a decade, that’s not going to happen,” she said. Andrew Cash, a former NDP MP who co-founded the Urban Workers Project, said there’s “a ton of work that needs to be done on the government’s side to build a stronger floor for all workers to stand on.” “I just think, no worker should get used to the way work is going,” Cash said. with files from the canadian press
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Inmates find an outlet on radio show Adina Bresge
For Metro | Halifax Call-in shows on Dalhousie University’s campus radio station have become a creative outlet for an unlikely audience — prisoners. Inmates are taking to the airwaves to perform poetry and rap on the Black Power Hour, an educational program on CKDU co-hosted by former Halifax poet laureate El Jones. The show focuses on social and cultural issues relevant to black people, but is open all listeners, including those behind bars. “I think what they have really
connected to is the idea that they can have a voice beyond themselves,” says Jones. “They have this role in creating something and they take that very seriously.” The poetic platform came about “organically,” says Jones, and was largely driven by the prisoners themselves. She says Black Power Hour was spun off of another program on CKDU, Youth Now, at an inmate’s request for more historical black content. One of the first prisoners to call into CKDU was Aiden Cromwell, who is currently awaiting a new trial after his second-degree murder conviction was overturned.
“That concrete jungle is never safe,” Cromwell recently rapped on-air. “Gotta know when to pull it — Don’t hesitate.” Soon after other inmates heard his performance, Jones says, the phones started lighting up. In some jails, Jones says, prisoners have formed poetry collectives to prepare their best material for the show. Some pay up to $7 to call into the program, and Jones says inmates have written to her saying they stay on their best behaviour to preserve their radio privileges. Free expression can be therapeutic for prisoners, Jones says, who use the show to work out
Elections
Expat voting ban legit, Liberals say
Allowing long-term Canadian expats to vote in federal elections is not a Constitutional requirement but a policy decision that Parliament has the right to make, the government plans to tell the country’s top court. Elected officials implemented the voting ban for those out of the country for more than five years as a matter of fairness, and the decades-old law is perfectly legitimate, the Liberal government argues in new filings with the Supreme Court of Canada. At the same time, the Liberal government indicates in the documents — as it has done several times during and since last year’s election — that it plans changes to the law. “Parliament’s 1993 choice … had the pressing purpose of maintaining the fairness of the democratic system and
was a proportional limit,” the government says in a statement of its case. “If a new Parliament makes the judgment that the maintenance of this limit is not required any longer to ensure the fairness of the electoral system, that is a judgment that should be made by elected officials and Parliament. It is not required by the Charter.” The law, the Liberal government argues, recognizes that long-term non-residents have “different and less onerous responsibilities” under Canadian law and the ban was not intended as a value judgment on any individual voter. In February, the Supreme Court is set to take up a challenge to the ban by two Canadians living in the U.S. The pair initially won a declaration in 2014 that the law infringed
Enforcement While the ban has been on the books since 1993, it was only actively enforced under the former Conservative government of Stephen Harper.
their constitutional rights, but Ontario’s top court — in a split decision — restored the legislation on the basis of preserving the “social contract” between Canadians and their government. The expats appealing the ruling- as many as 1.4 million Canadians abroad are believed to be affected by the law— had wanted the government to abandon its defence of the ban given its promises to change the legislation. THE CANADIAN PRESS
issues related to race, gender, love, family, being in prison and the actions that brought them there. Some of her favourite calls came from female prisoners who re-appropriated the machismo of hip hop to tell men “we’re not interested.” The process of sending someone to prison can be silencing, Jones says. She says in court, your lawyer speaks for you, but on the radio, you don’t “have” to say anything. “When you do say something, it’s because you’re making a choice to say what you’re saying,” Jones says. “I think that can be a really important part of returning people’s voices to them.”
OTTAWA Woman killed after her car crashes into school bus Ottawa police say a woman has died after the car she was driving collided with a bus carrying dozens of high school students. Police tweeted that the female driver succumbed to her injuries at the site of the crash on Highway 174, which took place shortly before 3 p.m. on Monday. Ottawa fire services say they were called to the scene around 2:40 p.m. upon hearing reports that someone had been ejected from a vehicle in the crash. City spokeswoman Danielle Cardinal says those reports proved unfounded, but says paramedics did have to remove the driver who was trapped in the vehicle. the canadian press
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militant threat
A dilemma for Iraqis near Mosul: Stay or flee Bayda Muhammad Khalaf followed the government’s advice to stay in her home with her husband and seven children as Iraqi troops advanced near their remote village outside militantheld Mosul. But after Daesh fled and Iraqi troops didn’t appear, their food supply quickly ran out, and the family had to flee to search for territory firmly under government control. Khalaf waited until she saw a passing shepherd, and then she and her family made the eighthour walk out of no man’s land behind a herd of sheep. Eventually, Khalaf couldn’t produce enough breast milk for her infant daughter. Mosul, the largest city controlled by Daesh, is still home to more than one million civilians. The government and international aid groups fear that a sudden mass exodus will overwhelm the few camps set up on its outskirts. More than 5,600 people have already fled areas near Mosul, according to the International Organization for Migration, with most heading through Daesh-
200,000 Around 200,000 Iraqis are expected to be displaced during the first weeks of the offensive to liberate Mosul, according to the Norwegian Refugee Council.
run territory toward the Syrian border, rather than in the direction of the advancing troops, who are converging from the north, east and south. Camps have been set up to accommodate 60,000 people, but about 200,000 are expected to be displaced in the first weeks of the offensive, according to the Norwegian Refugee Council. Both the Iraqi government and Kurdish authorities are mired in an economic crisis brought on by low oil prices and say they do not have the resources to care for such a large number of displaced people. So they have urged everyone to stay put. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Pakistani volunteers and police officers rush an injured person to a hospital in Quetta, Pakistan on Monday, after gunmen stormed a police training center in the restive southwestern province of Baluchistan. Arshad Butt/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Attack kills dozens of police trainees Bakery loses appeal
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over gay-rights cake A Belfast bakery on Monday lost its appeal of a ruling that it discriminated against a gay customer by refusing to bake a cake decorated with a message supporting same-sex marriage. The judgment against Ashers Baking Co. found that the familyrun chain was wrong to treat gay customers any differently from heterosexuals. The Ashers directors argued they were happy to bake goods for anyone but could not put messages on their products at odds with their Christian beliefs.
The Northern Ireland Equality Commission pursued the lawsuit against Ashers on behalf of the spurned customer, who had ordered the cake for a gay rights event. Monday’s judgment by the three-judge Court of Appeal found that the bakery had discriminated against the customer and violated British human rights law. Lord Chief Justice Sir Declan Morgan rejected the bakery’s central argument that it would be endorsing gay marriage by making the cake. the associated press
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Authorities say group linked to al-Qaida may be responsible
Gunmen stormed a police training centre late Monday in Pakistan’s restive Baluchistan province and detonated explosive vests, killing at least 48 police trainees, authorities said. Baluchistan’s top health official, Noorul Haq, said at least 116 people were wounded — mostly police trainees and some paramilitary troops.
