Metro Ottawa - January 23, 2012

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Monday, January 23, 2012
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News worth sharing.
Young man stabbed to death
Dalhousie Street closed most of day during investigation Happened in front of Smoke’s Poutinerie, witnesses say
JESSICA SMITH/METRO
JESSICA
SMITH
@METRONEWS.CA
Navid Niran died in hospital
Sunday after he was stabbed at
about 2:20 a.m. on Dalhousie
Street. He is the first homicide
victim this year in Ottawa.
The Ottawa police major
crime unit closed off Dalhousie
Street between Rideau and
Besserer streets and a small
stretch of Weller Street while
they investigated.
There are clubs and
restaurants that stay open late
and a number of surveillance
cameras on the stretch of Dal-
housie where Niran was
stabbed. Witnesses said it hap-
pened in front of Smoke’s Pou-
tinerie. Smoke’s employee Jack
Witmer said a co-worker came
running into the restaurant
right after the stabbing.
“We were in the middle of a
huge rush and someone yelled,
‘Oh s---, there’s been a
stabbing,’ and everyone ran to An Ottawa police crime scene investigator walks
the window,” Witmer said. under police tape on Waller Street, not far from
Within a few minutes, police where the victim was found on Dalhousie Street.
arrived, he said.
“It was business as usual and
then after about an hour the shut down.” family gathered together when not want to talk about what For more local news visit
cops showed up and told us to Niran’s sister Zahra said her they heard from police, but did happened. metronews.ca/ottawa
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MONDAY, JANUARY 23, 2012
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Budget cuts could cost 50,000 jobs: Report
SEAN KILPATRICK/THE CANADIAN PRESS
More than 50,000 federal government and esti- ald estimates 50,000 to been declared off limits)
jobs could disappear by mates the impact of the 60,000 federal public-ser- would fall 20 per cent to
the time the Conserva- 2010 personnel cost vice jobs or private-sector 225,000 positions, Mac-
tives finish budget-cut- freeze and the 2011 jobs funded by Ottawa donald estimates.
ting, with the resulting Strategic and Operating will be gone by 2014. Under that scenario,
loss of services felt most Review. The review an- When all cuts are im- Ottawa-Gatineau would
by aboriginals, seniors, nounced in the 2011 plemented in two years, shed 22,400 jobs. But Mac-
low-income earners and budget aims to cut $4 bil- total annual federal donald says the cuts are
other vulnerable Canadi- lion a year in federal spending will fall by $7.82 unlikely to be absorbed
ans, an Ottawa think-tank spending. billion, the report says. If only by federal public
predicts. It’s not clear where the the cuts come exclusively service. He says Ottawa
The Canadian Centre Tony Clement cuts will be made, but from government jobs, will likely split cuts be-
for Policy Alternatives is spearheading the based on departmental federal employment (ex- tween jobs and federal news
(CCPA) report looks at pre- government’s review to projections, CCPA senior cluding RCMP and mili- funding transfers.
vious cuts by the Harper identify budget savings. economist David Macdon- tary personnel that have TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
16.5-million reasons to smile
JOE LOFARO/METRO
Barrhaven woman posted
thank you video to Justin Bieber
A Turkish doctor whose team
for supporting her cause performed the world’s
first triple-limb transplant
says a leg has been
Now that Justin Bieber News of her campaign removed due to tissue
tweeted to Ottawa’s spread across Canada and incompatibility. Scan code for
story.
Hélène Campbell over the in other parts of the To scan 2D barcodes in
weekend, the 20-year-old world, too. Websites in Metro, download the
is wondering what to do Peru and Germany report- free ScanLife app at
next with her organ-dona- ed on the Twitter love be- 2dscan.com.
tion awareness campaign tween Bieber and
as she waits for new lungs Campbell. On the web at
in Toronto. Campbell said a book- metronews.ca
On Saturday morning, store employee in Toronto
Arizona Rep.
the Biebster tweeted recognized her on Satur-
“@alungstory i got the day because she read Gabrielle Giffords
word.... you have amazing about her campaign in announces
strength. i got u. the Metro Toronto news-
her resignation
#BeAnOrganDonor” to paper.
