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McGuinty gives a tip of the hat to serving bill ‘Appetite’ for change. NDP finance critic has been trying for years to ban owners from taking a percentage of tips

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Comedian Russell Peters hams it up for the camera in Toronto Wednesday while promoting his Notorious World Tour, which hits the Air Canada Centre this Saturday. Offstage, Peters is going through a divorce with his wife of two years. While the two have a baby daughter, Peters says there are “no hard feelings” in the breakup. Story, page 4. Chris Young/the canadian press

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Ontario law should make clear that customers leave tips in restaurants and bars to reward the server and other staff, not the owners, Premier Dalton McGuinty said Wednesday.

“If we go to a restaurant and we put down a tip it is never part of our understanding that’s going to go to the owner or management,” said McGuinty. “It’s about providing a little bit of extra income to those

people who wait on the tables....

I think that’s the implicit understanding we have as consumers, and I think we should have a law that reflects that.”

NDP finance critic Michael Prue has been trying to ban owners and managers from taking a percentage of tips since 2010, and has reintroduced a private members’ bill to outlaw the practice.

Prue received a lot of media attention and support for his idea on newspaper editorial pages, which he credits with helping convince McGuinty and the Liberals to take another look at his bill.

“There’s such a public appetite for this that I’m not surprised the

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Liberals are thinking they better go with it too,” Prue told reporters.

Labour Minister Linda Jeffrey initially said it was legal for owners to take a percentage of tips as long as that was made clear when people were hired.

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Eaton Centre shooter gets 2nd murder charge The man accused in a shooting rampage at Toronto’s Eaton Centre now faces a second murder charge.

Police have amended the charges against 23-year-old Christopher Husbands after the death of a second victim. THE CANADIAN PRESS Oakville

Assault, mischief charges for Mountie An RCMP officer faces charges of assault and mischief after a fight in Oakville over the placement of a parked truck.

Robert Galloway, 50, was off duty when he was allegedly involved in an argument with two other men regarding a landscaping truck blocking a residential sidewalk on Postmaster Dr. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE

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Stabbing victim in serious condition A 27-year-old man spent Wednesday in a Toronto trauma centre with serious and potentially life-threatening injuries after being stabbed multiple times in The Queensway and Windermere Avenue area.

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Seized guns more powerful than cops’ Det. Const. Derek Davey shows the firepower that police found after executing a search warrant. CURTIS RUSH/TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE

Raid. Cops traced weapons back to a June 4 shooting outside Pure Gold strip club Police raiding an Oakville house have seized weapons that included an AR-15 assault rifle, equivalent to the military-style rifles carried by the Emergency Task Force.

“It has only one real purpose, and that is to kill people,” Det. Const. Brendan Spelman told reporters Wednesday as this and other weapons were put on display.

“These are killing machines,” Spelman said, adding the weapons have “tremendous stopping power and

penetration power.”

Two men are accused of attempted murder in connection with the raid earlier this month.

How police discovered the weapons can be traced to a June 4 shooting outside the Pure Gold strip club on Royal Windsor Drive in Oakville.

Several shots were fired in the direction of a car in the parking lot at about 2 a.m.

Police believe a man was targeted after a dispute erupted inside the club.

Three hours later, the assailants went looking for their target, police say. They thought they found him at an Eva Road apartment in the West Mall area of Etobicoke.

Shots were fired through a door and window, narrowly

Ex-officer gets 14 days for sex with teenager A former Toronto police officer who admitted he had a sexual encounter with an underage boy before joining the force will serve the mandatory minimum 14 days in jail.

Brandon Fraser, 25, who was fired after serving as an officer for just seven months, was sentenced Wednesday by provincial court Justice Rebecca Shamai to 14 days in jail for having sex in 2009 with a youth who was either 14 or 15 years old.

He also received a year’s probation, must provide a DNA sample, and will be on the sexoffender registry for 10 years.

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interference Tuesday.

Court was told that before becoming an officer, Fraser, then 22, met a boy in 2008.

They were found in a parked car at mall at 1 a.m. by Peel police. The boy initially told police he was 17, but moments later revealed his age was 14. Fraser was warned by the officers that it would be illegal if he and the boy had sex given their ages.

Despite that warning, Fraser took the boy to his Toronto apartment and they had sex.

The boy later revealed this encounter to police.

The encounter came to light after Toronto police investiga-

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Amount of community service Fraser must perform as part of his sentence. Justice Shamai’s “strong recommendation” was that part of those hours should be spent speaking publicly about the pitfalls of sexual relations with underage partners.

tors looked into a sexual relationship that Fraser, who had since joined the force, was having with a 17-year-old he’d met in 2010.

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missing a person, as the assailants yelled out a man’s name.

He was not home. The terrified man’s stepfather told them his stepson had moved out.

Police later searched two houses in Oakville and found the weapons at one of them.

Police also recovered close to 600 rounds of ammunition and half a kilogram of powdered cocaine.

Police said the weapons will be tested to see if they have been used in other crimes.

Police believe one of the pistols was used in the second shooting in Etobicoke and that the weapon used in the first shooting is still out there.

Police say there is no evidence to suggest there are gang connections.

Other finds:

• Also seized were a pistolgrip Mossberg 12-gauge shotgun with a suppressor to quiet the muzzle blast and two .45 pistols, a Ruger and a Glock.

• Police also recovered close to 600 rounds of ammunition and half a kilo of powdered cocaine.

In Colorado, wildfires have scores of residents fleeing their homes. As they wait out the flames, some are trying to keep up spirits by way of humour and charity.

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Crews in LaPorte, Texas, worked around the clock to remove dozens of gallons of oil-laced water that caused a 100-year-old battleship, which was used in both world wars, to list. Watch at metronews.ca.

Andrew Kreston, 28, and Kelsey Evelyn, 34, both of Oakville, face attempted murder charges and drug and weapons charges.

Police are linking Evelyn to the second shooting, but not the first. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE

Violence. Advocates call for national handgun ban Gun-control advocates took aim at handguns Wednesday, calling for a national ban of the weapons they said are used only for violence.

Relatives of a Toronto man killed in a double shooting four years ago urged the Harper government to shift from defending long guns — the focus of a heated political and now legal battle — to tackling what they consider “a weapon of war.”

Family members of Oliver Martin, who died at 25, said there is no reason for anyone to carry handguns, arguing that, unlike long guns, the smaller firearms serve no legitimate purpose.

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“Handguns are easy to hide and are used, with few exceptions, for one purpose only: to wound or kill someone,” said Susan Martin, speaking at a news conference on the anniversary of her son’s death.

Martin and his friend Dylan Ellis, 26, were shot dead in a parked SUV in Toronto’s entertainment district on June 13, 2008. The killing has so far remained unsolved.

A deadly shooting rampage at Toronto’s Eaton Centre this month once again cast a spotlight on gun violence in the city, and several officials joined in on Wednesday’s call for a crackdown on firearms.

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‘No hard feelings’ in divorce: Russell Peters Notorious World Tour.

The comedian, who hits Toronto for a show on Saturday, touches on fatherhood and the end of his marriage in his new standup act Canadian comedy giant Russell Peters says he and Monica Diaz are on amicable terms as they go through a divorce.

The Brampton, Ont.-raised standup star recently revealed he and Diaz, who have an 18-month-old daughter, are splitting after nearly two years of marriage.

“It was actually a decent breakup. There were no hard feelings,” Peters, 41, said Wednesday in an interview to promote his Notorious World Tour, which hits Toronto’s Air Canada Centre on Saturday.

“We just realized we rushed in and didn’t know each other and when we got to know each other we were kind of like, ‘Hmm, I don’t

Comedian Russell Peters goofs around while promoting his Notorious World tour in Toronto on Wednesday.

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think this is going to work out for the rest of our lives.’

And I didn’t want to wait until my daughter was older

and got used to seeing us together and really mess with her head,” continued Peters, whose ethnically charged

brand of humour has sold out arenas around the world.

“I said, ‘We should probably do it now before the

Ontario’s chief forensic pathologist, Dr. Michael Pollanen, speaks in Toronto on Wednesday.

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Amendment

Human Rights Code extends protections to transgendered Ontario’s Human Rights Code was updated Wednesday for the first time since the 1980s to extend protections to transgendered people.

It was the first change to the code since it was amended to add the words “sexual orientation” to protect gays and lesbians.

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this may cause families,” Pollanen said.

“Based on today’s standards, we could have communicated more openly with families in the past.”

Relatives are being asked to contact the coroner’s office to find out whether an organ belonging to a deceased loved one may have been retained.

They can then ask that the body parts be returned to them at the coroner’s expense through a funeral home for cremation or burial.

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Wynne back-tracks on 65 TCHC houses

Toronto and East York Community Council has shut the door on an unprecedented proposal for a private student residence at College Street and Spadina Avenue.

Council members voted against the 24-storey residence on Wednesday, after hearing from numerous Annex residents opposed to the project’s height and scale. torstar news service

Ontario Housing Minister Kathleen Wynne has had a change of heart and now says she will allow Toronto to sell 65 Toronto Community Housing Corp. singlefamily homes.

Wynne told the Star’s Tanya Talaga on Wednesday she didn’t intend to create “turmoil” when she decided to effectively freeze the sale in a May 30 letter to the city. Torstar News Service

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those that go unclaimed by next June, the coroner would then cremate them.

Only deaths that occurred before June 14, 2010 are potentially affected, given the changes in procedure since then.

Pollanen conceded some families may not want to be “confronted” with the in-

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baby understands anything, and then all the baby knows is mommy and daddy apart, but she knows that when mommy and daddy see each other, there’s no animosity and that, ‘Daddy loves you and mommy loves you and that’s the bottom line.’”

Peters, who was inducted into Canada’s Walk of Fame last year, married Diaz in August 2010.

Their daughter, Crystianna, was born in December 2010 in Los Angeles, where Peters has a home.

Peters says fatherhood and his divorce are among the topics he touches on in his new standup act, which in March became the fastestselling concert in Dubai history, with tickets for two shows sold out in eight minutes.

The tour hits Calgary on June 19; Edmonton on June 21; Vancouver on June 23; and Winnipeg on June 27.

The second leg of the Canadian tour will take place in September and October.

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formation but said it should not be up to the coroner to impose a course of action on them.

“It’s a sensitive issue,” Pollanen said. “We want to work with families to find a solution that’s best for them.”

Organs were retained in some cases post-autopsy to allow for further detailed study as part of the investigation that usually occurs in cases of suicides, homicides and sudden unexplained deaths.

They have been stored in forensic pathology units and hospitals around the province from as far back as the 1970s. The Canadian Press

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TTC subway map gets Super Mario Bros. treatment An 8-bit version of the TTC subway map has been lovingly rendered in the style of Super Mario Brothers 3 by Dave Delisle, a Vancouver-based freelance artist. The map, designed using freeware like Inkscape and GIMP, has also gotten a thumbs-up from the TTC. Delisle’s next target is the Montreal subway system

Youth issues

A young woman looks directly into the camera and says in a soft accent: “I was told to go back to my country.”

A young man with a light beard follows: “In my profession, relationships are built at the bar; what am I supposed to do about that?” he asks.

And then, the more complicated issues: “My parents forced me to take off my hijab,” says another student, referring to the head scarf.

The anecdotes, told from the point of view of Muslim students at the University of Toronto, are gripping, complex and, as many youth can attest to, all too real.

They are also part of a promotional video intended to show the urgent need behind the Muslim Chaplaincy Program at U of T — the first program of its kind in Canada that would see the community fund a full-time chaplain at a university, to serve and support the spiritual and religious needs of Muslim students.

“Many Muslim youth don’t have a place to turn to, and they feel challenged on issues of faith and identity,” says Ruqqayyah Ahdab, the chair of the board of directors for the Muslim Chaplaincy Program at UofT, who was instrumental in the creation of the student led initiative.

“Adults can turn to the mosque for support, but youth often can’t because of cultural issues, or the age gap,” said Ahdab. “So the chaplain will be there to provide this safe space for youth to turn to.”

In Canada, Muslim chaplains have been utilized primarily in military and prison settings to help with issues of religious accommodation. Universities, including UofT, have been most often served by volunteer chaplains, often imams from the community struggling to juggle numerous time commitments.

But over the past five year, dozens of universities in the United States have hired Muslim chaplains on as staff, as a way to offer Muslim students on campus support in the tension-filled aftermath of 9-11.

Province reaches out to families on autopsy organs Ontario is looking to reunite 4,000 autopsy organs with the dead people’s relatives, or at least find out how families want the body parts disposed of.

In reaching out to the family members Wednesday, the province also apologized for its past failure to tell bereaved relatives that organs were being retained for further study.

Dr. Michael Pollanen, the province’s chief forensic pathologist, said withholding the information was done to spare relatives added grief, but times have changed.

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Nik Wallenda: High & mighty King of the High Wire.

On eve of attempt to cross Niagara Falls, the skywalker talks about faith, family, what’s next Kathy Ullyott

For Metro in Toronto

When he was 18, Nik Wallenda had his heart set on becoming a pediatrician.

But just one year later, his family, the legendary Flying Wallendas, was offered a once-in-a-generation opportunity: To re-enact the family’s signature stunt, a three-tier, seven-person pyramid on a wire eight metres above the ground. In 1962, the pyramid had collapsed during a show in Detroit and killed two family members, paralyzing another.

Nik was in. And after the

triumphal re-creation of the act in 1998, his path was set — on a cable just two fingers wide. This Friday the King of the High Wire will attempt to make history again by walking a wire across the thundering cataract of the Horseshoe Falls. We asked this very public man about some very private moments.

How are you preparing physically as well as mentally for the Niagara Falls skywalk?

I don’t have a regular regimen; my workout changes every day depending on my schedule. I always walk several wires and I try to relax and rest. I also try to work in physical activity with my family — we’ll play Frisbee, say, where you have to do 10 pushups if you miss a catch. Or catch it with your left hand only. I don’t spend as much time with my kids as I’d like, so I try to be creative

that way. Mentally: I don’t meditate but I spend a lot of time praying, which is a kind of meditation. I’m a bornagain Christian so I pray, I talk to God, a lot.

Do you think that religion, or belief in a higher power, is necessary for someone in your line of work?

Well, I can say there’s no way I would do it without it.

Have you ever had a supernatural experience, on or off the wire?

I wouldn’t say so, no. But I do believe that I’m surrounded by guardian angels at all times, whether I’m walking a wire or walking down the street.

What is your greatest dream for your children (Yanni, 14, Amadaos, 11, and Evita, 9)?

That they achieve their goals and dreams. And I like to think that as their father, I

am inspiring them to do that.

I love a challenge — in taking on Niagara Falls a lot of people said it can’t be done, it won’t be done.

But when someone says to me

something can’t be done, that’s my cue to find a way.

If there was one thing in your life you could go back and change, what would it be?

Honestly, I wouldn’t change anything. Yes, I’ve had great successes and some failures. But the failures, the disappointments all contribute to what I am, where I am today.

And I wouldn’t change that for anything.

If you could

clearly was my inspiration.

I’d love to ask him about our family, hear the family history, hear his amazing stories. have dinner with one historical figure and ask him/ her anything you want, who would that be?

That would have to be my greatgrandfather, Karl Wallenda (who brought the family from Germany to America in 1928, and died in a fall from a wire in Puerto Rico in 1978). I was born in 1979 but he

But if you could ask him just one question?

I’d ask him if he is proud.

People tell me he would be honoured by what I’ve accomplished, but I’d love to ask him how he feels, myself.

What happens after Niagara Falls?

I want to be a father and a husband for awhile. I’ve been consumed with this for six months — two years, really — and I really feel I’ve neglected my family. So I just want to spend time with them.

On the web To view a live feed of the walk, go to metronews.ca

Randy Risling/TorStar news service; top Photo: Harry Scull Jr./the Buffalo News/The associated press

High in the sky

Daredevil legacy honoured Nik Wallenda, 33, is a high-wire artist and acrobat. He hails from a family of daredevils and is a direct descendant of Karl Wallenda — founder of The Flying Wallendas. metro

Bike on a wire

Riding to a record Wallenda holds the Guinness Book of Records World Record for longest and highest bicycle ride on a highwire during a live broadcast of the Today show on NBC. Last year, he completed the high-wire crossing that killed his great-grandfather, Karl Wallenda. metro

Forbidden zone

Century- long ban broken Attempting to cross Niagara Falls on a high wire has been forbidden for the last 100 years. ABC is insisting that Wallenda wear a safety harness — something the high-wire artist initially refused to do. metro

Steeling the thunder

$1.3M

The cost of making the seven-ton steel wire, installation, permits, security, travel and marketing is estimated at about $1.3 million.

The TV deal with ABC will offset some of the cost.

Parking it

At the brink

Keeping things spick at the span

Laying it on 1,800 feet of line

Other costs include a $50,000 letter of credit to the Niagara Parks Commission, which would be used only in the event of a water rescue and a $25,000 deposit to U.S. authorities to ensure the Niagara Falls park is restored to its original condition. metro

Wallenda plans to start on the American side and walk 1,800 feet across the falls at 200 feet above the gorge bottom. If successful, he will be the first to cross over the brink of the famous falls. metro

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Parties wrangling ahead of omnibus-bill marathon ‘Omni-mess’. Voting unlikely to end political fight over Tory budget bill The tongue-in-cheek nickname for the omnibus Conservative budget bill is “the omni-mess” — an opposition sobriquet to describe 400-plus pages of legislation that make widespread changes to almost every facet of Canadian life.

But the term has also been sneaking into the Tory vocabulary of late as the government finds itself running up against

unanticipated political fallout from the Jobs, Growth and Long-term Prosperity Act, also known as Bill C-38.

For the opposition parties, a marathon vote set to begin Wednesday night on more than 800 proposed amendments is an effort to prevent the government from sweeping the mess under the rug.

The legislation hasn’t received the detailed study such enormous changes require, they argue.

“We are facing a government that does not respect this institution,” said NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair.

“The reason we are elected

is to look at the laws carefully and they are refusing to allow us to have a serious look at this bill.”

The government has insisted it needs each and every change contained in the bill in order to follow through on its promise to create jobs and keep the economy humming.

“We live in a global economy and global events will affect us here, so we need to have the tools to continue to keep Canada strong,” said Finance Minister Jim Flaherty.

The government has refused repeated requests from opposition parties to break up the bill into more manageable

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Winnipeg lab. Progress in potential treatment for deadly Ebola infection

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sections.

“By refusing to compromise, the Conservatives are setting a dangerous precedent,” said Liberal House leader Marc Garneau. the canadian press

Canadian researchers are reporting a potential advance in the treatment of Ebola virus infection, one of the most deadly pathogens known to humankind.

Researchers from the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg are reporting that monkeys deliberately infected with Ebola were successfully saved with a cocktail of antibodies against the virus.

Four of four monkeys given the treatment 24 hours after infection survived. And two of four monkeys treated 48 hours after infection also survived.

There currently is no vaccine and no treatment for Ebola, a viral hemorrhagic fever that causes sporadic, tragic outbreaks in countries in central Africa.

This treatment isn’t ready for human use yet. And even if the work continues to look promising, hurdles will undoubtedly arise when attempts are made to translate findings in the lab to a usable therapy in the field.

Still, these results are creating optimism that a tool with which to combat Ebola outbreaks may be on the horizon.

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Teacher showed his students grim body-parts case video Caution: Disturbing content. High school swiftly suspends man, but students defend him, saying they asked him to play it A teacher has been suspended by a Montreal school for showing Grade 10 students the infamous video that shows a killing allegedly committed by Luka Rocco Magnotta.

The teacher showed the students the grotesque scenes on June 4 and was immediately suspended that afternoon — with pay.

The video is so disturbing Reality

“For sure, at the beginning I found it tough.

But I wasn’t traumatized or anything. We see so much these days on TV.” Maude Aubin-Boivin, 17

that even seasoned detectives who watched it were troubled by the contents, Montreal police say.

