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traffic Friday as another sport, society, Hollywood,
part of the security perime- and business, and Vancou-
ter takes effect around B.C. ver should be no exception.
Place and GM Place. “I expect not to sleep at
Quebec Street, which all,” said Lainey Lui, known
connects the boulevards to as Lainey Gossip to her fans
Terminal Avenue, will also in the blogosphere.
shut to traffic. Lui is getting ready,
Similar road closures are which included a reconnais-
already in place around the sance call to journalists who
Athletes Village, Pacific Col- covered the 2000 Summer
iseum and the Main Media Games in Sydney.
Centre at Canada Place. “It was basically a 16-day
On Monday, the streets party. I totally expect that to
around the Vancouver be the case in Vancouver,”
Olympic Centre (near Nat she said.
Bailey Stadium) will be Omega, Oh, no
closed to traffic. The Geor- the official
gia and Dunsmuir Viaducts timekeeper (cid:129) Celebrity
close Feb. 5 METRO VANCOUVER of the athletes
Games, has include NHL
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you daily coverage leading Cypress Mountain will be are dealt with,” said Tim periencing one of the tion venues by mining cluding George Clooney,
up to the 2010 Winter ready for the Winter Gayda, VANOC’s vice-presi- warmest Januarys on record, dump trucks. Nicole Kidman, Formula
Olympics in Games regardless of the dent of sport. Environment Canada said It was then pushed into One driver Michael Schu-
Vancouver. hand dealt by Mother Na- Warm temperatures, Thursday. Story, page 4 place by snowcat. On the macher, Chinese actress
• Canada, U.S.
ture, Olympic organizers combined with rain at low- steep moguls and aerial Zhang Ziyi and golfer Sergio
remain cream of
said Thursday. er elevations, prompted course, it was even Garcia.
women’s hockey
The local ski resort, Cypress to shut down its snow and Nagano had is- winched uphill by snow- Golfer Mike Weir will
crop, pg 17
home to freestyle skiing alpine area in mid-January sues with its alpine events cats cabled to towers. make an appearance on be-
On the web and snowboard events, has to conserve snow. because of too much snow. The International Ski half of the Ontario pavilion,
seen its normal winter A team of 45 people has As of Thursday, about Federation, which is re- Wayne Gretzky and B.C. co-
Visit metronews.ca flurries replaced by a flurry been working 24 hours a 800 bales of hay, each sponsible for certifying median Brent Butt will be at
for news updates of workers shaping courses day, seven days a week, to weighing more than 450 the venues ahead of com- Hockey House and talk
from bales of hay and shape the courses. kilograms, were airlifted petition, viewed Cypress show host and comedian
snow “harvested” from Every Olympic Games by helicopter and stacked on Tuesday and said they Stephen Colbert says he’s
ShareYourViews higher elevations. gets hit by weather, Gayda “like Lego” to shape course were confident the cours- coming with the U.S. speed-
[email protected] “Our goal is to move said. Torino had similar features. es would be ready for the skating team.
ahead with the weather we problems with not enough Snow, harvested from Games. THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Canucks heading on road for 14 games
Local
With GM Place shutting down so it can be ready for the Olympics, the Vancouver Canucks
are embarking on a 14-game road trip, with their next home game scheduled for March
13. In all, they’ll travel 20,737 kilometres — and, if you’re wondering, that’s the
equivalent of more than 1.5 million Oreo cookies lined up one after the other, according
to the NHL’s official website. METRO VANCOUVER
GPS on track for Games
News in brief FlagWhoa Canada!
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Hunter, founder and CEO of to be (there), and to co-ordi- dollars worth of athletes on
Oklahoma-based U.S. Fleet nate the movement of per- buses, you want to know
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the instructions at the top of this page Hunter said his compa- ple will closely monitor the personnel are our highest
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Bobsledder’s loved ones getting money back
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welcomes Chivas de- than $8,000 in a Vancouver Procter & Gamble said lete for the reigning four-
fender Ante Jazic to Olympic home-rental scam, Thursday it will cover the man world and World Cup
discuss his upcom- Canada Post employees watch from the roof of the mail-process- U.S. bobsledder Steve group’s losses, a gesture championship sled from
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4 local Canada’s Olympic flagbearer to be announced Friday
Canada’s flagbearer for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games is being announced on Friday afternoon at a ceremony in
Richmond. The Canadian Olympic Committee will also be naming the members of the Canadian Olympic Team.METRO NEWS SERVICES
Not-so-wintry Games Four crash victims freed from seatbelts: TSB
DEATHSFour of the six peo- tion by the Transportation The pilot and a passen-
ple who died in a float Safety Board shows two of ger, who were both near
January’s mild weather here to stay for Olympics plane crash were able to the four doors were doors that popped open,
get their seatbelts off as it jammed shut when the escaped from the Seair de
“(VANOC) will make de- sank, but they couldn’t get frame of the plane twisted Havilland Beaver when it
KRISTEN THOMPSON One hot town cisions based on the out the doors. on impact as it crashed crashed last November.
