FUNNY GIRL Weather your cold. MULTI-TALENTED LENA DUNHAM WINS TWO GOLDEN GLOBES FOR THE HBO COMEDY, GIRLS. READ ABOUT OTHER BIG WINNERS OF THE NIGHT We’ll all feel better. PAGE 13 VANCOUVER Monday, January 14, 2013 News worth sharing. metronews.ca | twitter.com/vancouvermetro| facebook.com/vancouvermetro This dog’s lucky to be alive Police pooch. Slashed Dr. Alan Kuzma, with Can- ada West Veterinary Special- while attempting to stop ists, said Teak is lucky to be a robbery in progress alive. “The position of the wound was on the side of his neck, Vancouver police dog Teak, but had it been on the front who was slashed across the of his neck it could’ve easily neck after taking down a sus- killed him,” he said. pected robber Friday, is one Teak was slashed during lucky pooch. a confrontation with a man The German shepherd was who fled after allegedly at- released from hospital Sunday tempting to rob an Esso gas after undergoing surgery. It station on Fraser Street and took 30 stitches to close up the Marine Drive. 10-inch wound he sustained. “He’s a very sweet dog, but Teak’s handler, Const. Der- I wouldn’t want to be on the rick Gibson, said he didn’t get other end of those teeth if I much sleep worrying about was a bad guy,” Kuzma said. the condition of his partner, A 20-year-old Vancouver who he’s worked with for man will likely face charges seven years. of robbery, weapons offenses “You don’t expect to see and assaulting a police dog. your partner opened up like Teak, who has served with that,” he said. “It’s like it’s Vancouver police since 2007, happening to a member of is expected to have a full re- your family, a very close mem- covery. ber … He saved my life more “I knew everything was times than I can probably re- going to be okay when I saw late.” the tail wagging,” Gibson said, Teak, who turns eight in adding their first trip was to March, has now gone into re- a McDonald’s to buy Teak’s tirement and will live at Gib- favourite treat — a McDouble. son’s home. PHYLICIA TORREVILLAS/METRO Gluten be gone Another gang Thousands of people line up rape in India for the Gluten Free Expo to get products for a diet that’s the Police in India arrest 6 suspects hottest thing since sliced bread in rape of woman who was Vancouver police dog Teak peeks out of a VPD vehicle after his release from an animal clinic Sunday morning. The German shepherd is recovering (which they can’t eat) PAGE 3 travelling to her village PAGE 8 after being slashed by a robbery suspect in Vancouver on Friday. PHYLICIA TORREVILLAS/METRO metronews.ca NEWS 03 Monday, January 14, 2013 Crime Police investigate apparent double homicide in Hope The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team is at the scene of an apparent double homicide in the Fraser Val- ley municipality of Hope. Two men were found N dead at around 2:30 a.m. Sunday inside a home in the 69100-block of Othello Road, IHIT spokeswoman Sgt. Jennifer Pound said in a statement released Sunday E afternoon. “This investigation is in the very early stages, therefore, we have minimal details to provide at this W time,” Pound said. “Our pri- ority right now is to identify the victims and notify their families.” No other details will be provided until the No pants, no problem on the SkyTrain victim’s families have been provided. S Police are asking anyone More than 100 people showed off their underwear during Vancouver’s fourth annual No Pants SkyTrain ride day. The pantless movement started in with information to call New York a decade ago. There were 60 regional No Pants subway rides Sunday in more than 25 countries around the world. Organizer Larry Piché, with IHIT at 1-877-551-4448 or Vancouver Improv Anywhere, said the goal was to give transit users a “more special” commute and make people smile. PHYLICIA TORREVILLAS/METRO email at ihittipline@rcmp- grc.gc.ca. You can also call Gluten-free food a 1-800-222-8477 to give an anonymous tip. PHYLICIA TORREVILLAS/METRO Politics big hit in Vancouver Merner drops out of Liberal leadership race, endorses Murray Healthier options. Sunday. rants. Event spokeswoman and Local Liberal leadership Some were simply look- Others refused to wait in gluten-free chef Kathy Smart Locals hungry for candidate David Merner ing for healthy food options; the behemoth line, while credits word of mouth for has withdrawn from the wheat alternatives others like Tannis Meglaugh- harried staff ran around try- the explosion of interest in leadership race and has show up in droves at lin, 23, have celiac disease ing to organize refunds. eating gluten-free food. thrown his support behind — an allergy to gluten, a Patient consumers inside “More and more people Vancouver Quadra MP Joyce sold-out annual event protein found in wheat and the crowded hall sampled are going gluten free, feel- Murray. some grains — and were on chips, bread, crackers, pizza, ing good about it and tell- “Joyce is committed to the hunt for tasty products pudding and granola bars — ing everyone how they feel,” the co-operation move- EMILY that wouldn’t result in aller- all products typically