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Protests
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may not stay
peaceful,
chiefs say
Protesters bus in to capital Chiefs
repeat warnings of ‘aboriginal uprising’
Hundreds of First Nations people hunting rights, our own way of life,
marched peacefully across the city our spirituality, our life and our
shouting slogans and making education,” she said. Many ralliers
speeches about their land and were young. “I want to help sup-
treaty rights Tuesday as chiefs and port our cause, help support our
federal ministers met at the Crown people,” said Joely Martin, who
First Nations Gathering. came from Six Nations, a large ter-
“Whose land is it? Our land!” ritory south of Hamilton.
cheered protesters outside of the Later, some chiefs came out to
John G. Diefenbaker Building, as address the crowd. Assembly of
officials talked inside. First Nations Ontario Regional
Irene Kells, Chief of Zhiibaa- Chief Angus Toulouse took the mic
haasing First Nation, said she came and said peaceful protest may not
to the rally because she had a mes- be enough if nothing changes soon.
sage: “We believe it in our hearts, “Are we going to have another
that this land is ours, and it has nice peaceful one like today or do
Joely Martin and Christopher Hill of Six Nations pose for a photo as they participate in a rally outside of the always been ours.” we need to make some other kind
Crown First Nations Gathering at the John G. Dienfenbaker Building in Ottawa. Hill said he hoped Prime Minister “Through the treaties, a promise of noise to ensure that this gov-
Stephen Harper acknowledged First Nation treaties and “our rights as aboriginal people.” More coverage, page 7. (was) made to protect our health, ernment can see us?” Toulouse
our land, our fishing rights and our asked the crowd. JESSICA SMITH
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 2012
Drake will be a star at the All-Star Game
1
MIKE DEMBECK/THE CANADIAN PRESS
Grammy-Award nominat- For more coverage game, according to a NHL during the player
ed singer Drake will be of the All-Star news release. introductions.
performing at the All-Star Game, see page 19 Javier Colon, the Drake, a two-time Juno
Game in Ottawa on winner of season one of Award winner, released
Sunday at Scotiabank NBC’s The Voice, will sing his latest studio album
Place, the National Hockey former Degrassi: The Next the U.S. national anthem. Take Care in November
League announced on Generation star will Drake to And rapper Outasight and is nominated for three
Tuesday perform during the sing here. will perform his single 2012 Grammy Awards.
The Toronto native and second intermission of the Tonight Is The Night JOE LOFARO
Bell cuts
news
Tuesday. Shots fired here
65 jobs at
call centre
Union fears for workers’ future WTA wants players to do
away with the grunt during
matches. Scan the code for
the story.
“We’re lucky if we
JOE To scan 2D barcodes in
LOFARO get one job Metro, download the
@METRONEWS.CA posting in Ottawa free ScanLife app at
2dscan.com.
every two months,
The union representing
Bell Canada workers in Ot- so I would like to On the web at
tawa said the telecommu- know where these metronews.ca
nications company is
jobs are going to
eliminating 65 positions
here as it consolidates its come from”
call centres in Mississauga. MICHELLE ARRUDA,
The Communications, CEP 6004 PRESIDENT
Energy and Paperworkers
Union of Canada said employees, Michelis said. First, a fire that police believe was arson. And now shots fired
members were told Tues- They will have the op- at Barbarellas. Police want to know: Are the attacks connected?
India’s Sikhs
day. The Ottawa call centre portunity to find a new po- JESSICA SMITH/METRO
is closing as a result of the sition at Bell. Any that do aren’t laughing
organizational change. not find a new opening Who’s targeting Barbarella’s?
Bell Canada spokesper- and depart will be offered at Jay Leno’s
son Jacqueline Michelis severance packages, Mitt Romney
said in an email the Michelis added. Police are investigating whether shots fired around 3:30 on Tuesday morning at
change is meant to im- Michelle Arruda, presi- Barbarella’s Cabaret on Queen Street are connected to last week’s arson fire joke. Watch at
prove customer service dent of the local CEP 6004, there. Police spokesperson Marc Soucy said investigators will “look at all
metronews.ca/
and operational efficiency. said she is worried about avenues and see if they can find a connection.” A man who answered the door at
Bell has measures in the job prospects for the Barbarella’s on Tuesday morning said he was the owner but wouldn’t comment video.
place to assist departing workers. or give his name.
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 2012
JOE LOFARO/METRO
Jennifer Stoddart, Canada’s privacy commissioner, takes a question from a student at
Hopewell Avenue Public School Tuesday during a presentation about online privacy.
