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PECS APPEAL W H I T E C I T Y METRO HERALDS SCHWARZENEGGER’S RETURN TO THE BIG SCREEN WITH A LOOK AT SOME OF THE HIGH (AND – LOW) POINTS OF HIS CAREER PAGE 7 REGINA Wednesday, January 16, 2013 Phase One Pricing News Available through worth Feb 2013 sharing. FREE GOLF MEMBERSHIP INCLUDED* CALL FOR DETAILS 800-920-7285 AspenVillageDevelopments.com metronews.ca | twitter.com/metroregina| facebook.com/metroregina ‘Mission impossible’? NDP seeks to make inroads in Sask. Eye on 2015 election. The Lethbridge Declara- tion is currently being draft- Lethbridge Declaration ed by participants across being drafted as Mulcair Western Canada through a meets with provincial series of meetings. One such meeting was held in Prince counterparts in Ottawa Albert on Saturday, and an- other Saskatchewan meeting will take place in Saskatoon on Jan 26. JEFF “I think the Lethbridge MACKEY Declaration is a way for the [email protected] NDP to unite progressives on the Prairies with the hope While federal NDP Leader of toppling Stephen Harper Tom Mulcair was meeting in the 2015 election,” said with provincial NDP leaders Noah Evanchuk, a Regina in Ottawa on Tuesday, the lawyer and former NDP can- process of building party sup- didate. port in the West had already But making inroads in begun in Saskatchewan. Saskatchewan will be diffi- In Ottawa, the three-hour, cult for the NDP given recent closed-door session included electoral trends and history segments on federalism, the in the province. economy and energy. “It seems a bit like mis- “The NDP’s very proud of sion impossible, but Quebec its track record of prudent seemed like mission impos- public administration in the sible prior to 2011,” said five provinces and in the ter- David McGrane, professor of ritories where it has been in political studies at the Uni- power, and that’s what we’re versity of Saskatchewan. going to be doing today,” “I think the federal NDP said Mulcair. has to have some strong One province the NDP is economic credentials if they not currently governing is are going to gain any Saskatchewan. In fact, the sort of ground in party does not have a single the Prairies.” federal seat in the whole province, but a process is Follow Jeff Mackey on underway to change that. Twitter @MetroJeffMackey Talkin’ RRI Jumpin’ Jasper! The proposed stadium project The annual is the focus of an executive Alberta winter committee meeting today PAGE 2 festival heats up the moun- Got buttermilk tain town with skiing, snow- ball fights and, NDP Leader Tom Mulcair speaks with the media before meeting his provincial counterparts on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Tuesday. This tangy pancake ingredient natch, a chili ADRIAN WYLD/THE CANADIAN PRESS is surprisingly versatile PAGE 11 cook-off PAGE 10 02 NEWS metronews.ca Wednesday, January 16, 2013 Getting ready for more opinions, RRI decisions S Jan. 28 vote. Reports comThmei tteexee mcueteitvien g.commit- Quoted ftohre pernodp oosf aJlasn wuailrly g. oT hoeu tt oapt at committee meeting tee is looking to approve three qualified companies “This is getting more real now because we have the include fi nalization refined details of the RRI will produce a tender for proposal before it goes to a funding arrangement and concept design in place construction contracts. W of stadium funding vote at the Jan. 28 city coun- and I guess the expression of interest is the next “This is getting more real cil meeting. now because we have the process to go through.” Reports at the com- funding arrangement and ALYSSA mittee meeting cover the Mayor Michael Fougere on the fi rst stadium discussion in 2013. concept design in place and MCDONALD finalization of the funding I guess the expression of in- [email protected] for the stadium, including terest is the next process to provincial government and the stadium. might have questions about go through,” Fougere told Residents and community Saskatchewan Roughriders The meeting is open to it and some people may be Metro on Tuesday. E delegates are getting the contributions, final approv- anyone wanting to voice a opposed to it,” said Mayor Fougere says the stadium chance to voice their opin- al of the concept design, concern or opinion. Michael Fougere about the project is right on schedule ions about the proposed additional Canadian Pacific “It’s a topical issue in first stadium discussion in and he is “expecting (the Regina Revitalization Initia- Railway land purchases, the community, so we will 2013. proposal) will go forward tive stadium project today and the request for propos- be having people in that If the project goes ahead, and be approved by council N at city council’s executive als for the actual building of support it, some people the expression of interest on the 28th.” History of mental issues psychiatric help as soon as Man gets life possible. THE CANADIAN PRESS sentence for Pregnant teen drunken Christmas Outcome of alleged Day slaying kidnapping case may come as a A Saskatchewan man with a history of mental-health surprise: Lawyer issues has been sentenced to life in prison for fatally stabbing his grandmother A lawyer for a Saskatch- after a Christmas Day ewan teen accused of drinking bout. abducting his 14-year-old Riley Ballantyne, a Peli- pregnant girlfriend last can Narrows resident, was week says the outcome sentenced Monday after of the case may surprise pleading guilty to second- people. degree murder in the 2010 Edmonton lawyer Daryl death of Jean Ballantyne. Royer said in an interview Ballantyne, who was 20 with CJME/CKOM that at the time of the killing, everyone in the case says will not be eligible for the girl went willingly. parole for 10 years. He says the case may Court heard the be resolved in a way that accused had drug and doesn’t involve a kidnap- alcohol problems and ping conviction. had been drinking before The 16-year-old boy violence flared in the appeared in court on family’s home. Monday and was sent to a Crown prosecutor youth home until his next Fran Atkinson says the court date on Feb. 14. case is tragic because the The boy’s 38-year- stabbing would not have old mother and another Fougere presented Diamond Jubilee Medal occurred had Ballantyne 16-year-old boy are also not been drinking. charged. The two are set Former Regina mayor Larry Schneider presents Mayor Michael Fougere with the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal A Court of Queen’s to appear in court on the Tuesday on behalf of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities and the Governor General of Canada. Fougere was nomin- Bench justice made a re- same day. ated for his leadership on city council for the past 15 years and his commitment to his family. ALYSSA MCDONALD/METRO ferral for Ballantyne to get THE CANADIAN PRESS/CJME/CKOM Provincial court says no random police spot checks in private parking lots Saskatchewan’s highest police to conduct random with failing to provide a and vehicle registration. to have known that he was court is putting the brakes stops in private parking sample. Klebuc said the deten- not entitled to detain the on police randomly stop- areas. But Chief Justice John tion, the demand for in- appellant and check for a ping people in private park- The case involved a Klebuc said there was formation and the sample driver’s licence or vehicle ing lots. woman who was stopped by nothing unusual in the infringed on the woman’s registration, neither of The Saskatchewan Court officers in a parking lot at a way the vehicle was being liberty and privacy inter- which was required to oper- of Appeal says in a decision hotel in Humboldt in 2009. driven and no reason of- ests. ate a vehicle off highway recently posted online that The woman tried to take ficers couldn’t wait until “While I am satisfied on a private parking area,” the province’s Traffic Safe- a roadside breath test but she drove onto the road to that (the officer) did not wrote Klebuc. ty Act does not authorize couldn’t and was charged check for a driver’s licence act in bad faith, he ought THE CANADIAN PRESS metronews.ca NEWS 03 Wednesday, January 16, 2013 Custom-made plagiarism Academic dishonesty. 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Sometimes, when they tury Canada history class One post advertises, “A write three essays in a term at York University. for your essays.” Another ad- themselves then hand in one “It’s not a very good vertises a husband-and-wife of his as the fourth, the TA essay,” said Azoulay of the team, both with master’s de- will catch on to the differ- finished product. “It just grees, who have a combined ence and they’ll get caught, A Metro staffer searches Craigslist ads for essay-writing services. DAVID VAN DYKE/METRO doesn’t answer the essay 35 years of post-secondary he says. “All students want question.” essay-writing experience. is an A on the essay, no mat- won’t be flagged as plagiar- Many of his clients are a distance degree online, The essay also has One of the ghostwriters — ter how their previous marks ized by Turnitin.com. in business school, since he he says. grammar issues, rambles “A for your essays” — agreed have been.” At this time of year, he’ll advertises he has an MBA, “Some students give me without structure and to be interviewed. Sam, who Sam, like all of the essay get eight to 10 email requests but they come from all disci- their online password, and doesn’t come up with a declined to give his last name, writers on Craigslist, says his a day, increasing to about 20 plines. Some of his best cli- so I do the online course for thesis on Mackenzie King. says he has an MBA. essays are original, so they in March. ents are older people taking them,” he says. coffee m a l l * s &muffi n ™† *Offer valid for Premium Roast Brewed Coffee only. At participating McDonald’s® restaurants in Canada. ©2012 McDonald’s. †®/TM Trade-mark of PepsiCo Canada ULC Used under licence. 