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PSY-ZING UP 2012’S CELEB HEADLINERS TURN THE PAGES TO SEE IF YOUR TOP 5 POP CULTURE Sticking together MOMENTS OF THE LAST YEAR MATCH METRO’S PAGE 13 Canadian juniors grow close in Russia while far from the comforts of home PAGE 20 VANCOUVER Wednesday, January 2, 2013 News worth sharing. metronews.ca | twitter.com/vancouvermetro| facebook.com/vancouvermetro Back to work Your holiday of sleeping in till noon and reading trashy novels is over — here are some coping strategies PAGE 18 Middle-earth comes to life A visit to New Zealand is a must for any Tolkien devotee PAGE 14 Dinner in a cinch Broccoli pasta is easy to prepare and budget-friendly PAGE 16 JUST GRIN AND BEAR IT A man enjoys the annual polar bear swim at English Bay in Vancouver on Tuesday afternoon. The 93rd annual event attracted 2,233 swimmers, who braved the 7 C waters in all sorts of costumes and bathing suits. Story and photos, page 4. JENNIFER GAUTHIER/FOR METRO Two words you don’t usually see together: easy budgeting. 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Canadian driver Majority of passengers N were North Americans A list of injured released of South Korean by police named seven Canadian residents, includ- descent, police say ing the driver, identifi ed as Haeng Kyu Hwang. E Investigators in Oregon are try- ing to piece together the final the driver, a 54-year-old man moments before a Vancouver- from Vancouver, will face any bound tour bus carrying 47 charges. W people careened down a steep State police revised the hillside, ejecting some of the number aboard the bus to passengers and killing at least 47 from 48 on Tuesday and nine. confirmed 39 people were Oregon State Police identi- transported for treatment of fied one of the nine victims as injuries and at least 14 of them a 57-year-old Washington man. remained in hospital. Authorities said Dale William Hastings said Monday that S Osborn of Spanaway was killed investigators were still try- in Sunday’s crash and his wife, ing to confirm the citizenship Sue Osborn, remained hospit- of the victims, but a majority alized in Pendleton. were of South Korean descent Authorities have not yet re- and lived in British Columbia, leased the names of the other Washington state, Oregon and eight people who died, but po- even Idaho. lice said the four men and four The bus was travelling west- women were of Asian descent bound in the left lane of Inter- and one female victim may be state 84 when it hit a concrete a juvenile. barrier, veered across both The bus was carrying tour- westbound lanes and went ists, including some who had through the guardrail before been living in Canada, on the plunging about 60 metres final leg of a nine-day tour of down the embankment, Hast- the western United States. ings said. The National Trans- State Police Lt. Gregg Hast- portation Safety Board said the ings said it could take a month bus rolled at least once. Rescue workers and vehicles respond to a tour-bus crash in Pendleton, Ore., Sunday. Police are working to piece or more to determine whether THE ASSOCIATED PRESS together the identities of the 47 victims. OREGON STATE POLICE/THE CANADIAN PRESS Langley family welcomes 2nd New Year’s baby Being the New Year baby runs born just two minutes after in the Greenwood family. 1Ba7by b,o0nanza00 midnight at Royal Inland Hospi- Shane Carter Greenwood tal in Kamloops. He weighed in beat out others to become the at eight pounds eleven ounces. first baby born in the Lower According to an annual re- Mainland at 12:26 a.m. Tuesday port from the B.C. Vital Statis- More than 17,000 babies are born every at Langley Memorial Hospital. tics Agency, the most popular year in Fraser Health, says spokeswoman Baby Shane, who weighed Tasleem Juma. names for babies born in 2011 in at nine pounds five ounces, were Liam and Emma. followed in the footsteps of his Ethan, Mason, Lucas and grandmother Kelly Greenwood. Tasleem Juma said it was a busy Benjamin were the next most She was the New Year’s baby night at Langley Memorial, popular names for boys, while born in Surrey in 1969. with a total of five babies born the other top girls’ names were Little Shane is the second — three boys and two girls. Olivia, Sophia, Ava and Chloe. son of Alyssa Burkhardt, 19, In September, the hospital The report also showed that and Justin Greenwood, 20. He had a record number of babies the number of births in B.C. is was also born in the same room born in one day with nine on the rise. In 2011, there were Newlyweds Geraldine and David James with their fi rst child, David James Jr., as his two-year-old big brother babies, she added. a total of 43,991 births in B.C., the province’s fi rst New Year’s baby. Baby David was born at 12:02 a.m. at Shawn. Meanwhile B.C.’s New Year’s up from 43,670 in 2010. Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops. INTERIOR HEALTH/CONTRIBUTED Fraser Health spokeswoman baby — David James Jr. — was PHYLICIA TORREVILLAS/METRO $45,000 in damages ‘No major incidents’ Across the board 50 cents to $5.50. Monthly pass prices rose SkyTrain worker Vancouver rings TransLink as well, with one-zone jump- charged for in New Year celebrates 2013 ing by $10 to $91, two-zone by $14 to $124 and three- slashing seats peacefully with fare increase zone by $19 to $170. Discount, concession, Terald Nicholas Gorecki, Large crowds gathered in TransLink kicked off 2013 DayPass and HandyDART a 63-year-old SkyTrain A slashed SkyTrain seat the Granville entertain- with an across the board fare fares are also up, but maintenance worker, has TRANSLINK/CONTRIBUTED ment district and Gastown increase of about 10 per cent. booklets of FareSaver tickets been charged for allegedly were in good spirits as they Adult one-zone fares and escaped the price jump. slashing nearly 500 SkyTrain cutter between August and ushered in 2013, making two-zone fares rose 25 cents The last time transit seats. Transit police say that November 2012. it a quiet night for police. to $2.75 and $4 respectively, prices rose was 2008. 480 seats were cut with a box PHYLICIA TORREVILLAS/METRO PHYLICIA TORREVILLAS/METRO and three-zone fares are up EMILY JACKSON/METRO 04 NEWS metronews.ca Wednesday, January 2, 2013 My toes might still be frozen by the time you read this. I took the plunge into the 7 C water in English Bay for Vancouver’s 93rd annual New Year’s Day polar bear swim alongside 2,233 registered swimmers dressed in antlers, spandex, orange hazmat suits, bikinis and at least one man-thong. EMILY JACKSON [email protected] 1 ALL PHOTOS BY JENNIFER GAUTHIER/METRO Get me. Outta here! A woman screams as she runs out of the water dur- ing the 93rd polar bear swim in English Bay. 2 Hug yourself. Hug another Participants try to stay warm before braving the water. 1 2 Brrrrrrrr-inging in the new year 3 There was no time for second- complete with penguin cos- guessing when the crowd in tumes, worn by his son Jason, the fenced corral charged the 24, and friend Craig Blades, 30. ocean at 2:30 p.m. “We’re from Antarctica ori- Heart racing, I sprinted ginally, so this is hot-tub water into the water alongside cos- for us,” Jason joked before the tumed folks young and old, swim. a chorus of shrieks, laughter Cousins Sara Tourand, 18, and expletives filling the air. and Alicia Ascon-Tourand, 14, The water might have felt both did the dip for the first balmy compared to the 3 C time. Ascon-Tourand even air temperature, but I wasn’t dressed as Pooh bear for the about to stay in long enough occasion. to test the theory on my first “I’ve never been in an polar bear swim — even ocean before,” Saskatchewan 4 though I wore wool socks to resident Tourand said. The protect my toes. giggling pair was excited and Dip veteran George Pajari nervous — Ascon-Tourand on the other hand splashed “chickened out” last year. around with a pool noodle on About 25 boxes of food his fourth outdoor swim of the were donated to the food day. bank, the park board’s Healy 3 “I’m proud to share the mo- said, and the event went off Oh, come on. If Torontonians ment of collective insanity,” without any incidents. (Some- Pajari said, adding that the times people imbibe liquid can do it at -4 C.... water was much colder in Van- courage before they dive in, 5 couver and Deep Cove than which can pose safety prob- At a relatively balmy 7 C, the water was warmer than the White Rock and Port Moody. lems in the cold water, senior 43 C air temperature. “It’s a great way to start the lifeguard Tom Hollett said.) year.” And your Metro corres- We handled it. Pretty well It wasn’t the first plunge pondent can confirm the ru- 5 for Allen Peterson, 59, either. mours are true — the polar A couple holds hands as they run out of English Bay. What started as a dare after a bear swim really is the best Celebrate. With a cold one More than 2,200 people took part in the dip, one of the night of libations 35 years ago cure for a New Year’s Day largest in Canada. turned into a family tradition hangover. A man toasts the New Year with a dip in the Pacific. metronews.ca NEWS 05 Wednesday, January 2, 2013 Stampede after fireworks kills 61 New Year’s tragedy. African nation after a bloody and the stadium to try to find Most of those killed in upheaval over presidential Missing children missing children. elections put the nation on the State TV showed a woman Ivory Coast city were “I have just seen all the brink of civil war and turned sobbing in the back of an ambu- children and teens this city into a battle zone. bodies, but I cannot find lance; another was bent over on With 2013 showing greater my son.... I don’t know the side of the street, apparent- promise, people were in the ly in pain; and another, barely what to do.” mood to celebrate on New conscious and wearing only A crowd stampeded after Year’s Eve. Families brought Mamadou Sanogo, who was searching for a bra on her upper body, was leaving a New Year’s Eve fire- children and they watched the his nine-year-old son, Sayed, at the morgue hoisted by rescuers. There were works show early Tuesday rockets burst in the nighttime also scenes of small children in Ivory Coast’s main city, sky. But only an hour into the in the crowd went down, tram- being