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Updated images of what a proposed downtown arena could look like will be unveiled next week. And according to a city report released Thursday, the public will have a chance to provide input rather soon. Rick Daviss, executive dir-

ector for the project, said 360 Architecture, the firm retained to lead the design team, will be at council Wednesday. “360 will be presenting the schematic design with a little more context,” said Daviss. “This is more of an information session.” The renderings will differ from images leaked last month, he added. Details will then become available about city-wide open houses May 29 and June 5, 6 and 7. The report reiterates a $450-million budget, and that the land, LRT link, pedestrian corridor and 104 Avenue crossing will total an additional

$82 million. It also touches on community benefits under negotiation with the Katz Group, such as a community skating rink, construction jobs for low-income residents, a goodneighbour policy to address parking and littering, and outreach activities for area youth and families. Coun. Tony Caterina said he was hoping for something more than the two-page report. “I thought we would have had something more concrete by now,” he said. Follow Heather McIntyre on Twitter @MacsTheWord

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Police issue safety warning after ATV death, collision Back-to-back crashes are prompting Edmonton police to warn drivers of all-terrain vehicles to be safer. Less than one day after a man died when he plunged over a 65foot embankment at a northeast industrial site, police were called to a crash on Yellowhead Trail involving an ATV and a car. Police said a 25-yearold woman driving the ATV was taken to hospital with serious injuries at 1:30 p.m. on Thursday. She was not wearing a helmet. Police say the car was stopped at a light on 89 Street waiting to proceed onto Yellowhead Trail when it was struck by the eastbound ATV travelling on a parallel service road. Charges are pending against the ATV driver. Emergency crews responded to that collision as an officer was providing a safety warning after the incident on Wednesday evening that left a 38-year-old man dead. Police said the man, who was wearing a helmet, went over the edge of an open pit in the area of 131 Avenue and Meridian Street at about 7 p.m. and was pronounced dead on the scene. Police said two drivers were in the fencedoff area. “You can only drive ATVs on private land, and definitely not on city streets and parks,” said Const. Steven Levesque of the EPS traffic section, adding such behaviour can be dangerous and also lead to a $250 fine. HEATHER MCINTYRE/METRO

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A former staff member of Dominion Sportservice Corporation, food provider at Rexall Place, is being sued after almost half a million dollars allegedly went missing from his employer’s vault. Alvin Jackson Goh was arrested on May 6, according to a statement of claim that also details elaborate credit-card charges and trips overseas. Both Goh and his wife have denied the allegations in statements of defence.

The Saville Community Sports Centre at the University of Alberta now has two exercise machines for people with spinal-cord injuries alongside workout machines for the able-bodied. The equipment uses functional electrical stimulation to supply electrical current to weakened muscles. The addition of the new machines means people can work out with friends and family at times convenient

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Province avoiding ‘knee-jerk reaction’ after fatal road collisions Government. Both justice minister and new transportation minister evaluating situation on Alberta roads closely Jeremy nolais

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Added police enforcement on Alberta highways is a possibility, but officials want more evaluation of provincial road safety before greenlighting new initiatives. Jonathan Denis, who earlier in the week retained the solicitor-general portfolio within the Tory government and also inherited the responsibilities of justice minister, said a number of high-profile crashes in the province recently are certainly alarming, but he believes the public looks for a “measured” response. “It’s important to me not to make a knee-jerk reaction,” Denis said. “We have noticed there can be a lot of problems on long weekends.... There’s simply more cars on the road on long weekends.”

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Some members of the public called on the government for action following a fatal collision on Highway 63 running between Redwater and Fort McMurray that killed seven people. A four-day enforcement blitz last weekend on the stretch that has claimed dozens of lives in recent years yielded more than 600 fines, but RCMP conceded dangerous driving is an issue across the province. Newly appointed transportation minister and former Calgary alderman Ric McIver has indicated in various interviews since attaining his post Tuesday that

Alberta’s Justice Minister and Solicitor Jonathan Denis, seen in this photo from last year, says the province is holding off on any new initiatives targeting Alberta highways, but is evaluating road safety following numerous fatal collisions in recent weeks. Metro file

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Anyone who has lived in Edmonton for some time knows Hub Cigar. The iconic tobacco and magazine shop that was a regular meeting place on Whyte Avenue for decades has been through turbulent times — fire, changing tobacco laws and the digital information age. After closing for a few months it will reopen this weekend at its location on Gateway Boulevard and 81 Avenue, thanks to a recent change in ownership. There will be a fresh coat of paint, jazz and blues music

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thanks to its customers with a day-long fete Saturday. From 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., there will be free cake, gift certificate giveaways and live music. “We’re known for our pastries, gelato and coffee,” said Block 1912 community manager Bryan Saunders. “Not a lot of restaurants have been around as long as ours. We want to thank the community.” through it on a computer.” While Hub’s heyday may be gone, Roseberg said it fills a niche with newspapers and magazines for German and British customers, alternativelifestyle publications and upscale cigars, pipes and pipe tobacco. “Hub has a dedicated clientele and they’re always willing to give us a chance,” he said.

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Hockey. MacLean takes flack for 9-11 comment For once, Don Cherry isn’t in the hot seat over what he said on Hockey Night In Canada. Instead it’s his longtime onair companion Ron MacLean, who sparked controversy when he compared players to 9-11 first responders prior to Wednesday’s playoff game between New York and Washington. At the start of the broadcast, MacLean notes that the two cities were united by the tragedy of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. He says it is “crazy to compare what the emergency responders did during that time, but a spirit has to start somewhere.” He then goes on to say you “can’t help but be struck by the players and the way they’ve played these games. “They are like police officers, they are like firefighters. You can’t fight fire with ego. The pain these men have faced, the price they keep on paying, the hearts they keep on lifting.” MacLean and the CBC issued a statement Thursday to “clarify” the comments, which were rebuked by columnists on both sides of the border and scorned on Twitter. But his statement failed to soothe some on the social-net-

Child-porn evidence kept from jury at Michael Rafferty trial London. Jury sequestered in the trial of eight-year-old Tori Stafford’s alleged murderer as laptop evidence comes to light

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working website, who noted he opted to explain rather than back down from the comparison. “Ron Maclean decides to defend instead of back off his ... ridiculous hyperbole. A stupid, disrespectful comparison but not malicious,” tweeted Jason Pachkowski of Regina. While he didn’t retract the comments in the statement, he did elaborate on his thought process. the canadian press

A laptop computer belonging to the man accused of kidnapping, sexually assaulting and killing Victoria Stafford was used to search online for “real underage rape” and “nude preteen” not long before the eightyear-old was abducted, court documents indicate. But the jury in Michael Rafferty’s trial — now sequestered and deciding his fate — doesn’t know it, along with a number of other facts that the court deemed inadmissible. The Crown contends Rafferty also downloaded “substantial” amounts of

Defence lawyers Dirk Derstein speaks to the media out side the court at a break in proceedings. Dave Chidley/the canadian press

child pornography, and there was evidence of snuff films — movies depicting real killings — on his laptop. A woman he met online

alleged that he drugged, choked and raped her. A litany of past dates reported he had a penchant for sexual choking. Some even com-

plained of his “disconcerting” behaviour toward their children. The jury doesn’t know that, either. Superior Court Judge Thomas Heeney refused to allow evidence found on Rafferty’s laptop and BlackBerry — the searches, the evidence of child porn and a downloaded movie about Karla Homolka — because the search violated Rafferty’s charter rights. When police legally searched Rafferty’s car and found the two devices, they should have obtained another search warrant to examine their contents, Heeney ruled — even though at the time there was no binding authority upon them to do so. the canadian press

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The archbishop of Dublin, a leading voice for reform following Ireland’s devastating Catholic church sex-abuse scandal, says the church is trying to rebuild even as it confronts the ghosts of its past.

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Russian jet sales in limbo after disastrous test flight Sukhoi. Moscow jumps to plane’s defence following crash in Indonesia that appears to have killed 45 aboard The crash of a new, Russianmade jetliner into a jagged Indonesian volcano during a flight to impress potential buyers threw doubt on dozens of plane sales Thursday just as Moscow seeks a comeback in foreign markets. All 45 people aboard were feared dead. Search-and-rescue teams climbed through the mistshrouded, jungly terrain for nearly 20 hours to reach the site where the plane roared in at nearly 800 km/h Wednesday, exploding and raining debris down a nearly vertical slope. When the weather clears, bodies will have to be hoisted by nets and ropes onto hovering choppers, said Gagah Prakoso, a spokesman for the national search-and-rescue agency. “We’re still searching for survivors,” he said. “But it

In this photo released by the Indonesian Air Force, the remains of a missing Sukhoi Superjet-100 are scattered on the mountainside in Bogor, West Java, Indonesia, Thursday. The new Russian-made passenger plane disappeared Wednesday during a demonstration flight. indonesian air force/the associated press

doesn’t look good.” The Sukhoi Superjet-100 — Russia’s first new model of passenger jet since the fall of the Soviet Union two decades ago — was supposed to kick-start the nation’s efforts to modernize its fleet and resurrect its neglected aerospace industry. Indonesia, the fourth stop of a six-nation “Welcome Asia!” tour, was one of Sukhoi’s

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Deadly car bombs shake Syria Terror in Damascus. Massive blasts near government building kill 55 and further derail dwindling hopes for an end to violence Twin suicide car bombs exploded outside a military intelligence building and killed 55 people Thursday, tossing mangled bodies in the street in the deadliest attack against a regime target since the Syrian uprising began 14 months ago. The bombings fuelled fears of a rising Islamic militant element among the forces seeking to oust President Bashar Assad and dealt a further blow to international efforts to end the bloodshed. The first car bomb went off on a key six-lane highway during the morning rush hour, knocking down a security wall outside the government building and drawing people to the scene, witnesses said. A much larger blast soon followed, shaking the neighbourhood, setting dozens of cars ablaze and sending up a grey mushroom cloud visible around the capital.

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Syrian state TV video showed dozens of bodies, some charred or dismembered, strewn in the rubble or still inside damaged cars. An Associated Press reporter at the scene saw medics in rubber gloves picking through the site for human remains amid the two craters that were blast-

ed into the asphalt. The Interior Ministry, which oversees the police and security services, said 55 people were killed and more than 370 were wounded. Officials said suicide bombers detonated explosives weighing more than 1,000 kilograms. The government blamed

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Officials outraged World powers seeking to halt Syria’s unrest condemned the attack and urged all sides to adhere to a ceasefire brokered by UN and Arab League envoy Kofi Annan. “In order to prevent another escalation of violence, we continue to call on the Syrian regime to fully and immediately implement the Annan plan,” U.S. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said in Washington.” Maj. Gen. Robert Mood, the Norwegian head of a team of observers overseeing the ceasefire, toured the site and said the Syrian people do not deserve this “terrible violence.“ “It is not going to solve any problems,” he said. “It is only going to create more suffering for women and children.” the associated press

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Orange wave continues to hit Tory shores Poll. Jack Layton legacy continues, according to Harris Decima survey A new poll suggests the New Democrats are widening their support across the country. The Canadian Press Harris Decima survey indicates that the NDP have 34 per cent of popular support, compared to

30 per cent for the Conservatives. With a margin of error of 2.2 percentage points, support for the two parties could be equally split. “Remember this is a party that a decade ago, half the electorate said they would ”never“ vote for,” said Allan Gregg, chairman of Harris Decima. “To broaden their base as we see in these data is quite remarkable.”

Conservatives. Wearing a mask at a riot gets you 10 years under proposed bill Conservative MPs have agreed to impose a maximum 10-year prison term on protesters who wear masks during a riot. A proposed private members’ bill would make it a crime for protesters to wear a mask or disguise while participating in a riot or unlawful assembly, and this week the Harper government put its weight behind the legislation. The Conservative majority on a House of Commons com-

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Unemployed man buys Picasso print in Ohio thrift shop for $14 Awesome find. Signed authentic poster cost him just $14.14, but got him a $7,000 Sharp-eyed buyer: “Holy Cow! It really is a Picasso.” zachary Bodish/The associated Press

An unemployed Columbus, Ohio, man was browsing at his local thrift store for items he

could restore and resell when he spotted a Picasso poster with the word “Exposition’’ written across the front, some French words and the image of a warped round face. He handed over $14.14 for what he saw as a nice commercial print. Some Internet searches later — and a closer look at markings on the lower right area — and

he sold what’s believed to be a signed Picasso print for $7,000 to a private buyer who wants to remain anonymous. “A pretty darn good return,” said Zachary Bodish. The 46-year-old Bodish, who was a volunteer co-ordinator at a local museum for six years, turned to the Internet and a blog to write about his find

from March. Bodish had lately been supplementing his income with buying and reselling restored furniture, and he realized he may have hit jackpot. “I could tell it was not a modern print,” he said. “So I thought, Well, it’s probably not really a fine Picasso print. What’s the chance of finding

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Hopes rose slightly Thursday that Greece could end its post-electoral deadlock without having to hold new elections, as international partners warned that Athens must stick to its hugely unpopular austerity program or abandon the euro. Socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos, who received the presidential mandate to try and form a government after two other party chiefs failed, said a meeting Thursday with a left-wing potential kingmaker had proved encouraging. If this third mandate fails, President Karolos Papoulias will convene party leaders in a last-ditch effort to get a deal — otherwise new elections will be held in a month.

