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PROBLEMS PARKEDWATERFRONT WILL
BENEFIT FROMTICKETS {page 3}
HALIFAX
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Protesters occupying new localeOccupy Nova Scotia protesters have temporarily moved from Grand Parade to Victoria Park tomake way for Dignity Day and Remembrance Day ceremonies. Story, page 2.
Standing. Tall
An Occupy Nova Scotia sign sits on the Robert Burns statue in Victoria Park yesterday afternoon.
Mayor Peter Kelly said he’s going toreject a pay raise for the secondyear in a row.
Kelly sent out a press release yes-terday regarding his 5.92 per centraise, which works out to about$9,000. After taxes and benefits arededucted, he said he’ll donate therest through automatic payrolldeductions.
“I think in these times, we allsee what’s happening out thereand we know people are finding itchallenging,” Kelly told reportersoutside council chambers yester-day. “It’s important to let the pub-lic know that I understand that andI will do what I can to mitigatethose kind of increases here eventhough they are automatic.”
Coun. Debbie Hum said Kellydidn’t have to send out a pressrelease about it.
”We make donations and wedon’t put press releases out,” shesaid. “It’s something that’s per-sonal and I think we all decide outof our pays what charities we wantto donate to.”
But Coun. Jennifer Watts
applauded the mayor’s publicannouncement.
“If people are able to talk abouthow they’re doing it, that’s great,and maybe other people will beable to model that as well,” shesaid.
Kelly said that he’s in a differ-ent boat when it comes to pay rais-es because councillors receive amuch smaller increase of 1.04 percent.
“I’m not challenging any of theirresponses, I’m just dealing withwhat my personal situation is, andI’ve committed to give those fundsback to various charities,” he said.
One of Kelly’s most vocal oppo-nents on council, Coun. Sue Uteck,declined to comment yesterday.
Mayor refusespay raise
Automatic increase took effect Nov. 1 Salary review saw no need for change
“That will be betweenme and thosecharities.”MAYOR PETER KELLY, WHEN ASKED WHICHCHARITIES HE WILL BE SUPPORTING WITHTHE MONEY HE WON’T BE KEEPING
AXE TO GRIND SAINT MARY’S HASREVENGE ON MIND IN PLAYOFFS {page 27}
DRAKERAPPER’S NEW ALBUM SHOWS OFF TALENT {page 14}
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02 metronews.caWEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2011news: halifax
Group started camping out at Grand Parade on Oct. 15
Occupy protesterssettling in to new digs
Occupy Nova Scotia pro-testers have moved camp— for now.
The group has packed uptheir encampment, whichwas set up at Grand Paradein front of Halifax City Hall,to Victoria Park across fromthe Public Gardens.
“If anything, I think thismove has actually made usstronger as a community,”said John Thibeau aspokesman for Occupy No-va Scotia.
Thibeau said he was im-pressed by the progress theOccupiers made in takingdown their campsite whenhe arrived at Grand Paradeon Monday morning.
The occupiers held aspontaneous march downSpring Garden Road onMonday when they startedmoving to their temporaryhome. This move to Victo-ria Park was done so theOccupiers wouldn’t inter-fere with RemembranceDay ceremonies on Friday,and the preparation before-hand.
Thibeau said some occu-piers actually like the newsite better than the old one.
But the group is claim-ing they don’t have accessto electricity at VictoriaPark.
“I know there’s powerhere. But the city came inand cut it off to try to detereverything that’s going onhere,” said occupier JamesWiseman.
But the occupiers saythey plan to power throughand use donated generatorsand solar power.
“The only thing badabout this location is thatcity hall can’t see us all the
time,” occupier JamesWiseman said of Victoria
Park. WITH FILES FROMJENNIFER TAPLIN
Police were executing asearch warrant on ahouse in Heathbell,Pictou County in relationto the Amber Kirwan caselast night.
The search of thehouse began around 4p.m., RCMP Const. BillRudolph said.
The house is not locat-ed on the property whereKirwan’s body was foundon Saturday, he added.
He said that, for the in-tegrity of the case, policeare not disclosing whatled them to the house. Hecould not confirmwhether the house wasowned or had aconnection to the car thatwas seized Monday.
Rudolph said policeseized a grey 2002Chevrolet Impala Mondayaround 4 p.m. in connec-tion with the case, and itis currently being exam-ined for evidentiary pur-poses.
He would not saywhere the vehicle wasseized from or who it be-longs to.
Rudolph said it wasn’ta specific tip that ledthem to the vehicle, butrather it was part of theinvestigation’s totality.
He added an autopsywas completed on a 19-year-old Pictou Countygirl’s remains, but theywill not be releasing anydetails from the report.NEW GLASGOW NEWS
Police searchhouse in connection tomurder case
Amber Kirwan
CONTRIBUTED
Occupy Nova Scotia protester Struan Ford sets up a tent in Victoria Park yesterday.
RYAN TAPLIN/METRO
HEATHER [email protected]
GrandParadeclean upGrand Parade was lookingpretty spick-and-span yes-terday except for the out-lines of where tents once
stood.“To look around here
it’s absolutely amazing,the job that was done,”said Occupy Nova Scotiaspokesperson JohnThibeau.
“Everybody did workyesterday — it was such apositive atmosphere.”
Thibeau said a few tents
were left in the area Mon-day night because all thegarbage hadn’t beencleaned up. “We didn’twant the public to thinkthat, ‘Oh we just up andmoved and we let ourgarbage for the city to pickup,’” he said.
Mayor Peter Kellywalked through Grand Pa-
rade yesterday and saidthere were some concernswith paint and graffiti. Healso said the memorialswould need to be scrubbedand cleaned.
“They left it as best theycould and now it’s up to usto get things prepared forRemembrance Day,” Kelly said. HEATHER GILLIS
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Long-term plan
Kelly reaffirmed yesterdayhe doesn’t want the protest-ers to return to GrandParade as planned on Satur-day — a day after theRemembrance Day services.“I understand they have a
right to protest but to goback to the Grand Paradewhen we have many otherevents on is problematic,” hesaid. Kelly added they’ll continueto relay this message tothem and see if otheroptions are possible.
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The province is attemptingto harness the mighty pow-er of Internet surveys to col-lect feedback on itsperformance and proposedinitiatives.
Communities, Cultureand Heritage MinisterDavid Wilson revealed yes-terday the provincial gov-ernment has partneredwith Halifax-based Corpo-rate Research Associates tocreate the Nova Scotia On-line Forum.
Any voting-aged NovaScotian can sign up for theforum to be consulted andto provide advice on gov-ernment initiatives.
“Traditional models ofpublic consultation are veryuseful but they lack thebreadth to reach the grass-roots and garner wide-spread input,” Wilson toldhis colleagues in the legisla-ture. “We hope to recruitthousands of Nova Scotiansto this forum.”
Citizens are required toanswer over 20 questionsranging from what type ofInternet connection they
have to whether they workin a unionized or a non-unionized workplace. Thequestions’ subjects includeincome levels, education,type of dwelling and coun-try of birth.
Don Mills, CRA’s CEO,said that information willnot be made available tothe government. Instead, itallows CRA to narrow thescope of polling to those
who would be affected —for instance, if the provinceproposes auto insurance re-forms, CRA could seek feed-back from car owners only.
“We would know who inthe database owns a vehi-cle, so we’d only talk tothose people,” said Mills.“The ability to profile al-lows us to segment the pop-ulation depending on thetopic at hand ... (but) wecontrol all that and main-tain confidentially.”
The Nova Scotia OnlineForum has been in themaking for over a year. Itcost $23,500 to set up. Wil-son said the more surveysthe province commissions,the cheaper they become —and he estimates a savingsof 25 per cent against tradi-tional government polling.
ALEX BOUTILIERWaterfront DevelopmentCorporation Ltd. and HRMare embarking on a beauti-ful new friendship.
It’s a friendship basedon parking-ticket revenues.
The WDCL has special-constable status but theydon’t have a court docket,so their parking tickets areunenforceable. Unsurpris-ingly, their compliancerates are dismal: Of the22,709 tickets issued be-tween April 1, 2011, andMarch 31, 2011, only 21per cent were paid.
So the WDCL, a provin-cial Crown corporation, ap-proached HRM in Januaryto work out a deal. They
wanted to be added toHRM’s court docket as aprivate-property owner,like the 200 others that is-sue HRM parking tickets.
At first WDCL wantedthe HRM to remit the rev-enues back to the WDCL,but HRM policy doesn’twork that way.
“HRM retains all en-forcement revenue, anddoes not share or redistrib-ute enforcement rev-enues,” the staff reportsays.
HRM countered with aproposition that the mon-ey would be kept in an ac-count to fund projects onthe waterfront like the re-cent renovations to NathanGreen Square, whose costof $400,000 was split equal-ly.
WDCL said they couldask the province to make alegislative change to solvethe problem but wouldprefer to partner withHRM.
“I think it’s a greatidea,” said Coun. DawnSloane, who suggested staffcome up with similar part-nerships to help fund apossible stadium.
With very little com-mentary, council voted inunanimous support for thepartnership.
