Metro Halifax - January 26, 2011

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HALIFAX
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
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DARRELL OAKE/FOR METRO NDP sees
orange in
red riding
Party willing to avoid election: Layton Provincial,
federal NDP attend Robert Chisholm’s uncontested
nomination as MP candidate in Dartmouth-Cole Harbour
“It’s not about Mike Savage,
Jack Layton likes his party’s chances in
Dartmouth-Cole Harbour. it’s not about any other
The federal NDP leader was in candidate. It’s about meeting
Dartmouth last night for the formal instal-
the voters of Dartmouth-Cole
lation of Robert Chisholm as the party’s
candidate in that riding. Harbour. Ultimately, they’ll
“We think that this riding we can win,” decide.”
Layton said.
ROBERT CHISHOLM, NDP CANDIDATE
“It really has to do with the hard work
that lies ahead, and having such an Halifax region, and the office is in
extraordinary candidate as Robert and his Dartmouth,” he said.
team, I think, gives us an open door.” “I have a lot of association with people
Chisholm, a former leader of the in Dartmouth-Cole Harbour.”
NDP Leader Jack Layton, left, with former Nova Scotia NDP leader Robert Chisholm last provincial NDP, will face a difficult battle As to whether we’ll actually have a fed-
night at Alderney Landing in Dartmouth. against Liberal incumbent Mike Savage. eral election this year, Layton deferred to
Savage has held the seat since 2004, the punditry.
winning the 2008 election with almost 40 “That’s for the gambling class, the poli-
per cent of the vote. tologues, as they say, the pundits to
Post-secondary Study: Military The riding does have NDP ties, however, assess,” he said.
with Wendy Lill serving as its MP from But Layton said a recent slew of attack
students protest getting fatter 1997 to 2004. She did not seek re-election ads from the Conservatives seem to imply
in 2004. Chisholm played to his the government may drop the writ.
connections in the community, despite liv- “It could be a sign that (Prime Minister
ing in Porters Lake. Stephen Harper) would actually prefer to
Tim O’Neill stands by report on Canadian Forces becoming
“I work with people here, I swim at the go to the polls. Who knows?”
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26, 2011
A saving grace Maligned
1
Bayers Lake
underpass
to go ahead
for the Oval?
It was called “a screw-up”
and a “calamity of errors”
but the underpass at Bay-
ers Lake Business Park is
going ahead.
Save the Oval Association in negotiations for sponsorship of beach The Washmill Lake
volleyball courts in centre of the oval HRM staff working on a report Court underpass — a third news
entrance for the shopping
RYAN TAPLIN/METRO district — was supposed to
cost $10 million but now
estimates peg it at $16 mil-
lion to $18 million.
“This has been a real
screw-up so I’m not
supporting it,” said Coun.
Gloria McCluskey yester-
day.
She was one of four
councillors who voted
against moving the project
forward. Seventeen others
voted in favour.
Council approved an ex-
tra $994,137 yesterday to Baltic the dog heads back to sea
pay for cost overruns in one year after being rescued from
ice floe. Scan code for the story.
second phase of construc-
tion. 1 Download the free
Now staff will work on ScanLife
a funding plan to pay an application with
extra $4 million for the your smartphone
third phase. at 2dscan.com
Coun. Jennifer Watts
said she was fine with 2 Use the ScanLife
leaving it as a “bridge to application on
nowhere.” your smartphone
“I don’t see it as retreat- to scan 2D
ing,” she said adding resi- barcodes in Metro
dents will look at the
half-finished project as 3 The codes will
council showing fiscal re- direct your mobile
straint. browser to
Coun. Dawn Sloane is presented with two petitions containing almost 9,000 signatures from members of the Other councillors said relevant
Save the Oval group at the Nova Scotia Sports Hall of Fame yesterday. there was no other option content at
except to move forward m.metronews.ca
with it.
The Save the Oval Associa- “What gets me is 400 kids got together Dawn Sloane to pass on to The project is getting On the web at
tion received a very inter- to sign a petition because they want to Halifax regional council. $6.7 million from the fed- metronews.ca
esting phone call over a There was also a petition eral Infrastructure Stimu-
week ago. save the oval. They obviously know the from 400 elementary stu- lus Fund. The
A representative of the benefits and they’re told they should dents who wanted their JENNIFER TAPLIN Conserva tives
World Figure Skating Lega- be exercising.” voices heard too. might learn
c$y1 0F0u,0n0d0 oftfoe resdu ptphoeritr ltahset COUN. DAWN SLOANE thi“sI,”’m sh oev seariwd.helmed with Deadline hard less ons
oval in a multi-year agree- Championships and we’d the oval on the Common — John-Paul Cody-Cox, from Har per’s
ment. like to contribute $100,000 is the perfect way to wind CEO of Speed Skating Cana- tight-fisted rule.
