Fans flock to Scotiabank Place for All-Star experience Mood stays pumped despite 12-9 loss for Team Alfredsson Monday, January 30, 2012 www.metronews.ca News worth sharing. Crown statement The excitement that had built up in Ottawa over the All-Star Week- end exploded throughout Scotia- bank Place Sunday as Team Chara and Team Alfredsson went head- to-head in the hyped up All-Star game. Hockey fans donning Ottawa JOE LOFARO Reaction Honour killing @METRONEWS.CA More coverage {page 27}
OTTAWA’S ALL-STAR OTTAWA’S ALL-STAR OTTAWA Defendants defiant, call verdict unjust ‘Cold-blooded, shameful murders’: Judge Reaction Motivated by twisted concept of honour: Judge Honour killing Verdict reflects Canadian values: Crown Attorney Crown statement Mohammad Shafia, wife, son each found guilty of first-degree murder {page 8} Monday, January 30, 2012 www.metronews.ca News worth sharing. The excitement that had built up in Ottawa over the All-Star Week- end exploded throughout Scotia- bank Place Sunday as Team Chara and Team Alfredsson went head- to-head in the hyped up All-Star game. Hockey fans donning Ottawa Senators, Toronto Maple Leafs, Boston Bruins, and several other jerseys poured into the arena with anticipation before the puck dropped just after 4 p.m. No matter which team they were cheering for, fans agreed the 59th annual All-Star Game was a significant event. Fan Andrew Harris watched the drama unfold at the Local Heroes bar in Bells Corners. Although he was upset that Team Alfredsson lost 12 - 9, he said the All-Star Week- end made up for it. “It’s more about the event,” said Harris. “I went down to the Fan (Fair) and saw all the smiles from everyone — from the smallest kid to grandparents. The score doesn’t matter as much as the memories and there will be a lot from this.” “It’s not just a game it’s the expe- rience,” said Andrew McGurn with his son Brendan, 9, outside Scotia- bank Place. “It’s seeing all the ban- ners, the ice sculptures, all the mas- cots; it’s the whole atmosphere around the game that you won’t get all year round.” “We probably won’t get to see the game for another 30 years in Ottawa so we’ll take advantage when it’s here.” McGurn and his son, both hock- ey players in Ottawa, cheered for Team Alfredsson and wore their Sens jerseys to the game. Sisters Tanya and Natalie Thom- son made their allegiances obvious donning their Phil Kessel jerseys on their way inside. “It’s fun. We love hockey and it’s all the best players,” said Tanya, 24. “We all come here at once, the atmosphere is pumped.” CHRISTIAN PETERSEN/GETTY IMAGES Fans flock to Scotiabank Place for All-Star experience Mood stays pumped despite 12-9 loss for Team Alfredsson Daniel Alfredsson of the Ottawa Senators and Team Alfredsson waves to the crowd after losing to Team Chara in the 2012 Tim Hortons NHL All-Star Game at Scotiabank Place yesterday. JOE LOFARO @METRONEWS.CA More coverage {page 27}
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OTTAWA’S ALL-STAROTTAWA’S ALL-STAR
OTTAWA
Defendants defiant, call verdict unjust
‘Cold-blooded, shamefulmurders’: Judge
Reaction
Motivated bytwisted concept of honour: Judge
Honour killing
Verdict reflectsCanadian values:Crown Attorney
Crown statement
Mohammad Shafia, wife, son each foundguilty of first-degree murder {page 8}
Monday, January 30, 2012www.metronews.ca
News worth sharing.
The excitement that had built upin Ottawa over the All-Star Week-end exploded throughout Scotia-bank Place Sunday as Team Charaand Team Alfredsson went head-to-head in the hyped up All-Stargame.
Hockey fans donning Ottawa
Senators, Toronto Maple Leafs,Boston Bruins, and several otherjerseys poured into the arena withanticipation before the puckdropped just after 4 p.m.
No matter which team theywere cheering for, fans agreed the59th annual All-Star Game was asignificant event.
Fan Andrew Harris watched thedrama unfold at the Local Heroesbar in Bells Corners. Although he
was upset that Team Alfredssonlost 12 - 9, he said the All-Star Week-end made up for it.
“It’s more about the event,” saidHarris. “I went down to the Fan(Fair) and saw all the smiles fromeveryone — from the smallest kidto grandparents. The score doesn’tmatter as much as the memoriesand there will be a lot from this.”
“It’s not just a game it’s the expe-rience,” said Andrew McGurn with
his son Brendan, 9, outside Scotia-bank Place. “It’s seeing all the ban-ners, the ice sculptures, all the mas-cots; it’s the whole atmospherearound the game that you won’tget all year round.”
“We probably won’t get to seethe game for another 30 years inOttawa so we’ll take advantagewhen it’s here.”
McGurn and his son, both hock-ey players in Ottawa, cheered for
Team Alfredsson and wore theirSens jerseys to the game.
Sisters Tanya and Natalie Thom-son made their allegiances obviousdonning their Phil Kessel jerseyson their way inside.
“It’s fun. We love hockey andit’s all the best players,” said Tanya,24. “We all come here at once, theatmosphere is pumped.”
CHRISTIAN PETERSEN/GETTY IMAGES
Fans flock to Scotiabank Place for All-Star experience Mood stays pumped despite 12-9 loss for Team Alfredsson
Daniel Alfredsson of the Ottawa Senators and Team Alfredsson waves to the crowd after losing to Team Chara in the 2012 Tim Hortons NHL All-Star Game at Scotiabank Place yesterday.
03metronews.caMONDAY, JANUARY 30, 2012news: ottawa
Organizers of this year’sCapital Pride festival areworried a proposed ban onsmoking outdoors on cityproperty could crimp at-tendance at the annual cel-ebration held at MarionDewar Plaza.
Capital Pride Commit-
tee Chair Loresa Novy saidthe expanded smoking by-law, which could be inplace by spring, could havea disproportionate effecton Ottawa’s LBGT commu-nity.
“We do have a higherpopulation of smokerswithin the LGBT popula-tion,” she said, “And we’reworried that they won’t at-tend the festival due to the
smoking bylaw.”Novy is also concerned
that the costs of enforcingthe rules could fall to Capi-tal Pride, and would like tosee a more gradual imple-mentation or grace periodwhile festival-goers adjustto the smoking ban.
Another possible solu-tion, she said, would be togrant the festival an ex-emption, similar to the
breaks on noise bylaws giv-en to music festivals, to al-low a designated smokingarea for the event.
“We’re just trying tomake sure that we don’thave any barriers for festi-val-goers,” Novy said.
Studies put LGBT smoking rates at 50 to 200 per cent higher than in the general population Public consultations on the updated smoking bylaws ended Jan. 20
Smoking ban may hurtPride attendance: officials
Historic fairbuildingsaved byfirefightersFirefighters protected theCarp Agricultural Hall fromburning to the ground aftera fire on the second floorcaused $100,000 indamages.
Ottawa Fire Services re-sponded at 2:22 a.m. on Sat-urday when callers spottedsmoke coming from thehistoric building at 3790Carp Road.
Joyce Trafford, generalmanager of the Carp Fair,said the fire started justabove her office, which sus-tained water damage, butshe was relieved the firedidn’t destroy anyirreplaceable documents.
The fair is celebrating its150th anniversary in 2013,so researchers had oldminute books andphotographs out in theopen, she said.