A security official put the Baluchistan Home Minister death toll at 51. Major Gen- Sarfaraz Bugti said one of the eral Sher Afgan, chief of the attackers was killed by security paramilitary Frontier Corps, forces and two detonated told reporters that the attack- their explosive vests. He said ers appeared to security forces be in contact have completwith handlers ed their operin Afghanistan. ation but were He said the at- They were rushing still engaged tacker belonged toward our building in the cleanup to the banned process. firing shots. Bugti said at Lashker-eUnnamed police trainee Jhangvi group, the time of atan Islamic miltack about 700 itant group affiliated with al- trainees were at the base. He Qaida. said more than 200 trainees Haq said many of the train- were rescued immediately after ees were killed when the gun- the attack. men detonated explosive vests. The attack started when be-
tween four and six gunmen opened fire as they rushed the hostel at the police training centre in a suburban area of the provincial capital of Quetta. “They were rushing toward our building firing shots so we rushed for safety toward the roof and jumped down in the back to save our lives,” one of the police trainees told Geo television. Baluchistan police chief Ahsan Mahboob told reporters that four gunmen attacked the training centre, attempting to enter the hostel housing the trainees. A gun battle erupted when the guards resisted, he said. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Calais migrants facing an uncertain fate
Migrants waited in chilly temperatures Monday to board buses in Calais, France, as authorities began dismantling the camp referred to as “the jungle.” Emilio Morenatti/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
France began the mass evacuation Monday of the makeshift migrant camp known as “the jungle,” a mammoth project to erase the humanitarian blight on its northern border, where thousands fleeing war or poverty have lived in squalor, most hoping to sneak into Britain. Before dawn broke, long lines of migrants waited in chilly temperatures to board buses in the port city of Calais, carrying meagre belongings and timid hope that they were headed to a brighter future, despite giving up their dreams of life across the English Channel in Britain.
Closely watched by more than 1,200 police, the first of dozens of buses began transferring them to reception centres around France where they can apply for asylum. More police patrolled inside the camp, among them officers from the London police force. Authorities were expected to begin tearing down thousands of muddy tents and fragile shelters on Tuesday as the migrants vacated them. Migrants have flocked to the Calais region for nearly two decades, living in mini-jungles. But the sprawling camp in the sand
It’s not good, the jungle.
Mahmoud Abdrahman
dunes of northern France became emblematic of Europe’s migrant crisis, expanding as migrant numbers grew, evolving into Europe’s largest slum, supported by aid groups. “It’s not good, the jungle,” said 31-year-old Mahmoud Abdrahman of Sudan. “Eating not good. Water not good, shelter not
good, no good toilets.” He said he would leave Tuesday when lines were shorter, gesturing to a black knapsack that was all packed to go as proof he was ready. Ultimately, Abdrahman said, he wanted one thing more than anything else. “I need peace,” he said. Home to migrants from Afghanistan, Sudan, Eritrea, Syria and elsewhere, the closing of the camp fell like a stone on many as the reality of the evacuation sunk in and plans had to be made. Uncertainty and a lack of precise information left many fearful. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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European Union president, PM Trudeau hope for compromise The European Union and Canada tried to remain upbeat Monday about the prospects for their trans-Atlantic free trade pact despite a small Belgian region’s refusal to back the deal under the current conditions. After the setback early Monday, EU President Donald Tusk and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke by telephone and the EU leader said afterward “there’s yet time” to find a compromise solution. A joint summit for signing the long-delayed trade deal is scheduled for Thursday, offering the two leaders and Belgian officials little time to persuade the Wallonia region. Without all Belgian regions supporting the agreement, Belgium cannot sign and the EU needs unanimity from all of its 28 member states. “We think Thursday’s summit (is) still possible,” Tusk said in a Twitter message. “We encourage all parties to find a solution.” Canada’s International Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland says she, too, is still hopeful that a
Canada-EU trade deal can be salvaged, but “the ball is in Europe’s court.” “Canada’s job is done,” Freeland told a hastily assembled news conference in the foyer of Canada’s House of Commons. The expressed optimism that a deal could be secured within days came as a surprise since Wallonia had said it has too many concerns with the pact to overcome by Thursday. The EU’s inability to sign would be a major embarrassment and undermine the belief that the world’s biggest trading bloc is a trustworthy partner as it seeks similar deals with nations like the United States and Japan. The EU Commission, which has negotiated the deal on behalf of the 28 nations, insisted that this was not the final deadline. “Now, we need patience,” EU Commission spokesman Margaritis Schinas said. “The Commission traditionally does not set deadlines or ultimatums.” Even if Thursday’s EU-Canada summit has to be called off, it could always be rescheduled when Wallonia has signed on to the agreement, Schinas indicated. Politicians in Wallonia, which is smaller than the U.S. state of New Jersey, argue that the proposed CETA accord — short for Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement — would undermine labour, environment
WALLONIA The region: Wallonia makes up 55 per cent of Belgium. Why they oppose it: Wallonia’s politicians say the trade agreement undermines labour, environment and consumer standards. A key hurdle is “private arbitration” where multinationals can legally challenge governments on policies. FLANDERS
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and consumer standards. Proponents say it would yield billions in added trade through tariff cuts and other measures to lower barriers to commerce. At the same time, the EU says it will keep in place the region’s strong safeguards on social, environmental and labour issues. Magnette said a key hurdle was the issue of “private arbitration” in which multinationals can legally challenge governments on policies. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Metro | Vancouver Linda LePretre collected more than 400 paper coffee cups in just a few blocks in downtown Vancouver, earning her $20 after she dropped them off at the Binners’ Project pop-up depot Monday morning. Organizers of the third annual Coffee Cup Revolution aim to show governments that setting up a deposit-return program for paper coffee cups would keep them out of landfills and provide another source of income for Vancouver binners, who already collect cans and bottles. The Bin-
ners’ Project pop-up depot collected 48,000 paper coffee cups — the most ever — this year. Most paper coffee cups end up in the landfill but the Binners’ Project will give the 48,000 paper coffee cups it received Monday to Regional Recycling. For some binners, a refunddeposit program for coffee cups is the difference between dinner and a missed meal. The Binners’ Project fundraises throughout the year to provide enough money for the Coffee Cup Revolution event, where it gives people five cents for every coffee cup brought in. The organization’s director wants to hold the event more often but can’t because of insufficient funds.
