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Sailors aboard HMCS Charlottetown wave to their friends and family as they leave for the Mediterranean Sea
on Sunday morning. The ship will take part in NATO’s Operation Active Endeavour, an anti-terrorism mission.
RYAN TAPLIN/METRO
Charlottetown ships outHalifax-based frigate returning to the Mediterranean Syrian intervention not on radar: Ship commander
Just over four months after herreturn from Libya, HMCS Charlot-tetown is Mediterranean-bound.
Sailors gave a tearful goodbyeto hundreds of loved ones at theHalifax navy dockyard on Sundaymorning before departing on asix-month deployment to theMediterranean Sea.
There, the ship will participatein the NATO-led Operation ActiveEndeavour, tasked with findingand boarding ships suspected ofparticipating in terrorism.
“We’ll join NATO, and we’ll bepart of a counter-terrorismmission, which effectively meanswe’re going to be patrolling theMediterranean, looking forweapons of mass destruction orconstituents that could be used todesign such things,” said Charlot-tetown Cmdr. Wade Carter, whowill have a crew of about 250sailors.
Defence Minister Peter MacKayannounced the mission inNovember, committing the RoyalCanadian Navy to remain a pres-ence in the Mediterranean untilthe end of 2012.
MacKay said the decision was
partly out of consideration of thesituation in Syria, where the gov-ernment has been brutally crack-ing down on protesters.
But Carter said that’s not partof the ship’s mission — at leastfor now.
“We are ready to deploy onbehalf of the Government ofCanada if they direct us toproceed on any type of mission,”he said.
Carter said he doesn’tanticipate a high level of risk,with most ships in the regioncomplying with the law andallowing inspection.
But Cpl. Chuck Collier-O’Con-nell is still anxious.
“Nervous. That’s pretty muchthe only way to explain it,” hesaid on Sunday.
This will be Collier-O’Connell’sfirst deployment. His wife, Jackie,and their sons A.J. and Jeffery,were on the dock to see him off.
Master Seaman Stephen Burke
hugs his daughter Lillian.
RYAN TAPLIN/METRO
“It sucks having toleave my wife andkids, but that’s ourjob. It’s what we do.”CPL. CHUCK COLLIER-O’CONNELL
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Coun. Dawn Sloane saysmunicipal staff pushedthrough the sale of St.Patrick’s-Alexandra School.
Speaking at a rally tooverturn the sale on Sun-day, the councillor fordowntown Halifax saidHalifax regional councildidn’t follow municipalpolicy in awarding the siteto Jono Developments Ltd.
When asked in an inter-view afterwards whopushed the sale forward,Sloane simply responded“staff.”
“Again, we had thisproblem with the sewage-treatment plant, wherethey didn’t want to hearfrom my community,” she
said. “They’re doing itagain with this.”
Sloane said policy re-quired municipal staff toembark on a 90-day com-munity consultation be-fore selling the property.
“Myself and JenniferWatts at (Peninsula) Com-munity Council in April oflast year … (asked for)
what was going to be start-ed when this school cameup for sale, and we neverdid get a reply from staff,”she said.
Still, she said it wasn’t afair question to askwhether or not she wantsthe decision overturned.
“I didn’t say no and Ididn’t say yes. I want an-swers first.”
Some answers maycome Tuesday, when oppo-nents of the sale plan tovisit city hall.
Rev. Rhonda Britton,who has led the charge de-manding council revisitthe decision, said the com-munity doesn’t oppose“development” as such.
“They made a misstepin the process, and theyneed to redo this,” Brittonsaid Sunday.
Downtown Halifax Coun. Dawn Sloane in this file photo.
RYAN TAPLIN/METRO Community leaders taking case to council on TuesdaySt. Patrick’s-Alexandra School closed down last year
For decades, commuter railin HRM was only a discus-sion or a dream, but onTuesday council will for thefirst time be asked to putsome real money into it.
The transportation com-mittee is recommendingcouncil pay for a consultantto prepare a feasibilityanalysis on commuter railfrom Windsor Junction andEnfield to downtown Hali-fax.
It would cost about$250,000 for the study —
including compensation toCN for their participation.
And since CN owns therail lines, their co-operationis crucial. But it might be alittle tricky considering CNand HRM are currently in acourt battle over cost-shar-ing for renovations to trainbridges.
“I hope it becomes lever-age,” said Bedford Coun.Tim Outhit. “Is there an op-portunity for us to work to-gether here in a bigpicture?”
Bedford residents wouldhave much to gain by thisproposed commuter-railsystem, but HRM is notabout to run a railroad, Out-hit said. Rather, it would beoutsourced to VIA or CN.