“The Carp volunteer firedepartment was just terrif-ic,” she added.
A couple of photos offormer directors weredestroyed. A hole in theroof has been covered withplywood, and Trafford saidshe’ll have a better idea ofthe total damage when in-surance adjusters visit thesite Monday.
Firefighters said a gas-fired wall heater caused thefire, which spread up thewall and into the attic.
The fire damaged the ex-terior of the building, butthe large, colourful muralon the barn didn’t sustainany damage.
There were no injuriesreported.
The 149th Annual CarpFair will take place fromSept. 20-23. METRO
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The day my child-hood bully re-en-tered my life I felt allthe old emotions:
Fear, embarrassment, butmostly indignation.
All while looking at acomputer.
I was catching up withold friends on Facebookwhen I got the friend re-quest.
Are you kidding me? Ithought.
I was a kid again, my earsburning, my shoulderstense.
Matt Gabriel was not myworst tormentor. We wereonce even pals. Then hestarted hanging aroundwith older kids who bulliedme as a group.
Tripping, pushing,names, fights, alienation. Ifelt then like I was walkingaround with a label on myforehead.
He kept sending friend
requests. Each time I reject-ed him with a click and felta nasty glee exacting arighteous revenge.
Finally he wrote: “DearSean: I keep asking for yourfriendship on Facebookand keeping getting denied— which is understand-able. I am not looking foryou to be able to forgive mefor picking on you in pub-lic school a lot — butmaybe just to give yousome perspective. Mymother was dying a terribleand painful death fromcancer and I acted out quitea bit.”
And then he apologized.I wrote back. I apolo-
gized too. I thought I’dmoved on, but I’d been car-rying around resentment. Ilooked at my own behav-iour back then. Most of uskids at the bottom of thesocial order weren’t any
kinder to each other thanMatt and his cronies. Onlything was, Matt was manenough to reach out to peo-ple (not just me) to makeamends.
Turns out the older kidsthat picked on us were getting beat up by evenolder kids.
“We were scared, butthen we would go intoschool and do the samething,” he recalls.
Matt was physically big-ger and began studyingmartial arts. Rather than bea victim he tried to intimidate others beforethey could go after him.
He realized in his 20s,while working as a bounc-er, he didn’t like wherethings were going. He’djust become a father and hedidn’t want to hurt people.
“I guess it was a processof maturing,” he said.“Hurting people is wrong.And helping people is soeasy. There’s no negativeemotions afterward.”
He works in telecommu-nications now. He became
a union shop steward, hesays, because he wanted tohelp and he found he wasgood at it.
Did he know as a kid hewas doing somethingwrong?
“I don’t know that youhave that well-developed asense of right and wrongwhen you’re young,” hesays.
It sounds like a cop out,but I know Matt is right. Itwas easy for me to seewhen I was being wronged,but when I got into fights Ialways felt I was right.
“There were mixed mes-sages coming at us, evenfrom our teachers and parents,” Matt says.
I have to agree again.
There were mixed mes-sages: corporal punish-ment, religion, movies —all had a good guy fightingand punishing a bad guy.
Matt says he struggledwith his mother’s illnessfrom kindergarten untilGrade 8 when she died. Hedidn’t get counselling andhis father was often awayworking, trying to makeends meet.
“It’s not an excuse, but ithelps explain things,” Mattsays.
Matt and I continue tobe friends on Facebook.And we may all get togeth-er (him and his brothers)for a beer now that my earsdon’t burn every time Ithink of him.
It’s hard to admit that youare bullying someone.In fact, most children rec-ognize their actions, butdo not understand whythey are doing it, said Dr.John LeBlanc, an associateprofessor of pediatrics atDalhousie University inHalifax.
He said there are threecomponents of bullying:An intent to harm, a pow-er imbalance and repeti- tion. So the person who isbullying is well aware oftheir actions, saidLeBlanc.
“But they just don’tknow why.”
He said it’s hard “forsomeone who is bullying,for them to have theinsight to say, ‘Oh, I’mbullying. I better stop.’”
“Usually they are bully-ing because they want tobully. Children who bullydo it for a reason. They’reusually troubled childrenthemselves,” he said.
Consequently, it’s rarefor a child to stop the behaviour without somesort of intervention, hesaid.
“You can’t expect thebully to stop it on theirown, nor the victim. Thevictim is already in a weak-ened position,” he said.
“It never felt good.It didn’t feel rightand it’s not who I was inside.”MATT GABRIEL
Politicians are drafting legislation to combat bullying in schools But if they really want to tackle the problem, they’ll have to delve deeper than kicking kids out
Bullies can be victims too, as Metro Ottawa’s managing editor discoveredSEAN MCKIBBON/METRO
Expert advice
Dr. LeBlanc’s strategies to
prevent or stop bullying:
Bullying amongst childrenshould be dealt with ingroups: Ask each childhow they would feel ifthey were being bullied.In the “no blame ap -proach,” the adult asks thevictim if the incident canbe brought to a group thatincludes the child who isbullying. The group is thenasked how they can helpthe child and some times,the child who is bullyingwill actually offer to help.
My bully,my friend
Tuesday in Metro: More on bullying
In the second instalment of our three-part series:
We investigate the differences between boys and girls
Sean McKibbon and Matthew Gabriel stand out front of what used to be North Edwardsburgh Public School,
where they attended elementary school. The building is now a retirement residence.
Should reformedbul lies reach outto their victims or leave the past behind? Tweet us @metroottawa.
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An Ottawa woman whostruggled with mental ill-ness says talking about itmakes it “less scary,” andhopes that on Feb. 8, BellCanada’s Let’s Talk cam-paign will get a conversa-tion started.
Rachel Scott-Mignonsaid she suffered fromsymptoms of mental ill-ness for most of her life,but didn’t know exactlywhat was wrong with her.She was too afraid to talkabout it and seek help.
At age 16, she reachedout to her brother during asuicidal period.
“He told me it would ru-in his whole existence if Iwere to take my own life,”said Scott-Mignon, now 29.
“His words were enoughthat day to keep me fromkilling myself.”
Throughout her teensand early 20s, she strug-gled with depression andan eating disorder, andwas diagnosed with bipo-lar disorder at 23.
Then she sought treat-ment from the Royal Ot-tawa Hospital (ROH),where she has been a pa-tient for the past fiveyears.
The Let’s Talk campaignis a five-year, $50 millioncharitable campaign thatsupports mental healthhospitals, such as the ROH.
Six-time Olympicmedallist Clara Hughes,who battled with depres-sion, will join other no-table spokespeople to talkabout mental illness forLet’s Talk Day.
Scott-Mignon said noone talked about mentalhealth when she was a kidso she felt afraid to reachout to others.
“I was really scared ofthe stigma that was at-tached so I was really
afraid that people wouldmake fun of me or rejectme,” she said. “That’s whyI think Bell’s campaign iswonderful — it gets peo-ple talking and it encour-ages all Canadians toparticipate.”
Rachel Scott-Mignon
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Canada, we need to talkNearly one in five Canadians will experience a mental illness in their life-
time, Health Canada says Bell Canada’s Let’s Talk campaign is Feb. 8
On Feb. 8, Bell will donatefive cents for every textmessage and long distancecall made by its customers,and for every retweet of theLet’s Talk Day message onTwitter @Bell_LetsTalk.
