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The Edmonton Police Service hasreleased holiday Checkstop num-bers and while officers are catch-ing more drunk drivers per shift,it’s not something that lifts theirspirits.
“Overall, we’re quite happywith this year’s Checkstop cam-paign,” said Const. Trevor Shel-rud of the EPS impaired drivingcountermeasures unit.
“Unfortunately, it seems thatpeople still aren’t getting themessage. And you would thinkwith all the media attention sur-rounding the new legislation, andsome of the other high-profileevents that occurred in Decem-ber, that we would have seensome reduction, but unfortu-nately we didn’t.”
Cops nabbed nearly 100impaired drivers and issued 24-hour suspensions to 128 driv-
ers in December. While EPS had fewer Check-
stop operations overall in 2011,
arrests were up 15 per cent pershift this year, Shelrud said.
That’s upsetting, but not sur-prising for Gillian Phillips,Edmonton’s Mothers AgainstDrunk Driving spokesperson.
“It’s very disappointing whenwe hear what the figures are,”said Phillips, whose daughter waskilled by a drunk driver in 2000.“We hope with the new legisla-tion we will see a difference in next year’s Checkstop num-bers.”
Phillips said the fact the policeare planning to be out in fullforce in 2012 to round upimpaired drivers is good news,and she’s hopeful the new law’smandatory-education compo-nents will help repeat offendersfinally get the message.
Same goes for police.“We will be out there 12
months this year doing Check-stops in 2012,” said Shelrud,adding dates have already beenset for this year’s campaign.
Drunk drivers notlearning: Police
Checkstop numbers showing more arrests per shift is not encouraging, say cops New legislation shows promise: MADD
Winter? See ya later, skater
Ice. Time
Nala Florence, 8, takes advantage of the unseasonably balmy day
Wednesday with an afternoon skate outside Edmonton City Hall.
The city’s above-zero weather is expected to last through the
weekend, with sunny skies in the forecast into next week.
Police had 37 Checkstops in 2011,including some by the EPS trafficunit as well as the impaired driv-ing countermeasures unit.Throughout 2010, there were 55.During the New Year’s weekendpolice also dealt with threeflights involving drivers, one ofwhom almost hit an officer, and acocaine arrest resulting from aCheckstop.The average number of impaireddrivers picked up per Checkstopshift was 6.8 in 2011, over 2010’s5.8.Throughout all of 2011, EPSCheckstops netted 250 impairedarrests, 367 suspensions for 24hours, 636 traffic tickets, 35 sus-pended drivers and 71 othercriminal charges.
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Road crews are hopingproactive efforts will pre-vent Edmontonians fromslip sliding away afterwarm weather and freezingrain this week.
“Some of the hills andthe shaded areas are prettybad and we are respondingto them today, but the fore-cast for tonight is freezingrain and we want to beahead of that potential riskof ice freezing again,” saidRoland Aitchison, superin-
tendent of operations forthe city’s roadways branch.
Trucks have been out infull force since Tuesday,spreading sand on slick al-leys and roadways, includ-ing in residential areas.
One benefit of highertemperatures this week isthat it allows for salt, whichdoesn’t work below -17 C,said Aitchison.
Sand-truck drivers arechecking all roads andsanding where they deemnecessary, he said.
Though Wednesday sawa record high, crews arebraced for the worst.
“After last winter’s snow-fall, we are prepared foranything at this point,” saidAitchison.
Meanwhile, the city’s by-law branch is asking resi-dents to keep walks clear or
sand over icy patches thatcan’t be broken down. Oth-erwise, they face a possible$100 fine.
The city offers free sandfor this purpose at commu-nity leagues.
Sanding crews sifting through residential areas, arterial roads, bridges, in wake of rain Residents urged to keep walks free of snow, ice
Sanding trucks are slated to cover the city, looking for problem spots, after a spate of freezing rain and warmer-than-normal days.
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SlainwomanidentifiedPolice have identified awoman whose lifeless anddismembered body was dis-covered in a Jasper Avenueapartment suite as MistyLynne Ward, 27.
Her accused killer wasarrested in the suite afterher body was found by acaretaker Dec. 31.
Joshua James Houle, 27,faces charges of second-de-gree murder, indignity to ahuman body and breach ofrecognizance. Police saidthe victim and accusedknew each another. METRO
Offender’sreleasepromptswarning Edmonton police are warn-ing the public of a violentoffender’s release fromprison.
Lorne Papastesis is soonto be freed from federalcustody after serving twoyears and a day foraggravated assault, said anEdmonton Police Servicerelease. Papastesis is “ahigh-risk offender who pos-es risk of significant harm,”it said. The EPS behaviouralassessment unit will moni-tor the man. METRO
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for a total of $72 milliondue to a large snowfall inJanuary. The city’s bylawdepartment has received1,700 complaints about icywalks, and given out morethan a hundred $100 tick-ets since temperaturesdropped this season.
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A crime-troubled First Na-tion south of Edmontonwas voting Wednesday onwhether to give communi-ty leaders the power toevict suspected gang mem-bers.
If the referendum by the7,000-member SamsonCree band in Hobbemapasses, any 25 residentscould apply to have some-one legally removed fromthe reserve.
The plan to hold the vote
was approved after thechief's five-year-old grand-son was killed by a gunshotin July while sleeping in hisbedroom during a drive-byshooting, but it also reflectsconcern about ongoinggang violence.
Samson resident RoyLouis said people are fed upwith crime, but there are al-so concerns that such evic-tions would mean gangmembers would simplymove to one of the other
three reserves in theHobbema area.
“It is fine and dandy tohave a bylaw to banishsome of the gang members,but it has to be in sync withthe other three nations,”Louis said.
“We don’t want the gangmembers to simply crossthe street to the Ermine-skin First Nation or theLouis Bull First Nation orMontana First Nation.”THE CANADIAN PRESS
LRT riders using the HealthSciences station will en-counter construction thisyear as an overhead pedwayis installed across 114 Streetlinking University Hospitalto the new Edmonton Clin-ic South and EdmontonHealth Academy.
“The pedway will pro-vide users of the hospitalwith improved pedestriansafety,” says Paul Michna ofAlberta Infrastructure. “Itwill reduce street-level con-
gestion and allow Universi-ty Hospital students andstaff a climate-controlledenvironment in movingthrough the area.”
Michna says the heaviestconstruction will be doneduring off-peak hours andweekends.