Staff at Cavelier-De LaSalle High School in Montreal’s west end say they quickly informed the students that a team of psychologists was available to deal with any problems from watching the video.

“We condemn with one voice the actions of the teacher,” the school board said Wednesday.

“The incident is being taken very seriously.”

Students are defending the popular young teacher — who one described as being in his 20s.

Another student said it was the kids who asked him to play the video. She said the teacher was hesitant. A few children in the class also objected.

“He’s a very good teacher,” declared 17-yearold Maude Aubin-Boivin, adding: “Honestly, his courses are super fun.

He’s a teacher who knows his job.” the canadian press

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Japanese school gets its wayward basketball back

Blogger starts a ‘fuzz’ with her tweets about Jews

A basketball that was A social media experiment washed away in last in Sweden raised eyebrows year’s tsunami has been around the world when one reunited with students at of the curators made offena middle school in Japan. sive comments about Jews.

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Police confirm it

DNA shows Lin’s body parts were mailed to B.C. Montreal police said Wednesday that DNA results have confirmed the two body parts mailed to Vancouver last week belong to student Jun Lin. Luka Rocco Magnotta, a porn actor, is suspected of killing and dismembering Lin before sending some of his body parts to Canadian political parties and schools.

In Berlin, a court has ordered Magnotta to be held in pre-extradition custody as his likely return to Canada edges closer.

Magnotta, 29, fled to Europe and was captured at an Internet café in Berlin.

He has said he won’t fight extradition.

Students speak to reporters at Cavelier-De LaSalle High School Wednesday. ryan remiorz/the canadian press

the middle of a controversy over some of her tweets.

The @Sweden Twitter project is an initiative by the Swedish Institute and VisitSweden to get people interested in all things Swedish.

In between Sonja Abrahamsson’s musings about her life, she posted a series of tweets about Jewish people.

In one, she wrote: “Whats the fuzz with jews.

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Six-year agony

Duo accused of torturing, starving captive girl A Bosnian man and his girlfriend have been charged with illegally imprisoning and torturing a German teenager for more than six years, an official said Wednesday Tuzla prosecutor’s office spokesperson Admir Arnautovic said Milenko Marinkovic, 52, and Slavojka Marinkovic, 45,

have been indicted on the charges.

According to the indictment, the 19-year-old girl was “held captive, starved, prevented from going to school and meeting other people and otherwise physically and mentally tortured.”

The couple were arrested in May at their home in Karavlasi.

Villagers said they had treated the girl like a slave, beaten her, forced her to sleep and eat with pigs, and whipped her while pulling a horse cart. the associated press

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Man jailed for filming friends’ sex attack A 32-year-old Winnipeg man has been sentenced to 20 months in jail for videotaping his friends sexually assaulting an unconscious woman.

Court heard she was passed out when a pair of men groped her for about 15 minutes while Jeffrey Tongol filmed. the canadian press

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Sunni insurgents suspected in mass bombing targeting Shiites on annual pilgrimage A co-ordinated wave of car bombs struck Shiite pilgrims in Baghdad and several other cities Wednesday, killing at least 66 people and wounding more than 200 in one of the deadliest days in Iraq since U.S. troops withdrew from the country.

The bloodshed comes against a backdrop of political divisions that have raised tensions and threatened to provoke a new round of the violence that once pushed Iraq to the brink of civil war.

Nobody immediately claimed responsibility for the attacks, but they bore the hallmarks of Sunni insurgents who frequently target Shiites in Iraq.

Wednesday’s blasts were the third this week targeting the annual pilgrimage that sees hundreds of thousands of Shiites converge on a goldendomed shrine in Baghdad’s northern neighbourhood of Kazimiyah to commemorate the eighth century death of a revered Shiite saint, Imam Moussa al-Kadhim. The commemoration culminates on Saturday.

Puddles of blood and shards of metal clogged a drainage ditch at the site of one of the bombings in the city of Hillah, where hours before pilgrims had been marching. Soldiers and onlookers wandered near the charred remains of the car that had exploded and ripped gaping holes in nearby shops.

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The scene of a car-bomb attack in the Karrada neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday. Karim Kadim/the associated press

five cities, but two hit offices of political parties linked to Iraq’s Kurdish minority in the tense north. Authorities had tightened security ahead of the pilgrimage, including a blockade of the mainly Sunni area of Azamiyah, which is near the twin-domed Shiite shrine.

According to accounts compiled by police and health officials in the targeted areas, the first bomb struck a procession at around 5 a.m. in the town of Taji, north of Baghdad, killing seven people and wounding two others.

That was followed by four more morning blasts that hit other groups of pilgrims across the capital, killing 25 people and wounding more than 70.

M South of Baghdad, two car bombs exploded minutes apart at dawn in the centre

of the mainly Shiite city of Hillah, killing 21 people and wounding 53, according to two police officers and one health worker.

A parked car bomb also exploded near a group of pilgrims in the Shiite holy city of Karbala, 90 kilometres south of Baghdad, at about 8 a.m., killing two people and wounding 22 others.

In the Shiite town of Balad, 80 kilometres north of Baghdad, two nearly simultaneous car bombs killed seven pilgrims and wounded 34.

Explosions also targeted Iraqi Kurds in the north.

The overall toll made it the deadliest day in Iraq since Jan. 5, when a wave of bombings targeting Shiites killed 78 people in Baghdad and outside the southern city of Nasiriyah.

Political strife

Political divisions in Iraq have deepened, paralyzing the country since the Americans withdrew all combat troops in mid-December.

• Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has been accused of trying to monopolize power.

• Tensions spiked after VicePresident Tariq al-Hashemi — the highest-ranking Sunni in Iraq’s leadership — was charged with running death squads.

• The political stagnation has set back hopes for stability in Iraq and stalled efforts to rebuild the country after eight years of U.S. occupation.

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“I support the meaningful work of the Boy Scouts in preparing young people for adventure, leadership, learning and service,” Turley said. “However the membership policy is not one I would personally endorse.” the associated press

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Amish defrauded, man sent to jail A federal judge in Ohio has sentenced a man to six and a half years in prison for defrauding fellow Amish in 29 states out of nearly $17 million.

Monroe Beachy, 78, pleaded guilty to mail fraud in a scheme the govern-

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Beachy is a member of an Amish church about 96 kilometres south of Cleveland where he operated an investment business that filed for bankruptcy protection two years ago.

Investigators say Beachy promised to put the investors’ money into safer securities. But he used it for higher-risk investments. the associated press

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Justice officials in Alberta have dropped a ticket issued to a Good Samaritan who used his ATV to plow snow off a city sidewalk.

Jon Cooper received the $250 fine in January 2011 while attempting to clear a path regularly used by

For months, Cuban Cardinal Jaime Ortega has been under fire.

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Now, Cuba’s Roman Catholic Church is fighting back.

Church officials on the island have launched a fullthroated defence of their leader, and Catholic publications have harshly denounced his critics.

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that he and his father, Ryan, took to the forest.

He said they wandered using maps and a compass, staying in tents or caves overnight.

He told authorities that after his father died in August, 2011, he buried him in the forest and then walked five days north before ending up in Berlin, and showed up at city hall.

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seniors in St. Albert, north of Edmonton.

When the ATV and it’s attached plow got stuck in the heavy snow, Cooper’s son tried to tow it out with his truck. RCMP arrived and ticketed Cooper for using the ATV in the city.

There was a scuffle and officers charged the son with obstructing a peace officer. Those criminal charges were also dropped. the canadian press

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Questions. ‘Ray’ emerges from forest, wanders into Berlin and now keeps all Germany guessing Who is Ray? That’s the question all Germany is asking.

Ray is an English-speaking teenage boy who wandered into Berlin nine months ago saying he had been living for the last five years in the forest with his father.

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The boy told authorities his father called him “Ray” and that he was born June 20, 1994, but claims not to know his last name or where he’s from.

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The U.S. space agency launched its newest X-ray space telescope Wednesday on a mission to hunt for black holes and other hard-to-see objects lurking in the Milky Way and other galaxies.

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Cardinal Jaime Ortega has just organized a highprofile visit by Pope Benedict XVI and is likely near the end of his tenure.

• Ortega handed his resignation to the Pope when he turned 75 last year but Benedict has not yet accepted it.

on an island where the church has traditionally preferred to exercise influence quietly, behind the scenes. the associated press

“It’s a terrific day,” assistant launch director Tim Dunn said.

NASA decided to airlaunch the $170 million mission, instead of rocketing off from a launch pad, because it was cheaper.

The telescope was boosted into orbit by a rocket released from a aircraft that took off from Kwajalein Atoll in the Pacific.

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Buddhists versus Muslims. Violence triggered by rape and murder of Buddhist woman, allegedly by three Muslims Heavy rain brought an uneasy calm in western Myanmar on Wednesday after five days of sectarian strife, though residents were too fearful to sleep and faced food shortages.

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“It is quiet here this morning but life has not returned to normal. We live in fear every day and night.”

San Shwe, a resident recounting unconfirmed rumours that authorities had seized weapons caches from Muslim villagers.

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Fears of renewed violence halted bus and ferry deliveries of food and other cargo from Yangon to Sittwe, limiting supplies and sending prices skyrocketing.

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Islamist riots. Tunisia leaders condemn extremists after attacks Tunisia’s leaders on Wednesday condemned extremists after days of riots by radical Islamists left one man dead, injured 62 security personnel and led to more than 160 arrests.

Ultraconservative Islamists known as Salafis attacked an art gallery Sunday in a Tunis suburb for an exhibition they said insulted Islam. After security forces dispersed them with tear gas, gangs attacked police stations around the country over the next few days.

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Rae won’t run for Liberal leadership Ottawa. Party leadership race now wide open as interim chief steps aside Bob Rae won’t seek the permanent leadership of the federal Liberals because it’s better for the party, the interim leader said Wednesday, setting the stage for a wide-open race and renewing the tantalizing pros-

pect of a Justin Trudeau candi- his caucus behind closed doors.

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Sources say the 63-year-old ciding how I could do the best Rae — who will stay on as inter- thing for the health of the Libim leader until a replacement eral party.”

Rae’s controversial tenure is chosen — decided against running primarily because, de- as Ontario NDP premier from spite popularity among caucus 1990 to 1995 — marred by a members, he still doesn’t have deep recession, broken camthe broad support of the party’s paign promises and acrimonious relations with the provrank and file.

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The girl was formally charged with 18 counts in connection with three incidents involving three victims.

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Decision in favour of the women would shame government More than 100 women die during childbirth each week in Uganda, a heartbreaking statistic that has energized activists to go to the Supreme Court in a bid to force the government to put more resources toward maternal health care to prevent the wave of deaths.

The activists say they want the country’s top judges to declare that women’s rights are violated when they die in childbirth, the kind of statement a lower court declined to give last week. In rejecting the petition, the constitutional Court said the matter was for the country’s political leaders to handle.

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Women walk out of court in Kampala, Uganda, earlier this month after losing a case against the government over maternal deaths during childbirth. They have now taken the issue further, to the country’s Supreme Court.

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have a serious role to play: A declaration favouring the women activists would shame

the government into action that drastically reduces mortality among childbearing women in Uganda, activists say.

“All we want is a declaration that when women die during childbirth it is a violation of their rights,” said Noor Musisi of the Center for Health, Human Rights and Development, a Kampala-based group that is championing the legal push. The groups presented the bid to the Supreme Court on Tuesday.

Uganda loses 16 women in childbirth daily, a figure some activists boldly emphasize on placards during regular marches in the streets of the Ugandan capital. Most of these deaths happen in villages where bad roads and poverty make it difficult for women to reach health centres. Even when they get there, some say, the available care is poor. the associated press

South Korean vendors burning with anger South Korean street vendors burn letters reading “Korea Democratic Street Vendors Confederation” during a rally against the government’s crackdown on them in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday. Thousands of protesters attended the rally, demanding job security. LEE JIN-MAN/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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The NPD party lawmakers refused to remove T-shirts and shirts from the Thor Steinar company in an “openly provocative act,” Saxony state parliament spokesman Ivo Klatte said.

The brand, with its runic symbols and Nordic themes, is popular among neo-Nazis in Germany, even though the

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The lawmakers were banned from parliament’s next three sessions after refusing to change or leave, Klatte said. They only left voluntarily after police entered the assembly hall to enforce their expulsion.

Parliament’s rules forbid clothes, posters or stickers expressing a political opinion in the assembly hall, Klatte said.

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Mouthing off. Rob Lowe gets flak online for ‘hellhole Winnipeg’ rant

The dog didn’t do it, police say A western Pennsylvania man who blamed his dog for causing an apartment fire has been jailed on charges that he set the blaze himself.

Cresson Township police have charged 58-year-old John Saparo with setting the fire, though police have yet to specify how.

Police did say they’ve determined the fire didn’t start the way Saparo claimed. He told officers he was cleaning and had several fans running when his dog knocked one over which, somehow, started the fire.

Actor Rob Lowe is in Winnipeg to shoot a TV movie.

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Lowe seemed quite happy and had no complaints, she said.

Lowe was on the sitcom Parks and Recreation and also a former star of The West Wing. He’s in Winnipeg to work on a made-forTV movie about the trial of Casey Anthony, a Florida mother who was acquitted in the death of her daughter.

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Winnipeg’s dumpster doggie Rayne OK A puppy named Rayne is cared for by a City of Winnipeg Animal Services staff member after being found in a dumpster last week. The eight-week-old shepherd-collie mix was found wet and cold in a north-end garbage bin. Rayne hasn’t been adopted yet due to a five-day holding period the agency has in place, but the cute little pup is getting lots of attention. the canadian press

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It seems hell hath no fury like a city that’s been called a “hellhole” by a second tier Hollywood actor.

Rob Lowe, in Winnipeg to shoot a made-for-TV movie, has stirred up anger after writing a message on Twitter Tuesday night that ended with the hashtag “#Trappedinahellhole.”

Lowe was complaining about how he was watching the NBA playoffs on TV when the station interrupted the game for coverage of municipal elections.

However, there were no municipal elections in Manitoba Tuesday — Lowe was likely watching a TV station based across the border in Grand Forks, N.D. Winnipeg residents quickly fired back on Twitter, calling Lowe a jerk, a schmuck and other names.

“You can leave any time,” wrote Ken Johnston.

“Feel free to leave the hell hole. I’m sure another great thespian could take your role,” wrote Scott Cawson.

The apparent jab came as a disappointment to Liz Peters, a Lowe fan who managed to

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Papal envoy backs bishops over birth control Religious-liberty fight.

‘Delicate’ approach needed in context of presidential election, ambassador says

Pope Benedict XVI delivers his blessing at the Basilica of St. John Lateran in Rome on Monday. Riccardo De Luca/The Associated Press

The pope’s U.S. ambassador praised American bishops Wednesday for confronting the American government over religious-liberty issues, including resisting the man-

date from President Barack Obama’s administration that health insurance cover birth control.

Archbishop Carlo Vigano, the papal nuncio based in Washington, noted such advocacy required a “delicate” approach in the context of a presidential election. But Vigano said the concerns were so worrisome that bishops had to act.

“It goes without saying that the Catholic Church in the United States is living in a

particularly challenging period of its history,” Vigano told an Atlanta meeting of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

“Of course, I am thinking of the whole question of freedom of religion and of conscience.”

The national gathering is the bishops’ first since dioceses filed a dozen lawsuits against an Obama-administration mandate that most employers provide health insurance covering birth control. The rule generally exempts houses of worship,

Bishops battle back • The U.S. bishops are or-

ganizing a Fortnight for Freedom, two weeks of rallies and prayer services on religious freedom leading up to July 4.

but faith-affiliated hospitals, charities and schools would have to comply.

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Pickton inquiry. Probe finds no evidence of harassment at commission An investigation into claims of sexual harassment within the offices of the Robert Pickton inquiry found no evidence to corroborate what remain anonymous allegations published in the media, says a report by the lawyer who conducted the probe.

The National Post newspaper published a story in April that relied on anonymous sources who alleged they were sexually harassed while working at the commission.

The article prompted com-

missioner Wally Oppal to appoint an independent lawyer, Delayne Sartison, to look into the allegations. In the meantime, the commission’s executive director, John Boddie, took a paid leave of absence to ensure the investigation’s independence.

Sartison interviewed current and former staff members but found no evidence of sexual harassment or genderbased discrimination, according to her report, released Wednesday. THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Lake and ponds discovered on moon of Saturn Lunar oasis? Find near equator of satellite defuses theory that bodies of liquid can only exist near poles In a surprise find, scientists say they have spotted hints of a methane-rich lake and several ponds near the equator of Saturn’s biggest moon.

Lakes were previously spied near Titan’s polar regions. It was long thought that bodies of liquid could not exist near the tropics because they would evaporate.

“This discovery was completely unexpected because lakes are not stable at tropical latitudes,” said planetary scientist Caitlin Griffith of the University of Arizona, who led the discovery team.

By measuring reflected sunlight from Titan’s surface and atmosphere, the inter-

Titan with Saturn’s rings in the background.

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national Cassini spacecraft detected a dark region near the landing site of Huygens, a companion probe that parachuted to Titan’s equator in 2005.

Scientists said further analysis of the dark feature suggests the presence of a 2,400-square-kilometre hydrocarbon lake — twice as big as Lake Champlain, a freshwater lake that borders upstate New York and

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Vermont. Near the tropical lake were hints of four shallow ponds similar in size and depth to marshes on Earth.

The findings were detailed in Thursday’s issue of the journal Nature.

Titan is among the few bodies in the solar system with a dense atmosphere, but scientists have wrestled over the source of the thick blanket of nitrogen and methane. Methane gas in the atmosphere is constantly broken up by sunlight and falls to the surface where it is transported back to the poles, condensing to form lakes.

Scientists do not believe this process is driving the presence of tropical lakes and ponds. Rather, they think there may be an underground source of methane that periodically vents to the surface to form the hydrocarbon bodies of liquid.

Officials say the world’s first commercial supply ship to visit the International Space Station weathered its maiden voyage well.

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and SpaceX Chief Executive Elon Musk discussed the flight as they viewed the Dragon spacecraft at a Texas rocket factory on Wednesday.

Last month, the SpaceX Dragon delivered 453 kilograms of provisions to the space station and returned with 635 kilograms of old equipment.

The California-based SpaceX is the first private business to send a cargo ship to the space station.

Bolden said the capsule gets “beaten up” during re-entry, but is robust. The capsule appeared to be in good condition while on display at the factory in McGregor, 209 kilometres southwest of Dallas.

SpaceX hopes to launch another capsule in September. the associated press

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They were summoned for interrogation and had their apartments raided on the eve of Tuesday’s rally in what was seen as part of Kremlin efforts to discourage people from attending the anti-Putin

Protesters carry a banner reading “Russia Go Forward without Putin” as tens of thousands flood Moscow streets Tuesday. Alexander Zemlianichenko/the associated press

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The International Criminal Court prosecutor asked judges on Wednesday to hand down a 30-year sentence to Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga, who was convicted of conscripting child soldiers.

Ten passengers are suing JetBlue over a flight during which a pilot had to be physically restrained after screaming about religion and terrorism.

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The lawsuit was filed Wednesday in state Supreme Court in New York, and contends the airline should have known Clayton Osbon was unfit to fly. An airline spokesman did not immediately comment.

The plane from New York to Las Vegas on March 27 made an emergency landing in Texas.

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Tymoshenko’s daughter wants pressure increased Eugenia Tymoshenko, the daughter of Ukraine’s imprisoned former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko, told German justice ministers Wednesday that European and other Western nations

Eugenia Tymoshenko Nigel Treblin/The Associated Press

should increase pressure on the government in Kyiv over her mother’s case.

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Egypt’s government extended the powers of military police and intelligence agents Wednesday to allow them to arrest civilians for a wide range of offences, just days before the presidential runoff. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Syria conducting scorched-earth campaign in rebel areas: Amnesty Terrorizing towns.

