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City taxis could
soon idle in front
of fire hydrants
Cabbies agree. Report gency of any sort, they can along streets between Gra-
move the car. It’s safer for ham and St. Mary avenues.
recommends allowing
people.” In the report, city officials
taxis to park in front of The report, which calls for said that, aside from fire hy-
designated fire hydrants amendments to the Province drants, more space could only
of Manitoba’s Highway Traf- be achieved by taking away
fic Act and the city’s traffic regular, paid parking spaces,
bylaw, is on the agenda of which would be a burden on
BERNICE Mayor Sam Katz’s powerful drivers and mean less pay-
PONTANILLA executive policy committee station cash for the city.
[email protected] meeting on Wednesday. They also pointed to a sim-
Ross said people now ex- ilar pilot project in Calgary
Winnipeg’s largest taxi com- pect “door-to-door” service that proved successful.
pany is applauding a city re- from taxi companies, forcing “The underlying premise
port that advocates allowing the vehicles to stop in lanes of this concept is that be-
taxis to park in front of desig- with regular traffic, creating a cause the taxi driver is always
nated fire hydrants in the safety hazard for all involved. in the vehicle, the driver
downtown area. This makes the fire-hydrants should be able to quickly va-
“I’m really happy about solution ideal, he added. cate the curb space if access
it,” said Andrew Ross, general If the amendments take to the hydrant is required by
manager of Unicity Taxi. place, the city would initiate an emergency vehicle,” states
“It has worked in other a six-month pilot project at the report authored by city
cities, and if there’s an emer- seven fire hydrants, mostly engineer Luis Escobar.
JET IN THE NET Skepticism at It runs in Doin’ the
‘Canadian’ the family mess around
militants
Daughters step out from the Filmmaker explains
shadow of famous parents to the science behind his
The Winnipeg Jets’ Blake Wheeler sits on the ice after sliding and dislodging the net during overtime in the team’s second Fake passports may explain make their mark on screens provocative documentary
game of the season against the Boston Bruins on Monday. The Bruins won 2-1 in a shootout. MICHAEL DWYER/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Algerian claim: Ottawa PAGE 4 big and small PAGE 7 on why men cheat PAGE 17
02 NEWS metronews.ca
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Inquiry testimony
$600K. Lake Winnipeg Snow piles. City launches
Relative told
programs get funding round-the-clock cleanup Phoenix was
fi ne, aft er her
The Manitoba government is a press release. The City of Winnipeg is taking towed. death
dedicating more than half-a- “These programs and re- advantage of the clear weather The city said the snow
million dollars to programs de- search projects will both re- and initiating a round-the- hauling will help make roads,
signed to help Lake Winnipeg. duce the amount of nutrients clock cleanup of huge snow bridges and sidewalks safer
Gord Mackintosh, minis- entering our waterways and piles and ice off bridges, for drivers, cyclists and pedes- The inquiry into the death
ter of conservation and water help undo the pollution they underpasses and intersections. trians. of a Manitoba girl has been
stewardship, announced on have caused.” The cleanup, which began Dozens of pieces of heavy told at least one social
S
Monday that $600,000 will be Of the total, $75,000 will Sunday night, will continue 24 equipment and trucks, such as worker insisted the girl was
spent on nine initiatives to fund the ongoing work of the hours a day for the next few front-end loaders, large snow- doing fine, two months
restore the health of the prov- Lake Friendly initiative, which weeks, the city said in a press blowers and semi-trailers, may after the child had been
ince’s largest lake. is run through a partnership of release. result in delays for motorists, beaten and killed.
W “Like many other Mani- nine municipalities along the Motorists are advised that so they’re asking drivers to The testimony Monday
tobans who have seen and south basin of Lake Winnipeg. to help the snow-hauling use extreme caution and care from a relative of Phoe-
enjoyed its vast beauty, I feel Another $100,000 will be operation, temporary no- when near crews that are nix Sinclair is the latest
a strong connection to Lake given as a grant to the Red parking zones will be placed working. evidence that Manitoba’s
Winnipeg and take the re- River Basin Commission, a in advance at some locations. Call 311 or visit winnipeg. child-welfare system failed
sponsibility of restoring and key partner in the work being Vehicles parked in violation ca/publicworks/Snow_Clear- the child, even after her
maintaining its health very done by the International Joint of the temporary no-parking ing_Policy for more informa- shattered body was buried
seriously,” said Mackintosh in Commission. METRO signs may be ticketed and tion on the cleanup. METRO near a landfill.
