Whiplash and Spinal Injuries? 780.473.7665 [email protected]We Can Help! 12 New Showhomes New Lots Now Available Last stages now selling Promotion Available until March 31, 2012 Visit RSL and RPL Sales Centres for details metronews.ca | twitter.com/metroedmonton | facebook.com/metroedmonton Wednesday, March 21, 2012 EDMONTON News worth sharing. Olympic gold medalist Donovan Bailey helped announce the inaugural Edmonton International Athletics Festival on Tuesday. The event is slated for May 25 to June 25 at Foote Field. On June 16, the Donovan Bailey Invitational (men’s 100-metre dash) will feature current world champion, Jamaica’s Yohan Blake. HEATHER MCINTYRE/METRO Mythbusters on the road Discovery Channel TV show creates science-based exhibit at Chicago museum PAGE 18 Get your typing up to speed Are the skills going downhill in many offices? PAGE 25 No permit for white pride: Sohi Peace plans. Police, city working together to ensure rival protests planned for Saturday stay civil As the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Dis- crimination is marked today, one city councillor wants Ed- montonians to know hate is not welcome here anytime. Councillor Amarjeet Sohi said he’s heard of plans for a white pride rally for Sat- urday, but if organizers go ahead, they’re breaking the law. “I’m concerned about such an event taking place in our city,” said Sohi, who’s part of Racism-Free Edmonton. “The majority of Edmontonians see the city as racism-free.” Sohi said he’s seen the website (stormfront.org), cit- ing intentions for Blood & Honour to hold a white su- premacist rally for the first time in this city, though it’s not specified where. “It’s being used as a front for promoting hate against others,” said Sohi. He said the city is working with the Edmonton Police Service in case of conflict be- tween participants and those holding an anti-racism rally the same day at End of Steel Park. No permits have been sought for either rally. Sohi said anyone looking to demonstrate “white pride” will not get the city’s official permission. “It’s my understanding that the city will not be issu- ing a permit, because the content of the rally is hate,” he said. “It would be illegal to hold a rally without a permit.” FAST FESTIVAL March for Understanding • The Centre for Race and Culture is hosting events this month. • For a list or to join the “vir- tual march against racism,” visit marchforunderstand- ing.com SHELLEY WILLIAMSON [email protected]Model legislation Israeli law bans employment of models considered to be malnourished PAGE 12 CITIZENS HELP WIPE OUT CRIME GRAFFITI VANDALISM AUDIT FINDS INCIDENTS IN CITY ARE DOWN BY 43 PER CENT PAGE 3
Wednesday, March 21, 2012edmontonNews worth sharing.
Olympic gold medalist Donovan Bailey helped announce the inaugural Edmonton International Athletics Festival on Tuesday. The event is slated for May 25 to June 25 at Foote Field. On June 16, the Donovan Bailey Invitational (men’s 100-metre dash) will feature current world champion, Jamaica’s Yohan Blake. HeatHer McIntyre/Metro
Mythbusters on the roadDiscovery Channel TV show creates science-based exhibit at Chicago museumpage 18
Get your typing up to speedAre the skills going downhill in many offices? page 25
No permit for white pride: SohiPeace plans. Police, city working together to ensure rival protests planned for Saturday stay civil
As the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Dis-crimination is marked today, one city councillor wants Ed-montonians to know hate is not welcome here anytime.
Councillor Amarjeet Sohi said he’s heard of plans for a white pride rally for Sat-urday, but if organizers go ahead, they’re breaking the law.
“I’m concerned about such an event taking place in our city,” said Sohi, who’s part of Racism-Free Edmonton. “The majority of Edmontonians see the city as racism-free.”
Sohi said he’s seen the website (stormfront.org), cit-ing intentions for Blood & Honour to hold a white su-premacist rally for the first time in this city, though it’s
not specified where.“It’s being used as a front
for promoting hate against others,” said Sohi.
He said the city is working with the Edmonton Police Service in case of conflict be-tween participants and those holding an anti-racism rally the same day at End of Steel Park.
No permits have been
sought for either rally.Sohi said anyone looking
to demonstrate “white pride” will not get the city’s official permission.
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Psychiatrist. Sleeping pills stopped woman from remembering killing sonsA psychiatrist says a woman who has admitted to drown-ing her two young sons likely doesn’t remember doing it be-cause she took about 30 sleep-ing pills.
Dr. Alberto Choy, a forensic psychiatrist at Alberta Hospital in Edmonton, has been treat-ing Allyson McConnell since shortly after the boys’ deaths in February 2010.
Choy told a court in Wet-askiwin he doesn’t believe the
33-year-old McConnell is delib-erately hiding any information or memories from anyone.
McConnell has testified she doesn’t remember killing them in the tub of their home in Mil-let and believed that 2 1/2-year-old Connor and 10-month-old Jayden were still alive days after they were already dead.
She is charged with second-degree murder, but has pleaded not guilty to the charges. THE CANADIAN PRESS
Payback. Alberta Tories demand repayment for inactive committeeThe Alberta Progressive Conservatives are ordering their government members to return money they were paid for sitting on a committee that hasn’t met in nearly four years. Tory Whip Robin Campbell made the announcement fol-lowing a caucus meeting. He says the combined total of the repayments should be around $80,000. This comes as Premier Alison Redford prepares to call an election. THE CANADIAN PRESS
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The city is brushing up on its image.
Capital City Clean Up re-leased its second graffiti van-dalism audit Tuesday, and inci-dents are down by 43 per cent, from 1,978 to 1,133 in 2011.
Last year 18 of the 20 com-munities audited saw a dip over 2010, with Garneau noting the biggest plunge with 77 per cent fewer paint-equipped vandals leaving a mark.
“It’s important to acknow-ledge that this success was built on the commitment of citizens who report graffiti vandalism in their neighbourhood to the City of Edmonton,” said Sharon Chapman, graffiti project man-
ager.The study identified 380 tag-
gers behind 791 tags, account-ing for 70 per cent of all audited graffiti vandalism last year.
Eighty-five per cent of graf-fiti was considered “small” or “extra-small.”
Cleaning house. Third-party graffi ti audit shows decline in incidents and high compliance
Corinne Lillo, who owns Lillo’s Music on Whyte Avenue, speaks about the diff erence diluting graffi ti vandalism has made in cleaning up Garneau.SHELLEY WILLIAMSON/METRO
Citizens help to wipe out gra� ti crime
Vandalism by the numbers
• Decrease. Strathcona dropped 48 per cent; Down-town fell 37 per cent; and Boyle Street dipped by 26 per cent.
• Audit. Downtown, Boyle Street, Oliver, Strathcona and Central McDougall ac-counted for 60.1 per cent of all tags citywide observed in the 2011 audit.
• Targets. 78 per cent was on private property, eight per cent on city-owned space and 9.5 per cent on resi-dential property. Common graffi ti targets were garbage bins, doors and windows.
City bylaw
All-night raves under review again by city offi cialsRave promoters may dance around the rules, causing concern for city officials.
All-night events can serve alcohol until 2 a.m. then run dry until 8 a.m., but an event scheduled for April 27 and 28 at the Edmonton Expo Centre is slated to run 3 p.m. to 3 a.m. each day, drawing as many as 24,000 — with possibly only 30 to 35 police resources on site.
It “appears to be an attempt to circumvent the existing bylaw,” says a city report written by Sgt. Nicole Chapdel-aine of the Public Safety Compliance Team.
Based on the hours, it doesn’t “fully qual-ify” under the existing bylaw, she explains.
A council committee will discuss the issue Wednesday, after decid-ing in January not to ban booze at the parties if promoters made safety and security improve-ments.
Mayor Stephen Mandel said the report indicates challenges remain.
A Boodang event at the Shaw Conference Centre in February saw seven people taken to hospital with overdoses, 17 treated for minor medical issues and 14 calls made to the Sexual Assault Centre of Ed-monton.
“They’re too high,” Mandel said of the numbers.
“When you have 5,000 young people there, you don’t want to deprive them ... but it has to be done respon-sibly.”HEATHER MCINTYRE/METRO
Safety. Traffic crashes continue their declineTraffic collisions continue to decrease thanks to both en-forcement and engineering, says the city.
There was an 18 per cent de-crease from 2010 to 2011, Gerry Shimko, executive director of the office of traffic safety, told a council committee Tuesday. There were 23,441 crashes last year, compared with 28,480 in 2010.
The improvement is cred-ited to programs such as Curb the Danger, Operation 24 Hours, photo radar and other methods of police enforce-ment, said Shimko.
Engineering work is also being done at a number of intersections where collisions
tend to occur, said Shimko, such as angle reductions on right turns and more left-turn-only signals. heaTher mcinTyre/meTro
eia. Passenger numbers at airport hit new highIn the first two months of 2012, the Edmonton Inter-national Airport served a record number of passengers.
On Tuesday, the EIA re-vealed more than one million were served from Jan. 1 to Feb. 29, up about 91,000 from the same time period last year.
That translates into overall 9.4 per cent growth in domes-tic, transborder and inter-national passengers served.meTro
Passengers at the eIA.heather mcintyre/metro
Investigation
no charges in fatal crashEdmonton police inves-tigators have completed their probe into a January fatal crash and will not lay charges.
Investigators deter-mined icy roads were to blame Jan. 17 when a sports car carrying a 14-year-old girl as a passen-ger collided with a minivan at 98 Avenue and 91 Street. meTro
Crime
shots fired outside strip clubPolice are investigating a double shooting outside Diamonds Gentlemen’s Club on Tuesday.
Officers were called at about 2 a.m. after a fight broke out between two groups of men and gun-shots were fired.
Two males in their 20s were sent to hospital with serious, non-life-threaten-ing injuries. meTro
All-sea enterprises Ltd. is working to gut and remove four 38-tonne submarines from the Deep sea Adventure Lake in the west edmonton Mall after theattraction was deemed obsolete in June 2005. laurie callsen/metro
West Edmonton Mall is tak-ing out four submarines after permanently parking the un-viable crafts.
