Metro Halifax - January 13, 2012

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by  Metro International

WHAT BAD
BACK IN WIN COLUMN
MOOSEHEADS
ECONOMY?
BEAT UP ON THE
VOLTIGEURS
{page 26} WE ACTUALLY
A ‘NEW ERA’
PM HERALDS REBIRTH FEEL UPBEAT
OF SHIPBUILDING
IN HALIFAX
{page 3} {page 7}
HALIFAX
Weekend,
January 13-15, 2012
www.metronews.ca
News worth
sharing.
PM hit by
Fives
High.
same-sex
uproar
During stop in Halifax, Harper vows not
to reopen gay marriage debate Feds say
they will clarify issue of same-sex divorce
The federal justice minister says ther woman was legally able to
he will look at clarifying the law to marry the other under the laws of
ensure gay couples from abroad their home country.
who marry in Canada can also get The news quickly prompted
divorced. critics to charge Stephen Harper’s
Rob Nicholson says he will Conservative government with
study options to make it clear that rewriting the rules on gay mar-
same-sex marriages “performed in riage to suit its right-wing agenda.
Canada can be undone in Canada.” “I think it’s the radical right by
There are now doubts about stealth,” Liberal Leader Bob Rae
the validity of thousands of mar- said Thursday.
riages conducted in Canada for Harper said he was unaware of
same-sex couples from the Unit- the details of the case, but stressed
ed States and elsewhere follow- his government has no desire to
Toronto Blue Jays outfielder Eric Thames is greeted by students as he walks into the
ing a federal twist in a Charter of revisit same-sex marriage.
St. Stephen’s Elementary School gymnasium on Thursday morning. Thames and three other
Rights case launched in Ontario “We have no intention of fur-
Blue Jays were in Halifax as part of the team’s winter tour to eastern Canadian cities. Story, page 5.
by two foreign women seeking a ther opening or reopening this
divorce. issue,” Harper said in Halifax.
Blue Jays land on the East CoPHaILIP CROsUCHERt/METRO
A legal brief filed by federal THE CANADIAN PRESS
lawyers denies the women are
even legally married because nei- Writer’s outrage {page 10}
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1
Harper hails ‘new era’
‘Slick’ ad
campaigns
ignored: PM for shipbuilding
The National
Shipbuilding Procure-
ment Strategy’s bid
process may have been Irving, federal government still must negotiate individual contracts
apolitical, but Thurs-
Premier Dexter congratulates two sides for reaching umbrella agreement
day’s event at the Hali-
fax Shipyard wasn’t. RYAN TAPLIN/METRO
Prime Minister
Stephen Harper, while Prime Minister Stephen Harper
news
extolling the virtues of announces an “agreement in principle”
the independent between the federal government and
process that divvied up Irving Shipbuilding Inc. to build
$35 billion in shipbuild- $25 billion worth of warships at
ing contracts last Octo- the Halifax Shipyard on Thursday.
ber, took a not-so-subtle
jab at the provincial
government.
“(The NSPS was) the
most open, fair, and
transparent competi-
tion ever held. Lobby-
ists were told to stay
away, slick advertising
campaigns were ig- A Harvard scholar reveals the
secret ingredients of
nored by the judges,” creativity: a pinch of
said Harper. “And then mendacity and a dash of
dishonesty.
the bids were evaluated Scan the code for the story.
on merit and merit
alone.” To scan 2D barcodes in
The prime minister Metro, download the
was no doubt referring free ScanLife app at
to the Ships Start Here 2dscan.com.
campaign, a $620,000
HALIFAX
advertising blitz by the
provincial government ALEX era” for shipbuilding in Hal- Decisions will be in place by the end FOLKLORE CENTRE
and Irving Shipbuilding BOUTILIER ifax. of 2012. That means details
@METRONEWS.CA
promoting the bid. “Will this stop the flow on a provincial investment 1528 Brunswick St.
