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A few Halifax teens are one stepcloser to fulfilling their quest to“ban the bottle.”
Grace Hamilton-Burge and JayHubbard were on hand at the Hal-ifax Regional School Board meet-ing on Wednesday night to con-vince members to remove plasticbottles from the municipality’sschools.
“We believe that our access tosafe and clean drinking watercomes right from the tap,” saidHubbard, a Grade 9 student atFairview Junior High School.
Hubbard and Hamilton-Burgeoutlined numerous environmen-tal impacts and health concerns,noting that many countries areplagued by water scarcity and oilis burned in the production andtransporting of bottled water.
“HRSB will be able to say thatthey do not support the produc-tion of these bottles because of thegreat effect they have on globalwarming,” said Hamilton-Burge, a
Grade 12 student at Citadel HighSchool.
Their spirited presentation drewa standing ovation from a crowdof about 75 and prompted someencouraging words from the board.
Board member Chris Poole saidhe agreed with the teens “110 percent” and even attempted to makea motion to ban the bottle.
In response, chair Irvine Carverysaid the move would require care-ful analysis.
“But I’m quite sure the boardwill move in that direction,” saidCarvery, noting that some of themunicipality’s rural schools usewell water and require bottledwater for drinking.
Staff will draw up a reportregarding the issue.
Case madefor bottle ban
Youth present 1,400 signatures in supportof removing bottled water from HRM schools
RYAN TAPLIN/METRO
Curtain rising on untold tale of Titanic
Alderney. Theatre
Rev. Wallace Smith Sr. and his son, Wallace Smith Jr.,
sing Swing Low, Sweet Chariot at a press conference
Wednesday morning for the upcoming play Titanic:
The Untold Story. Written by Nova Scotia actor-director
Anthony Sherwood, the play will run from April 2 to 10
at the Alderney Landing Theatre. Story, page 6.
‘WE FOLLOWED THEPROCUREMENT POLICY’
NSBI CHIEF DEFENDSSHIPS CONTRACT {page 3}
CLASS ACT THERE’S NO EGO HERE
FOR LOCAL RAPPER{page 17}
SIXTH SENSEMOOSE SCORESIX STRAIGHTIN VICTORY {page 22}
Latest offerrejectedHRM council says no toanother counterproposalfrom striking transitworkers {page 4}
Cops turnto Twitter RCMP, HRP nabbinglaw-breaking motoristswith help from socialmedia {page 4}
Where’s the proof? Harper challenges opposition to back upclaims Tories are behindrobocalls {page 8}
Bottled water could soon be
banned in all HRM schools.
SCOTT OLSON/GETTY IMAGES FILE
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03metronews.caTHURSDAY, MARCH 1, 2012news: halifax
Premier says singling out staffer with connections to ad firm ‘sleazy’ Normal procurement procedure would have taken too long: NSBI
Lund: NSBI didn’t break procurement policy
RYAN TAPLIN/METRO
Nova Scotia Business Inc.’spresident says his agencydid not break it its procure-ment policy by issuing anuntendered contract worth$303,000 for the Ships StartHere campaign.
Stephen Lund told re-porters on Wednesday thatNSBI operated above boardin issuing the contract toMT&L, a Halifax-based ad-vertising firm, without of-fering other firms theopportunity to bid.
“Not at all,” he said. “We followed the pro-
curement policy, which al-lowed us in this case to dothat. We don’t do that veryoften, so we’re very carefulwhen we do do it.”
According to NSBI, theShips Start Here partner-ship — composed of gov-ernment, private-sectorand labour leaders —agreed at their inauguralmeeting on March 11,2011, to launch an advertis-ing campaign.
NSBI invoked a clausethat allows them to bypassnormal procurement poli-cies in the event of an “un-foreseeable situation ofurgency or emergency.” Butif the service costs morethan $100,000, NSBI needsto first obtain approvalfrom the province’s Treas-ury Board.
That wasn’t the casewith the MT&L contract,
explained NSBI vice-presi-dent Lisa Bugden, becauseshe expected the ad firm’swork — “digital engage-ment” through the cre-
ation of a website — wouldcost less.
When MT&L billed NSBIfor $105,000 on March 31,Bugden said NSBI soughtapproval from theprovince’s Treasury Board.
The NDP were put onthe defensive Wednesdayafter opposition parties at-tempted to bring PaulBlack, Premier Darrell Dex-ter’s policy director, beforethe legislature’s public ac-counts committee to ex-plain the contracts.
The opposition chargedBlack, who worked forMT&L, and the Premier’sOffice attempted to circum-vent normal procurementprocedures to fast-track theadvertising campaign.
Dexter said Black hadnothing to do with thecampaign.
“We were of course keptinformed throughoutthat,” Dexter said.
“But the work that wasdone was done by NovaScotia Business Inc.”
Black avoidscommitteeappearanceIn a rare display of mis-taken bipartisanship,the NDP almost calledone of their own to tes-tify about a $303,000untendered advertisingcontract.
At Wednesday’smeeting of the legisla-ture’s public accountscommittee, ProgressiveConservative MLA Chrisd’Entremont made amotion to bring PaulBlack, Premier DarrellDexter’s policy director,to testify before thecommittee.
At issue was a con-tract awarded to MT&L,a Halifax-based ad firmand Black’s former em-ployer, without offeringother firms the oppor-tunity to bid.
NDP MLA Jim Mortoninadvertently votedwith the opposition,tying them with thegovernment’s majority.Liberal Keith Colwell,who chairs the commit-tee, broke the tie.
Morton appealed,and the initial vote wasoverturned. He said hishead was somewhereelse during the initialvote.
“It was never my in-tention to support Mr.Black coming beforethe committee,” saidMorton.
When asked why, ifeverything was aboveboard with the contract,Black couldn’t testify tothat effect, Morton saidNova Scotia BusinessInc. followed its pro-curement procedure.
ALEX BOUTILIER
Premier Darrell Dexter speaks with reporters at the NDP caucus office on Wednesday afternoon.
NSBI presidentStephen Lund
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04 news: halifax
Social media used incatching bad drivers
Twitter becomes tool for nabbing those breaking laws behind wheel Police launched social media sites in 2009 and Halifax RCMP in 2011
Enforcing laws — in 140characters or less.
RCMP in Sackville re-ceived a complaint recentlyover Twitter about mo-torists ignoring a three-waystop at the intersection ofMillwood Drive and BeaverBank Cross Road.
So RCMP officers sat onit in February and they is-sued 24 tickets and fivewarnings. Most offences —22 of them — were for fail-ing to obey traffic signs orsignals, but two were fornot wearing seatbelts.
For the RCMP, it was oneof the first times Twitterwas used in this way, butHalifax Regional Police(HRP) have responded to anumber of complaintsraised via Twitter, said Lau-ren Leal communicationsadvisor with HRP.
And while HRP also re-ceives tips on investiga-tions, Leal said theyencourage people to usetraditional methods of re-porting tips — by phone, inperson or online — as thetweets can be lost among somany.
“If we post a photo of asuspect and we put it outthrough our social-mediachannels, we do get a lot offeedback,” Leal said.
Both the RCMP and HRPsend out information ondriving conditions andcriminal investigations reg-ularly over Twitter. Thefeedback they get in return
is enormous, Leal said.Monitoring of Twitter
and Facebook accounts isdone by the communica-tions department who passon tips and other importanttweets to police, she said.
But if motorists notice aparticularly bad intersec-tion that needs police atten-tion, Const. Tammy Lobbadvises drivers to wait untilthey get home to tweet it.
“When ever you getparked or you’re sitting athome, or you have a free
minute and you’re not driv-ing, go ahead and tweet it,”Lobb said.
No snow, but lots of ban ticketsHundreds of Haligoniansawoke to find overnight-winter-parking-ban tick-ets on their front wind-shields Wednesdaymorning, even though itwasn’t snowing out.