“Throughout the project,pedestrian access to theHealth Sciences LRT stationwill be maintained. We,with the city and contrac-tors (PCL Construction), willkeep disruption to a mini-mum.”
Edmonton Transit hasput up notices at the station
about the project. “We want to reassure
customers that they’ll stillbe able to access trains dur-ing construction time,” saysPatricia Dickson of Edmon-ton Transit.
The pedway will be locat-ed over the north end of thestation and provide accessto the LRT platform with es-calator, elevator and stairs.
Health Sciencespedway underway
Hospital staff, visitors and U of A students usingLRT will see minor inconveniences through 2012
PCL Construction workers Ryan Brill, left, and William Cole at the Health Sciences LRT station.
The contractor will create a pedway over 114 Street connecting the LRT
station, hospital and Edmonton Clinic by the end of 2012.
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Police seekwitness to fatalhit-and-run Edmonton police are askinga witness to a fatal December collision to come
forward.Around 6:30 p.m. Dec.
22, police say a GMC Sierrastruck a 59-year-old womannear 124 Street and 132 Av-enue. The victim was pro-nounced dead on the scene.
Police believe a man waswestbound on 132 Avenue, approaching 124Street, when he stoppedto help.
He assisted until EMS ar-rived, then drove away inhis green Dodge Caravan.
He is described as an older (possibly 50s) Asian or Hispanic male, about fivefeet six with a stocky build,short hair, a moustache andan accent.
Police are asking theman to call the EPS at 780-423-4567. METRO
Band votes oneviction bylaw
A young boy was fatally shot in this house on the Samson
Cree First Nation reserve July 11, 2011, near Hobbema, Alta.
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Gang violence
About a dozen gangs havebeen fighting over thedrug trade in Hobbema’sfour First Nations, wheremore than half of the14,000 residents are under 18 years old.More than 42 RCMP areposted in the Hobbemaarea, one of the highest officer-to-population ratios in Canada, andMounties say the crimerate is slowly improving.A similar bylaw was passed in 2009 by theEnoch First Nation justwest of Edmonton.
15There are 15 LRTstations in town,
winding 21 km andcarrying an average of 92,000 passengerseach weekday.
Truth is, everyone is nicer in December. So why can't we be just as good to each other after the holidays? Let’s keep those food banks stuffed. Let’s shovel the driveways and walkways of our elderly neighbours. Let’s crack a smile even though the wind chill’s 20 below. Let’s keep our holiday lights on throughout the entire year. Let's all make a New Year's resolution to do good every single day of the year. Over the next 365 days, let's all remember that being nice is always in season. Let's try to be good all year round.
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Racist U.K. killers jailedfor decades-old murderThe prosecution in the Hos-
ni Mubarak trial said onWednesday it has conclud-ed that Egypt’s ex-presi-dent, his security chief andsix top police officers werethe “actual instigators” ofthe killing of more than800 protesters during lastyear’s popular uprising.
Mubarak and his sevenco-defendants are facingcharges of complicity in thekillings and could face thedeath penalty if convicted.
Wednesday’s hearing co-
incided with the second dayof voting in the third and fi-nal round of parliamentaryelections that began onNov. 28. Even before the fi-nal round, Islamists led bythe Muslim Brotherhood,Egypt’s largest politicalgroup, were assured a ma-jority in the legislature.
They are likely to bolstertheir gains in the finalround, since many of thenine provinces voting havebeen Islamist strongholds.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Mubarak instigatedkillings: Prosecutor
Stephen Lawrence in an
undated family handout
photo.
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A young black man lay dy-ing in a south London busstop. His friend called fran-tically for help while a gangof white teenagers who hadstabbed him ran off. Twomembers of that gang weresentenced Wednesday forthe 1993 murder ofStephen Lawrence, butthree more remain at large.
Judge Colman TreacyWednesday sentenced GaryDobson to at least 15 yearsand two months in jail, andDavid Norris to at least 14years and three months forthe murder of the teenager,and urged police to contin-ue looking for new leads inthe case.
He told the men theywere guilty of “a terribleand evil crime” committedout of blind hatred.
“A totally innocent 18-year-old youth on thethreshold of a promisinglife was brutally cut downin the street in front of eyewitnesses by a racist thug-gish gang,” Treacy said.“You were both members ofthat gang.”
Police, who have beenaccused in the last twodecades of incompetenceand racism in the way theyhandled the murder in-
quiry, vowed Wednesday tocontinue to hunt for the re-maining killers.
“The other people in-volved in the murder ofStephen Lawrence shouldnot rest easily in theirbeds,” said Bernard Hogan-Howe, commissioner ofLondon’s Metropolitan Po-lice.
The saga of Lawrence’smurder, and his parents’long quest for justice in theface of police indifference,has for many come to sym-bolize Britain’s lingeringracial trauma.
It has embarrassed Scot-land Yard, which was foundby an official inquiry to beguilty of systematic racism.And while Lawrence’s fami-ly said it was pleased withthe convictions, it said jus-tice will not be served untilall the killers face trial.
Lawrence’s father Nevillesaid the sentencing of Dob-son and Norris for his son’smurder was “only one stepin a long, long journey.”
Dobson and Norris werepart of a notorious gangthat terrorized part ofsouth London, and manypeople told police in thedays following Lawrence’sdeath who his killers were
Two white men sentenced for1993 killing of black teenager
Argentina’s presidentrecovering after surgery
NATACHA PISARENKO/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Argentina’s president wasawake and recoveringWednesday after a three-and-a-half-hour operation toremove her cancerous thy-roid gland.
Cristina Fernandez’s sur-gery went without compli-cations and all her vitalsigns were good, herspokesman Alfredo Scocci-marro announced, prompt-ing cheers and applausefrom supporters gatheredoutside the hospital.
Doctors had expected aroutine surgery and pre-dicted a complete curewithout chemotherapy,since preoperative testsshowed the cancer had notspread beyond a nodule on
the right side of her thyroidgland. Vice-PresidentAmado Boudou was put incharge before the opera-tion, and will remain as thecountry’s constitutionalleader for 20 more dayswhile Fernandez takes med-ical leave, the president’s of-fice said. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Cristina Fernandez
likely to be.But the police failed to
act until Lawrence’s parentsheld a news conference tocriticize the way the policehad handled the case. Itwas the first salvo in a longbattle the Lawrence familywere to fight with policeand courts.
