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Wednesday, January 25, 2012
www.metronews.ca
News worth sharing.
School sale back
Historic. Meeting
on for St. Pat’s
Council voted 13-10 to sell property instead of giving the
community 90 days for business plan Site would cost $7M to
renovate for use Costs HRM about $200,000 a year to maintain
JENNIFER its was received by HRM on Tues-
TAPLIN day. It said if council doesn’t give
@METRONEWS.CA them the 90 days, "it will be
inevitable that legal action will
Halifax regional council did a follow."
complete 360 on Tuesday, agree- But Jane Moloney, executive
ing in principle to sell the St. director of the North End Com-
Patrick’s-Alexandra school site to munity Health Centre, said Tues-
a developer. day no decision on legal action
In December, council voted to has been made.
sell to Jono Developments Ltd., A letter from Jono Develop-
then rescinded that motion ments received by HRM on Mon-
Jan. 11 after community outrage. day said if the city doesn’t hon-
Under HRM’s policy, commu- “There’s been too our the contract then, "it will
nity groups were supposed to get much time in this and I leave us with no alternative but
90 days to put together a busi- to rely upon the legal authorities
don’t want to get
ness case before the property was set by this country."
put up for sale, but in reality the sued.” Coun. Jerry Blumenthal,
Assembly of First Nations National Chief Shawn Atleo community found out about the COUN. JERRY BLUMENTHAL for one, was worried about
and Prime Minister Stephen Harper stand on stage during the request for proposals shortly legal action during Tuesday’s
opening ceremony at the Crown-First Nations Gathering in Ottawa before it closed. meeting.
on Tuesday. The government has announced it is promising changes But it’s not over yet. In order Metro showed lawyers for both And several councillors said
to the Indian Act. See story on page 9. to officially sell the property, the Jono Developments and the com- giving the communities 90 days
policy needs to be repealed and munity groups threatened legal to come up with a plan would be
ADRIAN WYLD/THE CANADIAN PRESS that can’t happen until the next action. giving them false hope.
PM meets native leaders council meeting. A letter from lawyer Ronald
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Building to work for everybody: Developer
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RYAN TAPLIN/METRO
Both the developer and the have passed up on other and lost, will be welcome
community groups in- opportunities,” he said. around the table, along Developer Joe Metlege
volved in St. Patrick’s- “You’re sort of in this busi- with other charities. speaks with a member of
Alexandra sale say they’re ness purgatory and you The economic spinoff the St. Pat’s-Alexandra
going to “regroup.” don’t know what to do and for the community could community on Tuesday.
On Tuesday, Halifax re- when to do it.” be more than $100 mil-
gional council approved in He wouldn’t say how lion, he said, but it will
principle the sale of the much he proposed to pay take years to build.
former school to Jono De- for the site, but it was in Jane Moloney, executive
velopments Ltd. for a the millions and fair mar- director of the North End
mixed-use development. ket value. Community Health Cen-
Joe Metlege, president of Metlege said he’ll be tre, one of the non-profits
news
Jono, told reporters on working closely with the involved in the St. Pat’s
Tuesday the delay cost community to design a deal, said the fight is far
him. building that works for from over.
“The city still has al- everybody. He added all “For us it will be an op-
most $300,000 of our mon- three non-profits who is- portunity for us to re- been working together to what our next steps are,”
ey (as a deposit) and we sued proposals for the site, group, the groups have this point, and consider she said.JENNIFER TAPLIN
No place like home? Not always
RYAN TAPLIN/METRO
Buy local idea for procurement
WTA wants players to do
debated, defeated at council away with the grunt during
matches. Scan the code for
the story.
JENNIFER tain industries, said Coun. To scan 2D barcodes in
TAPLIN Tim Outhit. Metro, download the
@METRONEWS.CA “We’ve got to be able to free ScanLife app at
sell to the world,” he said. 2dscan.com.
The buy-local issue “I’m very, very worried “Our future is with
sparked quite a bit of de- this is not sending the the world when it On the web at
bate around the council right message.” comes to some metronews.ca
table on Tuesday night. The issue came up earli-
industries.”
