Metro Toronto - January 10, 2013

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Meet the new boss,
same as the old boss?
If you build it, someone
Not there yet
else will take over. New
“People will look back
Leafs GM Dave Nonis says
in four or fi ve years from
Brian Burke assembled
now and realize that
the ‘building blocks’ of a Brian Burke did the work
successful team that led to success.”
Dave Nonis, Maple Leafs’ new GM
The shock of Brian Burke’s semble the “building blocks”
firing lingered Wednesday of a successful team.
after the Maple Leafs stunned Saying the change in
the hockey world by axing leadership was about looking
their GM just days before the for “a different voice,” rather
opening of training camp and than a change in team phil-
the NHL’s lockout-shortened osophy, MLSE president Tom
season. Anselmi said the decision was
Burke, whose record in To- months in the making.
ronto never matched his bom- “The news is coming as a
bastic style, still had two years shock, but the decision didn’t
and $6 million remaining on happen overnight,” he said.
the six-year, $18-million con- It was suggested at Wed-
tract he signed in November nesday’s press conference that
2008 with promises to return MLSE’s new leadership simply
the franchise to its former didn’t like Burke’s aggressive
glory. style and persona.
Brian Burke, left, fi red by the Toronto Maple leafs on Wednesday, has been replaced by his assistant and longtime protégé Dave Nonis. But the team’s corporate “Brian had a style and we
PHOTOS: BRUCE BENNETT/GETTY IMAGES AND CHRIS YOUNG/THE CANADIAN PRESS; STREETERS COMPILED BY: JESSICA SMITH/METRO executives appear to have lost knew what we were getting
their appetite for Burke’s blus- into when he was brought
Shock and optimism from fans ter, especially as the team’s in,” Anselmi said, adding,
on-ice fortunes continued however, that there are now
Douglas Hurst, bartender at The Miller Fredrick Mezi, hotdog vendor near ACC to sag. “sober second thoughts” on
Tavern on Bay Street, across from the ACC (cid:580)(cid:580)(cid:580)(cid:580)(cid:580) Burke will be replaced by Burke’s tenure.
(cid:580)(cid:580)(cid:580)(cid:580)(cid:580) “All these American teams are winning the Dave Nonis, his assistant and “Did the four years of mis-
“It was very surprising, shocking. I felt Stanley Cup, when’s it Canada’s turn? But longtime protégé, on an in- sing the playoffs factor into
bad because I know this guy as a regular Brian Burke — I don’t think it’s his fault. It’s terim basis. Nonis, 46, also the discussion with the share-
coming in here and he’s the sweetest, the hockey stars: They’ve got to work replaced Burke nine years ago holders? Sure it did ...”
nicest, most normal guy. together. Just like the hotdog vendors: We to become general manager Anselmi said Burke’s firing
work together, too, you know.” of the Vancouver Canucks fol- had nothing to do with ru-
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“We’re not going to spend for goalie Roberto Luongo. He
“I was shocked. I didn’t think it would “I was pretty happy about it. I didn’t feel a lot of time grieving.... We also said Burke would stay on
happen this year, with the short year. I like he really did a whole lot during his have things to do,” said Nonis, in the organization as a senior
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metronews.ca NEWS 03
Thursday, January 10, 2013
Tax? Toll?
Fares? asks
Metrolinx
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The Big Move. The Commitment
Ontario agency kicks off
a roundtable series next The province has committed E
week to let the public about $16 billion toward vari-
ous projects in the $50-bil-
discuss its regional lion, 25-year plan. But taxes,
transportation plan tolls and other fees will be
needed to get the remaining W
projects moving and keep
gridlock from stunting the
It’s being billed as the Big Con- region’s economy.
versation. But it represents a
big hope to transit advocates
and civic leaders eager for signs ables, though, Metrolinx made
the province is prepared to do no mention of taxes or tolls.
something politically risky: That’s because, more than S
Imposing taxes dedicated to a four years after Metrolinx re-
massive regional transit expan- leased The Big Move, the public
sion. Metrolinx has announced still doesn’t understand it, said
plans for 12 regional roundt- Dina Graser, director of com-
ables, beginning in Oakville on munity and stakeholder rela-
Tuesday. tions.
