Metro Winnipeg - January 15, 2015

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Thursday, January 15, 2015
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1 Tuesday,
February 17, 2015
A STIRRING TWIST
Samsung offered Fahmy family
12pm - 3pm | 5pm - 8pm
ON RISOTTO
to buy Blackberry pinning their Wednesday,
February 18, 2015
for $7.5B: Report hopes on Baird UNTRADITIONAL, BUT STILL
DELICIOUS: THIS TAKE ON 9am - 2pm
Shares of the Canadian company Jailed journalist’s relatives hope THE DISH CALLS FOR BARLEY,
LEEKS AND LEMON
spiked nearly 30 per cent on Egypt visit is ‘fi nale’ of ordeal
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Wednesday after the report PAGE 8 PAGE 6
CAO may get
public review
New position. The EPC accepted Allard’s
motion as information and
Mayor said about 150
sent it to the CAO selection
applications came in committee.
Mayor Brian Bowman said
after the EPC meeting they’ve
received about 150 applica-
BERNICE tions for the CAO position, up
PONTANILLA from the 80 received in the
[email protected] previous go-around under for-
mer mayor Sam Katz.
A committee formed to hire “We’ve had a significantly
the city’s new chief admin- greater number of candidates
istrative officer (CAO) will express interest,” he said,
decide whether the job will adding some applicants stat-
include an annual review that ed that the new mayor and
will be made public, and the council was a reason they’d
councillor behind the idea applied.
says that’s the best place for it. “(This) is great to hear,
Coun. Matt Allard, who is and there definitely seems to
on the CAO-selection com- be an interest in the renewal
mittee, told members of the that’s taking place here at city
executive policy committee hall.”
(EPC) on Wednesday that the Bowman said the commit-
WHAT DO POPCORN, CATS AND hiring committee “would tee is going through the resu-
likely be the best place” for més and will be conducting
his idea of public reviews to interviews “very soon.”
JETS FANS HAVE IN COMMON? be considered. He expects a new CAO will
“We’ve had very positive be in place either in late Feb-
meetings on that committee, ruary or early March.
and I feel that there’s a real The current CAO, Deepak
collaborative spirit there and Joshi, stepped into the role
Winnipeg Jets fan and local comedian Aaron Merke grabbed international attention Wednesday after a popcorn-fl inging, shirt-ripping dance there’s definitely an appre- on an interim basis after Phil
he performed dressed as a cat Tuesday night made the rounds on social media. Story, page 3. TREVOR HAGAN/THE CANADIAN PRESS ciation for my ideas there,” Sheegl resigned in October of
he said. 2013.
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Thursday, January 15, 2015
Health care
Manitoba adds
new medications
to pharmacare
program coverage
The Manitoba government
is adding 94 new medica-
tions to its pharmacare
program, including two N
that treat diabetes.
Some of the other
drugs that will be covered
are for multiple sclerosis,
hepatitis C, schizophre-
nia and cystic fibrosis. E
The government says
the added coverage is
expected to save Mani-
toba families $3.9 million
a year. W
Coverage for the new
drugs will begin on Jan.
19.
Pharmacare is a uni-
versal prescription-drug
program that covers 100
per cent of eligible drug
costs once an income- Mayor Brian Bowman said he’s confi dent the cash needed to fi nance the second phase of the city’s rapid-transit expansion will be found in the budget process. S
based deductible is BERNICE PONTANILLA/METRO
reached.
‘Never wavered’ on
THE CANADIAN PRESS
Fair share
Show me the PST
money: Mayor transit: Bowman
Mayor Brian Bowman
issued a challenge to
the NDP leadership
candidates to tell Win-
nipeggers if they’re in
favour of giving the city City hall. Mayor Mayor Brian Bowman re- Quoted
a “fair share” of the PST sponded on Wednesday to
confi dent money will
increase. comments made by Coun.