The sheer length of timeit has taken to prosecutethe case has taken its toll.Lawrence’s parents di-vorced six years after his
death.And Britain’s police
forces still struggle to con-vince ethnic minorities thatthey handle cases with sen-sitivity. The parents of Indi-an student Anuj Bidve, whowas shot and killed on anight out in Salford, north-east England, on Dec. 26,complained that theylearned about their son’sdeath from Facebook be-fore British police contact-ed them. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A Catholic bishop caught atthe Ottawa airport withhundreds of child-porn im-ages on his laptop wasreleased Wednesday afterreceiving a sentence of 15months — only eight ofwhich he actually servedbehind bars.
Raymond Lahey, 71, for-merly bishop ofAntigonish, N.S., pleadedguilty eight months ago topossession of child pornog-raphy for the purposes ofimportation and asked tobegin serving his sentenceimmediately.
Wednesday, Justice KentKirkland sentenced him to15 months, but because hegot two-for-one credit for
“pre-sentencing” timeserved, Lahey was freed. Hewill be on probation fortwo years and registered asa sex offender for 20 years.
His lawyer, Michael Edel-son, had recommended theminimum one-yearsentence, but said Kirklandimposed “exactly the right
sentence.” The jail time, Edelson
added, is just thebeginning.
Prosecutors were also
satisfied with the sentence. “It’ll serve to announce
to others that harshsentences are in place forthose who commit such
crimes, sentences whichare also meted out toensure the protection ofour children,” said Crownprosecutor David Elhadad.
Lahey out on probation after serving eight monthsin prison Gets two-for-one credit for time served
Onlineporn helpscut abuse:ExpertThe key witness inRaymond Lahey’ssentencing is working onresearch he believes willshow that sexualdeviants who consumechild pornography areless likely to abusechildren now that childporn has gone online.
Dr. John Bradford,head of the division offorensic psychiatry at theUniversity of Ottawa, hastestified as an expert innumerous criminal trialsand was a defencewitness at Lahey’ssentencing hearing.
His conclusion that La-hey was not a risk to chil-dren and, in fact, not apedophile, despitepossessing images andvideos of children andteens, was a key part ofthe defence argument fora lesser sentence.
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Outcry over abused Afghan girl seen as sign of progressJust 15 years old, SaharGul has become thebruised and bloodied faceof women’s rights inAfghanistan.
According to officialsin northeastern Baghlanprovince, Gul’s in-lawskept her in a basementfor six months, ripped herfingernails out, torturedher with hot irons andbroke her fingers — all inan attempt to force her in-to prostitution. Policefreed her after her unclecalled authorities.
Despite guaranteedrights and progressivenew laws, Afghanistanstill ranks as the world’ssixth-worst country forwomen’s equality in theUN development pro-gram’s annual Gender In-equality Index.Nevertheless, Afghan ad-vocates say attitudes havesubtly shifted over the
years, in part thanks tothe dozens of women’sgroups that have sprungup.
Fawzia Kofi, a lawmak-er and the head of thewomen’s affairs commis-sion in the Afghan parlia-ment, says the outcry overa case like Gul’s probablywould not have happenedjust a few years ago be-cause of deep culturaltaboos against airing pri-vate family conflicts andacknowledging sexualabuse — such as forcing awoman into prostitution.
Ending abuse ofwomen is a huge chal-lenge in a patriarchal soci-ety where traditionalpractices include childmarriage, giving girlsaway to settle debts orpay for their relatives’crimes, and so-called hon-our killings in which girlsseen as disgracing their
Yet some fear women’s rights willerode as foreign troops withdraw Fawzia Kofi, head
of the women’s affairs
commission in the
Afghan parliament.
MUSADEQ SADEQ/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
70 years forkidnappingHOSTAGE TAKING. RichardShenkman, 62, a formeradvertising executive, hasbeen sentenced to 70years in prison for kidnap-ping his ex-wife, holdingher hostage for nearly adozen hours and burningdown their Connecticut
home in 2009. At thetime, the two were in themiddle of a divorce.
Drug data heldback: JournalMISSING. A British medicaljournal says a worryingnumber of internationaldrug studies are beingsuppressed by researchersand that the lack of publicdata could threatenpatient safety.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
News in briefJan. 4 birthdays have beenrunning in one Ohio familyfor four generations.
Richard Stiff of the Tole-do area turned 65 onWednesday. The day is alsothe 34th birthday of hisdaughter, Julia Gonyer, andit’s the first birthday ofGonyer’s daughter, Kourt-ney. The string began withStiff’s late father, MarshallStiff, who was born Jan. 4,1924.
The Blade newspaper re-ports that some peoplecan’t believe it when theylearn about all the births.Others have said it’s kind ofcreepy.
All four family membersarrived Jan. 4 through un-scheduled, natural births.The birthdays have tradi-tionally been celebratedwith one cake and onesinging of Happy Birthday.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Family celebrates long lineof birthday repetition
DAVE ZAPOTOSKY/THE BLADE/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Julia Gonyer, her
father, Richard Stiff, and
daughter, Kourtney Gonyer.
BEN BIRCHALL/PA/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Twins born years apartSimon, 45, and Jody Blake, 38, conceived their twinsReuben, 5, and Floren, seven weeks old, from thesame batch of embryos five years apart.
Twin. Double take
In this image taken Tuesday, Simon and Jody Blake,
with their twins Reuben and Floren, smile for the
camera at their home in Cheltenham, England.
families are murdered bytheir relatives.
And some women ac-tivists worry that theirhard-won political rightsmay erode as foreigntroops withdraw and Pres-ident Hamid Karzai’s gov-
ernment seeks to negoti-ate with the Taliban toend their insurgency.Women’s rights, theyfear, may be the first to goin any deal with the hard-line Islamic militants.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
“I think there is now a sense of awarenessabout women’s rights. People seem to bechanging and seem to be talking about it.”FAWZIA KOFI, WOMEN’S AFFAIRS COMMISSION
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The German man chargedwith allegedly setting astring of fires across Los An-geles on New Year’s week-end has been put on suicidewatch, a law enforcementofficial said Wednesday.
Harry Burkhart, 24, hasbeen in custody since Mon-day, when he was arrestedin Hollywood.
Burkhart’s mother,Dorothee Burkhart, said incourt Tuesday that her sonis mentally ill.