British comedian and endurance runner Eddie Izzard says he’ll run 27 marathons in honour of Nelson Mandela, who was jailed 27 years before being released to help usher in South Africa’s democracy. Izzard spoke of his plan Thursday on the sidelines of a reception for donors at Mandela’s foundation and archives in Johannesburg. He says he will run the marathons in 27 consecutive days in South Africa along routes he will map out himself, at sites around the country linked to Mandela’s personal history. In 2009, Izzard ran 1,100 miles (1,770 kilometres) in seven weeks across Britain for charity.

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Samsung unwraps ultra-thin OLED TV Samsung Electronics Co. said Thursday that it is aiming to launch flat-panel TVs using new screen technology called OLED during the second half of this year in the domestic market. Samsung said the 55-inch TV using the ultra-thin display will be retailed at over 10 million won, or more than $9,000. the associated press

The Hunger Games boosts Cineplex’s profits Box office hit The Hunger Games helped fuel a dramatic boost in Cineplex Inc.’s earnings in the first quarter and with it a dividend increase for shareholders. The first instalment of the trilogy by the same name had the highest-grossing firstquarter weekend of all time

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and the third-largest opening weekend of all time, Canada’s largest movie theatre company said Thursday. “A strong film slate including titles such as The Hunger Games and Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax contributed to a 12.1 per cent increase in both attendance and total revenue,” president and CEO Ellis Jacob said. The Hunger Games helped Cineplex post a $15.1-million profit for the quarter, improving over the $800,000 loss the company booked in the same period last year. the canadian press

Canadian farms drop 10 per cent in five years: Census StatsCan. Agricultural census shows farmers are shifting efforts away from the cattle farming that was once the industry’s backbone Canada’s agricultural landscape — once dominated by small farms and plentiful livestock — is now characterized by larger operations that focus on crop production, new census numbers suggested Thursday. Data from Statistics Canada’s 2011 census of agriculture showed the country’s farmers are consolidating their operations and shifting their efforts away from the cattle farming that was once the backbone of Canadian farming. The number of total farms

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Although the number of farms slipped to 205,730 from 229,373 in the previous census, StatsCan said many smaller farms have been consolidated into larger operations over that five year stretch. • The total area of land being farmed slipped only four per cent to 160,155,748 acres, while the average farm size jumped seven per cent to 778 acres.

shrank 10.3 per cent since the last census release in 2006, continuing a downward trend that first surfaced in 1941. The number of farm operators also dropped 10.1 per cent over the period. Data suggests, however,

that the decline in overall numbers doesn’t necessarily point to a downturn in total farming. Alfons Weersink, professor of agriculture at the University of Guelph, said digging deeper into the census data reveals a sector that’s in fairly robust health. “The last several years have been good for most of agriculture,” Weersink said in a telephone interview. “Profits have been up, prices have been increased quite significantly from the last census. ... There’s been a significant boost up.” Weersink cites the growing number of commercial farms as evidence of the industry’s strength. StatsCan said the number of farms reporting more than $1 million in gross farm receipts soared 31.2 per cent from 2006 levels.

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Pipeline. Pressure mounts on B.C. Liberals B.C.’s environment minister acknowledges he’s feeling the pressure to take a stand on the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline project, but he says his government is determined to keep quiet until federal environmental reviews are completed. Environment Minister Terry Lake said Thursday the province’s silence on the pipeline decision created a demand

B.C. and ship the oil to Asia on supertankers. On the other side, the federal and Alberta governments also haven’t been shy about touting the project’s potential economic benefits to Canada. The B.C. government, however, has remained silent and all indications are it will remain so. the canadian press

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Jonathan Hood spends a lot of time telling young people about his own athletic journey. For the Hamilton Tiger-Cats defensive back, sharing the lessons he has learned with others is an important part of the job. “Sports can teach you how to win and lose gracefully and how to get along with

other people,” he says. “It can also teach you about teamwork, group dynamics and life skills.” When Hood isn’t honing his own impressive football skills, he works as a public speaker, mentor and coach. He runs a camp in the offseason that teaches young players the fundamentals of football. He’s involved with the GTA Youth Athletics Club and has spearheaded MPower, an organization that provides leadership skills and mentoring for at-risk youth. Plus, he speaks to high school students every chance he gets. These days Hood is spreading his message about sport in another way, through his involvement with Canadian Tire Jumpstart Charities. He’s one of a number of elite Canadian athletes who have lent their names and images to a 12-month calendar that will raise funds for Canadian Tire Jumpstart’s many sport and recreational programs. The list of participants in the

calendar is impressive. Four-time world figure-skating champion Kurt Browning, champion high jumper Nicole Forrester, Chicago Black Hawks star Jonathan Toews and hockey gold medallist Sami Jo Small were all chosen because of their continuing support for Canadian Tire Jumpstart. Since 2005, Canadian Tire Jumpstart has helped more than 400,000 children participate in sports and recreation programs. But with one-third of Canadian families unable to enrol their children in sports programs because of cost, many kids are still missing out on the health benefits, self-esteem and camaraderie that participating in sports can offer. Add to that the fact that budget cuts across the country mean less physical education and extracurricular activity in school. What’s more, childhood obesity is dramatically on the rise, along with a general perception that neighbourhoods aren’t safe places to play anymore. Hood believes it’s up to everyone in a community to do their part to support youth sports and activities. “You have to look at yourself,” he says. “If you were coached and mentored when you were a kid, you are better off for it. Programs like Canadian Tire Jumpstart are opportunities to let young people achieve their dreams. We should all support that.”

kids geT a JumpsTarT on sporTs JumpsTarT day in may On May 26, most Canadian Tire stores in Canada will host fun activities and draws to help raise money for their local community. Examples of this year’s Jumpstart Day events include car washes, barbecues, draws and raffles. Throughout May, Canadian Tire Jumpstart Charities is asking Canadians to donate $2 for its popular red ball in one of two new designs (a basketball and a baseball) to support Jumpstart Day. The One Million Red Ball (OneMillionRedBalls.ca) campaign kicked off on May 4. Customers can pick up a ball at Canadian Tire stores and Gas+ locations, Mark’s and Pita Pit locations. “We’re challenging Canadians to raise $1 million through the sale of the balls,” says Canadian Tire Jumpstart Charities president Dan Thompson.

Every child in Canada has the right to participate in sports and recreation activities, but many families can’t afford the fees. Since Canadian Tire Jumpstart Charities was established in 2005, it has helped more than 400,000 children aged four to 18 take part in such activities as swimming, dance, tae kwon do, soccer, basketball and learn-to-bike programs. “We cover the cost of registration, equipment and/or transportation,” says Dan Thompson, the president of Canadian Tire Jumpstart Charities. “We also lend support to unique communitybased initiatives aimed at increasing access to sport and recreation programs.” More than 300 local chapters across

the country partner with such community organizations as Big Brothers Big Sisters, Boys & Girls Clubs, parks and recreation departments, sports associations — even the police. It means that Canadian Tire Jumpstart transforms not only a child’s life, but also an entire community. An incredible 100 per cent of customer donations go directly to help kids in financial need take part in organized sport and recreation. And any Canadian Tire Jumpstart fundraising done locally stays in that community. Kids get so much more than the physical health benefits of exercise from playing sports or dancing. “They

also gain self-confidence and learn leadership skills,” says Thompson. “We want Canadians to try to imagine how different their lives might be now if they hadn’t been able to do these activities when they were young.” Applications for assistance can be submitted from Jan. 15 to June 1 for spring/summer programs, and from July 1 to Nov. 1 for fall/winter programs. Applicants will be notified by their local Canadian Tire Jumpstart chapter representative if they’ve been approved or if more details are needed. All of the information is kept confidential. Visit canadiantire.ca/jumpstart or call 1-877-616-6600 to learn more.

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Mike Brattland’s fellow hockey parents have mixed feelings when they see him coming with his bucket. On one hand, it means one of the Devon Drillers Novice Tier 3 players has just scored a goal and it’s time to celebrate. But it also means it’s time to dig deep for loose change. It’s all part of a plan the team came up with to raise money for expenses, says Brattland, whose eight-year-old son, Zack, plays for the Drillers. When Brattland started passing around the bucket collecting quarters every time the team scored, the idea worked better than anyone expected. “We scored a lot of goals and we collected a lot of money, but I think a few of the parents got tired of seeing me coming,” says Brattland, laughing. In fact, the Drillers collected about $400 more than they needed, an amount they decided to donate to Canadian Tire Jumpstart Charities, knowing the money would go back into their own community. Canadian Tire Jumpstart is a program that’s close to Brattland’s heart. “My mother was a single parent, and it was difficult for her to come up with the money for me to play hockey,” he says. “We didn’t have anything like Canadian Tire Jumpstart when I was a kid.”

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Home prices in Canada may have hit peak: Experts Housing market. National average: roughly $370,000. Vancouver average: nearly $800,000

Waning demand

While there’s no guarantee of a correction, observers note there are additional signs that the housing market could cool off in a big way.

Most Canadians generally don’t think of their homes as a potential pile of cash in the bank, but experts say it’s something worth pondering now that home prices in Canada may have hit their peak. In fact, analysts say if finance is the only consideration, conditions now and into next year or so form a seldom seen sweet spot for using home equity as a type of asset for investment. At about $370,000 average nationally — and just under $800,000 in Vancouver — home prices are already at record levels. Many observers believe prices are long due for a downward correction of anywhere from 10 per cent to 25 per cent, perhaps more in some of the hottest markets. “Home prices to income, housing price to rent, all the indicators are setting off warning signals,” said Derek Burleton, a senior economist with TD Bank. “If you are purely in it for reaping profits, now is not a bad time to sell” before prices drop. The profits from selling a home can be used to build savings, eliminate debt, make traditional investments or, ironically, buy more real estate — albeit in a different market where home prices are lower. Of course, even if it makes

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Oilsands. Better for foreigners: ForestEthics An environmental group that has come under fire for its anti-oilsands work and connection to foreign funding says too many of the benefits from Canada’s energy industry flow outside the country. ForestEthics Advocacy, which recently gave up its charitable status after allegations it was using U.S. money to finance political activities in Canada, says in a report released Thursday that nearly three-quarters of oilsands production is foreign owned. The report, based on data from Bloomberg and Statistics Canada, finds more than

sense financially, selling the family home to rent or move to a less expensive housing market doesn’t make lifestyle sense for the vast majority of Canadians. In market terms, selling a home at the peak is a way of “locking in” profits accumulated over the past decade of price appreciation — and tax free if it’s the principal home. Meanwhile, home valuations have been rising far faster than the rent they would fetch since at least 2000. Canada’s home priceto-rent ratio is well above historic norms and among the highest in the advanced world. That is a hard indicator that homes are over-valued, but also that renting is relatively cheap compared to buying. the canadian press

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• With ownership levels near a record 70 per cent, demand is expected to wane, making it a buyers market for the first time in years. • And Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney warned last month he was preparing to hike rates, which along with tighter lending rules being applied by federal authorities could trigger a flight from real estate.

40 per cent of the profits from oil and natural gas in Canada go to foreign-owned companies. That’s more than twice the average for all Canadian industry. “We need to ask the question, ’What legacy are we going to leave?’” said ForestEthics spokeswoman Tzeporah Berman. But Andrew Leach, a University of Alberta energy economist, said it’s not surprising that multinationals dominate the oilsands, with its huge demands for capital and long lead times.

