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Leadfoots still a danger on the roadsDespite the stepped-up en-forcement, heftier fines and increased education, Saskatch-ewan’s speeding in highway construction zones isn’t slow-ing down.
At least, not nearly enough, the provincial government said on Thursday.
There were 83 such offence notices issued in only a two-week period in mid-August, in-cluding seven tickets for driv-ing more than 30 km/h over the posted 60 km/h limit.
And this despite a focused campaign to make motorists aware of new orange signs and higher fines for the infractions.
“When we were introdu-cing photo-radar in construc-tion zones, we hoped we would never have to issue a ticket and that we hoped that the deterrent would work,” Don McMorris, minister of highways and infrastructure, said in Saskatoon.
“What’s even more discon-certing is there was a number
of them over 90 km/h in a 60 km/h zone. Obviously, the message isn’t getting through to some of the drivers.”
About 45 construction pro-jects are under way on Sas-katchewan highways, includ-ing three that began this week.
McMorris added, however, that while the number of tick-ets remains alarmingly high, crews on the roads have no-ticed a difference.
“After talking with many construction companies,
they are finding the speeds are reduced and more people are obeying,” he said.
“I think the vast majority do (slow down). But still, it’s disconcerting when we have 80 tickets issued.”
The citations came through regular on-the-ground enforce-ment or photograph-based radar that was introduced on highways earlier this summer.
The crackdown on speed-ing has come largely as a
response to a tragedy
in which a woman was struck and killed by a vehicle while she worked on a highway crew in rural Saskatchewan last year.
“Photo-radar is there as a deterrent (and) there is more enforcement in the orange zones this year,” McMorris said.
“That’s why, as time goes on, people (will) realize the en-forcement is there, the signage is proper. And they will start obeying.“
Highway construction zones. Province says there are far too many speeding infractions despite clampdown consisting of increased fi nes and photo-radar
HOOP DEE DOOJoshua Grassick and Beki Stilborn perform their What the Funk Hula-Hoop dance duet in downtown Regina on Thursday as an audition for BuskFest, an event during Culture Days from Sept. 27 to 29. Story on page 2. ALYSSA MCDONALD/METRO
Frosh-week fracasA Saint Mary’s University chant that glorifi es non-consensual underage sex has the student union head in hot water PAGE 4
Syria in the spotlight at summit At the G20 summit in Russia, Barack Obama’s push for a military strike against Syria gets a cool reception PAGE 5
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CFL great Clermont named to Regina Sports Hall of FameAfter so many great catches, this is something Jason Cler-mont is particularly pleased to receive.
The retired CFL receiver was named on Thursday as one of several inductees to
the Regina Sports Hall of Fame.
“It’s an honour, especial-ly with the other inductees that are going in this year,” Clermont, a Regina native who starred with the Sas-katchewan Roughriders and the B.C. Lions, said at a press event at the Co-operators Centre. The other honourees include bowling great Flo Rolls.
A product of the city’s
minor sports system, Cler-mont praised fellow induc-tees Leo Antonini and Kelly Hamilton for their roles in boosting Regina’s minor football program.
“If it wasn’t for guys like that, then young players wouldn’t have the opportun-ity to play high school with their respective team, to junior, to university, to the CFL,” Clermont told Metro.
Rolls, who represented
Canada at an international bowling tournament in 1987, said she’s surprised by the honour.
“It was a sport I loved to do,” she said.
Other inductees include Dick White, the University of Regina’s athletic director, Marnie Eistetter, a synchron-ized-swimming staple, and the 1932-to-1936 Regina Nationals baseball team. MARCO VIGLIOTTI/METRO
Former CFL receiver Jason ClermontMARCO VIGLIOTTI/METRO
Regina’s � rst BuskFest to throw the city for a loop
Beki Stilborn shows an artistic fl air with a hula hoop during her audition for BuskFest. ALYSSA MCDONALD/METRO
It’s common to see a few buskers playing instruments in downtown Regina — but imagine an event just for street performers to show off their talents.
That’s what BuskFest has in store this month, accord-ing to Creative City Centre.
The non-profit organiza-tion is planning a two-hour event for buskers to take over downtown as part of Culture Days, which is happening from Sept. 27 to 29.
“It’s giving space for Re-gina’s talent — especially the talent like the hula-hooping and some of the music per-formers — that wouldn’t necessarily have a big show,” co-ordinator Shayna Stock said.
“It’s just to have a space for them to come and play in the park.”
Downtown pedestrians got a little taste of the event when Creative City Centre held open auditions on Thurs-day.
By noon, they had received 13 submissions, though many of them were in video format.
One act that tried out live was Joshua Grassick and Beki Stilborn, doing their What the Funk hula-hoop routine.
“We’ve never really made a choreography or a duet thing until now,” Stilborn said, adding she has been “hooping” for two years, “and we thought that would give an edge for the audition.”
The pair hopes to be among the acts taking over the streets for BuskFest, which will involve a noon walking tour on Sept. 27.
Stock said they want a di-verse mix of performances.
