Metro Ottawa - January 17, 2011

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VENGEANCE
STRUGGLE AND
EMERGE
BREAKING A LEG GETS A
NEW MEANING JETS TAKE DOWN
{page 14}
PATRIOTS
OWEN WILSON
MUM ABOUT BABY
SPORTS
UNTIL NOW. SON BORN
ON WEEKEND {page 17}
{page 10}
OTTAWA
Monday, January 17, 2011
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News worth
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Snow
Globe. Awards
creates
flurry of
accidents
Collisions spike as blanket of snow descends on
capital Fire crews alone responded to 42 calls on
Saturday And another eight calls Sunday morning
JOE “Weather was definitely
Christian Bale holds up his trophy for best performance by an actor in a supporting [email protected] a factor in the increased
role in a motion picture for his role in The Fighter, during the Golden Globe Awards number of calls.”
yesterday, in Beverly Hills, Calif. More Golden Globe coverage, page 8. Collisions across the city kept MARC MESSIER,
emergency crews busy over the OTTAWA FIRE SERVICES SPOKESPERSON
Bale knocks out competMiARtK J. iTERoRILL/THnE ASSO CIATED PRESS weekend as Ottawa saw its first heavy
snowfall of 2011. On Saturday, paramedics responded
“They were all over the place,” said to a call at 10:29 p.m. about a head-on
Ottawa Fire Services spokesperson Marc collision at Bank Street north of the
Messier. town Metcalfe that left three people in
What a waste Sens clash Bertha MacLeod, 69, was pronounced serious condition.
dead in hospital after a collision with a Hours later, a multi-vehicle collision
in Orleans with Capitals pickup truck on Bank Street and Kemp wreaked havoc on the Airport Parkway
Drive Friday afternoon. south of Bankfield. Two males, aged 42
“We had to remove the door to get and 54, and one female, 23, were hospi-
her out,” said Messier, adding that she talized and remain in serious condition
Raising a stink about reduced Washington rallies to win with was in and out of consciousness until after the minivan in which they were
garbage services {page 3} two goals in the third {page 17} paramedics arrived. travelling collided with a limousine.

04 news metronews.ca
MONDAY, JANUARY 17, 2011
The great Canadian
Death penalty for
News in brief
Egyptian man
church fire sale
TENSIONS. An Egyptian
court yesterday convict-
ed and sentenced to
death a Muslim man for
killing six Christians and
a Muslim guard last year
— the latest in a series of 170-year-old Anglican church in Nova Scotia sold for
moves by authorities But the game’s on
a dollar Congregation had shrank to under 10 people
seeking to calm religious
Mourners in Budapest tensions following a mas- ANDREW VAUGHAN/THE CANADIAN PRESS Declining rural
sive suicide bombing Stewart Creaser likely populations, sex abuse
3 women die in outside a church two couldn't imagine the jour- scandals involving the
weeks ago. ney he would set out on church, native residential
club stampede The violence has when he decided to save a school settlements and
raised fears of a small wooden church in hockey on Sundays are be-
HUNGARY. Police say potentially explosive Nova Scotia from the lieved to be turning peo-
three young women Muslim-Christian divide wrecking ball. ple away from regular
have died in a stampede in this key U.S. ally. More than a year ago, services.
at a Hungarian THE ASSOCIATED PRESS the owner of a vineyard in
nightclub. a bucolic nook of the Officials with the oldest
Budapest police Group: Iran on province put word out that Baptist church in Saint
spokeswoman Katalin he was looking for a build- John, N.B., announced last
Fanni Horvath says thou- ‘execution binge’ ing to house a new wine week that it would close
sands of people were shop. its doors because of a
caught up in the TEHRAN. Iranian authori- Soon after, his phone dwindling congregation.
stampede at the West- ties have unleashed an started ringing with peo- St. Matthew’s Church in Walton, N.S. The Roman Catholic
Balkan nightclub and “execution binge” with ple offering up buildings Diocese of London, Ont.,
the victims may have an average rate of one of every type if they could handful of congregants It's a situation that's offered to sell three
been trampled by the person hanged every be hauled away. Other- who couldn't afford the been playing out across churches for $1 apiece in
rushing crowd. eight hours since the be- wise, some would face hefty maintenance bills. the country for years, but 2008 after repair bills were
Police have opened an ginning of the year. demolition. “We’ve had people from is becoming more pro- estimated to be close to $3
investigation into the or- A statement by the Inter- What struck Creaser all over the province nounced in Atlantic Cana- million.
ganizers and, along with national Campaign for was that many were old, telling us about buildings da as people move out of A Catholic diocese in Cape
medical investigators, Human Rights in Iran solid churches that had that are available — most rural areas and take with Breton is selling properties
are working to said at least 47 prisoners once been the centre of of them churches,” he said them the vital financial to raise money for a sex
determine the cause of have been hanged since their communities, but from his home in Avon- support that keeps church- abuse settlement.