The Legacy Fund was set towards the oval because up the World Legacy Fund.” da, pledged his support for Council voted last night to More at
up to manage some of the we’ve waited for 21 years John Gillis with Save the the oval because it’s a way apply for a deadline exten- metronews.ca/
profits from the World Fig- for the right community Oval Association called the to get people out and ac- sion for the project so
spindoctor
ure Skating Champi- project to support,” said donation “incredible.” tive. they’ll have until Dec. 31,
onships held in Halifax in Jane MacLellan, chair of the “There are no strings at- “For us Olympians don’t 2012 to finish it or lose 10
1990. fund, at a press conference tached to it, other than it’s start in high performance per cent of the federal HALIFAX
“We now feel it’s time to yesterday. for a good community proj- centres ... they start on money. FOLKLORE CENTRE
make a donation to some- “We are confident that ect,” he said. ponds and they start on
thing that is very substan- supporting the operation The association also pre- community ovals like this
tial in memory of the 1990 of a sustainable outdoor sented a petition of about with their families,” he 1528 Brunswick St.
Two hurt in 422-6350
World Figure Skating recreational ice surface — 8,500 names to Coun. said. JENNIFER TAPLIN Located just off Spring Garden Rd.
afternoon
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The free classifieds web- “We did respond to re- fant said they knew noth- hospital with non-life-
site Kijiji has been known Who did it? ports that there was a ba- ing about the ad. threatening injuries after
to offer a wide variety of by posted for sale on They were both shaken a two-vehicle crash on
items, but the listing of a Kijiji,” Vassallo said. up by the incident and did Highway 118 near
baby for sale came as a Police are still trying to “At this point it does not wish to speak to me- Dartmouth Crossing
surprise to both police determine who posted just seem to be an unfor- dia. yesterday. Police say the
and the boy’s parents. the ad. tunate joke or hoax, and CAPE BRETON POST accident occurred just af-
Cape Breton Regional an isolated incident.” ter 4 p.m. between two ve-
Police spokeswoman De- that person viewed an on- Police officers visited hicles, with each driver
siree Vassallo said police line advertisement listing an apartment where the Have your say at sent to hospital with what
were contacted by a con- a “two-month-old” baby baby was listed as for sale. halifaxletters were described as lower
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26, 2011
Post-secondary
TRAVEL came in 2008 with
3,578,931.
‘Robust
Tom Ruth, president
and CEO of the Halifax
year’ for International Airport Au- report defended
thority, said the “robust
airport year” was in part due to
the continued strength of
Air Canada and WestJet,
Over 3.5 million passen- daily US Airways’ flights
gers were served at Hali- to Philadelphia, and trips as students protest
fax Stanfield to St. John’s and Ottawa
International Airport in on Porter Airlines.
2010, the second highest Domestic traffic was
total in the airport’s 50- up 2.8 per cent and trans-
year history. border travel rose 7.3 per
Total passengers for cent. The lone blip was a
last year were 3,508,153, four per cent dip with in- Students’ federation stages flash-mob, dons Tim O’Neill masks to protest
up 2.7 per cent from ternational passengers. perceived lack of consultation on tuition matters O’Neill recaps, stands by
2009. The highest total METRO
post-secondary education report to N.S. committee on human resources
Pair accused of
RYAN TAPLIN/METRO
thefts via dating sites
Charges have been in laid
in relation to a pair of rob- Background
beries that resulted in Hali-
fax Regional Police warning Police say in both cases
people — particularly gay men picked up someone
men —to be careful using they met online and were
online dating sites. later robbed when they
A 20-year-old Halifax went to another location.
man and 17-year-old male
youth are facing charges in Wellington Street and
relation to separate rob- Lundy Lane.
beries in the south end of The 17-year-old, also ar-
the city. rested yesterday morning,
Police say the 20-year-old is charged in relation to a
was arrested yesterday just robbery on Jan. 2 at Point
before noontime after a Pleasant Park.
brief foot chase. He’s METRO
charged in relation to a Jan. WITH FILES FROM
6 robbery in the area of THE CANADIAN PRESS
Jewelry stolen in series
of break and enters
Students wear Tim O’Neill masks as they protest in front of One Government Place yesterday.