E “I called basically every
single agency Manitoba has
St. Norbert gets to offer,” the relative, who
cannot be identified, told
the inquiry. “No one knew
N who she was or how to
locate her.”
fl ooded with funding The relative was worried
Phoenix was being abused
by her mother, Samantha
Kematch. The girl was often
dirty, had head lice, and
was overly quiet and with-
drawn when with Kematch,
Farmers’ Market. Visitors the inquiry was told.
In 2005, the relative
Funds will go toward
tried to get social workers
water management, St. Norbert is the largest to check on the girl.
access, landscaping farmers’ market in The relative got no-
Manitoba, with more than where in the first 20 or so
150,000 visitors passing phone calls, the inquiry was
through each season. told, but was ultimately
The often flooded and soggy directed to a social worker
grounds of the St. Norbert at Winnipeg Child and
Community Park and Farm- Family Services who had
ers’ Market will be dried out let it slowly be absorbed by na- been the case worker for
and expanded this summer tive grasses and trees.” Phoenix two years earlier.
through funding announced Lukes estimated about half “His last words to me
Monday. of the work’s cost will be spent were, ‘She is doing fine and
Minister of State for West- on water management while well,’” the relative testified.
ern Economic Diversification the rest will be used to improve “Those words ring in my
Lynne Yelich joined Winnipeg the market’s entrance, park ac- head almost every day.”
South MP Rod Bruinooge to cess, and pathways. Once the In fact, Phoenix, who
add $250,000 in federal money water is controlled, landscap- was five, had been killed
to the $500,898 project. ing will be done, seating will be two months earlier by
“We’re shin deep in water replaced, and upgrades will be Kematch and Kematch’s
on farmers’ market day, the made to the market’s floor. boyfriend, Karl McKay, after
kids’ fitness trails have all “You can’t do that in a suffering horrific abuse and
washed away and we can’t put swamp, so we’ve got to fix the neglect. Her death would go
any new benches or public seat- drainage first,” said Lukes. undiscovered for another
ing in — they just wash away The City of Winnipeg has seven months as Kematch
because we’re inside a dike,” promised $121,300 and fund- and McKay continued to
explained Janice Lukes, who is raising by community groups collect welfare benefits with
managing the project. “So we will pay for the rest of the Janice Lukes is project manager on a plan to manage water and make Phoenix listed as a depend-
are going to hold the water on project, which will start this improvements around the St. Norbert Community Park and Farmers’ Market ent. THE CANADIAN PRESS
the land in strategic spots and spring. SHANE GIBSON/METRO this summer. SHANE GIBSON/METRO
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Tuesday, January 22, 2013 METRO CUSTOM PUBLISHING
Obama takes
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Capt. Wales. Harry bids Philippines. Canadian
adieu to Afghanistan man kills 2 people in court
before being shot: Police
The U.K. Ministry of Defence
revealed Monday that 28-year-
old Prince Harry, a.k.a. Capt.
Wales, is returning from a 20- Police say a Canadian man sponding police after ignoring
week deployment in Afghan- opened fire in a Philip- orders to surrender and trying
istan, where he served as an pine courtroom, killing two to fire at them.
Apache helicopter pilot with people and wounding a pros- He and the prosecutor were
the Army Air Corps. ecutor before he was shot and taken to a hospital.
In interviews conducted wounded by officers. The suspect was identified
in Afghanistan, the third in Police said the suspect ap- as John Pope, a resident of
line to the British throne de- peared in a Cebu court Tues- central Cebu city. Garbo said
scribed feeling boredom, frus- Prince Harry THE ASSOCIATED PRESS day to face malicious mischief police were investigating his
tration and satisfaction dur- charges when he pulled out a background.
ing a tour that saw him kill as an army officer with his gun and shot a prosecutor, a The shooting came after
Taliban fighters on missions royal role — and his relief at lawyer and another person. several recent killings in the
in support of ground troops. the chance to be “one of the Regional police director country that prompted calls
He also spoke of his guys.” Marcelo Garbo said the gun- for a tighter gun control.
struggle to balance his job THE ASSOCIATED PRESS man was wounded by re- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
04 NEWS metronews.ca
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Inert explosive forgotten for two
days on plane after dog training
British Columbia’s transit po- small wad of explosive ma- costly security. Where’s the bomb?
