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Dartmouth
Heritage. Hockey
shooting vic
recovering
Suspect sought in New Year’s incident
Shooter, boy unknown to each other: HRP
A 16-year-old Porter’s Lake boy is “To the best of our knowledge,
recovering in hospital after being (the shooter and the victim)
shot in Dartmouth on New Year’s weren’t (known to each other). The
Day. victim has been co-operative, and
Halifax Regional Police were we were able to speak to him.”
called to the Dartmouth Sportsplex No arrests have been made.
bus terminal at 12:34 a.m. on Sun- Police believe the boy was walk-
day after receiving reports of gun- ing with friends when the suspect
shots in the area. They found the approached them. A confrontation
boy suffering from multiple gun ensued, and shots were fired.
shot wounds. The wounds were McCoombs said investigators do
believed to be life-threatening at not know exactly what happened,
the time, and he was transported but it appears to have been a fight
to hospital, where he was listed in that escalated out of control.
serious condition. The suspect fled from the scene
By late afternoon, the boy’s eastbound on Nantucket Avenue.
Former Halifax Moosehead Jakub Voracek, left, celebrates a goal by injuries were no longer considered A police dog unit was unable to
Philadelphia Flyers teammate Brayden Schenn during the Heritage Classic on Monday. life-threatening. According to Hal- track him down.
ifax Regional Police Staff Sgt. Reid He is described as a black man
BRUCE BENNETT/GETTY IMAGES McCoombs, police have inter- in his late teens or early 20s,
Annual outdoor game a real classic viewed the boy and he is helping approximately six feet tall and
them with the investigation. “heavier set.” One witness
“We think he’s going to make a described him as having “chubby
Jakub Voracek and the Flyers battled the New York Rangers in the fifth annual outdoor game, full recovery,” McCoombs said on cheeks,” according to police.
put on this year at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia. The Rangers won 3-2. Story, page 16. Monday. ALEX BOUTILIER
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TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, 2012
Acadian, African Nova Scotian seats in jeopardy
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Four ridings dedicated to Commission. “We’re not getting into that kind of sence, said it won’t neces-
Acadian and African Nova An amendment to those racialized politics, where we say only a sarily remove protection
Scotians are on the chop- terms of reference released member of this group can be elected to for “communities of inter-
ping block as the province on Dec. 30 requires the est.”
the house.... It’s kind of a simplistic notion
moves forward with a re- number of electors in each “The boundaries com-
view of constituency constituency to be within of how people vote.” mission take into consider-
boundaries. 25 per cent of the average. NDP MLA LEONARD PREYRA ation geographies ...
Nova Scotia is required For example, in the communities of interest,
by law to undertake a 2009 election, the African Progressive Conservative The boundaries of his whether linguistic or cul-
boundary review every ten Nova Scotian riding of Pre- House Leader Chris d’En- constituency can’t be tural,” said Preyra.
years. A committee of the ston had 7,680 eligible vot- tremont. tweaked without losing its “All the report says ... is
legislature, chaired by Jus- ers. The nearby district of “None of the linguistic purpose, d’Entremont 25 per cent is the maxi-
news
tice Minister Ross Landry, Dartmouth East had al- minority constituencies added, because he’d then mum variance that the
has been working on the most double the amount of can survive on 25 per be representing an Anglo- commission should allow.
terms of reference for the voters with 15,240. cent,” d’Entremont said on phone majority. But ideally, we’re looking
review, which will be con- The amendment will ef- Monday, who represents NDP MLA Leonard at something that’s closer
ducted by the arm’s-length fectively eliminate the pro- 6,474 voters in the Acadian Preyra, who presented the to parity.”
Provincial Boundaries tected ridings, according to riding of Argyle. amendment in Landry’s ab- ALEX BOUTILIER
Dexter warns of tough times
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PREMIER DARRELL DEXTER Edmonton
Dexter said the benefits
of landing the $25-billion photographer
federal shipbuilding con- traditional sectors such as Paul Burwell
tract were still about a forestry.
explains how he
year away, while the $6.2- A good deal of the gov-
billion Muskrat Falls hy- ernment’s attention to- creates his
droelectric project in wards the end of 2011 was
detailed and
Labrador is still in the trained on trying to save Premier Darrell Dexter, left, and Finance Minister Graham Steele speak to the media
planning stages. hundreds of jobs at the in this file photo. In a recent interview, Dexter said 2012 will be a tough economic year. radiantly lit
In the meantime, Dex- now idled NewPage paper images of
ter said the province mill in Port Hawkesbury Bowater Mersey open. tions in southwestern No- economic situation wors-
snowflakes.
