Metro Ottawa - January 10, 2012

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RUFFLED FEATHERS
CULINARY TRADITIONS
OF AFGHANISTAN
LUNCH RUSH
THATCHERITES GIVE
{page 14}
FILM’S IRON LADY
BLUE JAYS TALK ABOUT
MINOR LEAGUE BALL
COLD RECEPTION
IN OTTAWA DURING
WINTER TOUR {page 11}
{page 6}
OTTAWA
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
www.metronews.ca
News worth sharing.
STEVE COLLINS/FOR METRO
Firefighters tackle a blaze at 179 Waverley St. yesterday.
Bike-patrol cops spot blaze
Two Ottawa bike police reported Centretown house fire and tried to enter and warn possible occupants but
were pushed back by thick smoke Nearby houses escaped damage as firefighters successfully contained fire
STEVE damage to a house on Waverley to the 1:45 p.m. call, heavy Both occupants of the house The aftermath of suspicious
COLLINS Street. Fire crews believe it start- flames could be seen coming were later contacted at work. fire in a highrise{page 3}
[email protected] ed on the house’s second floor from the second floor windows. The blaze caused an estimat-
before spreading to the third They conducted a search of the ed $650,000, and the cause of the How to help a family burned
Nobody was hurt, but a Monday- floor and attic. residence and confirmed nobody fire is currently under investiga- out of their home in an
afternoon fire caused extensive When firefighters responded was home. tion. earlier blaze{page 4}
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STEVE COLLINS/FOR METRO
Residents escape
1
blaze in highrise
STEVE COLLINS night trapped on her handful of residents evac-
[email protected]
balcony waiting to be res- uated from 2850 Cedar-
The unlucky 13th floor of cued as fire raged wood Drive Sunday
a highrise on Cedarwood outside her door, evening after a fire broke
Drive was charred by a but she still feels fortu- out in the hallway on
suspicious fire Sunday nate. her floor a little after
night, but luckily no one “I know I’m lucky,” she 7 p.m.
was hurt. said. “Even with the bad The Ottawa police Gloria Belair surveys the damage
Resident Gloria Belair luck, I’m lucky.” arson unit is investigat- to her apartment door from Sunday’s fire. news
spent a half-hour Sunday Belair was one of a ing.
Jail sentence is fair: Victim
STEVE COLLINS/FOR METRO
Luangpakham will face a
one-year driving ban upon release
He had no criminal record, didn’t
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two years less a day, a thing on someone An Israeli
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one of CATHY ANDERSON, WHO WAS HIT BY
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ate. Robert Wein. by dumping
“I Ontario Superior Court a glass of
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Friends arrange benefit for
DR. CHRISTIANE FARAZLI report released Monday
by Ottawa Public Health.
family left homeless by fire No known The report says that 90
per cent of about 7,000
link between
patients who underwent
clinic and endoscopies by Dr. Chris-
tiane Farazli are aware of
Woman’s boyfriend rescued cat from basement days after fire hepatitis: the lapse that was identi-
City set up temporary home for displaced family at Extended Stay fied in May.
City Of the 4,353 blood
JOE LOFARO/METRO tests so far, 369 showed
There is no identified evidence of hepatitis B,
JOE
LOFARO link between the and 39 showed evidence
@METRONEWS.CA infection-control lapse at of hepatitis C, but there
a Carling Avenue clinic are no cases of serious ill-
The number of donations and cases of hepatitis B ness. The report will be
that Carmen Mayer has re- and C, or human immun- posted at Ottawa.ca.
ceived since her town- odeficiency virus, says a METRO
house on Downpatrick
Road was destroyed by last
High Commission starts
Tuesday’s fire is virtually
endless.
Olympic countdown
From a new bed and a
Nintendo DS for her eight-
year-old daughter, Madi-
son Moreno-Mayer, to an Olympic kayaker Kristin 199There are 199
iPad, clothes, toiletries and Gauthier of Ottawa days until the
cash, the generosity from dropped by the British London Olympics.
friends and even strangers High Commission on Mon-
has been overwhelming, day to help raise the official missioner to Canada, noted
Mayer said. flag of the 2012 Olympics, that London will be the
She lost almost every- marking 200 days before first city to host three
thing in the fire, which the games open. Andrew Olympics (1908, 1948 and
was started by an oil can- Pocock, British High Com- 2012). STEVE COLLINS
dle, and wasn’t insured.