They’re the first plank in “Of course (the roundtables)
a public engagement process will talk about the need for
Sisters talk Heartthrob leading up to a June release of transportation investment, but
the provincial agency’s invest- they’re also really about getting
ment strategy — a plan for people to understand not just
Indie rock sweethearts Tegan and Sara stopped by MuchMusic HQ Wednesday to chat with NEW.MUSIC.LIVE. how the region will raise about who Metrolinx is, but what is
host Scott Willats about their new album Heartthrob, their seventh studio album, dropping in stores Jan. 29. $2 billion annually to build The Big Move.... People need to
The Calgary-born sisters were recently nominated in the Grammy category for best long form music video for the transit improvements pre- understand what they’re pay-
their DVD documentary Get Along. PHOTO COURTESY OF MUCHMUSIC scribed in Metrolinx’s The Big ing for before you get into the
Move regional plan. conversation of how you’re pay-
In announcing the roundt- ing for it.” TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
Porter Airlines representing the workers said ‘It’s an epidemic’ Toronto Animal Services
it was concerned that the
replacements do not have the
Workers who fuel Mississaugans’ top Accused dog
skills to do the job properly.
aircraft threaten The Canadian Office worry — speeders strangler can’t be
and Professional Employees
to go on strike Union says it will take those The number one complaint trusted: Judge
concerns, which include in Mississauga today is
Porter Airlines says it will safety concerns, to federal speeding. According to city Bolton’s accused dog stran-
provide regular service Labour Minister Lisa Raitt. councillors, that’s the prob- gler has been denied bail
despite a strike by employees “There will be zero impact lem they hear about most and will be held in a Toronto
who fuel the aircraft. on the business. All flights from residents. jail awaiting trial.
Twenty-two workers were will operate,” Porter spokes- “It’s an epidemic,” Coun. Police say Rita Mueller,
set to go on strike Thursday man Brad Cicero said of the Sue McFadden said. On 50, killed a Shar-Pei named
at 12:01 a.m. after talks operations at Billy Bishop Wednesday, councillors Henry in August 2012 by Rita Mueller HANDOUT
broke down with the airline Airport in Toronto. “We have voted to reduce the speed hanging it from two leashes
Wednesday. Although the a full team of staff available limit on one residential at the Toronto Animal Peace David Hunt said Muel-
company said it has other ... all fully trained and ready street. But there are hun- Services facility on Shep- ler can’t be trusted to stay
trained employees to fuel the to go.” dreds more, they say, that herd Ave. W. At her hearing away from animals if she is
aircraft, the union THE CANADIAN PRESS need it. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE Wednesday, Justice of the released. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
04 NEWS metronews.ca
Thursday, January 10, 2013
Terminal cancer Liberals warn teachers will
Pair face desperate
days with no mom
be breaking law with protest
Amanda Gray will always
remember the date: Oct.
22, 2012.
“It’s the sort of thing you
remember,” she says. “That
was when they told us she Labour strife. But union Potential consequences
had three months to live.” insists one-day rally is
Her mother, Kimber-
ley Watzl, has advanced protected under Charter (cid:580)(cid:3) Engaging in illegal strike
cervical cancer. Amanda, activity can carry a pen-
20, counted the months alty of up to $2,000 per
in her head and landed on Premier Dalton McGuinty says person and $20,000 for
the date her mom was sup- elementary school teachers a trade union, according
posed to die: Jan. 22, 2013. who have announced a one-day to the Ontario Labour
Now, as that date grows protest Friday will be taking Relations Board.
nearer, Amanda and her part in an illegal strike.
brother, Jamal, 14, face McGuinty says the teachers (cid:580)(cid:3)(cid:3) They would only be fined
an uncertain future. Since are no longer in a legal strike if the board determined
their only income is their position now that the province it was an unlawful strike,
mother’s Ontario Disability has imposed new collective gave consent to pros-
Support Program payments, agreements. ecute and a court agreed
they fear they will not be Tens of thousands of Ontario with the board’s finding.