IN BRIEF Beverage industry must lower calories: Organization A top economic research organization says Canada’s beverage industry will have to do more than rely on recent trends to reach its target for reducing the calories people consume through soft drinks and similar products amid concerns over obesity rates. THE CANADIAN PRESS Wal-Mart stops accepting Visa cards in Manitoba The dispute between WalMart Canada and Visa over merchant fees escalated Monday as the retail giant stopped accepting the credit card at its 16 stores in Manitoba. THE CANADIAN PRESS
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emma teitel on the virtues of basicness
Because I myself am a little basic, and because I hail from an ultra-basic town, I am moved to defend the ‘pumpkin entertainment complex.’ A few years ago when I was working at Maclean’s Magazine, I wrote a column about the increasingly popular term “basic bitch,” an epithet used to describe young women who embrace, with unapologetic zeal, anything and everything mainstream — from fashion and literature to music and beverages. In the piece I argued that though many believe “basic bitch” is a strictly pejorative term, thousands of women (some of my own best friends, included) have chosen to reclaim it in a playful, selfdeprecating way. For example, one Basic B might say to another: “OMG, I live-tweeted the Bachelor last night. How basic am I?” BBs, as I like to call them — or us — vary from culture to culture, but the archetypal North American Basic Bitch is (despite the term’s origin in hip hop) widely regarded as a well-to-do white girl who fancies Ugg boots, Taylor Swift, frozen yogurt, throw pillows embroidered with alliterative wisdom (live, laugh, love,) and the be-all-end-all of basicness: the PSL, a.k.a. the pumpkinspice latte. The PSL is Starbucks’ most popular fall beverage: a hot, sweet sludge, originally launched in 2003, that skyrocketed to viral fame circa earlier this decade, when BBs began documenting themselves indulging in the autumnal drink on social media. When I wrote my basicbitch piece in 2014, I got a lot of flak for advocating that women reclaim what many
What the Pumpkin Spice Industrial Complex points to, more than just class or privilege, is nerdy excitement about changing seasons.
believed to be a sexist and derogatory term. Little did I know, however, that just a few years later, it would that appear everyone under the sun
University of British Columbia and the University of North Carolina, the pumpkin spice economy — a corporate cornucopia of pale orange bath
BASICALLY HARMLESS A fondness for pumpkin spice may be hard to defend on esthetic terms, but there has to be something redeeming about something so popular. Contributed
— not just millennial white women named Caitlyn and Mackenzie — would be in a position to reclaim the term. Because it appears everyone under the sun is now following one of the core tenets of basicness: the love of all things pumpkin spice. Today “pumpkin spice” is literally everywhere: from Starbucks to school cafeterias, and bars to bathrooms (where you can find pumpkin spice soap and pumpkin spice martinis.) Last year Forbes estimated that the “pumpkin spice economy” was worth $500 million. In other words, we are all a little bit basic. Or are we? According to a seemingly silly but fascinating study published last year called The Perilous Whiteness of Pumpkins, by researchers Lisa Jordan Powell and Elizabeth S.D. Engelhardt, from the
bombs, baked goods, specialty beers and even hairspray — is indicative of white privilege and wealth. “Even when we move away from ephemeral flavors of pumpkin and pumpkin spice,” the researchers argue, “whiteness and cultural symbols cluster around visual images of pumpkins. Aspirational lifestyle magazines, social media pumpkins and reality television competitions come together in a veritable pumpkin entertainment complex, whose multiple manifestations continue the entanglements of pumpkins, social capital, race and place.” I find this idea profoundly interesting, and I understand where the researchers are coming from. I haven’t seen many people who aren’t wellheeled, white and female shell out seven bucks for a PSL at
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Starbucks. But because I am myself, let’s face it, a little basic, and because I hail from the ultrabasic town of Richmond Hill, Ont., I am moved to defend the “pumpkin entertainment complex.” Yes, I am aware that when we indulge in all things pumpkin spice and flaunt our pumpkin spice products online we are flaunting our status as members of an unthinking, capitalist cult. But I am aware of something else, too, something arguably far more important than this. It’s fall outside. Look at the colours! Look at the leaves! The sweaters! The charming satchel bags! It’s impossible to be a cynic, in the end, about the Pumpkin Spice Industrial Complex, because what it points to, more than class or privilege, is a totally nerdy, innocent and almost childlike excitement about the changing of the seasons. And that’s the surprisingly neat thing about so-called “basicness.” A love of all things mainstream can present itself as an ode to capitalism. But it can also present itself as a radical rejection of cool. For example, almost every coffee shop in my Toronto neighbourhood, even the most hipster ones imaginable, have begun advertising homemade, pumpkin spice products. When I asked a barista recently why there were so many pumpkin-derived snacks on display in his store this week, he said, matter-of-factly, with a rare smile on his face, “It’s just something nice to ring in the fall season, ya know?” It’s a cold world out there. There’s no shame in warming up by a fire with a PSL and a good book. If you need a recommendation, I hear Nights in Rodanthe, by Nicholas Sparks, is fantastic. Emma Teitel is a national columnist for the Toronto Star.
“Women, united, will never be defeated.” The slogan was a little ‘70s, but the chants on Friday’s Take Back the Night march were a reminder that grrl power is alive and well in Edmonton. And it needs to be. The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives consistently ranks Edmonton near the bottom of its list of best cities to be a woman in Canada. (Caveat: it considers limited metrics related to pay and employment, and all but ignores the rich political history of women in our city.) Still, at least we beat Windsor, Ont. In our city, this year, we’ve witnessed shockingly cavalier attitudes about sexual violence. It was in our city that a jury acquitted the man who paid to have rough sex with Cindy Gladue, an indigenous woman, before she bled to death in a bathtub. We may smarmily express concern for the thumbs-up endorsement that Republicans are giving to their presidential nominee, Donald Trump, a man who brags about groping women and thinks nothing of objectifying his daughter. But let’s not forget that this year, Brian Jean, the leader of the official opposition, found his Facebook so swamped with threats that he had to publicly denounce death threats against Premier Rachel Notley. Perhaps this is why this year’s Lit Fest saw record turnouts for feminist writers Andi Zeisler and Lindy West, and why the turnout to Take Back
the Night surged after a few years when the march didn’t take place at all. I think Edmonton women are hungry for change. We look around at a resource-based economy that has left many families and single women behind. Women in Edmonton also make 63 cents on the dollar compared to men, according to a Queen’s University report, The Alberta Disadvantage: Gender Taxation and Income Inequality. I asked Jackie Foord, the CEO for the YWCA, why Edmonton in particular seems to be having a feminist revival. “We still have high domestic violence rates here in Edmonton,” Foord said, adding that we also have a growing group of role models who call themselves feminist. “We have a prime minister who calls himself a feminist, a feminist premier, and a mayor who uses the word. I think the word feminism is being used without hesitation” Foord isn’t sure that Edmonton is setting the trend. “I think something has changed, but maybe it has just been incremental.” Still, we’ve always been a progressive pocket in the Prairies. Some conservatives on Twitter have taken to referring to the city as “Redmonton,” an old epithet used to imply that Edmontonians are socialists or even communists. My hope is that, in the future, Edmonton starts setting trends for the national stage. That we’re restarting the conversation about gender equality is hopeful. When women march together, magic happens. We have a ways to go, but the power of women in the city to get ’er done is undeniable. Philosopher Cat by Jason Logan
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Jamie Oliver says diversity needed in kitchens Melita Kuburas
Metro | Canada There’s a downside to being one of the most recognizable faces in the restaurant business, such as being asked for a selfie while going to the toilet. “It does get a little bit weird sometimes,” jokes Jamie Oliver during a recent drop-in to his restaurant at Toronto’s tony Yorkdale mall. But the upside of fame is the power to bring attention to different issues in the food industry (Oliver even got the ear of the prime minister this month, speaking about child obesity). His latest comments during his trip to Canada, where he has two restaurants in partnership with King Street Food Company, show an attempt to tackle gender disparity in the business. “In the U.K., we’re at 11 per cent (women) in the kitchen. And that’s probably about 50 per cent higher than the average,” he says, about his staff. He would like to see a more even gender split, “but we struggle to get them into the business,” Oliver adds. “The reason we want (women) in the kitchen isn’t to be politically correct. It’s because they look at stuff differently; they see things differently. They make
Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver says only 11 per cent of the kitchen staff in his U.K. restaurants are women. Simona Bonelli, executive chef at Jamie’s Italian Canada at Yorkdale mall, hopes to change that figure here in Canada. Chris Young/the canadian press; melita kuburas/metro
a kitchen flow differently and that’s what we want.” While the 11 per cent statistic for female chefs is about the same in Oliver’s Canadian restaurants, the executive chef at the fast-paced Yorkdale location — where they serve up to 1,100 people on a typical Saturday night — is a woman. Simona Bonelli has worked in Europe and North America for the past 20 years and says there has “always been a lack of female chefs, for sure.” At Jamie’s Italian Canada, she keeps an upbeat mood by making the staff laugh and having
co-workers take over for those who start to fade when fatigue sets in. “It requires a lot of endurance,” Bonelli says. “I do a lot of sports — cycling, running long distances. I come at it a certain way. I train to endure the physical stress. Not everybody’s made for it.” If you like crossfit or bootcamp, you will like working in a kitchen — no matter what gender you identify with, says Christine Beard, executive pastry chef instructor at the Pacific Institute of Culinary Arts in Vancouver.