Parking tickets tobenefit waterfront
WDCL operates 7 parking lots with about 1,000 spacesHRM staff predict revenue of $132,000 in 2011-12
A pedestrian walks through a Waterfront Development
Corporation parking lot in downtown Halifax yesterday.
RYAN TAPLIN/METRO
Snow-clearingoperationsunder reviewTransportation and Infra-structure Renewal Minis-ter Bill Estabrooks isacknowledging theexistence of a review intohow the province goesabout clearing roads in thewinter.
But Estabrooks repeat-edly stressed yesterdaythat safety and service
standards will not beaffected by the review orany budget cuts that mayresult from it.
“(We’re looking) at thenumber of snowplows andhow they’re being used,particularly the number ofroutes,” Estabrooks toldreporters. “There are over400 snowplows in NovaScotia, and routes varyfrom four kilometres inlength to one that’s over80 kilometres in length.And it seems commonsense to me that we
should review those typesof things.”
The issue was raisedwhen Estabrooks had aquestion posed to him byLiberal MLA MichelSamson yesterday in thelegislature. ALEX BOUTILIER
Province turns toInternet for feedback
“It will mean we’llbe able tomaintain things onmunicipal land (onthe waterfront).”COUN. DAWN SLOANE
Website
To sign up for the NovaScotia Online Forum, go toforumns.ca.
“Traditional modelsof public consulta -tion are very usefulbut they lack thebreadth to reachthe grassroots andgarner widespreadinput.”COMMUNITIES, CULTURE ANDHERITAGE MINISTER DAVID WILSON
RYAN TAPLIN/METRO
Objective
A department spokesmansaid the review is aimed atfinding savings of $2 mil-lion in the $52-millionsnow-removal budget.
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Insurancebill expectedtodayThe province willannounce insurancereforms after a review ofthe auto-insurancesystem.
Finance MinisterGraham Steele is expectedto introduce new legisla-tion this afternoon.
A study released in Junesuggested drivers shouldbe given more flexibilityin the type of auto insur-ance they choose.THE CANADIAN PRESS
DINGLE BEACH COVE
Seawallrepair getsgo-aheadWork will begin in amatter of weeks on thefirst stage of replacingthe Northwest Arm sea-wall.
In a unanimous voteyesterday, Halifaxregional councilsupported signing a$611,586 contract withthe winning bidder,Humphreys Landscape &
Construction Ltd., to re-place a crumblingsection of the wall.
The work starts inabout three weeks on a200-metre section in SirSanford Fleming Park,better known as DingleBeach Cove.
Coun. Linda Moshercommended staff forfinding a solution tokeep the wall in placewhile keeping its“historical integrity intact.”
Some parts of the wallin Fleming Park andHorseshoe Island aremore than 60 years old.
JENNIFER TAPLIN
Dalhousie University hasbold ambitions to be thebest school in Canada.
McCain Foods wants tohelp it reach that goal.
The McCain family —founders of the McCainfrozen-food empire — do-nated $8 million to theuniversity yesterday tobuild the Wallace McCainLearning Commons in theLife Science Centre.
The gift is earmarkedfor Dalhousie’s Bold Ambi-tions campaign to raise$250 million for every-thing from more profes-
sors to upgrades in infra-structure to make it thetop university in Canada.The school has raised $195million so far.
“He always said it wasmore fun to give moneyaway than make it,” Mar-garet McCain said of herlate husband, Wallace, yes-
terday. “So, as I said, thebyproduct of the frenchfries will reside here in theWallace McCain LearningCommons.”
The commons will be aplace for students to hangout and socialize, McCainsaid. “In that socializing,great ideas are born andgreat thinking is sharedand action is rooted.”
The centre will incorpo-rate study rooms wherestudents can work togeth-er, comfy chairs, comput-ers and help centres.
University presidentTom Traves said the schoolwill seek input from stu-dents as part of the plan-ning process.
McCain gives $8M to‘Dalhousie family’
Wallace McCain Learning Commons slated to openin September 2013 Draft designs are in the works
Margaret McCain speaks at
Dalhousie University yesterday
after donating $8 million to build the
Wallace McCain Learning Commons.
RYAN TAPLIN/METRO
Dal dynasty
Margaret McCain has twograndchildren and anephew attendingDalhousie University. “So now we say that wehave a Dalhousie connec-tion and a Dalhousie family,” she said.
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New legislation proposedby the NDP governmentwould give police the sameauthority to seize animalsas a provincial inspector.
Agriculture MinisterJohn MacDonell said theexpanded police power isintended to address situa-tions where provincial in-spectors are not available.
“In cases where wecouldn’t have a veterinari-an available, a peace offi-cer could do the samething,” he said.
“We have probably runinto situations where theavailability of (a veterinari-an) wasn’t there, so wethought (police officers)are credible, responsiblepeople and that’s a powerthey can have.”
As to whether police of-ficers are qualified to as-sess whether an animal isin distress and needs to betaken into custody, Mac-Donell said the animalscould be returned if theowner were to appeal.
The proposed legisla-tion also adds the depriva-tion of ventilation, space,veterinary care or treat-ment as conditions underwhich an animal can bedeemed as being “in dis-
tress.”The Nova Scotia SPCA
welcomed the legislationyesterday, saying it clari-fies responsibilities be-tween the society and theDepartment of Agricul-ture.
If the legislation is ap-proved, the departmentwould be responsible forinvestigating any com-plaints concerning thetreatment of farm ani-mals, while the SPCAwould investigate com-plaints with companionanimals.
The legislation wouldalso allow the province torecoup costs associatedwith the care of seized ani-mals. The Department ofAgriculture investigatedmore than 100 differentcomplaints in 2010, result-ing in the seizure of fouranimals.
Proposed law mayexpand police power
RYAN TAPLIN/METRO
Scout offers many usesThe Aeryon Scout can be used for several purposes,including search-and-Rescue, wildlife surveys andsurveillance tasks.
Hovering. Device
Charles Vidal, a lead engineer at ING Engineering,
operates a remote-controlled Aeryon Scout at the
Halifax waterfront yesterday.
Officials pushpeople to vote ATTRACTION. Thepremiers of Nova Scotiaand New Brunswickmade a final pushyesterday for people tovote for the Bay ofFundy in an effort tohave it declared one ofthe top naturalattractions in the world.THE CANADIAN PRESS
N.S. to expandfamily program SUPPORT. The provincesays it is expanding aprogram for familiessupporting children athome with disabilities.
It says changes to theincome eligibility meansmore families will beable to take part in theprogram. As of Dec. 1,the amount a family canmake to qualify for theprogram will jump to$72,000 after taxes from$47,000.THE CANADIAN PRESS
News in brief
“Our inspectorswill work with theowner to ensureanimals are safeand secure fromharm. We onlystep in as a lastresort.”AGRICULTURE MINISTER JOHNMACDONELL
The intent is to give officers more authority in seizinganimals when provincial spectators are not around
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EYE HEALTH
A SPECIAL FEATURE DEVOTED TO VISION CARE.
P R E S E N T E D B Y:
Ottawa promises panel to studyvets’ health Ex-soldier’s fast ends
Hunger strike opens feds’ hearts
Veteran Pascal Lacoste flashes a “victory” sign
as he ends his hunger strike yesterday.
JACQUES BOISSINOT/THE CANADIAN PRESS
The federal governmentwill create a new panel tostudy veterans’ health.
The move comes in thewake of a hunger strike byan ex-soldier who insistshe was contaminated bydepleted uranium whileserving in Bosnia.
Veterans Affairs Minis-ter Steven Blaney made theannouncement in Levis,Que., after Pascal Lacoste ended his protestyesterday.
Lacoste, who battled toget Ottawa to recognize hisuranium poisoning whileserving overseas, flashed atwo-fingered “victory” signas he ended his hungerstrike.
He swigged grape juiceas he was loaded into anambulance.
Blaney said further
details of the new panelwill be announced in thenext 30 days.
It will comprise academ-ics, medical researchersand soldiers and “will havea broad mandate,” Blaneysaid.THE CANADIAN PRESS
A peril of war?
Lacoste blames his poorhealth, which includeschronic pain and a degen-erative neurological disor-der, on depleted-uraniumpoisoning.Depleted uranium hasbeen used to make sometypes of munitions andmilitary armour. It wasused in conflicts such asthe Balkans and the firstGulf War.
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Furor overbody parts A military mortuary twicelost body parts of remainsshipped home fromAfghanistan, the U.S. AirForce revealed yesterday.
Three mortuary super-visors have been punishedfor what the Air Forcecalled “gross mismanage-ment” at the mortuary atDover, Delaware.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Call it a learning experi-ence.
More than 300 Brazilianriot police forcibly cleareda university building thatprotesting students occu-pied for a week, arrestingabout 70 people yesterday.
Police used batteringrams to smash down doorsin the dawn raid as a heli-copter buzzed overhead.
The students, mostlyasleep when police ar-rived, did not resist arrest,officials said.
The students invadedthe building Nov. 1 toprotest police patrols onthe campus of the Univer-sity of Sao Paulo, Brazil’smost elite school.
A judge had ordered
them to leave the buildingby late Monday, but theyrefused.