treated in a hospital. One killing 61 people — many of new year, as the crowds poured pled underfoot. Most of those boy grimaced in pain and a girl them children and teenagers onto the Boulevard de la Repub- killed were eight to 15 years with coloured braids in her hair — and injuring more than lic after the show, something old. lay under a blanket with one 200, rescue workers said. caused a stampede, said Col. “The flood of people leaving hand bandaged. The death toll Thousands had gathered at Issa Sako of the fire department the stadium became a stam- could rise, officials said. the Felix Houphouet Boigny rescue team. How so many pede, which led to the deaths of The government organized Stadium in Abidjan’s Plateau deaths occurred on the broad more than 60 and injured more the fireworks to celebrate Ivory district to see the fireworks. It boulevard and how the tragedy than 200,” Sako told Ivory Coast Coast’s peace, after several was only the second New Year’s started is likely to be the sub- state TV. months of political violence in A soldier stands next to the belongings of people involved in a Eve fireworks display since ject of an investigation. Desperate parents went to early 2011 following disputed deadly stampede in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. At least 61 people were killed peace returned to this West Many of the younger ones the city morgue, the hospital elections. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS following a New Year’s Eve fireworks display. EMANUEL EKRA/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DEEP DISCOUNTS. HUGE SAVINGS. 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A bone test is being conducted (cid:580)(cid:3) Police often refuse to to confirm the age of a young hear complaints, and suspect in custody in the fatal even accuse victims of assault and gang rape of a inviting male attention. woman on a bus in India’s capital, while prosecutors will (cid:580)(cid:3) Families also dissuade seek the death penalty for five victims from coming other men arrested with him, forward in the belief police said Tuesday. that it will ruin their The six will be formally reputations. charged Thursday on accusa- tions that they kidnapped, gang-raped and murdered the Another officer said a bone 23-year-old woman in New test is being conducted to Delhi on Dec. 16, a police determine if one suspect is spokesman said. Outraged In- indeed a juvenile. If the test dians have been demanding determines he is 18 years or the death penalty for the six older he will be treated as an men, holding demonstrations adult, said the officer, who almost every day. Murder is spoke on condition of ano- punishable by death; rape, by nymity. Many officials can- life imprisonment. But those celled their New Year’s cele- below 18 years of age cannot brations on Monday. be prosecuted for murder. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The gang rape and killing of a student has set off an impassioned debate about what India needs to do to prevent another tragedy. DAR YASIN/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Richness is: The New Scotiabank®* Gold American Express® Card. Earn travel rewards 4x faster1 at gas stations, grocery stores, on dining and entertainment, so you can take those meaningful trips even sooner. Get started with 20,000 bonus travel rewards points.2 scotiabank.com/4xfaster ®* Registered trademarks of The Bank of Nova Scotia. ® American Express is a trademark of American Express. 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It’s speculate how it might Clinton didn’t suffer a stroke tion dose for the blood thin- how the blood gets back to affect possible run for or neurological damage from In early December Clinton ners has been established, the the heart,” said Dr. Larry Gold- the clot that formed after she fell ill with a stomach virus, doctors said. stein, director of Duke Univer- president in 2016 suffered a concussion during and eventually fainted, fell In their statement, Dr. sity’s stroke centre. He is not a fainting spell at her home in and suffered a concus- Lisa Bardack of the Mount involved in Clinton’s care. early December, doctors said sion while at home alone Kisco Medical Group and Dr. Blood thinners usually are U.S. Secretary of State Hillary in a statement on Monday. in mid-December as she Gigi El-Bayoumi of George enough to treat the clot and Clinton continues to recover Clinton, 65, was admit- recovered from the virus. 