Metro Edmonton - January 7, 2015

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Wednesday, January 7, 2015
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Edmonton mourns murder victims
‘You can’t bring back Domestic abuse
time.’ Friends, family
Police seeing
gather to say goodbye
to the victims of city’s more violent
worst mass killing
abuse cases
LEAH Edmonton police are seeing
HOLOIDAY more violent domestic
[email protected] abuse cases, even though
the number of incidents has
Six pale wooden caskets sat remained consistent over
at the front of a funeral home the last three years.
chapel Tuesday, each topped On the heels of the city’s
with a framed picture of a smil- worst mass murder, one
ing face — victims in Edmon- that stemmed from do-
ton’s worst mass murder. mestic violence, police are
More than 100 friends, urging anyone in an abusive
family and members of the situation to come forward.
Vietnamese community slowly Police say it’s unclear
filled the Howard & McBride why the level of violence is
Chapel of Chimes Funeral getting more severe.
Home to honour Thuy Tien “I have a theory,” EPS
Truong, Elvis Lam, Thanh Ha Domestic Offender Crimes
Thi Truong, Valentina Nguyen, Caskets are seen during the funerals for homicide victims in Edmonton on Tuesday. Eight people were murdered during a murder-suicide Section Staff Sgt. Sean
Thi Dau Le and Van Dan by Phu Lam on Dec. 30, 2014. JASON FRANSON/THE CANADIAN PRESS Armstrong said. “There may
Truong, who were shot and be some reluctance of vic-
killed on Dec. 29 by Phu Lam. tims of domestic violence
Family friend Neo Tran said she’s really nice, always mak- “My mom knows them Tuesday’s service to show their happy moments shared with to come forward or don’t
it was a very sad day for every- ing coffee and food for people. because we used to live in the support. his friends when they’re gone is know where to go to get
one. After working with Thuy That’s the kind of people they same neighbourhood,” he said. Cuong Cao said the murders what they would have wanted. help or support, so they al-
Tien Truong for the last 10 are,” he said. “It’s been really hard for my affected the entire commun- “I guess, tragically, life is like low things to grow and get
years, he said it’s still unbeliev- Tran said his family knew mom, that’s why she didn’t ity, even those, like him, who that. You can’t bring back time. worse and that’s when they
able that he would be attending Truong and her mother, Thi come today.” didn’t know the victims. You can just hope that every- have no choice and they
her funeral. Dau Le, when they lived in Viet- Along with those who knew “It’s a horrible story,” he thing is good for the future and have to come to police.”
“In our company we called nam, before they immigrated the victim, other members said. that’s what mama wants — she LEAH HOLOIDAY/ METRO
(Truong) ‘mama’ because … to Canada. of the community attended For Tran, treasuring the doesn’t want us to be sad.”
2 EDMONTON metronews.ca
Wednesday, January 7, 2015
Strongly-worded report
MLA. Blakeman says progressive merger won’t happen
Ethics boss clears
Dirks ‘reluctantly’ While MLAs on the right Blakeman was unavail- change.
seemed to come together be- able for an interview, but in “I fear for even the few
Education Minister Gordon fore Christmas, MLA Laurie the post, she said she has progressive MLAs we have
Dirks’ approval of modular Blakeman said it’s unlikely often questioned why the now, so don’t wait for some-
classrooms for a school in you’ll see the same thing on parties don’t work closer one else to fix this,” she said.
his constituency while run- the left. together. NDP leader Rachel Notley
ning in a byelection last “I’ve tried for years and “I think sometimes we and Liberal leader Raj Sher-
fall appears to have been there’s no budging. Each spend more effort fighting man have both ruled out a
done for “purely political party has a core of support- each other than the PCs or merger, but Alberta Party
S reasons” but didn’t violate ers that believe their party is Wildrose,” she wrote. leader Greg Clark said he
the letter of the law, ac- the best, the one and only,” She encouraged people would listen to his party’s
cording to Alberta’s Ethics Edmonton Centre MLA Laurie the veteran Liberal MLA post- to get involved in politics if membership.
Commissioner. Blakeman METRO FILE ed online. they want to see this kind of RYAN TUMILTY/METRO
In a strongly worded
W report published Tuesday,
commissioner Marguerite
Trussler said she “reluc- High Level to get
tantly” concluded that
Dirks’ actions didn’t
violate the Conflicts of
Interests Act.
