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CANUCKS CAUTIONARY TALES HOLLYWOOD’S AGE-OLD DOWN ISLES FASCINATION WITH ADULTERY KESLER {page 12} CLINCHES TM VICTORY {page 22} VANCOUVER Wednesday, January 12, 2011 www.metronews.ca News worth sharing. Give crime Port-au-Prince. Quake proceeds to cities: Falcon Candidate’s 12-point public-safety plan concentrates on high-crime neighbourhoods, petty crime, fighting gangs He also pledges better support for victims and more power, funding for local government and police forces ALEEZA KHAN/FOR METRO ALEEZA KHAN [email protected] Local governments, which fund the majori- ty of policing in their communities, should receive half of all assets seized under pro- ceeds-of-crime legislation, Liberal candi- date Kevin Falcon proposed yesterday. The idea is part of Falcon’s 12-point plan Icaris Celnet stands in the ruins of the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption on public safety. yesterday in Port-au-Prince on the eve of the first anniversary of the Haitian earthquake. “Criminals need to prove their assets are legal,” he said. “If they can’t, the police PAUL CHIASSON/THE CANADIAN PRESS should seize them and the funds go toward Haiti marks grim anniversary helping honest taxpayers pay for policing in their communities.” Vancouver Chief Const. Jim Chu said civ- The earthquake killed more than 200,000 people and displaced some 1.5 il forfeiture is an important tool for “re- million. Celnet lost his leg during the quake. Story, page 6. moving assets from bad guys and creating a deterrent for others.” Kevin Falcon speaks at a press Falcon highlighted the importance of conference yesterday in Gastown. Owen Wilson Stilwell adequate local-police funding and of hav- ing governments at all levels working to- a dad-to-be has her say gether. New Democrats, however, blasted Fal- “I want to make sure squads have finan- con’s plan and said in a statement, “The cial support to tackle gangs,” said Falcon. B.C. Liberals’ approach has been a contin- “The more this is a partnership between ued failure to back up rhetoric with the re- Girlfriend set to give birth in Liberal leadership candidate provincial, federal and national govern- sources necessary.” sunny Hawaii {page 13} chats with Metro {page 4} ment, the better.” PROVINCE COLLECTS $5M IN CIVIL FORFEITURE, PAGE 3. Who? What? Where? When? Here. The RBC Advice Centre. Now that’s convenient. TM Questions about everyday banking, saving, borrowing or getting the most out of your money? Get answers 24/7 at rbc.com/advice ® Registered trademarks of Royal Bank of Canada. 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That’s the trouble fac- ing Tom Wright, president of UFC Canada, who was in Vancouver Monday to negotiate a ru- moured June 11 return to Rogers Arena. “They have other prior- ities at the top of their list,” Wright said, referring to the leadership race within the ruling Liberal party. “Once it stabilizes and we Scan code for local news know who will replace (Gordon) Campbell, we 1 Download the free will have those ScanLife discussions. But not now.” application with While not confirmed your smartphone by the promoter, reports at 2dscan.com suggest UFC 131 will hap- pen June 11 and feature VPD Insp. Brad Desmarais shows photos of a home where seizures took place. 2 Use the ScanLife heavyweight contender application on Shane Carwin on the your smartphone Criminals hand card. MATT KIELTYKA to scan 2D barcodes in Metro 3 The codes will Man in direct your mobile browser to critical over millions relevant content at condition m.metronews.ca On the web at metronews.ca A 31-year-old man remains in critical condi- Civil forfeiture laws net $5 million There were 74 forfeitures in 2010 tion in hospital after he was found beaten and bloody in Kitsilano on “The VPD has em- Avenue their most valu- Chief Jim Chu said that KIMIYA Monday. SHOKOOHI barked on an aggressive able forfeit to date. even though police are Police believe the inci- [email protected] campaign to deprive crim- Police are raiding hous- making the forfeitures, dent was targeted and inals of their property,” es on a bi-weekly basis, they aren’t getting any possibly gang- and drug- B.C. raked in $5 million said Insp. Brad Desmarais, Desmarais said, special treatment from related. last year by taking away head of the VPD gang and Including car and cash the province in terms of People with property used in unlawful drug section. seizures, the civil forfei- funding grants. information about suspi- activities. The house was the site ture office made 74 forfei- “If we apply for a As it turns 10 cious activity near West The province's civil for- of a 959-plant grow-op dis- tures in 2010. grant,” Desmarais said, years old, 5th Avenue and Blanca feiture office capped off covered during a hydro-di- B.C. adopted the law in “we line up with the tran- Wiki pedia sets Street around 9:30 a.m. its most successful year version investigation. 