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Management also told employees at a town-hall meeting today that it is seeking staff volunteers to come forward to take any number of weeks of a temporary leave over the slow summer months. Crawley says the paper is targeting the equivalent of 80 employees, or 10 per cent of its workforce, under the program. If the target is not reached, he adds, management will consider alternatives such as involuntary temporary leave. the canadian press

Paul House has agreed to stay on as CEO of Tim Hortons until the end of 2013 or until a new CEO is hired, whichever comes first. But he hopes to remain a member of the board after that. “I love this company so much it’s a part of me,” said House, 68, in an interview after the company’s annual general meeting on Thursday. He is also executive chairman of the board. “I had a little taste of not working all the time. My family are farmers. Traditionally we don’t retire, we work all the time.” Bernadette Testani, partner at TWC International Executive Search Ltd., says

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Steve (GM) Nash. Canada’s men’s national Neil Morton basketball team is in Metro great hands after the announcement that two-time NBA MVP Steve Nash has been named general manager. What would make things even sweeter is if the Victoria native, who is a free agent this off-season, signs with the Toronto Raptors. Captain Canada. Captain Toronto. Walk a mile in her shoes. This International Men’s March to stop rape, sexual assault and gender violence gives men, women and families the opportunity to raise awareness in their communities about the impact of sexual violence by walking in women’s high-heeled shoes. Join a walk in your community or start your own by visiting walkamileinhershoes.org. The Dictator. Admiral General Shabazz Aladeen is a dictator from the Republic of Wadiya and appeared on the Today Show with Matt Lauer this week with a handful of guards, and made some threatening remarks. Luckily General Aladeen is actually actor Sacha Baron Cohen, who was promoting his new comedy The Dictator, which opens May 16. Go see it. It will be a riot. Emily is back. Emily Maynard, whose romance with former bachelor Brad Womack did not work out after he proposed to her, is the new Bachelorette. It premieres Monday May 14, and suitors include a data-destruction specialist — fitting for the show, perhaps, with its high percentage of failed romances. Heck, even its host, Chris Harrison, recently announced he’s splitting from his wife. Mark Zuckerberg’s B-day. Billionaire boy Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook — one of the most powerful brands on the planet (and soon to go public) — turns the ripe old age of 28 this Sunday. Before he hits 30, I predict Zuckerberg will create a transporter that will beam us up to other planets. We can share those planetary pics on Facebook. Desperate Housewives finale. The now iconic Wisteria Lane will be no more after this Sunday when Desperate Housewives bids adieu to fans in a two-hour finale. Many former cast members will be returning for this tear-fest. The only consolation is knowing that there are still so many real-life desperate housewives we can continue to gossip about. Klout. Klout.com, a social app that measures your socialmedia reach, is all the talk right now with the cool kids. If you have a high Klout score (the highest you can get is 100 — only Justin Bieber has that), the more influential you are online. I have no idea what my score is, but please follow me @ neilmorton, tweet at me and retweet my tweets and I won’t be as scared to look. Chris Rumble. This leukemia patient/young filmmaker/ hero at Seattle Children’s Hospital created an amazing video, Stronger: Seattle Children’s Hospital, starring (and empowering) fellow cancer patients who are going through painful chemotherapy. Performed to Kelly Clarkson’s song Stronger, the video has gone viral on YouTube this week. Brilliant. Copenhagen Philharmonic ... in the subway. The Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra did a terrific flash mob in the Copenhagen Metro subway, and the video already has nearly a million views this week. With flash mobs becoming ubiquitous, I’m thinking of starting a 24-7 flash mob that never stops flash-mobbing in a grand social experiment. Watch out. the list

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Richard: Mark, as summer movie titles go, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter has to be the grabbiest. Either that or Piranha 3DD. Both sound like fun Saturday afternoon matinees, but for nighttime viewing I think I’m most looking forward to Prometheus, the sort-of prequel to Alien. It’s Ridley Scott in sci-fi mode, which means we can expect an artistic and creepy space opera with cool effects and a face-hugger or two.

RC: I hope Rock of Ages is as loud and proud as the music it covers. Forget 3D for this one, give me Odorama! I want to smell the gallons of Aqua Net it must have taken to give Alec Baldwin that hair! Also likely on the loud and proud side should be The Bourne Legacy. Jeremy Renner is stepping in for Matt Damon who made the character famous. Renner is all kinds of awesome, but let’s see if he can duke out like Damon.

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Everybody knows the official first day of summer is Wednesday June 20, but in movie theatres the silly season actually starts earlier. In fact, it began last weekend with the release of The Avengers, the boffo superhero movie that kicked off the balmy blockbuster season. This week the Reel Guys have a look at the superhero stories, remakes, reboots, reimaginings and more we’ll be watching during air conditioner season.

Which brings us to Total Recall, one of my favourite dystopian sci-fi films. Will it be better than the Schwarzenegger version? Worse? Will Colin Farrell run for governor someday? Don’t know, but I can’t wait to see it. Also Ted, the talk-

ing, wisecracking, R-rated teddy bear movie. If this were not Seth Macfarlane’s movie, I’d totally avoid it, but the trailer is hysterical! RC: The red band trailer for Ted made me laugh harder than almost anything else I’ve seen this year. It’ll be rude and crude, but I think Mark Wahlberg is an underrated comic actor, so I’m excited. I can’t believe we’ve gotten to this point and haven’t mentioned the caped elephant in the room, The Dark Knight Rises. I saw six minutes of this on an IMAX screen and it made my mind grapes tingle. And I cannot wait to see the rest. MB: It will be the movie of the summer, the box office hit of the year, and turn Tom Hardy into a household name. I’ll probably camp out in line the night before it opens.

Russell Brand is returning to the MTV stage. The 36-year-old comedian has signed on to host the 2012 MTV Movie Awards. “This MTV Movie Awards will be more impressive than The Avengers, and you won’t have to wait an hour for someone to Hulk out,” Brand said Thursday. After hosting MTV’s Video Music Awards in 2008 and 2009, Brand took on leading roles in films such as Get Him to the Greek, Arthur and Rock of Ages, which hits theatres next month. This is his first time hosting the MTV Movie Awards THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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The Avengers 2: The dream team Who will appear in the sequel? We guess which characters, and the actors who should play them. Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, the Hulk, Hawkeye and Black Widow may have made an impressive roster in The Avengers, but there are more superheroes that are up to the task of saving Earth. In honour of The Avengers 2, announced this week, here are some other characters that have claimed affiliation with the Avengers at one point in Marvel’s history. Metro world news

Ant-Man

The Wasp

Wolverine

Venom

Black Panther

Ms. Marvel

Powers He can grow or shrink to any size. Also, he can control an army of ants telepathically.

Powers Just like her partner/husband/ex-husband/romantic interest, she can also alter her physical size. At her wasp size, she grows wings which help her fly and has “stinger blasts,” or powerful electrical bursts. She also has limited abilities to communicate with insects.

Powers Besides his accelerated healing process, he’s got an adamantiumbonded skeleton. Plus, you don’t want to get in the way of his claws.

Powers He’s basically another version of Spider-Man — except super evil and much stronger.

Powers She’s got superhuman strength, endurance, stamina, flight, physical durability, some precognitive abilities and a resistance to most toxins and poisons. Basically, you can’t destroy her — and the fact that she’s part Kree makes her a great alien-human liaison.

Who should play her Alexis Bledel. She’s got that retro glam that would work well with Wasp’s look.

Likelihood this is going to happen Sadly, because Wolverine has already starred in 20th Century Fox movies and the rights to that character is owned by the studio, it’s unlikely that he’ll be allowed to appear in a Disney/Paramount/ Marvel property. But, one can dream.

Powers Superhuman senses that give him ultimate strength, speed, stamina and agility to the peak of human development, and an arsenal of Wakandan technological and military items make him a formidable foe. Plus, he’s one of the eight smartest people on the planet.

Who should play him Simon Pegg. He showed us he can play the nerdy mathematician role in Star Trek, which means he would probably make a good nerdy scientist. Likelihood this is going to happen There’s already an Ant-Man movie in the works with director Edgar Wright penning the script alongside Joe Cornish. Seeing that Pegg and Wright are frequent collaborators, we think — well hope — we’ll see this tiny crusader in the next giant blockbuster. Plus, he co-founded The Avengers team. He deserves a spot.

Likelihood this is going to happen You can’t have Ant-Man without the Wasp. She’s the other co-founder of The Avengers so it would be nice to see her on the big screen.

Who should play him Hugh Jackman. He’s the definitive Wolverine.

Who should play him Jason Statham. Definitely not Topher Grace. Likelihood this is going to happen Venom was already in Spider-Man 3, which was distributed by Sony, so the character faces the Wolverine dilemma. However, one could argue that this Venom is a technically different character, so who knows.

Who should play him Lenny Kravitz. He can pull off all those moves while remaining super cool. Likelihood this is going to happen Black Panther would definitely bring a much needed levelheaded component to the team. There’s also an upcoming film supposedly in the works starring the character, so we’re rooting for him.

Who should play her Uma Thurman. She already looks like an Amazon woman. Likelihood this is going to happen Ms. Marvel hasn’t been in any other property, and as much as Black Widow could hold her own alongside the boys. We’d love to see another female Avenger kicking butt next to her.

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Sir Ben Kingsley brings a touch of class to Sacha Baron Cohen’s comedy The Dictator. From Gandhi to General Aladeen’s uncle — Kingsley is always up for a challenge Heidi Patalano

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The man who played Gandhi has portrayed many other heavy characters throughout his long career, but a king of comedy he’s never been. Sir Ben Kingsley is the first to own up to this, but it seems worth a shot in order to work with a man whom he mentions in the same breath as Charlie Chaplin. “The great ones, like Chaplin and Sacha Baron Cohen make it look effortless,” he says. “It’s not effortless.” In the latest film from the man responsible for Ali G, Borat and Bruno, Sir Kingsley portrays the menacing uncle of Admiral General Aladeen Comedy

(Cohen), the dictator of fictional African nation Wadiya. Though he’s not dropping the one-liners the way Baron Cohen gets to, this English actor brings an air of sophistication to the film. With any Sacha Baron Cohen project, the humour comes out of how truthful it is. What’s the most important ‘serious message’ in the film? I am hoping personally that it will reveal in people perhaps some hidden fears or prejudices. ... (Baron Cohen and his creative team) voice certain phobias, prejudices. … It might cause people to feel resentment, not offense, because Sacha’s character is saying things that, if they said it, they would be arrested or lose their job, but they are capable of saying those things. I think that’s where satire is really valuable. Those that are made to feel uncomfortable will feel resentful that in their enforced political correctness, they’re not allowed to be anti-Semitic. ‘Like, why Thriller

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Miss Bala

Director. Tim Burton

Director. Gerardo Naranjo

Stars. Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Eva Green

Stars. Stephanie Sigman

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Watching Tim Burton’s big budget cinematic relaunch of Dan Curtis’ cult ’60s daytime soap opera Dark Shadows is like being trapped in some sort of drug laced alternate universe … and that’s a good thing. Burton casts his muse Johnny Depp as vampire Barnabas Collins, who is freed from his coffin in 1972 after being put there by his spurned lover centuries before. How he copes with a disenfranchised America and his ancestors is campy fun for sure. Outside of the surrealism, this is really just a soap opera after all. It’s also one of the bravest, weirdest studio films this critic has ever seen.

Miss Bala already has a critical buzz surrounding it, and rightfully so. This merciless Mexican film functions as a first-rate thriller, with a would-be beauty queen getting sucked into a nightmare of drugs, murder and degredation. But running parallel to its genre-film narrative is a scathing comment on how utterly broken the lines are between right and wrong in contemporary Mexico. Stephanie Sigman offers a magnetic performance.

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can that f—ker up there say it and if I say it, I’ll lose my job!’” You got to spend a lot of time holding Baron Cohen’s hand throughout the film. How was that for you? That is the relationship, you see. I am his uncle, and I know that he’s still a child, so whatever street he has to cross, be it in the UN or arriving in New York, or going to a nuclear facility, he’s crossing a street. I know he’s a total idiot and I’ve done nothing to further his education, or his well being. It’s better for my character, the uncle, to infantilize and keep him there. Sacha Baron Cohen was responsible for Borat which many have said was one of the best movies of the last decade, but it did not receive a Best Picture Oscar nomination. Why do comedies never win that category? I think there’s this misconception that’s completely understandable, Quoted

“[Alien] belongs at the top of about five different lists, including best thriller and best horror film, as well. Ridley Scott did so many things right here — from the grimy, lived-in world of the Nostromo mixed with H.R. Giger’s eerily seductive design to the perfect cast and Sigourney Weaver’s bad-ass performance. I also love the way Scott keeps the alien unseen for so much of the gut-churning build up, then delivers one of the most terrifying creatures ever seen on screen. I still can’t watch this one after about 8 p.m.”