“I am committed to rapid transit and Phase 2 of
“That money was be found, reaffi rms John Orlikow (River Heights-
raised for the purposes Fort Garry) following Tuesday’s rapid transit. Those discussions are ongoing, and
his commitment to
of infrastructure, and property and development we’re considering diff erent options that will make
it’s only right that that completing the city’s committee meeting.
their way into the budget process.”
money flow where it’s Orlikow said council is on
transit projects
being collected, and the hunt for the $19.7 million Mayor Brian Bowman
that’s predominately a year, starting in 2020, which
in Winnipeg,” Bowman will be needed to finance the committee meeting, adding mined to see the project go for-
said. BERNICE $590-million project. He also that discussions on where the ward and reaffirmed his cam-
“We’re being short- PONTANILLA stated that he doesn’t favour money could come from start- paign pledge of “developing
changed right now. We [email protected] the dogleg route. ed only days after he and coun- a long-term vision and imple-
need those funds. There’s Bowman said he’s confident cillors were sworn in. mentation of an actual rapid-
a leadership race; it’d The city’s top elected official that the cash will be found in “Those discussions are transit system.”
be a great opportunity said that, despite concerns the current budget process and ongoing, and we’re consid- “I’m absolutely committed
for all of the leadership raised by a councillor, he’s supports the project as is — in- ering different options that to completing Phase 2. That’s
candidates to pledge that committed to seeing the cluding the dogleg route. will make their way into the never wavered and that should
Winnipeggers are going second phase of rapid transit “I am committed to rapid budget process, and so there not be questioned,” he said.
to get their fair share.” completed and believes the transit and Phase 2 of rapid has been a lot of work on it to “This mayor, and I believe
METRO money to finance it will be transit,” said Bowman after date.” this council, are committed to
found. Wednesday’s executive policy Bowman said he’s deter- seeing it through.”
Who is Winnipeg’s popcorn-tossing ‘Fur Coat Guy’?
An impromptu arm-flailing, painted cat makeup on his notifications.” Merke, who moonlights
popcorn-tossing few seconds face, styled his hair into cat The dance was broadcast as an improv comedian, said
of dance on the Jumbotron ears and donned a fur coat live across the country dur- the dance came to him on
at Tuesday’s home game has before heading to the game. ing the game, and Merke the spot.
earned one Winnipeg Jets “I was just going to have said the social-media atten- “I was like, ‘What do I
fan international attention. fun,” Merke told Metro on tion soon followed. got? I got popcorn.’ So I just
The man dubbed ‘Fur Wednesday as a Vine of his Vice Sports has since writ- chucked it everywhere,” he
Coat Guy’ is actually 38-year- unique dance made the ten a short story, and The As- said.
old Winnipeg social worker rounds on social media. sociated Press put a photo For more of Merke’s hu-
Aaron Merke, who said he “It’s been pretty crazy.... of him in the throes of his mour, check out his improv
didn’t plan on becoming I had to turn my phone off dance on its wire Wednes- group’s website buckocom-
Aaron Merke CONTRIBUTED Internet famous when he last night because of all the day. edy.com. SHANE GIBSON/METRO
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Thursday, January 15, 2015
Singer’s northern trip inspired
spontaneous poetry collection
Burning Daylight. would read stories to each C Fellows Trio
Tour of the Yukon other, with Fellows choos-
ing such Klondike adven-
with husband yielded
tures as Jack London’s To The C Fellows Trio, featur-
the inspiration for Build a Fire. ing Fellows and cellists
Christine Fellow’s sixth “He (London) has that Alex McMaster and Leanne
real muscular style of writ- Zacharias, plays the West
album, poetry book ing. It’s super over the top, End Cultural Centre on
very bravado, very male, Friday. Opening the show
like man against nature,” is Shotgun Jimmie. Tickets
Fellows said. “I guess my are $20 at the WECC, Music
Winnipeg singer-songwriter knee-jerk reaction to every- Trader, Winnipeg Folk
Christine Fellows answered thing like that is to just Festival Music Store and
the call of the wild. throw it back, respond to Ticketmaster (plus fees) or
Fellows’ sixth studio al- it, but change the gender to $25 at the door. Showtime
bum and first poetry collec- female. Even doing some- is 8 p.m.
tion, Burning Daylight, re- thing small like that, the
leased in September via ARP story comes out differently.