New report says brutal attacks by government forces are part of a ‘deliberate policy’ Syrian forces and militias dragged men from their homes, executing them and burning their bodies as their families watched — a campaign to terrorize the residents of towns believed to shelter rebels, Amnesty International charged in a report released Wednesday.

The report by the London-based rights group said Syrian forces were engaging in a scorched-earth policy in some areas, killing some civilians and torturing others, shooting livestock and burning crops and houses in rebel-held areas.

Amnesty said the attacks appeared to increase as the 15-month uprising has transformed into an armed conflict between rebels and

Syrian forces.

The group said it based its information on more than 200 interviews with residents in 23 Syrian towns and villages over six weeks, starting in mid-April.

Amnesty said it also documented incidents of rebels kidnapping and killing captured soldiers and progovernment thugs, known as “shabiha,” but said the vast majority of abuses were committed by government forces and their allies.

“The frequency and brutality of government reprisals against towns and villages supportive of the opposition has escalated, in an apparent bid to punish the inhabitants ... and to frighten them into submission,” the report said.

“The scale of the attacks, and the manner in which they were carried out, indicates that such crimes were perpetrated as part of a deliberate policy,” it said.

In one incident, an Amnesty researcher saw Syrian

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Nepalese activists hold placards during a Wednesday rally against human rights violations in Syria. The protest was organized by Amnesty International and held outside the UN office in Kathmandu, Nepal.

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Oklahoma governor says she’s frustrated by delays

Tech trends. Tablet ownership continues to surge in Canada, iPad tops

Oklahoma’s governor is losing patience with delays in building the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline, which would cross through her state on its way from Alberta to the Texas coast.

Mary Fallin told delegates at the Global Petroleum Show on Wednesday she’s encouraged that the backer of the $7.6-billion US project, TransCanada Corp., plans to start building a stretch of pipe from her state south to Texas refineries very soon.

“We’ve had some great meetings while we’ve been here with TransCanada to talk about those operations, and they’re anticipated to begin construction on that section of pipeline in July in our state.”

During her visit to Canada, Fallin also visited a steam-driven oilsands operation near Fort McMurray, Alta., operated by Oklahoma-based Devon Energy.

Oklahoma is home to a

Tablet ownership continues to surge in Canada, and online and mobile TV viewing is on the rise, according to a new report on tech trends in Canada.

Based on 2,000 surveys of anglophone Canadians conducted in March and April, CBC/Radio-Canada’s Media Technology Monitor found that the rapid adoption of tablets continues, with about 21 per cent of those surveyed reporting they owned one of the pricey devices. That figure is up 3.5 times compared to last spring, when only six per cent of anglophone Canadians had a tablet.

Apple’s iPad was far and away the most popular tablet with about 62 per cent of the market in Canada, while Research in Motion’s BlackBerry PlayBook had a share of almost 20 per cent, according to the survey results.

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huge oil storage hub at Cushing, and several pipelines lead in that direction.

However, a massive supply glut there has depressed the price North American producers get for their oil, so they want to see more pipeline capacity out of Cushing to funnel some of the excess to more lucrative markets.

Fallin also says the U.S. should be buying crude from a “friend” and “ally” like Canada instead of from hostile regimes. the canadian press

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Saudis seeking low oil prices OPEC ministers will meet Thursday deeply divided over how much crude to pump, with Saudi Arabia keen to

keep a lid on prices, rival Iran pushing to cut production and Iraq expected to back Iran, its longtime foe under Saddam Hussein. The divisions will test the unity of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries. the associated press

Online viewing The viewing of online video on mobiles devices, computers and TV sets, grew over the past month.

• 71 per cent watched some type of online video.

• 1 in 5 watched full-length TV episodes.

• 19 per cent watched a feature film.

vices to watch TV. About 21 per cent of tablet owners said they are now watching TV shows on their device, which represents about five per cent of the total anglophone population. Only about two per cent of anglophones were watching TV shows on tablets in the spring of 2011. the canadian press

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Canada being hit by Dutch Disease: Report Economic analysis.

Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development traces the steep decline of manufacturing The OECD is weighing in on the controversy surrounding whether Canada is suffering from an economic condition known as Dutch Disease, and it’s qualified answer is yes.

The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development warns in a report released Wednesday that the run-up in commodity prices is leading to an uneven economy in Canada.

Resource-rich provinces such as Alberta, Saskatchewan and Newfoundland have prospered, while others have fallen behind, in part because a commodity boom has strengthened the Canadian dollar, hurting exchange-sensitive sectors such as manufacturing and tourism.

Retail

Dollarama rolling out $3 items Dollarama Inc. plans to gradually introduce some non-grocery items priced as high as $3 this summer, the Montreal-based discount retailer announced Wednesday along with a better-than-expected profit.

Larry Rossy, Dollarama’s chairman and chief executive, said customers have responded well to the addition of items that are priced above $1 — although the previous limit was $2. the canadian press

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The analysis mirrors that of NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair, who has been accused of pitting regions against each other for political purposes.

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Customers look at displays of silk dresses at a shop in Shanghai on Wednesday. Chinese consumers can afford to splash out more on higher-quality products, but also expect better value for money than in the past, according to a study by the American Chamber of Commerce. China’s consumer market is forecast to become the second largest in the world after the U.S. by 2015. Both Chinese and foreign companies are struggling to keep up as the market evolves, said the report, released Wednesday. For companies like Kraft Foods Inc. and Pepsi­ Co. Inc., that means tailoring products to suit local tastes while leveraging the company’s global brand name.

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If I still find the occasional soccer game boring, I need only think of what it was like to watch this year’s NHL playoffs, which in the final two rounds were an amazing display of shot-blocking, icings and offsides that the world had not witnessed the likes of since mid-January.

If I consider diving unsportsmanlike, I can think of how many people shrug off baseball players cheating their way right into the record books.

And if I wish to condemn rioters and thugs (and I do), I can also note how often North American sporting events seem to be celebrated with the ceremonial Burning of the Cars.

So now when the World Cup and the Euro roll around, I latch on to a team or two and drink in the colourful costumes, bicycle kicks, celebration runs and the rising crescendo of the soccer chant.

Frankly, any sport that can get 80,000 fans in one place without any of them singing YMCA is all right by me.

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Portugal wins, Russian fans rage A Portugal fan enjoys the pre-game atmosphere ahead of a Euro 2012 match between Denmark and Portugal at Arena Lviv on Wednesday in Lviv, Ukraine.

Portugal went on to beat Denmark 3-2.

But the tournament has not been without its fair share of controversy.

Russia could be deducted six points in its qualifying group for the next European Championship if its fans turn violent

again at Euro 2012.

UEFA fined the Russian soccer association $150,000 US on Wednesday because its fans attacked stadium stewards at a match last week in Poland. UEFA also gave the federation a suspended six-point deduction for a repeat offence.

Within hours of the announcement, UEFA charged Russia with further offences relating to its fans’ behaviour inside the National Stadium during the match against Poland on Tuesday in Warsaw. Russian fans were also filmed fighting with stadium staff in Wroclaw after a 4-1 win last Friday.

• Topless Internet photos of Jelena Miksa, a clerk at the culture ministry, and a female family member have been a hit on social networks and local media as they celebrated Croatia’s 3-1 victory over Ireland on Sunday in Poznan, Poland.

• The women said they did it in support of the team.

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Italy coach Cesare Prandelli, responding to Italy player Antonio Cassano’s remark on gay footballers.

Cassano said Tuesday that he hopes there are no homosexual players on the national team at the European Championship, then used a derogatory word to describe gays. Hours later, he issued an apology.

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Cruise honoured

by Friars Tom Cruise was in Manhattan to collect an award, and, yes, promote a movie. On Tuesday night, the actor received the fourthever Friars Club Entertainment Icon Award, placing him in the same company as Douglas Fairbanks, Cary Grant and Frank Sinatra.

The evening was a toast, not a roast. Alec Baldwin presided at the WaldorfAstoria, where speakers included such former co-stars as Cuba Gooding Jr. and Kevin Pollak. Robin Thicke and Corinne Rae Bailey were among the musical performers. Many had stories about working with Cruise and his impact on them. Baldwin joked that any time he finds himself taking on too many tasks at once, he hums the theme from Mission: Impossible.

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For Daniel Powter, bad days are old news New album. It has been a long road back for a the one-hit wonder artist who has struggled with drug abuse and depression The smash hit Bad Day should have been a good thing for Daniel Powter: The upbeat tune put Powter on

the musical map.

It not only became the biggest hit of his career, but it was also the No. 1 song of 2006.

But lightning didn’t strike twice for the Powter. In fact, lightning didn’t even come close again.

Powter never returned to the pop charts and Billboard even named Powter the decade’s top one-hit wonder.

Powter eventually became sick of performing his claim

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to fame.

“When the spotlight hit me, I was like, ‘I don’t want to be in the spotlight,’” he said

in a recent interview. “I hated it. I hated being on TV.” Depressed, he turned to drugs and alcohol, his personal life fell apart and his next album flopped.

“I just didn’t want to do it anymore,” he explained.

But Powter, now 41, has returned to music. A new album, Turn on the Lights, is set for an August release, and he said he’s been clean and sober for two years.

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After the show there will be after parties. And after that, there may even be shenanigans in hotel lobbies. But the best way to rub elbows with celebrities at Sunday night’s MuchMusic Video Awards is on the pre-show red carpet.

“With the red carpet show,

you never know what’s going to happen and that’s the most exciting part,” says Steve Jarman, the show’s supervising producer.

The red carpet will overtake John St. between Queen and Richmond for the third time this year, a necessary change after the MMVAs themselves overtook the red carpet’s former home on Queen St. Exactly 6,450 feet of material will be laid down to handle the over 150 expected guests who’ll walk along the space’s namesake posing for photos and answering questions “The red carpet is a huge celebration,” says Jarman. “Its a chance for fans to get up close and personal with their favourite stars.”

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has always prided itself on its unique approach to awards shows, holding it in an office building and parking lot instead of a stuffy theatre to create a party atmosphere.

That attitude extends to the red carpet where flashy arrivals have become the rule rather than the exception. Ice Cream trucks, ambulances, even giant hamster balls have been used to deliver the stars to the party.

Unique transportation is generally discussed with organizers ahead of time. Jarman says organizers do their best to accommodate but sometimes, safety trumps spectacle, like the time one artist wanted to land a hot-air balloon on the street.

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Wrangler’s work is never done Due to the MMVAs’ massive scale, organizers turn to staff when it comes time to assign wranglers to arriving stars. “It’s all staff. We pull people from every part of winter and weeks are spent hammering out a runsheet with guest’s scheduled arrival times. But that runsheet often goes out the window within the first five minutes. And that’s just fine with Jarman.

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this building,” says Jarman.

Wranglers meet their artist out on the street and keep an eye with them on the red carpet, then guide them inside the party. They stick with their assigned star for the night, with the express goal of ensuring they’re ready and in the right place when it comes time to present or perform.

“We don’t want to have just a regular red carpet show,” he says. “Our show’s a lot more about the party.”

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The many evolutions of the artist Sting Q & A. Singer-songwriter sat down with Metro to discuss his iPad app, what he’s listening to these days and the importance of philanthropy Szonja kresinger

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Sting (born Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner) has donned many hats and experimented with myriad genres during his 35 years in the spotlight.

From his early days as the lead in the popular and everchanging new wave band the Police, to a solo career incorporating everything from jazz to new age sounds, to the numerous humanitarian and environmental causes he has lent his celebrity status to, Sting is no stranger to exploring new paths.

Yet his most recent tour, Back to Bass, was something of a stripping down for the prolific artist where the path he took was the most basic one.

Having just come off the Symphonicity tour, performing arrangements of his songs with large orchestras, he wanted to do something simpler, an approach he’s continuing during his current summer tour.

How did it feel to put your recent box set together, taking a look back at all these years?

I’m not a particularly nostalgic person, so initially, it was quite challenging for me to really look back when my instinct has always been to move forward. But I did feel it was worth taking some time to reflect, seeing what I had achieved in the past 25 years.

I certainly had a good time living those 25 years, and it is a pretty significant milestone in my career. I thought if ever there was a suitable time to do a project like the box set, this was it.

yet. I enjoy and appreciate the creative freedom I have, and the ability to do what interests me. I get bored pretty easily and so I always like to do something new and something that

gadgets like the iPad? To me, it’s important to embrace new technology and try to evolve with it. I look at the app as a

is hopefully surprising. I think my audience has come to expect that element of surprise. So I’m really not sure what comes next, but expect the unexpected.

What types of artistic projects interest you the most?

Like I said, I always like to try something new.

I can only do what I’m inspired to do. Right now, I’m working on a play for Broadway.

We’re in the very early stages, but I’ve been writing a lot of music for that. It’s completely new territory for me and it’s quite exciting.

Why did you decide to have the Sting iPad app? Would you ever consider making music with the help of such

bum and get to enjoy all of the photos and liner notes, and really get a sense of how the album was made. That’s missing in the digital age. In terms of making music with something like the iPad, I wouldn’t rule it out.

New album. Travelling overseas with Patti Smith and her music The success of Patti Smith’s memoir Just Kids, about her friendship with Robert Mapplethorpe, sealed her reputation as a wide-ranging artist and writer at the heartbeat of New York City.

The 2010 bestseller about growing up in New York’s art scene won the National Book Award for nonfiction and is her most successful project yet in any format. But whether her new literary fans will translate into more buyers of her music

Banga is Patti Smith’s first album of original music in eight years.

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new way of getting music to people. It’s very innovative, but at the same time it reminds me of the days where you’d purchase an al-

There’s n o way of anticipating where technology is going next.

Was there any song you wanted to include but finally dropped?

The most challenging part of the process was choosing the songs and inevitably, there were many that didn’t end up on the box set. But asking me to pick my favourites would be like asking me to choose a favourite child! I love them all and each one is unique in their own way. That said, I’m very proud of the end result.

Do you plan a new studio album in the near future?

I don’t really have a plan quite

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is a question Smith has been asking herself of late.

While making her new album Banga, out this week, Smith said she “had more of a sense that I had people I was speaking to in America, because I haven’t felt that in a long time.”

She knows her audience. It’s why the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member will be far from home this summer supporting the release of Banga.

Three-quarters of Smith’s music sales are from outside of the United States. At home, she’s a niche artist best remembered for the 1978 hit Because the Night. Overseas, she’s a star, with her biggest markets in Germany and France.

Smith said she thinks a European audience responds better to a multi- disciplinary artist. She’s got a rock ’n’ roll growl with the best of them, but Smith considers herself primarily a writer and also exhibits her photography.

Banga is a disc of wideranging intellectual heft, with songs inspired by the late French actress Maria Schneider, singer Amy Winehouse and novelist Mikel Bulgakov. Banga is also a good bet to be the only disc this year with a song about explorer Amerigo Vespucci.

Smith takes natural pride in two of the disc’s musicians — her son Jackson, who plays guitar and daughter Jesse, a pianist.

Jackson, who’s 30 and married to the musician Meg White, picked up his father’s guitar and taught himself to play after Fred Sonic Smith died in 1994.

Jesse, 25, is featured on the album-closing version of Neil Young’s After the Gold Rush.

“It’s for their father,” said Smith, who lived in Detroit for many years while married but is now back in New York. “When we all play together, we really have him with us. I’m just so happy that they have so much of him within them. I just want my kids to be healthy and happy.” the associated press Winehouse connection:

Smith’s maternal instincts partly inspired This is the Girl about Winehouse, who died last year. It was originally written as a poem, but as the album was coming to a close, bass player Tony Shanahan offered some music that matched the lyric.

• Smith was drawn to Winehouse as a singer who had “one of the most unique voices I had ever heard,” she said.

“I was amazed at this girl and equally worried about her.”

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Paul Williams Still Alive — and kicking As the president of ASCAP, how do you think the landscape for songwriters has changed?

There was a time when you went to the Papa Bear, which was the record company, and you had this whole machine working to present you to the music-consuming audience that had

Q & A. Singer — now in his 70s — back in a new documentary chronicling his life Ned Ehrbar

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Paul Williams has led quite the life as a prolific songwriter, an actor and a charming talk-show regular.

But that doesn’t necessarily mean he was excited about filmmaker Stephen Kessler featuring him in the new documentary, Paul Williams Still Alive.

But Williams is nothing if not a good sport. He spoke with Metro about watching his life chronicled onscreen and not blaming the music business for addiction — and went out of his way not to mention Jay Leno.

You seem pretty uncomfortable for much of the film with Stephen following you around.

Somewhere (during a tour of the Philippines chronicled in the film), I decided I really liked him. I think he came into the film maybe without a conscious kind of conception of what he wanted. I think he would’ve been thrilled to find me living in a trailer behind a junkyard, playing at the Red Lion nightly, doing the Rainbow Connection with a sock puppet, but the fact is he walked into a life that I was really happy with.

I’m 22 years sober and happily married, I have a good relationship with my kids.

I’d kind of rebuilt my career.

There are some things that are not in the film that he kind of carefully ignores because it interferes with his storytelling.

Were you worried about anything the film depicts about your life?

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I was really worried about showing it to my kids, especially my daughter. I had editing rights, so I could take anything out that I wanted, but there’s the part where

I thought you can’t leave that in. But when I

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body. You got played on the Top 40 stations, everybody got to hear those songs. Now everything has become so fractionalized. The challenges are to found ways to be heard. I think as far as the creativity, it’s spectacular.

To me, rap was like urban poetry. As an Academy member, I voted for Eminem and It’s Hard Out There for a Pimp, a great rap song written for the movies.

Every generation has its own music. I love some of those combinations of melodic and... blah blah blah.

Who cares what some 71-year-old f— thinks about today’s music?

We’ve had the recent passings of Amy

filmed watching the Merv Griffin footage, and I’m just joking about marital infidelity and getting laid on the road, and

saw the first cut of the film, I thought you know what? If you’re going to tell the story, you’ve got to leave it in.

three networks to watch and had Top 40 radio. The streams that you fought to get your work into were so minimal, but if you got into that you got everybody. You did the Tonight show, you got every-

Winehouse and Whitney Houston.

Do you see the music business as a sort of enabler for substance abuse?

Those are just the ones that get written about. I think that basically there isn’t any real difference between a rock star shooting heroin and a bored housewife in Ohio drinking Listerine. They’re both selfmedicating and probably dealing with their fear and their boredom, their anxiety. They suffer from addic-

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They’re both selfmedicating and probably dealing with their fear and their boredom, their anxiety. ” Paul Williams

tion or alcoholism, and it’s a disease. Some studies proved it in the ’60s. I think that in some ways, as long as I was moving forward and showing up for the gigs and funny and I had the energy to keep going, there were enablers around me, but I can’t lay any of that off on anybody. I have to really own all of that myself.

You were a guest on the Tonight show 50 times. If you were to get back into the talk show circuit, would you prefer talking to Jay Leno or Conan O’Brien?

Well you know, it’s funny because I just spent the last two days in Arizona playing golf with Alan Kalter. Alan’s one of my best friends, and he’s the announcer on the David Letterman show. You know, I like (Jimmy) Fallon, I did Fallon’s show this last year and I really like them. I love Conan. I’m learning how to walk like Conan, that’s the main thing. I find that if I throw my elbows heavily to the left and to the right, I can face the day with a little sparkle. And I’m a Letterman addict. My wife and I watch Letterman all the time. You know, that’s pretty much it.

I haven’t been watching the Tonight show a lot.

Cadence Weapon reveals more on buzzy third LP By the time he was out of his teens, Rollie Pemberton -— a.k.a. Cadence Weapon — had a much-hyped debut album, a Polaris Prize short-listing and a captive crowd eager to see what he was going to do next.

At 26 years old now, he’s glad that period of magnified attention and rigid expectations is in the past.

“I’m glad that I had the experience I had when I was younger ... because I got that whole thing out of the way — I made all the mistakes already that I could possibly make,” the Edmonton-reared rapper said.