“The reality is that now the submarines are old and deteriorating, they no longer meet the standards for such vessels and they do not add ex-
citement to the lake,” said the mall’s general manager, Stacey Claffey.
Introduced in 1985, the sub-marines allowed mall patrons to take 20-minute rides under the depths of the Deep Sea Ad-venture Lake in the mall. The
attraction stopped operations in June 2005, and the subma-rines have spent the last seven years rusting at the bottom of the lake.
All-Sea Enterprises Ltd., which specializes in under-water construction work, will
be working to gut and cut the four submarines over the next 30 days.
The company usually does underwater ship repairs, so having to cut four submarines in a climate-controlled mall is a treat.
“We have all the amenities and it’s easy because you’re not outside in the elements,” said Matt Bone, senior surface engineer.
The submarines each weigh about 38 tonnes and are made from lead and aluminum, which will be sold for scrap metal.
mall deep-sixes longtime sub fleet
Out with the old
“The reality is that now the submarines are old and deteriorating, they no longer meet the standards for such vessels and they do not add excitement to the lake.” stacey Claffey, west edmonton Mall General Manager
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The victims
“Graham James is laughing all the way back to the life he has always led, knowing that justice for him is but a blip on the radar.”Todd Holt,who, along with his cousin, NHLer Theo Fleury, was a victim of James.
“Obviously, it’s not a sentence we all want to see. At least he’s
going back to jail.” Former nHLer sheldon Kennedy, one of the original players to come forward with accusations to which James pleaded guilty in 1997.
Two years, two broken lives
Graham James, wearing a red ski mask that concealed most of his face, tries to hide from camerasas he arrives at the courthouse in winnipeg on Tuesday. john woods/the canadian press
“The most hated man in hockey” became even more reviled Tuesday.
Outrage across Canada was swift as former junior hockey coach Graham James was sentenced to two years in jail for hundreds of sexual as-saults on two of his teenage players.
Few seemed to agree the sentence fitted the crime.
A spectator in the Win-nipeg courtroom shouted “Yay!” then spat out a more colourful condemnation as James was led away in hand-cuffs.
“Goodbye, you piece of (expletive),” the man said.
Talk show phone lines lit up with people expressing harsh views of the sentence. Others took to Twitter to voice their disgust.
“Graham James gets two
years for all the lives he’s ruined? Someone caught with weed gets a harsher sen-tence,” one person tweeted. “Is that justice?”
Judge Catherine Carlson made James stand up in the prisoner’s box to hear his fate.
The 59-year-old — looking gaunt, his head closely shav-en — showed no emotion but simply answered “yes” when she asked him if he under-stood the sentence.
James pleaded guilty in December to repeatedly sex-ually abusing retired NHL star Theo Fleury and his cousin, Todd Holt, when they played for him in the Western Hock-ey League in the 1980s and ’90s.
Carlson said in her lengthy sentence summation: “There is no sentence this court can impose that will give back to Mr. Holt and Mr. Fleury that which was taken from them by Mr. James.”
In Cochrane, Alta., Holt declared: “This sentence today is nothing short of a national travesty because we know that childhood abuse has reached epidemic proportions in our country.” The canadian press
Graham James is sentenced. Talk shows and Twitter aflame as hated hockey coach is sent to jail for hundreds of sex assaults on two players
Mexico City earthquake topples buildingsA woman comforts her crying children outside a school in the Roma neighbourhood after a 7.4-magnitude earthquake was felt in Mexico City on Tuesday. It was one of the strongest to shake Mexico since the deadly 1985 quake. There were no reported deaths by press time. alexandre Meneghini/the associated press
Joke. Obama criticized for actor’s joke at eventA joke by famed actor Rob-ert De Niro at a star-stud-ded Manhattan fundraiser for U.S. President Barack Obama has caused a curious stir.
“Callista Gingrich. Karen Santorum. Ann Romney. Now, do you really think our country is ready for a white first lady?” the actor said to roars of laughter from a crowd that included Michelle Obama.
When someone in the audience yelled: “No!” DeNiro continued,
“Too soon, right?” But in a nation where hot-button race issues loom large, Obama’s re-election campaign team was quick to distance itself from the re-mark while Newt Gingrich, the Republican presidential hopeful with a fondness for hyperbole, demanded the president apologize for it.
“We believe the joke was inappropriate,” Olivia Alair, campaign press secretary to Michelle Obama, said in a statement.The assOciaTed press
U.s. protests over black teen’s deathResponding to widespread pro-tests, the U.S. Justice Depart-ment says it will investigate the shooting of an unarmed black teen — who was talking on a cellphone at the time — in a case that could explore states that allow people to use deadly force if they feel threatened.
George Zimmerman, 28, says he shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin last month in self-de-fence during a confrontation in a Florida gated community. The assOciaTed press
Every last Thursday of each month, hundreds of parents gather in front of the Com-plaint Bureau at the Education Ministry in Beijing. You won’t hear anyone shouting or see any placards. As usual, police-men film every protester. Even-tually, they will ask everybody to disperse.
For three years, these fath-ers and mothers have been asking to meet high-ranking officials in vain. Like seven mil-lion people in Beijing, a third of the capital’s population, they are all migrant workers who moved to the capital to work and raise a family. Treated like outsiders, their kids can’t go to local school nor can they attend exams in the city.
This is the main discrimina-tion caused by the Hukou sys-tem in China, a centuries-old
system of household registra-tion.
“Now we have 11,000 signa-tures, plus 87,000 people who joined our online group an-onymously,” says Madam Yang from north China’s Shanxi province, who works as a maid for a wealthy Beijing family. “With my husband, we have been working hard to buy a small flat. We’re proud to pay our taxes here, but we still feel like second-class citizens. Our child can’t enjoy basic public services like school.”
The Yangs also don’t have health or unemployment bene-fits.
Last month, China intro-duced a law to ban Hukou re-strictions in mid-size cities, but not in major cities like Beijing or Shanghai.
Without legal access to city schools, where do these mi-grant kids end up?
“A donation can change many things,” says a mother of twins, from Sichuan prov-ince, who wished to remain anonymous. “After negotiating, the principal asked me to make a donation, plus the tuition fees. He said the school will buy three TV sets with my money.”
She gave 20,000 yuans ($3,100) or seven months’ salary. Parents who can’t pay a lot and don’t send their kids back to their hometown have no choice but to rely on shabby,
poorly subsidized migrant schools, places that offer low education with poor facilities. Last year, 23 of them in Beijing were shut down for “safety rea-sons.”
Eventually, kids of migrant parents will face one more struggle before university: the Gaokao, a higher education en-trance exam. As Metro noticed, it’s not unusual for rural high school teenagers to study sev-en days a week from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Pupils in Hubei province will have to struggle if they want to go to university. Jordan Pouille/Metro world news
Urban vs. rural
In China, citizens are classified as urban or rural, according to their Hukou, or residential permit.
• Doublestandard. People with urban Hukou have access to state-allocated jobs while people with rural Hukou are expected to be more “self-reliant.”
• Askthepolice. Officially, Chinese people need ap-proval from local police if they want to move out.
• Inpractice.Since China relies on cheap labour, it hardly prevents workers from travelling from their rural homes to factories.
Old rules hinder migrant workers in Chinese citiesEducation. Rural citizens working in big cities like Beijing can’t send their kids to public school there, and some parents are protesting
Jordan PouilleMetro World News in Beijing
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Should your employer be your ‘friend’?
In their efforts to vet job ap-plicants, some companies and U.S. government agencies are going beyond merely glan-cing at a person’s social net-working profiles and instead are asking to log in as the user to have a look around.
Questions have been raised about the legality of the practice, which is the
focus of proposed legislation in Illinois and Maryland that would forbid public agencies from asking for access to so-cial networks.
Since the rise of social net-working, it has become com-mon for managers to review publicly available Facebook profiles, Twitter accounts and other sites to learn more about job candidates. But many users, especially on Fa-
cebook, have their profiles set to private, making them avail-able only to selected people or certain networks.
Companies that don’t ask for passwords have taken other steps — such as asking applicants to friend human resource managers or to log in to a company computer during an interview.
Asking for a candidate’s password is more prevalent
among public agencies, espe-cially those seeking to fill law enforcement positions such as police officers.
Back in 2010, Robert Col-lins was returning to his job as a security guard at the Maryland Department of Pub-lic Safety and Correctional Services after taking a leave following his mother’s death. During a reinstatement inter-view, he was asked for his lo-gin and password, purported-ly so the agency could check for any gang affiliations. He was stunned by the request but complied.
“I needed my job to feed my family. I had to,” he re-called. the aSSociated preSS
Social media. Some companies and government agencies are asking job applicants for access to their Facebook account
Robert Collins of Baltimore was asked for his Facebook login and password during an interview for a job as a security guard.Steve RuaRk/the aSSociated pReSS
Privacy concerns
“It’s akin to requiring someone’s house keys.... (It’s) an egregious privacy violation.”Orin Kerr, law professorGeorge Washington University
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Walmart says it has pleaded guilty to three workplace safety charges in the death of a teenage worker in New Brunswick last year.
The retail giant was charged under the Occupa-tional Health and Safety Act after a 17-year-old employee at a store in Grand Falls was electrocuted on Jan. 5, 2011.
Patrick Desjardins was using a floor buffer on a wet floor in a garage at the time.
Crown attorney Karen
Lee Lamrock says Denis Morin, who was a super-visor at the store, also pleaded guilty to two char-ges under the act.
She says Walmart was fined $120,000 and Morin $1,056.
WorkSafeNB, the Crown agency responsible for the act, has said Desjardins was using an inappropriate floor polisher and a faulty exten-sion cord when he died.
The company says in a statement released Tuesday
that it co-operated fully with the investigation and has brought in changes to prevent similar accidents from happening.
WorkSafeNB has said the polisher Desjardins was using hadn’t been inspected and was in poor working condition.