Halifax Regional Police(HRP) say they issued 657tickets overnight Tuesday,with another five carsseized for disruptingsnow removal.
The municipality an-nounced during the dayTuesday that the ban wasbeing issued in the after-math of a storm on Mon-day night. The ban waslifted mid-Wednesdaymorning.
“The city makes a deci-sion if a snow event is un-derway. That was the case(Tuesday) night becausethey were still cleaning
up from the night before,”said police spokesmanConst. Brian Palmeter.“When that happens, we
have officers that come inand they’re assigned toticket vehicles that arefound to be in violation.”
The parking ban hasbeen put into effect seventimes this winter, result-ing in 2,481 tickets beingissued to date. That worksout to an average per-night ticket total of about350.
PHILIP CROUCHER
Local NDPMP backsMulcair Local MP and former fed-eral NDP leadership can-didate Robert Chisholmis throwing his supportbehind Thomas Mulcairto be the party’s nextleader.
Chisholm, who repre-sents the riding of Dart-mouth-Cole Harbour,issued a release onWednesday saying Mul-cair “has the ability toreach out and unite pro-gressives of every singlestripe.”
The NDP will chooseits next leader later onMarch 23 and 24 inToronto.
METRO
Inmateassaulted,officials sayJustice officials in Nova Sco-tia say an inmate was hos-pitalized after an allegedassault at a Halifax prison.
The injured man origi-nally said he had fallenwhen he was alone in hiscell at the Central NovaScotia Correctional Facilitylast Wednesday.
A statement from theJustice DepartmentWednesday says he wastreated and returned to thefacility later that day.
Correctional Servicesstaff began a preliminaryinvestigation and the inci-dent was reported to Hali-fax police.THE CANADIAN PRESS
HRM rejectslatest transitcounterofferHRM to transit union: norostering, no deal.
This message was re-peated again on Wednes-day as the municipalityquickly shot down a newcounteroffer by strikingtransit workers to the oneoffered up by HRM lastweek.
The city didn’t even con-sider the latest reply acounteroffer, according toa release.
The new deal wasemailed to Metro Transitdirector Eddie Robar onWednesday by Amalgamat-ed Transit Union Local 508president Ken Wilson. Theunion agreed to the munic-ipality’s wage demands,but refused to budge onthe contentious issue ofrostering.
“It’s part and parcel,and we can’t proceed withone without the other,”Mayor Peter Kelly said inthe release issued at 5 p.m.
The wage offer to thetransit workers included a$1,500 signing bonus andwage increases of 2.5 percent in each of years twothrough five of the five-year contract.
“That puts us at an evenplaying field in the mon-ey,” Wilson said earlierWednesday.
As for rostering, Wilson
was hoping HRM would sitdown with them and takea second look at its propos-al of a non-rostering for-mat that fills any openpieces of work by not gen-erating overtime.
But HRM is sticking toits stance that rostering isa must-have.
The release also repeat-ed what Kelly told re-porters on Tuesday thatthe final offer — the sameone that 78 per cent ofunion members voteddown on Feb. 24 — re-mains on the table untilFriday at 11:59 p.m.
If rejected again, Kellytold reporters on Tuesday,“Basically, we’re back tosquare one.”
PHILIP CROUCHER
“If we post a photoof a suspect andwe put it outthrough our socialmedia channels,we do get a lot offeedback.”LAUREN LEAL OF HALIFAXREGIONAL POLICE
A car passes through the intersection of Beaver Bank
Cross Road and Millwood Drive on Wednesday afternoon.
RYAN TAPLIN/METRO
$50Is the amount for anovernight-winter-parking-ban ticket.
Following police
Twitter followers as of
Wednesday afternoon:
@RCMPNS: 3,431
@HfxRegPolice: 5,097
Ken Wilson
RYAN TAPLIN/METRO
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husbandand theirfather toHaiti, to acountrythey did-n’tknow,”Sher-wood said. Laroche’s bodywas never recovered.
JENNIFER TAPLIN
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Family never reached native landIt was only discovered inthe 1990s that, indeed, ablack male passenger sailedon the Titanic.
Joseph Laroche was 25when he boarded the Titan-ic with his wife, Juliette,and daughters Louise, 1,and Simonne Marie Anne
Andree, 3, according to theEncyclopedia Titanica.
They were leavingFrance for Laroche’s nativeHaiti because they thoughthe could find a higher-pay-ing job there as an engi-neer. He needed moremoney to pay for his daugh-
ter’s medical bills, andracial discrimination kepthim from higher earnings.
But the young familynever made it back to Haiti.
“After the Titanic sank,his wife and children wentback to France and decidednot to continue without her
Joseph Laroche, believed tobe the only black Titanicpassenger to die, steppedon board the vessel to starta new life with his family.
Originally from Haiti, hehad moved to France as ateenager. In April 1912, hewas escorting his pregnantwife and two young daugh-ters on their long journeyhome to his native landwhen the Titanic hit an ice-berg and sank.
“It’s the story of a blackman who made the ulti-mate sacrifice to save hisfamily. It is a story aboutcourage, about love, aboutpride and respect,” saidwell-known actor-writer-director Anthony Sher-wood.
Sherwood, a native ofHalifax, wrote and is direct-ing Titanic: The Untold Sto-ry. The world premiere ofthe play, which will latertour in the U.S. and Europe,will occur at Alderney Land-ing Theatre April 2 to 10.
Sherwood, who spoke toreporters by phone at apress conference onWednesday, said it’s an im-portant piece of theatre on“so many levels.”
While keeping mum onthe play’s specifics, Sher-wood said it tells the storyof Laroche who managed to
get his family into a lifeboatbut perished himself.
It will also take a look atanother black man associat-ed with the Titanic. Ru-mour — or legend — has itthat heavyweight boxingchampion Jack Johnson ap-plied for a first-class ticketon the Titanic but was re-fused because he was black.
“I’m not going to revealif it is true or false,” Sher-wood said. “We’ve done agreat deal of research onJack Johnson and the Titan-ic and it will all be revealedin the play.”
Play to tour Montreal, Chicago, London, England Local film student,Tara Lee Reddick, is stage manager in Dartmouth, Montreal and London
Dr. Leslie Oliver speaks at a press
conference at Alderney Landing
Theatre for the upcoming play
Titanic: The Untold Story
on Wednesday.
For ticket information,
visit ticketpro.ca.
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The Halifax RegionalSchool Board has put offsending a list of capitalprojects to the province’sDepartment of Educationuntil after a meeting todebate the fate of schoolscurrently under review.
The board voted onWednesday night to movethe matter until after itsMarch 28 meeting when
they’ll debate on keepingor chopping several of themunicipality’s schools, in-cluding South WoodsideElementary School andPrince Arthur JuniorHigh.
One of the capital proj-ects includes building anew South Dartmouthschool to replace South-dale-North WoodsideSchool and South Wood-side, but the board hasn’tdecided whether to closeSouth Woodside yet.
Another project in-cludes reconfiguring thegrades at BicentennialSchool to 7-9 from pri-mary to 9, but PrinceArthur — whose studentswould move into Bicen-tennial if their schoolshould close — is also stillunder review.
Board member Gin Yeemoved to defer approvingthe list, saying it would be“putting the writing onthe wall.”
“Let’s let the school re-view process finish out,”said Yee.
HRSB projects on hold NEW GLASGOW
Steel foundryclosed:ReportsThere are reports a NovaScotia steel foundry hasshut down after the own-er said he ran out of mon-ey to keep running theoperation.
CTV News and CBCNews report that AbbasJafarnia sent home work-ers for the Maritime SteelFoundry Ltd. in New Glas-
gow. CTV News said theclosure resulted in layoffsfor about 20 employees.
