Metro Winnipeg - January 27, 2012

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by  Metro International

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News worth sharing.
Survivor relives
Soap. Swag
crash every night
It will take time for investigators to determine why a charter
plane fell from the sky Wreckage is being combed through
One minute Brian Shead was read- “There are a lot of
ing his book as a charter plane he ‘what ifs.’ There are a Residents tried to help
had flown on many times made its lot of questions that
descent into a remote northern Residents of North Spirit Lake say
I’m struggling with.”
Ontario aboriginal community. the Keystone Airlines plane that
The next minute, Shead found BRIAN SHEAD crashed was trying to land in a
himself on a snowy lake in a bro- blizzard.
ken aircraft, surrounded by four collapsing in the snow.” Residents frantically tried to put
other people knocked unconscious It’s a scene the 36-year-old out the flaming wreckage with
and still strapped in their seats. relives every night when he closes snow while others gouged a hole
The right wing of the plane was his eyes. in the lake to try to pump water
on fire. Shead, a Winnipeg-based onto the burning plane.
“After repeated, unsuccessful administrator for First Nations, Rescuers say the snow was quick-
attempts to unstrap the others escaped with a crushed foot and ly saturated with fuel.
from their seats, I went around the facial injuries, but the pilot and The plane was not equipped with
plane and tried to put out the fire the three other passengers died. a cockpit voice recorder or flight
on the wing,” Shead said Thursday, “I relive it every night con- data recorder.
speaking publicly for the first time stantly thinking, ‘Could I have
since the Jan. 10 crash near North done something differently that The Transportation Safety Board
Spirit Lake. might have changed something?’” has not determined a cause of the
Louise Vargas and her husband Luis of SoGa Soap & CupFakery are “My efforts there were also in he said during an emotional news crash. Spokesman John Cottreau
thrilled their homemade Bubble Bath Truffles will be featured in the vain. As the fire spread and began conference where he spoke halt- said the board waited until Shead
luxury gift lounge at this year’s Academy Awards. Story, page 4. to enter the cabin near the rear of ingly and pausing often to com- was ready to talk. An initial report
the plane, I made a final attempt pose himself as he clutched his found the plane went down about
at the pilot’s window. Finally I was wife Tracy’s hand. one kilometre from the runway,
SHANE GIBSON/METRO able to release the pilot’s seatbelt “Could I have, forget the fire, burst into flames and left behind
A truffle excited at Oscar buzz and haul him out of the plane. I worked on trying to get people out a trail of debris spanning just over
pulled him as far as I could before of their seats? I don’t know.” 100 metres.THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Infant
1
survivor of Getting. Warmer
house fire
Builders of the new Rope Pavilion
‘almost dead’ warming hut from New York spend
Thursday working on their project,
which will join four other new
The uncle of an infant girl warming huts on the Assiniboine
who was the only survivor Credit Union River Trail this
of a deadly house fire in winter. The huts are expected
Winnipeg says she is on life to be finished and ready to
support. warm chilly skaters by
He says four-month-old the end of the weekend.
Hoorya Farooq has no more
blood going to her brain
news
and is “almost dead.”
The fire broke out Tues-
day night in the West Kildo-
nan neighbourhood and
killed a mother, a
grandmother and two girls,
who were nine and four.
The Islamic Social Servic-
es Association is accepting
monetary donations on be-
half of the family to pay for
funeral costs.
THE CANADIAN PRESS
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The pay is lousy and the gig is Warming huts near completion on river trail
temporary, but London’s
unemployed are still
flocking to Olympics jobs.
