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That dress is so last year This Stella McCartney number won over stylish stars like Kate Moss in 2012. Check out some of the other top fashion moments of the year ‘Nuge’ fl ash at world juniors PAGE 10 Team Canada captain Ryan Nugent-Hopkins offers some sage advice to his teammates in Ufa, Russia PAGE 13 REGINA Thursday, January 3, 2013 9 News worth sharing. metronews.ca | twitter.com/metroregina | facebook.com/metroregina Sask.-born Idle No More keeps up momentum A countrywide call to Shingoose, 55, who lives in What they want Winnipeg and was part of action. Organizers say the crowd of roughly 50 that movement is about blocked the roadway. “When I The organizers of Idle No protecting all Canadians, was in residential schools I felt More mostly want mean- like I didn’t have a voice — this ingful dialogue between not just aboriginals is finally giving me that voice.” politicians and First Na- The blockade started at 1 tions. p.m. and Winnipeg police di- SHANE verted traffic around the pro- (cid:580)(cid:3) (cid:83)(cid:254)(cid:229)(cid:317)(cid:3)(cid:296)(cid:209)(cid:317)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:254)(cid:255)(cid:274)(cid:251)(cid:296)(cid:3)(cid:268)(cid:255)(cid:266)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:254)(cid:229)(cid:3) GIBSON test including eastbound lanes (cid:17)(cid:279)(cid:274)(cid:296)(cid:229)(cid:292)(cid:314)(cid:209)(cid:302)(cid:255)(cid:314)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:251)(cid:279)(cid:314)(cid:229)(cid:292)(cid:274)(cid:575) of the Trans-Canada Highway. (cid:273)(cid:229)(cid:274)(cid:302)(cid:3)(cid:292)(cid:229)(cid:273)(cid:279)(cid:314)(cid:255)(cid:274)(cid:251)(cid:3)(cid:266)(cid:229)(cid:317)(cid:3)(cid:229)(cid:274)(cid:575) Metro in Winnipeg Many drivers were not (cid:314)(cid:255)(cid:292)(cid:279)(cid:274)(cid:273)(cid:229)(cid:274)(cid:302)(cid:209)(cid:268)(cid:3)(cid:289)(cid:292)(cid:279)(cid:302)(cid:229)(cid:221)(cid:302)(cid:255)(cid:279)(cid:274)(cid:3) happy with the delay. (cid:302)(cid:279)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:254)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:314)(cid:209)(cid:296)(cid:302)(cid:3)(cid:273)(cid:209)(cid:265)(cid:279)(cid:292)(cid:255)(cid:302)(cid:317)(cid:3)(cid:279)(cid:238)(cid:3) Traffic on Canada’s busiest “I’m not quite sure what (cid:315)(cid:209)(cid:302)(cid:229)(cid:292)(cid:315)(cid:209)(cid:317)(cid:296)(cid:3)(cid:255)(cid:274)(cid:3)(cid:17)(cid:209)(cid:274)(cid:209)(cid:225)(cid:209)(cid:3)(cid:255)(cid:296)(cid:3) highway had to be rerouted this is proving other than it’s (cid:209)(cid:3)(cid:314)(cid:255)(cid:279)(cid:268)(cid:209)(cid:302)(cid:255)(cid:279)(cid:274)(cid:3)(cid:279)(cid:238)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:254)(cid:229)(cid:255)(cid:292)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:292)(cid:229)(cid:209)(cid:302)(cid:317)(cid:3) just west of Winnipeg Wednes- inconveniencing the average (cid:292)(cid:255)(cid:251)(cid:254)(cid:302)(cid:296)(cid:3)(cid:209)(cid:274)(cid:225)(cid:3)(cid:315)(cid:209)(cid:274)(cid:302)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:254)(cid:229)(cid:273)(cid:3) day as Idle No More demonstra- person,” said Darryl Muir, who (cid:292)(cid:229)(cid:314)(cid:229)(cid:292)(cid:296)(cid:229)(cid:225)(cid:553) tors blocked Portage Avenue got stuck in a line of cars while to protest the Conservative trying to pick up his kids at (cid:580)(cid:3) (cid:61)(cid:292)(cid:251)(cid:209)(cid:274)(cid:255)(cid:320)(cid:229)(cid:292)(cid:296)(cid:3)(cid:209)(cid:268)(cid:296)(cid:279)(cid:3)(cid:254)(cid:279)(cid:289)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:254)(cid:229)(cid:3) government’s omnibus budget an arena just west of the city. (cid:39)(cid:225)(cid:268)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:56)(cid:279)(cid:3)(cid:55)(cid:279)(cid:292)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:289)(cid:292)(cid:279)(cid:302)(cid:229)(cid:296)(cid:302)(cid:296)(cid:3) bill, which they say tramples “How do I get even get there (cid:315)(cid:255)(cid:268)(cid:268)(cid:3)(cid:296)(cid:289)(cid:305)(cid:292)(cid:3)(cid:17)(cid:209)(cid:274)(cid:209)(cid:225)(cid:255)(cid:209)(cid:274)(cid:296)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:279)(cid:3) treaty rights and weakens pro- from here?” (cid:220)(cid:229)(cid:221)(cid:279)(cid:273)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:273)(cid:279)(cid:292)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:229)(cid:225)(cid:305)(cid:221)(cid:209)(cid:302)(cid:229)(cid:225)(cid:3) tection of Canada’s waterways. The protest was peaceful (cid:209)(cid:220)(cid:279)(cid:305)(cid:302)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:292)(cid:229)(cid:209)(cid:302)(cid:317)(cid:3)(cid:292)(cid:255)(cid:251)(cid:254)(cid:302)(cid:296)(cid:3)(cid:209)(cid:274)(cid:225)(cid:3) “I’m doing this for my and traffic quickly returned to (cid:251)(cid:209)(cid:268)(cid:314)(cid:209)(cid:274)(cid:255)(cid:320)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:317)(cid:279)(cid:305)(cid:302)(cid:254)(cid:3)(cid:279)(cid:238)(cid:3)(cid:209)(cid:268)(cid:268)(cid:3) grandchildren and my great- the roadway when protesters (cid:292)(cid:209)(cid:221)(cid:229)(cid:296)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:279)(cid:3)(cid:209)(cid:221)(cid:302)(cid:255)(cid:279)(cid:274)(cid:553) grandchildren,” said Gerry dispersed just before 4 p.m. ‘Teach-ins’ and hashtags The local strong connection with this November and December. roots