Harper was joined by Irving Shipbuilding and the of young people out of At- Stephen Harper promised in training and infrastruc- 422-6350
several Conservative federal government have lantic Canada? Yes, it will. there will be a “Canadian ture upgrades for the Irving Located just off Spring Garden Rd.
MPs, Defence Minister reached an “agreement in Will there be opportunities component” to designing yard will not be disclosed
CCoommee ttoo oouurr
Peter MacKay, and Hali- principle” to continue ne- for those who have already the ships — a substantial any time soon. JJAANNUUAARRYY SSAALLEE
fax Regional Municipal- gotiations on a $25-billion left and wish to return? Yes, part of the contract — but “We’re working through GGuuiittaarrss,bbaannjjooss,mmaannddoolliinnss,,
ity Mayor Peter Kelly at shipbuilding contract. there will,” Harper told a said there are still “many numbers, but things are uukkeess eettcc…… aatt ggrreeaatt
the mid-morning an- In Halifax on Thursday, crowd of hundreds of Irving decisions to be made.” still yet to be 100 per cent fi- pprriicceess!!
nouncement. Prime Minister Stephen employees inside the Hali- nalized,” said Jim Irving,
Premier Darrell Dex- Harper announced the Hali- fax Shipyard on Thursday. the yard and government. CEO of Irving Shipbuild-
ter was not invited to fax Shipyard and the feder- “We understand the po- Steve Durrell, the president ing, after the announce-
the event, but issued a al government concluded tential of this region. There of Irving Shipbuilding, said ment.
statement shortly after negotiations on an umbrel- is a once-in-a-lifetime op- he expects to negotiate two “We’re going to get this
congratulating the two la agreement on the con- portunity to generate long- separate contracts over the umbrella agreement signed,
sides for coming to an tract. The details of the term economic growth here 30-year life of the deal. and then we’re going do
agreement in principle. agreement were not avail- in Atlantic Canada.” Durrell hopes the first of some more engineering,
ALEX BOUTILIER able. There is currently no those contracts — for a set and then we’ll be revisiting
Harper called it a “new contract in place between of Arctic patrol vessels — with the province.”
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WEEKEND, JANUARY 13-15, 2012
Region trying to get
Winter
evening.
About 10 centimetres
weather
of snow was expected
before it was to change
only leads in front of the snow
to rain.
HRM advised
to few
residents Thursday the
overnight parking ban
accidents would be in place
Winter Works have two brine-making plants: Halifax
because of the storm,
Brine
meaning cars parked on and Dartmouth Substance to be used on key roadways
PHILIP CROUCHER the streets from 1 to
@METRONEWS.CA
6 a.m. faced getting a RYAN TAPLIN/METRO After the trial this winter,
ticket. JENNIFER HRM will look at using
Halifax Regional Police The storm also result- TAPLIN brine in a wider area, but it
say they were called to ed in several @METRONEWS.CA will require a larger brine-
only a handful of cancellations, including making capabilities than
accidents on Thursday a meeting about It’s lucky a snow storm hit what they have right now.
night despite the wintry proposed changes to the on Thursday.
weather. Bedford school district, HRM’s winter works But putting brine on the
Staff Sgt. Reid and a public were getting ready to try roads before the snow
McCoombs said between information session out a new tool in their arse- helps to prevent ice from
6 and 9:30 p.m., officers about a planned nal, and, luckily enough, HRM Winter Works employees watch as forming in the first place.
responded to fewer than cellphone tower in Mother Nature decided to a snowplow applies brine to Commodore “It’s certainly not new.