“We really like to perform with our hoops... It brings a lot of joy,” Stilborn said.
“And Regina needs to see some more different, weird arts,” Grassick added.
Part of Culture Days. Organizers, performers prepared for ‘diff erent, weird’ art on the street
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Transit system failing U of R campus, students union says
Regina Transit is being criticized by the University of Regina students union for what that organization says is poor service to the main campus. Marco Vigliotti/Metro
As a “centre hub” of the city, the University of Regina should be better served by the muni-cipal transit system, the head of the school’s students union says.
“We still feel much more focus should be paid to the uni-versity,” Nathan Sgrazzutti said. “It’s not the easiest thing in the world to get to the university through the city transit.”
Despite the boasts of city of-ficials, Sgrazzutti argued that route changes implemented
by Regina Transit this summer will not make travelling to the campus significantly easier.
“They think they fixed it — but we’re quite adamant that they haven’t,” he said.
According to Regina Tran-sit, the university is one of the most heavily served locations in the city, with five routes run-ning to the school.
When the university is in session, about 40,000 “unique” trips are made monthly by post-secondary students, said Tracy Kondratiuk, a market research analyst with Regina
Transit.“(The school) has some of
our highest ridership,” she said. “That’s why they’re the loca-tion with the most routes.”
In fact, Regina Transit’s new-est promotion — free service on Fridays throughout Septem-ber — was timed to coincide with the surge of ridership at the start of the school year, Kondratiuk said.
She added that the transit system wants to use this oppor-tunity to encourage students to take the bus instead of driving, which could be a tough sell this year with the U of R’s notorious campus parking squeeze appar-ently worsening.
If more students were drawn to the transit system, Sgrazzutti said, it would im-prove the chances of bringing a universal bus pass to the school — the kind already instituted at many post-secondary institu-tions across Canada.
‘Centre hub’. Free Friday rides this month aimed in part at helping students, Regina Transit says
The Cabela’s store in Regina, to open later this month, features elaborateanimal displays. Marco Vigliotti/Metro
Another U.S. retailer — this time Cabela’s — is soon to open in ReginaThe hunt is almost over for Regina outdoor types search-ing for another retailer.
U.S.-based Cabela’s will open its first location in the Queen City on Sept. 19 at the Grasslands Shopping Cen-tre, and the 50,000-square-foot store will be only the fourth Canadian location for the chain.
“(The store is) for the outdoor adventurer — be-yond hunting and fishing — and people that just want to spend time outdoors,” general manager Dwayne Boddy explained while guiding media through the building on Thursday.
Fishing supplies, he said, tend to be the company’s bestsellers.
Unusual Cabela’s offer-ings include large displays of camouflage clothing, testable fishing reels, a fudge shop and an archery range for customers to try the store’s bows.
The most striking fea-tures, though, might be the store’s realistic stuffed-ani-
mal displays.At the back of the retail
area, a small waterfall is surrounded by grizzlies, mountain goats and other majestic creatures native to North America.
“We want to sell the event of coming to our store, and this builds into the event,” Boddy said, noting that many of the
animals were donated to Cabela’s.
“We refer to this as the focal point of the store.”
The Regina site offers a meeting room for the use of local, provincial and na-tional wildlife associations — including Ducks Unlimit-ed and the Saskatchewan Wildlife Federation. MARCo ViglioTTi/MeTRo
Quoted
“It’s not the easiest thing in the world to get to the university through city transit.”Nathan Sgrazzutti, head of U of R student union
MaRco [email protected]
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Jared Perry, president of Saint Mary’s University Student Association, speaks with the media at the GorsebrookLounge in Halifax on Thursday. Jeff Harper/Metro in Halifax
80 students handed sensitivity training for pro-rape chant
The president of the Saint Mary’s University Student As-sociation says he knew about and participated in a chant glorifying the rape of underage girls — but will not step down.
“We want to be some ser-ious advocates about sexual assault and we want to turn this around and educate more students,” said Jared Perry during a news confer-ence in Halifax Thursday.
Eighty student leaders and three SMUSA executive mem-
bers will undergo sensitivity training after a video sur-faced of them leading hun-dreds of first-year students in the chant, which spells out the word “young” with lines like, “‘u’ is for underage, ‘n’ is for no consent.”
Perry said the chant has been taught to frosh for “years.” He said he and the other leaders just didn’t think about the message.
“It’s more about the rhyme and the chant behind it,” he said. “As odd as it sounds, we didn’t see the message … we now realize that it’s extreme-ly serious and we don’t want it to happen any more.”
Perry has resigned as chair of the Students Nova Scotia group, but will not give up the office of SMUSA president.
“It’s definitely the biggest mistake I’ve made through-out my university career and
probably my life,” he said.Saint Mary’s president Dr.
Colin Dodds called the chant “completely inexcusable.”
“My colleagues and I were shocked by this incident and are deeply sorry that our stu-dents, and now the commun-ity at large, were exposed to disturbing sexually charged material,” he said in a state-ment. “I am taking measures to ensure it does not happen in the future.”