“Never in my life did I
ever think that people Fire victim Carmen Mayer, second from left, and her boyfriend, Dylan Labelle, top left, met
were good like this,” said on Monday with Mayer’s high school friends who are organizing a benefit for her and her Keep dogs Scotiabank
Mbea syoe rs,e 2lf9l.e “sFso, Ir nsoemveero inmea tgo- dKariusgtihntae Kr oalto tnhkeo R, oKyaatlh Oeraikn ath Igisl eSzaotus radnady .J Filrloiamn Slehfitm, coonu.n ter-clockwise, are Julie Dodd, on lead: OPP Park & Ride
ined it.” now open
A box that contained Ontario Provincial Police
family keepsakes managed where. She was my best temporary home at the “It was pretty sad to are reminding the public
to survive the fire. Mayer’s friend,” Mayer said. pet-friendly downtown Ex- hear about it all, and we that dogs must be securely Located in the north lot of
friend Julie Dodd had given The box that held keep- tended Stay hotel. just wanted to help her tied and controlled by Scotiabank Place, it is be-
it to her at a baby shower. sakes will now serve as Bel- And Mayer’s friends out,” Dodd said. their owners after two in- ing served by Express
But it was the loss of la’s final resting place. from high school have or- A donation table will be cidents on Jan. 5 in which Routes 261 and 263, week-
Bella, her toy poodle- The Lord Elgin Hotel ganized a benefit at the set up, and bands will per- officers were bitten by the days only, when customers
Yorkie, that was most dev- put her up for free over Royal Oak, at 800 Hunt form. For more informa- same dog in Clarence- press the Request Stop but-
astating. the weekend. She has Club Rd., for Saturday at 2 tion on the benefit, go to Rockland. ton on the pole at the Park
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Jays: We’d love an Ottawa team
Montreal, Halifax the next stops on Jays’ Winter Tour Fans from outside Toronto get change to meet players
“Any kind of team JESSICA SMITH/METRO
JESSICA game. Hopefully a little
SMITH here would kid can attach on to some-
@METRONEWS.CA succeed, because thing, that’s what it’s all
there’s a lot of about.”
Toronto Blue Jays players “If it’s a farm team for
pride in Canadians.
in town for the annual the Blue Jays, it’s even bet-
Winter Tour say they’d be And if they had a ter,” added pitcher Ricky
happy if their AA farm team they’d Romero. “You’re kind of
team moved to Ottawa. getting that culture in and
support them.”
“It would be cool be- more fans start latching
cause, for me, coming up, JAYS CATCHER J.P. ARENCIBIA onto our team. Families
I never got to Canada to can go. It would definitely
play until we got to the an AA franchise. be very cool, I think.”
big leagues,” said Jays There has been much Manager John Farrell
catcher J.P. Arencibia, hope and speculation, but said he’s “not privy to any
who hails from Florida. no promises, that if an AA conversations that might
“So it would be kind of team comes to town, it be going currently to lure
cool to give the (young could be affiliated with a club here,” but there
players) a taste of the cul- the Jays. would be “many posi-
ture.” “Someone was kind of tives” to having a Jays
Ottawa city staff are whispering about it at the farm team in Ottawa.
planning to present coun- signing, that there was “Any time that a fan-
cillors with the results of talk about it,” said pitcher base can follow young
a bid process on a new Casey Janssen, who was players through a system
lease for the Ottawa Stadi- signing autographs at the and ultimately to the
um early this year, and St. Laurent Mall on Sun- team they support at the
U.S. firm Beacon Sports day. “As long as you can major-league level — Blue Jays third baseman Brett Lawrie, right, pretends to interview
Capital Partners is inter- continue to bring baseball those are all positives,” he catcher J.P. Arencibia at the Chateau Laurier in Ottawa on Monday.
ested in making that team to Canada, spread the said.
With the participation of the
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Accused mom testifies at Shafia trial
LARS HAGBERG/THE CANADIAN PRESS
Tooba Yahya is facing trial in
In court
a case prosecutors allege was a
so-called honour killing
Pleading not guilty. Tooba
Yahya, Mohammad Shafia,
A woman accused of killing hammad, 52, Shafia’s other 58, and their eldest son,
her three daughters and her wife in a polygamous mar- Hamed, 21, have each
husband’s other wife testi- riage, were found in a car at pleaded not guilty to four
fied in her own defence the bottom of a canal in counts of first-degree mur-
Monday in Kingston, Ont. Kingston on June 30, 2009, der.
