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City regulation nearly stopped assisted living space site Jeremy Simes

The Society has support from the Boyle Street Community League plus $14 million promised from the province for the project, proposed to be built at 95 Street and 103A Avenue.

It was just about to get a development permit when the regulatory problem was revealed.

Current spaces to be demolished: Allen Allen said organizations like his The proponents of an assisted are always under the gun on asliving complex for people with sisted living facilities.

While Bridgeway Two is promental health and mobility challenges in The Quarters say it posed to be bigger than their was all set to be built until it current properties, their existing hit a snag — a city regulation buildings are aging and will likedesigned, ironically, to increase ly be demolished when the new diversity in the neighbourhood. property opens.

The project, dubbed BridgeHe said the Society also won’t way Two, was the brainchild of be able to afford to keep the old the Edmonton People In Need land — which is located near the Shelter Society, new site — so it which saw it as will also be put much-needed for sale. new assisted There will be There’s a demand a net gain howliving spaces.

But accord- for these spaces, ever: Bridgeway ing to its execTwo will have 97 utive director, and not just for us. units, compared Ron Allen Ron Allen, a to the 72 units city regulation at the organiza— which requires new buildings tion’s current location, called to have 50 per cent of its space Bridgeway One, in The Quarters. solely designated for residential “There’s a demand for these use, like apartments — has ac- spaces, and not just for us,” he tually slowed Bridgeway Two. said. “You’re always playing It’s a rule designed to en- catch-up in assisted living facourage developers to construct cilities.” buildings that ensure residents actually live in the historic neigh- Project will move ahead bourhood, but in this case it only At a public hearing in January, kept them out, Allen said. city councillors seemed surprised “The city has been really good when it was revealed it was one to us, but going through the of their own regulations hambureaucratic steps was like a stringing the project. minefield.”

“There was no mention of this Metro | Edmonton

Ron Allen, the executive director of the Edmonton People in Need Shelter Society, said more assisted living facilities in the city is badly needed. kevin tuong/for metro

project,” said Coun. Bryan Anderson at the public hearing, referring to administration’s push to change of the regulations.

Coun. Scott McKeen presented a motion that essentially removes the 50 per cent requirement for Bridgeway — but regulations will still apply to other properties looking to build in

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He said he hopes to start construction on the complex in late March.

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Mom recalls having kids apprehended unravelled: alberta’S CHILD WELFARE SYSTEM

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Patricia said she stood helpless as a social worker took her baby daughter from the high chair in her kitchen four years ago.

She had learned just minutes earlier that her Child and Family Services case worker would apprehend her daughter and two sons, and a lengthy court process would be required to get them back.

Since that day, Patricia — whose name Metro has changed to protect her children’s identity — has had her kids apprehended and returned several times.

Her children are now 14, 12 and six years old, and she is fighting against a Permanent Guardianship Order that could take them away for good.

“I’m trying very hard to get them to understand my case but it’s not working,” she said.

“The judge has given them back six times now, and they still keep bugging me and bugging me.”

Patricia is one of many Al-

This series This is the first part of a three-part series examining Alberta’s child welfare system. Next week, we’ll delve into the complex issues that lead to children being apprehended and what’s being done to improve the system. A provincial child welfare review is underway.

berta parents who tell Metro their children have been unnecessarily taken and placed in foster homes. The fight to get them back can be costly and complicated, and some feel nobody in the system is on their side.

Alberta has launched a ministerial panel review of the child welfare system, following outcry over the death of four-year-old Serenity, who had been in government care.

Patricia, who identifies as Metis, said she initially reached out to social services for help, but that her case worker started noticing things they deemed unsuitable in her home.

One reason the case worker gave for the initial apprehension was that it was unclean, a claim she disputes.

A “danger statement,” written on a collaborative plan developed by a case worker in 2014 — which Patricia shared

They found more and more things wrong with my house, more and more things wrong with what I was doing. Patricia

with Metro — noted concerns with her mental health, a lack of stable housing and that she felt overwhelmed by daily routines, leading to neglect.

“At first it was that they were helping me manage, but as the months went along they found more and more things wrong with my house, more and more things wrong with what I was doing or how I was doing stuff,” she said.

“It was completely unfair.

Because they weren’t listening to what we were doing or saying.”

Each time the kids have been apprehended, following a judge’s order, she has been provided with a list of tasks to complete.

She gave Metro a certificate indicating her completion of a parent group, among other items.

“I completed all the tasks and then I wouldn’t get them back. I’d have to sign another form and another paper,” Patricia said.

She said her daughter is in a good foster home but her boys, who have ADHD, are more rambunctious every time she sees them.

Patricia has been reduced from overnight visits to threehour supervised visits, twice a week. She is certain her children want to be back home with her. “There are parents out there who need help,” she said. “But there are parents out there who don’t need help, like me.”

The Children’s Services Ministry did not provide comment by deadline.

Next week, we will have words with an agency that works with Indigenous parents in the child welfare system.

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Supervised visits traumatic, says mother of two daughters

Like Patricia, Jennifer — who Metro first spoke with last month — had her two daughters apprehended four years ago after a case worker built up a list of issues.

She said she was unaware notes were being taken during the worker’s visits and would have made changes immediately if she had known.

As of this week, Jennifer has seen no progress in her ongoing effort to win guardianship of her girls, who are now 10 and 11 years old.

“How would you feel if you have someone right behind

I find it hard not to cry, because they’re very painful. When I leave, I’m crying.

Jennifer

your back write down a bunch of notes and you have no way of disputing them?” she said.

“It’s not about setting a person up for success, it’s like ratting someone out.”

Jennifer only gets supervised visits.

She feels nobody in the system is working with her, and said her kids still want to be back with her but are more distant with every visit.

“When I see them, they look numb,” she said.

“We’re not allowed to talk about the future, so the visits are really trifling.

“And I find it hard not to cry, because they’re very painful. When I leave, I’m crying.

It’s got to be the most traumatic thing.”

Kevin Maimann/Metro

If You Bought Sylvania Automotive Lighting You Could Get Money from a Class Action Settlement

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Detailed information and updates are available on the Settlement Website:

www.autolightclaims.ca

A Canada-wide Settlement has been negotiated in class actions relating to the marketing and sales of Osram Sylvania Premium Automotive Lighting. This Settlement has been approved by the Courts and will provide benefits to purchasers of the following“Covered Products”: SilverStar ULTRA, SilverStar, XtraVision, or Cool Blue replacement headlight capsules

SilverStar, XtraVision, or Cool Blue sealed beam headlights

ARE YOU INCLUDED?

You may be a Class Member if you purchased a Covered Product in Canada from September 22, 2005 until December 31, 2014.

WHAT IS THIS CASE ABOUT?

The lawsuits claim that Osram Sylvania, Inc., Osram Sylvania Products, Inc. and Osram Sylvania, Ltd. (“Sylvania”) misrepresented that certain replacement automotive lighting is brighter, provides a wider beam and allows drivers to see farther down the road than standard halogen lighting. It also claims that Sylvania omitted material information regarding the reduced life of the replacement lighting. Sylvania denies that it did anything wrong. The Courts did not decide which side was right.

Instead, the parties have decided to settle.

WHAT DOES THIS SETTLEMENT PROVIDE?

A Settlement Amount of not less than CDN $1,150,000 (the“Settlement Fund Minimum”) and not more than CDN $1,750,000 (the“Settlement Cap Maximum”) is intended to pay claims to eligible Class Members, Notice Costs, Claims Administration Fees and Expenses, Class Counsel Fees and Expenses, and Honorarium Awards to the Representative Plaintiffs. In addition, Sylvania has also modified certain product(s) packaging. Full details about the Settlement are available on the Settlement Website at www.autolightclaims.ca.

WHAT TYPE OF COMPENSATION CAN YOU RECEIVE?

Individual Class Member may qualify for Compensation for one of the following, irrespective of how many products have been purchased: Covered Products

Initial Amount Maximum Amount

SilverStar ULTRA, SilverStar, $12.00 XtraVision, or Cool Blue replacement headlight capsule

$24.00

SilverStar, XtraVision, or Cool Blue sealed beam headlights

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For each Claimant who submits a valid Claim, payment as described above will be issued1 , so long as providing such Compensation does not exceed the Settlement Cap Maximum.

If providing each Claimant with such Compensation will exceed the Settlement Cap Maximum, then in such circumstances each Claimant’s Compensation will be reduced on a pro-rata basis.

HOW DO I ASK FOR A PAYMENT?

To receive Compensation, eligible Class Members must submit a Claim Form to the Claims Administrator through the Settlement Website, by email, or by mail sent no later than May 4, 2017.

The Claim Form only takes 3-5 minutes to complete. No proof of purchase is necessary.

WHEN SHOULD I MAKE A CLAIM?

SilverStar fog or auxiliary lights

ment Website at www.autolightclaims.ca or you can obtain one by contacting the Claims Administrator at 1-855-745-7374. You should act as quickly as possible, a Claim Deadline has been set for May 4, 2017.