“Now I can just work on refining the music. I don’t have to worry about ... the critical thing, or whether people will buy it.

“I feel like I’m unfazable at this point. Like I can’t be bothered.”

It’s that attitude that has enabled the creative fearlessness that’s powered Pemberton’s dogged experimentation since dropping his 2005 debut, Breaking Kayfabe — but three albums into his career, it seems that aural alchemy has finally led Pemberton to a formula he likes.

Yawn. Next.

“I get kind of bored of things. I’ve got that kind of attention span.”

Cadence Weapon, on experimenting with musical choices on his latest album

On his debut, Pemberton layered his laconic rhymes over grimy, booming synths, while 2008’s Afterparty Babies probed the edges of house and electro.

Though both records showcased his fierce intelligence and endearing sense of playful-

ness, Pemberton’s latest — the recently released Hope in Dirt City — marks the first time the rapper doesn’t sound as though he’s obscuring his intentions in irony or musical trial-and-error.

“I’m more clear about who I am and presenting myself in a straightforward way,” he said. “In the past, I feel like I’ve done a lot of playing more characters and experimenting with the sound, and I think it’s been very hard for the listener to understand if I’m being honest or if I’m being sarcastic or ironic or whatever.”

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Cadence Weapon made the unusual choice on his latest recording to work with samples, then enlist a live band to replace most of the samples, then sample the music by that band, a process he describes as “confusing.” handout

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Now that your favourite shows like Smash, Revenge and The Good Wife have wrapped up, here’s your guide to what will make for good summertime TV watching: AMBER RAY

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If you miss ...

The behind-the-scenes look at the life onstage on Smash Watch ...

Bunheads The Vegas showgirl lifestyle loses its lustre for a classically trained ballerina (Sutton Foster), who impulsively marries an admirer (Alan Ruck) and moves to his sleepy seaside community of Paradise, Calif., where his mother (Kelly Bishop) runs a dance studio — and lives with him and his new bride. Bunheads is also a great choice for those in Gilmore Girls withdrawal — it comes from GG creator Amy Sherman-Palladino and features her trademark machine-gun quips and popculture references.

Airs Mondays on ABC Spark.

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The juvenile antics of Two and a Half Men (especially those of Charlie Sheen).

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Anger Management.

FX says Charlie Sheen is re­formed (we’d say reformed-ish) since the melt­down that forced his exit from the No. 1 sitcom last year. Adapted from the film of the same name, this comedy finds Sheen as a guy whose anger issues lead him to be­come a therapist. He’s got a teen daughter to give him a sense of responsibility, but there’s also a string of ladies interested in the former bad boy. Must be the tiger blood.

Pre­mieres June 28 on CTV.

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The backstabbing of Revenge.

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Dallas.

The Ewing clan is just as contemptuous as you remember from the hit prime-time soap of the ’80s — and now the next generation is involved in the family’s favourite pastime of screwing each other over.

Returning principals include Larry Hagman as J.R. Ewing, Linda Gray as Sue Ellen Ewing and Patrick Duffy as Bobby Ewing; rekindling the family rivalry is J.R. and Sue Ellen’s son John Ross (Josh Henderson) and Bobby’s adopted son, Christopher (Jesse Metcalfe), who take on the roles of their fathers. The oil fields of Texas remain a focal point, but because this is 2012, expect a few lessons on alternative energy in between all the fussin’ and feudin’. Airs Wednesdays on Bravo.

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The high-stakes workplace of The Good Wife.

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The Newsroom.

Delivering the news isn’t pretty; the business of delivering the news is even uglier in this behind-the-scenes look at the people who produce a cable-news program. Just as he did on The West Wing, writer Aaron Sorkin has created another community of flawed fast-talkers with noble intentions. Jeff Daniels stars as the news team’s anchor (literally and metaphorically) who tries to deliver “real” stories while his producers and network (Emily Mortimer, Olivia Munn, Sam Waterston, Jane Fonda) fret over ratings. Premieres June 24 on HBO Canada.

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Killer comedies and a little combat The summer months are the best time for top-notch funny men and women to take over the box office. It’s also a good time for tough dudes to take the screen.

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June 15: That’s My Boy We’re hoping that the presence of Saturday Night Live’s Andy Samberg will make this movie not stink, especially considering Adam Sandler’s last few films (Jack and Jill, we’re looking at you) have been truly awful. In this film, Sandler plays a man-child who fathered and raised a child (Samberg) when he was only a teenager. When they reconnect several years later, each finds themselves coming undone.

Aug. 10: The Campaign Put Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis in a room together and God knows what will come of it. These two masters of playing awkward schlubs were destined to have their major moment on screen together, and in this film they play opposing senate candidates Cam Brady and Marty Huggins, respectively.

June 22: Seeking a Friend for the End of the World Consider this one the flipside of Melancholia, since it also deals with a heavenly body that is destined to come crashing into the earth. But here, with Steve Carrell and Keira Knightly co-starring, it’s a comedy!

July 27: The Watch Previously called Neighborhood Watch, this comedy stars Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill and Richard Ayoade as a group of suburban renegades who decide to take the law into their own hands but end up finding out that they’re up against extraterrestrials.

June 29: Madea’s Witness Protection

July 13: Ted

Oh Madea, Madea, Madea. What are you up to now? Rather than getting into trouble herself, she’s hosting a family who is a part of the witness-protection program.

Family Guy’s Seth MacFarlane is the brains behind this story of a man (Mark Wahlberg) whose random wish makes a teddy bear he had as a child come to life — albeit as a foul-mouthed scumbag voiced

by MacFarlane himself.

Aug. 31: Lawless Rocker Nick Cave penned this Prohibition-era film about brothers who get into the bootlegging business in Franklin County, Virginia. Given that the film is loaded with top-flight talent like Tom Hardy, Jessica Chastain, Gary Oldman and Shia LaBoeuf, we’re putting our money on this one being the sleeper hit of the summer.

Aug. 17: The Expendables II Chuck Norris! Chuck Norris is in this movie. That is all you need to know. Liam Hemsworth also joins the rest of the crew, which is on a revenge mission once one of their own gets killed in the line of duty.

But, come on, it’s Chuck Norris!

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It’s just plain monkey business for Tom Cruise When Tom Cruise signed on to play fictional hardrock bad-boy Stacee Jaxx in the musical Rock of Ages, one thing was clear: His role would have to get a lot bigger.

“Why would I have him there if I’m not going to use him?” director Adam Shankman offers. “Using him less would’ve felt like a stunt, and he would’ve been underused.”

Enter Justin Theroux, one of the film’s three credited screenwriters, who previously wrote Tropic Thunder, featuring one of Cruise’s more attention-grabbing comedic performances as Hollywood mogul Les Grossman.

“The Stacee Jaxx character is very different from the Stacee Jaxx that was onstage,” Theroux says, explaining that a lot of the change came from casting Cruise for the role. “It was more sort of a strung-out, druggie, drink-y character.

And we basically made him weirder and more fun, we added a monkey who was his best friend, we did all that.”

“This is the second time I’ve gotten to work with Tom, and I love working with him,” Theroux says.

Theroux admits that comedy in general is still a surprise coming from Cruise.

“He doesn’t need to do it.

He’s got such an amazing career as an action star and as a dramatic actor and all of that,” he says.

“Comedy’s not something he really needs to do. But he does, and he’s really effective at it because he approaches it like, ‘I’m just going to play it straight.’”

With two movies under his belt now writing for the detail-oriented Cruise, Theroux admits he’s developed quite a report with the actor. ned ehrbar

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Being beyond-prolific as a producer hasn’t left much time for Adam Shankman to devote to his directing career, but the man behind “Hairspray” is back behind the camera for Rock of Ages, a tribute to L.A.’s late-’80s rock scene. Not that bringing the property from Broadway to the screen was necessarily a simple prospect.

How have you been dealing with people finally seeing the finished film?

I’ve been really nervous about

people getting it, and people seem to. The big question mark, of course, was Tom Cruise, and they’re in love with him. Without sounding horrifyingly clichéd, in my head it’s like I’m saying, “Mission accomplished!”

How was the actual production process for you?

To be completely honest, I had no schedule and I had very little money to make this giant thing. There’s a lot of illusion going on in the movie.

Russell (Brand) and Alec (Baldwin) were only shooting for two and a half weeks.

Catherine Zeta-Jones was only there for four days. So it’s all slight of hand and smoke and mirrors as to who’s where and when. You know, two weeks after we’ve shot a scene, we’ll shoot the other side of the room because so-and-so wasn’t there. I had

the same issue on Hairspray to a certain extent with the adults, but this one was a real math trick.

Does that have anything to do with why you’re not doing another musical next?

My next movie is a much quieter, acting movie, so it should be a really beautiful respite for me from all the noise of making this movie.

It’s called This is Where I Leave You, from a book by the same title. It’s about a dysfunctional family having to deal with each other in their house after their father dies.

It’s very funny, but it’s also very emotional. That movie will have its own balancing act.

I take it you weren’t really into the hard rock scene of the 1980s.

There was no way to escape

it. It was just part of culture at that time. In the media, you were always just hearing about these arena guys throwing a f---ing couch out of a hotel window — and no consequences. Hotel rooms destroyed, rape and pillage, you know? It was all in good fun. It was the last time I remember the world feeling like there just weren’t any consequences to your actions.

I mean, other than in the gay community, it was nothing but casual sex with no AIDS. There was drug use up the wazoo with no rehab.

Without giving too much away, two male characters very surprisingly end up together in this film. Was that in the musical?

Yes, but this is the weird thing about that: It’s in the musical, but when I was discussing it with the

creators, they said, “No, no, no, they’re not gay. They’re just bros.” And I said, “I know you created this, but you can’t have two guys sing this song to each other and think that they’re not gay.” In the play they do ballet lifts.

I was like, “How is that not gay?” They’re like, “No, it’s just the ultimate bro-mance.”

Honestly, I can’t tell that story halfway. I have to go the full distance. It was a very odd moment for me because I couldn’t understand how they didn’t seem to have the same insight into what they had done. It was weird to me. I started laughing that I had another big man-on-man musical number, when I had it in Hairspray, too. I was like, “What am I doing? How does this keep popping up? And why do all my movies have a lot of hair?” They’re big-wig shows.

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Mexican soap opera star gets his shot in Hollywood The newcomer.

Television actor Diego Boneta wasn’t the only one to embrace a first time experience in the film Rock of Ages

Justin Theroux:

Adam Shankman:

“Back then, I don’t know about you but I was wearing the horrible fluorescent T-shirts, acid-wash jeans.

“It was really, really ugly. I like the ’80s, though. I think it’s pretty sexy with, like, girls in high jeans and the rock T-shirts or leather — anything leather is always great.”

“Oh, man. Endless frustration with girls.

“I remember hairspray and lots of Dippity-do.

My first record was Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap

by AC/DC... To me, the ’80s were just kind of fun memories because nothing’s really gone wrong yet in your life, so all the music is very nostalgic for me, too.”

“In 1987, I was actually in New York.

“I had just dropped out of school, I was a waiter working at El Rio Grande on Third Avenue, I was starting to do musical theater... I was going to a lot of clubs.

I was a suspenders and skinny tie guy. It was horrifying. I freely admit to the ugliness of it.”

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Though well-known in his native Mexico as a soap star and a singer, Diego Boneta is still a relative unknown in Hollywood. But now that director Adam Shankman has tapped him for the romantic lead in Rock of Ages, that’s likely to change. Here’s some of the lessons Boneta learned making the film.

Did it help not being the only first-timer in the film?

“The cool thing about this movie is that we all shared something in common, which was our first time doing something,” he says. “It was my first movie, it was Tom (Cruise)’s first time singing, Alec (Baldwin)’s first time singing. We all had a first time in common. Tom wanted

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What is the best way to deal with being a newcomer is playing a newcomer?

“Being able to be part of really big tours before doing this movie, doing two albums — it definitely helped. But it was my first time doing a movie,” Boneta tells Metro. “I mean, I couldn’t have asked for a better debut. I’m very humbled to be in this project, and it was a great learning experience.”

What were your memories of the year 1987?

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me to do just as good as him, Catherine (Zeta-Jones) wanted Julianne (Hough) to do just as good as her.”

If you have to learn to play guitar, do it with Tom Cruise?

“Tom and I spent a lot of time together because we were both learning how to play guitar, and we were learning from the same guitar teacher,” Boneta says.

“We had our jam sessions, and in those jam sessions, Tom would always be very surprised and interested by how you make very similar choices when you’re acting and when you’re recording a song. When you’re recording you’re like, ‘OK there’s differ-

ent ways to end this chorus or this verse. You can go vibrato, you can go up, you can go down.’ You ask yourself very similar questions when you’re in a scene and when you’re in the studio.”

Do you have a go-to karaoke song to blow the director away?

“I’ve been to karaoke bars, and yeah, my friends and I have a blast,” Boneta admits.

“Do I have a go-to song?

Superstition, by Stevie Wonder, which is very unexpected from me. But I can rock it out.

Darren Criss from Glee and I once sang it at Rock of Ages director Adam Shankman’s birthday, and it was fun.”

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Colin Farrell fully embraces demands of starring role in Total Recall remake Summer blockbuster.

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As eager as he may be for audiences to enjoy his work in the upcoming big-budget Total Recall remake, Colin Farrell wants to state upfront that there’s one area in which his version wouldn’t dare to compete with the 1990 Schwarzenegger original: “I noticed a lack of one-line jokes,” he laughs. “No one does oneliners like Arnie!”

The Recall update is set to be a more sober, serious take on the tale of an oblivious man in the near future who tampers with his memories and ends up uncovering a hidden past and personality.

Farrell says he was at first reluctant to leap into a produc-

Colin Farrell stars in Columbia Pictures remake of Total Recall which opens in theatres August 3. Columbia pictures

tion that encompassed such a humongous scope, one that overran Toronto streets as well as occupying several cavernous soundstages at the city’s new Pinewood studio facility while shooting last year.

“It was terrifying,” he admits. “I’ve been quite content creatively, over the last six or

seven years, doing films that were smaller in budgetary scale. It scares the s—t out of me, the idea of being in a really, really big film, it really does.

“But I’m open to it. Initially, I responded to the script and I responded to the idea of a man named Quaid who just really

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The remastering of a science-fiction classic A new vision.

Director Len Wiseman combines stunning visuals with a compelling mystery trevor parker

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Quaid, played by Colin Farrell, seated in the Mind Trip Chair inside the Rekall Tripping Den in action thriller Total Recall. columbia pictures

With remakes of beloved titles hitting multiplexes on a seemingly weekly basis, it’s a tricky balancing act for those filmmakers to attract new fans as well as satisfying devotees of the source material.

It’s a battle with which the director of the new Total Recall, Len Wiseman, is well aware: “It was a challenge. The Recall script came to me, out of the blue, and I was just taken by the direction that it went in.

Of course, there’s going to be a side that says, ‘Why even do it if it’s going to be that much different?’ The other group says, ‘If there’s nothing new, nothing original, why bother?’

With all of that out there, I just very selfishly make the movie for myself, and hopefully other people like it.”

Wiseman’s Recall is certainly adopting a fresh perspective.

Gone is the Mars setting of the first film, replaced by a divided earth and a massive tunnel between two nations, bored directly through the centre of the globe.

Production designer Patrick Tatopoulos describes the two sides, with the United Federation of Britain, home of the ruling class, being “bright and clean, with beautiful misty skies. Everything is pristine.

In New Asia, the hardscrabble home of lead character Quaid (played by Colin Farrell), Tatopoulos says, “It feels like old and new technology together. It’ll be really grungy.

We shot with 350 (extras), so it really feels like a living city.

The costumes are going to be outrageous.”

As elaborate as the environment and visuals are, Wiseman hopes the core story of hunting for one’s identity will be his Recall’s most compelling aspect.

“There’s a ton of action,” he says, “but action is completely dead if there’s no driving emotion or mystery behind it.

What I love about this project the most, I love a mystery any-

A family affair

Total Recall marks the third occasion that Len Wiseman has directed his wife, actress Kate Beckinsale.

“Kate’s been in action movies before, but never as the villain,” Wiseman says.

“I love the idea.” For this Recall, Beckinsale appears as the duplicitous Lori, the role played by Sharon Stone in the 1990 original.

ways, but when the mystery is about the character himself.

I’m always drawn to that, like The Fugitive, or Bourne or Blade Runner. Going through the action, there are puzzle pieces within; as Quaid is trying to find out the ultimate mystery, which is, ‘Who am I?’ That’s a big part of it, because otherwise it’s just a bunch of explosions and expensive effects.”

Wiseman also stood fast against pressure to have Recall released in 3-D. “I’m not against 3-D. It just didn’t work with what kind of film I was trying to make.”

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Skies the limit for Jessup as he bags bigger role Turning 18. Canadian actor’s Falling Skies character — Ben Mason — is not only growing up, he’s finally getting a gun and a taste of the action June is a big month for Canadian actor Connor Jessup,

to put it lightly. First, he’s finishing high school, and later this month he turns 18.

On top of all that, Jessup gets to celebrate the second season premiere of the sciencefiction series Falling Skies, in which his character, Ben Mason, plays a much bigger — and more gunplay-filled — role than in the first season.

It must be stressful trying to juggle promoting a TV show and finishing high school.

Quoted

“I like to describe it as puberty on steroids — he doesn’t know what’s happening to him.”

Connor Jessup, Falling Skies, explaining the changes his character is going through

Yeah. It’s less stressful than trying to juggle shooting the show and finishing high school, which was basically

impossible to do. So now I’m suffering for the time I spent shooting, trying to catch up with everything. I graduate the day before my 18th birthday, so it’s very exciting.

Which is also three days after the show airs, so it’s a very packed week. June’s exciting.

Your character gets a lot more to do on the show this year.

Last season, Ben was the guy who stayed back and didn’t

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go out on any fights. He was more passive, more bookish.

He was less involved in the actual action of the show. Between seasons one and two, there’s a time gap of three months, and in that time he’s become a fighter. He’s become much more aggressive. He’s become very angry because he thinks his dad is gone and probably dead, he’s lost a lot of people in these various battles. He’s become much colder and more distant. When the season takes off, he’s fighting. He’s very angry at the aliens, but a lot of that anger is a manifestation of his own fear and confusion.

I like to describe it as puberty on steroids — he doesn’t know what’s happening to him, there’s a lot happening to his body, to his emotions, and he’s trying to deal with them through angst, violence and aggressiveness. But also this season Ben plays a much more central role in the mystery of the show.

What was your reaction when you heard how much more you’d have to do?

It happened in stages. We found out that the show was getting picked up for a second season in July, almost a few weeks after it aired, but I didn’t hear anything after that about what the season was about or what was happening, until September, which was only three or

four weeks before we started shooting. So it’s mid-September and I get a phone call from one of our executive producers and directors, Greg Beeman. I love him a lot, but he has a very succinct way of talking. He gets right to the point. He just said, “You’re going to be an action hero.

Buff up” and hung up, pretty much. He left me with that. I didn’t know what it meant, I didn’t know the context. All I knew was that I was going to be involved in the action stuff, and I had three and a half weeks to go to the gym.

Aside from a lot of time in the gym, you had to do some weapons training as well.

Last year, I was always very envious of the other cast members with their AK-47s and their pistols and grenade launchers and all those things. I was always kind of hoping that I could use one.

I always thought that it was a distant possibility, but sure enough my character, beyond just using one, always has one now. So we had to go through weapons training before we started shooting, which is basically just a day of learning how to handle weapons, be safe with them because we fire a lot of blanks in the show. You get to pick your weapon in the show, so the guns end up reflecting the characters.

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Walking Dead creator attributes his success to staying immature

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“The Walking Dead is a success all around the world because it is the most basic, childish game you can play.”

Glen Mazzara, Walking Dead showrunner explains the reason why his show works

play,” Mazzara said.

“I’m like the dungeonmaster, I’m the game master and the guy who says, ‘Look out! I’m going to get you.’”