“Let’s get the facts in-stead of talking about it for20 years,” he said. “Let’smake a decision: Is this go-ing to shape our transporta-tion strategy in the next 20years or not?”
Back in February 2011,council had a look at a staff
report suggesting HRMcould make use out of exist-ing rail lines and rebuiltBudd RDC trains or daylin-ers.
The refurbished daylin-ers would cost about a “busand a half,” Outhit said.
When the transportationcommittee discussed the is-sue in November, they ex-pressed concerns overdelays and the deteriora-tion of the rail lines, accord-ing to a staff report.
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Plans for the site
Housing development.
Jono Developments Ltd. isplanning for the site amixed-use housing devel-opment — condos — whileopponents suggest thebuilding could berepurposed to house theNorth End Health Clinicand the Micmac NativeFriendship Centre.
HRM pushed school sale: Coun.
“We’ve talkedabout it for 20years and that’sgot to stop.Emotionally, andvision-wise, Ibelieve it’sdoable.”BEDFORD COUN. TIM OUTHIT
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The last reportedsighting of JaimeMorey Wyatt was ata now-defunct Hali-
fax motel, where he toldstaff he was expectingsomeone to pick him up fora dinner party.
More than 15 years later,Wyatt’s family in St. John’shas no more answers to hisdisappearance than thatvague detail.
“I would certainly like toknow what happened tohim, but I don’t think thatis ever going to be thecase,” said his younger sis-ter, Barbara Slattery.
“Fifteen years is a longtime. I think the (police) inNova Scotia did what theycould and what else is thereto do?”
Wyatt’s disappearance isamong more than 60 un-solved cases in a rewardprogram targeted at majorunsolved crimes and ad-ministered by the Nova Sco-tia Department of Justice.
He is still listed as a miss-
ing person in the logs ofHalifax Regional Police.
But to his family he is abeloved, fun-loving brotherand uncle, and the loss hasbrought about anguish andunending mystery.
Wyatt was staying at theTwin Elms Motel on InglisStreet in Halifax’s southend, and was last seen Nov.16, 1996. According to Hali-fax Regional Police, the cir-cumstances of hisdisappearance are suspi-cious and foul play may beinvolved.
Single and 62 when hedisappeared, Wyatt hadworked all over the worldoffshore, mostly on supply,vessels; then he settled intoworking on vessels sailingin and out of St. John’s andHalifax.
He retained an apart-
ment in St. John’s. Whencrew changes took place inHalifax, he would often stayat the Twin Elms, a statelyold home that had beenconverted into a bed andbreakfast.
Slattery said Wyatt keptin regular touch with hisfamily, but the last time anyof them saw him wasThanksgiving 1996, whenWyatt — who always lefthis car in St. John’s — trav-elled to Truro to visit anephew living there. After-wards, he got on a busbound for Halifax.
“He kept in touch withme always,” said Slattery,fighting tears during an in-terview.
“It didn’t matter if hewas on the Panama Canalor wherever he was — hekept in touch.”
“Frankly, I don’t think he’ll ever befound. I don’t think we’ll ever know —not after this length of time. How couldyou possibly hear anything unless he’salive somewhere?” BARBARA SLATTERY, WYATT’S SISTER
Disappearance of St. John’s man in Halifax still unsolved more than 15 years laterReward of up to $150,000 offered for information leading to arrest and conviction in case
WithoutA trace
The former Twin Elms Motel on Inglis Street is seen in this
photo taken last week. Former Newfoundlander Jaime
Morey Wyatt was last seen at the motel on Nov. 16, 1996.
Police suspect foul play in his subsequent disappearance.
RYAN TAPLIN FOR THE ST. JOHN’S TELEGRAM
Jaime Morey Wyatt
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Slattery said it was-n’t until February1997 that the fam-ily got a call from
the Twin Elms.There had been a piece
of luggage belonging toSlattery sitting in thewoman’s office, and thatday she turned the tag over
‘Things can change’
Halifax Regional Policespokesman Const. BrianPalmeter told The Telegramby email the Wyatt case isstill open, is routinelyreviewed and any newleads are investigated.Though Wyatt is officiallylisted as missing, policehave said they believe hemay have been murdered.“Things can change andpeople who have informa-tion can make a decisioneven after a long period oftime to come forward,” Pal-meter said.
and saw Slattery’s phonenumber. Slattery found itodd they took so long tocall, but that’s when shelearned of Wyatt’s lastknown whereabouts — hetold staff he was going outthat night in November1996.
All Wyatt’s seagoing pa-pers, his passport and wal-let were left in his room.
