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TECH LOVERS, REJOICE PACKING UP TAKE A LOOK AT THE YEAR’S MUST-HAVE TOYS GREEN BAY ELIMINATED {page 10} IN ONE GIANT CURRIED SWEET POTATO SOUP WITH INDIAN SPICES UPSET {page 16} {page 11} LONDON MMoonnddaayy,, JJaannuuaarryy 1166,,22001122 wwwwww..mmeettrroonneewwss..ccaa NNeewwss wwoorrtthh sshhaarriinngg.. City transit to get smarter Smart cards billed as way to improve London transit experience, speed up loading times Local rollout would follow trend in other large cities across the country ANGELA “We are expecting it to the system could work and many MULLINS @METRONEWS.CA be a rollout that will things won’t be finalized until a company is hired to manage the probably take a The London Transit Commission project, Paleczny said. But there’s (LTC) is inching closer toward going while..... It’s not a very real possibility that the sys- paperless. something where we’re tem will allow people to load smart Officials expect to put out a cards from the comfort of their going to flip a switch request for proposals next month, home computers. asking companies to weigh in on and it’s done.” The first phase of the rollout is the cost and details of implement- LTC’S KELLY PALECZNY ON THE FIRST PHASE expected to focus on monthly pass ing a smart-card system. OF THE NEW TRANSIT SYSTEM holders, since they are already Kelly Paleczny, director of $2.2M accustomed to carrying a transit finance and administration at the card in their wallets, Paleczny said. LTC, said the first phase of the new People who use traditional tickets system could be ready to go as ear- are expected to be brought on ly as this fall. board after that with some overlap Actress Zooey Deschanel arrives at the 69th annual Golden Globe “We are expecting it to be a roll- Money budgeted for the between the new and old systems. Awards held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel Sunday. implementation of a planned out that will probably take a while,” The smart cards are expected to Paleczny said. “It’s not something LTC smart-card system. cost $347,900 a year to operate, JASON MERRITT/GETTY IMAGES where we’re going to flip a switch wouldn’t be left fumbling around according to an LTC report given Hollywood goes Golden and it’s done.” in their pockets for tickets. in the summer. The smart cards would work like The cards — expected to work Those costs are expected to be debit cards or reloadable gift cards. when waived at an electronic read- offset by savings in a variety of Celebrities from film and television walked the red carpet in Riders who pay monthly would- er instead of swiped — also could areas, including ticket/transfer the posh neighbourhood of Los Angeles Sunday night. For n’t have to get a new pass each track transfers. printing, ticket fraud and fare-box coverage of the evening’s awards, see page 8 and go to month, and single-fare riders There are a lot of options for how maintenance. metronews.ca. “ Crystal clear phone calls and fast uninterrupted Internet service. 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WIND, WIND MOBILE and WINDtab+ are trademarks of Wind Telecommunicazioni S.p.A. and are used under license in Canada by Globalive Wireless Management Corp. ©2011 WIND Mobile. Portions of this imagery are reproduced from work created and shared by Google according to terms described in the Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License. LG and the LG logos are registered trademarks of LG Electronics and its affi liates. ©2011 LG Electronics. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. news: london metronews.ca 03 MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 2012 1 Colourful. Reading news Stacy Rounds, 21, of Embro, left, gets a reading Sunday from clairvoyant Beverly Stephan of Portage, Mich., during a Psychic Expo at Centennial Hall. ANGELA MULLINS/METRO Investigators in Los Angeles are confident a man in custody The future looks Hundreds of people attended the expo, which featured a multitude of spiritual is behind all four recent readers and products. Stephan uses paintings to connect with people’s spiritual killings of homeless men. Scan code for story. bright at Psychic Expo guides. Others at the weekend expo used more traditional means of tapping into people’s psyches, including tarot cards. 1 Download the free ScanLife app with Rallying faithful around poverty your smartphone at 2dscan.com 2 Use your smartphone to Poverty initiative focuses on sparking action in the local faith community scan 2D barcodes Hundreds in audience encouraged to be catalysts by listening and ‘loving’ neighbours in Metro 3 The codes will ANGELA spoken-word poetry and A series of public events nity can make a difference. direct your mobile MULLINS getting encouragement are meant to generate inter- Sue Wilson, director of If you go browser to @METRONEWS.CA from leaders of various est in and gather feedback the systemic justice office m.metronews.ca faiths, the audience was for an ongoing provincial with the Sisters of St. Joseph The Citizen Advisory Panel Rev. Kevin Dixon had an urged to “wake up” and review of social-assistance Canada, called the growing will have roundtable On the web at overarching goal for a Sun- take action in the fight programs. The feedback gap between rich and poor discussions on the metronews.ca day income-disparity rally against poverty. will be developed into one that is “starting to tear province’s review of social- at St. Paul’s Cathedral. The rally, aimed at the what’s been dubbed the at the fabric of society.” assistance programs at He wanted just one per- religious community,is one London policy response, “The power to create 1 p.m. on Jan. 29 at the Should a family son to “walk away with of several things being done which will be presented to change is found in our col- London Convention be denied their faith leader at their by a group called the Citi- city councillors this spring lective choices, in our Centre. permanent resi- side and say, ‘We need to zen Advisory Panel. Formed and pitched to higher levels choosing to live the value of Conversations will focus get more involved.’” soon after the city disband- of government after that. solidarity,” she told the au- on programs like Ontario dence because More than 400 people ed the Occupy London en- Sunday’s rally was filled dience. “Together we can in- Works and Ontario Disabil- they have a packed the cathedral for the campment, the group aims with a mix of harsh statisti- sist that our governments ity Support Program. Peo- event. Singing songs of em- to further that group’s mes- cal realities and optimism make different choices; that ple are asked to RSVP via young boy who powerment, listening to sage. that one dedicated commu- they make moral choices.” eventbrite.com. is deaf? Guidy Mamann discusses a Man to face charges Pedestrian Tori Stafford murder recent Federal struck by Court decision at in morning arson trial set to begin car metronews.ca/ immigration Almost three years after her ments over pre-trial mo- Damage is pegged at arson endangering life, po- A woman was taken to abduction and murder, the tions. Jury selection for $250,000 following a Sun- lice said. The blaze, which hospital with minor man charged in connection Michael Rafferty will begin day morning arson that started in an eighth-floor injuries after being hit by with the death of eight- Feb. 27. forced tenants to evacuate apartment, was reported a vehicle about 2:20 a.m. year-old Tori Stafford is fi- Tori was abducted as an apartment building at shortly after 1 a.m. The fire Sunday while walking nally set to stand trial. she left her Woodstock ele- Follow us on 1257 Huron St. is not linked to other recent across Richmond Street Today at the London mentary school in April Twitter One man has been ar- arsons in the city. near Central Avenue. courthouse, a judge will be- 2009. @themetrolondon rested and faces a charge of METRO METRO gin hearing lawyers’ argu- AM980/AM980.CA 04 metronews.ca news: london MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 2012 Canadians fall at UFC 142 in Brazil FELIPE DANA/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Sam Stout lost 29-28 on all three judges’ cards London native takes responsibility for slow start Canadians Sam (Hands of Stone) Stout and Antonio Main event (Pato) Carvalho each lost at Saturday’s UFC 142 event in Rio de Janeiro. Jose Aldo stopped Chad Stout’s contest with Thi- Mendes with one devastat- ago Tavares served as the ing knee to the head with featured preliminary bout a second left in the first of the night, while Carval- round Saturday night, de- ho kicked off the evening fending his featherweight at HSBC Arena with a fight title in his homeland. against Felipe Arantes. With the loss, Team takedowns and spent the Tompkins’ two highest- first five minutes looking profile fighters — Stout to get back to his feet. and Mark Hominick — are While he managed to now 0-2 since the August shake that off and come 2011 passing of their long- back — even landing sev- time mentor, Shawn eral power shots in the Tompkins. closing minutes — it was “This was my first fight simply too little, too late. without Shawn,” Stout, of “I thought I took rounds London, said after the two and three, but I just fight. “It was definitely an struggled to find my adjustment not having rhythm,” said Stout. “My him in my corner. I hope head wasn’t in it in the Shawn would be proud." first round. I had a slow In lightweight action, start and I have no one to Thiago Tavares of Brazil punches London’s Sam Stout during their lightweight mixed martial arts bout Stout was unable to stop blame but myself for that.” at UFC 142 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday. Tavares defeated Stout. several opening-round THE CANADIAN PRESS Award nominations open Knights put down Hounds London residents are invit- labour; education and ed to submit nominations training; social and com- for the city’s Race Rela- munity services; public tions Award. and private institutions; Ryan Rupert and Greg out to a 4-0 lead midway Goal scorers