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Dave Coulier with Hot Chief refused to move community from flooded area after officials chose
103’s Ace Burpee. not to order homes from his company: Province Band says that’s not true
On the web at
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Uncle Joey
The vast majority of flood $4 million a month in hotel Some 40 homes have been
Police surround
evacuees from a Manitoba and food bills. ordered, down from the Living in hotels
Australian PM in the house First Nation are balking at Last month, the 150 homes authorities said
Julia Gillard as the province’s offer of tem- province said it had 500 were being ordered in De- While waters have long
porary housing and run the people signed up for tem- cember. since receded, the reserve
they force a path
Comic Dave Coulier, prob- risk of languishing up to porary housing at a former Aboriginal Affairs Minis- has been deemed a write-
through ably best known for his two years in hotels until a radar base in Gypsumville ter Eric Robinson said the off and officials are
rowdy role as Uncle Joey on ’80s new permanent location near their flooded reserve. 40 units are just a start and looking for a new perma-
sitcom Full House and his for the reserve is found. But officials say that af- the province is hoping to nent home.
protesters. stint hosting America’s The evacuation of about ter Chief Adrian Sinclair re- persuade more people to
Watch at Funniest People, is in Win- 800 members of the Lake jected the “dangerous move by opening a show In the meantime, residents
nipeg this weekend play- St. Martin band hasn’t plan,” which he said “can- home on the site next are living in hotels
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ing two sold-out shows at come cheap. It has cost fed- not be justified legally, eco- month. Those lobbying scattered through
video Rumor’s Restaurant and eral taxpayers about $30 nomically or rationally,” against the move are a “vo- Winnipeg.
Comedy Club. million so far, with the tab only 114 people have cal minority,” he said.
METRO growing by an average of shown interest in moving. THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Band member has his
saxophone stolen
CONTRIBUTED
Saxophone theft struck it was gone.
Winnipeg’s popular Flam- He filed a police report
ing Trolleys marching band and hopes if the sax shows
Wednesday night. up at a pawnshop he will
Dan Moroz, one of the get it back, but he has an-
band’s original members, other option for the thief.
put a call out to his Face- “They can drop it back
book friends asking them at the Mondragón, no ques-
to keep their eyes peeled tions asked. That’d be
for his pilfered instrument. cool.”
“Hey friends, my Vito The Flaming Trolleys,
tenor sax was stolen out of formed in 2007, has about
the Mondragón (Bookstore 20 costumed members.
& Coffeehouse) today, They bring stilts, stunts,
Mayor Sam Katz plays beanbag floor hockey with a couple of kids after while I was hanging there. Dan Moroz and a life-sized white ele-
announcing a new grant program for community centres on Thursday. It has a black case, held to- phant to a variety of sum-
gether with a bungee cord, Cherry who wrote, “Terri- mer festivals and events to
and there’s a (red) Flaming ble! a thief who steals a play music they describe as
Community centres
Trolley sticker on the case.” musician’s instrument is “revolutionary standards
By Thursday afternoon, so lowly.” to Fela Kuti, Charles Min-
more than two dozen of Moroz said he put the gus, Salt n’ Pepa, Beats An-
his friends had posted sym- sax case down by a pillar at tique and, of course, Black
to get new grants
pathetic comments, in- about 8:30 p.m. and when Sabbath!”
cluding musician Ida he went to leave at 10 p.m. SEAN LEDWICH
Money to be used for repairs to buildings and
Local soaps
who works as a surgical her own soaps for nearly
program creation Funds created by city land sales
neuromonitoring technol- 15 years and opened her
to make a
will be used to fund the program ogist at the Health home-based business and
Sciences Centre when showroom last August.
splash at
15% she’s not creating soaps at Since then her products
SHANE up what needs to be fixed Oscars her home workshop. have been given to Hillary
GIBSON or do we do the program- Ten of the small bath- Duff as gifts, and her soaps
[email protected] ming?” said an out-of- and-body business’s signa- will also be doled out to
breath Katz, following the ture Bubble Bath Truffles eco-conscious celebrities
Mayor Sam Katz has made The percentage of announcement and a A Winnipeg entrepreneur will be given to members for Earth Day and given
good on a campaign prom- money that will be friendly game of beanbag is hoping to clean up at of the press and celebrity out at the MTV Movie
ise to create a new funding funneled from the floor hockey against a this year’s Oscars. publicists at the W Hotel Awards later this year.
