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Monday, January 24, 2011
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News worth sharing.
You’re among
5 years on
Do Tories
know what
the best, Ottawa
you want?
Harper defends criticism on
planes and prisons in speech
marking anniversary Comes
at a time of mounting election
Order of Ontario recognizes individuals’ contributions to arts, justice, science speculation {page 3}
“It’s humbling. It’s also a
JOE the Royal Ottawa Hospital.
LOFARO feeling of great pride for not Beck, a psychiatrist, spearheaded Cana-
[email protected]
only your family or yourself, da’s Human Papillomavirus public immu-
Google
Ottawa residents can walk a little taller you feel proud of your nization program, while Logue’s work
knowing that, of the 30 people being given dealing with youth gangs has been adopted
Ontario’s highest honour, nine are from community because my work, by police across Canada. just
Canada’s capital. I could never accomplish Other Ottawa appointees include Gilles
On Thursday, Lt.-Gov. David C. Onley will alone.” Patry, Suhayya Abu-Hakima, Elizabeth Ann wants to
invest the new appointees to the Order of JUSTICE OF THE PEACE LOUISE LOGUE Kinsella, Huguette Labelle, Jacques Fla-
Ontario. peace Louise Logue, an expert adviser in mand, Elizabeth Le Geyt, and Mobeenud- be liked
Local appointees include justice of the crime prevention, and Dr. Gail Beck from din Hassan Khaja.
Search engine
Brrrr. It’s cold can’t compete
with Facebook’s
popularity {page 6}
Redemption
starts with a
two-hour ferry
Steering students in the right
direction means putting them
behind the wheel {page 16}
The Happiness
Project
Braving some of the coldest temperatures of the year, members of an Ismaili Muslim youth group called Challenging Ismaili Volunteers
in Communities (CIVIC) got to work yesterday, collecting winter clothing for Ottawa’s Snowsuit Fund in the Byward Market. Event organizer What one writer learned
Roshena Moledina said response to the drive was enthusiastic with several large bags of clothing donated. on her quest {page 9}
SEAN MCKIBBON/METRO
Keeping the city The plight of those without proper winter clothing was brought into sharp fo-
Dig deeper into
cus yesterday. With wind chill expected to take the temperature down to
warm, one winter –35 C last night — cold enough to freeze exposed skin in as little as 10
your pockets
minutes — Ottawa’s medical officer of health issued a frostbite warning. The
risk of hypothermia also rises as the mercury falls, and the homeless are par-
jacket at a time
ticularly vulnerable. If you see a homeless person in need of assistance, call
the city’s Homeless Phone Line at 613-580-2626. The forecast is less extreme Transit fees headed up, but it’s
for tonight, with expected lows of –18 C. not all bad: Steve Collins {page 8}
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CONTRIBUTED
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Angela Horrigan
Ottawa police are asking
for help in finding a miss- Emma Gern competes in Day 2 of the ages 15 to 19 slalom event in the Outaouais portion of the Quebec Junior
ing teenager. Angela Hor- Provincial Championship yesterday at the Eidelweiss ski resort in Wakefield, Que.
Men in the prime of life are most rigan, 15, did not return Ski event draws Gatineau competitorMARCs DESROSIERS/FOR METRO
likely victims of backcountry home from school Friday.
avalanches. Scan code for story.
She is described as five-
foot-three and 120
pounds with medium- The Quebec Junior Provincial Championship drew competitors from across Quebec including Gatineau.
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Download the free length blond hair, wear- The top 150 competitors in the championship will meet up in Mont-Grand-Fond in La Malbaie, Que.,
ScanLife ing a brown bomber March 25-27. For final results from Eidelweiss check www.skiquebec.qc.ca.