could be in for turbulent and at the Bowater Mersey Dexter said the support va Scotia are proof eco- ening, the possibility of a
times. operation near Liverpool. was given with the under- nomic planning is snap election this year is Video at
“Almost every economy The government pro- standing that what sur- lacking. increasing as the govern-
metronews.ca/
is feeling pretty volatile,” vided $14 million to keep vives will be a lot leaner. “I think that is more ment tries to capitalize on
he said. forestry operations viable Liberal Leader Stephen about a government that its “perceived” role in video
As a result, Dexter said while a new buyer is McNeil said the govern- is trying to limp its way landing the federal ship-
the government realizes it sought for the NewPage ment’s bailouts of the pa- through to the next elec- building contract and
needs to adapt its ap- mill and it passed legisla- per mills and a recent tion,” McNeil said. boost employment by HALIFAX
proach to the economy as tion last month ratifying a injection of $1 million to Conservative Leader building roads and FOLKLORE CENTRE
market trends transform $50-million deal to keep bolster Rodd Hotel opera- Jamie Baillie said with the schools. THE CANADIAN PRESS
1528 Brunswick St.
422-6350
2009 death of seven-week- Located just off Spring Garden Rd.
Tenants not going home for a few days old Aurora Breakthrough.
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soliciting donations for were forced to flee their completely destroyed, Rough seas
Dartmouth residents who homes after fire ripped while others suffered testify this
were forced to flee their through the building at 25 smoke damage. No one delay ferries
apartments after a morn- Arthur Street around was injured, and the cause week
ing fire on Saturday. 11 a.m. on New Year’s Eve. of the fire is not yet Marine Atlantic said
Tenants of the 64-unit According to Halifax known. Ashiqur Rahman is rough seas and high
building will not be able to Fire, the blaze began on Those wishing to donate expected to testify in his winds were to blame for
return to their apartments the second or third floor of money, clothes or other own defence this week. delaying its ferries for sev-
for a few days, according the apartment building supplies can do so at the Rahman, 25, has plead- eral days, including ones
to Dan Bedell, a and quickly spread, exten- Salvation Army on Wyse ed not guilty to scheduled to depart to
spokesman for the Red sively damaging the build- Road. ALEX BOUTILIER/WITH manslaughter and aggra- Port aux Basques, N.L.
halifaxfolklorecentre.com
Cross’ Atlantic division. ing’s backside and roof. FILES FROM THE CANADIAN PRESS vated assault in the July THE CANADIAN PRESS
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TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, 2012
Cold water stabs like 2 face charges
in horse-stable
needles, says dipper
assault, robbery
Annual Polar Bear dip at Herring Cove raises $5,000 for local food bank
A man and woman are party.
Weather was ideal, at about 1 C with the sun peeking through the clouds
facing charges after a 19- On Wednesday at about
ANDREW VAUGHAN/THE CANADIAN PRESS year-old man was beaten 11:30 p.m., the man
and robbed at a Nova Sco- brought the victim, of
tia horse stable. Truro, to a barn on Old
Sgt. Al Affleck with the Salmon River Road.
Colchester RCMP said ear- The man allegedly pro-
lier in the week there was ceeded to kick and punch
disagreement between the victim, who received
the victim and the 26- minor injuries, and stole
year-old woman. his wallet and cell phone.
Affleck said an 18-year- The suspects are facing
old man asked the woman charges including armed
if she wanted to “get robbery, unlawful con-
even” with the victim, finement and conspiracy
then proceeded to call the to commit assault.
man and invited him to a THE CANADIAN PRESS
POLICE INVESTIGATION responded to reports of
a 21-year-old man suf-
Man, 21, fering from multiple
stab wounds just after
in serious midnight on Sunday.
He was taken to the
Ernie Ross, 77, welcomes condition Aberdeen Regional Hos-
the new year as he prepares pital with what are be-
to leap from the government after lieved to be serious
wharf into the frigid North injuries.
Atlantic in the annual New stabbing A 19-year-old man
Year’s Day polar bear swim in has been arrested in
Herring Cove on Sunday. connection with the in-
Police in a Nova Scotia cident and charges are
town rang in the new pending.
year by investigating an Police continue to in-
early morning stabbing. vestigate.