program for repairs and city’s land sales every team made up of local kids Louise Vargas, who runs in Hollywood during the “It’s a passion and I love
programming at Winnipeg year to fund the and Coun. Thomas Steen. SoGa Soap & CupFakery 84th Academy Awards. doing it,” she said, adding
community centres. CCRGP’s annual budget “The extra money will with her husband Luis “They look like she hopes the attention
In front of a group of of roughly $1 million. provide more people they from their Wolseley home, cupcakes and you would will enable her to leave her
kids at the Robert A. Steen can hire to provide pro- learned Wednesday her want to eat them if you day job to make soaps in-
Community Centre on board-run community cen- gramming for our children homemade soap products saw them, but they would- stead. “I’d like to do this
Thursday, Katz announced tres. and that’s what it’s all will be featured in the lux- n’t taste good at all,” full time because it makes
the creation of the Com- “We’ve seen too often about,” the mayor said. ury gift lounge at the laughed Vargas of the me happy.”
munity Centre Renovation where community centres Community centres will upcoming Academy soaps. “You’d be blowing Check out Vargas’ soaps
Grant Program, which will are between a rock and a be able to apply for grants Awards. bubbles for about a week if and bath products at soga-
pump nearly $1 million hard place; we have limit- up to a maximum of “I am over the moon you did.” soap.com.
annually into volunteer- ed resources so do we fix $50,000 annually. with this,” said Vargas, Vargas has been making SHANE GIBSON
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Deaths ‘not an accident’: Crown
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Crown delivers closing arguments
Police guard the rear entrance to the Frontenac County courthouse
in Shafia family trial Security
after a bomb threat was received in Kingston, Ont., on Thursday.
issue spurs delay earlier in the day
The evidence against three
people accused of killing Deliberations
half their family over hon-
our is “irrefutable,” a
Crown attorney told the The verdict was expected
jury in the case in closing to be in the jury’s hands
arguments that lasted well Friday afternoon or early
into the evening after a evening.
bomb threat delayed pro-
cee dings earlier Thursday. on their family tree,” she
Crown attorney Laurie said. “Their decision was
Lacelle told the jury hear- to trim the diseased limb
ing the Shafia family mur- and prune the tree back to
der trial that Mohammad the good wood.” She urged
Shafia, 58, his wife Tooba the jury to find all three
Yahya, 42, and their son guilty in what the Crown
Hamed, 21, were each re- has alleged is a quadruple
sponsible for planning and honour killing of Shafia’s
carrying out four murders, three daughters and his
executed to get rid of fami- other polygamous wife.
ly members causing them “You know this was not
dishonour. an accident — it was mur-
“Shafia, Tooba and der,” Lacelle said at the
Hamed had decided that end of her lengthy
there was a diseased limb address. THE CANADIAN PRESS
7 Forces It was one of the those est valour decoration for SEAN KILPATRICK/THE CANADIAN PRESS His helicopter was hit in
heart-stopping moments what he did in the critical the fuel tank and immedi-
members every pilot who flew in moments after the Taliban ately caught fire as it took
Afghanistan feared — the sprayed his CH-147 Chi- off from a forward position
dull thud of rounds hitting nook with gunfire. in the volatile Panjwaii dis-
recognized
the helicopter and the Fielding was among sev- trict, west of Kandahar city
smell of smoke. en members of the Canadi- on Aug. 5, 2010. Fielding
for bravery But for Capt. William an Forces to receive the managed to land the burn-
Todd Fielding, it wasn’t Medal of Military Valour ing chopper in the middle
in battle some abstract concern and from Gov. Gen. David John- of insurgent-controlled ter-
on Thursday he was award- ston in a ceremony at Ot- Gov. Gen. David Johnston presents the Medal of ritory and get everyone off
ed the country’s third-high- tawa’s Rideau Hall. Military Valour to Sgt. Graham Marc Verrier of Winnipeg. safely. THE CANADIAN PRESS
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No coddling
at Facebook
Former employee explains what it’s really like to
work for company founder Mark Zuckerberg
GIA DINH XA HOI/GETTY IMAGES
He winks,
Mark Zuckerberg’s former
director of engineering
says the Facebook CEO is
she winks back not a pain in the ass to
work with, but don’t ex-
pect “emotional coddling.”