Kids told to ‘think
before you click’
Privacy commissioner visits school New online
tools teach kids, parents about protecting privacy
“The only thing I to live with the reality that
JOE
LOFARO would probably do whatever they put online
@METRONEWS.CA is check my privacy can follow them all
around.”
settings again to
Jennifer Stoddart, Canada’s She said some youth
privacy commissioner, paid see that everything don’t realize the risks in-
a visit to Hopewell Avenue is completely volved with social network-
Public School in Ottawa ing websites or how they
private because I
Tuesday to warn students work. The new tools in-
about protecting their on- think that’s one of clude a toolkit for teachers
line reputation on popular the most important to discuss privacy issues
social networking websites things you can do.” and tip sheet for parents.
such as Facebook. “We’re hoping that by
ALISE GRANT, GRADE 8 STUDENT AT
Stoddart announced the making tools available that
HOPEWELL AVENUE PUBLIC SCHOOL
launch of new educational could be used in schools
tools at youthprivacy.ca information on the Inter- across Canada, that we can
with a youth-oriented video net. educate a new generation
warning kids to “think be- “The net never forgets,” from the beginning be-
fore you click” amid ongo- said Stoddart. “While cause they’re growing up
ing concern that some are they’re young, exuberant, with this technology,” said
sharing too much personal and enthusiastic they have Stoddart.
PEDESTRIAN INJURED derneath around 5:18
Shots fired
p.m. Monday near
Witnesses Woodroffe Avenue and
in south
Iris Street.
sought in Firefighters helped
Ottawa
pull her out and she was
snowplow treated for life-threaten-
ing internal injuries and
crash fractures to her lower The Ottawa Police Service’s
limbs. Guns and Gangs Unit is in-
The 57-year-old driver vestigating shots being
Police are seeking was uninjured and alco- fired on the 2000 block of
witnesses who saw a hol and speed do not ap- Cedarwood Drive in the
woman being hit by a pear to be factors in the Heron Gate community
snowplow Monday night. collision, police said. early Tuesday morning.
The woman is is in criti- Investigators are Ottawa police received a
cal condition in hospital. trying to determine how call at 3:30 a.m. and said a
Paramedics said the and why the crash residence had been shot at
40-year-old woman was occurred, but very few a number of times. No
struck by a snowplow witnesses have come for- injuries were reported
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‘America is back’
Sex killer’s wife to fight
President Barack Obama toward Asia, while claim-
says “America is back” as a ing that old alliances in Eu-
appeal of media ban
world power. rope and elsewhere are
The president gave a stronger than ever. Obama
flag-waving defence of also cited the example of
American power and influ- Iran, where with U.S.
ence Monday night as part prompting much of the
Opening divorce proceedings to NATHAN DENETTE/THE CANADIAN PRESS of his State of the Union ad- world is now united in ap-
dress. He said world opin- plying sanctions over Iran’s
the public would cause Russell ions about the U.S. are on disputed nuclear program.
the rise, and he calls Ameri- Obama left out that the
Williams’ wife more harm: Lawyer
ca the “indispensable na- sanctions net has holes, be-
tion” in world affairs. cause some of Iran’s large
Ontario’s top court is He talked about extend- oil trading partners won’t
granting an appeal of a Fighting the ban ing new ties and influence go along. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
sweeping publication ban
on the divorce of convicted The ban was challenged by
sex killer Russell Williams. a coalition of news agen- plishments were “amaz-
But most of the provi- cies, including the Ottawa ing.” THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
sions of the ban will re- Citizen, the Ottawa Sun, News in brief
main in effect for 14 days CTV, CBC and Global TV. B.C. commune
so that Williams’ es- Bandit hurt his wants tax break
tranged wife can take steps Richard Dearden, who rep-
to challenge the decision if resents the media, called it own case: Docs
she wishes, according to an “important decision for The leader of a B.C.
the 28-page decision re- freedom of the process.” Federal court documents polygamous commune
leased Tuesday by the On- “There’s a real public inter- say the “Barefoot Bandit” on trial for suspected tax
tario Court of Appeal. est in knowing how the ridiculed police and pros- evasion says money
Mary Jane Binks, the Ot- court is going to divide as- ecutors in emails he sent earned by his followers is
tawa lawyer representing sets, like Mr. Williams’ mili- Ontario’s top court is from prison, used in the community.