The agency issued sev-eral orders against Walmart after the death and it says the company has complied with those orders.the canadian press
Walmart guilty in workplace death
A man walks past an ad featuring models in Tel Aviv, israel.Oded Balilty/the assOciated press
Labour laws. air canada unions challenge back-to-work legislationTwo of Air Canada’s largest employee groups are launch-ing constitutional challenges against federal back-to-work legislation that prevents a strike or lockout at the coun-try’s largest carrier.
The union representing pi-lots said Tuesday that it filed suit in Ontario Superior Court, while the International Associ-ation of Machinists and Aero-space Workers added it will soon pursue its own effort.
Both groups, which togeth-er represent more than 11,000 airline employees, are the last group of workers without up-dated collective agreements.
The pilots said the law passed last week forces them to fly and accept a contract im-posed by arbitration in contra-vention of the Canadian Char-ter of Rights and Freedoms.
“The legislation was dra-conian overkill,” Capt. Paul Strachan, president of the Air Canada Pilots Associations, said in an interview.
Neither side was able to strike or lock out workers once Labour Minister Lisa Raitt referred the matter to the Canada Industrial Rela-tions Board.
The pilots said the Pro-tecting Air Service Act pro-hibits pilots from exercising their right to strike and con-travenes three sections of the Charter.
“We believe there’s juris-prudence to support our pos-ition and we’ll take it as far as we have to,” Strachan said. the canadian press
Secret report
• The Department of Hu-man Resources and Skills Development advised the governing Conservatives in a secret report to use back-to-work legislation only sparingly after Air Canada’s customer-service and sales staff walked out last June.
• In the July 21 report obtained by the Canadian Press, senior officials urged the Tories to save the law for emergencies.
• The bureaucrats were not convinced the walkout con-stituted anything more than a nuisance to air travellers.
Company closure
2,600 out of work in Aveos liquidationAveos Fleet Performance is liquidating its Canadian air-craft maintenance business, putting virtually all of the company’s 2,600 employees across the country out of work.
The Montreal-based pri-vate company said Tuesday that it would immediately cease all operations after getting permission for the move in Quebec Superior Court.
The company let go of its remaining 1,300 employees after 1,175 workers were put out of a job on Sunday
when Aveos decided to close its airframe repair business.
About 160 employees will remain to oversee the liquidation process.
“The company had no viable option but to cease operations,” said chairman Eugene Davis.
Neither company nor union officials could provide details regarding the employees access to severance payments or the impact on their pensions.
The Quebec government says its Justice Depart-ment lawyers are assessing the grounds for a lawsuit aimed at forcing Air Canada to continue using Aveos, which has plants in a num-ber of Canadian cities. the canadian press
Model legislation. israeli law bans underweight women in advertisingTold she was too fat to be a model, Danielle Segal shed a quarter of her original 116-pound weight and was hospitalized twice for mal-nutrition. The girl weighed 88 pounds by then, or about as much as a robust pre-teen, and her health suffered.
Now that a new Israeli law prohibits the employment of underweight models, the 19-year-old must gain some of it back if she wants to work again.
The legislation passed this week aims to put a stop to the extremes, and by extension ease the pressure on young-sters to emulate the skin-and-
bones models, often resulting in dangerous eating disorders.
The new law poses a groundbreaking challenge to a fashion industry widely cas-tigated for promoting anorexia and bulimia. Its sponsors say it could become an example for other countries grappling with the spread of the life-threaten-ing disorders.
The law requires models to produce a medical report no more than three months old at every shoot for the Israeli market, stating that they are not malnourished, according to World Health Organization standards. the associated press
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Apple puts modern spin on the dividendApple made computers sexy. Can it do the same for the musty old dividend?
Issuing a regular pay-ment to your stockholders after years of just amassing cash used to be an admis-sion that your company had run out of creative ideas to grow profits.
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Apple said Monday that it would begin paying a quarter-ly dividend of $2.65 per share
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media, 80 per cent of it social media.When Judy Blume was freaking out parents and librarians,
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At least they can help you unlock your cellphone.When my kids were young, the biggest threat to their
mental health was V.C. Andrews, who dealt in incest and vari-ous forms of abuse. Plus she was a terrible writer. By compari-son, Judy Blume was Shakespeare. Of course, nobody reads him anymore either, not as long as we have Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games) or Stephanie Meyer (Twilight).
Today, “writing” is a kind of delivery mechanism, like a syringe or a hand-held rocket launcher. Ideas are no longer than 140 characters and something gets killed at the end.
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Map shows how earth changesFor most of us, our planet is spherical in shape, but for some German geoscientists tracking planetary changes, it looks like a potato. Based on data from NASA satel-lites, the “Potsdam Gravity Potato” is a 3-D mapping that reveals how melting ice has changed Earth’s gravity. MWn
This year’s ‘potato’
The bulge rises in Japan
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Loss of ice mass = sea rise
• Greenland’s ice shield had 240 gigatons of mass loss between 2002 and 2011, corresponding to a sea level rise of 0.7 mm per year.
Gravity field
“When the mass of Greenland’s ice sheet changes, so does the gravity there. Gravity field measurements give us information on mass changes, including climate-related ones.”Frank Flechtner, expert from GFZ German Research centre for Geosciences
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‘Potato’ based on Newton’s law“This is not a gimmick,” the Potsdam-based scientists say. The “Gravity Potato,” first developed in 1995, is based on one of Newton’s laws that states an object’s gravity depends on its mass. Earth’s uneven distribution of mass means varying gravitational pull on the surface. MWn
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Richard Branson says his venture to launch paying
tourists into space has net-ted its 500th customer, and
it’s none other than Ash-ton Kutcher. Branson made the announcement on his blog Monday. He called
the actor to congratulate him and said Kutcher is
thrilled at the prospect of being among the fi rst to cross “the fi nal frontier” aboard Virgin Galactic. Virgin Galactic is in the fi nal stages of its test
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‘Not your everyday villain’
At six-feet, two-inches with all-American good looks (even though he was born in Vancou-ver), Alexander Ludwig doesn’t look like a super villain. But to fans of The Hunger Games he is the baddest baddie of them all, Cato, the brute from District 2.
“He was born and raised a
Golden boy. New on the scene, Alexander Ludwig says fans don’t mind he plays a trained killer in The Hunger Games
Alexander Ludwig is photographed by fans as he arrives on the red carpet for the premiere of The Hunger Games on Monday. CHRIS YOUNG/THE CANADIAN PRESS
If looks could kill
“Everyone’s been very excited to see me and meet me. No one has said, ‘Screw you, Cato!’ I hope it stays like this. Everyone likes being liked and I chose this role knowing that it could go the other way.”Actor Alexander Ludwig,on playing the evil Cato in The Hunger Games.
killer and that’s all he knew how to do,” says the 20-year-old actor.
“But he’s not your everyday villain. There’s a lot more sub-stance and depth to this guy. You can tell he’s had a tortured life.”
Trained as a killer, Cato has spent his whole life prepar-ing for his turn in The Hunger Games, a kind of murderous reality show.
“I’m playing the most feared guy in the arena so I didn’t know how I was going to be received by everyone else in the cast,” he says of his co-stars Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson. “I was cau-tious about it, but everyone was amazing.”
One thing is for sure; he
made an impression on one stunt man.
“I hit a stunt guy across the face with the butt end of a rub-ber bat when I was filming,” he says, “but once you do that you have keep going because they’re going to kick your ass if you don’t. ‘What are you do-ing? That was the perfect sell because you actually hit me.’ I felt so bad.”
He says that despite the movie’s dark subject matter and the odd bruised stunt man, the mood on set was light.
“It is important to have contrast when the material is so dark. There’s all this tense energy and right after they yell, ‘Cut’ you can breathe.”
He’s also breathing a little easier now the movie is done
and fans have embraced him.“I have been so, so happy
about the way I have been received because it could go either way,” he says.
“Everyone’s been very ex-cited to see me and meet me. No one has said, ‘Screw you, Cato!’ I hope it stays like this. Everyone likes being liked and I chose this role knowing that it
could go the other way.”“I’m just riding this crazy
experience. You really can’t think about it because you don’t know what to expect. Every day is a new experience.
I walked out of my hotel room this morning and there were fans outside. I can’t be-lieve this is happening to me. It’s wild.”
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When it’s ‘every man for himself’Hungry for blood. Why do we love movies about people forced to hunt and kill each other?
If you’ve read The Hunger Games novels, you’re likely excited about the big screen adaptation hitting theatres this Friday. The story of a dystopian world where children killing children is a national pastime — think American Idol, only with knives — was a mega-hit in book stores and promises to pack theatres.
But if the movie lineups are enough to keep you away from the theatre on Saturday night,
here are some similar themed movies to get you in the mood.
Battle Royale is the ultra-violent Japanese cousin to The Hunger Games. The movie is a futuristic nightmare about a group of kids who are shipped off to a remote island and forced to wage war against one another until only one remains.
The film’s bloody conflict enraged the Japanese censors who tried to ban the movie, but their plan backfired. Slapping a tough R15 rating on the film only increased people’s desire to see it. “Because it was forbid-den,” says director Kinji Fuka-saku, “they wanted to watch it even more.”
Also breathing the same air is Series 7: The Contenders, a parody of reality television where contestants hunt down and murder one another. This gory satire won a passing grade from Roger Ebert who said, “It’s not the idea that people will kill
each other for entertainment that makes Series 7 jolting. What the movie correctly per-ceives is that somewhere along the line we’ve lost all sense of shame in our society.”
The idea of televising hu-man blood sports isn’t new to the reality TV era, however. Years before Survivor made the phrase, “You’ve been voted off the island” a household term, Steven King and Arnold Schwarzenegger unleashed The Running Man on audiences.
Arnold plays a wrongly convicted man fighting for his survival on a TV game show, overseen by Family Feud host Richard Dawson.
“I’ll be back!” Arnold says, mimicking his Terminator catchphrase. “Only in a rerun,” says Dawson, who hopes Ar-nold bites it and gives the show a spike in ratings.
Finally, director Norman Jewison imagined a theme sim-
ilar to The Hunger Games in his 1975 film Rollerball. Set in 2018, it’s about a deadly sport that combines roller derby, hockey, football and a gener-ous helping of violence. The
movie’s style seems a bit dated but the ideas aren’t. Jewisons’ prophetic take on violence, the influence of corporations and the state of entertainment are bang on.
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Telenova nights: reigning king of laughter goes Latin
For the duration of his new movie, Casa de Mi Padre, Will Ferrell speaks only in Spanish — the entire movie is subtitled.
Fittingly clad in a powder blue country Western shirt (“It’s got a little bit of a Dallas Cowboy cheerleader feel to it,” he says), he spoke with us about his career, his kids and his famous rear end.
You have a nude scene in this film, and this is the second time that you’re showing moviegoers your butt. What is it about your tush that you think audi-ences can’t get enough of?Honestly, I just was serving
the script, No. 1. But No. 2, I think it’s a funny-looking butt. It’s a comedy butt. It was just a great opportunity to make fun of the stereotyp-ical passion scene.
Also, on a deeper level, we’re so body-image con-scious — why not show that
we all have normal-looking bodies? It’s kind of a way to just go, it’s not that big a deal.
Your character, Armando, steps out of the shadows and finds his machismo in this film. Can you pinpoint a time in your life when
you really came into your own?I think if you’re doing com-edy, I don’t know if you ever really reach that feeling of like, “I’ve got it down.” I think there’s always a place of fear within you where you’re like, “God, I hope this works.” Getting on Sat-urday Night Live maybe was a little moment of that, but then you have to prove your-self on Saturday Night Live. Then you leave the show and you test your waters in the movie world, and this business is getting harder and harder.
This movie is being described as Anchorman-meets-telenovela. How would Ron Burgundy fare in this world?Probably horribly, because there’s no way Burgundy knows any other languages. He’d pretend that he knows Spanish and just immediate-ly get in some awkward, hor-rible, compromising position where he gets shot.
Yeah, I don’t think he’d do well.
Ferrell fever. The SNL stars speaks to Metro about becoming a man, Burgundy and, of course, his bum
Titanic twin? Downton Abbey is not headed toward an iceberg: RoacheComparisons to other histor-ical productions are inevitable for the ambitious four-part TV series Titanic, notes star Linus Roache. And between the epic James Cameron blockbuster, due for re-release next month in 3D, and the Edwardian TV smash Downton Abbey, which draws various plots from the liner’s sinking, there are plenty of analogies to be made — and dispelled. Roache is particularly dismissive of media references to his disaster tale as Down-ton at sea — a reference to the fact Titanic was written by Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes and similarly charts a multitude of storylines that cross various social strata.
“Well, everybody is going to do that because it’s Julian Fel-lowes and you know, obviously he writes extremely well for big ensemble casts and he writes very well for this sort of up-stairs-downstairs class divide,” Roache says in a recent phone interview from his home in Lenox, Mass. “But this I would say is very different from Down-ton Abbey because Downton Abbey is not headed toward an iceberg where everybody’s lives are at risk. At the same time as being a period drama, it’s also a
kind of an epic disaster movie.”It’s tempting, too, to com-
pare the sprawling Canadian-Hungarian-British co-produc-tion to Cameron’s box office juggernaut Titanic but Roache says his TV version differs by navigating “the story of the whole ship and not just one main love story.”
Roache also points to a unique narrative structure in which each episode revisits the tragic sinking several times, from different points of view.
“Each night you revisit the stories and you pick up on dif-ferent characters and you also sort of see some of the same scenes from different perspec-tives.” explains Roache, best known for TV’s Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Law & Order. So by the end of the four nights you’ve really gone on quite a journey of all of these characters.” The cAnADiAn pRess
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Kim Zolciak must be get-ting tired of Jessica Simpson stealing the blond-weave-wearing-pregnant-lady spot-light, as it was announced yesterday that she and husband Kroy Biermann, 26, are wasting no time ex-panding their family. After giving birth to their son, Kroy Jagger (KJ) Jr., last May, Life & Style is exclusively reporting that the couple is expecting their second
baby. “Kroy and I are so excit-
ed,” Kim, 33, tells the maga-zine. “To decide we wanted to get pregnant again and have it happen so quickly was such a blessing.”
I’d go all conspiracy theorist on you and say Kim and Kroy (ed note: What the hell kind of name is “Kroy”? Is that a mash-up of “Kyle” and “Troy”?) are just now revealing this news to bring attention to the TV special about their lavish Novem-ber wedding, Don’t Be Tardy for the Wedding, which pre-mieres on April 26 at 9 p.m. on Bravo.
But, come on: anyone who films their wedding for reality TV and then calls it Don’t Be Tardy for the Wedding will of course try to capitalize off of a preg-nancy.
There’s no conspiracy about it.
Lindsay Lohan putting herself on house arrest to
avoid new problemsLindsay Lohan is taking the “better safe than sorry” approach and is reportedly putting herself under house arrest for the remainder of her probation, according to TMZ.
It’s not a terribly long self-imposed sentence,
though, as Lohan’s proba-tion is set to end March 29, but sources tell the website that the troubled actress is planning to only leave her house to go to her community service assignment at the morgue.
ratings continue to dipDespite all the rumors about negotiating with Britney Spears to come on board as a judge, Simon Cowell may have altogether different plans for the U.S. edition of the X Factor — and they involve cancelling the show alto-gether.
“I’d rather fall off the cliff on numbers than deteriorate slowly,” Cowell said at a press conference for the launch of another
season of Britain’s Got Talent.
“We have something in development, which could replace The X Factor.”
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Goldie Hawn denies sayingHudson married rock star
boyfriendGoldie Hawn set off a rash of speculation that daughter Kate Hudson had already secretly wed fiancé Matt Bellamy when she told ES magazine,
“When my daughter Kate married an English rock star it didn’t worry me.”
But Hawn doesn’t stand by the quote. When a Twitter follower asked her, “So are Kate and Matt really married, or are the press twisting your words?” Hawn responded, “Darling, once again twisted the words. They aren’t married.”
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Who gets wetter, someone walking in the rain or run-ning? Is it really possible to hang from a cliff by your fin-gers until help arrives like they do in the movies? And is Super-man the only one who is faster than a speeding bullet?
Those are questions the Discovery Channel’s Myth-Busters has asked for years, and starting last week, any-body who’s wondered how long it takes to put on a superhero outfit in a phone booth — don’t forget the cape — can answer them for them-selves at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry.
MythBusters: The Ex-plosive Exhibition, opened March 15, marking the first time the show has taken such questions on the road. The Chicago exhibition, which runs through Sept. 3, is the first of a planned national tour that will include stops at several other U.S. cities.
“This has both the science and also a sense of humour, what we’ve been doing for a decade,” Adam Savage, one of the show’s hosts, said this week before the exhibition opened.
Just like on the show, the exhibit is a kind of scientific bait and switch. It starts with something visitors have seen in the movies or on TV or that they can recall from their own experiences.
“That’s the hook,” said Jamie Hyneman, also a Myth-Busters co-host. “That gets them involved and before
they know what happens they’ve actually learned something or been lured into thinking carefully about what’s going on.”
The exhibit consists of about a dozen stations mixed in with props familiar to viewers, like the actual cask-et Hyneman lay in for a seg-ment on being buried alive. In one station shaped like a ship cargo container, a vis-itor walks and another runs while water drips from hoses above. Once they’re wet, they go around the corner and, because the water contains traces of fluorescent dye, they can see just how many drops hit them as they stand in front of a black light.
After determining which one of them is wetter, the participants press either the run or walk button. The re-sults will be stored for now and revealed when the show leaves in September.
There is another exhibit for anyone who’s wondered if a blind Al Pacino really could have navigated a car through the streets of New York in Scent of a Woman based on the directions given by a ter-rified Chris O’Donnell from the passenger seat. With the help of video-arcade style equipment, visitors can see if they do as well as Pacino or better than Hyneman and Savage did on the show.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Jamie Hyneman, left, and Adam Savage, stars of Mythbusters, stand outside the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. J.B. SPECTOR/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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From left, how fast can a person put on a superhero outfi t in a phone booth? The Mythbusters open the exhibit in Chicago last week. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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No free music at festival
After three years of fi nancial losses, the showcase summer festival Taste of Chicago will start charging music fans if
they want concert seats. Taste of Chicago performances at the 3,000-seat Petrillo Music Shell in Grant Park had been free, but the city wants to charge $25 a ticket this year, Mayor
Rahm Emanuel said Wednes-day. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Food trucks are a big deal in San Francisco, so we got Kate McEachern, founder of local cupcake truck Cupkates, to talk us through her city’s hot spots
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EatSome of the city’s best food comes from a truck. Off the Grid (offthegridsf.com) is a bustling roving market with gourmet food trucks selling any-thing from my cupcakes to ‘eat curbside’s’ deep fried Mac n Cheese.
On Friday nights, the Fort Mason market has a bar and music, making it a really great (and super cheap!) way to spend the evening. Nick’s Crispy
Tacos (at 1500 Broadway) makes the most amaz-ing fried fish pescado tacos (ask for them made “Nick’s Way”) and carnitas (braised pork) in town.
If you’re craving pizza, there’s no other place than Una Pizza Napoletana (unap-izza.com/sf ). The place is small and the owner Anthony Mangieri makes pizza to order using an oven placed in the middle of the dining room.
Go outIf you want a chilled but fun Friday night out then head over to the De Young Museum (deyoung.famsf.org). It stays open late, keep-ing people entertained with the bar and live music. Bubble Lounge champagne bar (bubblelounge.com) is perfect for a girls’ night out. Although, by no means does this mean boys aren’t allowed to join the party.
Been there before?Once you’ve seen all of the staple tourist spots, I’d recommend a trip to Golden Gate Park (golden-gate-park.com). Go for tea at the Japanese Tea House and Garden or simply walk around the gardens. The California Academy of Sciences (calacademy.org), one of the world’s largest natural history museums, is a fun daytime outing whether you’re with family or friends. I always head straight to the living roof. Designed by architect Renzo Piano, the roof consists of undulat-ing green hillocks and 1.7 million native plants, mimicking the city’s topography.
stay inFor those on a budget, Hotel des Arts, located in the French Quarter, is an eclectic boutique close to Union Square, perfect if you had a day of shop-ping planned (sfhotel-desarts.com). If you have a bit more to spend, in the mid-range price is Hotel Del Sol. This is a joyful-kid friendly place to stay.
First time?For those that usu-ally ignore the clichéd recommendations in travel guides, play the tourist for once. San Francisco has some amazing attractions and you don’t want to miss them. Your first stop should be Fort Point. Its vantage point overlooking Golden Gate Bridge offers amazing views.
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About 50 minutes east of Montreal is the charming Vic-torian village of Knowlton, famous for its Loyalist roots and heritage buildings. We stayed our first night close to Knowl-ton at a four-star inn Auberge Quilliams. The Inn has great canoeing and kayaking. The beach across the road in front of Lac Brome was a quiet place to unwind.
Close to Auberge Quil-liams we visited two tourist sights that were inspiring: Rose des Champs and Bleu La-vande. We also spent an even-ing on the Orford Express Train belonging to the con-ductor and priest Father Don-ald Thompson. The Orford Express has three restaurant cars seating up to 212 diners who travel through the land-scapes that link Sherbrooke, Magog and Eastman.
Eastern Quebec has plenty for the flower loverEastern Townships. La Belle Province is dotted with quaint towns and villages
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Lavender fieldsI adore the smell of laven-der and just a few minutes south of the quaint town of Magog, there is Bleu Lavande, the dream child of Pierre Pellerin. Pierre had a successful electronics business but at the age of 42 fell sick with a neuro-logical disease that seemed to be stress related. He sold his business and bought the 160 acre property and along with his wife Christine began planting lavender, and the rest is another dream come true. I loved walking through the stunning fields of flowering plants.
A foot massage with lav-ender oil out in the middle of the lavender field was delightfully relaxing.
The beach of Lac Brome offers some spectacular wildlife watching. photos: mel borins/metro
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liqueurs in a shaker with ice. Shake and strain into two cocktail glasses. Top with chocolate. Makes 2 servings.
• 2 oz vodka• 1 oz coffee liqueur• 1 oz nut liqueur (such as
Frangelico or Amaretto)• 1 oz chocolate liqueur• Grated bittersweet chocolate
recipe and photo: iceberg vodka
Because this is a chilled des-sert, you can make it ahead of time and not worry about things coming out of the oven at the right time when you’re busy trying to im-press those picky dinner guests.
To make it into a restau-rant-worthy dish, spoon the Chocolate Mango Mousse
into parfait glasses and top with fresh berries.
The combination of choco-late and fruit creates an ideal balance for those who want a more grown-up dessert.
1 Fill a medium bowl with ice.
2In a blender, combine the thawed mango chunks,
sugar, milk, whole egg and yolk, and cornstarch. Purée until completely it is smooth.
3Pour the mixture into a small saucepan over
medium heat. Whisking constantly, heat the mix-ture until it thickens and
comes to a boil. Remove from heat and add the milk chocolate bits. Stir until the chocolate is melted and thoroughly incorporated.
4Place the saucepan in a bowl of ice; ensure that
none of the ice gets into the saucepan. Whisk the mix-ture until it is completely cooled and smooth.
5In a large bowl, place the heavy cream. Use an elec-
tric mixer to beat it until medium peaks form, 3 to 5 minutes.
6Add half of the beaten cream to the milk choc-
olate-mango mixture and fold together to incorpor-ate. Add remaining cream and fold again to incorpor-ate.
7Transfer the Chocolate Mango Mousse to 4 in-
dividual serving dishes and refrigerate until you are ready to serve it.
the associated press
Start spring off on a sweet note with treats for the big & little kids
Ingredients
4 portions Start to finish: 30 minutes, plus chilling
• 250 ml (1 cup) frozen mangochunks, thawed• 30 ml (2 tbsp) sugar
• 125 ml (1/2 cup) homogen-ized milk• 1 whole egg, plus 1 yolk• 22 ml (1 1/2 tbsp) cornstarch• 150 ml (2/3 cup) milk choco-late bits• 250 ml (1 cup) heavy cream The chocolate flavours aren’t overpowering. matthew mead/ the associated press
Chocolate Mango MousseChocolate Mango Mousse. This easy, do-ahead dessert is a great way to incorporate chocolate without over indulging
Caramelized apples star in frozen dessert
Serves eight. the canadian press h/o
A creamy-sweet combination of caramelized apples and van-illa frozen yogurt topped with crunchy granola offers the perfect combination of ingredi-ents.
Top this frozen treat with fresh whipped cream and a sprinkle of cinnamon for a truly decadent dessert.
1In a large bowl, toss apples with lemon juice; set aside.
2In a large heavy skillet over medium-high heat, melt
butter. Add sugar and stir until it has completely dissolved and is dark amber in colour. Add apples with their juices and re-duce heat to low.
3Cook, stirring often, about 10 minutes or until apples
are softened. Stir in cream and vanilla; transfer to a large bowl. Let cool, cover and refriger-
ate for at least 1 hour or until chilled and thickened. (Keep it refrigerated for up to 2 days.)
4To assemble: For each serv-ing, place 2 caramelized
apples wedges in a sundae glass. Top with a scoop of fro-zen yogurt, 2 caramelized apple wedges and some gran-ola. Repeat frozen yogurt, apple and granola layers. Top with additional whipped cream and a sprinkle of cinnamon, if desired. ontario apple growers, onapples.com/ the canadian press/ adapted by emily richards (profes-sional home economist, cookbook author, and tv celebrity chef. for more visit, emilyrichardscooks.ca)
Ingredients
• 3 apples (McIntosh or Spy),peeled cored and each cut into12 wedges• 15 ml (1 tbsp) lemon juice• 75 ml (1/3 cup) butter• 500 ml (2 cups) granulatesugar• 125 ml (1/2 cup) 35% whip-ping cream• 15 ml (1 tbsp) vanilla• 1.5 L (6 cups) vanilla frozenyogurt or vanilla ice cream• 250 ml (1 cup) crunchygranola• Ground cinnamon (optional)
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Do you remember the AT&T commercial where a man insults his Chinese busi-ness associate when he mis-pronounces the associate’s name?
The commercial high-lights the importance of clarity and precision in communication, and it also underscores the cultural nuances that we encounter at our increasingly global workplaces. These situa-tions may seem funny in retrospect, but if they’re not handled properly they may have serious conse-quences not only for the employee but for the com-pany as well.
And these cultural dis-tinctions extend far beyond the spoken language. I’ve had work experience in several culturally distinct countries and I can safely say the attitudes employers expect to see in a candidate also vary greatly from one country to another.
In Malaysia — a country heavily influenced by its Eastern morals and values — modesty, respect and courtesy are some of the
characteristics candidates are expected to possess and display. This is not to say that employers in Western countries do not appreci-ate such values — quite the contrary.
However, in Malaysian culture, reverence and re-
Nation-to-nation navigation: Interviews across the pond
Canadian employers often value confidence in a potential hire. istock
East to West. Keep cultural differences in mind during a job interview abroad
Students
PopulationInternational post-secondary students made up about 7.7% of the total student population and 6.3% of graduates in Canada in 2010. More than one third of international students attend school in Ontario.
Welcome to Canada!
The number of international post-secondary students in Canada is on the rise:
• 2004/2005. 110,448
• 2005/2006. 118,707
• 2006/2007. 120,402
• 2007/2008. 123,309
• 2008/2009. 129,636
• 2009/2010. 146,928
Top 3
Top 3 fields of study of inter-nationalstudents(2008)
1Business, management and public administration:
23.2%
2Architecture, engineering and related technologies:
14.4%
3Physical and life sciences, andtechnologies:8.3%
All dAtA courtesy of stAtistics cAnAdA
spect for elders, and by ex-tension those higher up in the social hierarchy, are ex-pected virtues in any indi-vidual. These qualities are therefore crucial in dealing
with clients and associates.As a result, candidates
are expected to demon-strate these values during the interview process at great lengths, and then some.
Along the same vein, candidates are also ex-pected to acknowledge an organization’s inherent hierarchy, be it a formal or informal one. Of course, it goes without saying that falling in line is expected in any company anywhere on the globe. As the saying goes, ‘You have to go along in order to get along.’
However, in Malaysia, it’s crucial that a candidate displays a certain readiness, or even an eagerness, to fit into the existing pecking order. It might seem super-ficial or perhaps somewhat trivial, but it’s crucial none-theless as it is seen as a manifestation of the candi-date’s respect toward his or her superiors.
From the job interviews
I’ve had in Australia and Canada — not all of them successful, naturally — I’ve found that ambition, confi-dence and being proactive are highly regarded by em-ployers. These qualities are often the determining fac-tors for whether an inter-view is successful or not.
Here in Canada, can-didates are expected to possess high self esteem and feel confident about ‘selling’ themselves to em-ployers. This is perhaps the greatest distinction be-tween the work cultures in Canada and Malaysia.
Numerous other facets of a culture come into play in determining on whether or not a candidate has had a successful interview and it is impossible to list them all.
Suffice it to say that it is good to develop a feel for the subtleties that exist within any given culture in order to gage what an em-ployer might expect to see in a candidate.lin Abdul rAhmAn is A JournAlism student with A minor in humAn rights At lAurier brAntford. she is originAlly from mAlAysiA And now cAlls cAnAdA home.tAlentegg.cA is cAnAdA’s leAding Job site And online cAreer re-source for college And univer-sity students And recent grAdu-Ates.
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“In Malaysia — a country heavily influenced by its Eastern morals and values — modesty, respect and courtesy are some of the characteristics candidates are expected to possess and display.”Lin Abdul Rahman, student at Laurier brantford
From abroad
OriginsTop 3 regions of origin of international students (2008):
• Asia: 52.7%• Europe: 17.9%• Africa: 11.8%
Canadian is attracting more and more international students. istock
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When Patrick Gray gradu-ated from Boston College in 1999, he was determined to become a detail-oriented professional.