Yishan Wong is giving
the world a glimpse of the
social-networking boy won-
der on the question-and-
answer website Quora, for
which Wong is an advisor.
Wong worked at Face-
book from 2005 to 2010,
for much of that time in
management roles when
the company exploded in-
to a major corporation
from a small startup.
“He’s a demanding CEO
with a monomaniacal fo-
cus on making Facebook
succeed in its mission,”
Wong wrote.
“He’s a perfectly nice
guy on a personal level; it’s
just that professionally, he Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, seen here during a
is focused on getting it private trip to Ha Long Bay, Vietnam, on Dec. 25, 2011.
done and has a limited tol-
erance for emotional
fragility in the people he lenges to surmount,” he “He does have a touch
needs to help him execute said, which is fine for an of Asperger’s,” said Wong,
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Harper signals
change ahead
Prime minister’s speech in Davos hints at impending
reforms for pensions, research and immigration
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MIKE BENHAIM year’s record. @ErikaChristine: I keep #giggles
METRO 1 Research in (slow) Mo- seeing Davos trending and @_ChrisTORRES_:I actually
tion:RIM appointed a am thinking Davros. HATE it when I see people
new CEO in an attempt Davros is much cooler. sad or mad! I feel like I
to revive dying BlackBerries in a world of #doctorwho #geek must do something to
iPhones and Androids. His name is 16% @captaincanuk:Signs that cheer them up
Thorsten Heins, but he may as well be YES, I LIKE THE #VanHalen is still in #SeriouslyTho
RATES
Thurston Howell III, because all the money 1984...Kool & the gang is @wpgpeanut:I wish it was
in the world ain’t getting him off that the opening act and the olden days and I could
island. there’s no mosh pit smoke at my desk.
2 Muddled Voyage: The man that drove his car
through the Waterloo, Ont., police station last No-
vember was apparently sentenced to a year of com- NASA/NOAA/GSFC/SUOMI NPP/VIIRS/NORMAN KURING (LEFT) GETTY IMAGES (RIGHT)
munity service ... as captain of a cruise ship. Oops! Daily Zoom
3 Political Hubris:Stephen Harper finally met with
delegates at the World Economic Forum this week.
He rebuked European leaders for being fiscally irre-
sponsible, and cited Canada as the role model. He
referenced our medicare system which, in hard times, as-
sures Canadians the same unsatisfactory services they’ve
come to expect, at no additional cost.
4 Idol Setback:American Idol is back for its 11th sea-
son, and the first individual voted off is Steven
Tyler for his rendition of The Star Spangled Banner.
5 Sexy Spinsters: Ladies, if you are unattached,
attractive, and believe in love at first sight with a
stranger who will also be dating 25 other women
on national TV, then I’ve got great news — The Bachelor is
coming to Canada! The not-so-great news is that you are
probably desperate and have low self-esteem. But good
luck!
6 Love on the Rocks: Another celebrity breakup hit
the news wire this week as German model Heidi
Klum is divorcing R&B singer Seal. My immediate
reaction to the news was, “Those two were married?”
7 Spoiler Alert: Academy Award nominees were un-
veiled this week, and I want to prepare for my Os-
car pool by identifying this year’s pretentiously
touted film that no one actually wants to watch, à la Eng-
lish Patient or King’s Speech, and bet on that.