There are five award cat- and corporation of the City McKegg both had a pair of through the second peri- egories: Business and of London. METRO goals on Sunday as the od before the Greyhounds London Knights beat the London 6 potted their first of the Sault Ste. Marie Grey- Ryan Rupert (2), evening. It was 6-1 after hounds 6-2. Greg McKegg (2), two periods, and Sault Olli Maatta and Seth Olli Maatta, Seth Griffith Ste. Marie could only an- Griffith also scored for the Sault Ste. Marie 2 swer with a late power- Knights, who were visit- Brandon Alderson, play goal to make it a ing the Essar Centre fol- Nick Cousins four-goal game. lowing a 5-4 overtime win The Knights return to over the Saginaw Spirit the Hounds. bell gave up six goals on action on Friday when on Saturday. London’s Michael 21 shots before being re- they host the Owen Sound Brandon Alderson and Houser made 27 saves for placed by Matt Murray. Attack. Nick Cousins replied for the win, while Jack Camp- The Knights jumped METRO Lightning beat Rats Dine with celebrities DeAnthony Bowden led “We made the proper Dick Pound, Curtis Joseph adults London with 22 points as adjustments today,” said and Jesse Barfield are just and $75 the Lightning defeated the Lightning coach Michael three of the sports celebri- for those Saint John Mill Rats 100-91 Ray Richardson. “We came ties in town on Monday for 17 and in National Basketball out strong, played defence the 56th annual Rogers under. League of Canada action and were able to keep our Sports Celebrity Dinner & Proceeds Sunday in New Brunswick. momentum throughout Auction at the London go to the Shamari Spears added the entire game.” Convention Centre. Thames 18 points off the bench for London’s next game is Pound, a former presi- Valley Dick Pound London. Tim Ellis also net- at the John Labatt Centre dent of the World Anti- Chil- ted 18 points and led Lon- on Thursday against the Doping Agency, is the dren’s Centre. don with 11 rebounds and Halifax Rainmen. Tip-off keynote speaker. For tickets, call 519-685- seven assists. is at 7 p.m. METRO Tickets are $150 for 8675. METRO news metronews.ca 05 MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 2012 Italy cruise ship death toll rises to 5 after divers find two more bodies GREGORIO BORGIA/AP PHOTO At least 15 people unaccounted An Italian firefighter helicopter lifts up a passenger from the luxury cruise ship Costa Concordia, which for after luxury liner runs aground ran aground off the tiny Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy, Sunday. Captain arrested after accident Maritime authorities, pas- sengers and mounting evi- Sinking ship dence pointed Sunday toward the captain of a cruise liner that ran Authorities are holding aground and capsized off Francesco Schettino, the the Tuscan coast, amid ac- ship’s Italian captain, for in- cusations that he aban- vestigation of suspected doned ship before everyone manslaughter and was safely evacuated and abandoning his ship, was showing off when he among other charges. steered the vessel far too According to the Italian close to shore. navigation code, a captain Divers searching the who abandons a ship in murky depths of the partial- danger can face up to 12 ly submerged Costa Concor- years in prison. dia found the bodies of two A coast guard official on elderly men still in their life Sunday said officers exhort- jackets, bringing the con- ed Schettino to return to firmed death toll to five. At his ship as panicked least 15 people were still passengers desperately missing. fled the cruise liner. The recovered bodies were discovered at an emer- the tiny island of Giglio. crew member brought to tain, who was spotted by gency gathering point near Still, there were glim- shore in a dramatic airlift Coast Guard officials and the restaurant where many mers of hope with the res- some 36 hours after the passengers fleeing the of the 4,200 on board were cue of three survivors: a grounding late Friday. scene even as the chaotic dining when the luxury lin- young South Korean couple Meanwhile, questions evacuation was under way. er struck rocks or a reef off on their honeymoon and a were raised about the cap- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Liberals stand by Queen, approve marijuana God save the Queen and ty’s renewal convention. leader or the party. And del- pass the joint. They were put forward egates rejected a proposal Party shakeup Federal Liberals have by the party’s youth wing, to remove the leader’s veto shot down a proposal call- which argued that the Lib- over the contents of future Delegates balked at ing for Canadians to consid- eral party, reduced to rub- election platforms, so adopting a U.S.-style pri- er cutting this country’s ties ble in last May’s election, there’s no guarantee the mary system to elect to the monarchy. But needs bold ideas. party will ever actually cam- future leaders. they’ve thrown support be- “I think that there’s paign on the idea. Still, with They did support hind another calling, for a certain amount of genera- 75 per cent of delegates vot- reforming the country’s the legalization and regula- tional change happening in ing for it, Lavoie said: “I electoral system, voting tion of marijuana. the party,” said Samuel think it is really difficult for to adopt preferential The proposals on the Lavoie, president of the Lib- anyone to just ignore the re- balloting in federal elec- monarchy and marijuana eral youth wing, on Sunday. sult and the will of the tions, rather than the cur- were among the controver- The marijuana resolu- membership.” rent first-past-the-post sial resolutions at the par- tion is not binding on the THE CANADIAN PRESS system. Federal Liberals pick new party president SEAN KILPATRICK/THE CANADIAN PRESS Federal Liberals selected erals felt symbolized the erals from across Canada Mike Crawley as their past. Crawley won the attended the biennial new party president. vote by a slim 26 votes. three-day convention in On Sunday, he beat out Before he was elected Ottawa to debate, among Sheila Copps, a veteran as the new party presi- many other things, execu- former cabinet minister dent, Crawley was the tive leaders and proposals who was at one time con- head of the Liberal party aimed at ensuring the sidered the favourite to in Ontario. long-term survival of the Mike Crawley win but whom some Lib- Some 3,000 federal Lib- party.THE CANADIAN PRESS 06 business metronews.ca MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 2012 French PM calls for Occupy. Dolce & Gabbana courage, reforms to rout financial crisis CHARLES PLATIAU/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS French President Nicolas Sarkozy called for courage, calm and unity to over- come the financial crisis, promising new reforms Sunday without mention- ing the loss of France’s prized AAA rating in his first public appearance Sarkozy since the downgrade. “This is a test and since France and for Europe, pos- it is, we have to confront it, sibly raising the borrowing we have to resist, we have costs for the bailout fund to fight,” Sarkozy told an used to rescue struggling audience in central France. members of the eurozone. A police officer walks by a mock camera placed by protesters at the front door of a Dolce & Gabbana store in Hong Kong “We have to demonstrate The move was one of a on Sunday. courage, we have to spate of downgrades of Eu- demonstrate calm.” ropean countries that the Protesters seek KIN CHEUNG/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Standard & Poor’s agency said reflect the ab- A Hong Kong outlet of the Italian fashion label has been the target decision to lower France’s sence of a sufficiently bold of hundreds of protesters because residents say staff have discrimi- rating to AA+ could have political solution to the cri- redress over nated against them. Reports this month said sales staff were far-reaching effects for sis. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS preventing Hong Kong citizens — but not mainland Chinese or for- so-called slur eigners — from taking photos of the shop windows. The protest highlights simmering resentment among local residents over the GULF CRISIS came as Saudi Arabia’s growing influence of wealthy mainland Chinese over the city. oil minister was quoted Iran vows Sunday denying that his country’s pledges to retaliation boost output was linked Canadians have good reason to a possible siphoning over oil of Iranian crude from the market because of to use the ‘R-word’: Analysis sanctions. Iran has warned Gulf oil World oil markets producers against boost- have been jolted over ing production to offset concerns that Iran could any drop in Tehran’s choke off the vital Strait Officially, we may not be in a recession, but once rising population and crude exports in the of Hormuz in retaliation event of an embargo af- for sanctions. 