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Canada’s juniors enjoyed a 3-0 lead going into
the third period of the gold-medal game Russia
then erupted for five unanswered goals to win the
country’s first gold medal at the tournament since
2003, when it was held in Halifax
{page 17}
Team Canada’s Brayden Schenn skates away as Team Russia’s Maxim Kitsyn
celebrates his goal during the third period of last night’s final
Canadian collaat the wporld junor chsampionsheip in Buffalo.
Canadian collapse
The Races open
HRM News Style
up about Glen The drawbacks of Riches to rags — Going back to
keeping Canada and then back to 1970s-style
Games oval riches? bohemia in 2011
Family discusses the mental
illness of man charged with two Lower Sackville councillor Homeless man’s golden After years of futurism, a
not ready to join skating voice nets job offer from quiet rebellion may be
Nova Scotia murders
{page 2} surface love-in {pages 3} Cleveland Cavaliers {page 6} underway in fashion {page 14}
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 2011
1 Family talks about Glen Race’s paranoid schizophrenia, the mental health system and
their contact with the victims’ families Court case adjourned until April 21, when Race
appears again in Dartmouth ‘It has been a very hard journey:’ Race’s mother
RYAN TAPLIN/METRO
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Glen Race’s family wants
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On the web at their pain “We would love as a fam-
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ily that Glen would stay
Tips for here for sure,” said his
father, Mark Race. “He’s a
avoid ing Canadian citizen and his
headaches and actions will come out that
hold-ups when he wasn’t sane at that par-
buying group ticular time.”
lottery tickets. JENNIFER “I’m not trying to label my brother as Gatl ethne w tiamsne’,t soanid m theed ifcaamtiiolyn. traBduitti oancc aogrrdeienmg eton tt,h Gel eexn-
Video at TAPLIN victim because trust me, we understand “I believe he became so has to return to the U.S. to
metronews.ca @METRONEWS.CA there are three people who are now psychotic and so severely complete his life sentence
Donna Race’s biggest fear gone forever. The bottom line is we’ve ill, I would call it his mon- before returning to Canada
was losing her son, Glen. ster overpowered him and to face any sentence here.
got to stop ignoring all these people
HALIFAX “And in the end I did he couldn’t fight it any- The family’s lawyer, Joel
FOLKLORE CENTRE lose him through the men- who are suffering from horrible illnesses more,” said Donna. Pink, said he’s waiting on
tal illness and the crime,” that we can’t even fathom what they Glen, 29, is charged with advice to see if he’ll launch
she said have to go through.” the deaths of Michael Paul a constitutional challenge.
1528 Brunswick St. The family of Glen Race, DOUG RACE, GLEN RACE’S BROTHER Knott, 44, of Timberlea and “We have been told by
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Located just off Spring Garden Rd. who is facing murder Trevor Charles Brewster, American lawyers it will be
charges for the deaths of brother’s break in May about it yesterday because 45, of Cole Harbour as well very difficult because he’s
CCoommee ttoo oouurr two Nova Scotia men, held 2007, but wouldn’t talk of the court proceedings. as the shooting death of been convicted of a federal
JANUARY SALE! a press conference in their Darcy Manor in upstate offence and he’s doing a
Guitars, banjos, lawyer’s office yesterday. New York in May 2007. mandatory life
mandolins, ukes, etc… Glen first started show- Glen Race “I know that is something He was sentenced to life imprisonment,” he said.
aatt ggrreeaatt pprriicceess ing signs of a mental ill- that fears a lot of people in prison in the U.S. in Glen’s brother Doug
ness in his second year of out there,” Doug Race said. 2009 before he was extra- Race said they’re looking at
university, Donna said, and “But what people need to dited to Canada last year. appealing the American
he was diagnosed with realize is it’s a complex ill- Mark Race said he hopes conviction because an
schizophrenia soon after. ness and when treated … his son will be found not insane defence was never
He was admitted to mental it’s almost nil for any type criminally responsible for used. “In our opinion, my
health institutions but he of violent act to someone the deaths of Brewster and brother’s attorney at the
escaped several times. else.” Knott. They’re also looking time made a critical error
There was no law in effect Donna Race said the only at appealing the American in not putting forward the
at the time to allow the The family of Glen Race direct contact she’s had conviction. defence,” he said. “Getting
parents to further institu- hopes, if he’s found not with the victims’ families The family said mental him another trial in the
tionalize their son. criminally responsible, he was with the mother of health needs more aware- U.S.A. is the just thing to
Doug Race said he could eventually apply for a Darcy Manor, who gave ness and the system des- have done here.”