Campbell, followed later “She said, ‘I know who from Congress to
by “help spread the word you are. Congratulations.
concentrate on
for @alungstory alungsto- What you’re doing is awe-
ry.ca #BeAnOrganDonor.” some,’” said Campbell. Hélène Campbell said she was thrilled to get a response to her Twitter her recovery from
“That’s a pretty big “That is encouraging.” campaign from pop sensation Justin Bieber over the weekend. a gunshot wound
deal, 16.5-million follow- Campbell isn’t sure
to the head.
ers who are now respond- what to do next to keep
ing,” said Campbell from the awareness campaign at the moment. She’s what I’d do if Ellen got in- Visitors to Alungsto- Watch at
Toronto, Sunday. “It’s re- going after getting a huge tweeted to Ellen De- volved, because I’m just ry.ca can keep track of
metronews.ca/
ally exciting and encour- encouragement boost generes, but has not so overwhelmed at the her progress as she waits
aging, not just for me but from Bieber, but is heard anything back yet. positive response with for a new pair of lungs. video
everyone who helped.” mulling over some ideas “For now I don’t know Justin,” she said. JOE LOFARO
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MONDAY, JANUARY 23, 2012
Group cries foul
over park tender
Friends of Lansdowne say OSEG is proceeding before
a green light to build Fundraiser planned for Jan. 28
CONTRIBUTED
“The arrogance of the
JESSICA
SMITH City and OSEG in going out
@METRONEWS.CA with these tender calls at
this time is disturbing,” the
The Court of Appeal hasn’t update says. “The legality of
reached a decision on Lans- the partnership project is
downe Park yet, but both still before the courts. …
the developers and their op- Why are the City and OSEG
ponents appear busy as proceeding as if they have
they wait for a judgment. Friends of Lansdowne the green light? What
The Ottawa Sports and on the steps of the Court makes them so confident?”
Entertainment Group re- of Appeal for Ontario. Meanwhile, the group is
cently issued tenders to calling for more donations
build commercial buildings pected to begin this spring, and planning a fundraiser
on the disputed site and should the Friends of Lans- for Jan. 28. Members have
renovate Frank Clair Stadi- downe lose their appeal. previously talked about try-
um. However, the Friends wrote ing to take their fight
The stadium tender due of their displeasure in the against the development all
date is March 1 and work tenders in an update to sup- the way to the Supreme
on Lansdowne Park was ex- porters sent this weekend. Court, if necessary.
Good. Wishes
T&T manager Jimmy Wen,
left, and assistant manager
Moses Wong show off
“spring couplets,” offering
good wishes for 2012 in
front of the south end
store’s Chinese New Year
decoration section.
SEAN MCKIBBON/METRO
May the new year bring luck, prosperity
Behind them, customers bustled about shopping for last-minute Chinese New
Year dinner items such as fish, whole chickens, fried sesame balls, rice dumplings
and other foods representing abundance, prosperity, reunion with family and
luck for the new year. Monday will mark the start of the Chinese New Year.
Street.
Snowmobiler
No weapon was
News in brief
involved in the incident. injured in crash
Police say after an inves-
tigation they linked the Police are investigating af-
Man, 57, charged
same suspect with a Jan. ter paramedics were called
in robbery 3 bank robbery on to treat a snowmobiler
Preston Street. who crashed into an ice
Ottawa Police have Michael Stead is fishing hut around 1 a.m.
charged a 57-year-old Ot- charged with two counts Saturday on Madawaska
tawa man following a of robbery and one count Lake near Ryan Duncan
Jan. 19, bank robbery of wearing a disguise. He Side Road. A 27-year-old-
that happened in the appeared in court Friday. man suffered a serious
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MONDAY, JANUARY 23, 2012
Navy overhauled
Looking. For answers
intelligence as alleged
spy lurked in midst
Former naval officer accused of leaking information
ANDREW VAUGHAN/THE CANADIAN PRESS
An unfolding spy drama ernment, nor National De-
involving a junior Canadi- fence will say whether
an officer comes amid a de- Sub-Lieut. Jeffrey Delisle Smoke rises from the Babine Forest Products mill in Burns Lake,
termined effort by the had access to the strategy B.C., Sunday. A fireball levelled the sawmill, which produces products
Royal Canadian Navy to — or early drafts of it. such as framing lumber, just after shift-change Friday evening.
improve and expand its Just what a potential
own intelligence capacity. spy might have been after JONATHAN HAYWARD/THE CANADIAN PRESS
Over the past two years, and for whom has been Two still missing after sawmill fire
military planners working the subject of frenzied
for the head of the navy speculation.
have been drawing a “road Officials have refused to RCMP Const. Lesley Smith said police are beginning the slow process of interview-
map” in order to provide Sub-Lieut. discuss any and all aspects ing workers at the sawmilland won’t be able to enter the mill to start that part of
decision-makers and war- Jeffrey Delisle of the case. the investigation until a structural engineer has deemed it safe. Nineteen people
ships at sea with better in- But defence and intelli- were injured in the blast, at least four critically, and two are still unaccounted for.