He has refused to co-op-
erate with investigatorssince his arrest on suspi-cion of starting dozens ofcar fires in and around thecity that caused an estimat-ed $3 million US in dam-age.
Authorities said they be-lieve he was angry over hismother’s legal troubles andwent on an arson rampagea day after she made an ini-tial court appearance lastweek.
Burkhart is also underinvestigation in his home
country of Germany for ahouse fire north of Frank-furt days before he trav-elled to the U.S. in October.
The fire at the house,which belonged to theBurkhart family, has beenruled an arson, Marburgprosecutors’ spokeswomanAnnemarie Wied said.
Burkhart did not live inthe area, but his name sur-faced as a suspect after hefiled an insurance claimshortly after the fire, Wiedsaid. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
In this still photo taken from video released on Jan. 2
by OnScene.tv, arson suspect Harry Burkhart is
arrested in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles.
ONSCENE.TV/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Mother in trouble
Harry Burkhart’s mother,Dorothee Burkhart, ischarged in Germany with19 counts of fraud, includ-ing failing to pay for a2004 breast augmentationsurgery and pilfering secu-rity deposits from renters.A Frankfurt courtspokesman said DorotheeBurkhart will go on trialfor the fraud charges onceshe is extradited.
L.A. arson suspect put on suicide watch
Canadian’s killing tobe fully probed: CopsMexican police have prom-ised a thorough investiga-tion into the shooting deathof a B.C. man during an ap-parent home invasion.
Police say Robin Wood,67, of Salt Spring Island waskilled Tuesday when he
stood up to two suspectswho tried to rob a friend’shome in Melaque, south ofPuerto Vallarta.
Wood was taken to hos-pital after the attack, wherehe died. THE CANADIAN PRESS
Peter MacKay and
Nazanin Afshin-Jam
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MacKay wedsgirlfriend in MexicoOne of Ottawa’s most eligi-ble bachelors is nowofficially off the market.
Defence Minister PeterMacKay quietly married hisgirlfriend Nazanin Afshin-Jam at a private ceremony
in Mexico on Wednesday.He released a statement
on his constituency websiteannouncing the nuptials,which took place in frontof family and friends.
“Since coming into mylife, many of you have metNazanin on her many visitsto Nova Scotia. She is themost important person inmy life and over thecoming months, Nazanin
and I look forward tospending more time athome in Central Nova andsharing our happiness withall of you,” said MacKay.
Afshin-Jam, 32, is ahuman-rights activist andpresident of Stop Child Exe-cutions, which tries todraw attention to theyoung people who are ondeath row in Iran.THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Europe won some furthermodest respite from itsdebt crisis Wednesday asGermany and Portugal be-came the latest countries toborrow with relative easeahead of a hazard-filled fewweeks for the eurozone.
Both countries saw theirborrowing costs dip at theauctions, in a further signthat investors may havetemporarily put some oftheir concerns over thedebt crisis to one side at thestart of the new year in thewake of fairly-buoyant U.S.economic data.
Germany, the biggestcontributor in Europe’sbailouts, managed to sell$5.3 billion US in its bench-mark 10-year bondsWednesday at an averageyield of 1.93 per cent, downon the previous 1.98 per
cent it had to pay. But de-mand barely covered thebonds on offer.
And Portugal, which wasbailed out last April afterbeing locked out of interna-tional markets, paid amarkedly lower interestrate to borrow $1.3 billionin three-month treasurybills.
The German and Por-tuguese auctions comeahead of severe tests for eu-rozone leaders as they tryto navigate their way out oftheir crisis over too muchdebt in some countries.
Eurozone governmentsare struggling to convincefinancial markets that in-debted governments willnot default and should beable to borrow at affordablerates to repay debts as theycome due. Greece, Ireland
and Portugal have neededbailouts, while much largerItaly and Spain have alsoseen their borrowing costsrise ominously.
Italy, the recent focus ofthe crisis, must borrow in aseries of debt auctions be-ginning Jan. 13. The auc-tions will test whether thegovernment of new PrimeMinister Mario Monti ismaking progress in regain-ing market confidencethrough budget cuts and ef-forts to improve weak eco-nomic growth.
Further trouble couldcome from a slowing euro-zone economy that may al-ready have shrunk in thefourth quarter. Many econ-omists predict an outrightrecession, which would betwo quarters of negativegrowth. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Germany, Portugalborrow to ease crisis
Italy and Netherlands also managed to sell debtItaly has $69 billion in expiring debt to auction off
Prepare towork longerfor less payoff The deteriorating healthof Canadian pensions in2011 is likely to convincemore employers to shiftburdens to employees thisyear and force an increasein retirement ages,according to pension con-sulting firm Towers Wat-son.
The company said thatlow interest rates andplunging stock marketsweighed heavily ondefined-benefit pensionplans, which guarantee alevel of post-retirementincome.
If pension-plan valuesdo not recover over thelong term, retirees mayface lower pensions andbenefits. THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Yahoo picks its new CEOYahoo Inc. has named Scott Thompson as its newCEO. The company has been without a permanentCEO since September. It fired Carol Bartz after losingpatience with her attempts to turn around thecompany during her two-and-a-half-year tenure.
Next. In Line
In this photo from November, Scott Thompson, then
president of PayPal, speaks at the Web 2.0 Summit
in San Francisco.
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that a 50-year-oldworker in 2008 couldexpect to stay in thelabour force another16 years — 3.5 yearslonger than in themid-1990s.
Bankruptcy to save jobs: CEO
Asbestos in Canada
A shutdown at ThetfordMines and a productionhalt at the Jeffrey Minebrought Canada’sasbestos sector to a halt. The Canadian Cancer Society says more than100,000 people die world-wide each year fromexposure to asbestos atwork.Ottawa refuses to add as-bestos to an internationalhazardous-chemicals list.
The head of one of Canada’slast two remaining asbestosmines said Wednesday thatdeclaring bankruptcy is theonly way the cash-strappedoperation has a chance ofsaving its workers’ jobs.
Simon Dupere, presidentand CEO of Quebec-basedLAB Chrysotile, said in aninterview that he’s confi-dent many of the 350 jobsat the mine will be saved.
“It’s not an operationthat is overstaffed,” Duperesaid.
“Is it going to be a littlemore or a little less? Thatdepends on what works, itdepends on the businessplan.”
Dupere said the compa-ny’s current financial situa-tion made it impossible tocontinue operations.
