“I just want to help the RCMP out ... I think they’re a great organization.” Harold Joseph Northrup In honour of Earth Day on Wednesday, Metro is providing you with ways you can go green and lessen your environmental footprint.
HALIFAX • MONDAY, APRIL 20, 2009 metronews.ca Celebrity Buzz Madge thrown from horse pg 18 Atlantic Free Daily Newspapers Inc., operating as Metro Halifax 3260 Barrington Street, Suite 102, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3K 0B5. Publisher: Greg Lutes New Merchandise Arriving Daily! 7101 Chebucto Rd, Halifax 20-60% OFF SEARS CATALOGUE PRICES THE ONLY IN ATLANTIC CANADA OUTLET STORE HARPER PRAISES TIES WITH JAMAICA, PG 4 JOSH HEDGES/FOR METRO HALIFAX UFC Debut win Cole Harbour’s T.J. Grant raises his hands in victory after winning his UFC debut Saturday night before a sold-out crowd at Montreal’s Bell Centre. Grant won an unanimous decision over Ryo Chonan. Story, pg 12 Helping heroes Longtime RCMP volunteer honoured by those he respects It’s hard for Harold Joseph Northrup to forget the “terrible” sights and smells he experienced while picking up body parts at Peggy’s Cove and working in the morgue following the Swissair crash in September 1998. But the 78-year-old Dart- mouth man believes it’s important to reach out when he can, which is why he’s been will- ing to take on some tough jobs while vol- unteering with the Nova Scotia RCMP. “I just want to help the RCMP out,” he said yesterday, just after receiving an award for his longtime vol- unteer work with the Mounties. “I think they’re a great organization.” Northrup has been gen- erously giving his time to the RCMP since 1975, still putting more than 1,000 hours in annually with the auxiliary program at the Cole Harbour detachment. “Now I look after the po- lice cars,” he said. “I take them to get the new tires on them.” Northrup was one of 135 citizens who were recog- nized at the first ever Nova Scotia RCMP Volunteer Long Service Recognition Awards Ceremony, held yesterday at Halifax West High School. “What’s particularly noteworthy is that it’s be- ing held on the first day of National Volunteer Week,” Steve Graham, command- ing officer of the Nova Sco- tia RCMP, pointed out to the families and friends gathered inside the high school’s theatre, the Bella Rose Art Centre. “(We) cel- ebrate your continuous commit- ment to this province and most important- ly, to the cit- izens.” Each vol- unteer received a certifi- cate signed by RCMP com- missioner William Elliott and a commemorative pin. Many work with communi- ty policing programs such as Ground Search and Res- cue, Citizens On Patrol, Neighbourhood Watch, Crime Prevention and Block Parents. An “RCMP volunteer val- ue statement” was also un- veiled yesterday. It will be placed in the lobbies of detachments and community offices across the province. KRISTEN LIPSCOMBE for Metro Halifax “I just want to help the RCMP out ... I think they’re a great organization.” Harold Joseph Northrup WEAPONS Things were ex- plosive in Pictou Friday af- ternoon. The RCMP called in members of Canada’s Mar- itime Explosive Disposal Unit, a special division of the Navy out of CFB Shear- water, to view and assess two pieces of military ordi- nance found by a town res- ident. The ammunition shells measured up to 13 inches long and three inches in di- ameter. Believed to be ap- proximately 30 years old, a resident had found them in his garage and it’s be- lieved the previous owner left them there. An initial report from Pictou County District RCMP’s Const. Ryan Adlam indicated that the shells were suspected to be live ammunition. Two representatives from the explosive unit ar- rived on scene around 2:30 p.m. and confirmed that one of the shells was, in fact, a potential explosive hazard. Police escorted the shell to the rock quarry near Beeches Road, where the RCMP and explosive unit members cleared the area and detonated two separate charges of mili- tary grade C4 plastic explo- sives strapped to the live shell to ensure its destruc- tions. “The resulting blasts rang out at super sonic speeds and decibel levels,” Adlam said. NEW GLASGOW NEWS RCMP dealt explosive situation Power outage caused by birds EQUIPMENT It was a power outage for the birds. Nesting birds in equip- ment caused a short circuit at a Nova Scotia Power sub- station resulting in about 4,300 homes and business- es in and around the St. Margarets Bay-Tantallon area to be without power Saturday. Jennifer Parker, spokesperson with Nova Scotia Power, said the “un- fortunate” incident started at 9:45 a.m., with about 1,000 customers having their lights back on by noon, and the rest by 4:45 p.m. METRO HALIFAX In honour of Earth Day on Wednesday, Metro is providing you with ways you can go green and lessen your environmental footprint. TODAY GOING GREEN. While saving the planet is serious business, you can still have fun while you’re at it. Page 9. COMMENTS. Green lifestyle choices endless. Page 8. TOMORROW ENTERTAINMENT. How the music industry is going green. EARTH DAY MOVIES. We have a review of the Disney film Earth. GOING GREEN. A special section devoted to Earth Day. GoGreen EARTH DAY: APRIL 22 SunnySide pg 8 Help Hines find a hobby ShareYourViews [email protected]
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Cole Harbour’s T.J. Grant raises his hands in victory after winning his UFC debut Saturday night
before a sold-out crowd at Montreal’s Bell Centre. Grant won an unanimous decision over Ryo
Chonan. Story, pg 12
HelpingheroesLongtime RCMP volunteer honoured by those he respects
It’s hard for Harold JosephNorthrup to forget the“terrible” sights andsmells he experiencedwhile picking up bodyparts at Peggy’s Cove andworking in the morguefollowing the Swissaircrash in September 1998.
But the 78-year-old Dart-mouth man believes it’simportant to reach outwhen he can,which is whyhe’s been will-ing to take onsome toughjobs while vol-unteering withthe Nova ScotiaRCMP.
“I just wantto help theRCMP out,” hesaid yesterday,just after receiving anaward for his longtime vol-unteer work with theMounties. “I think they’rea great organization.”
Northrup has been gen-erously giving his time tothe RCMP since 1975, stillputting more than 1,000hours in annually with theauxiliary program at theCole Harbour detachment.
“Now I look after the po-lice cars,” he said. “I takethem to get the new tireson them.”
Northrup was one of 135citizens who were recog-
nized at the first ever NovaScotia RCMP VolunteerLong Service RecognitionAwards Ceremony, heldyesterday at Halifax WestHigh School.
“What’s particularlynoteworthy is that it’s be-ing held on the first day ofNational Volunteer Week,”Steve Graham, command-ing officer of the Nova Sco-tia RCMP, pointed out tothe families and friendsgathered inside the highschool’s theatre, the Bella
Rose ArtCentre.
“(We) cel-ebrate yourcontinuouscommit-ment to thisprovinceand mostimportant-ly, to the cit-izens.”
Each vol-unteer received a certifi-cate signed by RCMP com-missioner William Elliottand a commemorative pin.Many work with communi-ty policing programs suchas Ground Search and Res-cue, Citizens On Patrol,Neighbourhood Watch,Crime Prevention andBlock Parents.
An “RCMP volunteer val-ue statement” was also un-veiled yesterday.
It will be placed in thelobbies of detachmentsand community officesacross the province.
KRISTEN LIPSCOMBE for Metro Halifax
“I just wantto help theRCMP out... I thinkthey’re a
great organization.”Harold JosephNorthrup
WEAPONS Things were ex-plosive in Pictou Friday af-ternoon.
The RCMP called inmembers of Canada’s Mar-itime Explosive DisposalUnit, a special division ofthe Navy out of CFB Shear-water, to view and assesstwo pieces of military ordi-nance found by a town res-ident.
The ammunition shellsmeasured up to 13 incheslong and three inches in di-ameter. Believed to be ap-
proximately 30 years old, aresident had found themin his garage and it’s be-lieved the previous ownerleft them there. An initialreport from Pictou CountyDistrict RCMP’s Const.Ryan Adlam indicated thatthe shells were suspectedto be live ammunition.
Two representativesfrom the explosive unit ar-rived on scene around 2:30p.m. and confirmed thatone of the shells was, infact, a potential explosive
hazard. Police escorted theshell to the rock quarrynear Beeches Road, wherethe RCMP and explosiveunit members cleared thearea and detonated twoseparate charges of mili-tary grade C4 plastic explo-sives strapped to the liveshell to ensure its destruc-tions.
“The resulting blastsrang out at super sonicspeeds and decibel levels,”Adlam said.
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RCMP dealt explosive situation
Power outagecaused by birdsEQUIPMENT It was a poweroutage for the birds.
Nesting birds in equip-ment caused a short circuitat a Nova Scotia Power sub-station resulting in about4,300 homes and business-es in and around the St.Margarets Bay-Tantallonarea to be without powerSaturday.
Jennifer Parker,spokesperson with NovaScotia Power, said the “un-fortunate” incident startedat 9:45 a.m., with about1,000 customers havingtheir lights back on bynoon, and the rest by 4:45p.m. METRO HALIFAX
In honour ofEarth Day onWednesday,Metro is providing youwith ways youcan go greenand lessen yourenvironmental footprint.TODAY
GOING GREEN. While savingthe planet is seriousbusiness, you can still havefun while you’re at it. Page 9.COMMENTS. Green lifestylechoices endless. Page 8. TOMORROW
ENTERTAINMENT. How themusic industry is going green.EARTH DAY
MOVIES. We have a reviewof the Disney film Earth.GOING GREEN. A special section devoted to Earth Day.
Burning issueHalifax Regional Fire and Emergency is reminding residents that burning of any domestic waste is strictly prohibited within the Halifax Regional Mu-nicipality. That includes grass, clippings, twigs or leaves. Last year HRM responded to more than 950 fires related to open air burning. METRO HALIFAX
Stop, or face a fineStop, in the name of safety. Members of the RCMP Halifax Dis-trict are launching a stop sign blitz campaign in the ColeHarbour area starting today through May 3. The RCMP will betargeting motorists that fail to completely stop at stop signswith increased patrols and enforcement. Fines are $164.50 andcome with two demerit points . METRO HALIFAX
The 14th annual HalifaxComedy Festival takesplace this week andone of the featuredattractions is inter-nationally celebrat-ed comic Eddie Brillfrom New York City.