WHAT HAVE THE COURTS DECIDED?

The Ontario Superior Court of Justice and the Superior Court of Québec have approved the Settlement as fair, reasonable and in the best interests of Class Members. The Courts have also approved a request from Class Counsel for counsel fees, disbursements and taxes, as well as, honorarium payments to the Representative Plaintiffs.

WHAT ARE YOUR OPTIONS?

If you are a Class Member, you may (1) send in a Claim Form; (2) exclude yourself (Opt-Out); or (3) do nothing.

If you don’t want to be legally bound by the settlement, you must opt-out. To do so, you must complete and submit an Opt-Out Form to the Claims Administrator by no later than March 20, 2017. The manner in which you opt-out is available on the form found on the Settlement Website.

Residents of Québec must in addition give notice to the Clerk of the Superior Court of Québec. Anyone who opts out will not be bound by the Settlement Agreement and will not be eligible to claim benefits under the Agreement, but may be eligible to pursue an individual claim.

WHEN WILL I BE PAID?

Cheques will only begin to be mailed to eligible Class Members for Compensation at the earliest starting on July 3, 2017.

HOW CAN I GET MORE INFORMATION?

This Notice summarizes the proposed Settlement. More details are in the Settlement Agreement. You can get a copy of the Settlement Agreement and detailed information on how to obtain or file a Claim or Opt-Out on the Settlement Website at www.autolightclaims.ca. For any other information, please call the Claims Administrator at: Bruneau Group Inc. Nelson C.P. 20187 – 322 Rideau St. Ottawa, Ontario K1N 5Y5 Tel: 1-855-745-7374 Email: info@autolightclaims.ca

WHO REPRESENTS ME?

Class Counsel, or the law firms representing the Plaintiffs, are the following: Consumer Law Group P.C 251 Laurier Ave. West, Suite 900 Ottawa, Ontario K1P 5J6 jorenstein@clg.org Consumer Law Group Inc. 1030 rue Berri, Suite 102, Montréal, Québec H2L 4C3 agrass@clg.org

Immediately - the Claim Form is already available on the Settleless the withholding owing to the Fonds d’aide aux recours collectifs (for Quebec residents only and if applicable).

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This Notice has been approved by the Ontario Superior Court of Justice and the Superior Court of Québec.

Edmonton Catholic School Board Trustee Patricia Grell is working to overturn a vote that renewed the district superintendent’s contract. Kevin Tuong/For Metro

Catholic trustee calling for change educaTION

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Supt. vote was too close, had conflict, says Patricia Grell

$321,000 The amount Edmonton Public’s superintendent takes home, with benefits plus a base salary of $243,000, according to a sunshine list from 2015-16. $36,523 The honorarium that will be paid to public school trustees starting next fall.

Kevin Maimann

Metro | Edmonton An Edmonton Catholic School Board Trustee says it’s time to get a new superintendent at a lower price.

Trustee Patricia Grell is working to overturn last week’s 4-3 vote that saw Supt.

Joan Carr’s contract renewed, citing a close vote and conflict of interest involving a fellow trustee. “(Carr) has been there for 11 years, she’s done good work, but it’s time to go,” Grell said, noting the previous renewal vote in 2015 was equally tight.

“It’s time for a fresh look on things. And we need a

superintendent that has more support on the board than she has right now.”

Carr makes a $357,000 base salary and takes home $430,000 with benefits and allowances, which is higher than any other superintendent in Alberta.

“That’s a lot of money that I believe should be in the classroom,” Grell said.

“We have special-needs students who I believe are under-served in our district.

We need a superintendent that has more support on the board than she has right now.

Trustee Patricia Grell

They used to make a bit less, but voted Tuesday to give themselves a 20-percent raise. The chair makes $46,831. $344,000 What the nine trustees make, combined. $40,000 What Catholic school trustees make. The board chair makes $50,000.

There are so many needs in our district that money could be going towards.”

Grell said fellow trustee Larry Kowalczyk should not have been allowed to vote for the contract renewal Friday due to a conflict of interest, as his wife is a principal in the district.

The board’s legal counsel cleared Kowalczyk to vote, but Grell said the ethics commissioner later told her that the vote indeed constituted a conflict of interest.

Grell said Alberta’s education ministry has declined to get involved but she is pursuing ways to have the result overturned herself.

Carr declined comment.

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Does the city need more washrooms?

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Metro | Edmonton The city is exploring the idea of building new public washrooms in the centre of the city.

An online survey is currently collecting opinions from residents, as part of a preliminary assessment of the need for washrooms in Central McDougall, Boyle Street, McCauley, Oliver, Queen Mary Park and the Stony Plain Road business area from 149 Street to 170 Street.

Currently public washrooms in the city are few and far be-

IN BRIEF Police investigate after women allegedly carjacked Edmonton police are investigating an alleged carjacking at a grocery store in south Edmonton last week.

On Jan. 25 it was reported that a woman was walking to her car in the parking lot at around 5:30 p.m. when a man pulled out a weapon and demanded her keys.

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tween, and the ones that exist — often in parks — are locked in winter or at night.

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She said her clients are often forced to relieve themselves outside — which then also sometimes means a ticket from police.

“We’re hoping that our city will recognize that this is something that’s really needed, and it will give back the dignity to a lot of our community that don’t always feel like they’re valued and important.”

The survey — part of a larger city effort to examine the needs of the community and designs used by other cities — is the result of a notice of motion presented by Coun. Scott McKeen back in October.

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Metro | Edmonton The owner of a 113-year-old Edmonton brick home wants to cement its title as the city’s newest historic resource.

The Riverdale building, which is now home to Little Brick Café, is going to city council Wednesday to be designated as a municipal historic resource, after its current owner, restauranteur

Nate Box, completed an application in December. But before it became the restaurant that it is today, the café was known as the J. B. Little Brickyard House.

According to the city, the Little family — who lived in the home for more than 100 years — operated a brickyard near Riverdale.

If it’s designated as a historic resource, the home will be protected from demolition and the owners would be entitled to public funding for restoration and maintenance.

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Transcend closure reopens debate downtown revitalization

But few see deeper meaning in shuttering of coffee shop

People at night are looking for beer, not for coffee.

Poul Mark

Tim Querengesser Metro | Edmonton

For an urban retail business, success is all down to people on the street — and Transcend Coffee just wasn’t attracting them.

“We needed 100 more people walking through the door each day,” said Poul Mark, reflecting on this week’s closure of his shop in the Mercer Warehouse building on 104 Street, mere steps from Rogers Place Arena.

Mark’s decision to shutter his third, and newest, location this week has opened an ongoing debate about the success of Edmonton’s larger downtown revitalization project — though many think the discussion is wrongheaded or that the shop itself wasn’t the right fit for downtown’s

Poul Mark in the downtown Transcend location, which he’s decided to close. Kevin Tuong/For Metro

changing clientele.

Mark told Metro he expected the sub-level location that the coffee shop took over two years ago would be difficult to make work, as it’s far from Jasper Avenue and other big drivers of foot traffic.

But he also said the hope was there would be a bump in that foot traffic after Rogers Place opened, yet he didn’t see it.

“People at night are looking for beer, not for coffee,” he said. “We thought we’d get a lot

of takeout business, but when NHL changed their regulations with security, that became a non-starter — you can’t take coffee with you into the arena.

“We just didn’t see the uptick in business we expected to see.”

Poul — who also runs Transcend’s two other locations in Argyll and Garneau — also said a large difficulty with businesses downtown is that Edmonton is in its “infancy” as a walking city, and that when weather is anything other than ideal, peoples’ decisions are often driven by the availability and price of parking.

A lack of downtown residents near the shop and recent increases to parking rates downtown weren’t helpful for his bottom line, he said. “It’s an issue city council has to look at. I have friends that used to go to the Citadel, to the symphony, but now it’s 18 bucks to park. It’s insane.”

Ian O’Donnell, head of the Downtown Business Association, said Mark’s decision to close the shop is tough but also noted the abundance of similar offerings in the area

near Transcend.

“Certainly we don’t like it when any business chooses to close their downtown location,” O’Donnell said. “That industry has a lot of competition and is a challenging one to differentiate yourself in with potential customers.”

In an ironic twist that illustrates the changing nature of the downtown market, as Transcend closes a new restaurant is opening in the same building — Baiju.

The restaurant, described as fine cocktails meets dim sum, is owned by the same people that run North 53 on 124 Street.

“I think location is what hurt them most and I think location will help us (with Baiju) the most,” said Tyler Gushaty, general manager at North 53.

“It’s literally kitty-corner to the new arena and the whole Ice District.”

He said the two are polar opposites, with different target customers. “People are going to grab a drink or bite before or after a game. I don’t think there’s really a need for a coffee shop when you have Credo right down the street.”

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Wildrose merger dominates Tory debate

The devastating fire that ripped through Fort McMurray last spring destroyed buildings, property — and trees.