Officers in Stellarton THE CANADIAN PRESS
More than 150 people Firefighters, police and “After you lose the we don’t keep anyway, we
Woman hit Senior dead
braved brisk winds and emergency personnel feeling in your just wash off the old and
frigid water temperatures were on hand to oversee limbs, it’s quite start with the new,” Peter- by stolen in Cape
to plunge into the Atlantic the action and sent 20 son said, standing on wet
nice.”
Ocean in Herring Cove as people at a time to jump sand among hordes of par-
part of an annual New off the dock. TARRIN MCDONOUGH, 40, AT THE ticipants. car on NYE Breton fire
Year’s Day polar bear dip. MacLellan, 54, com- VANCOUVER POLAR DIP. “And wash off that
People young and old pared the experience to nasty hangover,” joked his
donned bikinis and swim- being stabbed with nee- Al Peterson started off 23-year-old son Jason, who A 22-year-old Economy A 60-year-old woman is
ming trunks for a brief- dles thousands times. 2012 with a dip in 7 C took his first dip at the woman was in critical con- dead following a house
but-bitter dip into the icy He said the weather ocean water in Vancouver. turn of the millennium. dition in Halifax after be- fire in Nova Scotia on New
waters in Herring Cove at was ideal, with the tem- For his 34th year in a It was an unseasonal 4 ing struck by a car as she Year’s Day.
noon Sunday. perature hovering at row, the 58-year-old was C in Toronto when the walked home from a New Police in Cape Breton
Rob MacLellan, organiz- about 1 C and the sun down at Vancouver’s Eng- dippers in swim suits — Year’s Eve celebration. say firefighters were
er of the event and a 14- peeking through the lish Bay with his family some sporting Viking- The woman was at the called to the residence on
year participant, says clouds. for one of the oldest polar style headgear with horns Economy Community Birch Grove Road near
about $5,000 was raised It was a tad warmer for bear swims in the country. — took the plunge at Sun- Centre before walking Glace Bay at about 8 a.m.
for local food bank Feed other polar dips across the “Rather than a New nyside Beach at noon. along Highway 2 at ap- on Sunday.
Nova Scotia. country. Year’s resolution, which THE CANADIAN PRESS proximately 1:30 a.m. The woman, who lived
Sunday morning when in the house, died at the
she was struck. scene.
During the investiga- Investigators say the
Tatamagouche house a ‘total loss’ after fire
tion, it was determined cause of the fire is likely
that the vehicle involved accidental.
was stolen from the com- Police have not released
A vacant bungalow in Tata- smoke coming from the where the fire was.” lot of water damage, said munity centre shortly be- the name of the victim.
magouche was destroyed home. He said there was a Forbes, and had been for fore the incident. An autopsy will be done
by fire Saturday morning. “It was smoldering for number of cord of wood in sale for quite some time. The suspect vehicle did- in Halifax.
Jim Forbes, fire chief quite some time and it was the basement that had He said the Colchester n’t stop at the scene but THE CANADIAN PRESS
with the Tatamagouche de- burning good by the time been stored for a while. RCMP was called to the was located a short dis-
partment, said firefighters we got there,” said Forbes. “The house is probably a scene and the fire marshal tance away in a ditch. The
responded just after 7 a.m. “We did an interior at- total loss but the structure should be on site on Sun- driver, a 25-year-old Econ- For more local news
after neighbours on Upper tack. Our guys went into is still standing.” day to investigate. omy resident, turned him- visit
River John Road noticed the basement and that’s The house sustained a TRURO DAILY NEWS self in. TRURO DAILY NEWS www.metronews.ca
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Numbers tell the story Halifax
Population: 370,000
Homicides were up significantly for Halifax, with
17 throughout the municipality in 2011. That’s
six more than in 2010 and four more than the
2011 was an unusual year for murders in Canada, with some areas setting records previous record of 13 from 2009. Most of the
17
homicides weren’t random, but in
for most or fewest homicides Here’s a look at all nine Metro Canada cities
late November three teens were
charged in the indiscriminate
Vancouver Edmonton Winnipeg shooting of a Halifax-area senior
Population: 578,000 Population: 730,000 Population: 633,000 out for a walk.
