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A new report on Halifax’s economic status suggests the city is chugging steadily away with a middle-of-the-road and slightly underwhelming per-
formance.“We’re doing OK, we’re in
the middle of the pack,” said Fred Morley, chief economist with the Greater Halifax Part-nership. “We’re average, but we’re probably below poten-tial.”
The GHP released the second annual Halifax Index Wednesday, a document measuring the city’s econom-ic and community progress as
it compares to five other Can-adian cities.
Among the key findings is that although Halifax’s popu-lation is growing slowly but steadily, the under-14 popu-lation shrank by 8,000 from 2011 to 2012, while the over-65 segment grew by 16,000.
“Clearly we’re an aging demographic, and we have to think about how we retain more of our young profession-
als,” said Morley. “That’s why people talk about the fight for talent.… Cities that can at-tract and hold people will be the winners in the future.”
Morley said the GHP is working on a “bookend” ap-proach to entice more region-al and head-office companies to Halifax.
“We want to see those kinds of companies with deep roots and expanding in Hali-
fax.... Those are the kinds of jobs we want,” he said.
The partnership is also working with government to improve the business cli-mate and smooth the path for young entrepreneurs and small business, and Morley said the municipal branding exercise will help with mar-keting efforts to the business community. RUTH DAVENPORT/METRO
‘Below potential.’ Ho-hum, predictable performance that could be better: Index
Halifax economy in need of a boost
CRUISING DOWN THE HARBOURThe Cunard’s fl agship vessel, the Queen Mary 2, makes its way past the McNab’s Island Lighthouse as it leaves Halifax Harbour on Wednesday. The luxury ocean liner is due back into port two more times in the 2013 cruise-ship season. JEFF HARPER/METRO
Where’s the excitement?
Fred Morley said the index shows Halifax’s performance remains steady and boring.
• “Halifax kind of continued to grow right through the recession and it’s still on this even keel,” he said.
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03metronews.caThursday, July 4, 2013 NEWS
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Friday new date for postponed fi reworksFirework fans take note: HRM has rescheduled the Canada Day nighttime event for this Friday.
The fireworks will be set off from the Halifax Harbour at 10 p.m., weather permitting. Anyone can see the show from the Halifax and Dartmouth water-fronts.
If there is bad weather Friday, HRM has set Satur-day, July 6 as the rain date.
Right now, Friday is calling for a mix of sun and cloud with a 40 per cent chance of showers.
HRM decided to post-pone the original fireworks on Monday night due to poor visibility. METRO
Historic site
Panel to hear Citadel Hill tax disputeThe Halifax Regional Municipality says its battle with Ottawa over the value of Citadel Hill is headed to a federal dispute panel.
The amount of taxes the federal government owes the city for the national historic site has yet to be settled, more than a year after Canada’s top court ruled in favour of Halifax.
Halifax spokeswoman Tiffany Chase says the dates for the hearing should be known in the next few weeks.
She says sending the matter to a dispute panel was part of the Supreme Court of Canada decision last June.
Chase says since then, the two sides have been in discussions but have not been able to come to an agreement. The city says the property value of Cita-del Hill was reassessed this year at $25.8 million.
During the court case, Ottawa argued it was only worth $10 because it has no commercial value. THE CANADIAN PRESS
Premier Darrell Dexter talks with four-year-old Cody Campbell at the IWK Health Centre prior to a funding announcement on Wednesday. JEFF HARPER/METRO
The announcement of more than a million dollars for up-grades to the MRI unit at the IWK had the hospital’s chief of radiology beaming like a kid on Christmas morning.
“I can’t wipe the smile off my face today,” said Dr. Deb-orah Thompson at an event Wednesday. “This upgrade will mean a huge amount to us.”
Premier Darrell Dexter and MLA Leonard Preyra were on hand to announce $1.1 mil-lion for hardware and software improvements for the IWK’s 11-year-old machine.
“What this does is, it essen-tially creates a brand-new ma-chine,” said Dexter, adding that it was IWK staff who recom-mended the upgrades over buy-ing a new unit. “With health- care costs being what they are, we looked really hard at trying to make sure that we’re getting the best possible service at the best possible price.”
Thompson said the up-grades will allow doctors to perform more specialized im-aging sequences faster than is currently possible.
“The MRI unit will go faster and make us more efficient,”
she said. “So the least amount of time that a young child has to be in a claustrophobic-like environment that’s noisy is bet-ter.”
Lower Sackville parents Holly Redden and Joey Camp-bell told the small crowd an MRI revealed an aggressive form of brain cancer in their son, Cody, last September.
“Cody wouldn’t be with us today if it wasn’t for an MRI,”
Redden said as the four-year-old — now cancer-free — looked on from his father’s arms. “We’re not sugar coating it, he wouldn’t be with us.”
The MRI unit performs 600 exams per month, and Thomp-son said the improvements will increase its capacity.
The total cost of the up-grades is just under $1.5 mil-lion. The IWK Foundation will also contribute about $370,000.
IWK gets $1.1M boost for MRIUpgrades. New software, hardware will mean more clear and specialized images in less time
A new poll from Corporate Re-search Associates suggests the federal Liberal party would get the vote of more than half of Nova Scotians in the next elec-tion.
The poll, released Wednes-day, suggests the Liberals are the party of choice among 52 per cent of decided voters in the province, up from 36 per cent three months ago.
Support for the Conserva-tives fell to 29 per cent from 32
in February, and plummeted by ten per cent to 16 for the NDP.
Fifty per cent of respond-ents were undecided or wouldn’t name a choice.
Among the party leaders, Justin Trudeau is preferred by 43 per cent, well ahead of Ste-phen Harper at 21 per cent and Thomas Mulcair at 10.
Respondents who said they’re dissatisfied with the federal government has in-creased from 54 per cent in February to 57 per cent in the latest survey. METRO
Justin Trudeau JEFF HARPER/METRO
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“There are things that … we’ve not been capable of doing because this machine is old ... and we’ve not been able to go with the fl ow — in other words, progress.”IWK chief of radiology Dr. Deborah Thompson
N.S. sees surge in support for federal liberals: PollIn numbers
1,500The poll surveyed 1,500 Atlantic Canadians from May 8 to May 30 and is considered accurate to within plus or minus 2.5 percentage points.
HRM’s Canada Day fi reworksare now slated for Friday.METRO FILE
04 metronews.caThursday, July 4, 2013NEWS
Former cabinet minister. Percy Paris assault case back in court on ThursdayThe assault case against former Nova Scotia cabinet minister Percy Paris will be back before the courts on Thursday.
Paris’s defence lawyer, Elizabeth Buckle, told a judge at Halifax provincial court on June 7 that she needed more time to go over disclosure before proceed-ing. A new court date was set then for July 4.
Paris, who wasn’t in court last month, faces charges of assault and uttering threats after an alleged incident in-volving Liberal MLA Keith Colwell.
Paris resigned as minister of economic and rural de-velopment last month after saying he lost his composure
during the incident outside a washroom in the legislature.
He remains a sitting NDP member for the Halifax-area riding of Waverley-Fall Riv-er-Beaverbank. meTro
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“We want to know how widespread this is.”Halifax Regional Police spokesman Const. Pierre Bourdages
Halifax police are warning the public about a scam targeting newcomers to HRM.
Police say on June 28, a lo-cal man received a call from a 1-800 number from someone claiming to be with the Can-adian Border Services Agency (CBSA). The man who made the call threatened the victim that he and his family would be deported to their home country unless he wired some money.
The victim did, and later reported the incident to po-lice.
Police are investigating and reminding the public to be suspicious of any calls or emails asking for money.
Const. Pierre Bourdages, spokesperson for the Hali-
fax Regional Police, said scammers might target im-migrants because they are unfamiliar with immigra-tion regulations. He said the CBSA recently stated it would never ask for money over the phone.
Anyone who has been vic-timized by the scam is asked to contact the Halifax police’s integrated financial crime unit at 490-1985. Haley ryan/meTro
Deportation threats. latest scam targets newcomers to Canada
Percy Paris the canadian press file
Community leadership
Two named to Human Rights CommissionA man from Cape Breton and a woman from north-ern Nova Scotia have been appointed to the provincial Human Rights Commission.
Darren Desmond of Sydney was appointed by Ross Landry, the minis-ter responsible for the Human Rights Act, along with Andrea Paul of Pic-tou. CaPe BreTon PosT
Teacher comments
Politicians not happy with school report cardsBoth Tory Leader Jamie Baillie and Liberal educa-tion critic Karen Casey are expressing concern that the current school report-card system does not adequately inform parents.
Last week’s report cards included terms and phrases that some believe are a failed attempt at standard-izing teacher comments. King’s CounTy regisTer
A visitor looks at the fly system during a backstage tour of Neptune Theatre during its 50th-anniversary party on Wednesday. Jeff harper/metro
More than 50 years ago, the-atre wasn’t a good idea in Hali-fax — but Leon Major didn’t listen.
