Metro Vancouver - January 18, 2011

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TALKER
ENERGIZE
YOURSELF
AND THAT DOESN’T
MEAN CAFFEINE PIERS MORGAN ON
{page 9}
TAKING OVER FROM
WE’RE NOT DATING,
SERIOUSLY
LARRY KING
SANDRA SQUASHES
RYAN RUMOURS {page 6}
{page 7}
VANCOUVER
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
www.metronews.ca
News worth sharing.
Prepare to party
Health
Battling
like it’s 1886 the
bulge
New surgery tackles obesity
One in four Canadians are
obese, and that number is
rising Costs millions in
Vancouver to celebrate its 125th birthday with an April 6 bash at the Olympic health care {page 8}
Cauldron Three-day festival planned for this summer in Stanley Park
BRUCE BENNETT/GETTY IMAGES Is
marriage
a thing of
the past?
More Canucks are
single, so do we
really care about
matrimony? {page 16}
Curtailing
consumer debt
Ottawa introduces limits on
mortgages, loans {page 4}
Vancouver’s Olympic Cauldron alight during the 2010 Olympic Games. The cauldron will be lit April 6 as part of the city’s 125th birthday.
From classroom
MATT the city to shed that tag as he unveiled a live performances, cake and the Olympic to classy career
KIELTYKA year’s worth of 125th anniversary celebra- Cauldron burning bright once again.
@METRONEWS.CA tions at the launch of the PuSh Interna- A three-day Summer Live event is also
tional Performing Arts Festival last night. scheduled for July 8-10 in Stanley Park.
Who called Vancouver “no-fun city”? The highlights include a free April 6 For more information, go online to Metro’s Learning Curve will
Mayor Gregor Robertson is ready for birthday bash at Jack Poole Plaza, with celebratevancouver125.ca. educate you {pages 10-14}
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TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, 2011
Public KRISTEN THOMPSON/METRO
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hearing
called over
cop conduct
B.C.’s police complaint
commissioner has ordered
a public hearing into the
conduct of two Abbotsford
police officers during an
arrest on Oct. 9, 2009.
The case gained notori-
news
ety after a resident filmed
the takedown and posted
the video on YouTube.
In the video, two
suspects are laying face
down on a lawn while
Const. Doug Lemna has
his firearm trained on one
of them.
He is then seen putting
his foot down on the
suspect’s head multiple
times and kicking him in
the body.
100-year-old scotch returns from The second officer,
Antarctica on a private jet. Scan Const. Daryl Young, is seen
the code for the story.
walking over the suspect’s
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Allan Small on KRISTEN “The NDP’s chances of winning are until that party elects its
THOMPSON dependent not only on running a good own leader to replace Pre-
whether it’s A Victoria police officer is @METRONEWS.CA campaign, but also in being able to mier Gordon Campbell.
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shape the issues that will dominate the
investing in U.S. wounds to her neck and Health critic Adrian Dix toughest campaigner and
banks. More at hands after she was officially entered the NDP race.” JOHN CALVERT, SFU PROFESSOR the most able to debate the
attacked while investigat- leadership race in Vancou- opposition. But the other
metronews.ca/
ing the theft of a chocolate ver last night, promising if Lali, Dana Larsen and supporters within the two ... will appeal to a
investing. bar at a 7-Eleven. elected to close the gap be- Nicholas Simons. NDP,” he said. “While each slightly different group of
Bystanders rushed to tween the province’s rich- John Calvert, a public has done a good job in their voters,” Calvert said.
help the officer —whose est and poorest, and getting policy professor at Simon respective opposition roles, “At the end of the day,
injuries are non-life-threat- tough on climate issues. Fraser University, said the my feeling is that Dix will the candidate that appeals
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TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, 2011
Kwan to Grits:
‘Step up to the
plate’ for poor
B.C. Liberals have been ‘taking money out of
children’s hands’ since 2002: MLA She calls upon
Liberal leadership hopefuls to ‘do the right thing’
NATALIE KAUR JOHAL/FOR METRO
NATALIE maintenance for her child
KAUR JOHAL
since 2009.
