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TORONTO • WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 2009
k-os Rappin’ at Much MUCH MUSIC PHOTO
Something to lose sleep over SUMMIT “Don’t let the bedbugs bite.” Doesn’t seem so bad in a cheerful bedtime rhyme, but it’s becoming a really big problem now that the nasty critters are invading hospitals, college dorms and even swanky hotels in the U.S. With the most effective pesticides banned, the U.S. government is trying to figure out how to respond to the biggest bedbug outbreak since the Second World War. Faced with rising numbers of complaints to city information lines and increasingly frustrated landlords, hotel chains and housing authorities, the Environmental Protection Agency hosted its firstever bedbug summit yesterday. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Sacrifice in vain? Relative of soldier killed in Afghanistan speaks out
Sports pg 15
Panel picks Stanley Cup winners Travel pg 30
Celebritypg 37 Lohan gets some new ink
k-os talks with MuchOnDemand yesterday about his new album Yes!, which was released yesterday. Pick up the weekend edition of Metro, available Friday, for an in-depth look at the world of k-os.
har City. The godfather of a young She is the second female female soldier killed in Canadian soldier to die in Afghanistan just two Afghanistan since the misweeks into her first sion began in 2002. deployment fears the Blais said Prime Minister young woman’s sacrifice Stephen Harper was in vain. should “get the Echoing the sentitroops out of there ment of many Queas fast as possible” becers, who have and the Canadian consistently been military should reamong the most voturn to its peacecal opponents of the keeping roots. controversial mis“I’m worried for sion, Mario Blais all those who are said it’s time for Ot- Karine Blais there,” he said of the tawa to pull Canadilatest rotation comprised an troops out. “I think she did this for largely of Quebecers based absolutely nothing,” Blais out of CFB Valcartier. “I don’t think it’s our said during a telephone inplace at all, at all, at all. We terview. “The Russians were in should be leading peaceAfghanistan for many keeping missions, not years and they couldn’t combat missions like we’re push them back. I ask my- doing.” Blais said news of self what Canada is doing. We were blue berets, now Karine’s death came as a “shock” to her many we’re fighters.” Blais made the com- friends and relatives who ments after learning his are now grieving in her 21-year-old goddaughter, hometown of Les Mechins Karine Blais, had been in eastern Quebec. killed Monday by a roadTHE CANADIAN PRESS side bomb north of KandaMORE COVERAGE, PAGE 12
The Force is with Sheridan College arts student Leap of faith in Zambia ShareYourViews torontoletters@metronews.ca
Who is the Jedi knight? A. Luke Skywalker B. Obi-Wan Kenobi C. Randolph Lizarda D. All of the above The answer: D, all of the above — or at least it will be by the end of the summer. George Lucas’ elite Jedi
Academy was “looking for a few good Padawans” — you can check, it’s right there on the website. One they found was 21-yearold Randolph Lizarda, a
Sheridan college student enrolled in the applied arts and animation program. The Scarborough resident applied to the prestigious internship at LuRandolph Lizarda
casfilm studios in February. Every year, about 1,500 applications from around the world flood the studio’s San Francisco office. Only four are selected for the arts program. Lizarda has just learned he was one of them.
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“I’m very excited. I’ll be working in the LucasArts division animating video games, although I don’t know what we’re working on. They wouldn’t tell me — it’s confidential,” Lizarda said on a break from class yesterday. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE