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The wheels on the bus go round,and one city councillor wants tokeep some going round the clock.
Coun. Ben Henderson made aformal inquiry at yesterday’stransportation and public workscommittee meeting to look atproviding 24-hour bus service onkey routes.
“We’ve always said that this isnot a question of if we’re goingto have to provide 24-hour tran-sit, but a matter of when,” Hen-derson said.
Henderson’s proposal isn’t tohave routes city-wide running allnight, but for there to be specif-ic, designated routes.
His inquiry comes after thecity delayed a Responsible Hos-pitality Edmonton project topilot a late night bus service onWhyte Avenue that would pick
up late-night patrons and takethem along a route to the South-gate Transit Centre.
Residents in the Southgatearea opposed the route, so it hasbeen delayed to allow for publicconsultation.
Henderson said the service hasto reach further than WhyteAvenue, and transportation gen-eral manager Bob Boutilieragreed there are others whocould benefit.
“Certainly with the growth inhospitality ... and the push moreand more for the people who areon shift work for that safe, reli-able service, we have to ask arewe there yet? What level are weable to go to?” he said.
Boutilier said the Blue Nightsystem in Toronto, a 24-hour busnetwork that operates mainlybetween transit centres after thesubway shuts down, is somethingto look at.
A report is expected by mid-
24-hour busidea gets a lift
Councillor asks for inquiry into 24-hour transit on key bus routesTransportation boss eyes Toronto system as good model
Farewell messages for Jack
Layton. A condolence book
for Jack Layton is seen
yesterday at MP Libby
Davies’ Vancouver
constituency office.
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Late-night transit
Currently, Edmonton Transit bus-es stop running around 1:30a.m. and start again at 5:30 a.m.
City council first talked about 24-hour transit three years ago, atwhich time operating about one-third of the routes through thenight was estimated to cost $13million.
According to Bob Boutilier, gen-eral manager of transportation,Responsible Hospitality Edmon-ton will likely announce withinthe next month when the pilotproject on Whyte Avenue will goforward. It was originally sched-uled to run from Sept. 2 untilNov. 26.
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November, and it will be up tocouncil to determine what is fea-sible to phase in, Boutilier said.
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Travellers at the EdmontonInternational Airport lastMonday may have been ex-posed to the measles virus.
Alberta Health Servicesconfirmed yesterday an un-immunized passenger onAir Canada Flight AC244has the “very contagious”disease, and could have in-fected many others.
“The people on theflight will have been ex-posed to the measles virusand also the people in thearrivals area of the Edmon-ton International Airporton Aug. 15 from 7 to 9:30 p.m.,” said Dr. MarciaJohnson, medical officer ofhealth with AHS’ Edmon-ton zone.
The two-hour window isthe time the airborne viruscan stay active, she said.
“People that are protect-ed are people over the ageof 41. That’s because atthat time we didn’t have a
vaccine, and measles are soterribly contagious thatanyone over the age of 41is just assumed to have hadthe measles infection,” saidJohnson.
Measles case prompts alertDr. Marcia Johnson, AHS medical officer of health, Edmonton zone,
speaks to reporters yesterday about the risks of measles in the city after a passenger on a flight from Vancouver came down with the illness.
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Passenger on Air Canada flightpicked up disease in Asia: AHS
Since implementation ofthe new Alberta Emer-gency Alert system, 11 crit-ical and information alertshave been issued.
The new system in-cludes a broader range of
alerts, including throughsocial media and online ata dedicated website (emer-gencyalert.alberta.ca).
Phasing in the new sys-tem began June 28.
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Albertacompany finedfor not havingmanifest fortruck ofhazardous waste
Canessco has been fined$10,000 for failing to pre-pare a manifest for atruckload of hazardouswaste on Dec. 2, 2008,when a shipment of liq-uid waste containinglead was delivered nearSt. Albert. A portion ofthe fine will be used tofund a project withEdmonton PublicSchools.
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Measles symptomsand danger:
Five per cent of the popu-lation not beingimmunized is enough tocause a measles outbreak,said Dr. Marcia Johnson,AHS medical officer ofhealth.Symptoms of measles in-clude fever, sore eyes, sorethroat and a rash for abouta week. Immune globulincan be given in the firstfour or five days after ex-posure, but the time haspassed for the remedy inthis case.Anyone who may havebeen exposed is asked tocall Health Link at 1-866-408-LINK
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One of the strongest earth-quakes ever recorded onthe East Coast of the Unit-ed States shook buildingsand rattled nerves yester-day, forcing the evacua-tion of parts of theCapitol, White House andPentagon.
There were no immedi-ate reports of deaths, butthere were some injuries.according to Washingtonfire officials.
The U.S. Geological Sur-vey said the quake regis-tered magnitude 5.8 andwas centred about 64 kilo-metres northwest of Rich-mond, Va.
Two nuclear reactors atthe North Anna Power Sta-tion, in the same county as
the epicenter, were auto-matically taken off line bysafety systems, said RogerHannah, a spokesman forthe U.S. Nuclear Regulato-ry Commission.
Obama, who is vacation-ing on Martha’s Vineyard,led a conference call yes-terday afternoon with topadministration officials,including the administra-tor of the Federal Emer-gency ManagementAgency.
The last quake of equalpower to strike the EastCoast was in New York in1944. The largest EastCoast quake on record wasa 7.3 that hit South Caroli-na in 1886.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tremor feltfar and wide
People scurried out of buildings, onto city streetsFlights were on hold, trains ran at slower speeds
Shaky ground
People from across centraland eastern Canada,including residents ofToronto, Montreal, Ottawa and Londonreported feeling effects including rumbling desksand swaying buildings.Earthquake Canada saidCanadians weren’t feelingtremors or aftershocks,just waves from the quake.More than 12 millionpeople live close enoughto the quake’s epicentre tohave felt shaking.Social media sites lit upwith first-hand accountsfrom people in Canada andthe United States.
One of Jack Layton’s closestadvisers is emerging as asurprise front-runner topick up the torch from thefallen NDP leader.
Insiders say party presi-dent Brian Topp is receivingencouragement to join theimpending race to succeedLayton, who died on Mon-day. Topp is one of the keyarchitects of Layton’s suc-
cess. Montreal MP ThomasMulcair, Layton’s deputyleader, is considered the on-ly other prospective candi-date.
Signs of leadership jock-eying emerged yesterdayeven as plans were drawnup for Layton’s body to liein state on Parliament Hilland Toronto City Hall be-fore a state funeral on
Saturday.The lying-in-state will be
open to the public todayfrom 12:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.ET, and tomorrow from 9a.m. to 1:30 p.m. ET.
Layton’s casket will thenrest “in repose” at TorontoCity Hall Friday and Satur-day before a state funeral atRoy Thomson Hall Saturdayafternoon. THE CANADIAN PRESS
NDP front-runneralready on the horizon
Melanie d’Esterre reads from a wall that has been
made into a tribute to the late NDP leader Jack Layton
at Nathan Phillips Square in Toronto yesterday.
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With Moammar Gadhafiat large, we take a look at
where past ousted leadershave fled. METRO
Zine Al-Abidine Ben AliTunisia’sformerpresidentand hiswife havebeen sen-tenced inabsentia
to 35 years in prisonwhile they currentlyenjoy a golden exile inSaudi Arabia.
Ferdinand MarcosThe Filipino dictatorwas lucky enough to befriends with former U.S.president Reagan, whosuggested he escape toHawaiiwhenmassiveriotsbrokeout inManila.
Rebels reclaim cityHundreds of Libyan rebelsstormed Moammar Gad-hafi’s compound yesterday,charging wildly throughthe symbolic heart of thecrumbling regime as theykilled loyalist troops, loot-ed armouries and knockedthe head off a statue of thebesieged dictator. But theyfound no sign of the manhimself.
The storming of Bab al-Aziziya, long the nexus ofGadhafi’s power, markedthe effective collapse of his42-year-old regime. Butwith Gadhafi and his pow-erful sons still unaccount-ed for, and gun battlesflaring across the nervouscity, the fighters cannot declare victory.
The rebel force enteredthe compound after fight-ing for five hours with Gad-hafi loyalists outside, using
mortars, heavy machine-guns and anti-aircraft guns.
They beat and killedsome of those who defend-ed the compound andhauled away crates of
weapons and trucks withguns mounted on the backin a frenzy of looting.
Gadhafi has not beenheard from since Sunday,when rebels entered
Tripoli and he delivered aseries of angry and defiantaudio messages that wereapparently phoned in to state television.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Anti-Gadhafi forces have taken over most of the country Libyanleader’s hometown city, Sirte, one of the few areas still under his control
Rebel fighters trample on a
bust of Moammar Gadhafi
inside the main compound
in Bab al-Aziziya in
Tripoli, Libya, yesterday.
SERGEY PONOMAREV/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Where did they hide?
Saddam HusseinSome of the bloodiestdictators were not ableto escape. Iraq's formerleaderwasfound ina tinycellar in2003 andhangedthreeyears later.
Jean-Claude (BabyDoc) Duvalier
Haiti’sformerpresidentfoundshelter inPariswith hiswives.
Early this year, he wastaken into custody forcorruption and theft.
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Chile braces for shutdownChile president warns citizens against ‘temptations’ of populismGovernment dismisses protest demands as ‘utopian’ ideals
Chile is bracing for a na-tionwide, two-day shut-down as unions, studentsand centre-left politicalparties demand funda-mental changes in socie-ty.
They want to replaceChile’s dictatorship-eraconstitution with a newcharter enabling popularreferendums and makingfree quality education aright for all citizens.
They also want pensionreforms, new labour rulesand more health-carespending.
Chile’s largest unioncoalition called the strikefor today and Thursday tojoin forces with the highschool and university stu-dents boycotting classes
for three months now. They have support
from the centre-left coali-tion that governed Chilefor 20 years before Presi-dent Sebastian Pinerabrought the right wingback last year.
Transportation workersand daycare providers al-
so plan to strike, strand-ing millions of otherChileans.
Pinera said yesterday,“We are perfectly con-scious that our countryhas many unpaid debts,that there are many prob-lems that remain unre-solved, many of whichwere caused decades ago.”
Chile’s economy couldlose $400 million. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Mining plan decriedDemonstrators rallied against mining legislation being studied by the National Assembly yesterday infront of the legislature in Quebec City.
Mining. Strife
Eveline Guette, right, holds her son Josua at a protest
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“It’s painful to see those working sohard to paralyze Chile.” CHILE PRESIDENT SEBASTIAN PINERA
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Nine-million-dollar smile: Akshay Kothari attended
Facebook class and founded Pulse.com, a news aggregator
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PHOTO COURTESY OF AKSHAY KOTHARI
Think rich withFacebook class
The company founded andrun by Evan Reas has 10employees and $6 millionin investor funding. Reas’sbusiness concept is simple:his website, lal.com, allowscollege students to flirt on-line. And U.S. college stu-dents apparently don’t getto flirt enough in real life —thousands have signed up.
Reas himself is still just26. He’s one of the super-en-trepreneurs trained at Stan-ford University’s “Facebookclass.”
“The class was extremelypractical,” says Reas.
“(Professor B.J. Fogg)taught us the theory of en-trepreneurship, but expect-ed us to use it in the realworld and try it out withsmall experiments to at-tempt to do it ourselves,”says Reas.
“He wanted us to talk tousers and to get real dataourselves rather than justreading it in a book.”
The class, launched byFogg and Dave McClure in2007, hasn’t just spawnedReas and lal.com. In fact, itsmain result is a new genera-tion of companies thatmake money on Facebookapps. The first-year studentsdesigned apps that attract-ed 16 million users.
“The concept of this classhad never been tried be-fore,” explains ProfessorFogg. “The students built re-al things and put them outin the world. I told them todrop out if they didn’t likechallenges.”
Their seminar was, inessence, a boot camp for fu-ture Silicon Valley stars.Many are now millionaires,at least on paper.
Akshay Kothari, 25, tookthe class last year andfounded Pulse.me, an appthat allows users to create ascreen mosaic of theirfavourite news sites.
Since launching 14
months ago, Pulse has gainedmillion users, $10 million infunding and an endorse-ment from Steve Jobs.
Fogg says starting a suc-cessful company is actuallyfairly simple. “The biggestmistake companies makeis to overthink.” he says.
“They make their prod-ucts too complicated, addway too many features,and delay launching forfear of failure. Successfulapps are simple, social andfun.”
Creative payoff
Professor BJ Fogg directsStanford’s Persuasive Tech-nology Lab. The profchanges the class eachyear. This year, he taughtstudents how to use tech-nology to reduce people’sstress.Several weeks after the2007 Facebook class ended,the students’ Facebookapps had 24 million users. Many of the students havesold their ideas to existingcompanies or started com-panies featuring their apps.
Mark Zuckerberg who? StanfordUniversity students learn how tocreate equally successful biz plans
Canadian actress MargotKidder was among the lat-est slate of environmental-ists to be arrested outsidethe White House yesterday,handcuffed and sent to jailon the fourth day of a two-week civil disobediencecampaign against Trans-Canada’s Keystone XLpipeline.
Kidder, born in Yel-lowknife but now living inMontana as an Americancitizen, was arrested along-side fellow Canadian actressTantoo Cardinal by U.S.Park Police for refusing tovacate a White House side-walk.
U.S. President BarackObama will decide by theend of the year whether toallow Calgary-based Trans-Canada to build the $7-bil-lion US pipeline. It wouldtransport millions of bar-rels of Alberta oilsandscrude a week through theU.S. and to Gulf Coast re-fineries.
“We’re the first state thepipeline goes through,” Kid-der, 62, best known forplaying Lois Lane in four Su-perman movies, said beforeher arrest.
She marched fromLafayette Square north ofthe White House to thesidewalk lining the presi-dential residence.THE CANADIAN PRESS
Lois laneactressarrestedat protest
50During a peace-ful protest Satur-
day, 50 environmentalactivists were arrestedand spent two nightsin jail.
Tag — you’renot it anymoreFACEBOOK FRIENDS.Facebook will now let youdecide whether friendscan attach your name to aphoto before it’s posted.
The change won’t affectfriends adding photos ofyou, only whether your
name is attached to it. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Goodlife getsbig strifeFITNESS. Goodlife FitnessCentres has paid a$300,000 penalty for usingautomated systems to callmembers without permis-sion.
The CRTC said that 60calls had been made fromMay to December 2010.
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KFC arrives inEast Africa CHICKEN. Good news forchicken lovers: KFC justopened its first restaurantin Kenya.
KFC sits in a new wingof a Nairobi mall and isthe first U.S. fast food out-let in East Africa’s mostdeveloped economy.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Sign of roguepanda disturbsmotoristsAuthorities in Flagstaff, Ariz., are as-suring residents there are no roguepandas roaming the city after somepranksters got creative with an elec-tronic street sign.
The Arizona Department of Trans-portation-controlled sign was set upto warn drivers not to make leftturns at a busy intersection. But mo-torists heading to work Mondaymorning got an entirely different
message: “Rogue panda on rampage.”A passerby reported the hacked
sign to police at about 3 a.m. yester-day.
Transportation Departmentspokeswoman Mackenzie Nuno saysthe sign was restored to its originalmessage by 11 a.m.
She says the agency has nosuspects, but she noted the hackerswould have needed specialized equip-ment to change the sign.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
IF ONLY I HAD ADOLLAR FOR EVERYSONG I’VE SUNG
So you think you can sing.Not to worry, it’s a
common delusion, and withtreatment, you can lead anearly normal life.
I, for example, havelearned to confine my delusion to thecar with the windows rolled up all theway, to the tune of Sweet HomeAlabama. Well, maybe not to the exacttune, but only a sharp or flat off.
I used to sing in the shower, but theSPCA came by one day and confiscated
my dog. Some neighbour thought that horrible noisecould only be the beseeching cries of an abusedanimal and called it in.
Sadly, some peoplechoose to ignore theevidence, and there’s evena machine that aids andabets their transgressions.It’s called a karaokemachine and, along withother weird stuff likesushi and manga, it comesfrom Japan.
Just so you know,“karaoke” means “emptyorchestra,” which justabout sums it up. As any-one who has ever been toa bar knows, the karaokemachine provides the lushorchestralaccompaniment, completewith lyrics, and the usual-ly drunken patronsprovide the vocal track.
The really amazingthing is that unlike thehouse band, karaoke nev-
er sounds better no matter how many drinks you have.So imagine my, er, delight when I discovered there’s
a World Karaoke Championship, where they actuallyencourage these people with cash prizes and recordingcontracts. This year, it’s in Killarney, Ireland, fromSept. 8-10. You might want to vacation in France thisyear.
The last one was held in Moscow, and they shouldhave the broken glass cleared up in time for the 2014Winter Olympics. The World Karaoke Championshipwebsite quickly points out that this contest bears noresemblance to the usual alcohol-fuelled caterwaulingin bars — these people can really sing.
But if they can really sing, why do they need thecheesy canned arrangements and backup singers?Why not just ... sing? I can only guess these audio-assisted thrushes have moved up through the bars andbubble-tea joints of the world and asking them to singwithout their beloved music machine would be likeasking Lady Gaga to appear in public without her meatdress.
It’s part of the act. There are two British Columbians representing
Canada at the 2011 Killarney blarney fest. To TrevorDunn and Jerrica Santos, I say: Good luck and stayaway from Sweet Home Alabama. That one’s mine.
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Jack Layton’s passing isan unequivocal tragedyin the Canadian politicalarena. It was difficult toseparate Jack Laytonfrom his politics, not be-cause one overrode theother, but because theywere synonymous.
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Zoe Saldana re-defines the female assassin in Columbiana.
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Chances arethe firstmovie assas-sin namesthat pop intoyour head are
The Jackal, Martin Q.Blank or El Mariachi. Whatdo they have in common,other than flashy namesand a predilection for gun-ning down their on-screenenemies?
They’re all men.What about the ladies?
Beatrix Kiddo, Charlie Bal-timore or Jane Smith?
Jean Luc Goddard said,“all you need to make a
movie is a girl and a gun,”and often these days film-makers are placing thatgun in the hands of femalefilm assassins. Nikita isback on the tube and earli-er this year Saoirse Ronanplayed a deadly 16-year-oldin Hanna.
This weekend Avatar’sZoe Saldana is back as astone-cold killer in Colom-biana.
As Charlie Baltimore,Geena Davis created one ofthe screen’s most loved fe-male assassins in The LongKiss Goodnight. Sufferingfrom amnesia, when herpast catches up with hershe flip flops from subur-ban mom to killer.
Best Line? “They’re gonna blow
my head off, you know.This is the last time I’llever be pretty.”
Angelina Jolie’s deadlydemeanor has pumped upseveral action movies. LaraCroft was a gun-slingingsuper-heroine but she’s al-so played assassins in twomovies.
In Mr. and Mrs. Smithshe’s a hitlady assigned tokill her own on-screen
(and future real life) part-ner Brad Pitt.
“Still alive baby?” shepurrs after trying to shoothim through a wall.
Also, as Fox in Wantedshe was a member of theFraternity, a deadly groupof killers, with the usefulability to shoot around cor-ners. Best line?
“We kill one, andmaybe save a thousand.That’s the code of the Fra-ternity.”
The highest body countmust go to Beatrix Kiddo,played by Uma Thurmanin Kill Bill parts one andtwo.
As a bride done wrongby her former DeadlyViper Assassination Squadcolleagues (including Vivi-
ca A. Fox plays VernitaGreen and Lucy Liu as O-Ren Ishii), Kiddo slices anddices her way throughmore than 100 opponents.
But the two most un-likely female assassins onfilm were found in Leon:The Professional and Kick-Ass.
In the former NataliePortman was a 12-year-oldwho learns how to killfrom her teacher, Léon(Jean Reno), a skillful butsensitive hitman.
In Kick-Ass, a 2010 ac-tion-comedy starring Nico-las Cage and Chloë Moretz,Hit Girl (Moretz) asks herfather (and assassin men-tor) for a Benchmade mod-el 42 butterfly knife forher 11th birthday.
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EMBRACING THE FEMME FATALE“They’re gonnablow my head off,you know. This isthe last time I’llever be pretty.”GEENA DAVIS AS CHARLIEBALTIMORE IN THE LONG KISSGOODNIGHT
ArnoldSchwarzeneggerwill be making hismovie comebackin New Mexico.The ValenciaCounty New-Bul-letin reports themovie Last Standwill start filmingin Belen, N.M., inOctober. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Ryan Gosling can addpeacekeeper to his resumé.
The actor broke up ascuffle in New York recent-ly when a man tried to runoff with a street vendor’spainting, according to UsWeekly.
“The painter was able tostop him before he took offwith him and tackled himto the ground,” a sourcesays.
“Before it got too violenta stranger appeared to sep-arate them. It was RyanGosling! He was trying tounderstand the situationwhile keeping them fromhurting each other.”
Gosling apparentlyescorted the men out of thestreet, paid for the paintingand sent them on their sep-arate ways.
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While vacationing inRichard Branson’s estateon beautiful Necker Is-land, Kate Winslet nar-rowly escaped a massivefire that destroyed thehome — and even carriedBranson’s 90-year-oldmother, Eve, to safety.
“[Winslet] was stayingthere with her childrenand in fact it was she whocarried my mother out ofthe house,” Branson tells
ITV News. “She swept her up into
her arms and got themout of the house as fast aspossible.”
Lightning during atropical storm is said tobe the cause of the fire.
“The main house iscompletely destroyed andthe fire is not yet com-pletely out,” the billion-aire Branson says.
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Ryan ‘superman’ Gosling
Kate Winsletsaves Branson’smom from fire
Sure, she let ‘Jack’ freeze in the water after the Titanic sunk, but real-lifeactress is something of a lifesaver House destroyed, but no one was hurt
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Victoria Beckham is re-covering from a slippeddisc in her back, and ap-peared in public for thefirst time since the prob-lem developed — and shewasn’t wearing her trade-mark high-heels, accord-ing to Us Weekly.
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Victoria ditchesher high heels —for now anyway
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Third time’sthe charmJennifer Garner is pregnantonce again, she andhusband Ben Affleck con-firmed to the AssociatedPress. This will be thecouple’s third child, join-ing daughters Violet, 5,and Seraphina, 2. “She’salways wanted threekids,” a source tells UsWeekly. “This was herplan all along.”
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A land of wonder and
Gabriola Island in B.C. is a magnet for artists, earning it the nickname ‘Isle of the Arts’
There is immeasurablecharacter and wonder tobe discovered in the mys-tic landscape of GabriolaIsland, in the Gulf Islandsof British Columbia.
Within minutes of arriv-ing, there’s a good chanceyou’ll spot an eagle soar-ing, watch deer scamper-ing along the road or passby the alpaca farm.
Ancient petroglyphsare carved into sandstonethroughout the island,which is a 20-minute ferryride from Nanaimo.
There are more than adozen beaches and ocean-side spots to visit, includingthe Malaspina Galleries, astunning 3.5-metre naturalsandstone formation creat-ed by years of wave erosion.But the wondrousness isn’tlimited to the terrain.
According to the Gabrio-la Arts Council, the islandhas the fifth highest con-centration of artists in allof Canada. The island is of-ten referred to as the “Isle
of the Arts.”“There’s a real work eth-
ic amongst the artists here,”said Ramsey, who is presi-dent of the council. “Theygo out to their studio onMonday and come out onFriday with a whole body ofwork done.”
Another intriguing char-acteristic about Gabriola isthe high number of vintagecars that are seen duringthe summer months. Untilrecently, the local newspa-per would publish a featureon a different vehicle everymonth.
Sue DeCarteret, with theChamber of Commerce,said a couple who owns aMesserschmitt KR200 at-tract so much attentionthat they have a hard timerunning errands.
“If they want to run tothe store for 20 minutes,they might as well count onthree hours because theyget stopped everywhere, byeverybody,” she said.THE CANADIAN PRESS
Inspiration
Visitors enjoy the beach on the northern tip of Gabriola Island.
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GABRIOLA ISLAND
A historyof hippies The 4,200 residentswho live here emit alaid-back vibe. The ec-centricity of the islandcould be traced back toits history as a hippiecolony in the 1960s,when wanderers madetheir way over.THE CANADIAN PRESS
Glassworks artist Tammy Hudgeon is just one of many
artists who make Gabriola Island her home.
Paris airport brings StarTrek holodeck to terminal
with virtual boardingagents.
Iconic buildingclosing its doors
For more than 80 years,the Royal Bank buildingon St. Jacques Streethas graced the Montre-al skyline, serving as anopulent temple to com-merce. In a few shortmonths, another chap-ter in Montreal historywill close when theRoyal Bank shutters itsbranch in a buildingthat served as its head-quarters from 1928 to1962. When it opened,it was dubbed thetallest building in theBritish Empire.The building is one ofMontreal's most popu-lar tourist attractions.THE CANADIAN PRESS
Preparation:
1 In pot, bring 6 l (24cups) of water to a boil.Add 30 ml (2 tbsp) ofsalt.
2 In non-stick skillet overmedium-low, heat 7 ml(1/2 tbsp) of the oil. Addgarlic slices and toast,stirring constantly, for 3
or until lightly browned.Increase heat tomedium, add redpepper flakes and halfof the basil leaves. Cook for 30 seconds,then add tomatoes.
3 Add pasta to boiling wa-ter and cook until aldente according to pack-
age directions.
4 Toss tomatoes in skilletand cook until start toblister and skins pop.Mash tomatoes with po-tato masher or fork tomake pulp, then turn offheat. Season lightly withsalt and black pepper.
5 Drain pasta, reserving50 ml (1/4 cup) of water.Add pasta and reservedwater to tomato mix. In-crease heat to medium-high. Add half ofcheese. Cook until saucebegins to cling to noo-dles, using heat-resistant spatula to tosspasta.
6 Add remaining basil andolive oil and toss tocoat. Season to tastewith salt and pepper. Di-vide pasta among 4plates and sprinkle withremaining cheese.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/ROCCO DISPIRITO
16 food metronews.caWEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24, 2011
Comfort foods ofItaly — that’s amore
Tomatoes star in this easy, delicious Pasta Pomodoro
Start to finish:
30 mins. Serves:
4
Ingredients:• Salt• 15 ml (1 tbsp) extra-virginolive oil, divided• 6 cloves garlic, sliced
• Pinch red pepper flakes(peperoncino)• 16 fresh basil leaves, torninto small pieces, divided• 1 l (4 cups) very ripe grapetomatoes
• 250 g (8 oz) dry kamutspaghetti• Black pepper, to taste• 30 ml (1 oz) Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese, freshlygrated, divided
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Blueberry-BasilRickey
Make up a double batchof this one — one foryour kid, and one foryourself (with the op-tional gin).
• 1 sprig fresh basil• 15 ml (1 tbsp) sugar• 60 ml (2 oz) blueberryjuice• 15 ml (1/2 oz) limejuice• 30 ml (1 oz) gin(optional)• Ice• Club soda • Handful of fresh blue-berries
In bottom of highballglass, muddle basil withsugar. Pour in blueberryjuice, lime juice and gin (ifusing) and stir to dissolvesugar. Add ice and club so-da, stirring gently. Garnishwith blueberries. THE ASSO-CIATED PRESS/ ALISON LADMAN
Drink of the weekCaprese Salad
Preparation:
1 Use a serrated knife toslice each ball of moz-zarella into 4 slices. Re-peat with tomatoes,cutting each into 4slices.
2 Stack 2 slices of tomatoand 2 slices ofmozzarella, alternatingas you stack, on eachof 4 serving plates. Asyou stack, season eachtomato slice with apinch of salt and pep-per. Set aside.
3 In a blender, combineolive oil, lemon juiceand half of the capers.Puree until smooth.Season with salt andpepper. Drizzle a bit of
the dressing over eachmozzarella-tomatostack. Scatter severalbasil leaves, a few ofthe remaining capersand a bit of lemon zestover each stack.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Ingredients:
• Two 250-g (8-oz) ballsfresh mozzarella• 2 large slicing tomatoes• Salt and ground blackpepper• 50 ml (1/4 cup) olive oil• Juice and zest of 1lemon• 15 ml (1 tbsp) capers, di-vided• Handful fresh basilleaves
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The above quote is astrue at work as it is inlife, except that in work-place law there is alwaysan exception. Here is asampling of some of thequestions readers of thiscolumn frequently askand the answers I oftenprovide.
Performance appraisals
When assessing merit,your appraisals matter.When assessing sever-ance, they are mostly ir-relevant. This is becausepoor performance is sel-dom cause for dismissal.Similarly, there is nosuch concept as “nearcause”, which meansthere is no correlationbetween your level ofperformance and thequantum of severanceyou will ultimately re-ceive. Therefore, if youare fired and it relates toperformance, you shouldreceive the same sever-ance as if it did not.
Letters of reference
Employees believe theyare always entitled to areference. However,there is no rule or lawcompelling a reference,no matter how long ormeritorious your service.
Employment contracts
If there is a written con-tract, it has to meet anumber of tests. Youmust, at least, be giventhe opportunity to nego-tiate or those terms thatare punitive may not beenforced later on. Thisrule also applies during
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A FEW RULES YOU MAY
HAVE WRONG AT WORK
the course of employ-ment, except that some-thing of greater valuemust also be offered, suchas a raise or a promotion,in exchange for a con-tract. Otherwise, thecourts have reasoned, anemployer could unilater-ally impose new terms,and you would be leftwithout the leverage tonegotiate or refuse.
Resignations
If you resign with advancenotice and your employerasks you to immediatelyleave, are you entitled topay for the remaining pe-riod of notice? Yes. Un-less you signed a contractthat says otherwise, gen-
erally you must be paid.
Independent contractoragreements
It usually will not matterthat workers have signedagreements confirmingthey are independentfrom their employers.When this characteriza-tion is challenged, oftenmany years later, courtsare apt to find these work-ers were truly employees.No surprise there. Manytimes the contract repre-sented little else than a“label”. What actuallymatters is how the partiesbehaved. DANIEL LUBLIN IS AN EMPLOYMENTLAWYER WITH WHITTEN & LUBLINLLP.
Your written employment contract may not be wholly
binding if it hasn’t met all of the necessary criteria.
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18 sports metronews.caWEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24, 2011
Jays ship second baseman Aaron Hill and popular infielder John McDonald to Arizona ‘They were guys that cared,’ says Toronto manager John Farrell
‘This isn’t the end,’says Hill after trade
Fans display a banner at the Rogers Centre in Toronto last night after
John McDonald and Aaron Hill were traded by the Blue Jays.
DARREN CALABRESE/THE CANADIAN PRESS
Canada is heading homefrom the Little LeagueWorld Series with its headheld high.
The team from Langley,B.C., lost 4-0 to Japan yester-day in an elimination game.
Canada leaves the tour-nament with pride after asurprising victory in a
must-win game againstnemesis Taiwan and a goodeffort against Japan.
“We lost to the defend-ing champs 4-0. We heldour own,” Canadian coachJason Andrews said whenasked how his team han-dled elimination. “I thinkwe represented very well.
They’re very upbeat, veryhappy with the way theyplayed.”
Cole Cantelon allowedfour runs in 4 1⁄3 innings forCanada, which put two run-ners on in the bottom ofthe sixth before Connor Mc-Creath grounded out to endthe game. THE CANADIAN PRESS
Canadian little leaguers bow out
Although it’s farewell, itmight not be goodbye.
“I have not ruled out ei-ther player being back herein 2012,” Blue Jays generalmanager Alex Anthopoulossaid after announcing yes-terday that second base-man Aaron Hill andinfielder John McDonaldhad been traded to the Ari-zona Diamondbacks for sec-ond baseman KellyJohnson.
All three players can befree agents in the off-sea-son.
“This is all I’ve known,this has been my family,”Hill told the media atRogers Centre before theBlue Jays game with theKansas City Royals lastnight. “Like Alex said, I’m
very open to coming backnext year. This isn’t theend.”
Added McDonald: “I’vehad a lot of conversationswith Alex recently aboutjust that, about continuingto be a Toronto Blue Jay,and that excites me too.”
The 29-year-old Johnson,long rumoured to be an An-thopoulos target, has ap-peared in 114 games forArizona this season, post-ing a .209 average with 18home runs, 49 RBIs and 13stolen bases.
A first-round pick of the
Atlanta Braves in 2000,Johnson is a career .260 hit-ter with 89 home runs and326 RBIs in 758 games.
“He has the ability to geton base, draw some walksand he’s got power to allfields,” Anthopoulos said.“He’d be the first one to tellyou, I’m sure, he’s not per-forming the way he expect-ed to, especially off the yearhe came off of last year.”
Players must clearwaivers to be traded afterJuly 31 and Anthopoulossaid all the Blue Jays playerscleared early in August as a
matter of club policy.It was at that time that
talks with the Diamond-backs on a possible dealstarted to take place.
Hill has struggled thelast two seasons with theBlue Jays, but said he willcherish his time in Toronto,noting the club’s bright fu-ture.
“This team will win. Theway they’re going, the di-rection they’re going, withAlex and everybody, I do be-lieve this team will win,”Hill said.
Both McDonald and Hillwill have a chance to playin the post-season with Ari-zona in contention for theNational League West’s ti-tle.THE CANADIAN PRESS
Stamkospulling forCrosby’sreturnSteven Stamkos says theNHL needs Sidney Crosby.
The PittsburghPenguins superstar hasbeen out of action sinceJanuary with post-concus-sion syndrome and it wasrumoured this week hesuffered a setback in hisrecovery.
Stamkos said it’sdifficult to see Crosby onthe sidelines, both for thehealth of the league and asa fellow player.
“It’d be tough, we needhim. He’s the face of theNHL,” the Tampa BayLightning sniper said yes-terday at an NHL fitnesscamp in Toronto. “It obvi-ously would take awayfrom our game not havinghim in the lineup, sohopefully everything goeswell.”
Crosby’s agent tried toquell rumours Mondaythat the centre hadcancelled some on-iceworkouts and that hewouldn’t be ready fortraining camp nextmonth.
Pat Brisson said in a re-lease the 24-year-old hadadjusted his workoutschedule and wouldaddress his condition at an“appropriate time.”
Crosby hasn’t appearedin a game since Jan. 5when he took a blow tothe head for a secondstraight game and was di-agnosed with aconcussion.
Stamkos, who recentlysigned a big extensionwith Tampa Bay, added theamount of concussions inthe league is alarming.
“It’s scary with theamount of concussions,not only with him, overthe past couple years,”Stamkos said. “As a fellowplayer in the league, youwant to prevent that sortof thing.” THE CANADIAN PRESS
Steven Stamkos
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“Not only are you playing for the city ofToronto, but the country of Canada. It’s avery special place and it will be missed.”SECOND BASEMAN AARON HILL, AFTER BEING TRADED FROM THE TORONTOBLUE JAYS TO THE ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS YESTERDAY
17 Canadaadvanced to face
Japan after defeatingTaiwan 5-3 onMonday. That markedthe first time a Canadian team haddefeated Taiwan in 17trips at the LittleLeague World Series.
Eskimos update
Canadian offensivelineman Dylan Steen-bergen is headinghome.
The Montreal Alou-ettes traded the Alber-ta native to theEdmonton Eskimosyesterday for two fu-ture draft picks.
The Eskimos willalso receive the futurenegotiation list rightsto an undisclosedAmerican prospectalong with Steenber-gen, a formerAlouettes first-rounddraft pick. In return,Montreal gets a sixth-round pick from theEskimos in 2012 and2013.
Steenbergen, a six-foot-five, 285-poundoffensive lineman,was the seventh play-er selected in the 2009CFL draft. He grew upin Lethbridge beforestarring at the Univer-sity of Calgary.THE CANADIAN PRESS
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AMERICAN LEAGUEEAST DIVISION
W L Pct GBNew York 77 49 .611 —Boston 78 50 .609 —Tampa Bay 69 58 .543 81/2Toronto 65 63 .508 13Baltimore 49 77 .389 28
CENTRAL DIVISIONW L Pct GB
Detroit 70 58 .547 —Chicago 63 63 .500 6Cleveland 63 63 .500 6Minnesota 55 73 .430 15Kansas City 53 76 .411 171/2
WEST DIVISIONW L Pct GB
Texas 74 56 .569 —Los Angeles 69 59 .539 4Oakland 58 70 .453 15Seattle 55 73 .430 18
NATIONAL LEAGUEEAST DIVISION
W L Pct GBPhiladelphia 83 44 .654 —Atlanta 78 52 .600 61/2Washington 62 65 .488 21New York 60 68 .469 231/2Florida 57 71 .445 261/2
CENTRAL DIVISIONW L Pct GB
Milwaukee 78 53 .595 —St. Louis 67 62 .519 10Cincinnati 63 65 .492 131/2Pittsburgh 60 68 .469 161/2Chicago 56 73 .434 21Houston 42 87 .326 35
WEST DIVISIONW L Pct GB
Arizona 70 59 .543 —San Francisco 68 60 .531 11/2Colorado 62 68 .477 81/2Los Angeles 59 69 .461 101/2San Diego 59 70 .457 11
Yesterday’s results
Cleveland 7, Seattle 5, 1st game
Oakland 6, N.Y. Yankees 5
Seattle 12, Cleveland 7, 2nd game
Kansas City 6, Toronto 4
Detroit 2, Tampa Bay 1
Boston 11, Texas 5
Baltimore 8,Minnesota 1
ChicagoWhite Sox at L.A. Angels
Monday’s results
Seattle 3, Cleveland 2
Detroit 5, TampaBay 2
Texas 4, Boston 0
Baltimore 4,Minnesota 1
Today’s games
Seattle (F.Hernandez 11-11) at Cleveland
(Tomlin 12-6), 12:05 p.m.
Boston (Beckett 10-5) at Texas (M.Harrison
10-8), 7:05 p.m.
Oakland (Cahill 9-12) at N.Y. Yankees
(Sabathia 17-7), 7:05 p.m.
Kansas City (Hochevar 8-10) at Toronto
(R.Romero 12-9), 7:07 p.m.
Detroit (Scherzer 13-7) at Tampa Bay
(W.Davis 8-7), 7:10 p.m.
Baltimore (Guthrie 5-16) atMinnesota
(Slowey 0-1), 8:10 p.m.
ChicagoWhite Sox (Z.Stewart 1-2) at L.A. An-
gels (Weaver 14-6), 10:05 p.m.
Tomorrow’s games
Oakland at N.Y. Yankees, 1:05 p.m.
Baltimore atMinnesota, 1:10 p.m.
Detroit at Tampa Bay, 1:10 p.m.
Kansas City at Toronto, 7:07 p.m.
Boston at Texas, 8:05 p.m.
Yesterday’s resultsArizona 2,Washington 0
Milwaukee 11, Pittsburgh 4
Philadelphia 9, N.Y.Mets 4
Cincinnati 8, Florida 6
Atlanta 5, Chicago Cubs 4
L.A. Dodgers 13, St. Louis 2
Colorado 8, Houston 6
San Diego at San Francisco
Monday’s results
Milwaukee 8, Pittsburgh 1, 1st game
Washington 4, Arizona 1
Philadelphia 10, N.Y.Mets 0
Atlanta 3, Chicago Cubs 0
L.A. Dodgers 2, St. Louis 1
Pittsburgh 9,Milwaukee 2, 2nd game
Colorado 9, Houston 5
Today’s games
Milwaukee (Marcum 11-3) at Pittsburgh
(A.Thompson 0-0), 12:35 p.m.
N.Y.Mets (Pelfrey 6-10) at Philadelphia
(K.Kendrick 7-5), 1:05 p.m.
L.A. Dodgers (Kuroda 9-14) at St. Louis
(J.Garcia 10-6), 2:15 p.m.
Houston (W.Rodriguez 9-9) at Colorado
(A.Cook 3-7), 3:10 p.m.
Cincinnati (H.Bailey 7-5) at Florida (Vazquez
7-11), 4:10 p.m., 1st game
Arizona (D.Hudson 12-9) atWashington
(L.Hernandez 7-11), 7:05 p.m.
Cincinnati (Arroyo 7-10) at Florida (Volstad 5-
10), 7:40 p.m., 2nd game
Atlanta (D.Lowe 8-11) at Chicago Cubs
(R.Wells 4-4), 8:05 p.m.
San Diego (Stauffer 8-9) at San Francisco
(Lincecum 11-10), 10:15 p.m.
Tomorrow’s games
Atlanta at Chicago Cubs, 2:20 p.m.
Arizona atWashington, 7:05 p.m.
Cincinnati at Florida, ppd., rain
Pittsburgh at St. Louis, 8:15 p.m.
Houston at San Francisco, 10:15 p.m.
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
WEEK NINEEAST DIVISION
GP W L T PF PA PtWinnipeg 7 6 1 0 182 130 12Montreal 7 5 2 0 222 156 10Hamilton 7 4 3 0 189 176 8Toronto 8 2 6 0 184 233 4
WEST DIVISION
GP W L T PF PA PtCalgary 7 5 2 0 194 172 10Edmonton 8 5 3 0 174 190 10B.C. 8 2 6 0 203 203 4Saskatchewan 8 1 7 0 165 253 2
WEEKNINEByes: B.C., Edmonton, Saskatchewan, TorontoFriday’s gameHamilton atWinnipeg, 8 p.m.Saturday’s gameMontreal at Calgary, 4 p.m.
CFL
SOCCER TENNIS
MLSEASTERN CONFERENCE
GP W L T GF GA PtColumbus 25 11 7 7 29 24 40Kansas City 25 9 7 9 36 31 36Houston 26 8 7 11 34 32 35Philadelphia 24 8 6 10 30 24 34New York 26 6 6 14 41 37 32D.C. United 24 7 7 10 34 35 31Chicago 25 3 7 15 28 33 24New England 26 4 11 11 26 39 23Toronto 27 4 12 11 25 48 23
WESTERN CONFERENCEGP W L T GF GA Pt
Los Angeles 26 14 3 9 37 20 51Seattle 26 12 5 9 36 27 45Dallas 26 12 7 7 33 27 43Colorado 27 10 6 11 39 34 41Real Salt Lake 23 10 7 6 32 20 36Chivas USA 25 7 8 10 32 28 31Portland 25 8 12 5 32 41 29San Jose 25 5 10 10 26 34 25Vancouver 25 3 13 9 26 42 18Note: Three points for awin, one for a tie.Tonight’s gameChivas USA at Portland, 11 p.m.Saturday’s gamesColumbus at Seattle, 4 p.m.San Jose at Toronto, 7 p.m.Houston at Vancouver, 7 p.m.Portland at D.C. United, 7:30 p.m.Colorado at Chicago, 8:30 p.m.Dallas at Kansas City, 8:30 p.m.Real Salt Lake at Chivas USA, 10:30 p.m.Sunday’s gameLos Angeles at NewYork, 7 p.m.NewEngland at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.
ENGLANDLEAGUE CUPFIRST ROUNDYesterday’s resultsCrystal Palace 2, Crawley 0Bristol Rovers 1,Watford 1, Bristol advanced4-2 on penalty kicksCharlton 2, Reading 1Second RoundAston Villa 2, Hereford 0Bournemouth 1,West Bromwich Albion 4Brighton 1, Sunderland 0, OTBurnley 3, Barnet 2, OTBury 2, Leicester 4Cardiff 5, Huddersfield 3, OTDoncaster 1, Leeds 2Millwall 2,Morecambe 0Northampton 0,WolverhamptonWanderers 4Norwich 0,MKDons 4Queens Park Rangers 0, Rochdale 2Shrewsbury 3, Swansea 1Wycombe 1, Nottingham Forest 4
SCOTLANDLEAGUE CUPSECONDROUNDYesterday’s resultsMorton 3, St.Mirren 4Aberdeen 1, Dundee 0Airdrie 2, Raith 0East Fife 2, Dunfermline 1Hamilton 1, Ross County 2Hibernian 5, Berwick 0Queen of the South 3, Forfar 0
ROYALS 6, BLUE JAYS 4Kansas City ab r h bi Toronto ab r h biAGordn lf 5 0 1 0 YEscor ss 4 1 2 3MeCarr cf 5 0 1 0 EThms lf 4 1 1 0Butler dh 5 1 1 1 Bautist rf 4 0 0 0Hosmer 1b 5 2 3 1 Lind 1b 4 0 1 1Francr rf 5 1 4 0 Encrnc dh 4 0 0 0Giavtll 2b 4 2 2 2 Rasms cf 3 0 0 0Getz 2b 1 0 0 0 Teahen ph 1 0 0 0S.Perez c 5 0 2 2 Lawrie 3b 3 0 0 0Mostks 3b 3 0 2 0 JMolin c 3 1 1 0AEscor ss 4 0 0 0 McCoy 2b 2 1 1 0Totals 42 6 16 6 Totals 32 4 6 4Kansas City 030 030 000 6Toronto 000 003 001 4E—Rasmus (2). DP—Kansas City 1. LOB—Kansas City 10, Toronto 2. 2B—Francoeur 2(39), Giavotella (3), E.Thames (15). 3B—S.Perez (1). HR—Butler (16), Hosmer (11),Y.Escobar (11). SB—Hosmer (7),McCoy (5).
IP H R ER BB SOKansas CityChenW,9-5 7 2-3 4 3 3 1 9G.Holland H,13 1-3 0 0 0 0 0Soria S,23-30 1 2 1 1 0 2TorontoMorrow L,9-8 4 2-3 11 6 6 1 5Ledezma 1 1 0 0 0 1Carreno 3 1-3 4 0 0 0 2
Umpires—Home, JohnHirschbeck; First, LazDiaz; Second,Wally Bell; Third, Scott Barry.T—2:53. A—20,009 (49,260).
NFL
PRE-SEASONMonday’s resultN.Y. Giants 41, Chicago 13WEEK THREETomorrow’s gamesCarolina at Cincinnati, 7 p.m.Cleveland at Philadelphia, 7:30 p.m.Washington at Baltimore, 8 p.m.
GOLF
LACROSSE
MINTO CUPCANADIANJUNIORCHAMPIONSHIPAt Okotoks, Alta.Last night’s resultsWhitby 19 Edmonton 3Coquitlam 12Okotoks 1Tonight’s gameSemifinalSecond vs. Third Places, 10 p.m.
ATPWORLD TOURWINSTON-SALEMOPENAt WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.SinglesSecond RoundJohn Isner (4), U.S., def. Dudi Sela, Israel, 7-6(3), 6-2.Nikolay Davydenko (5), Russia, def. MichaelRussell, U.S., 6-2, 6-2.JuanMonaco (7), Argentina, def. TobiasKamke, Germany, 7-5, 6-0.Robin Haase (10), Netherlands, def. JamesBlake, U.S., 6-4, 6-1.Steve Darcis, Belgium, def. Dmitry Tursunov(11), Russia, 3-6, 6-1, 6-3.Kei Nishikori, Japan, def. Pablo Andujar (12),Spain, 7-6 (3), 6-2.Grigor Dimitrov (14), Bulgaria, def. DonaldYoung, U.S., 6-4, 2-6, 7-6 (2).Julien Benneteau, France, def. Igor Kunitsyn(16), Russia, 6-3, 6-1.
WTANEWHAVENOPENAt NEW HAVEN, Conn.SinglesFirst RoundElena Vesnina, Russia, def. Jelena Jankovic,Serbia, 6-2, 2-6, 6-4.Second RoundFrancesca Schiavone (3), Italy, def. MonicaNiculescu, Romania, 6-2, 6-1.ChristinaMcHale, U.S., def. Carla SuarezNavarro, Spain, 6-2, 6-2.
BLUE JAYS STATISTICSBATTERS AB R H HR RBI AVGLawrie 55 8 18 3 10 .327Bautista 396 91126 36 80 .318Molina 129 17 39 2 11 .302Escobar 450 68129 10 41 .287Encarnacion 369 55103 12 39 .279Thames 228 36 61 8 27 .268Lind 396 49104 22 72 .263McDonald 168 19 42 2 20 .250Davis 320 44 76 1 29 .238Hill 396 38 89 6 45 .225Rasmus 85 11 19 3 12 .224McCoy 81 11 18 1 5 .222Arencibia 347 38 74 19 57 .213Teahen 133 12 25 4 12 .188PITCHERS W L SV IP SO ERAMcCoy 0 0 0 1.0 0 0.00Janssen 4 0 2 41.0 42 2.20Romero 12 9 0175.0 147 2.73Perez 3 2 0 49.2 41 3.26Francisco 1 4 10 37.2 40 4.06Litsch 4 3 1 59.2 51 4.22Cecil 4 6 0 91.1 64 4.24Villanueva 6 3 0 97.2 63 4.24Alvarez 0 1 0 16.2 10 4.32Morrow 9 7 0132.2 154 4.41Rauch 5 4 11 50.1 35 4.47Camp 1 2 1 53.1 26 4.56Ledezma 0 0 0 3.0 5 9.00Lewis 0 0 0 0.1 0 27.00Not including last night’s games
BASEBALL
LITTLE LEAGUEWORLD SERIESAt SouthWilliamsport, Pa.Yesterday’s resultsConsolationCumberland, R.I. 8 Rotterdam, Netherlands 7Elimination PlayoffsHamamatsu City, Japan 4 Langley, B.C. 0Clinton County, Pa. vs.Warner Robins, Ga.
WEEKEND GLANCEPGATOURFEDEX CUP PLAYOFFSTHEBARCLAYSSite: Edison, N.J.Schedule: Tomorrow-Sunday.Television:Golf Channel (Tomorrow-Friday, 3-6 p.m.; Saturday, 1-2:30 p.m.; Sunday,noon(equals)1:30 p.m.) and CBS (Saturday, 3-6 p.m.; Sunday, 2-6 p.m.).Online:www.pgatour.com
LPGA TOURCANADIANWOMEN’SOPENSite:Mirabel, Quebec.Schedule: Tomorrow-Sunday.Television:Golf Channel (Tomorrow, 6:30-8:30p.m.; Saturday,midnight-2 a.m., 3-6 p.m.; Sun-day, 2-6 p.m.).Online:www.lpga.comTournament site:www.cncanadianwomensopen.com
CHAMPIONS TOURBOEING CLASSICSite: Snoqualmie,Wash.Schedule: Friday-Sunday.Television:Golf Channel (Friday, 6:30-8:30 p.m.;Saturday, 6:30-9:30 p.m.; Sunday, 7-9:30 p.m.).Online:www.pgatour.com
EUROPEANTOURJOHNNIEWALKER CHAMPIONSHIPSite: Perthshire, Scotland.Schedule: Tomorrow-Sunday.Television:Golf Channel (Tomorrow-Friday,9:30 a.m.-12:30 a.m.; Saturday-Sunday, 9a.m.-noon).Online:www.europeantour.com
NATIONWIDE TOURNEWSSENTINELOPENSite:Knoxville, Tenn.Schedule: Tomorrow-Sunday.Television:None.Online:www.pgatour.com
UEFACHAMPIONS LEAGUEYesterday’s resultsAPOEL (Cyprus) 3Wisla Krakow (Poland) 1(APOEL advances on 3-2 aggregate)Genk (Belgium) 2Maccabi Haifa (Israel) 1 (ex-tra time)(aggregate 3-3 and 1-1 on away goals; Genkadvances 4-1 on penalties)Malmo (Sweden) 2 Dinamo Zagreb (Croatia) 0(Dinamo advances 4-3)Villarreal (Spain) 3 Odense (Denmark) 0(Villarreal advances 3-1)Zurich (Switzerland) 0 BayernMunich (Ger-many) 1(BayernMunich advances 3-0)
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Spacious coupeAs a four-door wearing a two-door’s body,the tester offered up a surprisingly generousback seat, easy entry and exit, a massivetrunk, and a great forward view of the road.
No issue with space on board for a four-person road trip, and up front, the driverand passenger could easily forget theyaren’t simply in a sedan.
Typical coupe-related compromises arelargely eliminated, here.
Though the Accord Coupe doesn’t have the world’s sportiest shifter, it is easy to bang some gears and get this rocket coupe blasting along so quickly the
tires can barely keep up. Torque steer is present though well managed, and in all, it’s an entertaining and delightful drivetrain to put through its paces.
With Honda greats like thePrelude, NSX, S2000 andCRX all retired to thatgreat big sports-car grave-yard in the sky, it’s nowthe Honda Accord V6Coupe that stands as thebrand’s ultimate perform-ance offering. This two-door version of Honda’selemental family sedan hasrecently been updated inthe cosmetic department,and now looks more alert,sharp and aggressive thanever.
That’s slightly more fit-ting, perhaps, for a per-
formance flagship ridingthe same platform as oneof the most sensible familyrides on the road.
When driving, handlingof the Accord is tidy over-all, though enthusiast driv-ers will likely wish for alittle less body roll, a little
quicker steering and somemore aggressive tires. TheAccord Coupe isn’t a han-dling monster first andforemost, but it’s enter-taining to push hard, notto mention comfortable,compliant and relativelyquiet during cruising.
End of the day, the Ac-cord Coupe’s surprisingsensibility, as well as Hon-da’s reputation for reliabili-ty, quality and residualvalue will be big drawshere. Shoppers after a mus-cular sports coupe that’snearly as rational and level-headed as a family sedanwon’t likely be disappoint-ed.
Family-car roots shinethrough in Accord Coupe
At hand storage facilities are generous in the cabin.
Two large cupholders are fitted, and things are all nicely
equipped and set up for day-to-day life.
A side view of the sexily-shaped Accord Coupe.
JUSTIN [email protected]
InteriorMost will find the cabinstyling modest and plain,an attribute embodiedmost heavily in the graph-ics of the infotainment sys-tem which are on par withthe average gas stationATM machine.
This part of the Accord isin dire need of an update.
EngineUnder the testers’ hood, Honda’s 3.5-litre SOHC V6 engine dis-penses 271 horsepower to the front wheels, thanks in part tothe automaker’s proven VTEC valve timing system. Amongother things, VTEC ramps up engine output and sound effectsat higher revs, creating a delightfully peaky power-curve.Honda’s proven J35 Z3 powerplant sounds fantastic, loves towork and moves the Accord Coupe along like absolute heck.
A six-speed manual transmission took centre stage withinthe tester. It offered up a fairly slick shift action despite alonger throw, as well as a light and easygoing clutch.
PRICE ASTESTED:$35,890
Accord Coupe
What you should know:
Engine (hp): 3.5-litre SOHCV6, VTEC, 271 horsepower.Drivetrain: Front-wheeldrive, two-door coupe.Transmission: Six-speed
By comparison
HyundaiGenesis Coupe Shopping? Be sureto check out theHyundai Genesis 3.8GT Coupe, too. For afew dollars morethan the loaded Ac-cord V6 tester, it of-fers up a Limited SlipDifferential (LSD),Brembo brakes, andmore dramaticlooks. It also sendsmore than 30 addi-tional horsepowerto the driving enthu-siasts’ favouritewheels — the rearones.
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The developers behindForza Motorsport 4 arewidening their scope withthe release of their newsimulation racing game.
If you’re a hardcorevideo gamer, they’re aim-ing to please you. But theyalso stress that even ifyou’re a novice gamer, yethave a passion for cars, youshould really take notice.
“Our goal with Forza 4 isto turn car lovers intogamers, and gamers intocar lovers,” said Brian Ek-berg, community managerfor Turn 10 Studios, the de-veloper behind the game.Ekberg was in Toronto lastweek promoting the gameat an Xbox 360 holiday pre-view event.
Exclusive to the 360, theupcoming instalment ofthe popular Forza series isset for an Oct. 11 release.
When a new Forza game
comes out, it’s usually con-sidered a big deal — forXbox owners, at least — asthe series has garnered crit-
ical acclaim. Forza Motor-sport 3, which was releasedin 2009, notched Best Driv-ing Game awards from USAToday and IGN, in additionto a Game of the Year nodfrom The Associated Press.
One of the big advance-ments in Forza 4 is the in-clusion of the all-newAutovista Mode. Describedby Ekberg as a “virtualshowroom,” the mode,which is exclusive to thegame, allows players to ex-amine real-life cars just asif they were viewing themat a dealership — a reallyexpensive dealership thatis.
The Ferrari 458 Italia,Ferrari California, andMcLaren F1 are just a fewof the cars to be featured inthis mode.
“It’s a way to experiencecars in a way you’ve neverbeen able to do so before,”said Ekberg.
Paired with the 360’smotion-sensing Kinect de-vice, players in Autovistacan move their body left orright and the camera willmove the same way aroundthe car. With no controllerrequired, they can physical-ly crouch down to checkout the wheels, open thedoors to look inside the car,or even pop the hood tocheck out the engine. Aswell, players can placetheir hand over certain“points of interest,” andit’ll bring up informationabout the cars.
“If you’re a car lover,you can come to AutovistaMode and find out about
and really appreciate thesecars and maybe learn some-thing you didn’t alreadyknow,” said Ekberg. “Ifyou’re not a big car fan, wewant you to come to thismode, learn about cars andmaybe that blossoms into acar passion throughout therest of your life.”
While Autovista Mode isa nice addition to thegame, at its heart Forza is aracing game, and Ekbergsays it won’t disappoint inthat regard.
A new lighting enginehas been added to enhancethe game’s silky-smoothgraphics, while the Kinectwill be integrated into thedriving experience by al-lowing players to move thecamera by simply tiltingtheir head.
An entirely new car experience
The Jaguar XFR is pictured in a screenshot from the Xbox 360’s Forza Motorsport 4.
HANDOUT
That’s the tagline for Forza Motorsport 4 But what makes this game different than others?
DAVID SINGHMETRO DRIVE EDITOR
Familiar voice
Jeremy Clarkson, famousfor his role on the TV seriesTop Gear, has partneredwith Turn 10 Studios andwill have his voice appearin Forza 4. Clarkson will
provide voiceovers in thegame’s Autovista Mode,sharing his unbiased opin-ions of the featured cars. Aswell, he will act as an infor-mational guide when youclick on “points of interest”on the cars.“If we’re going to have Jere-my Clarkson in this modetalking about cars, it’s gottafeel like Jeremy Clarkson. Ithas got to be his script, hisvoiceover, his opinion,” saiddeveloper Brian Ekberg.“We gave him a list of cars,he wrote the scripts. That’swhy it feels really authen-tic.”
Getting it rightTo create the realistic racetracks featured in thegame, Turn 10photographed, filmed andGPS-ed different locales inthe world. Ekberg saysthat attention was paid toeven the smallest details,such as creating blindingsnow effects in sometracks, for example.
The developer has alsopartnered with Pirelli,gaining full access to thecompany’s tire data. Thedesired goal was toachieve a driving dynamicthat closely mirrors real-life cars and their interac-tion with the roads.
“We take our physicsseriously,” said Turn 10’sBrian Ekberg. “We spentan incredible amount ofinvestment into ourphysics, because webelieve it’s important tobe as realistic and as trueto life as we possibly can.”
While manysimulation racing gamescan seem intimidating tonew players, Ekberg sayshis team ensured thatForza 4 is different. Thegame does have a newsimulation steering modethat is designed for “hard-core people,” but gamerson the opposite end of thespectrum will be lookedafter as well.
“Depending on yourskill level, you can stillhave a good time withthis game,” Ekberg said.
“We have a lot ofassists you can turn on —steering assists, brakingassists. Even if you don’thave a lot of experienceplaying games, you cancome in, get inside thisFerrari 458 and blastaround the track andhave a great time.”
DAVID SINGH
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A handsome exterior will get you plenty of stares when you’re cruising
main street. But not many buyers will chance messing it up by going off-road.
WHEELBASE
More capablethan youwould know
The M-Class is built tough Theonly question is how will you use it
There’s an old saying thatwe only use a small portionof our brains at any onetime and that if we couldtap the potential, whoknows what we would becapable of.
The same could be saidfor the 2012 Mercedes-BenzM-Class. Most high-endsport utility vehicles rarely,if ever, make it very far offthe beaten trail. Instead,they’re pampered with reg-ular washings and keptsnug as a bug in some pala-tial climate-controlledgarage awaiting the next er-
rand run to the galleria,school drop-off zone orevening outing. Their off-road systems are left entire-ly dormant ... forever.
Automakers that con-struct similar productsknow this, yet they stillmake ‘em as if they wereabout to head into someboulder-strewn nether-re-gion where most peopleand their machinery fear todrive.
The latest M-Class that’sscheduled for a Septemberunveiling proves the pointand proves it well. Dimen-sionally, this Alabama-builtluxo-ute and its car-like uni-body (frameless) undercar-riage is similar to that ofthe outgoing model. Physi-cally, however, the restyled
sheetmetal represents aquantum leap forward, es-pecially the classier hood,fenders and grille plus thecleanly sculpted door andfender body panels that addsome much needed defini-tion.
The interior has beensimilarly addressed. On ful-ly loaded models, the woodtrim is tasteful, the stitchedleather seat covers are invit-ing and the satin-nickel gar-nish is subtly restrained.
Initially there will be on-ly two M-Class editions. TheML350 BlueTEC 4MATICcomes with a 3.0-litre V6turbo-diesel that resemblesthe previous engine interms of displacement only.Its cylinder walls have beencoated with a friction-fight-er that eliminates the needfor cast iron liners.
Mercedes-Benz claimsthat this and other im-provements have led to athree-per-cent improve-ment in fuel economy.
The Turbo-diesel nowgenerates 240 horsepowerand 455 pound-feet of
torque, compared to theoutgoing 3.0’s 210 horsesand 400 pound-feet oftorque.
Also available is a 3.5-litre gasoline V6 that’s rat-ed at 302 horsepower, a34-horsepower up-tick fromthe previous 268 rating.
In this instance, the 3.5benefits from direct-injec-tion technology wherebyfuel is sprayed at extremelyhigh pressure directly intothe combustion chambers,instead of into the intakemanifold.
The turbo-diesel expect-
ed to achieve 11.0 l/100 kmin the city and 7.6 on thehighway (improved from11.1/8.0). Meanwhile, thegasoline powerplant is esti-mated at 13.8/10.0 (previ-ously 14.1/10.2).
Also assisting on the fuel-saving front for both en-gines is a new seven-speedautomatic transmissionwith a more efficient —less power-sapping —torque converter.
The M-Class’s road man-ners have also been sharp-ened with “Agility Control”active damping that varies
the ride and stability char-acteristics according toroad conditions.
During normal driving,the ride is relatively soft,while for sudden or sharpturns the shock absorbersinstantly firm up.
To supplement the per-manently engaged 4MO-TION all-wheel-drivesystem, buyers can selectan optional “On & Offroad”package with six selectabletransmission modes.
Luxury is one thing andfeatures are another, buttechnology in terms ofwhat’s under the skin aswell as capability are whatset Mercedes-Benz apartfrom the crowd.
In that respect, even theestimated base price of$63,000 seems fair. It’s justtoo bad that most buyerswill never fully realize thecapability of the M-Class.The mall, school drop-offsand rush-hour traffic aresuch rudimentary tasks fora machine that’s capable ofintense adventure once thepavement disappears.
M-Class
What you should know
about the 2012 Mercedes-
Benz M-Class:
Types: Four-door, all-wheel-
drive mid-size sport utilityvehicle.Engine (hp): 3.0-litre DOHCV6, turbo-diesel (240); 3.5-litre DOHC V6 (302)Transmission: Seven-speedautomatic.Market position: Luxuryutility vehicles remain pop-ular despite higher fuelcosts and the M-Class isamong the more popularpicks. Still, Mercedes-Benz’sfuel-economy won’t go un-noticed. Mileage: L/100 km(city/hwy) 11.0/7.6 (3.0).