04 NEWS metronews.ca Wednesday, January 16, 2013 Quebec eyes Drilling test Corruption case St. Louis, Mo. Windsor, Ont. Curiosity rover to Arrest ordered Administrator University goes guidelines for peek inside Mars for Pakistani PM shot at school screen-free Friday NASA says the Curiosity Pakistan’s leaders took a Police say a gunman To conclude its Mental rover should be ready to powerful one-two punch walked into a business Health Awareness Week, drill on Mars soon. Tuesday as the Supreme school in downtown St. the University of Windsor right to die It’s the most highly Court ordered the arrest Louis, Mo., and shot an is encouraging students to anticipated milestone since of the prime minister in administrator in the chest go screen-free on Friday. the nuclear-powered rover a corruption case and a before shooting himself. The event asks stu- landed near the Martian cleric led thousands of Police Chief Sam dents to spend a day away equator five months ago. protesters in anti-govern- Dotson said both the from their laptops and Suffering. Under new Project manager Richard ment demonstrations. administrator and the cellphones. Cook says the team has Many claim the coun- gunman are in surgery. “I meet a lot of stu- legislation, assisted chosen the test site for try’s politicians are more He says he doesn’t know dents and frankly, they’re suicide would not be Curiosity. The spot contains interested in corrupt if their wounds are life- overwhelmed by life,” said a diverse sample of rocks dealings than addressing threatening. Father Chris Valka, a cam- considered ‘suicide’ that the rover can pick problems facing Pakistani He says no one else was pus minister at UWindsor. from. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS citizens. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS injured. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS METRO The Quebec government be- lieves it has found a way to not run afoul of Ottawa after a legal panel recommended that terminally ill patients Junior minister Veronique Hivon have the right to die. JACQUES BOISSINOT/THE CANADIAN PRESS Provincial junior health minister Veronique Hivon woman for federal Justice said Tuesday the panel deter- Minister Rob Nicholson, said mined that provinces have Tuesday the government’s the jurisdiction to legislate position remains the same. in matters of health and that “This is a painful and the future legislation would divisive issue that has been clarify how acts to end a life thoroughly debated in Parlia- wouldn’t be considered sui- ment,” she said. “We respect cide. Parliament’s decision.” Euthanasia and assisted Hivon said the Quebec suicide are illegal in Canada government can now pass under the Criminal Code. a law with strict guidelines Julie Di Mambro, a spokes- that will respect the wishes of the dying to shorten their Background suffering and provide doctors with a clear legal framework. Under the recommenda- Canadians have grappled tions, patients themselves with the right to die for would have to make the re- nearly two decades. quest to a doctor on the basis of unbearable physical or (cid:580)(cid:3) (cid:83)(cid:305)(cid:229)(cid:296)(cid:225)(cid:209)(cid:317)(cid:561)(cid:296)(cid:3)(cid:292)(cid:229)(cid:221)(cid:279)(cid:273)(cid:273)(cid:229)(cid:274)(cid:225)(cid:209)- psychological suffering. Two tions follow a landmark physicians would have to ap- report from last March. prove the written request. The Quebec panel, which (cid:580)(cid:3) (cid:39)(cid:274)(cid:3)(cid:628)(cid:636)(cid:636)(cid:629)(cid:550)(cid:3)assisted suicide was headed by lawyer Jean- Apartment for sale: Open concept, close to public transit hit the national radar Pierre Menard, said people when Sue Rodriguez, a suffering from an incur- B.C. woman, fought all able or degenerative illness Emergency services attend the scene after a derailed train crashed into the side of an apartment building in Saltsjobaden outside Stockholm, Tuesday. A the way to the Supreme should be allowed to ask for woman in her early 20s allegedly obtained the keys, stole the train and drove it about 1.6 kilometres to the end station on the railway line, where it jumped Court for the right to kill medical assistance to help off the tracks, careened for about 25 metres and crashed into a three-storey building. She was the only one injured in the incident. The motives of the herself. She did in 1994. them die. woman, who worked for a company contracted to carry out cleaning for the train operator, were not immediately clear. JONAS EKSTRÖMER/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS THE CANADIAN PRESS First Nations. Taxpayers Fear of children. Former Canada vs. U.S. Flu shot federation recommends teacher sues her school more effective south of throwing out Indian Act district over rare phobia the border, data reveals An influential lobby group rie director. A former teacher is suing the district’s attorney, said Wal- New data suggests that Can- Skowronski, who is with says Ottawa needs to ditch “We need a new approach, U.S. school district where she therr-Willard was transferred adians who got a flu shot the British Columbia Cen- the Indian Act and give First one that treats all Canadians used to work, saying adminis- because the French program this year cut their risk of tre for Disease Control, says Nations more control over the same and connects aborig- trators discriminated against at her school was being turned getting sick enough to re- while the protection isn’t as their land to end aboriginal inal people with jobs and op- her because she has a rare pho- into an online one and that the quire medical care by about high as public health would poverty. portunities.” bia: A fear of young children. other school needed a Spanish half. like, it’s still significant. The Canadian Taxpay- That means Ottawa should Maria Waltherr-Willard, teacher. That’s slightly lower The Canadian estimate is ers Federation made many get rid of legislation such as 61, had been teaching Span- Patrick McGrath, a clinical than the estimate that the based on data from several enemies among First Nations the Indian Act, parts of the ish and French to teenagers in psychologist and director of U.S. Centers for Disease hundred family doctors in leaders when it published a Criminal Code that allow for Ohio since 1976. the Center for Anxiety and Ob- Control released late last Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, list of high salaries going to reduced sentences, as well as Waltherr-Willard was sessive Compulsive Disorders week. Alberta and British Colum- chiefs and pushed for legisla- arts grants for aboriginals — transferred to a school with near Chicago, said he has treat- In the U.S., the CDC said bia. tive changes. while respecting treaties and younger students in 2009. She ed patients who fear children this year’s flu vaccine re- The U.S. overall figure Now the group says the the Constitution, he said. says the kids there triggered and that anyone can be afraid duces the risk by 62 per was brought up by the fact key to eliminating the cycle The federation also says her phobia, forcing her to re- of anything. cent overall and by 55 per that the vaccine effective- of poverty on reserves is for band members should be tire. “A lot of people will look at cent against influenza A ness estimate for the influ- Ottawa to treat First Nations able to own their homes, and Her lawsuit says her fear of something someone’s afraid of viruses. enza B component of the people like everyone else. develop, lease or sell their re- young children falls under the and say, ‘There is no rational Dr. Danuta Skowronski, vaccine was 70 per cent. “For the sake of kids liv- serve land without Ottawa’s federal American with Disabil- reason to be afraid of that,’” he who led the Canadian study, But in Canada the sur- ing in poverty on too many permission. ities Act and that the district said. “But anxiety disorders are says the cross-border differ- veillance network hasn’t reserves, we don’t need an- The group is also proposing violated it by transferring her emotion-based.... We’ve had ence relates to the fact that seen enough influenza B other decade with more social a pilot project that would see and not letting her go back to mothers who wouldn’t touch in Canada, most infections cases to generate a reliable programs and tinkering,” said funding go directly to band her former school. their children after they’re this year are caused by the effectiveness estimate for it Colin Craig, the group’s Prai- members. THE CANADIAN PRESS Gary Winters, the school born.” THE ASSOCIATED PRESS influenza A subtype H3N2. yet. THE CANADIAN PRESS metronews.ca BUSINESS 05 Wednesday, January 16, 2013 Wal-Mart pledges to hire U.S. veterans Patriotic push. Retailer The plan includes hiring low-paying jobs and not buy- more than 100,000 army vet- 1By0 the n.um8bers% ing more from U.S. manufac- waves flag as it tries to erans in the next five years, turers, said its plan will high- rebound from recent spending $50 billion US to buy light the career opportunities more American-made mer- in the retail industry. blows to reputation chandise in the next 10 years “We’ve developed a nation- The unemployment rate for U.S. veterans and helping its part-time work- al paralysis that’s driven by all who served in Iraq or Afghanistan stood ers move into full-time pos- at 10.8 per cent in December, versus the of us waiting for someone else Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the itions sooner. overall unemployment rate of 7.8 per cent. to do something,” Bill Simon, world’s largest retailer and the The move comes as Wal- president and CEO of Wal- biggest U.S. private employer Mart’s attempts to rebound Mart’s U.S. business, said at an with 1.4 million workers, said from blows to its reputation in a Bangladesh factory that sup- annual retail industry conven- A woman approaches a Walmart store in Valley Stream, N.Y., in this 2011 file Tuesday it is rolling out a three- recent months from an alleged plies clothes to the company. tion in New York on Tuesday photo. The retailer said it plans to hire every U.S. veteran who wants a job and has part plan to help jump-start bribery scandal in Mexico and Wal-Mart, which often has morning. been honourably discharged in the first 12 months of active duty. GETTY IMAGES FILE America’s sluggish economy. a deadly fire in November at been criticized for offering THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Social media. 