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Argos ready to set sail tomorrowThe Toronto Argonauts held a practice yesterday at their training facility at U ofT's Erindale campus. They play their home opener tomorrow against the CalgaryStampeders.
CFL. Warm-up
Kyron Parker, 5, goes through warm-ups with his dad, Argos cornerback
Byron Parker, yesterday.
No honourcrimes incode: Feds
Minister suggested Ottawa was ‘looking at’ changingCriminal Code to include killings But Justice Dept.says all intentional deaths are considered murder
Take your workworldwideLearning a new language canbroaden career horizons {page 31}
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The Conservative government dispatchedone of its ministers yesterday to Missis-sauga, where a 16-year-old girl was killedby her father and brother, to condemn so-called honour killings, but it appears RonaAmbrose may have spoken out of turn.
The event included a statement fromthe minister for the status of women, butno program or funding announcementwas made, and the news to emerge wasthat Ambrose said Ottawa is “looking at”amending the Criminal Code to include so-called honour crimes.
When asked if the government was con-sidering such changes, she replied that itwas under consideration. “I'll say that it'ssomething that we're looking at,” she said.“Nothing more than that at this time.”
However, when contacted for more de-tails, a spokeswoman for the Departmentof Justice said that is not the case.
“There are currently no plans to dothat,” said Pamela Stephens. “While we'realways interested in new input into waysto improve the Criminal Code, currentlyhonour killing suggests a certain motive orconduct. But regardless of the motive thelaw as it exists in Canada is clear that in-
tentional killing is murder, regardless ofthe motive.”
In her statement in Mississauga,, Am-brose said honour killings have no place inCanadian society and urged women'sgroups to submit project proposals forfunding to prevent future violence.
The city was home to 16-year-old AqsaParvez, who was killed in 2007 by her fa-ther and brother after repeated conflictwith her family over her desire for someindependence.THE CANADIAN PRESS
KHADR SLAMSJUSTICE SYSTEM ATTEMPT TO FIRE
LAWYER DENIED {page 8}
‘A FREE MAN’SWISS RELEASEDIRECTOR POLANSKIU.S. PURSUIT OVER? {page 20}
“In Canada all girls andwomen are equal to menunder the law and have theright to live free fromviolence and abuse.”MINISTER FOR THE STATUS OF WOMEN RONA AMBROSE
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Ask 14-year-old Arrisan ifhe’s excited to be on sum-mer holiday and you mightnot get the answer you’reexpecting.
“Not really,” the Grade 9student said with a shrug,standing by the Eaton Cen-tre food court on a recent af-ternoon.
Arrisan, who declined togive his last name, said heprefers the structure ofschool — where he “actual-ly learns something.” Hespends the summer hang-ing around the city, explor-ing and occasionally actingas a tour guide for out-of-town relatives.
Andrea Cohen is the ex-ecutive director of a largenetwork of communityhealth centres in low-in-come neighbourhoods.
She said lack of access tosummer activities is a “hugeissue” among parents.
“I think those are the in-stances where disparity inincome really becomes pro-nounced,” Cohen said, not-ing that while some middle-class kids are able to benefitfrom a family cottage, tripsout of town, or camp, kidsfrom low-income familiesmay end up spending sum-mer on the couch.
“It’s a constant reminderof the have-nots,” she said.
In some cities, subsidiesare available for summercamp. Toronto, for example,still has spots for subsidizedsummer camps offeredthroughout the city.THE CANADIAN PRESS
Some kids left in a summer daze
Hanging out at the Eaton Centre can be the extent of summer activities for many local kids.
STEVE RUSSELL/TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
Low-income kids often left withlittle to do Poll shows only 1 in 4parents plan summer activities
Ontario Deputy Progressive Conservative
leader Christine Elliott.
RENE JOHNSTON/TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
Tories: SuperCorp death a decoyThe Ontario Liberals are try-ing to deflect attentionfrom consumer anger overa slew of new taxes by pub-licly killing the idea offorming a so-called Super-Corp as a solution to theirdeficit woes, the Opposi-tion charged yesterday.