Halifax. Chant has been taught to first-years at Saint Mary’s University for years
Opportunity for change?
“I feel that there’s an opportunity here to make some changes and I really do want to turn this around.”Jared Perry, president of the Saint Mary’s University Student Association
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U.S. President Barack Obama pressed fellow world leaders on Thursday to support a U.S.-led strike on Syria, but he ran into opposition from Russia, China and even the EU — which condemned the recent chem-ical weapons attack in Bashar Assad’s country but declared it too soon for military action.
“The use of chemical weapons in Syria is not only a tragedy but also a viola-tion of international law that must be addressed,” Obama insisted during a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the G20 summit, where he mostly made his case behind the scenes.
China’s G20 delegation spokesman, Qin Gang, was among those who countered, saying: “War isn’t the funda-mental way to solve problems in Syria.”
The prospect of military action against Syria over-shadowed the global growth agenda at the two-day summit, which opened Thursday in the Russian city of St. Petersberg. Leaders did, however, discuss the crisis during a dinner host-ed by Russian President Vladi-mir Putin, one of the Syrian government’s strongest sup-porters.
White House advisers said Obama was seeking “political
and diplomatic” support from his international counterparts, not necessarily military co-operation. And Ben Rhodes, Obama’s deputy national se-curity adviser, said the type of action the U.S. is contemplat-ing “does not come with sig-nificant requirements of inter-national participation.”
While Obama has long called for the ouster of Assad, the chemical weapons attack near Damascus two weeks ago pushed the U.S. to the brink of military action for the first time during Syria’s civil war. The U.S. position on Syria has increased tensions with Putin, one of Assad’s most important backers. Putin has blocked ef-forts at the UN to take action and has questioned intelli-gence reports U.S. officials say link the chemical weapon de-ployment to the Syrian leader.the associated press
G20 summit. The U.S. president runs into opposition to military action from Russia, China and the European Union
obama presses leaders to support a strike on syria
Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, shakes hands with U.S. President Barack Obama during the G20 summit in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Thursday. Dmitry Lovetsky/the associateD press
Chemical warfare?
U.K.: New evidence gas used U.K. scientists have found new evidence that poison gas was used last month outside of Damascus, U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron said Thursday in an interview with the BBC. Cameron said that the evidence “further shows the use of chemical weapons in that Damascus suburb.” The BBC’s account of the interview did not make clear whether the tests had determined who was responsible for the attack. the associated press
4 stories coming out of the summit
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PM Harper takes firm stand on Syria, debt-reductionPrime Minister Stephen Harper is taking a firm position on two controversial issues at this year’s G20 summit, with little hope of achieving a wider consensus with his fellow leaders on either front.
With Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird and Finance Minister Jim Flaherty in tow to hammer home his messages, Harp-er made it clear that a military strike is necessary against Syria; and that countries should be setting hard targets for reducing their debts, as Canada is now doing.
U.S. to scale back stimulus gradually: Russian officialRussia’s finance minister says U.S. President Barack Obama assured G20 leaders that the U.S. will be scaling back its stimulus policy. The prospect of the U.S. Federal Reserve scaling back its policy of quantitative easing has dampened hopes of a global recovery and has already caused weakness in emer-ging market currencies.
Anton Siluanov told reporters that in response to other world leaders’ concerns, Obama said that the U.S. will be with-drawing stimulus “gradually”.
Tax offensive sets sights on Google, AmazonRussia’s finance minister says that G20 leaders have agreed on a plan to take on multinational companies who tuck away their profits in offshore jurisdictions.
Speaking after Thursday’s first G20 ses-sion, Anton Siluanov said leaders are indig-nant over the policies of giants like Google and Amazon, who “make money in one country” but pay lower taxes elsewhere. The G20 leaders agreed on a plan that would prevent these companies from using loopholes and tax havens, Siluanov said.
Human-rights activists stage individual protests at G20Spaced out along St. Petersburg’s main thoroughfare, about a dozen activists staged protests to attract the attention of leaders of the world’s biggest economies to human-rights violations in Russia.
Activist Iosiph Skakovsky said they held individual protests because mass protests are often banned or disrupted by police.Activist Natalya Tsymbalova was protesting “discrimination of sexual minorities, falsifi-cation of elections, pressure on NGOs, viola-tion of the freedom of public assembly.”
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Esme-28 added to birth control recallThe company that removed one of its birth control pills from the market last week due to a packaging error is
now recalling a second.Mylan Pharmaceuticals
is recalling Esme-28 after it was unable to rule out the possibility that the product was affected by the same packaging mix-up that oc-curred with Freya-28. The Canadian Press
Having to count the carnageJust a few of the vehicles involved in a major accident on the Sheppey Bridge Crossing near Sheerness in Kent, south England, on Thursday. The vehicles involved are numbered by emergency services. According to police, around 100 vehicles were involved, leaving at least eight people seriously injured and many with minor injuries. GaretH Fuller/Pa/tHe associated Press
An Indian woman whose memoir about life under Taliban rule was turned into a Bollywood movie was shot dead Thursday by suspected members of the Islamist mil-itia, officials said.