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The executive producer of AMC’s wildly popular zombie series The Walking Dead has spent his life with one foot in the fantasy realm and the other in the real world.

The show, now renewed for a third season, premiered in 2010, and tells the story of a small group of survivors living in the aftermath of a zombie apocalypse.

The story takes place first in the Atlanta metropolitan area and then the surrounding countryside as the survivors search for a safe haven away from the shuffling hordes of predatory zombies or “walkers.”

The show stars Andrew Lincoln as sheriff’s deputy Rick Grimes, who wakes up from a coma to find the world dominated by zombies. He sets out to find his family and survivors along the way.

“I have three passions I have had my entire life that are coming together in this unique project: comic books, TV and horror films,” said Glen Mazzara, the showrunner and executive producer in a speech at the Banff World Media Festival on Tuesday.

But Mazzara’s passions have never met with the approval from family, friends or teachers throughout his life “My personal experience is anything I’ve been interested in as an adult or interested in as a child, an adult comes in and shuts it down and says it’s not worthy. It’s been a puzzle I’ve been dealing with my whole life.”

Mazzara admits he is surprised by the success of the show, which is based on the long-running comic book of the same name. It is shown in 122 countries to huge ratings and has created a cottage industry with video games, action figures, board games and even playing cards.

“I feel that The Walking Dead is a success all around the world because it is the most basic, childish game you can play,” he explained.

“It’s the game of ‘chase,’ the game of ‘I’m going to get you,’ which is really just an advancement of ‘peekaboo.’”

Mazzara is revealing very little information about future seasons of The Walking Dead other than plans to keep the viewer engaged.

“If I like this theory about keeping things in motion, keeping the audience on the edge of its seat — we’ll see how long people want to

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Revenge’s James Tupper addresses the rumours Q & A. Canadian-born nighttime soap star is as in the dark about his character’s life-or-death status as you are

America’s guilty pleasure nighttime soap, Revenge, wrapped its first season last month. Fans of the show have been hit with twists and

turns since its September premiere, so we enlisted Canadian-born star James Tupper, who plays the (supposedly) murdered David Clarke on the series, for some clarity as to what’s really going on in this Hamptons murder mystery.

How much do you know about what’s going to happen in future episodes?

I’m following it like everybody else. We get it probably six weeks before you guys and we just read it and then make it. But I have a general idea where it’s going. At the front of every script there’s a big confidentiality agreement that we all sign. So I’m not gonna tell you, but I will tell you that it’s alarming.

He’s not locked into having all the same characters.

Is your character really dead?

My God, I have to tell you: I was pushing a stroller with my three-year-old in it, and a woman yelled at me from across the street, like, “You’re not dead, are you?”

It’s the question I get asked the most often and I get asked everywhere. It’s fine, I love it. I love how invested people are in it — it’s awesome. You know, as far as I know, I think I’m dead so far.

The rumour is that star Emily VanCamp is dating her co-star, Josh Bowman, who plays Daniel.

I heard that rumour. I can’t confirm or deny it. I really don’t know, actually. I mean, they get along great on set.

They’re discreet.

How do you feel about

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the show being people’s guilty pleasure?

When I first started getting interviewed about the show, they were like, “I’m calling it my guilty pleasure.” I realized that it’s so fun to be that dramatic, and allow yourself to go there that people feel guilty. (Laughs.) I think Revenge is a lot of fun wrapped up in this sinister, pretty serious world where

lots of things are at stake.

What do you think is it about Emily that viewers can’t get enough of?

Every guy relates to Daniel not quite having the whole story — like, “What? You’re who?”

Emily has mastered the Mona Lisa smile. That’s the great female mystery: “Do you love me, or do you want to kill me?

I can’t tell.” (Laughs.)

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Arquette making divorce official

David Arquette, after nearly two years of separation, has finally filed for divorce from Courteney Cox, according to TMZ. The papers, however, list the official date of separation as December 31, 2011.

Arquette apparently signed the papers in March but held off on submitting them until Tuesday,

which would have been the couple’s 13th anniversary.

Arquette cited irreconcilable differences in the filing, and though he’s asking for joint legal and physical custody of their eight-year-old daughter, Coco, he has not asked for spousal or child support.

Arquette also plans to represent himself in the proceeding.

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Richards in splitsville The apparent romantic rekindling between Richie Sambora and Denise Richards is now off, it turns out, according to Celebuzz.

“They’re done,” a source says. “They’ve always stayed friends through everything they’ve gone through.

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Buff, bold and beach ready RICHARD PECKETT

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“I think sex sells for women also,” says model Matthew Terry. Of course he would say that, being one of the current Calvin Klein Bold Underwear Adonises. You’ll no doubt have borne witness to his seductive form in bright, ‘bold’ trunks

stretched taut, abdominals gleaming, hair slicked back — the body perfect emissary of the global super brand.

The body and look that we so admire with either lust or envy is the result of an Olympian-esque training regime: A healthy start “I get up and exfoliate my back and neck and I wash with

Panoxyl face wash — I use this twice daily because I have slightly oily skin.”

He is human after all.

Terry adds, “For breakfast I eat an English muffin with peanut butter (high in calories but filled with the same monounsaturated fats as olive oil) followed by an apple or banana and a cup of decaffeinated green tea.”

Warm weather workout “I try to hit all the muscle groups and recently I’ve been randomizing my workouts.”

In layman’s terms that means short bursts of exercise per repetition, repeated ten times.

Here’s the drill: Bicep curls with 35 pound dumbbells; leg presses with a weight of 280 or 290 pounds to feel the burn; 20 leg raises to 90 de-

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The Pennsylvanian-born model says, “I drink plenty of water to avoid muscle cramps and I do the exercises for a maximum of two hours and a minimum of one hour.”

Bear in mind that Terry goes to the gym four times a week and might just “pump out 50 push ups on a day.” Don’t we all?

After 27 years as host of FashionTelevision, Jeanne Beker was presented with the 2012 Canadian Award of Distinction at this year’s Banff World Media Festival. Previous winners of the award include Howie Mandel, Eric McCormack and Kim Cattrall. “It’s sort of one of those awards where you sort of wonder, ‘Does this mean I’ve arrived or does this mean it’s time to leave?’” Beker said with a laugh during a recent interview.

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The Kit

Jeanne Space

Jeanne Beker life@metronews.ca

Canadian street style

In this hectic modern world, Twitter has become a cool and succinct way of communicating. It allows me to be accessible, instantly speak my mind, and connects me with all kinds of people. Whether it’s a fashion question or you just want to comment on life’s bigger picture, I’d love to hear from you.

@Jeanne_Beker: Question: If YOU were ever to be honoured with a big lifetime achievement award — what would you hope it would ultimately be for?

Spotted in: Montreal

Stephanie Couillard Sales representative at fashion showroom, Pony Ride.

Age: 23

@blingedout spreading love, life, happiness & hope would be my greatest lifetime achievement award.. What about you?? @classictrash as an activist for the LGBT community

What she’s wearing: Joe Fresh jacket, Mango knit sweater, Rich & Skinny jeans, Aldo booties.

@15000lives having a positive impact that has improved many lives all over the world. @coadygallant for being active in Gay rights and equality in the world! @kathyinbc Extraordinary kindness.

Her inspiration: “Lately my sartorial outlook is ‘less is more.’ I’m keeping it simple. Knits, jeans and booties are definitely my go-to look.”

@Jeanne_Beker: With fellow award recipient, the comedy genius Chuck Lorre

The Kit is a multi-platform beauty and fashion brand which includes, an interactive magazine and dynamic app, a website, Kit Chat — an e-Newsletter program, and a weekly newspaper section too!

@Jeanne_Beker: Drooling over @ KaraRossNY python bags @KellyClaman showroom. Divine!!!

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Roots and Line weave together Northern knits.

Collaborators incorporate Canadian themes into new collection A Canadian knitwear label is taking inspiration from some

of the country’s most notable cities and famed homegrown symbols as part of a new collaborative line with Roots.

Line Knitwear is partnering with the Canadian lifestyles retailer on the capsule collection.

The new fall-winter line is said to channel inspiration from classic techniques

found in Fair Isle hand knitting traditions and also draws from four Canadian cities: Vancouver, Banff, Alta., Toronto and Montreal.

The rustic knits encompass both pullovers and cardigans and feature maple leaves, beavers and geometric tree-inspired motifs with punctuations of vibrant colours.

Helmed by Toronto-based design duo John Muscat and Jennifer Wells, Line is a contemporary womenswear brand which specializes in custom yard blends.

The Line Knitwear and Roots capsule collection is slated to hit stores in August.

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Ready to meet new meat? Say hello to cutting edge of carnivore world The economy has prompted cost-conscious restaurant chefs to spearhead creative — and often less costly — new cuts of beef.

And when they do that, it

usually doesn’t take long for those cuts to move off the menu and into butcher and grocery shops.

To help get you grill with one of the newly popular cuts

of beef, here is a recipe for a meat on the cutting edge.

1. Heat a grill to high.

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In a blender, combine the cilantro, olive oil, water,

cashews and Parmesan. Blend until smooth, or as smooth as you prefer. Season with salt and pepper, then blend again.

Set aside.

3. Season the steaks with salt

and pepper. Soak a crumpled paper towel with oil. Clasping the paper towel with tongs, oil the grates of the grill. Add the steaks and cook over high heat for 5 to 8 minutes per side for medium-rare.

4.

Remove the steaks from the grill and allow to rest for 8 to 10 minutes. Thinly slice the steaks across the grain and top with the pesto.

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This recipe serves four. matthew mead/the associated press Ingredients

• 1 bunch fresh cilantro, stems and leaves • 2 tbsp olive oil • 2 tbsp water • 1/4 cup toasted cashews

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In Charred & Scruffed, chef Adam Perry Lang produces layers of flavour by using new techniques that range from roughing up meat and vegetables (“scruffing”) to cooking directly on hot coals (“clinching”) to constantly turning and moving the meat while cooking (“hot potato”).

Meanwhile, his board dressings and finishing salts build upon delicious meat juices.

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Basking in the Limelight Meet the condo • What. Limelight condominiums by Daniels Development Corp.

• Check it. 329 Burnhamthorpe Rd. W. limelightcondos.com, 905-306-6996 • Pricing. From 439 sq. ft. to 961 sq. ft., from $218,900 to $437,900

A rendering of Limelight condominiums

Time to pass the pen Paul Golini jr.

Chair of the Building Industry and Land Development Association (BILD) and can be found at twitter. com/bildgta), (facebook.com/ bildgta), and bildblogs.ca.

I have some news to share.

Starting next week, this column will be penned by BILD’s new president and CEO Bryan Tuckey.

Bryan leapt into his role at BILD on May 22 — and I mean it; he really jumped in and started to get to know the board of directors, the members and the issues that are important to the association right away.

He told me that his personal goal was to meet or talk to 90 new people in his first 90 days. It’s been less than a month and he’s more than halfway there!

So now that he’s had some time to settle in, and he’s well on his way to reaching his first goal, the BILD board thought it was a good idea for him to Moving on

“I have enjoyed your emails and your tweets and I want you to know that I appreciate all of the conversations that spun out of what you read.”

reach out to new homebuyers and homeowners by writing about what’s new in our world and how it affects you on a weekly basis.

I know he’ll do a great job because Bryan comes to BILD with more than 20 years of senior management experience in the home-building, land-development and renovation industry. He is a planner by trade and was most recently York Region’s commissioner of planning, overseeing one of the fastest growing municipalities in Ontario.

Before that, he was the acting assistant deputy minister at the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing and a director of Community Planning at the City of Toronto and the former City of North York.

Needless to say, he’s seen a lot over the years and I’m sure he’ll have no shortage of column ideas in the weeks to come.

Just before I pass the pen to Bryan, I want to thank you for reading and responding to my weekly columns over the last eight months.

I have enjoyed your emails and your tweets and I want you to know that I appreciate all of the conversations that spun out of what you read. Most of all, I want to thank you for helping me spread the word about BILD and the industry that is building the GTA.

Location and transit

Limelight will be the newest addition to Daniels’ 23-acre master planned community in Mississauga’s city centre. It features a new three-acre park, retail venues and public art, all connected by a pedestrianfriendly mews that will run through the centre of the neighbourhood.

Conveniently located close to Highways 403, 401 and the Queen Elizabeth Way. The building is serviced by Mississauga Transit bus service right outside your door, and with the nearby Cooksville GO train station, you can be into the downtown core within 30 minutes.

In the ’hood

Building amenities

Residents will be just steps away from Mississauga’s best amenities including Square One Shopping Centre, the YMCA, City Hall, the Living Arts Centre and soon, the new Sheridan College. The Mississauga City Centre is home to many pubs, spas, cinemas and services.

A phenomenal roster of amenities including a 12,000 sq. ft. indoor/outdoor amenity area featuring a 27foot full-court gym, home theatre and media lounge, a party room and outdoor terrace with two barbecue areas, a billiards table and a double-sided fireplace.

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1. Grand opening

2. Launch party

3. Financial district

4. East end townhouse

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FLO condos, grand opening.

Head on over to the new sales centre at 4679 Yonge St. in North York, June 16 at 12:00 noon. Call 647-7990356 or visit flocondos.com

The Massey Tower condos launch party. Head on over to 197 Yonge St., June 17 from 12 p.m. – 5 p.m. Call 416-966-0197 or visit themasseytower.com

88 Scott condos, grand opening in the financial district. Head on over to the new sales centre at 100 Yonge St., ground floor on June 16 from 12 p.m. – 5 p.m. Visit 88scott.com

East end renovated townhome. Three beds, two baths. Open house at 2359 Birchmount Rd. on June 16 from 2 p.m. – 4 p.m.

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NFB film looks at T.O.’s HIGHRISE revolution

“Density really changes the way that we experience the streets, the way we experience our neighbours, the way we experience the city...” says HIGHRISE director Katerina Cizek. (Shown is a scene from the documentary.) courtesy national film board of Canada

Condo trends.

Documentary maker embraces ‘digital storytelling’ to talk about tower renewal Duncan McAllister life@metronews.ca twitter: @nebulix

Toronto is becoming a city of condos. But well before the condo boom, many of Toronto’s original concrete highrises were built between the 1950s and the 1980s. Thousands of units across the city were mixed with single-family homes and businesses.

The sad truth of the matter is that today these concrete apartment towers are

aging and inefficient. With the Toronto region containing North America’s second-largest concentration of these buildings, the City of Toronto has embarked on an initiative to renew these urban towers, and they’re taking a long look at green infrastructure, transportation, waste management and energy consumption.

Emmy award-winning director Katerina Cizek has spent years examining Toronto’s modernist highrises of the postwar era. She’s the creative force behind HIGHRISE, a bold new multi-year, multi-media, collaborative documentary experiment at the National Film Board of Canada.

Cizek tells Metro, “We’ve been working on the NFB high

rise project since the first idea came forward around 2008, when the city was publicly developing its ideas around tower renewal and we were inspired by that.”

There are over 1,000 residential apartment towers found all across Toronto. Cizek explains that “Density really changes the way that we experience the streets, the way we experience our neighbours, the way we experience the city, and there’s no question about it that density is the way the world needs to go because we’re becoming more and more urban.”

HIGHRISE breaks new ground in the digital realm.

“We’re moving towards digital storytelling and new ways of telling stories, new ways of delivering stories, new ways

Scene from HIGHRISE. courtesy nFB

Model suite from 15 Dundonald.

courtesy Starlight Apartments

of communicating and organizing our relationships with the people that we make the films with, and also the people that are formerly known as the audience, now called users,” says Cizek.

If a building owner is committed to tower renewal, great things can happen. A relatively new player in the rental industry, Starlight Apartments has been acquiring a number of Toronto’s aging concrete buildings and converting them to condo-like units.

Case in point is 15 Dundonald St. near Yonge. This 23-storey ’60s-era building has undergone an extreme makeover.

Starlight has upgraded just about everything imaginable including elevators, laundry facilities, the lobby and exterior landscaping.

The ultra-modern open-concept suites have been designed

by Daniel Johnson Architect and include rich, dark-coloured cabinetry, stainless steel appliances, ceramic tile and hardwood floors. With this kind of renewal, you’d think you were living in a brand new condominium instead of a 40-yearold building.

In this day and age of houses being in short demand, a lot of people are turning to purchasing existing homes and based upon the lot size, planning to tear them down and build anew. Basically, you should be able to rely on the dimensions of your lot as they are set out in the Agreement

of Purchase and Sale. If the actual lot size varies more than seven per cent less than it measures in the Agreement, you have a major argument on your hands. This is magnified by the fact that you purchased the lot, as opposed to the home as your primary goal.

You should engage your

HIGHRISE can be viewed online at highrise.nfb.ca

Studio makeover

This ain’t your mama’s CityLine Melissa Reber

life@metronews.ca

CityLine unveiled a completely redesigned set this week. Along with an overall brighter feel, some of the new features include flat screen monitors for showcasing video segments and before and after makeover shots, streamlined clear chairs (no more bleacher style seats), an artificial “plant wall” to bring greenery to the space without the upkeep and even a new logo for the show.

The updated look seems to reflect a change in viewers over recent years. “Our audience is younger, and keeps getting younger,” says host Tracy Moore. “I see more university students and young moms in the seats.” Tracy’s favourite feature? “The new hardwood floors! They make the whole space feel warmer.”

CityLine airs weekdays at 9 a.m. ET/PT on Citytv.

CityLine’s Tracy Moore contributed

Land dimensions

Property comes up short legal matters

Jeffrey Cowan home@metronews.ca Principal at Cowan Law Jeff@cowanlaw.ca

Q. I recently put an offer in on a property that I am planning on tearing down and replacing with a new home. The lot is nice and big but the house is nearly 60 years old, so basically, I was paying (quite a bit) for the land. The agreement set out the dimen-

sions of the lot, which is shaped irregularly. I signed the agreement based on these dimensions and then uncovered a survey that indicated that the lot was substantially smaller than the measurements set out in the agreement. What are my options?

lawyer to determine if you want a release from the Agreement with a return of your deposit, a reduction in the purchase price based upon the decrease in the lot size or a litigation battle (which would be the least desirable of your options). Not a nice problem to be up against.

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Everything old is new again in carpet trends Decor ideas. Faded, chopped and dyed carpets make for some pretty artful floors DESIGN CENTRE

Karl Lohnes home@metronews.ca

The look of handmade is everywhere in design and acts as a great juxtaposition to modern furnishings and art in a room.

Without exception, the floors are the most ignored

Unroll a little art

Vintage re-vamp

“Second-life rugs can be bleached for a sun-kissed romantic look or overdyed with rich saturated Andy Warhol-style acidic colours ...” part of any decor scheme.

Why not add uniqueness to your space by adding a vintage rug?

The world is full of old, tattered, outdated carpets and what better way to recycle than to reinvent them into something hip and attractive?

Saturated, over-dyed carpets create a modern look. These can add as much impact to the floors as art does to walls.

Ryegrass Rug, $2,298 Anthropologie.com

Faded carpets take on a sun-bleached look for a soft worn look. Ottoman Vintage #14330 Rug, $180. eCarpetgallery.com

Colour-matched remnants of kilim carpets create a handmade and casual look for the floor. Patchwork Kilim Rug, $464 HomeSav.com

Sweet dreams

Interested in a three-way in your bed?

Charles The butler

askcharlesthebutler@ metronews.ca For more, visit charlesmacpherson.com

Hello Charles, What is the three-sheet

bed-making process and why is this important? Why do we need three sheets?

Curious Hello Curious!

The three-sheet bed method is an older method that was used particularly when wool blankets were on the bed and these items were rough against the skin.

The third sheet covers the blanket and gets tucked

in just like all of the other sheets on the bed. This third sheet made the bed softer and nicer so that you didn’t feel the rough wool against your skin, and more importantly you didn’t dirty the wool blanket, as washing it was very difficult.

If the bed had a duvet, it was then folded in a “threefold” at the end of the bed and only used on very cold nights.