This comes after theprovincial governmentannounced three weeksago that it rejected a $1.1-million loan applicationby the foundry, saying itwas too risky.
At the time, theprovince’s economic de-velopment minister saidthe company lacked cus-tomers. It was the secondtime a loan applicationby Jafarnia was turneddown by the province.THE CANADIAN PRESS
Capital projects
The list of 10 projects mustbe in the hands of theprovince by April 20.
The projects include build-ing new schools, alteringexisting schools and pro-viding energy-savingupgrades to all of the mu-nicipality’s schools.
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The federal governmentwill commit to the Interna-tional Space Station for an-other five years.
And that should meanCanadian astronauts willreturn to space soonerthan expected.
Industry Minister Chris-tian Paradis says Canadawill extend its commit-ment to the space stationfrom 2015 to 2020.
His announcement inQuebec City Wednesdaycame as the heads of for-eign space agencies werearriving there for a confer-ence where they plan todiscuss the space station’sfuture.
It also came amidheightened concern with-
in the space community,with the federal govern-ment about to embark onsignificant spending cuts.
The government saysthe Canadian SpaceAgency’s budget will fall
14 per cent, to $363 mil-lion, with the expiry ofprevious commitments.
There could be evendeeper cuts in the March29 federal budget.THE CANADIAN PRESS
100Jacques Roy, a 54-year-old doctor who ownedMedistat Group Associates in DeSoto,Texas, faces up to 100 years in prison if convicted on all counts.
Canadiandoctor infraud case A Canadian doctor inTexas has been chargedover massive health-carefraud.
It’s alleged the plan
involved bilkingMedicare and Medicaidof nearly $375 million.
Jacques Roy, 54, ischarged with health-carefraud and conspiracy tocommit fraud. Authori-ties moved to seize cashin Roy’s bank accounts,cars and two sailboats.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Feds back space stationbut also plan cash cuts
Canadian Space Agency president Steve MacLean
calls Ottawa’s commitment “a major milestone.”
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PM: It’s a robocall smear Harper accuses NDP, Liberals in Commons But who’s this mysterious
Pierre Poutine? And what’s the secret of Separatist Street in Quebec?A mysterious “Pierre Pou-tine” and Prime MinisterStephen Harper were frontand centre in the robocallsfuror on Wednesday.
Harper said allegationsthe Tories were behindmisleading and harassingcalls to voters in the last federal election arenothing but a smear cam-paign by the NDP and Lib-erals.
“The Conservative partycan say absolutely, defini-tively, it has no role in anyof this,” Harper told theHouse of Commons.
He also added a new el-ement to his counter-attack when he challengedthe NDP and Liberals toprovide proof to ElectionsCanada that the Torieswere behind the calls.
Elections Canada is in-vestigating reports thatvoters in Guelph got calls
from a 450 area code num-ber directing them to thewrong polling station.
Phone records show thenumber behind the callsbelonged to a cellphoneregistered to Pierre Pou-tine of “Separatist Street”in Joliette, Que.
Elections Canada’s chiefinvestigator says in asworn court document the
name was likely used tocover the tracks of whoev-er was behind the calls.
Phone records show thenumber registered toPierre Poutine twice calledEdmonton-based call cen-tre RackNine Inc., on April30 and May 1.
The records also showphones associated withGuelph Tory candidate
Marty Burke and theGuelph Conservative rid-ing association made 31calls to RackNine betweenMarch 26 and early May.
The court documentsays it is reasonable to be-lieve Burke’s campaign didbusiness with RackNineand that the relationship isrelated to the calls.THE CANADIAN PRESS
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For the third straight day,
Prime Minister Stephen Harper
faced a barrage of robocall
allegations in the Commons.
School backedfor gun callTORONTO. School officialswho called authorities af-ter a four-year-old girldrew a picture of her dadholding a gun shouldn’tbe condemned for theiractions, Ontario PremierDalton McGuinty saidWednesday.
The girl’s father, JessieSansone, was handcuffedand strip-searched.
Police searched theirKitchener, Ont., home,but the closest thing theyfound to a firearm was atoy gun. No charges werelaid.
“I don’t think there’sany doubt about the sin-cerity of the school andthe teachers involvedthat there was a genuineconcern,” McGuinty said.THE CANADIAN PRESS
Big winnershouse-proudTORONTO. All they wantedwas a little money to ren-ovate the bathroom andkitchen, but an easternOntario couple who col-
lected a $50-million lot-tery jackpot Wednesdaysay they’re buying awhole new house.
JoAnn and GaetanChampagne of Hawkes-bury, Ont., initially mis-read the results of theirLotto Max win andthought they weregetting $50,000.
When they realizedthe prize was in millions,they were dumbfounded.THE CANADIAN PRESS
Asbestos toll a fantasy?MONTREAL The Canadianasbestos sector wants Ot-tawa’s help to challengea death-toll estimatefrom the World HealthOrganization that says asbestos-related diseaseskill more than 100,000people every year.
A leading industryplayer says the estimateby the WHO, the UnitedNations health authority,is an exaggeration basedon unfounded evidence.
“Where are thosedeaths? And name atleast 10 of those deaths,”Bernard Coulombe saidfrom the Quebec town ofAsbestos. “It’s absolutelya fantasy.”THE CANADIAN PRESS
News in brief
A high-powered group of world business leaders
and politicos want the Stephen Harper government
to stop the “destructive, expensive and ineffective”
war on drugs.
LUMINARIES BLASTC-10’S POT APPROACHSir Richard Branson andother world businessand political leaderswant Canada to rethinkits stance on marijuana.
The leaders want Ot-tawa to scrap mandatoryminimum sentences forminor pot offences inBill C-10 and even lookat legalizing the drug.
“Tougher drug law en-forcement tactics suchas mandatory minimumsentencing … will put ahuge strain on Canadiantaxpayers,” says a letter
released by the group. “(They) will not have
the intended effect ofcreating safer communi-ties, and will instead fur-ther entrench”organized crime.
The group is chairedby Fernando HenriqueCardoso, formerpresident of Brazil, andincludes ex-presidents ofColombia, Mexico andSwitzerland, and formerU.S. secretary of stateGeorge Shultz.
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Seven so far willsit on juryin Tori trial Seven people have beenchosen for a jury in the trial of a man accused inthe death of eight-year-oldVictoria Stafford.
Michael Rafferty, 31,pleads not guilty inLondon, Ont., to first-degree murder, sexual assault causing bodilyharm and kidnapping.
Tori disappeared inWoodstock, Ont., on April8, 2009. Her body wasfound three months later.
Terri-Lynne McClintichas already been convict-ed of first-degree murder.
Potential jurors havebeen told the trial isexpected to last betweentwo and a half and threemonths, possibly extend-ing into June. THE CANADIAN PRESS
7Five women and twomen have been select-ed for a jury of 12 andtwo alternates.
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Russian presidential candidate predicts unsanctioned protests post-election will result in violence
Volunteersto monitorthe voteUntil a few months ago,Sergei Rassypnov, a real-estate agent, cared little about politics and Vladmir Putin.
That all changed in December, when evidenceof rampant election fraudby Putin’s party triggered awave of protest: Suddenly,for legions of urban Rus-sians, apathy and indiffer-ence was transformed intoa startling new activism.
Today, Rassypnov is
among tens of thousands ofRussians who have signedup to monitor this Sunday’spresidential election, inwhich Prime Minister Putinaims to reclaim the presi-dency he held for eightyears. Most are volunteer-ing for the first time, nolonger willing to tolerate asituation in which peoplehave little confidence theirvote will be counted honestly. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
30,000The estimated numberof complaints filed af-ter Russia’s last parlia-mentary election.
Russian Prime MinisterVladimir Putin warned thathis opponents could pro-voke unrest after Sunday’spresidential election, evengoing so far as killing aprominent opposition fig-ure to stoke outrage againsthis government.