application with jacket with a large logo of
your smartphone a cat on the back, navy
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sweatpants and white Legal team fights
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Use the ScanLife running shoes. Anyone
application on spotting her should call
your smartphone the police at (613) 230-
to scan 2D 6211. STEVE COLLINS
barcodes in Metro deportation order
3 Fire dept.
The codes will
direct your mobile
browser to rescues
relevant
content at 20 people
m.metronews.ca Mohamed Harkat fearful at prospect of being returned to Algeria
trapped in
Security certificate system ‘profoundly complicated’: Defence lawyer
On the web at university
metronews.ca SEAN with the government yet.” the newly appointed
elevator MCKIBBON Harkat’s legal team is special advocates who are Harkat’s case
Investors begin @METRONEWS.CA challenging the deporta- allowed to see the secret ev-
the week with An Ottawa man labelled a tion order and the constitu- idence but not talk about it Mohamed Harkat insists
all eyes on Firefighters rescued a threat to Canadian security tionality of the original with accused persons. he's just a refugee who
crowd of 20 who got should be allowed to stay in security certificate process Harkat, 42, was arrested fled strife-torn Algeria and
Canadian stuck in an elevator at Canada while his legal chal- at the Federal Court of eight years ago on suspi- worked with an aid agency
corporate the University of Ottawa’s lenge works its way Appeal. Webber said the cion of being an al-Qaida in Pakistan before coming
earnings. Marchand Residence through courts, his lawyer process isn’t fair because it sleeper agent, but he to Canada.
around midnight Saturday. says. uses secret evidence so an denies any involvement in He also claims he'll be
Video at By 12:45 a.m. yesterday, the “His bail is still active accused person can’t make terrorism. tortured if he's returned
metronews.ca Ottawa Fire Department and we’re hopeful we’ll be a full answer in defence. On Friday he was served to his homeland.
rescue team managed to able to complete the appeal The legal team will also with deportation papers. In Harkat remains on bail
open the door and get process,” said Matt Webber, challenge the fact that December, a federal court in Ottawa under strict
Follow us on everyone out. Paramedics defence lawyer for Algerian- secret informants are judge ruled he was a securi- conditions that require
Twitter treated three people for al- born Mohamed Harkat. not subjected to cross ty threat who maintained him to wear an electronic
@metroottawa cohol-related conditions. “But we haven’t reached examination either by an ties to Osama bin Laden's monitoring bracelet
STEVE COLLINS any formal arrangement accused’s defence team or terror network. on his ankle.
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MONDAY, JANUARY 24, 2011
Harper recounts five
years of Tory rule
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PM warns against changing
course in midst of ‘fragile’ recovery
Prime Minister Stephen “Canadians gave
Harper says Canada is more our party a
united, stronger, safer and
prosperous after five years mandate to shake
under the Conservatives. up Ottawa. We
In a speech yesterday to have been faithful.
mark the anniversary,
We have kept that
Harper recounted the high-
lights of his minority gov- trust.”
ernment at a gathering of PRIME MINISTER STEPHEN HARPER
party faithful in Ottawa.
The speech came amid continue their tough-on-
mounting speculation that crime agenda. He also
the country could be defended his government’s
plunged into an election decision to purchase $16
over the federal budget, billion worth of stealth
which is expected late next fighter jets, saying it was a
month or in early March. move to help military per-
Harper did not directly sonel do their jobs safely.
refer to any opposition Under his government,
leader or party but his mes- Harper boasted Canada’s
sage seemed aimed at coun- economy bounced back the
tering criticism from fastest among industrial-
Liberals that Conservative ized countries from the
priorities — prisons and 2008 global recession. And
planes — are not shared by he said Canadians are now
average Canadians. paying less in taxes. Prime Minister Stephen Harper speaks to supporters of the Conservative party during a speech in Ottawa yesterday.
He said the Tories will THE CANADIAN PRESS
Worse off? Analysts dispute numbers
Crown land
restricted,
says group
AARON VINCENT ELKAIM/THE CANADIAN PRESS
Michael Ignatieff wants of living has fallen 1.3 per that measure, it’s accurate
Canadians to ask cent since the Harper gov- to say the standard of liv-
themselves if they’re bet- ernment came to power.” ing in 2009 was lower The Ontario Outdoors
ter off after five years of It’s the backbone of an than in 2005, says Andrew Recreational Alliance says
Stephen Harper. 11-page campaign-style Sharpe, executive director the Ministry of Natural Re-
The answer — despite pamphlet released by of the Ottawa-based Cen- sources is blocking local ac-
Liberal assertions that Ignatieff’s team recently. tre for the Study of Living cess to lakes and rivers in
Canadians are worse off Industry watchers, how- Standards. favour of foreign-based
now — is far from clear- ever, say the calculations But 2009 was Canada’s tourist outfitters who
cut, analysts say. are a bit of a stretch. worst year in a long time. charge premium rates to
At the heart of The Liberals base their In 2010 the economy made fly customers into remote
Ignatieff’s attempt to calculations on gross up all the ground it lost Liberal Leader Michael camps on Crown lands.