able to fend for themselves elementary teachers and educa-
or afford a proper burial. tion workers -— including the
They have no other Toronto District School Board to break the law.
family in Toronto. Amanda — are set to participate in a The minister wouldn’t say
applied for custody of her one-day political protest Friday what kind of penalties striking
brother and won. over the government’s decision teachers may face, saying it’s A drum circle leads students, teachers and supporters as they take part in an Idle No More rally at the University
The siblings want their to impose the contracts. up to the Ontario Labour Rela- of Ottawa on Wednesday. SEAN KILPATRICK/THE CANADIAN PRESS
mom to be buried in a cem- The Elementary Teachers’ tions Board.
etery just a 10-minute bus Federation of Ontario (ETFO) The ETFO insists it’s not a with principled positions in they didn’t use their controver- wages to battle the province’s
ride from their apartment says it’s following through on strike, but a one-day political terms of democracy.” sial anti-strike law to force new $14.4-billion deficit.
at Oakwood and St. Clair. what the majority of its 76,000 protest that’s protected under But Broten said teachers contracts before a new premier Teachers may demonstrate
But the social-assistance members said they wanted the Charter of Rights and Free- are not allowed to walk out of is chosen Jan. 26. outside schools, politicians’ of-
area there is full, meaning should contracts be forced on doms. class, since they’re no longer in Instead, Broten imposed fices or decide on another lo-
it’s likely she’ll be buried at them. “This has nothing to do a legal strike position. collective agreements Jan. 3 cation. There are no plans for
a location further away. Education Minister Laurel with revenge or anger,” ETFO The union had offered a on 126,000 public school edu- further protests, but Hammond
TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE Broten urged union leaders president Sam Hammond said truce to the Liberals, promis- cators, which cut their bene- said he’s not ruling anything
Wednesday not to ask teachers Wednesday. “This has to do ing to hold off on any action if fits and froze most of their out. THE CANADIAN PRESS
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metronews.ca NEWS 05
Thursday, January 10, 2013
Brian Burke an unlikely
The League
Fantasy sports
channel wins
CRTC approval advocate for LGBT rights
Fight Media Inc. has been
given approval to operate a
fantasy sports TV channel,
allowing viewers to create,
trade and discuss players Getting tough in
on imaginary teams. Quoted
‘a macho workplace.’
The CRTC approved the
“Families, certainly across
application for a broadcast Late son inspired
licence to operate The former Leafs GM to North America, owe him
League specialty channel. a debt of gratitude.”
THE CANADIAN PRESS fight homophobia
Irene Miller, president of PFLAG’s
Toronto chapter, on Brian Burke’s dedica-
National Parole Board tion to fighting homophobia
The name Brian Burke is in-
extricably linked to sport in
Serial con artist
this city — but the now-sudden- macho workplace,” in the last
back behind bars ly former general manager of few years Burke made numer-
the Maple Leafs was not just a ous high-profile appearances
One of Canada’s most hockey man. on behalf of gay rights, speak-
notorious con artists is One of the most recognized ing for organizations like Par-
back behind bars for a little faces in the NHL had also be- ents, Families and Friends of
longer. The come a familiar one at numer- Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) in
National ous community and charitable the aim of eliminating homo-
Parole events, mostly in support of the phobia in sport and in society.