of a province. The movement started national The movement’s found- getting wider exposure ers — Nina Wilson, Sylvia through the #IdleNoMore protest McAdam, Jessica Gordon hashtag and other social and Sheelah McLean — media. Today many aborig- started organizing “teach- inals across the country and ins” in Saskatoon, Regina even internationally have The Saskatchewan-born Idle and Prince Albert to bring rallied behind the move- No More movement sweep- awareness of the federal ment. ing across the country has a government’s Bill C-45 in JEFF MACKEY/METRO Special delivery Nickels next? Bow wow Regina’s New Year’s baby A former Bank of Canada Sask. fiddle player Karrnnel A fl ag-carrying Idle No More protester watches as police divert traffi c around a blockade set up at St. Charles Street and was born nine hours after economist says pennies are Sawitsky felt ‘like a rock star’ Portage Avenue in Winnipeg, Wednesday. The demonstration lasted three hours and forced traffi c on the Trans-Canada midnight PAGE 2 not the only obsolete coin PAGE 6 on a recent European tour PAGE 8 Highway to be rerouted around the Perimeter Highway until 4 p.m. SHANE GIBSON/METRO IN WINNIPEG 02 NEWS metronews.ca Thursday, January 3, 2013 Death now deemed city’s seventh homicide of 2012 Suspicious. The death Regina’s homicide list of the 26-year-old man S confi rmed as the fi nal (cid:580)(cid:3) Jan. 25 on the 2000 block homicide of the year of Edgar Street. Victim’s name: Elise Anne Cote. W (cid:580)(cid:3) June 22 on the 600 block Regina Police Service were of Garnet Stree. Victim’s called to the 1100 block of Rob- name: Natalia Marie Dawn inson Street at 12:35 a.m. Mon- Shingoose. day and found Delvin Charles Mike critically injured in the al- (cid:580)(cid:3) July 8 at 5th Avenue and ley. Police performed CPR until Retallack Street. Victim’s EMS arrived and transported name: Derrick Justin E the victim to hospital, where he Amyotte. later died of his injuries. Elizabeth Popowich, man- (cid:580)(cid:3) Aug. 1 at 1400 14th ager of public information and Avenue, (police called to strategic communication with hospital). Victim’s name: N the RPS, says they are still in June Alexis Dawn Goforth. the early stages of investigation and would not comment on (cid:580)(cid:3) Oct. 19 (discovered) at 1300 block of Grey Street. how Mike died. Victim’s name: Mavor Leo “One of the things about an James Demerchant. investigation like this is that when you are dealing with a (cid:580)(cid:3) Dec. 14 (discovered) at suspicious death or a homi- 1100 block of Cameron cide, now in this case, there is Street. Victim’s name: Tara a criminal investigation under- Fawn Chartrand. way. One of the really import- ant things for us is that the (cid:580)(cid:3) Dec. 31 at the 1100 block person or persons responsible of Robinson Street. be held accountable so it’s Victim’s name: Delvin quite deliberate that we don’t Charles Mike. release a whole lot of detail,” said Popowich. Police have se- cured a large area believed to be the potential crime scene 777-6500 or Crime Stoppers at and are asking for anyone with 1-800-222-8477. The death of a 26-year-old man found injured in an alley in Regina’s North Central is now being investigated as a information to contact them at ALYSSA MCDONALD/METRO homicide. ALYSSA MCDONALD/METRO Regina, meet your 2013 New Year’s baby At around 9 a.m. on Jan. Both Zachariah and his 1 Regina was delivered its Quoted new mom are still in hospi- newest — and perhaps tini- tal. “I always liked the name. I est resident. “I am not sure when we Zachariah Liu, weigh- am a Presbyterian and the get to bring him home,” said ing in at seven pounds and name means ‘God remem- Liu. “Given that he and his four ounces, is Regina’s New mom are healthy, we are bers’ so it is a fi tting name Year’s baby for 2013 and his hoping that they will be parents Alex Liu and Kitty for my boy, I suppose.” coming home Thursday or Deng, as well as his two- Friday.” Alex Liu year-old sister Eilyse, were On naming his son Zachariah Liu said the name Zach- happy to welcome him into ariah has special meaning this world. cross his mind that little to him. “He and his mother are Zachariah might be the New “I always liked the name. both doing very well,” Liu, Year’s baby. I am a Presbyterian and the the proud father, said. “It is “Not at all, we never did name means ‘God remem- joyous, but at the same time expect it because his due bers’ so it is a fitting name I don’t know how much date was on the 10th (of for my boy, I suppose,” said Newborn Zachariah Liu is all bundled up after a very eventful New Year’s. work this all will take.” January), so he came quite a Liu. ALEX LIU/CONTRIBUTED Liu said it didn’t ever bit early,” said Liu. JEFF MACKEY/METRO John Diefenbaker Deadly crashes Found unconscious in crashes in the RCMP’s old resident of the Red jurisdiction alone, which Earth First Nation, was Former PM’s Distracted drivers Murder charges doesn’t include all cities. found unconscious on the home in Sask. fuel record road Dawson says after laid after New reserve early yesterday mor- impaired driving, distracted ning and was declared dead needs repairs deaths in 2012 driving was a big problem. Year’s Day fi ght on arrival at the hospital in Distracted driving Nipawin. The Prince Albert Historical RCMP in Saskatchewan say includes people using a cell- Murder charges have been Lenny Head and Tyson Society in Saskatchewan distracted driving is on the phone or eating while behind laid against three people Whitehead, who are also is looking for money to rise and contributed to a the