Metro London - January 27, 2012

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WHAT A HOWL TAG TEAM
IT’S LIAM NEESON VS.
THE WOLVES IN NEW WILL DOWNTOWN
THRILLER
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MURALS CURB
MOVING FORWARD
PLAYERS CHOOSE GRAFFITI?
THEIR SIDES IN NHL
ALL-STAR DRAFT
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LONDON
Weekend, January 27-
29, 2012
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News worth
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WU-ing the world
University says new brand has
broader reach, better reflects identity
‘Western University’ helps set
school apart as top tier, leaders say
ANGELA
MULLINS That’s especially important,
@METRONEWS.CA officials said, as they push harder
to snag international students.
Diplomas will still read University of Western Ontario. And History wasn’t pushed aside as
the school’s Twitter hashtag and web address will keep the university leaders blazed new
the “UWO” label for now. trails. The new name has close ties to
But officially speaking, the institution of higher learning that under which the school was orig-
that has called London home since 1878 is now Western inally chartered: Western University of
University — or WU as the case may be. London Ontario.
The new brand, which includes a redesigned As for the new logo, it ditches the bell tow-
logo, was rolled out Thursday after more er for an updated version of the shield in West-
than a year of consultation with faculty, ern’s coat of arms — the school’s main iden-
staff, students, alumni and at least one tifier before the tower was introduced.
designer. While the work behind the Another historic touch is hidden in the logo
rebranding was intricate, its driving font. Designed specifically for Western, the let-
goal is quite simple, said Keith tering will be registered as “Hellmuth,” in hon-
Marnoch, director of media and our of Bishop Isaac Hellmuth, the school founder.
community relations. Perhaps most important to some, Mustangs can
“When Ontario’s in our still say they’re “Purple and Proud.”
name, it regionalizes the Apart from a slight shift from Pantone 266 to 268,
school a little bit,” he said. the school colours are staying the same. For more coverage,
Putting a clear-cut “West- turn to page 2.
ern” stamp on the univer- $200K
sity helps “solidify what we Western University
have with the people that student Aya Fasoukh, 25,
know us locally and gives us of London, models a shirt
a bit of a new greeting card to with the new logo Thursday The cost of Western’s
go out and reach new audiences at the University Community rebranding.
and new markets,” he said. Centre. Source: University officials
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Rallies as Caterpillar post big gains
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Spokesman says CAT is strong but
Caterpillar-owned Electro-Motive
London plant isn’t competitive workers picket a Caterpillar equipment
dealership in London, Thursday,
Company hired 26,427 in 2011
ANGELA
MULLINS At a glance
@METRONEWS.CA
Illinois-based construction
As Caterpillar reported giant Caterpillar financial
news
record financial results results:
Thursday morning, Cana-
dian Auto Workers across Fourth-quarter 2011 profit:
the county launched infor- $1.5 billion, up 60 per cent
mational pickets to from fourth-quarter 2010.
support the company’s Total profit for 2011: $5 bil-
locked-out London lion, up 83 per cent from
employees. 2010.
Toromont — a CAT Fourth-quarter 2011 sales
dealer with offices on En- and revenue: $17.2 billion,
terprise Drive — was up 35 per cent from
among the places union fourth-quarter 2010.
workers picked to hand Total sales and revenue for
out flyers. The scene was 2011: $60.1 billion, up 41
The pay is lousy and the gig is similar at dealers in about per cent from 2010.
temporary, but London’s a dozen other cities spread
unemployed are still across seven provinces, Jim Dugan declined a
flocking to Olympics jobs.
Scan code for story. said Bob Scott, chairman request for financial data
of the CAW unit at specific to the company’s
Electro-Motive Diesel. locomotive plant in
1 Download the free
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cial footing hardly came “We report sales and
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as a surprise, Scott said. revenue at a much, much terms of its overall costs,” cluded deep wage cuts and shouldn’t have come as a
at 2dscan.com
Most workers expected higher level,” he said. “We including labour. other concessions. surprise to anyone at
2 Use your the company to make big don’t report (on) even a The contract offer that “We’re looking to put a Caterpillar, Scott said.