10 collisions. north-end Halifax. help out with the white Drive in advance of Thursday’s snowfall. The province is using it in
“The few we had were The school-district- stuff. various locations and in
minor ones,” he pointed boundary meeting has This winter they’re go- New Brunswick and in the
out. been rescheduled for ing to try applying brine — measure we use to stop Salt needs time and States. The Europeans are
“There just hasn’t Jan. 26 at Basinview a mixture of salt and water snow pack and give you moisture to break up ice 25 years ahead of us in de-
been a whole lot of traf- Elementary School at — to the roads up to 48 that first jump ahead of the and snow, and that’s why icing technologies.”
fic at all.” 7 p.m. hours before a snow storm snow storm,” said Gordon it’s applied during and after It’s also way cheaper
As forecast, A new date for the hits. The water evaporates Hayward, HRM superin- the snow falls. Also, trucks since it uses far less salt —
Thursday’s snow began cellphone-tower discus- and the salt is left on the tendent of winter works. would scatter rock salt into using five time less salt. But
late in the afternoon sion hasn’t been road before it starts snow- “But once the snow actually the ditches before it would Hayward said salt is still
and continued into the announced. ing. starts, it’s of no benefit to have a chance to work if it needed once the snow
“It’s a preventative-type you then.” was applied before a storm. starts.
ing charges in relation to
an armed robbery at The
News in brief
Cash Store on Young
Street on Wednesday.
Suspect arrested METRO
in bank robbery Two charged
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demanded cash from the to several break-and-
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foot after obtaining some Street and Memorial Drive
% cash. He was then seen area. A 16-year-old boy
0 leaving in a newer-model was arrested earlier this
4 Chevrolet Cobalt, a vehi- week, and police arrested
cle pulled over by police two other males — aged
20 minutes later. Police 17 and 20 — on Wednes-
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taken into custody. This Jarvis Lane.
...can you same man is also now fac- METRO
Help a child be a child. afford to wait?
5
0 Police focus tions. Police will specifical-
Become a Foster Parent. % on winter ly be looking at vehicles to
make sure they are proper-
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conditions throughout
This month’s traffic focus HRM can vary dramatically
by Halifax Regional Police and require the driver’s full
Our famous year end sale!
is seasonally appropriate — attention,” police said in a
1569 Barrington Street, Halifax
420-1735 they will be focusing on press release Thursday.
driving for weather condi- METRO
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PHILIP CROUCHER/METRO
Toronto Blue Jays catcher
SLOW DOWN ers are failing to reduce
J.P. Arencibia wows the
speed when passing
Watch for stopped emergency vehi- students at St. Stephen’s
Elementary School
cles, such as ambulances
emergency in north-end Halifax
or fire trucks, with their
on Thursday.
lights flashing.
vehicles:
A law passed in May
2010 requires motorists
RCMP
to drive the posted limit
or 60 km/h, whichever is
Police are once again slower, when passing
asking motorists to slow first responders. Drivers
down when they pass must also move to the
first responders. farthest possible lane, so
The RCMP says a long as it is free and safe
“large number” of driv- to do so. ALEX BOUTILIER
New director named
to rights commission
2009
The first quadriplegic to The year
reach the North Pole is the David
Jays hit home run with
new director and CEO of Shannon made his
the Nova Scotia Human journey to the North
Rights Commission. Pole.
David Shannon is a
lawyer, author and human- ation of Ontario. Halifax school visit
rights advocate and was A spinal cord injury at
named to the Order of the age of 18 left Shannon a
Canada last year for his quadriplegic. His biography
contribution in the field. posted on the commis-
Shannon, a native of the sion’s website says he also Also visited CFB Halifax and signed autographs at Mooseheads game
Halifax area, was previous- holds the world record for
ly a member of the Ontario the highest-altitude skydive
Human Rights Tribunal by someone in a wheel- PHILIP his way to the front of the “Homework is ball players, though Alo-
and a special adviser to the chair after falling 28,500 CROUCHER gymnasium. cool. Getting good mar mentioned that being
Canadian Paraplegic Associ- feet. THE CANADIAN PRESS @METRONEWS.CA “I heard Halifax and the grades is very, very a doctor was something he
people here love baseball could have seen himself
cool.”