The question of whether Alberta’s two right-of-centre political parties should merge into one has dominated the final debate among the three candidates for the leadership of the provincial Conservative party.

Jason Kenney told the debate audience in Medicine Hat on Wednesday night that the Tories and the Wildrose agree on many issues now.

He says there’s no good reason to risk a second-term NDP government because of vote

splitting.

Richard Starke says he’d rather see some form of co-operation between the two parties, while Byron Nelson says now isn’t the right time to be discussing the idea. Nelson says there’s “zero chance” of creating a new conservative party before the next election.

The party will choose a new leader on March 18.

Late last month, candidate Stephen Khan pulled out after saying the race had devolved into

“vitriol, anger and division,” adding the reputation of the party has been “damaged so badly ... that our credibility may be beyond repair.”

Two other leadership candidates, Sandra Jansen and Donna Kennedy-Glans, had previously quit the race, saying progressive voices were being forced out. Jansen, a Calgary MLA, has since joined the caucus of Premier Rachel Notley.

Wildrose Leader Brian Jean has opened the door to uniting with

the Tories, but has said his membership would have to agree. He said if they did, he would step down as Wildrose leader and run for the leadership of the new party in a contest to be held this summer.

Kenney said if he wins the March 18 Tory leadership, he would seek a mandate to dissolve the party and merge it with a dissolved Wildrose to create a new conservative entity, possibly titled the Conservative Party of Alberta. the canadian press

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“Fire Smart Canada is an initiative geared at managing and reducing the risk of wildfires, particularly for communities that extend into forested areas that already have an increased risk,” she said.

Trees will be planted spaced away from each other and buildAlex ings in a way that she said will Boyd reduce risk, and will also be Metro | Edmonton maintained so they don’t become overgrown.

A tree planting charity has anBut Witherspoon said that nounced a new $1-million pro- trees are an important part of ject to replant the forests around a city’s infrastructure and are Fort McMurray that burned last important to think about as the year. city rebuilds.

Tree Canada’s “Operation “Trees bring with them a ReLeaf” plans to kick off the number of benefits ranging multi-year project by planting from improving air quality to about 30,000 trees in publicly sequestering carbon dioxide, and owned natural, forested areas improving people’s psychological this spring. well-being,” she The following said. year they’ll focus In a release, on planting trees Melissa Blake, within the city, This support will mayor of the including reundoubtedly lift Regional Munistoring the tree of Wood the spirits of the cipality canopy in BeaBuffalo, thanked con Hill, one of entire community. the group for the neighbourtheir efforts.

Melissa Blake hoods hardest “This support hit by the blaze that destroyed will undoubtedly lift the spirits 10 per cent of the city last spring. of the entire community and Fort McMurray is surrounded help us restore so much of the by boreal forest — which many natural beauty that was impactsay fuelled the massive wildfire ed by the wildfire.”

— but program manager KathThe money for the project was erine Witherspoon said the new donated by CN, but the organizatrees will be planted according tion is still collecting donations.

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Edmonton

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“Indigenous Canadians, making the transition to urban living, often experience a loss of traditional supports, difficulty in identifying and acAlberta is injecting $75,000 cessing services and trouble into the Edmonton’s Bent Ar- getting housing, employment row Society’s innovative New and education,” said Cheryl In Town Aboriginal Welcome Whiskeyjack, executive direcservice. tor of the Bent Arrow Healing More than 70 per cent of Society, in a release.

Edmonton’s population of “Funding for this program Indigenous helps ensure people come that these from other newcomers find a sense communities, most often reof community moving them and support to More than 70 per cent of from the links ensure their Edmonton’s population of success in a they have back Indigenous people come new urban home and from other communities. sometimes centre.”

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“It’s critical that Indigenous families and individuals have every opportunity to succeed when transitioning to the city,” said Richard Feehan, minister of Indigenous relations, in the release. “This funding will connect program participants to a support network that will help them thrive.” metro

Cheryl Whiskeyjack, the executive director of Bent Arrow, in its office in the former Parkdale School. Kevin Tuong/For Metro

A researcher says the agency that monitors Alberta’s energy industry has underestimated the impact of tens of thousands of spills going back decades.

Kevin Timoney, an Edmonton-area consulting biologist, used sophisticated statistical analysis, an extensive research review and comparisons with other jurisdictions to conclude the Alberta Energy Regulator doesn’t have a good handle on how much oil and saline water has been released into the environment or remains there.

“Their spill volumes and recovery volumes are too good to be true,” said Timoney, who did the study on behalf of northern indigenous bands.

Timoney found that the regulator considered 100 per cent of the oil was recovered in 53 per cent of the oil spills. The median recovery rate for oil was 100 per cent and for saline water 80 per cent. “Thousands of spills reporting essentially perfect oil recovery raise questions of data validity.”

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Flying Canoe Volant offers whiskey, Métis jigs, ice slide Tim Querengesser Metro | Edmonton

A Canadian oral legend has it that when there’s a full moon in the winter sky, if you look just right, you will see a group of men condemned by the devil to their canoe, flying endlessly across the heavens.

But there’s now an Edmonton twist to this night-based yarn, explains Daniel Cournoyer, with La Cité Francophone.

“In February, they make a cameo in the Mill Creek Ravine,” he says.

That cameo, of course, is this weekend’s running of the Flying Canoe Volant festival, which is in its ninth year. After several permutations over the years it has grown from 3,000 people walking the ravine in its first year to 30,000 last year,

Cournoyer says.

The legend that lends its name also inspires the night festival’s approach, as its activities trace back to First Nation, Métis and French-Canadian oral stories. Most tell of men in the bush offered a pact with the devil in exchange for seeing their distant sweeties, and ultimately condemned to fly the dark sky.

All have morphed together in modern times, Cournoyer says. Today there’s even a version of the tale based in Fort McMurray, where the men end up flying the sky in their pickup trucks, he adds.

Fittingly for a Canadian festival, its signature walk through the ravine is all about interacting with culture.

Cournoyer says this year’s ravine walk begins with two tipis offering talks on reconciliation and tea and bannock at the top, then descends down to a French-Canadian storyteller retelling the Flying Canoe tale in both English and French, and then finally to a Métis band with dancers, where people in the crowd will teach you how to get your jig on.

The objective is to participate in something, not just observe Daniel Cournoyer

The Flying Canoe Volant festival is all about light among the winter darkness. Supplied

“The objective is to participate in something, not just observe,” Cournoyer says. “It’s a festival that’s meant to en-

gage you. It’s full of music and dancing, but you’re not watching the dance, you’re asked to participate in the dance.”

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Cournoyer says all of it makes him feel Edmonton is experiencing a winter “renaissance,” as we remember the ways we always loved winter, but forgot as technology pushed us inside.

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Things to do this weekend in Edmonton

Spend your Saturday watching trucks fly through the air at Monster Jam and then jam out to Sam Roberts Band. And don’t forget to cool down at Ice on Whyte.

Ice on Whyte Reader’s Digest rated Ice on Whyte as one of Canada’s top 10 festivals and it’s easy to see why, as artists turn that cold enemy we contend with daily in winter into magical art. The festival has come to find a happy home in End of Steel Park near Whyte Avenue, offering a quick walk to warm up at nearby restaurants and cafes.

WHERE: End of Steel Park, north of Whyte Avenue along Gateway WHEN: All weekend, until 10 p.m. nightly (Friday-Sunday) Monster Jam Sometimes what you need is to watch trucks taller than some

A shot from a recent Ice on Whyte festival. Flickr/Mack Male

houses drive over cars, fly through the air and make deafening noises while doing so. At Monster Jam, the trucks are the stars, so look for Grave Digger, Nitro Menace and Muddy Girl.

Earplugs highly recommended.

WHERE: Northlands Coliseum (formerly Rexall Place) WHEN: Saturday, 1 p.m., alternative shows at 7 p.m. Saturday and 1 p.m. Sunday

Sam Roberts Band And really, where have all the good people gone (well, at least in U.S. politics)? Canadian indie rocker Sam Roberts and his band descend on the beautiful acoustics of Edmonton’s Winspear Centre.

WHERE: Winspear Centre, 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square WHEN: Saturday, 8 p.m. metro

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Canada

A special edition

The faces of love Immigrants and refugees tell Metro what they love about Canada, and how to spread love across the world. Metro Canada Halifax’s Abdalah Ahmad Al Ahmad

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Sudan - Yousif Makkawi

The way to spread more love in the world is for people to think of themselves as individuals, and not as members of a country or race. That’s the advice of Yousif Makkawi, winner of the 2016 Outstanding Volunteer Award from the Ottawa Regional Cancer Foundation, director of the SudaneseC a n a d i a n A s s o c i a t i o n o f O t t aw a a n d member of the African Canadian Association of Ottawa.

Asked how to spread more love in, he said, “(People) should think of themselves as who they are. … You don’t say, ‘I am Sudanese,’ or ‘I am Canadian.’