For several years afterhis disappearance, Slatterywould frequently get callsfrom Halifax police, butthey haven’t been in touchin recent years. The callswould come forclarification when uniden-tified male remains werefound, even if they didn’tfit the slightly built Wyatt’sdescription.
“The minute they wouldsay, ‘This is Const. so-and-so,’ your heart would comeup in your throat,” she said.
Other than that reportedlast day at the Twin Elms —which is now an apartmentbuilding with differentowners — Wyatt’s family
and police are stymied.“I think they followed
up on leads and stuff, butthey had nothing, no idea.If it didn’t happen to me,I’d say, ‘That’s nonsense. Itcouldn’t possibly happen.’But it does happen — tovanish without a trace is sostrange,” she said.ST. JOHN’S TELEGRAM
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Police say there are peoplewho know what happenedin the murder of a 19-year-old Dartmouth woman lastJanuary but are refusing tocome forward.
Keya Simon was stabbedto death on Jan. 8, 2011, inthe early morning hours.
“There were a number ofpeople present when shewas killed and those peoplehaven’t come forward withthe information they have,”said Halifax Regional Policespokesman Const. BrianPalmeter. “We believe thereare people who know exact-ly what happened.”
The 19-year-old was at aparty at her sister’s apart-ment on Pinecrest Drive inDartmouth when a groupof people known to themarrived. An altercation en-
sued, spilling out onto theapartment lawn, with Si-mon and her 32-year-old sis-ter both stabbed.
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Tens of thousands of South Africans wavethe colours of the African National Congresson its 100th anniversary on Sunday. Absentbecause of his frailty was Nelson Mandela,the nation’s first black president andlongtime leader of the anti-apartheid movement. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
British astrophysicist Stephen Hawkingturned 70 on Sunday. Hawking, who suffersfrom motor neuron disease, was not wellenough to attend a cosmology conferenceheld in his honour at Cambridge University.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Catherine Middleton, the Duchess ofCambridge, turns 30 on Monday, but royaltybuffs expecting a lavish party will be disap-pointed. Palace officials said the duchess willmark the personal milestone with a “low-key and private” affair. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Ina Menzl hugs her daughter, Rebecca Kraft,4, on Sunday outside the Tucson, Ariz., Safe-way store where Congresswoman GabrielleGiffords was shot a year ago during a shoot-ing spree that left six dead and 13 wounded,including Giffords. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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‘They killed my baby’: Momof man beaten in GrenadaIn the end, it may be thatone of OscarBartholomew’s trademarkbear hugs sparked thetragic chain of events thatled to his beating death ina police station in St.David’s, Grenada.
While much remains tocome out about what hap-pened, the Canadian Press,based on several inter-views, has pieced togetheran account of what somesay led to the death of thevisitor from Canada.
“They beat my child todeath,” AndrianneBartholomew, his grievingmother, said Saturday.“They killed my baby, mylast baby. They killed him.”
Bartholomew, 39, a na-tive Grenadian who livedin Toronto, and his wife of10 years, Dolette Cyr
Bartholomew, of Cascape-dia-St. Jules, Que., were vis-iting over the holidays.While driving on BoxingDay, Cyr Bartholomewneeded to use a washroom,and the couple stopped atthe St. David’s police sta-tion, where she went in-side to use the facilities.
Thinking he recognizeda uniformed policewomanas a friend, Bartholomewgot out of his car andgrabbed her from behindin an exuberant embrace,witnesses said.
“He was always lovingto his people,” his mother,71, said of the youngest ofher four children. “When-ever he meet his people,he always hugged themand give them a cheer.”
Some said the officeryelled out she was being
raped. Defence lawyerAnslem Clouden, who rep-resents one of the accusedofficers, said the officer“cried out for help.”
At that point, a col-league in a parked policecar came to her assistance.A second officer soon camerunning from the stationto help.
Police say Bartholomew
tried to kick the officersand resisted them. “Tem-pers flared on all sides,”Clouden said.
Three other officersjoined the fray and heldhim down as they strug-gled to handcuff him. Asenior officer ordered ajunior to use his belt to tieBartholomew’s feet togeth-er because he was kickingout, the lawyer said, citingwitness statements.
Within minutes,Bartholomew was in a co-ma and lay dying.
Cyr Bartholomew, whodid not see much of whathappened to her husband,refused to discuss the mat-ter Saturday as she pre-pared for his funeral, to beheld Monday.