It was a rock-star welcome and their sports. It’s obvi- doing.
for members of the Toron- ous,” Jays outfielder Eric BLUE JAYS OUTFIELDER When the assembly
Ferry prices
its new rate structure for to Blue Jays in Halifax on Thames said after the as- ERIC THAMES TO STUDENTS ended, the players joined
going up this year. Thursday. sembly ended. “The kids the students for a group
The company says the Eagerly anticipating are great kids. They’re the importance of healthy photo, before being over-
next month price hike is meant to re- their arrival, students at laughing and having a living and doing well in whelmed by autograph
coup costs associated with St. Stephen’s Elementary great time. I love it. I hon- school, then took ques- seekers, which included
security measures School broke out into a estly love the enthusiasm.” tions — everything from some parents and staff.
Marine Atlantic is tacking required under federal chant of “Let’s go, Blue Joining Thames in Hali- “What is it like being a “I understand and I
on a new charge for adult regulations, including in- Jays” as the start of the fax as part of the Blue Jays professional baseball play- know I am blessed that I
passengers travelling on spections. hour-long assembly drew winter tour of Eastern er?” to “What would you play for an entire country,”
its ferries and raising its Don Barnes, vice-presi- closer. Canadian cities was pitch- be doing if it wasn’t this?” Arencibia said of the fan-
general fares by four per dent of Marine Atlantic, Then, when the players er Brett Cecil, catcher J.P. “For me, I would be a fare they received in Hali-
cent starting next month. says the new charge is low- were introduced, the stu- Arencibia and Hall of Fame musician,” Thames told fax and throughout the
The Crown corporation er than security fees dents, sporting white Blue second baseman Roberto the crowd, noting that he winter tour. “It’s the only
says it is introducing a se- charged to airline Jays’ toques, high-fived, Alomar. played violin growing up. team in the league that
curity fee of $3.50 for trav- travellers. low-fived and cheered The four began by talk- The others all said they can say that. It’s pretty
el after Feb. 12 as part of THE CANADIAN PRESS loudly as each player made ing to the students about were destined to be base- cool.”
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NOVA NEWS NOW
Coun. pushes for
online booking
HRM manages four arenas, rest handled by private
operators Costs examined in upcoming staff report
RYAN TAPLIN/METRO
JENNIFER “I think idea how much it would
TAPLIN there’s cost, but in conversations
@METRONEWS.CA a bur- with staff, they indicated it
could be doable with a
geoning
Coun. Darren Fisher re- manageable cost.
quested this week that mu- group out “Web sites don’t cost
nicipal staff look into an there that would what they used to (to) de-
online booking system for sign and we have a lot of
really embrace
HRM facilities. As it is right people in-house that can
now, someone wanting to this.”COUN. DARREN FISHER work on something like
book ice time, for example, this.” Firefighters look at the aftermath of a blaze that destroyed the Pine View Inn in
would need to call the spe- ple from away during hock- Staff is now working on Coldbrook.
cific arena and hope for the ey tournaments and this a report on the details of
‘Sad to see all that gone’
best. seems like an outdated sys- such a system and Fisher
Fisher said he’d like a tem that we use. And even said he hopes it could be
system where all available if we started today with a completed before budget
spots are easy to see and full-blown website, we’d deliberations in the next
people can use their credit still be behind the curve.” few months. A former manager of the Wandlyn Inn, around 9:30 Fredericks was thinking
cards to book. It’s something he’s been Fisher said he’d like to Wandlyn Inn was sad- p.m. Wednesday. Firefight- of the employees.