I am Yousif, and I love everybody.”

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SYRIA - Abdalah Ahmad Al Ahmad

Syrian refugee Abdalah Ahmad Al Ahmad arrived in Halifax with his wife and five kids last February. Their children had no access to schooling for the almost four years they stayed in Lebanon, so they were “thrilled” to come

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to Canada.

When asked about how to best spread the love during troubled times, Al Ahmad pauses and smiles. The best way to spread more love, he believes, is for Canadians to just keep doing

what they’re doing.

“Keep doing exactly what you’re doing now. The most beautiful thing I noticed here in Canada is whenever you look at anyone you always find a smile on their faces... Just do that.”

YEMEN - Omar Al-Emrani

Vancouver’s Golsa Golestaneh

A decade has passed since Omar Al-Emrani left his home in Yemen after being offered an engineering scholarship at the University of Calgary.

Just one year into his new life in Canada, a 19-year-old Al-Emrani took a friend up on the strange offer to hitchhike to Vancouver.

“Along the way we were picked up by four different people,” he said.

“I was always curious to ask them — why? Why would you pick people up? But they all shared one thing: their eagerness and interest to learn about different people and different cultures and just sharing the love for humanity.” In the end he got to know the country he now considers “home.” Calgary’s Omar Al-Emrani

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Winnipeg’s Hani Al-Ubeady

IRAQ - Hani Al-Ubeady

Hani Al-Ubeady left Iraq 26 years ago to find the personal freedom and peace he says he now has in Canada.

“I chose Canada, and I think it was based on a gut feeling. Canada is a country of immigrants, built by immigrants,” he said. “It’s a country I can belong to.”

Al-Ubeady said he started a new life when he came to Canada. It’s now his home — a place where he could pursue his goals without persecution.

“It is our country without any hesitation,” he said. “Canada is an inclusive society with a few incidents. Now, I have children born here. They are proud to be here... We won’t let hate shake us down.”

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Ottawa’s Yousif Makkawi

IRAN - Golsa Golestaneh

Golsa Golestaneh, 19, came to Vancouver in 2012 with her family, as government-assisted refugees. They fled from Iran, where her politically active parents were persecuted after mass protests in 2009.

“If they were arrested again, they would probably not survive,” she said. What carried Golestaneh through their escape was “love,” she said, which she found in refugees’ openness and understanding for others.“As a refugee, love is the basis of our society,” she said.

Now, “love,” to her, “looks like community.”

Somalia - Osman Ali

As a 20-year-old refugee arriving from Somalia in 1978, Osman Ali thought nothing was going to be easy.

He had nothing, and he knew no one in the country. But he was amazed at how friendly and welcoming people were. “It was easy to fall in love with Canada,” he said. “You couldn’t have wished to live anywhere else.”

As he went through the immigration process, and later studied and started his own family, he continued to appreciate the country’s multiculturalism and the sense of diversity he sees.

“Canada is you and me. That’s really what I like.” Toronto’s Osman Ali

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Toronto’s Eiman Zarrug

Libya - Eiman Zarrug

Her parents left Tripoli when she was only four months old, and Eiman Zarrug lived in London, England, before coming to Canada when she was eight.

“The difference was like night and day,” she said, remembering being fascinated by the ability to find Ethiopian food or a Chinese restaurant. While her background made it a challenge to “fit in” in Europe, it felt like an advantage in Canada. “Being different was comforting,” she said. “If you ask me where I’m from I’ll tell you that I’m Canadian before going into details of what’s written on my passport.”

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the accompanying caption on O’Leary’s Facebook page. “Getting up at 5 a.m. was hard but worth it.”

Although the short clip, which was filmed at Lock & Load Miami, was posted directly to O’Leary’s social media channels Thursday afternoon, it was originally uploaded to YouTube last March where it has been viewed more than 2,000 times.

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“It is with a heavy heart that we come together this afternoon to grieve the loss of these innocent lives,” he told the solemn crowd. “But as a community and as a country, together we will rise from this darkness stronger and

more unified than ever before — that is who we are.”

Abdelkrim Hassane, Khaled Belkacemi and Aboubaker Thabti were devoted fathers who worked hard to ensure their families had a bright future, a dream Canadians across the country have shared for generations, Trudeau said. Several thousand mourners packed the Maurice-Richard Arena to pay their respects to the three men.

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Trump ‘disappointed’ in Aussie deal The White House deepened its condemnation of an Obama administration refugee deal with Australia Thursday, saying President Donald Trump was “unbelievably disappointed” in the agreement.

Asked whether the deal would continue, Trump said, “We’ll see what happens.” However, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull told Australians that the American president has committed to following through with

the agreement to allow mostly Muslim refugees to resettle in the United States.

The agreement was a source of friction during a recent phone call between Trump and Turnbull, according to an administration official. The call ended after less than 30 minutes, well earlier than scheduled, though the official disputed reports that Trump hung up on the prime minister. The U.S. official was not authorized to publicly discuss

the conversation and spoke on condition of anonymity.

The Obama administration agreed to resettle refugees from among about 1,600 asylum-seekers. Australia has refused to accept them and instead pays for them to be housed on the impoverished islands.

The White House suggested Thursday that the agreement would continue, but provided no details.

rally in downtown Brooklyn. At least 1,000 Yemeni-run small businesses are a part of many New Yorkers’ daily lives, said Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, who planned to attend the rally.

Haron Zokari closed his Manhattan deli at noon, as well.

He said his wife and baby are stuck in Yemen after almost completing a four-year, green-

card process.

“We are trying to stay strong,” he said. “There’s people there who are refugees and who are starving and running for their lives, so thank God we don’t have it as bad as they do.”

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In Texas, Republican lawmakers pushed to deny money to cities with the policies on Thursday as demonstrators disrupted a hearing several times.

Another U.S.-Mexico border state, California, is moving in the opposite direction by advancing a statewide sanctuary that would prohibit law enforcement in the nation’s most populated state from cooperating with federal immigration authorities.

Trump’s recent executive orders threatening to withhold federal funding from communities with sanctuary policies and calling for a border wall have produced widespread protests and fears that more immigration restrictions are in the future. The president’s supporters have hailed the efforts.

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of those they arrest or they decline requests from immigration officials to keep defendants in custody while they await deportation.

Phoenix leaders will consider a petition next month to adopt the policies.

On the state level, California would not be the first to block police from enforcing federal immigration law. Oregon pioneered statewide sanctuary in 1987, when immigrant workers and their families were sometimes housed in appalling conditions despite their importance to agricultural

profits.

Oregon Gov. Kate Brown said she will enforce the law that prohibits police from detaining people who are in the U.S. illegally but have not broken other laws. She ordered all state agencies, not just law enforcement, on Thursday to follow the policy.

“They mow our lawns. They pick our grapes,” Brown said last week. “They take care of our children and they take care of our seniors, and I want to make sure they feel welcome in Oregon.”

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VICKY MOCHAMA ON LOVE AND APOLOGIES

The Muslim community in Canada has been treated appallingly.

A peaceful, kind and diverse community has been treated as a pawn in a craven political strategy.

On Wednesday, Joël Lightbound, Liberal MP for LouisHébert, apologized to the families of the six men murdered in Quebec and to the Muslim community in Canada. “For the past few years, I have observed their ostracization and their stigmatization; having seen root in the hearts of my fellow men, fear, mistrust and hatred,” he said. “I have done my best to answer them, but I have not done enough.”

Many more apologies are owed. The Muslim community in Canada has been treated appallingly. A peaceful, kind and diverse community has been treated as a pawn in a craven political strategy, and their faithful citizenship has been rewarded with a cruel lack of loyalty.

During the 2015 federal election, the Conservative leadership used Muslims as a ploy for getting votes.

Then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper repeatedly said that a majority of Canadians supported his government’s ban on women wearing facecoverings like the niqab during citizenship ceremonies.

When a Federal Court of Appeals struck down the ban, the Harper campaign vowed that if re-elected, they would introduce legislation that prohibited the niqab during the ceremonies.

Stephen Harper, then the leader of the nation and his party, owes the Muslim community an apology. He must especially ask the pardon of Muslim women: He used his platform to cheapen their desire to be citizens of this country, and to delegitimize their presence here.

That strain of calculated Islamophobia didn’t go away with the party’s electoral loss. No, it has instead resurfaced in a more diffuse and dangerous way. The Islamophobia that has been bubbling up since 9/11 has re-

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SAY YOU’RE SORRY The media, a former prime minister, a current Conservative candidate and the Rebel’s Ezra Levant all owe Canadian Muslims an apology, Vicky Mochama writes. CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Liam Richards/The Canadian Press, Twitter, video screencap, Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press

sulted in a twofold increase in hate crimes against Muslims from 2013 to 2016.

Perhaps it is that violent streak that has emboldened so many. Instead of backing down from dog-whistle politics, so many public figures have embraced it.