Ben Kingsley plays uncle to Sacha Baron Cohen’s character General Aladeen in The Dictator. handout

that comedy is easy — that we’re basically having fun. All we’re doing is fooling around in front of a camera. I could talk for years trying to dispel this myth but nobody wants to hear it. Sacha was talking to me about the science of comedy — how he numerically grades from

one to ten, the value of a certain reaction. Where it is in the film, in the editing, whether to go for two sevens or cut them and go for a ten and always to keep poking at the nerve ... that prejudiced nerve. So then would you put this

performance on par with playing Gandhi? My body chemistry changes to the same degree on the word action, no matter what I’m doing. Whether it’s a marathon or a series of sprints, I still have to use the same muscles, so I can’t really differentiate.

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These pages cover movie start times from Fri., May 11 to Thurs., May 17. Times are subject to change. Complete listings are also available at metronews.ca/movies.

City Centre 9 Cinemas 10200 102nd Ave.

21 Jump Street (14A) Bargain Matinee, Digital Presentation, DTS Digital, Stadium Seating Fri-Tue 9:40 The Cabin in the Woods (18A) DTS Digital, Digital Presentation, Stadium Seating Fri-Tue 10:25 Dark Shadows (14A) Digital Presentation, Bargain Matinee, Stadium Seating, No Passes, Dolby Stereo Digital Fri 12:30-3:40-7-10:10 Digital Presentation, Bargain Matinee, DTS Digital, Stadium Seating, No Passes Sat-Thu 12:30-3:407-10:10 The Dictator (14A) Bargain Matinee, Digital Presentation, Dolby Stereo Digital Wed-Thu 12:50-4:10-7:30-10:05 The Five-Year Engagement (14A) Bargain Matinee, Digital Presentation, Dolby Stereo Digital Fri-Tue 12:50-4:107:05-10:05 Bargain Matinee, Digital Presentation, Dolby Stereo Digital Wed 1:10-4:20-10:25 Bargain Matinee, Digital Presentation, Dolby Stereo Digital Thu 1:10-4:20-7:30-10:25 The Hunger Games (14A) Bargain Matinee, Digital Presentation, Stadium Seating, Dolby Stereo Digital Fri-Thu 2-6:30-9:45 Marvel’s the Avengers (PG) Bargain Matinee, Digital Presentation, Dolby Stereo Digital, Stadium Seating Fri-Tue 1:15-4:30-7:45 Bargain Matinee, Digital Presentation, Dolby Stereo Digital, Stadium Seating Wed 7:45 Bargain Matinee, Digital Presentation, Dolby Stereo Digital, Stadium Seating Thu 1:15-4:30-7:45 Marvel’s the Avengers 3D (PG) Digital Presentation, Dolby Stereo Digital, No Passes, Stadium Seating, Bargain Matinee Fri-Thu 12:15-12:45-3:30-4-6:45-7:1510-10:30 The Pirates! Band of Misfits 3D (G) Bargain Matinee, Dolby Stereo Digital, Stadium Seating Fri-Wed 1:30-3:55-6:409:30 Bargain Matinee, Dolby Stereo Digital, Stadium Seating Thu 1:30-3:55-9:30 The Raven (18A) Bargain Matinee, Digital Presentation, Dolby Stereo Digital, Stadium Seating Fri-Thu 1-3:50-7:10 Safe (14A) Digital Presentation, Dolby Stereo Digital, Stadium Seating Fri-Tue 1:10-4:20-7:25 Digital Presentation, Dolby Stereo Digital, Stadium Seating Wed-Thu 9:40

Clareview 10 Cinemas 4211 139th Ave.

Dark Shadows (14A) Digital Presentation, No Passes Fri 6:45-8-9:25 Digital Presentation, No Passes Sat-Sun 12:30-13:10-4:10-6:45-8-9:25 Digital Presentation, No Passes Mon-Tue 4:45-5:157:35-8:10 Digital Presentation, No Passes Wed-Thu 4:45-5:15-7:35-8:05 The Dictator (14A) Digital Presentation Wed-Thu 5:10-8:10 The Five-Year Engagement (14A) Digital Presentation Fri 6:40-9:30 Digital Presentation Sat-Sun 12:55-3:45-6:40-9:30 Digital Presentation Mon-Tue 4:50-7:45 Digital Presentation Wed-Thu 4:40-7:45 The Hunger Games (14A) Digital Presentation Fri 8:10 Digital Presentation

Sat-Sun 1:25-4:35-8:10 Digital Presentation Mon-Tue 4:40-7:50 Digital Presentation Wed-Thu 4:35-7:50 The Lucky One (PG) Digital Presentation Fri 7:05 Digital Presentation Sat-Sun 12:30-3:50-7:05 Digital Presentation Mon-Tue 4:35 Marvel’s the Avengers (PG) Digital Presentation, No Passes Fri 7:20 Digital Presentation, No Passes Sat-Sun 12:453:50-7:20 Digital Presentation Mon-Thu 5-8 Marvel’s the Avengers 3D (PG) No Passes Fri 6:30-8-9-9:35 No Passes Sat-Sun 12:20-1:15-1:45-3:25-4:20-4:50-6:30-8-99:35 Mon-Thu 4:30-6:50-7:15-7:40 The Pirates! Band of Misfits (G) Digital Presentation Sat-Sun 1:10 The Pirates! Band of Misfits 3D (G) Digital Presentation Fri 6:35-8:50 Digital Presentation Sat-Sun 4-6:35-8:50 Digital Presentation Mon-Thu 5:05-7:30 Safe (14A) Digital Presentation Fri-Sun 9:40 Digital Presentation Mon-Tue 8:05

Metro Cinema at the Garneau 8712 109 St.

A History of Violence (18A) Tue 9:15 I Heart Regina (14A) Sat 7:30 The Long Day Closes (STC) Fri 7 Sat 9:30 Sun 4 Thu 7 Metro Shorts (STC) Thu 9 Miss Bala (14A) Fri 9 Sat 1:45 Sun 7 Mon 9 Tue 7 Wed 9 Pina (G) Sat 4 Sun 2 Mon 7 Wed 7 Poltergeist (STC) Fri 11:15 Movies 12 5074 130 Ave., 780-472-9779 Act of Valor (14A) Fri-Thu 1:20-4-6:409:20 Dr. Seuss’ the Lorax (G) Fri-Thu 1 Dr. Seuss’ the Lorax 3D (G) Fri-Thu 3-5-7:05-9:10 Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (PG) Fri-Thu 1:15 Journey 2: The Mysterious Island 3D (PG) Fri 3:50-6:55-9:15 Sat-Thu 3:306:55-9:15 Lockout (14A) Fri-Thu 1:10-3:30-7:309:45 Safe House (14A) Fri-Thu 1:35-4:207-9:55 The Secret World of Arrietty (G) Fri-Thu 1:40-4:25-6:45-9 Silent House (14A) Fri-Thu 1:30-3:407:25-10 Taur Mittran Di (STC) Fri-Thu 1-3:556:50-9:45 This Means War (PG) Fri-Thu 1:45-4:107:15-9:30 The Three Stooges (PG) Fri-Mon 1:554:30-6:35-9:05 Tue 1:55-4:30-6:40-9:05 Wed 1:55-4:30-6:35-9:05 Thu 1:55-4:306:40-9:05 The Vow (PG) Fri-Thu 1:25-4:05-7:109:35 Wanderlust (14A) Fri-Thu 1:50-4:157:20-9:50

North Edmonton Cinemas 14231 137th Ave.

21 Jump Street (14A) Fri-Tue 1:40-4:407:10-9:50 Wed 1:40-4:40-10:05 Thu 1:40-4:40-7:10-9:50

American Reunion (18A) Fri 1:50-57:40-10:20 Sat 2-5-7:40-10:20 Sun-Thu 1:50-5-7:40-10:20 The Cabin in the Woods (18A) Fri-Sat 5:10-7:40-11 Sun-Tue 5:10-7:40-10:05 Chicken Run (G) Sat 11 Chimpanzee (G) Fri-Tue 12:20-2:50 Dark Shadows (14A) No Passes Fri-Thu 12-1-2:40-3:50-5:15-6:50-8-9:40-10:45 The Dictator (14A) No Passes Wed-Thu 1:30-3:45-6:10-8:20-10:35 The Five-Year Engagement (14A) FriThu 1:20-4:15-7:20-10:15 The Hunger Games (14A) Fri-Thu 12:303:40-7-10:10 The Lucky One (PG) Fri-Tue 1:10-3:406:30 Wed 3:40-6:30 Thu 1:10-3:40-6:30 Star & Strollers Screening Wed 1 Marvel’s the Avengers (PG) No Passes Fri 12:15-3:30-6:45-9:45-10 No Passes Sat 11-12:15-3:30-6:45-9:45-10 No Passes Sun-Tue 12:15-3:30-6:45-10 No Passes Wed 3:45-7-10:15 No Passes Thu 12:153:30-6:45-10 Star & Strollers Screening, No Passes Wed 1 Marvel’s the Avengers 3D (PG) No Passes Fri-Sat 11:45-12:45-3-4-6:15-7:15-9:3010:30-10:45 No Passes Sun-Thu 11:451:45-3-5:15-6:15-8:30-9:30 No Passes Fri-Sat 1:15-4:30-7:45-11 No Passes Sun-Thu 12:45-4-7:15-10:30 The Pirates! Band of Misfits (G) Fri-Thu 11:50 The Pirates! Band of Misfits 3D (G) FriThu 2-4:20-6:40-8:50 Safe (14A) Fri-Wed 12:50-3:20-5:50-8:1010:40 Thu 12:50-3:20-10:40 A Streetcar Named Desire (STC) Wed 7 Wrath of the Titans (14A) Fri-Thu 9 Princess I & II 10337 Whyte Ave., 780-433-0728 Bully (PG) Fri 7:10 Sat-Sun 1-7:10 MonThu 7:10 Damsels in Distress (PG) Fri 7-9 Sat-Sun 2-7-9 Mon-Wed 7-9 Thu 9 The Undefeated (STC) Fri 9:10 Sat-Sun 3-9:10 Mon-Thu 9:10 West Wind: The Vision of Tom Thomson (G) Sat-Sun 5

Scotiabank Theatre West Mall 8882 170th St.

21 Jump Street (14A) Fri-Sun 1:15-4:157-9:50 Mon 12:30-3:15-10:30 Tue-Wed 1:15-4:15-7-9:50 Thu 12:30-3:15-10:45 American Reunion (18A) Fri-Tue 11:302:10-4:50-7:45-10:30 Wed 12:45-3:3010:30 Thu 11:30-2:10-4:50-7:45-10:30 Dark Shadows (14A) No Passes Fri-Sat 12-2:45-5:30-8:15-11 No Passes Sun-Tue 12-2:40-5:20-8-10:40 No Passes Wed 4-8-10:40 No Passes Thu 12-2:40-5:208-10:40 Star & Strollers Screening, No Passes Wed 1 Dark Shadows: The IMAX Experience (14A) No Passes Fri-Thu 11:30-5-7:30 The Dictator (14A) No Passes Wed 11:40 No Passes Thu 11:40-1:50-4-6:15-8:3010:45 No Passes Wed 1:50-4-6:15-8:3010:45 The Five-Year Engagement (14A) Fri-Sat 1:40-4:40-8-10:50 Sun-Tue 1:40-4:407:40-10:45 Wed 4:40-7:40-10:45 Thu 1:40-4:40-7:40-10:45 Star & Strollers

Screening Wed 1 The Hunger Games (14A) Fri-Thu 12:404-7:20-10:20 The Lucky One (PG) Fri 1:10-4:10-6:509:40 Sat 12:10-4:10-6:50-9:40 Sun-Thu 1:10-4:10-6:50-9:40 Marvel’s the Avengers (PG) No Passes Fri-Thu 11:45-3:20-6:40-10 Marvel’s the Avengers 3D (PG) No Passes Fri-Thu 12:30-3:50-7:10-10:30 No Passes Fri-Sat 1-4:20-7:40-11 No Passes SunThu 2:10-5:30-8:45 Marvel’s the Avengers: An IMAX 3D Experience (PG) No Passes Fri-Thu 2-10:15 The Metropolitan Opera: Die Walk¸re Encore (STC) Sat 10 Metropolitan Opera: Manon Lescaut Encore (STC) Mon 6:30 The Pirates! Band of Misfits (G) Fri-Thu 12:15 The Pirates! Band of Misfits 3D (G) FriThu 2:30-4:50-7:15-9:30 Safe (14A) Fri-Sun 12:50-3:20-5:408:10-10:45 Mon 12:50-3:20-5:40-8:10 Tue-Wed 12:50-3:20-5:40-8:10-10:45 Thu 12:50-3:20-5:40-8:10 Siegfried Wagner Opera (STC) Thu 6:30 Wrath of the Titans 3D (14A) Fri 12:10-2:40-5:20-7:50-10:40 Sat 2:40-5:207:50-10:40 Sun-Tue 12:10-2:40-5:207:50-10:40

South Edmonton Common 1525 99th St.