Neptune Theatre’s first art-istic director, Major said the theatre commissioned a feas-ibility study in the early 1960s that didn’t turn out so well.
“(It) showed we couldn’t have a theatre in Halifax, to which we said, ‘Oh, look, we should have a theatre in Hali-fax,’” Major said on Wednes-day during the 50th-anniver-sary celebration of Neptune’s first play.
Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw opened on July 1, 1963, because Major wanted to begin on an “auspi-cious” event like Canada Day, with a nod to classic litera-ture while staying away from Greek drama.
Neptune started out with a troupe of 15 actors who per-formed for 52 weeks in the old Garrick Theatre and got two weeks’ vacation, Major said.
“We arrived not knowing
whether the theatre would survive,” he said.
But survive it did, and 50 years later Major said he feels “very proud” of the fact Nep-tune is a celebrated part of Halifax.
He offered some advice for the future, such as bringing in a French play to appeal to a new set of fans and creating original shows.
It’s especially important
not to fall into a rut, Major said during his talk with Neptune president Robert Batherson.
“Just because something is successful doesn’t mean you have to repeat it. The more failures, the more experi-ence,” Major said.
Batherson said Neptune has lasted half a century be-cause of its connection to the community.
“Without Neptune The-atre, I think there would be a huge void. There would be less opportunity for artists to work here,” Batherson said.
“It’s important that we have a stage that’s … a nation-ally recognized theatre to tell our own stories.”
Bringing stories to life for 50+ yearsNeptune Theatre. This week marks the golden anniversary of the first play ever performed at the venue
Mylène Paquette’s wind has come in, but it’s not quite what she expected.
After waiting two weeks for the perfect weather con-ditions, the Montreal ocean rower will be leaving from Halifax on Saturday.
Paquette is embarking on a solo 5,000-kilometre trip across the North Atlantic, bound for Lorient in France.
According to a release,
Paquette will depart in the early morning from the Royal Nova Scotia Yacht Squadron, unless the weather turns bad.
Paquette was originally waiting for a northwesterly wind to steer her into the Gulf Stream, but this late in the season her ground crew has decided to switch plans because the north wind hasn’t turned up.
She will now head east to-
ward Sandy Island, taking ad-vantage of a stronger south-west wind. meTro
ocean rower to follow the wind
Mylène Paquette
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It’s showtime
417The number of shows Neptune Theatre has produced over 50 years.
Crossing the Atlantic
• Ifshemakesitacrosstheocean,MylènePaquettewillbethefirstNorthAmericantohavecomplet-edthe100-dayodyssey.
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06 metronews.caThursday, July 4, 2013NEWS
Disputes among fishermen aren’t uncommon, but the reluctance to report damaged lobster gear and other prop-erty crimes is resulting in un-wanted consequences on Cape Breton waters.
Published reports have said
Philip Boudreau was cutting a lobster fisherman’s trap lines on the early morning of June 1 when it’s alleged he was shot and run over by a fishing boat in Petit de Grat harbour. His body hasn’t been found.
Three men are charged with second-degree mur-der and a fourth person, the wife of one of the fishermen charged, is accused of being an accessory after the fact.
Gilbert Boucher, president of the Richmond County In-shore Fishermen’s Association, said Boudreau’s death was the
result of tensions finally bub-bling to the surface.
He claims it was widely known in the community for years that Boudreau was a lobster poacher but few com-plaints were ever made against him.
“This association has put more conservation meas-ures in place than any other (lobster-fishing area) in Nova Scotia and we like to protect our fishery, but when you have someone going around doing what (Boudreau) was doing, it was a matter of time before something happened,” said Boucher, who is the Rich-mond County councillor for District 7.
However, he said that doesn’t excuse the alleged ac-tions of the accused in the case.Cape Breton post
Believed to have been murdered. Fishermen’s association president claims he had a history of cutting trap lines
Boudreau was alleged lobster poacher: Coun.
Investigation ongoing
None of the alleged actions of those accused in Philip Boudreau’s disappearance have been proven in court.
We get a kick out of ukeMembers of the Langley Ukulele Ensemble from British Columbia perform a noon-hour concert at Grande Parade on Wednesday. The group is in town for this year’s Royal Nova Scotia International Tattoo. Jeff Harper/metro
report. some Cape Breton men drinking too muchAlcohol consumption among Cape Breton men is rising, a new report suggests.
The study by the Cape Bre-ton District Health Authority found that, between 2001 and 2008, there was an overall increase in heavy drinking among men aged 20 and 39.
Alcohol-related questions weren’t asked of respondents in Statistics Canada’s Can-adian Community Health Sur-vey of 2009-10.
The report, titled Under-standing Today for a Healthier Tomorrow and released on Wednesday, is part of the an-nual Population Health study.
Data in the study was guid-ed by the four main influences on a person’s health: age, sex, education and income.
Dr. Monika Dutt, the
district’s medical officer of health, said the report switch-es the focus from the health-care system to factors that impact health in everyday life.
“This report was created to highlight the link between the determinants of health and risk factors that can eventually lead to chronic disease,” Dutt said in a release.
The local health informa-tion was collected from people aged 20 and older between 2001 and 2010. Cape Breton post
More factors
Statistics in the report also examine the levels of obes-ity, physical inactivity and smoking in Cape Breton.
rita Macneil. ‘First Lady of song’ to enter Country Music Hall of Fame Rita MacNeil will soon take her place among musical legends in the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame. On Wed-nesday, the Canadian Country Music Association announced that MacNeil has been selected as the 2013 artist inductee.
MacNeil was known across Canada as Cape Breton’s “First Lady of Song” and en-tertained audiences for more than 30 years until her death in April. She released 24 al-bums, winning three Juno and four CCMA awards.
The induction ceremony
will take place during Coun-try Music Week, Sept. 5 to 8, in Edmonton. Metro
Rita MacNeil contributed
07metronews.caThursday, July 4, 2013 NEWS
An Opposition MP is calling for a separate Transport Can-ada investigation into the near-collapse of a flood-dam-aged rail bridge in Calgary to see if tough new rail safety regulations were broken.
“Someone needs to be held responsible,” said New Demo-crat transport critic Olivia Chow.
“The federal government shouldn’t wash their hands of it and the (Transportation Safety Board) is not the right venue. It really is Transport Canada.”
Four petrochemical-laden rail cars derailed on a bridge over the Bow River last week when a Canadian Pacific Rail-
way freight train was passing over the span. A preliminary investigation has determined one of the four piers that sup-port the bridge sagged when the river swelled during heavy flooding.
CP said it inspected the bridge 18 times after the flood-ing began, but it was unsafe to send divers down to check below the water’s surface.
“We would normally have probably put divers in to in-spect, but the current was too fast,” CP CEO Hunter Harrison said last week. “It’s so murky, you couldn’t do an appropri-ate inspection.”
Harrison said it would have been “jeopardizing com-merce” to hold back trains until divers could get in.
Chow said the federal gov-ernment needs to investigate the failure under provisions of the 2011 Railway Safety Act, which came into force last May. Companies that break the rules can be fined up to $1 million and executives can be fined $50,000 or face jail time
of up to six months.Chow said the act requires
the government to ensure rail-ways are doing a proper job of
monitoring safety procedures.“Under the (safety manage-
ment system), they’re suppos-ed to investigate if the com-
pany is following the rules or not and of course there should be an investigation,” she said. THE CANADIAN PRESS
Transport Canada. Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi and MP who represents the riding where bridge failed expressed anger with CP
Opposition MP wants probe into Calgary train-bridge collapse
Volunteer Chris Rogiani, left, hoses the mud off another volunteer outside a restaurant in High River, Alta., Wednesday. Transport Canada has issued an emergency directive for CP trains to restrict their speed to 17 km/h over bridges thatmight have been weakened by flooding. Jeff McIntosh/the cAnADIAn PRess
Annie, get your gun
RCMP to return armsMounties have outlined the process for flood evacuees in a flooded southern Alberta town to get their seized firearms back.
The Mounties took the guns as officers searched homes in High River to look for victims, pets and anything that might pose a threat to returning residents. Some residents were up in arms about the seizures and the PMO demanded they be returned as soon as possible.