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Newborn panda metronews.ca It’s even better when, by the time you stumble upon it, there says hello to world is already a bunch written that you can plow through with relish. It appears this baby panda That’s what happened with A Song of Ice and Fire (Game of was born for the limelight Thrones), George R.R. Martin’s wildly fascinating sword-and- as he smiles and waves ador- sorcery epic. I got to it as Volume 3, A Storm of Swords, was ably in front of the camera. released. As each book is well over 1,000 pages, I had at least The 37-day-old cub seemed to three weeks of uninterrupted delight. enjoy his photo shoot after But then, I had to wait along with all the other geeks for he was weighed, measured Martin to continue the agonizingly slow process of churning and fed by medics. This out Nos. 4 and 5. Still to come, Nos. 6 and 7, and who knows charming image was taken when they’ll be ready? Martin has apparently never met a book at Wolong National Nature tour, fantasy conference or editing project he can resist. With Reserve’s giant panda con- any luck, we’ll both be around for The End, but the odds are servation centre in Sichuan, growing increasingly long … or is that short? China. METRO Which is why, if you haven’t encountered Flavia de Photographer’s view About the author Luce until now, this is your lucky day. You have something He retired to Kelowna, “I think the to do while waiting for Mar- B.C., where he expected tin’s The Winds of Winter. cubs start to go gently, etc., when Flavia de Luce is an looking 11-year-old girl who lives in a cataclysmic 2003 cute at a rundown manor house in forest fire that nearly the English village of Bishop’s about four engulfed his house Lacey in 1950. She solves weeks when they are murders, assisted by a fully caused him to unmistakably baby stocked chemistry lab left by re-examine his scorched her uncle, her bicycle Gladys, pandas. At that age, priorities and start and an 11-year-old’s still-fresh they are roly-poly balls curiosity. writing like an of black and white.” Yeah, I know. But, world of 11-year-old girl. wonders, these books, starting Dr. Katherine Feng, with The Sweetness at the veterinarian/photographer Bottom of the Pie, currently culminating in Volume 4, I Am Half-Sick of Shadows, are good. Fancy dress for good Better than good. Even crazier? They are written by a 74-year-old Canadian Staff wear man, Alan Bradley, originally from Cobourg, Ont., who spent 25 years as a director of TV engineering at the University of panda costumes Saskatchewan. He retired to Kelowna, B.C., where he expected to go gently, etc., when a cataclysmic 2003 forest fire that near- Wolong made news in 2010 ly engulfed his house caused him to re-examine his scorched after staff decided to don priorities and start writing like an 11-year-old girl. furry panda costumes. He’d never even been to England until 2007, when he went “We came up with to pick up the first of Flavia’s multitude of awards, but that the idea because captive didn’t prevent him from nailing the Agatha Christie English- pandas are too familiar village murder mystery. with people. But by rearing Of course, there aren’t a lot of 74-year-old men who can them using panda suits, the write like an 11-year-old girl, but Bradley seems to have little baby panda would grow up trouble channelling his inner Flavia, who is by turns funny, never seeing any people,” solemn, wise, petulant, insightful, kind and, above all, curious. researcher Huang Yan said. The kind of curious that killed the cat, essential in a murder This way, Yan hopes, mystery. pandas who will return to Hermione Granger meets Sherlock Holmes. the wild won’t be too de- The good news gets even better. Unlike George R.R. Martin, pendent on humans. METRO Bradley has discipline and reliably finishes one of his novels a KATHERINE FENG/MINDEN PICTURES/SOLENT year. The next one is due, according to Amazon, in two weeks. Another volume in the series of 10 (say it ain’t so!) arrives in early 2014. Twitter Oh, and Hollywood Read an excerpt from director Sam Mendes has the book Speaking Register at metropolitanpanel.ca @lindseybast: (cid:580)(cid:580)(cid:580)(cid:580)(cid:580) restaurant @Deli_Llama_306 bought the TV rights, so from Among the Bones and take the quick poll I think if #yqr gets any more closing on Feb. 6. If you have not stay tuned … at metronews.ca. snow I’m officially throwing in had there delicious food, please Will a new report saying up to half of the the towel and hibernating til go. #yqr May. #nomoresnow #winter13 world’s food is wasted change your consuming habits? 33% @levendis: (cid:580)(cid:580)(cid:580)(cid:580)(cid:580) @MMandryk: (cid:580)(cid:580)(cid:580)(cid:580)(cid:580) If overdosing on bacon is a legit- YES. BRING ON THE UNUSUALLY Life of Pi gets Oscar nomination. imate cause of death, then sign 67% SHAPED APPLES Oscars, for those in Sask unfamil- me up! Just, not yet. iar, are annual awards for what NO. IF I DON’T THROW IT OUT, some places call a film industry. SOMEONE ELSE #skpoli @riderpride89: (cid:580)(cid:580)(cid:580)(cid:580)(cid:580)(cid:3) WILL 0% It’s supposed to rain out today?! SOMEWHAT. 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Stand. He’s buff and Cop (1990) — ever the gent, minus Barbarian (1982) badass in this outing. the makeup. Metro looks back at This time Arnold, playing S Arnie as Conan makes Detective John Kimble, for possibly the most some of his best and who goes undercover homoerotic hero of all as a teacher, gets down worst movie style mo- time. Leather jock straps with the kids. Roomy fringed with rabbit fur ments — and boy are slacks, plaid and polo C and his flowing locks there some howlers. shirts — can this really make for an ’80s porn be the same gun-toting fantasy. meathead? RICHARD PECKETT E In Focus Taking a N Stand on drug movies IN E FOCUS Richard Crouse [email protected] This weekend Arnold Schwarzenegger takes on his first lead role in 10 years. In the Last Stand he’s Sheriff Ray Owens, a rootin’, tootin’ small town lawman who battles a Mexican drug cartel. It’s the first time Arnold has fought drug lords, but Hollywood often looks to the cartels for a supply of bad guys. As recently as last year Oliver Stone cast Salma Hayek as the ruthless car- tel leader in Savages, aided C Mama ish an upcomiingl horrdor fi lm dhirected byo Andreso Muschiedtti starri ng tJessicra Chaastain. HAuNDOUT ma at and abetted by Benicio Del Toro as her henchman. There are also rumours that Scarface, the legendar- ily violent Al Pacino movie about a Cuban immigrant root of Del Toro’s Mama who takes over the south Florida drug trade, is about to be remade and relocated to the world of Mexican drug cartels. The Johnny Depp movie Blow was actually renamed Cartel in some markets. Interview. Producer Quote at the concept of burning in of form, function and story.” Based on the book Blow: hell, or the concept of pur- Muschietti is just the latest How a Small Town Boy talks about why his gatory and original sin. Mex- director to be discovered and “There is a fi lmmaker Made $100 Million with fi lms are so dark, ican Catholicism is very, very mentored by Del Toro, who the Medellín Cocaine in that short. Very often brutal and very, very gory. himself was given a helping and turning a short Cartel and Lost It All, Depp you see shorts that are That all affected me.” hand by people like James plays George Jung, the fi lm into a full-length Mama, his latest producor- Cameron. glossy but have very man who launched the ial effort, is a spooky tale of “I’ve been very, very bless- American cocaine market Hollywood horror little to say.” two abandoned girls raised ed by finding good people in the 1970s. by a supernatural nanny. who believed in me at the Guillermo Del Toro Finally, Colombiana RICHARD Talking about the fi lm that inspired Mama. Del Toro came to the story right time. Obviously I try is another cartel revenge after seeing a three-minute and pay it forward. Right now CROUSE flick. Zoe Saldana is short film by director Andrés I’m 48-years-old and have Cataleya Restrepo, who [email protected] relationship with the hor- Muschietti. been doing this for 30-some- as a 10-year-old saw her When I ask Guillermo Del ror of Catholic guilt and the “The short is brilliant,” thing years, 20 directing. I’ve parents killed by a Bogota Toro why his films often fea- dogma. My grandmother was he says. “Atmospheric and been able to produce close to drug lord. ture kids as main characters like Piper Laurie in Carrie. I creepy. You can see a story- 20 movies between Mexico Instead of calling the his answer is upfront, open was like a chubby version of telling will. You can see a and America and Spain and police she instead becomes and a little surprising. Carrie. It was very difficult for voice. There is a filmmaker in I would say in 99 per cent of an assassin who vows to “I had a horrible child- me to get over that. that short. the cases it has been really, avenge her family’s deaths. hood, emotionally,” says the “I jokingly say I spent 40 “Very often you see shorts really beautiful. A couple of Her journey starts with director of The Devil’s Back- years trying to recuperate that are glossy but have very cases it has been hard or the 10 words: “I want to be a bone and Pan’s Labyrinth. “I from the first eight, but to a little to say. Or they’re really movie has been disappoint- killer. Can you help me?” was not a child who was beat- degree it is true. I really suf- intense and interesting but ing but Mama is one of the en or locked in a closet, but fered intensely in the first 10 they are badly done. But this good ones I am really proud I really have a very intense years of my life. I would cry short had the perfect balance of.” 08 DISH metronews.ca Wednesday, January 16, 2013 METRO DISH OUR TAKE ON THE WORLD OF CELEBRITIES The Word Spears’ father Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper arranged split Couple’s with ex-fiancé? romance Britney Spears reportedly only on had nothing to do with her breakup with ex-fiancé screen, says Jason Trawick, as the split was orchestrated by Tra- Cooper wick and Spears’ father, Jamie Spears, who still has legal control of her personal life and finances, according Oscar nominees Bradley to Radar Online. Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence “It really wasn’t Brit- fall for each other in Silver ney’s decision to announce Linings Playbook, but Cooper the split last week, it was wants to quash any rumours Jamie who made the call,” a of the recently single stars dat- source says. “Jason wanted ing in real life. “I love her to out, and in the fragile state death. She’s amazing, but no,” that Britney is in, it’s not Cooper tells Entertainment like he could have a rational Tonight about the prospect of conversation with her about him and Lawrence together. it, so it was really between though, is exactly how in water things down for her “No, no, no, no, no. Not even him and Jamie. Britney was the dark Spears apparently a bit,” the source says. “She close. First of all, I could be left out of everything and is about her personal life. still hasn’t exactly grasped her father. No, I’m kidding. really didn’t even know “Jason and Jamie wanted yet that the relationship is But no, not even close.” what was going on.” to make sure that Britney totally over.” Lawrence, for her part, isn’t The biggest surprise, didn’t lose it, so they had to METRO WORLD NEWS offended, responding to his statement with, “True. I agree. I concur.” Lindsay Lohan Lohan still owes $300K to former attorney Lindsay Lohan recently to cops, in connection parted ways with her with her car accident in long-suffering attorney, Santa Monica last summer. Shawn Holley, but appar- Shawn has kept Lindsay ently there’s still some un- out of jail for over five finished business between years now and she has no them. idea how good she has “Lindsay owes Shawn had it. Shawn is extremely more than $300,000 in respected by judges and legal fees and she hasn’t prosecutors and that has made any payments in benefited Lindsay greatly. over six months,” a source Lindsay’s new criminal tells Radar Online. “Lind- attorney, Mark Heller, isn’t Kristen Stewart say hadn’t paid anything even based in Los Angeles Stewart joins for any of the work Shawn and certainly doesn’t have has done on her three new the revered reputation that Pattinson criminal charges of lying Shawn does.” after awards Twitter ceremony @SteveCarell (cid:580)(cid:580)(cid:580)(cid:580)(cid:580) Apparently, once you have appeared on tele- vision, you are qualified to be a fashion designer. Kristen Stewart may not have joined Robert Pattin- son for the Golden Globes ceremony itself, but when @ParisJackson (cid:580)(cid:580)(cid:580)(cid:580)(cid:580) she met up with him at i should probably start that biology homework right an after-party at the Soho about now , aye ? House, the On the Road actress wouldn’t leave his side, according to Us Weekly. @kirstiealley (cid:580)(cid:580)(cid:580)(cid:580)(cid:580) “They hung out and stayed I think I accidentally murdered my pet spider...I close for over an hour,” a stepped on a spider in the hallway ...my under the source says of Pattinson and cabinet spider is MIA Stewart, who arrived in a less than red carpet-ready look of jeans and a backward hat. The pair then left with @Sethrogen (cid:580)(cid:580)(cid:580)(cid:580)(cid:580) a group of friends including I have a very shocking admission to make... I’ve Sienna Miller for another been doping. party. metronews.ca TRAVEL 09 Wednesday, January 16, 2013 Lost and Lord of the Rings star Dominic Monaghan gets wild this year on OLN’s new series Wild Things with Dominic Monaghan, which premieres Monday. Metro picked Monaghan’s brain on his favourite escapes. LIZ BROWN [email protected] 5 L I F E spots that MTKOPONE/FLICKR drive New Zealand’s south islands The rainforests of Ecuador Dominic “Some of my happiest times travelling “Ecuador is a pretty beautiful part of the around have been exploring the south islands world, but I quickly get out of any cities, of New Zealand. New Zealand is obviously like Quito and make a full-day journey into Monaghan a very modernized country but the south the jungle, which is a drive to a boat, then a islands have some pockets that have kept boat to a car, then a car to another boat and their natural beauty. My favourite way to then finally ending up at this place called wild experience that is to just rent a car and take the Tiputini Research Centre, which is one a ferry from Picton on the southern point of of the places I based myself out of when I the north island and get dropped off at the was making Wild Things. It’s an extremely northern point of the south island and then remote, extremely isolated research centre just drive down to Queenstown over the in the middle of the rainforest. It doesn’t coast for maybe three or four days, stopping even appear on the map. If you want to in different places. It’s a wild and blustery experience what it’s like to be out in the kind of place. You can see a lot of the places middle of nowhere surrounded by one where we filmed sequences in Lord of the of the most wild and unforgiving natural Rings. New Zealand is called the land of the environments in the world, that’s a pretty long white cloud. It’s just a really beautiful good kicking off place.” place to go to.” ALL PHOTOS ISTOCK EXCEPT WHERE INDICATED The islands of Thailand Berlin Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam “Some of the islands up the coast of Thailand are pretty beautiful, like Ko Tao and Ko “I go to Berlin a lot. It’s not the most exotic of “I really like Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam. Samui. I really like going to a place called locations in the world in terms of jungles and It’s a very, very busy, crazy city with a lot of Krabi. They are pretty experienced with stuff crazy animals, but I was born in Berlin. It’s a influences from many parts of the world. The like scuba diving and snorkelling and any really interesting city, great architecture. It’s French influence can be felt and Thailand and kind of water activity you might want to do. got nice food. German food is a little heavy, Cambodia have a bit of an influence here. It’s There are amazing people in Thailand, but it’s very tasty. They also do a pretty good just one of those cities where it gets busier really fantastic food, it’s a great line in beer and Berlin is one of those and busier as the night gets on. Once the sun escape. I had some of the best food of cities that feels like it’s being dictated to goes down the city really comes to life with a my life and they’re football crazy — by the young. The younger people are lot of noise and a lot of really interesting food they like soccer like I do. Manches- making the decisions there. There’s a you can buy on the street and friendly people ter United games are a big deal for great culture of street art and graffiti, and cool things to check out. There’s a lot of them in the same way they’re a big the museums are really interesting, people watching, going to squares and seeing deal for me.” there’s great style on the street, there’s some of the craziness.” great bars and cool music.” GETTY IMAGES 10 TRAVEL metronews.ca Wednesday, January 16, 2013 Jasper heats up for annual winter festival Jumping January. strapping on snowshoes sur- If you go... rounded by majestic moun- Two-week event tains, throwing snowballs has mountain town inside a pub while sipping (cid:580)(cid:3) (cid:47)(cid:209)(cid:296)(cid:289)(cid:229)(cid:292)(cid:3)(cid:255)(cid:274)(cid:3)(cid:47)(cid:209)(cid:274)(cid:305)(cid:209)(cid:292)(cid:317)(cid:553) Event hosting outdoor a pint of beer, even sporting runs through Jan. 27. a Speedo while leaping into adventures, contests an icy lake. (cid:580)(cid:3) (cid:21)(cid:229)(cid:209)(cid:268)(cid:296)(cid:553) Most hotels are and a chili cook-off “It’s rejuvenating,” says offering hot deals during Peter Scott, a local electri- the festival and Marmot cian who plans to partici- Basin is also giving pate in his fourth Polar Bear discounts on its ski lift It’s like a big small-town Dip this Sunday. tickets. party in the mountains. Nestled in the Rocky Jasper in January is an Mountains, Jasper is about a (cid:580)(cid:3) (cid:34)(cid:279)(cid:292)(cid:3)(cid:273)(cid:279)(cid:292)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:255)(cid:274)(cid:238)(cid:279)(cid:292)(cid:273)(cid:209)(cid:302)(cid:255)(cid:279)(cid:274)(cid:553) annual festival scheduled 3 1/2-hour drive west of Ed- Including a full calendar smack-dab in the middle monton. 