21 Jump Street (14A) Fri-Sat 11:352:45-5:30-8:25-11:10 Sun-Tue 1-4:057:45-10:45 Wed 1-4:05-10:45 Thu 1:50-4:55-7:45 American Reunion (18A) Fri-Sat 1:404:25-7:20-10:15 Sun-Wed 12:05-3:157:05-10:10 Thu 12:05-3:15-10:10 The Cabin in the Woods (18A) Fri-Tue 7:15-9:45 Chicken Run (G) Sat 11 Dark Shadows (14A) No Passes Fri-Sat 11:15-1:25-2:15-4:15-5-7:05-8:05-9:5010:55 No Passes Sun-Tue 11:35-12:252:55-3:45-6:45-7:35-9:50-10:30 No Passes Wed 11:35-12:25-2:55-3:45-6:45-7:359:55-10:30 No Passes Thu 12:25-3:403:45-6:45-7:35-10:25-10:30 The Dictator (14A) No Passes Wed-Thu 12:30-2:50-5:10-7:25-9:45 The Five-Year Engagement (14A) Fri-Sat 2-5:10-8:15-11:10 Sun-Thu 1:10-4:107:10-10:15 The Hunger Games (14A) Fri-Sat 11:40-3:20-7:10-10:20 Sun 11:50-3:106:40-9:55 Mon 11:50-3:10-6:35-9:55 Tue 11:50-3:10-6:40-9:55 Wed-Thu 11:503:10-6:35-9:55 The Lucky One (PG) Fri-Thu 1:304:35-7:40 Marvel’s the Avengers (PG) No Passes Fri-Sat 11:20-12:50-2:40-4:10-6-7:309:30-11 No Passes Sun 11:40-2-3-5:206:20-8:40-9:40 No Passes Mon 11:402-3-5:30-6:20-9-9:40 No Passes Tue 11:40-2-3-5:20-6:20-8:40-9:40 No Passes Wed-Thu 11:40-2-3-5:30-6:20-9-9:40 Marvel’s the Avengers 3D (PG) No Passes Fri 11:50-12:20-1:20-3:10-3:40-4:406:30-7-8-10-10:30-11:15 No Passes Sat 11:50-12:20-1:20-3:10-3:40-4:40-6:30-

7-8-10-10:15-11:15 No Passes Sun-Thu 12-12:20-12:40-3:20-3:40-4-6:40-7-7:2010-10:20-10:40 The Metropolitan Opera: Die Walk¸re Encore (STC) Sat 10 The Pirates! Band of Misfits (G) Fri-Wed 11:30-1:55-4:20 Thu 4:20 Star & Strollers Screening Thu 1 The Pirates! Band of Misfits 3D (G) Fri-Sat 12-2:25-4:55-7:35-10:05 Sun-Thu 11:55-2:25-4:50-7:40-10:05 Safe (14A) Fri 12:15-2:55-5:35-8:30-11:05 Sat 5:35-8:30-11:05 Sun 12:10-2:45-5:208:05-10:40 Mon 12:10-2:45-10:40 Tue 12:10-2:45-5:20-8:05-10:40 Wed-Thu 8:05-10:25 Siegfried Wagner Opera (STC) Thu 6:30 A Streetcar Named Desire (STC) Wed 7 Think Like a Man (PG) Fri-Sat 1:05-4:457:45-10:50 Sun-Thu 1:40-4:40-7:50-10:40 Wrath of the Titans (14A) Fri-Thu 10:35

TELUS World of Science Edmonton Space and Science Centre, 1121-142 St.

Amazon (STC) Wed 2 Beavers (STC) Tue 10 Born to Be Wild (G) Fri 10-12-2-8 Sat 12-2-8 Sun 12-2 Mon 4 Tue 11-4 Wed 10-4 Bugs! (STC) Mon 10 Wed 11 Thu 10 Coral Reef Adventure (G) Mon 2 Thu 1 The Human Body (STC) Tue 1 Thu 2 Hurricane on the Bayou (STC) Mon 1 Thu 11 Mystic India (STC) Mon 11 Thu 10-11 Rescue (STC) Fri-Sun 4 Space Station (G) Tue 2 Wed 1 To the Arctic (G) Fri-Sun 11-1-3-5-7 Mon-Thu 3

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Bernie Finkelstein sounds relaxed over the phone from his getaway in Prince Edward County. Fruits of having sold his True North Records in late 2007? â&#x20AC;&#x153;A little bit,â&#x20AC;? he says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;although itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more about more free time. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve gone from 21 acts to managing just one, plus I closed the office in Toronto.â&#x20AC;? Bernie is being asked to talk a lot about himself these days with the publication of his autobiography, True North: A Life in the Music Business, which starts with his time as an air force brat through all his years running one of the most important and most successful independent music labels in this country. True North also had interests in artist management, music publishing and concert promotion. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I thought Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d better write down these memories so that maybe one day in the future when someone is researching the history of Canadian music, they can find my book on a dusty library shelf somewhere â&#x20AC;&#x201D; if those things still exist â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and use it to tell the story.â&#x20AC;? Bernie is concerned about Canadiansâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; short memory when it comes to musical heritage. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Feist was not the first person to have a No. 1 hit on a Canadian independent label. Have we forgotten about what Sarah McLachlan did on Nettwerk? But itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s understandable, given that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re overwhelmed with American music history.â&#x20AC;? True North was founded in 1969, two years before Canadian content regulations went into effect. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You have to understand that back then there was no Canadian music industry.

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Regina Spektor would really appreciate it if you could put your camera phone videos of her performances up online. Not only do those videos help her remember how the new songs she is working out in concert go, but they also help her retrieve songs that she forgets how to play. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In Florida I had to go online and go to YouTube and figure out the chords,â&#x20AC;? she says of a song from her 2009 album, Far. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve written so much stuff since then that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve pushed it out of my head.â&#x20AC;? And as far as the bootlegs of songs in progress go, she says if not for those phone videos, the songs Patron Saint and Open probably wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have even made it onto her new album, What We Saw from the Cheap Seats. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I got lucky that it was up there, actually,â&#x20AC;? she says. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to believe that the singer would forget that song, because its repetition of dramatic inhalation during the chorus seems so instantly memorable. But Spektor does a lot of memorable things to make listeners forget that for most of her album and her live performance itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just her voice and her piano. In the new song, The Party she purses her lips together to fake a trumpet part. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When I wrote it, in my

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Regina Spektorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life has taken some interesting turns. â&#x20AC;˘ Moscow by the Hudson. She was born in Moscow (then the capital of the Soviet Union) in 1980, and grew up in the Bronx. â&#x20AC;˘ Colourful past. She worked on a Wisconsin butterfly farm while attending college. â&#x20AC;˘ The show must go on. Her cellist, Dan Cho, drowned the day before her emotional performance at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 2010.

mind it was just a placeholder for a real trumpet,â&#x20AC;? she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;First of all, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really fun to do; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a fun feeling, like even walking around the house being a trumpet. If you bring things from their implied state to a real state, sometimes it becomes better and sometimes, I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know ... you try to feel whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s right for the song.â&#x20AC;? Spektor says her producer, Mike Elizondo, teased her that when she beat boxes she sounds like a drum machine from the 1980s. Spektor has been touring with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers for the past few weeks, playing large venues that give the title of her upcoming album new meaning. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I love Tom Petty so much that I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to be the person that came and their audience didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like,â&#x20AC;? she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But everyoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been so amazing to me.â&#x20AC;?

Spiritualizedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pierce uses pain as motivation NOLAN GAWRON Metro News

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of drug use complete with religious allusions, the bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s anxious buildups and triumphant crescendos are like symphonies for substance sympathizers. Jason Pierce isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t easy to track down, but at the last possible moment, Metro was able to talk to him about the recent release of his seventh album, Sweet Heart Sweet Light. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I fâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;ing hate making records,â&#x20AC;? says Pierce, wryly. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I really do. And it just gets harder. Sometimes I think I just make a record to tour because I feel the

need to get back on the road. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something exciting live when youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re pushing it and youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re within it, but youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not trying to hold onto it.â&#x20AC;? Pierce says when he started making Sweet Heart, he wanted it to sound like the Beatles. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Then halfway through I realized I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really like the Beatles,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Not that I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like the Beatlesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; music, but I decided I wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like to make a record like that.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;I wanted to make something where you didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have

to be hip to a certain style or music, you could just sit and listen to it like a collection of songs that really worked,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When I tried to put that down, it became very hard to make. Anyone trying to make pop music has nowhere to hide.â&#x20AC;? While his previous record followed his near-death experience with double pneumonia, Sweet Heart Sweet Light was written during another health scare, one he doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like to talk about.

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B.o.B. Rising rapper and serial collaborator has his head in Strange Clouds Swift connection

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After the massive hits on his debut, B.o.B. is primed for an easy smash of a followup, if he just follows the formula. But he probably doesn’t even need to do that. The Atlanta-based MC multi-instrumentalist gained a worldwide audience with Nothin’ On You, featuring Bruno Mars and Airplanes, featuring Eminem and Hayley Williams, but he went the opposite direction with his new album, Strange Clouds. The new work features such hit makers as Lil Wayne (on the title track), Chris Brown, Nicki Minaj, T.I., Trey Songz, and Roscoe Dash. But the stand out guest might be Taylor Swift. “I approached this with a blank canvas,” says the rapper. “I don’t really try to hold onto what was success-

B.o.B. came into the world 23 years ago as Bobby Ray Simmons, Jr., which almost sounds like the name of a country performer. But that’s not the only reason Taylor Swift is the right fit for the Strange Clouds song Both of Us. “She arranged for me to come to Dallas and perform Airplanes and that’s when I played the song (Both of Us) for her and she instantly liked it,” the rapper explained.

ful about the last album.” Now that the album is in stores, the work doesn’t stop for B.o.B. Plans are in the works for an international tour and more music including a collaborative album with T.I., titled The Man and the Martian.

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When asked how the writing process differed between Up From Below, the 2009 debut from Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros and their upcoming album, Here, singer Alex Ebert is quick to give credit to the 11 other members of his band. “It was a little more alltogethery,” he says. “We all sat around and worked on arrangements together.” Ebert may have just coined the phrase, “all-togethery” on the spot, but it’s quite an ac-

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ance in the will to perceive things as possible, and hopeful and to be able to dance through the murder and pain.” Detractors have also used terms like “hippies” and “cult” to describe the big band of Zeros. Ebert doesn’t mind. “A cult is a cult until it becomes popular and then it’s a religion,” he reasons. “We do have an ethos, I would say, so in that sense we share some ideas that we tend to agree on, but I don’t think that’s necessarily any different than a lot of groups of people.”

Because of such a long time touring between albums, Ebert and his crew have come up with so much new material that they have a second new album they hope to release later this year. The style of the as of yet untitled album is a departure for the group that became famous for their whistle-along single, Home. “It’s much more aggressive,” says Ebert, “not angsty aggressive but sonically aggressive. There is some distortion, which we rarely dabble in. If ever there was an album that I was slightly nervous about delivering, I would say it would be this album. “It’s a little bit outside the realm that we’ve played in, but that’s always fun to do for yourself. We feel quite comfortable putting out anything that we love, knowing that we have these people to share it with, and a growing number of people to share it with, too.”