“In pastry, you’re lifting 50-pound bags of flour, 25-kilo boxes of butter. You’ve got sheet pans and racks and you’re taking out large slabs of cakes in and out of the freezer, so it is very labour intensive,” she says. Beard, who was part of the pastry team at Fairmont Washington DC and helped open Bouchon in Beverly Hills, says an increasing number of women are choosing to stay in the industry because they have more female mentors. “Having women in those positions makes it more feasible as a young student coming in ... to see yourself taking a
I think when you choose to do it, you have to be pretty tough. Every female chef that I’ve met — they’re tougher than the guys. Simona Bonelli, executive chef, Jamie’s Italian Canada
leadership role in the industry.” At the Pacific Institute of Culinary Arts, where they take in 60 students per term, the gender split this fall was 50/50, whereas six years ago it used to be about 70/30, male dominated, says, Julian Bond, executive chef and VP. He believes the stereotypical ego-driven, male-dominated culture that might turn both men and women off from getting into the business is “so old school.”
Yes people swear, but gone are the days of fraught relationships between front and back, and day and night workers, he says. Beard agrees, noticing a considerable change in the last few years especially. “It’s come to that point now in our industry that people are not as accepting of that behaviour, and if you don’t respect your staff, then your staff are going to leave.”
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Fruit juice is not fruit, and other possible changes to the food guide Genna Buck
Metro Canada Health Canada is feeling very “over” the rainbow when it comes to the Canada Food Guide. The agency is seeking the public’s input on how to make the new, overhauled nutrition manual — due out by the end of 2018 — more practical and relevant to the way Canadians
actually eat. Health Minister Jane Philpott announced the online public consultations in a speech in Montreal on Monday. She said the current one-size-fits-all guide isn’t easily adaptable for people with food sensitivities or in line with the latest scientific evidence. A senate committee report in March suggested it may be time to scrap the classic food guide rainbow, which focuses narrow-
ly on getting enough nutrients, in favour of more down-to-earth advice about what foods to include with every meal. The guide, which was last updated in 2007, demonizes dietary fat and is not critical enough of added sugars and refined carbohydrates, which are linked to obesity and Type 2 diabetes, the report said. University of Guelph nutritional science professor Genevieve Newton said if the senate
recommendations are followed, “The entire document will look different.” “It’s not possible to focus on one or two changes. If I had to prioritize, I think the focus on whole rather than processed foods and a requirement for unbiased consideration of evidence are critical,” she said. Nevertheless, there are a few specific pet peeves Newton would like to see fixed: “Including fruit juice as “fruit”
2007 The guide, which was last updated in 2007, demonizes dietary fat and isn’t critical enough of added sugars.
should not be there. And there should be a reduced emphasis on carbohydrates and an awareness that not all “grains” are
created equal,” she said. The new food guide is part of a larger, multi-year federal healthy eating strategy that will also include new food labelling rules and limits on advertising unhealthy foods to children. Ads directed at children are already banned in Quebec. The province has seen a decline in fast-food consumption among children and also has one of the lowest childhood obesity rates in the country.
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Vegans with mouths to feed speak out nutrition
veganism at all, but are instead about neglect, say parents who are raising their children vegan. Pinning bad parenting on vegan diets, some say, unfairly stigmatizes those who have done their homework and are safely raising their babies without feeding them animal There’s a right way and a products like meat and dairy. wrong way to raise a baby on “They stress the elements vegan food. Those who get it of veganism in these stories, wrong, parents say, give the but it’s not that these people responsible ones a bad name. aren’t giving their children A Pennsylvania mother the right kind of food, it’s claiming to that they aren’t be vegan was feeding them,” charged this said Fulvia Sermonth with ra, of Fort Colchild endanger- These are critical lins, Colorado. times in brain ment for feedThe native of ing her baby southern Italy development, nothing but is raising her small amounts and (a vegan diet) 1-year-old son has to be done of nuts and bervegan, and her 12-yearries. In Italy, carefully. old daughter after a number Dr. Sheela Magge, of vegan babies is vegetarian. endocrinologist required hospi“ To g e t a child to the talization for malnourishpoint of starvament, a lawmaker this sum- tion, it means you are ignormer proposed a bill that would ing him and his crying all the make it a crime to feed chil- time,” she said. “It’s neglect.” dren under 16 a vegan diet. The American Academy of Those cases are not about Pediatrics’ book Pediatric Nu-
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HEALTH BRIEFS Genna Buck
Metro Canada Researchers disprove a very Canadian cliché That legendary Canuck kindness, a new study suggests, might be a myth after all. A paper in the journal Cross-Cultural Psychology ranked Canada 12th in the world in terms of empathy — five slots below famously individualistic Americans. Researchers measured empathy, which they defined
Vegan mother Fulvia Serra holds her 1-year-old son, Sebastiano, at home in Fort Collins, Colo. Serra, originally from Italy, and her husband, Scott, are raising their son vegan. Despite criticism and innuendo from some circles, pediatricians and nutritionists agree it’s perfectly healthy to feed babies a vegan diet. AP Photo/Brennan Linsley
trition devotes a chapter to vegetarian and vegan diets. It describes how, with sound nutrition and dietary planning, “it is possible to provide a balanced diet to vegetarians and
Magge, an endocrinologist at the Children’s National Health System. “These are critical times in brain development, and it has to be done carefully.” The ideal first food for
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as “emotional reactivity to others’ experiences,” through a series of surveys looking at people’s level of concern about others’ misfortune and ability to put themselves in others’ shoes. More than 100,000 people in 63 countries participated, although the sample sizes varied widely by region. More than 7,000 Canadians participated, but just 32 Lithuanians, the group the judged to care the least about their neighbours. Ecuadorians were the most empathetic overall.