“It’s a very bad time,”she said. THE CANADIAN PRESS
More details emerge about Oscar Bartholomew’s death at Grenada police station Family, friends prepare for his funeral on Monday
The federal governmenthas hired a consultant to in-ject a little war into thisyear’s Canada Day bash onParliament Hill.
Paul Shaw, a Toronto the-atre producer, has beenasked to find ways to inserta War of 1812 theme intothe festivities that typicallyinclude pop music, dance
and fireworks.“I do big-ass special
events all the time, so theyasked me to do that,” Shawsaid. “It’s sort of tricky to doa War of 1812 theme whenyou’ve got so many modernthings in and around it.”
The Conservatives, whohave been promoting Cana-da’s military heritage, have
earmarked money through-out the year to note the bi-centennial of the War of1812 in North America.
The Canadian HeritageDepartment normally in-jects patriotic themes intothe Canada Day noontimeshow on Parliament Hill,giving the National CapitalCommission a free hand to
organize the evening show.But a recently posted ten-
der document shows thatthe war theme will appearin both shows. “In 2012, theGovernment of Canada iscommemorating the War of1812 and this theme mustbe incorporated in both thenoon and evening shows,”it says. THE CANADIAN PRESS
Canada Day party to commemorate War of 1812: Documents
Andrianne Bartholomew
says her son was a “quiet,
loving person.”
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Re-enactors dressed as British soldiers fire their muskets
at American forces during a 2007 restaging of a War of 1812
skirmish west of London, Ont.
DAVE CHIDLEY/THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Pouring oil into troubled waters
Eco. Disaster
The stranded cargo ship Rena
breaks in two pieces after overnight
storms with six-metre waves pounded
the vessel off Tauranga Harbour, New Zealand.
The Greek-owned ship ran aground on Astrolabe Reef
on Oct. 5, spewing heavy fuel oil into the seas in what has been
described as the nation’s worst maritime environmental disaster.
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Twilight series’makers setfor a buyout?Lions Gate is close to buy-ing Summit
Entertainment, the makerof the teen hit Twilight se-ries, for about $400 millionUS in cash and stock,according to two peopleSunday who were briefed
on the matter. They werenot authorized to speakpublicly and requestedanonymity. Talks on a dealcould be finalized thisweek. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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U.S. coin fetches record $1.38MThis 1793 Chain Cent sold for a record $1.38 million US in a public auction at acoin collector’s convention in Orlando, Fla., last Wednesday. The linking rings onthe back of the coin were intended to represent the original 13 colonies. Criticsclaimed the chain was symbolic of slavery. The design was changed to a wreath.
Old. Money
This Heritage Auctions photo shows the front and back of one of the first pennies struck at the United States Mint in Philadelphia.
Nigerian lawmakers onSunday turned against thepresident’s decision to endgovernment fuel subsidiesthat kept gasoline priceslow, just ahead of a plannedlabour strike that could par-alyze Africa’s most popu-lous nation.
In an emergency session,Nigeria’s House of Repre-sentatives shouted downsupporters of PresidentGoodluck Jonathan as theyvoted for a resolution call-ing on him to restore subsi-dies. But their moves wentunnoticed by unionspreparing for a nationwidestrike set to begin Monday,despite a court orderagainst it.
“This cabal and their as-sociates represent perhapsthe biggest economic andfinancial crime in the histo-
ry of Nigeria.” said Rep. Fe-mi Gbajabiamila, a memberof the opposition party Ac-tion Congress of Nigeria.
Gas prices have risenfrom 45 cents per litre to atleast 94 cents per litre sincethe subsidy ended Jan. 1 atJonathan’s order.
That spurred a spike infood and transportationcosts across a nation ofmore than 160 million peo-ple where most live on lessthan $2 a day.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Nigerian fuel-subsidycut alarms lawmakers
An unidentified woman carries fuel from in Lagos,Nigeria, on Sunday.
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Occupy Nigeria protests have begun Anger fuelledby ongoing violence by radical Muslim sect, corruption
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Media will always have toreport on the tough stuff.But we know that Canadais full of compassionate in-dividuals, inspiringprojects and stories worthcelebrating. Here’s justone.
A new and very dynamicplace is about to take root
in Halifax. The non-profit Indo-
Canadian Community Cen-tre Society is hosting alottery to raise funds forthe construction of abrand-new communitycentre for the Indo-Canadi-ans in Halifax. Land has al-ready been purchased onChain Lake Drive andpreparations are underway.There are roughly 3,000 In-do-Canadians living in theregion, but the centre will
undoubtedly serve manymore people who may nothave Indian roots but stilltake an interest in the cul-ture’s traditions, languagesand food. “Not onlyIndians, but Canadians andother people (support) it,”said Dr. Dinesh Sinha, apast president of the Com-munity Centre Society.Plans for the centre alreadyinclude lessons on Indianlanguages taught by retiredteachers, cooking classes
and programs for seniors.The centre would also playhost to the annual IndiaFest, which experienced avery successful inauguralyear this year. Buy a lotteryticket by [email protected].