The killing of Sushmita Banerjee was the latest in a string of attacks on promin-ent women in Afghanistan, adding to fears that women’s rights — in a country where many are barely allowed out-side the house — will face setbacks after U.S.-led foreign
forces fully withdraw in 2014.The militants arrived
before dawn at Banerjee’s residence in eastern Paktika province, which lies in Af-ghanistan’s east — a region where the Taliban are espe-cially influential.
Her husband, Jaanbaz Khan, answered the door, only to be quickly bound and blindfolded, provincial po-lice chief Gen. Dawlat Khan Zadran said.
The militants then dragged Banerjee outside and shot her at least 15 times, Zadran said.
Banerjee — who was from Kolkata, India — wrote A Kabuliwala’s Bengali Wife. It later became the basis for the 2003 film Escape From Taliban. The assoCiaTed Press
Home invasion. Indian author had previously escaped Afghanistan and execution in 1995
Woman who wrote about Taliban rule shot dead
The RCMP in Saskatchewan is setting out to solve the mystery of where bodies go when people disappear in the North Saskatchewan River.
Mounties have placed a 68-kilogram pig carcass, equipped with a radio
tracking device and a temperature gauge, in the river near North Battleford. Police will head out on the water next week to track the carcass’s movement toward Nipawin.
They hope their
long-planned experiment will turn up potential pat-terns of where bodies go when they drift down-stream.
Const. Tyler Hadland, with the Saskatoon Histor-ical Case Unit, says several people have presumably
gone missing in the river and their bodies have not been found.
Police may allow the carcass to stay in the riv-er until spring to allow for more detailed observa-tions.The Canadian Press
Police hope dead pig can help solve disappearances
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Google seeks to dismiss privacy lawsuitGoogle’s attorneys say their long-running practice of electronically scanning the contents of people’s Gmail ac-counts to help sell ads is legal, and are asking a U.S. federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit that seeks to stop the practice.
In court records filed in advance of a federal hearing Thursday in San Jose, Calif., Google argues that “all users of
email must necessarily expect that their emails will be sub-ject to automated processing.”
The class action lawsuit, filed in May, says Google “unlawfully opens up, reads, and acquires the content of people’s private email mes-sages” in violation of Califor-nia’s privacy laws and federal wiretapping statutes. The AssociATed Press
Yahoo has adopted a new logo for the first time since shortly after the Internet company’s founding 18 years ago.
The redesigned look is part of a makeover that Yahoo Inc. has been undergoing since the Sunnyvale, Calif., company hired Google executive Marissa Mayer to become Yahoo’s CEO 14 months ago.
Mayer has already spruced up Yahoo’s front page, email and Flickr photo-sharing ser-vice, as well as engineered a series of acquisitions aimed at attracting more traffic on mobile devices. The shopping spree has been highlighted by Yahoo’s $1.1-billion US pur-chase of Tumblr, an Internet blogging service where the company rolled out its new logo.
“We wanted a logo that stayed true to our roots (whim-sical, purple, with an exclama-tion point) yet embraced the evolution of our products,” a statement on the website said.
The revision is the first time that Yahoo has made a signifi-cant change to its logo since a few tweaks shortly after co-
founders Jerry Yang and David Filo incorporated the company in 1995.
Mayer’s overhaul of Yahoo has attracted a lot of attention, but so far it hasn’t provided a significant lift to the company’s revenue. The AssociATed Press
Branding. Yahoo unveils first major logo revamp
Still purple, still effusive, but slightlymore grown up? Yahoo’s new logo,two versions of which are shown here, is part of a makeover that has been underway since Marissa Mayer joinedthe firm. Courtesy yahoo InC.
Taking stock
80%Yahoo’s stock has climbed by nearly 80 per cent since Mayer joined, but most of that gain has been driven by the company’s 24 per cent stake in China’s Alibaba Holdings Group.
Employment
Older workers taking part-time jobs from teensA new report suggests a growing number of older workers are taking on part-time jobs, which is pushing up unemployment among teenaged students. The CIBC World Markets report says the unemployment rate for students 15 to 18 who are seeking part-time work has climbed to a record high of more than 20 per cent in Canada. The cAnAdiAn Press
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1 Upworthy. One of my favourite sites is upworthy.com, which posts highly shareable,
inspirational, meaningful videos about how people can change the world — from issues like child poverty to body image to climate change. As their @Upworthy Twitter bio simply puts it, “Things that matter. Pass ’em on.” So check it out and spread the word.
2 Rob Delaney. Comedian @RobDelaney tweets gems. Here’s a sample: “Bad news: Doctors
can’t figure out my wife is constantly sneezing blood everywhere. Good news: That hair gel I like is on sale at CVS.” He has a new book, Rob Delaney, about his life (sobriety, depression and happy things) coming out in November. He has no filter, he is a survivor, he is hilarious. Follow him and buy his book.