Board has LGBT community (Lesbian, Gay, He participated in numer-
revoked Bisexual, Transgender). ous PRIDE parades, first along-
the The tough-talking, self-de- side Brendan, then — follow- Brian Burke walks with his wife, Jennifer, during the Gay Pride Parade in downtown Toronto in July 2010. Burke has
statutory scribed gruff Burke may have ing a fatal car crash in Indiana become a familiar face at charitable events in support of the LGBT community. VINCE TALOTTA/TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE FILE
release of seemed an unlikely advocate, in February 2010, just months
Michael Lee Michael but it was his late son Bren- after he came out publicly — in Tossell noted on Twitter shortly Toronto Mayor Rob Ford. “But “He threw open the door to
Mitton RCMP Lee Mitton, dan — a former goalie for the honour of him. after Burke’s firing was an- Brian Burke was there. Next the locker-room, into the sports
a serial Miami (Ohio) University hockey Last year, Burke was hon- nounced, the former GM went year, everybody came.” world, and that was something
fraudster with GTA connec- team who came out as gay in oured with the Ally Award by to city hall in 2011 to help raise Irene Miller, the president of that had been a long time com-
tions and more than 100 2009 — who inspired Burke to PFLAG for being a community the rainbow flag. PFLAG’s Toronto chapter, said ing, and it was a very brave
convictions, until at least take up the cause. leader dedicated to fighting “Only a scattered few were Wednesday that Burke’s LGBT thing, not just for Brian to do
June. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE Acknowledging that the homophobia and bullying. there,” Tossell wrote, noting advocacy has made a “tremen- but for Brendan to have done,”
NHL was “still very much a As Toronto journalist Ivor that among the absent was dous difference.” Miller said. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
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06 NEWS metronews.ca
Thursday, January 10, 2013
Botched probe must spark change: Lawyer
Soldier suicide. The investigations into ridge’s suicide note from his plaint,” she said.
Unimpressed
the 2008 suicide of Cpl. Stuart parents for 14 months, claim- There were also conflict-
Investigation designed
Langridge were handled in an “It has created an extra layer of pain ... that was ing it was evidence in a suspi- ing claims about whether the
to absolve military, inept manner, retired colonel cious-death probe. troubled soldier was on a sui-
preventable ... had a modicum of transparency, ac-
argues retired colonel Michel Drapeau told the Mil- The National Investigation cide watch prior to his death.
itary Police Complaints Com- countability and basic compassion been displayed.” Service has acknowledged it If so, the military would have
mission hearing. mishandled the note and has been liable for his death.
After eight months of work Retired colonel Michel Drapeau on investigations into the suicide of Cpl. Stuart Langridge improved its procedures since, The inquiry also heard how
The pain endured by the family and 92 witnesses, the hearing said Korinda McLaine, lawyer the final military police report
of an Edmonton soldier who ended Wednesday, with Dra- plaints from Langridge’s family himself in March 2008 follow- for the federal government. into the death was heavily re-
killed himself should be used peau and lawyers for the gov- that the investigation into their ing treatment for drug and “Although it may be tempt- written and censored.
as a springboard for changes to ernment pressing their cases son’s death was biased and de- alcohol addiction in a civilian ing to look back on the inves- All of this was to protect the
the treatment of veterans and for a final time. signed to absolve the military. hospital. tigations with the perfect lens military, not respect Langridge
their loved ones, the family’s The public interest hearing Langridge, a veteran of Af- The inquiry heard how of hindsight, that would not be or his family, Drapeau said.
lawyer said Wednesday. was convened following com- ghanistan and Bosnia, hanged military police concealed Lang- fair to the subjects in this com- THE CANADIAN PRESS
Hearing date set. Alleged
murderer Luka Magnotta
returns to the courtroom
A shackled Luka Rocco Jun Lin last May.
Magnotta remained impas- Most of the contents of
sive as he made his first court Wednesday’s 35-minute hear-
appearance since last June on ing cannot be revealed because
a first-degree murder charge of a publication ban.
in the gruesome slaying of a Magnotta faces other char-
Montreal university student. ges: Committing an indignity
Lawyers set the stage on to a body; publishing obscene
Wednesday for a preliminary material; criminally harassing
hearing beginning March 11. Prime Minister Stephen Harper
The hearing, which will de- and other members of Parlia-
termine whether the 30-year- ment; and mailing obscene and
old Ontario native is sent to indecent material.