Access for abortion pill lacking: Experts Sexual health advocates are intent on making Canada the most permissive country in the world for a heavily regulated abortion pill expected to hit shelves next month. Mifegymiso has been available elsewhere for nearly 30 years and is approved for use in more than 60 countries with varying restrictions. In some cases, that includes the demand that only a doctor be allowed to hand the drug to the patient — rather than a pharmacist — and that the
woman swallow the pill at a clinic in front of her physician, instead of privately in the comfort of her own home. It appeared similar restrictions were imposed when Health Canada approved the drug, but ongoing pressure seems to be loosening several key conditions as its expected November debut approaches. The federal regulator issued a clarification last week stressing that a woman does not need to ingest the drug in front of a doctor at a clinic, as is required
in the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands and Sweden. Meanwhile, a call-to-action led by the B.C. doctors and advocacy groups including the Ottawa-based Action Canada for Sexual Health & Rights is hammering away at other perceived hurdles to accessibility: including its $300 cost, certification requirements for
the prescribing doctors, and limiting use to no more than seven weeks after a woman’s last period. “Why should abortion medication be subject to that scrutiny? It shouldn’t be,” executive director Sandeep Prasad said of the myriad restrictions on the drug, also known as RU-486. the canadian press
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vegans.” “For children in general you can have a safe vegan diet, but it has to be in consultation with a pediatrician or health care provider,” said Dr. Sheela
babies is breast milk, Magge said. Many vegan moms opt to breastfeed, but for those who can’t or don’t, the only other option is a soy-based formula. Key nutrients for babies are Vitamin B-12 and Vitamin D, as well as iron, zinc and calcium, Magge said. Getting enough B-12, which comes from milk and eggs, is a specific concern in the vegan diet, since a shortage can lead to neurological problems. As babies nurse less and start consuming more solid foods, parents need to make sure all the nutrients necessary for proper development are being provided. A pediatrician can help guide parents and offer supplements if needed. Parents raising vegan kids need to be armed with facts, like being able to rattle off which foods and supplements are providing adequate vitamin B-12 and protein and where their kids are getting calcium. For those who would question the safety of raising vegan babies, her suggested response is: “The doctors say we are doing it right.”
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22 Tuesday, October 25, 2016 Tapping in How to channel your intuition Quiet your mind. To connect with your unconscious, Mossbridge suggests going for a run, or meditating, or another solitary activity allowing you to listen to your intuition with a clear head. When your intuition brings up particular feelings about a decision you’re making, make a note of it, Mossbridge says. “And write down rational feelings, and see if they match.”
Warren Weeks says he trusted his ‘gut feeling’ to leave a six figure job to start his own business. torstar news service
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The science behind that ‘gut feeling’ psychology
Researchers say intuition helps us make good decisions In the early 2000s, Warren Weeks was rising up the ladder in the corporate communications world. After working a few different jobs at various agencies, he landed a role doing media relations for a big Canadian bank and crossed the coveted six-figure threshold for the first time. “On paper, it was everything I’d ever wanted,” Weeks says. But Weeks had a nagging feeling: What he really wanted was to start his own business. “On some level there was this voice saying, ‘You need to be doing this on your own,” he recalls. For around two years, Weeks weighed his options. Giving up a steady paycheck was anxietyinducing, but the more Weeks appealed to logic, the louder his internal voice got. So, in 2003, he finally listened and quit his high-paying job to start the media training, speech writing, and crisis management business he still owns today. “Looking at the pros and cons, a rational person would’ve stayed at the bank,” the Oakville resident says. “But there was this distinct voice saying, ‘You’re going to make it work and you’ll be fine.’” It’s an experience many people can relate to — “gut feeling,” some mystical internal energy guiding your decisions. In other words: Intuition. There’s a scien-
tific basis for it, and it’s rooted in our own experiences and the subconscious decision-making happening behind-the-scenes. Going with your gut can lead you to make the right decision. So what’s happening in our bodies when we’re using that seemingly-mystical force? When you’re faced with a decision, your whole brain goes to work. It acts as a “prediction machine,” connecting different patterns and images with behavioural responses, says Jacob Hirsh, an assistant professor of organizational behaviour and human resource management at the University of Toronto Mississauga’s Institute for Management and Innovation and the Joseph L. Rotman School of Management. That comes in handy when you’re bombarded with new information while trying to make a decision. Picture yourself renting an apartment or buying a house: You’re evaluating the neighbourhood, the price, the floor plan. You’re weighing a bunch of competing factors — while subconsciously exploring how you feel about the place. In these situations, people often get a gut reaction: This place either feels like home, or it doesn’t. “Where that feeling comes from is your expectations, your previous experiences, your best guess,” says Hirsh. As your brain’s “best guess,” intuition may also sharpen with age, because it’s based on a lifetime of stored information about prior decisions and outcomes. “One particular brain area, the basal ganglia, is a deep brain structure which stores the es-
timated value of different actions in different experiences,” Hirsh notes. But according to Julia Mossbridge, a visiting scholar at Northwestern University’s psychology department, your whole body — not just your brain — is involved in the process. Your white blood cells, for instance, are experts on your immunity. Your gut is an expert on the microorganisms living inside your body. And, of course, your brain is an expert on the emotions around you. “All the parts of your body are constantly gathering information and learning about the environment and putting things together and, at some point, it comes into consciousness,” Mossbridge explains. On the flip side, psychology experts stress gut feelings aren’t foolproof. “There’s a dark side to intuition,” says Hirsh. “It’s not a silver bullet. We’re not always right. It’s only telling you how you feel based on past experiences.” And those experiences can be faulty. If you were raised in an unstable home environment, maybe you developed a notion that people are unkind, and you’ll make decisions based on a narrow world view, Hirsh says. More dangerously, Mossbridge says relying on your brain’s “fast system” — the unconscious mind — can lead to big trouble. Say you’re attracted to a married coworker, and your gut feeling is to kiss them at a holiday party. “Well, that’s not going to work for you,” says Mossbridge. In that instance, a pro-con list and some logical reflection might’ve come in handy. torstar news service
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Shakespeare co-authors get credit on famous work The Bard was not a solo act. Oxford University Press’ new edition of William Shakespeare’s works will credit Christopher Marlowe as co-author of the three Henry VI plays, underscoring that the playwright collaborated with others on some of his most famous works. Marlowe, a playwright, poet and spy, will share billing in the latest version of the New Oxford Shakespeare being published this week. While scholars have long suspected that Shakespeare’s plays included the work of others, new analytical methods helped researchers conclude that sections bore the hallmarks of Marlowe’s hand. “Shakespeare, like other geniuses, recognized the value of other people,” Gary Taylor, a professor at Florida State University and the principal investigator of the new work, said Monday. “What is Shakespeare famous for? Writing dialogue interactions between two people. You would expect in his life there would be dialogue with other people.” the associated press
Oxford University Press will put Christopher Marlowe as co-author on some of Shakespeare’s plays. istock
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24 Tuesday, October 25, 2016 johanna schneller what i’m watching
Ignorance and bomb droppings
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Kevin James comes home with new sitcom interview
Comedian’s show set in his native Long Island
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. contributed THE SHOW: Third U.S. Presidential Debate, Oct. 19, 2016 THE MOMENT: The Mosul question
An hour into the 90-minute debate, moderator Chris Wallace (excellent) asked Hillary Clinton if she would deploy U.S. troops to Mosul. She answered no, and gave a few reasons why. Though the fighting will be tough, she continued, our allies must press into Syria to take Raqqa. She praised U.S. advisors and condemned Russia. She recommended an intelligence surge with support from the air. She promised to push for tougher gun laws to keep terrorists from buying weapons, and for a no-fly zone in Syria, to help “bring conflict to an end, and go forward on a political track.” Asked the same question, Trump said, “Let me tell you, Mosul’s so sad. We had Mosul. But when she took everyone out, we lost Mosul…Douglas MacArthur, George Patton, spinning
in their graves when they see the stupidity of our country... The only reason (our allies are going into Mosul now) is because she’s running for president, they want to look tough. He violated the red line in the sand and he made so many mistakes. He made all the mistakes…Iran should write us a letter of thank-you.” Over this past week, Clinton’s substantive answers were swept aside as usual, as social media exploded with the bombs Trump dropped: calling Mexicans “bad hombres” and Clinton “such a nasty woman,” and choosing to “leave you in suspense” about whether he’d honor the democratic process. But it’s his utter ignorance about foreign policy that haunts me most. I bet Angela Merkel is also shivering — and that Trump thinks she’s nasty, too. Johanna Schneller is a media connoisseur who zeroes in on pop-culture moments. She appears Monday through Thursday.