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SCREW THEVIEW? MAYBESTOP SCREWINGTHE TAXPAYERS
On Wednesday, local radiopersonality Bobby Maclaunched a new Facebookgroup “for those of us who aretired of those whining people
who don’t want any progress in this greatcity of Halifax.” Its name? SCREW THEVIEW.
By Sunday morning, STV had 164 mem-bers.
“We are tired of the groups that stopprogress in this great city of Halifax,” he
explained. “We want new buildings. No one goes upCitadel Hill for the view. They go for the fort, and for sexat night.”
Accepting Bobby Mac’s dubious proposition that no onegoes there for the view, let’s analyze his most serious argu-ment: Whining, save-the-view-of-the-harbour-flotables cra-zies are preventing “progress” — by which I assume hemeans a forest of highrise office towers on the slopes ofthe Citadel.
Really?Last year, Dalhousie University’s Planning and Design
Centre released a map showing 23 major downtowndevelopment projects, all of them approved, but almost
none built or underconstruction. Who’s toblame for that? Heritagegroups? Developers? Or per-haps the economy, stupid?
The convention centre?Despite the whinging fromthe all-things-ancient lovers,the city and province eager-ly approved the proposedproject and shovelled buck-ets of our cash in itsdirection. The first real de-lay came because Ottawatook its time to say yes.
By the time it did, theeconomy had gone to hell ina handcart. The developer isstill scrambling to findfinancing and tenants tomake the project viable.
Speaking of which, thewhiners — who also raised economics 101 questionsabout the convention centre — appear to have been rightabout that.
Consider this from the Dec. 31 Wall Street Journal,hardly a preserve of loony preservationists. There’s “a na-tionwide surplus of empty meeting facilities, strugglingconvention halls and vacant hotel rooms,” it notes. “Howhave governments responded to this glut? By buildingmore convention centers, of course, financed by debtbacked by new taxes and fees on already strugglingtaxpayers.”
Uh… perhaps Bobby Mac’s next Facebook group will beto whinge about how all our tax dollars are being wastedon a white elephant.
Now that would be progress.
URBAN
COMPASSSTEPHEN KIMBERMETRO HALIFAX
“Last year,Dalhousie
University’sPlanning andDesign Centre
released a mapshowing 23
major downtowndevelopmentprojects, all of
them approved,but almost none
built or underconstruction.”
Eagle almostgets deerSLOVAKIA. Is this birdfriends with deer-chasing,viral hero Fenton theDog? This golden eaglefailed to catch this deerafter the brave young doemanaged to escape. Pho-tographer Milan Krasulasaid, “You have to be verylucky to get a good shot,as you cannot predictwhere the prey will be hiding.”
METRO WORLD NEWS
How the fawnmade its escapeCHASE. While describing itas “an event of Mother Na-ture,” Krasula was secretlyrooting for the fawn andits quest to escape. “Ithink the life of the doewas saved by a nearby fen-ce. It wanted to jump overit but was so frightened itonly managed to slipunderneath, giving the ea-gle no choice but to aban-don the chase.”
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Bambi meets his master
Eagle went forthe bigger oneHUNT. The 30-year-old Kra-sula spent four days tryingto get a great picture ofthe annual eagle hunt,where owners releasetheir birds to hunt prey.“(One owner) did not seethe little doe and hadactually released the eagleto get another animal. Of course, the eagle wentfor the doe instead of theother prey,” Krasula said.
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5A fully grown roe deer,at 30 kilograms, is fivetimes heavier than asix-kilogram goldeneagle. Still, the deer isthe golden eagle’s lar-gest regular prey item.Cases exist of goldeneagles killing calves.Eagles usually eat rab-bits, squirrels, birdsand large insects.
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Since her 2002 breakoutperformance in Bend itLike Beckham, KeiraKnightley has starred in18 films, but it was onlyrecently she realizedsomething about her act-ing process.
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She has found a way tocircumvent her fears, amethod that came inhandy while making hernewest film A DangerousMethod, the story of thefathers of psychoanalysis,Carl Jung (played byMichael Fassbender) andSigmund Freud (played byViggo Mortensen), andSabina Spielrein, the intel-ligent but troubled pa-tient who causes a fallingout between the men.