The RCMP say people must present a Possession Acquisition Licence and if they don’t have that, police can verify the licence through the Canadian Police Information Centre computer. THE CANADIAN PRESS
Chose prayers instead
Parents who withheld care properly convictedParents who prayed instead of seeking medical help as their daughter died were properly convicted of homicide, the Wiscon-sin Supreme Court ruled Wednesday. Eleven-year-old Madeline Kara Neumann died of undiagnosed dia-betes in 2008. Prosecutors said her parents ignored obvious severe symptoms. Her mother told police God would raise the child from the dead. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Cleveland, Ohio
Suspect in rape, kidnapping case ruled fit for trialA man charged with hold-ing three women captive for about a decade and raping them is competent to stand trial, a judge ruled Wednesday. Ariel Castro faces aggravated murder charges in the termination of one of the women’s preg-nancies. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
thou shalt not gougeCanada’s major wireless carriers want to overturn provisions in the new wireless code of conduct that would apply terms of the code to contracts signed before the rules come into force on Dec. 2. The CRTC has ruled that customers can terminate their contracts after two years without penalty, even if they signed on for longer. cARlos osoRIo/toRstAR news seRvIce
From guitarist to alleged jihadistFour years ago, the man RCMP say planned a Canada Day ter-ror attack at the British Colum-bia legislature was too drunk and violent to be kept on as the guitarist in a heavy-metal band, according to a fellow musician.
But some time between March 2009 — after his failed tryout for The Lust Boys in Vic-toria — and this March, when an indictment says the bomb-ing conspiracy began, John Nuttall allegedly became a home-grown terrorist inspired by al-Qaida to kill fellow Can-adians.
“It’s crazy stuff,” said Colin Stuart, a.k.a. Tommy Thrust, who met Nuttall through a musician forum. “It doesn’t really make any sense to me really, because back when he was in the band ... he never made any reference to religion at all. He was more into pol-itics.”
Nuttall did a month tryout for the band but they parted ways at the end of March 2009.
“It didn’t work out, because basically Mr. Nuttall was ex-
tremely difficult to work with and he would always be at rehearsal completely either drunk or messed up on some kind of substance,” Stuart said Wednesday.
Nuttall, 38, and his partner, Amanda Korody, were arrested on Monday and charged with three counts each in relation to an alleged plot to detonate bombs at the B.C. legislature in Victoria on Canada Day, as thousands celebrated the na-tional holiday.
Police say the two were
inspired by “an al-Qaida ideol-ogy” but were not linked to any international group.
Nuttall and Korody were described as polite by the land-lady of the basement suite they rented in Surrey, B.C., for the past three years.
The two-bedroom apart-ment sits at the bottom of a house in a residential area of Surrey, about 30 kilometres southeast of Vancouver. Their landlady lived on the house’s main floor.
“When we look at them, they live in poverty, they ask for money sometimes from me,” said the landlady, who did not want her name published.
“They were always looked like they have something, drugs or alcohol, but they never (caused) anything bad.”
On Wednesday, there was little in the way of furnishings or belongings in the apart-ment, but what was there was strewn about in messy piles. It wasn’t clear whether the mess was the result of the police search. THE CANADIAN PRESS
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08 metronews.caThursday, July 4, 2013NEWS
Bolivia’s president left Eur-ope for home on Wednesday in a diplomatic drama after his flight was rerouted and delayed overnight in Austria, allegedly because of suspi-cions he was trying to spirit NSA leaker Edward Snowden to Latin America.
Bolivia accused the United States of ordering European countries to block President Evo Morales’ flight from their airspace, and accused Euro-pean governments of “aggres-sion” by thwarting the flight.
It’s unclear whether Euro-pean countries did block the plane. French, Spanish and Portuguese officials all said Wednesday the plane was al-lowed to cross their territory.
The emergency stop in Austria may have been caused by a dispute over where the plane could re-fuel and whether European authorities could inspect it for signs of Snowden. Pre-venting the passage of a high-ranking government official’s jet and even searching it is legal under international law but unprecedented in recent
memory, aviation experts said.
Snowden himself remains out of public view, believed to be stuck in a Moscow airport transit area. Morales said he never saw Snowden and that Bolivia has not received a for-mal request for asylum for him. The country would con-sider a request if it receives one, Morales said.
Snowden has applied for asylum in Venezuela, Bolivia and 18 other countries, ac-cording to WikiLeaks. Many European countries on the list — including Austria, Finland, Ireland, the Neth-erlands, Norway, Spain and Switzerland — said he would have to make his request on their soil. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Austria. Officials said Bolivian president’s plane searched by border police
The plane truth: No sign of Snowden on president’s flight
Bolivia’s President Evo Morales boards his plane at Vienna’s Schwechat airport Wednesday. The plane was rerouted to Austria after some European countries refused to let it cross their airspace over suspicions that Edward Snowden was on board, Bolivian officials said. Hans Punz/THE assOCIaTED PREss
Death of Cirque du soleil performer ruled accidentalThe death of Cirque du soleil performer Sarah Guillot-Guyard last Saturday in Las Vegas has been ruled acci-dental by the Clark County coroner’s office in Nevada.
The 31-year-old woman died after she fell more than 25 metres while performing in front of an audience at Las Vegas’s MGM Grand hotel.
The show momentar-ily continued, then stopped. Minutes after the accident, a recorded announcement informed audience members that refunds or vouchers to future shows would be of-
fered, and the crowd was dis-missed.
The incident was the first stage casualty in the com-pany’s 29-year history, ac-
cording to a Cirque spokes-woman.
Witnesses told the Las Vegas Sun that the accident occurred during a fight scene near the end of the “Ka,” which combines acrobatics with martial arts and pup-petry.
Visitor Dan Mosqueda of Colorado Springs, Colo., said Guillot-Guyard was being hoisted up the side of the stage when it appeared that she detached from her safety wire and plummeted to an open pit below the stage.THE CANADIAN PRESS
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“I am heartbroken … We are reminded with great humility and respect how extraordinary our artists are each and every night.”Guy Laliberte, founder of Cirque du soleil.
Outrage in Latin America
• ThereroutingoftheBo-livianpresidentialplanethroughEuropeignitedoutrageWednesdayamongLatinAmericanleaderswhocalleditastunningviolationofnationalsovereigntybycountrieswithlonghistoriesofdisrespectfortheregion.
• Buttherewasnoim-mediatesignthattheangerwouldpushmem-bersofLatinAmerica’sleftistbloctoactuallyofferasylumtothemanPresidentEvoMoraleswassuspectedofhelping—EdwardSnowden.
sinkhole swallows Ohio car and driverA car lies at the bottom of a more than three-metre-deep sinkhole caused by a broken water line in Toledo, Ohio Wednesday, in this photo provided by the Toledo Fire and Rescue Department. Police say the driver, 60-year-old Pamela Knox of Toledo, was shaken up and didn’t appear hurt but was taken to a hospital as a precaution. She was able to climb out on her own using a ladder. LT. MaTTHEw HERTzfELD/THE assOCIaTED PREss
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10 metronews.caThursday, July 4, 2013NEWS
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Egyptians jubilant after army gives Morsi the boot
Egyptians celebrate at a Cairo teahouse after army chief Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi’s announcement Wednesday that President Mohammed Morsi will be replaced. Egypt’s military has suspended the Islamist-backed constitution and called early elections. Hiro Komae/tHe associated press
The armed forces ousted Egypt’s first democratically elected president on Wednes-day after just a year in power, installing a temporary civil-ian government, suspending the constitution and calling for new elections. Islamist President Mohammed Morsi denounced it as a “full coup” by the military.
After the televised an-nouncement by the army chief, millions of anti-Morsi protesters in cities around the country erupted in delirious scenes of joy, with shouts of
“God is great” and “Long live Egypt.”
Fireworks burst over dan-cing crowds and waving flags in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, epi-centre of the 2011 uprising that ousted autocrat Hosni Mu-barak. It was one of multiple centres of a stunning four-day anti-Morsi revolt that brought out the biggest anti-govern-ment rallies Egypt has seen.
But the move potentially throws the country into fur-ther confrontation.
Some of Morsi’s Islamist backers, tens of thousands of whom took to the streets in re-cent days, have vowed to fight to the end.
Gehad el-Haddad, a spokes-man for the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood party, said Morsi was under house arrest at a Presidential Guard facility where he had been residing. thE associatEd prEss
Overthrow. Chief justice of Supreme Constitutional Court will step in as interim president, military says
Twitter reaction
Tahrir Square Nation @tahrirsqrnationWe’re not celebrating an ending, we’re celebrating a beginning.
The Big Pharaoh, blogger @TheBigPharaohIf you want to topple your president, get a bunch of Egyptians. They’ll do the job very well. They’re very experienced now.
Tarek Shalaby, blogger @tarekshalabyI’m shocked at activists cheering on the army’s coup and the subsequent crackdown of Islamists like it’s all part of #Jan25! Unbelievable!
Dr. Hellyer, academic @hahellyerI’m concerned about the backlash by, and against, the #MB, and any violence.I’m worried the MOI and the military will get a blank cheque.
ruling. Mandela’s grandson ordered to return relatives’ bodiesIn a macabre family feud fought as Nelson Mandela remained in critical condition, a South Afri-can court ruled Wednesday that the former president’s grand-son must return the bodies of the 94-year-old’s three deceased children to their original burial site.
Mandela is in “perilous” condition and on life support, according to an affidavit filed Friday and made public in the ruling Wednesday, according to a South African newspaper.