The protest was sparkedby the arrest late lastmonth of three studentsfor marijuana possession,which ended in a violentclash between hundreds ofstudents and police.
Students complainthey’re subjected to ran-dom searches and intimi-dation by police oncampus.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Battering ramsdemolish protest
300 police rout students in Brazil Officers saythey found Molotov cocktails and smashed computers
A student is arrested after police smashed into a university building
in Sao Paulo in a dawn raid. The building was occupied for a week.
ANDRE PENNER/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
$600The students whowere arrested will be freed only afterpaying $600 bail.
HAITIAN VICTIMS
UN couldface billfor choleraA human rights grouphas filed claims with theUnited Nations seekingdamages on behalf of5,000 Haitian choleravictims and theirfamilies.
The claims by the
Boston-based Institutefor Justice and Democra-cy in Haiti argue the UNand its peacekeepingforce are liable for millions of dollars forfailing to adequatelyscreen peacekeeping soldiers.
Cholera has sickenednearly 500,000 peopleand killed more than6,500 others since it sur-faced in Haiti in October2010, according to theHaitian Health Ministry. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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The French president’soverheard remark to U.S.President Barack Obamathat Israel’s prime ministeris a “liar” laid bare escalat-ing international frustra-tion at deadlocked peaceefforts — and left all threeworld leaders lookingblemished.
Obama, heard throughan interpreter, responded,“I have to work with himevery day.”
Some Israelis felt FrenchPresident Nicolas Sarkozyuttered out loud whatmany think in privateabout Israeli Prime Minis-ter Benjamin Netanyahu.Others were shocked, andembarrassed.
Fragments of a conversa-tion between Sarkozy andObama were overheard byreporters last week at theGroup of 20 summit insouthern France, via head-sets that were to be usedfor simultaneous transla-tion of an upcoming newsconference.
Sarkozy’s remarks wereespecially harsh for a manwho has laboured to im-prove French relationswith Israel while also usingFrance’s traditional ties toArab countries to encour-age peace talks — andwhose maternal grandfa-ther was Jewish.
It’s an awkward mo-ment for Obama, who wasalready seen as cool to Ne-
tanyahu but is Israel’smain international ally.
Several French-speakingjournalists, including onefrom The Associated Press,overheard the conversa-tion but did not initially re-port it because Sarkozy’soffice had asked the jour-nalists not to turn on theheadsets until the newsconference began. Thecomments were deemedprivate under French me-dia traditions.
In the remarks Thursdayin Cannes, Sarkozy said:“Netanyahu, I can’t standhim. He’s a liar.”
Obama, whose remarkswere heard via a Frenchtranslation, was not heardobjecting to Sarkozy’scharacterization of Ne-tanyahu. According to theFrench interpreter, Obamaresponded, “You are sick ofhim, but I have to workwith him every day.” THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
UN MEMBERSHIP
No consensuson PalestinianapplicationThere is no consensusamong the 15 SecurityCouncil nations on thePalestinian applicationfor UN membership,diplomats saidyesterday, citing a draftreport summing upmembers’ views.
The four-page reportsays the council is divid-ed among those who
support Palestinianmembership, those whocan’t support it now andtherefore would abstain,and those who believethe application doesn’tmeet the criteria formembership and opposeit, according todiplomats.
Portugal’s UN Ambas-sador Jose Filipe MoraesCabral, the currentcouncil president, sentthe draft report to all 15council nationsyesterday, diplomatssaid on condition ofanonymity.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
3,500 dead in Syrianuprising: UNThe death toll in the Syrianuprising has soared to atleast 3,500 people, the Unit-ed Nations said yesterday, asobering measure of thescope of a militarycrackdown that has blood-ied city after city.
Some Syrians see a dan-gerous fracturing of societyas resentments overreligion, sectarian identityand poverty bubble to thesurface. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Sarkozy callsIsraeli PM a liar
French President Nicolas
Sarkozy and his U.S.
counterpart, Barack
Obama, hold a joint press
conference on Nov. 3,
ahead of the start of the
G20 Summit.
LIONEL BONAVENTURE/POOL/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Journalists heard French leader’s conversation withObama No comment from White House, Netanyahu
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An asteroid as big as an air-craft carrier zipped byEarth yesterday in the clos-est encounter by such amassive space rock in morethan three decades.
Scientists ruled out anychance of a collision butturned their telescopes sky-ward to learn more aboutthe object known as 2005YU55.
Its closest approach toEarth was pegged at a dis-tance of 325,088 kilome-tres at 6:28 p.m. EST. That’sjust inside the moon’s or-bit; the average distancebetween Earth and themoon is 384,633 kilome-tres.
The last time a large cos-mic interloper came that
close to Earth was in 1976,and it won’t happen againuntil 2028.
Scientists at NASA’sDeep Space Network in theCalifornia desert havetracked the quarter-mile-wide asteroid since lastweek as it approachedfrom the direction of thesun at 46,671 km/h.
Astronomers and ama-teur skygazers around theworld kept watch, too.
The Clay Center Obser-vatory in Massachusettsplanned an all-night view-ing party so children andparents could peer throughresearch-grade telescopesand listen to lectures. Theasteroid can’t be detectedwith the naked eye.
For those without a tele-scope, the observatorystreamed video of the fly-bylive on Ustream, attractingseveral thousand viewers.The asteroid appeared as awhite dot against a back-drop of stars.
Since its discovery sixyears ago, scientists havebeen monitoring the spher-ical, coal-coloured asteroidas it slowly spins throughspace. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Huge asteroidzips past Earth
Asteroid 2005 YU55
NASA/JPL-CALTECH/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Humans may want to visit 2005 YU55 because it contains carbon-based materials, possibly frozen water
Gay tourismban wipedfrom B.C.pamphletBritish Columbia’stourism minister wasquick to apologize yester-day and to rebuke agovernment pamphletthat warns the province’sbusinesses not to promotegay tourism to Canada inChina.
The pamphlet wasissued to B.C. tourism op-erators last week and is ti-tled How to Market yourBusiness to China.
Midway through thedocument, it says,“Tourism BC will alsorequire that any partneroperator agrees to ... pro-hibit the promotion ofcasinos, gambling and gaytourism, per the China Na-tional TourismAdministration.”
Pat Bell said yesterdaythe reference is being re-moved.THE CANADIAN PRESS
JESSICA SMITH/METRO IN OTTAWA
Paws off our symbolThe couple behind Ottawa’s iconic tail-shaped pastrystood up to a senator’s recent disparaging of thebeaver by erecting a monument to the diligent rodent.
Beaver. Support
Grant Hooker, co-founder of BeaverTails Canada, holds up Plush Beaver as he unveils the new beaver monument at his store in the ByWard Market in Ottawa yesterday.
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In some areas of Israel,women have been shunt-ed onto separatesidewalks, and buses andhealth clinics have beengender-segregated. Themilitary has consideredreassigning some femalecombat soldiers becausereligious men don’t wantto serve with them.
This is the new realityin parts of 21st-centuryIsrael, where ultra-Ortho-dox rabbis are trying tocontain the encroach -ment of secular values ontheir cloistered societythrough a fierce backlashagainst the mixing of thesexes in public.
On the surface, Israel’sgender equality bonafides seem strong, withthe late Golda Meir as aformer prime ministerand Tzipi Livni as the cur-rent opposition leader.But the World EconomicForum recently released2009 data stating Israeliwomen earned two-thirds what men did.
Secularists in Israelworry that their lifestylescould be targeted bec-ause the ultra-Orthodoxpopulation is growing.
Their high birthrate ofabout seven children perfamily is forecast to sendtheir proportion of thepopulation, now estimat-ed at nine per cent, to 15per cent by 2025.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Peacocks,prostitutes andpot found inMexico prisonAuthorities say a surprise search atan Acapulco prison in Mexico hasnetted two peacocks, 100 fightingcocks, 19 prostitutes and two sacksfilled with marijuana.
Police in the Mexican resort cityalso found dozens of televisions,several bottles of alcohol andknives.
Guerrero state spokesman ArturoMartinez says federal and state po-lice searched the prison beforedawn Monday.
Martinez didn’t say how thewomen, birds and the other bannedobjects got into the prison.
He referred to the peacocks as“pets.”
The resort city has been plaguedby crime since last year when gangsbegan fighting for control after thearrest of Edgar Valdez Villarreal, al-so known as “La Barbie.”
According to Sky News, Guerrerostate has the third highest rate ofmurders in the country, fallingbehind Chihuahua and Nuevo Leon,both of which are northern borderstates. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CAN’T BUY MELOVE BUT ITCAN GET MEAN OLD TOOTH
Imagine the world is crazy.It’s easy if you try.In fact, the world is now
crazier than anything JohnLennon could imagine whenhe wrote that song.
For example, Lennon probably neverimagined that an Alberta dentist wouldpay $31,200 for his rotten, tartar–infestedmolar at an auction.
