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HALIFAX
Father Hailemariam Gebresilasse poses for a photo outside the St. Gebriel Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church
in Hammonds Plains yesterday. Vandals used a chainsaw to cut down the church’s sign late Monday night.
RYAN TAPLIN/METRO
Vandals swipe church signIt will cost about $500 to replace the sign There are fewer than 20 people in the church’s congregation The abandoned Anglican church on Hammonds Plains Road was donated to an Ethiopian group
A tiny church for Ethiopian immi-grants in Hammonds Plains hasbeen hit again by vandals, thelatest incident involving theirsign being cut down with a chain-saw.
There have been two or threeminor occurrences of vandalismsince St. Gebriel Ethiopian Ortho-dox Tewahedo Church openedmore than a year ago, but the lat-est one has gone too far, said Dea-con Les Zewdie.
At around 10:30 p.m. Mondaynight, police say several peoplegot out of a van and revved up achainsaw. They cut down thechurch’s sign, threw it in the backof the van and took off.
“This is the limit and there isa red line … We’ve been verypatient for these things for a longperiod of time, but at this timewe are not hesitating to makesure legal actions are takingplace,” Zewdie said yesterday.
He said he has his suspicions ofwho did it, but wouldn’t saybecause an investigation is under-way.
Father Hailemariam Gebresi-lasse, head of the church, saidthrough a translator he was veryunhappy.
“If any person who knows ourchurch did it, that will make memore sad, but I don’t think it is,”he said.
Halifax RCMP spokesman Cpl.Scott MacRae said it appears plan-ning was involved.
“There have been minor com-plaints of vandalism in the past …but definitely this is a uniqueoccurrence where people arejumping out of a van with a chain-saw to chop down a church sign,”he said.
“There’s obviously more to thestory.”
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“Whoever did it, I wantto make sure theyunderstand it was acriminal act underCanadian law. Don’t doit again, and also (Iwant) whoever did it tocome forward to us andtell us why.”DEACON LES ZEWDIE
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Pollster connects Kelly’s decline in support to concert cash scandalPopular former Liberal MP hasn’t decided on whether he’ll run for mayor
Savage outpaces Kellyin voter intention
Mike Savage, seen in this photo from earlier this month, has more support than Mayor Peter Kelly in a new poll.
RYAN TAPLIN/METRO FILE
Mike Savage hasn’t evenentered the race, and healready finds himselfahead.
Savage’s popularitywith decided voters in-creased three per centfrom February to Augustto 49 per cent. Forty percent of respondents cameout for Kelly, down from47 per cent over thatsame time period.
“We’ve run plenty of
names in the past … andnobody has come close tobeing as competitive asMr. Savage,” said pollsterDon Mills, the CEO of Hal-ifax-based CRA.
But there’s still a largechunk of voters who sup-port neither man (11 percent) or are still undecid-ed (21 per cent).
That’s some solace forKelly, who pointed outthere is still over a yearbefore voters head to thepolls.
“Certainly you don’ttake polls too lightly,” Kel-
ly said yesterday. “But youalso try to keep in mindthat there’s an ebb andflow to public opinion.”
Savage refused to com-ment on the poll from Ot-tawa yesterday, where hewas attending an end-of-summer Liberal caucusmeeting.
The popular former MPlost his federal seat inMay to NDP candidateRobert Chisholm by a nar-row margin. Savage re-cently took a positionwith the marketing firmm5.
The CRA poll surveyed401 voting aged HRM resi-dents. It is accurate with-in 4.9 percentage points.
Power rateincreasetalks areback on
Nova Scotia Power Inc. willresume discussions withcustomer and industry ad-vocates this morning.
The energy utility ispitching a plan to spread aproposed increase in powerrates over the next threeyears. But the fine details ofNSPI’s plan will not be pub-licly disclosed.
“Because the customerreps will want some timeto look at the proposal, thedetails probably won’t bediscussed in public,” saidDavid Rodenhiser, aspokesman for NSPI. “Butcertainly people will beable to talk about the issuesinvolved.”
Another issue that willbe discussed at the meetingis the imminent closure ofthe NewPage mill in PortHawkesbury. NewPage isone of NSPI’s largestcustomers, consuming ap-proximately 13 per cent ofthe province’s power andcontributing over $100 mil-lion to NSPI’s coffers.
Rodenhiser said anupdated load and fuel fore-cast — one that takes intoaccount the mill’s closure— will be discussed at themeeting.
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Weekend events havesomething for everyone
Bestselling authors Joy Fielding and Anthony Hyde headlining book festival Everything from African art to salad dressing on sale at bazaar
RYAN TAPLIN/METRO
At first glance, these threefestivals appear to havenothing in common buttheir location.
But the Francofestival,Word on the Street and In-ternational African Bazaarare blurring boundaries.All three will be on theHalifax waterfront in Sep-tember, in a partnershipengineered to attractmore people to all threeevents.
“Some people thoughtit would be a diluted audi-ence or some kind of chal-lenge with competition,but that wasn’t our ap-proach,” said ColleenRitchie, with Word on theStreet, at a media launchyesterday.
“We decided to find away to build layers foreach festival without eachindividual festival havingto take on areas of expert-ise that weren’t theirs.”
For example, the Fran-cofestival has a literarycafé and an African musicnight on their program.
The Word on the Streetwas at Victoria Park lastyear and at the CunardCentre previously.
Ritchie said she wascourted by the WaterfrontDevelopment Corporationto move again so theycould bring the threeevents within close walk-ing distance on the sameweekend.
“It helps me find a wayto reach a new audienceand build a literary andliteracy festival which is
diverse,” Ritchie said.The African Bazaar,
which features local andinternational vendors, ispart of an international
conference on heritagetourism and socially con-scious travel.
“It doesn’t matter whatyour interests are, we
think there will be some-thing here on that week-end for you,” said WaynHamilton, with the Officeof Nova Scotian Affairs.
Gallery to display art shortlisted for awardThe Art Gallery of NovaScotia is planning a showfeaturing Canadian con-temporary artists short-listed for the 2011 SobeyArt Award.
The exhibit will includethe works of CharlesStankievech, Sarah AnneJohnson, Daniel Young,
Christian Giroux, ManonDe Pauw and ZekeMoores.
The 2011 exhibitionfeaturing a selection ofthe artists’ work opens onSept. 17. It will includevideo installations, pho-tography and sculptures.
The Sobey Art Award,
established in 2002, cele-brates advances in con-temporary art with theintention of inspiringpublic interest and recog-nizing the country’s bestyoung artists.
The Sobey Art Award ismanaged and adminis-tered by the Art Gallery of
Nova Scotia on behalf ofthe Sobey Art Foundation.THE CANADIAN PRESS
Cops searchfor assaultsuspects Police were on the huntyesterday for two suspectswanted for questioning inconnection with an as-sault with a knife andbaseball bat at a Sydneyresidence.
Investigators say it ap-pears that two suspects —a male and a female — en-tered the residence yester-day morning, assaulted anadult male inside thehome with a knife andbaseball bat and then fled.CAPE BRETON POST
Tools worth$8K stolenfrom vanPolice say about $8,000 intools was stolen from a vanin Cole Harbour on Mon-day night.
Halifax RCMP say thoseinvolved caused extensivedamage to the passengerdoor of the van located at aresidence on CaldwellRoad. The gearshift andsteering column were alsodamaged. Police are nowreminding the public theimportance of not leavingvaluables inside their vehi-cles. METRO
Police urgewitnesses tocome forwardPolice say some people con-tinue to know more thanthey’re willing to tell in themurder of Jason MacCul-lough.