lice have been forced to explain terial was missing for two days The documents reveal that
how an inert explosive device before the dog-handling transit the device could not have
used in a dog-training exercise officer noticed in January 2011 detonated without a blasting Authorities including the
was left on an Air Canada plane that his kit was incomplete. cap, which wasn’t attached. RCMP were involved in
that then flew to Toronto. The incident wasn’t made “You could strike the ma- a vigorous search of the
The force has blamed a sin- public until Monday, when terial with a hammer, or light aircraft. They came to the
gle officer who subsequently documents charting the inves- it on fire without it exploding,” conclusion the device had
resigned and says new train- tigation were released by the Anne Drennan, spokeswoman likely been picked up as
ing protocols have been put in Canadian Taxpayers Federa- for the Vancouver-area Tran- trash and incinerated.
place in the last two years. tion to bolster its argument to sit Police, said in an interview
The bottle containing a replace transit police with less- Monday. THE CANADIAN PRESS
When you’ve Algerian firemen carry a coffin on Monday containing the body of a person
killed during the attack in Ain Amenas. ANIS BELGHOUL/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Feds skeptical
fi nally got the time –
have the money too. that Canadians
helped attack
$264,146*
plant in Algeria
in 25 years
2038
Multinational force. fake passport.”
Ottawa wants to verify Algerian Prime Minister
Abdelmalek Sellal did not say
$169,764* passports found on site Monday whether the Can-
2033 in 20 years adians were among the 29 mil-
itants killed by Algerian forces
In the absence of reliable in- that stormed the site or the
formation, Ottawa is assuming three who were captured alive.
that fake passports could be be- Hostages who had escaped
hind Algeria’s claim that Can- recalled hearing at least one of
2028 $103,273* adians are among the al-Qaida- the militants speaking English
linked militants who attacked a with a North American accent.
in 15 years
remote desert energy plant. Other unconfirmed reports
Senior federal sources say said one of the Canadians was
the government is frustrated by co-ordinating the attack.
a lack of information. According to former senior
And they are unhappy that agents at CSIS, Canada’s spy
2023 $56,375* Algeria’s prime minister went agency, it is plausible that there
in 10 years on television Monday and an- might be a Canadian connec-
nounced that two Canadian tion to the Algerian debacle.
nationals were among the band “The North African file has
of Islamist militants who took always been very important
hundreds hostage. ... because we have a French
“The concern is we want community in Quebec, where
Regularly investing $75 a week to see the documentation. We they can establish themselves,”
want to see what proves that Michel Juneau-Katsuya said.
opens up extraordinary possibilities. they’re Canadian,” said one CSIS has had the Algerian
government official who was community in Montreal under
not authorized to speak pub- surveillance for decades now,
licly and requested anonymity. he said, citing a series of high-
“As far as we know, it’s a profile cases. THE CANADIAN PRESS
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metronews.ca BUSINESS 05
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Ottawa picked up
Humboldt, Sask.
Olymel buys Big
Sky Farms assets
expenses during
for $62.25M
Olymel said Monday that it
has closed its deal to buy the CEOs’ trip to China
Canadian assets of bankrupt
company Big Sky Farms
Inc., the second largest hog
producer in the country,
for $65.25 million. The
deal includes all of Big Sky Trade mission. Leaders
Farms’ operations in Canada who were part of PM’s $By t1he n,um2be0rs 0
including its breeding herd,
boar studs, maternities delegation in 2012 put
and finishing sites. The
meals, accommodation
Saskatchewan-based com-
pany filed for bankruptcy and more on public tab The Foreign Affairs Department says local
transportation, accommodation, meals and
last year due to high feed “miscellaneous expenses” incurred by an offi-
costs. THE CANADIAN PRESS cial delegation are covered by the government.
For the 2012 non-governmental participants,
Market Minute The Conservative government that meant an average of $1,200 a person.
covered expenses for some of
DOLLAR the country’s top executives as nese-Canadian cultural com-
100.68¢ (-0.15¢) they accompanied the prime munity.
minister around China a year Compare that with a 2009
ago, a move business leaders trip to China — Harper’s first —
TSX Atari pushes reset button and officials defend as a good Prime Minister Stephen Harper speaks when he brought along eight
12,794.25 (+68.56) investment. to a business group in Beijing on Feb. people, including Laureen, his
The trip signalled a change 9, 2012. Top Canadian executives who stylist and four Chinese-Can-
In this 1984 photo, a woman demonstrates Atari’s never-released of approach for Stephen Harp- accompanied Harper on the trip had adian businesspeople.