Coun. Dawn Sloane er this month when a Dart-
asked for a staff report mouth firm, Intelivote COUN. TIM OUTHIT
looking into giving HRM Systems Inc., lost a con-
businesses a leg up when tract to a Spanish compa- A buy-local preference
bidding for HRM tenders. ny, Scytl Secure Electronic would show residents that
While councillors were Voting. council doesn’t care about
divided on the issue, The head of Intelivote getting the best price, ar- India’s Sikhs
some said having a docu- told Metro the loss might gued Coun. Linda Mosher.
ment that would outline impact the company’s sur- She said she didn’t even aren’t laughing
the pros and cons of a vival. want to spend the money
at Jay Leno’s
buy-local rule would be Coun. Darren Fisher on a staff report looking
helpful. suggested a possible com- into it. Mitt Romney
But in the end, council promise and a tie breaker Coun. Lorelei Nicoll sug-
joke. Watch at
voted down the motion if a local company is close gested if a company is be-
for a staff report. to an out-of-town bid. ing subsidized by Coun. Dawn Sloane speaks metronews.ca/
Buying local is great for A few extra bonus “lo- government, it should be during Tuesday’s Halifax
meat and vegetables, but cal” points could work, he taken out of the running regional council meeting. video.
not when it comes to cer- said. for any HRM contracts.
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 2012
Cold thwarted snow
clearing: Reashor
HRM’s snow removal boss addresses criticism over
municipality’s handling of last week’s storm
ALEX RYAN TAPLIN/METRO and province have come
BOUTILIER under criticism for their
@METRONEWS.CA snow removal efforts.
While that’s a common
The man responsible for enough occurrence in No-
snow removal in HRM says va Scotia politics, one
there was nothing they councillor said the amount
could do to improve snow of complaints he’s received
removal during last Fri- is unprecedented.
day’s storm. “Clearly the public was-
Ken Reashor said the n’t happy with the
cold temperatures thwart- progress that was (made)
ed municipal efforts to salt during this snow removal
the roads during the storm system,” said East Dart-
that brought more than 10 mouth Coun. Darren Fish-
centimetres of snow to Coun. Darren Fisher er. “Two or three days later,
parts of HRM. there’s still snow and ice
“The temperature level on the side streets.”
wouldn’t allow the salt to “(People) think the serv- Fisher said there’s an
work,” he said on Tuesday. ice level was less than what upcoming meeting be-
“Once cars got on any of it it was before, and in fact tween councillors and the
at all it just hard packed the service level standards municipality’s winter
and formed ice … It’s no didn’t change, it’s just our works division on Feb. 16.
different than your drive- ability to clean the streets “This is something that
way.” effectively (was hindered) we’ve got to get better at,
Reashor said there’s by the temperature,” he because we’ve got to be
nothing the municipality said. prepared for all of this
can do in that situation. Both the municipality stuff,” Fisher said.
Task-force idea sent to
police commission
RYAN TAPLIN/METRO
Coun. Jim Smith’s idea of a
resident-led task force to
look at the root causes of
crime in HRM was sent to
the HRM police
commission for its input.
At Halifax regional coun-
cil on Tuesday, Smith said
he was worried the task
force might die at the com-
mission. He said it’s not
about the police, it’s about
the community.
“I’m asking council to
do something with the resi-
dents,” he said.
Smith also said it’s not
to replace the mayor’s A Halifax Regional Police officer
Roundtable on Violence, as takes measurements at a shooting
that focuses on municipal scene in this file photo.
mandates. He said they’ve
heard from the police and
the experts, he wants to government’s participation and I think we can do bet-
hear from the residents. and would ask the task ter.”
The task force would be force to come back within Several councillors said
made up of three to five three months with a full re- the task force belongs with
residents who would talk port with the police commission be-
to other HRM residents, es- recommendations. cause police involvement
pecially in the most “I think resident involve- would be needed.
impacted areas, about the ment is crucial,” agreed “This is why we have a
societal problems that lead Coun. Barry Dalrymple, police commission,” said
to crime. Smith said he adding crime “is a major is- Coun. Russell Walker.
wants the provincial sue in our municipality JENNIFER TAPLIN
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Dexter’s RYAN TAPLIN/METRO All aboard! Regional council looks
to future, commits cash for buses
man back
Halifax regional council But because the buses million for expanding the
gave its early approval to need to be ordered a year fleet, and $700,000 for Ac-
commit money in the up- in advance, HRM staff cess-A-Bus replacement.