Sunday marked the 12thanniversary of the killingthat saw the 19-year-old vic-tim shot in the back of thehead from point-blankrange while walking homeon Pinecrest Drive in Dart-mouth.
MacCullough was usinga well-known shortcutwhen he was shot at 2:30a.m. on Aug. 28, 1999. Po-lice believe the killing was arandom incident, as theydon’t think the victim wasinvolved in any type of
criminal activity. Police issued a release
yesterday saying investiga-tors still believe there wereseveral people in the areawhen the killing took place,and that they strongly “be-lieve there were witnessesto the crime.”
METRO
DOMESTIC DISPUTE
Possiblecharges inbaseball batassaultHalifax Regional Policesay they are consultingwith the Crown on possi-ble charges relating to aserious assault in Dart-mouth on Monday after-noon.
Witnesses heardscreaming outside at anapartment building at384 1/2 Portland St. at12:48 p.m. A fight brokeout among several peo-ple and a 43-year-old
man was beaten with abaseball bat.
Police allege the alter-cation stemmed from adomestic dispute, with ateenager eventually in-tervening and using thebat brought by the vic-tim. The teenager wastaken into custody onMonday but has sincebeen released.
“We really can’t specu-late on charges. It wasn’tself defence but he cer-tainly was coming to theaid of another person,”said police spokeswomanTheresa Rath.
The bat wasn’t usedagainst the woman in thealleged domestic dispute,Rath added.
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Simon Mandari from the Maritime Drumming Centre of Nova Scotia, right, and Mario
Bradet from the BBQ Kings band perform at a festival launch at the Maritime Museum
of the Atlantic yesterday.
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Event info
International AfricanBazaar as part of theAfrican Diaspora Trail ConferenceWhen: Sept. 22-25Where: Sackville LandingWhat: Local, national andinternational vendors of-fering African culturalproducts and services. Cost: FreeWeb: adht2011.com
FrancofestivalWhen: Sept. 23-25Where: Queen’s LandingWhat: Music, arts, literarycafé, as well as Acadianand Lebanese food.Cost: Free except for concertsWeb: ccgh.ca
The Word on the StreetWhen: Sept. 25 11 a.m.-5p.m.Where: Maritime Museumof the Atlantic, AlderneyLandingWhat: A celebration ofreading and literacy. Thisyear’s theme: The bookthat got me hooked.Cost: FreeWeb:
thewordonthestreet.ca/wots/halifax
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Garrett May and DannyDemyanenko are hopingto give Halifax beach vol-leyball fans something tocheer about this week.
The Toronto duo is themen’s team to beat thisweek on the waterfront’sSalter Lot, entering theFIVB world junior under-21 beach volleyball cham-pionships as the No. 1seed.
May, 19, won last year’sevent with Sam Schachterin Alanya, Turkey, andjoined forces with Demya-nenko, 17, after Schachtergraduated to the seniorlevel.
“I know Canadians aregoing to make it an in-credible tournament toplay in and we’re excitedto be here,” May said.“We’re going to give it allwe’ve got.”
May and Demyanenkoform one of six Canadianteams at the event, withthree on the men's sideand three on the
women's.As a rookie at the
event, Demyanenko hitthe jackpot getting pairedwith May, who is compet-ing at his third world jun-ior championships.
“He’s been really en-thusiastic, very support-ive. … I’m definitelyconfident having him asmy defender,” Demya-nenko said. “It’s been apretty easy transition andwe’ve kind of meshed.”
The gold medal won byMay and Schachter wasthe first for Canada at theworld junior champi-onships, which is now en-tering its 11th year.
May is hoping for a re-peat performance withthe event in North Ameri-ca for the first time.
“Danny and I havebeen working very welltogether,” May said. “He’s
a great player, I’m veryhappy to be playing withhim and we get alonggreat. We need to workhard, take it one point ata time and see how thingsshake out.”
Dynamic duo toshake up sand
World junior beach volleyball championships starttoday with free admission 24-team draws for Friday
RYAN TAPLIN/METRO
Full serve ahead along the beachThe Swatch Junior World Championships begin today at Halifax waterfront’sSalter Lot. Many beach volleyball players were out practising yesterday inpreparation for the start of today’s action.
Volley. Ball
Lyubov Bogatu from Kazakhstan serves the ball during practice for the Swatch Junior World Championships yesterday on the Halifax waterfront.
Teamwork
There are 20 teams in themen’s and women’sdraws, with four more be-ing added to each sidethrough today’s qualifica-tion round.
Quarter-finals and semifinals will be held onSaturday, while thewomen’s and men’s finalsare on Sunday at 2:30p.m. and 3:45 p.m.
Single-day tickets forThursday through Sundaystart at $10 and can be purchased at sandjamhalifax.ca.
The temporary six-courtfacility features 2,000tonnes of sand, which ar-rived via 66 tri-axle trail-ers.
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“We need to workhard, take it onepoint at a time andsee how thingsshake out.”GARRETT MAY, VOLLEYBALL CHAMP
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Vancouver police are ask-ing the public to helpthem bring hundreds ofsuspects from the June 15Stanley Cup riot to justicethrough a new interactivewebsite (riot2011.vpd.ca).
Insp. Les Yeo of the riotinvestigation team saidthey have posted 40 pho-tos of suspected rioters onthe website in the hopesthe public can identifythem.
Yeo said police will beadding 100 more photos inthe coming weeks so inves-tigators won’t be over-whelmed and will haveenough time for a thor-
ough investigation.Chief Jim Chu also again
defended the VancouverPolice Department overthe lack of charges stem-ming from the incident.He said police are takingtheir time collecting evi-dence to make sure thatpeople are held account-able to the full extent of
their involvement duringthe riots.
“We don’t get twochances at this,” Chu said.“We can’t charge (suspectswith) rioting and then say,‘Hey, your honour, wefound some more informa-tion three months later.Can we charge (them) withrioting again?’”
Chu added 42 peoplehave already turned them-selves in, and police are in-vestigating 1,100 names ofpeople who may have beeninvolved in the riots. Still,no charges have been laid.
An independent reportinto the riot is expected tobe released tomorrow byformer VANOC head JohnFurlong and former NovaScotia deputy justice min-ister Doug Keefe.
Riot investigationgiven high-tech spin
Vancouver police encourage public to log on to new website and help identify suspected rioters
40 photos posted on website, 100 more to be put up in the coming weeks, according to police
Restoring the traditionalnames of the navy and airforce has the support of amajority of Canadians, anew poll suggests.
A survey by The Canadi-
an Press-Harris/Decimafound that 56 per cent ofrespondents agreed withthe change and 31 per centopposed it. THE CANADIAN PRESS
Military name change gets the OK
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Ramadan ends with Eid festivitiesEid al-Fitr marks an end to the holy month of Ramadan. Thousands of Muslimsattended the 26th annual event at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, as wellas other celebrations across Canada yesterday.
Muslim. Holiday
A young boy watches as men pray during the Muslim Association of Canada’s
Eid celebration at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre yesterday.
41Regionally, therewas marked
disagreement only inQuebec, where 41 percent approved of theidea and 46 per centwere against it.
“You get one kickat the can, andthat’s why weneed to take ourtime to ensurethese suspects,these accused,don’t evadejustice.”JIM CHU, VANCOUVER POLICE CHIEF
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Child survivescougar attack B.C. WILDLIFE An 18-
month-old child is recov-ering in hospital after acougar attack inside Van-couver Island’s PacificRim National ParkReserve.
The attack occurred atabout 6 p.m. Monday onthe beach of a popular
day-use area at KennedyLake, some 16 kilometreseast of the community ofUcluelet.