OIL Mindlink system, which let users control a video game by moving er, who for years eschewed the some of their expenses covered by Corporations and associa-
Closed for U.S. holiday their forehead muscles. On Monday, Atari said that its U.S. operations idea of leading big trade offen- the government. THE CANADIAN PRESS FILE tions including Bombardier,
have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in an effort to separ- sives abroad. Cenovus Energy, the Canadian
ate from its French parent company, which is filing a similar motion The Public Accounts of Can- Then came the China trip Association of Petroleum Pro-
GOLD separately in France. In a statement, Atari says the move is necessary ada show that from 2006 to last February. The delegation ducers and Cameco confirmed
Closed to secure investments it needs to grow in mobile and downloadable 2011, his wife Laureen Harper to three Chinese cities included that the government paid for
video games. Atari, which turned 40 last year, was a video game pion- — and for many years his per- 30 executives from major oil, portions of the expenses, with
Natural gas: Closed eer with games like Pong and Centipede, but has changed ownership sonal stylist Michelle Muntean agricultural and manufacturing the amount varying from firm
Dow Jones: Closed several times amid financial problems. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE — were the most common add- companies as well as roughly to firm.
ons to the government tab. two dozen members of the Chi- THE CANADIAN PRESS
Cost of credit cards is hurting
businesses, federal NDP says
The federal Opposition on Processing fees
Monday called on the Harper
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nesses higher fees for using pre- already pay the highest TF$$$$$$$$$$$
mium cards. credit card-processing
The call came as a federal fees in the industrialized
competition tribunal prepared world, although Can-
to rule on whether Visa and adians enjoy some of the $$$$$$$$$$$$$
MasterCard are engaging in lowest debit fees among
anti-competitive behaviour. G20 nations.
Small business groups hope
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the tribunal will recommend
that Ottawa forbid the major
credit card companies from In 2010, the Harper govern-
forcing retailers to accept cards Small business groups say retailers ment introduced a voluntary
that carry higher payment pro- who accept credit and debit cards code aimed at protecting small
cessing fees. should be able to refuse cards with business from abusive practi-
The high cost of processing higher processing fees. ces by credit card companies.
credit card payments is hurt- THE CANADIAN PRESS FILE The code is designed to protect
ing businesses, said Glenn Thi- small businesses, said Kathleen
beault, the NDP consumer pro- gins for merchants and higher Perchaluk, Finance Minister
2 55%
tection critic. “Ultimately this retail costs for consumers,” he Jim Flaherty’s press secretary.
.
results in reduced profit mar- said in a statement. THE CANADIAN PRESS
Government compliance
The Canadian Federation Tony Clement, the
of Independent Business, minister who heads the
Red tape costs
one of the country’s largest federal government’s
firms $6K per private-sector lobby groups, Treasury Board, says the
says that red tape amounts Harper government began Get the rate that gets you more.
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Tuesday, January 22, 2013
FRIENVY:
It’s the Starlight Express
WISHING OTHER’S
FACEBOOK
PHOTOS WERE
YOUR OWN
Is everyone having more fun
SHE than me?
SAYS...
It’s a nagging thought
Jessica Napier
metronews.ca that keeps creeping into my
consciousness and I can’t
seem to get rid of it. I mean, is
everyone else out there making more money, having more
sex, drinking better wine and basically being better at life
than me?
You’d think I would have
grown out of this insecure
Gasp! jealousy when I left my
angsty teenage years and
On any given Friday I’ll
emerged as a confident and
scroll through iPhone happy adult. As if. Now
snapshots of glamorous I’m in my twenties and my
attachment to social media
art openings, and
(which occasionally borders
European adventures, on obsession) only exacer-
music festivals, cocktail bates my problem. 
In many ways, social net-
parties in gorgeous
working sites like Facebook
apartments and and Instagram feel a lot like
seven-course tasting high school. Except now I
don’t have to wonder what
menus at a secret
everyone else is doing; now
supper club I’ve never I know I’m missing out be-
even heard of. cause I’m spying on the cool
kids at their cool-kid parties
in real-time while I just lie
on the couch listening to a Harry Potter audio book. BRAD GOLDPAINT/SOLENT
On any given Friday I’ll scroll through iPhone snapshots Astrophotography Q and A
of glamorous art openings, and European adventures,
music festivals, cocktail parties in gorgeous apartments Reconnect to
Photog captures
and seven-course tasting menus at a secret supper club I’ve together using Photoshop to What message do you
never even heard of. It seems that every single person I star trails lakeside the night sky create the final photograph. hope people will see inside
stalk (follow) online seems to be doing something designed your photography?
to make me feel like my life is utterly boring.   It’s a wild starry night up Why did you pick this I want to reconnect others
But of course, that isn’t the case. I too have posed ob- above, reflected in the location to take your star with the night sky, espe-
noxiously next to champagne bottles and posted show-offy stillness of the lake below. BRAD GOLDPAINT trails? cially since our city lights
travel photos from Greek islands; I’m sure I’ve been respon- Photographer Brad Gold- Photographer First and foremost, a lot of have cut off this connection.