2006 and thus became the sition houses, we line up Monday are asked to con- with the seizure of a West Police are calling the second province to install with everyone else. sights on India, tact police. Side house worth $1.2 mil- five-bedroom house in the the property-claiming pro- There’s no preferential founder Jimmy METRO lion. 1400 block of West 53rd gram. treatment.” Wales tells Metro. Visit metronews.ca/ One-time hero Flipper to world News in brief predict pick Both sides of BALTIMORE, MD. A day be- Fonyo sentenced Leadership fore Vancouver the divide are debate tonight Whitecaps FC staff get a culpable for crack at the first pick in America’s toxic LIBERALS. For the first tomorrow’s 2011 MLS political culture. time, all six of the candi- SuperDraft, a dolphin More at Steve Fonyo has been giv- times to buy gas. plete the cross-country dates to replace Premier will try to predict who en an 18-month condi- Fonyo married Lisa run started by Terry Fox Gordon Campbell will the first-year MLS team metronews.ca/ tional sentence after Greenwood last August at in 1980. engage in some verbal will choose. spindoctor pleading guilty to several a Victoria beach named in Fonyo earned the Order jousting. Build 2030 will Six of the top MLS charges in a Surrey court. his honour after he com- of Canada for his run, but host a debate between prospects will be at Bal- Fonyo admitted to ut- pleted a cross-Canada run it was rescinded last year the Liberal leadership timore’s National Aquar- tering threats against his in 1985 to raise money for because of his multiple hopefuls tonight in Van- ium today to see who Follow us on wife, defrauding a store cancer research. criminal convictions that couver. Speeches are the dolphin will pick to Twitter by making a fraudulent The man who lost a leg included assault and scheduled to begin at go No. 1 in this year’s @vancouvermetro return and using an unau- to cancer raised $14 mil- drunk driving. 6:30 p.m. draft. thorized credit card three lion in the effort to com- THE CANADIAN PRESS METRO METRO 04 news: vancouver metronews.ca WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 2011 THE RACE FOR PREMIER J.J. MCCULLOUGH/FOR METRO MOIRA STILWELL News in brief Retired RCMP sgt. charged A self-described “long-shot” I look for a government I am not coming out with a with little political that is able to secure and list of reforms that I think COURT.A 32-year veteran experience, Dr. Moira Stilwell build the economy, demon- are essential. I would say RCMP investigator has was the first announced candi- strates an understanding of that as an 800-year-old tra- been hit with a perjury date for the Liberal what families need to dition it has stood the test charge, Vancouver premiership. thrive and cares about of a lot of time, and it has police announced A radiologist by profession good governance. changed in those 800 years. yesterday. Retired Sgt. who was born and educated So it’s not a fossil, and it Ross Spenard is alleged in Alberta, Stilwell moved to On the role of doctors in poli- will evolve, and it’s always to have lied in court B.C. in 1993 and held a long tics: a healthy discussion. while testifying as an ex- and distinguished career as a When a friend of mine, Vir- pert witness in breast-cancer specialist. She ginia Greene, ran for the On being a woman in politics: bloodstain-pattern was elected to the provincial Liberals, I had many I’m not running for public analysis in 2009. legislature in 2009 and served health-care physicians and office because I am a METRO as minister of advanced edu- leaders in my living room woman. We are all shaped cation in the third Campbell to speak to her. And she by our lives. I’m shaped by Man sentenced administration. said, “Oh, I guess you guys having grown up as a get together all the time young woman in Alberta, to half a year On media coverage of her and talk about these prob- going to school through a campaign: lems with people from gov- profession that went, dur- COURT. A 29-year-old I would like to get my 20 ernment?” And we said, ing my time, from being man originally accused per cent, but on the whole “No, we don’t.” mostly men to mostly of trying to snatch a I understand how the polit- women. The demands of Moira Stilwell four-month-old baby ical process