Police are asking for the Drive in Lake Echo.
public’s help regarding The first incident saw ALEX O’Neill appeared before ondary education and re-
three break and enters over jewelry and cash taken. Po- BOUTILIER the province’s committee duce tuition fees,” said Ka-
two days this week — with lice say about $25,000 in @METRONEWS.CA on human resources yester- ley Kennedy, a researcher
jewelry the stolen item of jewelry was stolen in the day to field questions on his with the Canadian Federa-
choice. second incident. Dr. Tim O’Neill said the report, released last Sep- tion of Students.
On Monday, Halifax On Sunday night, a break protests and concerns tember. Kennedy’s group staged
RCMP say two break and en- and enter happened on raised by students’ organi- Students’ groups have “The government a “flash mob” demonstra-
ters happened four hours Hugh Allen Drive in Cole zations in the wake of his taken issue with the re- asked for my input. tion outside One Govern-
apart — the first at 1:48 Harbour, where about report on post-secondary port’s top recommenda- They obviously can ment Place. About 20
p.m. at a home on Rocky $12,000 in jewelry was education has not substan- tion: The complete students wearing masks
choose how much,
Lake Drive in Bedford, and stolen. tially changed his opinion deregulation of tuition fees. bearing O’Neill’s resem-
the second on Ponderosa METRO on what ought to be done. That would end the tuition if any of it, they blance stood silently on
“Based upon the evi- freeze put in place by the want to put into Barrington Street, handing
dence I had and the argu- Progressive Conservatives out pamphlets to advertise
effect in policy.”
ments I had going into the in 2008. the National Day of Action
report, and what I’ve heard O’Neill recommended DR. TIM O’NEILL on tuition fees.
since then, has not led me removing the cap on how O’Neill said he is not in-
to change my thinking,” much students can borrow “A more effective way of volved in the upcoming
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26, 2011
Stabbing victim may face drug charges
News in brief
RYAN TAPLIN/METRO
Police say a man who suf- “relatively minor” after enter,” Palmeter said.
fered non-life-threatening two men entered the home Police were called after a Missing man
stab wounds after his home in the 300 block of Portland neighbour phoned 911 af-
was broken into early yes- Street around 4:45 a.m. The ter hearing a commotion found safe
terday is facing possible two men assaulted the vic- inside the home. When of-
drug charges after several tim, according to police, ficers arrived, they say the Halifax Regional Police
marijuana plants were with one stabbing him victim was found, along say a 45-year-old man
found inside the residence. multiple times. with the marijuana plants. missing since Jan. 15
“At this point, we are ex- There have been no ar- “We are pursuing two in- has been located.
pecting to lay charges in re- rests. vestigations at this point,” The disappearance of
lation to the drugs,” said “We believe this house Palmeter said “One is into Bill Knox triggered a
Halifax Regional Police was targeted specifically the break and enter, as- large search after he
spokesman Const. Brian and we’ll be investigating sault and robbery file, and A Halifax Regional Police officer looks for evidence near a was last seen near the
Palmeter. the possibility that the the other is into the drugs house in Dartmouth where a man was stabbed early Public Gardens.
Palmeter said the vic- drugs in the home were the located at the home.” yesterday morning. Friends said it was
tim’s stab wounds were motive for the break and PHILIP CROUCHER out of character for
Knox to go missing and
that he required
Radon — is it in medication.
Police did not say
how or where Knox was
found.
THE CANADIAN PRESS
Local talent
announced for
your home?
Winter Games
Rawlins Cross and Buck
65 are among the per-
formers who will take
to the stage for Week 2
of Celebration Square
One in 10 Nova Scotia homes have higher than recommended radon levels: Lung Association at Night at Grand
Parade during next
RYAN TAPLIN/METRO month’s Canada Win-
The Lung Association of No- The Lung Association is ter Games.
Increased risk
va Scotia is launching a launching a new campaign Announced
campaign to raise awaren- to raise awareness about yesterday, the free out-
ess of a radioactive gas that The Lung Association’s radon — how to detect it, door shows will see
is the leading cause of lung Louis Brill also noted radon and how to remediate it. Rawlins Cross headline
cancer in non-smokers. exposure increases smok- The association will be- on Feb. 22, Old Man
Radon, which is unde- ers’ risk of lung cancer. gin selling radon detectors Leudecke on Feb. 23,
tectable by human senses, for $35 on Feb. 1. Buck 65 on Feb. 24, Ra-
is a naturally occurring gas province. The detectors are placed dio Radio on Feb. 25
created in the breakdown “Reducing indoor expo- in a home, typically in the and City and Colour on
of uranium. It can accumu- sure to radon can certainly basement, and left for three Feb. 26.
late to dangerous levels, es- prevent lung cancer, and at months. Homeowners then The entertainment
pecially in homes with old the same time improve air send them away for testing. lineup for Week 1
or cracked foundations, and quality in a person’s home,” For more information, was announced last
Louis Brill, president and CEO of the Lung Association of is estimated to be the cause said Louis Brill, president of visit the Lung Association’s week.