More than 66 million textmessages and longdistance phone calls weresent last year for anadditional $3.3 million(3,303,961.80, specifically)raised for mental health
programs.
Not-for-profit organizationsand hospitals that work onimproving access to mentalhealth care can also applyfor the 2012 Bell Let’s TalkCommunity Fund. Applica-tions are open throughMarch 31 and recipientsmay receive a grant of$5,000 to $50,000.
More information is avail-able at bell.ca/letstalk.
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Three members of anAfghanistan-bornMontreal familywere defiant Sunday
in the face of life in prisonand harsh condemnationfor the murders of threedaughters and a co-wife ap-parently motivated by whatthe judge called their“twisted concept of hon-our.”
A jury took 15 hours tofind Mohammad Shafia,58, his wife Tooba Yahya,42, and their son Hamed,21, each guilty of fourcounts of first-degree mur-der in a so-called mass hon-our killing that hascaptivated Canadians from
coast to coast, and touchedoff post-911 criticism ofMuslim culture.
The three immediatelypronounced the verdicts asunjust, but the judge wasunmoved, cutting right tothe core of the culturalcloud that hung over thiscase.
“It is difficult to conceiveof a more heinous, moredespicable, more honour-less crime,” Ontario Superi-or Court Judge Robert
Maranger said.“The apparent reason
behind these cold-blooded,shameful murders was thatthe four completely inno-cent victims offended yourcompletely twisted conceptof honour ... that has ab-solutely no place in any civ-ilized society.”
The trial heard evidenceover many weeks about the
bizarre divide in the Shafiafamily, in which the patri-arch struck fear in thehearts of some of his chil-dren, though often beingaway on business. Hamedacted as the surrogate disci-plinarian.
The three murdereddaughters thumbed theirnoses at the family rules.The children they did notkill were the ones rattingout their sisters to their
parents for bad behaviour,court heard.
It was notions of honour,directly tied to women'ssexuality and general con-trol over their behaviour,that led the Shafias to kill,court heard, in an effort tocleanse them of the shamethey perceived their daugh-ters had brought uponthem.
The idea that such think-ing had not only beenbrewing in one of Canada'smost cosmopolitan cities,but that this “honour” ap-parently superseded thevalue of life for the Shafiashas shocked many.THE CANADIAN PRESS
Chronology
Major events before the
deaths:
1992: The Kabul-bornShafia family leavesAfghanistan and lives inPakistan, Dubai andAustralia before moving toMontreal in 2007.June 2007: Shafia familymoves to Canada, grantedlanded immigrant status.November 2007: First wifeRona Amir Mohammad ar-rives in Canada.April 2008: Rona starts a di-ary, writing that Shafia beather and Yahya threatenedto kick her out of thehouse, calling her a servant.April 17, 2009: Zainab, 19,the eldest Shafia daughter,runs away to a shelter. Oth-er Shafia children call 911saying they are fearful oftheir father’s reaction.May 18, 2009: Zainab mar-ries her boyfriend but herfamily convinces her to an-nul it after a few hours.June 20, 2009: Someone us-es the family computer tosearch “where to commit amurder.”June 22, 2009: Shafia buys aused Nissan, the one thatwould be found at the bot-tom of a canal days later.June 23, 2009: The Shafiafamily leaves on a trip to Ni-agara Falls. They leave Ni-agara on June 29. June 30, 2009, about 2 a.m.:
Shafia and Hamed check in-to two rooms at theKingston East motel, nearKingston Mills. Ten peoplewere on the family vacation,but Shafia and Hamed taketwo rooms for a total of sixpeople. The motel managersees Shafia and Hamed thenleave in an SUV. He does notsee anyone return for aslong as he is awake.June 30, 2009, about 9
a.m.: Worker finds a car inthe locks at Kingston Mills.
“We are notcriminal, we arenot murderers, wedidn’t commit themurder and this isunjust.”MOHAMMAD SHAFIA, 58
“Sir, I did notdrown my sistersanywhere.”HAMED SHAFIA, 21
“I am not amurderer, and I ama mother — amother!”TOOBA YAHYA, 42
Mohammad Shafia, centre, Tooba
Yahya, seen behind him, and Hamed
Shafia, left, arrive at the Frontenac
County courthouse in Kingston, Sunday.
GRAHAM HUGHES/THE CANADIAN PRESS
‘Honourlesscrime’
Crown attorney in Shafia trial says guilty verdicts are a reflection of Canadian values
‘Honourlesscrime’
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Harper lets hisTory colours outStephen Harper will let hisConservative colours burstfor perhaps the first timesince he came to power in2006, letting off a few po-litical fireworks by slash-ing government spending,tinkering with pensions,aggressively promotingCanada’s resource sectorand promoting a moreclassic division of powerswith the provinces.
The House of Commonsresumes Monday after asix-week hiatus.
The prime minister hadbeen criticized by evensome right-wing pundits inthe past for not being con-servative enough — heraised spending year afteryear and hesitated to makeany long-term changes togovernment policy.
But with a number of oldpromises fulfilled or aboutto be, the majority Conser-vatives are finally free tothink big and think blue.
During a speech to aneconomic forum in
Switzerland last week,Harper signalled a numberof “major transforma-tions” he intends to intro-duce — includingpotential changes to OldAge Security (OAS) and al-tering how immigrants areselected.
The Tories haven’t con-firmed speculation theywill raise the eligibility agefor OAS to 67 from 65, butthey are certainly drop-ping strong hints.THE CANADIAN PRESS
As House of Commons resumes, PM to eliminate wheatboard monopoly, gun registry and political subsidies
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New Year celebrations take to the streetsThe parade is one of the largest in North America, drawing 50,000 people to the streets of Chinatown.
Chinese. New Year
Interim Liberal Leader Bob Rae, right, hands out lucky red envelopes
as he attends the Chinese New Year parade in Vancouver on Sunday.
For each ecstasy overdosebeing brought to light pub-licly in Calgary, frontlinedoctors are treating dozensmore with similar, near-fa-tal symptoms.
The discovery of anotherbody in a northeast Calgaryresidence Sunday raisedfears that the total numberof deaths linked to a toxiccompound known as PM-MA could rise.
Police believe the com-pound is being used inplace of standard MDMAin ecstasy tablets follow-ing a recent crackdown byRCMP.
Officials also said Fridaya sixth individual’s deathlast summer has been tiedto PMMA.
With each reporteddeath, emergency roomphysicians are also treatinga wave of patients reactingnegatively to the drug, ex-
plained Dr. Mark Yarema,medical director for thePoison and Drug Informa-tion Service and emergencyroom physician.
“What’s been reallystriking is how hypother-mic or elevated the bodytemperature is of these pa-tients,” he said. “They arealso very rigid; we are see-ing extensive muscularcontraction.”
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Calgary ERsflooded withecstasy patients
Opposition
NDP leadership candidatestook direct shots at Harperduring a debate Sunday —candidate Brian Toppcalled Harper a hypocritefor saying he supportedfamilies while “kickingthem in the shins” withproposed OAS changes.Count on the NDP to focuson the OAS issue. Interimleader Nycole Turmel andfinance critic Peter Julienwill be meeting with theCanadian Association ofRetired Persons onMonday.Interim Liberal Leader BobRae also attempted to setthe stage for the openingof Parliament with a policyspeech, telling a Vancou-ver audience Saturday thatHarper was about to dumpmore costs on theprovinces by potentiallyraising the OAS age.