[email protected]
“Even if she was success-
B.C.’s poor children were ful ... she would not be able
made poorer in 2002, when to keep that money,” said
the Liberal government Kwan, adding that Castro
“clawed back” income sup- has spoken to mothers in
port for single parents, MLA similar situations and
Jenny Kwansaid yesterday. found that they “don’t have
In a press conference the freedom to hope for a
held at her East Vancouver future.”
office, Kwan, who repre- NDP MLA Jenny Kwan According to the Canadi-
sents Vancouver-Mount an Centre for Policy Alter-
Pleasant, called for rein- natives, B.C.’s welfare rules
statement of child mainte- tance. “discourage work re-entry,”
nance and income Kwan mentioned Lenlen as earnings exemptions of-
exemptions for those who Castro, a single mother ten help people get back to
depend upon social assis- who has been trying to get work.
Real estate. Fight
Stacey Bonenfant, a Downtown Eastside resident and mother of two young children,
speaks out against the city’s Historic Area Height Review yesterday.
MATT KIELTYKA/FOR METRO
Residents rise up against highrises
Social-housing advocates demonstrated in the Downtown Eastside yesterday to
challenge a staff report going to council this week. If approved, the Historic Area
Height Review would open up the neighbourhood to condo developers, who in
turn could price out low-income families.
Two dead Butterfly Another
likely from wings recall
bad heroin inspire tech campaign
Two women have died Researchers at SFU and MLA Don McRae is the
from what police say may Nanotech Security Corp. newest Liberal to face a re-
be a fatal batch of heroin have developed the call campaign after Craig
in circulation on Vancou- world’s first commercial James, the acting chief
ver streets. use for nanotechnology — electoral officer,approved
Police are advising IV as anti-counterfeiting fea- the application for a recall
drug users to be extra cau- tures on banknotes. The petition yesterday. The pe-
tious and use the services technology was inspired tition is scheduled to go
at InSite. KRISTEN THOMPSON by butterflywings. METRO public on Friday. METRO
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TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, 2011
Return of Baby Doc
POLITICS steady hand at the tiller
in stormy times. The
Federal gloomy ads coupled with
public tours by Harper,
election Liberal Leader Michael Ig- shocks former GG
natieff and NDP Leader
season? Jack Layton make it feel
like a national campaign
is already underway. The
It’s beginning to feel an governing Conservatives
DIEU NALIO CHERY/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
awful lot like federal elec- claim they don’t want an Ex-dictator Duvalier said he’s not in
tion season. The Tories election now, and say
are rolling out a series of their ads are designed to Haiti for politics, but for reconstruction
television ads that attack keep the opposition ma-
their opponents while jority from defeating SEAN KILPATRICK/THE CANADIAN PRESS
portraying Prime Minis- them on the coming One-time dictator Jean-
ter Stephen Harper as a budget. THE CANADIAN PRESS Claude (Baby Doc) Duva-
lier’s return to Haiti has left
Celebrating fall Canada’s Haitian-born for-
mer governor general “as-
tounded.” “How can he come
of corrupt in-laws “Will a quarter-century back to Haiti
of comfortable exile in im-
punity be enough to make without warning,
Haitians forget the horrors, like a citizen,
Tunisians couldn’t stand come Tunisia’s most influ- the suffering, the injustice without
her even more than they ential woman, was widely as well as the human and
reproach?”
couldn’t stand him. despised as the ultimate economic cost of decades of
The end of President symbol of corruption and Duvalierist dictatorship?” MICHAËLLE JEAN, FORMER
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali’s excess. Michaëlle Jean said in a GOVERNOR GENERAL
iron-fisted, 23-year rule Tunisia’s prime minis- statement.
brought joy to many ordi- ter announced a national “How can he come back from his father’s death in
nary people in this North unity government yester- to Haiti without warning, 1971 until he was ousted in
African nation — and day. like a citizen, without re- a popular uprising in 1986.
they were especially elat- Prime Minister Mo- proach?” Jean’s family fled He has spent the time
ed at the prospect of life hamed Ghannouchi, a Former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude (Baby Doc) Duvalier Haiti for Canada in 1968 since in exile in France.