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That doing so well on the issue $2.67 US least another year. happened in the fourth of net worth, either. While (- 3¢ US) The finding was imme- quarter of 2008 and the slightly higher, household Europe should create inde- The Romanian government diately scoffed at by econo- first two quarters of 2009: Gold net worth is below 2008 pendent credit-ratings called an emergency meet- mists and policy-makers A nine-month retreat. - 40¢US $1,630.80 US levels once inflation is tak- agencies to calm down ing late Sunday to discuss who pointed out that the But real GDP doesn’t tell ($98.70 US) (+ $16.90 US) en into account, and in- markets jittery from con- violent protests after recession officially ended the whole story. come growth has also stant speculation, Guido demonstrators, angry in the summer of 2009. Real GDP adjusts for in- capita GDP is still 1.4 per fallen below the rate of in- Westerwelle, the German about austerity measures, Since then, except for a flation, but not for popula- cent below what it was be- flation this past year. That foreign minister, said Sun- hurled stones and fire- brief skid in the second tion. That means a fore the recession, more means Canadians are poor- day on a visit to Greece. bombs at police. More than quarter of 2011, the econo- country’s economy can be than three years ago. er and their disposable in- During a break from talks 1,000 people clashed with my has been growing growing simply because “To most people, real come is now declining. with Prime Minister Lucas police, who used tear gas steadily. Canada has creat- the population is rising, GDP doesn’t really matter. “People are just report- Papademos, Westerwelle and flares to repel demon- ed more than 600,000 new and Canada’s population What matters is per capita ing overwhelmingly, ‘You said he also thinks it is im- strators in Bucharest. At jobs since the slump, rises about one per cent a income,” said Craig know, I’m not getting portant to give agreements least 13 people were in- much more than the year. Alexander, chief econo- ahead. At best I’m staying and pacts made within the jured. The protests, in their 400,000 or so that were Canada’s economic per- mist with the TD Bank. even.’” Pollara chief oper- eurozone a realistic chance fourth day, are the result of lost. formance looks different Population is the fly in ating officer Robert Hut- to work out, adding this is frustration over wage cuts, Numbers don’t lie, the when population growth the ointment when it ton said of his firm’s the only practical way to higher taxes and wide- experts say. So why do is factored out. comes to the job market as polling results. bring back trust to the spread corruption. Canadians feel so poorly? By that measure, per- well. More Canadians THE CANADIAN PRESS markets.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS voices metronews.ca 07 MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 2012 FANSHAWE 1ST: Register at Local tweets metropolitanpanel.ca A WOMAN AS and take the quick poll @Beyond- from -21 degree up to +7 Funds:Russian degree in 2 days! #ldnont Yoga pants may be worn for: space probe to @cmatute:Met a western crash to Earth alum in a dim sum restau- DEAN OF TECH within hours. #LdnOnt rant in #HK, what are the claim no connection to odds? #uwo #westernalum 87% LOUNGING #Biker wars @vsmills:#ldnont AND @candybarsodapop:Read- Wine&Food show: “Every URBAN It’s a first for Fanshawe Col- 0AL%L OCUATSINUGASL ing some of the Londonli- guy here is either with a lege: This month, Vertha Col- OCCASIONS cious menus..... where to girlfriend or gay.” #gofigure COMPASS igan becomes the first female go!! where. to. go!!! #ldont @zacharymadford:Getting dean of the faculty of @MonicaKozycz:Train out of #ldnont for a while JILL ELLIS technology at Fanshawe. Col- crossing just cost me an ex- until this theme song thing METRO LONDON igan, her husband, and their tra $1.50 lame #ldont blows over. eight-year-old daughter and @IndigoRiff:Fortunately, @MySmartHandsLON: golden retriever have relocated from Ot- no outdoor concerts sched- Thankful for this sun & clear tawa, where she was departmental chair uled for today. It’s -21°C (- day but hope that doesn’t of the school of technology, civil & build- 13% 6°F) in #LdnOnt. Not good mean winter will linger un- ing technologies at Algonquin College. YOGA ONLY for a musician’s fingers. til May! :) Another sunny Attracting more females to study tech- @HMikoK:Weather’s going day in #Ldnont! nology and trades will be one of Coligan’s mandates at Fanshawe. “More women are gravitating to both technology and trades; the numbers are far better than we were seeing in the mid-’80s,” she KEYSTONEUSA-ZUMA/REX FEATURES Sculptures of ice says. “We are not where we need to be, however, in Daily Zoom terms of encouraging girls and young women to go into from river water technology and trades. We need to liaise with high IIcceemmaann schools and grade schools. HARBIN, CHINA. Ice sculp- “It is sad when we hear tors from nine countries “It is sad when girls say early in their edu- competed in the 26th we hear girls say cation that they are bad at International Ice Sculpture early in their math; it becomes an Contest in China’s north - attitude that we have to eastern city of Harbin. The education that work hard to undo.” event is part of an an nual they are bad at Coligan is also interested ice and snow festival, math; it becomes in better meeting students’ which sees its streets filled needs through distance with pagodas made entire- an attitude that learning and flexible sched- ly of ice. METRO WORLD NEWS we have to work uling, two programs she 3 hard to undo.” helped pioneer at It takes three days Algonquin. “I think that it’s to sculpt a block of VERTHA COLIGAN important that we provide ice weighing over two students with quality edu- tonnes, which is cation that leads to jobs but also listen to their needs. If cut from the frozen they are telling us they want to see online, hybrid or surface of the nearby weekend options, we have to be prepared to entertain Songhua River. Locals the possibility of providing these options to them.” say the ice is notably As the first female dean of technology at Fanshawe, translucent, as it Coligan says she’s never been discriminated against be- freezes slowly each cause of gender. “I think we’ve gotten past that and that winter while the river we are able to attain our goals,” she says. “It’s a matter continues to flow of setting career goals and having the drive to pursue beneath and polish it. them. I have never once felt in any way limited because I am a woman.” “(In ice sculpture) Living in the Ottawa area since her family emigrated you see the light, from Wales in the 1960s, Coligan attended Carleton Uni- how it reflects. It’s versity to gain a BA in English. She got her teaching cre- more playing with dentials at the University of Ottawa, and then returned to get an MBA. Harvard was her latest stop on the light.... I make all academic ladder, as she completed the management and these ideas, which leadership in higher education program there. are not possible to Coligan taught technical communication in the tech- nology and trades department at Algonquin, working make in any other her way up the ranks over her 26-year career. “Teaching mater ial.”KARLIS ILE, 37, in technology and trades has been very good to me over LATVIAN-BORN ARTIST the years,” she says. “I felt like I found my professional home.” Checking out southwestern Ontario’s rural areas and beautiful shores while taking advantage of our longer Humble origins summers are high on Coligan’s list as she and her family set out to discover the Forest City. The first festival in 1963 may have originated from tradition of ice lantern- Contact Jill Ellis at [email protected] making by local fishermen. 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Canadian actor Christopher Plummer nabs a Golden Globe for best supporting actor scene Is the 82-year-old finally on track to win the Oscar that has eluded him? GETTY IMAGES MATT SAYLES/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS GETTY IMAGES Canadian-born stage and screen legend Christopher Winners Box office Plummer won the support- ing-actor Golden Globe for Here is a partial list of his role as an elderly wid- winners as of press time: ower who comes out as gay in the father-son dra- Motion Pictures: ma Beginners. Supporting actor — Claiming the first prize Christopher Plummer, of the night at Sunday’s Beginners Globes may give 82-year- old Plummer the inside Actress in a musical or track for the same prize at comedy — Michelle next month’s Academy Williams, My Week Contraband Awards. with Marilyn managed to steal the “I must praise my distin- top slot at the week- guished competitors, who Michelle Williams Best looking couple? Emma Stone needs Original song — end box office away whom I have the greatest wows in Wu. The Pitt-Jolies. no “Help.” Masterpiece, music and from competitors. admiration and to whom I lyrics by Madonna, Julie The Universal action apologize most profusely,” Frost, Jimmy Harry, W.E. film starring Mark said Plummer, who added mer is regarded as one of but this summer at the “You don't need to Wahlberg debuted at warm regards to Beginners the finest Shakespearean Stratford Shakespeare Fes- thank everyone you’ve Television: No. 1 with $24 star Scottish actor Ewan stage actors of the last half tival in Stratford, Ont. ever met or members of Series, drama — million, according to McGregor. century. His film roles Ricky Gervais, who has your family, who have Homeland, Showtime studio estimates “I want to salute my range from Austrian wid- ruffled feathers at past done nothing,” Gervais Sunday. Disney’s 3D partner, Ewan, that wily ower Captain von Trapp in shows with sharp wise- said. Actor, Drama — Kelsey re-release of 1991’s Scot, ‘Ewan My Heart’s in The Sound of Music and cracks aimed at Holly- “Just Grammer, Boss Beauty and the Beast the Highlands’ McGregor, Tolstoy in The Last Station wood's elite and the the waltzed into the No. that scene-stealing swine to newsman Mike Wallace Globes show itself, re- main Mini-series or movie — 2 position with $18.5 from the outer Hebrides.” in The Insider and a treach- turned as host for the two. Your Downtown Abbey million. Joyful Noise, Oscar consideration has erous Klingon general in third-straight year. He agent and (Masterpiece), PBS the Warner Bros.’ been elusive for Plummer, Star Trek: The Undiscov- started with some slams at God.” musical comedy star- who has been nominated ered Country. He also co- the Globes as Hollywood's THE Actress, mini-series or ring Queen Latifah for Hollywood’s top hon- starred in the current second-biggest film cere- ASSOCIATED movie — Kate Winslet, and Dolly Parton, our only once in his 60- thriller The Girl with the mony, after the Oscars. PRESS Mildred Pierce opened in the fourth year career — two years Dragon Tattoo. He needled early win- spot with $11.3 mil- ago, for the Leo Tolstoy Recently, he’s been ners, saying the show was Uggie Visit metronews.ca/scene lion behind drama The Last Station. preparing a one-man the- running long and stars from The Artist for Metro’s Ned Ehrbar’s Paramount’s Born in Toronto and atrical show A Word or needed to keep their went for a walk down behind-the-scenes look at Mission: Impossible - raised in Montreal, Plum- Two, which he plans to de- speeches short. the red carpet. the Golden Globe Awards. Ghost Protocol, which earned $11.5 million in its fifth MATT SAYLES/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Ricky’s golden week, bringing its to- tal haul to $186.7 million. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS glib award Perhaps the biggest ques- lywood Foreign Press and tion for most Golden Globe host network NBC, which viewers this year was exact- he referred to as a “non- ly how far Ricky Gervais profit organization.” would go with his second His first victim of the opportunity as host after night? Kim Kardashian. last year’s eyebrow-raising “The Golden Globes are to skewering of Hollywood’s the Oscars what Kim Kar- biggest names. The answer, dashian is to Kate Middle- For more Golden Globes as it turns out, was not too ton ... a bit louder, a bit “The HFPA have warned me that if I insult any of you ... or cause any coverage, scan this code or far at all, as Gervais went trashier, a bit drunker and controversy, they’ll invite me back next year” visit metronews.ca/scene easy on his audience, pok- more easily bought, al- RICKY GERVAIS, REFERENCING THE IRE HE EARNED AS HOST OF ing fun at himself, the Hol- legedly.” METRO LAST YEAR’S GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS dish metronews.ca 09 MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 2012 Make no mistake: Alcatraz is not Lost 2.0 Lost creator J.J. Abrams reunites with show alum Jorge Garcia for new drama about San Francisco’s infamous prison CITYTV PHYLICIA catch and bring to justice Garcia adds he’s slowly TORREVILLAS the supposed-to-be-dead bad getting used to working in [email protected] guys. Vancouver after shooting For Garcia, joining the se- Lost in the lush locations of Jorge Garcia, who played ries was a no-brainer. Hawaii. Hurley in the cult drama “When J.J. calls, with my But he admits he’s a little Lost, is heading back to an- history with him, I’ll make bummed his former cast- other island with a different myself available for sure,” away-mates Daniel Dae Kim bunch of people in J.J. he says. and Terry O’Quinn are hav- Abrams’ new supernatural “I like what he does and ing fun in the sun, shooting thriller Alcatraz. the TV that he makes so I Hawaii Five-0. This shot-in-Vancouver knew what I was going to “Whenever I watch Five- series revolves around more be in. And then you read the 0 I’m a little bit jealous,” than 300 prisoners and script and it’s like, ‘Oh, Garcia admits. guards who vanished from sweet.’” “But only a little bit. Van- America’s notorious Alca- Jones (Big Love, Sons of couver has its own green traz prison in 1963 and start Anarchy) says headlining beauty, just like Hawaii. Of reappearing in the present her first series is a little course, you have to pay for day, wreaking havoc on the overwhelming, but she says that with the rain. And it’s a streets of San Francisco. she tries not to put a lot of little bit colder. San Francisco cop Rebec- pressure on herself. “But I’m having fun. It’s a ca Madsen (Sarah Jones), Al- “I just try to treat it like fun show to be a part of. catraz expert and comic other jobs I’ve had and do And it’s cool living up here.” book enthusiast Dr. Diego the best I can and hope that The series debuts with a “Doc” Soto (Garcia), federal people like the character two-hour premiere Monday agent Emerson Hauser (Sam I’m playing as much as at 8 p.m. ET/PT on Citytv Neill) and his sidekick Lucy they’ve liked other female and Fox. Alcatraz returns to Banerjee (Parminder Nagra) heroes that J.J. has brilliant- its regular 9 p.m. ET/PT Jorge Garcia and Sarah Jones star in the new J.J. Abrams mystery thriller Alcatraz. are forced to join forces to ly come up with,” she says. time-slot on Jan. 23. Locklear in booze It’s really and then splitting again. In over: Sinéad her post, O’Connor blames the media’s scrutiny for the breakup. and pills overdose After a brief reconciliation, “Slowly, since we were Sinéad O’Connoragain married, I became very ill split with husband Barry as a result of what was Herridge, she confirms on done to my husband and I her blog. was unable to cope and be- The couple separated af- came depressed,” she ter 16 days of marriage be- writes. fore getting back together METRO ALL PHOTOS GETTY IMAGES Melrose Place actress all smiles as she was discharged from hospital Not a suicide attempt: Parents Heather Locklear is safe at Robles Hospital in Thou- home after being hospital- sand Oaks, Calif. ized late last week for re- Locklear’s parents portedly ingesting a “wanted everybody to life-threatening mix of know that she’s doing well, booze and prescription she’s fine, she’s not in any pills, according to Us Week- danger, she’s healthy,” a ly. hospital spokeswoman Locklear was reportedly says, adding that the ac- chatty and smiling upon tress’ episode was not a sui- Heather Locklear being discharged from Los cide attempt. METRO Celebrity tweets @EllenBarkin @oliviawilde @AlbertBrooks Fox cancelled Allen Gre- Vegas, day gory! Yes! Not feel- 2. Spent 45 Wait, can- ing well. I am mins lost celled What’s YOUCOULD dream- inside hotel. means per- @JonahHill the cutoff WIN A COPY OF ing of a Beginning to manently date for “In 50/50 ON DVD! Costco show signs of dementia due to on tv forever right? Memoriam” at the roast chicken... neon overexposure and piped- Oscars? AVAILABLEINSTORESJANUARY24 in nitrous. Send help. Toregisterandforfullcontestdetailsvisitclubmetro.com 10 metronews.ca family MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 2012 3 Tech-toy heaven As the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show gets underway,Mike Yawney, Citytv’s technology specialist, has scoured the floor for this year’s must-have tech toys Here are a few of his picks Nest:You have never seen a thermostat quite like this. life Designed by Tony Fadell, the man who designed the original iPod, Nest is the world’s first learning thermo- stat. Set the temperature in your home and over the course of a few days Nest will learn your climate prefer- ences and start adjusting the temperature on its own. Since Nest is connected to your WiFi network, you have the ability to control the temperature in your home from just about anywhere using a smartphone or tablet. Nest will also tell you when you’re saving energy to help you save money. You’re going to need that cash, since Pill recall the thermostat will set you back $249. Samsung Upgradeable TVs: Did you buy a TV for Christ- 55-inch OLED TV: This isn’t the first time OLED TVs mas? The reality is that within have shown up at CES, but this is the first year they a few months it will already have reached such a large size. Last year, the ultra-thin Health Canada says a be outdated. Samsung wants televisions hit the 21-inch mark, this year we’re finally recall of Excedrin prod- to make sure you don’t have starting to see 55-inch panels. The TVs are a mere four- ucts announced last buyers remorse this year by mm thin, weigh roughly 7.5 KGs and are very energy week in the United allowing you to continuously efficient. On top of that, the display produces an States now extends to upgrade your television. incredible picture with some of the best colours Many of its 2012 models will Canada. you’ve ever seen. The only real drawback may be the feature a slot on the rear The recall covers all price. A couple of years ago Sony sold an 11-inch mod- where a special upgrade of Excedrin Extra el for $2,100 so you can expect these large panels will module can be inserted. This Strength Caplets and cost you a pretty penny when they hit Canada later means modules with new Excedrin Tension this year. software features, even faster Headache Caplets with processors can be purchased expiration dates of Dec. each year to keep your TV up Lytro Light Field Camera:Forget what you know about traditional cameras –the 20, 2014 or earlier. to date. The updates will cost Lytro camera changes everything. After a picture has been taken the camera The recall was initi- you, but at least you’ll have uses a series of algorithms to let users refocus a picture. Who cares if a picture ated after the U.S. Food the latest and greatest fea- comes out blurry; you can fix it afterward! and Drug Administra- tures on your TV. Focus, refocus and have fun with your tion received reports of pictures. The Lytro light field camera is chipped and broken already available for pre-order. pills. As well, it had re- ports of inconsistent bottle packaging clear- ance practices, which LG Fridge with Blast Chiller: LG has un- could result in the bot- veiled a new line of refrigerators Also at the show tles containing foreign equipped with LCD displays and inter- tablets, caplets or cap- net connectivity. Now your fridge will sules. tell you when you’re running low of certain Thought the days of the THE CANADIAN PRESS types of food and when it’s about to spoil. An- walkman were over? other feature is the blast chiller, which takes Think again. canned drinks to frosty within five minutes. Wine will also fit into the blast chiller and will Sony Walkman Z take seven minutes to reach the perfect tem- Aquos Freestyle:Take your TV everywhere! These TV are so Sony’s answer to the iPod perature. thin and light you can essentially pick them up and move them Touch is the Walkman Z, anywhere in your home, even outside. Wireless streaming en- which runs Android 2.3 ables you to receive both audio and video from your compo- (Gingerbread) and gives nents up to 100 feet away. The 20-inch model sports a battery users access to the pack, giving you true freedom, while the larger models, includ- Android marketplace and ing the 60-inch, still require to be plugged in. hundreds of thousands of apps without having to own an actual Android smartphone. Gmail, maps, books and a selection of Sony services will all be on board when this launches in April in both 16 and 32GB models. Oh, and it Bubble Wrap Kids host urges also plays music! What a overprotective parents to give kids space to grow. concept!