coming budget to buy new needed council to give pre- That translates into 17
— at HRM buses. approval in the capital buses to replace older
HRM inked a contract budget. ones, five buses for expan-
with Nova Bus in Septem- So about $12 million sion, and nine replace-
Council cash will get ber to build several buses was approved for ment Access-A-Buses.
more buses rolling. in the coming years. replacing buses, nearly $4 JENNIFER TAPLIN
Greg Keefe to make sure books
balance Aim: ‘Value for dollar’
ALEX “I’m looking
BOUTILIER forward to
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working with them
Premier Darrell Dexter’s for awhile and
former deputy minister (trying) to help
will be overseeing the
council out with
books at Halifax City Hall
for the next six months. their issues.”
Greg Keefe, who retired GREG KEEFE
as Dexter’s deputy minis-
ter in October, has been ture pressures are differ-
named HRM’s acting chief ent, but I think the
financial officer. processes are very similar,
He replaces Jim Cooke, especially for finding effi-
who held the position for ciencies and making sure
four months before return- there’s value for dollar.”
ing to work with Sobeys. The municipality has
Keefe, who spent 35 been without a permanent
years in the provincial CFO since April, when
public service, said he has Cathie O’Toole left the mu-
no direct experience in nicipality for a job with
putting together a munici- Halifax Water.
pal budget. But he doesn’t Keefe will receive be-
foresee that being an issue. tween $67,500 and $82,500
“Budgets are budgets,” over his six-month con-
he said. tract in addition to collect-
“The revenue streams ing his public service
are different, the expendi- pension.
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 2012
Judge won’t review video in baby death case
RYAN TAPLIN/METRO
Closing arguments scheduled
April 23-27 Rahman took stand in
his defence earlier this month
RYAN TAPLIN/METRO
A Nova Scotia judge won’t
view a recording of a police
interview with a man
accused of manslaughter
and aggravated assault in
the death of his seven-week
old daughter.
Judge Felix Cacchione of
the Nova Scotia Supreme
Court ruled on Tuesday
that he’s not required to
Jane Gomes
watch the entire video of a
July 2009 interrogation of
Ashiqur Rahman in a Hali- girlfriend Jane Gomes, con-
fax police cell. trasting what he told
Rahman’s defence police.
lawyer had asked Rahman has pleaded not
Cacchione to view the guilty in the child’s death.
video in its entirety after He has maintained he
the Crown repeatedly ques- never assaulted Gomes or
tioned Rahman on their daughter, Aurora
inconsistencies between Breakthrough, who died at
his statements to police the IWK Health Centre one
and his testimony. day after being taken to
Portions of the video hospital suffering from a
were played before the massive brain injury.
court during the Crown’s Gomes testified in
cross-examination of Rah- December that Rahman as-
man. saulted her and, in one in-
The Crown has argued stance, grabbed Aurora by
that Rahman’s testimony the hands and feet and
painted a favourable shook her repeatedly.
Ashquir Rahman behind a courtroom door at Nova Scotia Supreme Court in Halifax last month.
picture of his treatment of THE CANADIAN PRESS
his daughter and former WITH FILES FROM METRO
Pit bull attacks young Cape Breton girl
CAPE BRETON POST
A seven-year-old Cape Bre- However, this time she said the dog as the other kids
Traumatized
ton girl sledding suffered the dog was let out. ran back to the house.
dog bite wounds to her “It ran down the drive- “Even the neighbour’s
back and leg after a pit bull way and chased after the kids hid in here until my The incident has trauma-
attacked and shook her vio- kids while they were slid- neighbour got their dog un- tized both Charlotte
lently. ing,” Bernard said. der control,” she said. Bernard and her daughter,
Charlize Bernard of Wag- “(The dog) grabbed on to An ambulance arrived 15 Charlize, who has refused
matcook was with her older my daughter’s back and minutes later. to play outdoors since the
brother, Edwin, and two shook her. He let go be- Charlize had her wounds dog attack.
friends on Friday when the cause my son kicked the treated at Victoria County “She has bandages on her.
dog chased after the four of dog, and then the dog Memorial Hospital in Bad- She has teeth marks on her
them. grabbed on to the back of deck, and she was released back and bruises, and her
Charlize’s mother, Char- her thigh and bit her again, that night. jacket was all ripped. Her
lotte Bernard, said the pit shaking her more until it The dog also killed the clothing was ripped and
bull normally stays inside ripped her jacket.” family’s cat, her mom said. full of blood," Charlotte
Charlize Bernard, 7, left, and her brother Edwin, 13.
her neighbour’s house. Edwin, 13, kept kicking CAPE BRETON POST Bernard said.