The judge’s order means that grandson Mandla Mandela must reverse the action he took in 2011, when he moved the
bodies from Mandela’s home-town in Qunu to his birthplace of Mvezo, about 25 kilometres away. Mandla Mandela has authority in Mvezo as a tribal chief and has plans to create a Mandela shrine, hotel and soc-cer stadium there.
Mandela said he wanted to be buried in Qunu and at-tended the burial of his son at the family plot there in 2005.
Family divisions became public this week when 15 Man-dela members, including wife Graca Machel, pressed a court case to order Mandla Mandela to return the bodies to Qunu. thE associatEd prEss
A man cleans a street in front of a fence with get-well letters and flowers in support of former South African president Nelson Mandela at the entrance to the Mediclinic Heart Hospital in Pretoria, South Africa, on Wednesday. marKus scHreiber/tHe associated press
Edmonton
Girl left in hot car dies in hospitalEdmonton police say a little girl left inside a parked car as outside temperatures soared above 30 C has died despite the best efforts of first responders.
The three-year-old child was found near death Tuesday evening outside a townhouse complex.
Paramedics performed CPR and provided hydra-tion before the youngster was taken by ambulance to the Stollery Children’s Hospital.
“EMS and (Edmonton Fire Department) did what they could to resuscitate the child. Despite their best efforts, the child was taken to hospital and subsequent-ly died,” Det. Scott Jones said Wednesday.
It’s not known who res-cued the girl or how long she had been in the vehicle.
“It’s a horrible tragedy,” said Jones.
“It’s just another tragic reminder ... when it’s swel-tering hot outside, we need to make sure kids are not anywhere near a vehicle.”
The temperature in Edmonton hit 33 C on Tues-day and humidity levels made it feel more like 43 C. thE canadian prEss
11metronews.caThursday, July 4, 2013 NEWS
A picture posted on Twitter by Chris Hadfield with the words: “Stampede 101 - get boots to be Marshal for the parade. I love how these turned out! They have that new boot smell.” twitter
Hadfield puts universal stamp on Stampede
Chris Hadfield’s first order of business when he sets foot in Calgary on Thursday will be to buy a Stampede “Hell or High Water” T-shirt in support of Al-berta flood victims.
Like so many, the Canadian
astronaut said he marvels at the resilience of thousands of Albertans affected by waters that surged two weeks ago to levels not seen in a lifetime.
“It brings out what people really find important,” Had-field told Metro on Wednesday afternoon. “You collect things, you build a particular set of circumstances, but all of us realize in our heart of hearts ... what really matters are the people and how we help each other.”
Now, the 53-year-old space cowboy will spend four days helping to kick off the 101st running of the Calgary Stam-pede, taking over parade-mar-shal duties Friday morning for
the second time after accepting an i n v i t a t i o n from organ-izers while still in orbit aboard the Internation-al Space Sta-tion.
But the ever-modest Hadfield believes his accom-plishments, which include three space flights, will take a back seat to a larger cause over the next 10 days.
“I see my role very much as one of support and ser-vice,” said Hadfield, who has personal connections to the area. He has family in Calgary and trained as a CF-18 fighter pilot in Cold Lake, Alta., in the mid-1980s.
While orbiting the Earth for five straight months at nearly eight kilometres a second, Hadfield installed a “disaster
cam” on the ISS that was first put to the test during Alberta’s floods. The device snapped 25 images of the destruction from June 22 to 24 and relayed those images to help emergency planners on the ground.
But now Hadfield’s focus is on the people and the Stam-pede itself, an event he regards as being world-class, with a truly homegrown feel.
“I’m really pleased and honoured that the organizing folks asked me to come, that I could accept from orbit, of all places,” he said.
Parade marshal. Retired astronaut makes supporting Alberta flood victims his top priority
Rocket rider
“I will do my absolute best, even with the weather doing such damage, to make it as out-of-this-world of an event as I can.”Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, on his role as the parade marshal at the Calgary Stampede
JErEmy NolaISMetro in Calgary
Not his first rodeo
It will be Hadfield’s fourth trip to the Stampede — he first journeyed to the grounds as a boy with his father — and his first major outing after formally retiring from government service on Wednesday. Chris Hadfield
the canadian press
14 metronews.caThursday, July 4, 2013business
U.S. weed retailers look for a pot of gold
Weed has come a long way from student parties and
police evidence rooms, and as legalization gathers pace across the world, many be-lieve it represents the next great industry.
“Marijuana is like a gold rush … and I would like to be the Coca-Cola brand,” says Jamen Shively, a former Microsoft executive who is now preparing to launch Diego Pellicer, the largest re-tailer yet. “After we launch in
Washington (state), we will replicate that model through-out the Americas and Western Europe.”
With supporters includ-ing former Mexican president Vicente Fox, Shively is con-fidently projecting profits of more than $100,000 US from the first month of operation, which is likely to be in early 2014. “It’s the most consumed illicit substance in the world
— and the golden rule of mar-keting is, ‘It’s better to be first than best.’”
Medical marijuana alone is worth $2 billion in the U.S. and grows 24 per cent each year. Last year, Colorado and Washington became the first U.S. states to legalize the drug for recreational use, and with more states set to follow suit, momentum and commercial opportunity is growing.
When most people think of weed retailing, they think of grow supply shops. But a U.S. executive plans to launch stores that sell the finished product. Getty ImaGes FIle
Not such a people personHonda Motor Co.’s walking, talking interactive robot Asimo is running into glitches in its new job as a guide at Tokyo’s Miraikan science museum. The bubble-headed machine, shown walking up a set of stairs at the museum during a demonstration event on Wednesday, had problems telling the difference between people raising their hands to ask questions and those aiming their smartphones to take photos. it froze mid-action and repeated a programmed remark, “Who wants to ask Asimo a question?” shIzuo KambayashI/the assocIated Press
Television
netflix signs new deal with PbsNetflix Inc. said it has agreed on an expanded multi-year licensing deal with PBS Distribution, making more PBS pro-gramming available to its subscribers in the U.S. and Canada. Starting in the fall, Netflix will have exclusive streaming rights to U.K. murder mystery series The Bletchley Circle. The deal also covers documentaries from filmmaker Ken Burns.The ASSociATed PreSS
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Hashing out a plan. Ex-Microsoft exec aims to be the Bill Gates of bud merchandising
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Comments
RE: 3D-Printed Gun Under Lock And Key At University of Toronto, published July 3
Plastic gun, BIG DEAL. Most of the bad things are in the stores for the buying, no questions asked. Last Boston marathon they were calling it a pressure cooker bomb filled with fireworks. Both are still around. I have the feeling that a computer isn’t needed to make this plastic gun. mikejb posted to metronews.ca
Exactly. it’s plastic. People can make real ones easily. What a pointless story. Richard Bulmer posted to metronews.ca
RE: Jennifer Lopez: Happy Birthday Mr. Human Rights Violator, published July 3
From American Idol judge to play-ing Turkmenistan. Sounds about right. Dangerpayrayray posted to metronews.ca
Beer commercials have lied to me about Can-adian youth.
If the ads are true, then Canucks should be gallivanting around the world trying to de-throne Australians as the World’s Most Obnox-ious Tourists. But instead, I keep reading about highly qualified Canadian students with low-paying, miserable jobs.
It’s hard to gallivant at $8 an hour.Sometimes it’s even an unpaid internship,
where you get the opportunity to hear about “your” generation’s sense of entitlement from a paid, union-shielded employee who calls in sick every time hockey goes to overtime.
My advice? Don’t let these people talk down to you. Let me talk down to you. Follow my ex-ample and you can see how these early, difficult steps can be a stairway to success.
Be innovative. My first job was in newspapers — in the vital delivery sector — and at age 10 I was on the vanguard of innova-tion.
Papers were much thicker then, because they had to protect the TV listings, also known as the heart of the industry. You could get a story completely wrong and you might get three angry letters, each containing the words “stan-dards” and “all my years.”
But if the TV schedule was missing, you could count on a large mob of elderly women carrying pitchforks and torches demanding blood and/or a free subscription. (Usually the newspaper would sacrifice an unpaid intern.)
And here’s where I got innovative: When the newspapers were especially heavy, I would pick up the full bundle and toss it into a ravine, then say the papers never arrived. I believe this was the earliest iteration of “I never got your email,” an accomplishment for which I am duly proud.
Leverage your relationships. The BiWay doesn’t exist any-more, but it was the sort of store that specialized in cheap socks and boxes of crushed cookies. The customers thought I was an idiot because I worked there, and I thought they were idiots be-
cause they were shopping there.I was as awkward around the customers as possible so that
my boss would put me in the storeroom where I could count things and not talk to anybody.
I could have been an accountant, but decided the best job for somebody who didn’t want to talk to anybody was the media.