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TECH LOVERS, REJOICE PACKING UP TAKE A LOOK AT THE YEAR’S MUST-HAVE TOYS GREEN BAY ELIMINATED {page 10} IN ONE GIANT CURRIED SWEET POTATO SOUP WITH INDIAN SPICES UPSET {page 16} {page 11} LONDON MMoonnddaayy,, JJaannuuaarryy 1166,,22001122 wwwwww..mmeettrroonneewwss..ccaa NNeewwss wwoorrtthh sshhaarriinngg.. City transit to get smarter Smart cards billed as way to improve London transit experience, speed up loading times Local rollout would follow trend in other large cities across the country ANGELA “We are expecting it to the system could work and many MULLINS @METRONEWS.CA be a rollout that will things won’t be finalized until a company is hired to manage the probably take a The London Transit Commission project, Paleczny said. But there’s (LTC) is inching closer toward going while..... It’s not a very real possibility that the sys- paperless. something where we’re tem will allow people to load smart Officials expect to put out a cards from the comfort of their going to flip a switch request for proposals next month, home computers. asking companies to weigh in on and it’s done.” The first phase of the rollout is the cost and details of implement- LTC’S KELLY PALECZNY ON THE FIRST PHASE expected to focus on monthly pass ing a smart-card system. OF THE NEW TRANSIT SYSTEM holders, since they are already Kelly Paleczny, director of $2.2M accustomed to carrying a transit finance and administration at the card in their wallets, Paleczny said. LTC, said the first phase of the new People who use traditional tickets system could be ready to go as ear- are expected to be brought on ly as this fall. board after that with some overlap Actress Zooey Deschanel arrives at the 69th annual Golden Globe “We are expecting it to be a roll- Money budgeted for the between the new and old systems. Awards held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel Sunday. implementation of a planned out that will probably take a while,” The smart cards are expected to Paleczny said. “It’s not something LTC smart-card system. cost $347,900 a year to operate, JASON MERRITT/GETTY IMAGES where we’re going to flip a switch wouldn’t be left fumbling around according to an LTC report given Hollywood goes Golden and it’s done.” in their pockets for tickets. in the summer. The smart cards would work like The cards — expected to work Those costs are expected to be debit cards or reloadable gift cards. when waived at an electronic read- offset by savings in a variety of Celebrities from film and television walked the red carpet in Riders who pay monthly would- er instead of swiped — also could areas, including ticket/transfer the posh neighbourhood of Los Angeles Sunday night. For n’t have to get a new pass each track transfers. printing, ticket fraud and fare-box coverage of the evening’s awards, see page 8 and go to month, and single-fare riders There are a lot of options for how maintenance. metronews.ca. “ Crystal clear phone calls and fast uninterrupted Internet service. 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WIND, WIND MOBILE and WINDtab+ are trademarks of Wind Telecommunicazioni S.p.A. and are used under license in Canada by Globalive Wireless Management Corp. ©2011 WIND Mobile. Portions of this imagery are reproduced from work created and shared by Google according to terms described in the Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License. LG and the LG logos are registered trademarks of LG Electronics and its affi liates. ©2011 LG Electronics. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. news: london metronews.ca 03 MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 2012 1 Colourful. Reading news Stacy Rounds, 21, of Embro, left, gets a reading Sunday from clairvoyant Beverly Stephan of Portage, Mich., during a Psychic Expo at Centennial Hall. ANGELA MULLINS/METRO Investigators in Los Angeles are confident a man in custody The future looks Hundreds of people attended the expo, which featured a multitude of spiritual is behind all four recent readers and products. Stephan uses paintings to connect with people’s spiritual killings of homeless men. Scan code for story. bright at Psychic Expo guides. Others at the weekend expo used more traditional means of tapping into people’s psyches, including tarot cards. 1 Download the free ScanLife app with Rallying faithful around poverty your smartphone at 2dscan.com 2 Use your smartphone to Poverty initiative focuses on sparking action in the local faith community scan 2D barcodes Hundreds in audience encouraged to be catalysts by listening and ‘loving’ neighbours in Metro 3 The codes will ANGELA spoken-word poetry and A series of public events nity can make a difference. direct your mobile MULLINS getting encouragement are meant to generate inter- Sue Wilson, director of If you go browser to @METRONEWS.CA from leaders of various est in and gather feedback the systemic justice office m.metronews.ca faiths, the audience was for an ongoing provincial with the Sisters of St. Joseph The Citizen Advisory Panel Rev. Kevin Dixon had an urged to “wake up” and review of social-assistance Canada, called the growing will have roundtable On the web at overarching goal for a Sun- take action in the fight programs. The feedback gap between rich and poor discussions on the metronews.ca day income-disparity rally against poverty. will be developed into one that is “starting to tear province’s review of social- at St. Paul’s Cathedral. The rally, aimed at the what’s been dubbed the at the fabric of society.” assistance programs at He wanted just one per- religious community,is one London policy response, “The power to create 1 p.m. on Jan. 29 at the Should a family son to “walk away with of several things being done which will be presented to change is found in our col- London Convention be denied their faith leader at their by a group called the Citi- city councillors this spring lective choices, in our Centre. permanent resi- side and say, ‘We need to zen Advisory Panel. Formed and pitched to higher levels choosing to live the value of Conversations will focus get more involved.’” soon after the city disband- of government after that. solidarity,” she told the au- on programs like Ontario dence because More than 400 people ed the Occupy London en- Sunday’s rally was filled dience. “Together we can in- Works and Ontario Disabil- they have a packed the cathedral for the campment, the group aims with a mix of harsh statisti- sist that our governments ity Support Program. Peo- event. Singing songs of em- to further that group’s mes- cal realities and optimism make different choices; that ple are asked to RSVP via young boy who powerment, listening to sage. that one dedicated commu- they make moral choices.” eventbrite.com. is deaf? Guidy Mamann discusses a Man to face charges Pedestrian Tori Stafford murder recent Federal struck by Court decision at in morning arson trial set to begin car metronews.ca/ immigration Almost three years after her ments over pre-trial mo- Damage is pegged at arson endangering life, po- A woman was taken to abduction and murder, the tions. Jury selection for $250,000 following a Sun- lice said. The blaze, which hospital with minor man charged in connection Michael Rafferty will begin day morning arson that started in an eighth-floor injuries after being hit by with the death of eight- Feb. 27. forced tenants to evacuate apartment, was reported a vehicle about 2:20 a.m. year-old Tori Stafford is fi- Tori was abducted as an apartment building at shortly after 1 a.m. The fire Sunday while walking nally set to stand trial. she left her Woodstock ele- Follow us on 1257 Huron St. is not linked to other recent across Richmond Street Today at the London mentary school in April Twitter One man has been ar- arsons in the city. near Central Avenue. courthouse, a judge will be- 2009. @themetrolondon rested and faces a charge of METRO METRO gin hearing lawyers’ argu- AM980/AM980.CA 04 metronews.ca news: london MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 2012 Canadians fall at UFC 142 in Brazil FELIPE DANA/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Sam Stout lost 29-28 on all three judges’ cards London native takes responsibility for slow start Canadians Sam (Hands of Stone) Stout and Antonio Main event (Pato) Carvalho each lost at Saturday’s UFC 142 event in Rio de Janeiro. Jose Aldo stopped Chad Stout’s contest with Thi- Mendes with one devastat- ago Tavares served as the ing knee to the head with featured preliminary bout a second left in the first of the night, while Carval- round Saturday night, de- ho kicked off the evening fending his featherweight at HSBC Arena with a fight title in his homeland. against Felipe Arantes. With the loss, Team takedowns and spent the Tompkins’ two highest- first five minutes looking profile fighters — Stout to get back to his feet. and Mark Hominick — are While he managed to now 0-2 since the August shake that off and come 2011 passing of their long- back — even landing sev- time mentor, Shawn eral power shots in the Tompkins. closing minutes — it was “This was my first fight simply too little, too late. without Shawn,” Stout, of “I thought I took rounds London, said after the two and three, but I just fight. “It was definitely an struggled to find my adjustment not having rhythm,” said Stout. “My him in my corner. I hope head wasn’t in it in the Shawn would be proud." first round. I had a slow In lightweight action, start and I have no one to Thiago Tavares of Brazil punches London’s Sam Stout during their lightweight mixed martial arts bout Stout was unable to stop blame but myself for that.” at UFC 142 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday. Tavares defeated Stout. several opening-round THE CANADIAN PRESS Award nominations open Knights put down Hounds London residents are invit- labour; education and ed to submit nominations training; social and com- for the city’s Race Rela- munity services; public tions Award. and private institutions; Ryan Rupert and Greg out to a 4-0 lead midway Goal scorers There are five award