Having cried tears after her promotion of the Barbaric Cultural Practices Act, Kellie Leitch is now running for leader of the Conservative party on a platform of “Canadian values” – a vague notion that is transparent in its dog-whistling. A competitor, Steven Blaney, has made banning the niqab for public service employees a central piece of his platform. The right-wing

media site, The Rebel, and its main personalities (Ezra Levant, Faith Goldy, Lauren Southern, to name a few) have made dangerous sport of Canada’s Muslims. The media, too, owes Muslims an apology.

Moreover, a troubling pattern of only speaking to Muslim life when it relates to incidents of terrorism has emerged. In the most recent egregious instance of conflating Islam with terrorism, the Canadian Press published a story about a “report” that claimed mosques were hotbeds for terror. Except the authors had done little research besides walk around mosques.

In this moment of grief,

the press, politicians, and public personalities should, like Lightbound, seek the forgiveness of the nation’s Muslim communities. The public too is entirely culpable; allowing leaders to capitalize on fears of danger only creates a more dangerous world.

As I watched the funeral of three of the murdered North African Muslim men in Montreal on Thursday, I was struck by many moments, but specifically, by one call-and-response: “Vive Le Quebec. Vive Le Canada.”

Even in sorrow, the community embraced those places that had not equally embraced them. For that, we all owe an apology.

Just call him Donald J. Trump, purveyor of love. A man who’s quick to note how much he loves “the poorly educated,” “Israel and the Jewish people,” “Hispanics,” “the coal miners,” and, of course, America (circa the time when it was “great”).

As for the love he’s inspired in his supporters, some of it was courted, including from anti-abortion activists and evangelical voters who will love his Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch; and from those thrilled by his executive order on immigration, which relates to his promise to institute a Muslim ban; and from Wall Street, where hearts no doubt swelled at his promised dismantling of Dodd-Frank (the act instituted post-2008 to prevent a similar economic collapse by restricting risky lending by banks).

But Trump’s also the founder of a new, national (even international) love-in he did not seek, and which he no doubt finds irritating: The motto Love Trumps Hate, which found a second wind as the de facto operating procedure of the left.

Love, in America, is trumping Trump’s presidency. Those who came out in historic numbers for the Women’s March, for example, proved that unattractive pink hats have actually no impact on the seriousness or longevity of a movement’s activism. All that love for a variety of marginalized groups, expressed in hundreds of marches, has

fuelled organized phone-call campaigns to pressure senators to stop the confirmation of Trump’s cabinet picks. And in a new poll, 40 per cent of Democratic women say they are committed to being more politically active (just 27 per cent of Democratic men).

Protesters who’ve swarmed U.S. airports showing love for refugees and immigrants have forced Trump’s administration to walk back some aspects of his executive order, and led to the heartwarming image of Jewish and Muslim families protesting side by side, with one child holding an actual “love” sign.

Arguing that it is women, in particular, who are trumping Trump’s presidency, journalist Rebecca Traister wrote, “It takes a Villain” to unify and galvanize the left. But it also takes love. Love is how you know what to fight for. Love is what you seek when you stand with others and stand up for your beliefs. Love is the antidote of fear. It is sustenance for any resistance. This is not a revelation: It’s been learned by people in dangerous times for centuries.

Still, love gets a rather gushy rap. In masculine cultures, it’s been demoted to the feminine, deemed flimsy and passive, a beta emotion, a feeling without much muscle, or strength. But its power is now on full display in the U.S., thanks to the new president.

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Hollywood is gearing up for one of the most outspoken Academy Awards ceremonies in living memory. No matter how vociferous and viral Meryl Streep and Co. are likely to be, the real seeds of change are to be found in the best documentary category. This year’s list includes blistering explorations of America’s relationship with race — 13th and I Am Not Your Negro — as well as Fire At Sea, Gianfranco Rosi’s visceral chronicling of the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean. “Documentaries are the first line of education,” said Steven Spielberg. Here are five documentaries that educated and, ultimately, made a difference in the world: JOE CALLAGHAN METRO

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While the wild popularity of Making A Murderer reignited fascination in true crime TV, the original trailblazer came on the big screen in the late ’80s. Filmmaker Errol Morris set out to convince the world that Randall Adams had been framed and wrongly sent to death row for a murder he didn’t commit.

Thanks to the director’s pioneering interview style and painstaking reenactments, at Seaworld and elsewhere changed the aquarium/ he achieved his goal. Adams was freed and animal theme park industry worldwide. As Gabriela exonerated after the doc’s release.

Cowperthwaite’s documentary was given fresh impetus on Netflix, SeaWorld announced last year that it will end breeding, training and performing in favor of a conservation programs.

Super Size Me Did any image put you off a Big Mac quicker than Morgan Spurlock spewing out his car window after one Happy Meal too many? The creator’s cholesterol-tastic month on the McDiet ended with him having heart palpitations but gave the fast food industry even more of a scare. Just six weeks after release, McDonald’s discontinued the Super Size option and began a roll-out of healthier items. The fight against obesity goes on but Spurlock made us all a little more Mc-wary.

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While the thoughts of many Canadians are with missing diver Rob Stewart’s family this week (rescue efforts were still underway as of press time Thursday), we would be remiss not to include his film on this list. Stewart’s ground-breaking 2006 documentary Sharkwater is widely seen as one of the most pivotal pieces of conservation filmmaking ever produced.

The myth-destroying work led to the creation of a raft of new conservation measures and directly led to shark finning being banned almost worldwide six years later.

If Leni Riefenstahl’s 1935 Nazi propaganda masterpiece Triumph of Will helped Hitler’s wave of German nationalism rise all the way into World War II, Why We Fight turned the tide of the conflict. The sevenpart series, largely helmed by Frank Capra, convinced Americans of the importance of their country’s belated involvement in the war, winning an Oscar along the way.

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The key to the production of I Am Not Your Negro came when director Raoul Peck was given an unfinished copy of Remember This House, the book James Baldwin (right) was working on at the time of his death in which he was stitching together reflections on assassinated civil rights leaders Macolm X (left) and Martin Luther King Jr (centre) as well as Medgar Evers. supplied

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I Am Not Your Negro gives fresh voice to James Baldwin One of the surest ways to see the power and relevance of James Baldwin’s words today would be to look at some of the signs of recent protesters. “If I love you I must make you conscious of things you do not see,” read one. “The only way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain,” read another.

Or you could see Raoul Peck’s urgent and clarion documentary I Am Not Your Negro. It resurrects Baldwin’s words — his eloquent poetry of injustice — with the same fire with which they were blazed. Peck’s film, which is nominated for best documentary at the Academy Awards, bears no talking heads. There’s no analysis of Baldwin’s influence in literature or interpretation of his politics. But there is his voice: clear, direct and piercingly prescient.

“I wanted the confrontation to be direct from his words, himself to the audience,” Peck, who

shares his screenwriting credit with Baldwin, said. “I was the messenger.”

It took Peck, the Haitian-born filmmaker of Sometimes in April, years to find the right avenue into Baldwin for I Am Not Your Negro, which opens in theatres Friday. A great responsibility hung over the decade-long endeavour, Peck says, to bring Baldwin to the forefront.

“I read Baldwin as a teenager and his writing never left me,” said Peck. “His writing structured the man I am today and the filmmaker I am today. I wanted to make sure the next generation had access to Baldwin.”

Peck was welcomed by Baldwin’s estate, which is managed

by Baldwin’s younger sister, Gloria Karefa-Smart. But the key to the film only emerged when Karefa-Smart gave Peck the pages of Remember This House, which Baldwin completed 30 pages of before his death in 1987 at age 63. The unfinished book was intended to stitch together reflections on three assassinated civil rights leaders: Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr. and Medgar Evers.

But I Am Not Your Negro isn’t a time capsule. It’s about today.

Peck juxtaposes Baldwin’s words with images of police brutality, the Black Lives Matter move-

ment and other recent events.

Other images flicker at times — John Wayne and Doris Day — that question the white picture of America promoted by Hollywood.

As he toiled, Peck found his film increasingly timely, a relevance that has only increased since the election. When the Ferguson protests grew, he sent a crew to document it.

“I knew how fundamental Baldwin’s words were and I knew they were important to understand the confusion we were in,” said Peck. “What I did not expect is that it would become so obvious and I would have so many examples and illustrations of what I was working on.”

Aisha Karefa-Smart, Baldwin’s niece, says Peck’s film, which includes excerpts from the FBI’s extensive file on Baldwin, was revelatory. “It made me understand my family more in terms of the hushed tones that people spoke in and the unspoken fears that permeated the household.”

At festival screenings, she has watched the film help resurrect her uncle. “A lot of kids are upset they didn’t know who he was,” says Karefa-Smart. “He was kind of the background for a while.”

That has changed in recent years. Baldwin is widely taught in

While hundreds of thousands made their way to the U.S. capital for 1963’s March on Washington, James Baldwin was banned from speaking for fear he would be too fiery. supplied

universities. The Library of America has published his essays, and stories with introductions from Toni Morrison. The James Baldwin Review was begun in 2015.