works. I think On immigration: being a working parent girl from her parents as I release my platform B.C. is a province of immi- have no gender. while high on drugs in over the next month, it grants, and what’s clear is Prince George has been will start to draw media at- that for the next 10 years of On whether she is ready to be sentenced to 180 days in tention as people look at economic prosperity and premier: about my candidacy and I J.J. MCCULLOUGH IS A LOCAL jail for assault. David what I’m saying and say, beyond, we’re going to I think that I have proven think that when people CARTOONIST AND POLITICAL Michael Lucas was also “She is bringing a fresh have a real shortage of peo- leadership experience hear my ideas, they will COMMENTATOR. VISIT given three years proba- voice, she is bringing new ple, and immigration will throughout my different agree. 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He sign of how far Haiti has has been seen by most to go to recover from a Haitians as ineffective at disaster that left the capi- best, and many observers tal in ruins and is estimat- have criticized him for ed to have killed more not spearheading recon- than 230,000 people. struction or making the As the dust was still set- hard policy decisions tling from the Jan. 12, needed to rebuild. 2010, disaster, volunteers Advocacy groups also and hundreds of aid blame much of the Hait- groups flocked in with ian government’s weak- food, water and first aid ness on an international that saved countless lives. community that is not Fradzelle Wiener places a wreath on a cross during a service in memory But the effort to rebuild keeping its pledge of sup- of the people buried in the mass grave near Port-au-Prince. has been dwarfed by the port. size of the tragedy and, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JONATHAN HAYWARD/THE CANADIAN PRESS World Cup venue N.L. men sue Mountie’s widow province erupts in violence travels to Haiti over moose A northeastern Brazilian The official spoke on Two men who were seri- One year after a Mountie in the Maritimes, was in city that will host 2014 condition of anonymity, ously injured in collisions from New Brunswick was Port-au-Prince as part of World Cup football match- saying most of the violence with moose in Newfound- killed in Haiti’s devastat- the United Nations train- es has recorded 30 mur- is because one gang is try- land have launched a ing earthquake, family ing force when the earth- ders in three days as drug ing to take over the turf of class-action lawsuit members and friends say quake struck the island gangs battle. another. against the province. his legacy of caring and country on Jan. 12, 2010. Police in the city of Sal- Also among the dead are Ben Bellows and Hugh giving lives on. Gallagher’s wife Lisa vador said the outbreak of at least five suspected drug George filed the suit Plans for the Mark Gal- has travelled to Haiti to be violence began this week- users. against the government, lagher Memorial Vocation- part of ceremonies today end after the arrest of a The official said police claiming that it hasn’t al School in Riviere Froide to remember the thou- drug-gang leader. think they were killed as managed the animals’ A moose runs in front are currently being put in- sands of people who were A police spokesman said they could not pay off population adequately of a car in Gros Morne to place killed in last January’s by yesterday, 30 people debts owed to the gangs. enough. National Park. Gallagher, a well-known earthquake. had died in the violence. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS THE CANADIAN PRESS spokesman for the RCMP THE CANADIAN PRESS Get the new year off to a fl ying start. 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YESTERDAY soft landing in 2011, with gle-family housing starts al- the pace of home construc- so fell. tion slowing last month — Recent data suggest that easing concern that a glut starts are on a downward of new properties will come track toward the 170,000 on the market and under- number that many believe + 155.93 + 0.36¢ cut real-estate prices. is the sustainable level of (13,401.05) (101.04¢ US) Canada Mortgage and new homes in Canada, Housing Corp. reported yes- down from an estimated Oil Natural gas terday that home starts fell 192,500 units in 2010. 