wheel. after a New Year’s Day fight reserve residents, appeared help renovate the home record number of road deaths The Saskatchewan Gov- on a Saskatchewan reserve in a Nipawin court Wednes- of Canada’s 13th prime in 2012. ernment Insurance says there led to the death of a young day morning charged with minister, John Diefenbaker. Sgt. Paul Dawson says were 173 fatalities as of mid- man. second-degree murder. THE CANADIAN PRESS/CKBI 162 people were killed December. THE CANADIAN PRESS Duril McKay, a 20-year- THE CANADIAN PRESS metronews.ca NEWS 03 Thursday, January 3, 2013 Court battle. Sperm donor could be on the hook for child support payments A sperm donor in the U.S. is fighting an effort to force him to pay child support for a child conceived through artificial in- semination by a lesbian couple. When 46-year-old Wil- liam Marotta donated sperm to Angela Bauer and Jennifer Schreiner in 2009, Marotta re- linquished all parental rights, including financial responsibil- ity to the child. When Bauer and Schreiner filed for state as- sistance in Kansas this year, the William Marotta is being asked state demanded the donor’s to pay child support after providing name so it could collect child sperm to a same-sex couple. support for the now three-year- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS old girl. The state contends the Children and Families, said in a agreement between Marotta statement. and the women is not valid Bauer and Schreiner because Kansas law requires a have said they fully support licensed physician to perform Marotta’s efforts to fight the artificial insemination. state’s request. When Bauer “If a sperm donor makes was diagnosed in March with his contribution through a li- what she calls “a significant censed physician and a child illness” that prevents her from Chris Christie speaks at a news conference at New Jersey’s State House on Wednesday in Trenton, N.J. Christie blasted fellow Republican John Boehner for the is conceived, the donor is held working, Schreiner sought House Speaker’s decision Tuesday to delay a vote on Superstorm Sandy relief and says the inaction is “inexcusable.” NEW JERSEY GOVERNOR’S OFFICE/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS harmless under state statute. health insurance for their In cases where the parties do daughter from the state. The Congress to vote Friday not go through a physician or a DCF told Schreiner if she didn’t clinic, there remains the ques- provide the sperm donor’s tion of who actually is the fath- name, it would deny any health er of a child or children,” An- benefits because she was with- gela de Rocha, a spokeswoman holding information. on Superstorm Sandy aid for the Kansas Department for THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Movie theatre shooting. Rebuilding stage. Republican Rep. Peter King of it was the right time to sched- On the table Families of victims reject New York said after emerging ule the vote before the current Money from House from a meeting with Boehner Congress went out of business. invitation to reopening votes could result in and Republican lawmakers King left the session with The House Appropriations a roughly $60-billion from New York and New Jer- Boehner without the anger Committee has drafted a sey. The votes will be taken by that led him to lash out at the smaller, $27-billion measure relief package the new Congress that will be speaker Tuesday night. for immediate recovery needs Relatives of the majority of 17. They released a letter sent sworn in Thursday. “What’s done is done. The and a second amendment for people killed in a Colorado to the theatre’s owner, Cine- Boehner’s decision Tuesday end result will be New York, $33 billion to meet longer- movie theatre rejected an invi- mark, in which they criticized night to cancel an expected New Jersey and Connecticut term needs. tation on Wednesday to attend the Texas-based company for The leader of the U.S. House vote on the storm aid before will receive the funding they its reopening this month, call- not previously reaching out to agreed Wednesday to a Congress ends its current ses- deserve. We made our position (cid:580)(cid:3) The $9 billion in flood ing it a “disgusting offer’’ that them to offer condolences and vote this week on aid for sion had provoked a firestorm clear last night. That’s in the insurance money to be came at a terrible time — right refusing to meet with them Superstorm Sandy recovery, of criticism from New York, past,” King said. voted on was originally in after the first Christmas with- without lawyers. changing course after coming New Jersey and adjacent states, Sandy was blamed for at the $27-billion measure. out their loved ones. “Our family members under intense pressure from including many lawmakers in least 120 deaths and battered The parents, grandparents, will never be on this earth angry fellow Republicans. his own party. coastline areas from North (cid:580)(cid:3) The votes on Jan. 15 will cousins and widow of nine with us again and a movie House Speaker John Boeh- According to King, Boeh- Carolina to Maine in October. be for $18 billion in im- of the 12 people killed said ticket and some token words ner will schedule a vote Friday ner explained that after the New York, New Jersey and Con- mediate assistance and they were asked to attend an from people who didn’t care for $9 billion for the national contentious vote this week to necticut were the hardest hit $33 billion for longer-term “evening of remembrance” enough to reach out to us ... is flood insurance program and avoid major tax increases and states and suffered high winds, projects, including protec- followed by a movie when the appalling,” the letter said. another on Jan. 15 for a remain- spending cuts called the “fis- flooding and storm surges. tion against future storms. Aurora theatre reopens on Jan. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ing $51 billion in the package, cal cliff,” Boehner didn’t think THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Fatal crash New Year’s Day Mishandling debt could be ‘catastrophic’: Obama Paparazzo killed 3 teens dead trying to snap after alleged A last-minute deal in Congress Americans while preventing The U.S. officially hit that debt to avoid the economy-shaking tax hikes that could have sent limit Monday. “If Congress re- Bieber photo plane joyride “fiscal cliff” sent world stocks the economy back into reces- fuses to give the United States climbing Wednesday, but sion.” Then he left for Hawaii government the ability to pay A paparazzo was struck Authorities believe that doesn’t solve the problem of to resume his holiday break. these bills on time, the conse- and killed by a car while a trio of U.S. teenagers the massive U.S. deficit, mean- Congress also will have to quences for the entire global darting across a street took a small airplane on a ing other battles on deep act as early as February on rais- economy would be catastroph- after taking pictures of joyride without permis- spending cuts and the federal ing the $16.4-trillion federal ic — far worse than the impact Justin Bieber’s Ferrari sion before it crashed, debt limit loom in the coming borrowing limit, which will al- of a fiscal cliff,’’ Obama said. when it was pulled over killing them all. The plane weeks and months. low the country to pay its bills. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS along a freeway in Los crashed Tuesday night in All the major U.S. stock in- Angeles, police said Wed- Alabama. dexes jumped by at least two nesday. “I think they were just Northern perspective per cent, and the Dow Jones in- Bieber was not in the looking for a thrill, and dustrial average saw its biggest car at the time. The singer they had their last one,” U.S. stocks surged as traders around surge in six months. “Canada welcomes the agreement reached later said his prayers were Walker County sheriff’s the globe felt renewed confidence A smiling President Barack between the president and the Congress. ... with the family of the Chief Deputy James over global markets after Congress Obama said he would sign That said, there remain ... significant risks to 29-year-old photographer. Painter said. reached a deal to avert the fiscal the law “that raises taxes on THE ASSOCIATED PRESS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS cliff. SPENCER PLATT/GETTY IMAGES the wealthiest two per cent of the U.S. economic outlook.” Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty 04 NEWS metronews.ca Thursday, January 3, 2013 Owner of lost lobsters and gifts tracked down Stacey Nash’s Christmas vacation involved missing lobsters, the police and one thoughtful bus driver. “This will be a story we’ll never forget,” Nash said. On Wednesday morning, Halifax Regional Police issued a release asking for the public’s help in finding the owner of a suitcase filled with frozen lobsters and Christmas gifts. A Metro Transit driver had turned it into police be- fore noon after spotting it on Monday. “Given the nature of the items, whoever owned it was Simon Beck creates gigantic lacework designs in the ski hills of France using nothing but snowshoes, an orienteering not local,” police spokesman compass and some string. FACEBOOK Const. Pierre Bourdages said. “It paid off to alert the pub- Ski hills, frozen lic.” Thanks to a tip from some- one who read the release and saw a Kijiji ad by Nash’s sis- Krista Nash holds a suitcase and a bag full of frozen seafood after retrieving ter-in-law about the missing her sister-in-law Stacey’s lost luggage from the Halifax Regional Police lakes are this suitcase, police called her in station on Wednesday afternoon. DEVAAN INGRAHAM/FOR METRO IN HALIFAX Toronto less than an hour later. flight back to Ontario, after Christmas gifts besides the Nash said she was “just so her first holiday visit to Hali- three large lobsters — Nash happy” everything was safe. fax in 20 years. said she was upset, but had “I never eat seafood here “He said, ‘Stacey, you’re to board the plane. man’s canvases in Toronto,” said Nash, who going to have to do with- Stacey’s sister-in-law, is originally from Shelburne, out your lobster,’” Nash said Krista Nash, picked up the N.S. “It’s just not the same.” when he saw the back of the suitcase on Wednesday after- The suitcase was lost at truck was open. noon from police and is mak- about 6 a.m. on Monday When she realized the ing plans with Nash on how when Nash’s brother drove luggage was gone — along to ship the luggage to Toron- Sub-zero spectacles. her to the airport to catch a with a Wii, clothing and to. HALEY RYAN/METRO IN HALIFAX Quoted Simon Beck spends up “For the accurate work in the early stages, it is a Canadian newborns — you could to 10 hours stomping matter of maintaining focus and not making a mis- in the snow to create take. Later on I listen to (classical) music.” have it better in eight other nations his works of art Simon Beck ing tape. Kyoto, where sand is raked in Canada pulls in at No. 9 in The First and the worst Quality of family life is Simon Beck creates gigantic Then he starts stomping in patterns that are the closest Economist’s ranking of the based primarily