When Chris Rock spoke at a Harlem church on Martin Luther King Day last year, shortly after a second-straight year of all-white acting nominees to the Oscars, he read My Dungeon Shook, Baldwin’s letter to his nephew.

What many respond to in Baldwin is his searing direct-

ness, his willingness to confront the deep-seated ills of America and to reposition questions of race. “The country’s image of the Negro, which hasn’t very much to do with the Negro, has never failed to reflect with a kind of frightening accuracy the state of mind of the country,” he wrote in Nobody Knows My Name.

Peck believes his film is ultimately an intimate one intended to provoke the kind of personal inquiry demanded by Baldwin,

who warned against “purposeful blindness.”

“You cannot, whether you are white or black or Latino or whoever, you cannot come out of this film an innocent person,” says Peck. “You know. You know all you need to know in order to face it, to react, to do something or not. As far as Baldwin is concerned, you have no excuse anymore. The elements, as he would say, are all on the table.” the associated press

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For Metro Canada Years ago I interviewed Kōji Suzuki, author of the novels that spawned the Ring movies, manga comics and television shows.

Ringu, the first book in the series, was published in 1991 and introduced us to the idea of a videotape (remember those?) that killed people seven days after they watched it.

The book and the movie were sensations, but in the interview Suzuki told me something really interesting. It’s hard to imagine the Ring movies without the spooky, grainy videotape images, but the writer let it slip that VHS tapes weren’t his first choice as a conduit of evil.

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other commonplace object, one that almost everyone in the nineties had at least a passing familiarity with.

This weekend, Rings revisits the horrors of the original novel and films as a young guy decides to explore the urban legend of the deadly mysterious videotape.

When his girlfriend sacrifices everything to save him, a shocking discovery is made — there’s

a movie within the movie!

Suzuki made videotapes the spookiest inanimate horror object ever, but they’re not the only ones.

We can all imagine the fear that comes along with being chased by a werewolf. Or waking up to find Dracula staring down at you.

They are living, breathing (or in Drac’s case, dead and not

so breathing, but you get the idea) embodiments of evil. But how about inorganic objects?

Have you ever been terrified of a lamp? Or creeped out by a tire?

There have been loads of haunted houses in the movies.

In most of them, however, the house is merely a vessel for a spirit or some unseen entity that makes its presence know by making the walls bleed or

randomly slamming doors. Rarer is the house that is actually evil.

Stephen King wrote about a house that eats people in the third installment of his Dark Tower series. On screen Robert Zemeckis and Steven Spielberg visualized the idea in the appropriately titled Monster House.

In that animated movie three teens figure out the house across the street is a man-eating monster.

By the time they got around to the fourth installment of the most famous haunted house series, the Amityville Horror, filmmakers had to figure out a new plotline apart from the tired “new owners move in to the house, get freaked out leave,” storyline. In The Amityville Horror: The Evil Escapes, a cursed lamp causes all sorts of trouble when it is shipped from the evil

Long Island house to a Californian mansion.

Much weirder is Rubber, the story of a killer tire (yes, you read that right) with psychokinetic powers — think Carrie with treads — who terrorizes the American southwest.

It’s an absurdist tract on how and why we watch movies, what entertainment is and the movie business, among other things.

But frankly, mostly it’s about a tire rolling around the desert and while there is something kind of hypnotic about watching the tire on its murderous journey — think Natural Born Killers but round and rubbery — that doesn’t mean Rubber is a good movie.

Finally, think bed bugs are bad? How about a hungry bed?

The title of this one sums it up: Death Bed: The Bed that Eats.

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A pair of telling tales and yet another turkey from De Niro

They Call Us Monsters (Directed by Ben Lear; 82 minutes; 14A) — If Hollywood made a fictionalized version of They Call Us Monsters, the characters surely would come across as beasts. Reality is tamer.

The three teens profiled in this documentary on a screenwriting class for violent juvenile offenders are in an L.A. detention centre. Each is awaiting trial on gang-related charges of murder and/or attempted murder. California law sends juvenile offenders aged 14 to 17 to adult court. A debate over whether that needs to be changed is one the narrative themes of filmmaker Ben Lear’s busy doc. Tighter editing might have made this a great movie, rather than just a good one. But it nevertheless helps us understand the eternal conundrum of family-loving teens who turn into violent threats to society.

The Salesman (Starring Shahab Hosseini, Taraneh Alidoosti, Babak Karimi; Directed by Asghar Farhadi; 125 minutes; PG)

— Asghar Farhadi expertly measures the slow drip of human weakness and its consequences in The Salesman, his devastating drama nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars. Screen protagonists Emad and Rana (above) are a married couple playing Willy Loman and his wife, Linda, in a Tehran production of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, the classic tragedy of modern disillusionment. An assault the film never fully explains, but explores by way of a revenge scenario leaves few unscathed and all shaken. The message is how quickly civility can slip

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The Skyjacker’s Tale (Starring Robert De Niro, Leslie Mann, Harvey Keitel and Danny DeVito; Directed

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For Metro Canada Asa Butterfield has decided to come of age in outer space.

Metaphorically speaking, at least.

In the sci-fi drama The Space Between Us, the young English actor stars as the progeny of a pregnant astronaut that gives birth during a mission to the Red Planet. Sure, he may be born on Mars but the lonely teen ready for life on Earth is far from the quintessential green-skinned, antennae-sprouting Martian we’ve previously seen in Hollywood history.

“I knew I’d be able to have fun and (be) creative as an actor bringing him to life and fleshing out what makes him different and funny,” admitted the lean star recently, who pre-

English actor Asa Butterfield prepared for his lead role in The Space Between Us by using ankle weights to get used to the effects of Earth’s gravity on someone from Mars. contributed

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of-age film — more than anything,” added Butterfield of the film’s emotional core. “He’s super smart but he’s not very educated in all the things that matter in terms of human connection and socializing so he’s got this innocence and gullibility to him.”

It was the comedy inherent in that inexperience that truly attracted Butterfield.

For the actor, it was an opportunity to break out from more serious roles in family adventures like Ender’s Game and Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children and kickstart a career in more mature movies, like the forthcoming

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Asa on entering adulthood: “My character was the naïve, hopeful one who comes to the front line and thinks he’s going to fight for his country,” said Butterfield of the forthcoming wartime drama, Journey’s End. “The way he changes in just the five days that the film covers is really powerful.”

all, his maturity already shines in his roles, no doubt it partly comes with the territory when you’re making movies with a slate of experienced veterans like filmmaker Martin Scorsese, Harrison Ford and his latest co-star, Gary Oldman.

“Surprisingly it’s quite easy to forget that aspect of it I guess,” laughed Butterfield, displaying a lingering gesture of youthful naiveté. “I’m not really immersed in it all the time unless I’m working. So when I’m back at home I’m very detached from the acting world.

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Training Day star meets boxing hero confidence

Muhammed Ali gives Justin Cornwell ‘his powers’ Before landing a starring role on the new TV series Training Day, debuting Thursday on CTV, American actor Justin Cornwell got a boost of confidence from “the Greatest.”

Cornwell got to meet the late boxing legend Muhammad Ali two years ago when he was playing him in a theatrical production of And in This Corner...Cassius Clay.

“He’s my hero. He’s affected the way that I live my life,” Cornwell said in an interview.

“It definitely changed me,” he added of their meeting. “I felt like he gave me his powers when I shook his hand....

I felt like right then, he gave me his like: ‘You’ve got to do it. Here you go, you’ve got everything you need, man.”’

Cornwell channelled Ali’s moxie a year later when he heard Antoine Fuqua — director of the 2001 film Training

Day, which earned Denzel Washington an Oscar — was developing a series set 15 years after the original story.

“I tweeted Fuqua Films in February, a month after they announced that they had put the project together and CBS had won out on the bid to produce the pilot,” he said.

“I was like, ‘Hey, don’t sleep on me, I really want an audition, I’m in Chicago.’

I don’t know if they ever saw it but I ended up getting an audition.”

Within a week of his audition, he was on set with costar Bill Paxton of Big Love fame, shooting the Los Angeles-set series.

Cornwell stars as Kyle Craig, a rookie detective whose heroic efforts to save a kid gets him promoted to the elite Special Investigation Section. There, he’s tasked with exposing the corruption of veteran cop Frank Rourke, played by Paxton.

Co-stars include Marianne Jean-Baptiste as the deputy chief.

“Instead of being aspirational like Ethan Hawke’s character was in the original

He’s my hero. He’s affected the way that I live my life. It definitely changed me. Justin Cornwell Training Day, where Ethan Hawke wanted to be Denzel Washington’s character, he wanted to be a detective, my guy is not as aspirational to be Bill Paxton’s character,” said Cornwell.

“He really wants to take him down, he’s waiting for him to slip up, really.”

Kyle’s viewpoint on Frank changes, however, when he realizes he was his father’s partner and may be able to help him solve his murder.