Taxpayers are “incensed”about the HST and a sur-prise eco fee that slipped inunder the radar July 1 andthe government is trying tododge criticism, said deputyProgressive Conservative
leader Christine Elliott.“Now that they’ve run
into a lot of flak with thenew eco tax, how surpris-ing they’re trying to changethe channel once againwith this announcement.”
The SuperCorp scheme— which would havemerged Ontario’s massiveelectricity, gambling andliquor corporations thensold a percentage to privateinvestors — should neverhave been on the table, sheadded.
“It’s just a dumb idea tobegin with, to bring suchdisparate elements togeth-er and then try to sell themoff in a chunk as a Super-Corp,” she said. “It makesabsolutely no sense.”
The government is re-portedly backing off the Su-perCorp idea to reduce theprovince’s $21.3-billiondeficit because it raised ahost of accounting issuesand major investors failedto warm to it.THE CANADIAN PRESS
“It’s a constantreminder of thehave-nots.”COMMUNITY WORKER ANDREA COHEN ON A LACK OFSUMMER ACTIVITIES FOR LOW-INCOME CHILDREN
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CRIME
StabbingsuspectchargedToronto police say and asuspect in a stabbinghas been charged, and aseven-month-old childthey were concernedabout is safe.
Police had beensearching for a suspectafter a woman allegedly
stabbed her formercommon-law husband.
The man receivednon-life-threatening in-juries.
Investigators hadsaid the suspect arrivedand left a home withher child.
A woman whosurrendered to policehas been charged withassault with a weaponand mischief, andpolice say they haveconfirmed the child isOK.THE CANADIAN PRESS
Former NHL player RobRamage began serving afour-year prison sentenceyesterday after losing abid for a new trial on im-paired driving charges ina car crash that killed an-other ex-NHL player.
Ramage, 51, was con-victed in 2007 of fourcharges including im-paired driving causingdeath in the crash thatkilled his friend KeithMagnuson.
In addition to theprison sentence, Ramagereceived a five-year driv-ing ban, but had been outon bail and living in theUnited States.
The decision rejectingthe appeal was filed bythe Ontario Court of Ap-peal on Friday and Ram-age surrendered to policeyesterday, his lawyer Bri-an Greenspan said.
“He will now com-mence serving his sen-tence,” Greenspan said. “I
think it’s fair to say that itis unlikely the matter willbe pursued further.”
Efforts will be made togo through the system asquickly as possible andhave Ramage “released toa halfway house at theearliest available time,”he said.
Magnuson, 56, waskilled when a rental cardriven by Ramageslammed head-on into an-other vehicle north ofToronto in December2003. THE CANADIAN PRESS
Ramage losesbid for new trial
TTC service person Paul DaSilva scrapes gum off the
platform in the Bloor Yonge Station.
DAVID COOPER/TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
The TTC is marginallycleaner than it was twoyears ago. But an audit of69 stations shows none ofthem meet the higheststandard of cleanliness be-ing applied to the system.
The May audit shows 45of the TTC’s 69 stationswere ranked 60 to 70 percent out of 100 for theircleanliness. That score, de-scribed as “casual inatten-tiveness,” was animprovement over theFeb. 2008 results, whichshowed only 29 stationsdid that well.
Twenty-one stationsscored between 70 percent and 80 per cent thisyear.
The four worst stationsare: Eglinton West, York-dale, Harbourfront andNorth York.
The five best are: HighPark, Wilson, Midland,Lawrence East and Bessari-on.
According to a reportbefore the city councillorson the Toronto TransitCommission tomorrow,none of the stations wereon the bottom rung of“unkempt neglect” andonly four stations in thecity scored below 60 percent.
It would likely take an-other 70 cleaners, in addi-tion to the TTC’s 240 staff
janitors, to make a sub-stantial improvement onthe system’s current con-dition, said transit com-mission chair AdamGiambrone.
“You’re probably not go-ing to have stations in the90 per cent-and-aboverate. You’d (need to) basi-cally have people on everyplatform waiting with abroom,” he said.
A more realistic sce-nario would have most sta-tions scoring around the80 per cent range, said Gi-ambrone.
The TTC is planning toincrease its cleaning staffby 78 positions by 2013,according to the report.TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
“There are somany componentsto the stations.You’ve got to makesure they’re allbeing improved.You’ve got to havegood plans andgood executionand you’ve got tohave theworkforce.”GARY SHORTT, TTCSUPERINTENDENT OF PLANT MAINTENANCE
TTC washrooms, collector booths,floors, concessions part of assessment
ShootingfootagegatheredToronto police are gath-ering surveillance videofrom the area of a Chi-nese restaurant where a17-year-old boy wasshot and killed earlySaturday.
Police say Tien Pham
was sitting in therestaurant about 3 a.m.when a suspect enteredfrom the back, walkedup to Pham, shot him inthe head and left againthrough the rear.
The suspect isdescribed as a blackman in his early 20swith a shaved head,light complexion andwearing white-rimmedglasses. THE CANADIAN PRESS
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A new poll suggests mostCanadians believe the po-lice response to the G20protests was appropriate.
Hundreds of peoplewere arrested at the Toron-to summit of world leaderslast month amid damageto shops and cars in thecity’s downtown.
Some protesters com-plained of police violence,threats and mistreatmentin custody.
A Harris-Decima surveyfor The Canadian Pressfound that two-thirds ofpeople polled felt the po-lice response was appropri-ate, while about one in fivesaid it was inappropriate.
And two-thirds of thosesurveyed doubted a futureG8 or G20 meeting could beheld in Canada without vio-lence and property damage.
Despite the raucous
Toronto protests — attrib-uted to a relatively smallgroup of hardcore activists— just over half of peoplesurveyed were in favour ofCanada hosting such meet-ings in future.
That was down from thepre-summit level of 68 percent.
Just over 1,000 Canadi-ans were surveyed.THE CANADIAN PRESS
Most support G20policing, poll suggests
Meanwhile, opposition partieswant inquiry into police conduct
This 33-year-old man was stopped and searched by police
near Queen’s Park during the G20 summit last month.
JIM RANKIN/TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
Jailed activistmakes bailG20 ARRESTS. A prominentactivist was among twopeople granted bail yes-terday after being arrest-ed in the G20 protests.
Jaggi Singh turned him-self in to police on July 6,after an arrest warrantwas issued for him follow-ing the demonstrations.
He was grantedrelease with $85,000 bailyesterday from threesureties, including AmirKhadir, a provincialpolitician with the Que-bec Solidaire party.
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Suburbs hit bystring of heists HALTON. Police are inves-tigating four bankrobberies that occurredminutes apart yesterdayin Halton Region.
Police say two of therobberies occurred inBurlington, along withtwo in Oakville, in a spanof just over an hour.
No one was injured.
No more 10a.m. first call DRINKING. Now that theWorld Cup is over, so arethe extended liquor serv-ice hours in Ontario.They’ve now returned tothe regular 11 a.m. THE CANADIAN PRESS
News in brief
Breakdown
Consensus The pollindicates a majority in allregions and across allgroups felt the policeresponse in Toronto wasappropriate.Dissenters Younger Cana-dians and those in Quebecwere most likely to say itwas inappropriate.
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A defiant Omar Khadrspoke out on his own be-half yesterday, dismissingthe U.S. military tribunalprocess as a “sham,”de-nouncing his American cap-tors, and disclosing an offerto serve just five years of a30-year sentence in ex-change for pleading guiltyto war crimes — an offer hesummarily rejected.
In a calm, measuredvoice, Khadr, a Toronto na-tive, made clear his feelingsabout the judicial machin-ery that has kept him cap-tive at Guantanamo Bay forthe better part of eightyears, even smiling on occa-sion as he addressed thejudge, Col. Patrick Parrish,and his Canadian lawyer,Dennis Edney.
“I will not willingly letthe U.S. government useme to fulfil their goal,” thebearded Khadr, 23, said ashe explained why he reject-ed the deal he'd recentlybeen offered by prosecu-tors.
Pleading guilty at his tri-al next month would “givean excuse to the govern-ment for torturing me andabusing me as a child,” headded.