With Kevin Can Wait, Kevin James has come home. Home to the tried-and-true sitcom form with which he thrived for nine seasons on The King of Queens. Home to CBS, where King enjoyed its long run and where Kevin Can Wait arrived this fall (airing Mondays at 8 p.m. EDT). And home to James’ native Long Island, from where his new show originates. Though set in the New York City borough of Queens, The King of Queens was filmed 4,000 kilometres away in Los Angeles. But for his return to series television, James wanted to be true to his roots. Not even a studio in nearby Queens would satisfy him. “I said, ‘If I can do my show on Long Island, then I’ll do it,’” he explains. As its robust audience already knows, Kevin Can Wait centres on a Long Island husband and father named Kevin who, newly retired from the police force, finds himself to be an unwitting invader on the home front. “My wife (played by co-star Erinn Hayes) has already established what’s going on at home,” James laughs, “and when you’re retired and back home full-time,
Kevin James insisted on shooting his new show, Kevin Can Wait, in Long Island. ‘We want to make Long Island a character in the show,’ he says. contributed
you’re disrupting all that. You can say, ‘I’ll set the rules now.’ But the cement is dry!” James, 51, was raised in the Long Island hamlet of Stony Brook, and now he’s out to capture the feel of working-class Long Island life that, through his own disarming regular-guyness, he embodies both on- and off-camera. “We want to make Long Island a character in the show, and we’re using it for exterior shots,” he says. And even though the majority of the action is filmed in multi-camera style on a Bethpage, Long Island, soundstage, James loves knowing that local folks who can readily relate to the show’s zany dilemmas comprise each week’s studio audi-
ence: “I love that energy.” Clearly, James has gained a measure of experience in how to be the boss yet still relax. This is in marked contrast to the rising young standup who scored his first sitcom back in 1998. “On ‘The King of Queens,’ I showed up as this green kid who tried to control things,” he recalls. “You get so panicked, constantly looking over your shoulder, checking if we’re gonna get cancelled. This time, my fingerprints are all over it — writing, wardrobe, everything — but I’m also having fun. I want this show to connect, because I love it. But I’ve done it already, and we had a great run.” Maybe history is repeating itself. In any case, CBS didn’t wait
long to give Kevin Can Wait a full-season order. “I’m not going to play too far away from myself,” James declares, adding, “On this show, we aren’t breaking ground. I know that. I’m not trying to. But that’s not to say you slack off in the writing. I try to do great stories that we want to connect with an audience.” Though success has carried James far from a working-class existence, he still relates to the fundamentals: He visits Target, acknowledges he could lose a few pounds and expects no red carpets, especially at home: “With four kids and a wife, I know my place,” he says with a grin. the associated press
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Edmonton’s Cam Talbot
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Oilers’ goalie Talbot awarded first star Cubs third baseman Kris Bryant warms up during a team practice on Monday in Cleveland. David J. Phillip/the Associated Press
Game’s lovable losers aim to end droughts
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Lester is Cubs’ starter, Kluber is Indians’ for Game 1 in Ohio The last time the Cleveland Indians won the World Series, Dewey led Truman in the polls. The Chicago Cubs’ last title was 13 days after the first Ford Model T car was completed. Lovable losers known for decades of defeat meet in this year’s championship, a combined 174 seasons of futility facing off starting Tuesday night at Progressive Field. Cleveland’s last title was in 1948, when 16 teams from the East Coast to St. Louis competed in a just-integrated sport. The Cubs are trying to win for the
first time since 1908 , a dead a now-centred battle cry of “Win ball-era matchup at a time home the Inning!” runs were rarities along with Both teams worked out under telephones. cloudy skies as the new 59-byNo player is alive from the 221-foot scoreboard behind last championship Cubs or even the left-field seats. While the the last to make a Series ap- Cubs play in Wrigley Field, the pearance — Tuesday marks the 102-year-old brick-and-ivy jewel 25,948th day since on Chicago’s North the Cubs’ Game 7 Side, the Indians loss to Detroit in are in a 22-year-old 1945. One playthrowback-style er remains from ballpark originally the 1948 Indians, called Jacobs Field. Number of seasons 95-year-old Eddie Led by Kris between both Bryant and AnRobinson. Cleveland and the thony Rizzo, the “It seems like Cubs since either it’s just forever,” won the World Series Cubs led the maRobinson said jor leagues with 103 wins during Monday from his home in Fort Worth, Texas. the regular season, then beat One team’s fans will let loose San Francisco and Los Angeles with the celebration of a lifetime. in the playoffs. But since the But while history weighs on the playoffs expanded in 1995, only supporters, Cubs manager Joe four teams with the best reguMaddon focuses his players with lar-season record won the title:
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the 1998 and 2009 New York Yankees, and the 2007 and 2013 Boston Red Sox. Jon Lester, 7-1 in his career against Cleveland, starts for the Cubs and Corey Kluber opens for the Indians. Lester is 2-0 with a 0.86 ERA in three post-season starts this year and 3-0 with a 0.43 ERA in a trio of Series outings. Kluber pitched shutout ball twice in the playoffs before allowing two runs in five innings in Game 4 at Toronto. Chicago appeared likely to include outfielder Kyle Schwarber, out since tearing knee ligaments on April 8. A person with direct knowledge of the situation told The Associated Press on Monday that Schwarber was travelling to Cleveland, but the person did not know yet if the slugger would be on the roster. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Edmonton goalie Cam Talbot was named National Hockey League first star of the week Monday after leading the Oilers to three victories last week. Talbot had a shutout, a goals-against average of 1.00 and a save percentage of .970 over the stretch. He made 31 saves in a 3-2 victory over the Carolina Hurricanes last Tuesday and stopped 34 shots in a 3-1 triumph over the St. Louis Blues two days later.