In a phone inter-view last week withMetro Halifax, thecomic, who workson the Late Showwith David Letterman, saidHaligonians should expect
the type of comedy every-one can relate to.
Brill discusses topics likeorganized religion, andasks the compelling ques-tion: why do post offices
advertise stamps?During his latest
show in Hollywoodon Easter Sunday,Brill poked fun at theholiday. He says theaudience ate it uplike chocolate eggs.
“Easter’s a scaryholiday,” Brill said. “Ithink the Easter Bun-
ny was created to notshock the hell out of kids.
You tell your kids it’s allabout a man coming backfrom the dead they’ll freakout. So if you have choco-late and eggs and EasterBunnies it makes it fun andcute.”
This July, Brill will cele-brate 25 years in comedy.He has been making peo-ple laugh for half his life.
His career kicked off in col-lege when he performed ina comedy group similar tolocal group Picnicface. NowBrill’s gig is on the LateShow with David Letter-man where he warms upthe audience and bookscomics.
“I like making peoplelaugh,” he said. “I’m so pas-
sionate about it. I love itwith all my heart.”
On Friday, Brill will em-cee a free lunchtime showat the Scotia Square Mallfood court: Comedy ForLunch. He’ll also performat the Gala of Laughs onFriday at 8 p.m. the Gala Fi-nale on Saturday at 8 p.m.Both events take place atthe Rebecca Cohn Auditori-um.
Other headliners thisyear include MichaelWinslow from the PoliceAcademy movies and LastComic Standing winnerDat Phan.
BOOK It’s a story of lostlove, but the heart of JonTattrie’s first novel lies in apiece of history thatchanged his hometownforever: the Halifax Explo-sion.
“There’s no shortage ofbooks about the Halifax Ex-plosion ... but I wanted toread (one) ... where the ex-plosion was the main char-acter,” Tattrie said of theinspiration behind his ownbook, Black Snow: A storyof love and destruction,
which will be launched to-morrow.
“Black Snow is primarilyjust during the 36 hoursfrom the explosion towhen help started to ar-rive,” said the 32-year-oldwriter, a regular contribu-
tor to Metro Halifax.“The main character has
just returned from servingin the trenches of WorldWar I,” he said of youngprotagonist Tommy.
“He comes back to Hali-fax and he’s just trying to get his life back in or-der.”
Then comes Dec. 6, 1917,that fateful date etched inthe minds of Nova Sco-tians, including that of Tat-trie, who has lived on bothsides of the harbour wherethe Mont-Blanc and Imocollided.
“It’s like everything thathe left behind in the Euro-
pean war has come backand just destroyed his owncity,” he said, explainingTommy is determined tofind his wife, Evie, duringthe horrific aftermath ofthe explosion.
Tattrie first started con-juring up a fictional storythat could be set in the alltoo real disaster whileworking at the Halifax Dai-ly News. But what startedas a short story soonturned into a full-fledgedbook, with characters thatseemed to “come to life”and a plot fuelled by the“intensity of the explo-sion,” he said.
STIMULUS Atlantic Canadi-an mayors are calling onthe federal government toget infrastructurestimulus cash flowing intomunicipalities soonerrather than later.
“We are concerned thatdelays in announcing de-tails on howmunicipalities can accessthe fund might mean thatwe will lose this construc-tion season,” HalifaxRegional MunicipalityMayor Peter Kelly, whohosted a meeting withleaders from across the re-gion late last week, said ina release.
Other concernsdiscussed at the AtlanticMayors Congress, whichran from Thursdaythrough Saturday, includecuts at the CBC and theeconomy’s effect on airservice.
“With our sparse popu-lation and remote commu-nities, we are concernedthat air service to ourregion could be further af-fected,” Kelly said. “Weneed a passenger bill ofrights in place to ensurethat the interests of airtravellers are protected.”
Mayors from the largestmunicipalities in this partof the country attend theAtlantic Mayors Congress,which meets twice yearlyto share concerns and fos-ter collaboration.
“This is not the time tocut services to the regionor delay job-creatinginvestments,” Kelly said.“This is the time to focuson the needs of people andcommunities and not cutAtlantic Canada adrift.”
METRO HALIFAX
About the festival• The Halifax Comedy Festivalruns today through Saturdayat various venues throughoutthe city.
• For a complete schedule ofevents, visit: halifaxcomedyfest.ca.
HILARY BEAUMONTfor Metro Halifax
Eddie Brill
Brill on bill for Comedy FestivalVeteran New York comic works on Late Show with David Letterman
A reading• Join Jon Tattrie for a read-ing of Black Snow, pub-lished by The PottersfieldPress, from 5:30 to 7 p.m.tomorrow at The CompanyHouse on Gottingen Street.The book can be ordered on-line at nimbus.ns.ca.
KRISTEN LIPSCOMBEfor Metro Halifax
Halifax Explosion at centre of novel
Halifax writer Jon Tattrie is launching his first book, titled Black Snow: A story of love and destruction, tomorrow at The Company
House in Halifax. The book is set around the 1917 Halifax Explosion.
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News in briefMAN FOUND A 63-year-oldman missing from Saulniervillewas located late Thursdayevening. Meteghan RCMP saidjust before midnight, ReginaultPaul Comeau was found alivein an isolated wooded area sit-uated about 35 kilometresaway from where he lived. Earlier Thursday, the policewere asking for the public’s as-sistance in locating the manwho had been missing sinceWednesday morning. Police re-ceived a call late Thursdayevening from a person whohad seen the man earlier in theday.
METRO HALIFAX
Police seekingmissing womanDARTMOUTH Halifax policeare seeking the public’shelp in locating a missingDartmouth woman.
white, five-foot-three witha petite build, reddish-brown shoulder lengthhair and brown eyes.
Anyone withinformation regardingCooper’s whereabouts, oranyone who may haveseen her, is asked to callpolice at 490-5016.
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Highway 102 lane closureThere will be a lane closure on Highway 102 southbound from Exit 4B to Exit 3, including ramps, for repairs which includes replacingthe medium barrier and repaving the highway. The work started Saturday and will continue until the end of July. METRO HALIFAX
Peter MacKay didn’t throwpunches when he steppedinto the ring Friday atPalooka’s Boxing Club, butthe federal cabinet minis-ter still incited claps fromthe crowd when heannounced an additional$2 million in funding forthe 2011 Canada WinterGames in Halifax.
The cash comes fromthe Atlantic Canada Op-portunities Agency andwill help pay for every-thing from sports equip-ment to promotion andmarketing for the Games,which is expected to bethe biggest athletics eventin Halifax’s history andstimulate $81 million ineconomic activity for NovaScotia.
“It’s an investment byour government to help inthe volunteer recruitment... (and) in training to allowcommunity members to
build their skills,” MacKaysaid, adding the doughwill also buy a boxing ringand gymnastics gear.
This ensures theprovince will “have safe,up-to-date equipment,”said MacKay, the nationaldefence minister and At-lantic Gateway minister.“Sport, simply put, is anincredibly important partof our country. It bringsout the very best in peo-ple.”
MacKay was joined byprovincial Health Promo-tion and Protection Minis-ter Pat Dunn, Coun. MaryWile and Games chairmanJean-Paul Deveau. All fourspeakers strapped ongloves, smiling for thecameras rather than spar-ring, inside the GottingenStreet gym.
Dunn said the Games,set for Feb. 11 to 27, 2011,“will leave us with a legacyof new and upgradedsports venues.” He pointedto the province’s history ofhosting such events, in- cluding the first Canada
Summer Games in 1969.“We are still using some ofthe sports facilities createdfor that.”
Palooka’s owner MickeyMacDonald said followingthe press conference that
the Games will give youngathletes here in Halifax“something to look for-ward to.”
“Any sport is great forthe kids — it teaches themdiscipline, it teaches themteamwork, it teaches them
focus,” he said. “It buildstheir character.”
Organizers say morethan 2,700 athletes willcompete in about 20sports, with thousands ofspectators also expected atthe Games.
KRISTEN LIPSCOMBEfor Metro Halifax
$2M more for winter games
“Sport, simply put, is an incredibly important part of our country. It bringsout the very best in people.”Peter MacKay, federal MP
Nova Scotia Health Promotion and Protection Minister Pat Dunn, ACOA Minister Peter MacKay,
Canada Games chairman Jean-Paul Deveau and HRM Coun. Mary Wile donned boxing gloves Fri-
day as the federal government announced an additional $2 million in funding for the 2011 Canada
Winter Games in Halifax. The announcement took place at Palooka’s Boxing Club in Halifax.
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Grandmother Pat Stephenson looks on as 19-month-old Gavin McDonald works on his styrofoam
model during a children’s make a model workshop yesterday at the Maritime Museum of the At-
lantic. The event was part of the 27th annual Model Makers’ Showcase, which was held at the
museum over the weekend.
Sheltersneed morefunds: NDPPOLITICS Bryony House andother transition housescould be in crisis withoutmore bucks from theprovince, the New Democ-rats say.
NDP MLA Marilyn Moreof Dartmouth South-Port-land Valley said in a newsrelease that the Halifaxshelter for abused womenand their children hasn’tseen funding rise since1996. “The responsibility ofthe . . . Conservative govern-ment is to help thesewomen get out of povertyand restart their lives.”
The Community ServicesDepartment said last weekit’s not cutting funding formore than 200 groups. “I’mpleased that we are able toprotect the programs andservices that many NovaScotians depend on,” Minis-ter Chris d’Entremont saidin a release.
But a funding freeze forimportant social servicessimply isn’t enough, Moresaid, especially less than amonth after the provincereleased a poverty reduc-tion strategy that is sup-posed to address the needsof Nova Scotia’s most vul-nerable.
“The non-profit groups . . .keep the social fabric of ourcommunities together.”
The provincial govern-ment says it provides $230million annually “to a widevariety of organizations”and has also secured $155million for the poverty re-duction strategy, releasedApril 3. METRO HALIFAX
AIRLINES Sunwing Airlineshas cancelled its summerschedule of flights betweenSydney and Toronto.
Sunwing had planned toresume service June 15,with twice weekly flights of-fered until Sept. 10, but an-nounced Friday its planeswill not fly in or out of CapeBreton in 2009.
“Unfortunately our pro-gram has been irreparablydamaged bythe refusal ofthe SydneyAirport Au-thority to al-low Sunwingto operate in-to Sydney thissummer,” saidMarkWilliams, president of Sun-wing Airlines, in a release.