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knows what led to his release once time is served. her a hug. perately needs funding. JENNIFER TAPLIN
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 2011
RYAN TAPLIN/METRO
News in brief
Resort gets
$450K loan
FUNDING. The Nova Sco-
tia government is lend-
ing $450,000 to Pictou
Lodge Beachfront Resort.
The money, from the
province’s Industrial Ex-
pansion Fund, will help
the resort hire more
staff and allow some sea-
sonal employees to work
year-round.
The government says
the lodge has invested
more than $4 million in
infrastructure over the
past four years.
The buildings have
been winterized, confer-
Skaters are silhouetted by the setting sun at the Canada Games Oval this week. ence and meeting space
has been doubled, and
kitchen and dining facil-
Councillor
RYAN TAPLIN/METRO ities have been upgraded
to accommodate several
functions simultaneous-
ly.
The resort has also
upgraded its water treat-
urges prudence ment facility.
THE CANADIAN PRESS
Pair of crashes
Jeff White on highway
Supporter
in oval debate AUTOS. Two accidents
sees progress were reported on High-
way 101 Tuesday night,
for petition the second as the first
one was being cleaned
up.
Jeff White, one of the peo- Halifax RCMP say one
ple behind savetheoval.ca, driver had tried to avoid
Sober look required before decision on Canada Games speedskating oval: said more than 4,000 peo- a tree lying on the road
Harvey Petition up to ‘save the oval’ passes 4,000 signatures in two days ple had signed the petition and struck another vehi-
as of yesterday. cle at 7:05 p.m. The high-
He said he would prefer way was closed to one
At least one municipal “(But) there are a lot of is- does keeping the oval on to see the oval remain, lane to allow police to
Options
councillor is hesitant to sues that have to be gone the common preclude rather than the initial plan investigate the incident
jump on the bandwagon to into on this, and a long sending a chiller to another to build a smaller outdoor and remove the vehicles.
keep the Canada Games hard look needs to be tak- Council will get a chance rink in HRM, it limits what facility elsewhere on the The second collision
speedskating oval on Hali- en.” to look at the facts on people can do on the North peninsula. occurred when a driver
fax’s North Common. The municipality origi- Tuesday, when staff will Common. “We would like to save slowed down attempting
Veteran Lower Sackville nally planned to keep two present a report on possi- “We have to cut through this exact facility, in the to pass the emergency
Coun. Bob Harvey said of the six ice chillers re- ble options for the oval. the emotion of this and get place that it’s in, at the size vehicles and was rear
while he’s pleased with the quired to maintain the oval down to the facts of the that it’s at,” said White. ended by another vehi-
support for the oval, keep- for an outdoor skating rink chillers belong to the Cana- matter,” Harvey said, not- “That’s the real beauty cle who hadn’t slowed to
ing it as is would be “a com- on the peninsula. HRM also da Games Host Society, ing that dismantling was of it. The fact that you’ve appropriate speeds.
plete 180” in the owns a third chiller, which with the municipality hav- initially viewed as a good got a place that is big There were no
municipality’s plans. was earmarked for a rink ing first option on buying thing, as it would restore enough that 500 people ... injuries. METRO
“I know (the oval) is a big somewhere in the munici- them at $100,000 each after the common back to nor- can all skate at the same
success, and that’s great,” pality. the games conclude. mal. time ... right at the centre Business
Harvey said yesterday. The three remaining Harvey said not only ALEX BOUTILIER of the city.” ALEX BOUTILIER
confidence up
Slightly higher gas Police end Police on hunt after INDEX. Small business
confidence in Nova Sco-
search for tia rose slightly in
prices predicted 2 armed robberies December from the pre-
missing man vious month, according
to the Canadian Federa-
tion of Independent
While gas prices may con- higher price,” he said. “Last Police in Cape Breton have Police in Halifax are looking pects eventually fled. Businesses.