He started with perhaps the most overlooked detail of contemporary office culture: typing.
“It represented kind of bigger things to me. I thought, ‘It’s time to be
a professional and learn to type for real,’” he ex-plains. “I went cold turkey from two-finger typing. I thought, ‘Even if it takes me 10 minutes on an email, I’m going to force myself to do it the right way.’”
“I think these skills are
going downhill in most of-fices. There’s less of this training at the high school and college level,” says Sally Mounts, president of Auctus Consulting Group.
“It’s kind of ironic, be-cause we’re all typing more
than ever now, but we’re less cognizant of typing skills.”
It took a full month of home-row discipline for Gray — now the president of Prevoyance Group, an IT company — to get his
speed back up to where it was when he started: 20 words per minute. But after six months he was sailing along at three times that rate.
“Growing up with com-puters, most people tend
to two- or four-finger type. The hardest thing about re-training yourself is the first hour,” says Mounts.
“It doesn’t get worse than that. So if you can get through an hour, you’re on your way.”
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26 metronews.caWednesday, March 21, 2012SPORTS
Randy Ferbey THE CANADIAN PRESS
Ferbey retires from competitive curlingRandy Ferbey hit curling’s heights, winning national and world titles with regular-ity.
His Alberta team of Dave Nedohin, Scott Pfeifer and Marcel Rocque was a power-house, winning the national championship in 2001 to kick off a run of four titles in five years.
Ferbey thought about the possibility of getting that lineup back together to take a run at reaching the 2013 Tim Hortons Brier. When those plans didn’t materialize, he knew the time was right to retire from competitive curl-ing.
“I’m leaving the sport that I’ve loved,” Ferbey said Tues-day from the Edmonton area. “I’ve loved competing, I’ve loved the years that I’ve com-
peted. It’s very, very difficult.”Ferbey, 52, leaves the sport
as one of its most dominant competitors. In all, he won six national titles and four world championships.
“The run that the Ferbey team did in the early 2000’s was just remarkable,” said Ontario skip Glenn Howard. “They basically bulldozed everybody over for five to six years.”
The idea of playing for a national title on home ice in Edmonton next year was ap-pealing to Ferbey. He said he had discussed the idea with his good friend Nedohin, who told him earlier this month
that he had decided to go with a younger team.
“So that was it right there,” Ferbey said. “I wasn’t prepared to play with any-body else. I knew if I wasn’t going to play with Dave, I wasn’t going to play.”
Ferbey won his first Brier in 1988 as a third on skip Pat Ryan’s team. The Alberta rink repeated as champs a year later and went on to win the world title.
Ferbey, from Sherwood Park, won his first world championship as a skip in 2002 and added victories in 2003 and 2005. THE CANADIAN PRESS
NFL
Eagles trade for Texans LB RyansThe Philadelphia Eagles made a big move to bolster the middle of their defence, acquiring two-time Pro Bowl linebacker DeMeco Ryans from the Houston Texans for a fourth-round draft pick in 2012. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NCAA basketball
Tar Heels ready to play without injured guardNorth Carolina coach Roy Williams says his team’s “preparation is 100 per cent” to play without in-jured point guard Kendall Marshall.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NFL
Ward retires, rather than seek a new teamLongtime Pittsburgh Steel-ers wide receiver Hines Ward retired on Tuesday rather than try extending his career with another team.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Hines Ward announces his retirement. GENE J. PUSKAR/ THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Rangers-Devils brawl
“It’s almost better to get it out of the way off the bat
and play the game.”New York islander John Tavareson Monday’s game-opening brawl between the Devils and Rangers.
Hemsky’s hat trick gives Oilers win in Nashville
Darcy Hordichuk celebrates his fi rst goal of the season in Nashville on Tuesday. FREDERICK BREEDON/GETTY IMAGES
Ales Hemsky scored three goals for his first hat trick in the NHL, and the Edmon-ton Oilers beat the Nashville Predators 6-3 on Tuesday night.
Darcy Hordichuk, Ryan Jones and Sam Gagner also had goals, and Devan Dub-nyk made 40 saves for Ed-monton. David Legwand scored twice for Nashville, and Patric Hornqvist added a goal and an assist.
Pekka Rinne was pulled in the second period by Predators coach Barry Trotz after allowing three goals on seven shots. Anders Lind-back played the rest of the way and stopped 10-of-12 shots.
Gagner scored into an empty net.
Hordichuk scored his first goal of the season with 7:10 remaining in the first period. He centred the puck from the right side from behind the net, bouncing the puck off the back of Nashville defenceman Kevin
Klein, who was standing in the crease.
Hemsky capitalized on a 2-on-1 break and scored from in front with 3:38 left in the first period when Rinne was knocked out of position in a scramble.
With seven seconds re-maining in the first, Leg-wand skated in from the left side and put a shot behind Dubnyk, who was on his stomach in the crease.
Hemsky needed only 28 seconds of the second period to score his second of the game. He fired a shot up and over Rinne from in front. Rinne was then replaced by Lindback.
Jones gave Edmonton a 4-1 lead with a power-play goal from in front, bouncing a shot in off the right post at 5:51.
Hornqvist answered with a power-play goal at 12:35 from close range from the right side.
Hemsky notched his third goal at 14:03 of the second.
Legwand cut the Edmon-ton lead to two with a back-handed shot from behind the net that bounced in off Dubnyk at 4:18 of the third. Gagner added an empty-net-ter with 1:41 left.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NHL. Predators pull Rinne after he allows three goals on seven shots in second period
Quoted
“He’s really been the guy I’ve looked up to as the great skip out there in terms of strategy and changing the game and understanding what to do.”Former teammate Dave Nedohin
Quoted
“I’m not where I want to be. I want to be
where I was before I was injured. There’s
a lot of work to do to get where we want to be from a health
standpoint.”Peyton Manning on his surgically
repaired neck after being introduced as the Broncos’ new quarterback on Tuesday in Denver. The 35-year-old
star signed a fi ve-year, $96-million US contract and said he plans to retire in Denver. Broncos vice-president John
Elway, who engineered the deal, said no decision has been made on QB Tim
Tebow’s future.
“If Tim Tebow is here next year, I’m going to be the best teammate I
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Last night’s resultsBoston 8 Toronto 0Minnesota 2 Vancouver 0Buffalo 7 Tampa Bay 3N.Y. Rangers 4 New Jersey 2Washington 5 Detroit 3Anaheim at San JoseSunday’s resultsColumbus 2 Calgary 1 (SO)Phoenix 3 Edmonton 2 (SO)Carolina 4Winnipeg 3Philadelphia 3 Pittsburgh 2 (OT)Chicago 5Washington 2Nashville 3 Anaheim 1Tonight’s gamesN.Y. Islanders at Toronto, 7 p.m.Florida at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.Winnipeg at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.Chicago at Columbus, 7 p.m.New Jersey at Ottawa, 7:30 p.m.Edmonton at Nashville, 8 p.m.Phoenix at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.Calgary at Colorado, 9 p.m.San Jose at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.Tomorrow’s gamesMontreal at Buffalo, 7 p.m.Florida at Carolina, 7 p.m.Detroit at N.Y. Rangers, 7:30 p.m.Vancouver at Chicago, 8 p.m.St. Louis at Anaheim, 10 p.m.
d-division leaderLast night’s resultsPhiladelphia 105, Charlotte 80Boston 79, Atlanta 76Cleveland 105, New Jersey 100Chicago 85, Orlando 59Minnesota at Golden StateDallas at DenverSunday’s resultsAtlanta 103, Cleveland 87L.A. Clippers 87, Detroit 83, OTSacramento 115,Minnesota 99Memphis 97,Washington 92Miami 91, Orlando 81Phoenix 99, Houston 86Utah 103, L.A. Lakers 99Oklahoma City 111, Portland 95Tonight’s gamesAll times EasternL.A. Clippers at Indiana, 7 p.m.Phoenix atMiami, 7:30 p.m.Toronto at NewYork, 7:30 p.m.L.A. Lakers at Houston, 8 p.m.Oklahoma City at Utah, 9 p.m.Memphis at Sacramento, 10 p.m.Milwaukee at Portland, 10 p.m.
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SPRING TRAININGYesterday’s resultsSt. Louis 4, Atlanta 3Houston 7,Miami 4Philadelphia 4, Detroit 3Minnesota 8, Boston 4Chicago Cubs 12, Seattle 7Cleveland 4, L.A. Dodgers 3Oakland 6, Arizona 5Cincinnati 1, ChicagoWhite Sox 0Milwaukee 5, Texas 3Colorado 4, L.A. Angels 3Today’s gamesAll times EasternAtlanta vs. Detroit at Lakeland, Fla., 1:05 p.m.St. Louis vs. Houston at Kissimmee, Fla., 1:05p.m.Tampa Bay vs.Miami at Jupiter, Fla., 1:05 p.m.Philadelphia vs. Baltimore at Sarasota, Fla.,1:05 p.m.L.A. Angels vs. Kansas City at Surprise, Ariz.,4:05 p.m.Seattle vs. Cincinnati at Goodyear, Ariz., 4:05p.m.Milwaukee vs. L.A. Dodgers at Glendale, Ariz.,4:05 p.m.Chicago Cubs (ss) vs. Oakland at Phoenix, 4:05p.m.Texas vs. Chicago Cubs (ss) atMesa, Ariz.,4:05 p.m.San Francisco vs. Arizona at Scottsdale, Ariz.,4:10 p.m.Washington vs. N.Y.Mets at Port St. Lucie,Fla., 6:10 p.m.Pittsburgh vs. N.Y. Yankees at Tampa, Fla.,7:05 p.m.Toronto vs. Boston at FortMyers, Fla., 7:05p.m.Colorado vs. San Diego at Peoria, Ariz., 10:05p.m.