“However, having
E found that Minister Dirks new light programs
did not violate the letter of
the Act does not mean that
his actions with respect
to modular classrooms at
N William Reid School were
appropriate,” Trussler Big canvas. Artists
wrote.
Three ethics complaints pitch council ideas
were filed against Dirks in for program
October, based in part on
a Metro article quoting his
campaign manager Alan
Hallman, who defended The High Level Bridge will soon
the then-unelected minis- be awash in more than just Oil-
ter’s decision to green-light ers’ colours or charity events, as
the modulars at Wil- the Edmonton Arts Council is
liam Reid ahead of other looking to create 10 new light-
schools that ranked higher ing programs.
on a Calgary Board of The arts council has put out
Education priority list for a $30,000 call for proposals for
additional classroom space. an artist or group of artists to
“The minister, he’s create new lighting designs, in-
going to look after Calgary- cluding a “dynamic” program
Elbow, (and) made a that will be unveiled on July 1.
stand,” Hallman said on The council’s public art dir- One of the new lighting designs will be unveiled July 1, while the rest will be unveiled over the course of 2015 and
Oct. 24, a comment the ector Katherine Kerr said now 2016. METRO FILE
ethics commissioner cited that the city bridge has lights,
in her report. it’s time to see what artists can or any other time the bridge is there can be more energy,” she
Alberta NDP leader At a glance do with it. closed. said. While the artists are being
Rachel Notley, who “It’s just like a piano and the When the bridge is open, given wide latitude, the call for
filed one of the initial artist will play the keys,” she the city aims to keep the colour proposals notes there won’t be
complaints last fall, said (cid:580)(cid:3) (cid:50)(cid:255)(cid:251)(cid:254)(cid:302)(cid:255)(cid:274)(cid:251)(cid:3)(cid:243)(cid:3)(cid:292)(cid:273)(cid:3)(cid:71)(cid:292)(cid:279)(cid:268)(cid:279)(cid:305)(cid:316)(cid:3) said. “We’re really excited to changes slower, so as to not dis- any words or characters.
Tuesday the report shows (cid:315)(cid:255)(cid:268)(cid:268)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:292)(cid:209)(cid:255)(cid:274)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:254)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:296)(cid:305)(cid:221)(cid:221)(cid:229)(cid:296)(cid:296)(cid:238)(cid:305)(cid:268)(cid:3) see how it will evolve.” tract drivers, but Kerr said the “Written messages and bill-
how weak Alberta’s ethics (cid:209)(cid:292)(cid:302)(cid:255)(cid:296)(cid:302)(cid:3)(cid:279)(cid:274)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:254)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:296)(cid:279)(cid:238)(cid:302)(cid:315)(cid:209)(cid:292)(cid:229)(cid:3) The public call is asking program for Canada Day can board-type figurative art are not
law actually is. (cid:302)(cid:254)(cid:209)(cid:302)(cid:3)(cid:221)(cid:305)(cid:292)(cid:292)(cid:229)(cid:274)(cid:302)(cid:268)(cid:317)(cid:3)(cid:221)(cid:279)(cid:274)(cid:302)(cid:292)(cid:279)(cid:268)(cid:296)(cid:3) for nine programs that can be be more dynamic. “You can permitted for this program,”
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metronews.ca EDMONTON 3
Wednesday, January 7, 2015
Airdrie MLA. Anderson
won’t run in next election
An Alberta Conservative Crossed floor twice
MLA who crossed the floor
twice says he won’t run in
the next election. Anderson was first elected
Rob Anderson, who rep- in 2008 as a Conservative,
resents the riding of Airdrie, but crossed the floor to join
announced the news on his the Wildrose Party in 2010.