The tooth in question is in such badcondition it can’t be DNA-tested. But itsprovenance is secure. Lennon gave it to his
housekeeper to dispose of. She kept it and gave it to herdaughter instead. Now the family has sold it to the Tooth
Fairy, a.k.a. Michael Zuk,who plans to enshrine it inhis waiting room back inRed Deer, along with otherhistorical artifacts, such asstale-dated copies of Nation-al Geographic and CanadianDental Quarterly.
I write this every week, itseems: I am not making thisup.
If there was any doubtthat celebrities havebecome the new saints ofthe reality-show religion,that has been dispelled bythis latest dubious purchase.
Every medieval churchworth its steeple harbours ashrivelled nose or fingerbone, and although no onecan actually prove they’reparts of a saint, these holybits and pieces still attractpilgrims, who hope some of
that venerated mojo rubs off on them. John Lennon tried to imagine a world without religion.
But we just can’t help ourselves. We need to have a higherpower — someone to watch over us. It helps to haveaccess to that power, hence the attraction of holy relics.People still believe in the Shroud of Turin, even thoughit’s most certainly a medieval fraud.
But John Lennon’s rotten tooth? The martyred Beatleonce got himself into hot water for declaring that the Bea-tles were more popular than Jesus Christ. Imagine he wasright. Still, it’s no weirder than the shock of Elvis hair thatwent for $100,000 or Cher’s bra that went to the HardRock Cafe, or Britney Spears’ wad of chewed gum thatgenerated a $14,000 bid on eBay. (Also offered: her half-eaten corn dog and egg-salad sandwich. Yuck.)
Clearly, if you’re famous, even for 15 minutes (like Brit-ney), every chunk is priceless. Michael Zuk may have$31,000 less, but he does have an indisputable chunk ofthe greatest Beatle. Paul McCartney’s probably going, “Iwonder how much one of my decayed molars is worth?”
Not as much as John Lennon’s, pal. Imagine the rest ofhim is in heaven. We take what we can get.
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Finance Minister Jim Fla-herty conceded yesterdayhe won’t be able to balancethe federal budget in fouryears as promised, but hemoved to lighten the load
on workers and businessesby reducing a planned in-crease in payroll taxes.
Warning Canada’s eco-nomic recovery is fragileand slowing, Flaherty said
he is ready to go further ifconditions continue to dete-riorate. This questionswhether the Conservativescan fulfil election promisesthat were contingent on a
balanced budget. Flaherty said that while
flexibility is important, thegovernment can’t afford tobreak the bank either. THE CANADIAN PRESS
Jobs trump budget: FlahertyEconomists warn budget assumptions no longer applicable and risks
are rising Government to add $29B in red ink to deficit-killing equation
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty appears before the
Commons finance committee to discuss Bill C-13 on
Parliament Hill yesterday.
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Resignationfor Italian PMSTEP-DOWN. ItalianPrime Minister SilvioBerlusconi has conced-ed support to governannounced and said hewill resign. He promisedto leave after economicreforms are passed, de-manded by the EU tokeep Italy from sinkinginto Europe’s debt mass.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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After winning an Oscar forhis screenplay for Milk, an-other biopic should havebeen a piece of cake forDustin Lance Black. Ofcourse, the life of infa-mous FBI leader J. EdgarHoover is no ordinary bi-ography — especially giv-en Hoover’s penchant forsecrecy about pretty mucheverything in his life, in-cluding his rumored life-
long love affair with ClydeTolson.The film covers a wide spanof Hoover’s life. When youwere writing it, did you knowit would be played by Leonar-do DiCaprio?No, in fact I try not to con-sider casting when I’mwriting — especially abiopic like this, when Idon’t have the opportunityto meet the real guy. It’senough work to try andfigure out who he was andget a handle on how hemight’ve been, how hemight’ve talked, the
things he might’ve beenthinking and feeling, hisbehaviour — you know, allthat’s tough enough. At what point did you knowLeonardo DiCaprio would beplaying the part?Things moved very quicklyonce I turned in the script.Brian Grazer got it to ClintEastwood, and while Clintwas reading it I got aphone call from my lawyer— who works at the samefirm Leo’s represented by— and they said, ‘Hey,you’re not showing this toanyone else, are you?’ I
mean, I was very excitedthat it was Leo, if that’swhat you want to knowabout, because this moviewas supposed to be aboutsubverting some expecta-tions — confirming somethings and subverting oth-ers — and one of them wasthis was a young man whowas very promising andhandsome, and starlets didthrow themselves at himand he could get the bestseat at the best club inNew York when he went.People don’t think ofHoover like that.
J. Edgar writer Dustin Lance Black tries to cast the famed FBI leader ina light like no other before Shows the superstar status Hoover carried
Fresh eyes on EdgarLeonardo DiCaprio, left, director Clint Eastwood and writer Dustin Lance Black conference on the set of J. Edgar.
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Brett Ratner said Mondaythat he’s sorry for using agay slur during a question-and-answer session at ascreening for his new film.
The 42-year-old film-maker, who is set to pro-duce next year’s AcademyAwards, issued a statementapologizing “for any of-fence my remarks caused.”
Ratner used a pejorativeterm to describe gay menin response to a questionasked at a screening of hislatest movie, Tower Heist.
“It was a dumb way ofexpressing myself,” Ratnersaid in his statement.“Everyone who knows meknows that I don’t have aprejudiced bone in my
body. But as a storyteller Ishould have been muchmore thoughtful about thepower of language and mychoice of words.”
Tom Sherak, presidentof the Academy of MotionPicture Arts and Sciences,said Monday that Ratner’sremarks were “inappropri-ate” but the academy isn’t
planning to remove himfrom his Oscar-producingposition.
“The bottom line is, thiswon’t and can’t happenagain. It will not happenagain,” Sherak said. “Theapology he gave I truly be-lieve comes from hisheart.” THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Ratner sorry for slurTower Heist director apologizes for gay remark Academy accepts it
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SANDLER DUPLICATING ORIGINALS
Ben Affleckdid it. So didEddie Mur-phy andCharlieChaplin.Heck, Alec
Guinness did it eighttimes, including once asa woman. This weekend in Jack andJill, Adam Sandler addshis name to the list of ac-tors who have playedmultiple roles in thesame film.
“In Jack and Jill I play
me,” says Sandler, “and Iplay my twin sister. Theman version of me is do-ing OK; he has a familyout in L.A. The twin-sis-ter version of me livesout in the Bronx andcomes out to L.A. forThanksgiving and thenrefuses to leave.”
The idea of playingmore than one role in amovie dates back to theMary Pickford 1918weepy Stella Maris.
In it she plays thewealthy title characterand the uneducated or-phan Unity Blake.
The studio balked ather insistence on playingboth roles, but Pickfordinsisted.
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As Stella she was pho-tographed like a glam-orous movie star, but asUnity she wore unflatter-ing makeup and was shotfrom her right, less photo-genic, side. Scenes wherethe two characters shared
the screen were achievedthrough double exposure.
Since then everyonefrom Mel Brooks (he wasPresident Skroob and Yo-gurt in Spaceballs), toDavid Carradine (remem-ber him in Circle of Iron
as The Blind Man, Mon-keyman, Death, andChangsha?) to Peter Sell-ers (who played as GroupCaptain Lionel Mandrake,President Merkin Muffley,and Dr. Strangelove in Dr.Strangelove or: How I
Learned to Stop Worryingand Love the Bomb) havetaken on multi-roles.
Perhaps because oftheir sketch comedy back-grounds, Eddie Murphyand Mike Myers oftentake on various roles intheir films, but Alec Guin-ness, the actor bestknown in North Americaas Jedi knight Obi-WanKenobi, must hold therecord for characterchanges in one feature-length movie.
In Kind Hearts andCoronets he plays no lessthan eight characters.
In an acting tour deforce he’s easily recogniz-able in each part, butdoesn’t repeat himselffrom character to charac-ter. Instead he carefullyconstructs each, from thehappy-go-lucky youngphotographer to the win-dow-smashing suffragetteLady Agatha.
Rivaling Guinness’sachievement is BusterKeaton who played everypart — including a stage-hand, a dance troupe, afull band and every mem-ber in the audience — inthe 1921 short film ThePlay House.
To top it off he alsotook credit for every crewjob including editor, di-rector, writer and camera-man.
“The idea ofplaying more thanone role in a moviedates back to theMary Pickford 1918weepie StellaMaris.”
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Drake’s highly anticipatedsophomore album, TakeCare, hit the web earlierthis week.
“Are these people reallydiscussin’ my career again,asking if I be going plat-inum in a year again?,” heasks in the lead-off track,Over My Dead Body.
Well, yes, they are, be-cause the Canadian rapperhas talent on the mic. Hecombines venomoustaunts with philosophicalgems like “Jealousy is justlove and hate at the sametime,” and, “You losesome, you win some, aslong as the outcome is in-come.” And yeah, both ofthese pearls are in thatsame first track.
Take Care will mostlikely end with an out-come of income, as it hasguest stars galore that runthe gamut from soul leg-ends (Stevie Wonder lendshis signature harmonica toDoing it Wrong) to gueststhat pop music powers-that-be would probablyfine you if you didn’t usesomewhere, such as Rihan-na, Nicki Minaj and Lil’Wayne. When Drake israpping, he gets to the
point fast and his rhymesare often loaded with asmany thoughts per minuteas any vintage Dylan song,but the songs on Take Careare spacious, and one, Mar-vin’s Room, Buried Aliveeven clocks in at morethan eight minutes. He isalso impressively smoothwhen he is singing.