The M-Class continues to be a five-passenger wagon. For
an extra row, you’ll need to move up to the GL-Class.
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It’s important to have your car’s oil and oil filter replaced at the
proper interval. Check your manual for the recommended frequency,
but 5,000 to 8,000 kilometres is a good rule of thumb.
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So, here I am, wearing anill-fitting lab coat and look-ing like a chemistry classwhiz.
Where I am is at Valvo-line’s headquarters gettingthe 411 on engine oil, thatprecious substance thatkeeps the world’s internal-combustion engines func-tioning.
As part of the learningprocess, Valvoline’schemists invited the Wheel-base staff to try its hand at
mixing small batches of en-gine oil with a variety ofcolourful ingredients. Inshort order, it becomes ob-vious just how complicatedthis task really is, which isthe point of the exercise.
Motor oil, we quicklylearn, is a highly technicalconcoction that keeps ourvehicles running in topform. We’re also told thatengine oil has had to evolveto match the increasing de-mands placed on engines,as well as the change intheir physical makeup.
In short, the oil has to be
better today because today’sengines need it to be better.
We also learn a bit aboutthe ingredients that makeup the slippery stuff.
Conventional motor oilis comprised of about 80per cent base stock that vir-tually every refinery pro-duces from crude oil. Theremaining 20 per cent is ad-ditives developed by indi-vidual oil companies, suchas Valvoline, according tothe company’s own uniqueformulas, and blended forspecific uses.
Additives include deter-gents, wear and corrosioninhibitors, anti-oxidantsplus other chemicals thathelp keep moving partsclean and functioning atcooler temperatures.
They also reduce friction,stop dirt and foreign de-posits from coming intocontact with metal sur-faces, seal gaps between thepiston rings and cylinderwalls and prevent waterand acids (a by-product ofcombustion) from causing
engine damage. According to Valvoline,
additives only function fora specific time (dependingon how hard they are ex-pected to work) before theyare depleted and engine
wear and tear begins. That’swhy it’s important to havethe oil and oil filter re-placed at the proper inter-val. The owner’s manualwill indicate the recom-mended frequency, but
5,000 to 8,000 kilometres isa good rule of thumb. Thelower number is limit forfrequent stop-and-go driv-ing, towing, operating a ve-hicle in dusty and/or sandyconditions, or driving dur-ing extreme hot or coldtemperatures. Talk to mostfinicky drivers and they’llusually tell you they reli-giously stick to the 5,000-kilometre-limit betweenchanges. Engine oil is grad-ed according to its viscosity,or its ability to flow. Mostpassenger-car engines arerated for using multi-gradeoil, which means they’llwork well in both hot andcold conditions.
Again, your owner’smanual or service techni-cian can advise as to whichgrade of motor oil is correctfor your vehicle.
MALCOLM GUNNWHEELBASE [email protected]
Synthetic
What is synthetic engine
oil?
The term “synthetic oil”might have you believethat it is somehowartificial and made fromsomething other than con-ventional oil. However, the raw materialthat’s used as the basis forsynthetic oil is usually de-rived from a variety ofsources, such as crude oil,natural gas and vegetable
or animal by-products. They have been blendedand highly refined so thatthey are in a relativelypure state (hence theiradded cost).
The primary advantages tosynthetic oil is that its pro-vides better performancein low-temperature condi-tions (including cold-weather starts wheremuch engine wear occurs)and works more efficientlywhen combined with spe-cific oil additives.
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hanging out with thewrong crowd — retiredFloridians who favouredwhite golfing slacks and/ordinner theatre.
Cadillac gradually got its‘cred back, mostly througha very successful new exte-rior design language calledArt and Science, which de-buted on the original CTSin 2002. Those sharp anglesand crisp lines were notuniversally loved, but theydefinitely gave Cadillac adecisive and modern per-sonality.
What’s next?Well, we now have some
idea, thanks to the unveil-ing of the Ciel concept, atlast weekend’s Concoursd’Elegance classic car showat the Pebble Beach coun-try club in California.
I wasn’t there, which is
just as well, because we allknow that part of Califor-nia just sucks (OK, maybesome sour grapes talking).
But we have picturesand they reveal that theCiel — French for sky andpronounced “C-L” — isevolving Cadillac’s Art andScience design toward amore flowing direction.Not quite a river, but defi-nitely less geometry class.
The other intent of Cielis to announce that Cadil-lac is anxious to once againhave a big halo type vehiclein its portfolio, which itcould stack against therange-topping models fromrivals BMW and Mercedes-Benz (7 Series and S ClassSedans, respectively).
As such Ciel is big. It sitson a 125-inch wheelbase,and is 12 inches longer
than Cadillac’s currentbiggest sedan, the CTS. The“open air grand tourer”body style, complete withsuicide doors, is purpose-fully extravagant, as are theinterior accoutrements andconveniences.
The hybrid powerplantis a sign of the times: 3.6-litre V6 with twin tur-bochargers, andlithium-battery powered
electric motor.“The Ciel is about the ro-
mance of the drive,” notedClay Dean, Cadillac’s globaldesign director.
“It emulates the greattouring cars seen on thegreens at Pebble Beach, butwith a more modern flairthat projects Cadillac’s vi-sion for the future.”
Unfortunately the total-ly topless Ciel is a bit tooout there for production.
Only the styling cuesand some finishes, like thevintage wood treatmentand Cabernet paint job willmake it into production.(The latter inspired by the“rich translucence of aglass of red wine held up tothe sunlight.”)
But good on Cadillac forshooting big. Ciel is a niceshot.
Cadillacs of yesteryearwere big, imposingexpressions of Ameri-can affluence and con-fidence. Mobsters,movie stars and otherbig shots loved them,and used them toextend their A-typepersonalities.
Then something happenedduring the 1970s. They losttheir Mojo and starting
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Buick’s ‘light’ electric system provides heavy returns
Cars that use battery powerare becoming more com-mon, but not all of themare meant to run on elec-tricity alone. Some au-
tomakers, including GM,are adding electric motorsto engines for a conven-tional level of power withlower fuel consumption.
A new system called eAs-sist will be available laterthis year on the 2012 BuickLaCrosse and Regal. “It willbe more than a 25 per cent(fuel economy) improve-ment over the 2011,” saysDaryl Wilson, lead develop-
ment engineer for LaCrosseand Regal eAssist.
The vast majority of theimprovement will be fromthe eAssist, and the restfrom aerodynamic im-provements and more fuel-efficient tires.
Called “light electrifica-tion” technology, the sys-tem includes a smallelectric motor-generator at-tached to the gasoline en-
gine, and a 29-kilogrampower pack containing alithium-ion battery andpower inverter.
When you’re driving aconventional car and youpress the throttle to getmore power, the engineworks harder and usesmore fuel. With eAssist,the electric motor providesup to 15 horsepower to theengine, which doesn’t have
to work as hard. Since elec-tric motors make their fullpower as soon as they startup that extra boost of pow-er is available when youpress the throttle.
Like a hybrid, the eAssistsystem shuts off the gaso-line engine at idle, such aswhen sitting at a red light(the lights, heater andstereo continue to operate)and starts it up again when
you’re ready to take off. “Another key feature is
that we cut fuel to the en-gine during deceleration,”Wilson says. “We do this athigh speeds in all GM cars,but this one can be doneright down to zero, en-abled by the ability tosmooth torque distur-bances with the electricmotor as you’re gettingdown to lower speeds.”
The eAssist features electric motor, gasoline engine and battery The result is vastly better fuel economy
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Replacing the popularGrand Am, Pontiac’s 2005G6 hit the market in 2004with the promise of betterquality, performance,looks and dynamics thanits predecessor.
By doing away with theGrand Am nameplate, thenow-extinct Americanbrand was clearly aimingfor a new beginning in theG6’s segment — and hadtheir eyes on taking apiece of the pie from theJapanese competition.
Coupe, sedan and con-vertible models were avail-able, as were numeroustrim levels and optionspackages to fit a variety ofneeds.
EngineLook for G6 witha 3.5-L V6 with200 horsepower, a 2.4-L four-cylinder with 169 horsepower,and two up-level V6 engines dis-placing 3.6 and 3.9-litres and gen-erating 242 or 240 horsepower.
Common issuesWell-documentedproblems with the G6’selectric power steeringmay result in a loss ofpower steering assist —meaning the steeringcould become stiff and feel“locked up” at speed.
This safety issue was ad-dressed by a servicebulletin, and any GM me-chanic should be able tocheck and replace thetroublesome parts.
A check of the vehicle’ssuspension and front-endis also advised.
VerdictOpt for a newer, used G6,and you’ll likely find an af-fordable, solid and sportydriving companion.
Expect above-averagesportiness andperformance, and below-average resale value.
What owners likeOwners taking to the Internetto share experiences typicallyrave about styling, overall value, ridequality, and decent fuel mileage with anyof the “smaller” engines. Comments like“fun to drive,” “sharp looking,” and“sporty” are common.
What ownersdislikeComplaints tend to centrearound lower-than-expected cabin buildquality and materials selection, somenoises as the G6 ages, and a rattlysunroof. Some wish for better gasmileage from the larger engines.
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