on divorce lacework designs in the ski the snow, guided on the curves thing I have seen elsewhere to best places to be born in 2013. rates, said Laza Kekic of the hills of France using nothing by his eye or “arcs of circle the effect I achieve with snow.” It’s a slight slip from the Switzerland topped the list, Economist Intelligence Unit. but snowshoes, an orienteering using a clothesline attached to Beck prefers frozen lakes to fifth place Canada held in while Nigeria was last (80th). Job security is calculated by compass and some string. an anchor at the centre.” mountainsides because they’re the magazine’s slightly more unemployment rates and Each work of geometric Beck photographs each de- flat. His ideal working condi- whimsical 1988 list. gender equality by the num- art takes 10 hours on average. sign and posts it on his Snow tions are a heavy snowfall fol- A quarter-century ago, yawn index in 1988. ber of seats in parliament held Some fill an entire hillside. Art page with the hope it will lowed by six cold and clear days The Economist gave Canada This time, the magazine by women. “Some are a little un- get maximum exposure. to preserve the swirls and lines. maximum bonus points for said, its scores have turned The U.S. plunged to 16th finished, if my feet get cold or He has his favourite geo- He’s been designing near scenery and “having the most “deadly serious.” Rankings from first in 1988, since it hurt too much,” the 54-year-old metric designs, he says: the his winter apartment at the ski desirable passport,” as well are calculated through a mix could no longer capitalize on Englishman says in a question Mandelbrot set, the Koch curve resort since Christmas 2004, as good marks for lack of cul- of wealth, crime rate, trust The Economist’s generous and answer section on his Face- and the Sierpinski triangle. but as his fame has spread in tural poverty. Canada got a in public institutions and the points for culture and not be- book site. “They have gradually grown the last year, Beck is consid- predictably low score on the health of family life. ing boring. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE The work, he says, is often more complicated as I have got ering new snow fields. finished in the quiet of the better at doing them. “If things in Arctic Norway New Year’s Eve babies Calgary Fatal encounter night with a headlamp, away “They are easy to do, but continue to look good, I shall from skiers who think he’s a also very easy to get wrong. The go up there after the season Twins give birth to Hundreds affected No pit bull ban in little nuts. hardest part is avoiding a ‘stu- has ended here for more art, “I hope to spread the pid’ mistake and the most fre- then next season I plan to sort sons 2 hours apart by fuel mix-up Calgary, despite message the mountains and quent cause of those is a wrong out some assistants and ex- snow are beautiful and worth aiming point. pand my snow art activities, Aiden Lee Alan Dilts and Hundreds have been forced death of dog preserving, and there are bet- “A lot of the inspiration with visits to other local resorts Donavyn Scott Bratten to park their vehicles after ter things in life than spending for the snow art comes from and possibly a tour.” didn’t wait until New Year’s a mix-up between regular Calgary has no plans to ban so much time doing things you the gardens in the temples in TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE Day to come screaming gas and diesel fuel at a or otherwise restrict pit don’t want to so that you can into the world, but the cir- Calgary gas station. bulls after three of the dogs spend money you haven’t got cumstances of their births Co-op spokesperson were involved in a fatal en- (yet) to buy things you don’t are still pretty special: The Karen Allan said on Dec. 26 counter in a city dog park. need to impress people you babies were born about two that its fuel supplier mis- A Pomeranian died in don’t like,” Beck says in ex- hours apart to Ohio moth- takenly filled the regular the incident on Monday, plaining his rationale. ers who are identical twins. gas storage tank at a south while another dog, a Great Beck works in the snow and The Akron Beacon Jour- Calgary gas bar with diesel Pyrenees, was injured, frozen lakes around the French nal reports that 19-year-old fuel. after both off-leash animals ski resort of Les Arcs, where mothers Aimee and Ashlee It wasn’t until some approached a man walking he lives for most of the winter. Nelson both gave birth on 500 vehicles had been three leashed pit bulls. An orienteering map-maker Monday even though their fuelled that a customer City officials seized the by trade, he starts out with a due dates were about a brought the problem to pit bulls, which are due to sketch, then plots out his de- week apart. the station’s attention. undergo behaviour tests. signs outside using a compass THE ASSOCIATED PRESS KATIE TURNER/METRO IN CALGARY ROBSON FLETCHER/METRO IN CALGARY and pace counting or measur- These drawings are on Lac Marlou in the ski hills of France. FACEBOOK metronews.ca NEWS 05 Thursday, January 3, 2013 Newtown kids will return to class in new ‘Sandy Hook’ Shooting survivors. They’re the Sandy Hook family,” Robinson said after School in neighbouring a news conference at a park town has been in Monroe a few kilometres renamed, renovated from the school, which will open for classes Thursday and garrisoned by a morning. An open house was team of police officers held for parents and students on Wednesday. The school where the shootings occurred remains The children who escaped