“Sunwing had startedproceedings to obtain acourt injunction to over-turn the airport authority’sdecision. Unfortunately, re-cent press coverage of theairport authority’s refusalhas materially and negative-ly impacted sales on theroute and the timing of thescheduled court date wastoo late for us to recover ourprogram for this summer.”
Larry MacPherson, chiefexecutive officer of the Syd-
ney Airport Authority,could not be reached forcomment late Friday after-noon.
But earlier this week hetold the Cape Breton Postthat Sunwing was no longerwelcome to fly into Sydneydue to the addition of a newseasonal service offered byWestJet. He said Sunwingdidn’t notify the airport ofits plans to return and the
airport, in-stead, agreedto a deal withWestJet thatwill see a Boe-ing 737 fly non-stop to Torontothree times aweek, begin-ning May 5.
MacPherson said the air-port authority believes thathaving three airlines oper-ating out of Sydney with di-rect flights to Torontowould not be sustainable.He also stated that therewould not be enough count-er space for Sunwing’s tick-et agents.
Meanwhile, Williams saidSunwing doesn’t believe theSydney Airport Authorityhas the right to act as a mar-ket regulator and they planto take legal action.
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Sydney a no-fly zone forSunwing this summer
“Unfortunately ourprogram has beenirreparablydamaged ...”Mark Williams,Sunwing president
SYDNEY Two Sydney menhave been arrested andcharged in relation to therobbery of a 60-year-oldman on Victoria Road inOctober 2008.
One 18-year-old male wasreleased from custody and
will appear in court, May28. The second male, 21,will be remanded to theCape Breton CorrectionalCentre until Monday, whenhe appears in court.
Police say two menrobbed and assaulted the
60-year-old man near theItalian Village Pizzeria andRestaurant, Oct. 8, at 12:40a.m. The victim was trans-ported to the Cape BretonRegional Hospital withnon-life-threatening in-juries. CAPE BRETON POST
Charges laid in October robbery, assault
Airport workersback on the jobSETTLEMENT About 80 work-ers who service airplanes atHalifax StanfieldInternational Airport areno longer locked out.
The members of theInternational Association ofMachinists and AerospaceWorkers, which representsServisair’s unionizedemployees, voted Saturdayin favour of a new offerfrom the company.
Media reports indicatethe members voted 65 percent in favour for the offer,which includes a one-yearwage freeze.
The workers were lockedout on April 1 after reject-ing a two-year wage freezeoffer. The two sides hadbeen without a contractsince last June, with negoti-ations on-going sinceNovember.
These employees workon the ramps and offer pas-senger service for airlines.
METRO HALIFAX
Prime Minister StephenHarper will hail the “extra-ordinary” ties betweenCanada and Jamaica andthe positive contributionsof Jamaicans to Canadiansociety during an historicaddress to that country’sparliament today.
“This visit is particularlyimportant and symbolic forthe Jamaican-Canadiancommunity. It’s symbolic ofour relations with Jamaica,”Harper told Torstar NewsServices in an exclusive in-terview yesterday.
“It’s also a real chance toacknowledge the strongand positive contributionthat Jamaican-Canadians domake, sometimes not prob-ably recorded or appreciat-ed,” he said from Port ofPrince, Trinidad.
Harper arrived inKingston, Jamaica last nightfrom Trinidad where he hadbeen attending the Summitof the Americas. JoiningHarper onboard the govern-ment Airbus jet was Ja-maican Prime Minister
Bruce Golding, who had al-so been attending the sum-mit.
Today, Harper will ad-dress a special sitting ofboth houses of the JamaicanParliament — a first for aCanadian prime minister.
“The Jamaican communi-ty is gradually coming ofage in Canada and Ja-maicans themselves areproud of that and that’ssomething that enhancesour relationship,” he said.
As Harper meets with Ja-maican leaders, he’ll alsobe pressing efforts to ce-ment a free trade deal,which he touts as one reme-dy to the nation’s poverty.
He said Jamaica has beenhit “terribly hard” by theeconomic woes but hasavoided the worst of the fi-
nancial sector collapse be-cause the banking sector isalmost entirely Canadian.
“They’ve been shelteredfrom the worst fallout of
the financial crisis. But thecountry has significant eco-nomic and financial chal-lenges,” he said.
“The biggest single thing
to move everything forwardis to get the economy mov-ing forward.”
Harper, who has previ-ously visited Haiti and Bar-
bados, said the Conserva-tives would continue tomake the Caribbean a for-eign policy priority.
TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
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Ontario police step up search for missing 8-year-oldThe Ontario Provincial Police on Saturday launched an intensified search in Woodstock, Ont., for missing eight-year-old Victoria (Tori) Stafford, who was last seen
on April 8. Police will also be re-examining older information and tips, and detectives will be canvassing homes and residents for new leads. CBC NEWS ONLINE
Red Cross seeking flood aidThe Canadian Red Cross is appealing for donations to supportpeople affected by the flood in Manitoba. So far, more than 900people have registered at the Red Cross reception centre in Win-nipeg as the province said Saturday that 1,923 people have beenevacuated in the flood. More than 1,200 of those are people fromFirst Nations communities. CBC NEWS ONLINE
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Prime Minister Stephen Harper is escorted by a Trinidadian protocol officer as he arrives for the closing session at the Fifth Summit of
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CFIA emergency fund would increase risk: UnionSAFETY The Canadian FoodInspection Agency plans toestablish an emergencyfund by withholding mon-ey from daily operations,says the union represent-ing food inspectors.
“CFIA does not have anemergency fund to dealwith outbreaks of food oranimal-borne illnesses,”says a briefing the Agricul-
ture Union is expected todeliver to MPs on the par-liamentary subcommitteeon food safety today.
The union estimated thefund would restrain theoperational budget at CFIAby about 10 to 15 per cent,which it fears would can-cel plans to hire additionalfood inspectors, reduceoversight, and actually in-
crease the risk of an emer-gency outbreak
The committee will hearfrom Maple Leaf FoodsCEO Michael McCain todayas part of a probe into a po-tentially deadly strain oflisteria traced to meatsfrom a Toronto plant thatbecame a factor in at least20 deaths last summer.
TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
Canadian warship chases downpirates after hijacking attemptPIRACY NATO forces foiledan attack by Somali pirateson a Norwegian oil tanker,and briefly detained sevengunmen after huntingthem down under cover ofdarkness, NATO officialssaid yesterday.
It was the latest assaultby sea gangs from Somaliawho have hijacked dozensof ships, taken hundreds ofsailors hostage and madetens of millions of dollarsin ransoms — defying anunprecedented deploy-ment by foreign navies inthe region.
Michael McWhinnie, aspokesman on the Canadi-an warship Winnipeg, said
it, a British naval supplyship and U.S. warship Haly-burton responded after pi-rates attacked the 80,000-tonne MV Front Ardennein the Gulf of Aden lateSaturday.
The gunmen, armedwith assault rifles androcket-propelled gren-ades, fled south in their
skiff as the NATO forces ap-proached, dumpingweapons overboard.
McWhinnie said a heli-copter sent by the Win-nipeg fired warning roundsin front of the pirates’ craftfrom its machinegun, butthey ignored it.
The Canadian warshipthen pursued them forhours through the night.
“We blocked their path.We were faster and surpris-ingly more manoeuvrablethan the pirate skiff,”McWhinnie said.
The ship then sent aboarding party to searchthe pirate vessel and foundan RPG round. REUTERS
No pirates held• After documenting evi-dence, the Winnipeg’s crewlet the pirates go. A crewmember said that “Cana-da's mandate is not to nor-mally take detainees.”
Harper praises ties to Jamaica
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Talks will fail without Afghan input: KarzaiAfghanistan President Hamid Karzai yesterday said U.S. efforts to tame the growing Taliban insurgency
through negotiations would fail unless his government agreed to such talks. METRO NEWS SERVICES
Japanese clean up after themselvesJapanese expatriates took to the streets of Paris yesterday armed with brooms toclean up the city for the tens of thousands of Japanese tourists who visit each year. Tothe amusement or indifference of passers-by, the team of Japanese expats called theGreenbirds chose to give a stretch of the Champs Elysees avenue their monthly clean-ing treatment. REUTERS
But U.S. leader calls on communist nation to give people more political freedom
Obama sees positive signs on CubaU.S. President Barack Oba-ma said yesterday he saw“potential positive signs”of better relations with Cu-ba and Venezuela, but hecalled on Cuba to backthem up by giving its peo-ple more politicalfreedom.
Obama spoke after at-tending a Summit of theAmericas in Trinidad andTobago which he said fo-cused on “launching a newera of partnerships” be-tween the countries of thewestern hemisphere.
Communist-ruled Cubawas excluded from themeeting but the summitwas dominated by specula-tion over the prospect ofan end to the long conflictbetween Washington andHavana after Cuban Presi-dent Raul Castro said lastweek he was open to talks.
Obama also receivedfriendly overtures duringthe summit from left-wingVenezuelan President
Hugo Chavez, whose closealliance with Cuba andfierce criticism of U.S. poli-cies in the region had
strained relations withWashington in the past.
“For the past few days,we’ve seen potential posi-
tive signs in the nature ofthe relationship betweenthe United States, Cubaand Venezuela,” Obamatold a news conference.
“We’re going to exploreand see if we can makeprogress,” Obama added,recalling Raul Castro hadsaid he was willing to talkabout political prisonersand human rights.
Obama went on: “But asI’ve said before, the test forall of us is not simplywords but deeds.”
Recalling his move lastweek to ease aspects of the47-year-old U.S. trade em-bargo against Cuba, Oba-ma reiterated a call for Cu-ba to reciprocate by free-ing political prisoners andaddressing freedom of ex-pression and religion, say-ing these issues cannot bebrushed aside. REUTERS
ABDUCTIONS Gunmen kid-napped three aid workers,believed to include a Bel-gian and a Dutchman, incentral Somalia yesterday,a colleague and a local eld-er said.
In a separate incidentmasked gunmen killed alocal employee of anothercharity in the central townof Merka, witnesses said.
Attacks on aid workersin Somalia, which are nor-mally blamed on hardlineIslamist rebels and clanmilitia, have cut the abilityof relief agencies to re-spond to a humanitariancrisis that many say isAfrica’s most acute.
Local elder HassanMaalin told Reuters by tele-
phone from central Soma-lia: “Unidentified armedmen kidnapped two MSF-Belgium aid workers inBakol region.” REUTERS
Aid workers taken
RACISM A growing Westernboycott threatens to un-dermine a United Nationsconference on racism thatIsrael’s friends say couldbecome a platform forscathing criticism of theJewish state.
The United States an-nounced on Saturday itwould stay away, citing“objectionable” languagein a text prepared for theGeneva meeting which
Iranian President Mah-moud Ahmadinejad willaddress today, its openingday.
Australia and the Nether-lands joined the boycott onSunday and Italy and Ger-many are also expected tosit it out.
The United States and Is-rael walked out after Arabstates sought to define Zi-onism as racist in 2001.
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Boycott may subvert meeting
COURTS Iranian PresidentMahmoud Ahmadinejadhas called on the judiciaryto ensure that an Iranian-American journalist jailedfor espionage enjoys herlegal right to defend her-self, the official newsagency IRNA saidyesterday.
Roxana Saberi’s lawyerwelcomed Ahmadinejad’sintervention in a letter to
Tehran’sprosecutor,published aday afterthe U.S.-bornfreelance re-porter wassentencedto eightyears in jailon chargesof spying
for the United States.Lawyer Abdolsamad
Khorramshahi has said hewill appeal the verdict,which comes at a timewhen the new U.S. admin-istration of PresidentBarack Obama is trying toengage the Islamic statediplomatically, after threedecades of mutualmistrust.
Obama said he was“deeply concerned” forSaberi’s safety and urgedTehran to free her.
“I have complete confi-dence that she was not en-gaging in any sort of espi-onage,” Obama told anews conference in Port ofSpain, Trinidad and Toba-go, where he was attend-ing the Fifth Summit ofthe Americas. REUTERS
Journalistmust havelegal rights:Iran chief
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Somalia• Somalia has been miredin civil conflict for 18 yearsand is one of the most dan-gerous countries in theworld.• Aid workers and journal-ists have often been kid-napped. Hostages are gen-erally released after a ran-som is paid.• More than one million So-malis have been uprootedin the last two years byfighting.
News in briefEGYPT Buried deep under thecrumbling limestone of a tem-ple to the goddess Isis inAlexandria, archeologists be-lieve the body of QueenCleopatra may lie. The tomb ofthe Egyptian queen has neverbeen found but archeologistsare discovering more evidencethat Cleopatra’s priests carriedher body to the temple afterher suicide, where it could liewith her lover Marc Antony.
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It’s contest time! Thiscontest is called, “HelpAnne choose a hobby.”What could be morefun? Well … choosing a
hobby for yourself. Thatwould be way more fun.But, will it win you one ofthe fabulous prizes listedbelow? I think not.
And frankly, Ineed the help.Now that mychildren aregrown, I findsomething un-expected hasreturned to mylife. Not dispos-able income,that’sgone forgood.Along
with my stomach muscles,memory and the ability toget through a day withouthumming the Teletubbiestheme song.
But what I do have nowand then, is a whole spare10 or 15 minutes to dosomething for myself.Clearly, I’m ready for a hob-by.
I do go to the gym. Ithought that was my hobby.Then I found out the defini-tion of “hobby” isn’t “an ac-tivity you’d rather gnawyour own arm off than haveto do on a regular basis.”
I’m hoping Metro readerscan help me find
something better.The guidelines:1) It cannot involve a
large outlay of cash. So, pi-loting a small aircraft orbuying fashionable yogagear is out.
2) It’s best to avoid activi-ties that involve using or be-ing in the vicinity of sharpobjects. I tried gardeningonce and ended up getting atwig stuck in my eye andhaving to be rushed to thehospital. Gardening is notreally the relaxing activityit’s made out to be.
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Other than that, thefield’s wide open.
Anyone who has an inter-esting, cheap, non-threaten-ing, non-icky, legal hobby,I’d like to hear about it. I’llchoose a winner and giveyour suggestion a go.
Now, the prize. It was go-ing to be a mug. Not justany mug. A Metro newspa-per mug. But I decidedagainst that on the basisthat we don’t have any. Iconsidered giving away myown mug. It’s from the ElvisPresley Inn, Jerusalem. I waseven prepared to wash it be-fore I mailed it. However,Metro has graciously donat-ed logoed pens and choco-lates. I know. I’m a littlebreathless myself.
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Alaskan Inuits, Australianaborigines and Pygmiesfrom Cameroon have amessage for a warmingworld: Native traditionscan be a potent weaponagainst climate change.
At a summit starting to-day in Anchorage, Alaska,some 400 in-digenouspeople from80 nationsare gatheringto hone thismessage inthe hope itcan be a keypart of international cli-mate negotiations.
“We don’t want to beseen just as the powerlessvictims of climatechange,” said PatriciaCochran, an Inupiat nativeof Nome, Alaska, who ischairing the IndigenousPeoples’ Global Summiton Climate Change. “Ourconference is really stirredby our wanting to becomeleaders … because we
have the ability to bringinformation from ourcommunities to the rest ofthe world.”
Indigenous traditionsare hardly static, she said,noting native people havealways adapted to theirchanging and often harsh
environ-ments.
For in-stance,Cochran said,Inuit peoplein Alaska arereverting totraditional
dogsleds instead of mod-ern snow machines as theicy region warms.
“People go out on theirsnow machines, fallthrough the ice and arenever seen again,” shesaid. “But our sled dogswill tell you when the iceis not safe … and they’re alot easier to feed than (topay) the gas prices that wehave, $10 a gallon in manyof our villages.” REUTERS
Summit eyes native traditions to combat climate change
Don’t know where to startto live a greener life in Hali-fax? Well, I’ve come up witha number of ideas for howto do that in HRM in hon-our of Earth Day.
Start by picking one ortwo to incorporate intoyour life and go from there.
• Buy local. Find outwhere your food comesfrom and chose productsthat are grown close tohome.
• Rent a plot in a commu-
nity garden to grow yourown food and get to knowyour neighbours.
• Volunteer to collect left-over food from farms andrestaurants and redistributeit to the hungry.
• Bring your own takeoutcontainers, instead of usingStyrofoam.
• Avoid bottled water,bring your own reusablecontainer and refill it often.
• Eat a vegetarian meal,once a week. It takes 20pounds of grain to produceone pound of beef.
• Inquire at yourfavourite restaurant —what are they doing to helpthe environment.
• Compost your foodscraps to make luscious soilfor your flowerbeds.
• BYOB: Bring your own
bags, when you shop, whenyou travel.
• Think twice before youbuy, will this item end up ina landfill in six months.
• Buy products that havereduced packaging and userecyclable packaging.
• Donate used clothing tocharities and second-handstores.
• Visit the Habitat for Hu-manity Re-store to get lessexpensive building materi-als and give the environ-ment a break.
• Use renewable materi-als such as bamboo andcork when upgrading andrepairing your home.
• Don’t dump chemicals(like motor oil and paint)down storm drains.
• Use natural fertilizers. • Wash clothes in cold
water. • Hang clothes to dry
when possible.• Use products such as
baking soda and vinegar forcleaning.
• List items you no longerwant on Halifax Freecycleand give them to someonewho needs them.
• Plant a tree, or two. • Sign up for paperless
billing. • Pick up a piece of litter
each day.
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be seen just as thepowerless victimsof climate change.”Patricia Cochran
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It’s Earth Day on Wednes-day, and while saving theplanet is serious business,you may as well have funwhile you’re at it. Global-ly, one billion people in170 countries are expect-ed to join the celebrationof the planet we all liveon, organizers say.
Kelly Magill, editor ofPositively Green magazine,has some tips for ordinaryfamilies to join the party.She treats it like a birthdayand recommends parentstake their kids on a plane-tary adventure.
“Just get outside! Go to apark or on a hike. Take apicnic with you and spendthe day investigating na-ture,” she says. “If you havebikes, take a family bikeride. Getting comfortablewith biking when you’reyoung makes it easier tobike instead of drive whenyou’re an adult.”
If you live near a zoo orwildlife park, take yourfamily there to instill asense of love and respectfor animals, she suggests.In a similar vein, go on astrawberry picking adven-ture and bring the fruithome to enjoy.
An easier option is to visityour local farmers’ market.Building this connectionbetween the Earth andwhat we eat makes it easierto understand why protect-ing the planet is important,she explains.
Magill recently finishedmaking a batch of soap
with her family. “Families used to make
all of their own ‘beauty’products and they knew ex-actly what was in them,”
she explains. “You can findeasy recipes on the web.”
It doesn’t take long and italso makes bath time morefun.
For a more ambitiousproject, start a garden inyour backyard or in a con-tainer in your house.
“Let your child choosewhat to plant. This way,they’re more likely to eat it.Don’t get too ambitious —
choose two or three thingsto plant,” she says. “Youand your child can checkon your garden throughoutthe spring and summer andharvest what you’ve growntogether.”
A simpler idea is to set upa bird feeder.
“Spring means baby birdsand feeding,” Magill smiles.“You’ll see all kinds of birdsvisiting your feeder.”
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One billion people expected to take part in Earth Day activities
Simple ways to celebrate
JON TATTRIEfor Metro Canada
Websites• Go to Earthday.ca to findlocal Earth Day events orvisit Positivelygreen.com formore tips on green living.
There are many ways you can celebrate Earth Day, including starting a garden in your backyard or in a container in your home .
The Canadian Green HomeIndex, developed by Envi-ronics Research for TheHome Depot Canada, hasassigned Canadians a mod-erate 60 out of 100 ratingin its inau-gural re-lease.Based on abasket offive ques-tions, theCanadianGreenHome In-dex tracksCanadianattitudesand behav-iours as ameans tomeasureprogresstowardgreeningtheirhomes.
“Canadi-ans wantto be moreenviron-mentallyfriendly,but it’s an ongoing processto change these importantbehaviours,” said AnnetteVerschuren, president ofThe Home Depot Canadaand Asia. “We believe thisindex provides a real op-portunity to add to thegreen discussion so we cansupport further changeand provide consumerswith the tools they need todo more.”
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• A majority ofCanadians (68per cent) ratetheir home as“somewhatgreen.” A fur-ther 13 percent believetheir homesare “verygreen.” But aneven strongermajority (83per cent) ac-knowledgethey haveroom to im-prove — andare keen tomake theirhomes evengreener thanthey are today.
The Department of Health, Mental Health Branch is seeking submissions of works of visual art from youth up to 25 years of age who have experienced or are experiencing a mental illness and who live in Nova Scotia.
Artwork will be reproduced in a calendar to be published by the Department of Health to raise awareness of youth and mental illness.
Submissions to be sent to:Healthy Minds Cooperativec/o Francine Vezina, Executive DirectorThe Village at Bayers Road7071 Bayers Road, Suite 112Halifax, NS B3L 2C2
“This painting expresses the feeling of being adrift from any source of comfort and clinging to a life raft amidst black waters that threaten to overwhelm and engulf the person at any moment.”
Adrift by Echo Dyan
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March real estate down:The value of all residen-tial transactions record-ed through the MLS sys-tem in Nova Scotia to-talled $130.5 million inMarch, a 16 per cent de-crease from year-ago lev-els, but it was still thehighest level of housingsales activity in theprovince in five months. 42 Michelin workers to keep their jobs:A group of 42 flex em-ployees at Michelin Tireplants in Granton andBridgewater will not belaid off next month, saida company spokes-woman. Bowater paper plant employees safe:Bowater Mersey PaperCompany Ltd. employeesfound out to their relieflate on Thursday that theBrooklyn, Queens Co.plant is not included inAbitibiBowater’s bank-ruptcy proceedings.
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Canada’s annual inflation eases in March, core higherCanada’s annual inflation rate slowed to 1.2 per cent in March from 1.4 per cent in Feb-
ruary, but the core rate watched by the central bank rose to two per cent. REUTERS
Watchdog criticized after Conquest’s fallTravel body should have taken action: Critics The first clues that now-defunct ConquestVacations could be in trou-ble emerged six monthsago, near the peak of thefinancial crisis, when theseller of packagedholidays ran afoul ofprovincial guidelines thatstipulate how much cash itneeded to have on hand topay its bills.
While not necessarily anominous sign in an indus-try known for its volatility,the event neverthelessspawned discussions be-tween Conquest manage-ment and the province’stravel industry watchdog,the Travel Industry Councilof Ontario, or TICO.
In March, TICO gaveConquest a deadline ofApril 14 to put more mon-ey into its working capitalfund or face a suspension.
But TICO president
Michael Pepper said Con-quest instead opted to pullthe plug on the 37-year-oldtravel firm the next day ina move that ruined the va-cation plans of thousandsof Canadians.
While Pepper says hestands by his decision to at-tempt to work with Con-quest, others have ques-tioned whether TICO couldhave done more to softenthe impact of Conquest’sshutdown.
Bruce Bishins, president
of the Association of RetailTravel Agents, said hismembers have been con-cerned for months thatTICO is not living up to itsconsumer protection man-date.
Bishins said a shortfall inConquest’s working capi-tal, which refers to moneyused to pay bills or othershort-term expenses,should have promptedTICO to stop Conquestfrom selling travel pack-ages.
“I don’t know the levelof shortfall, but if TICOfound this out and work-ing capital wasn’t immedi-ately injected into thecompany, TICO shouldhave suspended them,”said Bishins. “TICO’s man-date is consumer protec-tion. It’s not to protect reg-istrants.”
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“TICO’s mandate isconsumer protection.It’s not to protectregistrants.”Bruce Bishins, Association of RetailTravel Agents
Few options for CAW: AnalystsAUTO The Canadian AutoWorkers union has littlechoice but to accept cuts ofover 20 per cent in its mem-bers’ wages and benefitswhen talks with Chryslerover cost savings resumenext week, analysts said.
Without the concessions,a partnership betweenChrysler and Italian car-maker Fiat SpA has littlechance, and Chrysler wouldthen fail to meet the end-of-month deadline to qualify
for government aid in Cana-da and the United States.
Chrysler would then like-ly have to file for bankrupt-cy protection, almost as-suredly bringing cuts inlabour costs and job losses,analysts said.
Chrysler said in a letter toemployees Friday that theunion’s refusal to cut laborcosts by $19 an hour to $57an hour jeopardizes the fu-ture of Chrysler and its op-erations in Canada. REUTERS
In briefENERGY Low prices are almostcertain to have slashed profitsfor Canada’s biggest oil andgas producers, who begin theirfirst-quarter earning season inearnest this week. Prices weremired in recessionary lows inthe quarter, with oil down 55per cent and the average natu-ral gas price shaved by nearlyhalf from the year-prior period.
PAPER Quebec agreed on Fri-day to provide a $100-millionUS loan guarantee to Abitibi-Bowater Inc. as the newsprintmaker attempts to restructureits operations under bankrupt-cy protection in Canada andthe United States.
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Andre Iguodala’s fadeawayjumper from the top of thekey over the outstretchedarms of Hedo Turkogluwith 2.2 seconds left inregulation proved to be thegame-winner, as thePhiladelphia 76ers over-came an 18-point second-half deficit to take Game 1of their Eastern Confer-ence quarterfinal series,100-98, against the Orlan-do Magic.
The sixth-seeded Sixersmade 5-of-7 from three-point range in the fourthquarter, including a 3-of-4effort by veteran DonyellMarshall. Lou Williamsscored eight of his 18 inthe final stanza, which thevisitors won, 35-19.
Iguodala finished with20 points and eight re-bounds, and did a tremen-dous job containingTurkoglu, who went 2-for-8from the field for sixpoints and missed a game-winning three at the
buzzer for the SoutheastDivision champs.
L.A. LAKERS 113, JAZZ 100
Kobe Bryant scored 24points and dished outeight assists, and the LosAngeles Lakers led by dou-ble digits for a majority oftheir 113-100 victory overthe Utah Jazz in Game 1 oftheir Western Conferencequarterfinal series.
Bryant moved into thirdall-time on the Lakers’ all-time postseason scoringlist and ninth overall with3,710 points, passing Mag-ic Johnson. Trevor Ariza
added a playoff career-high21 points, while Pau Gasolcontributed 20 points,nine rebounds and fourblocks for Los Angeles.
“We have to keep (Utah)off the free throw line,”Bryant said. “In the secondhalf, they were aggressive.Every game is a big game.We’re happy to be healthyat this juncture.”
This marks the secondstraight season these twoteams have met in theplayoffs. The Lakers defeat-ed the Jazz in six games inthe Western semis andhave now beaten Utah six
straight times at StaplesCenter, playoffs and regu-lar season.
HAWKS 90, HEAT 64
Josh Smith scored 23points and grabbed 10 re-bounds to lead the fourth-seeded Atlanta Hawks in a90-64 rout of the MiamiHeat in Game 1 of theirEastern Conference quar-terfinal series.
Joe Johnson added 15points and Al Horford 14with nine boards for theHawks.
Dwyane Wade totaled ateam-best 19 points, but al-so committed eightturnovers for Miami,which set a franchise-lowfor points scored in a post-season tilt. Michael Beasleytallied a double-doublewith 10 points and 10boards in the setback.
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Simon Gagne netted a pairof goals, as thePhiladelphia Flyers posteda strong 6-3 victory overthe Pittsburgh Penguins inGame 3 of their EasternConference quarterfinalseries at Wachovia Center.
Claude Giroux con-tributed a goal and assist forthe Flyers, who climbedback into the series afterdropping the first twogames in Pittsburgh.
Jeff Carter, Mike Richardsand Jared Ross also hit thenet for Philadelphia, andMartin Biron stopped 26shots for the win. EvgeniMalkin tallied twice for thePenguins, who droppedtheir first road playoff con-test since Game 2 of the2008 Stanley Cup Finals inDetroit. Rob Scuderi addeda goal while Sidney Crosbypicked up a pair of helpers.Marc-Andre Fleury allowedfive goals on 29 shots in de-feat. Game 4 is set for to-morrow in Philadelphia.
CANUCKS 3, BLUES 2
Steve Bernier netted the
game-winner early in thethird period, as the Vancou-ver Canucks edged the St.Louis Blues, 3-2, in Game 3of their Western Confer-ence quarterfinal series.
Roberto Luongo was solidbetween the pipes, stopping24 shots for the third-seed-ed Canucks, who lead thebest-of-seven series, 3-0, andwill look to complete thesweep tomorrow in St.Louis.
Vancouver scored allthree goals on the powerplay, with Daniel Sedin andMattias Ohlund also light-ing the lamp.
David Backes and AndyMcDonald both registered agoal and an assist for theBlues, who had won theirlast five on home ice to con-clude the regular season.Chris Mason made 23 savesin defeat.
DEVILS 3, HURRICANES 2 (OT)
Travis Zajac, who had notscored since mid-March, litthe lamp 4:58 into over-time to lift the New JerseyDevils to a 3-2 win overCarolina in Game 3 of theirEastern Conference quar-terfinal series at RBC Cen-ter. Zach Parise and BrianGionta also tallied for theDevils, who bounced backfrom an overtime loss inGame 2 to take a 2-1 lead in
the best-of-seven series.Martin Brodeur turnedaside 28 of the 30 shots hefaced. Ryan Bayda andChad LaRose each had agoal for the Hurricanes.
Carolina will host Game4 tomorrow.
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Nestor, Zimonjic dominate in victoryCanada’s Daniel Nestor and Serbian partner Nenad Zimonjic won the Monte Carlo Masters men’s doubles title yesterday, sweeping past top-seeded Americans Bob and Mike Bryan 6-4, 6-1 in a match that lasted just 47 minutes. METRO NEWS SERVICES
The Iceman doneth?After being knocked out by Mauricio (Shogun) Rua at UFC 97 in MontrealSaturday, Chuck (The Iceman) Liddell is finished, according to UFC presidentDana White. “You’re never going to see Chuck Liddell on the canvas again,”White said. “It’s done.” Rua knocked out Liddell 4:28 into the first round. Inanother fight, Anderson Silva set a UFC record for most wins in the Octagon
with an uninspired decision over Thales Leites. METRO NEWS SERVICES
NHLSTANLEY CUP PLAYOFFSYESTERDAY’S RESULTS
Philadelphia 6 Pittsburgh 3
Vancouver 3 St. Louis 2
New Jersey 3 Carolina 2 (OT)
Anaheim at San Jose
TONIGHT’S GAMESBoston at Montreal
Washington at N.Y. Rangers
Chicago at Calgary
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YESTERDAY’S RESULTSL.A. Lakers 113 Utah 100
Philadelphia 100 Orlando 98
Atlanta 90 Miami 64
New Orleans at Denver
TONIGHT’S GAMESChicago at Boston
Dallas at San Antonio
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Toronto 1 Oakland 0
Boston 2 Baltimore 1
Chicago White Sox 12 Tampa Bay 2
Detroit 8 Seattle 2
Minnesota 3 L.A. Angels 1
N.Y. Yankees 7 Cleveland 3
Texas 6 Kansas City 5
Atlanta 11 Pittsburgh 1
Cincinnati 4 Houston 2
Florida 7 Washington 4
L.A. Dodgers 14 Colorado 2
Milwaukee 4 N.Y. Mets 2
Philadelphia 5 San Diego 4
San Francisco 2 Arizona 0
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NHL Milan Lucic of the BostonBruins has been suspended forGame 3 of the Bruins-Canadi-ens series tonight after cross-checking Habs forward MaximLaPierre in the head in the clos-ing minutes of Boston’s 5-1 winSaturday. METRO NEWS SERVICES
MLB Blue Jays win 10th
Toronto Blue Jays Marco Scutaro, Aaron Hill and Vernon Wells
celebrate their 1-0 win against the Oakland A’s yesterday. Two
weeks into the Major League Baseball season, the Jays sit atop
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T.J. Grant has won plentyof fights in his mixed mar-tial arts career, but Satur-day night’s was hisbiggest yet.
The Cole Harbour nativepassed his first test on theUltimate Fighting Champi-onship circuit, earning a de-but victory over Ryo Cho-nan in a welterweight bouton the undercard of UFC 97at a sold-out Bell Centre inMontreal.
The split-decision win(30-27, 28-29, 29-28 onscorecards) improvedGrant’s career record to 14-2.
“I didn’t train all thiswhile to get here and lose,”said Grant, who got hisstart in the sport in the in-augural Extreme Cage Com-bat event in Halifax in 2006.“I want to stay here, I wantto fight in UFC, and it’shuge for me to get a win.”
Although Grant signed afour-fight contract in Janu-ary, there is little security— UFC can drop a fighterafter any loss. For the firstNova Scotian (raised andtrained) in UFC, a victorywas a critical step towardshowing he belongs.
Chonan, now 15-10, wasmaking his fourth UFC ap-pearance.
“I think I was able to winthe beginnings and ends ofmost rounds,” Grant said.“That’s what did it for me. Ifinished strong every round
and I think that won methe decision.”
Grant admitted to beingnervous before the fight,but credited his experiencein three TKO events at BellCentre for helping him staycalm when he stepped infront of 20,000 fans.
“There aren’t as manypeople (for TKO fights) butthe setup’s the same, the
lights are the same, the mu-sic’s the same, so I think ithelped me,” Grant said.“But honestly, it just hap-pened so fast. I just got inthere and did my thing.
“When it’s go time, it’s gotime.”
Grant is vacationing tothe Dominican Republic inMay but expects to hearfrom UFC soon.
“I could have to fight onthree weeks notice, younever know,” Grant said. “Ihave to be ready at alltimes.”
Jason MacDonald, a RedDeer, Alta., resident origi-nally from New Glasgow,lost by technical knockoutto Nate Quarry at 2:27 ofthe first round in anotherUFC 97 bout.
Huge first win for GrantCole Harbour fighter takes UFC debut in split decision
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2009 season opens on May 22. All five teams from last year are back. METRO HALIFAX
SOCCER Halifax’s StephenHart will be back onthe sidelines as headcoach of the Canadi-an men’s soccerteam.
The Canadian Soc-cer Association an-nounced Friday thatHart will serve as in-terim coach for therest of the 2009 sea-son. He replaces DaleMitchell, who was fired inMarch. Hart, a native ofTrinidad and Tobago whomoved to Halifax nearly 30years ago, will lead Canadato the CONCACAF Gold Cupin early July. Things getstarted with a friendlymatch in Larnaca againstCyprus on May 30. It’s notclear if the interim gig
could become permanent.“It’s quite sudden … The
first task at hand is to get onwith the Cyprus game andtry to put something to-
gether for the GoldCup,” Hart toldMetro’s It’s CalledFootball show.
“To be honest, Ihaven’t thoughtabout anything be-yond that.”
This is Hart’s sec-ond tour of duty ashead coach of the na-
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the job on an interim basisin 2007 when Canada lostin the semifinals at the GoldCup. Most recently he wasthe CSA’s technical director.
Dartmouth native DeniseRobson will vie for thetop women’s masterstime at the BostonMarathon today.
Robson, who shatteredCanada’s 40-and-olderwomen’s marathonrecord last November,will be one of more than100 Nova Scotians partici-pating in the 113th annu-al event.
The 40-year-old was11th among women atlast year’s BostonMarathon with a time of2:45:54. That’s well underthe 2:47:17 that was thetop masters time lastyear.
Halifax’s RamiBardeesy, who was 69thoverall last year, Enfield’sHarry Neynens and two-time reigning Blue NoseMarathon champ LeahJabbour are among theother entrants.
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RAINMEN Halifax Rainmen for-ward A.J. Millien has beennamed Premier BasketballLeague newcomer of the year.Millien, a second-team all-star,played the final nine games ofthe season with the Rainmenafter starting the year with theAugusta Groove. He led thePBL with 24.7 points per game.The Rainmen hope to bring thesix-foot-eight forward backnext season.
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Dutch bursts out of thepolice truck with his teethripped back in a vicioussnarl. The German Shep-herd’s blood’s up and pityanything that getsbetween him and thecrook. Anything but theslobbery toy Const. PaulJessen holds out, instantlyturning the fierce beastinto a puppy.
Jessen got Dutch whenhe was 11 months old, andthe dog already had a chipon his shoulder. That’spart of what makes the 85-pound K-9 cop such a valu-able partner.
“They do have that ag-gressive streak when youneed it. There are timeswhen you have to arrestsomebody and they’re notabout to be arrested,” theHalifax Regional Policecop explains.
Jessen’s been with thepolice for 21 years and inthe K-9 unit for 13. He’s onhis third dog, and he’sseen them sniff out somewell-hidden bad guys.
Jessen and his dog oncearrived late on the sceneof a stolen van. Thethieves had ditched thevehicle and fled on foot.
“It was a parking lot,which is more difficult forthe dogs because the hardsurface doesn’t retain thescent as well as grass orwoods,” he says. “He went
right to a dumpster a halfkilometre away. Welooked inside and sureenough, they were inside.It was a mother and sonteam.”
Most criminals underes-timate the dog’s nose,which can track down ex-plosives, narcotics and evi-dence, as well as people.
“A lot of people are verysurprised. They’re not ex-pecting to be caught,” hesays. “They are GermanShepherds and they dohave huge teeth.”
Cops and canines workand live together. Dutch’sinsulated dog house is inJessen’s backyard, so hequickly adjusts to theweather. He’s abouthalfway through his eight-year working life.
“Then, they start show-ing their age. The work isfairly punishing for them.It’s punishing for us, too,”Jessen says. In retirement,the dogs often becomepure pets for the handlers,or they find another homefor them.
Not all are as ill-tem-pered as Dutch. Jessentook his retired GermanShepherd to visit histhree-year-old nephew.“He was all over him, andhe doesn’t care at all. Iwouldn’t do that with(Dutch). He’s got personalspace issues.”
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pletely different. She ran ahome daycare and keptbusy with that and herthree daughters, theyoungest of which is nowsix.
A girlfriend who soldAvon suggested Perreaultgive it a try. Perreaultagreed — eager to getsome free stuff and make alittle cash.
In that first year, she didwell selling to family andfriends and made it intothe company’s President’sClub. After the awards ban-quet, her manager tookher out for lunch.
“What do you want to dowith this?” she asked.Knowing her youngest wasabout to enter grade one,and loving both the prod-ucts and the endlesschance to interact withpeople, Perreault had heranswer. She cleared twodays each week to go outand train with her manag-er.
Last September, she shutdown her home daycareand got to work recruitingboth customers and Avonsalespeople to work underher. Today, she has a teamof a hundred salespeople,a good-sized roster ofclients who order fromAvon regularly and hasbeen promoted to execu-tive unit leader.
“A typical day for me istalking, and talking,” Per-reault says. She oftenmeets with team membersto discuss business strate-gies, and she and otherrepresentatives attend fre-quent training sessionsand workshops held by
Avon. They also go door todoor.
And while she’s out do-ing everything from shop-ping at the mall to attend-ing one of her daughter’ssoccer games, she’s con-stantly talking to people.
“My goal every time I goout is to find a new cus-tomer or to find a new repthat would like to joinAvon.”
At first, it was tough forher to ring doorbells andtalk to strangers all thetime. But practice, her loveof people, and her psychol-ogy degree all helped. Asdoes the business skills shelearned managing restau-rants, which she did beforeher eldest daughter, now15, was born.
In fact, most of her pastexperience has led up thisjob, she sees in retrospect.
“I never in a millionyears imaged when I start-ed out and sold a few mas-caras that it would becomemy full time career.”
Holly Perreaultused to pull herhair into a pony-tail, wash herface and go in
the morning.Now, the 42-year-old
from Windsor, Ont., alwaysdons a smart outfit and a
little makeup. That’s be-cause she feels great aboutherself and her job. But al-so, as a full-time Avonsalesperson, it doesn’t hurtto use the products yousell.
Three years ago, she wasdoing something com-
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Job title: Avon representativeSalary: About $50,000 a yearEducation/Training: One-on-one help, workshops andcourses offered by Avon andits staff.Best part of the job: “Know-ing I’m helping somebodyelse make or save money.And having three daughters,showing them that if youwork hard, you can getrewarded for it.”Worst part of the job: “Not hav-ing enough hours in the day.”