“It will change the way thinking about for a while, start with the ice pads HRM dened by news late ers battled the structure “I feel really, really bad
things are done because but is now hoping to get in manages and expand it to Wednesday night of a fire fire under frigid condi- for the staff,” he said. “You
everything is done individ- on time for the upcoming all arenas, ball fields and at the Coldbrook business. tions and remained on the just can’t leave something
ually,” Fisher said. budget. even fire pits in Shubie “I’ve had an opportuni- scene putting out hotspots like this and then find a
“I’ve been talking to peo- Fisher said he has no Park. ty to talk with a lot of for- on Thursday morning. job the next day in hospi-
mer employees and we all Fredericks worked at tality in this marketplace.”
feel the same way,” Tom the business for 16 years NOVA NEWS NOW
Fredericks said Thursday until 2009. He started as
Armed robber runs off with cash
morning. the manager of Legends
“It’s really sad because Lounge and later became Inn history
those are the first things the general manager of the
Halifax Regional Police are male employee hand over money and fled the scene that come to mind is the property. The business started in
looking for a man they say cash from the till. on foot. The employee was- good history, the fun and During its heyday the 1971 as the Coldbrook Mo-
held up a cash store in Hal- He had his face covered n’t injured. the camaraderie and it’s lounge was one of the top tor Inn. The local owners
ifax on Wednesday night. with a hoodie and scarf, The man is described as sad to see all that gone.” entertainment choices in later sold it to the Wand-
Police say just before 8 police say, and he was car- being about five-foot- Firefighters from the Valley with a good lyn Inn franchise.
p.m., a man entered The rying a black handgun. seven and 170 pounds. He throughout Kings County cross-section of music
Cash Store at 6021 Young The suspect left with an was wearing a blue hoodie. were called to Pine View from hiphop and country In September 2010, it be-
St. and demanded the fe- undisclosed amount of METRO Inn, which was formerly a to dance parties. came the Pine View Inn.
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Bloomfield Centre
could be up for grabs
HRM to request proposals for site in spring
JENNIFER school could have been School-board
TAPLIN avoided by following
@METRONEWS.CA Bloomfield’s example. interest
When HRM reviewed
The municipality will be the school site in 2004, the
putting out a request for community and the ten- In August last year, the
proposals for the old ants got together to come Halifax Regional School
Bloomfield school site this up with an alternative to Board expressed interest
spring. putting it up for sale. in the site for a possible
HRM spokeswoman Eight years later, the new elementary school,
Shaune MacKinlay said the Bloomfield Centre is still but Coun. Jerry
municipality is looking to heavily used by the north- Blumenthal expressed HMCS Preserver, one of Canada’s operational support ships, designed to
see what proposals could end Halifax community. concerns about kids cross- carry large amounts of fuel, provisions and dry stores during naval
come from the communi- “HRM clearly made a ing busy streets. The mat- operations, is pushed by tugs in Halifax harbour in October.
ty and developers on the mistake in not following a ter was deferred.
future of the site. community-based process
“We’re just at the point in the sale of St. Pat’s A spokesman for the
we’re ready to gauge inter- school,” says Ron school board said they
Navy didn’t inspect ship repairs: Report
est for potential new inter- Skibbens, with Imagine will be submitting an ap-
est in the site,” she said. Bloomfield, in the release. plication when the HRM
The community group, “We hoped that all the puts out the RFP in the
Imagine Bloomfield, sent work we have put in to spring. The Royal Canadian Navy old supply vessel’s
out a press release on come up with an alterna- didn’t inspect repairs to a Company comment drainage lines in Septem-
Thursday saying the cur- tive to a ‘traditional’ sale that HRM could follow in ship’s drainage pipe that ber 2010. It found sec-
rent issues with the sale of for development would dealing with similar situa- later leaked about 14,000 Mary Keith, a tions of the pipe were
St. Patrick’s-Alexandra have created a precedent tions.” litres of diesel fuel into spokeswoman for Irving “deteriorated and re-
the Halifax harbour last Shipbuilding, declined to quired replacement,” says
year, says an interim re- be interviewed but in an the report.