the deaths. Jan. 1. were now home to only a dale. es afloat. THE CANADIAN PRESS
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Feeling doubts about your schooling? You’re not alone
HANDOUT/THE CANADIAN PRESS
It’s the countdown toward Markham, Ont., has an ap- “I didn’t really have the maturity to own and there’s that kind
the end of first year for pointment today with stu- understand why I needed the foresight of rush and thrill of inde-
tens of thousands of Cana- dent services as she tries of why I was in school.” pendence that makes it re-
dian university and to decide if she should ally difficult for students
college students, and sta- jump ship. BELINDA SAYEAU, FORMER STUDENT to ask for help.”
tistics show one in seven is Halfway through her Some students have a
contemplating dropping first year of journalism want to make any fast or realize what those tendency to say “it’s just
out before graduation. school at Ottawa’s hasty decisions.” programs mean and what not for me” rather than
Some are too broke to Carleton University, Tanya Lewis, director of it means to study within ask for direction.
continue. Others feel Waine says the program is- academic success and ac- an academic discipline A pending report by
they’ve picked the wrong n’t what she thought it cessibility services at the and whether you’re actual- three Ontario colleges will
program. Still more are would be. University of Toronto, said ly going to like it or not,” provide a blueprint for
buckling under the strain “I’m kinda mulling it life on campus can be a Lewis said. post-secondary officials on
to keep up with the course over,” said Waine. “I’m try- big adjustment for many “Going to university is how to identify potential Journalism student
load. ing to keep an open mind students. often the first time young dropouts and keep them Marie Waine
Marie Waine, 18, of about it because I don’t “It’s very hard at 17 to people step out on their in class. THE CANADIAN PRESS
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MONDAY, JANUARY 17, 2011
Gunfights rock Tunis
CANADIANA FOR THE MASSES beta.canadiana.ca, gives
access to 14 institutional
History collections in both French
just a click andU nEnligklei sthr.aditional aca- after president flees
demic search engines,
away this one has been de-
signed for ease of use.
“It’s more Google-like,” CHRISTOPHE ENA/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Call it the Google of Cana- said Ron Walker, execu- Some calm returned as stores
dian history. tive director of Canadi-
reopen Ben Ali’s family targeted
The Canadiana Discov- ana.org, the organization
ery Portal is an ambitious that is spearheading the
new search engine that portal initiative. Tunisian authorities strug-
combs through more “We think by making gled to restore order in Tu- Night in Tunisia
than 60 million pages of interesting content acces- nis yesterday, arresting the
information from sible it will generate head of the presidential Dozens of people have
archives across the coun- more interest from the guard and trying to stop diedin a month of clashes
try. From old postcards to public.” the looting, arson and gun- between police and pro-
sheet music, the portal, at THE CANADIAN PRESS fights that have erupted testers angry about the re-
across the capital since au- pression and corruption
Vote likely Club Fed, tocratic former president of Ben Ali’s rule — unrest
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali fled that ultimately marked
to Saudi Arabia on Friday. the end of his 23-year
to split Russian-
Tensions appeared to be regime.
mounting between Businesses owned by Ben
Sudan style Tunisians buoyant over Ben Ali’s familywere major
Ali’s departure and his loy- targets of looters. The
alists, who stand to lose family of the ex-
Preliminary results yester- Russia’s notorious major perks. president’s wife, Leila Tra-
day of Southern Sudan’s Butyrskaya prison will More than 50 people belsi, has financial
weeklong independence soon offer inmates a new were arrested yesterday on interests from banking to
referendum suggested a perk: Tanning beds. The suspicion of using ambu- car dealerships. A branch
huge vote for secession. tanning beds are meant to lances, rental cars and civil of the Zeitouna bank in
The vote could split compensate for protection vehicles for Tunis founded by Ben Ali’s
Africa’s largest country in inadequate sunlight in the drive-by shootings, a police son-in-law was torched, as
two at the divide between cells, said Viktor Dezhurov official said. Prime Minister were vehicles made by
Sudan’s Muslim north and of the federal prisons serv- Mohammed Ghannouchi is Kia, Fiat and Porsche —
Two men try to remove a torn portrait of former Tunisian
Christian and animist ice. Inmates will have to working to form a national brands distributed in
president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali yesterday in Tunis.
south. pay 10 rubles (33 cents) a unity government. Tunisia by members of the
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS minute. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ruling family.

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MONDAY, JANUARY 17, 2011
TALKING TRASH ON THE CITY’S STREETS
If the biggest problem we election campaign, you’re not creasing fees, as with our green cyclables and organics out of the
have in Ottawa is whether alone. bin program, which is off to a trash and there isn’t much left.