NLLWEEK 12Friday, Mar. 23Philadelphia at Colorado, 9 p.m.Saturday, Mar. 24Toronto at Rochester, 7:30 p.m.Buffalo at Calgary, 9 p.m.Washington at Edmonton, 9 p.m.Sunday, March 25Colorado at Philadelphia, 4 p.m.Minnesota atWashington, 8 p.m.
Goal—Vancouver: C.Schneider (L,16-7-1);Minnesota: Harding (W,10-10-4).Power plays (goals-chances)—Vancouver: 0-1;Minnesota: 1-3.Attendance—17,188 (18,064).
Goal—Phoenix: Smith (W,32-18-8); Edmon-ton: Dubnyk (L,16-17-2). Power plays (goals-chances)—Phoenix: 0-2; Edmonton: 0-2.Attendance—16,839 (16,839).
MLSSunday’s resultsColorado 2, Philadelphia 1Los Angeles 3, D.C. United 1Friday, March 23All times EasternHouston at Seattle FC, 10 p.m.Saturday, March 24San Jose at Toronto FC, 1 p.m.Portland at NewEngland, 4 p.m.Montreal at Columbus, 4 p.m.Philadelphia at Chicago, 8:30 p.m.Chivas USA at Real Salt Lake, 9 p.m.D.C. United at Vancouver, 10 p.m.Sunday, March 25Colorado at NewYork, 4 p.m.FC Dallas at Sporting Kansas City, 7 p.m.
SPAINPRIMERADIVISIÓNYesterday’s resultEspanyol 3 Racing Santander 1
CURLINGWOMEN’SWORLDCURLING CHAMPIONSHIPAt Lethbridge, Alta.Country (Skip) W LCanada (Nedohin) 4 0South Korea (JS.Kim) 4 1Sweden (Sigfridsson) 4 1Germany (A.Schopp) 2 2Scotland (Muirhead) 2 2Switzerland (Ott) 2 2Denmark (Nielsen) 2 2Czech Republic (Klimova) 2 3Italy (Gaspari) 2 3Russia (A.Sidorova) 1 3China (B.Wang) 1 3U.S. (Pottinger) 0 4ROUNDROBINYesterday’s resultsSixth DrawSouth Korea 7 Scotland 2Italy 10 Russia 6Denmark 8 Czech Republic 7Sweden 10 Germany 4Seventh DrawCanada 8 Czech Republic 7Italy 7 China 5South Korea 8 U.S. 3Sweden 7 Switzerland 4Eighth DrawCanada vs. Denmark; Switzerland vs. Ger-many; U.S. vs. Scotland; China vs. Russia.Today’s gamesNinth Draw, 11 a.m.U.S. vs. Germany; China vs. Denmark; Canadavs. Russia; Switzerland vs. Scotland.Draw 10, 4 p.m.Russia vs. Sweden; Scotland vs. CzechRepublic;Germany vs. Italy; Denmark vs. SouthKorea.Draw 11, 10 p.m.Czech Republic vs. Switzerland; Sweden vs.Canada; South Korea vs. China; Italy vs. U.S.
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If you have rubber, vinyl and leather — and many vehicles do — you need three separate cleaners and conditioners, right? That used to be the case until Mothers VLR (Vinyl,
Leather and Rubber) came along. The idea here is to quickly take care of the three types of surfaces
with one product. How can one product take care of
three completely diff erent surfaces? The formula
contains something called neatsoil (which comes from
cows) for conditioning/softening/preserving, and lanolin (which comes from
sheep) for water protection. Mothers claims VLR will
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Mini Cooper Roadster just ar-rived.
The two-seat convertible — a first for the Mini brand and a companion to the recently launched Coupe — adds some visual spice to the Mini’s broad-ening model lineup that al-ready includes a four-passenger drop-top. Admittedly, it seems a bit odd that BMW-owned Mini would now have two not-so-dis-tinct convertibles that are con-structed off the same platform and share the same mechanical bits. Furthermore, the two-seat Roadster lists for only $300 less
than the standard four-place convertible.
Ah, but there’s a point that’s being overlooked. The Roadster swaps out the rear bench that isn’t particularly roomy in the first place for an actual trunk (another Mini first). We’re not talking cavernous space here by any means (it has a bit less vol-ume than the Coupe’s trunk) but it’s enough to store a few decent-sized travel bags or a set or two of golf clubs regard-less of whether the top is up or down.
The Roadster’s styling is far
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The hair-drying Roadster de-serves its sports-car appellation. And, with pricing that ranges from $30,500 to $41,500, con-sider it an alternative to the league-leading Mazda Miata and an extra-fun way to cele-brate the summer season.
Review. It carries half as many people as the convertible, yet costs a bit more – a fair price to pay for a little extra sporting fl air
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Matte-finish paint is popular with some buyers, which is no doubt why Mercedes-Benz offers it. Whatever you do, don’t use polish on the surface. Wheelbase Media
There’s a backlit icon of a sim-mering coffee cup on the 2012 SLK’s control panel that, for anyone unfamiliar with the latest in Mercedes-Benz safety gadgetry, is certain to cause confusion.
Could it be this particular well-optioned roadster comes with its own coffee maker? Or perhaps the symbol flashes intermittently whenever a Starbucks comes into view? Impossible to say, since the owner’s manual, a critical tome considering SLK’s techno-laden content, was AWOL.
“They’re frequently mis-sing after the cars are returned so we keep them here in the office,” explained a Mercedes-Benz press-fleet overseer. The missing manual limited the range of plausible explana-tions to the ridiculous.
Fortunately, an experi-enced Mercedes-Benz brand hand came to the rescue, ap-propriately enough while parked outside one of the Se-attle-based caffeine purveyor’s outlets. After admiring the SLK from top to bottom, he spied the tiny cup-and-saucer symbol and explained that it denotes “Attention Assist,” which is a safety feature that’s programmed to sense certain driving behaviours associated with fatigue and issues both visual and audible warnings to the driver suggesting he or she take a break.
The smell of fresh-brewed Pike Place Roast wafting out from the air vents could prob-ably work just as well.
Attention Assist is a fine idea, but it’s hard to imagine anyone nodding off in what
Autoknow. The Mercedes-Benz SLK senses when you should take a coffee break, but this driver was excited enough
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is one of the more exciting M-B models on the market and the best SLK that the Ger-man automaker has devised to date.
The SLK has steadily evolved since its 1997-model-year North American debut. The current generation now looks less like an inaccurate representation of its larger SL-class relation and, at least from the front, now resem-bles its twin. Both cars fea-ture nearly identical upright grilles, headlight pods and extended hoods, along with similar retractable hard-shell roofs. Of course, what they don’t even come close to shar-ing is their respective price tags; the $56,000 base SLK is offered at less than one-half the wallet hit of the SL.
Of course the SLK lacks the new-for-2013 SL550’s 429-horsepower twin-turbo V8, but the 302-horsepower V6 and accompanying seven-speed automatic transmission in the SLK350 is no slacker.
The warp-factor model of the triumvirate is the SLK55 AMG that receives the full aero kit treatment, unique nosepiece and fancier wheels. It also sends its power to the pavement using a 415-horse-power 5.5-litre V8 and earns a 4.5-second zero-to-60-m.p.h. (96 km/h) time.
Within the SLK range, though, the 350 in my posses-sion has a certain just-right feel. Around town, the V6 oper-ates in a docile fashion, but can quickly flex its muscles when a squirt of passing thrust is sum-moned, or when attacking a freeway on-ramp. During these
measures, the engine instantly clears its throat and delivers a distinctive, yet dignified growl while the seven-speed automatic imperceptibly kicks down into the appropriate gear. The SLK makes the entire process seem so easy and in no small measure enhances driv-ing confidence.
Also easy is the two-seater’s power-operated conversion to convertible from coupe status. The trunk lid pivots rear-ward while the hard tonneau
cover flips upward and the two-piece roof stacks into its containment spot, followed by the trunk lid resuming its original position. The whole lowering/raising sideshow consumes about 20 seconds.
The test model was equipped with the available Magic Sky Control, consisting of a glass roof panel that chan-ges to opaque from clear with the flip of a switch. Also in-cluded is constantly adjusting shock-damping control and
a faster-acting Direct-Steer system that reduces by 25 per cent the number of lock-to-lock steering wheel turns. About the only item of con-cern on the well-appointed SLK was its matte-finish Designo Glacier Grey colour scheme. The idea of an as-tested $78,500 Mercedes wear-ing what amounts to a really dull paint job might seem anathema to some buyers. It also carries a sternly worded missive warning of dire conse-
quences should the finish ever be polished.
The SLK test stretched into a week of mostly sunny skies and light Pacific Ocean-scented breezes on Vancouver Island. In other words, perfect sports-car weather in a part of the world attracts plenty of them.
And likely not one of their grinning drivers, including one SLK350 pilot in particular, required a cup-and-saucer ad-visory to keep the adrenaline flowing.
By the numbers
5.4Mercedes-Benz pegs the SLK roadster’s zero-to-60-m.p.h. (96 km/h) time at 5.4 seconds, which is only about a second slower than the SL. However that time is more than a second quicker than the base SLK 250 that uses a 201-horsepower turbocharged 1.8-litre four-cylinder.
A look at the SLK’s cabin. At right, an overhead view of the car.
31metronews.caWednesday, March 21, 2012 DRIVE
A look at the Volkswagen display at the Geneva auto show. all photos contributed
Wary of going it alone, automakers eye up dance partners
The messages from some of the automakers at last week’s Geneva auto show were somewhat contradictory.
Come look at all this great stuff we’re building — way better than that crap the other guys build. Hey other guys, wouldn’t mind a bit of help over here…
Just before the show, Gen-eral Motors and the Peugeot-
Citroen group announced an alliance, which will see GM will take a seven per cent share of the French auto-maker.
The arrangement is not unlike several that have de-veloped over the last decade or so, between other auto ti-tans, who have no intention of merging or allowing one partner to eventually swallow the other.