Putin is all but certain toregain the presidency, buthis allegations Wednesdayreflect heightened tensionsfour days before the vote
and nervousness about theprotests expected to follow.
“They are lookingamong well-known peoplefor a sacrificial victim,” saidPutin. “They could, I’m sor-ry, knock someone off andthen blame the authori-ties.”
Evidence of widespreadvote-rigging in favour ofPutin’s party in December’sparliamentary election setoff a series of protests to de-
mand an end to Putin’s 12-year rule.
The opposition is push-ing authorities to allow apost-election protest at asite close to the Kremlin.The government has re-fused the demand, offeringother more distant loca-tions instead.
The organizers have rejected that offer, raisingthe threat of violence.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Monkees frontman diesDavy Jones, the heartthrob singer who helped propelthe made-for-TV rock band The Monkees to the topof the pop charts as an American version of The Beat-les, died of a heart attack Wednesday. He was 66.Born in Manchester, England, Jones had stylishlylong hair, boyish good looks and a British accent thatendeared him to legions of screaming young fans.
Legend. Lost
Pop music group The Monkees, clockwise from top left,
Peter Tork, Mickey Dolenz, Mike Nesmith and Davy Jones,
are shown in this 1966 photo.
Vladimir Putin
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Chargespending infree-babyprankU.S. police say charges arepending against a teenagerin the U.S. state of Mississip-pi for pulling a prank on afriend when he advertised afree baby on Craigslist us-
ing the friend’s cellphonenumber as the contact in-formation.
Police Chief Don Bying-ton would not identify theyouths involved, but toldThe Clarion-Ledger that theposting was “a bad practicaljoke.”
Byington says the 18-year-old took a photo of anunknown baby boy andplaced the ad on Craigslist.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
N. Koreasuspendsnuclear activitiesNorth Korea has agreed tosuspend uranium enrich-ment and nuclear and long-range missile tests in abreakthrough in negotia-tions with the United
States, which is set to pro-vide food aid in return.
The rare simultaneousannouncements in Py-ongyang and Washingtonpointed toward an easing ofnuclear tensions under newleader Kim Jong-un.
It could also clear theway for the resumption ofmulti-nation disarmament-for-aid talks that North Ko-rea withdrew from in 2009.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Is Canadian Omar Khadrdestined to leave the U.S.Naval Base at GuantanamoBay, Cuba, to serve the re-mainder of his sentence inGuantanamo North?
A report this week inMontreal’s LaPresse statedthat the 25-year-old Toron-to-born Khadr will be im-prisoned at Millhavenimmigration centre in On-tario, derisively dubbedGuantanamo North.
The $3.2-million, six-bunk facility was built in2006 to house non-Canadi-an terrorism suspects heldon controversial nationalsecurity certificates.
Despite its name, andaside from the isolation,the Millhaven facility is
hardly comparable to theGuantanamo cell whereKhadr is now — or many ofCanada’s federal prisonswhere he could be held.TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
Khadr maybe headedback North
UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Giant penguin on displayExperts from New Zealand and the United States havereconstructed the fossil skeleton of a giant penguin —from roughly 26 million years ago — for the first time.
Prehistoric. Bird
This undated graphic illustration
released by the University of Otago
on Wednesday shows a giant penguin.
Report claims Canadian convictedof terrorism to be moved to Ontario
“No one has toldOmar, or us,anything aboutwhen he can expectto be transferred.”KHADR’S LAWYER, JOHN NORRIS
JANET HAMLIN/POOL/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Omar Khadr
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Health and Wellness
Bill Clinton, the keynotespeaker at the Departmentof Energy’s conference forclean-technology startupcompanies in Maryland,put in his two cents on theKeystone XL pipeline proj-ect on Wednesday.
He wondered aloud whyTransCanada didn’t origi-nally propose to build thepipeline around an environ-mentally fragile area of Ne-braska.
“The extra cost of(rerouting the pipeline) isinfinitesimal compared tothe revenue that will begenerated over a long peri-od of time,” he said.
Secretary of State HillaryClinton, testifying later inthe day to the House of Rep-resentatives’ foreign affairscommittee hearings intoenergy security, was asked
about her husband’s re-marks. “He’s a very smartman,” she said to laughter.“But he, unfortunately, isnot bound by the laws andregulations any longer ofthe United States to makedecisions that follow a cer-tain procedure. And that’swhat we have to do.”THE CANADIAN PRESS
Bill Clinton backs Keystone XLFormer president comes out in favour
of controversial $7.6B pipeline project Wife Hillary to decide on its fate
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton shares a laugh with her husband,
former President Bill Clinton, in Selma, Ala., in 2007.
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Flaherty to deliver generalbudgetPROPOSAL. The federal gov-ernment will unveil itsmuch-awaited austeritybudget on March 29,although Finance MinisterJim Flaherty said those ex-pecting a detailed sched-ule of spending cuts maybe disappointed.
Flaherty said Wednes-day the budget will notlay out in specifics wherethe government plans tofind between $4 billionand $8 billion in annualsavings over the nextthree years.THE CANADIAN PRESS
McGuintyrestates oilcommentsPOLITICS. Ontario PremierDalton McGuinty triedWednesday to turn downthe heat generated by hiscomments earlier in theweek about preferring alower dollar to a growingoil-and-gas sector in West-
ern Canada.McGuinty admitted he
was “a bit surprised” bythe extent of theblowback from hiscomments Monday, whenhe said Canada’s high“petro-dollar” was bad forOntario manufacturersand exporters. “I think Ishould clarify ... we arevery, very proud of thework that is being doneby Canadians in everyprovince and territory tostrengthen our country,”McGuinty told reporters.THE CANADIAN PRESS
Portugal shutsU.S. crime caseFUGITIVE. Portugal won’textradite American fugi-tive George Wright to theUnited States for crimeshe committed there fourdecades ago. Policecaptured the 68-year-oldnear the capital, Lisbon,in September, ending hismore than 40 years on thelam after escaping from aNew Jersey prison.
A Lisbon court inNovember refused a U.S.request to send Wrightback to serve the rest ofhis sentence. A judgeruled that the statute oflimitations had expired.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
News in brief
Pipeline Heat
The Obama administration
has deferred making a
decision on the pipeline
until after the election.
Pipeline proponents cried
foul, saying it was a tacticaimed at pacifying environmentalists amongObama’s base in advanceof the election.
Grandpafound guiltyof abuse A U.S. man has beenfound guilty of childabuse for forcing hisgrandsons on gruellinghikes in the GrandCanyon.
A jury found 45-year-old Christopher AlanCarlson guilty Wednes-day for the three forcedhikes of more than 24kilometres each last Au-gust. His threegrandsons were eight,nine and 12 years old.
The oldest grandsondescribed secretlyasking a hiker to callemergency services af-ter he started throwingup and falling down be-cause of cramping.
All three boys saidCarlson pushed, chokedand kicked them duringthe hikes.
Carlson had pleadednot guilty.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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A pre-dawn twister flat-tened entire blocks ofhomes in a small Illinoistown Wednesday as violentstorms ravaged the Mid-west and South, killing atleast 12 people in threestates.
Winds also rippedthrough the country musicmecca of Branson, Mo.,damaging some of thecity's famous theatres justdays before the start of thebusy tourist season.
The storm that blastedHarrisburg in southern Illi-nois, killing six, was anEF4, the second-highestrating given to twistersbased on damage. Scien-tists said it was 200 yardswide with winds up to 170mph.
By midday, townspeoplein the community of 9,000were sorting through pilesof debris and remembering
their dead while the windsstill howled around them.
Three people were re-ported killed in easternTennessee — two in Cum-berland County and anoth-er in DeKalb County — asstorms collapsed homesand downed power linesthere.