The bulk of yesterday'sroller-coaster hearing fea-
tured protracted exchangesbetween Khadr and Parrishabout whether the Canadi-an detainee wanted to rep-resent himself at his trial,currently scheduled to takeplace next month, or boy-cott the entire proceeding.
Khadr is the only west-erner remaining amongGuantanamo's 181 prison-ers and remains theprison's youngest detainee.
The Canadian govern-ment has refused to repatri-ate Khadr, whose late fatherwas an accused al-Qaida fin-ancier, and has subsequent-ly faced a series of legalheadaches over its lack ofaction on the case.
The federal governmentsaid yesterday it plans to ap-
peal a Federal Court rulingthat ordered it to come upwith solutions to breachesof Khadr's constitutionalrights. The ruling last weekgave the government sevendays to draft a list of reme-dies to its violation ofKhadr's Charter rights.
Justice Russel Zinn ruledthat Ottawa had not metthe standard set in Januaryby the Supreme Court ofCanada, which called onthe government to rightthe wrongs it had broughton Khadr.
Justice Minister RobNicholson said that Ottawawill instead challengeZinn's order in the FederalCourt of Appeal. Khadrfaces serious charges, hesaid, adding that the caseraises serious questionsabout “the Crown preroga-tive over foreign affairs.”THE CANADIAN PRESS
Khadr lashesout at militarytribunal system
Omar Khadr is shown in
JANET HAMLIN/THE CANADIAN PRESS
Detainee says he intends to represent himself at trialJudge denies Khadr permission to fire lawyer
The former commander ofCanada's war effort inAfghanistan, along with afemale subordinate, havebeen charged by militarypolice after admitting to asexual affair in-theatre.
The Canadian Forces Na-tional Investigation Servicelaunched an investigationafter Master-Cpl. BiankaLanglois acknowledged shehad an affair with Brig.-Gen. Daniel Menard.
Menard faces two countsof conduct to the prejudiceof good order and disci-pline related to alleged in-appropriate conduct under
fraternization regulations.He's also been charged
with one count of obstruct-ing justice and a separatecount of conduct to theprejudice of good order anddiscipline.
Langlois has beencharged with one count ofconduct to the prejudice ofgood order and disciplinerelated to alleged inappro-priate conduct under mili-tary fraternization reg-ulations.
Military regulations barsoldiers from having inti-mate relations on deploy-ment. THE CANADIAN PRESS
Soldiers charged
BILL GRAVELAND/THE CANADIAN PRESS
Canadian memorial gets makeoverA facelift is coming for a memorial to fallen Canadian soldiers, built near ahilltop observation post in the Panjwaii district Afghanistan. More than ahundred rocks, gathered by soldiers at the nearby forward operating base, havereceived a fresh coat of white paint and are waiting for some finishing touches.
Afghanistan. Memorial
A memorial to Canadian soldiers at Forward Operating Base Ma'sum Ghar in the
Bad publicity
The charges further shake a
military already rocked by
sensational cases.
Col. Russell Williams
Williams, the former com-mander at an air force base,in Trenton, Ont., is facingtwo murder charges andother sex-related charges. Col. Bernard Ouellette
Ouellette, Canada's mostsenior-ranking militaryofficer in Haiti, was relievedof command and faces anumber of allegations,including one allegedlyinvolving an inappropriaterelationship.
a 2010 courtroom sketch.
15Khadr is chargedwith war crimes thatinclude killing anAmerican soldier inAfghanistan in July2002 when he was 15years old.
Panjwaii district of Afghanistan.
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New terror groupattacks UgandaEast Africa saw the emer-gence of a new internation-al terrorist group Monday,as Somalia’s most danger-ous al-Qaeda-linked militiaclaimed responsibility forthe twin bombings inUganda that killed 74 peo-ple during the World Cup.
Al-Shabab, an ultracon-servative Islamic group,has long threatened to at-tack outside of Somalia’sborders, but the bombingslate Sunday are the firsttime the group has done so.
“We warned Uganda notto deploy troops to Soma-lia; they ignored us,” saidSheik Ali Mohamud Rage,al-Shabab’s spokesman.