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Most Talkative. Cheeky host’s new book covers growing up and TV fame

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You know him as the outgoing Bravo host who fans the fire at Real Housewives reunion shows and presses celebrities with cheeky questions during games of Plead the Fifth on Watch What Happens Live. But Andy Cohen had a long, winding, and often hilarious, road to his rise as a pop culture guru and celebrity interview extraordinaire. In his new book Most Talkative, Cohen opens up about dreaming of a life in television while watching All My Children as a kid, what it was like to live in fear of AIDS as a young gay man in the ’80s and ’90s, and working his way up the ladder from a CBS internship in New York City. Metro: It has been a interesting journey for you, going from wanting to be a local

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ABC taking Revenge on live THESE HOMES ARE A REALLY TV Experiment. Yahoo, U.S. network aim to start new trend for tablet and smartphone users tuning in on their devices ABC and Yahoo will experiment on the season’s last two episodes of Revenge — featuring Canadian actress Emily VanCamp — with a smartphone and tablet application designed to encourage more people to watch television live. There’s an enticement, too. People who download and click onto the Into Now application during the May 16 and 23 showings of Revenge become eligible for a free summer trip to New York’s Hamptons beach area, where the drama’s story is based. The companies are trying to take advantage of the growing trend of multiscreen use, or people who spend time on their phones or iPads while the TV is on. Yahoo’s Into Now app tries to make all of that much easier. “The world changed dramatically with all the smartphones and tablets,” said Adam Cahan, vice-president of Into Now. “People are multitasking while they are watching TV. We came up with a way of connecting that community.” When used, the applica-

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tion c a n ident i f y w h a t show a viewer is watching and immediately spot Facebook friends who are doing the same thing, Cahan said. It taps into Twitter feeds about the show, including those from actors and producers. Trivia and other details about the show are also readily available, he added. “We know the finale is going to be big,” said Victoria Chew, vice-president of strategic marketing partnerships at ABC. “We know the story lines are going to be things that the fans are going to buzz about and talk about when it’s over. We wanted to encourage fans to watch it live.” While most television is still viewed live, the rapid growth of digital video recorders usage and video on

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works, anything that might encourage live viewing is considered worth a try. ABC is examining partnerships with companies that have technology similar to Into Now, but it has no other agreements set, Chew said. “We’re really interested in learning more about the second screen-experience,” she said. For Into Now, the ABC deal also provides an important marketing boost as it tries to establish itself in a growing marketplace. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

anchorman, to a TV producer, and now in front of the camera. Why decide to share your story in book form? Cohen: I have all these great stories I’ve been telling

friends for years. I’ve just always wanted to tell them and I felt like now was the time. The book is filled with you personal memories. Have you kept a journal over the years? I kept a journal for 11 years that really helped when I was coming out of closet because I felt so alone and scared. You talk a lot about your first interview with Susan Lucci and how it was such a pivotal moment for you. Do you ever get star struck these days? I still get a little starstruck by Susan Lucci. It’s usually with the people I have some kind of connection with from my past. What has been your most outrageous, memorable moment from an interview? From an interview, I think the Oprah story about lying to her and lying to the anchor who I was producing for, Paula Zahn. I conned both of them and it worked into getting something on tape that Oprah had said no to. And I got caught and I probably could have gotten fired. Can we play a quick, innocent game of “Plead the Fifth”? I thought you’d never ask. Which Bravo show is your personal favorite right now? Around the World in 80 Plates. It’s new, fresh and exciting. Which housewife is the most over-the-top? I plead the Fifth.

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Selleck lays down the law Tom Selleck’s still got it. Actor plays two kinds of lawmen, starring in Blue Bloods plus a new Jesse Stone TV film As Blue Bloods reaches its second season finale, Tom Selleck is looking ahead to season three. On the CBS hit drama, Selleck plays Frank Reagan, the NYPD commissioner and patriarch of a family devoted to law enforcement and one another. His offspring include a detective (Donnie Wahlberg), a cop (Will Estes) and an assistant D.A. (Bridget Moynahan). On duty and off, they, along with the extended Reagan family, have each other’s backs — even if it’s not always easy to say it. “We Reagans aren’t real gushy, but I couldn’t be more proud of you,” Frank Reagan tells his daughter in one of his more expansive displays. Frank is an upright, reassuring presence for his brood and for Blue Bloods viewers alike, especially while at the head of the table for family dinners that have become a weekly staple of the show. The role is a comfortable fit for Selleck, a family man himself, wed to Jillie for a quartercentury and with a grown daughter, Hannah. And yet the role poses challenges: how do you play a character who is strong and incorruptible without appearing too good to be true? “A commander can’t expose his weakness or doubt or concern or worry,” says Selleck. “I have to show all those things to the audience without showing it to the cops I’m ordering around. When you get inside

Frank’s head, you realize that anybody with the weight of the world on his shoulders will exhibit flaws that come from dealing with that kind of pressure. I think next season we’re going to get inside of him more and reveal more of them.” At the same time, Selleck hopes the show will find some lighter moments. “I can’t sit around giving orders all day,” he says. “They cast me because I can play bosses. But I have other colours I can play.” No doubt. As the Vietnamvet-turned-private-eye Thomas Magnum, Selleck knew how to play serious with a well-timed wink. And don’t forget his guest role on Friends, as well

P.I., Selleck scored a light- May 20, it’s the eighth in the often leaven with irony the hearted guest shot on The series of Jesse Stone whodunits pain he feels. Selleck makes it work. Not Rockford Files. As the charm- that began in 2005, based on ing and charmed investigator characters created by the late for him is overacting as Jesse, Lance White, he struck the Robert B. Parker in his best- who pines for his ex-wife and struggles for grounding in this perfect comic contrast to the selling series of books. Selleck manages to wring backwater town. lovably bedeviled gumshoe “It’s like crying on screen,” Jim Rockford. Selleck considers sparks of humour from this Rockford star James Garner a melancholy lawman, who, as says Selleck, citing his cardinal mentor in showing him how to the film begins, has lost his end- no-no. “Actors are always proud of-the-line job as police chief of when they cry. But what people mine humour from drama. do in real life when they’re get“I think humour is an essen- tiny Paradise, Mass. The surface whodunit sur- ting emotional is, they try NOT tial element of a long career,” says Selleck, “and I miss actual rounds a mob-related double to cry. They’re embarrassed comedy. If you want to tell homicide, “but the mystery at about it.” As for Jesse, “he’s had a real everybody I’m available for the the beginning of the tale is aljourney,” Selleck says sympathree months Blue Bloods isn’t ways Jesse. Calgary Metro,“Right Edmontonnow, in (film) “He’s a totally decentPublication: guy thetically. on, I’d LOVE to do a comedy!” Name: 1013593P_SB-MothersDay_MetroAd1 Metro, Halfax Metro, Ottawa Metro, Toronto Metro, number eight, he’s trying to who has a lot of issues,Vancover and Metro Of course, SelleckFile was busyx 6.182” Trim: 4.921” Canadian Marketing Bleed: 0.125" n/a Mech 110 dpi every Material Mayjob 8, back and put his get his deals withRes:them day,” Deadline: during last year’s hiatus. He Safety: 100 Yonge Street, 6th Floor Colours: CMYK Insertion Dates: May 9, May 10, May 11, 2012 Toronto, ON M5C 2W1 Stone: Benefit back in order.” says Selleck. But Jesse is aPublication: man universe was filming Jesse [] of the Doubt. Airing on CBS on of few words — words that The associated press

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as such comedy features as In & Out and Three Men and a Baby, the top-grossing film of 1987. Still strikingly handsome at 67, the strapping, dimplecheeked Selleck has had to work against those leadingman looks ever since his uncertain start as an actor. “When I was 25 I sounded 15 and looked 35,” he says with a laugh. “That clearly wasn’t working. It was only when I kind of grew into myself that the quirky aspects of what I do became a strength.” In a pivotal step that led to his eight seasons on Magnum

CSI: NY wraps the season Friday with Mac barely hanging on after he is shot. As he fights for his life, it’s up to the team to bring the shooter to justice. Star Gary Sinise has said this will not be a cliffhanger as in previous seasons, but that the episode will stand on its own. (CTV Two) Saturday

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to his ’mo, actually. “It becomes part of your look and it becomes baggage,” he says, “but I never had any qualms about shaving it off” (and did, for example, to play Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower in the 2004 TV film Ike: Countdown to D-Day).

• Network reaction. In fact,

he was OK with the idea of a clean-shaven Frank Reagan, but says CBS felt otherwise.“It’s not a big deal to me,” Selleck insists. “I hope people aren’t just looking at the moustache when they see Blue Bloods.”

Girls will be Girls Sunday on Girls, Hannah propositions her boss, while Adam has a different idea about his relationship with Hannah. Marnie and Charlie assess their relationship and Jessa is determined to conquer someone she used to date. (HBO Canada) the canadian press

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Fiction is still stranger than truth New novel. Writer John Irving is perplexed by today’s obsession with ‘reality’ John Irving says today’s reality-obsessed culture has affected the way many readers approach fiction and prompted a barrage of questions about whether the famed author’s novels are based on his own life. “We live in a time when people think that reality is more interesting than what can be made up,” said the acclaimed 70-year-old writer, whose 13th novel, In One Person, is out this week. “Well, I’ve never felt that way.” In One Person tells the story of Billy Abbott, a sexually conflicted writer who begins life in a small Vermont town and ultimately navigates his way through the darkest days of the AIDS crisis in New York City. The subject matter, Irving says, prompted one U.K. publication to pursue a story on

whether the author himself is bisexual (the piece was ultimately dropped). Such pre-occupations are baffling to Irving, whose celebrated works include The World According to Garp and The Cider House Rules. “I published my first novel (Setting Free the Bears) in the late 1960s. Through the 1980s, which would include A Prayer For Owen Meany, which was published in ‘89 ... almost no one asked me an autobiographical question. No one said: ‘Is this your father? Is this your mother? Is this your sister? Is this you?’ No one asked me,” he said. “Now, it’s the first thing you’re asked ... I think what’s happened to many people is ... they don’t read as much fiction as they used to. They’re not as consistently reading novels as people were 10 or 25 years ago and so they don’t know how to talk about novels so much. They can’t imagine a way to imagine a novel without thinking that it must have some personal connection to you.” Irving, who has an apartment in Toronto and spends

his summers on Georgian Bay, notes that the current “reality or news-driven” climate has also spawned a voracious appetite among readers for true-life memoirs. “There are more memoirs than I’ve ever seen, more memoirs than ever should be written, in my opinion,” he said, adding that there are only a handful of people who have lives interesting enough to put down on paper. North American writers, said Irving, have “suffered” from Ernest Hemingway’s “tiresome” dictum: “Write about what you know.” Instead, he endorses the advice of Herman Melville, who said: “Woe to him who seeks to please rather than appall.” “Think about what you’re afraid of, not what’s happened to you” said Irving, who won an Oscar in 2000 for his Cider House screenplay. “Think about what you hope never happens to anyone you know or love or to yourself ... write about that.” The advice is particularly poignant given the achingly

John Irving says North American writers have suffered from the Hemingway dictum ‘write about what you know.’ Aaron Vincent Elkaim/the canadian press

sad events of In One Person. While the book contains plenty of the author’s signature whimsy, as well as many Irving standbys (Vermont, Vienna, wrestling), it’s been called his most political novel yet.

“It wasn’t hard to put myself in a bisexual frame of mind. I grew up in the ’50s and the ’60s. And there was certainly a time in my pre-pubescent and early-pubescent life when I desired just about everyone...”

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Is One Direction going in all different directions? After their lightning-fast rise to fame, the boys of One Direction are already facing breakup rumors, with member Harry Styles’ latest travel itinerary suggesting he’s on the lookout for a solo career, according to the Daily Star. “[Harry’s] been offered a big solo project, so he flew out to Los Angeles without the rest of the boy band,” a source says. “He’s been in America filming something. It may have been an advert or a film — I can’t say exactly Styles is in demand

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Robert Pattinson needs some encouragement Robert Pattinson admits he’s been doing a lot of growing up as an actor, and a good chunk of that came filming David Cronenberg’s sex- and violence-filled Cosmopolis, the Twilight star tells Premiere magazine. “Filming Cosmopolis with David changed something in me,” he says. “It gave me balls.” But before that, he had to conquer a certain measure of selfdoubt: “I spent time doubting myself,” he says. “I was working myself up, asking myself if I was good enough.” So how did he talk himself into it? “I tell myself, ‘F--- it! If they want to hire you, go!’”

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When Kanye West and Kim Kardashian first stepped out together in March, we weren’t too alarmed. Surely, these two would eventually find each other and combine their powers for some sunbathing-on-theyacht photo ops. But now, it seems we could be dealing with something worse than staged summer love: the real deal. “Kim and Kanye are 100 per cent having conversations about marriage,” a source tells UsMagazine. com, adding that West had been interested “for a long time.” Another source — let’s call this one Worst Source Ever — says Kim’s on board: “They’ve been friends for years. Kim is ready to give it a try now.” Now, before we go all 2012 here, we really should mention that all of this was started by a quick couple lines West rapped in a new

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Pusha T song: “I saw you in the club in a white dress/ Now I want to put you in a white dress.” For all we know, he could just be talking about drugs here. Maybe sex. Possibly both. People who still go outside after 9 p.m. — tell us it will all be OK!

Joe Jonas: Fax me

Joe Jonas seems like a nice young man. Nice enough that we even kind of buy that he’s doing Pepsi’s Live for Now campaign for something other than the money. “It’s a cool way to be able to go to this platform and be able to check out different pop culture things that are going on,” he told us this week while on a promotion tour in New York. But, moving on, let’s talk flirty faxes. On getting a girl’s attention “I faxed somebody once. I was asking somebody on a date. I met her at a store and I sent her a fax that said, hey would you like to go out with me, here’s my number. She faxed me back.” additional reporting by Meredith Engel

“[Harry’s] been offered a big solo project, so he flew out to Los Angeles without the rest of the boy band” Source

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what — but it’s worth a lot of money.” But a rep for the boy band is quick to quash the rumors, saying the trip wasn’t for business at all. “This report is false. Harry was on vacation in L.A.,” their rep tells Hollyscoop.