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On Dec. 31, revellers: A much-lamented 2009, the last public figure tradition that remained intact available, 1,147 vehicles were this year, with 1,193 vehicles burned. burned, Interior Minister Man- Like many countries, France 2 uel Valls said on Tuesday. sees cars set on fire during the His announcement was year for many reasons, includ- the first time in three years ing gangs hiding clues of their T A K E A N E X T R A that such figures have been crimes and people making false released. The conservative gov- insurance claims. ernment of former president But car-torching took a new Nicolas Sarkozy had decided step in France when it became * to stop publishing them in a a way to mark the arrival of the bid to reduce the crime — and New Year. The practice report- avoid playing into the hands of edly began in earnest among car-torching youths who try to youths — often in poor neigh- OFF outdo each other. bourhoods — in the 1990s in France’s current Socialist the region around Strasbourg government decided other- in eastern France. wise, deeming total transpar- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS New York City Cooked currency FALL / WINTER READY-TO-WEAR COLLECTIONS, 20-year-old killed Bank of Canada 6 SHOES AND ACCESSORIES ALREADY REDUCED BY UP TO after falling onto releases report subway tracks on melting bills New York City police say a Disclosing details of young woman stumbling behind-the-scenes discus- around on a subway plat- sions about tales of melting form not far from Times banknotes could endanger Square fell onto the tracks national security or inter- and was killed by a train. national relations, says The accident happened Canada’s central bank. before dawn on New In response to a formal Year’s Day at a station request from The Canadian just one stop from where Press, the Bank Of Canada revellers gather in Times released 134 pages of Square to celebrate at internal records — almost midnight. completely blanked out — Police say the victim concerning allegations its SOME EXCLUSIONS APPLY — CALL FOR DETAILS was in her 20s. 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Rare Online chief executive officers in New Year’s Day session Canada will have earned as ends successfully after much as the average Can- (cid:34)(cid:279)(cid:292)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:254)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:268)(cid:209)(cid:302)(cid:229)(cid:296)(cid:302)(cid:3)(cid:305)(cid:289)(cid:225)(cid:209)(cid:302)(cid:229)(cid:296)(cid:550)(cid:3) adian makes all year, a new Senate and House OK (cid:314)(cid:255)(cid:296)(cid:255)(cid:302)(cid:3)(cid:273)(cid:229)(cid:302)(cid:292)(cid:279)(cid:274)(cid:229)(cid:315)(cid:296)(cid:553)(cid:221)(cid:209) survey of CEO pay shows. compromise bill The top 100 CEOs in Canada earned $7.7 million ing middle-class tax increases on average in 2011, the latest and spending cuts taking ef- data collected by an Ottawa- Past its own New Year’s dead- fect with the new year, the based think-tank found. line, a weary Congress sent legislation will raise tax rates In comparison, the aver- U.S. President Barack Obama on incomes over $400,000 for age industrial wage was Frank Stronach, honorary chair legislation to avoid a national individuals and $450,000 for $45,488, the Canadian Centre of Magna International Inc. fiscal cliff of middle-class tax couples. That was higher than for Policy Alternatives notes. GETTY IMAGES FILE increases and spending cuts the thresholds of $200,000 This is the seventh year late Tuesday night in the cul- and $250,000 that Obama the policy group has pre- (cid:580)(cid:3) Frank Stronach, honorary mination of a struggle that campaigned for. But remark- pared a database of executive chair of Magna Inter- strained America’s divided ably, in a party that swore off pay based on publicly avail- national Inc., led the CEO government to the limit. tax increases two decades ago, pay parade, earning $40 able documents. The bill’s passage on a bi- dozens of Republicans sup- million in 2011. It began doing so in 2005 partisan 257-167 vote in the ported the bill at both ends of to help focus public debate House sealed a hard-won polit- the Capitol. on the growing gap between (cid:580)(cid:3) Michael Pearson, head of ical triumph for the president Supporters of the bill in rich and poor, said Hugh Montreal-based Valeant less than two months after he Sen. John Barrasso, left, R-Wyo., talks with Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, holding both parties expressed regret Mackenzie, an economist Pharmaceuticals Inter- secured re-election while call- up his watch, after a vote on the fiscal cliff Tuesday on Capitol Hill. The Senate and that it was narrowly drawn, and research associate with national Inc., came in ing for higher taxes on the House passed legislation early New Year’s Day to neutralize a fiscal cliff and fell far short of a sweep- the think-tank. second with a pay packet wealthy. combination of across-the-board tax increases and spending cuts that kicked in ing plan that combined tax Total executive compen- oitf i n$3 s6h.a3r mesi.l lIino nth, imrdo pstl aocfe Moments later, Obama at midnight. ALEX BRANDON/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS changes and spending cuts to sation includes base salary, was Robert Quartermain, strode into the White House reduce federal deficits. That bonus, stocks and stock op- head of Vancouver-based briefing room and declared, preventing tax hikes that mer senator’s role as the lead proved to be a step too far in tions, and the value of things gold exploration firm “Thanks to the votes of Re- could have sent the economy Democratic negotiator in final the two months since Obama like pension and dental Pretium Resources Inc., publicans and Democrats in back into recession.” compromise talks with Senate called congressional leaders plans, use of a corporate jet at $16.9 million. Congress, I will sign a law that He spoke with Vice- Republican Leader Mitch Mc- to the White House for a pos- and other benefits. raises taxes on the wealthiest President Joe Biden at his Connell of Kentucky. telection stab at compromise. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE 2 per cent of Americans while side, a recognition of the for- In addition to neutraliz- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Weather your cold. 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It’s your career. bcit.ca/pts Get it right. metronews.ca VOICES 09 Wednesday, January 2, 2013 YOLO, SO IT’S Moscow on the Mediterranean TIME TO RETIRE THESE CLICHÉS JUST How many times over the past SAYIN’ year have you heard the term Paul Sullivan “double down”? metronews.ca/voices/ If you answered, “Too many,” just-saying you probably feel much the same way about other misused and abused words and phrases of 2012, including, but not restricted to: Fiscal cliff, trending, passion, spoiler alert, bucket list, super- food and the now unavoidable YOLO (you only live once). These and others turned up on this year’s Lake Superior State University’s 2013 List of Banned Words. When you’re only a minor seat of higher learning in the snowbelt — and not Harvard — you need to come up with a shtick to get noticed. Back in 1975, some PR genius at LSSU came up with the idea of An aptitude for platitudes an annual list of words that need to be banned. Every year, the It’s like you belong to university publishes a selection a club, and the only of words and phrases compiled requirement for from the submissions of grumpy wordsmiths across North Amer- membership is that ica, and every year, the news you have to use the services cover it as if it’s actually trendy word before news. Of course, “wordsmith” made the list one year, but, like your mother texts it most of the other words on the to her BFF. list, people just keep on using them … until they don’t. The list is more important now than ever as the alarming proliferation of bloggers who feed off other bloggers has led to the near-complete eradication of ori- ODED BALILTY/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ginal thought, as everyone doubles down on the trending slang. It’s like you belong to a club, and the only requirement for Distinct society Growing influence Kosher clash Old country and new membership is that you have to use the trendy word before your 3rd mother texts it to her BFF (previously banned abbreviation for From Russia with Russian power best friend forever). If you continue to use it after that, you earn the scorn of the haters, but I’m sure everyone else thinks you’re love of culture on the rise terribly trending. Israel has the world’s third-largest The problem with “trending,” according to its nominators, is The children of immi- By virtue of their sheer Russian-speaking community outside that it’s not up to the task: Trending which way? Up? Down? Out? grants from the former of the former Soviet Union, after numbers in a country The problem with the fiscal cliff is obvious. Talk about a lazy Soviet Union attend a the U.S. and Germany. Today, of eight million people, reference to the worst financial crisis of the century to date. But ballet class in Lod, central Russian-speaking émigrés and their the Russian population instead of working hard to understand it, all of us lemmings pre- Israel. The Soviet state children occupy virtually every corner has transformed Israel. fer to roll it up and package it in a neat phrase that we can take crumbled 20 years ago, of Israeli society, from academia ODED BALILTY/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS In parts of the country, with us as we go over it. and in the aftermath, and technology to the military and it’s hard to find a single “Double down” is particularly odious. It allows you to pretend more than one million of politics. Every fourth employee in An employee of the Mizra Hebrew sign in a sea of you’re a real riverboat gambler, comfortable with high-risk black- its citizens took advan- Israel’s flourishing high-tech industry pork-processing plant Cyrillic. Shopkeepers jack strategies, when you don’t know jack about doubling down tage of Jewish roots to is a Russian-speaking immigrant, as poses with a pig’s head in a address customers in Rus- or hitting me up or whatever. emigrate to Israel. Some is every other engineer. The world’s refrigerated warehouse in sian and stores are amply One of my faves this year is “passion,” as in “That’s my pas- prominent ballet dancers second-ranked chess master, Belarus- Kibbutz Mizra, northern Is- stocked with red caviar sion,” justifying some inane or inherently dangerous practice were among them, form- born Boris Gelfand, lives in Israel, and rael. The Russian immigrant and vodka. 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