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DIVA GYLLENHAAL DITCHES SWIFT SINGER RINGS IN THE NEW YEAR ALONE PALTROW LOOKS {page 14} TO SINGING STARS FASHION INSPIRATION SCENE GOING BACK A FEW DECADES {page 11} {page 16} VANCOUVER Thursday, January 6, 2011 www.metronews.ca News worth sharing. Canada NATHAN DENETTE/THE CANADIAN PRESS Canada Local Twin girls saved from collapses crib fire collapses Pair of neighbours answer mother’s cries for help Children are critical but stable after accidental blaze, RCMP say {page 5} Juniors enjoyed a 3-0 lead going into the third period Too of the gold-medal game much Russia erupted of a good for five unanswered goals thing to win its first gold medal at the tournament Asian eatery in since 2003 {page 20} Yaletown goes heavy on the sauce {page 19} Getting taxed for growing pot? While the cops might turn a blind eye, the tax man won’t {page 8} Golden voice lands golden job Homeless man offered position Team Canada captain Ryan Ellis reacts after losing to Team Russia in the world junior championship final in Buffalo, N.Y., yesterday. with Cleveland Cavaliers {page 6} January 6th to the 23rd 2011. With the purchase of 2 Clarins products, one of which is skin care, choose your two week supply of plant-based products, customized to your skin care needs*. Gift value up to $100. oil control authorities early wrinkle preventers age fighters firming specialists NE011C111 © 2011. Sears Canada Inc. *One gift per customer, while quantities last. news: vancouver metronews.ca 03 THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 2011 1 Roll of B.C. chefs continues CONTRIBUTED Stone is the sixth local “It’s also the culture stretch to draw parallels KRISTEN chef in a row to represent we have in B.C. Chefs are between Bocuse d’Or con- THOMPSON Canada in the prestigious really open with informa- testants and Olympic ath- @METRONEWS.CA biennial contest, which tion, are willing to share letes. British Columbians are has been led by a B.C. recipes and to take on ap- “The preparations are cooking up a storm on team nine times in the prentices.” just as intense,” Stone the international culi- past 12 competitions. So committed is his said. nary scene. “Some of that has to team — and their corpo- “We’re practising sev- On Jan. 25 homegrown do with a snowball ef- rate sponsor, Moxie’s — en days a week and on chef Ryan Stone will be fect,” Stone said. that Stone flew to Scot- most days doing 10 to 12 news flying to Lyon, France, to “The chef (at Bocuse land to work with and hours a day. Every week compete in the Olympics d’Or) creates great aware- learn about the lamb that we’ll do ... the full prac- of culinary contests — ness of the competition is featured on his menu. tice run and tweak Chef Ryan Stone the Bocuse d’Or. here. He added that it’s not a recipes. It’s exciting.” Reformed rapper’s past haunts career TV meteorologist blames personal stress for false claim of Central Park attack. Scan code for story. 1 Download the free ScanLife CONTRIBUTED application with Vancouver’s Mad Child denied your smartphone at 2dscan.com entry into U.S. Claims to have severed ties with Hells Angels 2 Use the ScanLife application on your smartphone Mad Child spent the past and he was forced to miss to scan 2D year cleaning up his life, several tour dates. barcodes in Metro but U.S. officials didn’t give Disassociated from his the Swollen Members rap- drug-fuelled, volatile past, 3 The codes will per any Brownie points last Bunting was blindsided by direct your mobile month. the incident. “I didn’t see it browser to The Vancouver artist — coming,” he said. “I could relevant whose real name is Shane see if it happened to me six content at Bunting — claims he was years ago, but now I’m on m.metronews.ca denied entry into the U.S. my own path. after being interrogated for “I don’t go to clubs any- On the web at eight hours at YVR in early more. I’m sober. I don’t metronews.ca December. even go out much.” “They kept asking me, Bunting is applying for a Tips for ‘Are you in the Hells An- waiver so he can tour again, gels?’ ‘Are you in the and is taking the ordeal in avoid ing gang?’” Mad Child told stride. “When you lose headaches and Metro. “I said, ‘I’m absolute- everything and have come holdups when ly not’ — that my only con- out of a drug addiction, buying group nection are friends in the you’re happy to go another lottery tickets. past who were members.” day,” he said. “Life is a gift. In the end, U.S. Customs There are so many worse Video at and Border Protection offi- things that can happen to Swollen Members rapper Mad Child has been denied entry into the United States. metronews.ca cers turned the rapper away people.” MATT KIELTYKA 04 news: vancouver metronews.ca THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 2011 News vet joins Clark’s campaign Liberal leadership candi- ranks. date Christy Clark is turn- “We want to encourage ing to a familiar face to people to join a political recruit supporters. party, this political party, Longtime news anchor many of them for the first Pamela Martin has time,” said Clark. “This thrown her support be- campaign is really about hind Clark and will be in bringing a fresh perspec- charge of recruiting tive.” volunteers and new Simon Fraser Universi- Liberal members to back ty marketing expert Lind- Clark. say Meredith thinks the “It’s really different to outsider route may pay be on this side of the mi- off. crophone,” admitted Mar- “All the incumbents tin. “It’s the perfect have blood up to their opportunity for me to be elbows for the HST,” said a part of the political Meredith. “She’s a very process. 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Nicholas Toddlers still in critical condition Mattress fire the stores was allegedly Simons, NDP MLA for overheard saying that he Powell River-Sunshine started when girls’ bedding was ignited by a lightbulb had a bomb. The man, Coast, has announced 31, was arrested and a he’s running for his par- bomb-sniffing dog was ty’s leadership. Marijua- KIMIYA the lightbulb of a lamp. tremely toxic. brought in to smell the na activist Dana Larsen SHOKOOHI They were alone in the “One never knows how man’s backpack. No announced his candida- [email protected] room. The door was shut. many breaths of that bomb was found and cy last month. Longtime The smoke alarm was smoke you can take be- staff and shoppers were NDP MLA Harry Lali is Twin 20-month-old girls working, but was outside fore it makes you uncon- allowed back in the mall also expected to enter rescued from a Surrey the closed bedroom door, scious,” he said. an hour later. METRO the race today. METRO fire Tuesday are still be- which blocked early The brothers and the ing treated at B.C. Chil- smoke detection, said girls’ mother were also Campaign Woman dren’s Hospital where Surrey fire Deputy Chief taken to hospital at the they are in critical but Jon Caviglia. time for minor smoke in- takes aim unharmed stable condition, Surrey Neighbours Simon, 25, halation. at mature in shooting RCMP said yesterday. and Matt Gallant, 28, The fire was contained “Significant portions heard the mother’s cries within the bedroom and drivers ABBOTSFORD. A woman of these girls’ bodies for help and rushed into damage to the unit was was left miraculously were significantly dam- the unit to save the minimal. ROAD SAFETY. Abbotsford unharmed Tuesday aged,” said RCMP Cpl. twins. Caviglia said the re- police have launched an night after she was fol- Drew Grainger. 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The prize is the fourth- Left homeless after his Williams said the Cava- largest in U.S. history and life and career were ruined liers’ offer is just one of the second-largest in Mega by drugs and alcohol, many flooding in. Millions’ history. Williams has been offered Williams, a father of The lottery’s prize of a job by the NBA’s Cleve- nine, says he feels like Su- $390 million in March land Cavaliers and is being san Boyle, the English 2007 remains the richest pursued by NFL Films for singing sensation who be- on record in the United possible work after he and came an overnight star. Children huddle around a bonfire States. his compelling tale be- “God gave me a million- in Gurgaon, India, yesterday. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS came an online curiosity. dollar voice and I just hope 5 “This has been totally, I can do right by Him.” GURINDER OSAN/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS totally amazing,” Williams Williams had been spot- Brrr... 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Amazing.” announcing work at smooth, bottomless voice the past two weeks and forced schools to close. “Mega ball.” Winning Williams was contacted Quicken Loans Arena, the he says he was drawn to ra- Authorities arranged bonfires at major road cross- numbers were 4, 8, 15, yesterday by the Cavaliers, team’s downtown venue. dio at the age of 14. ings, hospitals and bus and railway stations to help 25 and 47, with 42 who have offered him a po- Williams said the team THE ASSOCIATED PRESS people keep warm. being the “Mega ball.” From here. To career. 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