3 We Day. This inspiring day from Free the Children and Me to We about empowering youth on social issues takes place in
cities throughout Canada. There’s an event on Sept. 20 in Toronto. The star power involved includes Demi Lovato, the Jonas Broth-ers, Martin Luther King III, Serena Ryder and Col. Chris Hadfield. There is also a Vancouver event Oct. 18. The overriding message: Be engaged, be the change. Anyone can make a difference.
4 The Social. This topical Canadian news show debuted this week on CTV and its ap-
proach to social media is bang on. The show connects to viewers via real time tweeting @TheSocialCTV. Many of the show’s topics and discussions arise there, and the hosts read tweets in real time from viewers. Great use of social media to fuel a show and engage with an audience.
5 @KirstineStewart. She is the head of Twitter Canada (former CBC exec), and as such is
an active tweeter, tweeting and RT-ing inter-esting tidbits showing how people are lever-aging the power of Twitter in the business, media and pop culture worlds. Unfortunately, as her Twitter bio says, she doesn’t “know how
to get you ‘verified’....” I just sucked up for no reason.
6 Milos Raonic. Monday night, TSN2 carried a terrific five set match between Canada’s Milos Raonic and Richard Gas-
quet at the U.S. Open. What made the coverage extra special was that it was commentary free. Surreal but beautiful in let-ting the players and sounds of the fans dictate the drama. The lesson: sports announcers need to dial it down in close match-es. Let the action speak.
7 Oh, Canada. Naomi Harris, a Canadian photographer based in New York, released a stunning series of portrait photo-
graphs she captured during a five month cross-Canada journey. From cricket players in Stanley Park, B.C., to a Sioux Valley Pow Wow in Sioux Valley, Man., to a Demolition Derby in Weyburn, Sask., check out the beautiful pics of our country’s diverse cul-ture at naomiharris.com.
8 Critter bites Mike Fisher. Carrie Underwood posted videos on Vine of her NHL player hubby picking up a chipmunk with
his bare hand after it snuck into their home, and then the bite marks it left on him. This is proof celebs really are just like us. Well maybe not, we’d use a bucket and gloves.
9 WatchABC.com. The future of TV is online. Three ABC com-edies — The Goldbergs, Trophy Wife and Back in the Game
— will debut on WatchABC.com (from Sept. 3 to 17) before they hit TV screens.
10 Twitter etiquette. I always find it amusing when someone complains about what you’re tweeting about. Comedian
@rickygervais summed it up best this week when he tweeted: “Following someone on Twitter & com-plaining about their tweets is like secretly stalking someone & telling them they’re going the wrong way.”
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Animal vows never to play badminton again This prickly mess was the result of a hedgehog becoming tangled in a badminton net in a British garden. The tangle blocked the mammal’s spines and mouth. Luckily, the animal was rescued. METRO
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40The percentage by which the hedge-hog population is estimated to have shrunk this century in Britain, leading to fears of extinction. Actions such as Hedgehog Awareness Week have been launched in the hope of revers-ing this trend.
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“This serves as a re-minder for people who use garden sports sets to ensure they are safely removed and stored. Had we not been called the hedgehog would not have survived.”Dudley ClementsRoyal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA)
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Get to know the neighbour in your garden.
• Spines. Adults have be-tween 5,000 to 7,000 quills on their back and tail.
• Family. A cousin of the shrew, but unrelated to similar-looking porcu-pines.
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Riddick is heavy on the fi lters and crazy creatures, but light on entertainment. CONTRIBUTED
Richard: Mark, Riddick should have been titled Rid-dickulous. With its cheap effects, cheesy dialogue, gratuitous nudity and tes-tosterone-laced characters, it might provide midnight movie-style nostalgia for anyone who grew up on direct-to-video sci-fi flicks in the 1980s. Anyone else might want to go back to the original movie in this series, Pitch Black, and
enjoy a movie that actually kinda makes sense. This is the rare movie that is ac-tually better when the star isn’t in it. What did you think?
Mark: The movie has a look, I have to admit, and it kept me connected to the film for the first 40 min-utes. The director has never met a filter he didn’t like. But Vin Diesel didn’t bother me as much as the movie itself. It’s so grim and ugly it’s hard to watch. And after the first 40, kind of boring, which is unforgivable.
RC: I agree with you about the stark look of the film. There’s no eye candy, al-though some of the crea-tures are pretty cool, but
I’m on the opposite page regarding Diesel’s solo act for the first 40 minutes. I didn’t think this movie worked at all until he gave up the Survivorman act and the bounty hunters showed up. Then, for my money, it became a typical bad movie instead of a surreally bad film.
MB: And didn’t that part of the film feel to you like a video game right down to the tawdry graphics? And if it’s silly you’re looking for, I’m glad to see that women in outer space are still wear-ing eyeliner.
RC: You want silly? How about fending off a vicious dog-creature by starting an impromptu game of fetch?
Or maybe using words like “jamoke” in the far distant future. If the movie had em-braced its silliness instead of taking itself so serious-ly in all the wrong ways, I might have enjoyed it more!