smartphone to profits. country-by-country basis Electro-Motive workers re- structure in place so that “When they purchased
scan 2D barcodes “It was just how much much less at a facility lev- jected last month … the facility is competi- the facility (in 2010) they
in Metro it was actually going to el.” stemmed directly from tive,” Dugan said knew what the contract
be,” he said. Dugan did say the plant that, he said. Union repre- Thursday. was,” he said. “That plant
3 The codes will Caterpillar spokesman isn’t “competitive in sentatives have said it in- The plant’s “structure” has always made money.”
direct your mobile
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Western’s look ‘right amount of change’: Expert
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CONTRIBUTED
vard or Berkley. on and rolling out its new
ANGELA MULLINS “We sound like the big identity Thursday morn-
@METRONEWS.CA
guy,” Smith said. ing, Smith said. While the
In a word, Western’s new Re-branding a company effort didn’t include a big
brand is “smart,” said — or institution in this buy-in from the communi-
The new logo
Wendy Smith, president of case — is no small task, ty at large, that’s not neces-
London marketing firm Re- she said. It’s a detailed sarily a bad thing, she said.
dRhino. process that includes field- Smith credited school
Western University ing a lot of opinion and try- leaders with tying their As for the naysayers? No Honestly, if you’re going to
sounds strong, bold and is- ing to please many new look into the school’s one should be discouraged make a change, do it, stick
n’t too far afield from the stakeholders. history and holding true to by them, she said. to it and next year no one
Police surround
images one might associ- Western clearly did a lot its traditional colour — “We have a 10-second at- will even remember what
Australian PM ate with names like Har- of research before deciding purple. tention span nowadays. the old logo looked like.”
Julia Gillard as
they force a path
Reader tweets @melsloboo:“Do you University? #UWO #forev- @laurabeaulne: “So, is @lesleyannecamp: “i
through think if enough of us peti- er” my grey hoodie that says don’t care what we call it,
rowdy tion they will change it @aalexxanddria:“I feel “UWO” a vintage i still love it #uwo #wester-
Here’s what back to #UWO ? Because like making a new #uwo collector’s piece now? nuniversity #purplepride
protesters. people were this whole WU thing does- logo was a waste of time... #uwo” @annakwan78: “Just dis-
Watch at saying on n’t work for me Call me dumb but #idont- @amydyck:“Thanks for covered that my alma
Twitter about the @UWOproblems” getit.” the personalized email mater, #UWO has changed
metronews.ca/
rebranding of Western @IanGooda:“Is it just me @shamjacobs:“People are Amit, but im still not a big its name to #WesternU.
video University: or is rebranding #uwo to gonna think I go to water- fan of the new #Uwo iden- Why weren’t alumni
#westernuniversity loo now #shame #UWO” tity. Western university? informed of this???”
Follow us on @3_Audrey:“#UWO is al- confusing. It’s all about @April_VC: “Woke up to Nahhh.” @evabumbleb: “I still go
Twitter so the perfect hashtag...I context, it’s western only #uwo's rebranding! Have @devballs: “oh #UWO to #uwo, but congrats
@themetrolondon bet they didn’t think if you’re in ON, ergo to say after watching the you’ve really stooped low. #westernu”
about that before they #UWO” video I like it! Western or should I say Western @alexchurchill: “it’ll
changed the name...” @kerrymeikle:“Western University!” University” always be #uwo”
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McKegg explodes onto
the scene for Knights
MIKE ARSENAULT MIKE ARSENAULT/FOR METRO
[email protected] Up next
First impressions are impor-
tant on job interviews and The Knights host the
dates. And so is your first Windsor Spitfires at
fortnight with a new hock- 7:30 p.m. Friday; Saturday
ey team in front of thou- night they visit the
sands of new fans. Saginaw Spirit.
In Bachelor-speak, it’s London is once again
A woman walks by a Talbot Street alley featuring city-endorsed murals. The murals safe to say that Londoners the top-ranked team
between Dundas and King streets have gone virtually untouched since they were are giving Greg McKegg a in the Canadian Hockey
painted to mark the 2005 Memorial Cup at the John Labatt Centre, a city official said. rose and want to see him League, after dropping
again. Greg McKegg to No. 2 for a couple of
The new crowd favourite weeks.
Project aims to
at the JLC has been on a tear
since joining the Knights may be the overwhelming who have played on McK-
with 10 goals and 16 points support the Knights receive. egg’s wing. “He can put the
in just nine games. This af- “It’s always fun coming puck in the net and he has
promote murals ter averaging just under a back to London,” he said. great vision on the ice. He’s
point a game (34 points in “It’s really cool to be a part helped our team out a lot.”