“The police chief and everybody else comes into question, like ‘Why am I really here? What’s really the point of putting me next to this guy?”’ said Cornwell.

“It’s one of those situations where I feel like, ‘Now who do I trust? Where can I go?”’

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Singer stays coy on possible political stance during halftime

Lady Gaga will be joined by Tony Bennett during her halftime show at Sunday’s Super Bowl.

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Lady Gaga said she hopes her Super Bowl halftime show will celebrate “inclusion” and the “spirit of equality” during a time of national division.

“This performance is for everyone. I want to, more than anything, create a moment that everyone that’s watching will never forget,” she said in a press conference Thursday in Houston.

Gaga wouldn’t reveal what songs she would sing, how many costumes she’ll wear or any staging details, but promised a “tremendously athletic” show and no reappearance of her infamous meat dress.

She also said there wouldn’t be any wardrobe malfunctions — like Janet Jackson’s infamous moment when she performed at the last Super Bowl held in Houston in 2004.

“Everything is going to be nice and tight,” Gaga said. “I wouldn’t

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worry about that.”

When Gaga debuted in 2008, her sound was a mix of electronic, dance and pop sounds, including the hits Poker Face and Just Dance.

Her latest album though, Joanne, delves into country and acoustic rock territory, and she said she plans to perform songs from her entire catalogue.

The 30-year-old singer, who sang the national anthem at last year’s Super Bowl, was nominated for the best original song Oscar last year and won a Golden Globe for her role on the FX series American Horror Story. Gaga said she considers being asked to be the halftime headliner is due

to her fans, affectionately known as “little monsters.”

“Essentially, that kid that couldn’t get a seat at the cool kids’ table and that kid who was kicked out of the house because his mom and dad didn’t accept him for who he was? That kid is going to have the stage for 13 minutes,” she said. “And I’m excited to give it to them.”

The performance at the NRG Stadium will also feature Tony Bennett, who Gaga called a “tremendously wise man.” Gaga and Bennett, 90, recorded the 2014 album of duets, Cheek to Cheek, which won a Grammy — the sixth for Gaga. They also launched a successful tour.

The showdown between the New England Patriots and Atlanta Falcons airs Sunday on Fox. Gaga, who said many of her relatives are Pittsburgh Steelers fans, wouldn’t reveal whom she’s rooting for. “I’m going to keep that one to myself,” she said.

In addition to Gaga, three original cast members of the Broadway hit Hamilton will sing America the Beautiful during pregame festivities and Luke Bryan will perform the national anthem. the associated press

TV BRIEFS Canadian viewers see U.S. Superbowl ads for first time Many Canadians are wondering who will emerge victorious Sunday in Super Bowl LI. Not in the game between the New England Patriots and Atlanta Falcons, but between the Canadian Radiotelevision Telecommunications Commission and CTV. By mandating that this year’s Fox Super Bowl feed not be substituted with a Canadian signal, the CRTC hoped to score a touchdown with Canadians who have vented for years about not

Nintendo will be promoting their new Switch console with a high-profile Super Bowl 51 commercial. the associated press

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U.S. location: Chicago Our equivalent: Toronto Toronto offers similar attractions to its sister lakefront city; an amazing aquarium, great sports teams and world-class museums, like the Aga Khan Museum of Islamic art and Muslim culture. While both cities offer distinct neighbourhoods for exploring, Toronto’s renowned ethnic diversity allows for a wider variety of cultural experiences.

U.S. location: Washington Our equivalent: Ottawa Cancel that DC Trump hotel reservation and book at the Chateau Laurier, named after a Canadian prime minister well known for his policies of conciliation. Although many of the Smithsonian museums are free, so are several of our national museums provided you visit during certain times.

With a slate of events planned all year long, this is the time to visit our capital.

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U.S. location: New Orleans Our equivalent: Quebec City Offering distinctive architecture and French cultural heritage, Quebec edges out New Orleans for the title of the most European city in North America. Although Quebec City may not have the jazz scene that its southern sister does, the Quebec City Summer Festival running from July 6 through 16, 2017 will bring world class music to the La Vieille Capitale.

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U.S. location: San Francisco Our equivalent: Vancouver What you may miss in architectural charm you’ll get back in spades from Vancouver’s incredible natural beauty. While both of these temperate west-coast cities have vibrant Chinese communities with some of the best options for dim sum I’ve ever had, Vancouver’s Granville Island is more charming than San Fran’s overly touristy Fisherman’s Wharf area.

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Things to DO in Paradise CITY (A.K.A. Mexico City)

In October, my L.A. pal Kenny texted me: “Wanna go see Guns N’ Roses in Mexico City next month for our 30th birthdays?” I typed back “yes” faster than you can say, “Slash.” We were so focused on our reunion and our dance moves for Welcome to the Jungle, that we kind of forgot to plan the rest of our trip. What should we do when we got there? A lot it turns out. JENNFER FODEN/FOR TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE

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Take in a local sports game If you’re into sports, head straight for lucha libre (wrestling). For less than $20 dollars each, we scored front-row seats at Arena Coliseo for several matches over a few hours (Arena Mexico is another option.) It can be a hassle to book tickets in advance, so just purchase them at the stadium day of.

The art scene is booming in Mexico City, from the murals that line the streets and alleyways to large contemporary art galleries (like Galeria OMR) to museums dedicated to Mexico’s most famous artists (Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera.) If you head to the Frida Kahlo Museum (highly recommended) be sure to book your tickets online or arrive early.

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Located 50 km northeast of Mexico City is Teotihuacan.

The area, often compared to ancient Rome, was settled by 400 BC and experienced growth over the next several centuries (however, the origin and language of the natives is unknown.) You can explore the mysterious pyramids by joining a tour, hiring a car or navigating public transit.

One of the best ways to explore the culture and diversity of Mexico City is by simply roaming its neighbourhoods.

We walked for hours, from the posh Condesa to the funky Hipodromo to the historic Coyoacan and beyond. We stumbled upon musicians and dancers in Art Deco plazas, bright and colourful cemeteries and lush, open green spaces.

Eat everything The food in Mexico City is as varied as its activities. You can taste everything from tacos and tortas (sandwiches) on the street to chocolate and cornbread in the outdoor markets (all for less than a dollar.) If you’re looking for something slightly more upscale than an outdoor vendor, Lardo (for brunch) and Huset (for dinner) were two of our favourites.

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For Torstar News Service It’s dusk, which in northern B.C. during the summertime means close to 10 p.m. We’re hiking along a narrow path in the darkened woods, finding our way with headlamps.

As we approach the Wolverine River, our guide stops to examine a tree stump where an animal — a rather large animal — has been rooting around in the dirt.

“There’s definitely been a bear here in the last 24 hours,” Anthony Moreau-Coulson, a paramedic who volunteers at the Tumbler Ridge Dinosaur Discovery Gallery, says. He observes this matter-of-factly, without a trace of fear.

Indeed, none of the locals seem to concern themselves with bears; they shrug their shoulders and explain that in these parts, the bears are much more afraid of us than we are

of them. Except for, perhaps, myself.

So why exactly are we trudging around in the woods late at night? We’re dinosaur hunting.

Well, track hunting, to be more precise, on a dinosaur footprint tour run by the Dinosaur Discovery Gallery.

Alberta gets all the attention for dinosaurs, but there were dinosaurs in B.C., too. Only three known tyrannosaur trackways have been discovered in the world and all three are in the Peace Region of B.C. It’s also home to the only known brontosaur trackway in Canada.

We make our way onto a shelf of rock beside a rushing river, lit by the moon. It’s difficult to see fossils during the day, when the sun in shining directly on them. But with low-angled lantern light, shapes start to emerge from the rocks.

And here, on this slab of rock, there are more than 80 fossils.

As Moreau-Coulson positions his lantern at a strategic angle, it’s easy to make out the footprint of an animal that is a heck of a lot bigger than a bear. This is a theropod footprint, he explains, from 94 million years ago.

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GETTING THERE From Vancouver, catch a short flight to Fort St. John in northern B.C. From there, it’s a 175-kilometre drive to Tumbler Ridge (rental cars are available at the airport).

It’s difficult to see fossils during the day, when the sun in shining directly on them. But with low-angled lantern light, shapes start to emerge in the rocks. Tumbler Ridge Global Geopark

spot for dinosaur activity, but it only gained the attention of the scientific community after dinosaur footprints were discovered in 2000 by two local boys.

Now the region is also starting to get the attention of tourists.

In 2015, the region was officially recognized as a UNESCO Global Geopark, thanks to its 97-million-year-old dinosaur footprints and fossils — with more than 40 bone beds and track sites

herself. “Actually, this is where the science happens.”

Buckley points out an Ice Age bison skull that’s being prepared for display in the Dinosaur Discovery Centre. There’s also a mammoth tusk, discovered by workers in a commercial gravel pit near Taylor, B.C. We come across a latex peel stretched across the floor, a replica of a trackway found out in the wild.