Recorded cases
A true number of howmany patients are beingadmitted with symptomscaused by the PMMA com-pound is unknown, but Al-berta Health Services hasrecorded more than 100severe cases, Dr. MarkYarema said.
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The commander of theCanadian army says hedoubts the internationalcommunity will have thecash or the political stom-ach after 2014 to sustainthe sprawling Afghan secu-rity force being trained byNATO allies.
Lt.-Gen. Peter Devlin,the chief of land staff, re-cently returned from Kab-ul, where roughly 950Canadians have settled infor a three-year stint underthe newly establishedtraining mission.
Some questions on hismind during a round ofmeetings with NATO com-
manders involved whetherthe Afghan governmentwill have the means of pay-ing for an army and a po-lice force that is expectedto top out at 352,000 mem-bers. Devlin also wonderedif the perceived threat
from Taliban insurgentsrequired building a forceof that size.
Current estimates fromthe country’s defence min-ister, Abdul Rahim War-dak, see the Afghansspending more than $6.2billion a year to pay for andequip their forces. That’s ina country where the budg-et of the entire federaltreasury is $4 billion —much of that foreign aid.
Such a scenario mightbe uncomfortable, but De-vlin said it could force theKarzai government to takemore ownership of securi-ty forces. THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Pileup kills 9 on Florida highwayAt least nine people died in a series of crashes apparently caused by heavysmoke and fog overnight on Interstate 75 in north Florida, authorities said Sun-day. At least another 18 people hurt in the wreck were being treated in hospital.
Deadly. Crash
Officials work at the scene of a multi-vehicle wreck on
Interstate 75, south of Gainesville, Fla., on Sunday.
Future of Afghanarmy in doubt
Lt.-Gen. Peter Devlin
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European debt crisis, U.S. budget gridlock couldtake toll on western combat forces in Afghanistan
Allegations halt RCMP trainingThe federal RCMP has sus-pended a program thatsends Mounties to train indrug recognition with anArizona-based police de-partment after learning ofallegations against theforce including racism andabuse of authority.
An RCMP deputy com-missioner halted the train-ing with the Maricopa
County Sheriff’s Office af-ter the B.C. Civil LibertiesAssociation alerted him toa scathing report on theforce by the U.S. Depart-ment of Justice.
The departmentstripped powers from thepolice force after an investi-gation found its officers al-legedly engaged in racialprofiling, retaliated against
people who criticized itspolicies and disregarded ba-sic legal obligations.
B.C.C.L.A. executive di-rector David Eby says thetraining program involvedhaving police officers testtheir skills on prisonerswho had been stopped forallegedly driving while un-der the influence of drugs.THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Cancerfound inmummyA professor fromAmerican University inCairo says discovery ofprostate cancer in a 2,200-year-old mummy indicatesthe disease was caused bygenetics, notenvironment.
AUC Prof. Salima Ikramsaid the mummy was of aman in his forties, and wasthe second-oldest knowncase of prostate cancer. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MORAL POLICING
Victory forPakistaniliberalsA private TV stationdecided to fire a popularmorning show host aftershe sparked outrage byrunning around a publicpark trying to exposeyoung, unmarriedcouples hanging out, ataboo in this conservativeMuslim country.
Pakistani liberals de-rided host Maya Khan’s
behaviour on Twitterand Facebook, compar-ing it to the kind ofmoral policing practisedby the Taliban, and start-ed an online petitionasking Samaa TV to endthis “irresponsible pro-gramming” andapologize.
The companyresponded Saturday in aletter sent to reporterssaying it had decided tofire Khan and her teamand cancel her show be-cause she refused toissue an unconditionalapology for the Jan. 17program.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
More than 1,000 prisonersin Kyrgyzstan have sewntheir lips together, agrotesque act inmates de-scribe as a protest of theirdismal conditions, butwhich authorities blameon organized criminalgangs who resent attemptsto break the power theywield in prisons.
Kyrgyzstan, a poor ex-Soviet nation of 5.3 mil-lion, holds around 7,600inmates in its detentioncentres. The buildings are
notoriously crowded anddisease-ridden, and theyhave not escaped the reachof powerful criminal syn-
dicates who also threatenthe stability of the country.
Crime experts sayprison gangs in former So-viet nations are typicallypart of a complex hierar-chical fraternity.
Since Soviet times, un-derfunded police and cor-ruption have enabled localmafia groups engaged innarcotics trafficking andother crimes to flourishand authorities say they ex-tend deep into the nation’sjails. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kyrgyz prisonerssew mouths shut
Act is sign of protest against alleged mistreatmentAuthorities blame influence of organized crime
In this video image, a prisoner with his lips stitched shut looks up
in a prison cell in a pre-trial detention centre in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
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1,200Almost 400 prisonersbound their lips atZhusupbekov’s jail,and as many as 800others are believed tohave done the same inother jails.
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Europe’s crippling debt cri-sis dominated the world’sforemost gathering of busi-ness and political leaders,but for the first time thegrowing inequality be-tween the planet’s havesand have-nots became an is-sue, thanks largely to theArab Spring uprisings, theOccupy movement and oth-er global protests.
The mood at the end ofthe five-day meeting inDavos, Switzerland, wassombre, and more than2,500 VIPs headed homeSunday concerned aboutwhat lies ahead in 2012.Plenty of champagneflowed in this alpine ski re-sort — but the atmospherewas flat and the bubblingenthusiasm of some past
World Economic Forumswas noticeably absent.
Despite some guardedoptimism about Europe’slatest attempts to stem theeurozone crisis, fears re-main that turmoil could re-turn and spill over to therest of the world. And therewere no answers to thewidening inequality gap,but a mounting realizationthat economic growth mustinclude the poor, that jobcreation is critical, and thataffordable food, housing,health care and educationare needed in any solution.
The International Mone-tary Fund reduced its fore-cast for global growth in2012 to 3.3 per cent fromthe four per cent pace itprojected in September.
Asia is expected to remainthe engine for globalgrowth though at a slowerrate, with China leading theway at more than eight percent, followed by India andIndonesia.
IMF managing directorChristine Lagarde warned
that the eurozone crisis isnot the region’s problemalone. The IMF is theworld’s traditional lender-of-last-resort and Lagarde istrying to increase its re-sources by $500 billion USif more lending is needed. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A topless Ukrainian
protester is arrested at
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As the World Economic Forum wraps up, impact of the eurozone crisisglobally still feared IMF predicts global growth to be less than expected
Widening inequality gapleft unanswered at WEF
More Canadianstapping intotablets: ReportTablet ownership nearlytripled in Canada last yearand will continue to surgein 2012, according to a re-port by the Media Technol-ogy Monitor.
Among anglophones,tablet ownership was atabout 11 per cent last fall,up from four per cent in2010, according to the re-port, based on surveys of4,000 anglophones and4,000 francophones.
Francophone tablet
ownership was at six percent last fall, compared totwo per cent in 2010. Thereport suggests about 72per cent of all tabletsowned by anglophones lastyear were iPads, but does-n’t break down the other28 per cent.
Apple reported it sold15.4-million iPads in thefourth quarter, which in-cluded the holiday shop-ping season. THE CANADIAN PRESS
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BRONSON WON’T BEWIDENED, BUT WILLIT BE IMPROVED?