35 games) with the Erie Ot- of it now.” The St. Thomas native’s
ters. McKegg, drafted in the secret weapon may well be
“The skill level is differ- third round by the Toronto the home cooking he’s re-
ent here as opposed to Maple Leafs in 2010, has not ceived since moving back
Organizers say more art on walls of downtown (Erie),” McKegg, 19, said. only endeared himself to with his family.
“It’s a little bit easier play- Londoners, but also to his “It’s definitely nice,” he
businesses will help prevent unsolicited tagging
ing here — I’m definitely re- teammates. said. “It makes things easier
juvenated coming to a “He’s a great all-around — you know your routine
$37K
ANGELA Amount of done by legitimate artists. first-place team.” player,” said Brett Welych- and how you like things
MULLINS money He’s 100 per cent behind a Part of that rejuvenation ka, one of many Knights done.”
@METRONEWS.CA Downtown London program that would keep
spends annually to re- that from happening, as
Ryan Mahy is a big propo- move unwanted long as there’s room for all
Fluoride Lightning Liberals
nent of covering the walls “tags” from buildings. styles of art downtown.
of downtown businesses Janette MacDonald, head
debate lasts lose in clarify
with art. could create a clear distinc- of Downtown London, as-
While he likes the idea tion in city bylaws between sures that’s the goal. While
six hours Moncton caesarean
of a new venture that aims “graffiti vandalism” and art- the project is still in its ear-
to make that happen, he al- work that has been com- ly stages, Downtown Lon-
comments
so worries things could go missioned with the don and other organizers
too far. permission of business ultimately want to see It was a long night for city The London Lightning
“I’m hoping that this owners. That’s where Mahy something akin to a “mural politicians, health officials, dropped a 98-91 decision to
process is going to be for comes in. registry” created. and about 200 members of the Miracles in Moncton in Ontario’s Liberal govern-
the better,” said Mahy, 27. A well-known London “What we want to do is the public who argued the National Basketball League ment scrambled Thursday
“But I’m really concerned artist, Mahy has multiple make sure that if a mural pros and cons of keeping of Canada action Thursday to clarify it will not force
about artists losing the free- outdoor murals under his goes up, it’s not offensive fluoride in London’s drink- night. Gabe Freeman led pregnant women to pay
dom of expression.” belt and has led some of the and the building owner ing water at last night’s the way for London with 21 for planned C-sections, af-
City councillors gave the city’s largest efforts on the agrees to maintain it,” she public input meeting. The points and 13 rebounds. ter suggesting earlier this
initial nod earlier this week front. said. “(Murals) may not all committee voted to have Darrell Wonge led all scor- week that the procedure
to a project based around But, he said, city officials be graffiti-style, but some of staff look over the informa- ers with 23 points for the would no longer be
keeping downtown free of have in the past painted them may be. I think you tion, and report back in six Miracle, who led 52-46 at covered by medicare.
graffiti. The effort also over graffiti-style murals need a nice blend.” weeks. AM980/AM980.CA halftime. METRO THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Deaths not an accident: Crown
FRANK GUNN/THE CANADIAN PRESS
Crown delivers closing arguments
Police guard the rear entrance to the Frontenac County courthouse
in Shafia family trial Security
after a bomb threat was received in Kingston, Ont., on Thursday.
issue spurs delay earlier in the day
The evidence against three
people accused of killing Deliberations
half their family over hon-
our is “irrefutable,” a
Crown attorney told the ju- The verdict was expected
ry in the case in closing ar- to be in the jury’s hands
guments that lasted well Friday afternoon or early
into the evening after a evening.
bomb threat delayed pro-
cee dings earlier Thursday. our killing of Shafia’s
Crown attorney Laurie three daughters and his
Lacelle told the jury hear- other polygamous wife.
ing the Shafia family mur- “You know this was not
der trial that Mohammad an accident — it was mur-
Shafia, 58, his wife Tooba der,” Lacelle said at the end
Yahya, 42, and their son of her lengthy address.
