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Social media
changing our
conversation
Communication Creating a stir per cent of Moncton users in
favour — compared to just 30
revolution. Conference
per cent in Halifax.
gets ‘fascinating Political discussions that “What’s curious about
snapshot’ of changing got social media users Halifax is those who oppose
“riled up” in 2012: development in the downtown
social-media usage in core … do not work and do
Atlantic Canada — and (cid:580)(cid:3)(cid:3)(cid:3)(cid:3)(cid:3)(cid:35)(cid:279)(cid:314)(cid:229)(cid:292)(cid:274)(cid:273)(cid:229)(cid:274)(cid:302)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:292)(cid:209)(cid:274)(cid:296)(cid:289)(cid:209)(cid:292)(cid:229)(cid:274)(cid:221)(cid:317)(cid:3) not live on the peninsula,” said
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what’s coming next (cid:580)(cid:3)(cid:3)(cid:3)(cid:3)(cid:25)(cid:225)(cid:305)(cid:221)(cid:209)(cid:302)(cid:255)(cid:279)(cid:274)(cid:3)(cid:221)(cid:279)(cid:296)(cid:302)(cid:296)(cid:3) Traffic on all social media
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last year, but the biggest growth
Social media is all grown up in was on Google+ — a finding
Atlantic Canada. started to get engaged with that prompted murmurs of sur-
A presentation at the fifth community issues,” he said. prise from the audience.
annual Podcamp Halifax “un- Crouch presented Media “I was just joking at lunch
conference” revealed a clear Badger analytics showing gov- that no one uses Google+,” said
shift in the primary use of ernment transparency was a Mike Hayes of Free Agent Fac-
social media over the last 12 big issue in Atlantic Canada, tory. “It’s a fascinating snap-
months. particularly in relation to the shot of where things are.”
Giles Crouch of Media Badg- Muskrat Falls hydroelectric Crouch said the change in
THE RISE AND FALL er told the crowd at Alderney project. social media use will mean
Landing Theatre — riddled “Sixty-two per cent of more groups using it as a tool
with tablets, laptops and people don’t support the Musk- for organizing and for propa-
smartphones — that discus- rat Falls project,” said Crouch. ganda in future. “We’re get-
sion across social-media chan- “We think that’s largely driven ting into a war of influence
nels in 2012 was dominated by by what’s perceived as a lack of and a war of perceptions,” he
local concerns. transparency … when it comes said. “The real challenge in the
Halifax Rainmen’s Joey Haywood tries to get the ball up and over Issac Butts of the Moncton Miracles during first-half “We’ve really gone from to the cost.” coming years will be figuring
action at the Halifax Metro Centre on Sunday afternoon. The Rainmen lost 107-98 after blowing a double-digit halftime being fascinated with silly Urban development polar- out what’s real and what isn’t
lead. For story, see page 16. JEFF HARPER/METRO YouTube videos … we’ve really ized the major cities, with 60 real.” RUTH DAVENPORT/METRO
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metronews.ca NEWS 03
Monday, January 21, 2013
Dartmouth
Tires slashed
on 21 vehicles
Tires were slashed on
close to two dozen
vehicles in an area of
Dartmouth over the
weekend.
The incidents hap-
pened on Lake Road, Slay-
ter and Sheridan streets. N
In total, 21 vehicles had
tires punctured, with po-
lice saying in most cases,
it was one tire per vehicle.
Police say they have no
witnesses but believe the E
damage was caused by the
same person or group of
people. METRO
W
Number of cars aff ected
21
Rachel Thibeau rappels down a tall makeshift structure on Sunday as part of the Easter Seals Drop Zone display at the 2013 OptiMYz Live Health Expo
In total, 21 vehicles had tires punc- in Exhibition Park. Attendants at about 130 booths gave people tips on getting in shape and eating healthier. JEFF HARPER/METRO
tured and, in most cases, it was one
tire per vehicle, police said.