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“Sets… are very diffi-cult creative spaces,” shesays, “and trying to getthe space so you can useyour imagination and getyourself so you are notfrightened by howevermany hundreds of peopleare on the set is quite adifficult thing.
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As a kid, you played Cap-ture the Flag. Kids today areplaying Call of Duty. Thepremise of each game issimilar. The difference: Oneis done outdoors, and in-volves running and jump-ing and fakeshooting…while the otherrequires a couch. Andmaybe a sugary soda, as anaccessory.
It’s an old story: kidsdon’t get enough physicalactivity. What’s scary is thenew research that proves it:Here in Canada, for exam-ple (a country with a lot ofoutdoors), only nine percent of boys and four percent of girls meet the newCanadian Physical ActivityGuidelines, which state
that children and youthshould accumulate at least60 minutes of moderate tovigorous intensity physicalactivity daily
The impact of this trendis both immediate (the riseof childhood obesity and di-abetes is alarming) and life-long (lifestyle patterns startyoung and inactive kidsgenerally turn into inactiveadults).
So how can you get yourkids off the couch this NewYear? “Exercise for kidsdoesn’t mean hitting thetreadmill,” explainsStephanie Joanne, who iscurrently training the castof the hit high school seriesDegrassi, including starsJessica Tyler and RaymondAblack. Simply runningaround playing hide-and-seek or kicking around a
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Simple daily physical ac-tivity like this improvesstamina, agility, strengthand coordination in kids.
“Think of exercise forkids as simply moving theirbodies. Let them decidehow they want to be physi-cally active. Maybe it’sthrowing a Frisbee, joininga sports team, joining adance class or simply jump-ing on a trampoline.”
Joanne, also an ExtremeFitness personal trainer,recommends exposing chil-dren to as many differentforms of activity as possi-ble. “This way, they canchoose which ones they en-joy,” she says. One easy wayto get kids moving aroundis through dance.
“It’s much more effec-
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According to the ActiveHealthy Kids Canada, chil-dren who receive greaterparental support for physi-cal activity, and who haveparents who rate physicalactivity as highly enjoyable,are more likely to engage inone or more hours of physi-cal activity a day.
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Walk with your kids toschool, do active chorestogether or get active byvolunteering. Createroutines early on that re-quire your kids to be ac-tive. When it becomesnormal to not move andjust sit in front of the TV,it becomes harder tobreak those habits lateron.
3 Get a dog. A family dogis a great way to guaran-tee some activity in thehome. The dog must bewalked and it holds kidsaccountable to makingthe daily commitment togetting out and walking.
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They lost to the worst andthey lost to the best. Nomatter how you slice it,2012 hasn’t been kind tothe Halifax Mooseheads.
The Mooseheadsemerged from a six-dayNew Year’s break in slug-gish fashion on the week-end, losing both of theirgames at the Metro Centre.They fell 5-4 to the last-place P.E.I. Rocket on Fri-day and followed it up witha 6-3 loss to the first-placeSaint John Sea Dogs on Sat-urday.
“You definitely don’twant to start the new yearlike that,” said Mooseheadsassistant captain TreyLewis. “I think it’s just de-tails. We’ve got our fulllineup back. The guys
think it’s going to comeeasy but that’s not the caseat all, and we’ve got to getback to working hard.”
The losses couldn’t beattributed to one thing, butthe Mooseheads allowedgoals in the opening 20 sec-onds of the first and third
periods on Friday, includ-ing the game-winner, andfell asleep in the second pe-riod on Saturday, allowingfive goals while musteringjust three shots.
Lewis said his team“stood back and watched”the highly skilled Sea Dogs
dismantle them in the sec-ond period, while NathanMacKinnon said his teamdidn’t put enough puckson net. The Mooseheadshad 53 shots in two games,including just 11 over thefinal two periods on Satur-day.
“We were just being toocute out there,” MacKin-non said following Satur-day’s game. “We weren’treally doing what we hadto do. We knew they werea more skilled team thanus, and we have to work ifwe’re going to win games,and at times we let up a lit-tle bit and it cost us.”
The losses caused theMooseheads to fall onespot in the QMJHL stand-ings to sixth overall with a24-13-4 record. They’reback in action on Thursdayat 7 p.m. at home to theDrummondville Voltigeurs.
Moose stumble into new year
Donnellygets AUSwin No.1Former HalifaxMooseheads assistant andassociate coach ChrisDonnelly won his firstgame as an Atlantic Uni-versity Sport men’s hock-ey head coach on Friday,as the last-placeDalhousie Tigers snappedan 11-game losing streak
with a 1-0 home win overthe St. Thomas Tommies.