[email protected] weather forecast Environ- A preliminary investiga- near Saturna Island. THE CANADIAN PRESS
(cid:129) Vancouver is the warmest ment Canada provides. We
We’re on track for a record city ever to host the Winter need to provide accurate
for the warmest January in Games. and up-to-the-minute in- Cypress MountainTraining day
Vancouver history and the (cid:129) For weather info go to formation.”
mild weather — which weatheroffice.gc.ca/2010. The government has al-
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Jones’ word for it. On “As the clock ticks down er impacts,” said Dennis
Thursday, Environment toward the Olympics, I Dudley, a meteorologist
Canada launched a 2010 imagine organizers are with Environment Cana-
Games weather website thinking about the white da. “(This website) goes
that uses the latest in me- stuff,” said federal Envi- well beyond ‘cloudy with a
teorology technology to ronment Minister Jim 30 per cent chance of flur-
provide up-to-the-minute Prentice. ries.’”
City considers donating banners for Haiti relief
DEATHS Vancouver’s city on Tuesday suggests the ners could raise $300,000
council is looking at donat- city donate 3,000 of the in donations.
ing half of its Olympic and 6,000 Olympic and Para- The remaining banners
Paralympic banners to lympic banners to UNICEF would be used as originally
raise money for relief ef- to auction off. intended, that is to “fund Members of the Canadian military are seen taking part in an exercise on Cypress Mountain on
forts in Haiti. A report by city staff esti- inner-city initiatives.” Thursday. The army is providing security in wooded areas like Cypress and Whistler.
A motion before council mates that the 3,000 ban- METRO VANCOUVER
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6 Scientists call on Charest to stop asbestos exporting
Scientists from 28 countries are appealing to Quebec Premier Jean Charest to put a stop to asbestos exports from the province. They are asking Charest in a
letter dated Thursday to take heed of extensive international scientific opinion that all forms of asbestos present a danger for public health. THE CANADIAN PRESS
Fonyo wants Order of Canada back
Canada
The man who raised millions for cancer research is thanking the public for
supporting him after he was stripped of the Order of Canada. Steve Fonyo,
left, made the comment from jail, where he is serving the remainder of an as-
sault sentence after breaching his parole conditions. The Order of Canada can
be revoked for several reasons, including when a recipient has been convicted
of a criminal offence. THE CANADIAN PRESS
Missile-like object Harper calls for G20 unity
mystery deepens
PM tells countries to co-operate, put self-interest aside
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Verte, said Thursday he had side taking pictures of the same co-operative spirit it activity, implementing
received no further infor- sunset Monday when she has shown over the past stimulus programs and de-
mation on the missile-like saw something fly over- year,” Harper told an audi- signing exit strategies to
objects seen earlier this head. ence of bankers, business eventually reduce debt.
week. A radio station in St. executives, government “In fact, if inadequate reg-
“The objective here John’s, N.L., said a French leaders and economists. “I ulation is not addressed, I
should be to dispel rumours media outlet reported that am hopeful.” believe the consequences
and conspiracy theories,” France had conducted a bal- In a speech Thursday at could actually be worse
he said from Corner Brook, listic missile test in the At- the Davos World Economic than before this crisis.”