These new arrangements are all about trying to save costs on huge, global engin-eering programs.
Basically they’re saying, we’ll share development costs, because they’re crazy expensive, then afterwards, we’ll put them in our respect-
ive brand offerings and com-pete against each other like heck.
May the better man win, when it comes to exploiting that technology we both worked on.
With their vast R&D budgets and resources, you’d think most automakers would be big enough on their own, but analysts cite that looming fuel efficiency and emission targets are scaring the pants off some players, especially ones that don’t have everything yet lined up in their pipelines.
And no one wants to bet the farm on one emerging technology, be it electric, hy-brid, diesel, hydrogen, CNG, etc.
Another incentive to build alliances is to make sure you’re not shut out of emer-ging markets.
A mature market is much harder to penetrate and less profitable. That’s one of the reasons Chrysler-Fiat wants its next development dance partner to come from Asia (Mazda? Suzuki?), where it doesn’t yet have a big pres-ence.
Another reason is that the European marketplace isn’t looking so good for the fore-seeable future. Best go some-where else for growth.
Another enabler of this trend is Volkswagen. The Ger-man automaker has gone on record, and made the point again at this year’s show in Geneva, that it will spend
over $70 billion over the next five years, to become the world’s biggest automaker in both sales and profitability by 2018.
Currently standing in its way are GM and Toyota. If you are going to step into a ring with a bulked-up VW, you might want to bulk up a little yourself.
Toyota and BMW recently decided to trade respective technologies (hybrid batter-ies, diesel engines).
The Nissan-Renault al-
liance is going strong, and also works with Mercedes-Benz on a couple of projects. Those are just of few of the inter-company initiatives out there. And more will surely come.
Will this make life harder on the small, quirkier manu-facturers? Likely not. It hasn’t yet.
The Geneva show was again full of specialty makes with weird ideas. You can’t stop creative thought and drive, especially when some-
one, yet again, wants to build a car company in their vision. So it seems all good.
And it feels strangely hopeful too, and humane even, that some of the big-gest companies in the world can figure out a way to work together, and at the same time, compete so fiercely in the marketplace.
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Aerio offered AWD and solid reliabilityCommon Issues
Have the Aerio’s brake system inspected for pad and rotor condition, as many owners say the Aerio wears out braking components at a faster-than-expected rate.
The two-litre engine may emit some lifter noise for a few seconds after startup, though if the sound is persis-tent, the engine may require expensive replacement lift-ers. Note that this problem seems focused on 2002 and 2003 models.
Be sure to check out the keyless access system too, as many owners report its failure over time. Finally, budget for a full fluid change and tune-up if you’re unsure of the service history of the model you’re considering.
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The Suzuki Aerio Wagon was a machine that tackled a plethora of tasks exception-ally well — while earning itself a reputation for its high value proposition and access to cheap All Wheel Drive (AWD).
Retired to clear way for the Suzuki SX4 after 2006, the Aerio was aimed at active, value-minded shop-pers after a vehicle with plenty of flexibility and space.
Second Gear. 2002 to 2006 Suzuki Aerio Wagon
What Owners Dislike
Complaints typically cen-tre around quirky styling and a noisy ride at speed.
What Owners Like
Owners love the surprisingly upscale and high quality feel imparted by the little
wagon, and many say their machines are holding up well over the years. All Wheel Drive traction on slippery roads is also highly rated.
Common, significant or systematic problems seem to be few and far between. Aerio appears an adequately safe bet for the shopper after some uniqueness, utility, and an inexpensive AWD system.
The Volkswagen Beetle has a unique and colourful his-tory, with principal charac-ters that include the Nazi dictator who personified evil, the legendary designer of Germany’s most celebrat-ed race cars and the Jewish advertising executive who pioneered a creative revolu-tion on Madison Avenue.
It’s a story whose twists and turns over four decades eventually gave rise to the oddly shaped small car that came to symbolize Amer-ica’s 1960s counterculture and went on to become the world’s top-selling car model.
In her book Thinking Small: The Long, Strange Trip of the Volkswagen Bee-tle (Ballantine Books), auth-or Andrea Hiott transports readers through the most turbulent decades of the 20th century, from the rise of Adolf Hitler to the Allied victory that left postwar Germany in ruins, to that
nation’s economic rebirth epitomized by the success of the Volkswagen plant at Wolfsburg.
A car enthusiast who never drove an automobile or held a driver’s licence, Hitler had a vision for a “people’s car” that would extend to Germans the same mobility that Henry Ford’s Model T gave Amer-icans. The dictator set out to build a network of auto-bahns and erect a massive factory in a pasture to build what he decreed to be The Strength Through Joy Car.
The genius chosen as
its designer was Ferdinand Porsche, who was told to produce a prototype by 1935 so that one million cars would come off the line within three years. But with Hitler bent on war, the plant’s mission shifted to arms production, and output shifted to mines, bazookas, V1 flying bombs and jeeplike utility vehicles.
Among the surprises in Hiott’s comprehensive ac-count is the importance of the plant’s location in the British occupation zone to its ultimate success. An-other big “what-if” is the 1947 decision by Ford to pass up the chance to ac-quire Volkswagen. The reason, according to the author, was the plant’s proximity to the Soviet Bloc at a time when the Cold War was taking shape.
Hiott’s account should appeal to history buffs, car enthusiasts and readers who delight in a fascinat-ing story. The release of the book coincides with the debut of the 2012 Bee-tle that marks the second time the much-loved car is brought back by popular de-mand. the associated press
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While you only get one chance to enjoy that new-car smell in your vehicle, a good spring cleaning can at least remove the funky, six-months-of-winter stench.
Peter Malony, owner of Rubber Duck Car Wash in Nova Scotia, says the most im-portant task is to get rid of the salt. Winter driving in Canada means your tires kick up vast amounts of salt pebbles and crushed salt dust that cakes you vehicle. Left alone, it can start to rust your car.
“You can’t just run it through a carwash and have it all go away. It takes a while,” he says. “Hand washing in the spring is the best bet.”
A wash in your driveway with the garden hose is un-likely to dislodge the winter
grime. A drive-through wash that cleans the undercarriage will remove a lot of it, but won’t get to the mess in the door sills and under the hood.
Go to a professional car wash and either pay some-one to give your vehicle a thorough clean, or use their self-service facility with pro-fessional equipment.
“You need to clean all the nooks and crannies with a high-pressure rinse,” Malony says. “Get it all cleaned out from
underneath the car, around the wheel wells, around the door jam and under the engine hood,” he says.
Salt can sneak inside your car via the floor mats. Take
them out, beat them clean and vacuum them.
“A lot of our customers will take out their carpet mats, pressure wash them and let them dry,” Malony
says. “It’s a great way to clean your mats. The downside is it takes a while to dry.”
Pick a sunny day to speed that part along.
Wipe down the hard parts
of the interior. If you want a top-notch job, many car washes have high-power and flexible vacuum cleaners and even professional carpet shampooers on staff.
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Spring cleaning. Winter driving takes a toll on your car, but these tips can help you remove damaging salt and funky smells
How to stay safe on the road even after the snow meltsWith spring in the air, it may be tempting to think it’s easy driv-ing, at least for a few months.
“In the winter people are a bit more careful and cau-tious,” says Tom Furlong, the Nova Scotia regional director for Young Drivers of Canada. “After the snow melts, every-body goes, ‘Ah, I don’t have to be as careful now.’”
As a result, people get complacent. One of the big spring driving risks is hydro-planing. This occurs when a layer of water develops be-tween a vehicle’s tires and the road surface, thereby
leading to loss of traction.Furlong says two of the
factors in preventing hydro-planing are the depth of the tire tread and tire pressure.
“You have to make sure your tires have lots of tread and your tire pressure is up,” he says.
Most people change their winter tires to summer ones in the spring, and he recom-mends ensuring the summer tires have adequate tread.
People should also keep an eye on their tire pressure and use a gauge — they only cost around $10 — to make sure the
tires are properly inflated.Speed is another factor in
preventing hydroplaning. Not surprisingly, slower is better.
If people find themselves hydroplaning, the key is not to panic.
“If you do start to hydro-plane, you have to slow down smoothly and gradually, and then your tires will start to come down through the water and then finally make contact with the pavement,” says Furlong.
The best way of doing this is to ease your foot off the gas to naturally slow the car down.
Bill White, a driving train-ing instructor since 1975, says another spring driving concern is potential black ice.
“People can get a little bit careless, especially in the mornings where there could be freezing temperatures and black ice,” says the classroom instructor with McKenna’s Defensive Driving.
“Don’t be too swayed by the fact later on in the day the temperature is going to be five or six or 10 degrees. There still has to be that cau-tion in the morning.”RichaRd WoodbuRy/foR metRo
tune-up tips from the pros. Get your vehicle in tip-top shape for springAs the last of the snow melts from Canadian roads, most drivers get ready to switch their winter tires for the all-seasons. That’s just the first step toward giving your car a spring tune up.
Terry Peck, fixed oper-ations manager at Edmonton’s Koch Ford Lincoln, says it’s not just about ensuring the car is safe and reliable, but also mak-ing sure the entire driving ex-perience is a good one.
“Ever been stuck out of town on a weekend, broken
down? It is not fun,” he says.Peck provides a spring
tune-up check list:• Change oil and filter• Lubricate door locks, hin-
ges and weather strips• Remove snow tires It’s also a good time to see
what maintenance issues are due, such as replacing fluids for power steering, transmission, brakes and the cooling system, or ser-vicing the air-conditioning system, inspecting the trail-er wiring and changing the
cabin air filter.Then, give your car a
thorough exterior inspec-tion. “Inspect the windshield for cracks and chips,” Peck suggests. “Address any new
noises or concerns that have developed over the winter driving season, such as pull-ing, rattles, vibrations or in-operative items.”jon tattRie/foR metRo
•Maintenancecanpreventalittleproblemfrombecomingabigproblem,extendthelifeofyourcarandfetchmoremoneyinresale. give your car a thorough inspection.
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