trial, is scheduled to last at He is accused of mailing
least two weeks and possibly Lin’s body parts to different
resume in June. places, including the Ottawa of-
Magnotta is charged with fices of the Conservative Party
first-degree murder in the slay- of Canada, the Liberal Party
ing and dismemberment of of Canada and two Vancouver
Chinese engineering student schools. THE CANADIAN PRESS
An artist rendering of alleged killer Luka Rocco Magnotta in a Montreal
court on Wednesday. MIKE MCLAUGHLIN/THE CANADIAN PRESS
Walkerton strain
firmed the cases are linked
E. coli outbreak to others in the Maritimes,
adding the strain of E. coli is
travels to Ontario somewhat rare.
from Maritimes Officials in Nova Scotia
have reported 10 cases of
E. coli, while six cases have
Ontario’s Ministry of Health been documented in New
says an E. coli outbreak that’s Brunswick.
already sickened people in The strain of E. coli
Nova Scotia and New Bruns- reported in those provinces
wick has also made itself felt is the same one found in the
closer to home. Walkerton water disaster
Ministry spokesman in 2000 that killed seven
David Jensen says there are people.
four confirmed cases of E. Symptoms of the gastro-
coli in the province, adding intestinal illness include se-
the patients became ill in vere cramps, bloody diarrhea
late December. and vomiting.
He says lab tests have con- THE CANADIAN PRESS
metronews.ca NEWS 07
Thursday, January 10, 2013
Lotto win fallout Get your bling
station in November and that
detectives searched the home.
Wife of slain U.S. Duffel bags full of
Ansari would not talk
lottery winner about the circumstances of jewelry a headache
her husband’s death, saying
questioned it was too painful to recall. for N.Y. police
She said only that he fell ill
Chicago police investigat- shortly after they ate dinner Police in upstate New York
ing the mysterious cyanide together. Khan died just face a daunting task in find-
death of a lottery winner days before he was to collect ing owners for jewelry and
A pile of jewelry among the mass
questioned his wife for $425,000 in lottery winnings. other valuables discovered
of seized stolen goods.
more than four hours and Authorities initially ruled stuffed into 31 duffel bags.
executed a search warrant the death a result of nat- Few clues point to the THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
on their home. ural causes, but further tests owners of the roughly 30,000 mont border are taking the
Shabana Ansari’s attorney, showed he was poisoned and items discovered after 39-year- novel step of displaying the
Steven Kozicki, says Ansari his death was reclassified as a old John Suddard’s recent items at the local high school
was subjected to a long ses- homicide. arrest. So police in the village Wednesday night.
sion of questioning at a police THE ASSOCIATED PRESS of Hudson Falls near the Ver- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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08 NEWS metronews.ca
Thursday, January 10, 2013
No Governor
General? No
meeting:
Chief Spence
Hunger strike. First II send forth her representa-
tive, which is the Governor
Nations leader calls General of Canada,” she said in
on Queen to help get a statement.
A spokesperson for John-
David Johnston in
ston has said he would not
Friday meeting attend the sessions on Friday
because the gathering is a
working meeting with govern-
ment on public policy issues.
Attawapiskat Chief Theresa The precise issues have yet
Spence abruptly changed her to be defined. Some clarity
mind Wednesday, refusing to was expected Wednesday from
attend Friday’s hard-won First Shawn Atleo, national chief of
Nations meetings with the fed- the Assembly of First Nations,
eral government because Gov. but that news conference was
Gen. David Johnston isn’t plan- rescheduled for Thursday
ning to be there. shortly after Spence pulled out.
Spence — whose month- THE CANADIAN PRESS
long protest on Victoria Island
was predicated on winning a Idle No More
meeting with both Johnston
and Prime Minister Stephen Enlisting Killer whales fight for their lives in northern Quebec
Harper — said she’s written to
Buckingham Palace to enlist social media Orcas surface for air in a small hole in the ice near Inukjuak, Que., on Wednesday. The community, in Quebec’s Far North, wants Ottawa to deploy an
the help of the Queen. icebreaker to free about a dozen of the whales cornered under a vast stretch of sea ice. Locals say the mammals have gathered around one hole in the
Social-media speculation ice — slightly bigger than a pickup truck — in their desperate bid to get oxygen. Mayor Peter Inukpuk believes a sudden drop in temperature recently
that Johnston might change his Social media has become caught the pod off guard, leaving them boxed in under the ice.