Although not common today, when you see a bed made in this fashion, and sleep in a bed made with three sheets, it is fabulous, luxurious and such a treat!

Lastly, often the “third sheet” had a family crest or initials in the middle of the sheet, which visually looks breathtaking.

Have a question? Send an email to askcharlesthebutler@ metronews.ca

Ready to sleep like a baby?

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Rug rules If the room is in desperate need of colour or pattern, then choose a glass or Lucite coffee table to show off your rug.

Too much colour for your liking? A wooden table or large ottoman will help break it up.

Use a rug to define an area in a room or hallway.

Two or three short runners can break up a long hallway space and shorten the overall look while a collection of layered rugs can be easily moved around for a variety of looks.

In small spaces try to match the tone (light and dark) of the rug to the floor; it visually makes the space look larger if both match.

Patterned carpets are great for high-traffic areas as they show less wear and tear than a solid colour.

Don’t excuse using outdoor woven rugs inside to take the wear and tear of a busy space.

The earth-friendly trend is to reuse and revamp worn and outdated rugs into something fresh and artful for our rooms.

Second-life rugs can be bleached for a sun-kissed romantic look or over-dyed with rich saturated Andy Warhol-style acidic colours.

Damaged rugs can be cut into large pieces and sewn back together for a patchwork of pattern in a room.

Too bad the design world can’t figure out how to re-invent the rust velour recliner.

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Rafael Avramovich’s Harmonious Existence/Light Pendant lights of oxidized copper. Work and Design/the associated press

Set the stage for some heavy metal in your house Interior design.

Reclaimed metal gets new life as modern furniture, decor

To meld a hefty hunk of steel, brass or iron into anything at all requires heat, brawny machines and dangerous tools.

To turn it into a beautiful piece of furniture requires a real craftsman.

One of metal’s advantages is its longevity, so sourcing recycled materials is something many of these designers do.

The appeal of their modern pieces is the link they forge between a sweaty, gritty, centuries-old craft skill and sophisticated contemporary design.

Rafael Avramovich of Brooklyn, uses geometric motifs to craft mirrors and cagelike lights.

“What fascinates me about metals is the endless possibility in terms of creating a shape, getting the texture I want, the finish colour,” he says. His Living Mind bending

“What fascinates me about metals is the endless possibility in terms of creating a shape, getting the texture I want, the finish colour.”

Designer Rafael Avramovich of Brooklyn, N.Y

Rafael Avramovich’s Positive Space/Coffee Table, made of blacken steel finish with a circular glass top Work and Design/the associated press

in Harmony collection uses blackened iron, bronze, and rusted steel to create sculptural, armillary-style lighting fixtures and edgy furniture.

He plays with dimension in a Mondrian-esque mirror and a side table perched on staggered metal shapes.

London-based furniture designer Jonathan Krawczuk experiments with the molecular composition of steel through a bowl that represents carbon and iron atoms in a 3D visual that’s especially striking in bright primary colours. His Tarantula collection of powder-coated-steel, spider-legged tea lights is startling, and his Op-Art-inspired Cubic Bowl is functional sculpture.

Copper will be taking the stage through summer and

into fall. Designers like the crossover aspect of the material; it’s at home in a traditional living space as well as a modern one.

Dutch designer David Derksen of Rotterdam uses copper foil to craft a delicate, quilted-face cabinet perched on high legs, and faceted pendant lights.

David Shefa goes in a different direction: He uses galvanized iron and zinc-coated steel plumbing pipes to craft industrial-vibe tables, desks and floor lamps.

“By using an unexpected material, we achieve a new ‘out of the box’ design and get a chance to tell a different story,” Shefa says of his lamps, which are whimsical, functional art. the associated press

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Plants pretty enough to eat Gardening ideas.

Sweet potatoes for decoration? Some flowers and veggies do double duty

Hostas are a great multi-use option for growers who like flowers that taste as good as they look. Dean Fosdick/the associated press

Sweet potato vines decorating window boxes? Blueberry plants prized more for their foliage than their fruit?

Some flowers and vegetables are as appealing in the

home garden as they are on the menu.

“We generally are interested in something to eat when we grow vegetables. In some cases, however, certain vegetable cultivars have been bred and selected for their ornamental characteristics rather than their food quality,” said Dan Gill, a Louisiana State University AgCenter horticulturist.

Ornamental sweet potatoes are a prime example, he said.

“They’ve been really popu-

Garden of goodness

“We want consumers to surround themselves with flavourful beauty.”

Scott NeSmith, a research horticulturist at the University of Georgia-Griffin campus

lar in the last 15 or 20 years,” Gill said. “The early ones can easily cover five square feet.

Plant a few in a container and they will fill it in.”

Sweet potatoes are vining plants, members of the morning glory family, so they work equally well as low-growing bedding plants, as ground cover, on climbing arbours or trailing from hanging baskets, he said.

“They can be aggressive, however. Breeders are developing hybrids that are less vigorous and that play well in mixed beds with other plants,” Gill said. “They do produce an edible crop but they’re not that tasty. Gardeners like them more for their coloured foliage.”

Blueberries are another great multi-use option, said Scott NeSmith, a research horticulturist at the University of Georgia-Griffin campus.

“We’re seeking a variety of novel blueberry types, with (an) emphasis on berry colours, plant shape and form, fall colour, dwarfness and other interesting traits,” he said. “We want consumers to surround themselves with flavourful beauty.”

Just as there are ornamental fruits and vegetables, so, too, are there edible flowers and garden beauties that provide culinary treats.

Some nominees: Hostas

(blooms), daylilies (tubers, buds), dandelions (flowers when picked young), marigolds (“poor man’s saffron”), begonias.

Also there are sunflowers (buds), yucca (petals, fruit), lavender (blooms), nasturtium (leaves, petals).

A couple of cautions, however, about adding flowers to the menu: “Never use flowers for garnishing unless you know for certain they are edible,” said Gill, adding, “Some flowers, like the plants that produce them, are poisonous.”

Also, do not eat flowers that may have been sprayed with pesticides or picked along roadsides. Wash flowers thoroughly before plating up, and eat them in small quantities. the associated press

Start digging and eating

Appetizing ornamentals: • Go green. Kale, Swiss

chard, parsley, chives, rosemary, sage and mustards.

• Spice it up. Black peppers,

chili, sweet peppers and hops. The latter “beautifully and vigorously cover an arbour or fence, and the young strings taste quite good,” said Rose Marie Nichols McGee, owner of Nichols Garden Nursery in Albany, Ore.

• Berry good ideas. Elder-

berries and strawberries.

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How to celebrate dad’s big day Astrid Van Den Broek

Step away from the tie … and try getting something new for dad this Father’s Day. Stumped for ideas?

We asked four daddy bloggers for suggestions on what to give dad.

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You and the kids have breakfast in bed planned. Now what else should you do for Father’s Day? Here are some other ways to celebrate the big guy this Sunday.

Make it from the heart “To truly celebrate my role as a father, I would love to be recognized for the things I do day in and day out,” says Jim Lin, the blogger behind busydad.com. And that recognition could even be as small as a homemade card or drawing telling dad why he really is the best dad ever.

“But if you want to indulge me on my special day, all I really want to do is spend the day enjoying my family without the usual distractions that come with it, such as chores, cleaning, watching what I eat and so forth.”

However, if you are out of preschool and have grown out of making those homemade cards for dad, little heartfelt gestures go a long way — think taking dad out to do something he loves, from going for coffee to a game of tennis on the courts.

Keep it family focused The point is to make it special and involve the family, says Chris Read, the blogger

Dads in their 20s-30s “Try spoiling dad with things like breakfast in bed or an hour at a day spa — yes modern dads also enjoy looking after their bodies well,” says Stefan Korn, the blogger behind DIYFather.com.

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“While a lot of guys would love to golf with their buddies or ride in a limo in Vegas, the real truth is that we have all year to do that stuff and this day should be about family,” says Read. “Maybe give dad

an hour to himself at some point during the day and that will be more than enough.

Though, this depends on the lifestyles of the family.”

Sleep, sleep, sleep Give dad the ultimate gift any

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“On the actual day, a sleepin is always a great way to spoil dad. They’re a lot less frequent nowadays,” says Nick Cheeseman, a father and blogger with Canadad (ncheeseman.blogspot.ca).

“For me, a day of family fun such as an outing to the zoo would be best the way to spend it. Just avoid maybe big brunches with the whole extended family or some time to watch the big game on the couch.”

Gaming. Let dad play till his fingers are numb

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There is a whack of really great games (ESRB: M) out there and for a MSRP of $59.99, we encourage you to give your video-gaming dad the gift of hours of fingernumbing entertainment.

Diablo III Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X It’s an intense action roleplaying, dungeon crawling, hack and slash, online singleplayer, online multiplayer

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blockbuster. Now all dad has to do is lay cunning traps on his enemies, turn destructible objects against his foes, and battle the unholy forces of the Burning Hells. Easy, right?

Max Payne 3 Microsoft Windows, PS3, Xbox 360 A third-person shooter featuring single and multiplayer modes, Rockstar Games brings dad cutting-edge mechanics for precision gunplay and advanced new Bullet Time and Shootdodge effects.

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to play as Max — close to washed up and addicted to pain killers. Then, in an effort to escape his troubled past, he has to protect the family of a wealthy real estate mogul and he also gets to shoot stuff.

Lollipop Chainsaw PS3, Xbox 360 Everybody knows dads love a good zombie hack and slash.

Releasing just in time for Father’s Day, Lollipop Chainsaw is the “un-deadly” story of sweet and killer chainsawwielding zombie-hunter Juliet Starling and her quest to

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The Walking Dead: The Game iOs, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, PS3, Xbox 360 MSRP: $4.99 Five Monthly Episodes Is dad hooked on The Walking Dead? If so, he might need this downloadable adventure game based on the comic book and TV series. In it, dad will be forced to make meaningful decisions, explore his surroundings, protect the orphaned girl named Clementine, and fight for survival

Ghost Recon: Future Soldier PS3, Xbox360, Microsoft Windows In this tactical shooter, dad will be armed to the teeth with an arsenal of real-world high-tech weaponry only in prototype today.

Specialized in every area of combat, equipped for survival, and trained in absolute discretion, he will be among the few who possess the power, the adaptability, and the cognitive fortitude of the future soldier.

Dads in their 40s-50s Help keep top of dad’s mind while he is at work, suggests Warren Orlans, the blogger behind urbandaddy.wordpress. com. “Last year, I received a beautiful set of cufflinks, which are very much back in fashion for working dads,” he says. Other ideas include a picture frame with the family’s picture in it or a mouse pad with a picture of the kids on it.

“Give him something where he can be a kid again,” says Nick Cheeseman, the Canadad blogger (ncheeseman.blogspot.ca).

Think gifts such as a new football if dad likes to toss the ball around or a new Wii game just for him to play.

“Tickets to a sporting event or some advanced driving lessons — rally or race, not defensive — also works,” says Cheeseman. “If you really want to splurge, how about a whitewater rafting trip with his buddies or a weekend kid free, especially with his wife.”

Dads in 60s and older Give dad a bottle of his favourite drink, suggests Korn. Get a little creative if you can — pair a bottle of spicy vodka with a can of Clamato, celery salt and pepperoni sticks or a bunch of celery for homemade Caesars, or a six-pack of beer plus an offer to take him on a brewery tour.

If you really can’t decide what to get him, give the choice to dad.

“Dads love gift cards to tool shops, sporting goods stores and electronics,” says Chris Read, the blogger with canadiandad. com.

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Forget the cologne and ties, true love is shown through technology! Here are some of the best tech gadgets guaranteed to put a smile on your dad’s face this Father’s Day.

Gadgets Samsung Galaxy SIII — $149.99 with contract A smartphone with some serious technology! Control your phone with your voice or send video files up to 1GB in size by simply tapping it against another Galaxy SIII phone.

The front camera also tracks your eye movement, knowing when to dim the screen and when to keep it bright, even if you aren’t physically holding the device. One of the hottest smartphones of the summer!

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New iPad — $519 and up With a million more pixels than your HD TV, the retina screen on Apple’s new iPad must be seen to be believed. Watch sports, read your favourite publication or download one of the more than 500,000 apps now available in the App Store. Still one of the best tablets on the market. iGrill — $79.95 Never overcook another steak again! The iGrill cooking/grilling thermometer communicates with your

iPhone, iPod or iPad via Bluetooth so you can see the temperature of your meat in real time. Two probes means you can monitor two different cuts of meat at the same time. Best of all it has a range of 200 feet!

Grand Grill Daddy Cleaning Brush — $50 Use the power of steam to clean that barbecue grill.

Fill this brush with water and watch the steam remove baked on food, grease and old residue. No scrubbing required.

Of course, some dads will argue the remnants from your last charred meal only enhances flavours.

SensoGlove — $89.99 The first golf glove with a built-in computer to help improve your game. Sensors detect your grip, giving audio and visual feedback to let you know when your grip is too tight. If the glove wears out, simply transfer the computer to a new one.

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Tiny bellows gently pump luminescent liquid around a ring on the face of the watch to display time. It’s the first watch of its kind, gaining attention worldwide. Too bad very few will be able to afford this pricey timepiece.

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Pop culture. Dads on the big and small screen have shaped our behaviour over the years Peter Doyle For Metro

Ty Burrell plays Phil Dunphy on the comedy Modern Family.

“I’m not a father, but I play one on television” As much as we may like to deny it, popular television shows and movies shape our behaviour. Fatherhood is no exception. Here is a quick guide to some well-known fathers and how they influence our take on fatherhood.

Television Television, like all popular media, has both shaped and reflected our views of fatherhood.

In the 1960s, programs such as the Andy Griffith Show idealized fathers as upstanding men who were free from vice and able to support and love all members of the family equally.

In the 1970s, All In The Family broke the mould with a father whose foibles and bigotry provided comic relief. Despite his shortcomings, however, Archie Bunker managed to remain endearing.

In the 1980s and 1990s, fathers took on a much broader range, from the comically hopeless Homer Simpson, to the letter-perfect Heathcliff Huxtable on The Cosby Show and the tragically spineless Ray Barone on Everybody Loves Raymond.

Phil Dunphy of Modern Family puts an interesting modern twist on fatherhood called “peerenting” — talk like a peer, but act like a parent.

Movies Blockbuster movies, not surprisingly, offer more dramatic guidance.

Again, the model has changed from matchless heroes such as Atticus Finch in To Kill A

Mockingbird and George Bailey in It’s A Wonderful Life to more complex characters such as Ted Kramer in Kramer vs. Kramer, Calvin Jarrett in Ordinary People, and Lester Burnham in American Beauty.

Perhaps the strongest lessons from movie fathers have to do with what to avoid: The family business (Don Vito Corleone in The Godfather), the dark side (Darth Vader in the Star Wars series), and winters spent in an empty resort (Jack Torrance in The Shining).

Some of the most positive models of fatherhood come from the world of professional sports. Wayne Gretzky’s father Walter, for instance, is a tireless volunteer who can no longer remember his son’s exploits.

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Byredo Sunday Cologne is for mom to give to dad. Zesty with a pinch of spice and incense, the scent is sexier than its name suggests — in fact, its original moniker was Fantastic Man. From $170, Holt Renfrew.

Kiehl’s Facial Fuel Sky Flyin’ Foaming Multi-Gel can serve as refreshing face wash as well as a satisfyingly rich lathering shave foam. $23, www.kiehls.ca.

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L’Oréal Paris Men Expert Hydra Energetic X Total Skin Cleanser will appeal to dad’s inner little boy — he gets to wash his face with somet h i n g black.

Givenchy Play Sport is as invigorating and clean as one might expect of a sporty scent, but in keepi n g with

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Clarins Men Exfoliating Cleanser combines salicylic acid and lava powder to keep pores clear, get rid of patchy dry skin, and leave dad’s face feeling smooth and clean. $32, The Bay.

Gillette Fusion Proglide 3-in-1 Styler is a precision mash-up of Braun shaver and ProGlide blades to help dad keep his beard, goatee or ’stache in good shape. $25.99, drugstores.

Neostrata Men Soothing Moisturizer employs a soothing botanical complex to reduce redness and skin sensitivity, as well as a potent peptide to boost skin’s repair process. $29, well.ca.

Schwarzkopf Professional [3D]MENSION Hair & Body Shampoo offers dad zippy yet gentle cleansing for hair and skin, and makes a colourful splash in the shower stall. $15, drugstores.

YSL L’Homme Libre is a light, modern scent

for dad, crisp with a hint of sweet and subtle warmth. $89, department stores.

Portland General Store Whiskey Natural Aftershave Splash is a natural blend of aloe, sea kelp, blue-green algae, black willowbark and tea tree oil — and the scent is more woodsman than old boozer. $18, Indigo Books.

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Gifts that keep on giving Eco friendly. Ideas that both your dad and the planet will love Father’s Day is just around the corner, so this year, instead of the next “state-ofthe-art” gadget, why not give the gift that keeps on giving — a healthy planet. What could be more meaningful and special than a gift that both your dad and the planet will love?

“Every day I work to help ensure that my kids will grow up with a healthy planet,” said Gerald Butts, president and CEO of World Wildlife Fund (WWF). “A gift that contributes to that would really make my day.”

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Eco-breakfast in bed: Cook up a delicious locally-sourced or organic breakfast and serve it to dad in comfort and style. Or treat him to a dinner out on the town at a local restaurant that offers a range of delicious and eco-friendly dishes.

Organic breakfast recipes can be found online at organicauthority.com/organic-foodrecipes/breakfast/.

Do-it-yourself recycled gifts: Make a father’s day card or gift from recycled materials found around the house, or even in nature.

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Keeping your memories alive Remembering. Plan a small tribute with siblings to honour your dad if he isn’t around anymore Kelly Putter For Metro

Dad may be gone but there are ways to honour his memory this Father’s Day. “Father’s Day can be a real trigger for people,” says Vancouver counselling therapist Glynis Sherwood.

“Society really focuses on

the celebration, but it can be a painful reminder that your father is no longer with you.”

Celebrations like Father’s Day can elicit anniversary grief. This reaction typically occurs on landmark dates such as the anniversary of a death. But it can also hit during happy festivities such as birthdays.

If you are feeling vulnerable or you fear Father’s Day could prompt depression, it’s critical to make plans around this time, says Sherwood.

She recommends planning a small tribute with siblings to honour your father.

Ask them to bring photos or videos of dad. Think about memorializing him by doing something he loved. If dad was a big walker, consider going on a hike. If gardening was his hobby, planting a tree in his name might help.

Creating new rituals that pay tribute to dad is another way to salute his spirit. One of Sherwood’s clients goes skiing every year with her adult children to honour her husband and their father, an avid skier.

Memorializing dad online is a great way to commemorate him. Consider creating a website with a montage of photos or perhaps a video set to music. A memorial page on Facebook is an option. This allows family and friends to view the tribute

and to potentially provide ongoing support.

If you prefer to acknowledge dad in a more quiet and reflective way, that’s OK, too, says Sherwood.

“The important thing is what’s going to help you,” she says. “Some people do grieve very privately and there’s nothing wrong with that unless it takes you to a dark place.”

If dad is away due to a military assignment or other work commitments, there are options to mark

Father’s Day. Get in touch thanks to visual technology such as Skype. When it comes to communicating via email, send photos and videos.

“It’s important to honour these milestones if they’re meaningful to you,” Sherwood says.

“And remember that you might feel lonely or worried because your husband or dad is in a dangerous situation but it’s an opportunity for people to reach out and pull together.”

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Inspiration. Spend quality time with grandpa If you think dads feel neglected after years of forgotten Father’s Day fanfare, grandfathers may feel it even more.

Every Mother’s Day, we lavish our mothers and grandmothers with heartfelt cards and flowers, but when Father’s Day rolls around, some don’t even get a call.

Though most men will often shrug that it’s “no big deal,” why not make things better this year?