Hamed, 21, were each re- “They did what they each
sponsible for planning and believed had to be done.
carrying out four murders, Now it’s your turn. Find
executed to get rid of fami- them all guilty as charged.
ly members causing them There is no other way.”
dishonour. The courthouse in
“Shafia, Tooba and which the Shafia trial is
Hamed had decided that taking place was evacuated
there was a diseased limb just before court was about
on their family tree,” she to start Thursday morning.
said. “Their decision was to While police would only
trim the diseased limb and say there was a “security
prune the tree back to the concern.” A source told
good wood.” She urged the The Canadian Press the
jury to find all three guilty reason for the evacuation
in what the Crown has al- was a bomb threat.
leged is a quadruple hon- THE CANADIAN PRESS
7 Forces members recognized for bravery
SEAN KILPATRICK/THE CANADIAN PRESS
It was one of the those Chinook with gunfire. The native of Niagara
heart-stopping moments Fielding was among sev- Falls managed to land the Acts of valour
every pilot who flew in en members of the Canadi- burning chopper in the
Afghanistan feared — the an Forces to receive the middle of insurgent-con-
dull thud of rounds hitting Medal of Military Valour trolled territory and get Holmes was recogni zed for
the helicopter and the from Gov. Gen. David John- everyone off safely with- his actions in a series of
smell of smoke. ston in a ceremony at Ot- out any casualties. bloody fights in Panjwaii.
But for Capt. William tawa’s Rideau Hall. The other recipients Mikkelson, Millar and Nel-
Todd Fielding, it wasn’t His helicopter was hit in were soldiers and included son were praised separately
some abstract concern and the fuel tank and immedi- Master-Cpl. Adam Holmes, for delivering life-saving
on Thursday he was award- ately caught fire as it took Master-Cpl. Gilles-Remi first-aid treatment to
ed the country’s third- off from a forward posi- Mikkelson, Pte. Philip Mil- soldiers under fire.
highest valour decoration tion in the volatile Pan- lar, Master-Cpl. Paul Mitchell and Verrier were
for what he did in the criti- jwaii district, west of Gov. Gen. David Johnston presents the Medal of Mitchell, Pte. John Nelson, recognized for holding
cal moments after the Tal- Kandahar city on Aug. 5, Military Valour to Pte. Philip Millar of Lower Sackville, N.S. and Sgt. Graham Verrier. their ground under fire and
iban sprayed his CH-147 2010. THE CANADIAN PRESS inspiring other soldiers.
PAWEL DWULIT/ HANDOUT/THE CANADIAN PRESS
Digging up THE CANADIAN PRESS Plane-crash survivor speaks out
the Dirty
The wreckage from
’30s and a
a mystery tiny ivory the plane crash.
elephant. The lone survivor of a Brian Shead says the cial injuries, but the pilot
While deadly plane crash in Jan. 10 crash near the tiny and the three other pas-
Elephant
A time capsule unearthed some of northern Ontario says he native community of sengers died.
during renovations at the capsule’s contents tried in vain to pull fellow North Spirit Lake hap- As the sole survivor, the
Toronto’s famed Maple Leaf relate to the time it was passengers from the pened in a flash. The Win- father of three small chil-
Gardens spilled its secrets buried, there was little to wreckage and snuff the nipeg-based administrator dren is haunted by guilt
Thursday, revealing hockey explain the mysterious ele- fire that eventually de- for First Nations escaped and dozens of unanswered
paraphernalia, news from phant. THE CANADIAN PRESS stroyed the small aircraft. with a crushed foot and fa- questions.THE CANADIAN PRESS
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No coddling at Facebook Facebook addicts
get help at ‘rehab’
GIA DINH XA HOI/GETTY IMAGES
What it’s really like to work for
A pair of entrepreneurs
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has created an online tool
to target Facebook addicts,
called FaceAnonymous.
Mark Zuckerberg’s former is focused on getting it “The first thing most
director of engineering done and has a limited tol- young people do when
says the Facebook CEO is erance for emotional they log in to a computer
not a pain in the ass to fragility in the people he is to type an F,” says Dan
work with, but don’t ex- needs to help him execute Penguine, co-founder of
pect “emotional coddling.” on that mission.” FaceAnonymous, the first
Yishan Wong is giving Great business leaders “Facebook rehab.” after “gaming,” and it is
the world a glimpse of the tend to have “a significant Penguine and friend trending higher.
social-networking boy won- body count of ex-employ- Siavosh Arasteh set up a “The first step to fix an
der on the question-and- ees claiming that they website spreadsheet addiction is to become
answer website Quora, for were autocratic and where people worldwide aware of the problem,”
which Wong is an advisor. mean,” Wong pointed out. can record every time they Siavosh told Metro.