N.L. lantic Ocean, but far from Forum in Switzerland, the Canada’s banking regula-
“It’s not making any the area where something prime minister laid out his tions strike the right bal-
sense and nobody’s provid- was seen. No one from the priorities for the G20 and ance between controlling
ing any real answers, so French Embassy in Ottawa G8 summits that Canada bad behaviour and allowing
questions are mounting.” was available for comment. will host at the end of June. financial institutions free-
Byrne said there had THE CANADIAN PRESS He credited unprecedent- dom to grow, he said.
ed co-operation among G20 Prime Minister Stephen Harper speaks at the World Economic However, none of the re-
members for cushioning Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Thursday. forms proposed so far in the
the blow of the recession United States or Europe
last year, but said countries That’s when a country ests will benefit. mirror Canada’s system.
now need to embrace what acts in the best interests of “When the G20 resumes Rather, countries are going
he is calling “enlightened others because, in the end, in Toronto, the discussion off in all directions.
sovereignty.” the country’s own self-inter- should be ... less about nar- THE CANADIAN PRESS
Probe launched into ignored detainee report News in brief
LAWSUIT The Supreme Court
AFGHANISTANThe Canadian A report on the incident, Natynczyk’s deputy, Vice- of Canada has rejected a
military has ordered a for- which undermines Conser- Admiral Denis Rouleau, request to rule on provisions of
mal investigation in- vative government says the probe will look at a wrongful death lawsuit
to how a critical re- claims that no pris- the incident itself, why sol- brought by the grieving father
port on the beating oners handed over to diers took the actions they of a Jehovah’s Witness girl.
of an Afghan prison- Afghans faced abuse, did and how it was report- THE CANADIAN PRESS
er remained buried was apparently un- ed. The report of the investi-
at National Defence covered only in De- gation is due March 1 and is
headquarters. cember. to be made public shortly
In June 2006 sol- Chief of Defence after.
diers captured a sus- Staff Gen. Walt Natynczyk’s admission
pected Taliban fight- Gen. Walt Natynczyk ordered that Canadians had indeed
er and handed him Natynczyk an investigation, been the ones to detain the
over to local police, which is headed by suspect caused shock waves
who then beat him to the Rear-Admiral Paul Maddi- on Parliament Hill and Manreyt yuornuinngg A tofg Chaanna vdeat,s a sntrdu ag gnleew with
point where the Canadians son, commander of Joint prompted accusations of a outdoor program aims to ease the
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8 canada Canadians pleased with Tory response to Haiti: Poll
A new poll suggests a large majority of Canadians of all political stripes believe the Conservative government has responded well to the earthquake crisis in Haiti. The
Canadian Press Harris-Decima survey found that 71 per cent of respondents ranked the federal actions as good (41 per cent) or excellent (30 per cent). THE CANADIAN PRESS
Tories take control in Senate Canada
boosts
The Conservatives will The appointment of the could help clear the way Labrador. tunity to serve the country
have effective control in new Conservative senators for Harper’s plans to re- In Quebec, victim’s right and to promote the ideas
both houses of Parliament will end years of Liberal form the Senate itself. activist Pierre-Hughes I’ve defended in the areas funds in
and greater sway over the domination in the Upper Harper is poised to ap- Boisvenu is expected to be of justice and public securi-
legislative agenda after Chamber and leave the point two senators from named to the Senate. ty in Canada,” Boisvenu
Prime Minister Stephen Conservatives just two Ontario and one each in “I’ve concluded that if told Sherbrooke’s Tribune Afghan
Harper names five new seats shy of a majority Quebec, New Brunswick the opportunity presented newspaper Wednesday.
senators Friday. there. The power shift and Newfoundland and itself, it would be an oppor- THE CANADIAN PRESS drug war
POPPIESCanada will nearly
double its funding for the
war against drugs in
Afghanistan, but isn’t ready
to contribute cash to pay
for negotiations with the
Taliban.
Canada will contribute
Expect new riders during an extra $25 million to
fight the spread of
Afghanistan’s illicit poppy
the 2010 Winter Games. crop — the backbone of the
global heroin trade — on
top of a previous contribu-
tion of $30 million, Foreign
Affairs Minister Lawrence
Cannon said Thursday from
London.
Cannon was representing
Canada at an international
meeting on Afghanistan.
Delegates were plotting the
eventual Western exit from
the strife-torn country
amid rising military casual-
ties and growing public op-
position after more than
eight years of war.
Afghan President Hamid
Karzai told delegates from
about 70 countries and
world bodies that he wants
to convene a peace confer-
ence in his country to lure
Taliban fighters to
renounce violence.
“We must reach out to
all our countrymen, espe-
cially our disenchanted
brothers who are not part
of al-Qaida or other terror-
ist networks,” Karzai told
the conference.
THE CANADIAN PRESS
Deportation
looms for alleged
gang member
CALGARYThe Federal Court
of Canada has decided not
to review a deportation or-
der against a notorious al-
leged Calgary gang
member. The decision —
released following a
judicial review — pushes
Jackie Tran closer to being
deported to Vietnam.