Get inspired with some of

these gift ideas: Quality time with you. Most grandfathers would prefer spending time with their loved ones to a cheesy joke card and No. 1 Grandpa tie.

Tear out a page from your day planner and literally give your whole day to grandpa, participating in his favourite activities like fishing or birdwatching. Or buy tickets to watch a concert, movie, stand-up comic, or sports event together.

Donate in his honour. Show your appreciation to your grandfather and all the ways he helped to shape you into who you have become. Organizations like Christian Children’s Fund of Canada (ccfcanada.ca) offer valuable gift items like fruit trees, mosquito nets, and clean water wells to help struggling families overseas. You can customize a card for your grandpa and show him how his generosity inspired you to help others.

MP3 player.

Rummage through his old vinyl records and cassette tapes and find matching MP3s to load onto a player. Then show him how to use his new gadget so he can enjoy music he loves.

Photo gifts. Load all your favourite photos of children and grandchildren into a digital picture frame. Or frame a collage print of your favourite memories for display.

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Put these ideas on front burner Roundup. From a barbecue to tools, dad will be able to use these gifts throughout the year With Father’s Day just around the corner, choose gifts that he will use and love throughout the year. Take a look at this roundup of ideas in every price range: A new barbecue — Did you know the latest models now come with accessories such as rotisserie kits and searing side burners? Look for a large cooking surface with enough BTUs to get your grate temperature up to 500 F to 600 F for optimal

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meat cooking. Brands such as Hamilton Beach, Kenmore, Char-Broil, Broil King and Hamilton Beach are popular choices for everyday grilling.

And don’t forget the tongs, meat forks and other grill implements.

Cordless drill — A must-have for any doit-yourselfer dad. Look for a 19.2-volt size with a battery check function for light, powerful and reliable performance.

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Is your father caught in the Dark Ages?

Technophobes. Old-school ideas such as books, tickets or classes is right choice for some dads Your dad doesn’t own a cellphone, use email, or purchase items online.

He often sighs wistfully aloud, remembering “the way things were” and scoffing when you momentarily stop talking with him to check a text message. Your dad is a

technophobe and no matter how hard you try, he doesn’t share your views on the conveniences of new gadgets and technology.

This Father’s Day, instead of shelling out more cash on a new device he will never use, consider these ideas that will

bring him comfort instead of stress: • Books and magazines. Make note of novels, magazines, and series that dad enjoys and buy him the latest copy or a magazine subscription.

If dad likes one author in particular, visit the author’s website to see if they will be on tour for a reading or autograph signing.

• Concert or sports tickets.

He will enjoy the quality

time with you as much as he enjoys his favourite musician or sports team.

• Class enrolment. Has he expressed interest in learning how to fly a plane? Get him a flight simulation package or flying lessons. Does dad want to learn how to impress mom on the dance floor?

Ballroom dance lessons for both should do the trick.

Give the gift of learning so he can pick up a new skill.

• Charitable gift donation. If dad has everything he really needs, honour him by donating to a cause he is passionate about. Organizations like Christian Children’s Fund of Canada offer practical gifts that save lives in developing countries, like a clean water well or mosquito nets that protect children from malaria. You can then personalize a card to show dad how he has helped others. News Canada

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Food for thought Father’s feast. From breakfast in bed to a hearty barbecue, let dad indulge on his special day Astrid Van Den Broek For Metro

Is the best way to dad’s heart through his stomach? If so, daddy bloggers dish on foods to spoil dad with this June 17.

Start with breakfast In his seven Father’s Days as a dad, Warren Orlans, the blogger behind urbandaddy.wordpress.com, looks forward to a special family breakfast.

“A good Father’s Day starts with breakfast out and ends with a barbecue,” says Orlans. Since the special day can be a busy one at restaurants, think about booking a reservation — if possible —

to ensure dad has a seat.

Bring on the meat!

“Break out the barbecue and surprise me with a giant piece of Canadian beef !” says Chris Read, the Ottawa-based blogger behind Canadiandad.com.

“If that’s not possible, there are always ribs or pizza. My family has a tradition of ordering Chinese food for special occasions but that’s not for everybody.”

Nick Cheeseman, the Canadad blogger (ncheeseman. blogspot.ca), says steaks and bacon are always welcome to pop. “But you could make it a bit more adventurous with lamb shanks or Osso Buco,” he suggests. Want to cook it yourself ? Search

Break out the barbecue for dad on Father’s Day for a family meal. Wavebreak Media/thinkstock

Metro News’ food section (metronews.ca/food) or Foodnetwork.ca’s site for inspiring recipes.

Don’t forget the drinks Read also suggests switching dad’s drinks up for the day.

“Father’s Day isn’t your run

of the mill day so we don’t want run of mill beverages,” says Read, who prefers a glass of Crown Royal whiskey and Coke or a bottle of Steam Whistle beer. If dad is a wine lover, buy a bottle of his favourite wine and pair it with a wine appreciation course.

In the end, indulge This is what dad really wants, says Jim Lin, the face behind busydadblog.com. “All dad wants is to enjoy indulging in comfort food to his heart’s content,” he says. “We don’t need a fancy dinner. We just need a hunk of meat, or some-

thing dripping with cheese, drenched with sugar, deep fried, or all of the above. We generally avoid these foods because we want to live as long as possible to take care of our families. But these simple indulgences make us happier than you would ever believe.”

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Hey sport, how about playing catch Peter DOyle For Metro

With Father’s Day fast approaching, the pressure is on to find a memorable gift.

This year, instead of another tie or a bottle of single malt, find something that appeals to his inner sportsman.

The first step is to consider which sports interest

your dad: Does he play recreational hockey? Is he a golfer, a cross-country skier, a runner? There is a set of equipment and apparel for each sport.

Once you have chosen a sport, you will need to learn if there is something he needs. A little research will help: Get in touch with one of his teammates or buddies (e.g., tennis or golf partner).

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Crafts. Handmade gifts that are made from the heart Kelly Putter For Metro

Nothing says you care quite like a personalized gift, so encourage kids to create their own mini masterpieces this Father’s Day. A perennial favourite is this tasty barbecue rub, says Oakville elementary school teacher Nina March. For this Emeril Lagasse recipe, combine 2½ tablespoons paprika with 2 tablespoons each of salt and garlic powder. Add 1 tablespoon each of black pepper, onion powder, cayenne powder, oregano and thyme and mix thoroughly. Pour into spice jars and you are good to go.

“Dads seem to like this gift so much that they often come back asking for the recipe year after year,” says March, who has taught for 17 years.

“When we do Father’s Day gifts it reflects what kids think is important to their dads.”

Coupon books are an inspired way to tell dad you love him. March encourages her students to design coupons that promise to make dad’s life easier in some small way.

Good options might be giving dad two hours of quiet time so he can watch the baseball game or assuring him you won’t fight with your sibling

at the dinner table.

Tech-savvy kids might enjoy this craft that fashions words into fun and funky artwork. Wordle.net lets children stretch their creative juices by thinking of expressive words that best describe dad. They might use dad, hockey, play and funny in their depiction.

The website then spits out the words in different fonts, sizes and layouts. Print a copy and glue it onto construction paper. Children can make a puzzle-piece frame on card stock to complete the project.

No father can resist a world’s-best-dad trophy. You will need two foam coffee cups, a five-inch square box, masking tape, one gold chenille stem, gold craft paint, black construction paper, glue and a white paint pen.

Glue the bottoms of the cups together. Once dry, wrap a piece of tape around the middle of the cups. Tape the entire box with masking tape.

Cut chenille stem in half and insert into the sides of one cup as trophy handles.

Paint the cups and box in gold. Write “Word’s Best Dad” in white on black construction paper and glue to the front of the box. Apply glue onto the bottom of the cup that doesn’t have the trophy handles. Press on top of box and dry completely.

While many men tend to buy what they want when they need it, most often settle for low- to medium-quality.

This might give you an opportunity to go for the gold: Giving him something of a quality higher than he would buy for himself sends a clear message that you believe he is worth it.

If your dad is more fan than player, start by making

a list of his favourite teams.

Merchandising is the cash cow of professional sports and the array of team branded gear expands daily: From chairs and key chains to rubber ducks, and iPhone and iPod covers. Another option is to buy a television or Internet package so he can watch to his heart’s content.

If your dad loves books, buy a large-format tome such

as Sports Illustrated’s The Baseball Book or The Hockey Book. If he is a serious reader, consider Stephen Brunt’s Gretzky’s Tears: Hockey, Canada and The Day Everything Changed, or Searching for Bobby Orr. A more sentimental choice is Fathers and Sons and Sports, a collection of short stories and reports from a long list of great writers.

If your father goes to the

gym regularly, consider a good quality bag for sports gear or toiletries. A few other ideas: A bike computer or pedometer, or camping gear, such as a headlamp or comfortable camp chair.

The best gift of all, of course, is the gift of time.

So take your dad to a game, watch a sports-themed movie together or just play some catch in the backyard.

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Drabek injured as Blue Jays swept by Nationals Slump. Toronto loses for the sixth time in seven games

Kyle Drabek delivers a pitch against the Washington Nationals on Wednesday at Rogers Centre. BRAD WHITE/GETTY IMAGES

For the second time in three days, the Toronto Blue Jays watched with concern as their starting pitcher walked off the mound in pain, too sore to keep going.

Monday it was Brandon Morrow, forced out after just nine pitches by a strained muscle in his left side. Wednesday it was Kyle Drabek, exiting in the fifth inning with soreness in his surgically repaired right elbow.

Stephen Strasburg won his fifth straight start, Tyler Moore hit the first two home runs of his career and the Nationals beat the Blue Jays 6-2 Wednesday to complete a three-game sweep.

Manager John Farrell and the trainer came to the mound after Drabek missed on an 0-1 pitch to Michael Morse, the second batter of the fifth. Drabek walked off the field and Aaron Laffey was called out of the bullpen.

Drabek lost for the third time in four starts, allowing four runs and seven hits in

Injury notes

Strength and stability tests showed no problems but Drabek acknowledged the episode was “pretty frightening.”

• Drabek was scheduled to undergo additional tests later Wednesday. “It’s just a little sore right now,” he said. “Obviously I want to go back out and pitch but it’s up to the trainers and coaches.”

4 1-3 innings. He walked two and struck out one. Jose Bautista hit his 19th home run for Toronto against Strasburg (8-1), a solo shot to left, but the Blue Jays fell below .500 for the first time this season (31-32).

“You get swept at home, it’s never a good thing,” Farrell said. “We’ve got to play better, bottom line.”

Strasburg allowed two runs and five hits in six innings. He walked one and struck out eight, raising his major league leading total to 100. He threw 89 pitches, 62 for strikes.

The Nationals (38-23) have now won six in a row.

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U.S. Anti-Doping Agency charges Armstrong For Lance Armstrong, the doping allegations aren’t going away. In fact, they’re starting all over again.

The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) has filed formal charges against the seven-time Tour de France winner, threatening to strip him of his victories in the storied cycling race.

Armstrong, who forcefully denied the accusations, could face a lifetime ban from the sport if he is found to have used performance-enhancing drugs.

The move by USADA immediately bans him from competing in triathlons, which he turned to after he retired from cycling last year.

Armstrong has been dogged Tennis

Nestor, Raonic to lead Canada’s team Olympic gold medallist Daniel Nestor and singles star Milos Raonic will lead Canada’s tennis team at the London Olympics. Nestor, Vasek Pospisil, Raonic and Aleksandra Wozniak were nominated for Canada’s Olympic team Wednesday. THE CANADIAN PRESS

“Baseless”

Armstrong, who was in France while training for a triathlon, issued a statement dismissing the latest allegations “baseless” and “motivated by spite.”

Even though he last won the Tour seven years ago, the 40-year-old Armstrong remains a popular — if polarizing — figure, partly because of his charity work for cancer patients.

by doping allegations since his first Tour victory in 1999, but had hoped his fight to be viewed as a clean champion Olympics

Canadian expects to compete in London despite injury Canadian diving star Alexandre Despatie is expected to compete at the Olympics in London despite a deep cut to his head from a diving accident.

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was finally won after U.S. federal prosecutors closed a twoyear criminal probe in February without bringing any charges.

Armstrong has said the investigation took a heavy emotional toll and he was relieved when it ended.

In its letter, USADA said its investigation included evidence dating back to 1996. It also included the new charge that Armstrong blood samples taken in 2009 and 2010 are “fully consistent with blood manipulation including EPO use and/or blood transfusions.”

Armstrong came out of his first retirement to race in the Tour de France those two years.

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“I’m having some fun and living my dream. I have all the time in the world to be a lawyer. I just love it here. It’s been my dream ever since I was a little kid to play football.”

Jonathan Pierre-Etienne the 27-year-old, 6-foot-3 defensive end for the Toronto Argos — a team he hated growing up in Montreal. Pierre-Etienne passed the bar to become a lawyer in January. He needs another six months of internship before he can legally practice law. His father is a crown prosecutor in Quebec. Pierre-Etienne remains in the mix among defensive ends as the Argos opened their pre-season against the Tiger-Cats at Ivor Wynne Stadium in Hamilton.

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Jurors resume deliberations in Clemens trial In their final attempt to convince jurors that Roger Clemens lied to Congress, prosecutors basically called his wife a liar, too. In his closing, Clemens’ lawyer Rusty Hardin characterized the

case as “a horrible, horrible overreach by the government and everyone involved” and hammered away at the government’s evidence. Jurors, who met for 15 minutes Tuesday, resumed deliberations Wednesday as they work through a complex verdict sheet. Clemens, a seven-time Cy Young Award-winning pitcher, is charged with perjury, making false statements and obstructing Congress.

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Late goal propels Portugal to win Underperforming Portugal finally got a win. Underperforming Cristiano Ronaldo wasn’t much help.

After a miserable run of four games without a victory and only one goal scored, the Portuguese came through with an 87th-minute goal from substitute Silvestre Varela to beat Denmark 3-2 in Group B of the European Championship.

“Those of us who don’t play from the start must be ready to join in at any time and deliver what the manager wants,” said Varela, who replaced Raul Meireles in the 84th. “We should keep on working like this to achieve our aims.”

All four teams in Group B can still advance to the quarterfinals. After Germany beat the Netherlands 2-1 in the late match, the three-time champions lead the group with six points while both Portugal and Denmark have three.

Varela scored the winner three minutes from the end, spinning on the ball and shooting from short range. It was Varela’s first international goal in four appearances.

But the winning strike came late, and after several missed opportunities from Ronaldo.

“We should have killed the game off earlier,” Portugal

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The bookmaker later tweeted a photograph claiming that Bendtner was wearing his lucky underwear.

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coach Paulo Bento said. “We had enough chances.”

Portugal also got first-half goals from Pepe and Helder Postiga at the Lviv Arena, but the Danes replied with a pair of goals from Nicklas Bendtner.

The Denmark striker found the target just before halftime and then made it 2-2 in the 80th.

“To lose in the last five minutes is very tough for us to

take,” Bendtner said. “We felt that one point at that stage was a very good result for us.”

Ronaldo is Portugal’s captain and easily its best player.

And at Euro 2012, the team is looking to him to reproduce the kind of goal-rich form he showed at Real Madrid last season, when he scored 60 goals.

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“Ronaldo is one of the best players in the world and is a very good captain and a very good leader,” Pepe said. “I’m sure he will score soon.”

Ronaldo was the team’s top scorer in qualifying for the tournament, racking up seven goals. But after the final whistle Wednesday, while Pepe raised his arms and celebrated, Ronaldo crouched alone on the field, staring quietly at the turf. the Associated Press

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German win has Netherlands facing early tourney exit Euro 2012. Gomez nets two first-half goals as Germans sit atop tough Group B

Nigel de Jong, right, of the Netherlands, tackles Mesut Ozil of Germany during a Euro 2012 Group B match on Wednesday in Kharkov, Ukraine. Joern Pollex/Getty Images

Mario Gomez left the Netherlands on the brink of elimination from the European Championship, scoring both goals in Germany’s 2-1 win Wednesday over one of its historic rivals.

Gomez scored both in the first half of one of the most anticipated showdowns of the tournament.

Robin van Persie pulled one back for the Netherlands in the second half but the defeat leaves the 2010 World Cup runner-up dangerously close to going home.

“Early on we had decent chances but the German goals came out of nowhere,” Netherlands coach Bert van Marwijk said. “We defended badly. Our offence and defence did not connect.

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“Germany really has an excellent team. It has power, creativity and scoring.”

Germany, a three-time European champion, has six points from two wins but is still not sure of advancing from Group B, where three teams could end up with six points. Earlier, Portugal beat Denmark 3-2.

“We’ve taken a major step and opened the door to the quarter-finals,” Germany coach Joachim Loew said.

“Now we have our destiny in our own hands against Denmark.”

The Netherlands, along with Germany, is considered one of the favourites but was

drawn into a tough group.

It now has lost both group games and needs to beat Portugal to have a hope. Germany will need only a draw against Denmark to win the group.

“The time just wouldn’t pass, it remained standing (at the end of match),” said Gomez, who also scored the only goal in Germany’s opening 1-0 win over Portugal. “They were pressing. It was close until the end but with Manuel Neuer in goal we can be a bit more relaxed.

“The expectations were great from our team even before the tournament and we’ve won six points against two classy teams, but it’s a long way to the final.”

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Washington Atlanta New York Miami Philadelphia

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At London Wednesday’s results Singles — First Round Tatsuma Ito, Japan, def. Paolo Lorenzi, Italy, 7-6 (6), 4-6, 6-2.

Second Round Nicolas Mahut, France, def. Andy Murray (1), Britain, 6-3, 6-7 (4), 7-6 (1).

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (2), France, def. Jamie Baker, Britain, 6-3, 6-2.

Janko Tipsarevic (3), Serbia, def. Ryan Sweeting, U.S., 6-1, 7-6 (2).

Simone Bolelli, Italy, def. Gilles Simon (4), France, 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (2).

Feliciano Lopez (5), Spain, def. Steve Darcis, Belgium, 6-3, 3-6, 7-5.

Marin Cilic (6), Croatia, def. Matthew Ebden, Australia, 6-2, 6-1.

Edouard Roger-Vasselin, France, def. Andy Roddick (7), U.S., 6-4, 4-6, 7-5.

Julien Benneteau (8), France, def. Tatsuma, Ito, Japan, 5-7, 6-4, 7-5.

Kevin Anderson (9), South Africa, def. Sergiy Stakhovsky, Ukraine, 7-6 (5), 2-6, 3-4 (retired).

David Nalbandian (10), Argentina, def. Ruben Bemelmans, Belgium, 6-4, 6-2.

Lukas Rosol, Czech Republic, def. Marcos Baghdatis (11), Cyprus, 6-3, 4-6, 6-4.

Sam Querrey, U.S., def. Denis Istomin (12), Uzbekistan, 7-6 (4), 6-3.

Xavier Malisse, Belgium, def. Alex Bogomolov Jr. (13), Russia, 6-3, 4-6, 6-0.

Grigor Dimitrov, Bulgaria, def. Gilles Muller (14), Luxembourg, 7-6 (1), 6-4.

Ivan Dodig, Croatia, def. Go Soeda (15), Japan, 6-3, 7-6 (3).

Yen-hsun Lu, Taiwan, def. Ivo Karlovic (16), Croatia, 6-7 (3), 7-6 (6), 7-6 (7).