It’s fun getting fi t S
Facing charges
Man found with
loaded gun
downtown Setting goals. include: Run the 5K at the a couple of spas, some food
Blue Nose marathon; keep fit Great feeling places, learned some great
Hundreds attend
A man is facing charges well into my 80s; get out of tips about health and well-
“You really feel like
after being found in two-day health expo my comfort zone; eat clean, ness in green tea that I didn’t
possession of a loaded train dirty; and everyone’s you’ve accomplished know.”
firearm in the downtown favourite — eat more vege- something.” OptiMYz volunteer Monica
core on Sunday after- HALEY tables. Mutale said she’s been setting
noon, Halifax police say. RYAN About 130 booths were set Monica Mutale, about fi tness goals. fitness and life goals for her-
Just after 3 p.m., [email protected] up in Exhibition Park over self since junior high.
police said they received the weekend for the annual After checking out only “Sometimes it can be hard
information that a man A man and a young boy grab expo to give people tips on half of the booths, Debbie just to get through the day
with a gun was in the coloured markers to write getting in shape and eating Hurley said she had discov- without saying, ‘OK, I’ve got
area of Spring Garden their fitness goals among healthier. ered lots of businesses she to do this, this and this,’” Mu-
Road and South Park dozens of others decorating “You get to do the fun hadn’t known about in HRM. tale said, focusing on fixing
Street. a white board at the OptiMYz things you want to do with- “This health place gave an ankle injury this year.
Police descended on Live Health Expo on Sunday. out being held back by your me great tips for a foot issue “It just feels really amaz-
the area and a man was Get ripped like Rambo, body,” said expo-goer Ashley I have, so I talked to them at ing to cross something off
taken into custody with- reads one of the goals. Others Grant about keeping healthy. length,” she said. “I talked to your list of things.”
out incident after being
found with the gun.
The man is due in Police ID 9-year-old who died aft er being hit by van
court on Monday facing
several weapons-related
offences. METRO Police have released the had been dropped off at a Pleasant girl was taken to arrested but released with-
name of a nine-year-old home on Corkum Road at South Shore Regional Hos- out charges.
Nova Scotia girl who died about noon when she was pital, where she was pro- Smith says the victim
FOR MORE LOCAL on Saturday after she was hit while standing in the nounced dead. and driver knew each other,
NEWS VISIT struck by a van in Pleasant- road as the van left the Cpl. Dyson Smith said the but would not elaborate.
METRONEWS.CA ville. driveway. driver, a 30-year-old woman The investigation is on-
RCMP say Olive Moore Police say the Mount from Mount Pleasant, was going. THE CANADIAN PRESS
04 NEWS metronews.ca
Monday, January 21, 2013
Dalhousie. Suspended
female hockey players
abandon plans to sue
Suspended members of Dal- Hazing allegations
housie University’s women’s
hockey team say they won’t
pursue legal action against All but the team’s rookie
the Halifax school over an al- players were suspended
leged hazing incident. Jan. 3 after the university
In a statement issued at investigated allegations of
6 p.m. on Friday, a representa- hazing at a private house
tive of the team said the play- party last September.
ers will not challenge the uni-
versity’s decision to suspend
the senior players for the re- tions they would take the
mainder of the season. school to court.
The one-page statement Tom Traves, president of
says the players still believe Dalhousie, upheld the deci-
the process Dalhousie fol- sion to suspend most of the
lowed was unfair and heavy- team after meeting with sen-
handed, saying no players ior members on Monday.
were harmed or forced to Dalhousie has said the
Nicole Ryan attends a news conference at her lawyer’s office in Halifax on Friday. ANDREW VAUGHAN/THE CANADIAN PRESS take part in any activities. party involved excessive
But they say the cost and drinking, intimidation and
Woman in hit-man case “personal toll of litigation” humiliation, but wouldn’t
made them abandon sugges- elaborate. THE CANADIAN PRESS
Illegal gambling Trenton
wants to contact daughter
Three arrested Suspicious fire
after cops raid investigated
Supreme Court. Nicole Quoted cthoem mSuitp remmuer dCero uarnt dj uwsthicieles alleged den Pdoamlicaeg seady aa hfiorue steh iant hTreeanv-ily
Ryan has not gotten overturned that decision on Police in Cape Breton say ton on Sunday is suspicious.
“I’d like to thank the Elizabeth Fry Society.
Friday, they also blocked any three men are facing char- Police say fire officials
any information about Hopefully, they will be able to help me now to further action against her ges after police searched a were called to 34 Main St.