The beats are tight, and
the chorus hooks are spot-on, but the one-liners arereally the biggest high-lights of this album.
Our favourite? “You ain’t the only one
that’s trying to be the onlyone,” he says in We’ll BeFine.
The only thing that isjarring on Take Care iswhen Drake changes the
mood entirely. A song likePractice, will start as asmooth R&B jam, but thenout of nowhere Drake willdrop a line like, “Girl, youlook good, why don’t youback that ass up?”
Well, this approach hasprobably worked for Drakein his romantic practice,and it will probably workfor him in his career too.
Rapper looking to Take Care of business on latest album Despite anearly leak, a sales success still expected from the Canadian superstar
Drake chasing anoutcome of income
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After she tookthe stage tolaunch IvorySoap’s newSoap DishFacebook com-munity formoms in New
York City on Monday night— and was presented witha giant bar of Ivory carvedin her likeness — Melissa
McCarthy took a few mo-ments to chat with Metroabout the possibility of asequel to Bridesmaids, thesummer blockbuster thatmade her a householdname.
“[It’s a] yes for me, [butI] don’t know that it’s hap-pening,” she told us.
“I’ll basically show upanywhere with thosewomen — even if it’s like along bus trip, I’ll go withthem — but no talk of ityet. I think everyone’s sobusy. But I wouldn’t mind
it down the road just be-cause I love that group.”
McCarthy is indeedkeeping very busy.
Not only did she win anEmmy this year for her sit-com Mike & Molly, butshe’s also developing herown clothing line for plus-sized women.
“It’s so preliminaryright now. I know I want ajumpsuit in it. I’m notafraid of it. I love a jump-suit.”
And when we asked ifshe’s creating the line to
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She elaborates: “I wantseparates, for the love ofGod, because everything’slike a bad prom dress. Youcan find a million badsleeveless dresses in satin.I’m like, ‘Where’s a goodblouse and great trouser?’” FOLLOW DOROTHY ROBINSON ONTWITTER @DOROTHYATMETRO
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2 In bowl, toss apples withremaining butter andsugar mix until wellcoated. Arrange overdough inside sugar edg-ing. Bake in a 200 C (400F) oven for 20 minutes.
3 Sprinkle with raisins,pecans and chocolatechips; bake for 10 min-utes or until apples aretender and edge ofdough is lightlybrowned. Cool slightly;cut into wedges. Drizzlewith Cinnamon icing.
4 Cinnamon Icing: In amedium bowl, mix 125ml (1/2 cup) icing sugarwith 1 ml (1/4 tsp) cin-namon; stir in 15 ml (1tbsp) milk.
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Ingredients:• 1 pizza dough (650 g/11/4 lb) • 30 ml (2 tbsp) butter, melt-ed
• 50 ml (1/4 cup) granulatedsugar• 5 ml (1 tsp) cinnamon• 750 ml (3 cups) slicedpeeled apples• 50 ml (1/4 cup) raisins
• 50 ml (1/4 cup) choppedpecans or walnuts• 50 ml (1/4 cup) semisweetor milk chocolate chips• Cinnamon Icing (See finalstep for directions)
This pizza serves eight.
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Saint Mary’s heads on road for AUS final after four straight championships on home fieldStopping Axemen QB Graves a top priority No team other than Saint Mary’s
or Acadia has won the AUS crown since 1997
The Saint Mary’s Huskieshave called their Oct. 22loss to the Acadia Axemen awakeup call. They’ll need toshow Saturday they didn’tpress the snooze button.
The Huskies, vying fortheir fifth straight AtlanticUniversity Sport footballchampionship, face the Ax-emen in the Loney Bowl at1 p.m. in Wolfville. Al-though the teams split thetwo-game season series,Acadia made an emphaticstatement by clinching firstplace with a 41-28 win inthe most recent matchup.
“We get the opportunityto revenge the team thatbeat us down there,” said
Huskies head coach SteveSumarah. “Are we ready? Isure hope so.”
The Huskies beat Acadia8-3 at home on Oct. 1, butwere lit up on Oct. 22 by Ax-emen quarterback KyleGraves, who threw fourtouchdowns to receiverMike Squires of Halifax.
Sumarah said Graves —an MVP candidate — was“the whole difference” forAcadia, but he also sawplenty of flaws with histeam after it squandered a28-24 lead in the fourthquarter.
“Acadia brought more in-tensity, and that was some-thing I don’t think our guyswere able to match,”Sumarah said. “Going intothe fourth quarter, we wereahead and we should have
put them away.”Although Sumarah was-
n’t thrilled with theHuskies’ performance inlast Saturday’s 25-2 semifi-nal win over the St. FrancisXavier X-Men, he said play-ing in that game was betterthan sitting idle on a bye.
“We’ve been strugglingtrying to get some continu-ity, and we needed to be onthe field,” he said.
With both regular-sea-son matchups going downto the dying minutes of thefourth quarter, a similarlyclose, hard-fought battle isexpected on Saturday re-gardless of who wins.
“We’ve had two greatgames with them,”Sumarah said. “We see noreason why this one won’tbe as well.”
Saint Mary’s Huskies running back Craig Leger fends off Acadia Axemen linebacker Ed McNally in Wolfville on Oct. 22.
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Huskies have
axe to grindin AUS final
6-2296130222.4 (per game)15243.6 (per game)1694.5 (per game)170.4 (per game)2513
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Wins-lossesPoints for
Points againstRushing offence yards
Rushing TDsPassing offence yards
Passing TDsRushing yards allowedPassing yards allowed
SacksInterceptions
COMPARISON ACADIA
7-1261108
175.5 (per game)9
247.8 (per game)18
98.0 (per game)209.2 (per game)
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Sports in brief
THREE NOVA SCOTIANS AREON THE ROSTER FOR THE
CANADIAN UNDER-22WOMEN’S HOCKEY TEAM
THAT WILL COMPETE AT THEMECO CUP IN FUSSEN,
GERMANY, FROM JAN. 3-8.BLUE-LINERS BRITTANY
HAVERSTOCK OF HAMMONDSPLAINS, PICTURED, AND
JESSICA WONG OF BADDECKAND FORWARD JILLIAN
SAULNIER OF HALIFAX WILLALL SPORT THE MAPLE LEAF
FOR THE TOURNAMENT,PREVIOUSLY KNOWN AS THE
MLP CUP.
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As hot as veteran RyanSmyth has been, he wasquick to give goaltenderNikolai Khabibulin much ofthe credit for the streakingEdmonton Oilers’ latest vic-tory.
Smyth had a goal and anassist but Khabibulin wasthe difference as the Oilersdowned the Montreal Cana-diens 3-1 despite being out-shot 29-14 last night.
“Great goaltending gaveus a chance,” said Smyth,who has nine points in hislast five games. “Habby’sbeen playing superb allyear.
“In the third they hadsome chances but we founda way to hold on. It was agood road win.”
Ryan Jones scored shorthanded and Tom Gilbertgot the game-winner forthe Northwest Division-leading Oilers (9-3-2), whorebounded from a 4-2 lossto Phoenix on Saturday topost their seventh win ineight games.
They have surrenderedone or fewer goals in sevenof their 14 games andKhabibulin has dominated
the league’s goaltendingstatistics since the start ofthe season.
“I wouldn’t say all seasonlong because it hasn’t beenlong yet, but I felt prettygood,” the 38-year-old said.“I think we’re all playingwell, so that helps.”
Max Pacioretty scoredfor the Canadiens (5-7-2),who have lost two in a rowand have scored one or few-er goals in six of their de-feats.
Pacioretty’s team-leadingsixth of the season came 22seconds after Gilbert put
Edmonton ahead 2-0 at16:28 of the third period.The big winger swept in onthe right side and saw hisbackhander go off Gilbert’sstick, change speed and foolKhabibulin between thepads.
That brought the BellCentre crowd of 21,273 tolife after seeing the hometeam checked tightly by thespeedy Oilers and thwartedtime and again by the bigRussian goaltender. ButSmyth ended the threatwith an empty-net goalwith 43 seconds to play.
“We had a lot of opportu-nities to score, but Khabibu-lin played well and weweren’t able to cash in on alot of really good opportuni-ties,” said Erik Cole, whowas Montreal’s best for-ward on the night with fiveshots on goal and a strongphysical effort throughoutthe game. “It could havebeen a much differentgames if we could havecashed in on a couple.”
Montreal coach JacquesMartin felt his team playedwell enough to win, gener-ating 17 scoring chances,
but fell victim to a hotgoalie and some bad luck.Michael Cammalleri hittwo goalposts, while Ed-monton had Gilbert’s harm-less looking shot go in offdefenceman Josh Gorges.