GB — 41/2 51/2 61/2 10

WEST DIVISION

INTERLEAGUE

Wednesday’s results Washington 6 Toronto 2 Pittsburgh at Baltimore Boston at Miami Cleveland at Cincinnati N.Y. Yankees at Atlanta N.Y. Mets at Tampa Bay Arizona at Texas Detroit at Chicago Cubs Milwaukee at Kansas City Philadelphia at Minnesota Chicago White Sox at St. Louis Oakland at Colorado L.A. Angels at L.A. Dodgers San Diego at Seattle Tuesday’s results Washington 4 Toronto 2 Baltimore 8 Pittsburgh 6 Boston 2 Miami 1 Chicago Cubs 4 Detroit 3 Chicago White Sox 6 St. Louis 1 Cincinnati 7 Cleveland 1 Kansas City 2 Milwaukee 1 L.A. Dodgers 5 L.A. Angels 2 Minnesota 11 Philadelphia 7 N.Y. Mets 11 Tampa Bay 2 N.Y. Yankees 6 Atlanta 4 Oakland 8 Colorado 5 San Diego 5 Seattle 4 Texas 9 Arizona 1 Thursday’s games — All Times Eastern Cleveland (Tomlin 3-3) at Cincinnati (Leake 2-5), 12:35 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (J.Santana 3-3) at Tampa Bay (Hellickson 4-2), 1:10 p.m.

Detroit (Verlander 5-4) at Chicago Cubs (T.Wood 0-2), 2:20 p.m.

Oakland (J.Parker 2-3) at Colorado (White 2-4), 3:10 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Bedard 4-6) at Baltimore (Tom.Hunter 2-3), 7:05 p.m.

Arizona (D.Hudson 2-1) at Texas (Feldman 0-5), 8:05 p.m.

Milwaukee (Marcum 5-3) at Kansas City (Hochevar 3-7), 8:10 p.m.

Philadelphia (Blanton 5-6) at Minnesota (Diamond 5-1), 8:10 p.m.

Chicago White Sox (Floyd 4-6) at St. Louis (Westbrook 4-6), 8:15 p.m.

San Diego (Volquez 2-6) at Seattle (Er.Ramirez 0-0), 10:10 p.m.

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WEST DIVISION Texas Los Angeles Oakland Seattle

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Schedule: Thursday-Sunday.

Course: The Olympic Club, Lake Course (7,170 yards, par 70).

Purse: TBA (US$7.85 million in 2011).

Winner’s share: TBA ($1.44 million in 2011).

Wednesday’s result Houston at San Francisco Tuesday’s result San Francisco 6, Houston 3 Thursday’s game All Times Eastern Houston (W.Rodriguez 5-4) at San Francisco (Zito 5-3), 3:45 p.m.

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At Birmingham, England Wednesday’s results Singles — First Round Hsieh Su-wei (13), Taiwan, def. Vera Dushevina, Russia, 4-6, 7-6 (5), 6-4.

Timea Babos (14), Hungary, def. Alison Riske, U.S., 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 (2).

Elena Baltacha (15), Britain, def. Chang Kaichen,Taiwan, 4-6, 6-4, 7-5.

Alexandra Panova, Russia, def. Stephanie Dubois, Laval, Que., 6-7 (2), 6-1, 7-5.

Second Round Misaki Doi, Japan, def. Francesca Schiavone (1), Italy, 7-5, 6-4.

Urszula Radwanska, Poland, def. Sabine Lisicki (2), Germany, 6-3, 6-4.

Melinda Czink, Hungary, def. Daniela Hantuchova (3), Slovakia, 7-5, 7-6 (5).

Roberta Vinci (4), Italy, def. Virginie Razzano, France, 6-3 (retired).

Jelena Jankovic (5), Serbia, def. Melanie South, Britain, 6-1, 7-6 (3).

Andrea Hlavackova, Czech Republic, def.

Mona Barthel (6), Germany, 7-6 (5), 6-2.

Ekaterina Makarova (8), Russia, def. Sesil Karatantcheva, Kazakhstan, 7-6 (4), 6-3.

Marina Erakovic (9), New Zealand, def. Laura Robson, Britain, 6-4, 3-6, 6-4.

Elena Vesnina, Russia, def. Christina McHale (10), U.S., 6-1, 1-6, 7-5.

Hsieh Su-wei (13), Taiwan, def. Alexandra Panova, Russia, 6-4, 6-2.

Irina Falconi, U.S., def. Timea Babos (14), Hungary, 6-0, 6-4.

Heather Watson, Britain, def. Elena Baltacha (15), Britain, 7-6 (5), 6-3.

Casey Dellacqua, Australia, def. Tara Moore, Britain, 4-6, 6-4, 6-1.

Zheng Jie, China, def. Anne Keothavong, Britain, 6-3, 6-4.

Stephanie Foretz Gacon, France, def. Anastasia Rodionova, Australia, 7-5, 6-2.

DP—Toronto 1. LOB—Washington 5, Toronto 6.

2B—Harper (9), T.Moore (2), Rasmus (13).

3B—R.Davis (2). HR—Desmond (9), T.Moore 2 (2), Bautista (19). SB—Y.Escobar (1). CS— R.Davis (3).

Washington Strasburg W,8-1 Stammen H,4 Lidge Toronto Drabek L,4-7 Laffey Cordero Janssen

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Umpires — Home, Gary Cederstrom; First, Lance Barksdale; Second, Fieldin Culbreth; Third, Adrian Johnson.

T—2:52. A—41,667 (49,260) at Toronto.

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Wednesday’s results Toronto at Hamilton Saskatchewan at B.C. Thursday’s game Winnipeg at Montreal, 7:30 p.m.

Friday’s game Edmonton at Calgary, 9 p.m.

Week Two — Tuesday, June 19 Montreal at Toronto, 12 noon Wednesday, June 20 Hamilton at Winnipeg, 8 p.m.

Thursday, June 21 — B.C. at Edmonton, 9 p.m.

Friday, June 22 Calgary at Saskatchewan, 9 p.m.

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At Halle, Germany Wednesday’s results Singles — Second Round Tomas Berdych (3), Czech Republic, def. Viktor Troicki, Serbia, 6-3, 6-2.

Mikhail Youzhny, Russia, def. Alexandr Dolgopolov (4), Ukraine, 6-4, 3-6, 6-3.

Milos Raonic (5), Thornhill, Ont., def. Zhang Ze, China, 6-1, 6-1.

Radek Stepanek, Czech Republic, def. CedrikMarcel Stebe, Germany, 6-4, 6-4.

Doubles — Quarter-finals Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi, Pakistan, and JeanJulien Rojer (1), Netherlands, def. Johan Brunstrom, Sweden, and Philipp Marx, Germany, 7-6 (7), 6-7 (1), 10-7 (tiebreak).

WTA GASTEIN LADIES

At Bad Gastein, Austria Wednesday’s results Singles — First Round Ksenia Pervak (3), Kazakhstan, def. Lara Arruabarrena-Vecino, Spain, 3-6, 6-3, 7-6 (3).

Yvonne Meusburger, Austria, def. Petra Martic (5), Croatia, 6-1, 4-6, 7-6 (5).

Irina-Camelia Begu (6), Romania, def. Kathrin Woerle, Germany, 7-5, 1-6, 6-3.

Johanna Larsson (8), Sweden, def. Jana Cepelova, Slovakia, 6-4, 7-6 (1).

Jill Craybas, U.S., def. Nina Bratchikova, Russia, 7-5, 6-3.

Dia Evtimova, Bulgaria, def. Barbara Haas, Austria, 5-7, 6-1, 6-3.

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GROUP A U.S. Jamaica Guatemala Antigua

OKLAHOMA CITY (W2) VS. MIAMI (E2) (Oklahoma City leads series 1-0) Tuesday’s result Oklahoma City 105 Miami 94 Thursday’s game Miami at Oklahoma City, 9 p.m.

Sunday’s game Oklahoma City at Miami, 8 p.m.

Tuesday, June 19 Oklahoma City at Miami, 9 p.m.

Thursday, June 21 x-Oklahoma City at Miami, 9 p.m.

Sunday, June 24 x-Miami at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m.

Tuesday, June 26 x-Miami at Oklahoma City, 9 p.m. x — played only if necessary.

GP W D 2 1 1 2 1 1 2 0 1 2 0 1

L GF GA 0 4 2 0 2 1 1 2 3 1 1 3

Pt 4 4 1 1

L GF GA 0 5 2 0 6 2 1 3 4 2 1 7

Pt 6 4 1 0

Tuesday’s results At St. John’s, Antigua Antigua 0 Jamaica 0 At Guatemala City Guatemala 1 U.S. 1 Friday, Sept. 7 Guatemala vs. Antigua Jamaica vs. U.S.

GROUP B Mexico Costa Rica El Salvador Guyana

GP W D 2 2 0 2 1 1 2 0 1 2 0 0

Tuesday’s results At San Salvador, El Salvador Mexico 2 El Salvador 1 At Georgetown, Guyana Costa Rica 4 Guyana 0 Friday, Sept. 7 Costa Rica vs. Mexico El Salvador vs. Guyana Panama Canada Honduras Cuba

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GP W D 2 2 0 2 1 1 2 0 1 2 0 0

L GF GA 0 3 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 2 0 2

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Tuesday’s results At Toronto Canada 0 Honduras 0 At Panama City Panama 1 Cuba 0 Friday, Sept. 7 Canada vs. Panama Cuba vs. Honduras

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MIAMI (94) James 11-24 7-9 30, Battier 6-9 1-2 17, Haslem 2-6 0-0 4, Chalmers 5-7 0-0 12, Wade 7-19 5-5 19, Bosh 4-11 1-2 10, Miller 1-2 0-0 2, Anthony 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 36-78 14-18 94.

OKLAHOMA CITY (105) Durant 12-20 8-9 36, Ibaka 5-10 0-1 10, Perkins 2-2 0-0 4, Westbrook 10-24 7-9 27, Sefolosha 2-5 5-6 9, Collison 4-5 0-0 8, Harden 2-6 0-0 5, Fisher 3-5 0-0 6, Cook 0-0 0-2 0. Totals 40-77 20-27 105.

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3-Point Goals—Miami 8-19 (Battier 4-6, Chalmers 2-4, Bosh 1-3, James 1-3, Miller 0-1, Wade 0-2), Oklahoma City 5-17 (Durant 4-8, Harden 1-2, Fisher 0-1, Sefolosha 0-2, Westbrook 0-4). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Miami 38 (Haslem 11), Oklahoma City 52 (Collison 10). Assists—Miami 20 (Wade 8), Oklahoma City 22 (Westbrook 11). Total Fouls— Miami 19, Oklahoma City 16. Technicals— Battier, Westbrook.

A—18,203 (18,203) at Oklahoma City, Okla.

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

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Colorado at Vancouver, 7 p.m.

D.C. United at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.

Seattle at Montreal, 7:30 p.m.

Columbus at New England, 7:30 p.m.

Toronto at Kansas City, 8:30 p.m.

Real Salt Lake at Chivas USA, 10:30 p.m.

Sunday’s games New York at Chicago, 5 p.m.

Portland at Los Angeles, 8 p.m.

FIRST ROUND Russia Czech Republic Poland Greece

GP W D 2 1 1 2 1 0 2 0 2 2 0 1

L GF GA PTS 0 5 2 4 1 3 5 3 0 2 2 2 1 2 3 1

Tuesday’s results At Wroclaw, Poland Czech Republic 2 Greece 1 At Warsaw, Poland Poland 1 Russia 1 Saturday’s games At Warsaw, Poland Greece vs. Russia, 2:45 p.m.

At Wroclaw, Poland Czech Republic vs. Poland, 2:45 p.m.

GROUP B Germany Portugal Denmark Netherlands

GP W D 2 2 0 2 1 0 2 1 0 2 0 0

L GF GA PTS 0 3 1 6 1 3 3 3 1 3 3 3 2 1 3 0

Wednesday’s results At Lviv, Ukraine Portugal 3 Denmark 2 At Kharkiv, Ukraine Germany 2 Netherlands 1 Sunday’s games At Kharkiv, Ukraine Portugal vs. Netherlands, 2:45 p.m.

At Lviv, Ukraine Denmark vs. Germany, 2:45 p.m.

GROUP C Croatia Italy Spain Ireland

GP W D 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 0

L GF GA PTS 0 3 1 3 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 3 0

Sunday’s results At Gdansk, Poland Spain 1 Italy 1 At Poznan, Poland Croatia 3 Ireland 1 Thursday’s games At Poznan, Poland Italy vs. Croatia, 12 noon At Gdansk, Poland Spain vs. Ireland, 2:45 p.m.

GROUP D Ukraine England France Sweden

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Monday’s results At Donetsk, Ukraine France 1 England 1 At Kiev, Ukraine Ukraine 2 Sweden 1 Friday’s games At Kiev, Ukraine Sweden vs. England, 12 noon At Donetsk, Ukraine Ukraine vs. France, 2:45 p.m.

NASL Puerto Rico San Antonio Minnesota Fort Lauderdale Tampa Bay Edmonton Carolina Atlanta

GF GA 19 7 14 9 15 13 15 18 11 15 11 10 18 20 11 22

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Across 1 Venomous snakes 5 “The A-Team” actor 8 Borders 12 Beehive State 13 — de cologne 14 Sandwich cookie 15 Easy gait 16 Clever plan 18 Snow White’s allies 20 Melee 21 Land map 23 Set of parts 24 Poker hand 28 Prevalent 31 Have bills 32 Prepare to drive 34 Neither’s mate 35 Luxurious 37 Alien 39 Also 41 Opposed 42 Handy 45 Vessel for boiling 49 Noncommittal position 51 Teeny amount 52 Noble 53 Festive 54 Pressing need?

55 Argument 56 Type units 57 Albacore, e.g.

Yesterday’s Crossword

Down 1 “— Lang Syne” 2 Pack cargo 3 One of the Three Bears 4 Himalayan guide 5 Some notes 6 Snitch 7 Surf and — 8 Pompous talk 9 Putting up 10 Grand-scale prefix 11 Beans used in miso 17 Noah’s boat 19 Move like a moth 22 Eighth Greek letter 24 Bribe 25 Pair 26 Roadside stop 27 Jailers 29 Enemy 30 Blunder 33 Liver spread 36 Capital of Tasmania 38 Fool 40 Ancient 42 Mail-truck abbr.

43 Dance lesson 44 Rim 46 From one end to t’other 47 “The — King” 48 Sicilian volcano

How to play Fill in the grid, so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1-9. There is no math involved. You solve the puzzle with reasoning and logic.

50 Fugitive’s flight

Cryptoquip

How to play This is a substitution cipher where one letter stands for another. Eg: If X equals O, it will equal O throughout the puzzle.

Yesterday’s Sudoku

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Horoscope

Win!

Aries | March 21 - April 20.

You’ll hear what you want to hear today and ignore anything that does not fit in with your preconceived ideas. But why limit your thinking?

Taurus | April 21 - May 21.

Don’t worry if you’re not doing much on a practical level because this is a time for thinking and planning.

Gemini | May 22 - June

20. This could be a stressful day, especially where relationships are concerned. Misunderstandings are likely but how you let them affect you is a matter of choice.

Cancer | June 21 - July 22.

When the pressure gets to be too much, you can get emotional. The planets warn that a small emotional explosion is likely today. But it’s better than a big one later!

Leo | July 23 - Aug. 22. It’s not like you to be emotionally distant but something has annoyed you and now you are keeping your distance from certain people. It’ll pass.

Virgo | Aug. 23 - Sept. 22. Try not to make promises you may not be able to keep today because if you let people down, they won’t be too happy about it.

Libra | Sept. 23 - Oct. 22.

Others are unlikely to react well if you are critical of their efforts today.

They may be doing it wrong, but pointing out their faults and failings isn’t likely to endear you to them.

Scorpio | Oct. 23 - Nov. 21.

One moment you are too generous and the next you are too tough. It may be a reaction to other people’s inconsistencies.

Sagittarius | Nov. 22 - Dec. 21. Colleagues and employers will

look kindly on you today, so if there is anything you want from them now would be a good time to ask.

Capricorn | Dec. 22 - Jan 20.

You seem concerned with personal relationships at the moment but until the Sun moves into your opposite sign on the 20th, you won’t be able to change much for the better.

You write it!

Aquarius | Jan. 21 - Feb 18.

If you are not enjoying what you are working on then it’s pretty obvious you are working on the wrong thing.

Pisces | Feb. 19 - March 20.

You may be eager to show the world what you can do but if you are smart you’ll hold off for a while. The Sun moves in your favour next week.

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TM The Hyundai names, logos, product names, feature names, images and slogans are trademarks owned by Hyundai Auto Canada Corp. All Selling Prices include AWD Offer. †Finance offers available O.A.C. from Hyundai Financial Services based on a new 2012 Tucson GL AWD/Santa Fe GL 2.4 AWD WITH PREMIUM PKG /Veracruz GL AWD with an annual finance rate of 0% for 48/72/72 months. Bi-weekly payment is $255/$190/$227. No down payment is required. Cost of Borrowing is $0/$0/$0. Finance offers include Delivery and Destination of $1,760/$1,760/$1,760, fees, levies, and all applicable charges (excluding HST). Registration, insurance, PPSA and license fees are excluded. Delivery and destination charge includes freight, P.D.E., dealer admin fees and a full tank of gas. Financing example: 2012 Veracruz GL AWD for $35,395 at 0% per annum equals $227 bi-weekly for 72 months for a total obligation of $35,395. Cash price is $35,395. Cost of Borrowing is $0. Example price includes Delivery and Destination of $1,760, fees, levies, and all applicable charges (excluding HST). Registration, insurance, PPSA and license fees are excluded. †♦Prices for models shown: 2012 Tucson Limited AWD/Santa Fe Limited 3.5 AWD/Veracruz GLS AWD are $34,245/$37,695/$41,895. Delivery and Destination charges of $1,760/$1,760/$1,760, fees, levies, and all applicable charges (excluding HST) are included. Registration, insurance, PPSA and license fees are excluded. Delivery and destination charge includes freight, P.D.E., dealer admin fees and a full tank of gas. ▼Fuel consumption for 2012 Tucson GL AWD (HWY 7.1L/100KM; City 10.0L/100KM)/2012 Santa Fe GL 2.4 AWD WITH PREMIUM PKG (HWY 8.0L/100KM, City 10.6L/100KM)/2012 Veracruz GL AWD (HWY 8.9L/100KM; City 13.2L/100KM) are based on Energuide. Actual fuel efficiency may vary based on driving conditions and the addition of certain vehicle accessories. Fuel economy figures are used for comparison purposes only. ‡No Charge AWD Offer: Purchase or lease a new 2012 Tucson GL AWD/Santa Fe GL 2.4 AWD WITH PREMIUM PKG/Veracruz GL AWD and you will be entitled to a $2,000 factory to dealer credit, which reduces the starting price to the regular starting price of the 2012 Tucson GL FWD/2012 Santa Fe GL 2.4 FWD WITH PREMIUM PKG/Veracruz GL FWD. Factory to dealer credit applies before taxes. Offer cannot be combined or used in conjunction with any other available credits. Offer is non-transferable and cannot be assigned. No vehicle trade-in required. No charge AWD offer not available on the Tucson L 5-speed or L Auto, or the Santa Fe GL 2.4 6-speed or GL 2.4 Auto. ΩPurchase or lease a 2012 Tucson/Santa Fe/Veracruz during the Factory Authorized SUV Super Sale and you will receive a Preferred Price Petro-Canada Gas Card worth $250 (2012 Tucson)/$400 (2012 Santa Fe)/$540 (2012 Veracruz). Based on Energuide combined fuel consumption rating for the 2012 Tucson 2.0L Auto (7.9L/100km)/Santa Fe 2.4L Auto (9.0L/100km)/Veracruz Auto (10.8L/100km) at 15,400km/year [yearly average driving distance (Transport Canada’s Provincial Light Vehicle Fleet Statistics, 2012)], this is equivalent to $0.25 (2012 Tucson)/$0.40 (2012 Veracruz and Santa Fe) per litre savings on each litre of gas up to a total of 1,000 Litres (2012 Tucson and Santa Fe)/1,350 Litres (2012 Veracruz). †♦‡ΩOffers available for a limited time, and subject to change or cancellation without notice. See dealer for complete details. Dealer may sell for less. Inventory is limited, dealer order may be required. ††Hyundai’s Comprehensive Limited Warranty coverage covers most vehicle components against defects in workmanship under normal use and maintenance conditions.

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