The twisters werespawned by a powerfulstorm system that blewdown from the Rockies onTuesday and was headedtoward the East Coast. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Fishing vesseldelays CostaAllegra rescue,
A disabled cruise shipcalled Costa Allegra willspend an extra 10 to 12hours at sea without elec-tricity, air conditioning ortoilet facilities because aFrench fishing vessel thatwas first to respond to thedrifting cruiser refused togive way to faster tugboats, a Seychelles govern-ment official said Wednes-day.
A spokesman for thecruise line denied that thetow would have been fasterwith the tugs and said thedisabled cruise ship was al-ways scheduled to reachthe Seychelles’ main porton Thursday.
The government minis-ter, Joel Morgan, said thatthe cruise ship likelywould have arrived in portWednesday night localtime if the tugs had beenallowed to take over. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Storms ravage U.S. MidwestAt least 12 killed, dozens injured
after deadly tornadoes slam regionKendra McKinley pulls
a flag from the debris of
her grandparents’ home
in Henderson, Ky.
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The native American tribeNavajo Nation has sued Ur-ban Outfitters months afterthe tribe sent a cease-and-desist letter to the clothingretailer demanding it pullthe “Navajo” name from itsproducts. The lawsuit filedlate Tuesday in U.S. DistrictCourt in New Mexicoalleges trademarkviolations as well as viola-tions of the federal IndianArts and Crafts Act.
Urban Outfitters set off afirestorm of criticism lastyear with its line of Navajo-branded clothing andaccessories — particularlyunderwear and a liquor
flask.The company has
declined to comment onthe suit.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
James Murdoch, the execu-tive at the epicentre of thephone-hacking scandal athis father’s British newspa-pers, is stepping down asexecutive chairman ofNews Corp.’s U.K. newspa-per arm.
News Corp. said in astatement Wednesday that
James, theyoungest sonof 80-year-oldmedia mogulRupert Mur-doch, has relin-quished his
position at News Interna-tional to concentrate on thecompany’s television busi-ness.
The 39-year-old will stillremain deputy chief operat-ing officer of News Corp.,
but the move plucks theone-time heir apparent tohis father’s global empireaway from a firestorm overhis role in Britain’s phone-hacking scandal.
“James’ resignation wasinevitable,” said Louis Ure-neck, a journalism profes-sor at Boston University.“He either condoned thehacking or was irresponsi-bly unaware. Neither is ac-ceptable in a top executiveof a media company.”THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Murdoch sonsteps down
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Occupied once againThere was a heavy police presence around NewYork’s 42nd Street area as the demonstration beganWednesday morning. Protesters marched on the of-fices of pharmaceutical giant Pfizer.
Manhattan. Demonstration
An Occupy Wall Street protester holds a sign duringa march toward New York’s Bryant Park.
Navajo Nation suesover trademark
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Brands you’ve endorsedby hitting the “like” buttonwill now be able to pushdeals and other updatesright into the news feedsthat show your friends’ up-dates, photos and links.These posts could also showup if one of your friends hasinteracted with a brand,such as by liking it or com-menting on a photo.
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of Facebook’s initial publicoffering of stock, expectedthis spring. The IPO couldvalue the company at asmuch as $100 billion. Thatmeans Facebook has toprove it can bring in real ad-vertising revenue from the
likes of Walmart, Procter &Gamble and other massivebrands.
“Facebook ... are notmaking serious moneyfrom major brand advertis-ers,” said Rebecca Lieb, ananalyst with the AltimeterGroup. “They currentlyhave rather low-rent, shod-dy ads on Facebook.”
This could now changeas Facebook moves to inte-grate brands’ messages intothe news feeds of its 845million users.
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I’m just talking off the top ofmy head here, but I missperforming improv comedy.
Writing humour is satisfy-ing, sure — especially thatspecial moment when you
see your name on a paycheque in anewspaper. But the delayed, distantfeedback can make you feel like youhave fewer readers than the iTunes serv-ice agreement.
In contrast, and as Mitt Romneywould tell you, there’s no greater thrill
than the instant response you receive when you get onstage and make stuff up.
If you’re not aware, improvisation is a form oftheatre that has spawned many comedic troupes, someserious theatre, certain art-house films and the Iraqwar.
Generally, the idea is simply to make things up onthe spot, often with an audience suggestion, which intheory can be absolutely anything, but which in prac-tice is always “sex,” “horny,” “circus,” “bus stop” or“spatula.”
If that sounds like kids’ stuff, rest assured there aresome deep lessons to belearned.
For instance, one of theimprov rules youorganically discover is“Don’t try to be funny.”Some would argue I’vemastered that.
But the point is that hu-mour should arise fromstrong characters and awell-told story. When youtell a conventional punch-line joke during improvthe audience reply is a ris-ing-then-falling“aaAAAaah” sound, whichmeans “Clever. Not funny.But clever. Now be funny.”
Another improv life les-son, perhaps the most im-portant one, is to acceptwhat the world gives you.
If another actor turned to you on stage and said, “Hi,Donald Trump!” then your natural, human reactionwould be to punch him in the throat. But improvteaches you that scenes work best if you accept everysuggestion — so you scowl in a Trumpian manner andwonder what it must be like to know that even abillion dollars isn’t enough for a decent hairpiece.
When you accept what the scene gives you and don’ttry too hard, then everything that happens is “right,”the possibilities are endless, and things naturally fallinto place. There’s a lesson in there somewhere.
Improv is fun, challenging and, yes, can give you abetter outlook on life. I think you should try it.
And if you don’t have the energy or gumption orwhatever excuse you’re using not to do it, just remem-ber what an audience member once told me during anintrospective moment: “Horny!”
Words to live by.
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Artist ‘writes’famous portraits
PORTRAITURE. This sketchof the great Vincent vanGogh can speak for itself.Artist Anatol Knotek crea-tes faces composed fromhis own handwriting. Kno-tek, whose works allude to1960s avant-garde poetry,has also “written”stunning portraits of BobDylan, Pablo Picasso andNobel Prize laureate Her-mann Hesse. MWN
A thousand wordsANATOL KNOTEK
Anatol Knotek, 34, artistfrom Vienna
What’s the idea behind your“handwritten” portraits?They’re meant to blurthe borders between poe-try and fine art. For me,it’s a type of communica-
tion, pairing the act ofwriting and the art ofpainting. It’s “visual poe-try.”What do you write?A mixture of my ownwriting and words asso-ciated with the personI’m drawing. In this por-trait, I used some passa-ges taken from vanGogh’s letters. I also ad-
ded some sentences fromTheo van Gogh’s letter tohis mother that reportedhis famous brother’sdeath.And how do you write yourdrawings?I first make the sketchwith a pencil and then Ibegin the writing processwith a permanent felt-tippen. I use small, simple
words for the details,then larger letters for theoverall appearance. Itcan take about twoweeks to do one suchportrait.What inspired your work?Concrete poetry — poeticverses that are arrangedin a shape or pattern foradded visual effect.
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Boyd keeping it classyLocal rapper, Classified, handpicked to open for Hedley concert in Halifax next week
From hismeager be-ginningsrecordingrough rapson a cas-sette playerto beingasked to
open for this month’sHedley concert in Halifax,rapper Classified managesto keep two feet firmly onthe ground.
“It’s not an option forsomeone like me to havean ego,” Classified statesin a phone interview.
“I’ve been running withthe same people I’ve beenrunning with since I start-ed so if I get out ofbounds, they’ll keep medown quick.”
Originally from Enfield,Luke “Classified” Boyd ispaving the way for a hand-ful of local talent who, inrecent years, have beenbreaking into spotlight.
“Artists like JBru havebeen touring with me for
10 to 12 years now and it’sgreat to finally see his mu-sic connect with peopleand see it kick off,” hesays.