tinue to fluctuate wildly, year, we sort of bottomed abandoned the search for a for suspects after two Later in the night, police The CFIB’s Business
grumbling at the pumps out at 97 cents and we hit a missing Glace Bay man. armed robberies in the city say they got a 911 call from Barometer Index shows
should remain constant in high of $1.18, so we traded Francis Matthew Rose, —one at a bus stop and the the JeBailey’s Market in Nova Scotia as being a
2011. in about a 20-cent range. 52, was last seen leaving other at a store. Dartmouth. level of 67.1, up from
David Collins, vice-presi- And this year it’ll probably his sister’s house on Brook- Halifax Regional Police The male clerk told po- 66.6 in November,
dent of Wilson’s Gas, said be $1.05 to $1.25.” land Street in Glace Bay say a 23-year-old man was lice two people entered the matching the post-reces-
yesterday while it’s difficult Gas prices, of course, are around 8 p.m. on New standing at the bus stop on store with a gun and ripped sion high reached last
to predict where prices will determined by myriad fac- Year’s Eve. Bayers Road on Tuesday a cash register off the March.
go at any particular time, tors. But Collins attributed Police say they have no night when two males with counter before leaving. According to past re-
he foresees a slight upward a small portion of the in- reason to suspect foul play a knife demanded his iPod A police dog later found sults, index levels rang-
trend. crease — about two cents and will continue to follow and some cash. the register, the gun and ing between 65 and 75
“I think you’ll see (prices — to last July’s HST in- up on any leads. The victim was kicked some discarded clothes. show the economy is
go) up and down, but at a crease. ALEX BOUTILIER THE CANADIAN PRESS and punched, but the sus- THE CANADIAN PRESS growing. METRO
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 2011
Cats run wild in N.S.: SPCA
News in brief
Disaster deal
‘Cats need our help,’ director Kristin Williams says RYAN TAPLIN/METRO
renewed
“And in order for us to with a non-lethal solution
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wild across the province re- ures,” Kristin Williams said cats that were abused. ment to provide help to
mains high and unchecked, yesterday. “Feral and stray cats real- residents affected by
says the executive director Because of this, the Nova ly do fall in the gap,” she ex- disaster or emergency.
of the Nova Scotia SPCA. Scotia SPCA has decided to plained. “They’re not Sandra Red Cross officials say
join the Year of the Cat protected under municipal, Flemming holds the deal gives them a
The numbers Campaign. provincial or federal legisla- three kittens foundation for planning
The campaign, named tion.” available for ado- and procurement and
after the 2011 Vietnamese Williams said in this tion at the Dar- allows for the
A PetLynz Urban Animal calendar, which is the year campaign, provincial ani- mouth SPCA in recruitment and train-
Survey reveals: of the cat, aims to address mal welfare groups and vet- this file photo ing of volunteers. The
the overpopulation of cats erinarians will be better from last year. agreement has been en-
Identity Less than 25 per in Canada. able to care for local cats by Pierre’s Alley Cat Society, release them. The homeless acted during
cent of the 8.5 million cats Williams said the Nova setting up low cost spay and who monitors feral cat cats, she said, would be sent evacuations in recent
in Canada have permanent Scotia SPCA attempted to neuter programs. colonies, will capture the to shelters until a home can months.
identification. address this issue last year She also said groups like cats and neuter them, then be found. THE CANADIAN PRESS
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 2011
Listen up: Man’s
India. The big freeze
‘million-dollar
voice’ saves him
Drugs and alcohol put him on the streets Then a
top NBA team hears his message — and signshim up
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
With a deep, refined voice,
Ted Williams simply asked
for help to get him off the
streets.
He’s been heard.
Left homeless after his
life and career were ruined
by drugs and alcohol,
Williams has been offered
a job by the NBA’s Cleve-
land Cavaliers and is being
pursued by NFL Films for
possible work after he and
his compelling tale be-
came an online curiosity.