The toddler is now list-ed in serious condition atVancouver’s Children’sHospital.THE CANADIAN PRESS
Mulcair mullsleadership runMONTREAL. NDP deputyleader Thomas Mulcair isconsidering a bid to suc-ceed Jack Layton, but saysit will likely be anotherthree weeks before he an-
nounces his decision.The fluently bilingual
Montreal MP, who hasrepresented the party inthe Commons since 2007,joins NDP president Bri-an Topp in expressing in-terest in becoming leaderof the official Opposition.
Mulcair told a newsconference in Montrealyesterday that he has re-ceived support from col-leagues, but is unlikely tomake any announcementbefore the Houseresumes Sept. 19. THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Did Gadhafi lie aboutdaughter’s death?Since the rebel takeover ofTripoli, evidence has beenmounting that MoammarGadhafi may have liedabout the death of hisadopted baby daughterHana in a 1986 U.S.airstrike.
The strike hit Gadhafi’shome in retaliation for theLibyan-sponsored bombingof a Berlin nightclub earlierthat year that killed twoU.S. servicemen.
At the time, Gadhafishowed American journal-ists a picture of a dead babyand said it was his adopteddaughter Hana — the firstpublic mention that sheeven existed. Diplomats al-most immediately ques-tioned the claim. ButGadhafi kept the story alivethrough the years.
But when Libyan rebelstook over last week, they
found a room in Gadhafi’shome with Hana’s birthcertificate and pictures of ayoung woman with thename “Hana” written onthe back, possible indica-
tions that she lived beyondinfancy.
Many Libyans believeHana was never killed andtalked about her existenceopenly. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
It was common knowledge girl still lived: Diplomat
Moammar Gadhafi holds, presumably, his daughter
Hana in Tripoli in this undated 1996 photo.
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An independent inquiry
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what is known about the
inquiry so far:
A spokesman for theinquiry said he couldn’tconfirm a report in TheDaily Telegraph thatRupert and JamesMurdoch will be called totestify, but noted thatLeveson has wide powersto call witnesses. The spokesman also saidLeveson is hoping to tele-vise the inquiry’s proceed-ings in the interests oftransparency.
Rupert Murdoch’s scandal-hit News International con-firmed yesterday that itwas reviewing journalisticstandards across the com-pany, a U.K. media groupthat includes The Times ofLondon newspaper.
More than a dozen for-mer journalists and execu-tives from the now-defunctNews of the World havebeen arrested over claimsthey systematically inter-cepted mobile phone mes-sages and illegally paidpolice for tips.
It’s believed the reviewwill examine News Inter-national publications, in-cluding the 226-year-oldTimes, its sister-publica-tion the Sunday Times, andThe Sun, Britain’s biggest-selling daily.
The publishers of the
Daily Mirror and the DailyMail, which both competewith Murdoch’s papers,have announced their ownseparate reviews.
Meanwhile, Britain’sElectoral Commission saysit won’t investigate pay-ments made to Andy Coul-son, the former News of
News International shaken by allegations of illegalbehaviour Fingers pointed at even more newspapers
A pedestrian passes signs at the entrance
to News International headquarters in London.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE
Three menfingeredfor fraudThree men from the Mon-treal area have beencharged for allegedly forg-ing credit cards. Chargesinclude possession of cred-it card data and identitytheft. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CNN buysmagazinefor iPadsCNN has acquired Zite.The digital magazine forthe iPad tablet learnsabout readers’ tastes andselects packages from hun-dreds of websites. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHINESE MINE DISASTER
19 minerspulled to safety Their faces black withcoal dust, 19 Chineseminers trapped for aweek underground werebrought to the surfaceyesterday, as rescuerssearched for three miss-ing colleagues.
Twenty-six minershad been trapped nearthe surface when water
poured into a shaft onAug. 23 from anadjacent, flooded mine.Three had been pulledout alive Saturday andone body was recovered.
The survivors stayedalive with water thatdripped from the ceilingand nutrition packs sentthrough a 280-metrepipe drilled through therock. The pipe also pro-vided fresh air.
The mine was orderedshut in 2007, butreopened withoutpermission earlier thismonth.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
the World editor who washired to work as PrimeMinister David Cameron’stop media aide in 2007.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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The New York man suingfor part ownership of Face-book must give lawyers forthe social networking com-pany access to all hisemails dating to 2003.
A federal judgeyesterday denied PaulCeglia’s request to delayFacebook’s access to hisemails so he could voicehis objections in court.Ceglia’s lawyer had madethe request in a filing lateMonday, hoping to protectCeglia’s privacy.
Ceglia claims he made adeal with Facebookfounder Mark Zuckerbergin 2003 that entitles him to half ownership of thecompany. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Forget the old-fashionedweb suffix “.com”— com-ing up with eccentricnames to make websitescatchier and easier to re-member is the new trendon the Internet.
Icann, the global inter-net body that creates newweb addresses, announcedit will be taking applica-
tions next year for domainsuffixes of almost any wordand in any language.
From the current 22 do-main endings available,websites ending with theadverb-sounding “.ly,” thebroadcast-hinting “.tv” orthe captivating “.me” arenow the hippest choice.
“Businesses always needquirky names that are easyto spell and to remember. Ifyou come up with a morebrandable name for yourwebsite, then you should
go for it,” marketing expertAndrew Girdwood fromglobal digital media compa-ny bigmouthmedia toldMetro.
As Girdwood explains,the downside is that web-sites ending in .ly — thecountry code domain forLibya — are designated asformal property of Libya’sstate-controlled telecom-munications corporation,whose status is uncertaindue to unrest in the region.
Montenegro has ar-
guably the coolest-sound-ing ccTLD (country codetop-level domain) with .me.Indeed, it has been a realgold mine for a countryborn only in 2006. Accord-ing to Hosterstats.com,more than 500,000 .me do-
mains have been regis-tered, so far.
Yet despite the rise intrendy domain names, oldhabits die hard, as majoronline search engines stillfavour the old-fashioned.
“Dot-tv sounds perfect
for a broadcasting compa-ny, but for search engineoptimization, the dot-comis more popular,” Mick Say,an expert at England’s On-line Marketing Academy,tells Metro.
“If a person is searchingthe Internet for a service ora global business, Googlegives priority to the dot-com extension. It tells thesearch engine that ‘I wantto be known international-ly as an international busi-ness.’”
No more limits to new domain namesWeb addresses could soon be more personalized and funky But search engines still look for .com
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Sticky situation for oil firmGreenpeace is demanding that Anglo-French oilcompany Perenco and other companies stop theirexploration in Abrolhos, a large mating area forhumpback whales off the coast of Brazil.
Brazil. Greenpeace protest
A Greenpeace activist helps a person dressed
as a whale covered in oil during a protest at the
headquarters of oil company Perenco yesterday,
in Rio de Janeiro.
“A great quirky domain can work reallywell. But I don’t envisage mostestablished companies moving theirprimary web presence away from .comany time soon.”WILL CRITCHLOW, DISTILLED SEARCH MARKETING COMPANY
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“It is going to be a hairwithin positive or negative,but the balance is slightly
tilted to the negative,” CIBCchief economist AveryShenfeld said yesterday.
“Either way, it is essen-tially a flat profile for theeconomy.”
Statistics Canada is ex-pected to report the coun-try’s second-quarter gross
domestic product resultsthis morning, and a readingthat economic growth wasslower or even reversedcourse a little would indi-cate the economy is stillstruggling to throw off theeffects of the recession. THE CANADIAN PRESS
Consumerconfidencedrops in U.S.A private research groupsays that Americanconsumers’ confidence inthe economy in Augustdropped almost 15 pointsto its lowest level in twoyears.