her child in five years re-establish contact with her.” with an extraordinary stay of residence being operated at about 4 a.m. They say no
proceedings. as an illegal gaming and one was in the house at the
Nicole Ryan, about her daughter The court also raised ser- alcohol establishment. time. THE CANADIAN PRESS
Fresh from a victory at the ious questions about the con- Police say a 47-year-
Supreme Court of Canada, her what she says she fought she ever tried to leave him. duct of the RCMP and Nova old man is facing several Clare riding
Nicole Ryan choked back so hard to protect five years “I will continue working, Scotia prosecutors in the charges including keep-
tears and uttered a single go — her daughter. hopefully just to re-establish case, saying it was “disquiet- ing a gaming house and
Gaudet steps down
word when asked if she still Mother and daughter my life, put my life in order,” ing” that the Mounties chose trafficking hydromorph-
feared for the life of her haven’t had contact in al- she told a news conference at to mount a sting operation one following a search
daughter. most five years, ever since her lawyer’s office in Halifax. to arrest her rather than re- of a New Waterford Veteran Nova Scotia Lib-
“Yes.” Ryan took the child, now Ryan, who has resumed a spond to her allegation’s of residence. eral Wayne Gaudet says he
The Supreme Court may 12, in March 2008. To this teaching career, also said she her husband’s “reign of ter- Officers say two other won’t run in the next prov-
have given a victory to the day, Nicole Ryan said she has drawn support from her ror” over her. men, ages 47 and 66, are incial election after serving
Nova Scotia woman who has no information about students. “It’s sad,” the soft-spoken both facing a charge of 20 years in the legislature as
tried to hire a hit man to kill the girl that her ex-hus- She was acquitted by Ryan said, when asked about being found in a gaming the member for the riding
her husband, Michael Ryan. band allegedly threatened a trial judge in 2010 on a that part of the ruling. house. THE CANADIAN PRESS of Clare. THE CANADIAN PRESS
But the justices couldn’t give to kill along with her if charge of counselling to THE CANADIAN PRESS
metronews.ca NEWS 05
Monday, January 21, 2013
New relationship Austrians vote to
Election test. Merkel’s
British PM to give
coalition in dead heat with
long-awaited keep conscript army
speech on U.K.’s opposition in German state
ties with the
European Union Shot down. The Chancellor Angela Merkel’s
proposed reform conservative-led coalition was
British Prime Minister in a dead heat Sunday with
David Cameron will deliv- foresaw 8,500 career Germany’s centre-left oppos-
er a long-awaited speech soldiers, 9,300 militia ition in a state election that
about his country’s future was a major test ahead of a
in the 27-nation European members and more national vote later this year.
Union this week. focus on terrorism Lower Saxony, a region of
The speech, billed as eight million people in north- German Chancellor Angela Merkel
one of Cameron’s most western Germany, has been and David McAllister, governor of
important yet, was de- run for the past decade by a Lower Saxony, wave during a
layed last week because of Austrians voted overwhelm- coalition of Merkel’s conserv- campaign rally in Stadthagen.
the hostage crisis at a nat- ingly Sunday to retain their ative Christian Democratic NIGEL TREBLIN /THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ural gas plant in Algeria. conscript army, with exit poll Union and the pro-market
Cameron first hinted projections showing around Free Democrats, the same Merkel’s conservatives, who
he wanted to set out his 60 per cent rejecting the pro- Austrian soldiers stand in front of the chancellery in Vienna as Austrians parties that form the national polled more than 42 per cent
stance on British member- posed change to a force of pro- prepared to participate in an army referendum Sunday. government. in Lower Saxony’s last elec-
ship of the EU last year. fessional soldiers. DAPD, HANS PUNZ/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The 58-year-old Merkel will tion in 2008, appeared to have
He has indicated that he The wide margin of victory seek a third, four-year term in saved the Free Democrats.
will suggest negotiating a for those backing the status With conscripts frequently and in other community jobs a parliamentary election ex- Merkel and her party have
new relationship with the quo came as a surprise, for recruited to help prevent nat- that are hard to fill because of pected in September. She and been bolstered nationally by
bloc, which would then pre-election surveys had that ural catastrophes — or clean poor pay. her party are riding high in a relatively robust economy,
be put to a referendum. side ahead by only a few per- up afterward — rural voters in While formally non-polit- the polls, but the opposition low unemployment and the
Britain has its own centage points. this Alpine nation were clear- ical, the referendum reflected hopes the Lower Saxony vote chancellor’s hard-nosed hand-
currency and does not use Two polling organizations ly receptive to arguments that preferences between Austria’s will show that she is vulner- ling of Europe’s debt crisis.