MB: I might have enjoyed it more if it were a com-pletely different movie. I like Diesel in his Fast and Furious franchise, so maybe this flick needed some car races to soup it up. As I watched it, I gave it some grudging admiration for the purity of its grim vi-sion. Then there’s an elev-enth hour act of gratuitous kindness that makes no sense at all and ruins what little the film has going for it.
Just plain RiddickulousRiddick. Tawdry graphics, cheesy dialogue and gratuitous nudity doesn’t even make this fi lm campy fun
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In Vin Diesel’s fourth outing as the mercenary-turned-enforcer, he has been double-crossed and left for dead. “I don’t know how many times I’ve been crossed off the list,” he mumbles in a voice-over, “but this ain’t nothing new.” He spends his days battling aliens until not one, but two teams of bounty hunters land on the planet. The fi rst team, lead by Santana (Jordi Mollà) wants Riddick dead so they can collect the ransom. The other team, headed by Boss Johns (Matt Nable) wants him alive for questioning. As the bounty hunters bang heads, Riddick plans a wild scheme of vengeance and escape from this desolate planet.
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All right, summer’s over, school’s back in session and the parade of brainless summer fare has come to an end. ‘Tis the season that films compete for your admiration. Well, at least some of them.
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Films to see as the leaves start to fall
The little films...
• HowILive. The ever-ubiquitous Saoirse Ronan once again plays a young girl in duress, this time stuck on her lonesome in the countryside as a third world war breaks out.
• TheArmstrongLie. You think Tyler Perry makes too many movies? This look at Lance Armstrong is Alex Gibney’s second high profile documentary in the
last six months, after the disappointing Julian Assange hit job WikiLeaks: We Steal Secrets.
• Nebraska. Alexander Payne follows up The Descend-ants with this more simplified drama, shot in black-and-white and fol-lowing a road trip taken by a man (Will Forte) and his grumbling father (Bruce Dern).
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Ender’s Game (Nov. 1)
What: Orson Scott Card’s classic 1985 novel about kids (Asa Butterfield and Hailee Steinfeld) trained for military battle against aliens finally gets the big budget adapta-tion for which its author like-ly always pined.
Why: The novel is one of sci-fi’s brainiest, and hey, there’s Harrison Ford presumably grumbling up a storm as one of the elders.
Why not: In case you haven’t heard, Card is a gigantic homophobe who called for revolution if gay marriage was ever imple-mented and now thinks people who hate him are be-ing intolerant. But this isn’t the first — or gazillionth — time a legitimately awful human being has produced good art.
Will get an Oscar for: Most talented dedicated homo-phobe.
Dallas Buyers Club (Nov. 1)
What: Matthew McConaugh-ey plays the real-life Ron Woodruff, a homophobe who in 1986 was diagnosed with HIV and started smuggling cheap, illegal drugs to stay alive.
Why: McConaughey is evi-
dently still on the Great Comeback Tour that began last year with Bernie, Magic Mike and Killer Joe and is continuing with Mud and The Wolf of Wall Street. Good.
Why not: This could be self-important. But it sounds crazy enough that it might just work!
Will get an Oscar for: Best Matthew McConaughey per-formance of 2013.
About Time (Nov. 1)What: British rom-com artist Richard Curtis (Love Actual-ly) long ago became a genre unto himself, but lately he’s been trying to wiggle his way out. Pirate Radio wasn’t ro-mantic at all, and his latest concerns time travelling: A young man (Domhnall Glee-son) tries to change his love life with magic and — whad-daya know? — gets Rachel McAdams.
Why: The most annoying thing about Curtis is that, insufferable though his films regularly are, they tend to have various degrees of charm.
Why not: He still made Love Actually.
Will get an Oscar for: Best attempt to shake up a desic-cating career with a sci-fi gim-mick.
Thor: The Dark World (Nov. 8)
What: Everyone’s favourite hammer-wielding Norse god who’s the source of fish-out-of-water jokes (Chris Hems-worth) goes solo again. This time he battles totally differ-ent superpowerful beings.
Why: The first was moder-ately amusing, though pre-sumably this time our square-jawed brickhouse of a hero knows better than to request a horse at a pet shop.
Why not: In other words, what’s left to show?
Will get an Oscar for: Best use of a Hemsworth brother.
The Wolf of Wall Street (Nov. 15)
What: Martin Scorsese re-turns to keyed-up, gleefully amoral Goodfellas mode,
only this time about even worse people: stockbrokers (played by Leonardo DiCaprio and Jonah Hill).
Why: If this isn’t ridiculously entertaining and hugely quot-able, then there’s no god.
Why not: There’s probably no god anyway. But seriously, there’s zero chance this isn’t a blast. Have we mentioned Matthew McConaughey, cur-rently waist-deep in career repairmen mode, is in it?
Will get an Oscar for: Best movie ever.
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (Nov. 22)
What: Some girl with a weird name that rhymes with “cat piss” (Jennifer Lawrence) continues her adventures outsmarting a dystopian fu-ture society with her archery skills while choosing which nice boy to be with.