The reading came asworries about the economyfuelled the wildest stockmarket swings since the fi-nancial meltdown in 2008.
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Federal EnvironmentMinister Peter Kentrecently announced newregulations for limitingemissions for any newcoal-fired power plantsthat will be built inCanada starting July2015.
While framed as legis-lation that Kent claimswill act as “theequivalent of takingeight million cars offCanadian roads,” thislegislation falls drastical-ly short of an effectivelevel of environmentalprotection for two cen-tral reasons: Firstly, thelegislation essentiallygives existing plants li-cence to continue to pol-lute; secondly, it allowsMaxim Power to build anew 500-megawatt coalplant in Alberta beforethe July deadline, there-by escaping the new reg-ulations.
If we are seriousabout protecting the fu-ture of our precious nat-ural resources, as well asthat of our children andour planet, we need tostop investing in coalpower and settingmediocre standards thatdo more to appease cor-porate citizenship thanCanadian citizens, andwe need to do this NOW,before it is truly too late. MONICA RESENDES,TORONTO
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Snakes on aplane attemptan epic failU.S. officials say a man tried toboard a flight from Miami to Brazilwith bags of exotic snakes andtortoises stuffed in his pants.
Transportation Security Adminis-tration spokesman Jonathon Allensays the man was stopped after pass-ing through a body scanner at MiamiInternational Airport last week.
Security officials spotted thenylon bags filled with seven snakes
and three tortoises hidden in theman’s pants.
The South Florida Sun Sentinelnewspaper reports the animals weretaken by the U.S. Department of Fishand Wildlife.
The unidentified passenger wasarrested.
It’s not the only time someonehas tried to smuggle snakes on aTAM Airlines flight, the paperreported.
In 1996, a woman attempted tosneak 75 live snakes inside her brain Sweden, according to theSentinel. And, in 2007, a man triedto smuggle a tiny monkey under hisshirt on a flight from FortLauderdale, the paper said.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
VANCOUVER’SNEW RANKREEKS
Vancouver: The world’smost liveable city — NOT!
There is no joy in lattéland today with the newsthat the EconomistIntelligence Unit has demot-
ed Vancouver, for years the mostliveable city atop its list, to third,behind Melbourne and Vienna.
Even worse news? Toronto andCalgary are fourth and fifth, hot on ourheels.
Oddly, the stupid Stanley Cup riotplayed no role in the demotion, though it may hit uswhere we rank. The reason for this year’s demotion: Abrief closure of the Malahat Highway due to a tankerspill in April led to a fractional reduction in infrastruc-ture points, enough to allow Melbourne and Vienna tosurge ahead.
Melbourne? Wasn’t that the place that was hit withdevastating floods earlier this year?
What’s really puzzlingis that the Malahat High-way is on VancouverIsland. Which iselsewhere. You have totake a ferry to get to Van-couver Island. All told,that’s about a four to four-and-a-half-hour trip fromVancouver. I would wagerthat many of the peoplewho live in Metro Vancou-ver have no idea wherethe Malahat Highway isand have never been on it.It’s relevant if you live inVictoria, which, like Van-couver, starts with a “V,”but that’s about it.
So you have to wonderabout the Economist Intel-ligence Unit and its wholeWorld’s Most Liveable Cityproject. The problem isthere was no wondering
when Vancouver was on top of the list. We just satback, relaxed and gloated.
Even when it rained 40 days and 40 nights. Even asit took a king’s ransom to buy a rundown bungalow inKerrisdale. Even as we rolled up the tinted windows onthe SUV to avoid being tainted by the Downtown East-side. So now it’s not going to do us much good to castaspersions on the intelligence of the Intelligence Unit.
Meanwhile, Toronto and Calgary are flexing theirgloating muscles. They can hardly wait for next year’slist, when the EIU takes the riot into account. I’m notsure I’ll have the strength to carry on if Calgary turnsout to be more liveable than Vancouver.
There’s one thing I do know: I’d rather live in Toron-to or even (gasp) Calgary than in one of the cities atthe bottom of the list, though they say No. 140, last-place Harare, Zimbabwe, is nice this time of year.
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The DebtGenre: Thriller/DramaDirector: John MaddenStars: Helen Mirren, SamWorthington and TomWilkinson888
The Debt is an espionagestory with a twist. In1996 retired Mossadagents Rachel, David andStefan (Helen Mirren,Ciarán Hinds and TomWilkinson) are heroes,acclaimed for their bravecapture and execution ofa notorious war criminal
in 1966.In flashback we meet
the same charactersplayed by JessicaChastain, Marton Csokas,and Sam Worthington,learn the personaldynamics of the missionand the key to a longheld secret.
The flashbacksequence makes up thebulk of the film so it’sfair to say this isn’tHelen Mirren’s film, buther character Rachel’s.
Unusual for a spy
The Debt. Screen times
Canuck stars JasonPriestley, CatherineO’Hara, Hugh Dillonand Alan Thicke areamong the celebsset to appear at theGemini Awards nextmonth. Dillon’s copseries Flashpointleads the dramanominees with 17nods whilePriestley’s racy pro-gram Call Me Fitzleads the sitcomswith 16. Priestleysays he’s thrilled tosee widespreadrecognition for hisNova Scotia-basedcast and crew and islooking forward tothe celebration inToronto. Before thebroadcast, comicTom Green will hosta behind-the-scenesshow online calledthe Tom GreenRoom, featuringceleb interviews.The Geminiscelebrate the best ofCanadian televisionwith a gala Sept. 7hosted by comicRussell Peters.THE CANADIAN PRESS
Ed O’Neill to get HollywoodWalk of Fame star in front of
shoe store, event featuresTV wives.
Scene in brief
Metro recently caught upwith Shark Night 3D direc-tor David Ellis and one ofthe flick’s stars, AmericanIdol runner-up KatharineMcPhee, to see what secretsabout the film they’re will-ing to spill. As it turns out,not many.
What can you tell us, withoutgiving too much away, aboutShark Night 3D?David Ellis: There’s sharks init (laughs). It’s really weird.And a lot of the movietakes place at night.Katharine McPhee: I’m in it.DE: Kat’s in it.
KM: My character’s name isBeth. That’s all I know.
David, you’re no stranger togenre movies. What’s the ap-peal of them as a filmmaker?DE: For me, I think it’s justfun to be able to entertainpeople — for them to beable to go an escape fromeverything crazy that’s go-ing on in the world for anhour and a half and gohave fun, to kind of scarethem and make themlaugh and make them cry,and just kind of play withtheir emotions.KM: You like makingpeople cry.
How was the Shark Night ex-perience for you, Kat?
KM: Oh, it was so muchfun. I love going to set. Ilove getting up early. Imean, on a regular basis,you will never find me upearly, but I love when myalarm goes off and I get toput on my pyjamas and getto set and get my coffeeand my food and get inhair and makeup.
I love everything aboutit, so for me just the wholeexperience is great. Weshot in Shreveport, La., andeven though it’s not a par-ticularly exotic place, itwas gorgeous. And I justlove being in new placesand feeling like you’restarting something new.DE: I love the free food part.Like, every day when you
go to the set and they haveall this free food. But whatmade it so fun for me wasthat we had an amazingcrew and we had a cast thatwas into it 110 per cent.
Were you afraid of sharks be-fore you made the movie?KM: I’m one of those peoplewho, especially as a kid,would spend hours in theocean swimming. I loveswimming. But always inthe back of my head therewas that fear of a sharkcoming and getting you. Icould say that, yeah, thishas definitely made it a lit-tle bit more of a threat.DE: For me, I grew up in theocean as well — my wholelife in Malibu — and I’m
aware of them, you respectthem. But you have a betterchance of getting hit by acoconut than getting killedby a shark. But it’s a primalfear for people.KM: It’s just not a way youwant to go. There’s acouple other ways I couldthink of wanting to go oth-er than sharks.