Donnelly, whoseTigers also lost 5-1 toMoncton on Saturday,took over the job fromPete Belliveau after theteam’s miserable firsthalf.
The Saint Mary’sHuskies, meanwhile, fellto fourth in the AUS witha 10-7-1 record after los-ing both of theirweekend games.
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Mooseheads kick off 2012 with a pair of losses Setbacks cause club to slip one spot in QMJHL standings
Mooseheads forward Nathan MacKinnon had two goals on Saturday night and was the second star.
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Crossleysmiles allthe wayhome aftergolden winAlexis Crossley has a newprized possession.
The Cole Harbour blue-liner won a gold medal atthe IIHF world under-18women’s hockey champi-onship in Zlin, Czech Re-public, on Saturday,recording a goal and an as-sist in a 3-0 win over theUnited States.
“I’ve been travelling for20 hours and it has not leftmy neck,” the 17-year-oldCrossley said Sundaybetween flights at Toron-to’s Pearson InternationalAirport. “I’ve looked downat it countless times, andno matter how manytimes I look, I still smileevery time I see it.”
Crossley, who plays atShattuck St. Mary’s prepschool in Minnesota andwill suit up at the Univer-sity of New Hampshirenext season, was one ofCanada’s top performersat the annual tournament,recording two goals andthree assists and maintain-ing a plus-8 rating in fivegames.
Both of her points onSaturday came in the firstperiod, as she broke theice at the 9:04 mark andassisted on Sarah Lefort’s2-0 goal five minutes later.It was a tense finish, withthe U.S. out-shootingCanada 28-16, but CidneyRoesler’s goal with 4:18 re-maining relieved the pres-sure.
“It was then that wewere like, ‘OK, we’ve gotthis,’” Crossley said. “Andwe just kept pushing fromthere to prove we reallydid have it.”
Canada’s only othergold medal at the five-year-old tournament camein 2010. The U.S. has wonthe event every other year.
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The London Lightningstrengthened their reputa-tion as the team to beat inthe National BasketballLeague of Canada on Satur-day.
In a game the HalifaxRainmen saw as an oppor-tunity to shift the league’sbalance of power, theLightning finished with a25-point edge in the sec-ond half to recover from a15-point halftime deficitand earn a 97-87 victory onhome court at John LabattCentre in London, Ont.
It’s the Lightning’s thirdwin in as many triesagainst the Rainmen,
whose franchise-record nine-game winningstreak cameto a screech-ing halt as
they fell two-and-a-half gamesout of top spot.
“We reallywanted to win
this game just toprove where we was at
and what level we wasplaying,” said point guardTaliek Brown. “We just re-ally wanted to win thisgame. ... But we lost it, sowe just have to move onfrom here, get ready (forour next game), and try to
keep winning.”
The Rainmen are 12-2against the league’s otherfive teams as they desper-ately try to get on evenfooting with the Light-ning.
It was Halifax’s lowestoffensive output of theseason, as they missed 13of 15 three-point attemptsin the second half afternailing 8-of-19 before thebreak. They also missedsix of their final eight freethrows late in the game,wasting an opportunity fora closer finish.
“We just let up on of-fence and defence,” saidBrown, one of four playersin double figures with 12points. “We came out slug-gish, they got the momen-
tum, and we just backeddown instead of going for-ward.”
The Rainmen get threemore cracks at the Light-ning, once on the road onJan. 19 and again at homeon Jan. 27 and Feb. 19.They’re back in action onTuesday on the roadagainst the Moncton Mira-cles.
“We’ll try to win thenext time we play them,”Brown said. “We have tokeep playing hard andkeep our heads up.”
Rainmen show they’renot ready for first
Rainmen fall apart in second half after taking 15-point first-half lead Loss puts Halifax to two-and-a-half games behind first-place Lightning
Rainmen point guard Taliek Brown drives the lane
against the London Lightning earlier this season.
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Jersey foul
The Rainmen’s baby-blue
road jerseys didn’t arrive
with the team’s flight from
Halifax, so they were
forced to suit up in the
Lightning’s black practice
uniforms.
AUS BASKETBALL
Huskiessteal pairof winsfrom UPEIThe Saint Mary’s Huskiesposted an impressive dou-ble upset of the previous-ly unbeaten UPEI
Panthers in Atlantic Uni-versity Sport men’sbasketball action at TheTower on the weekend.
The Huskies, who hadjust two wins in sevengames at the holidaybreak, rolled to 93-86 and91-83 wins over the Pan-thers to open the newyear in impressivefashion. The Panthers en-tered the weekend 6-0.