“This has been totally,
totally amazing,” Williams
said yesterday, his voice Ted Williams holds a sign advertising his radio voice.
choking with emotion.
“I’m just so thankful.
God has blessed me so contract and said they dollar voice and I just hope
deeply. I’m getting a sec- would pay his mortgage. I can do right by him.”
ond chance. Amazing.” But, wait. It gets better. Williams had been spot- Children huddle around a bonfire in Gurgaon, India, yesterday.
Williams was contacted Williams said the Cava- ted with sign that asks mo-
yesterday by the Cavaliers, liers’ offer is just one of torists for help and says, GURINDER OSAN/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
who have offered him a po- many flooding in. “I’m an ex-radio announc- Brrr... It feels like Canada
sition that could include Williams, a father of er who has fallen on hard
announcing work at nine, says he feels like Su- times.” And in his smooth,
Quicken Loans Arena, the san Boyle, the English bottomless voice he says Northern India is getting a taste of Canadian-style winter weather. Freezing tem-
team’s downtown arena. singing sensation who be- he was drawn to radio at peratures and icy Himalayan winds have killed dozens of people in the past two
Williams said the team came an overnight star. the age of 14. weeks and forced schools to close. Authorities arranged bonfires at major road
has offered him a two-year “God gave me a million- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS crossings, hospitals and bus and railway stations to keep people warm.
Website didn’t meet rules: Docs
U.S. LOTTERY Millions’ $355-million
Two share US jackpot from Tuesday
night’s drawing, Ameri-
millions can lottery officials said
yesterday. A flashy government web- emption from the rules, Plan website, touting the this week as “strategic
The prize is the site plastered with photos but it was given the green Conservative’s big-spend- brand building” by Harp-
At least two people will fourth-largest in U.S. of the prime minister light anyway by Treasury ing budget of January er’s freshly departed
find themselves millions history and the second- doesn’t meet federal rules, Board president Vic 2009, was criticized from former chief of staff.
of dollars richer. largest in Mega Millions’ according to documents Toews. He approved the the outset for its highly “Canada’s Economic Ac-
The holders of a ticket history. The two winners obtained by The Canadian site on the basis the rules partisan appearance. tion Plan, strategic brand
sold in Idaho and anoth- will each get $177.5 mil- Press. — which took force Dec. Despite vehement building,” Guy Giorno
er in Washington state lion. Officials advised that 31, 2008 — were to be denials by the Prime Min- wrote on a social network-
will be sharing Mega THE ASSOCIATED PRESS the Economic Action Plan changed at a future date. ister’s Office, the nature of ing site.
website didn’t merit an ex- The Economic Action the exercise was explained THE CANADIAN PRESS
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 2011
Did nanny spike the
sex queen’s soup?
FIONA HANSON/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
What’s unusual? The substances
at issue are not all that harmful
And the motive was not revealed
Jacqueline Gold brought “You can give a
sex toys to the British poisonous
masses one set of pink fur-
substance to
ry handcuffs at a time.
She amassed a fortune someone ... just to
while reinventing the fam- annoy them. The
ily lingerie company as a satisfaction ... is
female-focused brand.
But the sex-shop mag- from knowing you
nate, whose books — in- are humiliating
cluding an autobiography the victim.”
titled Good Vibrations —
ROBERT FORREST, A FORENSIC
and business acumen
CHEMISTRY PROFESSOR AT THE
made her Britain’s 16th
UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD
richest woman now is in
the news for another rea-
son: Her nanny was in
court yesterday, accused of brunette, criticized her
spiking the retail boss’s cook last fall when her
soup with salt, sugar and soup tasted odd.
windshield-wiper fluid, a The chef then became
substance unlikely to be suspicious and removed
poisonous in small quanti- the leftover broth from the
ties. trash to investigate.