When you fi nd a job you like, cling to it. One day during my first year in journalism, a stranger started yelling at me for the unforgivable sin of being a reporter. He made airplane parts and said, “You know, if we made as many mistakes as you people, a lot of people would die!”
After lamenting the loss of so many hypothetical people, I realized he hated me without even knowing me. It was then I knew I loved journalism.
So, as you can see, with the right attitude you too can work in miserable jobs for a decade or more so that you can end up in a job where people think that you’re pond scum.
I trust my story has inspired you, perhaps to tears. If not, have a beer to forget.
When I read about the working struggles of today’s youth, it just makes me ill. I think I’ll call in sick.
WHY WORK ISN’T WORKING
HE SAYS
John Mazerollemetronews.ca
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Cheer up, Buttercup: Lucky duck gets prosthetic footWhen Buttercup the duck was born with his left foot turned backwards, he seemed destined to hobble.
But, thanks to cutting-edge 3D printing technology, the white duck now has a brand new webbed prosthesis. Buttercup was born with his disability at a high school
biology lab before being handed over to Arlington, Tenn.-based Feathered Angels Waterfowl Sanctuary.
In February 2012, an 83-year-old woman in the Netherlands received a new 3D-printed lower jaw made from titanium. And in May of this year, South African carpenter Richard van As created a prosthetic hand —which helps people who have missing fi ngers. METRO
Put your 3D-printed foot forward
Ducking destiny
“There was always the big unknown of whether or not it would work and if he would accept it. If he didn’t like the prosthetic, it wouldn’t have mattered how many times I changed it.”Mike Garey, founder of the Feathered Angels Waterfowl Sanctuary
Path to prosthesis
• Amputation. First, But-tercup’s disfi gured foot was removed.
• Mould and silicone. Then 3D-printing specialists NovaCopy scanned the left foot of Buttercup’s sister Minnie and printed a 3D mould used to cast a silicone foot.
FEATHERED ANGELS WATERFOWL SANCTUARY/REX FEATURES
There’s more to Google Street View than trawling dull streets hoping to catch a glimpse of LARPers or a saucy roadside transaction. Try dropping the little man on these famous buildings for a glimpse inside.
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Canada’s Parliament:Kick off your tour with a stroll across Centre Block floors polished to a glow and poke your head in the first-floor library. Sadly, the limits of technology prevent you from a Chrétien-style run up the stairs.
Burj Khalifa:Whether it’s the height or the cost of airfare that’s making your knees weak, don’t let it hold you back from experiencing a view of Dubai from the top of the world’s largest building.
360 Cities:Are you the type of person who sniffs at feats of architecture, what with their stench of humankind and all? Lucky for you the very cool site 360cities.net also hosts panoramic views of coral reefs, shipwrecks and aerial scenes captured by RC planes.
View than trawling dull streets
head in the first-floor library. Sadly, the limits of technology prevent you from a Chrétien-style run
Whether it’s the height or the cost of airfare that’s making your knees weak, don’t let it hold you back from experiencing a view of Dubai from the top of
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For a lucky portion of the musical population, passion and talent are in the blood.
Multi-award winning roots-blues singer, Thom Swift, could be found on stage alongside his father’s band since the tender age of three.
The laws of both nature and nurture allowed Swift to become a product of his environment, catching the music bug early.
“I didn’t really have a choice — I just kept going out on stage at that early an age and was surrounded by people who were having a great time with music,” Swift says.
With a 12-year career under his belt with trio Hot Toddy, Swift eventually broke out on his own, re-leasing his first solo album, Into The Dirt, in 2007.
According to Swift, Into The Dirt was fraught with growing pains. However this first album gave him a chance to call upon his unique education.
“It’s been an education through my own devices,” says the Halifax-based sing-er-songwriter.
“I learned a tremendous amount from those other two guys, primarily work ethic, and threw myself into the solo thing.”
Now three albums deep into his solo career, Swift’s most recent offering, The
Fortunate Few, showcases a more cohesive collection of tunes written, record-
ed, and produced Rolling Stones style over a hyper-focused two-month period.
Turning heads within his own community, Swift will not only be playing at The Company House on July 8 as part of the Halifax Jazz Festival (which kicks off Friday), but he has been asked to join Rosanne Cash, the first child of music icon Johnny Cash, on stage when she plays the Rebecca Cohn on Thursday night.
“You’re humbled when you get the call to go do those things and any op-portunity to represent a re-gion or country you’re really going to bring it and not let anybody down,” he says.
“Anytime you can be involved in your own city and with your own festival it’s a great thing, so I’m really looking forward to that.”
Double bill. Award-winning songwriter Thom Swift joins Rosanne Cash for one show, goes solo for other
Multi-award winning roots-blues singer, Thom Swift, is coming to The Company House. SCOTT BLACKBURN
Get your jazz hands ready
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Two chances to see Thom during the Halifax Jazz Festival.
• #1: Rosanne Cash, Fea-turing Thom Swift
• When: Thursday, 8 p.m.
• Where: Rebecca Cohn Auditorium
• Online: sonicconcerts.com
• #2: Thom Swift & The El Camino
• When: Monday, 11 p.m.
• Where: The Company House
• Online: halifaxjazzfestival.ca
17metronews.caThursday, July 4, 2013 DISH
The Word
Get it through your Thicke head, he’s talking about his junk
Sometimes, when I remem-ber that Robin Thicke’s dad is Alan Thicke, I laugh a lot because, oh man, what would Dr. Seaver say? Dude used to blow a lid when Mike stayed up past 9 p.m. eating ice cream and here’s Robin mouth-sexing a choc-olate cone while eye-sexing half-naked models in the video for Blurred Lines.
Good thing, then,
that Robin’s real life isn’t anything like an episode of Growing Pains, because I’m pretty sure Papa Seaver might actually have a heart attack when he caught wind of Robin’s new song, which, if possible, is even more inappropriate than its predecessor.
The new joint Give it 2 U (because not spelling out full words is hella sexy, as everybody knows) features a guest spot by BET Awards-sweeper Kendrick Lamar and is about, uh, well, Thicke giving it to you. It being his big, thick, throb-bing ... heart.
And here’s the thing — despite being almost obnoxiously sexual (is that even a thing?) it’s sort of a totally catchy jam. It’ll get stuck in your head, much like Thicke plans to stick his ... never mind.
METRO DISHOUR TAKE ON THE WORLD OF CELEBRITIES
Meek Mill. ALL PHOTOS GETTY IMAGES
Meek Mill has to tighten up his Twitter game
Oh man, if only we could mandate half of the people we know on Twitter and Facebook to do this! A Philadelphia judge has ordered rapper Meek Mill to complete a series of etiquette classes to “refine his use of social media” at a probation violation hearing (for drug and gun charges) last week.
A cursory glance at Meek’s Twitter reveals that the rapper is prone to tweeting explicit and kinda misogyn-istic recommendations for lady behaviour which, while gross, isn’t much worse than the kind of stuff half the pimply teen boys across America post to their various social media outlets daily.
ALEXANDRAM. CAVALLOMetro World News
@AmandaBynes • • • • •I’m In Love With Someone Else Who I Do Not Follow On Twitter Who Is The Most Gor-geous Man I Know But Drake Comes In Second
@justinbieber • • • • •interesting how some people in the media wanna take shots at me for no reason. all good. keeping it positive over here. all about the music
@ParisHilton • • • • •Packing up all my Summer clothes & favorite things to move over to my Malibu Beach house. #TheBu #BeachLife #SummerTime #Fun Loves it ;)
Kim Kardashian and Kanye West.
Kim and Kanyewon’t sell pictures
of their kidIn one of the first public things Kim Kardashian and Kanye West have done in quite some time that didn’t make us want to move to Siberia or some other place where people had more pressing matters (like foraging for food so as not to die) than Kim’s pregnant cankles to worry about, the couple have not accepted a very large sum of money in exchange for the first
photos of their newborn kid.
According to US Weekly, K Squared turned down a $3 million dollar offer for the very first pictures of North West — which is like three cents in Kardashian/Yeezy currency — but still.
It’s a fairly decent move. Unless, of course, they’re
holding out for a better of-fer. In which case, same old Kanye.
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As a child, Amy Kabba, bet-ter known as A*M*E, fled a war-torn Sierra Leone and moved to London, where she discovered The Backstreet Boys, ’N Sync and Destiny’s Child. And nope, she’s not embarrassed to admit she’s still a fan of ’90s pop. The 18-year-old will be releasing her debut album later this year, but in the meantime, the BBC Sound of 2013 nominee opens up about her crush on Rihanna, love of Louboutins and the power of a bold lip.
As a new artist, is it diffi -cult deciding on what your look will be?You have to appear with a certain look, which is difficult because it’s almost impossible to think of something that hasn’t been done. But as a person, you grow and your style is going to change. My style is bold and bright. I once wore this Shara Hayz body suit with frosty shoulder pads that was so incredible.