Halifax police Man Police seek three
walking on Beazley Field
in Dartmouth on Monday
escapes
warn of break-ins night. in home invasion
The victim was able to
robbers fight back and flee the
area, police say.
Halifax RCMP are telling They say they have re- The victim received mi- Police are looking for three They say the 20-year-old
residents of Lower Sackville ceived several reports of Halifax police say a 19- nor injuries and no prop- men who allegedly broke woman reported the men
to be on the lookout for sus- break and enters in Lower year-old man was assault- erty was stolen, police into a woman’s Dartmouth were masked when they al-
picious activity after a Sackville homes over the ed during an attempted said. home and demanded mon- legedly broke into the
string of break-ins. past three months. METRO robbery while he was METRO ey at gunpoint. home. METRO
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Beating victim out
of coma in Mexico
Facial reconstructive surgery expected soon
PHILIP
How to help
CROUCHER A trust fund at TD Canada
@METRONEWS.CA Trust has been set up to
help Sheila and Andrew
A Lower Sackville woman with their expenses not
severely beaten at a resort covered by insurance.
in Mexico late last week is
no longer in a coma. Account number: 651912
On Tuesday, Sheila Transit number: 8072
Nabb’s brother, Paul Giles, Donations can be made at
and sister, Kathy any branch across Canada.
Carmichael, issued a re-
lease saying she was own (through a tracheoto- In an interview on Tues-
brought out of a medically my) without the assistance day, Prosser said he was de-
induced coma on Monday of a ventilator.” lighted to hear that his
afternoon. According to Mexican niece’s condition was im-
“She recognized Andrew news site noroeste.com, proving.
(her husband) and his fa- Nabb was found severely “It’s nice to know she
ther, was responsive to beaten in a pool of blood in was awake. She was respon-
questions, and was able to an elevator at the five-star sive,” he said. “It sounds so
understand and follow di- resort Hotel Riu Emerald much better than it did.”
rections,” the letter from Bay last Saturday morning. Nabb, who moved to Cal-
Giles and Carmichael reads. “Every bone in her face gary from Lower Sackville
“This is excellent news as it was broken,” her uncle, two years ago, was staying
would appear that there is Robert Prosser, reached at at the Hotel Riu with her
not any brain damage. She his home in Kingston, N.S., husband, Andrew. The cou-
was also breathing on her told Metro on Monday. ple arrived on Friday.
Case to be
Valdez, pledged a swift res- drinks with fellow resort
olution to the ongoing in- members.
resolved
vestigation Tuesday. After that, they
“He says the case is go- returned to their room and
soon?
ing to be resolved soon be- went to bed together.
cause of the information Andrew Nabb has told
they have,” said Noroeste family that when he
Authorities in Mexico chief reporter Francisco awoke the next morning,
claim they are close to an Cuamea. Sheila was nowhere to be
arrest in the savage Details regarding the as- found.
beating of Sheila Nabb. sault remain scarce, but Cuamea’s staff has
Working in the governor did say inves- learned a trail of blood was
collaboration with local tigators have gathered that found leading from near
news outlet Noroeste, after arriving in Mazatlan Nabb’s room to the eleva-
Metro has learned the area Friday, Nabb and her hus- tor where she was found.
governor, Mario Lopez band Andrew went out for METRO IN CALGARY
Fatal. Crash
RCMP investigate at the scene of a fatal accident involving two tractor trailers on
Highway 104 near the Cobequid toll station on Tuesday morning. Police say a
61-year-old man from Dieppe, N.B., was killed in the collision just before 7:30 a.m.
Police say the 18-wheeler driven by the victim smashed into another parked on
the side of the highway, with a 61-year-old Enfield man inside.