sible for igniting other people’s jealousy from time to time. paint shot this stunning experience — I have been I have donated images of
The key to living with this is to give yourself a real- image at Sparks Lake near How did this picture come a night sky photographer mine to the International
ity check every once in a while. I have to force myself to the Cascade Range moun- about? for three years — prepara- Dark-Sky Association to
step away from the #humblebrags and the Rich Kids of tain range in Oregon. I took the photograph at tion and patience go into raise awareness of light pol-
Instagram and realize that these are just the highlights These star trails are Sparks Lake in Oregon, picking the right place. For lution. Also, having worked
and no one is having the Best. Night. Ever every single made by merging photos about three kilometres example, the night sky here as an architect, I apply my
night. We all stub our toes, clean the bathroom and go to of stars recorded as the from the nearest road. I at the lake shows Polaris, trade to photography by
the dentist occasionally; we just don’t feel the need Earth rotates over time. arrived at sunset and stayed or the North Star, which is showing visual representa-
to immediately snap, hashtag and upload these The camera’s shutter is there the whole night. I key to forming the centre tions of fixed patterns, in
particularly mundane moments.  open and the exposure captured hundreds of im- around which the star trails an attempt to find meaning
times are long. ages, which I later stacked swirl. and emotion.
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metronews.ca SCENE 07
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
DVD review
Don’t call me daughter
Sure, familial connections can kick open plenty of doors, but most next generation talents struggle to make
the grade and live up to their star-powered lineage. Lately a passel of gals have made coming into their own
while slipping the looming and lengthy shadows of their glitterati parents look easy. We salute this
generation’s Kate Hudsons and Liv Tylers
MIKE DOJC S
[email protected]
Dakota Johnson Zosia Mamet
C
End of Watch 2006’s Miss Golden Globe, an honour typically lavished After piling up a flurry of small roles in offbeat in-
upon celebrity spawn, toed into the movie biz’s alluring dependent fare and snagging high profile yet fleeting
Director. David Ayer waters before taking the plunge. The model/actress’s part-time gigs on NBC’s Parenthood and Showtime’s
film debut wasn’t exactly a stretch. Johnson played one United States of Tara, Mamet blew up faster than a E
Stars. Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael of her real life mom’s daughters in Crazy in Alabama. Glengarry Glen Ross quote. Zosia’s proper breakout
Pena, Anna Kendrick Last year she hit her stride with turns in 21 Jump Street came when she landed the part of Joyce on Mad Men, a
and The Five Year Engagement before garnering top photo editor for Life Magazine who gives Peggy Olson
(cid:580)(cid:580)(cid:580)(cid:580)(cid:580) billing on Fox’s quirky comedy Ben and Kate. Johnson a window into NYC counterculture. She then showed
is Kate, a tenderhearted single her character acting virtuosity, segueing from a worldly N
End of Watch begins as just mom with a pinch of nervous lesbian in the 1960s to
another LAPD cop story, energy and a dash of sass who Shoshanna, a bubbly short
something writer/director co-parents her daughter with her form happy chatterbox who
David Ayer is all too familiar nutty older brother. Watch out is also the most innocent
with, having written Train- Dakota Fanning, there’s another member of the Girls
ing Day and directed Harsh blonde named after the same gang. E
Times and Street Kings. Native American tribe gunning Pedigree: Pops David
Officer Brian Taylor (Jake for your Google ranking. Mamet is an Oscar-nominat-
Gyllenhaal) is an ex-marine Pedigree: Don Johnson and ed screenwriter and Pulitzer
studying film at night Melanie Griffith are her parents Prize winning playwright.
school. He wants to make a and Antonio Banderas is her Mom is Oscar-nominated
video, in defiance of police stepfather. actress Lindsay Crouse.