I wear a lot of pieces that are like, “POW!” I like to take risks, and being a darker skin tone, bright clothes and ac-cessories work well on me.
Are there any stages that you look back on and cringe?
A bold lip “I feel like wear-ing a pop of colour on my lips makes me stand out a bit more. I usu-ally wear MAC Shy Girl lipstick with a bit of gloss on top.”
Oversized T-shirt dresses “I love to wear over-sized tops as dresses. I get most of mine from Ashish. It looks cool, it’s com-fortable and I find that it’s really cute on smaller girls.”
Scarves “As a singer, it’s important to keep your neck super warm. So I wear a lot of scarves from Top-shop and Warehouse.”
The building blocks of her style
The three things she wears the most
Christian Louboutin Pigalle heels “They’re really sexy. It’s a designer label so people see them and are like, ‘She’s really into her fashion!’”
KTZ gold cut-out letter gold necklace “Off stage and during the day-to-day, I don’t really wear a lot of jewelry but as A*M*E I wear way more.”
Topshop super high-waisted ‘Joni’ jeans “I’m really petite and these seem to be the only jeans that fit me perfectly.”
A*M*E is the girl to be
ROMINA MCGUINNESSMetro World News
I can never really say where my style will go. It evolves with me and whatever influences me at that time. When I was younger, everything used to have to match. I was addicted
to Primark stripey tops. And having plimsolls that matched the stripey top. And wearing a ribbon in my hair to match the plimsolls and the top. It was horrible — my dark phase!
Given the chance, whose closet would you raid?Rihanna’s. I’ve got the big-gest style crush on her. She wears a lot of things most people wouldn’t dare to wear and she rocks them great.
I think we’ve got pretty similar tastes, so I think I could find some really nice outfits.
And if the off er came up, would you switch lives with Beyoncé? Yes! She’s the meaning of hard work and that’s exactly what you need in this industry. She’s where she is because she’s incred-ible at what she does.
You moved to London from Sierra Leone as a child. Why did you leave? My family fled the war in Sierra Leone and moved to London in the hope of a better life. I was really young so I don’t remember too much, other than that it was really hot!
Shoulder pads with ‘POW!’ The British singer has written tracks with Emili Sande and toured with Jessie J. She talks to us about her personal style
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Before Lady Gaga, Rihanna or Katy Perry married music with fashion, there was Kylie Mino-gue.
The singer compiled a look at her fashion choices, particu-larly her stage costumes, in a new book called Kylie Fashion (Running Press).
“It was lots of fun to look at my life in fashion through the years,” said Minogue in a recent interview. “There’ve been ups and downs and fabulous mo-ments and not so fabulous mo-ments, but basically the book was a celebration of 25 years.”
Yes, the 45-year-old even ad-mits to some fashion faux pas.
“I had to include some mo-ments that were less than stel-lar because we all make mis-takes along the way. Some ideas that we thought were fantastic at that point in time were, upon reflection, a big mistake,” she said. “That’s all part of my journey and actually it’s what I like about fashion.”
From skimpy outfits to
Kylie’s closet. Minogue dishes on picking costumes, quick changes and visiting ‘frumpsville’ for her new book
25 years of mixing music with la mode
Besides her book, Minogue is also back in the music studio. She recently signed with Roc Nation and says she’s working with some great producers who were on her “wish list.” Victoria Will/inVision/the associated press
showgirl costumes with plume headdresses, Minogue is game to try it all. For performances, she aims for showstoppers that will look good from the back of a large venue and hold up through 100 shows.
“I was about to say, ‘things you can move in...’ wait a second, about half my cos-tumes you can’t move in,” she said with a laugh.
She learned that lesson the hard way decked out in head-dresses, feathers and corsets on her Showgirl: The Greatest Hits Tour in 2005.
“That’s why showgirls have to have poise because you can’t actually tip your head,” she re-called.
Minogue says there have
been times when she got cos-tumes so late that she’s jumped in to help stitch them up back-stage. Then there’s the “quick change” in and out of elabor-ate costumes — something she compares to a Formula One pit stop, with four people helping her.
“A lot of stuff goes down in the quick change. It depends if the show is going well or not going well what type of vocabu-lary I choose,” she said with a laugh.
Minogue says there’s no time to be bashful when hurry-ing to change clothes, joking, “you kind of pass first base.”
When she’s away from the stage and at home, Minogue insists she “can go to total
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Sunset over Simcoe! Canada Day eve.... WHAT a wonderful world!
Ah...the wonder of Firecracker Day! Me+my pal Carl celebrating at The Beach like a couple of kids :)#CanadaDay
Kylie Fashion looks back at KylieMinogue’s fashion choices, particularly her stage costumes. running press / the associated press
frumpsville for sure.” “I’m a complete letdown.
At home the stilettos come off. The comfy clothes go on. I’d love to maintain this illusion that I kind of elegantly waft around home or something but I need that balance in my life ... to just be completely anti-fashion and just put whatever’s closest on, and home is the place to do that.”The associaTed press
Down-to-earth diva
“I’d love to maintain this illusion that I kind of elegantly waft around home or something but I need that balance in my life ... to just be completely anti-fashion and just put whatever’s closest on.”Kylie Minogue on dressing down at home.
20 metronews.caThursday, July 4, 2013home/FooD
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Foodie Recipes (iPad/ iPhone; free)For their quintessential sum-
mer edition, Foodie cookbook editors have gathered an enticing mix of gourmet hot dogs, fruity cocktails, grilled tacos, outdoor salads, barbe-cue sandwiches and rich ice cream creations.
mIND The APPKris Abel@RealKrisAbel [email protected]
Grilling chicken during the summer months is a healthy, not to mention de-licious, way to eat.
Put a sweet fruit salsa over top and, voila, you have an entertaining entrée with an exotic addition.
Feel free to substitute the pineapple for mango, peaches or plums. Add a little jalapeno or hot sauce for an extra kick
1. Working with one at a
time, place a chicken breast between 2 sheets of waxed paper and pound to an even 1/2-inch thickness. Set aside.
2. Prepare the salsa by com-bining the pineapple, red bell pepper, avocado, cilan-tro, lemon juice, honey and zest, olive oil, soy sauce and
garlic in a bowl.
3. Preheat a barbecue to medium-high heat or light-ly coat a large, nonstick grill pan with cooking spray and set over medium-high heat. Grill the chicken for 3 minutes per side or until no longer pink. Serve the salsa on the grilled chicken.
Pineapple salsa adds exotic flavour to grilled chicken
This recipe serves six. rose reisman
Grilled Chicken with Pineapple SalsaRoSe ReISmANfor more, visit rosereisman.com or follow her on twitter @rosereisman
Ingredients
• 1 1/2 lb skinless boneless chicken breasts (about 4 to 6 breasts)
• 1 cup diced fresh pineapple
• 1/3 cup diced red bell pepper
• 1/3 cup diced ripe avocado
• 1/4 cup chopped fresh cilan-tro or basil
• 1 tsp lemon juice
• 1 tsp honey
• 1/2 tsp lemon zest
• 2 tsp olive oil
• 1 1/2 tsp low-sodium soy sauce
• 1/2 tsp finely chopped garlic
21metronews.caThursday, July 4, 2013 SPORTS
SPORTS
Cam Russell finally got a chance to make the trek to Switzerland last February to get a firsthand glimpse of then-16-year-old Nikolaj Ehlers.
The Halifax Mooseheads general manager had heard lots of good things about the Dan-ish forward. After watching the five-foot-10, 176-pounder suit up with Swiss-A league’s EHC Biel, Russell was determined to get him in a Mooseheads jersey.
“First of all, he’s a ’96-born player and he was playing in the best league over there,” said Russell. “As a 16-year-old, I was just impressed with the way he played against men.”
It didn’t hurt that he played alongside such NHLers as Pat-rick Kane and Tyler Seguin dur-ing the lockout.
Fast-forward to Wednes-day’s CHL import draft and Russell got his man with the Mooseheads’ sixth-overall pick.
“He’s got great speed and quickness and good hockey sense,” said Russell. “He’s got a little bit of salt and jam to him. He plays with a lot of passion and skill.”
In seven playoff games with Biel, Ehlers picked up three points. He spent most of last season playing in Switzerland’s top junior league where he col-
lected 49 points in 32 games and racked up 21 points in 13 games with Denmark at the under-18 championship.
The Mooseheads used their other first-round pick, No. 12 overall, on 16-year-old left-winger Timo Meier of Switz-erland. Another talented for-ward, the six-foot, 194-pounder
registered 30 points in 33 games with the country’s top under-20 squad Rapperswi last year. He also scored four goals in eight games representing Switzerland at the U-18 cham-pionship.
“He’s a big, very skilled hockey player,” said Russell of Meier, who was second on his
list. “He’s a guy along the same lines as Nikolaj.”