Tooba Yahya, 42, is on tri- when the Montreal family
al for murder along with was heading home after a Curfew. Yahya said there
her husband, Mohammad trip to Niagara Falls, Ont. were no rules in the
Shafia, and their son. Col- Yahya broke down in household dictating what
lectively they are accused of tears when describing how the girls should or
killing their four female rel- upset Mohammad was at shouldn’t wear, and all the
atives over family honour, not being able to conceive children were subject to
pushing them into a canal — the reason Shafia took a the same curfew.
in a car and drowning second wife — and how
them. Yahya essentially gave Sa-
Shafia sisters, Zainab, 19, har to her to raise as her Mohammad Shafia, 58, left, Hamed Shafia, 21, and Tooba Mohammad Yahya,
Sahar, 17, and Geeti, 13, own daughter. For more news visit 42, arrive at the Frontenacs courthouse in Kingston, Ont., on Monday.
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Tourist lives to tell tale of bungee-jump mishap
CHANNEL 9 VIA APTN/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
An Australian tourist on the border of Zambia up or down,” she said.
bungee jumping in Africa and Zimbabwe on Dec. 31. She said the trailing
plunged 111 metres into a “I felt like I’d been cord repeatedly snagged,
river when her cord slapped all over,” the 22- so she “had to swim down
snapped, but she man- year-old from Perth said. and yank the bungee cord
aged to swim to safety Video taken of the out of whatever it was
with a broken collarbone jump shows the cord caught on to make it to
and her legs tied together. snapping and Langworthy the surface.”
Erin Langworthy told smacking into the river Langworthy swam
Nine Network television before the current pulled To watch the video, scan the through the rapids to
code or go to metronews.ca.
news Sunday that she Erin Langworthy, 22, of Perth, Australia, her into rapids. reach the Zimbabwe
Oblacked out briefly Pwhen bungeeE jumps over theN Zambezi River on H“You getO sucked under it’s vUery disorienting — SI bank. E
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‘Why, Oscar?’ mom asks
Threats left on
dumped bodies
News in brief
Bomb-plot MEXICO. Police in western Hundreds of people attend funeral of Canadian who died in police
Mexico have found 13
suspect arrested custody while visiting Grenada Five officers charged with manslaughter
bodies at a gas station in
the state of Michoacan. COLIN PERKEL/THE CANADIAN PRESS
FLORIDA. A 25-year-old Michoacan is home base A Toronto man allegedly at his open casket as she
man from the former to The Knights Templar beaten to death by police wept, “Why, Oscar?”
Yugoslavia was charged cartel, a pseudo-religious in Grenada was remem- Bartholomew’s death
with an alleged plot to gang specializing in bered Monday as larger has also highlighted
attack crowded locations methamphetamine pro- than life. claims from those who say
in the Tampa area, duction, drug smug- Grenada’s prime minis- Grenada suffers from a
including nightclubs, gling, extortion and ter was among the atten- systemic problem with
with a car bomb, assault other crimes. dees at a funeral for poorly trained and poorly
rifle and other THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Toronto resident Oscar disciplined police.
explosives, federal Bartholomew. Monday, some relatives
authorities said Monday. Celeb chef too The 39-year-old died in erupted in anger as uni-
The U.S. Department police custody after his ar- formed police, outside to
posh to pay?
of Justice announced the rest on Boxing Day. keep order during the fu-
arrest of Sami Osmakac, The death of neral, went into the
whose first appearance BRITAIN. A celebrity chef Bartholomew, who was church. The officers were
in federal court was apologized on his visiting his homeland Oscar Bartholomew’s mother Andrianne, 71, at her son’s forced to leave.
scheduled for Monday website Monday after he over Christmas, has casket during his funeral Monday in Crochu, Grenada. THE CANADIAN PRESS
afternoon. was caught shoplifting evoked outrage and sym-
Authorities say from a supermarket. pathy. daughter Melanie, who Roslyn Charles, a friend “One hopes
Osmakac is a naturalized Antony Worrall Thomp- As a result, his funeral brushed away tears during from Toronto, recalled that, out of this,
U.S. citizen who was born son was arrested Friday in the hamlet of Crochu the service. Bartholomew as “quiet” some light will
in the former Yugoslavia. after reportedly stealing has garnered widespread Father Anthony Marfo and hard-working.
be shed on the
He has been charged cheese and wine from a attention throughout the Dwomo spoke of forgive- “I’ve never seen this
with one count of Tesco store in the posh tiny country. ness during his homily guy in any trouble,” whole aspect of
attempted use of a riverside town of Henley- Dolette Cyr while others remembered Charles said. police brutality.’’