on the she said, adding that wheat ment, democratic reform, JACKSON gic reactions. no-go list for wheat allergies. modifications in the 1970s to a green Canada and to [email protected] After two hours in line, Ed Core, who organized have led to increased gluten building a sustainable econ- Meglaughlin said it would six of the 100 booths at the intolerance. omy. Her priorities are my Apparently gluten-free bread be worth it if she could find sold-out show, said business “We knew it was going to priorities,” said Merner of is something to line up for. bread that doesn’t taste like was “amazing.” be incredible, but this is be- his former leadership rival. Thousands waited up cardboard. “There’s such a high de- yond incredible,” Smart said Murray said she was to four hours in line-ups “It’s getting easier” to mand right now,” he said. about the turnout. “very proud” of the en- snaked around the Vancou- follow her diet as bakeries “I’d like to see more restau- She expects demand will dorsement. ver Convention Centre for open up to meet the growing rants carry gluten free for keep growing. 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Limit one prize per customer. metronews.ca NEWS 05 Monday, January 14, 2013 Community shows Waldorf Hotel lots of love ‘Cultural incubator.’ morphed into hope as the arts culture in this city,” artist Paul whose work is currently on community rallied to save the Wong said to wild cheers. display at the art gallery, Vancouver arts East Vancouver cultural hub Wong wasn’t the only venues like this are important supporters band over the weekend. heavy hitter in Vancouver’s for emerging artists. “We’re together behind Hundreds attended a art scene to throw support finding fewer and fewer Sunday love-in at the hotel behind the hotel, whose oper- spaces that work with con- city’s cultural icon — recently sold to condo de- ators say they were forced to temporary artists,” she said. veloper Solterra — featuring close after the sale. “We need a chance to begin — live music, food trucks and Vancouver Art Gallery dir- if there aren’t opportunities, EMILY impassioned speeches about ector Kathleen Bartells, artist people are getting up and JACKSON the hotel’s status as the “heart Ian Wallace and Vancouver leaving the city altogether.” [email protected] and soul” of Vancouver’s arts Opera director Jim Wright Mayor Gregor Robertson Chris Crud and his son Milo, 4, attended the Waldorf Hotel’s love-in on Sunday. community. spoke of the Waldorf as a “cul- also wants to protect the ho- Hundreds attended the event to show support for the Waldorf in light of its Heartbreak over the Waldorf “If we can put in bike tural incubator.” tel. City staff will report on imminent closure. EMILY JACKSON/METRO Hotel’s imminent closure lanes, we can support arts and For KT Kilgor, an artist options at council on Tuesday. Outreach worker. Former Vancouver man killed PRESENTS near Edmonton A well-known Edmonton Self-reflection HIV support and outreach worker, who had lived in “I now stand proud as Vancouver for years, has been identified as the vic- a two-spirit person and tim of a murder in White- as an aboriginal, and court, Alta., near Edmonton, no longer do I need to on Saturday morning. Whitecourt RCMP have blend into the back- confirmed that 49-year-old ground.” Dolan Badger was killed on Saturday. 49-year-old Dolan Badger, who was Staff Sgt. Rodney Kosciel- killed Saturday morning, in a 2009 article published in Vue Weekly about coming to ny said officers were called terms with his identity as both an aborig- to a disturbance at a resi- inal and a homosexual. dence around 7:30 a.m. Sat- urday, after someone within not known at this time, say the residence was heard RCMP. “yelling and screaming.” In a 2009 article pub- Officers located a badly lished in Vue Weekly, injured man who was taken Badger wrote about being to the hospital in White- two-spirited and said it was VANCOUVER CONVENTION CENTRE EAST court by emergency services difficult growing up as both where he was pronounced gay and aboriginal. dead. “I felt that I had to stay Koscielny said William away from the two aspects Kootenay, 22, of Morinville of my life that defined me was arrested at the scene because I was constantly and subsequently charged bombarded with slurs, with one count of second- racist insults and deroga- degree murder. tory remarks,” he wrote. While early media re- “Today, largely because ports said Badger was the of my work with Healing victim of gay-bashing, RCMP Our Spirit and my discov- said that was not the case. ery of the term, I now stand “No, it was not a hate proud as a two-spirit person crime,” Koscielny said. and as an aboriginal, and no “Mr. Kootenay and Mr. longer do I need to blend Badger knew each other.” into the background.” The cause of death is ANNALISE KLINGBEIL/METRO Feature Nights, Live Entertainment, Fashion Shows, Sexy Seminars, Live Dungeon Demonstrations, Unique Products, Amazing Prizes, Body Painting, Pin-Up Pageant The Bloodmobile in your neighbourhood: and Much More! VISIT WWW.BLOOD.CA TO BOOK ONLINE OR CALL 1-888-2 DONATE This is a licensed event. No one under the age of 19 will be permitted. TO BOOK AN APPOINTMENT DATE OR TO INQUIRE ABOUT UPCOMING BLOODMOBILE EVENTS! 