Shinier ‘Blue Marble’
8 Ice Dreams: Bruins goalie Tim Thomas ignited con-
troversy by refusing to join the NHL champs who
were invited to appear at the White House this
week. Thomas stated that he had become disillusioned
with the government, whose actions over the past few
years, he feels, have been counter-constitutional. On the
other hand, he still blames his parents for never providing
figure-skating lessons. New image of 824 First photo was
9 God Save the School: Dr. Alisun Pawley, a musicolo-
gist from the University of York in England, Earth captured Satellite facts upside down
concluded in a recent study that the Canadian na-
tional anthem was not very “sing-along-able.” My first SNAP.It’s our blue planet, Composite image: HISTORY. The original “Blue
question is, “Who funded this study, and why?” Second like we’ve never seen kilometres — the dis- Created from four orbits of Marble” photo was taken
question is, “Should a university professor be using a before. Nasa’s latest “Blue tance above Earth this the Earth’s surface. by the Apollo 17 crew on
word like ‘sing-along-able’?” Marble” photograph is the photograph was Worth lots of numbers: Dec. 7, 1972, from a distan-
10 American Delusions: The U.S. prez showed us most high-resolution image taken. This new high- Suomi NPP weighs 2,041 ce of about 45,000 kilome-
once again that “Campaign Obama” is far bet- of Earth ever captured. This resolution image dis- kgs, carries five tres. It was the first
ter at his job than “President Obama.” His picture was taken on Jan. 4 plays about 1.6 instruments, and orbits opportunity to photograph
“America’s back” speech was shrewdly more feeling than from Suomi NPP, Nasa’s kilometres per pixel. the Earth about 14 times the south polar ice cap. It
fact. If the country were a business, I’d suspect he was get- most recently launched each day. was originally taken upside
ting ready to sell to China, but that’s just silly ... or is it? Earth-observing satellite, ‘For weather forecasting’: down due to the way the
the first in a new series of Collects data on clouds, at- astronauts were then
More from Mike Benhaim at metronews.ca/backbeat such devices. MWN mosphere and oceans. travelling. MWN
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Synopsis 2
Liam Neeson plays John
Ottway, a sharpshooter
hired to keep predatory
wolves out of an oil station
in the remotest part of Alas-
ka. He becomes the leader
of a ragtag group of
survivors when the plane
transporting them to their
oil job crashes in the wilder-
ness. Hunted by wolves and
exposed to the elements,
Ottway’s know-how is the
scene
only thing between freezing
to death or, worse, becom-
ing the big bad wolf’s din-
ner.
Ratings:
Richard: 1111 Scene in brief
Liam Neeson tapes busted bottles to his knuckles in a showdown with some man-eating wolves.
Chris: 1111
Potential Oscar win-
ners will now be a
Big, bad wolves click away from win-
ning a trophy. The
Academy of Motion
Reel Guys Picture Arts and
Sciences
RICHARD
announced
CROUSE & The Grey’s characters bring lyricism to the man-versus-nature genre Wednesday it
has partnered
MARK Chris Alexander joins Richard Crouse this week to review Liam Neeson’s latest with a compa-
ny to develop
BRESLIN
Richard: Chris, the thing trailer certainly leads you to defanged some of the hor- the spiritual sister to the Fi- an electronic
that separates The Grey believe that it’s all about ror because he understood nal Destination films. OK, voting
from other man-versus- Neeson suiting up with and was able to explain that may be a stretch, but system for
nature movies is the charac- busted bottle fingertips, their behaviour. A dose of the wolves and their almost next year’s
ters. At first glance they are growling and boxing toothy unpredictability might supernatural presence real- Academy
the usual assortment of timber-wolves. And while have been scarier for me. ly do push the film into an Awards. Voting in the
rough and ready characters: we DO get that, its strength Having said that, I still almost surreal area that I past has been
the edgy chatterbox, the ex is that tapestry of charac- wouldn’t want to meet up liked. And I’d be willing to compiled through pa-
con. But soon nuances ap- ters and how instead of be- with any of the movie’s bet some viewers won’t like per ballots sent
pear. They shed tears and coming more savage as wolves, no matter how them for that very reason... through the mail.