He said the shutdown ofits Lac d’amiante du Canadamine in Thetford Mines lastfall didn’t stem costs andthere has been no revenueto deal with them.
Declaring bankruptcy isa key step to getting the fi-nancially troubled compa-ny back on a solid financialfooting.
“We have a structuralproblem,” Dupere said. “We
have a problem with fixedcosts, and this will be re-solved with the (bankrupt-cy). Now we will talk toeveryone involved, we willsee how we’re going for-ward and how we’ll revivethe project.”
One possibility thatwould allow the mine to re-sume production in 2013would be the opening of ac-cess to an asbestos depositthat is currently blocked.
While workers were sur-prised by the bankruptcyannouncement, the union
says the possibility of a re-covery provides a ray ofhope.
But Gordon Ringuette, aspokesman for the mine’sunion, says he’s waiting tosee if the company will usethe situation to seek con-cessions from workers toreduce labour costs.
“We expect that theywill ask for concessions,” hesaid. “They’re talking abouta business plan that has be-come too expensive and un-profitable.”THE CANADIAN PRESS
This Dec. 13, 2010, photo shows the LAB Chrysotile
asbestos mining operation site in Black Lake, Que.
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I think I love the mouse in myapartment.
It’s not the love between aman and a woman, exactly,because I don’t know its gen-der. But it feels right.
It is a forbidden love, frowned upon bythe world, and it is a love brought about byfate: Of all the drywall joints in all thetownhouses in all the world, it chewed in-to mine.
And if loving something means wantingit to be free, then I’ll squeak it from the
rooftops — I love my mouse. Don’t misunderstand: I realize that mice are disease-
ridden vermin, which is why Mickey always wore whitegloves — for safety’s sake.
I’m aware that it’s hard to endorse a creature that hasused millions of years of evolutionary knowledge toperfect the art of pooping on your counter top.
And, personally, I’m annoyed that the little guy canfind enough food in my apartment to survive even though
I can’t seem to, no matterhow many times I open thefridge.
But, despite all that, Imust love the mouse.
Why? Because I can’t dealwith the alternative.
As a journalist, I oftenworry that I’m jaded. Coverenough accidents and mur-ders and Vic Toews, andeventually you get so cynicalyou can talk like this to astranger: “I know this is adifficult time, but how didyou FEEL when your dog fellinto the thresher? Oh, don’tcry. Please wait until the
camera gets here.” But that worry evaporated last winter. I had a mouse
back then, you see.And so I bought glue traps, because the packaging said
it was “humane” and it showed a cartoon mouse lookingannoyed in the glue, as if it were going to miss its dinnerwith Speedy, Mickey and Mighty. Why, this was going tobe fun!
Well, I don’t want to get too gruesome about what hap-pened, but the Gadhafi family would have been appalled.While the mouse squeaked at the same volume as the girlbeing eaten at the beginning of Jaws, I frantically ran out-side with him, promising freedom.
I poured water on him — that’s what the packagingsaid to do — and watched hopefully (run little buddy!) ashe stopped moving entirely. Yes, I waterboarded themouse.
And as I stood over his lifeless body, I vowed then andthere that I would only love all the helpless rodents of theworld. So, as you can see, I need to love the new mouse.
And if I must kill him, I will at least talk to its family,using all my compassion and empathy. Because I knowthis is a difficult time.
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Lights, camera, awardsShot in Edmonton, Blackstone continues to rack up the accolades But few know it’s here
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Blackstoneis probablyone of Ed-monton’smost un-der-ratedachieve-ments.
Despite racking upGemini and Rosie awards,very few people seem toknow this show is pre-dominantly shot in Ed-monton and is slated for avery successful secondseason, which premiereson APTN Jan. 11.
“If there’s one thing Ican say about the showit’s how phenomenal it isto have this in our city,”says Blackstone producerJesse Szymanski.
“I mean, we hear aboutall these shows comingout of Vancouver orToronto, but here we havea Gemini award winningproduction out of Edmon-ton. That’s something wecan be really proud of.”
Szymanski goes on toexplain her expectationsafter the show took off af-ter just one season.
“I really feel with sea-son two we made theshow even bigger and bet-ter. Now, I’m really excit-ed for people to see that.”
The excitement hasn’tcome without a cost.
As producer, Szymanskiis often the first to arriveon-set and the last toleave.
She says having hermind race constantlyabout the show is thebiggest thing that keepsher up at night.
“As a producer, youhave to handle every facetof the production.”
But Szymanski knewthis was what she wantedto do with her life from avery young age.
At just 10 years old, shewould make home videosand commercials usingher grandparents’ cam-corder.
“When I was in highschool, I took an aptitudetest and it pointed tobroadcast. That was all theaffirmation I needed. By19, I was in the business,”she says.
Szymanski hasn’tlooked back, much likemany of her ground-breaking colleagues in-cluding actress MichelleThrush, who plays recov-ering alcoholic GailStoney.
“At first I wasn’t sure ifI wanted to act becausenot many aboriginalswere doing it,” she says.
But after a little coax-ing from the late GordonTootoosis, Thrush knewshe had found her truecalling.
“Even though I amnothing like my character,it’s such an honour to playher and have the produc-tion company trust whereI am going with the char-acter.”
To see how it all playsout, tune in on Wednes-day’s or visit black-stonetheseries.com.
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The horrors of high school
My Babysitter’s a Vampire comes to Canada It’s a supernatural spin on the trials of being a teen
Debuting in Canada thisweek is Teletoon’s MyBabysitter’s a Vampire, ayounger-skewing take onthe monsters-meets-hormones genre also seenin the Twilight film fran-chise, the campy Spacecomedy Todd and the Bookof Pure Evil, and CTV Two’sThe Vampire Diaries.
Toronto-bred starMatthew Knight, who playsearnest 14-year-old Ethan,says he hopes young view-ers can learn a lesson or twoas his show draws over-the-top parallels between theeternal battle of good andevil and the trials of grow-ing up. “I kind of feel like itmakes kids ... feel like their(problems) are not the endof the world and they canget through it,” 17-year-oldKnight says of the show’sweekly supernaturalcalamities.
The series’ over-the-tophijinks — which includeresurrecting dead familypets and navigating a suspi-cious school blood drive —are all in service of puttingcommon teen anxieties in-to perspective, adds co-starAtticus Mitchell, who plays
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The series My Babysitter’s a Vampire is based
on a TV movie of the same name.