In March, we start rippingup Bronson Avenue toreplace the old sewer andwater mains underneath,but a battle rages on overjust how we’ll put it back to-gether afterwards.
As it stands, the often-clogged four-lane artery doesn’t work terribly well fordrivers, let alone pedestrians or cyclists.
I made my last trip there on foot tocover a demonstration at Gladstone andBronson. Cold weather had thinned theprotesters to a handful, but there was
still precious little real estate on the narrow sidewalkbetween them, me, andthe side mirrors of passingtraffic.
The city’s plan was towiden the road to makeroom for even moremotorized traffic (andwider sidewalk where fea-sible), over strenuousobjections from local com-munity groups.
The loss of remainingtrees and already-tinyfront yards in order to getmore cars travelling evenfaster down Bronson was apretty tough sell for manyneighbourhood residents,some 30 per cent of whomdon’t even own cars.
It turns out now that re-locating hydro infrastruc-ture would cost too much,so the plan to widen Bron-son is off. Opponents ofthe expansion, however,aren’t quite breaking outthe champagne.
“It’s a small victory inthe sense that we beat back the city’s attempt to widenit,” said Eric Darwin, president of the Dalhousie Com-munity Association, “But we haven’t made the roadany better than it is today.”
Now that the plan to widen Bronson is dead, Darwinwould like to see the city reconsider reducing the busyroute from four lanes to three. So-called road dietshave made traffic slower and safer in other placesthey’ve been tried, but city staff deemed it a bad fit forBronson.
Darwin is also keen to see what the city has plannedfor unsafe pedestrian crossings at Gladstone and Som-erset, but has found staff less than forthcoming.
Chronic poor communication from city hall, Darwinsaid, has left some activists speculating about what re-ally happened to the road-widening scheme. Was thehydro story just an excuse to back down without beingseen as bending to community pressure?
“Or is it,” asked Darwin, “that all our protests actual-ly mean absolutely nothing and they don’t give a damnabout anything anybody says, but … they ran into thistechnical problem which is too expensive to overcome?
“We just have to watch these guys like a hawk. Andwe’ll try our best.”
URBANCOMPASSSTEVE COLLINSMETRO OTTAWA
“Now that theplan to widen
Bronson is dead,Darwin wouldlike to see thecity reconsiderreducing the
busy route fromfour lanes to
three. So-calledroad diets have
made trafficslower and saferin other placesthey’ve beentried, but city
staff deemed it abad fit forBronson.”
Survival ofthe fittestA competitor is seen afterwalking though fire at theannual Tough Guy eventin Perton, England, onSunday.
Tough Guy claims to bethe world’s most demand-ing one-day survivalordeal. First staged in1986, it has been widelydescribed as “the toughestrace in the world,” with upto one-third of the startersfailing to finish in atypical year.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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“Normally,” says DanielRadcliffe, “I hate watch-ing my movies and hatewatching myself.”
Why, then, did he sitthrough his new film, TheWoman in Black, duringits Canadian premier lastweek in Toronto?
“The last time I willwatch it was last night,”the former Harry Pottertold me the next day.
“I’ve picked this apartenough now. I don’t needto watch it any more.
“The line between self-critical and self-hating isblurred.
“Normally when Iwatch my stuff, I say, ‘Idon’t like that but I don’tknow what to do about it,’but last night I was watch-ing and thinking, ‘Oh,this is how that could beimproved.’”
Despite being one ofthe most beloved actorson the planet and the starof some of the highestgrossing films of all time,Radcliffe isn’t content torest on his laurels.
“I know I have a longway to go as an actor,” hesays.
“I’m 22 and at the stagewhen most actors wouldbe coming out of dramaschool but because I’vegot 10 years of experienceon a film set I think peo-ple expect me to be morecomplete, perhaps, than Iam.
“I think that there aresome things I do really
well and some things I seeand go, ‘OK, I know howto fix that now.’”
One thing he can’tchange is the way his fansrespond to him.
“It’s kind of part of mylife,” he says of the fanda-monium that followswherever he goes.
“The thing you have toremind yourself is that itis not about me.
“It’s about the fact that
I played this character,which became belovedand anyone who took onthat character would begetting this reaction.
“The fact that I’m nowgetting it on my ownaway from the series isvery gratifying, althoughit is still kind of residualfrom Potter, unless theyare fans of that and of me.
“You just have to laugh
at it and have a sense ofhumour about it.
“As I said to you, whenI’m at home, smoking acigarette and it’s cold andI’m in my Canada Goosejacket eating half a pizza,those are the momentsyou have to take a pictureof yourself and play it toyourself when you are onthe red carpet and go,‘Yeah, yeah, yeah, you’renot all that, really.’”
Harry Potter grows upWith the beloved wizard franchise behind him, Daniel Radcliffe looks forward to growing
as an actor He drops the wand and takes on the role of a lawyer in The Woman in Black
Daniel Radcliffe stars in The Woman in Black, coming to theatres Friday.
Early roles: When he wasjust 10, he took the role ofa young David Copperfieldin the television seriesDavid Copperfield. He alsostarred in The Tailor ofPanama in 2001.
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The Grey topped theweekend box officewith $20 million, con-tinuing Liam Neeson’ssuccess as an actionstar. Also openingwere Man on a Ledgeand One for the Mon-ey with Katherine Hei-gl. One for the Moneytook home $11.8 mil-lion, while Man on aLedge opened with$8.3 million.Underworld: Awaken-ings, came in secondwith $12.5 million.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Forget the romance, just focus on the film Bradley Cooper, Zoe Saldana celebrate the premiere of their Sundance-closing film, The Words
Bradley Cooper and ZoeSaldana came to the Sun-dance Film Festival to pro-mote their closing-nightfilm, The Words.
The two actors play amarried couple in themovie, which follows anaspiring writer who gainsfame when he finds an oldmanuscript and passes itoff as his own.
The pair avoided any ap-pearance of their reportedoff-screen romance by stay-ing apart from one anoth-er while posing for photosand giving interviews tosupport the film. Saldanadid affectionately touchCooper as they passed in ahallway, though.
Both had been to Sun-dance before, where snowfell throughout the festivaland the weather dipped in-to the teens. Still, Saldanamaintained her fashionistaedge.
“I did bring warm stuff
but I also brought fashion-y stuff. Come on. You’vegot to pay the price, even ifit’s too cold,” she said.
The 33-year-old actresswore green suede shoeswith spiked stiletto heelsdespite the slushy condi-tions.
“They’re kind of fabu-lous. They’re also lethal. SoI have to be really careful,and somebody has to becareful not to piss me off,”she said with a smile.“Yeah right. I’m just tryingnot to fall. It’s like, ‘Pleasedon’t fall. Please don’t fall,’
when I’m walking.”Cooper’s first time at
the festival was 12 yearsearlier with the eventualcult comedy hit Wet HotAmerican Summer.
“I wasn’t even able toget into the screening,” herecalled.
Saldana said playingCooper’s wife in TheWords made her thinkabout how she approachesrelationships and the con-cept of unconditional love.
“Like how uncondition-al am I when I’m in love.Do you bypass certainthings? Would I be able tobe with a man — or withsomeone — that feels in-complete, doesn’t matterwhat we do?” she said.