even recite poetry when their situation becomes much CGI was involved. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
not fighting off steely-eyed more desperate, they be- RC:The wolves, I guess, are
wolves. Most action movies come more human. This is CA: Ahhhh...I loved them. the film’s hook, but for me
are only concerned about as much Hemingway as it is Of course, they are not it’s all about the characters.
setting up the action and horror show. Speaking of based in reality by any Come for the wolves! Stay
the payoff. The Grey isn’t. It horror ... what did you stretch. But that’s OK, nei- for the characters!
wants you to get to know think about those wolves? ther was Bruce the Shark in
the men so when some- Did you buy it? Jaws. The wolves are death CA: Well, whether it be
thing awful happens to itself, stalking the men, toy- wolves, sensitive manly
them, you care. RC: For me the wolves were ing with them, picking men or a glimpse into the
the least interesting part of them off randomly and snowy hell that we've mer- Filmmakers defend
Chris: That’s what I found the movie. They make for without warning in novel cifully been spared this radical-Islam documentary
so disarming about the pic- cunning foes, but Neeson’s and gruesome ways. On year, The Grey is spectacu- that was criticized by NYC
mayor, Muslim groups
ture, that lyricism. The Wolf Whisperer character that tip, The Grey is kind of lar entertainment.
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Drew’s Big Miracle
Drew Barrymore learns that a few whales can get
stakeholders to put their agendas aside for a little while
NED ple — feuding news an- actually were stuck and got
EHRBAR chors, Inuit natives, oil ty- to know the people that
[email protected] coons, even the Russian you thought you were so
METRO WORLD NEWS IN HOLLYWOOD navy — coming together to different from.”
help three gray whales While the Greenpeace
Maybe this won’t come as a trapped under the arctic ice crusader Barrymore plays
surprise to many, but Drew off northern Alaska, cutting in the film starts off shout-
Barrymore found it pretty off their migration and ing through a megaphone
easy to get into the mind of threatening their lives. It at a city council meeting,
the Greenpeace crusader wasn’t just the natural dra- she doesn’t want Big Mira-
she plays in Big Miracle. “I ma of the story but also the cle to have that level of
spent a lot of time — a lot amazing camaraderie in- preachiness. The goal, she
of time — with Cindy Low- volved in the rescue that at- says, was “making it per-
ery, the woman I play in the tracted Barrymore to the sonal rather than, like,
film,” Barrymore says of her project. “I just think seeing soapbox-y — which I hope
preparation for the part. this story and living in it, this film achieves or is In Big Miracle, Drew Barrymore plays a Greenpeace crusader
(The character on screen you just appreciate that good at. It’s amazing how trying to save three gray whales.
goes by the name Rachel everybody put their agen- it touches on so many
Kramer, though.) “And she’s das aside for a second to things that could be differ-
just rad and a total badass work on the same thing, ent today if they were dif-
and super-cool and fun, and and it’s sort of peeling away ferent back then, but it Not getting she’s found tremendous “I’ve also experienced in
we really actually connect- the layers,” she says. “I doesn’t do it in like a success in adulthood, the life that it really can all go
ed, which is the way you liked when I got to say to preachy, in-your-face kind jaded actress, writer, director and away, so that was a
hope it will be, but maybe it [Ted Danson’s oil executive] of way. So I think the more producer finds that the wonderful thing to experi-
will and maybe it won’t. character in the film, you do speak from the Starting in entertainment tough times are the key to ence because then you real-
But we were like two peas ‘You’re not as hard to hate heart rather than thump- as an infant, Drew keeping herself grounded. ly do appreciate what you
in a pod. It was great.” as I thought.’ I just liked ing the agenda... I just Barrymore has had a long “I mean, it’s just a choice, I have. So I’ve experienced a
Big Miracle tells a true that moment and thought think that that’s where Hollywood career, consider- suppose,” she says of not bit of both, which is really
tale about all types of peo- what it would be like if you people listen.” ing she’s only 36. And while taking success for granted. such a blessing.”
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