The nanny was arrested. Accused is Allison Cox,
The charge: three counts 33, who looked after Gold's
of administering poison young daughter.
with the intent to annoy. Cox has been released
The accusations came on bail. The duchess meets the sex queen: Jacqueline Gold, right, chats with Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, in London.
after Gold, a glamorous THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Belgium set to boot Canadian in sex case
INTERPOL/THGE CANADIAN PRESS
Belgian officials say they — far longer than the legal “It's a bit like in Canada Court files
plan to expel a Canadian limit of three months for — as soon as it's estab-
priest facing sex charges Canadians without a visa. lished that he’s illegally re-
involving Inuit children in “That is the reason he siding in our country, it Court documents say De-
Nunavut. has been arrested and is can go quite fast,” said the jaeger pleaded guilty in
Eric Dejaeger, who was being held in a detention Belgian official, who point- 1990 to sex crimes against
originally Belgian but lost centre awaiting his explu- ed out Dejaeger may ap- boys and girls in Nunavut.
that status when he be- sion to Canada,” said a Bel- peal the expulsion. “We’re He was sentenced to five
came a Canadian citizen, gian embassy official. sending him back. He’s a years in prison.
remains wanted in Canada The former Arctic mis- Canadian citizen illegally In 2002, another warrant
on warrants issued in 2002 sionary, who appears on residing in Belgium.” was issued for Dejaeger’s
for sex crimes alleged to Interpol's wanted list, is Eric Dejaeger Canadian officials were arrest for sex crimes
have happened 30 years being held in a detention in an undated not immediately available alleged to have occurred
ago in Igloolik. centre for illegal residents Interpol photo. to comment. in the far north. By that
Dejaeger, 63, has been in Bruges. He could end up THE CANADIAN PRESS time, he’d left Canada.
living in Belgium for years back in Canada in weeks.
Group hits at help Giant tuna Claimants quizzed
2001 when a 202-kg fish
makes sold for $241,390, a
for accused cleric in lottery squabble
spokesperson for Japan’s
a splash Tsukiji market said.
The massive tuna was
An advocacy group is up- America, is charged with bought and shared by the Some of the claimants to winning ticket on Monday,
set an Orthodox parish in “historical” assaults on same duo that won the the disputed $50-million said the OLG.
Vancouver has appeared to two individuals in A giant bluefin tuna bidding for last year’s top Lotto Max jackpot were at But since then several
use its website to raise Winnipeg and was fetched a record $388,255 fish: the owners of the Ontario Lottery and more people have come
funds for an archbishop suspended in November. yesterday in the first auc- Kyubey, an upscale sushi Gaming prize centre in forward to say they should
accused of molesting A California-based sup- tion of the year at the restaurant in Tokyo’s Toronto yesterday being have a share of the prize.
children. port group for survivors of world’s largest wholesale Ginza district, and questioned about the win. Investigators who are
Kenneth William priest abuse says such fish market. Itamae Sushi, a casual, The original claimants asking the questions
Storheim, who headed the fundraising can be intimi- The price for the 342- Hong Kong-based — 19 Bell Canada call cen- include former police offi-
Canadian archdiocese of dating to complainants. kilogram tuna beat the chain. tre workers from east cers, the OLG said.
the Orthodox Church in THE CANADIAN PRESS previous record set in THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Toronto — validated the THE CANADIAN PRESS
08 business metronews.ca
THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 2011
Can tax man
Technology. Revamp
smoke out
pot growers?
Income is taxable whether it’s legal or not,
says Canada Revenue Agency spokesman
Police may turn a blind eye is that the CRA should con-
to the sale of unlicensed Medical pot sider the potential ‘collater-
medical marijuana in al damage’ from its use of
British Columbia, but the Since 2001, patients with civil audit powers.”
tax man doesn’t. an exemption from Health The Vancouver-based
The Canada Revenue Canada are able to grow non-profit society supplies
Agency came knocking on medical marijuana or get medical-grade marijuana to
the door of the British Co- someone else to grow it for about 6,000 registered Richard Lawler watches
lumbia Compassion Club them. members diagnosed with 3-D HDTV using standard
last October looking for a everything from arthritis 3-D glasses at the press
list of its pot suppliers. The Compassion Club and glaucoma to cancer opening of the
The club went to federal claims it is impossible to ob- and HIV. Instead of proceed- consumer electronics trade
court asking for a judicial tain a legal supply of culti- ing with the court action, show in Las Vegas, yesterday.