Britney Spears to judge X Factor, says source

The deal is done: Britney Spears is reportedly joining the X Factor as a judge, joining executive producer Simon Cowell and L.A. Reid on the panel, according to E! News. “There’s been a lot of back and forth over the past few weeks as they negotiated the small details, but she’s on,” a source says. “It’s all completed and Britney is beyond excited.” Spears will reportedly earn $15 million for her work on the show’s second season, though it isn’t clear if the deal extends beyond that. The deal now leaves one judge’s chair empty on the singing competition’s panel, with Miley Cyrus a rumoured front-runner for the spot. However, Hollywood Life reports that the former Hannah Montana star is being

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With Mother’s Day this Sunday, I’ve been thinking about my mom. My thoughts led me to a treat my mother used to make on the weekends or even during the week after dinner. In an old notebook dating back to my high school days, I found the recipe for Mom’s Cinnamon Buns. These biscuit style cinnaIngredients • ½ cup (125 mL) butter • ½ cup (125 mL) packed brown sugar Dough • 2 cups (500 mL) all purpose flour • 4 tsp (20 mL) baking powder • ¼ tsp (1 mL) salt • ½ cup (125 mL) lard or shortening • 2/3 cup (150 mL) milk Filling • ½ cup (125 mL) butter, very soft but not melted • ½ cup (125 mL) packed brown sugar • 2 tsp (10 mL) ground cinnamon

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All bets are off back in the Big Apple NHL. No clear-cut favourite in CapitalsRangers Game 7 at Madison Square Garden

Los Angeles Clippers centre DeAndre Jordan. The stubborn Memphis Grizzlies aren’t the only obstacles in the Los Angeles Clippers’ path to closing out a rare playoff series victory. Blake Griffin and Chris Paul are banged up heading into Game 6, and Caron Butler continues to play with a broken left hand. The Clippers said Thursday that Griffin and Paul would be game-time decisions on Friday night, although the all-star duo figures to play with so much on the line.

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Crunch the numbers, ride the waves of momentum, and then try to guess if the Washington Capitals or New York Rangers will survive another Game 7 and move on to the Eastern Conference finals. Hockey analysts will make very compelling arguments — and leave anyone who is listening believing that both teams can’t lose the win-orgo-home matchup on Saturday night at Madison Square Garden. Ah yes, Madison Square Garden, the famed arena in which the host Rangers are 4-0 in Game 7s. It is also the place where the Rangers pulled out a Game 5 win in this series by scoring a power-play goal with 7.6 seconds left in regulation, and then another less than two minutes into overtime, turning what appeared to be a sure loss into one of the most electrifying victories in club history. You know, the tide-turning win that the Capitals would never be able to bounce back from — even though they were heading home for Game 6. It didn’t quite work out that way, and now it’s the Rangers who will fight to make sure there is no carry-over in the other direction for Game 7. “We can’t let it,” Rangers

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Harden named best off the bench Oklahoma City’s James Harden was named the sixth man of the year Thursday. Harden averaged a league-best 16.8 points off the bench on a career-best 49 per cent shooting this season. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MLB

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Andy Pettitte pronounced himself ready to rejoin New York’s rotation on Thursday. “It’s time now,” he said Thursday. “It’s time to get up here and get going.” The soon-to-be 40-yearold will get his chance Sunday when he starts against the Seattle Mariners. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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“This team, we’ve just started going where we want to go.” Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin skates up ice in Game 5 last Saturday in New York. BRUCE BENNETT/GETTY IMAGES

captain Ryan Callahan said. “We have to put this one behind us. We have to go in Saturday ready to play.” Whoever prevails will face the well-rested New Jersey Devils with a trip to the Stanley Cup finals on the line. The Rangers, eliminated from the playoffs by Washington in two of the previous three seasons, haven’t been to the confer-

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ence finals since 1997. That was three years after they won the cup for the first time in 54 years. The Capitals have never won it all. They were swept in 1998 by Detroit in their only appearance in the cup finals and have been to the conference finals twice. “It takes a lot of character to bounce back all the time,” Capitals coach Dale Hunter said. “You’re going to have your ups and downs, especially in the playoffs. We have a lot of character in that room.” Alex Ovechkin has been a symbol of that. He has dealt with limited ice time in the playoffs, but hasn’t sulked. He

had no shots in Game 5, and it appeared that perhaps he had been neutralized by New York. Not so fast. Just 1:28 into the Capitals’ last stand at home Wednesday night, Ovechkin zipped a shot over goalie Henrik Lundqvist’s suddenly susceptible glove to give Washington a power-play goal and a lead it would never give up in a 2-1 win that saved the season at least for two more days. “Ovi has been good,” Hunter said. “You see him blocking shots. He’s dedicated to winning like the rest of he guys are. And doing the little things.”

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Canada is partly responsible for its underdog label. • After making quarterfinal exits at the last two tournaments and falling to fifth in the world rankings, the team has yet to turn in a statement performance in Helsinki. • So far, it beat France handily, edged Slovakia and Switzerland by a goal and lost an entertaining backand-forth overtime game to the United States.

to the occasion and step up.” Canada is partly responsible for its current underdog label. After making quarter-final exits at the last two tournaments and falling to fifth in the world rankings, the team has yet to turn in a statement performance in Helsinki. As Canadian players continue to repeat the mantra that guides them through every international hockey tournament — the need to get a little

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Celtics triumph over Hawks Paul Pierce, left, passes the ball against the Atlanta Hawks Thursday in Boston. The Celtics beat the Atlanta Hawks 83-80 in Game 6 on Thursday night to win their first-round playoff series and advance to the Eastern Conference semifinals for the fifth straight year. Elsa/Getty Images

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• Before joining the Yankees, McNamee had previously worked with Clemens when both were with the Toronto Blue Jays, where Clemens won two Cy Young Awards in two seasons.

clicked with Brian McNamee,” Cashman said. “He knew his body. Brian knew how to train him, push the right buttons on him.” McNamee was hired by the Yankees as an assistant strength and conditioning coach the following year at a salary of $30,000, US but as Cashman put it: “His duties were to train Roger Clemens.” McNamee, who is expected to testify next week, has said he injected Clemens with steroids and human growth hormone during the 1998, 2000, and 2001 major-league seasons. Clemens is on trial for perjury, based on his testimony to Congress in 2008 that he never used either substance. As the trial reached the end of its fourth week, it finally began to gravitate toward its key witness. McNamee is expected to testify next week, perhaps as early as Monday. The government’s case hinges on his credibility. the associated press

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MLB AMERICAN LEAGUE EAST DIVISION Baltimore Tampa Bay Toronto New York Boston

EAST DIVISION

CONFERENCE SEMI-FINALS

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L 12 12 14 14 19

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GB — — 2 21/2 71/2

Washington Atlanta New York Miami Philadelphia

W 18 15 15 11 8

L 13 15 17 19 23

Pct .581 .500 .469 .367 .258

GB — 21/2 31/2 61/2 10

St. Louis Cincinnati Houston Pittsburgh Chicago Milwaukee

W 21 16 15 14

L 11 15 18 18

Pct .656 .516 .455 .438

GB — 41/2 61/2 7

Los Angeles San Francisco Arizona Colorado San Diego

CENTRAL DIVISION

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L 12 13 13 15 18

Pct .613 .594 .581 .516 .438

GB — 1 /2 1 3 51/2

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11 14 17 17 18 18

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Cleveland Detroit Chicago Kansas City Minnesota

WEST DIVISION

Texas Oakland Seattle Los Angeles

Yesterday’s results Toronto 6 Minnesota 2 Baltimore 6-3 Texas 5-7 Cleveland 8 Boston 3 N.Y. Yankees 5 Tampa Bay 3 Detroit at Oakland Wednesday’s results Toronto 5 Oakland 2 Chicago White Sox 8 Cleveland 1 Kansas City 4 Boston 3 L.A. Angels 6 Minnesota 2 Seattle 2 Detroit 1 Tampa Bay 4 N.Y. Yankees 1 Texas at Baltimore (ppd., rain) Tonight’s games — All Times Eastern Seattle (F.Hernandez 3-1) at N.Y. Yankees (Kuroda 2-4), 7:05 p.m. Tampa Bay (Hellickson 3-0) at Baltimore (Eveland 0-0), 7:05 p.m. Cleveland (Jimenez 3-2) at Boston (Buchholz 3-1), 7:10 p.m. L.A. Angels (C.Wilson 4-2) at Texas (Darvish 4-1), 8:05 p.m. Kansas City (F.Paulino 1-0) at Chicago White Sox (Floyd 2-3), 8:10 p.m. Toronto (Drabek 2-3) at Minnesota (Blackburn 0-4), 8:10 p.m. Detroit (Porcello 3-2) at Oakland (Milone 4-2), 10:05 p.m.

BLUE JAYS 6, TWINS 2

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ER 1 0 0

6 0 0 0

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HBP—by Marquis (Bautista). WP—Marquis, Gray. PB—Doumit. T—2:45. A—31,438 (39,500) at Minneapolis

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(Best-of-7) All Times Eastern EASTERN CONFERENCE (Series tied 3-3) Last night’s result Washington 2 N.Y. Rangers 1 Saturday’s game Washington at N.Y. Rangers, , 7:30 p.m.

PHILADELPHIA (5) VS. NEW JERSEY (6)

(New Jersey wins series 4-1) Tuesday’s result New Jersey 3 Philadelphia 1

GOLF PGA PLAYERS CHAMPIONSHIP At Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. Par 72 First Round

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At Humboldt, Sask. Round Robin

GROUP A L 0 0 1 2 2 3 3 4

GF 14 17 19 10 12 8 11 8

GA Pt 3 12 11 10 13 8 8 6 11 6 11 3 24 3 18 0

GP W OTW OTL L Sweden 4 4 0 0 0 Russia 4 4 0 0 0 Czech Republic 4 2 1 0 1 Latvia 4 2 0 0 2 Norway 4 1 0 1 2 Germany 4 1 0 0 3 Italy 4 0 1 0 3 Denmark 4 0 0 1 3

GF 18 14 10 11 12 7 6 8

GA Pt 8 12 5 12 8 8 10 6 13 4 10 3 17 2 15 1

Finland Canada U.S. Slovakia Switzerland Belarus France Kazakhstan

GROUP B

ST. LOUIS (2) VS. LOS ANGELES (8) (Los Angeles wins series 4-0)

PHOENIX (3) VS. NASHVILLE (4) (Phoenix wins series 4-1) Monday’s result Phoenix 2 Nashville 1

CONFERENCE FINALS (Best-of-7) EASTERN CONFERENCE

NEW JERSEY (6) VS. N.Y. RANGERS OR WASHINGTON Monday, May 14 New Jersey at N.Y. Rangers or Washington at New Jersey, 8 p.m. Wednesday, May 16 New Jersey at N.Y. Rangers or Washington at New Jersey, 8 p.m. Remainder of Schedule TBA WESTERN CONFERENCE

PHOENIX (3) VS. LOS ANGELES (8) Sunday’s game Los Angeles at Phoenix, 8 p.m. Tuesday, May 15 Los Angeles at Phoenix, 9 p.m. Remainder of Schedule TBA

Giroux, Pha Briere, Pha Kovalchuk, NJ Brown, LA McDonald, StL B.Richards, NYR

CANADIAN JR. A CHAMPIONSHIP

PRELIMINARY ROUND

N.Y. RANGERS (1) VS. WASHINGTON (7)

SCORING LEADERS

RBC CUP

At Helsinki and Stockholm

WESTERN CONFERENCE

Last night’s result Washington 4 Pittsburgh 2 Wednesday’s results Chicago Cubs 1 Atlanta 0 Cincinnati 2 Milwaukee 1 Colorado 6 San Diego 2 L.A. Dodgers 6 San Francisco 2 Miami 5 Houston 3 (12 innings) N.Y. Mets 10 Philadelphia 6 Pittsburgh 4 Washington 2 St. Louis 7 Arizona 2 Tonight’s games — All Times Eastern Houston (Norris 2-1) at Pittsburgh (Ja.McDonald 2-1), 7:05 p.m. San Diego (Richard 1-4) at Philadelphia (Worley 2-2), 7:05 p.m. N.Y. Mets (J.Santana 1-2) at Miami (Buehrle 24), 7:10 p.m. Washington (G.Gonzalez 3-1) at Cincinnati (Leake 0-4), 7:10 p.m. Chicago Cubs (Garza 2-1) at Milwaukee (Wolf 2-3), 8:10 p.m. Atlanta (Minor 2-2) at St. Louis (J.Garcia 2-2), 8:15 p.m. San Francisco (Bumgarner 5-1) at Arizona (Corbin 1-1), 9:40 p.m. Colorado (Moyer 1-2) at L.A. Dodgers (Capuano 4-0), 10:10 p.m.