without his wife and her longtime ally of Ben Ali, talks by phone next to his wife, Veronique Roy, upon his during the reign of Duva- The father-son dictators
rapacious family. The clan and several top ministers arrival at Toussaint Louverture International Airport in lier’s infamous father, Fran- presided over one of the
of former first lady Leila retained their posts in the Port-au-Prince on Sunday. çois (Papa Doc) Duvalier. darkest chapters in Haiti’s
Trabelsi, a one-time hair- shakeup. The younger Duvalier ruled lamentable history.
dresser who rose to be- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS the impoverished country THE CANADIAN PRESS
New rules on
mortgages
First-time buyers and
those who use their home
as collateral for low-inter-
est loans are likely to be
most affected by new
mortgage rules that go in-
to effect in March,
experts say. Federal
Finance Minister Jim Fla-
herty said yesterday that
beginning March 18, the
maximum amortization
period for a mortgage will
drop to 30 years from 35,
effectively reducing the
maximum amount Cana-
dians can borrow for
their home.
Canadians will also be
able to borrow less when
they refinance mortgages.
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TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, 2011
ADD SOME COLOUR TO MID-WINTER BLUES
Christmas is long gone, I’ve
help you defrost your chilly dis- name of fun. Or forget the skiing up temperatures in a much cold-
broken all of my well-inten- position and get out of your sea- and skip straight to the après ac- er province. When you consider
She says ... tioned resolutions and my sonal slump. And just think; if tivities, preferably anything that that it was –39 C in Eureka last
bank account is looking yesterday was the most depress- involves a roaring fire and a night (that’s in Nunavut for
JESSICA more tragic than ever. Frigid ing day of the year bearskin rug. those of you who aren’t Canadi-
it can only get bet- DECORATE:If be- an geography nerds) the wind
NAPIER temperatures and a lack of ter from now on, “... if yesterday low freezing tem- chill here doesn’t really seem all
funds have left me right? was the most peratures have that bad.
housebound this month and HIBERNATE WITH depressing day you trapped inside THROW A JERSEY SHORE THEME
my mood, like the weather, FRIENDS:If you of the year it your apartment PARTY:Get a spray tan, turn up
has been icy at best. I am can’t beat the blues you might as well the heat and squeeze into your
you might as well can only get make it look good. tightest Ed Hardy tube top.
well and truly stuck in the
make wallowing a better from Yes, you’re broke Invite like-minded Guidos and
post-holiday depressfest group activity. Play from a season of Guidettes over to fist-pump to
I now on, right?”
known as January. board games and overspending, but the beat of your homemade club-
put on bad movies even small touch- anthem playlist. Drink Ron Ron
t’s not just me, of course. you would feel es can go a long Juice until you forget what
Psychologists (perhaps in guilty watching during patio sea- way. Invest in new couch season it is and try not to
collaboration with travel son. Add wine when needed. cushions, craft colourful wall art contract an STD by the end of
agents and chocolate mak- HIT THE SLOPES:If there’s one and fill vases with fragrant flow- the weekend.
ers) dubbed yesterday Blue thing Canadians do well it’s ers to remind yourself that
Monday, allegedly the inventing ridiculously dangerous spring is just around the corner
Read more of
most depressing day of the year. winter sports. So why not strap (kind of).
Jessica Napier’s columns
With this not-so-scientific fact on some skis and throw yourself FIND PLEASURE IN SOMEONE
at metronews.ca/shesays
in mind, here are five ways to down a steep rock face in the ELSE’S PAIN:Go online and look
Cartoon Dressing for success
MICHAEL DE ADDER
Swiss precision
Worth
mentioning
Swiss bank UBS AG is
revising its dress code af-
ter getting roundly
mocked for suggesting
employees wear skin-
coloured underwear and
avoid garlic breath.
The bank said yesterday
it is whittling down its 44-
page style guide to a more
modest booklet that will
concentrate on how to im- How would you
press customers with a nail polish. a haircut every month and
describe your
polished presence and “You can extend the life avoid unruly beards and
sense of Swiss precision of your knee socks and earrings. dream job?
and decorum. stockings by keeping your Both sexes were
Email
The existing code tells toenails trimmed and advised to avoid garlic or
female employees how to filed,” UBS tells its female onion breath. vancouverletters
apply makeup, what kind staff. “Always have a spare The guidelines recom- @metronews.ca
of perfume to wear and pair: Stockings can be pro- mended skin-coloured un- Twitter
what colour stockings and visionally repaired with derwear for women and
lingerie are acceptable. It transparent nail polish wristwatches for all to sig- @vancouvermetro
advises them not to show and a bit of luck.” nal “trustworthiness and a
roots if they colour their Men are told how to serious concern for punc- Metro has the right to edit
hair and to avoid black knot a tie, as well as to get tuality.” THE ASSOCIATED PRESS letters and submissions.