Williams’ wife, said her tary pension, and what’s granting an appeal of a undercutting his claims Winston Blackmore says
client will take the matter going to be left over for Mr. sweeping publication ban that he’s sorry for his his community deserves
to the country’s highest Williams’ victims to seek to on the divorce of convicted two-year crime spree. He special religious tax sta-
court. THE CANADIAN PRESS enforce any judgments.” sex killer Russell Williams. bragged that his accom- tus. THE CANADIAN PRESS
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ADRIAN WYLD/THE CANADIAN PRESS
From left, Assembly of First Nations National Chief Shawn Atleo, Prime Minister
Stephen Harper and Gov. Gen. David Johnston stand on stage during the
opening ceremony at the Crown-First Nations Gathering in Ottawa on Tuesday.
PM, chiefs at odds
over Indian Act
Harper has no plans to repeal legislation But
many native leaders see it as an obstacle to change
What was billed as a his- “After 136 years, The Indian Act, first
toric coming together of that tree has deep passed in 1876, gave Ot-
the federal government tawa exclusive jurisdiction
roots. Blowing
and First Nations began over “Indians and Lands
with the two sides polar- up the stump Reserved for Indians.” The
ized over the future of the would just leave legislation, which was last
Indian Act. a big hole.” amended in 2000, sets out
Prime Minister Stephen rules on everything from
PRIME MINISTER STEPHEN HARPER
Harper sees it as some- how reserves operate to
ON THE INDIAN ACT
thing that can be updated the effect of marriage on
to reflect modern prac- blocking the path to col- status.
tices. laboration. Calling the Indian Act
But Shawn Atleo, na- They laid out their views “an act of neo-colonial-
tional chief of the Assem- in back-to-back speeches ism,” Jody Wilson-Ray-
bly of First Nations, led a Tuesday during a major bould, regional chief of
parade of speakers who de- meeting of First Nations B.C., said Canada’s natives
scribed the century-old leg- leaders and government require “core governance
islation as a boulder ministers and officials. reform.” THE CANADIAN PRESS
Theories not enough: Defence
FRANK GUNN/THE CANADIAN PRESS
There are simply too many lieves the four died.
unknowns to be able to The Crown has suggest-
convict a man of four ed it believes the four were
counts of first-degree mur- dead before the car
der in the deaths of his plunged into the water,
daughters and wife, a jury but in his closing address
in Ontario heard Tuesday in Tuesday Shafia’s lawyer
a case prosecutors allege is told the jury they can’t rely
a so-called honour killing. on theories.
The Crown alleges Mo- Court has heard evi-
hammad Shafia, 58, one of dence it appears the four
his two wives and their son females made no attempt
killed Shafia’s three daugh- Mohammad Shafia to escape the car through
ters and other wife. The an open window, and the
bodies were found June 30, but the Crown did not bodies were found eerily
2009, in a car at the bot- present evidence specifi- suspended inside.
tom of a canal in Kingston, cally detailing how it be- THE CANADIAN PRESS
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ITALIAN NAVY/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE
ITALIAN NAVY/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE VIGILI DEL FUOCO/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE
Scuba divers make their A scuba diver removes floating furniture
way into a flooded cabin to clear the way to enter the Costa Concordia.
of the Costa Concordia.
Saving Venice that erode building foun-
dations, pollute the
The disaster prompted waterways and are an
the UN cultural organiza- eyesore.
tion to ask the Italian gov- Italy’s environment
ernment to restrict access minister, Corrado Clini,
of large cruise ships to appeared to take up the
Venice, which is a cause Tuesday. “The aim
UNESCO World Heritage is to free St. Mark’s basin
Site. from the big ships once
UNESCO charged that the new canals have been
liners cause water tides dug.’’
ITALIAN NAVY/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE
Scuba divers inspect the Costa Concordia.
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tivist Julian Assange says he makes a statement WikiLeaks saidthe show
he’s launching a career in to media gathered outside would begin airing in mid-
television, hosting what the High Court in London. March.
he’s billing as a new brand Julian Assange iscurrently
of talk show built around fighting extradition to
the theme of “the world to- Sweden over sex crimes al-
morrow.” legations, and U.S. officials
The show’s guests are weighing WikiLeaks’
haven’t been disclosed, but charges.
Assange has promised to
give viewers more of what In its statement, Wik-
he’s been supplying for iLeaks referred queries
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The WikiLeaks secret- erto obscure Quick Roll
spilling site said in a state- Productions, whose web-
ment released late Monday site carried no indication of
that “iconoclasts, visionar- brighter future.” documents in U.S. history. where the group was based
ies and power insiders” The world of television But the statement argued or who was managing it.
would be brought in so talk shows is a new one for that Assange was uniquely An online records search
that Assange could chal- the 40-year-old Australian, qualified for the role given indicated that Quick Roll’s
lenge them on their vision whose group has orches- his past as “a pioneer for a site was created
of world affairs and “their trated the biggest mass-dis- more just world and a vic- about two weeks ago.
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