Since CHL rules allow teams just two import players, the Mooseheads had to choose carefully, especially given the void left by two outgoing im-ports: Overage defenceman Konrad Abeltshauser and Marty Frk, a 19-year-old, first-line for-ward, who is expected to turn pro next season.
Both players, who Russell projects as at least top-six for-wards, have given the organ-ization their word that they’ll report to training camp next month.
Mooseheads draftee Nikolaj Ehlers played with NHLers with EHC Biel of the Swiss-A league last season. COURTESY EHC BIEL
Mooseheads opt for import � repower
Eur-OK with him
“These are guys who want to be professional hockey players. They’re hungry and motivated.” Mooseheads GM Cam Russell
Import draft. Herd relying on European talent to help with likely loss of top line
Jobing.com Arena, where the Coyotes play their home games, as shown in Glendale, Ariz., on June 13, 2012. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE
Glendale approves arena lease agreementThe Phoenix Coyotes’ bid to find stability dragged on for four years and stretched for four more tense hours as the Glendale city council debated on a lease agreement with a group trying to buy the team.
Finally, as the clock ticked toward midnight, the council voted 4-3 in favour of the 15-year, $225-million US deal, all but ensuring the Coyotes will stay in Arizona.
Renaissance Sports and Entertainment still must com-plete the lease deal and its purchase of the team from the
NHL by Aug. 5, but it appears their fight to find an owner has ended. RSE is led by Can-adian businessmen George Gosbee and Anthony LeBlanc.
Now, after four years of being run by the league, the Coyotes will be able to com-pete for players who had been financially out of their reach and retain more of the players already on the team.
The NHL has operated the Coyotes since former owner Jerry Moyes took the team into bankruptcy in 2009. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Meanwhile in Quebec City
Quebec City Mayor Regis Labeaume says he’s still opti-mistic about getting an NHL team — even if it won’t be the one currently in Phoenix.
• Quebec has begun build-ing a $400-million arena, with mainly public money, in the hope of bringing back a pro team to re-place the old Nordiques.THE CANADIAN PRESS
NHL
Stoll ‘fi ne’ after suff ering seizure in CaliforniaLos Angeles Kings centre Jarret Stoll was hospitalized Wednesday after suffering a seizure.
The Los Angeles Times reported that the Melville native fell ill at his Her-mosa Beach home.
Kings general manager Dean Lombardi told the Times that he visited Stoll in the hospital and the “bottom line is that he’s fine. Now the issue is what caused it.”
The Kings did not immediately respond to an Associated Press email seeking comment on Stoll’s condition Wednesday.
The 31-year-old Stoll missed all but the first game of the Kings’ second-round playoff series against the Sharks after suffering a concussion following a hit by San Jose’s Raffi Torres. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Wimbledon
Murray, del Potro move into semisAndy Murray had all of Britain on edge for five sets.
Juan Martin del Potro took only five points to get the fans buzzing at Wimbledon.
Two wins in two very different matches Wednes-day sent Murray and del Potro on to the semifinals.
Murray completed a comeback from two sets down to top Fernando Ver-dasco 4-6, 3-6, 6-1, 6-4, 7-5.
Earlier, del Potro hyper-extended his left knee but shook it off for a 6-2, 6-4, 7-6 (5) win over David Fer-rer. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
22 metronews.caThursday, July 4, 2013SPORTS
MLB CFLEAST DIVISION GP W L T PF PA PtsMontreal 1 1 0 0 38 33 2Toronto 1 1 0 0 39 34 2Hamilton 1 0 1 0 34 39 0Winnipeg 1 0 1 0 33 38 0
WEST DIVISION GP W L T PF PA PtsSaskatchewan 1 1 0 0 39 18 2Calgary 1 1 0 0 44 32 2B.C. 1 0 1 0 32 44 0Edmonton 1 0 1 0 18 39 0Thursday’sgames—AlltimesEasternWinnipegatMontreal,7p.m.TorontoatB.C.,10p.m.Friday’sgameCalgaryatSaskatchewan,9p.m.Sunday’sgameEdmontonatHamilton,5p.m.
MLSEASTERN CONFERENCE W L T GF GA PtsMontreal 9 4 3 30 24 30NewYork 8 6 4 25 22 28KansasCity 7 5 6 24 18 27Philadelphia 7 5 5 27 26 26Houston 6 6 5 19 18 23NewEngland 5 5 6 19 14 21Columbus 5 7 5 21 21 20Chicago 5 7 4 16 22 19TorontoFC 2 8 7 17 24 13D.C. 2 12 4 8 27 10
WESTERN CONFERENCE W L T GF GA PtsRealSaltLake 10 5 3 27 16 33FCDallas 8 3 6 27 22 30Portland 7 1 9 28 16 30Vancouver 7 5 5 27 25 26LosAngeles 7 7 3 25 21 24Colorado 6 7 5 21 22 23Seattle 6 5 4 19 17 22SanJose 5 7 7 19 28 22ChivasUSA 3 10 3 15 31 12Wednesday’sresultsTorontoFC3Montreal3Chicago1SanJose1KansasCity1Vancouver1Seattle0D.C.0PhiladelphiaatSaltLakeThursday’sgamesChivasUSAatDallas,9p.m.NewYorkatColorado,9:30p.m.ColumbusatLosAngeles,10:30p.m.
AMERICAN LEAGUEEAST DIVISION W L Pct GBBoston 52 34 .605 —Baltimore 48 37 .565 31/2
NewYork 45 39 .536 6TampaBay 45 40 .529 61/2
Toronto 41 43 .488 10
CENTRAL DIVISION W L Pct GBCleveland 45 38 .542 —Detroit 45 38 .542 —KansasCity 38 42 .475 51/2
Minnesota 36 45 .444 8Chicago 33 48 .407 11
WEST DIVISION W L Pct GBOakland 49 35 .583 —Texas 48 36 .571 1LosAngeles 40 43 .482 81/2
Seattle 37 47 .440 12Houston 31 54 .365 181/2
NATIONAL LEAGUEEAST DIVISION W L Pct GBAtlanta 49 35 .583 —Washington 42 42 .500 7Philadelphia 40 45 .471 91/2
NewYork 35 45 .438 12Miami 31 52 .373 171/2
CENTRAL DIVISION W L Pct GBPittsburgh 52 31 .627 —St.Louis 49 33 .598 21/2
Cincinnati 49 36 .576 4Chicago 35 46 .432 16Milwaukee 34 49 .410 18
WEST DIVISION W L Pct GBArizona 42 41 .506 —Colorado 41 44 .482 2LosAngeles 40 43 .482 2SanDiego 40 45 .471 3SanFrancisco 39 45 .464 31/2
Wednesday’sresultsDetroit6Toronto2Boston2SanDiego1Baltimore4ChicagoWhiteSox2Seattle4Texas2(10)N.Y.Yankees3Minnesota2Houston4TampaBay1ClevelandatKansasCityChicagoCubsatOaklandSt.LouisatL.A.AngelsTuesday’sresultsDetroit7Toronto6Boston4SanDiego1Seattle9Texas2ChicagoWhiteSox5Baltimore2N.Y.Yankees7Minnesota3TampaBay8Houston0Cleveland6KansasCity5Oakland8ChicagoCubs7L.A.Angels5St.Louis1Thursday’sgames—AlltimesEasternSanDiego(Stults6-6)atBoston(Webster0-2),1:35p.m.Baltimore(Britton2-2)atChicagoWhiteSox(Quintana3-2),2:10p.m.N.Y.Yankees(Phelps5-5)atMinnesota(Gibson1-0),2:10p.m.TampaBay(Archer2-3)atHouston(Lyles4-3),2:10p.m.Cleveland(Jimenez6-4)atKansasCity(Shields3-6),2:10p.m.ChicagoCubs(Wood5-6)atOakland(Parker6-6),4:05p.m.Detroit(Verlander8-5)atToronto(Rogers3-3),7:07p.m.Seattle(Iwakuma7-3)atTexas(Perez2-1),8:05p.m.St.Louis(Wainwright11-5)atL.A.Angels(Blanton2-10),9:05p.m.
Wednesday’sresultsMilwaukee4Washington1Pittsburgh6Philadelphia5Cincinnati3SanFrancisco2(11)Miami6Atlanta3L.A.Dodgers10Colorado8ArizonaatN.Y.MetsTuesday’sresultsMilwaukee4Washington0Philadelphia3Pittsburgh1Cincinnati3SanFrancisco0N.Y.Mets9Arizona1Atlanta11Miami3L.A.Dodgers8Colorado0Thursday’sgames—AlltimesEasternMilwaukee(Hand0-1)atWashington(Jordan0-1),11:05a.m.SanFrancisco(Cain5-4)atCincinnati(Leake7-3),1:10p.m.Arizona(Kennedy3-4)atN.Y.Mets(Gee6-7),1:10p.m.Philadelphia(Hamels2-11)atPittsburgh(Cole4-0),1:35p.m.Miami(Alvarez0-0)atAtlanta(Teheran6-4),7:10p.m.L.A.Dodgers(Capuano2-5)atColorado(Chacin7-3),8:10p.m.