rules, on what it’s really like
patrolling L.A.’s rock-hard
South Central ’hood. To this
end, he and his partner, Of-
ficer Mike Zavala (Michael Mamie Gummer Alice Englert
Pena), are packing tiny cam-
eras. Crime is rampant in While Emily Owens M.D. flatlined after just seven This Kiwi newcomer earned a British independent
L.A.’s toughest division and episodes, Gummer shined and proved she has the chops film award nomination for last year’s Ginger & Rosa,
the good cops have to turn to helm a series. A thespian straight out of the cradle, but forget about across-the-pond kudos, she’s about to
a blind eye to petty offences Gummer has been receiving rave reviews since she conjure up a mass media maelstrom. Englert stars as a
because there’s too much was three. In 1986’s Heartburn, an adaption of a Nora teenage witch in Warner Bros’ Beautiful Creatures, the
really bad stuff going down Ephron’s autobiographical novel starring Gummer’s film version of the first book of the supernatural ro-
to keep them occupied. “Try marvellous mama, the New York Times gushed that mance series The Caster Chronicles. Scores of malleable
not to kill anybody before Mamie (using the pseudonym Natalie Stern at the time tweenage fan groups from twihards to tributes (Hunger
end of watch,” a superior to avoid a media feeding frenzy) was “an inordinately Games devotees) will start obsessing over Englert in the
says as Taylor and Zavala cute baby” who was “already run up to the Valentine’s day release. Staying in the love
are assigned to a patrol. The accomplished enough to story zone, Englert’s future projects include Singular-
officers’ dedication to their steal scenes, even from Miss ity, a time and continent-
jobs and each other is put Streep.” Critical acclaim also straddling epic with Josh
to the test when they run looks to be in the cards for her Hartnett and Bollywood
afoul of drug lords during latest movie, The Lifeguard, babe Bipasha Basu.
a routine traffic stop, and which has been nominated Pedigree: Her mother is
a twisted sense of neigh- for the 2013 Sundance Film Jane Campion, the first
bourhood pride becomes a Festival’s Grand Jury Prize. woman filmmaker to take
vow to exact revenge. It’s Pedigree: Calls sculptor Don home the Cannes Film
refreshing to see the boys in Gummer dad and Meryl Festival’s top prize, The
blue be the good guys for a Streep mom. Palm d’Or.
change.
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08 DISH metronews.ca
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
METRO DISH
OUR TAKE ON THE WORLD OF CELEBRITIES
The Word
Leonardo DiCaprio
A hunk and a hero:
DiCaprio to spend free
time doing good
Leonardo DiCaprio has gone break. I’ve done three films
from filming Django Un- in two years and I’m just
chained to The Great Gatsby worn out.” So what will Di-
and straight into The Wolf of Caprio be doing if he’s not
Taylor Swift ALL PHOTOS GETTY IMAGES Wall Street, and the schedule acting for a bit? Certainly
has taken its toll on him. not going on vacation. “I
Taylor second guessing “I’m a little bit drained,” would like to improve the
DiCaprio tells German world a bit,” he says. “I will
the Swift search for love newspaper Bild. “I am now fly around the world doing
going to take a long, long good for the environment.”
Taylor Swift’s patchy roman- the Golden Globes got under
tic history has helped her pen her skin.” My bad, Bieber:
a number of hit songs, but But Swift may also be
it’s also made the subject of taking all the criticism and
Strange Franco video
more than a few punchlines, turning it into something
and the 23-year-old singer positive, using this as a
has had enough, according to chance to turn her love life was all in good fun
Radar Online. around.
“At first Taylor just “The jokes being made
thought it was funny how about her love life embarrass James Franco insists he
much interest people had in her, but it’s finally hit home meant no offense by the
her love life and she went with Taylor,” the source says. odd video he briefly posted
along with it,” a source close “She really wants to make online of himself lip-syncing
to the singer says. “But now an effort to slow down and to Justin Bieber’s Boyfriend
she’s the butt of jokes on not jump from boyfriend to wearing a crooked baseball
Saturday Night Live, in the boyfriend. In a weird way all Famous friends snafu, Boston Celtics great cap and a wig with very
tabloids and on the late night the negative press has really Bill Russell was misidentified Bieber-esque bangs. (The clip
shows. She laughed it off, but opened her eyes and will be and a front as Morgan Freeman by ABC was quickly taken down from
the jokes made about her at good for her.” announcer George Steph- Franco’s WhoSay account,
stage Fiasco: anopoulos. but not before copies of it
At the official inaugural could hit other sites.)
Welcome back balls, such bold-faced names “I wasn’t trying to diss
as Alicia Keys, Usher, John him,” Franco tells E! News. “I
Barack! Legend, the cast of Glee, Brad was asked to take it down by
Paisley, Nick Cannon, Jamie some people. Bieber didn’t
Foxx, Jennifer Hudson, Marc contact me, but I don’t think
THE Anthony and Chris Cornell he was too happy.” James Franco
WORD are expected to appear.
Dorothy Robinson One celeb who had a less- Twitter
[email protected] than-fun inauguration ex-
perience? Lupe Fiasco, who
was asked to leave the stage @jtimberlake (cid:580)(cid:580)(cid:580)(cid:580)(cid:580)
This is gonna be a GREAT Super Bowl! 49ers/
Yesterday was a big day for at a pre-inauguration concert
Ravens?? Can’t wait! i’m booking my flight to New
President Barack Obama in Washington D.C.