Tran’s lawyer argued at
last week’s review that im-
migration authorities made
mistakes when they
dismissed the convicted
drug trafficker’s appeal of a
Metro Vancouver is hosting the world during the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic 2004 deportation order that
was based on serious crimi-
Winter Games. During the Games there will be road restrictions, increased vehicle nality.
traffic and no parking at venues and along key routes. Public transit will be one His lawyers have filed a
of the easiest ways to get around, especially to Games venues and events. request for a judicial review
of a second deportation or-
Be prepared and plan your commute ahead of time. der that was issued on the
basis that Tran is an alleged
Stay up-to-date with real-time schedules and alerts by visiting TravelSmart2010.ca member of a criminal
organization.
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The Saskatchewan government warns that it could cut off funding to the embattled First Nations University of Canada within days. Advanced Education
Minister Rob Norris says there is “significant jeopardy” regarding public funding for the university, which is based in Regina. THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Former soldiers and po- Bruyea said that was done fer from trauma, but the by Royal Bank late in 2009 indi-
lice officers, speaking because the bureaucracy veterans affairs system still cated that just 35 per cent of
Thursday at a forum spon- wanted to protect the coun- has a long way to go. Canadians have contributed to
sored by the Opposition on try from the “alarming fu- Liberal Leader Michael Ig- or plan to contribute to an
Parliament Hill, outlined ture liability” of soldier’s natieff said his party will be RRSP for the 2009 tax year —
their grievances over the pensions. “watching very carefully” to the lowest percentage of con-
2006 Veterans Charter. “That is, to save money,” make sure the March 4 tributors since 1996. Canada
Sean Bruyea, a former Bruyea said. “It is indeed budget includes “necessary was still recovering from a re-
military intelligence officer tragic that the bureaucracy investments” for veterans. cession at that time, just like
and long-time veterans ad- sees us ... as liabilities.” THE CANADIAN PRESS now. THE CANADIAN PRESS
The PharmaTrust Med Centre at Toronto’s Sunnybrook Health
Sciences Centre helps patients who don’t have access to a 24-
hour pharmacy.
Push-button
prescriptions
In a world where modern
convenience is synony - “We see this
mous with machines, the concept, this idea
introduction of a so-called
of two-way video
“pharmacy in a box” will
create efficiency for the conferencing to a
people of Ontario, say its pharmacist, as the
creators.
way of the future in
The large green and
white kiosks resemble ATM health care”
machines and dispense pills Tom Closson, Ontario
like vending machines.
With a real pharmacist Hospital Association
linked in by video, the mini-
pharmacies can take a pa- son, the association’s presi-
tient’s prescription and dis- dent and chief executive of-
pense medication any time ficer, as he described the
of day. machine as the beginning
Four of the kiosks have al- of a virtual approach to the
ready landed in Toronto- delivery of health services
area hospitals, according to in Canada.
the Ontario Hospital Associ- With a prescription, a pa-
ation, and eight more tient can pick up a phone
kiosks will be added to hos- attached to the machine
pitals and remote areas and reach a pharmacist
across the province. through video conference
“We see this concept, this 24 hours a day. The pharma-
idea of two-way video con- cist can counsel the patient
ferencing to a pharmacist, and has full control of the
as the way of the future in medication being dis-
health care,” said Tom Clos- pensed. THE CANADIAN PRESS
Med schools need tweaking: Report
HEALTH A new report rec- the challenges facing the
ommends adaptations and health-care system.
reforms at medical schools Dr. Nick Busing, co-chair
across the country so that of the task force producing
Canada’s doctors will have the report, says the med-
more skills they’ll need in ical needs of communities
the future. are changing, and there’s
The Association of Facul- an increasing incidence of
ties of Medicine of Canada chronic disease and a
released the report on the greater focus on communi-
future of medical educa- ty- and office-based care
tion Thursday, saying that for everyone except the
it provides a collective vi- most severely ill.
sion to address many of THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Only celebrations deserve applause
UrbanCompass me typical of the critics they’re doing nothing the ambulance to come, the disparity is ridiculous. the homes of millions
who are quick to condemn while others are speaking you don’t have time for Remember Anonymous more are reduced to rub-
celebrities who are just as out?” What do these peo- some song-and-dance rou- Donor? He’s gone the way ble, I don’t think the bad
Paul quick to lend their celebri- ple want anyway? tine. You just want help to of the dodo. Now Bono and feelings should go away.
ty to raise money for the Well, Ethan, my point, get there as fast as possi- Madonna are pushing each Not for a day, not for a
Sullivan survivors of natural disas- and I do have one, is sim- ble. And in Haiti, or In- other out of the way to get minute. Not until every
ters like the Haiti earth- ple: donesia, or New Orleans, it some of that disaster ca- child is safe, every family
quake. There is a profound im- simply took too long for reer relief. If George reunited.