Ethan’s trouble-makingbest friend Benny. The newseries is based on the TVmovie of the same name,which centred on the awk-ward Ethan, his precociouslittle sister Jane and his mis-chievous pal Benny.
In that 2010 comedy,Ethan’s hopes of sheddinghis geek status are thwartedwhen his mom decides he’snot mature enough towatch Jane and hires ababysitter from his school.
Ethan is mortified whenit turns out to be his long-time crush Sarah, played byVanessa Morgan, who justhappens to be a newlyformed vampire. “It’s defi-nitely a little bit lighter inthe way that it’s shot andthe way the characters dealwith it and just more familyfriendly,” says Knight.
My Babysitter’s a Vam-pire debuts Thursday onTeletoon.THE CANADIAN PRESS
After its successful series onthe history of America in2010, television’s Historychannel is setting its sightseven higher.
The network said Tues-day that a 12-hour minis-eries, Mankind the Story ofAll of Us, will debut late thisyear. History, seen in morethan 300 million homesworldwide, will offer differ-ent versions of the series indifferent parts of the world,the first time it has everdone that.
America the Story of Ushadn’t even concludedwhen History executives,impressed by its ratings,began talking about whatto do next, said NancyDubuc, the network’s pres-ident and general manag-er.
“Rather than take a sliceof the America story anddo something more indepth on that, we decided
to go bigger and broader,”she said. The new seriesstarts with the Big Bang andtraces the development ofhumans on a planet wherethe vast majority of speciesgo extinct, said Jane Root,the project’s executive pro-ducer.
Root described it as a “re-al action-adventure” proj-ect, one that encompasses
astronomy, geology andother sciences along withhistory. The series tracesthe development of toolsand the construction of thepyramids. Air dates havenot been set for the series,which will stretch over sixdays, but it will be withinthe last three months of2012, the network said.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The human taleThe History channel to debut miniseries on mankind
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Kim Kardashian, can’t youpay more? Proponents of aproposed tax increase onmillionaires in Californiaare asking that question ofthe larger-than-life person-ality, who has parlayed herreality TV celebrity status
into fame and fortune.An online video from
the Courage Campaign tar-gets the star of Keeping Upwith the Kardashians andKourtney and Kim TakeNew York as part of itscampaign for a proposed
Should celebs pay more in taxes?Ad campaign urges support for
millionaire’s tax, which would raisetaxes on the wealthiest Californians
Would help fund public schools,local services hit hard by recession
The Courage Campaign targets Kim Kardashian
as part of its campaign for a proposed November
ballot initiative to raise taxes on the wealthy.
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November ballot initiativeto raise taxes on thewealthiest Californians.
The video ad flashes im-ages of Kardashian enjoyingthe good life, proclaimingthat “being on TV haschanged my life, becauseyou get lots of free stuff.”
It says Kardashian made$12 million US in 2010 butpaid just one percentagepoint more in Californiaincome taxes than some-one making $47,000 US —hard 10.3 per cent versus9.3 per cent.
The video ad, which isposted at Taxkimk.com,urges Kardashian to sup-port the proposal for a taxincrease. “Not everyonewas born a Kardashian, butwe all need to pay our fairshare,” it says.
A spokeswoman for Kar-dashian, Pearl Servat, didnot respond to a requestfor comment Tuesday fromThe Associated Press.
The Courage Campaignand the California Federa-tion of Teachers are amongthe groups backing a so-called millionaire’s taxthat would raise income
tax rates by three per centto five per cent for individ-uals who make more than$1 million US a year.
Proponents say the taxwould raise about $6 bil-lion US to help fund publicschools and local servicesthat have been hit hardduring the recession, suchas social services, pro-grams for the elderly andpublic safety.
Tax revenue to the statehas dropped $17 billion USsince the recession beganduring the 2007-08 fiscalyear, requiring billions ofdollars a year in budgetcuts.
The millionaire’s tax isone of several ballot pro-posals circulating in Cali-fornia seeking to increaseincome taxes on thewealthy as a way to helpclose the state’s annualbudget deficit.
In 2010, about 41,000Californians reported ad-justed gross income above$1 million US, paying about$13.1 billion US in taxes tothe state, according to theFranchise Tax Board.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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After reconnecting with es-tranged husband ArnoldSchwarzenegger over theholidays, Maria Shriver isreportedly recon-sidering herplanned di-vorce fromthe formerCaliforniagovernor,accordingto OK!Magazine.
who adds that Shriver’sfriends aren’t too pleasedwith the latest develop-ment: “All her friends areup in arms that she’s con-
sidering a reunion,” thesource says.
“She’s close friendswith Oprah (Win-frey), who wouldnever encourageher to go back to aman who fathereda child with thehousekeeper.”
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Timberlake engaged?Singer proposes to Jessica Biel on top of mountain, according to sources
After quietly getting backtogether in 2011, JustinTimberlake and Jessica Bielhave reportedly gotten en-gaged just as quietly.
Sources tells Us Weeklythat Timberlake poppedthe question on top of amountain in Jackson,Wyoming, during a snow-boarding vacation.
“Justin knows howmuch she loves snowboard-ing and the mountains, soit was the perfect place,”the source says.
“He knew it was theright time to propose.” Thepair broke up briefly lastyear, and “when theyreunited, they had aconversation about takingthe next step,” the sourcesays. METRO
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Cannon sufferskidney failureNick Cannon was hospital-ized this week in Coloradofor kidney failure, wifeMariah Carey revealed onTwitter. “Please pray forNick as he’s fighting to re-cover from a mild kidneyfailure,” Carey wrote in apost accompanied by a pho-to of the pair in a hospitalbed. The singer noted thata visit to the hospital seemsto be an annual traditionfor the couple: “Last year itwas me attached to the ma-chines,” she wrote,referring to the birth oftheir twins, “and Nick wasthere with me through it.”
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Mendes hangs with Gosling’s momIf there were any doubtsthat Ryan Gosling and EvaMendes were getting seri-ous, their recent behaviourshould put them to rest.
While visiting NewYork, Gosling reportedlytook Mendes to the moviesalong with his mother, ac-cording to People maga-zine.
“They all hung out andwent to the movies togeth-er,” a source says.
“Ryan and Eva seemedvery happy.”
And they seemed evenhappier before arriving inNew York, while still at theairport in Los Angeles.