The death toll in Sun-day's twin blasts rose to 74on Monday, Ugandan offi-cials said. Investigators
combed through the blastsites, one an outdoorscreening at a rugby cluband the other an Ethiopianrestaurant — a nation de-spised by al-Shabab.
A California-based aidgroup said one of its Amer-
ican workers was amongthe dead. Officials said 60Ugandans, nine Ethiopiansor Eritreans, one Irishwoman, and one Asianwere also among thosekilled. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
74 killed in blast Victims were gathered to watchWorld Cup Somali group has links to al-Qaeda
An American woman was among those injured.
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Concernedabout census AXED. Canada's OfficialLanguages Commission-er, Graham Fraser, sayshe is worried that theConservative cabinet’saxing of the long censuscould adversely affectfrancophone minoritycommunities acrossCanada. THE CANADIAN PRESS
Stafford ridereaches OntarioFUNDRAISER. RodneyStafford and his son,Daryn, are crossing intoOntario today in their bi-cycle journey from
Edmonton to their home-town of Woodstock, Ont.
Their 3,500-kilometretrip is raising money andawareness for Child FindOntario. THE CANADIAN PRESS
City rejectsnuclear waste OWEN SOUND. A plan by anOntario nuclear plant totransport radioactivewaste on the Great Lakesis angering environmen-talists and politicians, de-spite assurances theprocess is safe.
Bruce Power hasapplied for a licence touse the Great Lakes andthe St. Lawrence River toship 16 decommissionedsteam generators fromits plant on Lake Huronto Sweden for recycling.
Ruth Lovell Stanners,the mayor of OwenSound, said she isconcerned that anaccident could happeneven before thegenerators are on the wa-ter, while they are beingtransferred on land toher city’s port, theintended departurepoint.THE CANADIAN PRESS
News in brief
Spreading threat
Analysts have long feared
that al-Shabab was turn-
ing increasingly violent.
The U.S. State Departmenthas declared al-Shabab aterrorist organization. Other neighbouringnations — Kenya, Djiboutiand Ethiopia, along withBurundi — may also facenew attacks, analysts say.Canada listed Al Shabab asa terrorist organization inMarch 2010.The United States worriesthat Somalia could be aterrorist breeding ground,particularly since Osamabin Laden has declared hissupport for Islamic radicalsthere.In Ottawa, Minister of For-eign Affairs Lawrence Can-non condemned theattack.
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Flawed intelligence-gath-ering and planning led toIsrael's botched and dead-ly raid on a Gaza-boundprotest flotilla, with secu-rity forces underestimat-ing the potential forviolence, said the officialreport released yesterday.
The report, however,praised the commandoswho took part in the oper-
ation, saying they werejustified in opening fireand killing nine after be-ing confronted by violentpro-Palestinian activistson board one of the shipsin the flotilla.
The report concludedthat intelligence-gatheringwas deficient and that var-ious intelligence units didnot communicate proper-
ly with each other. It criti-cized the operation's plan-ners for not having abackup plan in the eventof violence.
It did not recommendany dismissals, though itis possible that some sen-ior officers will be oustedor demoted in an ensuingshake-up.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Israel blamesbad intelligence
Retired Israeli general says officials made mistakesthat led to flotilla attack Report not made public
Retired Israeli Gen. Giora Eiland, author of the official report on Israel’s recent attack on a
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Israel's Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv.protest flotilla, speaks to army officers yesterday before holding a press briefing at
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Police battled Irish nation-alists for control of aBelfast road yesterday as aday dominated by peacefulProtestant parades acrossNorthern Ireland turnedviolent when night fell.
Riot police in helmetsand body armour draggedkicking, flailing protestersfrom the pavement ofCrumlin Road even as oth-er protesters packed intoside streets pelted policewith rocks, bricks andMolotov cocktails.
Many of theapproximately 100 road-blocking protesters worewhite T-shirts bearing themessage “PEACEFULPROTEST,” while the riot-ers nearby wore balaclavamasks. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SoldiersshootteenagerParamilitary soldiers yes-terday shot and wounded ateenage boy who threwstones at their vehicle, po-lice said, as a strike calledby separatists against Indi-an rule shuttered shopsand offices in troubledKashmir for a second day. THE CANADIAN PRESS
Paradesturn ugly inN. Ireland
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Rebuilding will take decade: Cannon
“I certainlyunderstandpeople’simpatience at thevery difficultcircumstances that... Haitians findthemselves in.”LAWRENCE CANNON
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Rebuilding quake-strickenHaiti will take at least adecade, said Canada’s for-eign affairs minister as heurged patience with “along-term process.”