closed and guarded by police. last month’s shootings at Newtown officials haven’t a Connecticut elementary decided yet on the building’s school will be returning to future. classes in a neighbouring It’s been nearly three town in a refurbished school weeks since the Dec. 14 mas- now named after their old sacre, when gunman Adam one, school officials said Lanza killed 20 students and Wednesday. six educators. Newtown Superintendent Numerous police officers of Schools Janet Robinson an- on Wednesday guarded the nounced that the students’ outside of the Monroe school, new school, the former Chalk which is about 11 kilometres Hill Middle School in Mon- from the old school. roe, has been renamed Sandy Teams of workers, many Hook Elementary School. She of them volunteers, pre- said the Sandy Hook staff pared the Chalk Hill school made that decision. with fresh paint and new “That’s who they are. furniture and even raised bathroom floors so the smaller elementary school On guard students can reach the toi- lets. The students’ desks, “I think right now it has backpacks and other belong- to be the safest school ings that were left behind in America.” following the shooting were taken to the new school to Monroe police Lt. Keith White on the level make them feel at home. of security at the new school. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Counsellors say it’s important for children to get back to a normal routine and for teachers and parents to offer reassurances. JESSICA HILL/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Syrian death toll at 60,000: UN Lost. Woman missing for months allegedly killed The United Nations esti- Deadly conflagration in Pakistan over finances mated Wednesday that more than 60,000 people have been killed in Syria’s A regime airstrike on a gas A lawyer says a Canadian- told a court Wednesday that 21-month-old uprising station in a Damascus sub- Indian woman missing since a suspect confessed to killing against authoritarian rule, urb on Wednesday pushed August has been killed in the woman. a toll one-third higher than the death toll even higher. eastern Pakistan. A police officer said the what anti-regime activists The woman, Rajvinder suspect confessed to working had counted. The UN human (cid:580)(cid:3) Anti-government activ- Gill, went to Pakistan to try with a German of Pakistani rights chief called the toll ists said dozens were to settle a financial dispute, origin who was involved in “truly shocking.” killed when the strike but disappeared. the dispute, and together Opposition activist ignited an inferno and Her father went to the po- they killed the woman. groups had been estimating left behind a gruesome lice after she didn’t contact The suspect said the the death toll at more than trail of charred bodies. her family for weeks. second man has fled the 45,000 and this was the first The lawyer, Aftab Bajwa, country. time that the UN estimate (cid:580)(cid:3) It may be the bloodiest who represents the woman’s Police have not yet man- was higher. attack in weeks. father, said the police chief aged to locate the woman. “Given there has been no of the eastern city of Lahore THE ASSOCIATED PRESS let up in the conflict since the end of November, we dled at the edges while Syria Banned weapons can assume that more than burns.” its ban on the export of 60,000 people have been The real death toll is assault-style weapons to Co- Canada opens gun killed by the beginning of likely to be even greater be- lombia after Foreign Affairs 2013,” UN High Commission- cause reports containing in- trade to Colombia Minister John Baird recom- er for Human Rights Navi Pil- complete information were mended an order amending lay said in a statement. “The excluded and a significant Just one day before last the Automatic Firearms number of casualties is much number of killings may not month’s school massacre in Country Control List. higher than we expected and have been documented at all Newtown, Conn., Canada Despite its impressive is truly shocking,” she added. by the sources available. offered its gun merchants economic growth, Co- “The failure of the inter- “There are many names “new market opportun- lombia is host to serious national community, in par- not on the list for people ities” to export banned as- human rights violations, a ticular the Security Council, who were quietly shot in the sault weapons to Colombia, 50-year guerilla insurgency to take concrete actions woods,” Pillay’s spokesman, one of the world’s most and world-leading cocaine to stop the blood-letting, Rupert Colville, told The As- violent countries. production. The scene on Dec. 17 after a mortar shell hit a street, killing several people shames us all,” Pillay said. sociated Press. Canada quietly eased THE CANADIAN PRESS in Aleppo, Syria. NARCISO CONTRERAS/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE “Collectively, we have fid- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 06 BUSINESS metronews.ca Thursday, January 3, 2013 Chump change: Are nickels Time to empty the piggy bank. Penny collection starts Feb. 4 next on chopping block? Jim Flaherty is setting his sights Costly coinage on your pennies. The federal finance minister is reminding Canadians that starting Feb. 4, (cid:580)(cid:3) The last pennies minted Coins we don’t love tshtoep Rdoiysatrl ibCuatninagd iapne nMniinest awnildl oabno Muta y1 .46 icne nWtsin enaicphe gto c ost anymore. Some say instead start collecting them manufacture. five-cent piece is also from banks and other financial becoming obsolete, institutions. (cid:580)(cid:3) Even though