The City of Vancouver saw Edmonton saw its deadliest year ever in 2011 — in- Winnipeg saw a record 39 homicides
15 homicides in 2011. The cluding two slayings in the final 24 hours, with a 35- in 2011, up from the previous record
final homicide in the city year-old man and a woman in her 20s becoming the of 34. The high number of killings Montreal
47
was the New Year’s Eve stab- 46th and 47th homicide victims. The was attributed to increasing gang vi- Population: 1.6 million
bing death of 19-year-old city, which led the country in homi- olence and one instance 3where9 a Montreal saw 35 homicides on its
Dylan Cody Smith at an cides, surpassed its previous record woman allegedly set territory in 2011, down two from
apartment. In Metro of 39 from 2005. fire to a rooming 2010. In the province of Quebec,
Vancouver and the Fraser house, killing five oc- there were 102 35
Valley, there 15 cupants. homicides, an in- Ottawa
were 35 crease of 28 per Population: 812,000
homicides in cent. Ottawa had 11
2011, accord- homicides in 2011. Four
ing to CBC. victims were women
and the rest men. Knives
were used in five of the
Calgary Toronto cases. Three other
Population: 988,000 Population: 2.5 million victims were shot, all of
Early intervention and funding Toronto recorded 46 murders in 2011, the whom were men with
commitments from municipal and provin- lowest number in 25 years. This was the criminal ties. The shoot-
cial governments are being touted as ma- fourth straight year of declines since 2007, METRO CANADA/ ings remain unsolved as
jor factors in keeping Calgary’s homicide when the city recorded its deadliest year TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE do three other cases: in
number at 11, the lowest it’s been in eight (matched in 1991) with 86 homicides. Police one case, the cause of
years. The final count is in stark contrast to Chief Bill Blair attributed some of the decline London death has not been re-
46
killings at the height of the 11 to the disruption of gang Population: 352,000 8 leased. 11
city’s gang war in 2008 and activity following sweeping London police reported eight homicides in 2011 — up from seven Ottawa
2009, when roughly three raids carried out across the in 2010 — the most murders on record since slayings spiked to 14 had 10
times the murders were region. in 2005. The last murder was reported on Dec. 27, when Said Had- homicides
recorded. bai, 20, was found shot in a parking lot. He died in hospital. in 2010.
MOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL
MOUNT RAINIERSHOOTING said. A PARK/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
medical Man arrested in L.A. arson probe
Suspect in examin-
er was at
murder of
the
DAN STEINBERG/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
scene to Suspect is a German national
U.S. park
deter-
mine the Federal authorities recognized Los Angeles Fire Department firefighters extinguish
ranger cause of Anderson him from immigration court: Police numerous cars on fire in a carport in the Sherman Oaks
death. PIERCE COUNTY SHERIFF’S neighbourhood of Los Angeles yesterday.
found dead DEPT./THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Troyer
said two Authorities arrested a Ger- earlier in the day because
weapons man man yesterday in con- he resembled a “person of
An armed Iraq War veter- were re- nection with dozens of interest” captured on sur-
an suspected of killing a covered, suspected arson attacks veillance video. He was
Mount Rainier National but he that destroyed parked cars, stopped by a reserve sher-
Park ranger managed to declined scorched buildings and rat- iff's deputy in a van being
evade snowshoe-wearing to say Barnes tled much of the second- sought by arson investiga-
SWAT teams and dogs on where largest U.S. city over the tors, who did not rule out
his trail for nearly a day. they were located. New Year's weekend. the possibility that others
He couldn’t, however, es- According to police Harry Burkhart, 24, was may be involved.
cape the cold. and court documents, booked for investigation of More than 50 blazes
A plane searching the Barnes had a troubled arson of an inhabited have flared since Friday in
remote wilderness for transition to civilian life, dwelling and was being Hollywood, neighbouring
Benjamin Colton Barnes, with accusations in a held without bail, authori- West Hollywood and the
24, yesterday discovered child-custody dispute that ties said. Police said he told San Fernando Valley, caus-
his body lying partially he suffered from post- arresting officers he's from ing about $3 million in
submerged in an icy, traumatic stress disorder Frankfurt. damage.
snowy mountain creek following his Iraq deploy- Burkhart was arrested THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
with snow banks ments and was suicidal.