Facebook page late Monday
night. (cid:580)(cid:3) (cid:39)(cid:274)(cid:3)(cid:21)(cid:229)(cid:221)(cid:229)(cid:273)(cid:220)(cid:229)(cid:292)(cid:550)(cid:3)(cid:254)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:209)(cid:274)(cid:225)(cid:3)
The post says that he met (cid:229)(cid:255)(cid:251)(cid:254)(cid:302)(cid:3)(cid:96)(cid:255)(cid:268)(cid:225)(cid:292)(cid:279)(cid:296)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:55)(cid:50)(cid:5)(cid:296)(cid:550)(cid:3)
with Premier Jim Prentice (cid:255)(cid:274)(cid:221)(cid:268)(cid:305)(cid:225)(cid:255)(cid:274)(cid:251)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:254)(cid:229)(cid:274)(cid:3)(cid:268)(cid:229)(cid:209)(cid:225)(cid:229)(cid:292)(cid:3)
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know he wouldn’t be run- (cid:302)(cid:254)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:248)(cid:279)(cid:279)(cid:292)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:279)(cid:3)(cid:265)(cid:279)(cid:255)(cid:274)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:254)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:3)
ning again. (cid:83)(cid:279)(cid:292)(cid:255)(cid:229)(cid:296)(cid:553)
Anderson says in his Fa-
cebook post that he and
his wife will pursue careers “I will spend my remain-
in the private sector while ing time as MLA continuing
spending more time with to work on establishing 24-
their four boys, aged five to hour health care services in
10. Airdrie, improving condi-
“Serving as the MLA for tions for seniors at Airdrie’s
Airdrie (and Airdrie-Chester- Bethany Care Centre, and
mere prior to 2012) has been assisting Premier Prentice
one of the greatest experien- with what will be a very
ces and honours of my life. challenging and import-
So many of my most cher- ant budget during a time of Cancer survivor Maria Lovsin created a beaded journey for her two-year battle with leukemia. LUCY HAINES/FOR METRO
ished friendships and mem- great economic uncertainty
‘These messages
ories stem from my time in for our province.”
this role,” he wrote. THE CANADIAN PRESS
Three incidents Curbside service
RCMP issue Christmas tree can lift a kid’s spirit’
warning after cars pickup for
left running stolen Edmontonians
St. Albert RCMP are warn- ’Tis the season to retire
ing residents about a string that Christmas tree as January awareness pital is the impetus behind teens to see that someone is
Donations per month
of car thefts in the city after the city announces tree campaign. Blood the Canadian Blood Services 4,000 thinking about them,” said
three cars left running were collection will kick off January awareness campaign Stollery child life specialist Ali-
donors offer notes of
stolen from area driveways. Jan. 9. — where an anonymous note son Naylor. “The beaded jour-
The first vehicle was Residents are asked to support to Stollery of “get well soon,” “thinking of ney is already emotional for
reported missing from a leave their natural Christ- you,” or “you are cared for” can families, but the notes are an
cancer patients Canadian Blood Services in Edmonton
driveway just after 7 a.m. mas tree on the curb like be as meaningful as the blood added connection and mem-
collects about 4,000 whole blood dona-
Jan. 6. The owner of the their regular garbage itself. ory on that journey.”
tions each month. There are some 1,000
GMC truck eventually pickup and collectors “There are no words to say appointments still available in January. Regular blood donor Wil-
recovered it nearby. Police aim to pick up the trees LUCY how important blood is — it liam Tigor said he’s glad
believe the thief ditched it within three days. HAINES has saved my life,” said 16-year- to have the chance to offer
due to mechanical issues. The city asks people [email protected] old Maria Lovsin, a former Stol- that kids with cancer receive more to a sick kid. “It’s tough
Two other vehicles left to leave the tree on its lery patient who received at — part of a visual storytelling enough to be an adult in hospi-
running were reported mis- side and to cut extra-large Making a connection between least 15 units of blood during tool for every blood product, tal, but maybe these messages
sing shortly after 7:15 a.m. trees into two-metre those who donate blood and her two-year battle with leuk- needle poke or MRI a child gets can lift a kid’s spirit — give
and 8:15 a.m. METRO lengths. METRO the cancer patients they help emia. during their cancer journey. them motivation to feel bet-
at the Stollery Children’s Hos- The notes join the beads “It’s special for kids and ter,” he said.