Orleans right now! Oh wait... I don’t have tickets.
as well as the celebrities “Lupe Fiasco performed
Dammit! Anybody know anybody?? LOL!
in attendance for the 57th at this private event, and as
inauguration. Kelly Clarkson you may have read, he left
(who came with new fiancé the stage earlier than we @Pink (cid:580)(cid:580)(cid:580)(cid:580)(cid:580)
Brandon Blackstock) per- had planned,” concert or-
tonight im grateful that ill never be a crotchety old
formed My Country, ‘Tis of ganizers said in an email to
man sitting on his computer complaining about pol-
Thee while Beyoncé Knowles reporters. “But Lupe Fiasco
itics while doing nothing to change it
(in an Emilio Pucci gown) was not ‘kicked off stage’ for
cranked out the national an- an ‘anti-Obama rant.’ We are
them — and even got hugs staunch supporters of free @SteveMartinToGo (cid:580)(cid:580)(cid:580)(cid:580)(cid:580)
from President Obama and speech, and free political Amazing Super Bowl day: the San Francisco Boule-
First Lady Michelle Obama speech. This was not about vardiers will be playing the Baltimore Adventuristas!
afterward. Looking on from his opinions. Instead, after a
the audience were Katy Perry bizarrely repetitive, jarring
and boyfriend John Mayer performance that left the @jessicaalba (cid:580)(cid:580)(cid:580)(cid:580)(cid:580)
as well as Eva Longoria in a crowd vocally dissatisfied, or- When your meal starts off with a doughy
beautiful pink coral trench ganizers decided to move on truffle pizza you know you’re in #heaven
coat. And in an awesome to the next act.”
metronews.ca WELLNESS 09
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Reasons to consider
Healthy eating
Five healthy
habits to try
this year
veganism in 2013
JULIA
FURLAN
Metro World News
It’s easy to take for
granted the root of a New L
Year’s resolution — to Top 5 Take note
be resolute. According to
Janet Helm, registered
Healthy habits Kris’s kitchen
dietician and author of
Cooking Light: The Food you can steal basics I
Lover’s Healthy Habits
Cookbook, getting healthy from Kris Carr Use these spices: garlic gran-
— and staying healthy all ules, salt, pepper, turmeric, F
year — is about starting 1Load half of your plate with cumin and chili.
small. vegetables.
“Your goal should be Nutritional yeast. Use this
attainable. If you have 2Remove dairy from your instead of cheese.
success, that fuels greater diet and assess the sugars E
success and then you can you’re consuming. Tamari. This is a good alterna-
celebrate the little victor- tive to soy sauce.
ies,” Helm said 3It’s not just about food but
your mindset. Low self- Olive and fl axseed oil
1. Cook more often esteem can be the number one
Firing up the stove — say, thing that keeps people from Grains. Quinoa (called the
three times a week — is making a change. bachelor’s grain as it’s
the foundation of healthy easy to make and high in
eating. Eating out gener- 4Strictly counting calories protein) brown rice, millet
ally means you’ll consume is missing the point. We and lentils.
at least 50 per cent more didn’t come into this planet
calories. with a set of charts. Calories Cashew nuts. Great for a snack
only matter if you eat foods or to use in desserts.
2. Eat a healthy breakfast that have been heavily modi-
“When you start your day fi ed. Want the recipes? Check out
on the right foot, it leads Metro’s Food page to get
to better habits through- 5Empty calories cause end- recipes from Kris
out the day,” Helm says. less hunger. Eat a more Carr’s book
Eating breakfast helps nutrient-dense diet in order to Crazy Sexy
curb temptations for the feel more satiated and crave Kitchen.
rest of the day. less food.
Kris Carr made some major life changes to confront a serious disease. BILL MILES
3. Be a mindful eater
Helm suggests eating Diet. Cancer survivor So what? She was like any You have 60 seconds to make having the time to cook.
all kinds of foods and other 20-something-year-old me go vegan. Go. Well I have no time to get
focusing on controlling and Crazy Sexy Kitchen living in a big city — stressed, “Animal products, processed sick — it takes a lot of
portions instead of restric- author Kris Carr says tired and hungry. foods, refined sugars ... all energy, time and focus. We
tions. But the day she was diag- these things create inflam- can’t wiggle our way out
it’s time to deal with
nosed with an incurable stage mation in the body, depress of eating well. Doing so
4. Eat more fi sh disease and obesity on four cancer at 26-years-old, the immune system and mess will improve your life, so
Follow the lead of Japan she knew her eating habits with your hormones. Dairy relegating it to something
our plates — she also
and Iceland — where the were partly to blame. can be difficult to digest. It that’s a drag is crazy.”