review of the agency de- vated, medical-grade the club has worked out an
mand, arguing that ill med- cannabis and so it relies on agreement with the federal JULIE JACOBSON/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ical marijuana users would an illegal supply. tax agency, said John Con-
be the losers when supplies The Club puts strict organic roy, lawyer for the Compas- Taking 3-D television up a notch
dried up because they had farming conditionson sion Club.
to give up the names. growers and bans the use Now, club organizers are
“If the applicant is seen of chemicals, but it insists it trying to convince 30 or so LG Electronics says it will sell a new type of 3-D TV this year, one that uses the
as a source of information knows little about the growers to step forward light, cheap glasses used in 3-D theatres rather than the standard bulky ones
for authorities, it is foresee- growers themselves. and declare their income to used with the 3-D TVs introduced last year. Other TV makers are also expected
able that cultivators will the agency during an to announce 3-D sets that work with so-called “passive” glasses. Along with
cease to deal with the appli- in federal court. amnesty worked out with tablets and smartphones, 3-D HDTVs will be one of the hot items at the
cant,” say documents filed “The applicant’s position the agency. THE CANADIANPRESS consumer electronics trade show, which opens today and runs through Sunday.
No CPP improvements soon: Minister
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$4.473
(–19.6¢) by enhancing the Canada Menzies told the media.
Gold Pension Plan are a long Instead, Flaherty has The CPP, which covers the
contracts way off, says Ted Menzies, asked the provinces to bulk of Canadian employ-
–6.32 $1,373.70 the newly appointed jun- join in the creation of the ees, requires all
(13,395.99) (–$5.10) ior finance minister. new Pooled Registered employees and business
Menzies, who has been Pension Plan, or PRPP. It operators to contribute to
Dollar Oil asked by Prime Minister would be a voluntary plan a retirement pension fund.
Stephen Harper to stick- administered by banks
handle the increasingly and insurance companies. With voluntary plans prov-
fractious pension issue, Critics say the PRPP ing inadequate,
said Ottawa and the could be a helpful savings governments are under
+ 0.21 ¢ + 92¢ US provinces aren’t likely to vehicle but, because it is pressure to expand the
(100.36¢ US) ($90.30 US) do anything soon to build voluntary, won’t solve a mandatory plan.
up the CPP. looming crisis in which
“To make it (an expand- one in three Canadians Some provinces object to
Seeking ed CPP) effective in any lacks a workplace pension CPP reform and the federal
near term, would be very plan and many are facing government is against
Super/Building challenging,” Menzies retirement with little fi- compelling employers to
said yesterday in his first nancial support other pay more into the CPP
Managers press conference since be- than meager public pen- Conservative MP Ted Menzies is sworn in as minister of when the economy is still
ing named to cabinet. sion benefits. state finance in Ottawa on Tuesday. struggling.
Large local property “We’re concerned THE CANADIAN PRESS
management company
looking for live in
Building Manager couple. Feds announce more Huck Finn gets update

Minimum 5 years experience
with property management funding for summer jobs
Alabama publisher New-
company. Must have handy South Books has an- 219The N word
skills, in plumbing carpentry nounced plans to release appears 219
and painting. an omnibus edition of times in Huckleberry
Ted Menzies, the newly ap- Summer Jobs program to a The summer jobs pro- Mark Twain’s The Adven- Finn and has been the
Please contact: 443 7074 pointed junior finance total of $107.5 million an- gram is meant to encour- tures of Huckleberry Finn source of repeated
[email protected] minister, announced yes- nually. age small businesses, and The Adventures of efforts to ban or
terday that Ottawa is per- He said the extra $10 not-for-profit organizations Tom Sawyer with a couple restrict the novel since
manently raising funding million will be transferred and employers in the pub- of offensive words re- it was published 125
for a plan to create sum- from other federal pro- lic sector to hire students moved. years ago.
www.TempletonProperties.ca mer jobs by $10 million. grams where funding has- looking to gain work expe- In this new edition, the
That brings the Canada n’t been fully spent. rience. THE CANADIAN PRESS N word has been replaced by “slave.” METRO
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 2011
1 IN 4 COLUMNISTS RECOMMEND ...
I’d like to talk about some- colds about as well as the guy why people hate colds. The best metal handle to get out.
thing very close to my with no face or limbs in that ways to ward off a cold take work Q: What if human contact is
He says ... heart. Specifically, my Metallica video. — exercise, eat vegetables, drink necessary?