Why: The books (or at least the first one) are some of the easiest reads in mem-ory. And by easiest, we mean they’re stupid and poorly written without be-
ing distractingly so a la the works of Dan Brown.
Why not: The Battle Royale films (even the somewhat underrated sequel) do this better, and give you R-rat-ed carnage to boot. But do they feature “futuristic” names like Haymitch Aber-nathy and Caesar Flicker-man?
Will get an Oscar for: Best terrible names.
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For some actors, director Joe Swanberg’s mostly impro-vised method can be daunt-ing, but others — like his Drinking Buddies cast of Olivia Wilde, Ron Livings-ton, Anna Kendrick and Jake Johnson — find it exhilarat-ing. Swanberg gives us some insight into his writing and
editing process and his strin-gent “no yelling” policy for himself on set.
How much of this was impro-vised and how much did you plot out?The plot was pretty heavily figured out before we shot anything. The size of the movie and the infrastructure involved meant that we had to schedule it, we had to lock down locations. We had to
know what the story was go-ing to be and even what the scenes were going to be in a vague way. Being my own editor allows me to be a little more open as a director. Edi-ting becomes a lot of the writ-ing process.
How do you go about pitching this sort of process to actors?It’s a very conversational pitch. I talk about where the themes came from, how
I relate to the story, what I’m pulling from my own life, and I feel like that’s a nice lead-in to discussing how their own stories can enter into the picture. The goal ultimately is to have it be a kind of collabora-tive performing and writing process, so I’m looking for people who are open to shar-ing and talking about those kinds of things — relation-ship things.
Did you find some actors just didn’t quite go for that?Sure. I met a lot of great ac-tors, people whose work I ad-mire, who just either weren’t excited by the improv process or for one reason or another thematically this wasn’t a story they were interested in telling right now. I mean, there’s a lot of reasons why somebody would or wouldn’t want to do this movie, but I think people were all curious.
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Where in the world is Lamar Odom?
Just what is going on with Lamar Odom? The Internet was abuzz on Thursday with the news that troubled Kardashian man piece Lamar Odom had checked himself into rehab in order to save his marriage to Kourtney Kardashian. It hasn’t been
the best month for Odom — numerous reports have surfaced that he cheated on Kourtney with a strip-per and he’s come clean about his addiction to OxyContin, Ambien and cocaine — but not before he was arrested for a DUI last week in California (so maybe add “alcohol” to that list, Lamar?).
But then TMZ.com came out with the bombshell that Odom is nowhere near a rehab centre and Kourtney has heard noth-ing from him. So where-oh-where is Odom? Who knows? If only someone would create a show called Keeping up with the Kar-dashians so we could keep tabs.
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Scarlett Johansson
News just in ... Johansson and journalist engaged
Scarlett Johansson is engaged to her journalist boyfriend, Romain Dauriac, the actress’ rep confirms to E! News, saying that the pair are “very happy” with the develop-ment. “They haven’t chosen a wedding date yet,” the rep
says. Johansson and Dauriac first went public with their romance last November and have kept things pretty low-key since. This will be Johansson’s second marriage after her 2011 divorce from Ryan Reynolds.
Charlie Hunnam and Dakota Johnson. ALL IMAGES GETTY
50 Shades of no way! Fans start online petition to
change castNot everyone was thrilled with the announcement that Charlie Hunnam and Dakota Johnson will star in the 50 Shades of Grey movie. Fans of the steamy book even launched a petition to have the roles recast with their choices, Alexis Bledel and Matt Bomer. “Matt Bomer is the PERFECT DESCRIP-TION OF CHRISTIAN GREY AND ALEXIS BLEDEL IS THE PERFECT ACTRESS TO REPRESENT ANASTASIA STEELE and if THEY ARE
NOT, NOBODY WILL BE,” the levelheaded petition on Change.org reads. “I read the whole trilogy and I can as-sure that Matt is the perfect actor for this movie and Alexis too. So please PLEASE, all of the GREYsessed and Bo-merettes in the world NEED those actors. They always will be for us the Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele. WE CAN DO ANYTHING GUYS, ANYTHING.” The petition has already pulled in more than 18,000 supporters.
Naomi Watts
No one knows Watts the matter with Naomi
Naomi Watts is apparently not having the best time on her current press tour for Diana, in which she plays the late Princess of Wales during the final years of her life. Watts ap-parently cut short an interview with British radio host Simon Mayo, though it’s unclear what prompted her early exit. “Naomi Watts walked out of
an interview. She seemed a tad uncomfortable with the ques-tions. Shame,” Mayo posted to Twitter, later insisting to responders that he had “no idea” what riled her so much. The abbreviated interview is set for broadcast next week.
Watts’ camp has not yet responded to the report.