Books, started taking shape I wrote my own narrative Film Board project.
in February 2011. That year, alongside his.” “A little switch turned
she and her husband, The The album portion of on in my brain, and I did all
Weakerthans frontman Burning Daylight features this writing in anticipation
John K. Samson, toured the such Jack London-sourced Burning Daylight, the new album and book of poetry by Winnipeg singer-songwriter Christine Fellows, was inspired of that trip,” Fellows said.
Yukon as Dawson City Music titles as Call of the Wild, In by her experiences in the north. COURTESY CHRIS GILES “I almost didn’t need to
Festival’s songwriters-in- a Far Country and To Build go, because the anticipation
residence. a Fire. as “minimalist Klondike That idea was eventually ual artist Alicia Smith were of going somewhere that in-
Every night while visit- In a press release, Fel- show tunes,” as she initially scrapped, but the idea for a invited to take a trip to Ig- sane was almost enough for
ing the land of the midnight lows describes her re- planned for Burning Day- book of poems and collages loolik, Nunavut, in October me. But I’m so glad I went.”
sun, Fellows and Samson sponses to London’s stories light to be musical theatre. was born when she and vis- 2013, as part of a National JARED STORY/FOR METRO
Jets tight-lipped about
plans for tossed hats
Now that scoring hat tricks
at MTS Centre seems to be,
well, old hat for the Win-
nipeg Jets, the team has a
problem.
And it’s a good problem
to have: what to do with the
hats fans rain down in cele-
bration?
On Wednesday, a day
after Mathieu Perreault
scored the team’s second
hat trick since their return
to Winnipeg (then tapping
in a fourth one for good
measure), Jets spokesman
Scott Brown told Metro it’s
something the team has
been talking about since
Bryan Little scored their
first back in December. Dozens of hats were thrown onto the ice at MTS Centre on Tuesday after
“There are a number of Mathieu Perreault scored a hat trick against the Florida Panthers.
ideas that we’re kicking BRIAN MARSH/FOR METRO
around now,” explained
Brown, who is keeping the for now. The team encourages
options the team is consid- While the options are fans to toss their hats onto
ering, ahem, under his hat, pondered — some teams the ice when a player scores
donate the hats to charities, a hat trick, but Brown
while others, such as the warned that, once the cap is
Quoted
Columbus Blue Jackets, dis- thrown, don’t expect to get
play them publicly in their it back.
“There are a number
arenas — Brown said the Returning fans’ hats
of ideas that we’re hats that have so far been after a game would “create
kicking around.” tossed are all being stored a logistical nightmare” he
somewhere at the MTS Cen- said.
Jets spokesperson Scott Brown tre. SHANE GIBSON/METRO
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Thursday, January 15, 2015
Staff slashed
jointly by the Conference of The researchers assign came to power, the number
Defence Associations Institute much of the blame to staff- of employees versed in the
Damning report
and the MacDonald-Laurier ing cuts by both Liberal and complex requirements and
issued on military Institute. Conservative governments, as approval process inched up
Critics say it will be hard well as new reporting require- to 4,355 by 2009, but many
procurement
for the Conservatives to dis- ments introduced by the positions remained vacant
miss the exhaustive analysis, Harper government. because of the Afghan war.
A study of Canada’s dysfunc- which is based on more than There were 9,000 staff Then the Harper govern-
tional military procurement 50 interviews and a workshop dedicated to buying military ment’s budget cuts took hold.
system became a political foot- with retired and currently equipment in the early 1990s; “The situation worsened
ball Wednesday as opposition serving acquisition officials, by 2004, over the course of due to the Strategic Review
parties pounced on the prem- political staff and consultants. successive Liberal budgets, and the Deficit Reduction Ac-
ise that delays and miscues The report provides an that number had been slashed tion Plan (DRAP), which (cut)
were due in part to the Harper unvarnished look at a system by more than half to about 400 positions through the end
government’s policies. long beset by delays, cancella- 4,200. of 2014/2015,” says the report.
The report was written tions and cost overruns. After the Conservatives THE CANADIAN PRESS
Jesse Brown, founder of media website Canadaland.
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Jailed journalist’s family pins
hopes on Baird’s visit to Egypt
Mohamed Fahmy to their home in Montreal. Calls for clemency
“I believe Mr. Baird’s visit
case. Meanwhile, a
should be the finale,” Fahmy’s Minister
government official brother Adel said. “We are
in Ottawa was urging genuinely hoping that he denounces
reaches a resolution and an-
tempered expectations nounces that Mohamed will be flogging of
deported to Canada.”
Baird will be meeting with Saudi blogger
The family of an Egyptian-Can- his Egyptian counterpart
adian journalist imprisoned in Sameh Shoukry on Thursday,
Cairo is hoping that Foreign where he is expected to raise Foreign Affairs Minister
Affairs Minister John Baird’s Fahmy’s case, after which the John Baird has publicly
visit to the city on Thursday will two will participate in a news denounced the flogging of
mark “the finale” to Mohamed conference. It is there that a Saudi blogger, calling for
Fahmy’s quest for freedom. Fahmy’s family hopes for some clemency in the case.
But a government official in indication that their ordeal is In a statement, the min-
Ottawa was tempering expecta- nearing an end. ister responded for the first
tions Wednesday that Baird’s But a government official, time to the sentence handed
visit would immediately trigger speaking on condition of ano- down last May to blogger
Fahmy’s release. nymity, said that things may Raif Badawi, who received
Fahmy has spent over a year not proceed quite that quickly. 10 years in prison and 1,000
in prison after he and two col- Baird’s two-day trip to Egypt, lashes after he criticized
leagues were arrested while the official stressed, is part of Saudi Arabia’s clerics on a
working Al Jazeera English. the country’s regular engage- liberal blog he founded. The
After a trial widely denounced ment with Egypt “writ large.” first 50 of those lashes were
as a sham, the three were con- “We’re not expecting neces- delivered last Friday; Badawi
victed on terror-related charges sarily that (Baird) is going to an- is expected to receive 50
they vehemently deny. nounce the release or anything more every week for the
Baird’s visit to Cairo comes like that when he’s there,” said next 19 weeks.
at a sensitive time. A retrial was the official. “This punishment is a
ordered this month for Fahmy It is unclear just how Fah- violation of human dignity
and his colleagues, and Egypt’s my’s deportation process might and freedom of expression,
president has announced a play out in practical terms. If he and we call for clemency
new decree that gives him the is deported as a convicted crim- in this case,” Baird said in a
power to deport foreigners con- inal under Egyptian law, it’s not statement.
victed or accused of crimes. known when he will become Marc Garneau and Paul
Those factors have given a free man in Canada. But his Dewar, the foreign affairs
Fahmy and his family hope that family is staying positive. critics for the Liberals and
they will soon be able to return THE CANADIAN PRESS NDP, respectively, called on
Baird to publicly condemn
the action. They said it was
Egyptian law not enough that Canada’s
religious freedom ambassa-
“The law is very clear that if this person is not a threat
dor and development minis-
Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird, right, is met by the governor of Luxor, Major General Tarek Saad Eddin, on his to national security, then he could be deported, tried or ter have already spoken out
arrival Wednesday to the airport in Luxor, Egypt. Baird is scheduled to meet Egyptian officials in Cairo on Thursday finish his sentence at any time of the judicial process.” against Badawi’s treatment.