weapon of mass destruc- on-Thames, west of Lon- Bartholomew, his wife of Bartholomew as a man Earlier, Bartholomew’s
tion. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS don. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 10 years, sat stoically in who was larger than life mother Andrianne had to TREVOR BARTHOLOMEW,
DECEASED’S COUSIN
the church with her and loved his family. be restrained by relatives
Rwandan seeks delay of
expulsion from Canada
FORMATIONS
PAUL CHIASSON/THE CANADIAN PRESS
GRATUITES A Rwandan man who has livering a 1992 speech that
fought for years to stay in promoted the genocide of
Canada is making a last- ethnic Tutsis.
ditch legal plea to stave off Hutu-backed militias led
ÊTES-VOUS UN NOUVEL
deportation. the 100-day massacre of Tut-
Leon Mugesera’s lawyer sis and Hutu moderates in
ARRIVANT AU CANADA ? will be in Federal Court to- 1994, killing between Leon Mugesera and his
day seeking a judicial review 800,000 and one million wife Jemma on Monday.
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and a delay of Thursday’s Rwandans.
UN MEILLEUR EMPLOI ? scheduled expulsion. Mugesera has lived in He is demanding that
The Quebec City man is Quebec since 1993 and says any allegations against him
accused of helping to incite he fears for his life if he is re- be heard in Canada.
LES PROGRAMMES FLAP OFFRENT DES FORMATIONS ADAPTÉES DANS Rwanda’s massacres by de- turned to Rwanda. THE CANADIAN PRESS
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girl knows how to navigate icy sidewalks and snow banks what’s cooking daily and
in her least sensible heels, but as the temperature dips,
the idea of going to a club or a bar or anywhere that isn’t
your own living room ERV PETTY/ALASKA DIVISION OF HOMELAND SECURITY AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
becomes less and less Daily Zoom
“I think, we appealing.
should stop I think we should stop
trying so hard to have fun
trying so hard to
and embrace these precious
have fun and weeks of guilt-free hiberna-
embrace these tion while they last. I mean,
do you really want to risk
precious weeks
hypothermia just to spend
of guilt-free another Saturday night cov-
hibernation ered in spilled drinks and
while they last. I other people’s sweat, elbow-
ing your way across a crowd-
mean, do you
ed dance floor and
really want to wondering, “Am I having
risk hypothermia fun yet?”
This winter, I’ve decided
just to spend
that staying in is the new
another Saturday going out. Instead of whin-
night covered in ing about frostbitten
exposed limbs and
spilled drinks
overpriced mixed drinks,
and other can we all agree to just stay
people’s sweat, indoors for the next few
elbowing your months?
Now, before you dismiss
way across a
me as a friendless shut-in,
crowded dance give the idea of becoming a
floor and winter hermit a chance. Buried under a blanket of snow
Think of all the money
wondering, ‘Am I
you’ll save, the calories you
having fun yet?’” wont consume, the clothes
that will go un-ruined! A few Alaska town calls Heavy, wet snow “We had no Quite a winter
months of self-imposed
house arrest will do wonders for your wallet, waistline state for help threatens homes alternative but to wonderland
and probably your mental health. declare an
You’ll host board-game nights, learn how to cook your A house is buried in snow Officials said at least three emergency.... It The National Guard
own meals, sort out your underwear drawer, actually read in the fishing town of Cor- buildings have collapsed reported more than 5.5
became a life-
all those books you so proudly display on your coffee table dova, Ala., in this Jan. 7 or partially collapsed, and metres of snow has fallen
and go to bed at a reasonable hour. If you’re lucky, you’ll photo. six homes are deemed se- safety issue.” in the past weeks,
have a fireplace and all of these indoor activities will seem Residents have turned to verely stressed by heavy, CORDOVA MAYOR JIM KALLANDER although the National
1,000 times better because of it. the state to help them dig wet snow. Weather Service did not
Ultimately, all any winter hermit really needs is a few out of massive snow levels The city has set up a immediately have a meas-
bottles of red wine and a subscription to Netflix. Perhaps that have collapsed roofs, shelter at a local urement.
if you’re feeling really ambitious, you’ll invite some low- triggered avalanches and recreation centre, but said “There’s nowhere to go
key companions over to share that aforementioned wine even covered doors, people leaving homes in with the snow because it’s
and discuss how you actually don’t miss going places and trapping some people in avalanche-risky areas have piled up so high,” said
doing things at all. their homes.Cordova is been staying with other Wendy Rainney, who owns
used to snow, but not like residents. the Orca Adventure Lodge.
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