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Wednesday, January 7, 2015
Bride can keep in-laws’ dowry
after split from groom, judge says
Court battle. Groom’s dismissed the husband’s that the evidence did not sup-
family’s claims for an order port the allegations.
family gave his bride that the bride, 23-year-old Sha- “The gift was made without
half-ownership of a kiba Banifatemi, transfer her any expectation of remunera-
portion of the property back to tion but with the expectation
$1-million Ottawa home,
her ex’s parents. that Shakiba would marry Ah-
now source of a dispute The judge also dismissed mad, which occurred,” Smith
claims for orders that she reim- said in his reasons for judg-
burse them for the cost of the ment. “The parties entered
She was a beautiful, young ex- wedding — around $50,000, into a valid marriage, which
change student from Iran. He the groom’s mother says — was consummated, and they
was a handsome, well-spoken and return any wedding gifts lived together as man and wife
Canadian from a well-heeled she received. for approximately one year
Iranian family in Ottawa. According to the judge’s and a half.”
They met in calculus class ruling documents, the Ab- The documents also state
at Carleton University, fell in dollahpours alleged Bani- that Banifatemi’s father filed
love and just over a year later, fatemi “acted fraudulently by an affidavit denying making a
the two 20-somethings got tricking” them into gifting her promise to return gifts if his
hitched in a lavish ceremony partial ownership of the home daughter left the marriage.
in Toronto attended by both and having their son sponsor “Sometimes things don’t
their families. her for permanent residency. work out, unfortunately, but
In keeping with Iranian They also alleged Bani- you can’t go back a year and
tradition, the groom’s family fatemi’s Iran-based father half or two years later and al-
gave the bride a generous gift told them all gifts would be lege that there was fraudulent
— half ownership of a $1-mil- returned if Banifatemi “left intent,” said Banifatemi’s law-
lion Ottawa home — a “dowry” the marriage or acted inappro- yer, Kevin Kavanagh.
that is the source of a bitter dis- priately” toward the groom, The family is unsure if
pute between the now-separat- 26-year-old Ahmad Reza Ab- they’ll appeal the judge’s deci-
ed couple and their families. dollahpour. sion, they told Torstar. An Ottawa judge’s decision on a dowry case leaves the husband’s parents without a claim to 50 per cent interest of an
Last week, an Ottawa judge Justice Robert Smith found TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE Ottawa home. Shakiba Banifatemi and Ahmad Abdollahpour split up in Dec. 2013. CONTRIBUTED
Dalhousie rejects request to name accused students
Dalhousie University has re- University spokesman Brian the governing body wanted the have to ask every Dalhousie the clinical privileges of the 13 on women. In another post,
jected a request from the li- Leadbetter says the university names to make sure that if any graduate seeking a licence if students. a woman is shown in a bikini
censing body that governs in Halifax has an obligation to of the students involved apply they had been the subject of a According to the CBC, mem- with a caption that says, “Bang
Ontario’s dentists to hand over protect the privacy of its stu- for licences in the province complaint or an inquiry at the bers of the Class of DDS Gentle- until stress is relieved or uncon-
the names of 13 dental students dents. they would face questions from university. men page on Facebook voted scious (girl).”
accused of posting sexually vio- Irwin Fefergrad, registrar of the college. University president Richard on which woman they’d like The Facebook page has
lent comments about women the Royal College of Dental Sur- Fefergrad said if the names Florizone announced Monday to have “hate” sex with and since been taken down.
on a private Facebook page. geons of Ontario, said Monday are withheld, the college would that the school had suspended joked about using chloroform THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Jury selection begins
Texas. Gunman, one other
killed at veterans’ clinic
in Boston terror trial
A gunman opened fire at a vet- complex that includes the Wil-
erans’ medical clinic in West liam Beaumont Army Medical
Texas on Tuesday, killing one Center. The entire complex
other person, officials said. was locked down Tuesday as
The gunman was also killed. authorities responded to the Marathon bombing. process of trying to find fair and
Investigators did not say shooting. impartial jurors. Jurors must
More than 400
whether the gunman killed “The alleged shooter is also be willing, if Tsarnaev is
himself or was killed by some- dead, and we have one casual- potential jurors got convicted, to consider impos-
one else. They also did not pro- ty. That casualty is deceased. ing the death penalty in a state
their first look at the
vide any details on the victim All other VA patients and staff that abolished its own death
or the gunman or provide a are safe,” said Twitty, com- man charged with penalty three decades ago. Tsar-
possible motive for the shoot- manding officer of nearby Fort plotting attack naev is being tried under the
ing. Bliss. federal death penalty.