formation on possible gence experts say the real
threats to domestic waters ing list obtained by The gold for a foreign power —
and among international Canadian Press. be it Russia or some other No return to Bloc: Duceppe
shipping lanes, a series of It could prove to be an nation — would lay in the
internal documents reveal. intelligence bonanza in country’s methods, code
The strategy was widely the wrong hands, provid- words and placement of
circulated among senior ing insight into how Cana- assets, both human and Gilles Duceppe has put an leader of the Parti Québé- return to political life as he
echelons of the navy in dians gather information. electronic. end to rumours he will re- cois — at least for now — works to restore his reputa-
2010, according to a brief- Neither the Harper gov- THE CANADIAN PRESS place Pauline Marois as saying he can’t imagine a tion. THE CANADIAN PRESS
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MONDAY, JANUARY 23, 2012
Italian cruise ship Giffords
JOSE LUIS MAGANA/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
to leave
Congress
search continues
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of
Arizona announced
19 are listed as missing, but number could be higher Sunday she intends to
resign from Congress this
Some passengers may be unregistered: Official
week to concentrate on re-
Republican presidential candidate and former covering from wounds suf-
Unregistered passengers the rescue effort, told re- House Speaker Newt Gingrich poses for a photo fered in
might have been aboard Families informed porters at the island with parishioners after mass at the Basilica of the an assas-
the stricken cruise liner where the ship, with National Shrine in Washington Sunday. sination
that capsized off Giglio, Relatives of missing 4,200 people aboard, attempt
Italy, a top rescue official passengers were briefed rammed a reef and sliced that
Candidate Gingrich
said Sunday, raising the Sunday, and met with open its hull before turn- shook
possibility that the num- Pierluigi Foschi, the CEO ing over on its side. storms South Carolina the coun-
ber of missing might be of Costa Crociere, SpA, the But one of Concordia’s try a lit-
higher than previously an- ship’s operator. officers, who’s recovering tle more
nounced. from a broken leg suffered Newt Gingrich trounced and said it was a mistake than a Gabrielle
Divers, meanwhile, The missing include French during the evacuation, Mitt Romney in South to hold off as long as he year ago. Giffords
pulled out a woman’s passengers, an elderly dismissed the allegation Carolina’s Republican did in getting it out. He “I
body from the capsized American couple, a Peru- that such passengers were presidential primary, up- said the attention paid to don’t remember much
Costa Concordia on Sun- vian crewwoman, an Indi- on the ship. ending the battle to chal- the issue had from that horrible day, but
day, raising to 13 the num- an crewman, and an Italian “Everyone is registered lenge President Barack become a distraction in I will never forget the trust
ber of people dead in the father and his five-year-old and photographed. Every- Obama in November and his battle for the you placed in me to be
Jan. 13 accident. daughter. thing’s electronic,” the reviving a campaign that nomination. your voice,” the Democrat-
Earlier, Italian authori- Italian news agency ANSA has twice been near col- Gingrich said on CNN ic lawmaker said on a
ties raised the possibility X persons who we don’t quoted Manrico Giampe- lapse. that his hardline conser- video posted on her
that the real number of know about who were in- droni as saying. Stung by the worst vative views and sharp Facebook page.
the missing was unknown side, who were clandes- Authorities have identi- week in his campaign, debating skills are need- “I have more work to do
because some unregis- tine” passengers aboard fied eight bodies, but are Romney told Fox News ed if the Republicans are on my recovery. So to do
tered passengers might the ship, Franco Gabrielli, still trying to identify on Sunday that he will re- to take back the White what’s best for Arizona, I
have been aboard. the national civil protec- five badly decomposed lease his tax information, House. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS will step down this week.”
“There could have been tion official in charge of corpses.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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China ushers
Chinese worldwide are kicking off one of year’s most
dumplings and fireworks for everyone Metro looks at
JORDAN
POUILLE
METRO WORLD
He winks,
NEWS IN BEIJING
“M
ay gold and
she winks back jade come to
fill your
home.” Chi-
na is celebrating its
Spring Festival on
Monday. This special day
marks the start of the
Chinese year 4710 and
eight days of feasting and
wishing peace, happiness
and prosperity to each
other. In China, the elder-
ly will enjoy the much-
awaited annual show on
state television while
their married children
will cook and visit friends
and relatives.
The economy and
industry will grind to a
halt. The trains will be
chaos as millions leave
the factories and big
cities in the south to rush
home. But it’s worth all
the hassle: Chinese New
Year is the only time mi-
grant workers get to see
their families.
Introducing Speedfl irt, a fl irty The Spring Festival cel-
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better, in order to scare with money for youngsters or underwear – brings good luck.
away evil spirits.
your city looking for love or In Shanghai, the malls JORDAN POUILLE/METRO
have swapped their
friendship. Christmas decorations for
red lanterns, dragon stat-
ues and loud traditional
music. In Beijing,
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MONDAY, JANUARY 23, 2012
in new year
important celebrations Prepare for red trousers,
the many traditions that make up Chinese New Year
JORDAN POUILLE/METRO
How will you
She fl irts,
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He fl irts back
Ma Xiao Ling
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