average life expectancy is shares her favourite “I had a lot of confusion creates mucus and contains
81 years — and incorpor- vegan recipes and chaos when it came to growth hormones — so does Aren’t you nervous meat
ate more fish into your food. I only ate hamburgers, flesh — which also contains and dairy lovers will want
diet. peanut butter and jelly. I was saturated fat, which can cause to throw your book in the
ROMINA obsessed with calories, yet I dietary cholesterol.” trash?
5. Be a part-time veggie MCGUINNESS lived on carbs and trans fats,” “I’m not demanding people
Helm suggests going veg [email protected] she says. OK, I’m convinced. The stop eating meat and dairy.
once a week for all three Now a bonafide vegan, she problem is, it’s much easier Just that they eat less of it.
meals and encourages Kris Carr liked smoking and wants you to know that you to fry a steak than to steam I want people to become
experimentation. fast food. can turn your life around sim- broccoli. plant passionate — not
Not cooking. ply by changing your diet. “People complain about not vegan.”
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Tuesday, January 22, 2013
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OPTOMETRISTS: CELIA we can estimate how much officials with early warning
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the world,” says Aaron Brin- an estimated half a million
When you Google “flu,” dle, a spokesman from Goo- deaths a year worldwide.
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shaking with fever, you grim- “flu” on Google spiked 240 “Do not touch the T-
ly go online searching for per cent in the last 30 days, zone — your eyes, nose and
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of thousands of people do province with the most flu pert in the U.S. and Canada.
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that, it’s a helpful predictor activity is Manitoba. “These are the only portals of
that flu has hit your area. Only clinical data can entry into the human body
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helps carry red blood cells around the body. It has to
be separated from the red blood cells in a centrifuge,
in a process called plasmapheresis, and donors get
their red blood cells back before they leave. Flaig
remembers hearing Bowman’s pep talks while she
waited during what used to be a two-hour process:
nurses removed whole blood fi rst and took it away
to separate red blood cell and plasma components.
Now, the process is automated and only takes about
an hour.
Donors range in age from 25 to 75. Many of the old-
est donors helped with Bowman’s work after person-
Research that saves lives ally dealing with the effects and losses of Hemolytic
Disease before Win Rho was available, while many of
the youngest donors feel an obligation to continue
the heartfelt efforts of the generation before them.
In the 1950s, Winnipeg pediatrician Dr. John Bowman Cangene Corporation, which took over the doctor’s For WinRho, donors must be Rh-negative. Both men
began research that would eventually save the lives groundbreaking work in the mid-1990s. and women may participate but women must no lon-
of thousands of babies at risk of Hemolytic Disease. A ger be able to bear children.
rare condition now, the disease once struck newborns The raw material for Win Rho SDF - the anti-D anti-
regularly when a woman with Rh-negative blood body – comes from the plasma of dedicated donors. Also critically needed for the Win-Rho program are
carried an Rh-positive baby. Negative and positive At the UM Smart Park facility, donors with Rh-nega- donors with O-positive blood who are of African-
blood types are incompatible, which leads to a danger tive blood who have anti-D antibodies make weekly American ancestry.
during pregnancy and delivery when the blood of the plasma donations that help save babies around the
For more information on Cangene donor programs,
mother and baby can become mixed. Without inter- world.
call 204-275-4630, email [email protected]
vention, the mother’s immune system will treat the
or visit www.cangene.com/donor.htm
baby’s blood cells as foreign and create antibodies to “I set a goal for myself to stop at age 65, but that’s
destroy them. moved to 70. It keeps changing,” says Heredith Flaig,
lying back on a long padded chair with a needle tak-
It used to be that many of these babies would die. ing blood out of her left arm. Flaig has been donating
But when Bowman developed ‘Win Rho’ (named since 1975. Small scars on both her arms attest to her
after Winnipeg) in 1975, he introduced a way to stop dedication to the project. “I have a plaque to mark my
Hemolytic Disease by preventing the mother from de- one thousandth donation,” she says. “I look at that
veloping the fatal antibodies. Today, Cangene Plasma and think ‘Okay, I can do a few more’.”
Resources in Winnipeg continues Bowman’s work, col-
2O4-275-4630
lecting the raw material for WinRho SDF, made by the Plasma is the yellow liquid portion of whole blood that