standing several feet high Barnes is believed to More officers charged in Grenada beating death
on either side. have fled to the remote
“He was wearing a T- park on Sunday to hide
“People who know
shirt, a pair of jeans and after an earlier shooting Three more Grenada po- ed case, it’s unfortunate,” charged Sunday in the
one tennis shoe. That was at a New Year’s house par- Grenada ... will tell lice officers were charged Prime Minister Tillman beating death of 39-year-
it,” Pierce County ty near Seattle that you that Grenada with manslaughter on Thomas told The Canadian old Oscar Bartholomew of
Sheriff’s spokesman Ed wounded four, two criti- is the safest Sunday in the beating Press in a phone interview Toronto, who was visiting
Troyer said. cally. Authorities suspect death of a Canadian as the from his home Sunday the island about 160 kilo-
destination in the
Barnes did not have he then fatally shot country’s prime minister night. metres north of Venezuela
any external wounds and ranger Margaret Caribbean.” insisted the case isn’t in- A police statement said to see family. The Sunday
appears to have died Anderson. dicative of the Caribbean officers Edward Gibson, arrests brought the num-
TILLMAN THOMAS,
from the elements, he THE ASSOCIATED PRESS island’s law enforcement. Shaun Ganness and Ruddy ber of police suspects to
PRIME MINISTER OF GRENADA
“This is really an isolat- Felix were arrested and five. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Mubarak charges
Show. Of strength
could be dropped
Acquittal of policemen accused of killing protesters
raises speculation about former Egyptian president
MOHAMMED AL-LAW/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The trial of Hosni Mubarak
resumed in Cairo on Mon-
day amid speculation that
a recent acquittal of police- Iranian naval officers celebrate after the successful launch of a Ghader missile at the
men tried in the killings of shore of the Gulf of Oman during a drill on Monday.
protesters could be a prel-
ude to the dismissal of HAMED JAFARNEJAD/ FARS NEWS AGENCY/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
charges against the ousted Iranian navy test-fires cruise missile
Egyptian leader.
Mubarak, 83, is accused
of complicity in the killing Iran test-fired a surface-to-surface cruise missile during a drill that Admiral Habi-
of more than 800 protest- Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak is wheeled bollah Sayyari said proved Tehran was in complete control of the strategic Strait
ers during the uprising into a Cairo courthouse on Monday to face charges of of Hormuz, the passageway for one-sixth of the world’s oil supply. Tehran has
that toppled his 29-year complicity in the killing of protesters last year. threatened to close the strait as retaliation for new U.S. economic sanctions.
regime last year.
He was brought by heli-
copter to the Cairo court- licemen of charges of ers in self defence.
Israeli-Palestinian peace talks to resume
house from a hospital killing five protesters dur- The ruling angered fam-
where he is held in cus- ing the uprising last Jan. ilies of the victims. Ac-
tody. He was then taken in- 25 to Feb. 11. The court tivists demanded justice Israeli and Palestinian en- meeting since negotiations breakthrough, the Pales-
to the defendants’ cage on said three of the defen- and complained that simi- voys will meet in Jordan on collapsed in September tinians will abandon the
a gurney. dants were not at the site lar cases are languishing in Tuesday in a last-ditch ef- 2010. But Saeb Erekat, the process and could try
Another Cairo court on of the killings while the courts in several Egyptian fort to salvage peace talks, chief Palestinian negotia- again for recognition at the
Thursday acquitted five po- other two fired on protest- cities. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS the first time the sides are tor, warned that, without a UN. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Take Me Home!
Wildfires
ly man who ignored warn- than seven per cent of the
ings to leave his home. famed Torres del Paine na-
Isabella rage across Chile’s normally rainy tional park had burned, ru-
southern regions are feel- ining vacations for some of
southern
ing the effects of a nation- the 150,000 tourists who
Labrador Retriever/ wide heat wave and come each year during the
Chile
drought. Red alerts were brief southern summer.
American Staffordshire Terrier Mix declared for the regions of An Israeli tourist, Rotem
Magallanes, Bio Bio and Singer, 23, has denied a
Firefighters in Chile bat- Maule. charge of negligently start-
Isabella is full of play and would tled three huge wildfires on In the Bio Bio region, the ing the Torres del Paine
Monday that have burned timber industry is threat- fire. But a Santiago prose-
love to find a doggy brother. She
about 23,000 hectares of ened by fire that destroyed cutor said Singer’s travel-
plays very well with some dogs and forest, destroyed more an Arauco company paper ling companions said he
than 100 homes and driven mill. Hundreds of people set fire to toilet paper after
is a little shy when first meeting
away thousands of tourists who left their homes were going to the bathroom, and
people (especially men) but does while causing millions of forced to relocate yet again then failed to put it out
dollars in losses. early Monday as the flames completely. If convicted, he
warm up quickly! The fires also claimed advanced. faces up to two months in
their first victim: An elder- In Magallanes, more jail. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, 2012
Media mogul tweets
his 2012 resolutions
80-year-old Murdoch joins Twitter for the new year
More than 46,000 followers by Monday morning
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his most difficult year in
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light as his media empire course diet!”