TRURO DAILY NEWS
Driver, 61, dies in highway collision
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 2012
JFK library releases private tapes
PHOTOS
News 1. MARY ALTAFFER/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
2. RICCARDO DE LUCA/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CONTRIBUTED in pictures 4. M3A.R VTAIDNI MME GIHSSIRNDEAR//TTHHEE AASSSSOOCCIIAATTEEDD PPRREESSSS
Newly released final The John F. Kennedy 5. ALIK KEPLICZ/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
recordings President John Presidential Library and In conversation
F. Kennedy secretly made Museum released the tapes
in the Oval Office include Tuesday. They provide a In a conversation with
an eerie conversation window into the final political advisors about
about what would become months of the 35th Ameri- young voters, Kennedy
the day of his funeral. can president’s life. asks, “What is it we have
While trying to arrange The tapes include discus- to sell them?”
his schedule, Kennedy re- sions of conflict in Viet-
marked that Nov. 25 was nam, Soviet relations and “We hope we have to sell
shaping up to be a “tough the race to space. He kept them prosperity, but for
day” after his return from them a secret from his top the average guy the Former U.S. president
Texas and Cape Cod. aides. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS prosperity is nil,” he says. John F. Kennedy in 1961.
Sex killer’s wife to fight
2
appeal of media ban
NATHAN DENETTE/THE CANADIAN PRESS
Opening divorce proceedings to
the public would cause Russell
Williams’ wife more harm than she
has already experienced: Lawyer
4
Ontario’s top court is
granting an appeal of a Fighting the ban
sweeping publication ban
on the divorce of convicted The ban was challenged by
sex killer Russell Williams. a coalition of news agen-
But most of the provi- cies, including the Ottawa
sions of the ban will re- Citizen, the Ottawa Sun,
main in effect for 14 days CTV, CBC and Global TV.
so that Williams’ es-
tranged wife can take steps Richard Dearden, who
to challenge the decision if represents the media
she wishes, according to groups, called it an
the 28-page decision re- “important decision for
leased Tuesday by the On- freedom of the press.”
tario Court of Appeal. 1
Mary Jane Binks, the Ot- “There’s a real public inter-
tawa lawyer representing est in knowing how the A misspelled school crossing sign is torn
Williams’ wife, said her court is going to divide as- out of the pavement Tuesday on the Low-
client will ask to take the sets, like Mr. Williams’ mil- er East Side neighbourhood of New York.
matter to the country’s itary pension, and what’s
highest court. A lower- going to be left over for 2
court judge had banned Mr. Williams’ victims to Ontario’s top court is In his annual communications message
publication of details about seek to enforce any judg- granting an appeal of a released Tuesday, Pope Benedict XVI
the former colonel’s wife ments they will get against sweeping publication ban extolled the sounds of silence. He said a
including her name and ad- him in their lawsuits on the divorce of convicted little bit of quiet makes people better lis-
dress. THE CANADIAN PRESS against him,” he said. sex killer Russell Williams. teners and better communicators.
3
An anti-government protester holds a
‘America is back’ plishments were “amaz- poster depicting Romania’s President Tra-
ing.” THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ian Basescu, right, and former communist
News in brief dictator Nicolae Ceausescu that reads
B.C. commune “There is one left,” in Bucharest, Tuesday.
President Barack Obama He talked about extend- Bandit hurt his wants tax break 4
says “America is back” as a ing new ties and influence A model in a flower dress walks through
world power. toward Asia, while claim- own case: Docs the fair halls at the international trade
The president gave a ing that old alliances in Eu- The leader of a B.C. fair for plants in the city of Essen,
flag-waving defence of rope and elsewhere are Federal court documents polygamous commune Germany, Tuesday.