Fort Bliss Maj. Gen. Ste- “Everything is under con- Defence lawyers have asked
phen M. Twitty said the shoot- trol and there is no immediate repeatedly that the trial be
ing happened at the El Paso threat to Fort Bliss or the local As prospective jurors got their moved from Boston, where the
Veterans Affairs Health Care community,” he said. first look at Dzhokhar Tsar- bombings had a deep emotion-
System’s clinic, which is in a THE ASSOCIATED PRESS naev, the young man accused al impact. O’Toole has refused
of bombing the renowned so far.
New York Boston Marathon, it became Prosecutors say Tsarnaev
clear that choosing a jury in and his brother, Tamerlan Tsar-
seen on a surveillance video the closely watched terror case naev — ethnic Chechens who
Three questioned from the crime scene in the would not be a quick or simple In this courtroom sketch, Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, had lived in the United States
in police shooting Bronx, police said. process. third from right, is depicted with his lawyers and U.S. District Judge George for about a decade — carried
Both officers are listed in U.S. District Judge George O’Toole Jr., right, as O’Toole addresses potential jurors at the federal courthouse out the bombings in retaliation
Three suspects were being stable condition. O’Toole Jr. told the first 400 on Tuesday in Boston. JANE FLAVELL COLLINS/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS for U.S. wars in Muslim coun-
questioned Tuesday about The shooting occurred people called for jury duty that tries. Tamerlan, 26, died in a
the shootings of two New around 10:30 p.m. Monday. choosing a panel of 12 jurors needed service and an “import- thon’s finish line on April 15, gunfight with police days after
York City plainclothes police The officers were coming off and six alternates for the highly ant duty of citizenship.” 2013. Prosecutors say Tsarnaev the bombings.
officers responding to a gro- their shift when they and anticipated trial was expected Tsarnaev is accused of plan- and his brother, now dead, also The defence is expected to
cery store robbery, author- three other plainclothes offi- to take at least three weeks. ning and carrying out the twin killed an MIT police officer sev- argue that Dzhokhar had a dif-
ities said. cers responded to the robbery He told the potential jurors bombings that killed three eral days after the bombings. ficult childhood and fell under
One of the suspects was report. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS not to think of the trial as “an people and wounded more The prosecution and Tsar- the influence of his older broth-
annoying burden,” but as a than 260 others near the mara- naev’s lawyers have begun the er. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Metro’s Matt LaForge doesn’t feel bad about all the unblocking he’s done on Netflix, but he wouldn’t be able to explain why nearly as well without all the contraband he’s watched
MATT pair of pants borrowed from a friend who has which I might as well admit I’ve also done an in- or to mention however many other of their re-
LAFORGE long since forgotten he ever owned them. ordinate amount of. When you download a mov- spective friends, relatives, and acquaintances
[email protected] But the party may be ending. Last weekend, a ie torrent, the movie’s copyright holder gets are cutting in on the action, and on and on and
couple of websites reported that Netflix had nothing. But when someone in Canada unblocks on, such that as we speak my sign-in credentials
I have a confession that I’m almost excited to begun cracking down on unblockers. Then, on American Netflix, the Canadian copyright hold- are spreading at the speed of shamelessness to
make, such is my lack of remorse over it: For Monday, Netflix issued a statement that, in ef- ers with whom Netflix has licensing agree- every corner of an infinitely ramifying Brady
more than three years now, I’ve been living in fect said, “We’re not OK with unblocking, we ments still get their pre-negotiated pieces of Bunch-intro-style matrix of moochery.