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PECS APPEAL W H I T E C I T Y METRO HERALDS SCHWARZENEGGER’S RETURN TO THE BIG SCREEN WITH A LOOK AT SOME OF THE HIGH (AND – LOW) POINTS OF HIS CAREER PAGE 7 REGINA Wednesday, January 16, 2013 Phase One Pricing News Available through worth Feb 2013 sharing. FREE GOLF MEMBERSHIP INCLUDED* CALL FOR DETAILS 800-920-7285 AspenVillageDevelopments.com metronews.ca | twitter.com/metroregina| facebook.com/metroregina ‘Mission impossible’? NDP seeks to make inroads in Sask. Eye on 2015 election. The Lethbridge Declara- tion is currently being draft- Lethbridge Declaration ed by participants across being drafted as Mulcair Western Canada through a meets with provincial series of meetings. One such meeting was held in Prince counterparts in Ottawa Albert on Saturday, and an- other Saskatchewan meeting will take place in Saskatoon on Jan 26. JEFF “I think the Lethbridge MACKEY Declaration is a way for the [email protected] NDP to unite progressives on the Prairies with the hope While federal NDP Leader of toppling Stephen Harper Tom Mulcair was meeting in the 2015 election,” said with provincial NDP leaders Noah Evanchuk, a Regina in Ottawa on Tuesday, the lawyer and former NDP can- process of building party sup- didate. port in the West had already But making inroads in begun in Saskatchewan. Saskatchewan will be diffi- In Ottawa, the three-hour, cult for the NDP given recent closed-door session included electoral trends and history segments on federalism, the in the province. economy and energy. “It seems a bit like mis- “The NDP’s very proud of sion impossible, but Quebec its track record of prudent seemed like mission impos- public administration in the sible prior to 2011,” said five provinces and in the ter- David McGrane, professor of ritories where it has been in political studies at the Uni- power, and that’s what we’re versity of Saskatchewan. going to be doing today,” “I think the federal NDP said Mulcair. has to have some strong One province the NDP is economic credentials if they not currently governing is are going to gain any Saskatchewan. In fact, the sort of ground in party does not have a single the Prairies.” federal seat in the whole province, but a process is Follow Jeff Mackey on underway to change that. Twitter @MetroJeffMackey Talkin’ RRI Jumpin’ Jasper! The proposed stadium project The annual is the focus of an executive Alberta winter committee meeting today PAGE 2 festival heats up the moun- Got buttermilk tain town with skiing, snow- ball fights and, NDP Leader Tom Mulcair speaks with the media before meeting his provincial counterparts on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Tuesday. This tangy pancake ingredient natch, a chili ADRIAN WYLD/THE CANADIAN PRESS is surprisingly versatile PAGE 11 cook-off PAGE 10 02 NEWS metronews.ca Wednesday, January 16, 2013 Getting ready for more opinions, RRI decisions S Jan. 28 vote. Reports comThmei tteexee mcueteitvien g.commit- Quoted ftohre pernodp oosf aJlasn wuailrly g. oT hoeu tt oapt at committee meeting tee is looking to approve three qualified companies “This is getting more real now because we have the include fi nalization refined details of the RRI will produce a tender for proposal before it goes to a funding arrangement and concept design in place construction contracts. W of stadium funding vote at the Jan. 28 city coun- and I guess the expression of interest is the next “This is getting more real cil meeting. now because we have the process to go through.” Reports at the com- funding arrangement and ALYSSA mittee meeting cover the Mayor Michael Fougere on the fi rst stadium discussion in 2013. concept design in place and MCDONALD finalization of the funding I guess the expression of in- [email protected] for the stadium, including terest is the next process to provincial government and the stadium. might have questions about go through,” Fougere told Residents and community Saskatchewan Roughriders The meeting is open to it and some people may be Metro on Tuesday. E delegates are getting the contributions, final approv- anyone wanting to voice a opposed to it,” said Mayor Fougere says the stadium chance to voice their opin- al of the concept design, concern or opinion. Michael Fougere about the project is right on schedule ions about the proposed additional Canadian Pacific “It’s a topical issue in first stadium discussion in and he is “expecting (the Regina Revitalization Initia- Railway land purchases, the community, so we will 2013. proposal) will go forward tive stadium project today and the request for propos- be having people in that If the project goes ahead, and be approved by council N at city council’s executive als for the actual building of support it, some people the expression of interest on the 28th.” History of mental issues psychiatric help as soon as Man gets life possible. THE CANADIAN PRESS sentence for Pregnant teen drunken Christmas Outcome of alleged Day slaying kidnapping case may come as a A Saskatchewan man with a history of mental-health surprise: Lawyer issues has been sentenced to life in prison for fatally stabbing his grandmother A lawyer for a Saskatch- after a Christmas Day ewan teen accused of drinking bout. abducting his 14-year-old Riley Ballantyne, a Peli- pregnant girlfriend last can Narrows resident, was week says the outcome sentenced Monday after of the case may surprise pleading guilty to second- people. degree murder in the 2010 Edmonton lawyer Daryl death of Jean Ballantyne. Royer said in an interview Ballantyne, who was 20 with CJME/CKOM that at the time of the killing, everyone in the case says will not be eligible for the girl went willingly. parole for 10 years. He says the case may Court heard the be resolved in a way that accused had drug and doesn’t involve a kidnap- alcohol problems and ping conviction. had been drinking before The 16-year-old boy violence flared in the appeared in court on family’s home. Monday and was sent to a Crown prosecutor youth home until his next Fran Atkinson says the court date on Feb. 14. case is tragic because the The boy’s 38-year- stabbing would not have old mother and another Fougere presented Diamond Jubilee Medal occurred had Ballantyne 16-year-old boy are also not been drinking. charged. The two are set Former Regina mayor Larry Schneider presents Mayor Michael Fougere with the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal A Court of Queen’s to appear in court on the Tuesday on behalf of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities and the Governor General of Canada. Fougere was nomin- Bench justice made a re- same day. ated for his leadership on city council for the past 15 years and his commitment to his family. ALYSSA MCDONALD/METRO ferral for Ballantyne to get THE CANADIAN PRESS/CJME/CKOM Provincial court says no random police spot checks in private parking lots Saskatchewan’s highest police to conduct random with failing to provide a and vehicle registration. to have known that he was court is putting the brakes stops in private parking sample. Klebuc said the deten- not entitled to detain the on police randomly stop- areas. But Chief Justice John tion, the demand for in- appellant and check for a ping people in private park- The case involved a Klebuc said there was formation and the sample driver’s licence or vehicle ing lots. woman who was stopped by nothing unusual in the infringed on the woman’s registration, neither of The Saskatchewan Court officers in a parking lot at a way the vehicle was being liberty and privacy inter- which was required to oper- of Appeal says in a decision hotel in Humboldt in 2009. driven and no reason of- ests. ate a vehicle off highway recently posted online that The woman tried to take ficers couldn’t wait until “While I am satisfied on a private parking area,” the province’s Traffic Safe- a roadside breath test but she drove onto the road to that (the officer) did not wrote Klebuc. ty Act does not authorize couldn’t and was charged check for a driver’s licence act in bad faith, he ought THE CANADIAN PRESS metronews.ca NEWS 03 Wednesday, January 16, 2013 Custom-made plagiarism Academic dishonesty. 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Sometimes, when they tury Canada history class One post advertises, “A write three essays in a term at York University. for your essays.” Another ad- themselves then hand in one “It’s not a very good vertises a husband-and-wife of his as the fourth, the TA essay,” said Azoulay of the team, both with master’s de- will catch on to the differ- finished product. “It just grees, who have a combined ence and they’ll get caught, A Metro staffer searches Craigslist ads for essay-writing services. DAVID VAN DYKE/METRO doesn’t answer the essay 35 years of post-secondary he says. “All students want question.” essay-writing experience. is an A on the essay, no mat- won’t be flagged as plagiar- Many of his clients are a distance degree online, The essay also has One of the ghostwriters — ter how their previous marks ized by Turnitin.com. in business school, since he he says. grammar issues, rambles “A for your essays” — agreed have been.” At this time of year, he’ll advertises he has an MBA, “Some students give me without structure and to be interviewed. Sam, who Sam, like all of the essay get eight to 10 email requests but they come from all disci- their online password, and doesn’t come up with a declined to give his last name, writers on Craigslist, says his a day, increasing to about 20 plines. Some of his best cli- so I do the online course for thesis on Mackenzie King. says he has an MBA. essays are original, so they in March. ents are older people taking them,” he says. coffee m a l l * s &muffi n ™† *Offer valid for Premium Roast Brewed Coffee only. At participating McDonald’s® restaurants in Canada. ©2012 McDonald’s. †®/TM Trade-mark of PepsiCo Canada ULC Used under licence. 