Wmetronews.ca/sullivan He was responding to a balance here. Everything is the ambulance to arrive. Clooney & Co. really want Ethan, I hope there’s
column I wrote, a bit cyni- upside down. There’s noth- Sadly, the media turned up to help, they could send enough food for thought
hat’s a nice cally I admit, about jewels ing glamorous or uplifting right away and the celebri- millions to Oxfam and not here to make you sit down
guy like me and gowns for disaster. In- about what happened in ties weren’t far behind. tell one single person and hold the applause un-
doing in stead of criticizing George Haiti. When Madonna or Sorry, but that’s back- about it. But they’re til there’s something to
Ethan Clooney or Angelina Jolie, some other Lady Bountiful wards. celebrities. They can’t help celebrate.
Baron’s col- writes EB, I should be giv- stands up on a beautifully I also sit on my hands be- themselves. Meanwhile, there’s work
umn in the Province? ing them a standing ova- lit and appointed stage and cause, in these dire cir- Finally, I sit on my hands to do.
Getting my butt chewed tion. lifts her voice to the heav- cumstances, the donor because these exercises are
out, according to some He “struggles” to under- ens, I don’t stand and ap- should never be more im- designed to make the bad Paul Sullivan is a Vancouver-based journalist
sharp-eyed readers. stand us critics. “Are they plaud. portant than the recipient, feelings go away, and and owner of Sullivan Media Consulting;
[email protected].
On Monday, EB called driven by guilt because When you’re waiting for and in the case of Haiti, when 200,000 people and
Sounds too good to be true – it probably is M
Marketplace Tips when researching seminars Awaerroen ,t ahueg hcta l“lbedad w ahdavti cwe,e” ICHAEL DE ADDER
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Johnson pany beforehand. Or, using a (cid:129)Be wary of “free” seminars. our instructor misled us
search engine, type in phrases Often they serve as forums to with a whopper of a tale,
from their advertising along sell books, CDs, tapes or fur- and later blew up at partici-
metronews.ca/johnson with the word “complaints.” ther seminars. pants because not enough
people took the opportuni-
Admit it — at some time in with people eager to learn weekend workshop was ty to shell out up to $45,000
your life you’ve said to your- how to turn around their fi- just a primer — we really for more courses. It left us
self, “I wish I was rich.” nancial fortunes. needed to sign up for more questioning what financial
That desire is not a crime People are told they will advanced courses. And the guru Kiyosaki thought
— but it may be leading learn valuable skills in real cost for those? A mere about it all.
people to waste their mon- estate development, or how $12,000 to $45,000! When we caught up with
ey, and their time, at a pop- to play the stock market. But there was to be no him, even Kiyosaki admit-
ular weekend workshop But at Marketplace, we discussion of the price — ted there were problems
we’ve been investigating. were hearing complaints our trainer told us if we did- with some of the tactics
The workshop is called about the three-day work- n’t like it, he would tell us used in the workshops that
“Learn to Be Rich.” Ads fea- shops (that cost $500), so we to leave. bear his Rich Dad brand.
ture Robert Kiyosaki, au- decided to enrol in one on Throughout the week- Bottom line? That age old
thor of Rich Dad, Poor Dad real estate. end, we felt bullied and nugget holds — if a week-
— one of the bestselling fi- The problems started pressured to sign up for the end workshop on how to be
nancial help books ever within the first half-hour, advanced courses (where rich sounds too good to be
written. And the workshops where our instructor told us the real money was to be true, it probably is.
are popular — rolling into we weren’t going to get the made). There was some in-
towns across Canada every tools needed that weekend struction, but when we met Erica Johnson co-hosts Marketplace on CBC
weekend, filling ballrooms to get rich. Turns out, this with real estate lawyer Bob Television, which airs Fridays at 8:30 p.m.
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