The real trackway consists of 19

accessible through a network of hiking trails.

Back at the Peace Region Paleontology Research Centre, one of the lead paleontologists takes us through a set of doors with a staff-only sign.

“This is where the magic happens,” Lisa Buckley says. She also serves as the centre’s curator and collections manager when she’s not out on a dig.

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Tumbler Ridge, in the rugged Rockies, was once covered in swampy, coastal forests, which preserved many of these footprints as fossils.

“Even though there’s been a lot of technological advances with finding fossils, a lot of the basic techniques haven’t changed in over 300 years,“ Buckley says. “You have to go out and walk areas and physically see them.”

Vawn Himmelsbach was hosted by Destination B.C., which didn’t review or approve this story.

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Until Thursday.

Pro Bowl centre Alex Mack was bothered by his injured left fibula during practice at Rice University, and coach Dan Quinn says he’s “concerned” about the anchor of the offensive line heading into Sunday’s title game against the New England Patriots.

Mack was injured in the NFC championship against Green Bay but managed to stay in the game.

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Kuchar takes 18-hole lead at raucous Phoenix Open Matt Kuchar eagled the par5 13th and added two late birdies and a big par save on the rowdy par-3 16th hole Thursday to take the first-round lead in the Waste Management Phoenix Open.

Kuchar shot a 7-under 64 in perfect afternoon conditions at TPC Scottsdale for a one-stroke lead over defending champion Hideki Matsuyama and Brendan Steele. The Associated Press Vlad and Doc get called to Canadian Baseball HOF Former Expos slugger Vladimir Guerrero and retired Blue Jays ace Roy Halladay are among the 2017 Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame inductees.

Longtime Baseball Canada president Ray Carter and umpire Doug Hudlin will also be enshrined in St. Marys, Ont., later this year.

The Canadian team that won gold at the 2015 Pan American Games will also be inducted.

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Gold standard in coaching Super Bowl

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Belichick seen as tough but deeply loyal leader of Pats He values the team’s overall culture ahead of its individual parts.

He rules his team with an iron fist, and yet, instills that team with a sense of family.

He can appear heartless — quick to say “goodbye” to those who no longer fit in — and yet, he is deeply loyal.

He has hard-and-fast ideas about how to run his own team, but is never against learning and adding bits of others’ expertise to his own repertoire.

Yes, this is a description of New England coach Bill Belichick, who can set himself apart Sunday by winning a record fifth Super Bowl title as a head coach.

It’s also a description of former coaches Chuck Noll of the Steelers and Tom Landry of the Cowboys and Alabama’s Nick Saban.

“Xs and Os are the price of admission,” says John O’Sullivan, founder of the Changing the Game project, who speaks often about the importance of coaching in society. “But great coaches, the first thing they do is connect. When you connect with people, they’ll run through a wall for you.”

Belichick, a people person?

The same might have been said, or asked, about the most iconic coaches, whose time facing the public usually involves five- and 10-minute segments with the media during which their main

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Tom Brady and Bill Belichick embrace after the Patriots won Super Bowl XLIX in February 2015. Matt Slocum/The Associated Press

goal is to not reveal anything important about their game plan — or much about themselves.

The effort — and sometimes, accolades — they get from their players says more.

Terry Bradshaw couldn’t stand Noll on their way to winning four Super Bowls with Pittsburgh. Only years later did the Hall of Fame quarterback concede that he benefited from Noll’s coaching. “Did I respect him? Of course I did,” Bradshaw said last year. “Like him? No, I didn’t like him.”

A lot has been made this year of New England’s decision to part ways with two key cogs in its defence — Chandler Jones in the off-season, then linebacker Jamie Collins, who was (ruth-

I thought I knew something, and really found out that I was really in a position to learn a lot.

lessly?) traded away to winless Cleveland in October. That defence still allowed the fewest points in the league.

Belichick is hardly the first coach faced with those sorts of choices. In the ’70s, Landry spent a season shuffling between Roger Staubach and Craig Morton at quarterback.

Eventually, he recognized the Cowboys could only succeed with one of them, and he chose Staubach, while trading Morton to the Giants.

“Sometimes it is unfortunate to have to make such a decision,” Landry said at the time.

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This year’s other Super Bowl coach, Dan Quinn of the Falcons, has discussed his seasonlong quest to turn his group of players into a “brotherhood.”

Belichick will never be confused as warm-and-fuzzy, though maybe Vince Wilfork’s tweet after parting with the Patriots in 2014 painted the best picture about the sort of atmosphere the coach has created: “We are always family,” Wilfork wrote.

And while great coaches have some hard-and-fast rules about how they want to run their teams, the best of them are always keeping an open mind toward learning.

Famous are the stories of Belichick’s willingness to go the extra mile — especially in the film room — from the time he got his first NFL job, as an assistant to Colts coach Ted Marchibroda in 1975.

“The impression he made on

D VERSUS O It’s the sixth time since the 1970 merger that the Super Bowl is a matchup of the top scoring team (Falcons, 33.8 points per game) and the team that allowed the fewest points (Pats, 15.6 points per game). The better defensive team has gone 5-1 in those meetings.

TOUGH TO DOUBT TOM A win would tie Tom Brady with Charles Haley, who is the only player with five Super Bowl wins. Bart Starr is the only other QB with five NFL titles. He won three before Super Bowls began.

FLYIN’ RYAN Matt Ryan is the first QB in NFL history with three or more passing TDs in four consecutive playoff games.

In his past six games, he has 1,861 passing yards, 18 TDs and no interceptions.

colleagues was almost universally favourable — open-minded, incredibly hard-working, absolutely committed to being a little better every day ... a master at using film,” wrote David Halberstam in his 2005 profile on Belichick, “The Education of a Coach.” The Associated Press

Predators goalie stars as Arvidsson and Johansen net Pekka Rinne stopped 31 shots for his 42nd career shutout, leading the Nashville Predators to a 2-0 victory over the Edmonton Oilers on Thursday night.

Viktor Arvidsson and Ryan Johansen each had a goal and an assist to help Nashville win for the second time in three games.

Cam Talbot made 25 saves for Edmonton, which has lost two straight. Rinne, who had his second shutout of the season, beat the Oilers for the eighth straight time — including three shutouts.

Arvidsson scored the game’s first goal at 1:26 of the second period. He carried the puck up ice and sent a slap shot from the right faceoff dot high to the

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short side over Talbot’s glove for his 13th. Johansen doubled the Nashville lead in the final minute of the second. With the puck just inside the Edmonton blue line, Filip Forsberg stickhandled past three Oilers players be-

fore sending a pass to Arvidsson at the right faceoff dot. There, Arvidsson slid a cross-ice pass to Johansen at the left dot, where he beat Talbot with a one-timer.

Early in the second, Rinne kept the game scoreless, making three consecutive saves on Edmonton defenceman Oscar Klefbom with the final two coming at close range. Rinne had to be sharp at the start of the third as well, stopping Ryan NugentHopkins on a breakaway at 29 seconds. The associated press

Cameroon through to Africa Cup of Nations final Cameroon is through to the Africa Cup of Nations final after beating Ghana 2-0 in the second semifinal on Thursday.

Cameroon will play in its sixth Africa Cup final but first since 2008. It will face record seven-

time champion Egypt on Sunday. The Associated Press NHL to meet over Olympic inclusion, source says Two people familiar with the gathering say key decision-makers are meeting Friday regarding the NHL’s participation in the 2018 Olympics in

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A person, who spoke Thursday to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity, says the International Olympic Committee and International Ice Hockey Federation requested the meeting.

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Sagittarius Nov. 23 - Dec. 21 This year you’ll have lovely romantic possibilities and opportunities. This lovely blessing will last for the next four months.

by Kelly Ann Buchanan

Pisces Feb. 20 - March 20 Look for ways to boost your income during the next few months, because they do exist. (Mind you, you also will be spending money on beautiful things for yourself ones.)

8. Cozy retreat 9. Yo-Yo Ma’s instruments 10. Folded-over frying pan servings 11. Struck back 12. Shoppers Mart link 13. Mailing request, commonly

18. Maneuvered the gondola, say 22. __ carpets 24. New arrivals in the aerie 26. Chicago airport 27. Song’s discoy version 28. Where the world’s highest recorded tides are situated, between New Brunswick and Nova Scotia: 3 wds.

30. Deteriorate 31. County in Ireland 32. Ashton Kutcher TV role 34. Guess Who tune: 2 wds.

39. Ms. Michele 40. Marine mammal on a mission?

43. Canada’s two dollar coins 46. Boarded the bus: 2 wds.

48. Most recent 49. Jazz music siblings, Les & Larry __ 53. Grain fungus 54. Retro milkshake 55. __ __ about (Circa) 56. Chips go-withs 58. Bouquet holder 59. Laundry room appliance 60. Big Apple force [acronym] 63. Ms. West

Conceptis Sudoku by Dave Green Every row, column and box contains 1-9