How creative do you get withthe deaths in the movie?DE: Pretty creative. Eachone is different and unique.And what’s cool about it iswe had so many differenttypes of sharks. We havehammerheads and greatwhite sharks and bullsharks and cookie-cuttersharks...
With summer coming to an end, it’s the perfect time for a movie to scare you off the beach Here to do it is Shark Night 3D, from Snakes on a Plane director David Ellis
Alyssa Diaz stars in Shark Night 3D.
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Thought bubbles, witty banter deal with tragedy
A scene acknowledging 9-11 is shown in the Snuffy Smith comic strip.
“They’re going toget a milliontelevisionprograms, but thisis a unique way oflooking at it.”TONY RUBINO, WRITER OF THE COMICDADDY’S HOME
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Family Circus’ tribute
18 uses (fictional) foundfootage from NASA'sabandoned Apollo 18 mis-sion to reveal the reasonthe U.S. has never re-turned to the moon.
In the wake of BlairWitch, theatres wereoverflowing with foundfootage movies, partiallybecause they’re cheap tomake, and partially be-cause audiences raised onreality TV seemed to re-spond to them.
Movies like The St.Francisville Experiment,The Last Horror Movie,September Tapes and TheCurse tried, most unsuc-
The most famous “foundfootage” film begins withthe words, “In October of1994, three student film-makers disappeared intothe woods of Burketville,Maryland while shootinga documentary. A year lat-er their footage wasfound.”
Thus began the BlairWitch Project, a movieRoger Ebert called an “ex-traordinarily effectivehorror film.”
He also called it a “cele-bration of rock bottomproduction values” for itsrough hewn camera styleand no-budget scares.
Those are trademarksof found footage stylemovies.
The premise is almostalways the same: some-one has recovered filmleft behind by, asWikipedia says, “missingor dead protagonists,” andpieced it together to tell a(usually) horrifying story.
This weekend Apollo
The Blair Witch Project capitalized on the
trend of missing footage later discovered.
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cessfully, to cash in on thebox office bonanza ofBlair Witch, but [Rec], aSpanish horror film abouta haunted building wasthe most successful, artis-tically and financially.
Less successful but in-teresting is Redacted, aBrian De Palma war filmshot through the lens ofone of his characters.
De Palma came up withthe idea when he wasasked by HDNet Films tomake a movie for $5 mil-lion on HD.
If the Blair Witch Proj-ect and Paranormal Activi-ty are the successful ofthe genre, the most con-tentious, the most contro-versial, must be CannibalHolocaust.
The 1980 fake cannibalfootage was so convincingthe director was arrestedand charged with murder.Police believed several ac-tors had been killed onscreen but charges weredropped when the actorsshowed up at the trial,safe and sound.
Sept. 11 is etched in thememories of millions, andas the 10th anniversarynears, cartoonists are etch-ing their thoughts about 9-11 into comic strips.
With the anniversaryfalling on a Sunday, morethan 90 cartoonists withfive different syndicateshave banded together todedicate their strips onSept. 11 to those whoselives were lost in the at-tacks. The strips will appearfrom the writers and artistsof Family Circus, MallardFillmore, Candorville,Doonesbury and Pluggers,among others.
Jeff Keane, who co-au-thors The Family Circus,was immediately sold onthe idea.
“Because Family Circus ismore of a realistic look atfamily, and I don’t necessar-ily have a cartoon that is a‘joke a day,’ but more senti-mental and more emotion-al, it was easier for me tolook at it that way,” he said.
Jim Borgman, the co-cre-ator of Zits with Jerry Scott,about a teenager and hisparents, called the upcom-ing an-
niversary something thatcannot be ignored.
“As a cartoonist wewould have all been won-dering ‘Is it OK to deal withthis topic in our work?’ Ofcourse you can, but there issomething comfortingabout the thought that abunch of us are going to bestruggling to say somethingon that day,” he said.
“My colleagues — car-toonists — are an astonish-ingly varied and talentedgroup of people. I fully ex-pect we’ll see a broad rangeof approaches that day.”
It’s not the first time thatcartoonists have banded to-gether. Previous effortshave included topics likeEarth Day and breast cancerawareness. But the scope ofthis endeavour is unprece-dented, with five syndicatesparticipating.
The comics will be fea-tured in aseparate,full-colourpulloutsectionand onlinethe sameday at car-toonistsre-
member911.com. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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The only thing that madeAndrew Garfield nearlysay no to being the newSpider-Man was the starstatus that would comewith it. “That was ab-solutely the one thing Iquestioned. I thoughtabout it for a month, con-stantly,” he tells the L.A.Times. “It terrifies me. Ijust saw that I was given anopportunity to play a part
that I’ve been wanting toplay since I was a two-year-old. I don’t want the rest ofit. The visibility thing wasthe one thing that deterredme.” METRO
With all the speculationgoing around about herfamily life, Angelina Joliewants to clear a few thingsup.
“I’m not pregnant. I’mnot adopting at the mo-ment,” Jolie tells VanityFair, adding that there isno “secret wedding”planned for her and BradPitt.
Jolie is more concernedwith her directorial debut,In the Land of Blood andHoney, and says that Pitt
tried his best to be helpfulduring the making of theproject.
“He’d come in and saywhat he liked or what hedidn’t understand,” shesays.
“Like any woman, Iwould listen to most of itand fight a few things. He’sbeen so supportive. But it’shard to separate the per-son that loves you fromthe critic, so I don’t thinkhe’s a fair judge.”
METRO
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Angelina Jolie sets babybump record straight — ‘I am not pregnant!’
Rumours of secret wedding and another baby en route make headlines
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Lost star Matthew Fox wasdetained by police in Cleve-land after a fight with a busdriver, reports TMZ.
The driver, Heather Bor-man, says an inebriated Foxwas trying to join the partybus she was driving, thoughhe wasn’t a part of thegroup who had rented it.
I told him, ‘You have toleave buddy. You are tres-passing on my bus,’” Bor-man says, adding that Foxthen “leaned in and startedpunching my crotch andbreast.” Borman struckback, punching Fox in theface and splitting his lip,
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Kate Winslet is breakingher silence about her har-rowing escape from ahouse fire onRichard Branson’sprivate Caribbeanisland.
“I’m just gladthat everyone issafe,” Winslettells Enter-tainmentTonight.
She cred-its her hostfor his calm-
ness during the ordeal. “I will never forget
Richard placing his armsaround both my childrenas we were watching theflames, and saying, ‘At theend of the day, what yourealize is that all that mat-ters is the people that youlove. Everything else is
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Ghost stories and sightings abound at Halifax’s most popular tourist sites
With its long history of dis-asters and shipwrecks,there is an air of tragedythat hangs over Halifax,not unlike the dense fogthat often rolls in from itsharbour.
One of Halifax’s mostinfamous spooky sites isthe Five Fishermen Restau-rant and Grill, perched onthe bustling corner ofCarmichael and ArgyleStreets. Having onceserved as a mortuary, it’sperhaps not surprisingthat the 194-year-old struc-ture is equally known for
its hauntings as well as itshalibut.
The four-storey, brick-and-wood building openedin 1816 as a schoolhouseand was eventually takenover by a local family andturned into a funeral home.
It became the last stop ofsorts for victims of two sig-nificant disasters of the20th century — the sinkingof the Titanic off New-foundland in April 1912and the Halifax Explosionof 1917. The explosion oc-curred when a supply ves-sel and a munitions ship
collided in the harbour,killing 2,000 people andleaving some 9,000 injured.