1 888 2 DONATE (1-888-236-6283) We think having a plan for the future, is a really good plan for the future. 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Family of Attawapiskat Reddit co-creator blames Mulcair seeks end to hunger strike prosecutors for suicide NDP Leader Tom Mulcair is calling on Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence to The family of a Reddit co- end her liquid-only diet. founder who committed sui- Mulcair told CTV’s cide weeks before he was to go Question Period he’s on trial on federal charges that always concerned when he stole millions of scholarly someone seems willing to articles is blaming prosecutors end their own life. for his death. He says Spence ought Aaron Swartz hanged him- to end her protest now, self in his Brooklyn apartment following last week’s on Friday night, his family and meeting between Prime authorities said. The 26-year-old Minister Stephen Harper had fought to make online con- and First Nations leaders. tent free to the public and as a “I would sincerely call teenager helped create RSS, a upon Chief Spence to real- family of Web feed formats ize that there has been a used to gather updates from step in the right direction, blogs, news, audio and video. to try to see now if we can In 2011, he was charged keep putting pressure on with stealing millions of scien- Aaron Swartz THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE the government to follow tific journals from a JSTOR com- through,” he said. puter archive at the Massachu- product of a criminal justice “It has been a year setts Institute of Technology system rife with intimidation where nothing was done in an attempt to make them and prosecutorial overreach. after a very formal meet- freely available. Decisions made by officials in ing. But finally the govern- He had pleaded not guilty, the Massachusetts U.S. Attor- ment seems to be moving, and his federal trial was to ney’s office and at MIT contrib- so I think that the best begin next month. If convicted, uted to his death,” they said. thing to do would be to he faced decades in prison and JSTOR didn’t press charges step back from that.” a fortune in fines. once it reclaimed the articles Spence has vowed to In a statement released on from Swartz, and some legal continue her protest until Saturday, Swartz’s family in experts considered the case How the other side lives First Nations leaders can Chicago expressed bitterness unfounded. JSTOR’s attorney get Harper and Gov. Gen. toward federal prosecutors pur- even asked prosecutors not to David Johnston in the suing the case against him. pursue the case, according to A motorist shows no love for a winter storm in Winnipeg on Sunday. While Saturday’s storm was a few minutes same room. “Aaron’s death is not sim- Elliot Peters, Swartz’s defence shy of official blizzard status, the cleanup was expected to cost about $5 million. SHANE GIBSON/METRO IN WINNIPEG THE CANADIAN PRESS ply a personal tragedy. It is the attorney. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS This week: Gerry finds his part-time dream job. And he’s serving up the laughs. TONIGHT at 8 ALL- NEW cbc.ca/mrd #MrD 08 NEWS metronews.ca Monday, January 14, 2013 6 men arrested in India after another gang rape Friday-night attack. There, the driver and the Gender injustice conductor took her to a build- 29-year-old woman was ing where they were joined by “It’s a very deep travelling to her village five friends and took turns rap- in northern Punjab state ing her throughout the night, malaise. This aspect of Singh said. gender justice hasn’t when driver took her to The driver dropped the French protesters don’t want gays to marry been dealt with in our a desolate location: Cops woman off at her village early on Saturday, he said. nation-building task.” Thousands of protesters mobilized on Sunday against the French president’s plan to legalize gay marriage, streaming Singh said police arrested Seema Mustafa, a writer on social issues into Paris by bus, car and specially reserved high-speed train. Legalizing gay marriage would allow same-sex couples six suspects on Saturday and who heads the Center for Policy Analysis to adopt and conceive children. President Francois Hollande’s plan has underscored divisions among the secular-but- Police said Sunday they have were searching for another. think-tank Catholic French, especially more traditional rural areas versus urban enclaves. LORI HINNANT/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS arrested six suspects in an- Gurmej Singh, deputy other gang rape of a bus pas- superintendent of police, said senger in India, four weeks all six men admitted involve- prison after serving nine years Life sentence overturned Canadian on death row Assault weapons ban after a brutal attack on a stu- ment in the rape. He said the for raping and murdering a dent on a moving bus in the victim was recovering at home. girl