cat- and corporation of the City McKegg both had a pair of through the second peri- egories: Business and of London. METRO goals on Sunday as the od before the Greyhounds London Knights beat the London 6 potted their first of the Sault Ste. Marie Grey- Ryan Rupert (2), evening. It was 6-1 after hounds 6-2. Greg McKegg (2), two periods, and Sault Olli Maatta and Seth Olli Maatta, Seth Griffith Ste. Marie could only an- Griffith also scored for the Sault Ste. Marie 2 swer with a late power- Knights, who were visit- Brandon Alderson, play goal to make it a ing the Essar Centre fol- Nick Cousins four-goal game. lowing a 5-4 overtime win The Knights return to over the Saginaw Spirit the Hounds. bell gave up six goals on action on Friday when on Saturday. London’s Michael 21 shots before being re- they host the Owen Sound Brandon Alderson and Houser made 27 saves for placed by Matt Murray. Attack. Nick Cousins replied for the win, while Jack Camp- The Knights jumped METRO Lightning beat Rats Dine with celebrities DeAnthony Bowden led “We made the proper Dick Pound, Curtis Joseph adults London with 22 points as adjustments today,” said and Jesse Barfield are just and $75 the Lightning defeated the Lightning coach Michael three of the sports celebri- for those Saint John Mill Rats 100-91 Ray Richardson. “We came ties in town on Monday for 17 and in National Basketball out strong, played defence the 56th annual Rogers under. League of Canada action and were able to keep our Sports Celebrity Dinner & Proceeds Sunday in New Brunswick. momentum throughout Auction at the London go to the Shamari Spears added the entire game.” Convention Centre. Thames 18 points off the bench for London’s next game is Pound, a former presi- Valley Dick Pound London. Tim Ellis also net- at the John Labatt Centre dent of the World Anti- Chil- ted 18 points and led Lon- on Thursday against the Doping Agency, is the dren’s Centre. don with 11 rebounds and Halifax Rainmen. Tip-off keynote speaker. For tickets, call 519-685- seven assists. is at 7 p.m. METRO Tickets are $150 for 8675. METRO news metronews.ca 05 MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 2012 Italy cruise ship death toll rises to 5 after divers find two more bodies GREGORIO BORGIA/AP PHOTO At least 15 people unaccounted An Italian firefighter helicopter lifts up a passenger from the luxury cruise ship Costa Concordia, which for after luxury liner runs aground ran aground off the tiny Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy, Sunday. Captain arrested after accident Maritime authorities, pas- sengers and mounting evi- Sinking ship dence pointed Sunday toward the captain of a cruise liner that ran Authorities are holding aground and capsized off Francesco Schettino, the the Tuscan coast, amid ac- ship’s Italian captain, for in- cusations that he aban- vestigation of suspected doned ship before everyone manslaughter and was safely evacuated and abandoning his ship, was showing off when he among other charges. steered the vessel far too According to the Italian close to shore. navigation code, a captain Divers searching the who abandons a ship in murky depths of the partial- danger can face up to 12 ly submerged Costa Concor- years in prison. dia found the bodies of two A coast guard official on elderly men still in their life Sunday said officers exhort- jackets, bringing the con- ed Schettino to return to firmed death toll to five. At his ship as panicked least 15 people were still passengers desperately missing. fled the cruise liner. The recovered bodies were discovered at an emer- the tiny island of Giglio. crew member brought to tain, who was spotted by gency gathering point near Still, there were glim- shore in a dramatic airlift Coast Guard officials and the restaurant where many mers of hope with the res- some 36 hours after the passengers fleeing the of the 4,200 on board were cue of three survivors: a grounding late Friday. scene even as the chaotic dining when the luxury lin- young South Korean couple Meanwhile, questions evacuation was under way. er struck rocks or a reef off on their honeymoon and a were raised about the cap- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Liberals stand by Queen, approve marijuana God save the Queen and ty’s renewal convention. leader or the party. And del- pass the joint. They were put forward egates rejected a proposal Party shakeup Federal Liberals have by the party’s youth wing, to remove the leader’s veto shot down a proposal call- which argued that the Lib- over the contents of future Delegates balked at ing for Canadians to consid- eral party, reduced to rub- election platforms, so adopting a U.S.-style pri- er cutting this country’s ties ble in last May’s election, there’s no guarantee the mary system to elect to the monarchy. But needs bold ideas. party will ever actually cam- future leaders. they’ve thrown support be- “I think that there’s paign on the idea. Still, with They did support hind another calling, for a certain amount of genera- 75 per cent of delegates vot- reforming the country’s the legalization and regula- tional change happening in ing for it, Lavoie said: “I electoral system, voting tion of marijuana. the party,” said Samuel think it is really difficult for to adopt preferential The proposals on the Lavoie, president of the Lib- anyone to just ignore the re- balloting in federal elec- monarchy and marijuana eral youth wing, on Sunday. sult and the will of the tions, rather than the cur- were among the controver- The marijuana resolu- membership.” rent first-past-the-post sial resolutions at the par- tion is not binding on the THE CANADIAN PRESS system. Federal Liberals pick new party president SEAN KILPATRICK/THE CANADIAN PRESS Federal Liberals selected erals felt symbolized the erals from across Canada Mike Crawley as their past. Crawley won the attended the biennial new party president. vote by a slim 26 votes. three-day convention in On Sunday, he beat out Before he was elected Ottawa to debate, among Sheila Copps, a veteran as the new party presi- many other things, execu- former cabinet minister dent, Crawley was the tive leaders and proposals who was at one time con- head of the Liberal party aimed at ensuring the sidered the favourite to in Ontario. long-term survival of the Mike Crawley win but whom some Lib- Some 3,000 federal Lib- party.THE CANADIAN PRESS 06 business metronews.ca MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 2012 French PM calls for Occupy. Dolce & Gabbana courage, reforms to rout financial crisis CHARLES PLATIAU/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS French President Nicolas Sarkozy called for courage, calm and unity to over- come the financial crisis, promising new reforms Sunday without mention- ing the loss of France’s prized AAA rating in his first public appearance Sarkozy since the downgrade. “This is a test and since France and for Europe, pos- it is, we have to confront it, sibly raising the borrowing we have to resist, we have costs for the bailout fund to fight,” Sarkozy told an used to rescue struggling audience in central France. members of the eurozone. A police officer walks by a mock camera placed by protesters at the front door of a Dolce & Gabbana store in Hong Kong “We have to demonstrate The move was one of a on Sunday. courage, we have to spate of downgrades of Eu- demonstrate calm.” ropean countries that the Protesters seek KIN CHEUNG/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Standard & Poor’s agency said reflect the ab- A Hong Kong outlet of the Italian fashion label has been the target decision to lower France’s sence of a sufficiently bold of hundreds of protesters because residents say staff have discrimi- rating to AA+ could have political solution to the cri- redress over nated against them. Reports this month said sales staff were far-reaching effects for sis. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS preventing Hong Kong citizens — but not mainland Chinese or for- so-called slur eigners — from taking photos of the shop windows. The protest highlights simmering resentment among local residents over the GULF CRISIS came as Saudi Arabia’s growing influence of wealthy mainland Chinese over the city. oil minister was quoted Iran vows Sunday denying that his country’s pledges to retaliation boost output was linked Canadians have good reason to a possible siphoning over oil of Iranian crude from the market because of to use the ‘R-word’: Analysis sanctions. Iran has warned Gulf oil World oil markets producers against boost- have been jolted over ing production to offset concerns that Iran could any drop in Tehran’s choke off the vital Strait Officially, we may not be in a recession, but once rising population and crude exports in the of Hormuz in retaliation event of an embargo af- for sanctions. 