04 NEWS metronews.ca Wednesday, January 16, 2013 Quebec eyes Drilling test Corruption case St. Louis, Mo. Windsor, Ont. Curiosity rover to Arrest ordered Administrator University goes guidelines for peek inside Mars for Pakistani PM shot at school screen-free Friday NASA says the Curiosity Pakistan’s leaders took a Police say a gunman To conclude its Mental rover should be ready to powerful one-two punch walked into a business Health Awareness Week, drill on Mars soon. Tuesday as the Supreme school in downtown St. the University of Windsor right to die It’s the most highly Court ordered the arrest Louis, Mo., and shot an is encouraging students to anticipated milestone since of the prime minister in administrator in the chest go screen-free on Friday. the nuclear-powered rover a corruption case and a before shooting himself. The event asks stu- landed near the Martian cleric led thousands of Police Chief Sam dents to spend a day away equator five months ago. protesters in anti-govern- Dotson said both the from their laptops and Suffering. Under new Project manager Richard ment demonstrations. administrator and the cellphones. Cook says the team has Many claim the coun- gunman are in surgery. “I meet a lot of stu- legislation, assisted chosen the test site for try’s politicians are more He says he doesn’t know dents and frankly, they’re suicide would not be Curiosity. The spot contains interested in corrupt if their wounds are life- overwhelmed by life,” said a diverse sample of rocks dealings than addressing threatening. Father Chris Valka, a cam- considered ‘suicide’ that the rover can pick problems facing Pakistani He says no one else was pus minister at UWindsor. from. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS citizens. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS injured. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS METRO The Quebec government be- lieves it has found a way to not run afoul of Ottawa after a legal panel recommended that terminally ill patients Junior minister Veronique Hivon have the right to die. JACQUES BOISSINOT/THE CANADIAN PRESS Provincial junior health minister Veronique Hivon woman for federal Justice said Tuesday the panel deter- Minister Rob Nicholson, said mined that provinces have Tuesday the government’s the jurisdiction to legislate position remains the same. in matters of health and that “This is a painful and the future legislation would divisive issue that has been clarify how acts to end a life thoroughly debated in Parlia- wouldn’t be considered sui- ment,” she said. “We respect cide. Parliament’s decision.” Euthanasia and assisted Hivon said the Quebec suicide are illegal in Canada government can now pass under the Criminal Code. a law with strict guidelines Julie Di Mambro, a spokes- that will respect the wishes of the dying to shorten their Background suffering and provide doctors with a clear legal framework. Under the recommenda- Canadians have grappled tions, patients themselves with the right to die for would have to make the re- nearly two decades. quest to a doctor on the basis of unbearable physical or (cid:580)(cid:3) (cid:83)(cid:305)(cid:229)(cid:296)(cid:225)(cid:209)(cid:317)(cid:561)(cid:296)(cid:3)(cid:292)(cid:229)(cid:221)(cid:279)(cid:273)(cid:273)(cid:229)(cid:274)(cid:225)(cid:209)- psychological suffering. Two tions follow a landmark physicians would have to ap- report from last March. prove the written request. The Quebec panel, which (cid:580)(cid:3) (cid:39)(cid:274)(cid:3)(cid:628)(cid:636)(cid:636)(cid:629)(cid:550)(cid:3)assisted suicide was headed by lawyer Jean- Apartment for sale: Open concept, close to public transit hit the national radar Pierre Menard, said people when Sue Rodriguez, a suffering from an incur- B.C. woman, fought all able or degenerative illness Emergency services attend the scene after a derailed train crashed into the side of an apartment building in Saltsjobaden outside Stockholm, Tuesday. A the way to the Supreme should be allowed to ask for woman in her early 20s allegedly obtained the keys, stole the train and drove it about 1.6 kilometres to the end station on the railway line, where it jumped Court for the right to kill medical assistance to help off the tracks, careened for about 25 metres and crashed into a three-storey building. She was the only one injured in the incident. The motives of the herself. She did in 1994. them die. woman, who worked for a company contracted to carry out cleaning for the train operator, were not immediately clear. JONAS EKSTRÖMER/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS THE CANADIAN PRESS First Nations. Taxpayers Fear of children. Former Canada vs. U.S. Flu shot federation recommends teacher sues her school more effective south of throwing out Indian Act district over rare phobia the border, data reveals An influential lobby group rie director. A former teacher is suing the district’s attorney, said Wal- New data suggests that Can- Skowronski, who is with says Ottawa needs to ditch “We need a new approach, U.S. school district where she therr-Willard was transferred adians who got a flu shot the British Columbia Cen- the Indian Act and give First one that treats all Canadians used to work, saying adminis- because the French program this year cut their risk of tre for Disease Control, says Nations more control over the same and connects aborig- trators discriminated against at her school was being turned getting sick enough to re- while the protection isn’t as their land to end aboriginal inal people with jobs and op- her because she has a rare pho- into an online one and that the quire medical care by about high as public health would poverty. portunities.” bia: A fear of young children. other school needed a Spanish half. like, it’s still significant. The Canadian Taxpay- That means Ottawa should Maria Waltherr-Willard, teacher. That’s slightly lower The Canadian estimate is ers Federation made many get rid of legislation such as 61, had been teaching Span- Patrick McGrath, a clinical than the estimate that the based on data from several enemies among First Nations the Indian Act, parts of the ish and French to teenagers in psychologist and director of U.S. Centers for Disease hundred family doctors in leaders when it published a Criminal Code that allow for Ohio since 1976. the Center for Anxiety and Ob- Control released late last Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, list of high salaries going to reduced sentences, as well as Waltherr-Willard was sessive Compulsive Disorders week. Alberta and British Colum- chiefs and pushed for legisla- arts grants for aboriginals — transferred to a school with near Chicago, said he has treat- In the U.S., the CDC said bia. tive changes. while respecting treaties and younger students in 2009. She ed patients who fear children this year’s flu vaccine re- The U.S. overall figure Now the group says the the Constitution, he said. says the kids there triggered and that anyone can be afraid duces the risk by 62 per was brought up by the fact key to eliminating the cycle The federation also says her phobia, forcing her to re- of anything. cent overall and by 55 per that the vaccine effective- of poverty on reserves is for band members should be tire. “A lot of people will look at cent against influenza A ness estimate for the influ- Ottawa to treat First Nations able to own their homes, and Her lawsuit says her fear of something someone’s afraid of viruses. enza B component of the people like everyone else. develop, lease or sell their re- young children falls under the and say, ‘There is no rational Dr. Danuta Skowronski, vaccine was 70 per cent. “For the sake of kids liv- serve land without Ottawa’s federal American with Disabil- reason to be afraid of that,’” he who led the Canadian study, But in Canada the sur- ing in poverty on too many permission. ities Act and that the district said. “But anxiety disorders are says the cross-border differ- veillance network hasn’t reserves, we don’t need an- The group is also proposing violated it by transferring her emotion-based.... We’ve had ence relates to the fact that seen enough influenza B other decade with more social a pilot project that would see and not letting her go back to mothers who wouldn’t touch in Canada, most infections cases to generate a reliable programs and tinkering,” said funding go directly to band her former school. their children after they’re this year are caused by the effectiveness estimate for it Colin Craig, the group’s Prai- members. THE CANADIAN PRESS Gary Winters, the school born.” THE ASSOCIATED PRESS influenza A subtype H3N2. yet. THE CANADIAN PRESS metronews.ca BUSINESS 05 Wednesday, January 16, 2013 Wal-Mart pledges to hire U.S. veterans Patriotic push. Retailer The plan includes hiring low-paying jobs and not buy- more than 100,000 army vet- 1By0 the n.um8bers% ing more from U.S. manufac- waves flag as it tries to erans in the next five years, turers, said its plan will high- rebound from recent spending $50 billion US to buy light the career opportunities more American-made mer- in the retail industry. blows to reputation chandise in the next 10 years “We’ve developed a nation- The unemployment rate for U.S. veterans and helping its part-time work- al paralysis that’s driven by all who served in Iraq or Afghanistan stood ers move into full-time pos- at 10.8 per cent in December, versus the of us waiting for someone else Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the itions sooner. overall unemployment rate of 7.8 per cent. to do something,” Bill Simon, world’s largest retailer and the The move comes as Wal- president and CEO of Wal- biggest U.S. private employer Mart’s attempts to rebound Mart’s U.S. business, said at an with 1.4 million workers, said from blows to its reputation in a Bangladesh factory that sup- annual retail industry conven- A woman approaches a Walmart store in Valley Stream, N.Y., in this 2011 file Tuesday it is rolling out a three- recent months from an alleged plies clothes to the company. tion in New York on Tuesday photo. The retailer said it plans to hire every U.S. veteran who wants a job and has part plan to help jump-start bribery scandal in Mexico and Wal-Mart, which often has morning. been honourably discharged in the first 12 months of active duty. GETTY IMAGES FILE America’s sluggish economy. a deadly fire in November at been criticized for offering THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Social media. 