comes under increased His wife Wendi Deng has and sail on to a bright fu-
scrutiny because of wide- also started tweeting — ture for everyone Wxx.”
spread phone hacking at she’s @wendi-deng — refer- She also gently reminds
his U.K. newspapers. ring to the setbacks: “A lot fellow tweeters to spell her
“My resolutions, try to of bad things happened in first name with an “i” at the
maintain humility and al- 2011 but I hope in 2012 we end, not a “y.”
ways curiosity,” he tweets, can put them all behind us THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Gas. Up
An attendant sells fuel at a petrol station in Lagos, Nigeria, Monday.
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Nigeria’s gas prices may fuel unrest
Nigeria is ending fuel subsidies, an official said Sunday, a move that is sure to be
unpopular in the oil-rich nation where citizens see cheap fuel as one of their few
government benefits. Two union groups are threatening strikes and protests.
Pipeline top of
risky choice between two ma in November’s election.
election agenda Democratic constituencies. Some liberal donors threat-
Some unions say the ened to cut off funds to his
President Barack Obama pipeline would create thou- re-election campaign to
and Congress are starting sands of jobs. Environmen- protest the project. If he re-
the election year locked in a talists fear it could lead to jects the pipeline, Obama
tussle over a proposed an oil spill. Environmental risks losing support from
2,735-kilometre oil pipeline advocates have made it organized labour, a key part
set to run from Alberta to clear that approval of the of the Democratic base, for
Texas that will force the pipeline would dampen thwarting thousands of
White House to make a their enthusiasm for Oba- jobs. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
08 metronews.ca
voices
TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, 2012
12 RESOLUTIONS
Register at Local tweets
metropolitanpanel.ca
WORTH KEEPING and take the quick poll @Whitney believe it’s my last full day
Matchett:It’s in Dartmouth.. thanks to
Who would win a telepathic battle of been a great all my amazing friends for
FOR 2012 smartness? few days with another unreal break!
#amazingfriends but glad #timeflies #wah
to be heading back to @abbeysanford:Can’t be-
#Halifax to start the lieve tomorrow is
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Of course you have. Now for- NERDS? thanks halifax for raining thought I was on the
get those lofty ambitions on my parade. bridge of the enterprise,
JESSICA NAPIER that would have you forsake @commoncentsmom:Hali- my wife was programming
METRO all your vices simultaneous- fax friends: Donations the new stove, lol
ly, and let’s try to focus on needed for Woodside fire @Allisomething: When
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that I’d like you (yes, YOU) to make and @rachdnielsen:Can’t
keep for 2012. Don’t worry, I promise to
try my best to adhere to them as well.
After all, even a few minor changes can make the BINSAR BAKKARA PHOTOS/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
world a much better place for me, you and everyone Daily Zoom
1we know.
I will stop Keeping Up with the Kardashians
once and for all and spend more time with my HHoommeelleessss iinn IInnddoonneessiiaa
2 own family.
I will stand right and walk left on escalators.
3
I will stop doing that thing where I see an
acquaintance on the street and pretend I don’t
know them. We both know what’s going on;
4let’s just stop being awkward and say hello.
I will take better care of my hair because some-
day I might lose it all.
5
The same thing goes for my money.
6
I will resist the urge to Like a Facebook status
update about an engagement or pregnancy in
order to prevent a never-ending stream of
annoying comment notifications in the days that
7follow.
I will stop letting the smug woman behind the
GPS navigation voice jeopardize my
relationship, and surrender to the fact that
8maybe she does know best.
I will recognize that the only things that belong
on the dinner table are food and cutlery, not my
9 cellphone.