“If we change this, if weget married, if we have ababy — just someone that
feels incomplete. Would Ibe able to deal with thatfor so many years and ac-cept them as who they areand go, ‘Come as you are.This is who I fell in lovewith and I don’t want tochange you?’
“I’m not like that,which is why I wanted toplay her, because it was achallenge, you know. Lookat me, I totally said I’m notunconditional at all. So aw-ful.”
Cooper’s part as author-plagiarist Rory Jansen ishis second writerly role af-ter playing a novelist inlast year’s Limitless. Butthat’s just coincidence, hesaid. Despite having a de-gree in English, the 37-year-old actor says hetypically only writes in his“girlnal.”
“Journal, sorry,” he said.“That’s a ‘Wet Hot’ refer-ence. Paul Rudd says that.”THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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The Words, which alsostars Dennis Quaid, JeremyIrons, Ben Barnes andOlivia Wilde, premieredFriday. It was acquired ear-ly in the festival by CBSFilms, which plans torelease it theatrically inthe fall.
Actor Bradley Cooper, from the film The Words, poses for a portrait
during the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, last week.
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Whip-itsredactedReferences to whip-its willbe redacted from DemiMoore’s 911 tape, saysTMZ. (A whip-it is a streetname for a type of nitrousoxide inhalant, accordingto TMZ.) The L.A. city attor-ney recommended themove to protect her privacyif the tape is released to thepublic, although it hasalready been reported thatparamedics were told thatshe inhaled nitrous oxidebefore falling unconscious.
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After almostseven years to-gether, itlooks like BradPitt and An-gelina Joliemight make it
official. The royal couple is
abandoning their originalplan to wait until gaymarriage is legal in ex-change for some peaceand quiet around thehouse.
“We’re getting a lot ofpressure from the kids,”Pitt admits in an inter-view with CBS SundayMorning that aired yester-day.
“It means something to
them.” It seems their six-pack
— count ’em: Maddox,Pax, Zahara, Shiloh, Knoxand Vivienne — havebeen telling him to “getMommy a ring” and he’spromised, “OK, I will! Iwill!”
So, just to sum it up:When pressured by sixyoung children to buy adiamond for a womanwho has let him stickaround since 2005 with-out one, Brad Pitt runs hisstrong, rugged handsthrough his shiny blondehair and says, “Sure kids,why not.”
Angelina, we don’tknow what you did to thisman, but we’re im-pressed.MONICA WEYMOUTH WROTE MON-DAY’S THE WORD. DOROTHY ROBIN-SON WILL BE BACK TUESDAY.
Ashton Kutcher returnedto Los Angeles this week-end after workengagements — includingmodelling for clothingbrand Colcci — kept himin Brazil during estrangedwife Demi Moore’s drug-related hospitalization.
“Ashton is deeplyconcerned for Demi,” asource says, according toHollyscoop. “He still caresabout her and wants thebest for her. But their mar-riage is ending and theyare both moving on withtheir lives.” METRO
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Russell Brand hasn’t beenwasting any time.
Less than a month afterfiling for divorce fromKaty Perry, Brand is report-edly already seeingmultiplewomen —and bad-mouthinghis soon-to-be ex-wifeto them,accord-ing to UsWeekly.
“He’sspokenterriblyabout
Katy to them,” one sourcesays, adding that Brand isparticularly interested inone of the new women.
“He told her he wantedher to move in with himafter the divorce is final.”
And worst of all, evenPerry can’t avoid the
gossip. “She discovered
through herfriends,” a source
says. “One of thewomen told a
friend of hersand it got
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When I first read that amother in Acworth, Ga.,allowed her 10-year-oldson to get a tattoo, Ithought, “A tattoo, peo-ple?! On a 10-year-old!”
Then I discovered thatthe tattoo is actually inmemory of the boy’s olderbrother, Malik, who washit and killed by a teenage
driver at age 12. The 10-year-old, Gaquan, waswith his brother when hedied.
That was a couple ofyears ago now, but he re-cently told his mom,Chuntera Napier, that hewanted to get a tattoo as away of honouring Malik’smemory. (Gaguan has sev-eral tattoos of her own inher late son’s memory.)
“My son came to meand said, ‘Mom, I want toget a tattoo with Malik onit, rest in peace.’ What do Isay to a child that wants toremember his brother?”Napier told the local TVstation.
She claims she didn’tknow it was illegal for a10-year-old to get a tattoo,and so she took her son toa tattoo artist, who gavethe boy a tattoo featuringMalik’s old jersey number.As Napier explained, “Itmade me feel good toknow that he wanted hisbrother on him.”
Gaquan then returnedto school, where someonenoticed his new ink andcalled authorities. Napieris now facing child crueltycharges because it’s illegalfor anyone under 18 to geta tattoo, even with theirparent’s consent.
“We hope that they can
Would you let your child get a tattoo?
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Tattooed 10-year-oldIn Georgia, a mother has been
arrested for allowing her child toget a tattoo Before you judge,read the details recounted by oneMommyish blogger
What do
you think?
Is it OK for 10-year-olds to
get tattoos? Twitter was
buzzing with these
tweets:
@lyjo67
[the reason] doesn’t mat-ter. tell him to go plant atree or start a foundationor something more sensi-ble than a tattoo@dakneez
It is never, ever ok to allowa ten-year-old to get a tat-too.@aysharempel
can you imagine what thattattoo is going to look likein 10 years #disaster@337wallace
tattoos are an expressionof self. Understand that itis permanent, and it does-n’t matter how old you are:)
find something that cansustain them through thatloss, but this is not theway. It is illegal and it’ssomething that we werebound by the law to inves-tigate and to prosecute,”
said Acworth police chiefMike Wilkie. (They’re alsoinvestigating the tattooartist.)
I don’t think there’sever justification for per-manently inking a child,
though my heart justbreaks for this family whosuffered such a tragic loss.Napier is set to appear incourt in March.CONTRIBUTED BY SHAWNA COHENOF MOMMYISH.COM.
Double takePink and Green Ribbon campaign
ties breast health to environmentAfter spotting the Pink Rib-bon logo on packaging forchemical-laced householdcleansers and candy withartificial colours, environ-mental consultant and biol-ogist Julie Budgen decidedto mix the cause with amore green approach.
With friends, shestitched up a twist to thepopular movement and cre-ated the Pink and Green
Ribbon campaign. Thegrassroots initiativebloomed, and its Canmore,Alta.-based founders put ef-forts into cancer preventionthrough education.
Their two-pronged ap-proach involves maintain-ing healthy breasts whileraising awareness about en-vironmental factors poten-tially related to disease.Volunteer directors include
a naturopath and a doula,and more advice comesfrom longtime naturopathswho specialize in breasthealth.
Supporter Ayisha Rem-tulla believes women canproactively participate in
their own health.“Growing up, we learn
simple things like how totake care of our teeth, whathappens when you get yourperiod,” said Remtulla, anoccupational therapist andcampaign volunteer in Van-couver. “But we never learnhow to take care of ourbreasts — that’s the onething nobody ever talksabout.”
The 29-year-old was closeto three women who diedfrom breast cancer. Sheknows another two whowere treated and recovered.
Remtulla shaved herhead last April to raisemoney for the campaign.
To keep the momentumrolling, the campaign haslaunched a competitionasking women aged 17 to30 to submit creative four-minute or shorter videosthat highlight pink-and-green values.