“They kept kissing and
hugging while they waitedto board their flight,” saysa source.
“Eva looked gorgeousand kept smiling.”
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Dewey in the dark winter
ShowersDon’t take extra hot show-ers. As much as you wantthe comfort of that heatwhen it’s chilly, there’s lessmoisture in the air duringwinter and hot showers canfurther dehydrate yourskin, says Dr. Neil Sadick,clinical professor of derma-tology at Weill Cornell Med-ical College in New York.
“Make showers as tepidas you can tolerate,” hesays. If you can’t stand thechill, find a space heatersafe for bathroom use. Sunblock
Don’t forget sunblock. It’sjust as important duringwinter as it is in summer,experts say, especiallyduring winter sports likeskiing at high altitude.
“In the winter it feelscold because very little infrared light reaches the earth,” Dr. DavidOrentreich says. “The op-posite is true in the sum-mer. However, in thewinter ultraviolet light is90 per cent as strong as itis in the summer but since we can’t feel or see it we mistakenlythink it’s absent, too.”
Application of a broad-band screen once a dayshould suffice, Sadicksays. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
It’s January and it’s cold and dry Yes this is obvious, but the fixes for your chapped skinmay not be Try these tips from dermatologists to save your skin from the rough season ahead
Stay away from products that
contain detergentsbecause they can
remove protective, essential oils.
“Humidify the airin your home,especially in yourbedroom so thathealing and repaircan take placewhile you sleep. ”DR. DAVID ORENTREICHCLINIQUE DERMATOLOGIST
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Moisturizing is soimportant this timeof year because itprotects the outerlayer from winter’s
wrath whileretaining natural
moisture from within.
“If you’ve got thedriest of dry skin,the best defencefor that is a coupleof days of plainold Vaseline.”DR. ALICIA ZALKA, ASSOCIATECLINICAL PROFESSOR OFDERMATOLOGY AT YALE
Hair and nailsDon’t ignore hair and nails. They’re made of the samecompounds as skin and crack in similar fashion, says Dr.Alicia Zalka, a dermatology professor at Yale. “I don’tthink people realize that when nails split it’s 90 per centfrom lack of proper moisture.” B vitamin supplementscan improve skin, hair and nails during winter.
“They’re better for the skin when ingested, ratherthan when you put them on the skin topically,” Zalkasays.
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“Eighty-five per cent ofwomen have cellulite andthe 15 per cent that don’t,think they do,” says Dr.Shimon Eckhouse, TheKit’s expert for face advi-sor. His company exploreslight-based technology totarget and treat the dread-ed orange-peel skin.
No wonder the industryis booming. One new re-port claimed sales for cel-lulite products hit the$11.8-million mark lastyear in the United States.Safe to say the category ishealthy here in Canada,too.
But beware, says Dr.Lisa Kellett, a dermatolo-gist in Toronto, there’s nomagic bullet. “Topicals arenot drugs. They’re not go-ing to go down to a levelthat they’re going to getrid of cellulite,” she says.“They might plump upthe skin temporarily,much like if you wenthome and took a loofah toyour skin and scrubbed at
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There are people out therewho really do stick to theirNew Year’s resolution andtake off those last 10pounds – or more.
But sometimes, saysfashion guru Tim Gunn,they don’t know how toshow it off, or even findclothes that fit.
“Once you’ve reachedyour goal, it’s time to goshopping or at least alteryour old clothing. ... Mymantra about ‘getting’ fash-ion is silhouette, propor-tion and fit. When they arein balance, you’ll look greatin whatever you’re wear-ing,” he says.
When women are in atransitional phase, he sug-gests a wrap-style top ordress, which basically ad-justs itself to changes inyour body.
He’d also steer people to-ward V necklines instead of
a crewneck or boatneck. Vnecks lead one’s eye up tothe wearer’s face, he ex-plains, which can make aflattering line.
Pants often can be takenin to accommodate a small-er size because they havemostly straight seams,Gunn explains, but jacketsand blazers are trickier fora tailor to fix if shoulder
seams start to creep downthe arm. Men especiallyhave an issue with collars.
The least flattering look?Clothes that are baggy, saysGunn, the Project Runwaymentor and soon-to-be hostof the daytime talk showThe Revolution.
The more fabric there is,the more of you there is tolook at.” THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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The Oilers (16-20-3)travel to St. Louis (22-12-5), which has aleague-leading 15home wins so far thisseason. The Blueshave won five of theirlast 10, their firstrough patch since KenHitchcock was hiredas head coach.Jaroslav Halak, whohas been splittingstarts with BrianElliot, made 34 savesin a 4-1 win over theCoyotes on Tuesday.David Perron had twoassists in the win,bringing his seasontotal to 13 points in 14games after missingover a year with a con-cussion. Andy McDon-ald (concussion) isskating with St. Louisbut is still out indefi-nitely.THE CANADIAN PRESS
Still something to play forCanada tries to shake off disappointment of loss to Russia and focus on beating Finland
The disappointment wasstill in the eyes of theCanadian players a day af-ter their semifinal loss atthe world junior hockeychampionship.
As they prepared to playFinland for the bronzemedal, furrowed browsand grim expressions indi-cated Tuesday’s 6-5 loss toRussia was still on theirminds.
But they will have to letit go for Canada to avoidfinishing out of the medalsat the tournament for thefirst time in 14 years.
Finland, a dark horsewhich has improved sincethe competition got under-way, will certainly be moti-vated to win bronzeThursday after falling 8-1to Canada in the tourna-ment-opener in Edmonton.
Russia will play for itsecond straight title inThursday’s gold-medalgame against Sweden.
As per his usual prac-tice, Canadian head coachDon Hay wouldn’t revealwhether it will be ScottWedgewood or MarkVisentin in Canada’s netThursday because he tellshis starting goalie thenight before the game.
While Wedgewood ad-mitted he was sore afterRussian defender AlexKhokhlachev crashed intohim in the second periodTuesday, he said he wouldbe able to play Thursday.
“You’ve got to win agame to get a medal now,”Wedgewood said Wednes-day. “We’ve got to takepride in that and it stillmeans something to us.
“Ten years from nowlooking back, you go into
that game and don’t give ityour all and you walk awaywith nothing ... it’s betterto have something.”
Without the adrenalinethat a possible gold medalbrings, the Canadians werefeeling the slings and ar-rows of the tournament.