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Andy hitchedTennis player Andy Roddick is officially off the market. The athlete, 26, wed his longtimegirlfriend, Sports Illustrated
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Il Divo singer engagedDavid Miller, the only American singer in the international opera group Il Divo, is getting engaged, Miller, 36, proposed to his girlfriend, Sarah Joy Kabanuck,an opera singer and theatre actress who starred in Baz Luhrmann’s La Boheme on Broadway. They have been dating for six years. USMAGAZINE.COM
EntertainmentOver the top action
Crank: High Voltage is dis-gusting, disposable,disorienting, inhuman andinfantile … and those areits good points.
Immediately picking upwhere the attention deficitfriendly adventures of thefirst instalment left off,brutish British action heroJason Statham returns asseemingly superhuman un-derworld anti-hero ChevChellios, who, after surviv-ing an impossible fall froma helicopter, has his heartremoved by Triad organthieves and replaced by abionic one.
In order for Chev to beatthe clock — again — and re-trieve his resilient ticker, hehas to keep his body con-stantly pulsing with elec-tricity, a gimmicky plot de-vice that unleashes scene af-ter scene of finger-in-socketsilliness.
Crank is a non-stop, overthe top orgy of violence,sex, misogyny, racism andgeneral bad taste.
But for all its sound andfury, it feels safe: An overstylized, faux-hip descentinto cartoonish, musicvideo informed depravity.
Red Bull junkies, gamers,12-year-old boys and easilybored morons might loveevery inch of this fast for-ward, ultra-bloody timewaster but by the timeStatham turns into a jut-jawed, power plant level-ling Godzilla-esque monstereven they might be an-noyed by directors MarkNeveldine and Brian Tay-lor’s grab bag lunacy andpretentious self awareness.
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“It always makes sense tocome to a new territoryduring a completeeconomic catastrophe,”quips Lewis Black abouttraipsing Canada duringone of the greatest finan-cial strains since the GreatDepression.
Best known for his BackIn Black short features onThe Daily Show With JonStewart, which take a criti-cal viewpoint of society, 60year-old observational co-median Lewis Black bringshis one-man stand-up act,The Dual Citizen-ship Tour,acrossCanada thismonth.
As is typi-cal of Black,there’s alwaysa shroud of mys-tery surroundinghis intent. Hehides behinddrollery while dis-cussing the tour’s title, stat-ing that despite his adora-
tion for the U.S., the politi-cal clarity which drives hishumour forces him to makealternate living arrange-ments. The moniker is animploration for Canucks towelcome him into our fami-ly.
“I called it The Dual Citi-zenship Tour because I’mmaking an appeal to you toplease stay independent,”he continues. “I may becoming up here and some-one’s gonna have to keepme in their house. Canadais my escape route andthis tour is my final ap-peal. I’m trying to ce-ment therela-tion-ship.At anymo-
ment, the U.S. could go upin smoke so my hope is thatyou’ll take me just in case.”
In all reality though, the12-date tour is the result ofincreased popularity due tohis Daily Show stint. Blackwasn’t about to shrug offhis first real chance to seeThe Great White North in
its entirety.“The at-tractionis reallywant-ing todo thatdrive
acrossCana-
da,” he relents. “I’ve alwayswanted to do (it) and now Ihave the opportunity. I canactually spend time hereand see the inner-workings;the real elements.”
To that extent, Black ad-mits that he is striving tostay as far away from thetypical Canucks-versus-Americans train of humour,feeling it worn out; over-used. But he’s not eliminat-ing it entirely, expectingthat his limited understand-ing of Canada will mostlikely become comedic fuelduring the show’s run.
“Hopefully I’ll come outwith 20 minutes of materialabout Canada. I can b—habout Stephen Harper toyou guys when I’m hostingJust For Laughs this year.At this point, the tourdoesn’t really cater to(Canadians) other than(my) apologizing for be-ing American. I don’tthink there’s a need.You guys have beingCanadian shoved inyour face. You don’tneed me doing it.You’re always suckingthat exhaust.
KEITH CARMANfor Metro Canada
Comedian Lewis Black crosses country on Dual Citizenship Tour
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Baby boy for PaisleysCountry singer Brad Paisley and his wife, According to Jim star Kimberly Williams-Paisley, left,
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Here comes Lady LoveLeToya Luckett, an originalmember of Destiny’s Child,didn’t expect to wait threeyears between soloalbums.
After she released herfirst record, EMI an-nounced that Capitol andVirgin would merge intothe Capitol Music Group.In the midst of the re-structuring, the group’sexecutive vice presidentof urban music, RonnieJohnson, died of a heartattack.
“When you get caught upin a merger and then losesomeone who was so in-volved in your project,there’s nothing you cando,” says LeToya, who usesonly her first name profes-sionally.
As she waited, she fo-cused on figuring out somethings about love, relation-ships and her personalgrowth as a woman,singer-songwriter and en-trepreneur. Those life les-sons are reflected in thesongs on Lady Love. The al-bum is slated for releaseJune 23.
LeToya established hersolo status with a 2006 self-
titled album. Debuting atNo. 1 on the Billboard 200and Top R&B/Hip-Hop Al-bums charts with 165,000copies, the set has since
sold 529,000, according toNielsen SoundScan. Thelead single, Torn, peaked atNo. 2 on Hot R&B/Hip-HopSongs.
The second time around,the Houston native says shewanted to write songs witha more fun, upbeat and edgyattitude.
“The first album wasmore about getting adjustedto being solo and finding mylane,” LeToya says.
“It’s still about soulful,feel-good music. However, Ididn’t want to be stuck in acomfort zone. I wanted tobe freer, more daring vocal-ly and lyrically to reflect thesituations I’ve experienced.”
The lead single, Not Any-more, picks up from whereTorn left off as LeToyasings about kicking acheating boyfriend to thecurb. Another ballad, Re-gret, is being groomed asthe second single. REUTERS
“I wanted to befreer, more daringvocally and lyricallyto reflect the situations I’ve experienced.”LeToya Luckett on her upcoming album
Trial underway for alleged Tyra stalkerThe man charged withstalking former supermod-el Tyra Banks went on trialFriday, with prosecutorssaying he terrified theAmerica’s Next Top Modelhost by sending her pack-ages and threatening herassistant.
Brady Green, 39, was ar-rested last March after heappeared twice at the Man-hattan studio where herchat show, The Tyra BanksShow, is filmed.
Green repeatedly con-tacted the show, sentBanks flowers with thenote “When I see you, Ilove you,” and threatenedto slit the throat of her as-sistant, causing Banks to“fear for her physicalhealth and safety,” prose-cutor Shawn McMahonsaid in opening argumentsin New York StateSupreme Court.
“His actions made him astalker — not a fan, but astalker,” McMahon said.
But Green’s defence at-torney, Sydney O’Hagen,portrayed Green as a harm-less fan and said Banks
courted ad-mirers bygiving themmultipleways ofreachingout to herand cultivat-ing an im-age of ap-
proachability.“She invites fans who
are inspired by her showsto reach out to her,” O’Ha-gen said.
“She repeatedly present-ed herself as someone herfans can relate to.”
Green was “an inspiredfan, not a deranged fan,not a stalker,” O’Hagensaid, adding that her clientonly wanted to attend ataping of the show andperhaps meet Banks.
Green has pleaded notguilty to the misdemeanorstalking and harassmentcharges. He faces a maxi-mum of 90 days in jail ifconvicted in the trial,which resumes in Manhat-tan on April 27.
Banks is expected to becalled as a witness. REUTERS
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Hype over new Harry PotterHogwarts hysteria is growing following the release of a new trailer for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince late lastweek. Fans will have to wait another three months to see the film, which will open in July. ANANOVA.COM
Tyler enlists in Rock ’n’ Roll CampRecovered from a recentbout of pneumonia, Aero-smith’s Steven Tyler isready to infect the upcom-ing Rock ’n’ Roll FantasyCamp in Los Angeles withsome wisdom gleanedfrom nearly 40 years ofrecording and touring.
“I’ve not done anythinglike this before. I’m expect-ing just a whole lot of fun,”Tyler told Billboard.com.
The singer won’t be fo-cusing on formal lessonplans. “I think they’ll findit very interesting when Itell them that it’s not reallynecessarily about practic-ing and hitting all yournotes,” said Tyler, whose fa-ther, classical musician VicTallarico, studied at the Jul-liard School in New York.“I don’t think it’s aboutthat at all. I think it’s allabout finding a passion, away of singing somethingin a way that nobody hasever done it before. It’sabout a feeling and gettingthat across to people.That’s what I’ll be trying totell them.”
Tyler will be among 20counselors taking part inthe camp, which runsApril 29 through May 3 inHollywood. He’ll join pre-viously announced celebri-
ties such as Duff McKagan,Todd Rundgren, Yes drum-mer Alan White, formerToto guitarist SteveLukather, ex-Cars guitaristElliott Easton and produc-er-songwriter Mark Hud-son (Aerosmith, RingoStarr).
Camp organizers recent-ly added three more men-tors: keyboardist Rami Jaf-fee (Wallflowers, Foo Fight-ers), original Chicagodrummer Danny Seraphineand Vixen bassist ShareRoss.
The camp will provide abit of recreational respitefor Tyler before prepara-tion begins for Aerosmith’s
summer tour, which kicksoff June 10 in St. Louis andadds ZZ Top to the bill onthe third date.
“It’s the weird to thebeard,” Tyler enthused.“It’ll be the most bad-assrock ’n’ roll you’ve everheard in your life.”
He’s working on songsfor Aerosmith’s next al-bum, the group’s first since2004’s Honkin’ on Bobo.The project has been de-layed by Tyler and guitaristJoe Perry’s health issues,but Tyler said it’s still “pret-ty far along. Stuff is sound-ing great. I can’t wait to getback to it and really makeit cook.” REUTERS
By definition, can the war-torn situation in Darfur, Su-dan be considered geno-cide? Mahmood Mamdanisays no. The Ugandan-bornColumbia University profes-sor of anthropology and po-litical science states his casefor Sudan in his book Sav-iors and Survivors. The bookexplores the region’s historyto understand present vio-lence in the country. Frominfighting in Darfur’s 1980scivil war to attemptedBritish tribalisation in theregion, Saviors and Sur-vivors examines how sever-al domestic and internation-al players became involvedin the conflict, and how Su-dan landed in the path ofthe American-initiated Waron Terror.