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Morgan takes over
2
King’s CNN throne
scene British journalist has big shoes IAN GAVAN/GETTY IMAGES
to fill Plans to be direct and not
pull any punches in his interviews
Obama or Boyle? How about both!
News in brief ANTHONY JOHNSON long. I’m a journalist, so I
& RICHARD PECKETT come at interviews in a
[email protected] more forensic way. I like to
do a lot of research and
Piers Morgan replaced leg- preparation.
endary interviewer Larry
King, who, before retiring, As an interviewer, will you
hosted CNN’s nightly inter- maintain your bullish style?
view show broadcast Of course! I like being pret-
across the globe for 25 ty direct, and I don’t suffer
years. fools or people trying to
Morgan, one of Britain’s pull the wool over my eyes.
The Nielsen Co. says most famous journalists, My guests will get the ex-
Sunday’s Golden has enjoyed a professional perience their behaviour
Globes ceremony career spanning more than deserves. If they’re smart
was seen by almost 20 years that saw him and friendly, it will all go
17 million viewers. It evolve from a showbiz fine. If they’re dumb and
beat all network columnist, national news- hostile, well — not so fine!
competition in its paper editor to a celebrity
time period, slightly judge and interviewer. Who would you rather inter-
exceeding last year’s Morgan found time to view — Susan Boyle or
audience for the film sit down with Metro. Barack Obama and why?
and TV awards show. I’d like to interview both,
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS How are you different from maybe at the same time.
Larry King? After all, both are living
Well, I’m 32 years younger the American dream, and
and I’ve had six less wives. both are human beings.
So far! But seriously, I think
that we come at interviews Is there anything you would-
in a very different way. Lar- n’t ask?
ry prefers not to know too No. Nobody has to answer
much about his guest so he a question; there’s no gun
can chat to them as if they to their head. But an inter-
are someone he just met in viewer should always be Piers Morgan takes over for Larry King on CNN.
Tthroen s:o Errvyo lluetgiaocny c oofn gtainmueess a bar, and that has worked free to ask whatever they His show is on CNN at 9 p.m. (ET) every night.
based on feature films brilliantly for him for so like.
ALL NEW EPISODE
RICK
MERCER
REPORT
This week, Rick spends a day in the life
of Lieutenant-Governor David Onley at
Queen’s Park in Toronto.
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ISTOCK PHOTO
life
Gamers
There is a new surgery that some obesity sufferers are turning to for help.
On the band-wagon
Young problem
gamers who play
compulsively on
their consoles
and computers
may be at greater
risk than others Those struggling with obesity are turning to a revolutionary new idea
Fat stats
for mental health Belly bands are helping with diabetes, high-blood pressure and weight
issues such as
anxiety and Here are some statistics
depression, a CELIA They are incredibly frus- betes, high blood pressure band can then be adjusted on obesity from the Public
new study MILNE trated and depressed and a or sleep apnea. “It should through an access port just Health Agency of Canada.
suggests. In Pedi- [email protected] lot of patients have low be about improving one’s under the skin on the ab-
atrics, self-esteem. This gives health. The goal is to in- domen. People generally Obesity Canada’s rate of
researchers con- It’s a new weapon in the them a simple, elegant so- duce significant weight loss return to work after about obesity is about 25 per
clude that while battle of the bulge. lution and they are the and keep it off,” says four days. The idea is to cent, and rising.
game playing it- Belly band surgery is in- happiest patients in the Cobourn. lose one or two pounds a Young people Obesity in
self is not patho- creasingly popular among world,” says Cobourn. The Centre has a clinic week. When weight young people ages 12 to
logical initially, it obese patients. Dr. Chris “It’s very safe,” he adds. in Vancouver and hopes to plateaus, the band gets 17 is at about 10 per
becomes so for Cobourn, a general sur- “We’ve done over 3,000 open soon in Calgary and tightened. If a female pa- cent.