the euro, the common — ARGE Wahlen and SORA a professional army would not two uneasy coalition partners able. Merkel has also profited
currency of 17 other EU — showed only about 40 per be filling sandbags to prevent and looked ahead to the na- Before the election, the from stumbles by the Social
nations, but it still has cent of those who cast ballots flooding or shovelling out tional election in September. question had been whether Democrats’ candidate for
been struggling due to looking to change the system. basements after mudslides. Austria’s armed forces now the Free Democrats, whose chancellor, Peer Steinbrueck,
Europe’s debt crisis. They also showed a relatively They also heeded warn- consist of about 35,000 troops support has eroded badly a former finance minister
Foreign Secretary Wil- high turnout in rural areas — ings that changing the system — 14,000 professionals and since they joined Merkel’s who drew criticism for saying
liam Hague said Sunday up to 60 per cent in many re- would hit Austria’s social sec- the rest conscripts who serve national government in that the chancellor earns too
that Cameron’s address is gions — compared to Vienna, tor, which depends on con- for six months — as well as a 2009, would win the five per little — adding to the contro-
expected this week. with 40 per cent. scientious objectors who serve 30,000-strong part-time mil- cent needed to gain seats in versy over his own high earn-
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Overall turnout was pro- as ambulance drivers, attend- itia. the state legislature. But tac- ings from speeches.
jected at close to 50 per cent. ants at senior citizens’ homes THE ASSOCIATED PRESS tical voting by supporters of THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Berlusconi insists he won’t be premier Greece. Bomb explodes
at Athens shopping mall
Silvio Berlusconi insisted on to head Italy’s next govern- A potential coalition part-
Sunday he won’t be premier ment. For months, Berlusconi ner is caretaker Premier A bomb exploded at a shop- Two warning calls were
again if his conservative has been coy about whether Mario Monti, who is heading ping mall in Athens on Sun- made to local media about 50
party, now trailing in opinion he wants a fourth term as a centrist ticket and trailing day, slightly wounding two minutes before the blast, lead-
polls, wins Italian elections premier. both Bersani and Berlusconi security guards and forcing ing authorities to evacuate
next month. Front-runner in polls test- in polls. the evacuation of about 200 people from the four-storey
The media mogul told an ing sentiment for the Feb. 24 Monti, an internationally people. mall in the Maroussi suburb.
interviewer on Sky TG24 TV to 25 elections is centre-left respected economist, was ap- There was no immediate Shops are closed at the
Silvio Berlusconi at the Italian TV that his political heir and leader, Pier Luigi Bersani. But pointed in late 2011 to re- claim of responsibility for the mall on Sundays, but restau-
talk show Telecamere in Rome former justice minister, An- it appears unlikely he’ll win place Berlusconi. bombing, the latest in a string rants and movie theatres are
Friday. LAPRESSE/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS gelino Alfano, is his choice enough votes to govern alone. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS of violent attacks. open. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
06 NEWS metronews.ca
Monday, January 21, 2013
Culturally sacred.
B.C. woman wants law
changed over mask sales
The recent sale of two cedar
masks considered cultur-
ally sacred to a Vancouver
Island First Nations family
has prompted a university in-
structor to ask the provincial
government to change the law
affecting cultural property.
Members of Port Alberni,
B.C.’s Hamilton and Sayers
families say they plan to strip
the family member who sold
the “hinkeets” of her royal
title and cultural responsibil- A native dancer wears a cedar mask
ities at an upcoming cere- in a handout photo.
mony, shedding light on the THE CANADIAN PRESS
internal disciplinary proceed-
ings practised by First Nations maternal lines of the family
for generations. for safekeeping. But they were
The masks were more than auctioned off in November to
100 years old, depicted male an unknown buyer for $4,000
and female serpents and had and $22,500. Federal candidates, from left, Justin Trudeau, Martin Cauchon, Karen McCrimmon, Joyce Murray, Martha Hall Findlay, George Takach, Deborah Coyne,
been passed down along the THE CANADIAN PRESS David Bertschi and Marc Garneau. PHYLICIA TORREVILLAS/METRO
Liberal candidates
Pardons. Requests for
rare Royal Prerogative
of Mercy on the rise
keep debate civil
New restrictions on the grant-
Quote
ing of criminal record suspen-
sions, or pardons, are causing
“The benefit of the
more former convicts to seek
clemency under the rarely used program addresses
Royal Prerogative of Mercy, ac- instances of substantial Federal race. Need Total warfare Ontario lawyer David
cording to the Parole Board of Bertschi jokingly took Gar-
Canada. injustice and instances to rebuild the party neau to task for touting his
In fact, the federal agency of undue hardship.” tempers infighting “Canada is too important to let Stephen Harper win.” time in space, noting he had
has posted an “Important According to the Parole Board’s annual report Vancouver MP Joyce Murray, remarking that co-operation with the NDP may be necessary his “feet firmly planted on
Notice” on its website to dis- to stop a 2015 Tory victory. the ground” regarding the en-
courage clemency applica- vironment. Technology law-
tions, which it notes are “only system last March, when the EMILY yer George Takach promoted
granted in exceptional circum- board’s 2011-12 annual report JACKSON porters at a Vancouver hotel. election in 2015,” she said. innovative technology to help
stances.” noted it more typically handles Metro in Vancouver Perceived frontrunner MP Yet Karen McCrimmon, a the environment.