I will stop blaming public transit for my late ar-
Half of country’s Living in a
rival at the office every single morning and ad-
mit to myself (and my boss) that maybe I should rainforests lost concrete jungle
be getting up 10 minutes earlier. Alternatively, I will
1think0 of some new excuses for my tardiness. Orphaned baby Veterinarians conduct sur-
I will buy the $14 bottle of wine, not the $9 orangutans Septian and gery on an estimated 40-
bottle. Yes, I want to save money, but the Seroja play inside a basket year-old orangutan named
12-hours-from-now version of me will at a Conservation Puyul, who suffers from a
1appre1ciate my largesse. Programme facility in Batu broken leg, at their facility
I will listen to my mother and wear the ap- Mbelin, North Sumatra, in Batu Mbelin, North
propriate footwear for the weather condi- Indonesia. Indonesia has Sumatra, Indonesia. Puyul
12 tions. lost half of its rainforests broke his leg falling from a
I will actually pay attention to the auto-cor- in the last half century, tree while being rescued by
rect function on my phone and stop send- putting the remaining conservationists after he
ing embarrassing typo-filled messages to 50,000 to 60,000 was found roaming a rub-
friends and family. After all, “Did you show your orangutans living in scat- ber plantation too close to
boss?” is a very different question than “Did you show tered, degraded forests in a village. The vets also
your boobs?” frequent, and often dead- found air-rifle-pellet
ly, conflict with humans. wounds in Puyul’s body.
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TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, 2012
Blasting gender roles
2
Bomb Girls is a new series that celebrates the strength of the women who worked in munitions
factories during the Second World War Oscar nominee Meg Tilly plays the factory’s supervisor
HANDOUT
ANNE
BRODIE Why Meg Tilly
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quit acting
In 1995, Oscar nominee
scene
Meg Tilly left Hollywood to I took my kids, always, on
write, and raise her family, films. My daughter was in
including a son with Colin the third grade and I took
Firth. her when I did Leaving
She’s back in a passion Normal. When we went
project, Bomb Girls, set in back, her best friend was
an Ajax, Ont., munitions best friends with someone Box office
factory during the Second else and there were only
World War. seven girls in the class and
Tilly relishes her role as she didn’t have anyone to
Lorna, whose abusive hus- eat lunch with and she
band returned from the cried. I thought this is why
war paralyzed and who su- a lot of actors mess up.
pervises the girls on the Coming from a Tom Cruise’s new
factory line. challenging childhood, I mission remains im-
Tilly sat down with didn’t want to leave my possible to beat at
Metro to talk about Bomb kids with someone else. If I the box office.
Girls and gender issues that took them away with me Studio estimates
are still relevant in 2012. six or seven months a year Sunday placed Mis-
“I have my little chick- they wouldn’t have any sion: Impossible -
adees to look after on kind of life. I realised what Ghost Protocol in the
Bomb Girls,” says Tilly. would pay me the most for No. 1 spot for the
“Everyone’s younger the least amount of time, second-straight
than me and there’s all this Meg Tilly, shown in blue, says the reason she left acting was to give her children a chance so I did TV, guest stints and weekend with $38.3
female power. It’s very to have a normal childhood. saved the money, socked it million. With a
sweet. away and when I had $141.2 million
“I feel so privileged to enough, I quit. domestic total, it’s
work in this environment. Lorna is nurturing yet stern in One of her charges is do something about them. the first $100 million
How often can you walk this dangerous place, where Gladys, a headstrong Gender stereotypes dis- hit with Cruise in the
back in a chunk of time one spark from a ring or hair- Rosedale debutante played criminating against to this way of being, the lead role since
and explore it and life in it pin could blow it sky high. by Jodi Balfour. Gladys works women can be dealt with; chivalry of it all. 2006’s Mission: Im-
and love it? I wanted that, “Whoa, she’s in the office but dreams of there are channels you can It wasn’t an easy time to possible III. The
“There is also such good tough!” But why is she joining the line, even as her process these things be a woman and I am nos- movie led a solid
will for this show. It was tough? If someone makes a father demands that she quit through now. talgic for it. I feel I missed New Year’s weekend
a brave choice to do decision you don’t agree and marry. Balfour says the But it doesn’t mean atti- out on the best time to be as Hollywood man-
such an unlikely look with you have to under- series reflects social realities tudes have changed. alive. aged fair business to
at the Second World War. stand the whys. It’s her job that still exist. And being wartime, they end a sluggish year
The women had their to keep the factory safe. These issues never become Balfour says the series sucked the marrow out of on a more promising
jobs and husbands overseas She doesn’t want some irrelevant. We may have inspired nostalgia for a time every day. note for 2012. Sher-
but they were fighting be- dilettante coming here come a long way in gender she never knew. lock Holmes: A
hind the lines to protect who could kill them all. I issues since the war and Entirely, but I’ve been like Bomb Girls, starring Meg Tilly Game of Shadows
their men and their chil- love the humanness of the the overt discrimination, that all my life. I’ve always and Jodi Balfour, starts finished second
dren at home. They were characters, more noble but those things still exist. felt I was born into the Wednesday night on again with $26.5 mil-
soldiers.” than they realize. We have the resources to wrong era. I relate so much Global. lion, raising its
domestic total to
DVD Releases Buy it 88888| Rent it 8888 Borrow it 888 | Yawn 88 | Don’t bother 8 $132.1 million. The
family sequel Alvin
and the Chipmunks:
Contagion Working as his own cin- China is now returning Chipwrecked was
Genre:Thriller ematographer from a script home with her to Minneso- still at No. 3 with $21
Director:Steven Soderbergh by screenwriter Scott Z. ta, where her new hus- million to lift it to
Stars: Matt Damon, Kate Burns (The Bourne Ultima- band, Mitch (Matt Damon), $94.6 million.