Shane Robilliard, theFive Fishermen’s generalmanager, says tales of cut-lery moving on its own, dis-embodied voices andshadowy figures have actu-ally been good for business.
“People dine at the FiveFishermen to experiencesomething or to be a partof the history of this build-ing,” he says.
More eerie experiencesawait just up CarmichaelStreet at one of the city’s
most recognizable sites,the Halifax Citadel Nation-al Historic Site.
The British fort, complet-ed in 1856, offers 90-minutetours exploring every darknook and cranny where theghosts of former soldiersare said to lurk.
Hal Thompson, thesite’s visitor experience of-ficer, remembers one visi-tor to the site who said shespied a uniformed man en-ter a room and seeminglyvanish. The woman wasunaware of the site’sghostly reputation and
wanted to know how theman — whom she pre-sumed to be a staff mem-ber — managed to leaveundetected from a roomwith only one exit.THE CANADIAN PRESS
Halifax haunts
Visitors claim to have seen ghosts in the garrison cells at Halifax Citadel National Historic Site.
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Yankee mag offers foliageapp and annual fall issue forNew England leaf-peepers
Travel brief
A series of guided fallhikes along Ontario’sBruce Trail will explorethe geology of the Ni-agara Escarpment.Seven locations on thetrail are highlighted,including Waterdown,the Credit River valley,the NottawasagaBluffs and the BrucePeninsula on GeorgianBay. Dubbed “Geology101 on Foot,” thewalks are afundraising project tosupport the Bruce TrailConservancy. THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Jamaica has a Dogsled teamYou can find a perfect ex-ample of the Jamaicanspirit in an unexpectedplace: the Chukka CoveFarm, home to the 30 or somutts that comprise the Ja-maican dogsled team.
“It’s about the can-do at-titude of Jamaicans,” saysfounder Danny Melville,64, as he rattles off severalother examples of Ja-maicans’ determination,including reggae musicand the beloved Olympicbobsled team.
Located near Ocho Rios,in St. Ann Parish, his Chuk-ka farm offers visitors anopportunity to ride on adry-land sled pulled by 15dogs, all of them strays thatChukka has adopted. It’s
one of several thrill rides of-fered by Chukka CaribbeanAdventures.
Melville, who lives inToronto, was first drawn tothe concept when he spot-ted a dry-land sled whileshopping for dune buggiesin Alberta.
He thought a dogsledtour would be a great ad-dition to Chukka’s dozensof other offerings, whichinclude everything fromflying through the treeson a zipline and riding anATV into the mountainsto taking a pilgrimage onthe Zion Bus Line throughmusical history to BobMarley’s birthplace.
You can even go swim-ming in the ocean on
horseback, a signaturetour that Melville says hepioneered himself nearlythree decades ago.
It was a challenge forMelville, who had only everseen sled dogs on televi-sion, to put together theteam. “You’re getting abunch of dogs off the streetand they’re kind of lookingat you like, ‘What do youmean, pull?’ What is this allabout?’” says Melville.
Visitors who take thetour will get to meet andgreet the dogs before theride. They’ll also get to ex-perience the only dogsledmuseum south of the Arc-tic Circle before thethrilling ride.THE CANADIAN PRESS
Farm near Ocho Rios offers visitors the chance totake a dogsled ride in an unlikely locale A musher takes tourists for a dogsled ride through the Jamaican countryside.
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Mango Smoothie• Flesh of 1 large ripemango, chopped• 2 ml (1/2 tsp) fresh gin-ger, grated• 75 ml (1/3 cup) frozenorange juice concentrate• 375 ml (1 1/2 cups)milk, chilled• 250 ml (1 cup) ice
In a blender, puree thepeeled and chopped man-go, ginger and orangejuice concentrate togetheruntil the mixture issmooth. Add milk and iceand blend again. This recipe makes 500 ml(2 cups).THE CANADIAN PRESS
Drink of the week Let your creative side shineBelieve it or not, school lunches can consist of a lot more than a peanut butter and jelly
sandwich and a juice box Leftovers and deconstructing meals are great places to start
Tortellini Veggie Skewers
Preparation:
1 Cut yellow pepperinto 6 strips. Usingeach pepper stripas a skewer, push2 tortellini ontoeach strip.
2 Use a paring knifeto poke a hole in-to the top of eachcherry tomato andcap end of eachpepper strip witha tomato and anolive. Cut slices ofturkey andprovolone into 6long strips, thenwrap one of eacharound skewers.Serve skewerswith a side of yourchild's favouritesalad dressing.
Ingredients:• 1/2 yellow bell pepper• 12 cooked tortellini• 6 whole black olives
• 6 cherry tomatoes• 1 slice deli turkey• 1 slice provolonecheese
Getting creative with kids’lunches can be a a mine-field.
It can be hard enough toget them to embrace newfoods at home, never mindwhen they are surroundedby friends at school.
But that doesn’t meanyou can’t break free of theold sandwich routine. It’sa matter of using foods al-ready in your children’s
comfort zone, but workingwith them in new ways.
Leftovers are a greatplace to start (assumingthey were well receivedthe first time around).
Or consider decon-structing something, suchas pasta salad. Put it backtogether in a way that’sfun for kids, as we did forthe tortellini veggie skew-ers.
Ingredients:• 5 ml (1 tsp) mustard• 30 ml (2 tbsp) low-fatmayonnaise• 5 ml (1 tsp) apple cidervinegar• 125 ml (1/2 cup) cookedrice (white or brown)• 50 ml (1/4 cup) cubedcooked ham• 30 ml (2 tbsp) shreddedcheddar• 1 scallion, thinly sliced
This Cold Ham and Cheese Casserole
takes 10 minutes to make.
ALL PHOTOS: MATTHEW MEAD/ THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Cold Ham & CheeseCasserole
This “casserole” is a greatway to use up leftovers.Feel free to play with theingredients. Chicken,steak and even choppedleftover hamburgers arefine substitutes for ham.
Preparation:
1 In a small bowl, stir to-gether mustard, mayon-naise and vinegar. Addrice, ham and cheddar,then mix well.ALL RECIPES THE ASSOCIATEDPRESS
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Take advantage of thesummer’s bounty ofberries and other fruitsto make this beautifuland delicious pie infive simple steps.
Raspberries, ever-bearing strawberries,blueberries and otherswill star in this lusciousdessert to serve familyand friends. It’s perfect forthose evenings on the pa-tio while the weather isstill good.
Preparation:
1 Prepare and bake thedeep-dish frozen pieshell according to the
package directions for abaked pie shell. Set itaside to cool.
2 In a medium heatproofbowl, whisk the egg
yolks, sugar and flour.
3 In a saucepan, heat themilk until it is almostboiling. Remove thesaucepan from the heat;add to egg the mixture,50 ml (1/4 cup) at atime, whisking continu-ously until all the milkhas been added. Returnthe egg-milk mixture tothe saucepan, add thevanilla and cook overmedium-low heat,whisking continu-ously, until the cus-tard has thickenedto a consistency
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Paint yourdesserts redand blue withfresh fruit
Makes six to eight servings.
BOTH PHOTOS: THE CANADIAN PRESS H/O
Ingredients:
• 1 deep-dish frozen pieshell
• 2 egg yolks
• 50 ml (1/4 cup) sugar
• 50 ml (1/4 cup) flour
• 250 ml (1 cup) whole milk
• 10 ml (2 tsp) vanillaextract
• Assorted berries andsliced kiwi
• Icing sugar, for garnish
similar to pudding. Thiswill take about 5 to 7minutes.