“If you are ineligible for a re- about 20 applications a year. Justin Trudeau even escaped retired Canadian Forces lieu- Both Garneau and Hall
cord suspension, or the board Changes to federal pardon The gloves remained on at direct attack, save for Van- tenant colonel, said co-oper- Findlay defined themselves
has refused to order a record rules enacted by the Conserva- the Liberal leadership debate couver MP Joyce Murray ques- ation would be a “Band-Aid” as frontrunners. A recent
suspension in your case, it is tive government have had a rip- Sunday as the nine candidates tioning how he planned to solution when the Liberals poll suggested Liberal sup-
highly unlikely that you will ple effect through the system. took jabs at Prime Minister beat Harper without one-time need to earn back trust. port in B.C. would skyrocket
qualify under RPM,” cautions The reforms were prompted Stephen Harper — and occa- co-operation with the NDP. Idle No More questions to 32 per cent from 11 per
the board. in 2010 when The Canadian sionally the NDP — instead of Murray, the only West prompted former MP Martha cent should Trudeau take the
There are currently 79 Press reported that Graham each other. Coast candidate, was the sole Hall Findlay and lawyer Deb- helm.
active clemency applications in James, a former junior hockey With so many vying for contender to support running orah Coyne to say they would Trudeau spoke of the chal-
the pipeline, according to Par- coach and repeat child sex of- the top spot, no candidate either a Liberal or a NDP can- repeal the Indian Act, with lenges the Liberal party faces
ole Board spokeswoman Caro- fender, had been quietly grant- stood out as the favourite as didate in ridings where they former Quebecois MP Mar- and his plan to engage a “new
line Douglas. ed a routine pardon in 2007. they politely debated elector- could split the vote such as tin Cauchon and Canada’s generation” in politics.
That’s up from 58 in the THE CANADIAN PRESS al reform, aboriginal issues, Calgary Centre. first astronaut Marc Garneau Four more debates will be
housing and the environment “Canada is too important promising engagement and held before the party chooses
in front of more than 900 sup- to let Stephen Harper win the dialogue with First Nations. a leader on April 14.
Canada’s largest veterans centre under review
In an effort to come to grips any responsibility for over- In a series of articles in re-
with a series of complaints sight of the centre. cent months, The Canadian
about its quality of care and The review, which begins Press highlighted concerns
how those complaints are this week, is being carried raised by relatives and at-
dealt with, the country’s out by Karima Velji. The sen- tendants about what they see
largest veterans facility has ior executive at Baycrest, a as serious deficiencies in the
called in an outside expert to prominent research hospital basic care of the most frail of
look at the situation. focused on the elderly, is also the 500 veterans at the cen-
The review of the Sunny- an assistant nursing professor tre.
brook Veteran’s Centre this at the University of Toronto. Complaints include de-
week comes in addition to an “We would like you to layed feedings, rough hand-
official audit by the federal focus on quality of care in ling, residents left languish-
government that is currently the provincially funded ing in hallways or bed,
underway. chronic-care beds, with an in- unsanitary conditions and
The new audit will focus depth focus on the processes unexplained injuries. Rela-
In this file photo Dorothy Burnell, 86, on those beds funded by On- used to resolve complaints,” tives said Sunnybrook was
talks to her husband George Burnell, tario’s Ministry of Health — a Sunnybrook’s executive vice- dismissive of, or hostile to,
92, at Sunnybrook’s Veterans Centre in cost of about $29.2 million president Malcolm Moffat their efforts to raise concerns.
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Monday, January 21, 2013
‘Numerous’ bodies found
Blowback
Arab spring
a catalyst
during search of gas plant for conflict?