and is expected to bring up the case of Canadian-Egyptian journalist for Al-Jazeera English, Mohammed Fahmy, who
THE CANADIAN PRESS
is imprisoned in Egypt on terror-related charges along with two other journalists. HAGGAG SALAMA/THE CANADIAN PRESS Abdel, the brother of jailed Canadian-Egyptian journalist Mohamed Fahmy
Vancouver
Artist stops sending portraits of Syria. Reports say Ottawa
Woman attacked
man killed fighting for ISIL
missing, murdered women to PM
twice by same
man: Police
As reports emerged that former
A Toronto illustrator who had Harper to call a national public University of Ottawa Student
started sending a portrait of a inquiry into the issue. “After Vancouver police say a John Maguire had been killed
missing or murdered aborig- extensive conversation with woman was attacked twice while fighting in Syria, the
inal woman to Prime Minister a group formed of families of in a week by the same man. federal Public Safety Ministry
Stephen Harper every day has some of the missing and mur- William Bassett Jr., 39, warned of the dangers of join-
abandoned his project after dered women, I believe I cannot has been charged with two ing the Islamic State of Iraq and
hearing from relatives of vic- continue the project in a way counts of sexual assault and the Levant (ISIL). An ISIL fighter from Ottawa, believed
tims. that respects these women’s one count of kidnapping “While we cannot speak to be John Maguire. METRO FILE
“If some of the families autonomy or a way that helps and unlawful confinement. about specific cases, our Gov-
find it inappropriate or find it rather than harms the families Bassett was arrested May 17, ernment is fighting terrorist Maguire came to national
is harming efforts, there is no of these thousands of women,” 2014, after police responded groups who could pose a threat media attention when he ap-
reason for me to do it,” Evan Munday wrote in a statement. Evan Munday’s illustration of Danita to a report of a sex assault to Canadians,” said an email peared in a pro-ISIL video say-
Munday, 34, said. Munday said he heard from Faith Bigeagle, the subject of his where the victim was al- from Public Safety Canada. ing that while he grew up like
Munday began tweeting the group over the weekend second portrait. TWITTER.COM legedly confined overnight. The reports were based on most Canadians playing hock-
his ink-drawn portraits of mis- and they shared their con- A week later, the same vic- a tweet from Twitter user and ey, guitar and attending univer-
sing or murdered indigenous cerns that he had drawn the attention he was getting was tim was reported missing. apparent ISIL supporter Abu sity he had come to support the
women Jan. 5, saying he want- portraits without seeking their detracting from indigenous-led THANDI FLETCHER/METRO Saman, who called Maguire radical Islamist cause.
ed to help increase pressure on permission and that the media efforts. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE and another man martyrs. METRO IN OTTAWA
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Java Sea. Singapore navy
finds AirAsia fuselage
A Singaporean navy ship has
found the crashed AirAsia
plane’s fuselage, a 30-metre-
long section with a wing at-
tached, in the Java Sea, author-
ities said Wednesday.
Images taken by a remote-
controlled vehicle showed
parts of the plane’s wing and
words on the fuselage, Singa-
pore Defence Minister Ng Eng
Hen said on his Facebook page.
He said Indonesian search offi-
cials have been notified so they
can begin recovery operations. The wreckage of AirAsia Flight QZ
The fuselage section that 8501 lying on the Java Sea floor.
was found is 30 metres long MINDEF/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
and 10 metres wide with a
height of three metres, Indo- three kilometres from the tail,
nesia’s National Search and which was found earlier, and
Rescue Agency chief Henry 800 metres from the black
Bambang Soelistyo said. boxes, at a depth of about 28
“The fuselage with a wing metres.
still attached on it was found The plane carrying 162
in the priority search area and people disappeared from radar Pope urges forgiveness, reconciliation in war-torn Sri Lanka
has been confirmed as part of on Dec. 28, less than halfway
the AirAsia plane,” Soelistyo into a two-hour flight from Pope Francis blesses a child as he arrives in Madhu, Sri Lanka, on Wednesday. Pope Francis travelled to the jungles of war-torn northern Sri Lanka to
said. Surabaya, Indonesia, to Singa- show solidarity with the victims of the country’s 25-year civil war and urge forgiveness and reconciliation “for all the evil which this land has known.”