port into the spill. email said the company Irving was then hired
Tenants
Fire Service was called to deputy chief. HMCS Preserver was fu- hadn’t seen the report. to replace the pipes and
the fire, which occurred A number of elling at a refinery when install new fasteners and
escape fire
at a residence divided in- neighbours from nearby an improper seal allowed 29, 2011 — about two gaskets. But navy staff
to a couple of homes stood out in the fuel to seep into the pipe, weeks after the spill — weren’t given the oppor-
in Sydney
apartments, shortly after cold watching as which carries solid waste, was obtained through ac- tunity to inspect those re-
8 a.m., on Park Street. firefighters worked. The and then flow into the cess-to-information legis- pairs, the report says.
By just after 9 a.m., tenants included a man, harbour, the report says. lation. A final report The report says the lead
Everyone escaped safely the fire was out and fire- as well as a woman with The navy was able to re- hasn’t been completed. investigator should find
from a morning fire at a fighters were checking two children. The fire is cover most of the fuel be- Irving Shipbuilding out why the drain line
home in Sydney for hot spots, said Brent believed to have started fore it spread to shore or was contracted by the was not tested by Irving
Thursday. Denny, Cape Breton Re- in a bedroom. cause extensive damage. navy to carry out an in- and the navy.
Cape Breton Regional gional Fire Service CAPE BRETON POST The report dated March spection of the 41-year- THE CANADIAN PRESS
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WEEKEND, JANUARY 13-15, 2012
Global warming can be cut: Study
DONNA MCWILLIAM, FILE/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Scientists say controlling
methane and soot offers quick fix
Don’t ignore carbon dioxide
An international team of
scientists says it has figured Pollution control
out how to slow global
warming in the short run
and prevent millions of Two dozen scientists from
deaths from dirty air: Stop around the world ran com-
focusing so much on puter models of 400 differ-
carbon dioxide. ent existing pollution-
They say the key is to re- control measures and came
duce emissions of two pow- up with 14 methods that
erful and fast-acting causes attack methane and soot.
of global warming — All 14 methods — captur-
methane and soot. ing methane from landfills
Carbon dioxide is the and coal mines, cleaning
chief greenhouse gas and up cook stoves and diesel
the one world leaders have engines, and changing
spent the most time talking agriculture techniques for
about controlling. rice paddies and manure
Scientists say carbon collection — are being
dioxide from fossil fuels, used efficiently in many
such as coal and oil, is a big- places, but are not univer-
ger overall cause of global sally adopted, said the
warming, but reducing study’s lead author, Drew
methane and soot offers Shindell of NASA.
quicker fixes.
Soot also is a big health Thursday in the journal Sci-
problem, so dramatically ence. Since soot causes
cutting it with existing rainfall patterns to shift, re-
technology would save be- ducing it would cut down
tween 700,000 and 4.7 mil- on droughts in southern Pictured is a gas well recovering methane gas at a landfill in Ferris, Texas. An international team of scientists
lion lives each year, Europe and parts of Africa, say they’ve figured out how to slow global warming in the short run, prevent millions of deaths from dirty
according to the team’s re- the study says. air and increase food production. And it will save more money than it will cost.
search published online THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Woman settles case over mistaken mastectomy
CHRIS YOUNG/THE CANADIAN PRESS
A woman whose healthy Farlane, said Thursday that of this case — the provin-
breast was removed in the the lawsuit had been set- cial investigation that hap- Damages sought
mistaken belief it was can- tled, but could not disclose pened, the legislative
cerous has settled her law- any of the details. changes that occurred,” The suit asked for $1 mil-
suit against the hospital Johnston was glad the MacFarlane said. “Overall, lion in general and special
and doctors who operated situation had been re- we’re seeing a better public damages for her physical
on her. solved, she said, and looked awareness and hopefully and emotional distress,
Laurie Johnston, of forward to moving on with better public safety.” along with punitive and
Leamington, Ont., was seek- her life. Johnston’s lawsuit had aggravated damages of an-
ing $2.2 million in damages The cases, MacFarlane named her surgeon, Dr. Bar- other $1 million. Her two
amid several investigations added, also prompted some bara Heartwell, and pathol- daughters and sister were
into how she and at least positive changes in the ogist, Dr. Olive Williams, as also seeking another
one other woman under- overall system. well as Hotel-Dieu Grace $220,000 in damages.