The wins leave theHuskies (4-7) tied with the
Cape Breton Capers andDalhousie Tigers for theAUS’s final playoff spot.
The Tigers also had asuccessful weekend, im-proving to 3-4 by sweep-ing the MemorialSea-Hawks in St. John’s,N.L.
In women’s action, thefirst-place Huskies sweptthe Panthers to improveto 8-1, two points aheadof Memorial (6-2).
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Titan triumphover Gatineauin overtime QMJHL. Zach O’Brien,Sebastien Trudeau andMatthew Bissonnettecombined for four goalsand 11 points as theAcadie-Bathurst Titan de-feated the GatineauOlympiques 6-5 inovertime Sunday in Que-bec Major Junior HockeyLeague action.
O’Brien andBissonnette each had twogoals and two assists, Bis-sonnette’s second comingin overtime, whileTrudeau chipped in withthree assists.
With 77 points,O’Brien has taken overthe league lead in scoring.Trudeau sits third with 72points, followed byBissonnette in fourth spotwith 68.THE CANADIAN PRESS
ManningleadsGiants pastFalconsNFL. Eli Manning threwthree touchdown passesand New York ran allover Atlanta 24-2 in theNFC wild-cardgame. Man-ning con-nectedwith re-ceiversHakeemNicks for
a 72-yard score and MarioManningham on a 27-yarder as the Giantspulled away from the in-ept Falcons in the secondhalf on Sunday.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Broncos refuseto bow out ofpost-seasonNFL. Tim Tebow connect-ed with DemaryiusThomas on an electrifying80-yard touchdown passon the first play ofovertime and the Broncosdefeated the Steelers 29-23 in the AFC wild-cardgame on Sunday.
The play took 11seconds and was thequickest ending to anovertime in NFL history.
Thomas hauled in apass at the Denver 38 andstiff-armed Ike Taylor onhis way to the end zone.
The Steelers lostdespite Ben Roethlisberg-er rallying from a two-touchdown halftimedeficit with 10 points inthe final 10 minutes.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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A turning point for DetroitLions have taken step forward despite loss to Saints, ending playoff drought ‘We need to win our division’
The Detroit Lions have tak-en a leap forward by end-ing an 11-season playoffdrought. They have workto do on defence if theywant to make it beyondthe first round.
All their deficienciesshowed up when the Lionsgave up an NFL post-sea-son-record 626 yards toNew Orleans in a 45-28NFC wild-card loss Satur-day night.
“A loss like this makesus want to return to theplayoffs even more,” de-fensive end Kyle VandenBosch said. “It will be nosurprise to everyone whenthe Detroit Lions start tomake the playoffs eachand every year.”
The Lions, though, willhave to figure out a way toimprove their rosterenough to stop good teams
from piling up points andyards. They allowed an av-erage of 122 yards rushingand 312 yards passing insix losses to playoff teams— two times to both GreenBay and New Orleans, andonce to San Francisco andAtlanta.
Detroit slipped to theunfavourable matchupagainst the Saints after los-ing the regular-season fi-nale by allowing GreenBay’s backup Matt Flynn tothrow for 480 yards andsix touchdowns.
Instead of beating thePackers, who were with-out some of their best play-ers, to face the New YorkGiants and perhaps have abetter shot of winning aplayoff game for the sec-ond time since 1957, theLions were double-digit un-derdogs at New Orleans.
“We learned that weneed to win our division sothe next time we can havea home game and benefit
from our home crowd likethe Saints did,” quarter-back Matthew Staffordsaid.
“That’s a huge differ-ence.”
Stafford’s goal has ahuge obstacle: Green Bay is-
n’t leaving the NFC North.Detroit coach Jim
Schwartz wasn’t in themood to reflect on the sea-son after it ended in NewOrleans, but he’s expectedto Monday.
Three seasons after seal-ing NFL infamy as the only0-16 team, the Lions haveplenty of building blocksto become consistentlycompetitive.
“We’re going to bearound for a while,” saidkicker Jason Hanson aftercompleting his 20th sea-son with the Lions.
Stafford threw for 5,418yards with 44 TDs — 18 toCalvin Johnson — and 18interceptions in 17 gamesthat provided hope for afranchise that has desper-ately needed it at quarter-back.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Aries March 21-April 20 Youwon’t hesitate to speak your mindtoday, but be careful what you sayto loved ones.
Taurus April 21-May 21Don’t focus on trivial issues whenthere are so many big things thatneed to be dealt with.
Gemini May 22-June 21 Arisk that pays off in the short-termcould cause you serious financialproblems in the long-term.
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