mind was scotched Wednesday a teaching tool for many, MARINA LACASSE, HANDOUT/THE CANADIAN PRESS
afternoon by a spokesperson and one Alberta student is
for Rideau Hall: “As previously delving into how it can help
stated, the Governor General teach and inspire an entire
will not attend Friday’s meet- culture into action. Hudson Bay. Stranded Worthy investment. Poll
ing. This has not changed.” University of Alberta
Spence has been camped Native Studies student hunters rescue rescuers shows Canadian support
out on an island in the Ottawa Kirsten Lindquist has
River since Dec. 11, subsisting launched a research project from sinking helicopter for arts and culture
solely on fish broth and medi- that looks at the role social
cinal tea in hopes of convin- media plays in Indigenous
cing Harper and Johnston to sit scholars’ work, but has also
down with First Nations lead- been following the Idle No Two seal hunters who were technicians parachuted down An overwhelming majority of
National poll
ers to discuss historical treaty More movement with great stranded on an ice floe near the from a Hercules to help the Canadians believe arts and cul-
rights. interest. west shore of Hudson Bay end- three. ture is worthy of government 57
Spence wants Johnston Lindquist said that ed up rescuing their rescuer. A Griffon helicopter from support, according to the re-
present at the meetings be- social media, particularly Capt. Jill Strelieff with 1 Can- Cold Lake, Alta., transported sults of a poll commissioned by
cause the talks are supposed to Twitter, has helped Idle adian Air Division says the res- the hunters, the pilot and the Canadian Heritage.
About 57 per cent of Canadians polled
focus on the treaty rights that No More spread across the cue helicopter landed on the ice two search and rescue techni- When asked: “How much
said they were personally involved in an
were established by the Royal country by making it more floe, but because of its weight, cians to Arviat, Nunavut. importance do you think gov- artistic activity during the past 12 months.
Proclamation of 1793, issued accessible and relatable to it broke through the ice. Mounties say the hunters ernments in Canada should
by King George III. both Indigenous and non- She says the two hunters and the pilot are being treated place on supporting arts and amount.” Nine per cent said
“We have sent a letter Indigenous persons. pulled the pilot out of the par- for hypothermia and their in- culture in Canada?” 39 per cent “not very much” and three per
to Buckingham Palace, re- LAURIE CALLSEN/METRO tially submerged helicopter. juries are not as bad as first chose “a great deal,” while 48 cent responded “no import-
questing that Queen Elizabeth Then two search and rescue feared. THE CANADIAN PRESS per cent chose a “moderate ance at all.” THE CANADIAN PRESS
metronews.ca NEWS 09
Thursday, January 10, 2013
Family takes to sea
Mideast. Severity of
storm shocks region
to escape wildfires
The fiercest winter storm to hit
the Mideast in years brought
a rare foot of snow to Jordan 5Ref0ugee,s000
on Wednesday, caused fatal
accidents in Lebanon and the
West Bank and disrupted traffic South Australia. Milder
on the Suez Canal in Egypt. At
least eight people died across The unusual weather hit Syrian refugees temperatures reduce
living in tent camps very hard, particularly
the region. some 50,000 sheltering in the Zaatari camp in danger, but scores of
In Lebanon, the Red Cross Jordan’s northern desert. blazes still burn
said storm-related accidents
killed six people over the past tions.
two days. Several drowned The weather hit Syrian refu-
after slipping into rivers from gees in tent camps very hard. Record temperatures across
flooded roads. One person froze Torrential rains over four days southern Australia cooled Wed-
to death and another died after have flooded some 200 tents nesday, reducing the danger
his car went off a slippery road. and forced women and infants from scores of raging wildfires,
In the West Bank town of to evacuate in temperatures but likely bringing only a brief
Ramallah, a Palestinian official that dipped below freezing. reprieve from the summer’s
said two women drowned after Jordanian weatherman extreme heat and fire risk.
their car was caught in a flash Mohammed Samawi called it Australia had its hottest
flood on Tuesday. the “fiercest storm to hit the day on record Monday with a
In the Gaza Strip, civil de- Mideast in the month of Janu- nationwide average of 40.33 C.
fence spokesman Mohammed ary in at least 30 years.” Four of Australia’s hottest 10
al-Haj Yousef said storms cut MENA also reported 10 fish- days occurred in 2013. “If you
electricity to thousands of Pal- ermen missing after their boat look at its extent, its duration,
estinian homes and rescuers capsized off Egypt in the Medi- its intensity, it is arguably the
were sent to organize evacua- terranean. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS most significant in Australia’s
history,” said David Jones, with
the Bureau of Meteorology.