Nova Scotia, holds a home radon test. of up to 10 per cent of lung the Nova Scotia branch of website at lung.ns.ca. METRO
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26, 2011
Obama reaches
out to opponents
U.S. president makes a direct appeal for bipartisan
lawmaking in his State of the Union address
‘We will move forward together or not at all,’ he says
CHARLES DHARAPAK/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
U.S. President Barack Oba- narrowed the Democratic
ma called for unity with advantage in the Senate as
newly empowered Republi- well as taking control of the
cans in a State of the Union House of Representatives.
policy speech that laid the Obama, who has re-
foundation for the second bounded in opinion polls in
half of his presidential term recent weeks, was looking
and next year’s fight for re- to position himself above
election. politics, even as both par-
Obama staked out terri- ties manoeuvre for advan-
tory in America’s political tage ahead of the 2012
centre. He defended pro- Barack Obama presidential vote.
grams dear to his Demo- The speech comes
cratic base, including the eral spending, shaking up weeks after Congress-
federal Social Security pen- the federal bureaucracy and woman Gabrielle Giffords
sion program and his eliminating lawmakers’ pet was seriously wounded in a
health care overhaul. projects. shooting rampage in Ari-
But he also backed some For the first time in his zona that killed six people.
top priorities of Republi- two-year presidency, Oba- In an attempt at unity,
cans, who took control of ma was appearing before a many Democratic and Re-
the House of Representa- divided Congress. After No- publican lawmakers decid-
tives this month. He called vember elections that Oba- ed to break with tradition
for cutting the corporate ma has described as a and sit together.
tax rate, freezing some fed- “shellacking,” Republicans THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Egypt. Tens of thousands mobilize online
Police face demonstrators in Cairo, yesterday, during a Tunisia-inspired demonstration
to demand the end of President Hosni Mubarak’s nearly 30 years in power. The clashes
left at least three dead.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tunisia’s uprising fuels Cairo protest
Yesterday’s demonstration, the largest Egypt has seen for years, began peacefully,
with police showing unusual restraint in what appeared to be a calculated strategy
by the government to avoid further sullying the image of a security apparatus
widely seen as little more than corrupt thugs in uniforms. Protesters cried out for
President Hosni Mubarak to step down and for a solution to Egypt’s poverty.
Facebook Arnold Probe into
pushes its speaks in organ sales
currency Calgary urged
Facebook says it will begin Former California governor European lawmakers
requiring all games on its Arnold Schwarzenegger pressed yesterday for inves-
website to accept payments gave what amounted to a tigations to follow up on a
through its own currency motivational speech to report that said civilians in
system, Facebook Credits. more than 2,000 people in Albania were killed so their
Developers will be able to Calgary. He told the crowd organs could be sold on the
use other currency systems that “if you are afraid to fail black market after the end
but they must accept Cred- you are a girly man.” of war in Kosovo.
its. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS THE CANADIAN PRESS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Canadian Forces personnel number of people who
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less physically active and The document surveyed per cent, despite a rise in
becoming heavier about 3,700 full-time the availability of fitness
drinkers, according to a Forces members for 2008- classes on bases and satel-
new military study. 2009. lite gyms, and that 80 per
The Health and Lifestyle cent of members had “very
Information Survey also Nearly 48% were sedentary” jobs.
found members are still re- overweight, an alarming Despite the alarming
luctant to seek out mental 23.5% deemed obese, and numbers, MacKay says he
health services for fear it 29% were of normal believes members of the
will hurt their military ca- weight. military are in better
reers, despite several new shape than the average
Defence initiatives to re- terday from Ottawa. “We’re Canadian — a belief he
duce the stigma of doing so. also, though, identifying said is supported by the
The document found that there are a good num- more than 20,000 military
there was a three per cent ber of members interested personnel who engaged in
increase in the number of in trying to take steps to im- “vigorous” deployments in
obese people since the last prove their health and to Afghanistan, Haiti, else-
survey in 2004, even with take steps to increase their where and domestically in
a renewed push on fitness levels of physical activity recent years.
promotion. and improve their nutri- The survey also found
“The study results cer- tion.” almost half of the respon-
tainly indicate to us that, The survey, which was dents had more than two
like the rest of the Canadi- recently posted on the Na- standard alcoholic drinks a
an population, we’re not tional Defence website, day — above the “low-risk”
immune to this epidemic of doesn’t offer explanations drinking guidelines set by
obesity,” Col. Colin MacKay, for the numbers. The vol- the Centre for Addictions
the military's director of untary, anonymous mail- and Mental Health.