Wong worked at Face- Zuckerberg gives em- logged in to Facebook. But Internet psycholo-
book from 2005 to 2010, ployees “ever-greater chal- Curt Dalton, CEO of In- gist Graham Jones empha-
for much of that time in lenges to surmount,” he ternet Time Machine, a sizes that as Facebook
management roles when said, which should be fine company that analyzes addiction is so new, treat-
the company exploded in- for an employee who is web search words, says ment is only experimental
to a major corporation confident and emotionally Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg “Facebook” is the fastest at this stage.
from a small startup. secure. is seen here during a private trip to growing addiction search KARIN WASTESON IN LONDON
“He’s a demanding CEO If you’re looking for a Ha Long Bay, Vietnam, on Dec. 25, 2011.
10%
with a monomaniacal fo- boss to develop you or who A recent study from China published in
cus on making Facebook gives you confirmation or Plos One found 10 per cent of Internet
succeed in its mission,” even acknowledgement of of Asperger’s,” said Wong, to ignore people when users suffer from Internet Addiction Disorder, a re-
Wong wrote. your opinions, Zucker- referring to the disorder they’re talking. cently acknowledged condition that disrupts
“He’s a perfectly nice berg’s not the guy for you, that robs people of social “I would characterize brain-nerve fibres responsible for emotions, deci-
guy on a personal level; it’s said Wong. skills that he said accounts him as tough but fair.” sion-making and self-control. Its effects can be as
just that professionally, he “He does have a touch for Zuckerberg appearing TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE damaging to young people as alcohol or cannabis.
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New Libyan Suspects detained
Buildings. Collapse
Rescue workers stand in implant scandal
rulers accused next to the area where
three buildings collapsed
in Rio de Janeiro, Thursday. INTERPOL/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Police in pre-dawn sweeps
of torture
Thursday arrested two top
former executives of the
now-defunct French com-
pany at the centre of a
Canada urged to pressure Libya breast implant scandal af-
fecting tens of thousands
on new detainee torture reports
of women worldwide.
Jean-Claude Mas, who
The new leaders of Libya, founded and ran implant- Jean-Claude Mas
helped to power by an air New leadership maker Poly Implant
war waged by Canada and Prothese (PIP), was detained No. 2 executive Claude
its major allies, were de- Canada has stood firm be- as part of a judicial probe in Couty also was detained.
nounced as torturers hind Libya’s new the southeastern city of The suspect PIP implants
Thursday by major inter- transitional leadership Marseille into manslaugh- are made with industrial-
national groups. both before and after Gad- ter and involuntary in- grade silicone instead of
The Canadian leader of hafi was driven from pow- juries, an official said. A medical-grade gel.
Amnesty International er last year. regional official said former THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
called on the Harper gov- Amnesty said the torture is
ernment to use its influ- being carried out by “offi-
ence with Libya’s new cially recognized military
‘Joke’ leads
transitional government to and security entities” as he joked that a package he
end the abuse of prisoners, well as the many armed was delivering to a U.S.
to terror
documented by the organi- militias still active in the Army base was likely a
zation in a new report. country. SILVIA IZQUIERDO/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS bomb. Military police evac-
Doctors Without Bor- 6 dead, 16 missing in Rio charges uated 215 people.
ders said it was suspending of Misrata because some Charges filed Wednes-
work in Libyan prisons be- detainees were brought for A 20-storey building collapsed in Rio Wednesday day in Utah show the deliv-
cause of rampant torture of care only to make them fit evening, causing the collapse of two other smaller Prosecutors charged a eryman was dropping off a
detainees. The group said it for further interrogation. ones. At press time, rescuers had pulled six bodies FedEx driver with threat of package Sept. 20 at Camp
was pulling out of the city THE CANADIAN PRESS from the rubble and 16 people were still missing. terrorism over allegations Williams. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Iran ready
for talks
with foes
Iran is ready to revive talks
with the U.S. and other
world powers, President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
said Thursday, but suggest-
ed that Tehran’s foes will
have to make compromis-
es to prevent negotiations
from again collapsing in
stalemate.