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little bit GagaPart of Lady Gaga’s evolu-tion as a pop star includes learning to go outside more. The singer tells the Guardian that she used to think she needed to stay in hiding to maintain her image. “I hid in my house … to preserve my image as a superstar to my fans,” she tells the newspaper. “I
don’t mean I am a super-star, I mean that they only ever see me at my best. And it really drove me crazy. So I’ve really had to make more of an effort to go out more. I mean, can you imagine what it’s like not to feel real wind? Honestly, I hadn’t felt real wind for years.”
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Cabernet sauvignon is arguably king. An accom-modating fruit, it’s one of the few grapes that keeps its core taste profile when it travels. You’ll find its blackberry to black currant flavours and typically oak-influenced power whether you’re catching a cab in Bordeaux, France or On-tario’s Niagara Peninsula.
Cabernet has had a love affair with California for decades. Famous for producing powerful, palate-pounding wines in The Golden State, the recent Cali trend is toward plump, juicier versions.
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Kory Sheets has been the CFL’s most dominant player this season.
The Saskatchewan Rough-riders running back is not only leading the league in rushing with 1,149 yards, he’s also on pace to become the most dom-inant single-season runner in league history. Sheets is on pace to finish with nearly 2,300 yards, which would shatter the current mark of 2,065 set in 1998 by former Montreal Alou-ettes star Mike Pringle.
The five-foot-11, 208-pound Sheets is the runaway favourite at the halfway point of the sea-son for the CFL’s outstanding player award.
Quarterbacks have trad-itionally dominated the annual vote by the Football Reporters of Canada, winning it 17 times since 1990. Running backs have won it three times over that span, with Pringle doing so twice (1995, 1998).
The other was Toronto’s Mike (Pinball) Clemons in 1990.
The hard-running Sheets has helped the Riders (8-1)
assume top spot in the ultra-competitive West Division with the CFL’s best record. If Saskatchewan can remain there, it would give the squad home-field advantage for the conference final and a shot at reaching the Grey Cup game, which will be played at Mosaic Stadium.
The Riders are attempting to become the third straight team to win the CFL title on home soil following the B.C. Lions in 2011 and Toronto Argonauts last year. THE CANADIAN PRESS
Outstanding play has Sheets in line for major hardware
Roughriders running back Kory Sheets celebrates a touchdown against the Blue Bombers last Sunday at Mosaic Stadium. Sheets is currently the heavy favourite to win the CFL’s outstanding player award. LIAM RICHARDS/THE CANADIAN PRESS
CFL. Roughriders rusher early favourite for outstanding player
Durant gets his
Riders QB Darian Durant is the CFL’s off ensive player of the month for August.
• Durant completed 86-of-129 passes for 1,172 yards and nine TDs as Saskatch-ewan picked up wins in three of its four games.
• He leads the CFL with 21 TD passes against just one interception.
• Riders kicker Chris Milo was special-teams player of the month after making all 11 of his fi eld goals.
Week 11 pick
Roughriders (8-1) at Bombers (1-8), Sunday, 2 p.m. (TSN).
A season of misery continues for Winnipeg, which actually had a de-cent opening half Labour Day before the Riders took control en route to a 48-24 victory. Quarter-back Darian Durant was a solid 24-of-35 passing for 315 yards and four TDs, hitting Geroy Simon and Taj Smith on two majors apiece while surrendering his first interception of the season.
CFL rushing leader Kory Sheets finished with 91 on 20 carries but had two touchdowns.
Winnipeg linebacker Henoc Muamba was solid with a game-high nine tackles but it’s still hard to see how Winnipeg can match up with Saskatch-ewan for a full 60 minutes.
Pick: Roughriders
The man who coached the Canadian women’s soccer team to a historic bronze medal at the London Olym-pics has made a long-term commitment to remain with the program.
John Herdman said ex-tending his contract with the Canadian Soccer Associ-ation through the 2020 Sum-mer Games gives him the chance to build on what has already been accomplished.
“It’s a wonderful oppor-tunity to be able to lead a legacy,” Herdman told a news conference in Van-couver Thursday. “We have been planning for a 10-year plan since I came into the organization.
“To know you can ac-tually see that through and you’ve got the backing and support of people, it’s a great place to be a leader.”THE CANADIAN PRESS
Soccer. Herdman sticking around as women’s coach
Andy Murray’s reign as de-fending U.S. Open champion ended Thursday in a surpris-ing, frustration-filled 6-4, 6-3, 6-2 quarter-final loss to ninth-seeded Stanislas Wawrinka.
The third-seeded Murray won his first Grand Slam title at Flushing Meadows last year and his second at Wimbledon this July. But he was over-matched from the beginning on a blustery day in New York City. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tennis. Murray blows chance at U.S. Open repeat
Andy Murray reacts during a break in play on Thursday in New York.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NHL camp
“My goal is to make the Leafs this year. I’m train-ing hard. I
want to get on the ice a lot, have a good camp.”Toronto’s 2012 top pick Morgan Rielly, who is currently at an NHL rookie tour-nament trying to crack the Leafs roster. At 19, Rielly is ineligible to play in the AHL, so it’s either the Leafs or back to Moose Jaw, where his billets and a place on the junior team await.
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