went surgeries they did not “I’m certainly happy Hospital in Windsor, Ont.,
need. with the changes that seem Laurie Johnston pauses in Toronto on March 3, 2010. where the surgery took District Memorial Hospital.
Her lawyer, Barbara Mac- to have occurred as a result place, and the Leamington THE CANADIAN PRESS
Judge declares U.S. first CHIP SOMODEVILLA/GETTY IMAGES Hypnotic principal
lady on
Holloway dead charged in Florida
Twitter
An Alabama judge signed vanished on the Caribbean A high school principal in ted suicide. George Kenney
an order Thursday declar- island of Aruba during a Michelle Obama’s Twitter Florida has been charged was charged with two mis-
ing Natalee Holloway dead, high school graduation feed (@michelleobama) with two criminal offences demeanour counts of “un-
more than six years after trip. went live on Thursday. after using hypnosis on two lawful practice of hypnosis.”
the American teenager THE ASSOCIATED PRESS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Michelle Obama students who later commit- TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
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Facebook 5,000
move angers
NDP MP Olivia Chow
said that Canada used
nursing mom
to be a “beacon of
hope” for gay and les-
bian couples wanting
to get married but
Social networking site removes now it is a “a laughing
stock.” Chow said if
breast-feeding pictures she posted
federal lawyers win
their argument, then
A Vancouver woman is furi- “This is a child’s as many 5,000 non-res-
ous at Facebook after the U.S. journalist Dan Savage, right, with his husband Terry Miller, at the LGBT Pride idents who came to
right to eat, a
company removed breast- Month event at the White House in Washington last June. Savage said his husband Canada to wed are not
feeding photos she posted mother’s right to reacted to the news they may not be legally married with “nothing you can print.” legally married.
on the social networking nurse her child.
site. There’s nothing ‘We’re going to fight’: U.S. writer Dan Savage
Emma Kwasnica, 33, said
sexually explicit in
since she joined Facebook
in 2008, nearly 30 of her breastfeeding
breastfeeding photos have photos, nothing at JOE LOFARO in an interview from Seat- in the fetal position on the Miller in Vancouver in
been taken down and her IN OTTAWA tle. floor, we’re getting up and 2005. “So if we’re not mar-
all.”
account has been temporar- Outspoken American au- The couple was reacting we’re going to fight,” he ried in Canada, we’re not
ily frozen in four separate EMMA KWASNICA thor and journalist Dan to news reports according said. “But we’re pissed.” domestic partners here.”
incidents. Savage told his husband to which the Conservative Savage said that the Savage said the news
The latest incident oc- obscenity, nudity and sexu- Thursday morning their government argued non- controversy has left mar- was “personally distress-
curred this past Saturday ally explicit content. marriage was no longer resident same-sex couples riages like his in “legal ing” and “a big step back-
when she tried to log on, Kwasnica said she has valid. who married in Canada limbo.” wards for Canada.”
she said. sent emails to Facebook, What did husband Terry are not legally wed if “In Washington state, He and his husband will
Kwasnica said Facebook but has yet to receive an Miller have to say about same-sex marriages are un- my husband and I are do- continue to fight to ensure
removed her photos be- apology or any kind of re- that? lawful in their home juris- mestic partners because the issue is debated until
cause of what it says are a sponse. “Nothing you can dictions. we’re married in Canada,” equality is granted to all
violation of its policies on TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE print,” Savage told Metro “We’re not crawled up said Savage, who married same-sex couples.

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