Finance Can- Flaherty says he’ll take every ada faces a one-time net and should follow advantage over the next month cost of $38 million to retire penny into the sunset to remind Canadians that the the penny, the long-term supply of pennies will start to savings to government diminish as a result. and to the economy will In his March budget, be substantial. As the penny is set to begin re- Flaherty unexpectedly an- tirement next month, there are nounced the demise of the one- already calls to put the nickel cent piece, saying pennies cost actions will still be calculated out to pasture as well. too much to manufacture and down to the individual cent. The Royal Canadian Mint are a nuisance to many Can- A cabinet order last month starts collecting one-cent coins adians. gave Flaherty the authority on Feb. 4 for melting and re- After Feb. 4, cash trans- to pay financial institutions cycling of the metal content, actions will have to be rounded for the mountains of pennies with some six billion pennies to the nearest five-cent incre- they’ll begin to return to the expected to be surrendered by ment, but electronic trans- mint. THE CANADIAN PRESS Canadians over the next six years. Market Minute Finance Minister Jim Flaherty announced the sur- The federal government is retiring the penny, and some think the nickel should be next in line. THE CANADIAN PRESS FILE TSX prise demise in last year’s 12,540.77 (+107.24) DOLLAR budget, saying the penny had said in an interview. the penny should actually have Aubry argues the nickel will become a nuisance. A retired 30-year veteran of been killed in about 1982. soon hit the same tipping point 101.50¢ And a former Bank of Can- the Bank of Canada, Aubry has That was a tipping point, as the penny did in 1982, as Can- (+0.99¢) OIL ada economist says the nickel been a leading proponent of more Canadians hoarded the adians hoard them in greater $93.12 US (+$1.30) is also becoming obsolete, and withdrawing the one-cent piece coins and the Royal Canadian numbers, forcing the mint to should be next in line for retire- from circulation. Mint was pressed to churn out distribute up to 350 million Natural gas: $3.23 US (-12¢) GOLD ment. In papers and presentations billions more to keep retailers each year to meet retail de- Dow Jones: 13,412.55 (+308.41) $1,688.80 US (+$13) “We see less and less people for Desjardins Group over the stocked, costing the govern- mand. “It’s a sign that the coin now ... digging in their wallets last few years, Aubry used eco- ment up to $11 million annu- is not well used,” he said. for nickels,” Jean-Pierre Aubry nomic models to show that ally. 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At Siam Paragon, the smartphone there for the THE ASSOCIATED PRESS metronews.ca VOICES 07 Thursday, January 3, 2013 LEAVING HIS From police box to mailbox SINGLE-DUDE WAYS IN THE DUST Year after year I make tough HE SAYS... New Year’s resolutions in an John Mazerolle attempt to mend my bachelor- metronews.ca/voices/ hood ways, such as resolving he-says to regularly dust the TV with a cloth, rather than running my hand over the screen every six months and exclaiming, “Wow, that’s dusty!” Well, I’m happy to say that in the past year I’ve finally made some progress. I no longer own a television. In your face, dust. Cough, cough. And in the kitchen, a friend of mine brought me 12 basic spices this year and, I must say, they really spruce up the windowsill. Many of my other single-dude problems remain, however. I just don’t have the right attitude. Share and share alike I notice this in news- rooms where different shifts I consider a keyboard share the same computers. sticky with the previous Some of my co-workers start user’s Snickers bar a their shifts with spray and cloths and hand sanitizer, tasty value-add, similar as if they’ll be using their to a mint on your pillow. desks for open-heart surgery. Meanwhile, I consider a keyboard sticky with the previous user’s Snickers bar a tasty value-add, similar to a mint on your pillow. 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CONTRIBUTED Not just fi ddling around Karrnnel Sawitsky. deciding to leave a promising supportive of his passion for it more as a means to an end. Giving back hockey career, which saw him folk music, but also says the “Obviously it’s nice to Award-winning fi ddle play two years of junior hockey pop music scene provided win and have an award at player has three at Notre Dame in Wilcox. him with inspiration. home on your mantle, but I Sawitsky and his girlfriend, albums in the works Oh, and he was also a mod- “I think when Natalie Mac- think it’s more about getting actress Amy Matysio, took ad- el for a short time. Master and Ashley MacIsaac people to know your name vantage of a trip to New York But none of those profes- made it big a few years back, and pulling more people into last spring and shot a video sions held the allure of the that created a sense of ‘you your shows and your music.” for his single 101. He will be BACKSTAGE passion he chose to pursue: can actually do this.’” A whole new audience donating a portion of proceeds PASS fiddling. “I started when I was Now it is Sawitsky’s suc- was exposed to that music in from the single sales on iTunes Simon Hiatt four,” Sawitsky said. “And just cess that may be provid- late 2012 as Karrnnel and his in support of Hurricane Sandy [email protected] seeing my older sisters do it I ing inspiration for the next band Fretless were invited to relief efforts. thought, ‘Oh, that’s the cool generation of young fiddle do a five-week tour of Europe. thing, I