As is the case for manylocal musicians, breakinginto the mainstream mu-sic business often pres-ents a number ofquestions including: “Howdo you define your
sound?”, “What’s yourmessage,” and “Where thehell is Nova Scotia?”
“Forget the Canadianthing, doing the whole‘I’m from Nova Scotia andtrying to be a rapper’thing is not what peopleexpect,” he explains.
“It’s a battle but it’shelped give me my ownidentity apart from all the
rappers from New York orL.A. talking about thehood life.”
Classified continues toearn his keep in the musicworld utilizing the oppor-tunities awarded to himwhen he signed withSony.
Artistic freedom withina top-notch studio hasproven to be the best
learning environment forhim.
“When I started, Iwould rap over a loopedbeat, now I’m creatingcourses and chord pro-gressions and building itup. I having a better un-derstanding of music andknow I need to keep step-ping it up for every albumI do.”
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Information. Classified isone of three opening actsfor Hedley, which isperforming at the HalifaxMetro Centre nextTuesday. Tickets are $58and $43.
Oprah Winfrey isbringing her lifelessons north ofthe border fora TV event sure torank among herCanadian fans’favourite things. The 58-year-old TVlegend has addedToronto as the lat-est stop onOprah’sLifeclass Tour. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Danny DeVito is becomingquite the multilinguist —or at least that’s what itlooks like. For his new film,The Lorax, DeVito took onthe unprecedented task ofrecording foreign versionsof the movie in Spanish,Italian, German and Russ-ian. It turned out to be amuch more monumentaltask than he’d expected,though. “It’s a fun thing,but it’s time-consuming. Ithought it was going to belike a couple of days. I’ll doGerman in a couple days.Right! It’s more like aweek,” he admits.
“This is the thing, I don’tspeak any of those lan-guages. I speak a tiny bit ofItalian, but I did it all withcoaches and phonetically,”DeVito explains. “What Iwould do is tackle one at atime. And Universalbrought in people from thecountry because sometimesthe lines were very long.And there was no way forme in German or in Russianto get through that entireline without messing upsome intonation. And I real-ly wanted it to capture theperformance, and I didn’twant people to think I had
an accent.”The process of recording
each language took aboutfive days in a recording stu-dio for DeVito and his advis-ers, and the biggest lessonhe learned in that time wasthat he should’ve keptthings simpler whenrecording the English ver-sion. “There are about 90lines of mine in the movie,and some of them some-times you can’t break themup,” he explains. “Like ifyou say to me, ‘Coma estausted?’ That’s one thing.But if you’re saying some-thing like, ‘Didn’t you seeme come out of that stumpwith all the lightning andthe thunder and this andthe that? Did you chopdown that tree?’ Well, I did-
n’t think I was going to bedoing this when I said thoselines back then and didn’tspit in the middle.”
Normally, animatedfilms get dubbed by localactors for each territory, soisn’t he technically takingwork away from actors inEurope? “I did some Russ-ian interviews on thephone and different places,and I always preface it with,‘I know that you guys havegreat actors to do this,’” De-Vito explains.
“It was just one of thosethings where I got it in myhead to do it, and once Isaid I would do it I didn’twant to back down, eventhough I did think, well thistime I’m taking a job awayfrom someone.”
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DeVito goes globalFor The Lorax, actor took on the task of
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Awake has the kind of intri-cate, high-concept premisethat can test viewers. Butthat’s nothing comparedwith what its producersface.
Howard Gordon, a mas-ter at juggling challengingplots (24 and The X-Filesamong them), puts it flatly:“I learned nothing, andnothing I experienced pre-pared for me this.”
“This is a vehicle that noone has driven before andhas no operating instruc-tions,” said Gordon, whoproduces Awake with itscreator, Kyle Killen.
The series, debuting 10p.m. EST today on Global,stars Jason Isaacs as policedetective Michael Britten, aman living in two worlds. Acar accident has claimed afamily member’s life: hiswife, Hannah (Laura Allen),in one, and his teenage son,Rex (Dylan Minnette), in an-other.
The duality extends toBritten’s work, where he in-vestigates cases with twopartners (Steve Harris,Wilmer Valderrama), anddiscovers that straddlingdifferent realities gives himcrime-busting insights.
While other TV showswith parallel universes andoutcomes have dabbled inextreme explanations —quick, explain Lost again —Gordon and Killen insistthis is a (relatively) simple
case of a guy living one lifeand dreaming another.
Britten and the audienceare just not sure which iswhich. Neither are the ther-apists who are treatinghim, with both assuringhim that his OTHER life isthe dream. He’s unwillingto give up the balancing actthat allows him to keephold of both wife and son.
“At the centre of it is thequestion we all live with aspeople, which is how do weface loss and how do welive in the face of loss,” Gor-don said.
The detective wearscoloured wristbands tokeep his lives straight.Isaacs insists viewers haveit easier. When the pilotwas being developed, hesaid, there was concernthat the idea was so tricky,his character might need tobe bearded in one worldand beardless in the otherto help viewers distinguish
between them. “But mydaughter, who’s 5, told methe story in three sen-tences,” Isaacs recalled. “SoI told the producers, ‘Wedon’t need to worry.’”THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Awake blurs reality New drama has viewers guessing what’s a dream
Awake’s tricks
Awake employs a classic
trick to allow viewers to
dip in at any point:
It’s what Gordon calls an
“old-school title
sequence” that restates
the concept before each
episode.
“So if you tune in forepisode seven, you havethe tools to sit down andenjoy that hour oftelevision,” producerHoward Gordon says. “For an idea like this, clari-ty is your friend and youwant to make the barrieras low as possible.”
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Plans are reportedly al-ready underway for amovie about WhitneyHouston’s life, accordingto the Daily Mail.
Producer Clive Davis isbehind the project, andwhile Jennifer Hudson,Vivica Fox and JordinSparks are reportedly onthe list for the lead role,Davis is said to have hiseye on Rihanna to playHouston.
And lest it seems likeDavis is trying to cash inon his friend’s death, thefilm was reportedly al-ready being developed be-
fore Houstonpassed away lastmonth.
“Whitney
knew about the projectand was excited to see
where it would lead,” asource says.
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Who will playWhitney in film?
‘I will notlet anyonedown’Lindsay Lohan ismounting her comeback,starting with a stint host-ing Saturday Night Livethis week, and she knowsthere’s a lot at stake.
“I will not let anyonedown, especially myself,”she says in an interviewwith the Today Show,starkly contrasting her lastvisit to the show, duringwhich she denied havingany problems at all.
“I wasn’t as comfortablewith myself then. I thinkit was a fear factor that Ihad about what was reallygoing on. And, you know, Ihad to get that wake-upcall.”
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Snooki pregnant?MTV went into crisis mode after hearing news: Source
Though she re-cently deniedit, many newsorganizationsare now report-ing that Nicole“Snooki”Polizzi is in-
deed three months preg-nant with boyfriend JionniLaValle’s baby.
The Jersey Shore star isreportedly looking to makethe most of the announce-ment — and has even bro-kered a deal for a coverstory with Us Weekly.
Apparently, Snooki islooking to use her pregnan-cy to become “the next
Kourtney Kardashian,” asource tells Page Six.
But reps at MTV aren’t asexcited, since Snooki is cur-rently filming a JerseyShore spin-off chroniclingher hard-partying lifestyle.
“MTV went into crisismode after they found out,”the source says. “They’retrying to hide it because itwould greatly affect the cre-ative direction of the show.”
At first, I laughed at thisbecause, well, “creative di-rection” and Jersey Shorespin-off do not go together.
But then it makes sense:MTV’s programming isfilled with a million badparenting reality shows,from Teen Mom to 16 andPregnant. Even they proba-bly loathe to air a segmentof Snooki taking her babyfor its first spray tan.