Iran’s insistence that it
will never give up uranium
enrichment — the process
that makes material for re-
actors as well as weapons
— scuttled negotiations a
year ago and still looms as
a potential deal breaker
even as tougher Western
sanctions target Iran’s crit-
ical oil exports.
Ahmadinejad added his
voice to proposals by Iran-
ian officials to return to
talks Thursday at a rally in
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Harper signals change
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FEDERAL FINANCE
Ottawa
rethinks Prime Minister’s speech in Davos hints at reforms for pensions,
securities investment and immigration Canada ‘model of confidence,’ Harper says
regulator
Ottawa will transform the ADRIAN WYLD/THE CANADIAN PRESS ment has worked to keep fi-
Jim Flaherty country’s pension system to nancial disorder out of
The federal government ments, to create a one- curtail government costs, Canada and is stepping up
announced Thursday stop shop for the coun- but details won’t come un- efforts to set the country on
that it will head back to try’s securities til the budget, Prime Minis- the right track for coming
the drawing board regulation. ter Stephen Harper said decades. THE CANADIAN PRESS
following a court verdict But Flaherty pointed Thursday.
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with the provinces, that with the provinces,” Fla- economy is on a strong
would play a role in herty said. footing. Stephen Harper talks with British Prime Minister David
monitoring long-term “But (the court) also The idea, he said, is to Cameron at pub in Davos, Switzerland on Thursday.
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decade-old project, tout- summit. dress to several dozen of streamline environmental Harper said his govern-
ed by successive govern- THE CANADIAN PRESS
Boomers piling on too much debt: CIBC
Baby boomers and Canadi- able annual income has RYAN REMIORZ/THE CANADIAN PRESS those with a lot of room to
ans who can least afford it been rising steadily since borrow, but instead what Debt debate
are the most responsible 2007 and recently reached we see is those with a lot of
for statistics that show con- a record 153 per cent. debt are piling on more.” Household debt has been
sumers are piling on too That puts Canadian Another concern, Shen- a hotly-debated issue in
much debt, according to an households on the doorstep feld said, is that Canadians Canada since central
analysis of household fi- of the 160 per cent level, over 45 years old who banker Mark Carney began
nances released Thursday where Americans were pri- should be saving for retire- fretting that debt was
by the CIBC. or to the housing collapse. ment are increasingly dip- reaching record highs even
The micro-examination But as the CIBC report ping into the credit market, as the economy was in re-
of debt in Canada suggests suggests, households in a trend likely contributing cession.
the problem may be more other countries, particular- to the rise in bankruptcies
serious than thought and ly Denmark, the Nether- among the 50 and older set. Last week, economists
sheds new light on Bank of lands, Norway and The CIBC analysis Craig Alexander and Derek
Canada governor Mark Car- Switzerland, have reached A new study suggests household debt may be a showed one-third of debt Holt of TD Bank and Scotia-
ney’s statement last week significantly higher thresh- bigger problem in Canada than previously thought. carriers are already above bank, respectively,
that he is most worried olds without triggering a the 160 per cent line and suggested the problem
about “vulnerable” house- crisis. that they are wholly re- may be exaggerated. The
holds. “It’s not only the it of their borrowing capac- economist Benjamin Tal. sponsible for about three- household debt-to-income
The raw numbers are amount of debt Canadians ity,” said CIBC chief econo- “It would have been nice quarters of all the measure was deeply
bad enough. The ratio of are carrying, but how many mist Avery Shenfeld, to have found that the rise household debt in Canada. flawed, they argued.
household debt to dispos- are getting close to the lim- co-author of the paper with in debt was coming from THE CANADIAN PRESS
Taxpayers still owed for bailouts: Watchdog Consumer confidence index up, board says
A government watchdog will continue to exist for ducing mortgage pay- The Conference Board of calls a “welcome develop- sits 14.3 points below
says U.S. taxpayers are years, says a report issued ments, will last as late as Canada says its monthly ment” after a dismal read- where it was at the same
still owed $132.9 billion Thursday by Christy 2017, costing the govern- survey of consumer ing in December. time in 2011.