The 29-year-old native of Caledonia, Ont., capped the week with a 3-0 victory over the Winnipeg Jets in the Heritage Classic game on Sunday. Chicago Blackhawks centre Artem Anisimov was the second star and Detroit Red Wings defenceman Mike Green was the third star. Anisimov had seven points in three games and Green had five points over four games. THE CANADIAN PRESS
Gallagher goal shoots down Flyers for Habs Brendan Gallagher scored late in the third period as the Montreal Canadiens beat the Philadelphia Flyers 3-1 on Monday night to extend their winning streak to four games. Shea Weber and Alexander Radulov, into the empty net, also scored for Montreal (5-0-1). Carey Price made 31 saves for his third consecutive win to start the season. Jakub Voracek scored the lone goal for the visiting Flyers (2-31). Steve Mason stopped 30-of-32 shots in defeat. Gallagher scored on the power play at 13:08 of the third period, just four seconds into Montreal’s
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man advantage. The pesky winger deflected Radulov’s shot from the point past Mason. Gallagher got the play going after winning the faceoff to the left of Mason before scoring his team-leading fourth goal of the season. First-place Montreal remains the only NHL team unbeaten in regulation time. THE CANADIAN PRESS
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never quite at full health. Jonas Valanciunas also missed 22 games in the regular-season. He was outstanding in the post-season before being derailed by an ankle injury that proved costly to Toronto. The Raptors’ cornerstones of DeRozan and Lowry are newly minted Olympic champions, helping the United States to gold. That experience in Rio was the “best graduate course” in basketball, said Casey, and the Raptors could reap the rewards. “I can just see the confidence,” said the coach. After the memorable spring that saw them one of the final four teams playing, there’s no lack of motivation to go one better. “It’s the motivation of knowing what it felt like being two games away from having an opportunity to compete for a championship,” DeRozan said.
Steve Kerr joked around on what became a post-mosh Monday, feeling some of the natural pressure before his Golden State Warriors get going at last with all the weight of trying to win another NBA championship on their star-studded shoulders. The reigning NBA Coach of the Year said he cut short practice given Kevin Durant’s jostling in the mosh pit at a Kanye West concert the previous evening. “He got a great workout last night,” Kerr said with a smile. Kanye performed at Or- Kevin Durant GETTY IMAGES acle Arena, where KD will become THE show Tuesday night for the defending Western Conference champions. And MVP Stephen Curry, too, of course. “We all have pressure. That’s a good thing,” Kerr said Monday. “We know how lucky we are to be together with this group. We understand the responsibility that comes with it, and that’s fine. It’s a good position to be in.” Durant will make his highly anticipated Warriors regularseason debut when the San Antonio Spurs visit Oakland on Tuesday night.
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Dinos capped historic season in May with East final appearance The Toronto Raptors walked off the Air Canada Centre floor last season to a standing ovation and rousing cheers. They had just been ousted by the Cleveland Cavaliers in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference final, but the moment was the culmination of the Raptors’ most successful season in franchise history. They’ll carry lofty expectations when they step back on the court against the visiting Detroit Pistons in their seasonopener on Wednesday night. Suddenly, it seems, nothing but a long playoff run will be good enough.
In typical fashion, the Raptors aren’t making any bold predictions — coach Dwane Casey says continued growth is key, even if it’s not “as exciting and sexy as outlandish predictions.” And the Raptors talk about valuable lessons learned over the roller-coaster post-season. “You kind of get the blueprint, when you understand how difficult it is,” said DeMar DeRozan, who signed a hefty five-year contract worth $139 million US in the off-season. “You really understand how hard you have to play when you have the opportunity to close out a series, little things
like that, just understanding the blueprint, is really going to help us.” The Raptors remain young, with nine players under the age of 25, but brought back the core of the squad that won a historic 56 games in the regular season, and took two games off Cleveland before bowing out in the conference final. “We may not win as many games as we did last year, but that could make us a better team going into the post-season, and that’s what we’ve got to keep in mind,” DeRozan said. “We can’t get caught up in comparing us to last year.” The most significant changes
We’re at the bottom of the hill now. We’ve got to work our way up and take on every challenge that we’re going to face. DeMar DeRozan
RETIREMENT
NFL
Four-time Pro Bowler Arian Foster says he can no longer take the punishment an NFL running back endures, so he is retiring midway through an injury-plagued season with the Miami Dolphins. Foster, 30, tried to come back from a torn Achilles tendon, but was slowed this season by groin and hamstring injuries. He announced his retirement Monday on the website Undefeated as the Dolphins began their bye week. The team confirmed the decision, effective immediately. “There comes a time in every athlete’s career when their ambition and their body are no longer on the same page,” Foster wrote. “I’ve reached that point. It’s hard to write those words because this game has been everything to me ... my therapy, my joy, my solace and my enemy.”
The first tie in the history of the Seattle Seahawks left Pete Carroll searching for a way to define its meaning. It certainly wasn’t a loss. Not with the way Seattle’s defence withstood the most difficult of conditions, being subjected to 95 plays by one of the more potent offences in the NFL and more than 46 exhausting minutes spent on the field. But it also didn’t feel much like a victory after Steve Hauschka badly missed a 28yard field goal attempt in the closing seconds of overtime. So less than 24 hours after walking off the field in Arizona, Carroll was still searching for the proper context to Sunday’s 6-6 tie with the Cardinals. “I’ve decided to make up our own place. We’re going to put this in the extraordinary experience of battling, an op-
CONTRACT All-star guard Kyle Lowry is expected to opt out of the final year of his contract next summer, becoming a free agent. Until then, however, Lowry isn’t interested in talking about his future.
are the loss of athletic big man Bismack Biyombo, who left for Orlando in the off-season, and the addition of Jared Sullinger, who signed with Toronto in the summer but was to undergo surgery on his foot Monday and could be sidelined for as much as a quarter of the season. A healthy DeMarre Carroll would make a big difference. The Raptors never saw the best of Carroll, who had knee surgery in January and played in just 26 regular-season games,
Arian Foster leaves Seahawks left with mixed feelings after tie Dolphins mid-season Foster signed a $1.5-million, one-year contract with the Dolphins in July after spending his first seven NFL seasons with the Houston Texans. He holds the Texans’ franchise record with 6,472 yards rushing. This season he rushed for 55 yards on 22 carries, and he had 5 yards on three carries Sunday against the Buffalo Bills. “My father always said, ‘You’ll know when it’s time to walk away,”’ he wrote. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
$1.5 million Arian Foster signed a $1.5 million contract with the MIami Dolphins in July.