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Newborn panda metronews.ca It’s even better when, by the time you stumble upon it, there says hello to world is already a bunch written that you can plow through with relish. It appears this baby panda That’s what happened with A Song of Ice and Fire (Game of was born for the limelight Thrones), George R.R. Martin’s wildly fascinating sword-and- as he smiles and waves ador- sorcery epic. I got to it as Volume 3, A Storm of Swords, was ably in front of the camera. released. As each book is well over 1,000 pages, I had at least The 37-day-old cub seemed to three weeks of uninterrupted delight. enjoy his photo shoot after But then, I had to wait along with all the other geeks for he was weighed, measured Martin to continue the agonizingly slow process of churning and fed by medics. This out Nos. 4 and 5. Still to come, Nos. 6 and 7, and who knows charming image was taken when they’ll be ready? Martin has apparently never met a book at Wolong National Nature tour, fantasy conference or editing project he can resist. With Reserve’s giant panda con- any luck, we’ll both be around for The End, but the odds are servation centre in Sichuan, growing increasingly long … or is that short? China. METRO Which is why, if you haven’t encountered Flavia de Photographer’s view About the author Luce until now, this is your lucky day. You have something He retired to Kelowna, “I think the to do while waiting for Mar- B.C., where he expected tin’s The Winds of Winter. cubs start to go gently, etc., when Flavia de Luce is an looking 11-year-old girl who lives in a cataclysmic 2003 cute at a rundown manor house in forest fire that nearly the English village of Bishop’s about four engulfed his house Lacey in 1950. She solves weeks when they are murders, assisted by a fully caused him to unmistakably baby stocked chemistry lab left by re-examine his scorched her uncle, her bicycle Gladys, pandas. At that age, priorities and start and an 11-year-old’s still-fresh they are roly-poly balls curiosity. writing like an of black and white.” Yeah, I know. But, world of 11-year-old girl. wonders, these books, starting Dr. Katherine Feng, with The Sweetness at the veterinarian/photographer Bottom of the Pie, currently culminating in Volume 4, I Am Half-Sick of Shadows, are good. Fancy dress for good Better than good. Even crazier? They are written by a 74-year-old Canadian Staff wear man, Alan Bradley, originally from Cobourg, Ont., who spent 25 years as a director of TV engineering at the University of panda costumes Saskatchewan. He retired to Kelowna, B.C., where he expected to go gently, etc., when a cataclysmic 2003 forest fire that near- Wolong made news in 2010 ly engulfed his house caused him to re-examine his scorched after staff decided to don priorities and start writing like an 11-year-old girl. furry panda costumes. He’d never even been to England until 2007, when he went “We came up with to pick up the first of Flavia’s multitude of awards, but that the idea because captive didn’t prevent him from nailing the Agatha Christie English- pandas are too familiar village murder mystery. with people. But by rearing Of course, there aren’t a lot of 74-year-old men who can them using panda suits, the write like an 11-year-old girl, but Bradley seems to have little baby panda would grow up trouble channelling his inner Flavia, who is by turns funny, never seeing any people,” solemn, wise, petulant, insightful, kind and, above all, curious. researcher Huang Yan said. The kind of curious that killed the cat, essential in a murder This way, Yan hopes, mystery. pandas who will return to Hermione Granger meets Sherlock Holmes. the wild won’t be too de- The good news gets even better. Unlike George R.R. Martin, pendent on humans. METRO Bradley has discipline and reliably finishes one of his novels a KATHERINE FENG/MINDEN PICTURES/SOLENT year. The next one is due, according to Amazon, in two weeks. Another volume in the series of 10 (say it ain’t so!) arrives in early 2014. Twitter Oh, and Hollywood Read an excerpt from director Sam Mendes has the book Speaking Register at metropolitanpanel.ca @lindseybast: (cid:580)(cid:580)(cid:580)(cid:580)(cid:580) restaurant @Deli_Llama_306 bought the TV rights, so from Among the Bones and take the quick poll I think if #yqr gets any more closing on Feb. 6. If you have not stay tuned … at metronews.ca. snow I’m officially throwing in had there delicious food, please Will a new report saying up to half of the the towel and hibernating til go. #yqr May. #nomoresnow #winter13 world’s food is wasted change your consuming habits? 33% @levendis: (cid:580)(cid:580)(cid:580)(cid:580)(cid:580) @MMandryk: (cid:580)(cid:580)(cid:580)(cid:580)(cid:580) If overdosing on bacon is a legit- YES. BRING ON THE UNUSUALLY Life of Pi gets Oscar nomination. imate cause of death, then sign 67% SHAPED APPLES Oscars, for those in Sask unfamil- me up! Just, not yet. iar, are annual awards for what NO. IF I DON’T THROW IT OUT, some places call a film industry. SOMEONE ELSE #skpoli @riderpride89: (cid:580)(cid:580)(cid:580)(cid:580)(cid:580)(cid:3) WILL 0% It’s supposed to rain out today?! SOMEWHAT. 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Stand. He’s buff and Cop (1990) — ever the gent, minus Barbarian (1982) badass in this outing. the makeup. Metro looks back at This time Arnold, playing S Arnie as Conan makes Detective John Kimble, for possibly the most some of his best and who goes undercover homoerotic hero of all as a teacher, gets down worst movie style mo- time. Leather jock straps with the kids. Roomy fringed with rabbit fur ments — and boy are slacks, plaid and polo C and his flowing locks there some howlers. shirts — can this really make for an ’80s porn be the same gun-toting fantasy. meathead? RICHARD PECKETT E In Focus Taking a N Stand on drug movies IN E FOCUS Richard Crouse [email protected] This weekend Arnold Schwarzenegger takes on his first lead role in 10 years. In the Last Stand he’s Sheriff Ray Owens, a rootin’, tootin’ small town lawman who battles a Mexican drug cartel. It’s the first time Arnold has fought drug lords, but Hollywood often looks to the cartels for a supply of bad guys. As recently as last year Oliver Stone cast Salma Hayek as the ruthless car- tel leader in Savages, aided C Mama ish an upcomiingl horrdor fi lm dhirected byo Andreso Muschiedtti starri ng tJessicra Chaastain. HAuNDOUT ma at and abetted by Benicio Del Toro as her henchman. There are also rumours that Scarface, the legendar- ily violent Al Pacino movie about a Cuban immigrant root of Del Toro’s Mama who takes over the south Florida drug trade, is about to be remade and relocated to the world of Mexican drug cartels. The Johnny Depp movie Blow was actually renamed Cartel in some markets. Interview. Producer Quote at the concept of burning in of form, function and story.” Based on the book Blow: hell, or the concept of pur- Muschietti is just the latest How a Small Town Boy talks about why his gatory and original sin. Mex- director to be discovered and “There is a fi lmmaker Made $100 Million with fi lms are so dark, ican Catholicism is very, very mentored by Del Toro, who the Medellín Cocaine in that short. Very often brutal and very, very gory. himself was given a helping and turning a short Cartel and Lost It All, Depp you see shorts that are That all affected me.” hand by people like James plays George Jung, the fi lm into a full-length Mama, his latest producor- Cameron. glossy but have very man who launched the ial effort, is a spooky tale of “I’ve been very, very bless- American cocaine market Hollywood horror little to say.” two abandoned girls raised ed by finding good people in the 1970s. by a supernatural nanny. who believed in me at the Guillermo Del Toro Finally, Colombiana RICHARD Talking about the fi lm that inspired Mama. Del Toro came to the story right time. Obviously I try is another cartel revenge after seeing a three-minute and pay it forward. Right now CROUSE flick. Zoe Saldana is short film by director Andrés I’m 48-years-old and have Cataleya Restrepo, who [email protected] relationship with the hor- Muschietti. been doing this for 30-some- as a 10-year-old saw her When I ask Guillermo Del ror of Catholic guilt and the “The short is brilliant,” thing years, 20 directing. I’ve parents killed by a Bogota Toro why his films often fea- dogma. My grandmother was he says. “Atmospheric and been able to produce close to drug lord. ture kids as main characters like Piper Laurie in Carrie. I creepy. You can see a story- 20 movies between Mexico Instead of calling the his answer is upfront, open was like a chubby version of telling will. You can see a and America and Spain and police she instead becomes and a little surprising. Carrie. It was very difficult for voice. There is a filmmaker in I would say in 99 per cent of an assassin who vows to “I had a horrible child- me to get over that. that short. the cases it has been really, avenge her family’s deaths. hood, emotionally,” says the “I jokingly say I spent 40 “Very often you see shorts really beautiful. A couple of Her journey starts with director of The Devil’s Back- years trying to recuperate that are glossy but have very cases it has been hard or the 10 words: “I want to be a bone and Pan’s Labyrinth. “I from the first eight, but to a little to say. Or they’re really movie has been disappoint- killer. Can you help me?” was not a child who was beat- degree it is true. I really suf- intense and interesting but ing but Mama is one of the en or locked in a closet, but fered intensely in the first 10 they are badly done. But this good ones I am really proud I really have a very intense years of my life. I would cry short had the perfect balance of.” 08 DISH metronews.ca Wednesday, January 16, 2013 METRO DISH OUR TAKE ON THE WORLD OF CELEBRITIES The Word Spears’ father Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper arranged split Couple’s with ex-fiancé? romance Britney Spears reportedly only on had nothing to do with her breakup with ex-fiancé screen, says Jason Trawick, as the split was orchestrated by Tra- Cooper wick and Spears’ father, Jamie Spears, who still has legal control of her personal life and finances, according Oscar nominees Bradley to Radar Online. Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence “It really wasn’t Brit- fall for each other in Silver ney’s decision to announce Linings Playbook, but Cooper the split last week, it was wants to quash any rumours Jamie who made the call,” a of the recently single stars dat- source says. “Jason wanted ing in real life. “I love her to out, and in the fragile state death. She’s amazing, but no,” that Britney is in, it’s not Cooper tells Entertainment like he could have a rational Tonight about the prospect of conversation with her about him and Lawrence together. it, so it was really between though, is exactly how in water things down for her “No, no, no, no, no. Not even him and Jamie. Britney was the dark Spears apparently a bit,” the source says. “She close. First of all, I could be left out of everything and is about her personal life. still hasn’t exactly grasped her father. No, I’m kidding. really didn’t even know “Jason and Jamie wanted yet that the relationship is But no, not even close.” what was going on.” to make sure that Britney totally over.” Lawrence, for her part, isn’t The biggest surprise, didn’t lose it, so they had to METRO WORLD NEWS offended, responding to his statement with, “True. I agree. I concur.” Lindsay Lohan Lohan still owes $300K to former attorney Lindsay Lohan recently to cops, in connection parted ways with her with her car accident in long-suffering attorney, Santa Monica last summer. Shawn Holley, but appar- Shawn has kept Lindsay ently there’s still some un- out of jail for over five finished business between years now and she has no them. idea how good she has “Lindsay owes Shawn had it. Shawn is extremely more than $300,000 in respected by judges and legal fees and she hasn’t prosecutors and that has made any payments in benefited Lindsay greatly. over six months,” a source Lindsay’s new criminal tells Radar Online. “Lind- attorney, Mark Heller, isn’t Kristen Stewart say hadn’t paid anything even based in Los Angeles Stewart joins for any of the work Shawn and certainly doesn’t have has done on her three new the revered reputation that Pattinson criminal charges of lying Shawn does.” after awards Twitter ceremony @SteveCarell (cid:580)(cid:580)(cid:580)(cid:580)(cid:580) Apparently, once you have appeared on tele- vision, you are qualified to be a fashion designer. Kristen Stewart may not have joined Robert Pattin- son for the Golden Globes ceremony itself, but when @ParisJackson (cid:580)(cid:580)(cid:580)(cid:580)(cid:580) she met up with him at i should probably start that biology homework right an after-party at the Soho about now , aye ? House, the On the Road actress wouldn’t leave his side, according to Us Weekly. @kirstiealley (cid:580)(cid:580)(cid:580)(cid:580)(cid:580) “They hung out and stayed I think I accidentally murdered my pet spider...I close for over an hour,” a stepped on a spider in the hallway ...my under the source says of Pattinson and cabinet spider is MIA Stewart, who arrived in a less than red carpet-ready look of jeans and a backward hat. The pair then left with @Sethrogen (cid:580)(cid:580)(cid:580)(cid:580)(cid:580) a group of friends including I have a very shocking admission to make... I’ve Sienna Miller for another been doping. party. metronews.ca TRAVEL 09 Wednesday, January 16, 2013 Lost and Lord of the Rings star Dominic Monaghan gets wild this year on OLN’s new series Wild Things with Dominic Monaghan, which premieres Monday. Metro picked Monaghan’s brain on his favourite escapes. LIZ BROWN [email protected] 5 L I F E spots that MTKOPONE/FLICKR drive New Zealand’s south islands The rainforests of Ecuador Dominic “Some of my happiest times travelling “Ecuador is a pretty beautiful part of the around have been exploring the south islands world, but I quickly get out of any cities, of New Zealand. New Zealand is obviously like Quito and make a full-day journey into Monaghan a very modernized country but the south the jungle, which is a drive to a boat, then a islands have some pockets that have kept boat to a car, then a car to another boat and their natural beauty. My favourite way to then finally ending up at this place called wild experience that is to just rent a car and take the Tiputini Research Centre, which is one a ferry from Picton on the southern point of of the places I based myself out of when I the north island and get dropped off at the was making Wild Things. It’s an extremely northern point of the south island and then remote, extremely isolated research centre just drive down to Queenstown over the in the middle of the rainforest. It doesn’t coast for maybe three or four days, stopping even appear on the map. If you want to in different places. It’s a wild and blustery experience what it’s like to be out in the kind of place. You can see a lot of the places middle of nowhere surrounded by one where we filmed sequences in Lord of the of the most wild and unforgiving natural Rings. New Zealand is called the land of the environments in the world, that’s a pretty long white cloud. It’s just a really beautiful good kicking off place.” place to go to.” ALL PHOTOS ISTOCK EXCEPT WHERE INDICATED The islands of Thailand Berlin Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam “Some of the islands up the coast of Thailand are pretty beautiful, like Ko Tao and Ko “I go to Berlin a lot. It’s not the most exotic of “I really like Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam. Samui. I really like going to a place called locations in the world in terms of jungles and It’s a very, very busy, crazy city with a lot of Krabi. They are pretty experienced with stuff crazy animals, but I was born in Berlin. It’s a influences from many parts of the world. The like scuba diving and snorkelling and any really interesting city, great architecture. It’s French influence can be felt and Thailand and kind of water activity you might want to do. got nice food. German food is a little heavy, Cambodia have a bit of an influence here. It’s There are amazing people in Thailand, but it’s very tasty. They also do a pretty good just one of those cities where it gets busier really fantastic food, it’s a great line in beer and Berlin is one of those and busier as the night gets on. Once the sun escape. I had some of the best food of cities that feels like it’s being dictated to goes down the city really comes to life with a my life and they’re football crazy — by the young. The younger people are lot of noise and a lot of really interesting food they like soccer like I do. Manches- making the decisions there. There’s a you can buy on the street and friendly people ter United games are a big deal for great culture of street art and graffiti, and cool things to check out. There’s a lot of them in the same way they’re a big the museums are really interesting, people watching, going to squares and seeing deal for me.” there’s great style on the street, there’s some of the craziness.” great bars and cool music.” GETTY IMAGES 10 TRAVEL metronews.ca Wednesday, January 16, 2013 Jasper heats up for annual winter festival Jumping January. strapping on snowshoes sur- If you go... rounded by majestic moun- Two-week event tains, throwing snowballs has mountain town inside a pub while sipping (cid:580)(cid:3) (cid:47)(cid:209)(cid:296)(cid:289)(cid:229)(cid:292)(cid:3)(cid:255)(cid:274)(cid:3)(cid:47)(cid:209)(cid:274)(cid:305)(cid:209)(cid:292)(cid:317)(cid:553) Event hosting outdoor a pint of beer, even sporting runs through Jan. 27. a Speedo while leaping into adventures, contests an icy lake. (cid:580)(cid:3) (cid:21)(cid:229)(cid:209)(cid:268)(cid:296)(cid:553) Most hotels are and a chili cook-off “It’s rejuvenating,” says offering hot deals during Peter Scott, a local electri- the festival and Marmot cian who plans to partici- Basin is also giving pate in his fourth Polar Bear discounts on its ski lift It’s like a big small-town Dip this Sunday. tickets. party in the mountains. Nestled in the Rocky Jasper in January is an Mountains, Jasper is about a (cid:580)(cid:3) (cid:34)(cid:279)(cid:292)(cid:3)(cid:273)(cid:279)(cid:292)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:255)(cid:274)(cid:238)(cid:279)(cid:292)(cid:273)(cid:209)(cid:302)(cid:255)(cid:279)(cid:274)(cid:553) annual festival scheduled 3 1/2-hour drive west of Ed- Including a full calendar smack-dab in the middle monton. 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