Urban Compass garbage pickup should be Our resentment of having to less-than-auspicious start. We could halve what we send to
weekly or biweekly, or revisit the issue probably begins So, when the city suggests landfill. The city guesses we
STEVE whether paper and plastic in our resentment boosting green could save $5 million on garbage
of the household bin use by collect- pickup by going biweekly.
COLLINS should be collected in one chore itself. “Nobody likes ing its contents One big exception is diapers,
recycling bin instead of Nobody likes to to deal with every week and and I can understand the reluc-
two, I think we can safely deal with garbage, garbage, either regular garbage tance of new parents to amass
declare ourselves an urban ebiitwheeerk wlye eokr loyv,er weekly, biweekly ewveeerky, saelcaormnd bells nthaesstye .t Wwoe -dwoene’kt cstuorcrkepnitlleys c oofm-
Aparadise. the course of ques- or over the course go off. post them, but we could, as oth-
tionably negotiated of questionably The stakes will er cities do.
nd yet, a distinct 20-year contracts. be higher. Miss The alternative is our default,
negotiated
crankiness infuses We just want the garbage day and stupid non-solution of packing it
conversations about crap to go away. 20-year you end up stuck all off to the landfill. That’s not
what to do with our Every time the contracts.” with your trash waste management, it’s waste
garbage, as we’ve subject comes up, for a month, a relocation. We have an estimat-
seen during the cur- we get a little pungent prospect ed 10 to 40 more years’ worth of
rent city consultations on the defensive, in summer and a space at the Trail Road dump,
matter. This is among the least anticipating yet another lecture smorgasbord for neighbourhood depending on how fast we stack
glamorous of issues, and if you about our bad, unsustainable critters. up our trash.
don’t recall candidates unpack- habits. We also suspect the city But most of the stuff that rots We may not want to talk
ing their bold visions for waste will download more of the work and stinks could be composted. about it, but this is everybody’s
management during the onto us, while also adding or in- That’s the point, in fact. Take re- problem, and it’s a big one.
Work is meant for work
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and I’m thankful I have a chocolate so much and calling my mom and dad Do you think
the CRTC’s decision on
job. DAVID HEWITT drinking tea everyday. or chatting via email with
misleading news will
my friends. Work is work
impact Canadian media?
We asked: Which one of We asked: What is your and no matter how much
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Surprise! It’s a Little
Taylor
Celebrity tweets
singing
Wilson for Owen Eva Lon- James
the blues goria Van Der
[@evalon Beek
over Jake? goria]Just [@vander
so everyone james]
ALL PHOTOS GETTY IMAG ES knows i still have all my tat- Neighbours who were jack-
Actor had kept toos! Nothing is being hammering at 8am are now
When Jake Gyllenhaal removed, although i am al- partying at 2:30am... I think
pregnancy and broke up with Taylor Swift, ways up for more tattoos! I’ll finish their jackhammer-
he reportedly did so over ing for them... tomorrow at
relationship
the phone, according to Us 7am.
with girlfriend Weekly. Jessica
“Taylor is really upset Alba
out of spotlight and hurt,” a source says. [@jessica Steve
until recently “She does- alba] Every Martin
n’t know time I fall [@Steve
what she asleep watching “I MartinTo
Owen Wilson is a dad. The did for Survived” I think “why the Go] Accord-
actor and his girlfriend, him to heck do I subject myself to ing to the
Jade Duell, welcomed their just put a this?!?” -I’m addicted. It’s a new Zodiac sign dates, I am
first child, a boy, in Hawaii stop to it. problem. now a Kitten.
over the weekend, accord- She feels
ing to Us Weekly. really burned by him.”
Reynolds’ new role
The Little Fockers star The phone call in
had kept both the preg- question is said to have
nancy and his one-year re- come right before the Peo-
lationship with Duell ple’s Choice Awards. While Sandra Bul- Popeater.
under wraps until a week “She was not her usu- lock and Ryan “Sandra loves the idea
ago. “Owen has had many al bubbly, over- Reynolds may be of Louis having a good
girlfriends under the radar animated self,” the dodging romance male role model in his
who no one knew about,” source says of Swift at rumours, life,” a source says.
a source says. the event. “She didn’t Reynolds has re- “Ryan loves children
“He may have dated eat anything, seemed portedly been and has always wanted to
high-profile women like very sad and bonding with Bul- be a dad. He would have
actress Kate Hudson and definitely was- lock’s adopt- loved to have had a baby
musician Sheryl Crow, but n’t having a ed son, with Scarlett [Johansson],
that is not the norm for Owen Wilson and his girlfriend, good Louis, but work always came
him. He likes regular peo- Jade Duell, have a new baby boy. time.” Ryan accord- first.
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