Ilungs. Because I only want the best lots of non-alcoholic drinks — A: Fortunately, Health Canada’s
JOHN for my reader(s), and we think, recommended “sleeve sneeze”
here’s my guide to “Geez, I’d rather acts as a warning beacon, caution-
MAZEROLLE t’s winter, which means dealing with winter “Studies show get sick.” ing people to stay away by
most of you have struggled illness. that just about Q: Is there noth- making any coat you are wearing
with some symptom of the Q: What is the every purported ing we can do? a huge wearable Kleenex with
season, be it the common common cold? A: It’s best to mucous in the elbow folds. But if
cold, the common flu, the A: It’s the cold cold remedy ... avoid contact of all someone extends their hand,
common fever, the that commoners does nothing kinds, including wash it. If someone asks for a hug,
common Guillain-Barré get. Royals get a dif- or is just a eye contact. And run. And never have children.
syndrome, the uncommon cold, ferent virus, which remember not to Q: What are doctors saying?
Star Trek thing.”
cabin fever, swine flu, disco fever, is why they always touch anything A: In a recent survey of more
Jersey Cold Shore, SAD (Seasonal look tired and wave that may have than 200 Canadian MD’s, most re-
Affective Disorder) or HAPPY to crowds like been touched by sponded hack hack HWAAAGH
(Heat-Averse Pessimistic Period — they’re struggling with a degener- another person. An elevator but- ah-choo. At least that’s what I
Yearly). ative muscle disease. ton, for instance, is a virus-ridden think they said. It’s so hard to
I haven’t been sick at all, which Q: What can I do to prevent it? glowing circle with all the killing read their handwriting.
is good news because it allows me A: Not much. Studies show that potential of the Hal 9000. Also,
to offer advice to the rest of you, just about every purported cold avoid “practical joke” bathrooms
Read more of
starting with a heartfelt, “Ha ha remedy — zinc, vitamin C, that have no-touch flushes, water,
John Mazerolle’s columns
ha ha ha HA ha.” It’s also good hypospray — either does nothing soap and paper towels, but
at metronews.ca/hesays
news because I generally handle or is just a Star Trek thing. That’s require you to pull on a clammy
Hexing the government
Cartoon
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Worth
mentioning
Solace for world leaders
trying to enforce painful
austerity measures: At
least you’re not running
Romania. Angry witches
are using cat excrement
and dead dogs to cast
spells on the president and
government, who are forc-
ing them to pay taxes. Also How do you beat
in the eye of the taxman head to the Danube to put sion in a country that is in
the January blahs?
are fortune tellers, who a hex on the government recession. Like any self-em-
should have seen it today and hurl mandrake ployed person, they will
coming. into the river “so evil will pay 16 per cent income tax
And President Traian befall them,” said a witch and make contributions to Email
Basescu isn’t laughing it named Alisia. She health and pension halifaxletters
off. In a country where su- identified herself with one programs. @metronews.ca
perstition is mainstream, name, as is customary Magic in Romania is no
Twitter
the president and his aides among witches. laughing matter.
wear purple on Thursdays, The tax on witches went Centuries-old superstitions @metrohalifax
allegedly to ward off evil into effect Saturday as part are rife and are tolerated
spirits. of the government’s drive even by the Orthodox Metro has the right to edit
A dozen witches will to crack down on tax eva- Church. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS letters and submissions.