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the keynote speech at the Digital Life Design (DLD)
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26, 2011
BUTTING HEADS OVER CHILD REARING
If you’re a parent, you prob- the 21st century will belong to Once, one of Chua’s daughters Stew while excelling at four in-
ably know about Battle China. If it doesn’t already. placed second in a math quiz. creasingly difficult levels of Gui-
Just sayin’ Hymn Of The Tiger Mother, On the other, you have my She made the poor kid do 2,000 tar Hero, while Annie is a
the book by Yale Prof. Amy own kids, who snort and roll math problems a night until she modern-day Merlin, capable of
PAUL Chua that cheerfully their eyes and say “as if” a lot. regained the lead. plundering the secrets of the
Chua once threatened to My own kids have never done Tarot while adjusting your
SULLIVAN condemns North American torch her daughter’s stuffed ani- 2,000 math problems in their chakras for optimal energy.
parenting practices as soft. mals unless she learned to play a lives, combined, unless the math They didn’t exactly raise
A
piece without flaws. Daughter problem involves extracting $20 themselves, but they were full
played so diligently she ended bills from the Bank of Dad and participants.
nd just as cheerfully, up playing Carnegie Hall when successfully not giving back any They’re not concert masters,
she celebrates the she was just 14. change. nuclear physicists or
“Chinese” style Chua was merciless. She made By all accounts, Lulu and radiologists, but they’re pretty
piano-math drill tor- the kid sit on the bench for Sophia Chua-Rubenfeld are beau- amazing, and all we had to do
ture of her own chil- hours and play through dinner, tiful, well-adjusted young was give up after five minutes of
dren as a successful even denying her water. women who can leap tall build- pretending to be Amy Chua.
program for overcoming adversi- We had a piano at our place, ings in a single bound while So stay tuned for my upcom-
ty. That’s if adversity can be too. Our kids sat on the bench playing Flight Of The ing parenting bestseller: Crouch-
characterized as placing second for minutes, then took a dive, Bumblebee. ing Father, Belligerent Children.
in a math competition. feigning epilepsy. After a couple Dare I say it, but John David And relax.
The whole thing is gloriously of those sessions, the only Sullivan and Ann Katherine Sul-
controversial. On the one hand, person who spent any time livan are, um, differently prodi-
you have armchair sociologists around the piano was Douglas gious. Read more of
who nod sagely and point to the cleaning person, who was Chef Iron John can whip up Paul Sullivan’s columns at
Chua’s parental rigour as proof not happy about the dust. the world’s best Fisherman’s metronews.ca/justsaying
Musing about concerts
Cartoon
MICHAEL DE ADDER
Picking favourite shows TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE FILE
Letters
& Tweets
We asked: What was the
best concert you saw in
2010?
@OceannaDelamer:Adam
Lambert’s Glam Nation in
St. Jean, Quebec and
Toronto. (Orianthi opened
as well, just amazing!)
@BatestonBeauty:Hawksley
Workman was the best
concert I saw in 2010 —
Which film should
his talent is mind- Glasgow with Carson pyrotechnics. What more
win the Oscar for
boggling and music is Downey band, Alert the could you ask for?
amazing! Medic and ’80s hairband @jessicaology:Muse at best picture? Why?
@_samdelaney:The Acorn Haywire! (Toronto) ACC was the Email
w/ Gianna Lauren in Sep- @benwedge:@hannahmu- best concert I saw in 2010.
tember. sic at the company house. Matt Bellamy is so talent- halifaxletters
@brewnoser:Willie Nile at Or @passionpit during Ot- ed! @metronews.ca
The Carleton, with back- tawa blues fest, if that @rossanamenezes:PAUL Mc- Twitter
up band made up of half counts. CARTNEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@metrohalifax
of Matt Mays’ and half of @TheHolyThief:Trans Siber- @sweetsolmom:Silversun
Joel Plaskett’s bands. ian Orchestra! Orchestral Pickups. (opened for
@ChefGregClancy:best 2010 strings, guitar and drums. Muse, who were awesome Metro has the right to edit
concert The Trews in New Crazy lighting and as well). letters and submissions.
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