want to be cool like players. Last year alone he “We didn’t really know As impressive as the suc- my sisters.’” received a Saskatchewan what to expect but we got continue to grow in 2013 as cess Karrnnel Sawitsky has While being a fiddle Lieutenant Governor Arts there and we were treated Karrnnel may release as many achieved in his chosen field, so player might not necessarily Award and Western Canadian like absolute gold. As a fiddle as three albums, including is the list of potential careers be everyone’s definition of Music Award, to go along player I’ve never felt more solo and group recordings. that he’s walked away from. “cool,” Karrnnel stuck with with dozens of other honours like a rock star,” Sawitsky Karrnnel will perform in He received his degree in the instrument through his throughout his career. said. “The response from the Saskatoon at the Bassment on engineering from the Uni- teenage years. He credits his But he downplays the recog- crowds was phenomenal.” Feb. 1 and in Regina at the Mid- versity of Saskatchewan after friends and family for being nition he has received, viewing And the fan base should Winter Celtic Festival on Feb. 2. Sharability :38 easy hard metronews.ca DISH 09 Thursday, January 3, 2013 A year in music: Top 5 METRO DISH chart toppers of 2012 OUR TAKE ON THE WORLD OF CELEBRITIES Music. From Gangnam Style to Call Me Maybe, Metro looks back at some of the year’s biggest hits Top 5 albums/singles 1Frank Ocean’s Channel Orange 2TIE: Father John Misty’s Fear Fun and PSY’s Gang- nam Style Carly Rae Jepsen. GETTY IMAGES 3Carly Rae Jepsen’s Call Me Maybe Editor’s picks 4Gotye’s Somebody That I Music editor Used to Know entries, Big Boi and Frank Pat Healy’s Ocean, I think both are 5TaInEd: RKieh$ahnan’sa ’Ws Dariarimoronds Top 5 rpeuaslhly t dhoeiinr gg egnrereast ftohrinwgasr dto. Big Boi took a brave tact on this most recent album, How did we all leave We Are 1. Father John Misty’s Fear which also didn’t make Young by Fun. off this list? Is Fun many lists (presumably due it because we’re all too old to 2. Michael Kiwanuka’s to its December release sing that song out loud? Or Home Again date). Instead of just a few is it that the opening of the Father John Misty made 2012’s Top 5 with Fear Fun. CONTRIBUTED/MAXIMILLA LUKACS 3. Big Boi’s Vicious Lies and indie collaborations here song is just too schlocky to Dangerous Rumors and there, like he has done make it all worth the amaz- cause I hadn’t heard them be- I still haven’t even seen the I didn’t want to turn off im- 4. Frank Ocean’s Channel in the past, almost every ing chorus? Seriously, if that fore. Ke$ha has finally been Gangnam Style video, but I mediately. Who’s old and Orange track is a collaboration song was the chorus alone, the first to inspire me to call somehow know the dance. I grumpy? This girl — this girl 5. TIE: Bruce Springsteen’s with either Phantogram or it would be the song of the something “devil music” in personally enjoyed Britney right here. MONICA WEYMOUTH Wrecking Ball and The Little Dragon. The results year. To tell you the truth, an unflattering way. trying her hand (at) it while Walkmen’s Heaven are completely original. it probably still will be any- HEIDI PATALANO appearing on Ellen, but why Oh man, Monica, give Mercy Frank Ocean’s results way. Also, here’s where I’m a was she dressed like a flight a chance! There’s so much This was a weird year for are completely original too. little bit of a jerk: That Gotye Another bit of food for attendant for that episode? going on in this track. I love music. For the first time, I It really is like he is on the song officially started get- thought: Would Gangnam MEREDITH ENG how it flawlessly switches feel like there was actually forefront of bringing a much- ting airplay last year. PAT HEALY Style make the list if there between winding dancehall too much to listen to. Look needed update to R&B. The weren’t a video? People prob- I think a prerequisite for best to some gritty southern rap at the top lists of any major new school, which includes Somebody That I Used to ably posed the same question song of the year means we all while maintaining a cool, publication and there are Miguel and The Weeknd, Know stays on the list because about Duran Duran in 1982, can sing along with it. Oh dark undertone and then sud- very few similarities. never knew a world where it made me think there was and it’s strange how this bit man, I’m such a xenophobe. denly taking a left turn to an I, for one, am surprised hip-hop didn’t exist and that this really great Police song of devil’s advocacy is still rel- DOROTHY ROBINSON electronic dance party. Yup, more outlets aren’t prais- has formed their worldview from the ’80s recently dis- evant in 2012. But seriously, you have to bring ALL your ing the stellar songcraft in such a unique way that covered and newly released. in an age where music videos What about Kanye this year? moves to the floor. Adding of Father John Misty and the old soulsters didn’t have. I think I just proved your old aren’t shown on regular TV Did anybody vote for Cruel to the awesomeness is the Michael Kiwanuka. Neither And in fifth place, maybe fogies theory. AMBER RAY anymore, it is interesting that Summer? PAT HEALY all-black ninja-Bedouin looks are reinventing the wheel. it’s just loyalty, but two of a video made such a huge cul- everyone sports in the styl- In fact, both seem very my favourite acts released al- Maybe this supports the argu- tural and musical splash. I say this every single year, ized video. 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