Paths of GloryAuthor: Jeffrey ArcherPublisher: St. Martin’s PressPrice: $30.95 (Hardcover)
Seventy-five years afterGeorge Mallory took thetrek to become the first per-son to ascend Mount Ever-est, his re-mains were fi-nally found.Back in 1924,the man disappeared whiletrying to reach the summit,leaving people eager toknow whether he’d actuallycompleted his mission. InJeffrey Archer’s Paths of Glo-ry, the author uses the truestory as a basis for his fic-tional tale of curiosity. By re-calling Mallory’s early life,through marriage, the birthof his child and fighting inthe First World War, Archerbuilds a case to allow read-ers to decide if Mallory real-ly deserves commendationfor his climb.
The Second OpinionAuthor: Michael PalmerPublisher: St. Martin’s PressPrice: $17.95 (Paperback)
Dr. Thea Sperelakis hasmade her mark on theBoston medical industry bychampioning the defense-
less. Botheredby self-cen-tered socialpractices and
conflict at work, she dodgesthe finance-focused hospitalto join Doctors WithoutBorders in the Congo. Butshe’s forced to return whenshe learns Petros, her physi-cian dad, has been hurt in ahit-and-run accident. Theafights her siblings to keepher father living, whenthey’d prefer him to remainuntreated. But when Petros’“accident” turns into a po-tential crime, Thea has a lotmore to discover.
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PEOPLE Britney Spears feels“betrayed” by Kevin Feder-line, femalefirst.co.uk re-ports.
The singer is reportedlyfurious with her ex-hus-band — with whom shehas two children, Sean Pre-ston, three, and JaydenJames, two — after he pro-posed to girlfriend VictoriaPrince, because Spears stillhas feelings for him.
A source close to Spears— who is rumoured to bedating her backingdancer Chase Benz —said: “Britney’s face fellwhen Kevin told her hehad proposed. She’s beenflirting with her dancersand has a thing going onwith Chase but shestill loves Kevinand always hopedthey’d get backtogether.
“It wouldn’tsurprise me ifher flirting with
other guys was purely tomake him jealous.”
Spears — who divorcedFederline in 2007 — is saidto be particularly con-cerned with the amount oftime Prince will be spend-ing with her sons.
The source added: “Idon’t think Britney saw
her as athreat
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til Kevin proposed but nowshe will be stepmother toBritney’s kids and thatdoesn’t make her happy.”
As well, Spears’ securityteam earned their pay re-cently when a stalkershowed up on the singer’sproperty in Calabasas,Calif. Spears was in L.A. toperform when MirandaTozier-Robbins, a formerAmerican Idol contestantand a student at the NewEngland Institute of Art,was caught peepingthrough Spears’ windowswhile dressed in camou-flage fatigues and carryinga backpack full of videoequipment, according toHollyscoop.
According to the policereport, Tozier-Robbins,
who was later arrestedfor trespassing,“balked at requests”from security to gether off the proper-ty. METRO WORLD NEWS
Britney threatened byKevin’s new fiancée?
RELATIONSHIP Singer AmyWinehouse has reportedlypenned a new track calledthe Ultimate Betrayal fol-lowing claims her es-tranged husband is expect-ing a child with anotherwoman, femalefirst.co.ukreports.
Mother-of-two GilleenMorris told a British news-paper last weekend thatshe is six weeks pregnantwith Blake Fielder-Civil’sbaby.
Winehouse was report-edly heartbroken by the
news — and has written anemotional song about herturbulent relationshipwith Fielder-Civil whileworking on a new albumin St. Lucia, according toBritish newspaper TheSun.
A source tells the publi-cation, “Amy still felt theyhad something betweenthem and that one daythey’d be together again.
“But this news destroyedher. She sat down with herguitar and started writingthe Ultimate Betrayal. She
keeps repeating theline: Blake a baby,no, no, no. It’s veryhaunting.”
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LEGAL Mel Gibson receiveda new judge after hislawyer requested to re-move Judge RafaelOngkeko from presidingover his divorce caseagainst his wife, Robyn, us-magazine.com reports.
The case was reassignedto Judge Frederick Shaller“for all future court pro-ceedings,”usmagazine.com con-firmed on Friday.
The star’s attorney,Robert Kaufman, filedlegal papers onThursday with theSuperior Court ofthe State of Cali-fornia to bootOngkeko from thecase, Us confirms.
According to thedocuments, Kauf-man said thatOngkekois“prej-
udiced against respondentand/or the respondent’s at-torney or the interest of re-spondent so that affiantagainst cannot or believesthat he and/or respondentcannot have a fair and im-partial trial or hearing be-fore Judge Ongkeko.”
Each side in the case isallowed to veto a judgeonce, within the first 10days. Robyn’s lawyer, LauraWasser, has yet to respond.
However, according toTMZ.com, it is more
likely that the cou-ple will not ap-pear in an L.A.
county courthouseand will instead geta private judge tohear them outaway from all thepublicity and atten-
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PEOPLE Madonna suffered“minor injuries and bruis-es” Saturday while horse-back riding in New York’sHamptons, her publicisthas announced,people.com reports.
On Saturday evening, LizRosenberg saidthat the 50-year-old had been re-leased fromSouthamptonHospital aftershe was thrownoff a horse thatwas startled bypaparazzi.
Rosenbergsaid the pho-tographershad jumped
out of the bushes to snapMadonna, who was visitingfriends on Eastern Long Is-land. Further medical testsare to be conducted, anddoctors will continue toobserve Madonna, the repadded.
In 2005, Madonnabroke several
bones in a horse-riding accident— crackingthree ribs andbreaking hercollarboneand her hand.
The followingyear, she suf-
fered a hernia, butquickly recovered.
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Tom calls in airsupport for SuriPEOPLE Tom Cruise isn’tone to let anything ruinhis daughter’s special day.
While celebrating SuriCruise’s third birthday Sat-urday, guests were report-edly disturbed by apaparazzi helicopterswooping overhead,according to TMZ, so Tomcalled the cops.
The LAPD airship report-edly did a flyby, but the of-
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Brooke comes todad’s defenceFAMILY Brooke Hogan iscoming to the defence ofher dad, Hulk Hogan, aftercomments he made toRolling Stone about beingable to sympathize withO.J. Simpson caused adust-up with his ex-wife,Linda Hogan.
The actor, whoembarked on a gruellingexercise regime for hisnew movie X-Men Origins:Wolverine, infuriated hisspouse Deborra-LeeFurness by getting intobetter shape than her.
He joked: “She gets veryannoyed. She says, ‘A hus-band’s job is to be fat andflabby and make me lookfabulous.’ She said I wasn’tliving up to my end of thebargain.”
Hugh undertook a “full-on” fitness and dietprogram to reprise his roleas the mutant superheroand says he achieved hischiselled physiquethrough two full workoutsdaily, and meals of
steamed chick-en and veg-etablesevery threehours.
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Spencer’s Twit-challengeRIVALRY The same day thatAshton Kutcher beat CNNin their much-hyped Twit-ter race to reach one mil-lion followers, a new chal-lenger has come to the sur-face — The Hills’Spencer Pratt.
“Ashton had a hugehead start, but I be-lieve in my Twitterfamily,” Pratt, whocurrently has lessthan 200,000 followerson the social network-ing site, tells us-magazine.com.
man enough to do so, who-ever adds the most newfollowers in 30 days wins.”
What are the stakes fortheir May 17 deadline? “If I
win, Ashton and De-mi (Moore, his
wife) have towash my car,”he says. If heloses, Pratt addsthat “Heidi
(Montag) and Iwill clean their
house.”METRO NEWS
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LEGAL The troubled son ofFarrah Fawcett and RyanO’Neal went before L.A.judge Scott T. Millingtonon Friday after violatinghis probation and havingtraces of heroin in his re-hab treatment room onApril 5, intouchweekly.com reports.
Redmond O’Nealtold the judge hewas concernedabout his moth-er, Fawcett,who has beenbattling can-cer for threeyears and wasjust releasedfrom thehospital.
“I wantto bethere
for my mom, who is reallysick. She is laying in bedand weighs 86 pounds andI am really upset with my-self,” O’Neal told the judge.
After the judge toldO’Neal, 24, he did not wantto see him back in courtagain, he asked O’Neal ifhe was serious about com-
pleting a drug treat-ment program.
O’Neal replied,“Yes, I want
treatment. Ireally want todo it.”
O’Neal willremain in
custody untilhis next court
date onApril 30.
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If singledom ain’t broke: MatthewPerpetual Hollywood bachelor Matthew McConaughey says that when it comes to marriage, why fix it if it ain’t broke? “It’s just
not something I plan on doing right now, and that I feel like I need to do right now,” said the 39-year-old actor. PEOPLE.COM
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Basil-StuffedChicken BreastsINGREDIENTS:
4 skinless boneless chick-en breast halves3 oz (90 g) mozzarellacheese, thinly sliced1 tomato, thinly sliced1 garlic clove, crushed1 bunch fresh basil, about3/4 oz (20 g)4 slices prosciutto, about 2oz (60 g) in total1 tbsp (15 ml) extra-virginolive oilSalt and fresh-groundblack pepperGREEN SALAD:
2 tbsp (25 ml) extra-virginolive oilFresh juice of 1/2 lemon4 oz (125 g) mixed saladleaves1 bunch fresh watercress,large stems discardedMETHOD:
1. Preheat the oven to 425F (220 C). Slit each chickenbreast half and enlarge toform pocket.2. Divide mozzarellabetween chicken breasthalves, sliding slices intopockets. Top cheese withtomato slices and crushedgarlic. Roughly chop somebasil and sprinkle in pock-ets.3. Season chicken breasts.Place large sprig of basil
on each, then wrap in aslice of prosciutto, makingsure that ham covers slitin chicken. Tie securelywith kitchen string.4. Heat oil in large fryingpan over medium heat.Add chicken breasts andsauté over high heat untilbrown on both sides, 3minutes. Transfer chickento baking dish. Bake untilchicken is cooked throughand juices run clear whenbreast is pierced, 10 to 12minutes.5. For salad, put oil andlemon juice in bowl, sea-son with salt and pepperto taste, and whisk. Addlettuce and watercress,then toss. Divide between4 serving plates.6. Remove string fromchicken breasts. Cut eachpiece crosswise into slices,holding together to keepshape. Arrange on saladand garnish with remain-ing basil.SERVES 4
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