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Ben and Jen welcome third child Jennifer Garner gave birthto a son Tuesday in SantaMonica, Calif., accordingto People magazine. It’sthe third child and firstboy for Garner andhusband Ben Affleck, whoalso have daughtersViolet, 6, and Seraphina,3.
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“It would be so weird tohave a boy,” she told EllenDeGeneres during aninterview last year.
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Jeanne Space In this hectic modern world, Twitter has become a cool and succinct way of communicating. It allows me to be ac-cessible, instantly speak my mind, and connects me with all kinds of people. Whether it’s a fashion question oryou just want to comment on life’s bigger picture, I’d love to hear from you.
@Jeanne_Beker: 8 days of shows to cover in Paris. A fantasyfor some... A lot of work for me! But not complaining. What's
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View from mon petit chambre. Always stay in same charming St. Germain hotel in same sweet room: Home.
@sarahohm: “Audrey Hepburn in Funny Face” would bemine! #parisfantasy@Jeanne_Beker: Oh yeah! To be a hot young modelfalling in love with a cool photographer... What a gor-geous cliche!
@Enriquemylove16: live there go to champs elyseesevery weekend for shopping :P get to know peoplefrom there explore the fashion world #dream♥
@Mymsie7: wow! I want to get to visit every beauti-ful spot in the city! And taste everything there is totaste! I want to go next year:)
@KendalLo: Hands down Paris at Christmas & NYE.Long meals inside warm Parisian restaurants, lots ofwine, good coffee and shopping.@Jeanne_Beker: Oh YEAH! Nothing like guilt-freegorging in the City of Light! Worth every calorie!!!
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You too can nailChanel chic
Peter Philips, global creative director of Chanel makeup, creates nail and lip colours thatinstantly sell out and spark wait lists Heed his advice for a natural, beautiful look
The mouth vs. the eyes “Being beautiful is as toughas you want to make it, butit doesn’t have to be allabout the pressure. There’sno such thing as an idealface. Who can measurethat? A perfect face is onethat expresses confidenceand is happy with itself.When I speak to somebodyI’m always drawn to theirmouth, maybe that’s be-cause it’s more comfortablethan looking someone inthe eyes. Also with theeyes, which eye do youlook at? But all womenshould have an eyelashcurler. This also applies towomen who don’t wearmakeup. One pinch to thelashes can work miracles asit opens up your eyes andmakes you look fresh andawake. Add some mascaraand you’re ready to go.”
The face: The fine balance“It’s a criminal offence towear too much makeup,
just as it is to wear too lit-tle. It’s all about striking abalance and wearing a lookwith confidence. Some-thing that always lookswrong is not blending yourfoundation in properly sothat you can see the line be-tween the face and theneck. It’s so easy to avoid.Blend it out with your fin-gers or check the lightingin your bathroom.”
Don’t forget the inside“Every phase of your lifehas beauty in it. We allwant youth but at somepoint we have to realizethat we’re getting olderand it’s not all aboutfoundation or mascara. If
you eat and live wrong itwill have an impact onyour looks. You know thetricks: eat more vegeta-bles, stop smoking, drinkwater and cut back on al-cohol.”
The nails: introducing April,May and June. “The Le Vernis shades areanticipated not because ofme but because they’reChanel. I have the advan-tage that I can link mycreations with the fashionshow, it gives them a rea-son to exist. May is pinkyand girly and June has abeachy feel to it. It took24 try-outs in the lab be-fore we got the rightshade for Le Vernis inJune.
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“It’s a criminaloffence to weartoo much makeup,just as it is towear too littlemakeup. It’s allabout striking abalance andwearing a lookwith confidence.”PETER PHILIPS
Peter PhilipsWhat’s trending?
Trends, no. Seduction, yes.
“I don’t create trends; it’s the women who wear them thatcreate them. My challenge is to develop shades that will seduce these women into buying them and the only way toseduce a women is by literally seducing her. I chose springhorizons; sunset and sunrise as it can be the most amazingmoment of the day. I was afraid it would be a bit kitschy,mellow and corny, but it’s also very beautiful. She can’t beintimidated by the colours or feel like she’s being forced intowearing something. She needs to stand in front of thecounter or be reading a magazine and say, ‘that’s a shade Iwant to wear.’”
It was announcedthis week that Sir El-ton John will beheadlining FashionCares, the silver an-niversary fundraisinggala, to be held onSeptember 9, 2012 atthe Sony Centre forthe Performing Artsin Toronto.
Chaired byMichael King andDavid Furnish, withcosmeticspowerhouse MACViva Glam returningas title sponsor, theevent will feature anintimate dinner, a ret-rospective of the past25 years of FashionCares, and a liveshow performance bySir Elton John andother high profile,internationalmusicians.
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Guy Laroche designer showsgem-inspired collection, and
no skin, in Paris.
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Certified raw foods chefRose Vasile, has releasedthe fifth edition of herUncooking with RawRosecookbook ($29.95).
The recipes aresurprisingly varied andinclude a large section onsoups, salad dressing anddips and another ondesserts, often using nutsor seeds as the base forcakes or pies.
One standout recipe isa lasagna made with lay-ers of mushrooms,zucchini and spinach, al-mond cheese and mari-nara sauce. THE CANADIAN PRESS
Satisfy your raw curiosityMarch is Nutrition Month across Canada Celebrate by trying to
‘uncook’ raw foods This Super Carrot Soup is tasty and easy to prepare
Preparation:
1 In blender, combine car-rots, water, oil, cilantro,garlic, raisins, lemonjuice, salt, currypowder, cumin andcayenne. Blend untilsmooth.
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Dear Charles the butler,
Can you please advise on
the best way to remove fin-
ger marks from stainless
steel appliances?
Thank you,
Kim
Dear Kim,As beautiful as stain-
less steel is, those fingermarks drive me nuts too!
Fingerprints tend to beoil-based, although theycan be caused by manyother things. But naturaloil from the skin on ourfingers is the most com-mon culprit.
So remember, “like re-
moves like.” These arethe methods in the order Ilike to follow and theones in which I have hadthe most success:1. A microfibre cloth and“all-purpose cleaner” (4cups water & 1 tablespoondish soap)
2. A microfibre cloth and“multi-purpose cleaner”(50% water & 50% vinegar)
3. Paper towel and oliveoil; I learned this trickfrom a stainless steel in-staller and it does work!
4. You can buy a commer-cial stainless steel clean-ing product at mosthardware stores
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Seven minutes made all thedifference for the HalifaxMooseheads on Wednesdaynight.
The Mooseheads eruptedfor four goals in a six-minute, 43-second span inthe second period to recov-er from a 2-0 deficit and de-feat the host GatineauOlympiques 6-2 at CentreRobert Guertin.
The Mooseheads, kick-ing off a three-game roadtrip, continued their hotplay, improving to 7-2-1over the past 10 games.
“It’s always a hard placeto play and we had a slowstart,” said Mooseheadshead coach DominiqueDucharme. “After our firstgoal, we really took controlof the game and played bet-ter as a unit of five. We hadscoring chances and weburied them.”
Brent Andrews startedthe run of six unansweredgoals with his ninth of theseason at 7:16. DefencemanKonrad Abeltshauser andwingers Alexandre Grenierand Brad Cuzner followedin rapid succession.
It was a night of bal-anced offence, as DarcyAshley and Luca Ciampiniscored in the third periodto make it six differentgoal-scorers from four dif-ferent lines.
“Everybody chipped inand really played hard,”Ducharme said.
The Mooseheads out-shot the Olympiques 15-10in the second and 33-23overall.
Mooseheads rookie goal-tender Zach Fucale made 21saves in a second-star per-formance to break OlivierRoy’s QMJHL record forwins by a 16-year-old withhis 28th of the season.
“He deserves all the cred-it he gets,” Ducharme said.“He’s getting even better asthe weeks go by. We stillhave eight games to play —how many more wins canhe get? It might become apretty hard record to beat.”