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That doing so well on the issue $2.67 US least another year. happened in the fourth of net worth, either. While (- 3¢ US) The finding was imme- quarter of 2008 and the slightly higher, household Europe should create inde- The Romanian government diately scoffed at by econo- first two quarters of 2009: Gold net worth is below 2008 pendent credit-ratings called an emergency meet- mists and policy-makers A nine-month retreat. - 40¢US $1,630.80 US levels once inflation is tak- agencies to calm down ing late Sunday to discuss who pointed out that the But real GDP doesn’t tell ($98.70 US) (+ $16.90 US) en into account, and in- markets jittery from con- violent protests after recession officially ended the whole story. come growth has also stant speculation, Guido demonstrators, angry in the summer of 2009. Real GDP adjusts for in- capita GDP is still 1.4 per fallen below the rate of in- Westerwelle, the German about austerity measures, Since then, except for a flation, but not for popula- cent below what it was be- flation this past year. That foreign minister, said Sun- hurled stones and fire- brief skid in the second tion. That means a fore the recession, more means Canadians are poor- day on a visit to Greece. bombs at police. More than quarter of 2011, the econo- country’s economy can be than three years ago. er and their disposable in- During a break from talks 1,000 people clashed with my has been growing growing simply because “To most people, real come is now declining. with Prime Minister Lucas police, who used tear gas steadily. Canada has creat- the population is rising, GDP doesn’t really matter. “People are just report- Papademos, Westerwelle and flares to repel demon- ed more than 600,000 new and Canada’s population What matters is per capita ing overwhelmingly, ‘You said he also thinks it is im- strators in Bucharest. At jobs since the slump, rises about one per cent a income,” said Craig know, I’m not getting portant to give agreements least 13 people were in- much more than the year. Alexander, chief econo- ahead. At best I’m staying and pacts made within the jured. The protests, in their 400,000 or so that were Canada’s economic per- mist with the TD Bank. even.’” Pollara chief oper- eurozone a realistic chance fourth day, are the result of lost. formance looks different Population is the fly in ating officer Robert Hut- to work out, adding this is frustration over wage cuts, Numbers don’t lie, the when population growth the ointment when it ton said of his firm’s the only practical way to higher taxes and wide- experts say. So why do is factored out. comes to the job market as polling results. bring back trust to the spread corruption. Canadians feel so poorly? By that measure, per- well. More Canadians THE CANADIAN PRESS markets.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS voices metronews.ca 07 MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 2012 FANSHAWE 1ST: Register at Local tweets metropolitanpanel.ca A WOMAN AS and take the quick poll @Beyond- from -21 degree up to +7 Funds:Russian degree in 2 days! #ldnont Yoga pants may be worn for: space probe to @cmatute:Met a western crash to Earth alum in a dim sum restau- DEAN OF TECH within hours. #LdnOnt rant in #HK, what are the claim no connection to odds? #uwo #westernalum 87% LOUNGING #Biker wars @vsmills:#ldnont AND @candybarsodapop:Read- Wine&Food show: “Every URBAN It’s a first for Fanshawe Col- 0AL%L OCUATSINUGASL ing some of the Londonli- guy here is either with a lege: This month, Vertha Col- OCCASIONS cious menus..... where to girlfriend or gay.” #gofigure COMPASS igan becomes the first female go!! where. to. go!!! #ldont @zacharymadford:Getting dean of the faculty of @MonicaKozycz:Train out of #ldnont for a while JILL ELLIS technology at Fanshawe. Col- crossing just cost me an ex- until this theme song thing METRO LONDON igan, her husband, and their tra $1.50 lame #ldont blows over. eight-year-old daughter and @IndigoRiff:Fortunately, @MySmartHandsLON: golden retriever have relocated from Ot- no outdoor concerts sched- Thankful for this sun & clear tawa, where she was departmental chair uled for today. It’s -21°C (- day but hope that doesn’t of the school of technology, civil & build- 13% 6°F) in #LdnOnt. Not good mean winter will linger un- ing technologies at Algonquin College. YOGA ONLY for a musician’s fingers. til May! :) Another sunny Attracting more females to study tech- @HMikoK:Weather’s going day in #Ldnont! nology and trades will be one of Coligan’s mandates at Fanshawe. “More women are gravitating to both technology and trades; the numbers are far better than we were seeing in the mid-’80s,” she KEYSTONEUSA-ZUMA/REX FEATURES Sculptures of ice says. “We are not where we need to be, however, in Daily Zoom terms of encouraging girls and young women to go into from river water technology and trades. We need to liaise with high IIcceemmaann schools and grade schools. HARBIN, CHINA. Ice sculp- “It is sad when we hear tors from nine countries “It is sad when girls say early in their edu- competed in the 26th we hear girls say cation that they are bad at International Ice Sculpture early in their math; it becomes an Contest in China’s north - attitude that we have to eastern city of Harbin. The education that work hard to undo.” event is part of an an nual they are bad at Coligan is also interested ice and snow festival, math; it becomes in better meeting students’ which sees its streets filled needs through distance with pagodas made entire- an attitude that learning and flexible sched- ly of ice. METRO WORLD NEWS we have to work uling, two programs she 3 hard to undo.” helped pioneer at It takes three days Algonquin. “I think that it’s to sculpt a block of VERTHA COLIGAN important that we provide ice weighing over two students with quality edu- tonnes, which is cation that leads to jobs but also listen to their needs. If cut from the frozen they are telling us they want to see online, hybrid or surface of the nearby weekend options, we have to be prepared to entertain Songhua River. Locals the possibility of providing these options to them.” say the ice is notably As the first female dean of technology at Fanshawe, translucent, as it Coligan says she’s never been discriminated against be- freezes slowly each cause of gender. “I think we’ve gotten past that and that winter while the river we are able to attain our goals,” she says. “It’s a matter continues to flow of setting career goals and having the drive to pursue beneath and polish it. them. I have never once felt in any way limited because I am a woman.” “(In ice sculpture) Living in the Ottawa area since her family emigrated you see the light, from Wales in the 1960s, Coligan attended Carleton Uni- how it reflects. It’s versity to gain a BA in English. She got her teaching cre- more playing with dentials at the University of Ottawa, and then returned to get an MBA. Harvard was her latest stop on the light.... I make all academic ladder, as she completed the management and these ideas, which leadership in higher education program there. are not possible to Coligan taught technical communication in the tech- nology and trades department at Algonquin, working make in any other her way up the ranks over her 26-year career. “Teaching mater ial.”KARLIS ILE, 37, in technology and trades has been very good to me over LATVIAN-BORN ARTIST the years,” she says. “I felt like I found my professional home.” Checking out southwestern Ontario’s rural areas and beautiful shores while taking advantage of our longer Humble origins summers are high on Coligan’s list as she and her family set out to discover the Forest City. The first festival in 1963 may have originated from tradition of ice lantern- Contact Jill Ellis at [email protected] making by local fishermen. 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Canadian actor Christopher Plummer nabs a Golden Globe for best supporting actor scene Is the 82-year-old finally on track to win the Oscar that has eluded him? GETTY IMAGES MATT SAYLES/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS GETTY IMAGES Canadian-born stage and screen legend Christopher Winners Box office Plummer won the support- ing-actor Golden Globe for Here is a partial list of his role as an elderly wid- winners as of press time: ower who comes out as gay in the father-son dra- Motion Pictures: ma Beginners. Supporting actor — Claiming the first prize Christopher Plummer, of the night at Sunday’s Beginners Globes may give 82-year- old Plummer the inside Actress in a musical or track for the same prize at comedy — Michelle next month’s Academy Williams, My Week Contraband Awards. with Marilyn managed to steal the “I must praise my distin- top slot at the week- guished competitors, who Michelle Williams Best looking couple? Emma Stone needs Original song — end box office away whom I have the greatest wows in Wu. The Pitt-Jolies. no “Help.” Masterpiece, music and from competitors. admiration and to whom I lyrics by Madonna, Julie The Universal action apologize most profusely,” Frost, Jimmy Harry, W.E. film starring Mark said Plummer, who added mer is regarded as one of but this summer at the “You don't need to Wahlberg debuted at warm regards to Beginners the finest Shakespearean Stratford Shakespeare Fes- thank everyone you’ve Television: No. 1 with $24 star Scottish actor Ewan stage actors of the last half tival in Stratford, Ont. ever met or members of Series, drama — million, according to McGregor. century. His film roles Ricky Gervais, who has your family, who have Homeland, Showtime studio estimates “I want to salute my range from Austrian wid- ruffled feathers at past done nothing,” Gervais Sunday. Disney’s 3D partner, Ewan, that wily ower Captain von Trapp in shows with sharp wise- said. Actor, Drama — Kelsey re-release of 1991’s Scot, ‘Ewan My Heart’s in The Sound of Music and cracks aimed at Holly- “Just Grammer, Boss Beauty and the Beast the Highlands’ McGregor, Tolstoy in The Last Station wood's elite and the the waltzed into the No. that scene-stealing swine to newsman Mike Wallace Globes show itself, re- main Mini-series or movie — 2 position with $18.5 from the outer Hebrides.” in The Insider and a treach- turned as host for the two. Your Downtown Abbey million. Joyful Noise, Oscar consideration has erous Klingon general in third-straight year. He agent and (Masterpiece), PBS the Warner Bros.’ been elusive for Plummer, Star Trek: The Undiscov- started with some slams at God.” musical comedy star- who has been nominated ered Country. He also co- the Globes as Hollywood's THE Actress, mini-series or ring Queen Latifah for Hollywood’s top hon- starred in the current second-biggest film cere- ASSOCIATED movie — Kate Winslet, and Dolly Parton, our only once in his 60- thriller The Girl with the mony, after the Oscars. PRESS Mildred Pierce opened in the fourth year career — two years Dragon Tattoo. He needled early win- spot with $11.3 mil- ago, for the Leo Tolstoy Recently, he’s been ners, saying the show was Uggie Visit metronews.ca/scene lion behind drama The Last Station. preparing a one-man the- running long and stars from The Artist for Metro’s Ned Ehrbar’s Paramount’s Born in Toronto and atrical show A Word or needed to keep their went for a walk down behind-the-scenes look at Mission: Impossible - raised in Montreal, Plum- Two, which he plans to de- speeches short. the red carpet. the Golden Globe Awards. Ghost Protocol, which earned $11.5 million in its fifth MATT SAYLES/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Ricky’s golden week, bringing its to- tal haul to $186.7 million. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS glib award Perhaps the biggest ques- lywood Foreign Press and tion for most Golden Globe host network NBC, which viewers this year was exact- he referred to as a “non- ly how far Ricky Gervais profit organization.” would go with his second His first victim of the opportunity as host after night? Kim Kardashian. last year’s eyebrow-raising “The Golden Globes are to skewering of Hollywood’s the Oscars what Kim Kar- biggest names. The answer, dashian is to Kate Middle- For more Golden Globes as it turns out, was not too ton ... a bit louder, a bit “The HFPA have warned me that if I insult any of you ... or cause any coverage, scan this code or far at all, as Gervais went trashier, a bit drunker and controversy, they’ll invite me back next year” visit metronews.ca/scene easy on his audience, pok- more easily bought, al- RICKY GERVAIS, REFERENCING THE IRE HE EARNED AS HOST OF ing fun at himself, the Hol- legedly.” METRO LAST YEAR’S GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS dish metronews.ca 09 MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 2012 Make no mistake: Alcatraz is not Lost 2.0 Lost creator J.J. Abrams reunites with show alum Jorge Garcia for new drama about San Francisco’s infamous prison CITYTV PHYLICIA catch and bring to justice Garcia adds he’s slowly TORREVILLAS the supposed-to-be-dead bad getting used to working in [email protected] guys. Vancouver after shooting For Garcia, joining the se- Lost in the lush locations of Jorge Garcia, who played ries was a no-brainer. Hawaii. Hurley in the cult drama “When J.J. calls, with my But he admits he’s a little Lost, is heading back to an- history with him, I’ll make bummed his former cast- other island with a different myself available for sure,” away-mates Daniel Dae Kim bunch of people in J.J. he says. and Terry O’Quinn are hav- Abrams’ new supernatural “I like what he does and ing fun in the sun, shooting thriller Alcatraz. the TV that he makes so I Hawaii Five-0. This shot-in-Vancouver knew what I was going to “Whenever I watch Five- series revolves around more be in. And then you read the 0 I’m a little bit jealous,” than 300 prisoners and script and it’s like, ‘Oh, Garcia admits. guards who vanished from sweet.’” “But only a little bit. Van- America’s notorious Alca- Jones (Big Love, Sons of couver has its own green traz prison in 1963 and start Anarchy) says headlining beauty, just like Hawaii. Of reappearing in the present her first series is a little course, you have to pay for day, wreaking havoc on the overwhelming, but she says that with the rain. And it’s a streets of San Francisco. she tries not to put a lot of little bit colder. San Francisco cop Rebec- pressure on herself. “But I’m having fun. It’s a ca Madsen (Sarah Jones), Al- “I just try to treat it like fun show to be a part of. catraz expert and comic other jobs I’ve had and do And it’s cool living up here.” book enthusiast Dr. Diego the best I can and hope that The series debuts with a “Doc” Soto (Garcia), federal people like the character two-hour premiere Monday agent Emerson Hauser (Sam I’m playing as much as at 8 p.m. ET/PT on Citytv Neill) and his sidekick Lucy they’ve liked other female and Fox. Alcatraz returns to Banerjee (Parminder Nagra) heroes that J.J. has brilliant- its regular 9 p.m. ET/PT Jorge Garcia and Sarah Jones star in the new J.J. Abrams mystery thriller Alcatraz. are forced to join forces to ly come up with,” she says. time-slot on Jan. 23. Locklear in booze It’s really and then splitting again. In over: Sinéad her post, O’Connor blames the media’s scrutiny for the breakup. and pills overdose After a brief reconciliation, “Slowly, since we were Sinéad O’Connoragain married, I became very ill split with husband Barry as a result of what was Herridge, she confirms on done to my husband and I her blog. was unable to cope and be- The couple separated af- came depressed,” she ter 16 days of marriage be- writes. fore getting back together METRO ALL PHOTOS GETTY IMAGES Melrose Place actress all smiles as she was discharged from hospital Not a suicide attempt: Parents Heather Locklear is safe at Robles Hospital in Thou- home after being hospital- sand Oaks, Calif. ized late last week for re- Locklear’s parents portedly ingesting a “wanted everybody to life-threatening mix of know that she’s doing well, booze and prescription she’s fine, she’s not in any pills, according to Us Week- danger, she’s healthy,” a ly. hospital spokeswoman Locklear was reportedly says, adding that the ac- chatty and smiling upon tress’ episode was not a sui- Heather Locklear being discharged from Los cide attempt. METRO Celebrity tweets @EllenBarkin @oliviawilde @AlbertBrooks Fox cancelled Allen Gre- Vegas, day gory! Yes! Not feel- 2. Spent 45 Wait, can- ing well. I am mins lost celled What’s YOUCOULD dream- inside hotel. means per- @JonahHill the cutoff WIN A COPY OF ing of a Beginning to manently date for “In 50/50 ON DVD! Costco show signs of dementia due to on tv forever right? Memoriam” at the roast chicken... neon overexposure and piped- Oscars? AVAILABLEINSTORESJANUARY24 in nitrous. Send help. Toregisterandforfullcontestdetailsvisitclubmetro.com 10 metronews.ca family MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 2012 3 Tech-toy heaven As the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show gets underway,Mike Yawney, Citytv’s technology specialist, has scoured the floor for this year’s must-have tech toys Here are a few of his picks Nest:You have never seen a thermostat quite like this. life Designed by Tony Fadell, the man who designed the original iPod, Nest is the world’s first learning thermo- stat. Set the temperature in your home and over the course of a few days Nest will learn your climate prefer- ences and start adjusting the temperature on its own. Since Nest is connected to your WiFi network, you have the ability to control the temperature in your home from just about anywhere using a smartphone or tablet. Nest will also tell you when you’re saving energy to help you save money. You’re going to need that cash, since Pill recall the thermostat will set you back $249. Samsung Upgradeable TVs: Did you buy a TV for Christ- 55-inch OLED TV: This isn’t the first time OLED TVs mas? The reality is that within have shown up at CES, but this is the first year they a few months it will already have reached such a large size. Last year, the ultra-thin Health Canada says a be outdated. Samsung wants televisions hit the 21-inch mark, this year we’re finally recall of Excedrin prod- to make sure you don’t have starting to see 55-inch panels. The TVs are a mere four- ucts announced last buyers remorse this year by mm thin, weigh roughly 7.5 KGs and are very energy week in the United allowing you to continuously efficient. On top of that, the display produces an States now extends to upgrade your television. incredible picture with some of the best colours Many of its 2012 models will Canada. you’ve ever seen. The only real drawback may be the feature a slot on the rear The recall covers all price. A couple of years ago Sony sold an 11-inch mod- where a special upgrade of Excedrin Extra el for $2,100 so you can expect these large panels will module can be inserted. This Strength Caplets and cost you a pretty penny when they hit Canada later means modules with new Excedrin Tension this year. software features, even faster Headache Caplets with processors can be purchased expiration dates of Dec. each year to keep your TV up Lytro Light Field Camera:Forget what you know about traditional cameras –the 20, 2014 or earlier. to date. The updates will cost Lytro camera changes everything. After a picture has been taken the camera The recall was initi- you, but at least you’ll have uses a series of algorithms to let users refocus a picture. Who cares if a picture ated after the U.S. Food the latest and greatest fea- comes out blurry; you can fix it afterward! and Drug Administra- tures on your TV. Focus, refocus and have fun with your tion received reports of pictures. The Lytro light field camera is chipped and broken already available for pre-order. pills. As well, it had re- ports of inconsistent bottle packaging clear- ance practices, which LG Fridge with Blast Chiller: LG has un- could result in the bot- veiled a new line of refrigerators Also at the show tles containing foreign equipped with LCD displays and inter- tablets, caplets or cap- net connectivity. Now your fridge will sules. tell you when you’re running low of certain Thought the days of the THE CANADIAN PRESS types of food and when it’s about to spoil. An- walkman were over? other feature is the blast chiller, which takes Think again. canned drinks to frosty within five minutes. Wine will also fit into the blast chiller and will Sony Walkman Z take seven minutes to reach the perfect tem- Aquos Freestyle:Take your TV everywhere! These TV are so Sony’s answer to the iPod perature. thin and light you can essentially pick them up and move them Touch is the Walkman Z, anywhere in your home, even outside. Wireless streaming en- which runs Android 2.3 ables you to receive both audio and video from your compo- (Gingerbread) and gives nents up to 100 feet away. The 20-inch model sports a battery users access to the pack, giving you true freedom, while the larger models, includ- Android marketplace and ing the 60-inch, still require to be plugged in. hundreds of thousands of apps without having to own an actual Android smartphone. Gmail, maps, books and a selection of Sony services will all be on board when this launches in April in both 16 and 32GB models. Oh, and it Bubble Wrap Kids host urges also plays music! What a overprotective parents to give kids space to grow. concept!

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