Haitian reconstructionis a “monumental task re-quiring a sustained effortand a long-term commit-ment,” Minister of ForeignAffairs Lawrence Cannontold a news conferenceyesterday marking theearthquake’s six-monthanniversary. THE CANADIAN PRESS
Politicians accuse IRA dissidentsOrange Order parades raise
sectarian passions to boiling point
Divisions
Centuries of division tries
beleaguered country.
Violence impact The vio-lence, beside a hard-lineCatholic district called Ar-doyne, underscores howsocially divided NorthernIreland remains despitenearly two decades ofpeacemaking.Provocative parades It fol-lowed daylong paradesacross Northern Ireland bythe Orange Order, aconservative Protestantbrotherhood that each July12 celebrates its side’s17th-century militarytriumphs over IrishCatholics.
Conflict
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died over the past four
weeks in shootings in
Kashmir blamed on police
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Loblaw Co. workers in On-tario have overwhelminglyvoted to give their union astrike mandate if Canada’slargest grocery chain does-n’t back down from con-cession demands that itsays are necessary to re-main competitive againstits non-unionized rivals.
Over 97 per cent ofmembers of the UnitedFood and CommercialWorkers union, which rep-resents nearly 30,000 em-ployees at stores undernames such as Loblaws,Zehrs, Real Canadian Su-perstores and Fortinos,have voted in favour of astrike.
Loblaw says it mustmodify some of its existingagreements in order tostay competitive, as earn-ings have declined aboutfive per cent from wherethey were five years ago.
The strike vote came af-ter talks between theunion and Loblaw thatwere overseen by the On-tario Ministry of Labourbroke off late last month.
“We haven’t been ableto make any headway,”said Scott Penner, presi-dent of UFCW Local 1977,headquartered in Cam-
bridge, Ont. His union saysthat unless Loblaw “adoptsa more reasonable posi-tion,” a strike might be in-evitable.
Workers are frustratedover company proposalsthat would cut wages byup to 25 per cent, increasewaiting times for benefitseligibility and reduce full-time jobs.
Workers at those storesmake between the mini-mum wage of $10.25 and$25 an hour, plus benefits.
“Their package to datehas been entirely conces-sionary,” Penner said. “So,take-aways across theboard on different areas ofthe collective agreementand their workers’ rightsin a time period where em-ployers are turning thecorner and things are look-ing a little better.”THE CANADIAN PRESS
Loblaw workersvote to strike
Loblaw worker in Toronto.
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Contract would cut wages by up to 25% Grocersays it needs wage concessions to stay competitive
Hefner still seesfuture inPlayboy Hugh Hefner wants to buyout the portion of the Play-boy empire he doesn’t al-ready own in a bet that theiconic brand can still bringin profits.
Hefner, who foundedPlayboy magazine morethan a half-century ago, isapparently not alone inthinking Playboy can keepswinging into the digitalage. A few hours afterPlayboy Enterprises Inc.announced Hefner’s offeryesterday, the corporateparent of rival Penthousemagazine said it will alsomake a bid.
Hefner is offeringUS$5.50 per share in cash,a nearly 40 per cent premi-um above Friday’s closing.stock price of $3.94. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Farmers protest pricesMilk farmers protested yesterday outside a meeting of EU agriculture ministers in Brussels. Thefarmers say they are receiving unfair prices.
Brussels. Protest
The objects on the ground were thrown at police.
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Canadian firms are becom-ing more positive aboutthe economy, saying theyare increasing sales andare planning to hire newworkers over the comingyear, the Bank of Canadareported yesterday in itsquarterly survey of condi-tions.
The summer poll ofbusiness conditions, and aseparate survey of loan offi-cers also released yester-day, show that firms arehaving an easier time ob-taining loans, a critical pre-requisite for expansion.