Ashley, Ciampini, Gre-nier and Andrews recordedassists for two-point nights,
while Abeltshauser was thefirst star with a plus-2 rat-ing.
The sixth-place Moose-heads (35-19-6) now have 76points and are four pointsbehind the fifth-place Victo-riaville Tigres. They visitthe Rouyn-NorandaHuskies for games on Fri-day and Saturday.
Win puts Halifax four points out of fifth place Fucale breaks win recordfor 16-year-old goaltenders Mooseheads improve to 7-2-1 in past 10 games
Herd tops Olympiqueswith surge in second
The Saint Mary’s Huskiesare on the ropes in enemyterritory.
The Huskies weremopped up 6-1 by the hostMoncton Aigles Bleus onWednesday night in Game3 of the Atlantic UniversitySport men’s hockey semifi-nal and now trail the best-
of-five series 2-1.The Aigles Bleus, who
host Game 4, can eliminatethe Huskies on Saturday at7 p.m.
The winner of the seriesnot only qualifies for theAUS final against the UNBVarsity Reds, it also clinchesa berth at the CIS Universi-ty Cup from March 22 to 25in Fredericton, N.B. METRO
Hockey Huskies a lossaway from elimination
Tyrone Levett
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Alexandre Grenier’s goal at 12:29 of the second period
stood as the winner in Halifax’s 6-2 win over Gatineau.
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Rainmentrio votedNBL Canadaall-starsThree members of the Hali-fax Rainmen will be on theMetro Centre hardwood forthe inaugural National Bas-ketball League of Canadaall-star game.
Guards Joey Haywoodand Taliek Brown and for-ward Tyrone Levett wereamong the top 20 in fanvoting for the two-dayevent scheduled for March31 and April 1 after morethan 213,000 castingballots.
Levett (15.1 points pergame), Haywood (13.6) andBrown (12.9) are second,third and fourth inRainmen scoring. Top pointproducer Lawrence Wright(16.1) didn’t make the cut.
“We’re pleased with thecalibre of players who willbe bringing their talents toHalifax for this excitingevent,” said Rainmen own-er Andre Levingston.
Haywood, a Vancouvernative who is one of sixCanadians among the top-20, will be a captain for theevent along with LondonLightning guard EddieSmith. Haywood and Smithwill select the two 10-manall-star squads via a draft onThursday at noon.
Also cracking the top 20is former Rainmen guardTrayvon Lathan, who nowplays for Moncton.
The head coaches of theNBL Canada finalists willcoach the all-star teams.
MATTHEW WUEST
SMU’s Smit anall-Canadian CIS VOLLEYBALL. Kerri Smitof the Saint Mary’sHuskies was named aCanadian InteruniversitySport first-team women’svolleyball all-Canadian onWednesday, while MaggieLi of Dalhousie wasnamed to the all-rookieteam. Saint Mary’s opens
the CIS championshipagainst McGill on Friday.
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Dal, St. FX toclash for titleAUS HOCKEY. The AtlanticUniversity Sport women’shockey championshipopens Thursday at Memo-rial Arena. The host andsixth-seeded DalhousieTigers face the No. 1 St.Francis Xavier X-Womenat 3 p.m. Sunday’s finalwill be at 2 p.m. METRO
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LOWER SACKVILLE’S JAMESSHEPPARD IS FINALLY BACKON THE ICE AFTER MISSINGALMOST TWO FULL YEARSWITH A KNEE INJURY. THE224-GAME NHL VETERANRETURNED TO ACTION ON
WEDNESDAY, SUITING UP FORTHE AMERICAN HOCKEYLEAGUE’S WORCESTER
SHARKS IN A 2-1 LOSS TO THECONNECTICUT WHALE IN
HARTFORD. SHEPPARD, WHOLAST PLAYED FOR THE
MINNESOTA WILD ON APRIL 8,2010, FIRED FOUR SHOTS ON
GOAL AND TOOK A MINORPENALTY. HE’S ON A
CONDITIONING LOAN FROMTHE SAN JOSE SHARKS.
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It was a challenging climbto the top for Blue Jayspitcher Ricky Romero.
Expectations were highfor the first-round pick,who toiled in the minorsfor years before breakingthrough at the major-league level in 2009.
The team was patientwith the now 27-year-oldleft-hander and it paid off.
“Now that I look back atit, I’m thankful that I wentthrough those times,”Romero said Wednesday inDunedin, Fla. “Being indouble-A for two-and-a-halfyears, I learned a lot aboutmyself as a person.... I wasable to learn to deal withfailure.”
There were plenty oftrying times after the LosAngeles native was takensixth overall in the 2005amateur draft. He strug-gled with a 16-23 record inToronto’s minor-leaguesystem.
But the Blue Jays felt hewas ready for a look in2009 and in 29 starts as arookie, Romero posted asolid 13-9 mark with a 4.30earned-run average.
“When I got to the bigleagues, I wasn’t going tolet one bad start get to meor get to my head,”Romero said. “It was justmove on to the next one.”
Manager John Farrellsaid it’s not uncommon forfirst-rounders to face chal-lenges in the minors.
“Everyone assumesthey’re going to get to thebig leagues as a first-rounder so when they fi-nally get there, theysomewhat relax and say,‘OK, I’ve made it to where
my draft number has said Ishould be,’” he said.
“And then things comeout.”
Romero continued tomake strides in 2010, go-ing 14-9 and trimming hisERA to 3.73. He was signedto a long-term contractthat summer andRomero’s ascent to stafface was complete when hewas named the openingday starter last year.
Romero went on to posta 15-11 record with a 2.92
ERA in 2011, his best cam-paign yet.
The six-foot, 215-poundleft-hander often jokes
around with teammatesand management typesalike, spitting sunflowerseeds with abandon wher-
ever he goes. Romero likesto keep the mood ratherlight but he is seriouswhen he needs to be and isready to be the staff’sworkhorse.
A big grin spreadsacross his face when askedabout the upcoming sea-son.
“You see the determina-tion and the work thatwe’re putting in,” he said.“We’re ready to take it tothe next level.”THE CANADIAN PRESS
Ready for ‘the next level’Jays’ Romero on rise after bumpy road to big leagues Left-hander now undisputed staff ace
Early arms race
Ricky Romero anchors a
starting rotation that is still
very much unsettled.
Brandon Morrow is likelythe No. 2 starter with BrettCecil, Henderson Alvarezand Dustin McGowan early
favourites for the nextthree slots.“We need everybody tohave a career year,” saidJays GM Alex Anthopoulos.“We just need everybodyto be solid and play to theability that they have, and Ithink we’re going to havea great team.”
Jays left-hander Ricky Romero pitches in Tuesday’s
live batting practice at spring training in Dunedin, Fla.
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Woods’agent slams ex-swingcoach’s bookTiger Woods’ agent lashedout Tuesday against HankHaney’s book, saying his“armchair psychology”about Woods was“ridiculous” and that it wasclear the former swingcoach only cares about self-promotion.
Haney’s book about hissix years as Woods’ coach istitled The Big Miss. It is togo on sale March 27.
Golf Digest began releas-ing small excerpts Tuesdayon its tablet applicationsand on its website. Haney’sbook was written with helpfrom Jaime Diaz, a seniorwriter at the magazine whohas covered Woods moreextensively than anyoneover the years.
In one of the excerpts,Haney, a McKinney, Texas,golf guru, said his jobbecame more difficult in2007, when Woods had 12majors and was gettingcloser to the record 18 wonby Jack Nicklaus.
“There was moreurgency and less fun.... Henever mentioned Nicklaus’record, but it started toweigh more heavily atevery major,” the excerptsaid.
He also said Woods wasseriously consideringbecoming a Navy SEAL.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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