The terrorist attack on an
Algerian natural gas plant
that left dozens of hostages
and militants dead has
Algeria kidnapping. stormed the natural gas com- demonstrated how a failing
plex in the Sahara desert on Algerian insurgency trans-
Recording of head
Saturday to end the standoff, formed itself into a regional
kidnapper shows and the government said all threat, partly by exploiting
militants wanted to 32 militants were killed. Ear- the turmoil unleashed by
lier Sunday, Algeria’s chief the Arab Spring revolts.
organize a prisoner government spokesman said Al-Qaida’s branch in Al-
swap with authorities he feared the death toll of hos- geria retreated into a Sahara
tages — which stood at 23 on no-man’s land between
Saturday — would rise as the Mali, Algeria and Mauri-
special forces teams finished tania after it was largely
Algerian bomb squads scour- their search. defeated by the Algerian
ing a gas plant where Islamist American Frederick Buttac- army in a 10-year war in the
militants took dozens of for- cio, a Texan, was among the 1990s that claimed 200,000
eign workers hostage found dead. U.S. officials told The As- lives. There it grew rich on
“numerous” new bodies on sociated Press Buttaccio’s re- smuggling and hostage-
Sunday as they searched for mains were recovered Friday. taking, gained new recruits
explosive traps left behind by They said the militants and re-emerged stronger
the attackers, a security offi- came from six countries and than ever, armed with
cial said, a day after a bloody were armed to cause max- looted high-tech weapons
raid ended the four-day siege imum destruction. Sonatrach, from Libya’s 2011 civil war.
of the remote desert refinery. the Algerian state oil company The assault last Wednes-
The official, who spoke on running the Ain Amenas site In this undated photo, men look at the wreckage of a vehicle near Ain Amenas, Algeria. British Prime Minister David day by a multinational band
condition of anonymity be- along with BP and Norway’s Cameron said Sunday that three Britons were killed and another three are believed dead, along with a foreigner who of Islamists shows how
cause of the situation’s sensi- Statoil, said the entire refinery was living in Britain, after Islamist militants seized a gas plant in the remote region. ECHOROUK ELYAOUMI/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS long-simmering ethnic ten-
tivity, said the bodies were had been mined. sions in Mali, a civil war in
badly disfigured and difficult “They had decided to speaking in a state radio inter- ers in Algeria. ation, but the number of hos- Algeria and a revolution in
to identify. succeed in the operation as view. With few details emerging tages reported killed Saturday Libya have combined to cre-
“The bodies could be either planned, to blow up the gas The American government from the remote site of the — seven — was how many the ate a conflict spanning both
Algerian or foreign hostages,” complex and kill all the hos- has warned that there are gas plant in eastern Algeria, it militants had said that mor- North and West Africa.
he said. tages,’’ said Communications credible threats of more kid- was unclear whether anyone ning they still had. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Algerian special forces Minister Mohamed Said, napping attempts on Western- was rescued in the final oper- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Obama sworn in to 2nd term
A still-popular Barack Obama
took the presidential oath
of office for a second term
on Sunday, facing a troubled
future, but hoping to leave
behind a battering four years
at the helm of a government
mired in ugly political div-
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more divided four years later. officially take office on Jan. which coincides this year with
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ing a brief ceremony with his a Sunday this year, the trad- leader Martin Luther King Jr.’s
family in the White House itional ceremonies surround- birthday.
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Monday, January 21, 2013
Celebs flash
some cheek for
views on Keek
Social media. Canadian By the numbers
15M
video microblogging
service attracts bevy of
Kardashians — not to
Keek says it has grown to have 15 million
mention JWoww’s butt
monthly unique users, totalling 75 million
monthly visits. Four million user-generated
videos are posted every month.
A Canadian social media start- They all are among the most
up company is hoping to be- viewed and followed users on
come the Twitter of video. Keek, which means “a peek or
With Toronto-based Keek, glance”, according to Oxford.
users can watch and send short Other active users include
video clips of up to 36 seconds rappers 2 Chainz and Soulja
and label them with descrip- Boy, Jersey Shore star Jenni
tions of up to 111 characters. “JWoww” Farley and Pretty
“The original idea was to Little Liars stars Ashley Benson
use video ... as a form of com- and Canadian Shay Mitchell.
munications with your social JWoww racked up nearly
network, kind of like a social 400,000 views each for two
microblogging video platform,” different videos responding to
says CEO Isaac Raichyk. “It’s a recent bit of bad publicity.
just long enough for somebody While co-hosting MTV’s New
to tell a story but short enough Year’s Show, photographers Quick! To the $4.2-million Batmobile!