“Overall, (business exec-utives) are positive aboutthe outlook for businessactivity over the next 12months,” the central bank
said in a release yesterday.“For the first time in
two years, firms, on bal-ance, reported an improve-ment in their past salesactivity.”
The outlook survey in-creases the odds that thebank's governing council
will feel less reticent abouthiking interest rates an-other quarter point nextweek, since it points to astrengthening recovery.
Not all the results ob-tained by the Bank ofCanada in the summersampling of 100 firmswere positive, however.
Business executives ex-pressed concerns about“recent global economicand financial uncertaintiesand possible spillover ef-fects in Canada.”
And on a balance ofopinion, the survey founda decline in expectationsthat sales volumes wouldincrease at a greater rateover the next 12 months.THE CANADIAN PRESS
Things lookingup for business,BoC survey says
Half of companies surveyed plan to add workers inthe next 12 months Only 10% planning to cut jobs
Recovery
Although the country’s
labour market has
recouped almost all the
jobs lost during the 2008-
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another 93,000 last month
— the unemployment rate
remains well above pre-
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cent.
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Pretending to listen(sorry Jen, you lost meat “minimumdisbursements”) I gotto thinking — is thisthe same girl who rou-
tinely blew off her earlymorning accounting class infavour of hung-over pancakebreakfasts at our favouritegreasy diner? When we were atuniversity our idea of an invest-ment strategy was selling usedtextbooks for a Thursday nightbottle of wine. It didn’t seemnecessary to think about savingfor anything beyond ourweekend plans.
Eventually Jen did attendenough accounting classes to
complete her degree. She nowholds down a very respectablebank job while I opted for moreeducation and many moreThursday nightvino-drinking ses-sions.
As a result ofour divergent post-grad choices, Jenhas become a savvyfinancier, completewith office-appro-priate heels and arespectable retire-ment savings plan.I, on the otherhand, am knownas theirresponsible artschool friend whoregularly has more money onher Starbucks card than in herchequing account.
After rent payments, my cell-
phone bill and an overpricedgym membership (because Iswear I’ll start going next week),I’m lucky if I have enough left
over for my dailygrande latte habit.
So how do suchclose friendsdevelop such dras-tically differentspending habits?My parents havealways had a “wecan’t take it withus” approach totheir retirementsavings so theymight be partiallyresponsible for myspendthriftattitude. But I
know they aren’t entirely toblame.
Ever since my firstbabysitting profits started
rolling in I’ve always thoughtabout money in an it’s-there-so-I-might-as-well-spend-it kind ofway. As I get older, and presum-ably wiser, I’m starting to realizethat might not be the mostresponsible attitude.
So, in an ongoing effort to be-come a grown up, I’ve decidedit’s time I give my finances a se-rious makeover.
Jen has promised to give me alesson in budgeting and I’m re-solving to embrace a lifestyle offrugality by cutting back on mynot-so-necessary expenses. I’mstarting with a solid investment— a coffee maker for mykitchen.
Sure I’ll miss that early morn-ing barista banter, but at $4 apop (that’s a whopping $1,460 ayear) it’s easy to see that I need aserious detox from those fancy,frothy beverages.
A few weeks ago my dearfriend Jen attempted to explain to me the finerpoints of her RRSP.
“Ever since myfirst babysittingprofits startedrolling in I’ve
always thoughtabout money inan it’s-there-so-I-might-as-well-spend-it kind of
way.”
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TORONTO. Free speechmakes you look smart,crime makes you lookstupid.
I feel for all of the legit-imate protesters who trav-elled to Toronto in thehopes of voicing their dis-approval or other viewssurrounding the G20 andG8 summits being hostedin Canada.
They were doing some-thing that is legal andcompletely respected inCanada: They were enjoy-ing their right to speakfreely about ourgovernment and their de-cisions.
I feel for them becausethey were lumped inwith all the criminals,
and yes, I did saycriminals: Those who de-cided to use this opportu-nity to say nothing andtake blatantly illegal ac-tions that prove nothingto the governmentbesides how childishtheir citizens are acting.
The media is one ofthe most powerful toolsin this world. Believe itor not, our government is
influenced by what hap-pens in the media.