some individuals geon at The Surgical here with no major compli- on the east coast. tient gets pregnant, the Health care In 2005, obesi-
when the activity Weight Loss Centre in Mis- cations or deaths.” Lap-band surgery is done band can be loosened. The ty-related chronic
becomes dysfunc- sissauga, performs Lap- Lap-Band surgery is not laparoscopically, and takes procedure has been suc- conditions were thought
tional. Band surgery, and watches for folks who just want to about half an hour. The sur- cessful, says Cobourn. to cost $1.8 million in
THE CANADIAN PRESS as patients as heavy as 575 lose 10 pounds. It’s for geon places an adjustable “Only about 10 per cent direct costs (such as health
pounds lose weight and get those with a body mass in- band around the upper of patients either didn’t care) and $2.5 billion in in-
healthy. dex (BM) over 35 or a BMI stomach, which decreases lose 25 per cent of their direct costs (such as absen-
“They love their band. over 30 who also have med- the amount of food the body weight, or asked to teeism and loss of
No one wants to be obese. ical problems such as dia- stomach can hold. The have their band removed.” productivity).
Achieving enormous loss
ISTOCK PHOTOS
CELIA “I used to look for the Food has to be chewed
MILNE largest portion on the carefully and eaten slowly,
[email protected] menu. I’d order a 30-ounce or they feel sick. Saridis
Porterhouse, even if it was had a great surgeon, but
Tom Saridis, 39, has lost an tough, when all I need is a then wondered, “what’s
almost unfathomable 280 four-ounce filet.” next?” Reputable clinics al-
pounds — the weight of He believes in the Lap- so provide psychological,
two smallish adults. In Band procedure so passion- nutrition and physical fit-
2006, just before he had ately that soon after his ness services all in one
Lap-Band surgery, Saridis surgery, he launched the place. “Surgery is the tool;
weighed a colossal 500 Canadian Institute of the care afterward is the
pounds. Now he weighs in Bariatric Options clinic in road map,” he says.
Don't exceed top dose of acetamin-
ophen when taking painkillers: at 220 pounds, and at six- Toronto, which provides Lap-Band surgery is not
Health Canada feet tall, he’s delighted he this surgery and the sup- covered by provincial
can live a normal life. port needed afterward. health care plans. At the CI-
Now when Saridis eats, Patients who undergo BO clinic, it costs $3,600
he’s thinking about quality, Lap-Band surgery need to down and $299 a month to
not quantity. learn a new way of eating. a maximum of 72 months.
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TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, 2011
MEGHAN TELPNER
Top five ways to
get more energy
1
Go easy on the caffeine:
Who doesn’t rely on
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ter, but anything beyond
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site effect.
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Nothing beats a good
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A healthy life doesn’t mean diet-deprivation. 3
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Swapping your way sion and is one of the 5
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DAILY SQUEEZE cious year yet. Let’s take a seed. Rub open side of Use it: In place of sugar
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MEGHAN TELPNER minutes. Use in any recipe
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Swap in: Spaghetti Swap in: Quinoa
It’s a new Squash Swap out: Refined sugar Why: White rice is high-
year, and we Why: When cooked, the Swap in: Raw Honey ly processed and devoid of
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But that does- ti pasta in both appearance robbing them of impor- grain-like superfood such
n’t have to and texture. tant nutrients (B-vitamins as quinoa, you get great
mean diet-deprivation – Not only does it keep and certain minerals), flavour plus fibre, man-
far from it. “pasta” dishes lighter in compromising our immu- ganese, and iron.
By simply replacing cer- calories and carbs, it by- nity while causing increas- Use it: Cook as you
tain ingredients, you can passes all refined flour and ing stress. would rice, simmering for
turn favourite meals into gluten, while providing a Compare this to raw, approximately 15 minutes
nutrient powerhouses. ton of nutrients such as be- unpasteurized honey, until water is absorbed.
These simple tips will ta-carotene and vitamin C. which contains phytonu- Use in a grain pilaf, as a
help make this your Use it: Slice squash in trients and highly regard- hot cereal, in stir-fries and
healthiest and most deli- half lengthwise and de- ed anti-viral properties. stews.
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