No deaths have been
reported from wildfires, but
around 100 people haven’t
been accounted for since
a blaze destroyed about 90
homes in Dunalley, Tasmania.
Survivors have told stories
of swirling flames, toxic fumes
and desperate escapes. Tim
Holmes fled his burning home Tammy Holmes, second from left, and her grandchildren take refuge under a jetty as a wildfire rages nearby in the
near Dunalley on Friday with Tasmanian town of Dunalley, Australia, on Jan. 4. TIM HOLMES/HOLMES FAMILY/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
his wife, Tammy, and five
grandchildren, aged two to Destruction
11, and took shelter in the sea
A Lebanese man clears snow in front of his shop at the mountain town of beneath a wooden jetty.
Bhamdoun, Lebanon, on Wednesday. BILAL HUSSEIN/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS “The difficulty was there Firefighters were battling
was so much smoke and around 200 fires across
Second World War embers and there was prob- Australia’s southeast. The
carefully wrapped package ably eight to 12 inches of air risk from fire is expected to
Tuesday to find the bag, still above the water,” Holmes told increase later in the week as
Soldier’s duffel stenciled with his name and Australian Broadcasting Corp. temperatures again rise.
bag returned serial number. television. “So we were all just
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7 decades later tells the Post-Tribune in just trying to breathe because people, destroyed nine
Indiana that he last saw the it was just — the atmosphere homes and caused the
A U.S. man who served in bag in November 1944, a was so incredibly toxic,” he evacuation of a farming
France during the Second month before he was cap- added. The fires have been community.
World War has been re- tured by the Germans. most devastating in Tasmania,
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bag nearly 70 years after it 16-year-old French boy found more than 80,000 hectares fighters were battling 141
went missing. the bag in his grandfather’s have burned. Hundreds of fires, including 31 that had
William Kadar opened a house. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS people remain at evacuation A building burns near a jetty where Tim and Tammy Holmes attempt to shelter not yet been contained.
centres. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS their five grandchildren from fire. TIM HOLMES/HOLMES FAMILY/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
10 NEWS metronews.ca
Thursday, January 10, 2013
Ride down Russian ski slope
FAMILY DOCTORS
inside zorb ends in death
INTERNISTS
CARDIOLOGISTS
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when he decided to take a ride
It was supposed to be a thrill- in a zorb being operated next
ing ride down a ski slope inside to a beginners’ slope. His friend
a giant inflatable ball that is to Vladimir Shcherbakov joined
be one of the symbols of next him.
year’s Winter Olympics; it end- An eight-minute video
ed in tragedy for the two Rus- taken on Burakov’s phone by
Denis Burakov, left, inside the large plastic ball called a zorb, with another man. sian men inside. one of his friends shows the
Borderline Personality Disorder and PROVIDED BY YEKATERINA ACHKASOVA /APTN/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The transparent plastic ball two men being fitted into har-
— known as a zorb — veered nesses inside the zorb, which
Depression Brain Imaging Study off course and sailed over a rock consists of two polyurethane
ledge in the rugged Caucasus balls with a layer of air between
Mountains of southern Russia. them. The zorb is then released
The Neurochemical Imaging Program in Mood Disorders at the The ball picked up speed as it to roll down the hill, the two
Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Centre is studying the flew down the steep slope, roll- men spinning inside.
brain changes associated with borderline personality disorder ing and bouncing. One man But the zorb bounces off of
and major depression. the intended path, and a man
waiting for it at the bottom of
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