Two scholarships of$1,000 each will be award-ed for the best videos, andentries are encouragedfrom around the globe. Sub-missions will be posted onTwitter, Facebook andpinkandgreenribbon.com,the website that provides alibrary of resources illus-trating strategies they be-lieve any woman can use.THE CANADIAN PRESS
Ayisha Remtulla
Advocates say Canadi-ans and their govern-ments must take actionto tear down barriersthat hurt people withdisabilities.
The plea cameFriday with the Torontolaunch of a report bythe World HealthOrganization (WHO)and World Bank.
The World Reporton Disability suggeststhat more than one bil-lion people in theworld today experiencedisability and their bar-riers are many.
WHO’s Tom Shake-speare, one of thereport’s authors, pointsout that in Canada —as in many high-income countries —disabled people aretwice as likely to be un-employed and facemany other barriersthat leave them feelingexcluded.THE CANADIAN PRESS
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It’s as simple as struc-ture as you can imagine.Yet, even here, innovativegreener ideas are being de-veloped — and deployed.
The City of San Francis-co is entering the thirdyear of a five-year programto replace its 1,400 conven-tional shelters with mod-ern, solar-poweredalternatives.
“They’re made entirelyfrom sustainable materi-als,” says Ryan Hughes,project manager for Lund-berg Designs, creators ofthese new, sleek-lookingshelters.
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Solar generators in theshelters’ roofs are actuallyconnected directly to the
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The overall effect? A ze-ro net-draw on the powersystem. Throw in the factthat the shelters are beingbuilt, run and paid for byan advertising agency, andthese updated high-techtransit stops aren’t costingthe city a cent.
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The only thing missing— and this would be ofparticular interest to Cana-dian commuters — is heat.
“In terms of using thesolar power, that would bechallenging,” Hughes ex-plains. “Given the generalsize of bus shelters, theamount of available roofarea is limited. In ourcase, it works to power theequipment we have, be-cause we were very carefulabout selecting only com-ponents that don’t drawvery much power. I thinkheaters, just in general, re-quire a lot of power to con-vert electricity into heat.”
San Francisco is famous-ly cold, wet and windy, byCalifornia standards. But atypical Canadian city faceswinter conditions that arefar more severe. Theseeye-catching shelters arestill a tweak or two awayfrom being ideal in realwinter conditions.
But they also reveal howaffordable innovation canbe — and that even themost basic, stripped-downstructure can be improved,re-imagined and greened.
Solar powered bus shelters showing the way forwardfor clean cities Puts energy back into the grid as well
Green tech infrom the cold
Environmentally-friendly bus shelters are providing alternatives for public transit.
Buses The first recordedbus stop in historyappeared in Bishops Stort-ford, England, in 1890.There is no evidence that ithad a bus shelter.
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‘You can have it all’Mary Morassutti did a career 180 at age 35 and hasn’t looked back since
Mary Morassutti was 35years old and at the top ofher profession, directingand shooting televisionshows all over the world.Married and expectingher first child, shereached a turning pointand knew she’d have toleave her job because ofthe grueling travel sched-
ule.“I knew I was going to
reinvent myself and I did-n’t realize how much myidentity was tied into mycareer. I felt I was floatingin the abyss and couldn’tfind my feet.”
Mary asked a femalecolleague who had alsofaced the same situation.She was blunt when shetold her, “The best giftyou can give a child is ahappy mother”.
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Did she follow her col-league’s advice?
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Focus on what you’re do-ing and what you want todo. Compete with yourselfnot others. Then you’ll bebetter.Think outside of the box.Find what makes youunique and different andwhy they would want towork with you. Practice your elevatorspeech. Be able to explainwhat you do in 30seconds. If you confusethe person you’repitching to then you’velost them.There’s no fast fix. Taketime to figure out whatyou want. Once I realizedwhat I wanted to do the“how” came to mebecause I put myself inthe right direction.
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Signs it’s time to call it quitsNo one wants to be labelled a giver-upper But sometimes cleaning out your desk might just be for the best
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Your company is failing
Be attune to your compa-ny’s success — or lackthereof.
“Staying on a sinkingship can damage yourlong-term prospects,” saysLaurence Shatkin, a sen-ior product developer atcareer publishing firmJIST.
Those in sales or fi-nance should have an ac-curate understanding ofthe company’s gains.
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You’ve been passed over forpromotions
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This is not a good sign —most likely you or yourcompany are in trouble.
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Are you just having a bad day or have you completely checked out of your company?
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So when is a contractoractually an employee?
Despite signing an inde-pendent contractor agree-ment and incorporating hisown company, GordonBraiden was not self-em-ployed.
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Similarly, real estateagent Elizabeth McKee wasan employee even thoughshe had signed a contrac-tor agreement, had herown incorporated businessand invoiced her principalfor commissions.
Following a fallout thatcost her job, McKee suedarguing that she was anemployee. The fact thatshe operated a businesswithin her work for thecompany did not mean shewas a contractor, nor didthe fact that she hired andsupervised her own staff.Since she worked for 18 consecutive years ex-clusively for her employerand had become an inte-gral part of its business,the court declined to uphold the contract and
characterized her as anemployee. She was thenawarded nearly half a million dollars in sever-ance.
Labelling yourself as acontractor is not disposi-tive, even if your employeragrees. Courts and tri-bunals will always consid-er the true nature of therelationship to determinehow the parties actuallybehaved.
If you want to be em-ployed as a contractor,then do as follows:
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Previous to the pastdecade, the way business-es got by was in settingtargets to achieve incre-mental growth and plugalong, generally with sta-tus quo, which at thattime satisfied sharehold-ers enough.
But in just a short 10years, we have seen moredisruptive forces thathave turned that prehis-toric business practice onits heels.
Take, for example, the
time when Napster camealong and changed theworld overnight by “illus-trating to record compa-nies their vulnerability inthe new age of online dig-ital music distribution.”
According to AndreaKates, author of Find YourNext, this was a cross-roads point in the musicbusiness.
“As a result of that rev-olutionary crisis, the term“Napster Moment” hasbeen added to our busi-ness vocabularies” saysKates.
She points out thesame is now taking placein the publishing indus-try.
In her book, Kates de-scribes the concept of theBusiness Genome ap-proach, which is essen-tially a view point thatbusinesses are a combina-tion of ‘genes’ and thearrangement of thesegenes are what make itsuccessful…or not.
Kates’ book deliversthe insights needed to ap-ply this approach to anybusiness and explains thefour steps needed to helpbusinesses ‘find theirnext’ incarnation.
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Blasts from the pastPair of former Senators spark Team Chara to 12-9 all-star win over Team Alfredsson
The NHL all-star game wassupposed to be all aboutDaniel Alfredsson and hisOttawa teammates, but itwas ex-Senator ZdenoChara who had the lastlaugh.
The Boston Bruins cap-tain had the game-winneras he and another formerSenator from Slovakia,Marian Hossa of the Chica-go Blackhawks, scored 16seconds apart in a six-goalthird period to lead TeamChara to a 12-9 victoryover Team Alfredsson 12-9on Sunday.
“That was my firstshot,” said the six-foot-nine Chara, who went inalone to snap a shot pastBrian Elliott, who wasbombed for six goals on 19third-period shots. “Earlyon, (the game) was reallyloose but as we were goingto the end you could seethat guys wanted to win.