Ian Poulter Martin Laird Blake Adams Kevin Na Ben Crane Michael Thompson Harrison Frazar Matt Kuchar Kevin Stadler Jhonattan Vegas Jonathan Byrd Adam Scott Bill Haas Ben Curtis Brian Davis Sang-Moon Bae Pat Perez Kris Blanks Arjun Atwal Padraig Harrington David Hearn Also Graham DeLaet

HOC KEY IIHF MEN’S WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

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VOLLEYBALL NORCECA MEN'S OLYMPIC QUALIFYING At Long Beach, Calif. Last night’s results Quarter-finals Cuba def. Trinidad & Tobago, 3-0 (25-18, 25-13, 25-16) Mexico vs. Puerto Rico Wednesday’s results Canada def. Cuba, 3-0 (25-21, 25-17, 25-21) Puerto Rico def. Dominican Republic, 3-0 (25-15, 25-18, 25-16) Trinidad & Tobago def. Costa Rica, 3-0 (25-18, 25-23, 25-19) U.S. def. Mexico, 3-0 (25-23, 25-19, 25-14) Today’s matches — All Times Eastern Semifinals Canada vs. Quarter-final winner, 9 or 11 p.m. U.S. vs. Quarter-final winner, 9 or 11 p.m. Tomorrow’s matches Third Place — Semifinal losers, 8 p.m. Championship (winner earns Olympic berth) Semifinal winners, 11 p.m.

GP W OTW OTL 4 4 0 0 4 3 0 1 4 2 1 0 4 2 0 0 4 2 0 0 4 1 0 0 4 1 0 0 4 0 0 0

Note: Three points for a regulation win, two for an overtime win and one for an overtime loss. Yesterday’s results At Helsinki — Finland 7 France 1 U.S. 5 Belarus 3 At Stockholm — Czech Republic 3 Latvia 1 Russia 3 Denmark 1 Today’s games — All Times Eastern At Helsinki — Kazakhstan vs. U.S., 9:15 a.m. Finland vs. Canada, 1:15 p.m. At Stockholm Italy vs. Czech Republic, 10:15 a.m. Russia vs. Sweden, 2:15 p.m. Tomorrow’s games At Helsinki — Slovakia vs. Belarus, 5:15 a.m. Switzerland vs. France, 9;15 a.m. Kazakhstan vs. Canada, 1:15 p.m. At Stockholm — Norway vs. Latvia, 6:15 a.m. Germany vs. Denmark, 10:15 a.m. Italy vs. Sweden, 2:15 p.m. Sunday’s games At Helsinki — Finland vs. U.S., 9;15 a.m. Switzerland vs. Slovakia, 1:15 p.m. At Stockholm Russia vs. Czech Republic, 10:15 a.m. Germany vs. Norway, 2:15 p.m.

TE NNIS ATP-WTA MADRID OPEN At Madrid, Spain Yesterday’s results Men Singles — Third Round Novak Djokovic (1), Serbia, def. Stanislas Wawrinka, Switzerland, 7-6 (5), 6-4. Fernando Verdasco (15), Spain, def. Rafael Nadal (2), Spain, 6-3, 3-6, 7-5. Roger Federer (3), Switzerland, def. Richard Gasquet (14), France, 6-3, 6-2. Alexandr Dolgopolov (16), Ukraine, def. JoWilfried Tsonga (4), France, 7-5, 3-6, 7-6 (2). David Ferrer (5), Spain, def. Nicolas Almagro (11), Spain, 7-6 (5), 3-6, 7-6 (8). Doubles — Second Round Max Mirnyi, Belarus, and Daniel Nestor (2), Toronto, def. David Marrero and Fernando Verdasco, Spain, 6-3, 7-6 (4). Women Singles — Third Round Maria Sharapova (2), Russia, def. Lucie Safarova, Czech Republic (walkover). Agnieszka Radwanska (4), Poland, def. Roberta Vinci, Italy, 7-6 (1), 6-4. Serena Williams (9), U.S., def. Caroline Wozniacki (6), Denmark, 1-6, 6-3, 6-2.

x-Humboldt x-Penticton x-Soo Portage Woodstock

GP W 3 3 4 2 4 2 3 1 4 1

L 0 2 2 2 3

GF 10 8 12 6 10

GA 3 7 12 10 11

Pt 6 4 4 2 2

x — clinched playoff berth. Yesterday’s results Soo 7 Woodstock 4 Portage vs. Humboldt End of Round Robin Wednesday’s result Penticton 3 Portage 1

S O CCE R MLS

EASTERN CONFERENCE Kansas City New York D.C. United Chicago Montreal New England Houston Columbus Philadelphia Toronto

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T 0 1 3 3 2 0 2 2 1 0

GF GA 12 5 20 14 20 15 9 9 11 15 8 12 7 9 6 10 5 9 6 18

WESTERN CONFERENCE Real Salt Lake Seattle San Jose Vancouver Colorado Dallas Los Angeles Chivas USA Portland

NBA PL AYO FFS CONFERENCE QUARTER-FINALS

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7 7 7 5 5 3 3 3 2

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12 3 11 7 12 16 14 11 13

Pt 21 19 18 12 11 9 8 8 7 0 23 22 22 17 15 12 10 9 8

Wednesday’s results New York 1 Houston 0 Chicago 0 Real Salt Lake 0 Seattle 2 Dallas 0 Tomorrow’s games — All Times Eastern Los Angeles at Montreal, 4 p.m. D.C. United at Houston, 4:30 p.m. Dallas at Columbus, 7:30 p.m. Vancouver at New England, 7:30 p.m. Kansas City at Chicago, 8:30 p.m. Real Salt Lake at Seattle, 10 p.m. Sunday’s games New York at Philadelphia, 12:30 p.m. Chivas USA at San Jose, 7 p.m.

(Best-of-7) All Times Eastern EASTERN CONFERENCE

CHICAGO (1) VS. PHILADELPHIA (8) (Philadelphia wins series 4-2) Last night’s result Philadelphia 79 Chicago 78

MIAMI (2) VS. NEW YORK (7) (Miami wins series 4-1) Wednesday’s result Miami 106 New York 94

INDIANA (3) VS. ORLANDO (6)

AMWAY CANADIAN CHAMPIONSHIP

(Indiana wins series 4-1)

BOSTON (4) VS. ATLANTA (5) (Boston wins series 4-2) Last night’s result Boston 83 Atlanta 80

(WINNER QUALIFIES FOR CONCACAF CHAMPIONS LEAGUE) SEMIFINALS — SECOND LEG

WESTERN CONFERENCE

Last night’s results Toronto 2 Montreal 0 (Toronto advances on 2-0 aggregate) Vancouver 3 Edmonton 1 (Vancouver advances 3-1)

SAN ANTONIO (1) VS. UTAH (8) (San Antonio wins series 4-0)

OKLAHOMA CITY (2) VS. DALLAS (7) (Oklahoma City wins series 4-0)

L.A. LAKERS (3) VS. DENVER (6)

CONCACAF WOMEN’S UNDER-17 CHAMPIONSHIP

(L.A. Lakers lead series 3-2) Last night’s result L.A. Lakers at Denver Tomorrow’s game x-Denver at L.A. Lakers, 10:30 p.m.

Yesterday’s results Semifinals Canada 1 Mexico 0 U.S. 7 Panama 0 Tomorrow’s games Third Place Panama vs. Mexico, 3:30 p.m. Championship (winner earns U.S. vs. Canada, 6:30 p.m.

MEMPHIS (4) VS. L.A. CLIPPERS (5) (L.A. Clippers lead series 3-2) Wednesday’s result Memphis 92 L.A. Clippers 80 Tonight’s game Memphis at L.A. Clippers, 9 p.m. Sunday’s game x-L.A. Clippers at Memphis, TBA x — played only if necessary.

GERMANY BUNDESLIGA

SCORING LEADERS Bryant, LAL James, Mia Anthony, NY Nowitzki, Dal Durant, OkC Paul, LAC Westbrook, OkC Pierce, Bos Granger, Ind Wade, Mia Parker, SA Gay, Mps Griffin, LAC

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30 46 31 38 27 30 17 27 13 17 23 25 23

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Not including last night’s games

156 139 139 107 106 113 89 109 107 105 84 101 101

PROMOTION-RELEGATION PLAYOFF First Leg Hertha Berlin 1 Fortuna Duesseldorf 2

L AC ROS S E NLL PLAYOFFS DIVISION FINALS

Tomorrow’s games — All Times Eastern

EAST DIVISION Rochester at Toronto, 7 p.m.

WEST DIVISION Edmonton at Minnesota, 9:30 p.m.

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CONSUMERS SHOULD READ THE FOLLOWING: *All offers and Selling Price includes Delivery & Destination ($1,550 for Kizashi/$1,450 for SX4/$1,650 for Grand Vitara models), Dealer Administration Fee ($299), $100 A/C Excise Tax (where applicable), $20 Tire Tax. Offers exclude PPSA up to $72 (when financing), applicable taxes, license, registration, insurance and a down payment of $0. Vehicles may not be exactly as shown. These offers cannot be combined with any other offers and are subject to change without notice. †Cash saving not available on 2012 SX4 Sedan JE S3LB1G2, 2012 SX4 Crossover JA iAWD H3NB2G2, 2012 Grand Vitara Urban L2NB5U2, 2012 Kizashi S iAWD 6B233C2. Dealers may *INCLUDES DEALER FEES, TAX, AIR TAX sell for less. See participating dealers for details. Vehicle images shown may include optional upgrades. Offer available on select models. Dealer order may be required forFREIGHT, 2012 SX4 JE Sedan. Limited time fiTIRE nance off ers available O.A.C. Special bi-weekly purchase finance offers are available on a new 2012 Kizashi S iAWD Model 6B233C2 (Selling Price $29,964), 2012 SX4 Crossover JA iAWD with manual transmission Model H3NB2G2 (Selling Price $22,664), 2012 Grand Vitara Urban 4WD with automatic transmission Model L2NB5U2 (Selling Price $29,064), and a SX4 Sedan JE MT Model S3LB1G2 (Selling Price $17,264) for a 60 month term amortized over an 84 month period. The bi-weekly 60 month term amortized over an 84 month period payment interest rates are based on 2012 Kizashi S iAWD @ 0%, 2012 SX4 Crossover JA iAWD @ 0%, 2012 Grand Vitara JX 4WD @ 0%, and 2012 SX4 Sedan JE MT @ 0% purchase financing, bi-weekly payments are $165/$125/$159/$95 with $0 down payment. Cost of borrowing is $0/$0/$0/$0 for a total obligation of $29,964/$22,664/$29,064/$17,364. Estimated remaining principal balance of $8,561/$6,475/$8,304/$4,961 plus applicable taxes is due at the end of 60-month period. Offer valid until May 31, 2012. ◊Purchase any 2012 Kizashi, 2012 SX4 or 2012 Grand Vitara model and receive a Petro-CanadaTM Preferred PriceTM card valid for $0.40 per litre savings on up to 1,875 litres of fuel per card (maximum litres for approximately one year). Based on Natural Resources Canada’s 2012 Fuel Consumption Guide ratings for the 2012 Kizashi S iAWD (1,630 L/year), the 2012 SX4 Crossover JA iAWD (1,550 L/year) and the 2012 Grand Vitara JX 4WD (2,000 L/year). The Preferred PriceTM card is valid at participating Petro-CanadaTM retail locations (and other participating North Atlantic Petroleum retail locations in Newfoundland). This card has no expiry date. Petro-CanadaTM is a Suncor Energy business. TMTrademark of Suncor Energy Inc. Used under license. Petro-CanadaTM is not a sponsor or co-sponsor of this promotion. Eligibility for the card is subject to conditions and exclusions. Gas card will be provided to consumer after concluding purchase contract at participating dealership. Offer valid until May 31, 2012. 1The Suzuki Kizashi received the highest numerical score among Midsize Cars in the proprietary J.D. Power and Associates 2011 Automotive Performance, Execution and Layout Study SM. Study based on responses from 73,790 new-vehicle owners, measuring 234 models and measures opinions after 90 days of ownership. Proprietary study results are based on experiences and perceptions of owners surveyed in February-May 2011. Your experiences may vary. Visit jdpower.com.

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