“They have the bestgoals-against in the league,”Martin said of the Oilers.“They’re a good team with alot of speed and talent, butwe dominated them in scor-ing chances. You’re disap-pointed with the score, butit wasn’t a lack of effort orexecution.”THE CANADIAN PRESS
Penn State trustees launch probe into sex case engulfing PaternoCoach Joe Paterno is fight-ing for his job amid “erod-ing” support from PennState’s board of trusteesand a widening sex-abusescandal and possible coverup centred on former assis-tant and one-time heir ap-parent Jerry Sandusky.
Paterno’s regularlyscheduled news conferencewas abruptly cancelled yes-terday. A universityspokesman cited “ongoinglegal circumstances,” a ref-
erence to charges an-nounced over the weekendthat Sandusky molestedeight young boys between1994 and 2009, and thattwo PSU administratorswho have since steppedaside failed to notify au-thorities of a 2002 incidentreported by an eyewitness.
Late last night, the boardsaid it would appoint a spe-cial committee to conductan investigation into the“circumstances” that re-
sulted in the indictments ofSandusky, athletic directorTim Curley and vice-presi-dent Gary Schultz. Thecommittee will be appoint-ed Friday at the board’s reg-ular meeting, which Gov.Tom Corbett said will ex-amine “what failures oc-curred and who isresponsible and whatmeasures are necessary toensure” similar mistakesaren’t made in the future.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Nikolai Khabibulin makes a save on Montreal’s Max Pacioretty last night.
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NBA LOCKOUT
Players reject offerUnion president DerekFisher says his ordersfrom NBA players areclear: No deal.
“The current offer onthe table from the NBA isone that we cannotaccept,” he said yesterday.
Instead, the playerssaid they will ask for an-other meeting with theowners beforecommissioner David
Stern’s afternoondeadline today.
Stern has said that ifthe players don’t take thecurrent deal by then, theleague’s next offer will bemuch worse.
The players insistedthey will not be forced in-to taking a bad deal by anultimatum.
“The players aresaying that weunderstand theirposition, butunfortunately we’re notintimidated by that,”union executive directorBilly Hunter said.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Ali ‘willalwaysremember’FrazierJoe Frazier had to throw hisgreatest punch to knockdown “The Greatest.”
A vicious left hook fromFrazier put Muhammad Alion the canvas in the 15thround in March 1971 whenhe became the first man tobeat him in the Fight of theCentury at Madison SquareGarden.
“That was the greatestthing that ever happenedin my life,” Frazier said.
Frazier, who died Mon-day night after a brief bat-tle with liver cancer at 67,will forever be associatedwith Ali. No one in boxingwould ever dream ofanointing Ali as The Great-est unless he, too, waslinked to Smokin’ Joe.
“I will always rememberJoe with respect and admi-ration,” Ali said in astatement.
They fought three times,twice in the heart of NewYork City and once in themorning in a steamy arenain the Thrilla in Manila inthe Philippines. They went41 rounds together. Neithergave an inch and both gaveit their all.
In their last fight inManila in 1975, they tradedpunches with a fervourthat seemed unimaginableamong heavyweights. Fra-zier gave almost as good ashe got for 14 rounds, thenhad to be held back bytrainer Eddie Futch as hetried to go out for the finalround, unable to see.
“Closest thing to dyingthat I know of,” Ali said af-terward.
Ali was as merciless withFrazier out of the ring as hewas inside it. He called hima gorilla, and mocked himas an Uncle Tom. But he re-spected him as a fighter, es-pecially after Frazier won adecision to defend hisheavyweight title againstthe then-unbeaten Ali.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
“My sympathygoes out to hisfamily and lovedones.”MUHAMMAD ALI
Khabibulin baffles HabsOilers goalie makes 28 saves in Montreal as Edmonton posts seventh win in eight games
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Toyota CamryHybrid Base price: $26,700All-new 2012 versionprovides vastlyimproved fueleconomy.
Ford FusionHybridBase price: $29,400Fuel-efficientToyota-based tech-nology works welland saves fuel.
HyundaiSonata HybridBase price: $26,500Kia’s relation usessimilar powertrain,but has significantlydifferent styling.
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(12)
mon
thly
pay
men
ts d
ivid
ed b
y 26
per
iods
giv
es p
ayee
a b
i-wee
kly
paym
ent o
f $96
/$17
7/$1
91) f
or 7
2 m
onth
s w
ith a
dow
n pa
ymen
t of $
1,299
/$3,
999/
$3,9
99 o
r equ
ival
ent t
rade
-in. C
ost o
f bor
row
ing
is $2
,204
/$3,
776/
$4,2
60 o
r APR
of 5
.49%
/4.9
9%/4
.99%
and
to
tal t
o be
repa
id is
$16
,203
/$31
,575
/$33
,807
. All
purc
hase
fi na
nce
offe
rs e
xclu
de o
ptio
nal f
eatu
res,
freig
ht &
Air
Tax
($1,4
50/$
1,550
/$1,5
50),
licen
ce, f
uel fi
ll ch
arge
, insu
ranc
e, P
DI, P
PSA,
adm
inist
ratio
n fe
es, a
ny e
nviro
nmen
tal c
harg
es o
r fee
s, an
d al
l app
licab
le ta
xes.
Taxe
s are
pay
able
on
the
full
amou
nt o
f the
pur
chas
e pr
ice. B
i-Wee
kly
paym
ents
are
onl
y av
aila
ble
usin
g cu
stom
er in
itiat
ed P
C (I
nter
net B
anki
ng) o
r Pho
ne P
ay sy
stem
thro
ugh
the
cust
omer
’s ow
n ba
nk (i
f off
ered
by
that
fi na
ncia
l ins
titut
ion)
. The
cus
tom
er is
requ
ired
to si
gn a
mon
thly
pay
men
t con
trac
t with
a fi
rst p
aym
ent d
ate
one
mon
th fr
om th
e co
ntra
ct d
ate
and
to e
nsur
e th
at th
e to
tal m
onth
ly p
aym
ent o
ccur
s by
the
paym
ent d
ue d
ate.
Bi-w
eekl
y pa
ymen
ts ca
n be
mad
e by
mak
ing
paym
ents
equ
ival
ent t
o th
e su
m o
f 12
mon
thly
pay
men
ts d
ivid
ed b
y 26
bi-w
eekl
y pe
riods
eve
ry tw
o w
eeks
com
men
cing
on
the
cont
ract
dat
e. *
*Lea
se a
new
201
1 new
201
1 Ran
ger S
uper
Cab
Spo
rt 4
x2/F
-150
Sup
er C
ab 4
x4 X
LT/F
-150
Sup
er C
rew
XLT
4x4
and
get
8.6
9%/6
.99%
/6.9
9% L
APR
for u
p to
48
mon
ths o
n ap
prov
ed cr
edit
(OAC
) fro
m F
ord
Cred
it. N
ot a
ll bu
yers
will
qua
lify
for t
he lo
wes
t LAP
R pa
ymen
t. $1
3,99
9/$2
7,799
/$29
,699
at 8
.69%
/6.9
9%/6
.99%
APR
for 4
8 m
onth
s with
$1,2
99/$
3,99
9/$3
,999
dow
n pa
ymen
t or e
quiv
alen
t tra
de-in
, mon
thly
pay
men
t is
$199
/$34
9/$3
49, t
otal
leas
e ob
ligat
ion
is $1
0,85
1/$2
0,75
1/$2
0,75
1, op
tiona
l buy
out i
s $6,
474/
$12,
068/
$14,
640,
cost
of l
easin
g is
$3,6
91.9
6/$5
,978
.18/$
6,61
8.62
or 8
.69%
/6.9
9%/6
.99%
. Tax
es p
ayab
le o
n fu
ll am
ount
of l
ease
fi na
ncin
g pr
ice a
ft er
any
pric
e ad
just
men
t is d
educ
ted.
Add
ition
al p
aym
ents
requ
ired
for P
PSA,
regi
stra
tion,
secu
rity d
epos
it, N
SF fe
es (w
here
app
licab
le),
exce
ss w
ear a
nd te
ar, a
nd la
te fe
es. S
ome
cond
ition
s and
mile
age
rest
rictio
ns o
f 80,
000k
m o
ver 4
8 m
onth
s app
ly. A
char
ge o
f 16
cent
s per
km
ove
r mile
age
rest
rictio
ns a
pplie
s. ^^
Estim
ated
fuel
cons
umpt
ion
ratin
gs fo
r the
[201
1] [F
-150
4x4
3.7L
6 S
peed
Aut
o] m
odel
show
n 13
.4L/
100
km ci
ty a
nd 9
.7L/1
00 k
m h
wy.
Fuel
cons
umpt
ion
ratin
gs b
ased
on
Tran
spor
t Can
ada-
appr
oved
test
met
hods
. Act
ual f
uel c
onsu
mpt
ion
will
vary
bas
ed o
n ro
ad co
nditi
ons.
Estim
ated
fuel
cons
umpt
ion
ratin
gs fo
r the
[201
1] [F
-150
4x
4 5.
8L-V
8 6
Spee
d Au
to] m
odel
show
n 18
.3L/
100
km ci
ty a
nd 12
.7L/1
00 k
m h
wy.