for people who watch and di- snapped a few unflattering
gest a lot of videos.” shots of her short dress riding
The service has caught the up, which were quickly posted Just how valuable is the Caped Crusader’s ride? The original Batmobile from the 1960s television series Batman, shown in Los Angeles in this October
attention of some high-pro- to gossip sites online. 2012 photo, sold at auction Saturday for $4.2 million US to an undisclosed bidder. The car’s owner, famed auto customizer George Barris, transformed a
file celebrities including Kim She posted her response to one-of-a-kind 1955 Lincoln Futura concept car into the sleek crime-fighting machine that was used in the series that starred Adam West. On the show,
Kardashian, her sisters Khloe Keek, in which she appears in the 19-foot-long, bubble-topped car boasted lasers and a Batphone and could lay down smoke screens and oil slicks.
and Kourtney, and her half- her underwear and high heels. COURTESY BARRETT-JACKSON/GEORGE BARRIS/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE
sisters Kendall and Kylie Jenner. THE CANADIAN PRESS
Canada’s not ready to handle used CFLs, report finds
Senior Property
Manager
Canada’s mercury-waste fa- Bulb ban ical thermometer can contam- wide standards for the hand-
cilities are either patchwork inate five Olympic-size swim- ling of mercury waste.
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new regulation will effectively enter the waste stream as they do not store mercury — most that store or manage mercury
only qualified candidates ban the sale of standard in- break or burn out, many des- of it ends up in landfill,” says waste, also found Canada lacks Use of CFLs will skyrocket as a ban on
will be contacted. candescent bulbs in favour of tined for landfills where their a report commissioned from any facility to extract pure incandescent bulbs takes effect next
energy-efficient versions, most harmful mercury can get into Summerhill Impact, an en- mercury from waste, relying January. But CFLs contain mercury, and
of which contain mercury. the water. vironmental firm in Toronto. instead on mercury distillers a new report says there aren’t enough
So-called compact fluores- Environment Canada says The Aug. 31 study also in the United States. facilities in place to keep them out of
cent lamps, or CFLs, will also the mercury contained in a typ- found no national or industry- THE CANADIAN PRESS landfills. ADRIAN WYLD/THE CANADIAN PRESS
metronews.ca VOICES 09
Monday, January 21, 2013
HARD TO
Ice jump gets frosty reception
COMPREHEND
MICHAEL RYAN
Epiphany celebration
VERDICT Baby, it’s cold
in the ice hole
In the third last paragraph of A man jumps into an ice
URBAN his 2010 decision finding Nicole hole in the Dnipro River, as
COMPASS
Stephen Kimber Ryan not guilty of hiring a hit others wait for their turn,
[email protected] man to kill her abusive hus- as part of the celebration of
band, Justice David Farrar notes the Epiphany in the town
he was “struck” by the fact the of Vyshgorod outside the
husband “did not take the stand to give evidence with respect capital Kyiv, Ukraine, on
to any of the assertions … against him.” Saturday.
During the trial, Michael Ryan had been accused of putting Orthodox believers
a gun to his wife’s head, threatening to torch their home with celebrate the holiday of the
his wife and daughter inside and keeping his wife isolated Epiphany on Jan. 19, and
from family and friends. traditionally bathe in holes
Why didn’t he testify? cut through thick ice on
Michael Ryan insists he rivers and ponds to cleanse
was willing. He received a themselves with water
Why didn’t he testify? subpoena 10 months before deemed holy for the day.
There are plenty of the trial, contacted the THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Crown weeks before and even
reasons why the Crown showed up for the first day of Orthodox Christians
might not have called Nicole’s trial.
“I left my cellphone
him — including the There’s method
number with the Crown and
possibility they didn’t waited out in the parking lot behind madness
believe him — but the in my car for the remainder
of the trial,” he emailed me The traditions also con-
reality is the court based
in 2010. He was never called, tinued at Moscow’s Red
its conclusions about never allowed to challenge Square, at Tyarlevo village
him largely on Nicole his wife’s claims of horrific just outside St. Petersburg
abuse. and in Minsk, Belarus.