4 Place plastic wrap direct-ly onto the surface ofcustard (this prevents askin from forming).
5 Spoon thecold custard
into the bakedpie shell andtop it withsliced fruitsuch asberries andkiwi. Beforeserving,sprinklethe piewith adustingof ic- ing sugar. Serve it the
same day of making. Re-frigerate any leftovers.THE CANADIAN PRESS/TENDERFLAKE
Create a masterpiece in yourkitchen with this simple BeautyBerry Pie It is a great way to putall those fresh berries to good usewhile they are still in season
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As a second-year businessstudent tired of spendingmy summers working in re-tail, I jumped at the oppor-tunity to enrol in theco-operative education op-tion (co-op) offered at myschool.
I joined co-op under theimpression that I would eas-ily be able to secure mean-ingful summeremployment, but I quicklydiscovered this was not thecase.
I applied to countlessjobs and had no difficultygetting interviews; myproblem lay in receiving anactual job offer.
I left each interview feel-ing as if it had gone well,only to be informed a fewdays later that I had not
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Where Erin is now
I had nearly resorted to handing out resumés at thelocal mall when an opportunity arose.
I was contacted by a professional I had met dur-ing a networking event hosted by a student societyI belonged to. My professor had spoken with thisindividual and requested that they consider me fora job before formally posting the position, and fol-lowing the interview I was fortunate enough to re-ceive a job offer.
My story has proven that although what youknow is undoubtedly the most important, who youknow can’t hurt.
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Key take-aways from
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Becoming involved withinyour school throughstudent groups,conferences and competi-tions is a great way to de-velop career-related skillsand build your resumé. Get to know yourprofessors and attend asmany on-campus network-ing events as you can. Al-though relevant skills anda strong GPA areimportant, my story high-lights that who you knowis often equally as impor-tant.
School supplies?
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Balance needs versus wants
Make a list of “needs” andagree that kids will get afew “wants” met. Allocatea set dollar amount theyare free to spend.
Set the budget before you
go shopping Before youventure into a store set anon-negotiable budget.This is not just for theirpurposes but also to keepparents from caving in.
Make a detailed list before
you hit the stores We know not to go groceryshopping when hungryand the same rule applies
for back-to-schoolshopping. There are manypurchase temptations toabstain from, even for thestrong-willed.
Set the budget for extracur-
ricular activities before you
sign up Set a budget perchild that covers lessons,equipment and other hid-den costs, then engage ina conversation with thekids and the other parentto ensure you are notdoubling up on activitiesor creating a conflictingschedule.
Empower your kids finan-
cially Allot an allowancefor extra purchases andone for necessities to en-gage kids in responsiblebudgeting and shoppingat an early age. KAREN STEWART IS THE PRESIDENT,CEO AND FOUNDER OF FAIRWAY DI-VORCE SOLUTIONS.
Are you a divorced parent dealingwith back to school? Help is here
been chosen as the success-ful candidate for the job.And I was not alone. Severalof my fellow classmateswere experiencing the ex-act same dilemma.
As a well-qualified appli-cant, this frustratingprocess led me to wonderwhich students were beingselected for these jobs. Itturned out that studentswith more experience and
education, such as thirdand fourth years and gradu-ates with whom I could notcompete, were gettingthose offers.
Employers shouldn’toverlook the applications ofpromising young studentssimply because they lackexperience.
Students who activelyachieve and aim to improvethemselves should be given
fair consideration from em-ployers; these studentsshould not be automaticallyplaced on the back burnerto more senior and experi-enced applicants.
To compete with moreexperienced applicants,younger students shouldtake advantage of the manyopportunities offered byuniversities, such as volun-teering, conferences andcompetitions.
By making an effort toget involved, students candevelop relevant skills totheir field of study, as wellas establish relationshipsand build their professionalnetwork. When participat-ing in extra-curricular activ-ities, you never know whatopportunities will presentthemselves or who youmight meet.TALENTEGG.CA, CANADA’S ONLINE CAREER RESOURCE FOR STUDENTSAND RECENT GRADS, WANTS TO HEARYOUR STUDENT VOICE. SHARE IT ATTALENTEGG.CA.
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Can they make the cut?Recent history suggeststwo of them will still bewearing NHL sweaters inOctober.
As Ryan Nugent-Hop-kins, Gabriel Landeskogand Jonathan Huberdeaupulled on the uniform oftheir new NHL teams yes-terday morning, each ex-pressed a strong desire tocontinue wearing it all sea-son. With training campsapproaching, the top threepicks from June’s draft feeltantalizingly close to final-ly realizing their NHLdream.
“I just want to wear thissweater and I just want toget on the ice and play,”said Nugent-Hopkins,sporting a blue and orangeNo. 93 Edmonton Oilershome jersey.
The 18-year-old centrehas spent a considerableamount of time in the gymsince being selected withthe No. 1 pick at the XcelEnergy Center in Minneso-ta.
Nugent-Hopkins esti-mates that he’s added 12pounds to his six-footframe over the summerand now weighs in atabout 177 pounds. It wasdone with an eye on crack-ing the Oilers roster out oftraining camp.
“Hopefully that willhelp me,” said Nugent-Hopkins. “I’m not too fo-cused on my weight rightnow, I’m just going to fo-cus on how well I play andjust playing as good as Ican. Obviously, the weightwas a little bit of an issueso I tried to address it asmuch as I could.”
The only No. 1 pick whodidn’t jump straight to theNHL since the lockout wasdefenceman Erik Johnson,who spent a season at theUniversity of Minnesotarather than join the St.Louis Blues in 2006. Over-all, 11 of the 18 playerstaken in the top threespots between 2005 and2010 went directly to theNHL.
It was no coincidencethat Nugent-Hopkins, Lan-deskog and Huberdeauwere grouped togetheryesterday at the NHLPA’srookie showcase, an eventwhere 26 prospects took
the ice and posed for pho-tos that will be used ontheir first NHL tradingcards.
They’ve been fieldingquestions about whetherthey were ready to play inthe NHL right away sincebefore the draft. The focuson them will only intensifyin the coming weeks dur-ing rookie tournamentsand their first trainingcamps.
“It’s something thatcomes along with (being atop pick),” said Landeskog,who sported a No. 92 Col-orado Avalanche jersey. “Isee pressure as a positive
thing. I want high expecta-tions (placed on) myself.That’s why I play thisgame — I want to get bet-ter every day.”
He’ll travel to Denvertoday and plans to pick thebrain of teammate MattDuchene, who was select-ed third in the 2009 draftand joined the Avalanchethe following season.
Many believe Landeskogis in the best positionamong this year’s draftclass to earn a job becausehe’s physically mature andtrying to crack the rosterof a rebuilding team. THE CANADIAN PRESS
Oilers pick Nugent-Hopkins, other top prospects seeking first NHL jobs
Ryan Nugent-Hopkins talks to the media yesterday.
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Blue Jayslose to O’sin extrainnings
Ryan Adams capped a two-run, 10th-inning rallywith an RBI single and theBaltimore Orioles beat theToronto Blue Jays 6-5 lastnight.
Matt Wieters led off theBaltimore 10th bydrawing a walk off BrianTallet (0-2), who wastrying for his first careersave. Mark Reynoldswalked and, after RobertAndino bunted a foulthird strike, pinch hitterJake Fox hit a game-tyingsingle to right withReynolds taking third.
Adams followed with adeep fly ball off the warn-ing track beyond a drawn-in outfield.
The victory went toWillie Eyre (1-0), whosewild pitch in the top ofthe 10th had put the BlueJays ahead 5-4.
The Blue Jays werewithout manager JohnFarrell, who is being treat-ed for pneumonia inToronto and is expected tomiss the three-gameseries. Bench coach DonWakamatsu ran the teamin Farrell’s absence.