“That’s the way it goessome times at the all-stargame.”
Prime Minister StephenHarper chatted in the
stands with league com-missioner Gary Bettmanthrough much of a wide-open game. They sawTeam Chara lose the leadfour times only to pile upan insurmountable total inthe third with goals fromPhil Kessel, Jarome Iginla,Hossa, Chara, Corey Perryand the second of thegame by Joffrey Lupul.
They didn’t need the no-table absentees, the injuredSidney Crosby and the hold-out Alex Ovechkin, to scorein bunches.
Marian Gaborik had ahat-trick, while EvgeniMalkin and Patrick Kanehad the other goals forTeam Chara.
Alfredsson scored twice,while Jason Spezza, HenrikSedin, John Tavares, JasonPominville, MilanMichalek, Claude Girouxand Daniel Sedin scoredfor Team Alfredsson
The Scotiabank Placecrowd of 20,510 was chant-ing “Alfie” as the Senatorscaptain scored twice latein the second period to tie
the game 6-6, but despitepushing hard and getting ahandful of chances, hecould not complete thehat-trick against Bostongoalie Tim Thomas.
“I didn’t try at all toscore in the third,” Al-fredsson said in mock de-nial.
Alfredsson admitted hewas moved by an outpour-ing of support and acco-lades from fans and otherplayers over the four-dayall-star break in what hasbecome his home city.
“It’s been surreal, al-most like walking onCloud 9,” he said.
“It’s not an accomplish-ment this week, but morea celebration of what I’vedone before.
“I’m really thankful forthat. It’s been almost over-whelming, to be honest.”
Even Chara, who playedseven seasons in Ottawa,was pulling for Alfredssonin the third.
“Alfie’s such a classyguy,” he said.THE CANADIAN PRESS
Djokovic wins epic battle in finalNovak Djokovic woredown Rafael Nadal in thelongest Grand Slam sin-gles final in the history ofprofessional tennis, win-ning 5-7, 6-4, 6-2, 6-7 (5), 7-5 after five hours 53minutes to claim his thirdAustralian Open title.
Djokovic sealed victoryat 1:37 a.m. Monday localtime and became the fifthman since the Open Erabegan in 1968 to winthree straight Grand Slamfinals.
The 24-year-oldDjokovic tore off his shirt
in celebration after one ofthe most dramatic finalsin the history of the game.He went to his supportcamp and repeatedlythumped the side of thearena in front of them indelight and relief.
Nadal leaned on thenet, while Djokovic sat onhis haunches before thetrophy presentation.Eventually, a nearby offi-cial took pity and theywere given chairs and abottle of water each.
“We made historytonight and, unfortunate-ly, there couldn’t be twowinners,” Djokovic said.
Djokovic’s win main-tained his mastery ofNadal, who has lost sevenstraight finals against theSerb since March last year.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Sports in brief
Tiger Woods fin-ished in a tie forthird at the AbuDhabi GolfChampionshipafter startingthe final roundtied for the lead.
The PittsburghPenguinsconfirmed Sat-urday that Sid-ney Crosby wasdiagnosed witha neck injury.
LeBron Jamesscored 35 pointsas the MiamiHeat escapedwith a 97-93 winSunday over theChicago Bulls.THE ASSOCIATEDPRESS
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Marian Hossa of Team Chara scores a goal in the third period against Team Alfredsson’s Brian Elliott.
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Phil Kessel and his Leafs
teammates faced boos
all weekend.
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Zdeno Chara unloads
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Daniel Alfredsson scores on
Tim Thomas in the elimination shootout.
Former fan favourite Zdeno Chara brought his laser shot back to Ottawa But for sheer showmanship,nothing beat Chicago’s Patrick Kane Team Alfredsson, led by Senators captain Daniel Alfredsson, topped
Team Chara by a total score of 21-12 in five categories at the NHL skills competition
Patrick Kane pulls off
a breakaway trick shot.
Goaltenders Jimmy Howard, left, and Jonathan Quick
race in the fastest skater competition.
Shooting stars
Chara fired a 108.8-miles-
per-hour bullet to win the
hardest shot competition,
as Scotiabank Place fans
cheered loudest for Ottawa
Senators past and present
at the Saturday night all-
star skills competition.
Alfredsson and fellow Sen-
ator Jason Spezza hadshots that topped 100 mphto win matchups with DenisWideman of Washingtonand the loudly-booed DionPhaneuf of Toronto, respec-tively.Chicago’s Kane stole thespotlight to win the break-away challenge for TeamChara as he donned a redSuperman cape and ClarkKent glasses.Ottawa’s Colin Greening
won the fastest skater com-petition.Philadelphia’s Matt Read
took the accuracy contestfor Team Alfredsson, nailingfour targets in 10.2seconds. Team Alfredsson led by twopoints going into the finalevent, the shootout, wherethey dominated in goals,10-3. THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Boston’s Paul Pierce, centre, drives between Cleveland’s
Omri Casspi, left, and Antawn Jamison on Sunday.
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Irving powers Cavaliers past CelticsKyrie Irving scored 23points, sinking a layup with2.6 seconds left as theCleveland Cavaliers scoredthe last 12 points of thegame to beat the BostonCeltics 88-87 on Sundaynight.
Anderson Varejao scored18 points and added ninerebounds for Cleveland,
which had lost five of itslast six games.
Ray Allen returned froman ankle injury to score 22points. But he missed ajumper from the left cornerwhen Boston still held aone-point lead on its sec-ond-to-last possession.
Paul Pierce scored 18points with six reboundsfor the Celtics, who hadwon four in a row.
Boston led 87-76 beforeCleveland scored eightstraight points to make it87-84 with 98 seconds left.Pierce missed a finger roleand Alonzo Gee, who washacked trying to score onan offensive rebound, sanka pair of free throws tomake it a one-point game.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
No. 1 overall pick proves clutch, seals victory in hostile Boston Garden
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Aries March 21-April 20Has someone taken advantage ofyou? Maybe, but more likely youare overreacting.
Taurus April 21-May 21 This could be a hectic week andmost likely you’ll find yourself rush-ing all over the place without get-ting much done.
Gemini May 22-June 21There are many ways to impresspeople, but working yourself intothe ground isn’t one of them.
Cancer June 22-July 22 Putyourself out there and let theworld see what star quality lookslike. You won’t be short of interest-ing offers.
Leo July 23-Aug.23 Try not to be too eager today.
Virgo Aug. 24- Sept. 22 A loved one seems to be in anemotional mood at the moment.All you can do is be there for themwhen they need a shoulder to cryon.
Libra Sept. 23-Oct. 23 You really don’t have to explainyour actions or your motives toanybody.
Scorpio Oct. 24-Nov. 22 The more someone tries to tell youthat something cannot be done themore determined you will be toprove them wrong.
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21 No matter how negative a pic-ture certain people may be paint-ing of your current situation, allyou need to know is that they arewrong.
Capricorn Dec. 22-Jan. 20Anyone who expects you to stay inone place over the next few days isgoing to be disappointed.
Aquarius Jan. 21-Feb. 18In a matter of days you’ll be back inthe money.
Pisces Feb. 19-March 20It seems you are having to react toone crisis after another of late. Isthere an end in sight? Yes, ofcourse there is.
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