Ryan’s testimony and
There are plenty of rea- The religious holiday
that of her supporters. sons why the Crown might Epiphany is celebrated by
not have called him — includ- Orthodox Christians accord-
ing the possibility they didn’t ing to the Julian calendar
believe him — but the reality is the court based its conclu- on Jan. 19.
sions about him largely on Nicole Ryan’s testimony and that Epiphany Day cele-
of her supporters. brates the baptism of Jesus,
Their evidence has now solidified into fact. which took place in the
On Friday, the Supreme Court of Canada — without hear- River Jordan, and is held
ing Ryan — declared him “violent, abusive and controlling.” in Russia, which uses the
Though the judges dismissed Nicole Ryan’s defence of duress, Julian calendar. Orthodox
they ruled she had suffered enough and ordered charges Christians in Lebanon,
against her stayed. Egypt and Syria follow the
After the trial judge’s original damning decision back in same tradition based on the
2010, I wrote a column for Metro, questioning what I then Julian calendar. Churches
saw as the RCMP’s failure to help an abused woman escape that follow the Gregorian
while mounting a sting operation to entrap her. calendar celebrate the feast
In it, I described Michael Ryan as “a nasty piece of busi- on Jan. 6. METRO
ness.”
Ryan responded and we began an online correspondence, Online
which you can read on my website, stephenkimber.com.
I don’t know whether to believe Michael Ryan’s counter-
claims — could they simply be evidence of his “manipulative Watch the video at
behaviour”? — but I am troubled by the fact the Crown never metronews.ca.
called him to testify. And the reality so many judges reached
conclusions about him without ever hearing from the man EFREM LUKATSKY/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
who was, after all, the intended victim.
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Girl talk
Interview. Girls stars really fun. It makes me feel
like a princess. I have to rein
Allison Williams and
it in. I recently went into a
Jemima Kirke dish fitting and there was a rack
of clothes of my stuff and
on their characters’
E there was another rack of
sartorial choices, fluffy, big gowns and my styl-
their dorky style ist was like, ‘No, Allison. No.
You’re not a debutante.’”
moments and fi nally
N dressing like adults A whole new kind of access:
“I’ve had the pleasure of cul-
tivating relationships with
some designers so I can say,
TINA ‘Listen, do you have some-
CHADHA thing that I can wear to this
Metro World News in New York thing tonight?’ Acting is my
E
Allison Williams first love, but the fact that I
get to wear cool clothes and
get to know myself better
On Marnie’s style: through what I wear in real
C “She leans toward conserva- life, that’s such a pleasure.”
tive stuff and she makes me
look adventurous — al- Her dad, Brian Williams, is
though I’m really not. I wish her unoffi cial stylist: “He
clothes would just fit her bet- has a really good eye. He’s an
S ter. Any mistakes in fitting esthete and he sees people
are 100 per cent on purpose, in the things that he sees
though. It’s supposed to look in stores. He looks at them
like you bought a thing off and thinks, ‘That looks like
the rack and it fits the way Allison.’”
it fits.”
Her personal style: “I
like colour a lot. I’m
interested in dif-
ferent cuts. I
love the way
(peplum)
looks, but I’ve
also worn more princessy
things. Day-to-day, I’m a
jeans, boots and oversized Jemima Lena Dunham, Jemima Kirke and Allison Williams enjoy a Girls night. GETTY IMAGES
sweater girl.”
Kirke
way Lena used to look at the brand names, which I never Geminola in the West Vil-
Dorkiest fashion mo- way I dressed and how she did. It was vintage or stuff I lage. Half of it, she designs,
ment: “I went up to pictured styling my outfit in had forever or my mother’s and half of it is antique and
Jason Wu at the restau- Jessa’s look is her head the next day.” stuff. But now that I’m get- vintage clothing.”
rant Perilla and I just based on her ting older, I can’t get away
introduced myself to own: “I think it’s Her personal style: “Well, with the T-shirt with the What she’s loving: “Chanel
him cold. I was like, ‘I like a caricature that’s gone out the window hole in it.” made these creeper shoes.
understand that it’s of how I dress since I’ve had children. I just They are like a spin on the
probably intrusive in real life or put on clothes so that I’m Where she shops: “Bird punk creeper shoe. They’re
and you’re with maybe even a not naked during the day. and Smith and Butler, in beautiful and awesome but
your family, but way that I used I used to change my outfit Brooklyn.” I can’t wear them. I’m just
I wanted to say to dress maybe once in the day. Now not style-conscious like
that I think for a sometimes I have on the Jessa’s bohemian wed- that anymore. I just don’t
you’re a genius.’ minute same outfit for two days.” ding dress: “You know who wear statementy things. I
He was so gra- in my made that dress? My mom. don’t wear loud things. I
cious.” life. Or Dressing like an adult: “As Don’t get me wrong, she just wear what looks nice.
Getting red it might I start to feel more like an didn’t sit there and sew I’m not wearing mom jeans,
carpet-ready: “It’s be the adult, I start to shop at more it. She has a shop called though.”