The upper-body injuryScott Harrington sufferedin the preliminary roundkept him out of Wednes-day’s practice. Hay didn’tsound sure the defence-man would be able to playThursday.
What’s more, Canadawill be down to 11 for-wards for Thursday’s gameafter faceoff specialistBoone Jenner was suspend-ed for spearing Russian
captain Evgeni Kuznetsovin the second period of thesemifinal.
In sifting through thewreckage of Canada’s gold-medal hopes, the hostcountry’s meltdown in thesecond period versus Rus-sia stands out.
A loss of composure leftCanada short-staffed andallowed Russia to scoretheir fifth goal on a powerplay, which came back tohaunt Canada in the thirdperiod.
It was when the Canadi-
ans stayed out of the penal-ty box in the third and gotback on track in terms oftheir gameplan, that theywere able to mount theirthrilling comeback thatfell just short.
When Brendan Gal-lagher punched Russiandefenceman Mikhail Nau-menkov in the face behindthe net late in the secondperiod, Russia turned it in-to a power-play goal totake a 5-1 lead.
Russian defenceman Il-dar Isangulov later el-
bowed Jenner and was giv-en a two-minute minor,which was subsequentlyturned into a one-gamesuspension for a hit to thehead.
“When players get frus-trated they do things theyregret,” Hay said.“Whether it’s misconductpenalties, major penaltiesor just selfish penalties,you usually regret thosetype of penalties.
“When you can playwith determination, youdon’t have time to get frus-trated. That’s what we didin the third. In the second,we played with a littlemore frustration because itwasn’t going our way.”THE CANADIAN PRESS
Canada goalie
Scott Wedgewood
practises with
his teammates
on Wednesday.
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“They got a couple of breaks early thathelped them get ahead of us and wekind of didn’t know how to deal with it.”SCOTT WEDGEWOOD
Can Russia make it two golds in a row?Russia will be hoping histo-ry repeats itself in the finalof the world junior hockeychampionship, while Swe-den is looking to end a longdrought.
The Russians capturedgold in Buffalo, N.Y., lastyear with a dramatic 5-3comeback win over Cana-da. The Swedes, mean-while, haven’t won thetournament since 1981 in
Fussen, Germany.Sweden erased a two-
goal deficit to beat Finland3-2 in Tuesday’s early semi-final, while Russia held offa hard-charging Canadiansquad to win 6-5 in the lategame.
“I think the Swedes arelike us, gone through agreat maturation, becausethey haven’t won theworld juniors in something
like 30 years,” Russiancoach Valeri Bragin saidthrough an interpreterWednesday. “Before the fi-nals, the chances are al-ways 50-50. They havedesire, we have desire, sothe game will show who isstronger.
Russian forward NailYakupov had four assists inthe win over Canada andcombined with linemates
Yevgeni Kuznetsov (threegoals, one assist) andAlexander Khokhlachev(one goal, one assist) for 10points.
“I’m pretty excited toplay ... in the final,” saidYakupov, a highly-toutedNHL draft prospect whoplays for the Ontario Hock-ey League’s Sarnia Sting.“It’s (the) last game inworld juniors, so every-
body want to win. I want towin this cup because I nev-er win something like bigtournament.”
While Kuznetsov wasn’tmade available to talk withreporters after practice,Khokhlachev sang his cap-tain’s praises instead.
“He is playing great forus and he’s one of our bestplayers,” said Khokhlachev.THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Winnipeg at Toronto, 7 p.m.Florida at N.Y. Rangers, 7 p.m.Chicago at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.Tampa Bay at Ottawa, 7:30 p.m.Edmonton at St. Louis, 8 p.m.Dallas at Nashville, 8 p.m.Phoenix at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.Columbus at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.Tomorrow’s gamesFlorida at New Jersey, 7 p.m.N.Y. Rangers at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.Buffalo at Carolina, 7 p.m.Colorado at Chicago, 8:30 p.m.N.Y. Islanders at Anaheim, 10 p.m.
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CHAMPIONSHIP BRACKETAt CalgaryLast night’s resultFIFTH PLACECzech Republic 5 Slovakia 2Tuesday’s resultsSEMIFINALSRussia 6 Canada 5Sweden 3 Finland 2 (SO)Today’s gamesBRONZEMEDALFinland vs. Canada, 3:30 p.m.GOLDMEDALSweden vs. Russia, 8 p.m.
Yesterday’s resultsToronto 92Cleveland 77Boston 89New Jersey 70Charlotte 118 NewYork 110Chicago 99 Detroit 83Dallas 98 Phoenix 89Denver 110 Sacramento 83Memphis 90Minnesota 86Miami 118 Indiana 83Orlando 103Washington 85Philadelphia 101 NewOrleans 93SanAntonio 101 Golden State 95Houston at L.A. ClippersTuesday’s resultsChicago 76 Atlanta 74Cleveland 115 Charlotte 101L.A. Lakers 108 Houston 99Memphis 113 Sacramento 96Portland 103 Oklahoma City 93Utah 85Milwaukee 73Tonight’s games — All Times EasternMiami at Atlanta, 8 p.m.Dallas at San Antonio, 8:30 p.m.Milwaukee at Sacramento, 10 p.m.L.A. Lakers at Portland, 10:30 p.m.
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ATP EXXONMOBIL OPENAt Doha, QatarYesterday’s resultsSingles — Second RoundRafael Nadal (1), Spain, def. Denis Gremel-mayr, Germany, 6-2, 6-2.Roger Federer (2), Switzerland, def. GregaZemlja, Slovenia, 6-2, 6-3.Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (3), France, def. FlavioCipolla, Italy, 7-6 (8), 6-3.GaelMonfils (4), France, def. Benjamin Beck-er, Germany, 7-5, 4-6, 7-5.Viktor Troicki (5), Serbia, def.MatthiasBachinger, Germany, 7-6 (6), 6-1.Mikhail Youzhny (7), Russia, def. Ivo Karlovic,Croatia, 6-2, 6-7 (3), 6-3.Andreas Seppi (8), Italy, def. GuillermoGar-cia-Lopez, Spain, 7-5, 6-3.
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Taurus April 21-May 21 Thebest kind of work is teamwork, sojoin forces with like-minded peo-ple.
Gemini May 22-June 21 Youhave taken on too many duties andresponsibilities of late, both athome and at work, and need to cutback if you are to avoid exhaustingyourself.
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