Seahawks kicker Stephen Hauschka misses a field goal in overtime against the Cardinals Sunday. CHRISTIAN PETERSEN/GETTY IMAGES
portunity to demonstrate who we are and what we’re about,” Carroll said. “And again, learn how to believe in one another. Count on each other to get stuff done even when it’s really bleak sometimes. You just keep hanging on, keep believing.”
Carroll had reason to be so encouraged after seeing the performance by Seattle’s defence that somehow kept Arizona out of the end zone but left the likes of Bobby Wagner and Richard Sherman severely fatigued after being on the field for 46 minutes and 21 seconds,
believed to be the ninth-longest time of possession in a regularseason game. The Seahawks gave up 443 total yards to Arizona, but huge plays in overtime by Earl Thomas, Kelcie McCray and Wagner managed to keep Arizona from finding the end zone and created the situation where Chandler Catanzaro missed a 24-yard field goal attempt that could have won it for the Cardinals. Between defence and special teams, McCray was on the field for 108 total plays. “There was a bunch of guys that did a lot. It was a game of heroics,” Carroll said. “I don’t know if they see it that way. I see the stuff on their side too that you admire. But we had a bunch of guys that did some great things and played a ton of plays and were able to survive it.” THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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For Metro Canada Soup season is now in full swing and you’ll want this simple, flavourful bowl of goodness in your roster. Ready in 40 minutes Prep time: 10 minutes Cook time: 30 minutes Serves 4 Ingredients • 2 Tbsp of olive oil • 1 onion, chopped • 2 cloves garlic, minced • 1/2 inch of fresh ginger, minced • 1 tsp chili • 1/2 tsp cumin • 1/2 tsp cinnamon • 3 or 4 carrots, peeled and chopped (enough for about 3 cups) • 3 cups low sodium vegetable or chicken stock • Juice of half a lemon (about 2 or 3 Tbsp)
• Plain yogurt to garnish Directions 1. Warm a glug or two of olive oil in a large pot or Dutch oven over medium heat. 2. Sauté onions, garlic and ginger for about 2 minutes. Stir in spices and cook for another minute or so. Add carrots and stir well until they are coated lightly in oil and spice. Add stock and increase the heat until it boils. Reduce and allow to simmer for about 20 minutes or until carrots are quite tender. 3. Purée in small batches until the soup is quite smooth. You may need to add a little water or stock to thin it if it’s too thick. Stir in lemon juice. Taste and check seasoning. 4. Serve garnished with yogurt. for more meal ideas, VISIT sweetpotatochronicles.com
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Cancer June 22 - July 23 Co-workers might be supportive today; nevertheless, their assistance might hinder you more than it helps you. Use caution! Leo July 24 - Aug. 23 Romantic relationships are unstable today. Some might end and others might begin, but they’re really just a pipe dream. (It’s sad but true.) Virgo Aug. 24 - Sept. 23 You might go overboard with your ideas about redecorating today. To be safe, wait a day or two to see if you still want to go ahead with your plans.
Libra Sept. 24 - Oct. 23 You might spend a lot of time today daydreaming or lost in fantasies. This makes it hard to concentrate and focus. Oh well — we all need a mental-health day every now and then Scorpio Oct. 24 - Nov. 22 This is a poor day to make important financial decisions, because your mind is a bit fuzzy and full of wishful thinking. Be careful, and remain realistic. Sagittarius Nov. 23 - Dec. 21 Relations with others are a bit unstable today. Instead of dealing with what is, you are more inclined to deal with how you wish things would be. Keep your feet on the ground.
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Capricorn Dec. 22 - Jan. 20 Something going on behind the scenes might confuse you today. In fact, this confusion could create problems in a relationship. Aquarius Jan. 21 - Feb. 19 Don’t expect too much from others today, especially a friend or a member of a group. Many people are full of unrealistic demands today, which only leads to problems. Pisces Feb. 20 - March 20 Be realistic when it comes to your relationships with authority figures today, even though you might feel great admiration for someone. You might even have a crush.
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2016 NORTH AMERICAN CAR OF THE YEAR
MODEL
CLEAROUT
2016 CIVIC SEDAN LX AUTOMATIC
PLUS A
750
$
BONUS
21,785*
$
plus gst only
Models available in 174 HP 1.5 turbo, charged direct injected 162 lb. ft. tourque
STK#997151 - Automatic climate control, heated fron seats, multi angle rearview camera, 7” I-MID Display, 158 hp 2.0 L, 16 valve iVTEC Earthdreams technology.
Made in Canada for Canadians
TIME IS RUNNING OUT! ALL-NEW!
ALL-NEW
JUST ARRIVED!
2017 CIVIC
2017
2017 ACCORD
HATCHBACK TURBO LX CVT
RIDGELINE SPORT
24,411*
$
LX AWD
41,441*
$
plus gst only
Stk#Z0617. 174-hp, 1.5-litre, 16-valve, Direct Injection, DOHC, turbocharged 4-cylinder, Variable Ratio Electric Power-Assisted Rack-and-Pinion Steering (EPS), Drive-by-Wire Throttle System, ECON mode button and Econ Assist system, HandsFreeLink bilingual Bluetooth
2016 CR-V
SEDAN LX CVT
Stk#1029775. 3.5-litre, 24-valve, Direct Injection, SOHC, i-VTEC® V6 engine with 280 hp, ECON mode button, Intelligent Variable Torque Management (i-VTM4™) AWD system, Intelligent Traction Management System (Snow/Sand/Mud)
PLUS A BONU
$30,245 CASH - $3000 INCENTIVE
plus gst only
Stk#X1530 2.4 L CVT, 185HP, Alloys, Bluetooth, Apple/Android Car Play, Multi-view Back Up Camera, Wi-Fi Tethering.
2016 HR-V LX AWD
1,50S0
$
27,459*
$
plus gst only
Made in Canada for Canadians
27,245
$
*plus gst
Stk#9557. Model RM4H3GE1 - 185HP 2.4L 16 valve direct injection iVtec Earth dreams technology, multi angle rear view camera, heated front seats, VSA with traction control.
only
26,241
$
*plus gst
PLUS A
500
$
BONUS
only
Stk#3100. 1.8-litre, 16-valve, SOHC, i-VTEC® 4-cylinder engine, 141 horsepower @ 6500 rpm and 127 lb.-ft. of torque @ 4300 rpm, 60/40 Split 2nd-Row Magic Seats, Heated front seats, Multi-angle rearview camera with dynamic guidelines, Single zone climate control with air-filtration system, Remote entry system, Display Audio System with HondaLink
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*$750/$500/$1,500 bonus available on any new 2016 Civic sedan/2016 HR-V/2016 CR-V model. Must be leased/financed through Honda Canada Finance Inc and delivered by October 31, 2016. Bonus can be combined with lease or finance rates advertises by HCFI and will be deducted from the negotiable vehicle price after taxes. Price includes freight, PDI, block heater, locking lug nuts, theft protection, tire and rim protection, air tx, tire levy and AMVIC fee. Vehicles may not be exactly as illustrated. Offer ends October 31, 2016. Vehicles available at time of printing. See dealer for details.