frame the deciding issue domestic product — how during the global recession Ignatieff at his new The complaints are rolling
for the next federal much goods and services that ravaged Canada’s constituency office in Toronto in from regions such as
election is the statement the country is producing economy in 2009. on Saturday. Timmins, Temiskaming
that “Canadians’ standard — per person. And using THE CANADIAN PRESS and Wawa. THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Volcanoes, coal
probably caused
first extinction
Calgary researchers may have found ‘smoking gun’
that explains Earth’s greatest environmental disaster
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suggesting that massive Volcano effect Grasby.
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Earth’s first environmen- canic eruption was so se-
tal disaster — 190 million Geological events as vere that it eliminated all
years before the demise of recent as last spring have “higher life” over a period
the dinosaur. given the world a taste of of 200,000 years, he said.
Up to 95 per cent of all the disruption volcanoes It would take another
DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 3rd, 2011 marine species and 70 per can trigger. five million years for those
cent of land vertebrates be- Large eruptions can cause life forms to reappear.
10 came extinct during this global atmospheric effects, The volcanoes covered
Permian-Triassic period. such as how the Icelandic an area just less than the
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direct evidence that there million years ago when a Grasby said the Earth at
was a significant coal com- meteorite hit the Earth, the time was similar to the
bustion going on at the but the reason for the Per- planet we know today. En-
time of extinction,” said mian extinction had been vironments ranged from
Steve Grasby from the uni- less clear. desert to lush forests.
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and some of its technology, shot one of the Nighthawks Chengdu J-20 — made its
it turns out, may well have down. inaugural flight on Jan. 11.
come from the U.S. itself. It was the first time one Although it’s at least eight
Balkan military officials of the much-touted “invisi- or nine years from entering
and other experts have told ble” fighters had ever been air force inventory, it could
The Associated Press that in hit. The Pentagon believed become a rival to America’s
all probability the Chinese a combination of clever tac- top-of-the-line F-22 Raptor,
gleaned some of their tech- tics and sheer luck had al- the successor to the
nological know-how from lowed a Soviet-built SA-3 Nighthawk and the only
an American F-117 missile to bring down the stealth fighter currently in
Nighthawk that was shot jet. service.
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Nighthawks were the strewn over a wide area of the size of small cars — as
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earnings report
Google is richer than ever, “Facebook has
but it’s not as cool as it become the cool
once was. kid on the block,
Economic data and corpo- Facebook boasts 500 mil-
rate profits will guide in- 600B The feds lion members who share and now Google
vestors this week as announ- 30 billion links, notes and wants to prove it
Canadian companies begin ced plans in November photos each month — data can still be cool,
reporting fourth-quarter to buy $600 billion of that Google’s search engine
earnings in earnest and the long-term government can’t completely index. It’s too.”
market sees the latest take bonds by mid-2011 in so influential that 26-year- DANNY SULLIVAN, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF,
on U.S. economic growth. an attempt to boost old founder Mark Zucker-
SEARCH ENGINE LAND
Earnings from the two lending. berg was just named
major railroads — Canadi- Time’s person of the year, turned it into the Inter-
an National Railways and company, to a high of about and a movie about the net’s most powerful com-
Canadian Pacific Railway — $172 early last week. company’s early days is a pany.
are expected Wednesday “At $170, it’s trading contender for best picture Making Google hip and
and fertilizer giant Potash above the highest it traded at the Oscars. nimble again will be the
Corp. of Saskatchewan during the whole BHP Billi- Twitter, Groupon and priority as Larry Page, one
Thursday. ton takeover attempt,” said Foursquare, all hard-charg- of the two Stanford Univer-
Amid growing demand Colin Cieszynsky, market ing and potentially game- sity students who founded
for fertilizer, PotashCorp analyst at CMC Markets changing services, are the company in a garage in
shares have surged from a Canada. Google CEO Eric Schmidt, left, and Google co-founder additional thorns in 1998, prepares to reclaim
low of just less than $90 last “That’s the biggest thing Larry Page are seen at the annual Allen & Co. Media Google’s side, raising wor- the CEO job in a shakeup
July, a couple of weeks be- you have to watch out for summit in Sun Valley, Idaho, last July. Google announced ries that the online search that surprised Silicon Val-
fore BHP Billiton made its now is fear of disappoint- Thursday that Page will return to being CEO in April. leader may be losing the ley.