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Paltrow’s pals help
bring her voice out
scene Actress turned to Beyoncé and
Faith Hill to prepare for role in
Country Strong Had to win over
producers who doubted her
NED starts in the film. “When I
News in brief EHRBAR got to Nashville, Faith
[email protected] helped me so much,” she
METRO WORLD NEWS IN LOS ANGELES says. “Faith said to me, ‘30
days before you do just
Famous as she may be, tak- start singing it. Sing it
ing on the role of a country every day so you know the
music superstar was more vocal part, it’s just in your
than a little daunting for muscle memory.’ I just did
Gwyneth Paltrow. But it everything she said, and
wasn’t the singing that she got me through it.”
had her worried — Pal- As much as she looked
trow has belted out a few to her diva pals, Paltrow
tunes on screen previous- did have a music superstar
Jason Bourne, a vam- ly, after all. at home to turn to, but she
pire heartthrob and “I was nervous about says husband — and Cold-
an American Idol playing somebody who play front-man — Chris
judge are going to the was such a huge star, Martin wasn’t as much
Golden Globes. which is different from help as the ladies.
The Hollywood playing someone who, you “I mean, he was great,”
Foreign Press Associa- know, has a guitar and she says. “But to be totally
tion announced Tues- sings or is trying to make honest, I kind of picked
day on Twitter that it,” she says. “My singing the brains of my girl singer
Matt Damon, Robert teacher in London worked friends more, because I
Pattinson and me really hard. She was think it’s a very different
Jennifer Lopez would like, ‘There’s a big voice in thing — to be a male in a
present trophies at there. We’re going to get it band as opposed to a lead.”
the 68th annual cere- out.’ And I was scared of If Paltrow had any
mony at the Beverly my own kind of voice.” doubts about pulling off
Hilton Hotel on Jan. Luckily, she had some playing fresh-out-of-rehab
16. For the second friends with a little experi- singer Kelly Canter, they
year in a row, Ricky ence in the area. Paltrow were nothing compared to
Gervais will host the turned to singers Beyoncé those of the studio. At least
event, which is seen Knowles and Faith Hill for that’s what Screen Gems
as a predictor of how advice and guidance. head Clint Culpepper told
films will do at the “They were both so sup- her.
Academy Awards on portive of me. They were “When the script came
Feb. 27. so generous of spirit,” she to him I was already at-
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS says. “Beyoncé was in Lon- tached, and he’s like, ‘You
don. She helped me so all are crazy. She is so
much. I obsessively wrong for this part,’” Pal-
watched Beyoncé perform. trow remembers, adding
I just wanted to get a little that Culpepper later
bit of that incredible self- changed his tune. “But
belief and abandon that yeah, I think when you
she has on stage.” think of country superstar,
On set, Paltrow found drug-drink addict, you
support in Hill, whose hus- maybe don’t think of me Gwyneth Paltrow stars as country singer Kelly Canter in Country Strong.
band, Tim McGraw, co- immediately.”
Infamous Hollywood hotel inspires Coppola
NED Marco has a real-life coun- One thing she didn’t lywood history, something
EHRBAR terpart — but she’s not see coming, though, is Coppola knew she could
[email protected] naming any names. how many friends have only capture by shooting
METRO WORLD NEWS IN LOS ANGELES “I based him on people seen it and have assumed in the actual location.
I’ve met and people I know they are one of the dozen “Luckily they let us film
Sofia Coppola’s latest film, and stories I’ve heard from sources. there,” she says. “My pro-
Somewhere, follows fic- the Chateau Marmont — “It’s funny, the few peo- ducer said, ‘OK but what’s
tional movie star Johnny kind of a combination of a ple that I wasn’t really the back-up plan.’ I was
Marco (played by Stephen bunch of people,” Coppola thinking of said, like, ‘Oh, like, I never have a back-
Dorff) as he drifts drunken- says. “There’s maybe a it’s based on me,’” she says up plan.”
Canadians can start sampling
content from Oprah's new ly through life in a rented dozen people that I took with a laugh. “So many ac- In the film, Marco is
network starting Friday apartment at the infamous pieces of. I don’t want to tors have lived at the suddenly faced with mind-
Chateau Marmont hotel on get out-of-context and Chateau.” ing his 11-year-old daugh-
the Sunset Strip. make someone feel bad. So And some, like John ter (Elle Fanning) after his
Given Coppola’s Holly- yeah, you can imagine, Belushi, have died there. ex-wife leaves town unex- Sofia Coppola
wood upbringing, surely right?” The hotel is steeped in Hol- pectedly.