Fuel
cons
umpt
ion
ratin
gs b
ased
on
Tran
spor
t Can
ada-
appr
oved
test
met
hods
. Act
ual f
uel c
onsu
mpt
ion
will
var
y ba
sed
on ro
ad co
nditi
ons.
Estim
ated
fuel
cons
umpt
ion
ratin
gs fo
r the
[201
1] [R
ange
r 4x2
4.0
– V
6 5-
Spee
d Au
to] m
odel
show
n 11.
7L/1
00 k
m ci
ty a
nd 8
.6L/
100
km h
wy.
Fuel
cons
umpt
ion
ratin
gs b
ased
on
Tran
spor
t Can
ada-
appr
oved
test
met
hods
. Ac
tual
fuel
cons
umpt
ion
will
var
y ba
sed
on ro
ad co
nditi
ons.
© 2
011 S
irius
Can
ada
Inc.
“SIR
IUS”
, the
SIR
IUS
dog
logo
, cha
nnel
nam
es a
nd lo
gos a
re tr
adem
arks
of S
IRIU
S XM
Rad
io In
c. an
d ar
e us
ed u
nder
lice
nse.
Pr
ogra
m in
eff
ect f
rom
Oct
ober
1, 2
011 t
o Ja
nuar
y 3,
201
2 (t
he “P
rogr
am P
erio
d”) T
o qu
alify
, cus
tom
er m
ust t
urn
in a
200
5 m
odel
yea
r or o
lder
veh
icle
that
is in
runn
ing
cond
ition
(abl
e to
star
t and
mov
e an
d w
ithou
t miss
ing
part
s) a
nd
has b
een
prop
erly
regi
ster
ed/p
late
d or
insu
red
for t
he la
st 3
mon
ths (
the
“Crit
eria
”). E
ligib
le c
usto
mer
s will
rece
ive
[$50
0]/[
$1,0
00]/
[$2,
500]
/[$3
,000
] tow
ards
the
purc
hase
or l
ease
of a
new
201
1/20
12 F
ord
[Fie
sta
(exc
ludi
ng S
), Fo
cus (
excl
udin
g S)
]/[F
usio
n (e
xclu
ding
SE)
, Tau
rus (
excl
udin
g SE
), M
usta
ng (e
xclu
ding
Val
ue L
eade
r), E
scap
e (e
xclu
ding
XLT
I4 M
anua
l), T
rans
it Co
nnec
t (ex
clud
ing
EV),
Rang
er (e
xclu
ding
Reg
ular
Cab
4x2
XL)
, Ed
ge (e
xclu
ding
SE)
, Fle
x (e
xclu
ding
SE)
, Exp
lore
r (ex
clud
ing
base
)]/[
F-15
0 (e
xclu
ding
Reg
ular
Cab
4x2
XL)
, Exp
editi
on, E
-Ser
ies]
/[F2
50-5
50] –
all
Rapt
or, G
T500
, BOS
S302
, and
Med
ium
Tru
ck m
odel
s exc
lude
d (e
ach
an “E
ligib
le V
ehic
le”)
. Tax
es p
ayab
le b
efor
e Re
bate
am
ount
is d
educ
ted.
To q
ualif
y: (i
) cus
tom
er m
ust,
at th
e tim
e of
the
Elig
ible
Veh
icle
sale
, pro
vide
the
Deal
er w
ith (a
)suffi
cie
nt p
roof
of C
riter
ia, a
nd (b
) sig
ned
orig
inal
ow
ners
hip
tran
sfer
ring
cust
omer
veh
icle
to th
e Au
thor
ized
Recy
cler
; and
(ii)
Elig
ible
Veh
icle
mus
t be
purc
hase
d, le
ased
, or f
acto
ry o
rder
ed d
urin
g th
e Pr
ogra
m P
erio
d. O
ffer
onl
y av
aila
ble
to re
siden
ts o
f Can
ada
and
paya
ble
in C
anad
ian
dolla
rs. O
ffer
is tr
ansf
erab
le to
per
sons
dom
icile
d w
ith th
e ow
ner o
f the
recy
cled
veh
icle
. Off
er ca
n be
use
d in
conj
unct
ion
with
mos
t ret
ail c
onsu
mer
off
ers m
ade
avai
labl
e by
For
d at
eith
er th
e tim
e of
fact
ory
orde
r or d
eliv
ery,
but n
ot b
oth.
Off
er n
ot a
vaila
ble
on a
ny v
ehic
le re
ceiv
ing
CPA,
GPC
, or D
aily
Ren
tal R
ebat
es a
nd th
e Co
mm
erci
al F
leet
Reb
ate
Prog
ram
(CFI
P). L
imite
d tim
e of
fer,
see
deal
er fo
r det
ails
or c
all t
he F
ord
Cust
omer
Rel
atio
nshi
p Ce
ntre
at 1
-800
-565
-367
3. ©
2011
Ford
Mot
or C
ompa
ny o
f Can
ada,
Lim
ited.
All
right
s res
erve
d.
GET WINTER READY WITH SAFETY FEATURES LIKE TRACTION CONTROL, AVAILABLE 4x4, AND TRAILER SWAY CONTROL.
2011 F-150 SUPERCAB 4x4 XLT
INCLUDES $7,500 IN MANUFACTURER REBATES.
PURCHASE FINANCE FOR ONLY
FINANCED BI-WEEKLY OVER 72 MONTHS. WITH DOWN PAYMENT OF $3,999.
$177 @ 4.99%APR
*
LEASE FOR ONLY
PER MONTH FOR 48 MONTHS WITH A DOWN PAYMENT OF $3,999.
$349 @ 6.99%APR
**
9.7L/100 km 29 MPG HWY^^
13.4L/100 km 21 MPG CITY^^
ELIGIBLE CUSTOMERS GET $2,500 RECYCLE YOUR RIDE INCENTIVE
PLUS
OR
Available in most newFord vehicles with 6-monthpre-paid subscription
Lariat Model shown. Lariiat Mat Modelodel shoshownwn.
ELIGIBLE CUSTOMERS GET $2,500 RECYCLE YOUR RIDE INCENTIVEPLUS
2011 F-150 SUPER CREW 4x4 XLT
2011 RANGER SUPER CAB SPORT 4x2
INCLUDES $8,500 IN MANUFACTURER REBATES.
LEASE FOR ONLY
PER MONTH FOR 48 MONTHS WITH A DOWN PAYMENT OF $1,299.
OFFER EXCLUDES TAXES AND FREIGHT
$199 @ 8.69%APR
**PURCHASE FINANCE FOR ONLY
$96 @ 5.49%APR
*
FINANCED BI-WEEKLY OVER 72 MONTHS. WITH DOWN PAYMENT OF $1,299.
OFFER EXCLUDES TAXES AND FREIGHT
PURCHASE FINANCE FOR ONLY
$191@ 4.99%APR
*
FINANCED BI-WEEKLY OVER 72 MONTHS. WITH DOWN PAYMENT OF $3,999.
OFFER EXCLUDES TAXES AND FREIGHT.
7.1L/100 km 37 MPG HWY^^
10.0L/100 km 28 MPG CITY^^MP3/USB COMPATIBLE
AVAILABLE FOUR-WHEELDRIVE
TRACTION CONTROL
10.5L/100 km 27 MPG HWY^^
15.0L/100 km 19 MPG CITY^^AVAILABLE ECOBOOST
MP3/USB COMPATIBLE
TRACTION CONTROL
INCLUDES $6,000 IN MANUFACTURER REBATES.
LEASE FOR ONLY
PER MONTH FOR 48 MONTHS WITH A DOWN PAYMENT OF $3,999.
OFFER EXCLUDES TAXES AND FREIGHT.
$349 @ 6.99%APR
**
OR
OR
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You’ve probably noticedthat the nastier-weathervarieties are now calledwinter tires, rather thansnow tires. This isn’t justthe same product with anew name.
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The softer compound inwinter tires helps them tostick to the pavement, al-though it does make themwear faster, one of thetrade-offs of good wintertires.
So-called “all-season”
tires are halfway betweensummer and winter ones.
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H A V E I T
Mor
e Po
wer
. Le
ss F
uel.
Grea
t Va
lue
is a
com
pari
son
betw
een
the
entir
e cu
rren
t Ch
rysl
er C
anad
a lin
eup
and
the
entir
e 20
11 C
hrys
ler
Cana
da l
ineu
p. W
ise
cust
omer
s re
ad t
he f
ine
prin
t: •
, *,
†,
§ T
he
Hav
e It A
ll Eve
nt
offe
rs a
re l
imited
tim
e of
fers
whic
h ap
ply
to
reta
il del
iver
ies
of
sele
cted
new
an
d unuse
d m
odel
s purc
has
ed
from
par
tici
pat
ing
reta
ilers
on
or
af
ter
Nov
ember
1,
2
011
. R
etai
ler
order
/tra
de
may
be
nec
essa
ry.
Off
ers
subje
ct
to
chan
ge
and
may
be
exte
nded
w
ithou
t not
ice.
S
ee
par
tici
pat
ing
reta
ilers
fo
r co
mple
te
det
ails
an
d co
nditio
ns.