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INCREASE ACTUALLY AN IMPROVEMENT
Transit received a lot of at- freezing them would have cost $63 million for work on the Tran- couched in language about mak-
tention in last week’s budg- $1.8 million and put us deeper in sitway and $161 million for other ing transit “sustainable.” Watson
Urban Compass et, which only makes sense. the hole next year. So, in July system improvements. said last week that transit, if left
It’s one of the biggest jobs we’ll choke down another small Somewhat counterintuitively, unfixed, could become for the
STEVE the city does, after all, and increase in what is we’re hiring 74 city what health care has become
already one of the more bus drivers for the province — a black hole
COLLINS the second priciest item on most expensive bus “Mayor Jim in order save mon- that increasingly sucks up all
our tax bills, right after rides in the Watson, while ey on overtime. available funding.
A
schools. country. admitting that This is a step in This sort of talk, and his
Seniors, at least, the right signalled preference for better
nother 2.5 per cent will get a bit of a jacking fares direction. Squab- express service over local “milk
increase in transit break on the cost of tends to scare off bles over schedul- runs” in the budget speech,
fees is unlikely to re- getting around. riders, said ing and overtime makes many justifiably nervous
sult in spontaneous They already ride led to that miser- about route cuts.
freezing them
standing ovations at free on able mid-winter Nobody is using the
bus stops, but it’s ac- Wednesdays, and in would have cost bus strike, and unpleasant word “cut” at this
tually an improvement on our re- April will be able to $1.8 million.” personally, I worry stage of the proceedings. The
cent history. As nobody who do so on Monday less about the ex- budget instead speaks instead of
shells out for passes, tickets or and Friday pense of bus driv- “readjusting service levels and
cash fares needs reminding, the afternoons. This ers pulling consolidating routes” not of elim-
past three years brought consis- will cost an estimated $700,000 monster shifts and more about inating your local bus service,
tent 7.5 per cent fare hikes. in foregone revenue. the safety implications of but “streamlining” the system.
Mayor Jim Watson, while On the spending side, Para overtired operators at the wheel. As the details are hammered
admitting that jacking fares Transpo gets $13 million for new And then there’s the bad out, don’t be surprised if stream-
tends to scare off riders, said vehicles, and OC Transpo news, shy on specifics and line is spelled C-U-T.
Cartoon A look inside polygamy
MICHAEL DE ADDER
Bountiful THE CANADIAN PRESS FILE
Worth
mentioning
The women of a secretive
polygamous sect in south-
eastern British Columbia
have been cast as slaves,
shackled by their religion
in a world of abuse.
But several women
from Bountiful, B.C., will
tell a different story when
they testify in a
Vancouver courtroom this about the alleged harms scrutiny. What’s your
week, insisting polygamy of polygamy. The British Columbia favourite video
has been a positive force Several women and and federal governments game? Why?
in their lives and asking men who left polygamous are holding up the
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A B.C. Supreme Court emotional abuse. the women are expected Twitter
judge examining the con- But this week’s to say the law — and not
stitutionality of Canada’s testimony will offer a rare their marriages — is @metroottawa
anti-polygamy law has glimpse inside Bountiful, harming them and their
spent nearly two months a highly secretive commu- families. Metro has the right to edit
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Business Ventures DirectorTracy Day, National Sales Director full day of live cooking able online, by phone at The National Art Centre’s chef Michael Blackie
Peter Bartrem, Interactive/Marketing DirectorJodi Brown demonstrations followed 613-755-1111 or at the NAC was hard at work last week preparing for a visit
by a food and wine tasting box office. METRO from other top Canadian culinary stars.