US that companies Romero, the acting spe- ment an additional $51 moods shows Canadians Last month, the index About 16 per cent of re-
haven’t repaid from the fi- cial inspector general for billion US or so. The gyrat- are a little more upbeat dropped to its lowest level spondents to its survey
nancial bailout, and some the $700 billion bailout ing stock market has about their finances this in more than two years. say they’re better off
of that will never be re- US. slowed the Treasury De- month. Even though con- financially than they were
covered. Some bailout pro- partment’s efforts to sell The think-tank says its sumers seem a little more six months ago, while
The bailout launched at grams, such as the effort off its stakes in 458 bailed- index of consumer confi- optimistic in January, the 22.3 say they believe
the height of the financial to help homeowners out companies, the report dence for January rose measure of their willing- things are tougher.
crisis in September 2008 avoid foreclosure by re- says.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS four points to 73.9, what it ness to spend money still THE CANADIAN PRESS
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‘AMERICA’S BACK’
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island. @GoLondonKnights game many!
2 Muddled Voyage: The man that drove his car
through the Waterloo, Ont., police station last No-
vember was apparently sentenced to a year of com- NASA/NOAA/GSFC/SUOMI NPP/VIIRS/NORMAN KURING (LEFT) GETTY IMAGES (RIGHT)
munity service ... as captain of a cruise ship. Oops! Daily Zoom
3 Political Hubris:Stephen Harper finally met with
delegates at the World Economic Forum this week.
He rebuked European leaders for being fiscally irre-
sponsible, and cited Canada as the role model. He
referenced our medicare system which, in hard times, as-
sures Canadians the same unsatisfactory services they’ve
come to expect, at no additional cost.
4 Idol Setback:American Idol is back for its 11th sea-
son, and the first individual voted off is Steven
Tyler for his rendition of The Star Spangled Banner.
5 Sexy Spinsters: Ladies, if you are unattached,
attractive, and believe in love at first sight with a
stranger who will also be dating 25 other women
on national TV, then I’ve got great news — The Bachelor is
coming to Canada! The not-so-great news is that you are
probably desperate and have low self-esteem. But good
luck!
6 Love on the Rocks: Another celebrity breakup hit
the news wire this week as German model Heidi
Klum is divorcing R&B singer Seal. My immediate
reaction to the news was, “Those two were married?”
7 Spoiler Alert: Academy Award nominees were un-
veiled this week, and I want to prepare for my Os-
car pool by identifying this year’s pretentiously
touted film that no one actually wants to watch, à la Eng-
lish Patient or King’s Speech, and bet on that.
Shinier ‘Blue Marble’
8 Ice Dreams: Bruins goalie Tim Thomas ignited con-
troversy by refusing to join the NHL champs who
were invited to appear at the White House this
week. Thomas stated that he had become disillusioned
with the government, whose actions over the past few
years, he feels, have been counter-constitutional. On the
other hand, he still blames his parents for never providing
figure-skating lessons. New image of 824 First photo was
9 God Save the School: Dr. Alisun Pawley, a musicolo-
gist from the University of York in England, Earth captured Satellite facts upside down
concluded in a recent study that the Canadian na-
tional anthem was not very “sing-along-able.” My first SNAP.It’s our blue planet, Composite image: HISTORY. The original “Blue
question is, “Who funded this study, and why?” Second like we’ve never seen kilometres — the dis- Created from four orbits of Marble” photo was taken
question is, “Should a university professor be using a before. Nasa’s latest “Blue tance above Earth this the Earth’s surface. by the Apollo 17 crew on
word like ‘sing-along-able’?” Marble” photograph is the photograph was Worth lots of numbers: Dec. 7, 1972, from a distan-
10 American Delusions: The U.S. prez showed us most high-resolution image taken. This new high- Suomi NPP weighs 2,041 ce of about 45,000 kilome-
once again that “Campaign Obama” is far bet- of Earth ever captured. This resolution image dis- kgs, carries five tres. It was the first
ter at his job than “President Obama.” His picture was taken on Jan. 4 plays about 1.6 instruments, and orbits opportunity to photograph
“America’s back” speech was shrewdly more feeling than from Suomi NPP, Nasa’s kilometres per pixel. the Earth about 14 times the south polar ice cap. It
fact. If the country were a business, I’d suspect he was get- most recently launched each day. was originally taken upside
ting ready to sell to China, but that’s just silly ... or is it? Earth-observing satellite, ‘For weather forecasting’: down due to the way the
the first in a new series of Collects data on clouds, at- astronauts were then
More from Mike Benhaim at metronews.ca/backbeat such devices. MWN mosphere and oceans. travelling. MWN
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