Winslet, Jude Law tum), Soderbergh spares and young son are waiting THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
811⁄2 few sensibilities in outlin- to welcome her home.
Steven Soderbergh’s Conta- ing how quickly a conta- Beth is barely through
gion is the feel-bad movie gion would cross the door when crisis
of 2011. A star-studded international boundaries. strikes. As Mitch struggles
thriller, it’s reminiscent of Gwyneth Paltrow is Pa- to take in what’s happened
1970s disaster movies, yet tient Zero, a business trav- to his family, governments
it’s more grounded in reali- eller named Beth Emhoff, attempt to grasp an escalat-
ty. The film details the rap- who is intriguingly intro- ing infection rate and body
id spread of a lethal new duced on Day Two of her count as scientists search
virus, MEV-1, and does so swiftly developing infec- for a vaccine. delity, a government in- stream movie. Just don’t
quite realistically, at least tion — we don’t immedi- At times, Soderbergh quiry and a father-daughter forget to Purell before
until an outbreak of ately know what happened seems to lose track of too trek. But Contagion watching. Extras include Berlin film festival to honour
Meryl Streep for
maudlin illogic near the on Day One. Whatever many subplots that include demonstrates he still has it making-of featurettes. career achievements.
end. Beth caught on a trip to a kidnapping, marital infi- in him to deliver a main- PETER HOWELL
10 scene metronews.ca
TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, 2012
ALL PHOTOS HANDOUTS
The Dark Knight Rises
We’re just as curious to
see how Christopher
Nolan rounds out his tril-
ogy of Batman films — he
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is probably the most anticipated film of 2012.
insists this is the final
Peter Jackson and old friends reunite in this prequel, which is due in December.
chapter — as we are to
see if The Dark Knight
Year of the superhero?
Rises can come close to
matching the $1 billion
that 2008’s The Dark
Knight pulled in
worldwide. Christian Bale
is back as Batman, along
with Michael Caine as Al- From comic book films to literary adaptations, 2012 looks very promising
fred and Gary Oldman as
Commissioner Gordon,
and for this go round The Amazing
they’re joined by The Hunger Games Spider-Man
newcomers Tom Hardy and Twilight finale Exactly 10 years after To-
(as Bane) and Catwoman With the Twilight saga bey Maguire first crawled
Anne Hathaway. Due in wrapping up at the end up his first wall, the web-
July. NED EHRBAR of 2012, all eyes are on slinger saga is starting
Lionsgate’s adaptation of over, this time with
Suzanne Collins’ Andrew Garfield (The So-
bestselling teen dystopia cial Network) suiting up
to fill the void. There are as Spider-Man and direc-
three books in the tor Marc Webb (500 Days
The Avengers lo) for the ensemble flick Mar- Hunger Games series, but of Summer) behind the
After great turns in their vel Studios has been building if the first movie is a hit, camera. The new version
own films in 2011, to since Samuel L. Jackson don’t be surprised if the promises to be darker
Captain America (Chris popped up after the credits of latter chapters start get- and grittier than the last
Evans) and Thor (Chris 2008’s Iron Man. And while ting split up into multiple run, but with Spider-Man
Hemsworth) join up with the first trailer might just look films. Jennifer Lawrence 3 just five years behind it,
Iron Man (Robert like an ad for Iron Man 3, hav- stars. Due in March. will audiences be
Downey Jr.), Black Widow ing director Joss Whedon interested in the
(Scarlett Johansson), (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) at franchise reboot? Due in
Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) the helm is keeping hopes July.
and the Hulk (Mark Ruffa- high. Due in May.
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