Wieters homered forBaltimore, which has wonseven of nine.
The Blue Jays have lostfive of six.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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A former NBA player who isaccused of shootingan Atlanta woman todeath appeared to beretaliating for beingrobbed of $55,000 USworth of jewelry, po-lice said.
Javaris Crittentonwas arrested late Monday at a Southern Californiaairport. He has beencharged with murder in the Aug.19 shooting death ofJullian Jones outside her house inAtlanta, FBI spokeswoman LauraEimiller said.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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New YorkNo. 1’s advance
Novak Djokovic began his
first-round match at the
U.S. Open yesterday with a
121 mph service winner
and never looked back in
his first match since Aug.
21.
The top-seeded Djokovic
built a 6-0, 5-1 lead beforequalifier Conor Niland ofIreland, who had food poi-soning, stopped after 44minutes.Earlier yesterday, women’stop seed Caroline Wozniac-ki — who’s been ranked No.1 for most of the past yearbut has yet to win a GrandSlam trophy — defeated125th-ranked NuriaLlagostera Vives of Spain 6-3, 6-1.Sixth seed Li Na was upset6-2, 7-5 by 53rd-ranked Si-mona Halep of Romania.Li’s record is now 5-6 sincewinning the French Openin June. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Rafael Nadal of Spain celebrates
during his 6-3, 7-6 (1), 7-5 win
over Kazakhstan’s Andrey
Golubev yesterday.
Djokovic proves on Day 2 of U.S. Open that he’s feeling fine aftermissing time with sore shoulder
Novak Djokovic of Serbia returns against Conor Niland
in the Flushing neighbourhood of the Queens
borough of New York City.
Caroline Wozniacki of
Denmark serves against
Nuria Llagostera
Vives of Spain.
Sabathiasolves SoxCC Sabathia snapped outof his Red Sox funk, strik-ing out 10 in six inningsto beat Boston for thefirst time in five tries thisseason and lead New
York to a 5-2win lastnight.
The winwas the Yan-kees’ third
in 13 games against theirAL East rival this season.Boston still leads the divi-sion by a half game.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Passport issuesplague BonnerMore than two years intohis quest for Canadian citi-zenship, Matt Bonner re-mains grounded by redtape.
So the former TorontoRaptor will watch with fin-gers crossed as Canada’smen’s basketball team bidsthis week for a spot in the2012 Olympics. And thenhe can only hope he re-ceives his passport in timeto suit up in London if theCanadians do qualify.
“I’m just kind of waitingand hoping,” Bonner saidin a phone interview. “It’shard to talk about becauseit’s kind of a bummer.”
The 31-year-old, nowwith the San AntonioSpurs, owns a home inToronto. His wife Nadia,whom he met while withthe Raptors, and daughterEvangeline-Vesper are
Canadian. He also has agrandfather from New-foundland.
Yet, Bonner’s applica-tion for citizenship hasbeen denied once, basedpartly, according to Canadi-an coach Leo Rautins, onthe amount of time hespends in the country.
“I feel bad for him. He’sdying to play, he wants toplay,” Rautins said.
The Canadians tip offthe FIBA Americas tourna-ment today against Brazilin Mar Del Plata, Argenti-na.
The top-two finishersearn berths in London,while the third- throughfifth-place finishers willplay in a second-chancetournament next summerto determine the finalthree Olympic entries.THE CANADIAN PRESS
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The new 2012 Beetle repre-sents another step back tothe future for an iconicbrand that is simply toogood to let slip away.
The world held its collec-tive baited breath whenVolkswagen launched theNew Beetle back in the late1990s, before surging for-ward to scoop up as manyof the reconstituted Bugs asthe German automakercould produce.
Not many years later, theNew Beetle had become notso new and its popularitywaned.
Although the convertibleversion maintained a re-spectable degree of popu-larity, the hatchback modelseemed to drift unchecked
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That the car is returningat all is a gutsy move. Afterall, nobody begrudgedChrysler for cashiering thePT Cruiser econo-hot rodfollowing its lengthy runand well after its “best-be-fore” date had come andgone. But VW managementobviously thought the Bee-tle brand was worth contin-uing. What has emerged isa well-balanced and sporti-er shape that also projectsthe necessary degree ofcharm that pays homage tothat original look.
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You would hardly consider the previous New Beetle to be sporty, but Volkswagen is making an honest attempt at it this time around. Helping things out is a much wider cabin with more rear seat room.
On up-level models there’s a trio of gauges (oil temp, turbo boost pressure and clock/stopwatch) that seem inspired by the Porsche 911 cockpit.
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‘Adult contemporary’The 2012 Beetle features more people-friendlydimensions.
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Honda reliability. Certified. When Honda certifies a used vehicle, you know it can be depended on. Every Certified Used Honda undergoes a series of thorough dealer inspections to ensure it upholds the reliability of the Honda name. You get the performance, safety and efficiency of a Honda, with the added assurance that comes with a factory warranty. Find yours at cuv.honda.ca
• 6-year / 120,000-km transferable powertrain warranty• 7-day / 1,000-km exchange privilege• 100+ point inspection• CarProof Vehicle History Report
†Limited time fi nancing offer on all Honda Certifed Used Civics available through Honda Financial Services, on approved credit. Offer only available up to 24 months on Honda Certifi ed Used Honda Civic and Accord models (2006–2010 model years). Finance example based on 2008 Honda Civic model: $10,000 at 0.9% per annum equals $420.58 per month for 24 months. Cost of borrowing is $94.02 for a total obligation of $10,094.02. Taxes, license, insurance, registration and fees are not included. See your Honda dealer for full details. Dealer may sell for less. Offer expires December 31, 2011.
RL as reliable as luxury sedans can get2005 to 2008 Acura RL
SECONDGEAR
JUSTIN PRITCHARDDRIVE@METRONEWS.CA
Research the used luxurysedan market, and you’lllikely find the Japaneseknack for effectiveengineering and reliableelectronics has translatedinto some of the more reli-able luxury sedans on theroad today.
The last-generation Acu-ra RL is one such sedan.
With a plethora offeatures culminating in themost comprehensively-equipped sedan Honda’sever built, RL shoppers canlook for navigation,Bluetooth, voice command,an advanced audio system,automatic climate control,steerable xenon lights andan intelligent key system,as well as plenty more.
EngineAll RL modelsgot a 3.5-litre, 290horsepower V6 engine, 5-speed automatic transmissionand Super Handling All WheelDrive (SH-AWD). There’s no V8engine available.
Common issuesLow sales volumes meanAcura RL reliabilityinformation is tough tocome by, but a few manda-tory checks should helpshoppers find a healthyunit. Approaching the RL,be sure the intelligent key-fob allows you to lock andunlock the doors with atouch on the handle. Lookinside the wheelwells forsigns of rust, as well as un-derneath the doors andaround the trunk lid.Check for fluid leaksaround the engine,transmission and transaxle.
VerdictConcerns and trouble areasseem limited mainly to mi-nor interior problems, andthe RL ultimately appearsto be a solid bet with a sol-id drivetrain.
Budget for a full fluidchange and tune up to besafe.
What owners likeDrivers of this generation RLreport enjoying a comfortableand quiet ride, agile handling, “under-the-radar” styling and great long-haul comfort dur-ing road trips. Masterful build quality andmaterials impressed many owners, as did Acu-ra’s promise of reliable performance.
What ownersdislikeCommon complaints in-clude small, fussy and complicatedcontrols for the navigation and au-dio system, and a relatively smalltrunk. Some owners report squeaksand rattles as the car ages.
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