American power and influ- stronger than ever. Obama say the “Barefoot Bandit” on trial for suspected tax
ence Monday night as part also cited the example of ridiculed police and pros- evasion says money 5
of his State of the Union ad- Iran, where with U.S. ecutors in emails he sent earned by his followers is Internet activists protest against the inter-
dress. He said world opin- prompting much of the from prison, used in the community. national copyright agreement ACTA (Anti-
ions about the U.S. are on world is now united in ap- undercutting his claims Winston Blackmore says Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) in front
the rise, and he calls Ameri- plying sanctions over Iran’s that he’s sorry for his his community deserves of the European Parliament office in War-
ca the “indispensable na- disputed nuclear program. two-year crime spree. He special religious tax sta- saw, Poland, Tuesday. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
tion” in world affairs. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS bragged that his accom- tus. THE CANADIAN PRESS
news
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Harper, chiefs at odds
Theories not
over future of Indian Act enough: Defence
FRANK GUNN/THE CANADIAN PRESS
There are simply too many
SEAN KILPATRICK/THE CANADIAN PRESS unknowns to be able to
Prime minister has no plans to convict a man of four
counts of first-degree mur-
repeal legislation But many native
der in the deaths of his
leaders see it as obstacle to change daughters and wife, a jury
in Ontario heard Tuesday in
a case prosecutors allege is
What was billed as a his- “After 136 years, a so-called honour killing.
toric coming together of that tree has deep The Crown alleges Mo-
the federal government roots. Blowing hammad Shafia, 58, one of
and First Nations began his two wives and their son
up the stump
with the two sides polar- killed Shafia’s three daugh-
ized over the future of the would just leave ters and other wife. The Mohammad Shafia
Indian Act. a big hole.” bodies were found June 30,
Prime Minister Stephen 2009, in a car at the bot-
PRIME MINISTER STEPHEN HARPER
Harper sees it as something tom of a canal in Kingston, you don’t know how, you
ON THE INDIAN ACT
that can be updated to re- but the Crown did not don’t know when that hap-
flect modern practices. ministers and officials. present evidence specifi- pened,” Peter Kemp said.
But Shawn Atleo, nation- The Indian Act, first cally detailing how it be- Court has heard evi-
al chief of the Assembly of passed in 1876, gave Ot- lieves the four died. dence it appears the four
First Nations, led a parade tawa exclusive jurisdiction The Crown has suggest- females made no attempt
of speakers who described over “Indians and Lands Re- ed it believes the four were to escape the car through
the century-old legislation served for Indians.” The leg- dead before the car an open window, and the
as a boulder blocking the islation, which was last plunged into the water, bodies were found eerily
path to collaboration. amended in 2000, sets out but in his closing address suspended inside.
They laid out their views rules on everything from Tuesday, Shafia’s lawyer The jury is expected to
Tuesday during a major how reserves operate to the Prime Minister Stephen Harper delivers a speech at told the jury they can’t rely begin its deliberations as
meeting of First Nations effect of marriage on sta- the Crown-First Nations Gathering in Ottawa on Tuesday. on theories. early as Thursday after-
leaders and government tus. THE CANADIAN PRESS “You don’t know where, noon. THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Privacy Commissioner of privacy problems as they use when discussing the is-
Canada Jennifer Stoddart surf the net. The material sue with their children.
has produced a video, a tip is aimed at children in Stoddart produced a
sheet for parents and a kit grades 7 and 8. similar package for high
for teachers to help kids The online video looks school students last fall,
deal with online privacy at some of the privacy pit- but says she wants to low-
threats. falls associated with the er the bar as younger chil-
She says young people web. The tip sheet offers dren jump online.
often don’t think about parents a dozen points to THE CANADIAN PRESS
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friendship. Tuesday, signalling the the now-hitched Meloria on the third-floor deck
start of preliminary opera- barge as divers who blast- Tuesday. Seven of the bad-
tions to remove a half-mil- ed through a submerged ly decomposed bodies re-
lion gallons of fuel from section of the third-floor main unidentified and are
the grounded cruise ship deck located another body presumed to be among
before it leaks into the from the wreckage, bring- some of the 17 passengers
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pristine Tuscan sea. ing the death toll to 16. and crew still unaccounted
Actual pumping of the The Concordia ran for. On Tuesday, the U.S.
and fi nd your match! oil isn’t expected to begin aground and capsized off ambassador to Italy, David
until Saturday, but teams the Tuscan island of Giglio Thorne, was at Giglio’s
from the Dutch shipwreck on Jan. 13, after the cap- port where he had lunch
salvage firm Smit were tain veered from his ap- with relatives of two miss-
working on the bow of the proved course and gashed ing Americans, Gerald and
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