in 2003, PTI reported on Mubarak gets Parole board under NRA says it has capital outraged Indians and Also on Saturday, police ar- Sunday. led to calls for tougher rape rested a 32-year-old man for The deadly rape of a another chance fire in Montana friends in Congress laws. allegedly raping and killing a 23-year-old student on a New Police officer Raj Jeet Singh nine-year-old girl two weeks Delhi bus in December led to A Cairo appeals court on The Montana parole board The National Rifle Associa- said a 29-year-old woman was ago in Ahmednagar district in the woman’s death and set off Sunday overturned Hosni that recommended against tion says it has enough sup- the only passenger on a bus as western India, the Press Trust an impassioned debate about Mubarak’s life sentence clemency for death-row port in Congress to block a she was travelling to her vil- of India news agency reported. what India needs to do to pre- and ordered a retrial of the Canadian Ronald Smith law that would ban assault lage in northern Punjab state Her decomposed body was vent such tragedies. Protest- former Egyptian president may be examined for being weapons, despite promises on Friday night. The driver found on Friday. ers and politicians have called for failing to prevent the too tough on criminals. from the White House and refused to stop at her village Police officer Sunita for tougher rape laws, police killing of hundreds of The review could result in Democratic lawmakers to despite her repeated pleas and Thakare said the suspect reform and a transformation protesters during the 2011 limitations on the board’s make such a measure a drove her to a desolate loca- committed the crime seven in the way the country treats uprising. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS powers. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS reality. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS tion, he said. months after his release from women. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JAROME IGINLA Power Forward IN PROOFESSIOONAAL HHOCCKEYY, THHEREE ARRE NNOO SICCKK DDAYSSS....OOOORR NNNIGGGGGHHTTTTSSS. 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Get valuable $9B information about the award-winning, 100% online UBC Award of Achievement executives, accused of in Digital Analytics program. cooking books, each face up to 10 years in prison Free Digital Analytics Information Webinar The verdict will come on the same day that mediation talks on the distribution of nearly Wednesday, January 16, 11:30am-12:30pm $9 billion in assets from the now-bankrupt Three former Nortel execu- Nortel begin in Toronto. The weeklong tives accused of orchestrating proceedings are part of an effort to settle the Presented in partnership with a widespread multimillion- company’s creditor claims in Canada, the U.S. cstudies.ubc.ca/damv dollar fraud will learn their fate and around the world. 604.822.1420 Monday, nearly a year after one of the largest criminal trials Ex-Nortel CEO Frank Dunn leaves a in Canada’s corporate history Toronto court in this Jan. 16, 2012, file signing off on financial state- began. photo. On Monday, a judge will rule ments. Ontario Superior Court Jus- on fraud charges against Dunn and Despite this, Canada is still tice Frank Marrocco is set to two colleagues. THE CANADIAN PRESS FILE seen as soft on white-collar rule on whether ex-CEO Frank crimes, especially when com- Dunn, ex-CFO Douglas Beatty ecutor in the Bre-X Securities pared to the stiff sentences and ex-controller Michael Gol- case — the largest corporate handed out in the U.S. during logly manipulated financial fraud case in Canadian history the Enron scandal. statements at Nortel Networks — and his verdict will send a “When you look at white- Weather your cold. Corp. from 2002 to 2003. message through both legal collar crime, there are always The men, who each face two and financial circles, says one going to be incentives for counts of fraud, are accused of expert observer. manipulating financial state- participating in a book-cooking Darren Henderson, an as- ments,” he said. scheme designed to trigger sistant professor of managerial “There is a direct financial $12.8 million in bonuses and accounting and control at Ri- incentive of increasing the stocks for themselves at the chard Ivey School of Business value of your sales, getting a once powerful Canadian tech- at Western University, says bigger bonus or keeping your nology giant. The accused, who that since the fall of Nortel, se- job. And what has to counteract were fired in 2004, have all curities regulations have been that is a disincentive or deter- pleaded not guilty to the char- tightened — particularly to rent from the perspective of po- ges. If convicted, each could ensure that top-ranking execu- tential litigation and potential face up to 10 years in prison. tives at major corporations are to go to prison.” We’ll all feel better. Marrocco was the lead pros- held more accountable when THE CANADIAN PRESS Nothing stays hidden forever TONIGHT at 9 ALL-NEW cbc.ca/murdochmysteries @CBCMurdoch