Canada but regularly watching what we up here never have been OK with unblocking, and we your $8 a month. The arrangement is not what The company that stood idly by when my dad
call “American Netflix.” I’m an inveterate un- have a prerogative deriving from our obligations any of the parties to the licensing deals had in called my sister one cold December night and
blocker. And, as Butch Coolidge said to Esmeral- to the companies we license our content from to mind, but, take it from me, it’s relatively easy on said, “Get the hell off Netflix — your mother and I
da Villalobos in Pulp Fiction, which I fondly re- make sure that streamers are streaming from the conscience. want to watch Wallander” when it could have in-
member streaming via American Netflix, I don’t where they’re supposed to be streaming from.” The other reason is that Netflix sends mixed sisted on making him pay his own $8 a month is
feel the least bit bad about it. Well, OK then. messages. We’re talking about a company that now, all of a sudden, going by the book? You can’t
There’s no way to know exactly how many Look, I wasn’t born yesterday. I know when has since Day 1 of my subscription been willing be serious. When anything-goes cool parents get
unblockers this country harbours, but surveys it’s time to return the pants. So, in light of Net- to let me share my login and password with my a call from the truant officer and decide on a
suggest that the number is high. No surprise flix’s tough talk, I’m hereby cooling it on the un- parents, my girlfriend, her parents, my sister, a dime to become disciplinarians, they face what’s
there: Unblocking is tempting (Parks and Re- blocking until all this blows over. But do I feel few of my more trifling cousins, a couple of guys called a credibility problem. Same goes here.
creation, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia and bad about the unblocking I’ve already done? In I at one time owed money to, and basically who- Hear this, fellow unblockers: We’ve had a
the ESPN 30 for 30 documentary series vs. Mr. D) the words of Long Duk Dong (Sixteen Candles, ever else has troubled themselves over the past great run, and in the event that this crackdown
and it’s easy (if you can use Google, you can do it). another illicit stream I look back on with tender three years to so much as ask . proves to be a bluff, we’ll have another. Don’t let
And, most important, until earlier this week, affection), “No way, Jose!” This is not to mention all the friends, rela- misplaced guilt ruin it. To quote the tragically
unblocking was improbably, spine-tinglingly The main reason I feel this way is that Netflix tives and acquaintances with whom the afore- doomed Cyrus (The Warriors — you never for-
consequence-free, like wearing a great-fitting got its money. Unblocking isn’t file-sharing, mentioned are sharing my login and password, get your first unblock): “I say, the future is ours.”
Ban on tobogganing a slippery slope
PAUL but few will argue that it is eventually fatal.
SULLIVAN Still, this tobogganing menace has to be We asked you:
Metro in Vancouver stopped, and cities from Dubuque, Iowa, to
Montville, N.J., have climbed on the ban-wagon. HOW SHOULD CITIES HANDLE TOBOGGANING?
Winter is bad enough, so why are we making it Closer to home, sledding is banned in Hamilton
worse? and numerous slopes in the GTA. They’d ban it 83%
It’s true; cities all over North America are in Vancouver if there was any snow.
LET PEOPLE
banning tobogganing for the same reason Let’s not forget that while they’re busy ban- TOBOGGAN AT
bureaucratic weasels ban anything: It’s danger- ning winter fun in Iowa it’s OK to drive around THEIR OWN RISK.
ous. OK, it’s dangerous. Almost 230,000 with a handgun, so what’s the point? The 1%
kids were injured sledding in the U.S. point, of course, is that they’re really IT’S
in the decade between 1997 and afraid of lawsuits. DANGEROUS.
2007, according to the Center for In- But bans don’t even work. Some guy 16% BAN THE
PASTIME
jury Research and Policy. But so is in Hamilton was awarded $900,000 after OUTRIGHT.
everything else. In that same reck- he injured his spine in a sledding acci-
less nation, about dent, even though sledding is banned in
RESTRICT IT TO CERTAIN HILLS
275,000 kids suffer Hamilton. The court decided that even AND ADD SAFETY MEASURES
non-fatal bicycle in- though he was breaking the law, the city (LIKE BALES OF HAY).
juries each year. should have warned him about that
About 82,000 kids snow-covered ditch. Really? This ban on
are treated for tram- tobogganing will take us down a slip- for only one thing: Texting with a helmet on.
poline injuries, and pery slope that’s guaranteed to end in Meanwhile, the war on winter fun con-
61,000 kids are hurt a wipeout. tinues. Next up: The backyard skating rink.