He added it was some pore. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ALESSANDRA TARANTINO/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Yemen’s al-Qaida claims
Sex abuse. Model pursues
charges against Bill Cosby
responsibility for attack
A model who claims Bill Cosby ing a news conference Wed-
drugged and sexually abused nesday. Her attorney, Spencer
her at the Playboy Mansion Kuvin, said she came forward
met with Los Angeles police after hearing about other
on Wednesday to pursue crim- women describing abuse by Paris newspaper Crackdown
Quoted
inal charges against the com- Cosby and realizing she might
assault. Extremists
edian over the 2008 incident. have a valid criminal case. “Congratulations to you, the nation 54 arrested for
An attorney for Chloe Go- An email to Cosby’s attor- warn of even more
ins said after the meeting that ney, Marty Singer, was not im- tragedies to come of Islam, for this revenge that has hate speech,
his client is the first woman mediately returned. soothed our pain.”
accusing Cosby of sexual Kuvin declined to discuss glorifying
misconduct whose case may what Goins told detectives but Nasr al-Ansi, a top commander of al-Qaida, in a video posted to the
fall within the statute of lim- restated her allegations that Yemen’s al-Qaida branch on group’s Twitter account terrorism
itations. More than 15 women Cosby drugged her at a 2008 Wednesday claimed it car-
have accused Cosby of sexual event at the Playboy Man- ried out last week’s deadly two gunmen massacred 12 American cleric Anwar al-Aw-
misconduct, including sev- sion. Goins does not know assault on a French satirical people — was in “revenge for laki, who was killed in a U.S. France ordered prosecu-
eral who say the comedian what happened while she newspaper to avenge car- the prophet.” drone strike in Yemen in Sep- tors around the country
drugged and raped them in was blacked out but says she toons depicting the Prophet He warned of more “tra- tember 2011, had arranged to crack down on hate
incidents dating back at least awoke to find herself naked Muhammad, as it called for gedies and terror” in the fu- the attack. speech, anti-Semitism and
four decades. and Cosby over her. unity among jihadi ranks and ture, saying “you will look for If confirmed, that would glorifying terrorism and
Goins did not speak dur- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS vowed more attacks on the peace and stability but you mean the Paris attack was announced Wednesday
West. will not find it because of the years in the making. But Al- that it was sending an
Mozambique Texas In an 11-minute video deeds of those carrying out Ansi produced no evidence aircraft carrier to the Mid-
posted on the group’s Twit- martyrdom operations and to support his claims, leaving east to work more closely
ter account, Nasr al-Ansi, a heroes of lone jihad.” lingering questions over the with the U.S.-led coali-
Flood displaces At least 10 dead
top commander of al-Qaida Al-Ansi said AQAP “chose exact relationship between tion fighting militants
thousands after bus carrying in the Arabian Peninsula, the target, laid out the plan the attackers and the militant from the Islamic State of
said the attack on the office and financed the operation.” group’s leadership in Yemen. Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)
prisoners crashes
Heavy flooding in Mozam- of Charlie Hebdo — in which He said the radical Yemeni- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS group.
bique has killed 10 people Authorities said 54
and displaced nearly 20,000 A county sheriff says at least Charlie sends 1,500 copies to Canada people had been arrested
more, the government 10 people are dead after a for hate speech and de-
disaster-management office bus carrying state prisoners fending terrorism in the
said Wednesday. skidded off an icy highway The Canadian distributor for that are usually delivered for one store in Toronto, but Ver- last week. The crackdown
Seven people died trying overpass in West Texas, slid the satirical magazine Charlie distribution each week. meersch says distribution will came as Charlie Hebdo’s
to cross the Licungo river down an embankment and Hebdo says 1,500 copies of the But he says the increased be more widespread this time. defiant new issue sold out
in the Zambezia province, collided with a train. Ector latest issue — which features production likely won’t be Copies will be sent to 135 before dawn around Paris,
four of them dying when County Sheriff Mark Don- a caricature of the Prophet enough to meet demand for stores across the country, the with scuffles at kiosks
their car was swept away, aldson says the overpass on Muhammad on the cover — the issue from Canadians who vast majority of which will be over dwindling copies
said Rita Almeida, the Interstate 20 was slick with will be available in different want to see the latest copy of in Quebec. of the satirical weekly
disaster-management office ice Wednesday morning parts of the country Friday. a magazine at the centre of an Stores will receive an aver- that fronted the Prophet
spokeswoman. when the bus left the road- Louis-Philip Vermeersch, international tragedy. age of 10 copies apiece, Ver- Muhammad anew on its
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS way. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS director of sales for LMPI, says Charlie Hebdo is usually meersch said. cover.