1,000 cu ft Models pose with the new Chrysler 300 at the North American International Auto Show. $4.481 to an annualized 171,500 During the last three (+ 8.2¢) last month, well down from months of 2010, housing Gold Industry revs up for autoPA ULs SANChYA/THEo ASSOCIwATED PRESS November’s annualized starts averaged on an annu- contracts rate of 198,200 units. alized pace of 181,600, with + $1.86 US $1,384.30 Most of the decline was December the weakest ($91.11 US) (+ $10.20) attributed to fewer multi- month. Thousands from the global automotive industry are gathered in Detroit this ple-family dwelling units — THE CANADIAN PRESS week for 30 to 40 worldwide vehicle debuts. SEASON PREMIERE 8 9 ALL-NEW pm pm TONIGHT cbc.ca 10 voices metronews.ca WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 2011 SAY WHAT YOU’RE THINKING: EWWW I’m sorry. The only way I can world’s oldest boy? in the day, Hef kept a harem of workshop for silicon stuffed air- look at 84-year-old Hugh But the one who is really up- seven or eight Playboy bunnies heads who couldn’t keep your Just sayin’ Hefner’s recent set is Holly Madison, the former at the mansion. Now he’s pledg- order straight at McDonald’s. engagement to 24-year-old Hooters girl and Hef’s ex-No. 1. ing to be faithful to Crystal Who else would think it’s a good PAUL ICrystal Harris is as a dad. He broke up with alone, which is idea to marry an octogenarian her because he did- probably a great who listens to Bix Beiderbecke SULLIVAN n’t want to get “But relief when you’re on his Victrola? f I was Crystal’s dad and married. As if?! silicon-stuffed 84, even with Via- But silicon-stuffed airheads she came home with an Now he’s marrying airheads are gra. are people, too, and deserve to 84-year-old beau, I’d have this Crystal. Stay Of course, the be protected from the depreda- the old geezer arrested for tuned for Holly’s people, too, perpetual party is tions of rabbit zombies. I have child abuse. Or at least tell-all, coming up and deserve to mainly a myth. half a mind to get out the pitch- blond abuse. on her reality be protected Hefner stays home forks and the torches, storm the What is she thinking? The show, Holly’s and watches mansion and rescue Crystal from from the Playboy of the Western World is World, Jan. 29. movies or plays the clutches of Hef the Impaler. way past his best before date. I’m not making depredations of cards with his (That’s if his Viagra prescription Never mind what he’s thinking. this up. rabbit zombies.” aged cronies. He has been renewed). In fact, I don’t want to know Hefner has been likes old movies. Then I’ll send her home to what he’s thinking. exploiting women Crystal’s favourite bed without her supper. Or Hef, She’s probably thinking: “This for more than 60 movie is The Little for that matter. won’t take long.” years, and I guess it’s hard to Mermaid. She was three when it Even if it lasts a week and he teach an old dog new tricks. Ob- was released, and it has stayed expires with a smile on his face, viously, he is determined to die with her ever since. Read more of is there any dad alive who wants with his boots on. Or, you could I guess you could see the Play- Paul Sullivan’s columns at his pride and joy to marry the argue, it’s a clever strategy. Back boy Mansion as a sheltered metronews.ca/justsaying Hate confused with anger Cartoon MICHAEL DE ADDER Tucson tragedy PIMA COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPT. VIA THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Letters & Tweets Re: Michael de Adder Jan. 10 cartoon CALGARY.The cartoon in Monday’s Metro portray- ing Sarah Palin and the tea party movement in the U.S. as “hateful” is highly objectionable. Pri- or to any investigation of the tragedy in Tucson, Ariz., (cartoonist Michael) Which one of your de Adder is attributing state and U.S. federal offi- other words, nixing the habits do you wish blame to the conservative cials. This is not hateful, nanny state), desiring low- movement of the U.S. it’s responsible. J.A. ZWAHLEN er taxes, etc., etc.? you could break? Palin has not Newsflash: I’ll tell you demonstrated any hateful TORONTO.What’s hateful what’s hateful. When peo- Email intent. De Adder is confus- about having certain prin- ple who don’t agree with vancouverletters ing hate with anger. The ciples such as wanting a other people’s points of @metronews.ca tea partiers demand from smaller government, not view resort to lies by Twitter their elected officials believing illegal using the “hate card,” sim- respect for the rule of law immigrants should jump ply because they have no @vancouvermetro with regards to illegal im- the line and get a free other sensible argument migration and demand fis- pass, advocating for to make. Metro has the right to edit cal responsibility from personal responsibility (in RACHAEL BLOOMFIELD letters and submissions. 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