skateboarding. There’s a school in Toronto that has The city of Cornwall, Ont., ordered a family to
As far as I can banned all balls except those foam dismantle its lovingly constructed rink be- Metro gets swabbed
tell, there are no Nerf balls. Try playing basketball cause a neighbour complained and it violates
statistics on the with a Nerf ball. And there’s a various bylaws. The same thing happened re- for OneMatch
danger involved in woman in Vaughan, Ont., cently in Sherbrooke, Que., where a neighbour
getting up every who is trying to get the complained that a local backyard rink was too
morning, oak trees near the “noisy.” Mark Watkin poses with Metro employee Jennifer
school chopped down Um, that’s what fun sounds like. Banning O’Callaghan after she gets swabbed for OneMatch, the
because the acorns sledding is one thing. The backyard rink is an- national stem cell donor registry. At any given time,
could cause anaphyl- other. It’s as Canadian as Tim Hortons, more so close to 1,000 Canadians are waiting on a stem cell
actic shock in kids now that Tim’s is owned by Burger King. match. Watkin, who lost his daughter Sarah to cancer
with nut allergies. Ban the backyard rinks and you strike at after she was unable to fi nd a matching donor, is
We’re creat- the heart of Canadian hockey supremacy. encouraging everyone to get swabbed and add
ing people We might as well just give back that junior their information to the registry. For more information,
who are hockey gold medal to Russia, where winter visit onematch.ca. LUKE SIMCOE/METRO
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10 GOSSIP metronews.ca
Wednesday, January 7, 2015
Gossip See, walking around with
your skivvies showing
NED EHRBAR
does help, mom 
METRO’S TAKE ON
THE WORLD OF
The biggest ego in Canada just got
CELEBRITIES bigger. Pop’s reigning prince, Justin
Bieber, has been unveiled as the new
face — and body — of Calvin Klein
Underwear. Bieber makes his debut
in a series of black-and-white photos
E featuring his best Blue Steel and
a suspiciously rounded and
unrealistic bulge. He kicked
things off with a six-second
video feature showing
N him playing drums.
We’re pretty sure that,
at least, is all Bieber.
In the ads, Bieber
also cavorts with British
model Lara Stone, who
is a real trooper — and
E
the wife of comedian David
Walliams. Hey, who wants
to just think about Marky
Mark for a while?
C
Speculation started shortly after Bieber
appeared at Fashion Rocks in his undies
Game of Thrones to take
S
Russell Crowe ALL PHOTOS: GETTY IMAGES series fi nale to the Imax
Crowe tells actresses: Act your
The biggest show on tele-
vision is about to get a lot
bigger. Like, Imax bigger.
age and you’ll have role to play HBO is supersizing its hit
Game of Thrones, bringing
the final two episodes of last
season to Imax screens later
Russell Crowe sat down with can work as an actor. If you have four children — mainly, this month along with an
Australia’s Women’s Weekly are trying to pretend that she lived in a cold climate exclusive trailer for season
— why, I’m not sure — and you’re still the young buck and there was nothing to do five. The engagement runs
used the opportunity to take when you’re my age, it just but fornicate all day — so Jan. 23 to 29, with tickets
a certain generation of ac- doesn’t work.” quit arguing, just play the reportedly going on sale “in
tresses to task for not acting Now, before you get out role.” the coming days” at Imax’s
their age. your pitchforks, Crowe has Also, Crowe insists that site — and possibly as early
“To be honest, I think some anecdotal evidence to he’s given the same tough as today. So get on that.
you’ll find that the woman back up his claims. love to himself, saying, “The The episodes and trail-
who is saying that (the good “I have heard of an ac- point is, you do have to be ers will occupy 150 Imax
roles for women have dried tress, part of her fee negotia- prepared to accept that there screens across North Amer-
up is) the woman who at 40, tion was getting the number are stages in life. So I can’t ica for the week, offering
45, 48, still wants to play the of children she was supposed be the Gladiator forever.” But the first real glimpse of
ingenue, and can’t under- to have lessened,” he says. come on, Russ. Some of us the new season, debuting
stand why she’s not being “Can you believe this? This actually saw your dreadful in April, aside from a few
cast as the 21-year-old,” he (character) was a woman Robin Hood. But hey, maybe vague clips online about
says. “If you are willing to with four children, and there it’s a really, really recent Peter Dinklage as Tyrion Lannister three-eyed ravens and the
live in your own skin, you were reasons why she had to revelation for him. in Game of Thrones. vision “becoming clear.”
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