that’s up from the 100 issues available only in Quebec and THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Thursday, January 15, 2015
Samsung taking a run
at BlackBerry: Report
Shares jump on TSX. In a news release, the Wat-
Purported offer
Canadian company’s erloo, Ont.,-based firm said it $7.5B
“has not engaged in discus-
stock rose to highest sions with Samsung with re-
spect to any possible offer.”
level since early 2012
“BlackBerry’s policy is not
Samsung Electronics Co.’s purported offer
to comment on rumours or
to buy Canadian company BlackBerry
speculation, and accordingly
BlackBerry is downplaying it does not intend to com-
a report that smartphone ment further,” it said. over the possibility of buy-
maker Samsung Electronics The comments follow a ing BlackBerry for as much as European court backs London’s black cabs
Co. Ltd. has approached the report from Reuters news $7.5 billion US.
Canadian company about a agency which said Samsung The offer would be a pre-
possible takeover. has met with executives mium of 38 to 60 per cent A taxi driver uses a bus lane in central London Wednesday. The iconic black cabs, under pressure from taxi app
over BlackBerry’s stock price Uber and cheaper taxis known as minicabs, got some good news Wednesday: They won’t have to share their
before the report emerged. right to drive in bus lanes with rivals. A European Union court dismissed a challenge by private taxi firm Ad-
BlackBerry shares jumped dison Lee, which argued that the rule violated European competition laws. LEFTERIS PITARAKIS/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
nearly 30 per cent after the
report was released. Its stock
closed ahead $3.42 to $15.02 Market Minute Boston
on the Toronto Stock Ex-
change. In New York, Black- TSX
DOLLAR 14,084.43 (- 102.73) Uber to share data
Berry shares closed up $2.89
US at $12.60 US. 83.72¢
In November, BlackBerry Uber has reached an
and Samsung announced a (+ 0.07¢) OIL agreement with Boston to
$48.48 US (+$2.59)
partnership where the Wat- share information about
erloo, Ont.-based company the trips passengers take
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news report says smartphone maker Samsung Electronics has offered to buy the Android operating system day. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
the company for as much as $7.5 billion US. GEOFF ROBINS/THE CANADIAN PRESS FILE in 2015. THE CANADIAN PRESS
Auto lenders use black box to
Test Skin Care Products
track buyers with poor credit
MEN & WOMEN NEEDED TO TEST SKIN PRODUCTS
ONLY 15 STUDY VISITS A little-known black box Safety issues terrupters have been on the
buried in the guts of many roads in Canada for years,
vehicles on Canada’s roads PassTime USA has sold tens but little has been said about
Hill Top Research is seeking healthy makes drivers with poor of thousands of starter- how they’re used and the
credit the hapless targets of interrupters in Canada. information lenders can col-
men & women to help us evaluate what is becoming a 24-hour lect.
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wallet-sized box is popular questions are being raised
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time and travel.
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You may qualify if you: the starter. The GPS function makes them denies that’s
also allows for tracking the even possible.
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Samsung’s $90 phone goes on sale
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started selling a $90 US smart- including its flagship Galaxy poned. The delays were seen
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phone in India on Wednesday series. as a setback to Samsung’s ef-
that runs on the company’s The smartphone is the forts to have control over the
Study Appointments available on: January 21st, 2015 Tizen software, its first major latest to join the growing list content and services that are
break from Google’s Android of Samsung’s Tizen family. used on its devices.
operating system in the mo- Last year, Samsung launched a Although Samsung is the
bile-phone market. camera and smartwatches. world’s largest maker of tele-
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Research sale for 5,700 rupees ($92), one said its Internet-connected ware has not matched its hard-
Winnipeg of the cheapest phones that televisions will use Tizen from ware prowess. The company
204-480-7426 Samsung has launched. this year, allowing the TVs to has a history of withdrawing
With the Tizen operating easily synchronize with Tizen apps or services that received a
system, Samsung is trying to mobile devices. big marketing push, including
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lessen its dependence on An- The Z1 smartphone was un- ending the short-lived mobile
droid software, which powers veiled in June, but its launch, operating system Bada.
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