•
$18
,99
5
Purc
has
e
Pri
ce ap
plie
s to
2
012
D
odge
Gra
nd
Car
avan
C
anad
a Val
ue
Pac
kage
(29
E)
only
an
d in
cludes
$
8,0
00 C
onsu
mer
C
ash
Dis
count.
S
ee par
tici
pat
ing
reta
ilers
fo
r co
mple
te det
ails
. P
rici
ng
excl
udes
fr
eight
($1,
40
0),
lic
ence
, in
sura
nce
, re
gis
trat
ion,
any
reta
iler
adm
inis
trat
ion
fees
, ot
her
re
taile
r ch
arges
and
other
ap
plic
able
fe
es an
d ta
xes.
R
etai
ler
order
/tra
de
may
be
nec
essa
ry.
Ret
aile
rs m
ay se
ll fo
r le
ss.
*Con
sum
er C
ash
Dis
counts
ar
e of
fere
d on
se
lect
2
011
/20
12 ve
hic
les
and
are
man
ufa
cture
r-to
-ret
aile
r in
centive
s, w
hic
h ar
e ded
uct
ed fr
om th
e neg
otia
ted
pri
ce bef
ore
taxe
s. A
mou
nts
va
ry by
vehic
le.
See
yo
ur
reta
iler
for
com
ple
te det
ails
. †4
.99
% purc
has
e finan
cing
for
up
to 9
6 m
onth
s av
aila
ble
on
th
e new
2
012
D
odge
Gra
nd
Car
avan
C
anad
a Val
ue
Pac
kage
(29
E)
mod
el to
qual
ifie
d cu
stom
ers
on ap
pro
ved
cred
it th
rough
Roy
al B
ank
of C
anad
a. R
etai
ler
order
/tra
de
may
be
nec
essa
ry.
Ret
aile
r m
ay s
ell
for
less
. S
ee y
our
reta
iler
for
com
ple
te d
etai
ls.
Exa
mple
: 2
012
Dod
ge
Gra
nd
Car
avan
Can
ada
Val
ue
Pac
kage
(29
E)
with
a P
urc
has
e P
rice
of
$18
,99
5 (
incl
udin
g ap
plic
able
Con
sum
er C
ash
Dis
count)
fin
ance
d at
4.9
9%
ove
r 9
6 m
onth
s w
ith
$0 d
own
pay
men
t eq
ual
s 2
08 b
i-w
eekl
y
pay
men
ts o
f $
111 w
ith
a co
st o
f bor
row
ing
of $
4,0
82
and
a to
tal
oblig
atio
n of
$2
3,0
76
.94
. P
rici
ng
excl
udes
fre
ight
($1,
40
0),
lic
ence
, in
sura
nce
, re
gis
trat
ion,
any
reta
iler
adm
inis
trat
ion
fees
, ot
her
ret
aile
r ch
arges
and
other
applic
able
fee
s an
d ta
xes.
Ret
aile
r or
der
/tra
de
may
be
nec
essa
ry.
Ret
aile
rs
may
se
ll fo
r le
ss.
§2
012
D
odge
Gra
nd
Car
avan
C
rew
sh
own.
Pri
ce in
cludin
g ap
plic
able
C
onsu
mer
C
ash
Dis
count:
$
27,
99
5.
Pri
cing
excl
udes
fr
eight
($1,
40
0),
lic
ence
, in
sura
nce
, re
gis
trat
ion,
any
reta
iler
adm
inis
trat
ion
fees
, ot
her
re
taile
r ch
arges
an
d ot
her
applic
able
fe
es an
d ta
xes.
R
etai
ler
order
/
trad
e m
ay b
e nec
essa
ry.
Ret
aile
rs m
ay s
ell
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odels
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and selling 20,000 units ofModel S during 2013. Inthat year he also expects tobuild and sell an additional15,000 units of Model X, ayet-to-be-introducedcrossover based on the plat-form debuted by the ModelS.
All this in a hairy eco-nomic market, and a mar-ketplace where electriccars have yet to prove theirmettle, business case, infra-structure requirements,consumer acceptance,etcetera, etcetera.
That, my friends, is a de-cisive, unwaffling, non
fence-sitter kind of a guy.Unlike myself, of course,whose favourite joke is thisone: “Do you have troublemaking up your mind?Well, yes and no.”
Last month, Tesla invit-ed all its deposit holders tothe plant, so they could wit-ness in person the unveil-ing of the production-readyModel S. Over 3,000 madethe trip and by all accounts,treated Musk like a rockstar.
To keep the buzz going,Tesla has been taking theModel S to selected NorthAmerican cities. Last week
it landed in Toronto, andwe decided to mosey ondown to have a look.
First impression? It’s apretty car, but also a bit coyabout its electric nature.
One of the Tesla’s han-dlers, Camille Rickets, toldme the look is purposely fa-miliar, to help ease con-sumers into the electricmovement. She noted thatinterior packaging is wherethe more dramatic gains ofelectric propulsion areleveraged.
With battery cells pack-aged in the floor, and theentire electric drivetrain
packaged between the tworear wheels, the rest of thevehicle can be utilized forpeople and stuff. Model Shas a trunk at each end ofthe car and three rows ofseats. (FYI, the “trunk” atthe front is now called a“frunk.”)
But the most dramaticfeature of Model S is its in-credible touch-screen inter-face — at 43 cm, it is aboutthe size of two iPads.
“All the car controls arebaked into this one touch-screen,” says Rickets. And ifyou don’t believe her, justgo and try to find some but-
tons, switches or knobs…The sunroof even opens bysliding your finger downthe screen.
“We really think this isgoing to be the future of in-terior car control,” addsRicketts, “because it’s soeasily update-able.”
It can be easily updatedbecause it is connected tothe Internet via the 3G net-works, allowing the car anddriver to take advantage ofany future software or ap-plication revelation.
Tesla also feels that vehi-cles are the new platformfor application develop-ment, and is excited aboutworking with app develop-ers.
Regardless of yourpersonal prognostica-tions about whetherelectric vehicles willor will not rule theroads in the near or far future, youhave to admire theconsiderableconviction of Tesla’sco-founder and CEO,Elon Musk.
The considerablefortune hemade throughPayPal and oth-er ventures hethen sunk into
the Telsa electric vehicleadventure.
Soon after he took thecompany public last sum-mer it purchased a hugefactory, the ex-Toyota plantin Fremont, California.
By next summer theplant will begin shippingout production versions ofthe new Tesla Model S — anall-electric luxury sedan.While about 5,000 unitswill be built in 2012, Muskfully expects to be building
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†Bonus AIR MILES offer is valid November 11-13, 2011 at participating locations in Canada when you present your Collector Card at time of purchase. No coupon required. Not valid for online purchases made at thechildrensplace.ca. Offer valid for a single purchaseof $80 or more, net of refunds and exclusive of taxes, discounts, and gift card purchases. Offer applies to total base reward miles earned. Offer cannot be combined with any other AIR MILES Bonus offer. ††Spend $40-59.99, earn 2x the reward miles, Spend $60-119.99, earn 3x the reward miles, Spend $120 or more, earn 6x the reward miles. Offers valid only in Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and British Columbia from November 11-13, 2011. Offers apply to the total base reward milesearned on qualifying purchase amount. AIR MILES Collector Card must be presented at time of purchase. Qualifying purchase must be spent in a single transaction. No coupon required. Michaels base offer is 1 reward mile for every $20 spent in each calendarmonth, including taxes and service fees. Reward miles will be posted to AIR MILES Collector Account within 60 days of purchase date. Michaels and the Michaels logo and other trademarks and logos used on this site are owned or licensed by Michaels Stores, Inc. All rights reserved. †††Earn 100 Bonus AIR MILES reward miles when you spend at least $450 in a single transaction after discounts and before taxes, at participating Peoples and Mappins locations. Offer excludes gift card purchases and prior purchases. Offervalid November 10-13, 2011. No coupon required. Other exclusions may apply. See Jewellery Consultant for details. ‡Offer is valid on new, individual package vacation, cruise and charter flight bookings only, with Transat Holidays, Nolitours, Sunquest and WestJetVacations, made between November 11-13, 2011 for departures November 11, 2011 – April 30, 2012. Not applicable on group rates or child fares. Bonus offer cannot be combined with any other promotional offer except the Marlin Travel $100 Cash Back offer. Other conditions may apply and may vary by supplier. Full offer details are available from your Marlin Travel Advisor. Offer codes: SR113XWJ, SR113XSQ, SR113XNO, SR113XTC, SR113XTH. Bonus offer applies to the total Base reward miles earned. Base rewardmile offer is 1/$35 on vacation packages, cruise fares and charter flights. Not applicable on scheduled airline or rail tickets, hotel and car reservations paid locally, taxes, service fees, non-commissionable items, foreign exchange and insurance. Other conditionsmay apply. Marlin Travel is a division of Transat Distribution Canada Inc. ON Reg. #50015084. Head Office: 191 The West Mall, Suite 700, Etobicoke, ON, M9C 5K8. ®TMTrademarks of AIR MILES International Trading B.V. Used under license by LoyaltyOne, Inc. Sponsor trademarks are owned by the respective Sponsors or authorized for their use in Canada.
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