The Toronto Blue Jays needed to be in top form with un-beaten starter Max Scherzer on the mound for Detroit on Wednesday night.
Instead they turned in a sloppy effort and the Tigers made them pay.
Scherzer won his 13th straight decision and Alex Avila hit a three-run homer as Detroit defeated Toronto 6-2 in Toronto. The Blue Jays made three errors on the night, lead-ing to five unearned runs.
“We definitely didn’t help ourselves there,” said Toronto manager John Gibbons. “And like I’ve said before, against the better pitchers if you fall
behind like that, it’s an uphill battle.”
Scherzer (13-0) allowed sev-en hits, two earned runs and had eight strikeouts over 6 1-3 innings. He became the first starting pitcher to open the season by winning 13 straight decisions since Roger Clemens.
Toronto’s Josh Johnson (1-3) turned in another inconsistent outing and also struggled in the field, making two errors in the third inning alone. The game’s key miscue was an er-ror by second baseman Emilio Bonifacio that led to four un-earned runs in the second in-ning. the canadian press
MLB. Blue Jays stuck in the clouds again after flying too close to .500
Tigers right fielder Torii Hunter, centre, is held back by teammates as the Blue Jays and Tigers clear their benches after Hunter was hit by a wild pitchby pitcher Todd Redmond in the sixth inning. NathaN DeNette/the caNaDiaN press
NBA
Celtics end the purge, hire coachThe Boston Celtics keep getting younger — on the coaching staff as well as the court.
Less than a week after agreeing to trade Kevin Gar-nett and Paul Pierce to the Brooklyn Nets — and 10 days after shipping coach Doc Rivers to the Los An-geles Clippers — the Celtics hired Butler’s Brad Stevens as their next head coach.
Stevens, 36, twice led the Bulldogs to the NCAA title game, but has no NBA experience as a player or coach. the associated press
NBA
Ginobili signs deal with SpursManu Ginobili is sticking around to see if the San Antonio Spurs can get back to the top. Ginobili tweeted Wednesday that he is stay-ing with the team he has helped win three NBA titles and nearly a fourth last month.
“Thrilled to announce that as I always hoped, I’m gonna stay with the @Spurs for two more years,” he wrote. the associated press
Aaron Hernandez
Search of secret apartment turns up more evidenceA police search of a secret “flop house” rented by former Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez turned up boxes of ammunition and clothing police believe could be evidence in the murder case against him, according to court docu-ments.
Police say they learned about the apartment from Carlos Ortiz, a friend of Hernandez’s whom prosecutors say was with the ex-player the night he allegedly arranged the shooting of Odin Lloyd.
They then searched the $1,200-a-month apartment in Franklin on June 26, according to search war-rant records at Wrentham District Court. Among the findings were a white hooded sweatshirt.
Surveillance video showed Hernandez wear-ing a similar sweatshirt the night Lloyd was killed on June 17, the records say. the associated press
tour riders close the gap The peloton passes through town as they approach the final climb during Stage 5 of the 2013 Tour de France on Wednesday in Cuge-les-Pins. Mark Cavendish finally shook off an illness and a drop in form to earn his 24th career stage win and close the gap on archrival Peter Sagan in the contest for the sprinter’s green jersey. Australian veteran Simon Gerrans kept the Tour leader’s yellow jersey. Doug peNsiNger/getty images
In a scramble by NHL teams to free space under the salary cap before the start of free agency, five veteran players were placed on unconditional waiv-ers on Wednesday.
The Minnesota Wild con-firmed they waived defence-man Tom Gilbert for the purpose of buying out the re-maining year of his contract. The Nashville Predators said they placed forward Sergei Kos-titsyn on waivers.
Also waived, according to a person familiar with the moves, were Detroit defence-man Carlo Colaiacovo, Vancou-
ver defenceman Keith Ballard and Buffalo forward Nathan Gerbe. The person revealed the list of waived players to The As-sociated Press on the condition
of anonymity because the NHL doesn’t announce these moves.
“Due to the NHL salary cap decreasing this season, we needed to make this diffi-cult decision to give the team more flexibility,” Wild general manager Chuck Fletcher said regarding the team’s decision to waive Gilbert.
The other four players waived on Wednesday could land in the same buyout cat-egory in moves made before the free-agency period opens at noon Friday.
Maple Leafs defenceman Mike Komisarek announced on his Twitter account that he is on his way out of Toronto. Set to make $3.5 million over the final two years of his contract, Komisarek is expected to be bought out after spending part of last season playing in the minors. the associated press
Free agency. Vets bought out, waived across the league as teams look to rebuild
NHL teams unload expired talent to free up cap space
Carlo Colaiacovo was one of severalveteran players placed on conditionalwaivers. Jeff gross/getty images
23metronews.caThursday, July 4, 2013 PLAY
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Waimea Bay...” - The Beach Boys, “Surfin’ USA”55. Curt content56. Ms. Lupino57. “__ __ favour, say ‘Aye’.”59. Hot __ (Sundae stuff)63. Bland
65. Scoots over: 2 wds.67. “Jumping jelly beans!”68. Early filmdom’s Mr. Jannings69. “__ ‘70s Show”70. Lion lairs71. Military level72. Made by milliners
Down1. Toronto neighbour-hood, __ Park2. Help with the heist3. Place4. Daring movie feats5. Brand symbols, e.g.6. Canadian writer Mr. Mistry7. When sports ties
might be broken, __ _ _8. Documents, reports, etc.9. MGM’s motto, __ Gratia Artis10. Coffee order11. Slippery as __ __12. Toast in a tavern!15. Joggins __ __
(UNESCO World Heritage Site in Nova Scotia)17. Songs for Celine Dion: 2 wds.21. __ _ race (Do the 10K, for instance)24. “What was _ __ do?”26. “__ Crazy” (1980)27. Spaces28. Really look29. Like unfresh milk33. CFL feats35. Be boating36. Grimm opener...37. Scotland’s famed Loch39. Soybean paste41. Mandy of TV series “Homeland”44. Lounge around46. Vase49. Golfing great Arnold51. “Born on the __ of July” (1989)52. Existed53. Smart saying54. Tokyo’s locale58. “_ __ _ Rock” by Simon & Garfunkel60. Qatar’s capital61. Bearded animal62. 911 respondents64. Personal proofs, puny-ly66. Wapiti
Yesterday’s Sudoku
How to playFill in the grid, so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1-9. There is no math involved.
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Horoscopes
Aries March 21 - April 20 Let your heart point you in the right direction — and don’t hesitate to follow where it leads. If you’re bold, something out of the ordinary will happen over the next 24 hours.
Taurus April 21 - May 21 You won’t get a lot of free time today but what you will get is the chance to impress people in positions of power with your can-do attitude. Don’t wait to be asked to do something — show initiative.
Gemini May 22 - June 21 You may think you can do as you please with no conse-quences but you are fooling yourself. Today’s Sun-Uranus link warns that where there are actions there are also consequences — always.
Cancer June 22 - July 23 Petty squabbles could easily get out of hand today so make sure you control your temper, no matter what the provocation. Others may stoop to devious methods but you are made of nobler stuff, hopefully.
Leo July 24 - Aug. 23 This is a good day for those born under the lion sign. And if you make an effort to socialize, it could be a great day. Meeting new people will brighten your life in numerous ways.
Virgo Aug. 24 - Sept. 23 If you feel that you are being sold short in any way, you must kick up a fuss. The planets warn you will only get what you deserve if you stand up for yourself. Make noise.
Libra Sept. 24 - Oct. 23 The Sun squares up to changes planet, Uranus, across important angles of your chart today. If you expect the unexpected, it’s unlikely you will be disappointed. Stay as flexible as possible.
Scorpio Oct. 24 - Nov. 22 Don’t waste your time arguing with people who think they know everything. They have their way of looking at life and you have yours, and neither of you will convert the other.
Sagittarius Nov. 23 - Dec. 21 Someone will encourage you to do something outrageous today and although you may be tempted to give it a go, you know that if it goes wrong, it’s you who will suffer. So don’t.
Capricorn Dec. 22 - Jan. 20 Someone important is expecting you to deliver on a promise and you must not let them down. You may have to burn the candle at both ends to get it done but it’s a sacrifice worth making.
Aquarius Jan. 21 - Feb. 19 You may wish you could escape your responsibilities but with the Sun squaring up to Uranus, your ruler, today that won’t be possible. There are things you have to do and the time to do them is now.
Pisces Feb. 20 - March 20 Keep an open mind today no matter how crazy some of the things you are told may sound. Just because they sound crazy doesn’t mean they can’t be true. Think outside your mental boundaries. SALLY brOMPTON
Yesterday’s Crossword
Crossword: Canada Across and DownbY KeLLY ANN buchANAN
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