Thanks for wastingthis tool by committingsenseless and pointlessacts that, of course, over-took the media, ensuringno one’s legitimate con-cerns were heard andnothing gotaccomplished in the seaof madness. ERIN STEWART
Opportunity wastedBreaking the peace RICHARD LAUTENS/TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
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That means calypsobands around town areworking up a sweat prac-ticing for the big event.
If you can’t wait anoth-er two weeks for thesound of steel pan drums,grab a folding chair, a gin-
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Octopus oracle calls it a career
Paul, the octopus who
became a pop culture sensa-
tion by correctly predicting
the outcome of as many
World Cup matches as he has
legs, is going to retire.
Aquarium employees pre-
sented the octopus yesterday
with a golden cup — similar
to the official World Cup tro-
phy. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Carlos Santanahas gottenengaged afterproposingonstage to hisgirlfriend,drummer CindyBlackman. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Shutter Island star may not be a ‘big dreamer’ but he finds a way of breaking into the subconscious in sci-fi thriller Inception For DiCaprio, the dark side holds special lure
Christopher Nolan’s Inception — in theatres Friday — will be Leonardo’s DiCaprio’s first foray into science fiction.
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DiCaprio
dreaming
Leonardo DiCaprio is thefirst to admit the subjectmatter of ChristoperNolan’s Inception was a lit-tle foreign to him.
The film is an elaborateheist drama about a man(DiCaprio) skilled in stealinginformation from a target’ssubconscious through theirdreams. And DiCaprio? “I’mnot a big dreamer. I neverhave been,” he admits. “I re-member fragments of mydream.”
Though he initially ap-proached the complex,labyrinthine film like hewould any other, DiCaprio
admits that didn’t last. “I tried to take a tradi-
tional sort of approach toresearching this projectand doing preparation forit. You know, read bookson dream analysis, readFreud’s book on the analy-sis of dreams and tried toresearch it in that sort ofform,” he says. “But I real-ized this is Chris Nolan’sdream world.”
It’s also DiCaprio’s firstforay into science fiction,something he admits he’snever had much interestin. “One of the earliestconversations I had withChris was how both of ushave a hard time with sci-ence fiction,” he says. “Wehave a little bit of an aver-sion to it because it’s hard
for us to emotionally in-vest in worlds that are toofar detached from what weknow.” He credits Nolan’sstyle of filmmaking andstorytelling for allaying hisfears. “What’s interesting
about Chris Nolan’s sci-ence fiction worlds is thatthey’re deeply rooted inthings that we’ve seen be-fore,” DiCaprio says.“There’s not too much of aleap of faith to make.”
As an actor who admit-tedly makes a lot of deci-sions about what roles totake based on who the di-rector is, DiCaprio has on-ly the highest praise forhis latest collaborator.“This was an extremelyambitious concept thatChris was trying to pull offhere. And he accom-plished it in flyingcolours,” he says.
Examining his recentwork, including this year’sShutter Island, DiCaprioadmits he has a penchantfor the dark side. “Thesetypes of films that are psy-chologically dark at times Ifind extremely exciting todo because there’s alwayssomething to thinkabout,” he says.
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This list of directors withwhom DiCaprio has collabo-rated is indeed impressive,including Martin Scorsese,Steven Spielberg, SamMendes and Woody Allen.So who’s missing? Howabout the man behind Un-forgiven, Million-Dollar Ba-by and Invictus? “I’m talking to Clint
Eastwoodaboutplaying J.EdgarHoover, whohad his hand
in some of the mostscandalous events in Ameri-can history — everythingfrom the Vietnam war andDillinger to Martin LutherKing and JFK,” says DiCaprio,who hints that the projectwill be about “the secret lifeof J. Edgar Hoover.”
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GreenbergGenre: Comedy Director: Noah BaumbachStars: Ben Stiller888
As titular misanthropeRoger Greenberg, BenStiller presents one of themost unsympathetic char-acters ever seen in a filmthat purports to be a come-dy. For this, he at least de-
serves credit for bravery,although it is difficult towatch how he treats Flo-rence (Greta Gerwig), thewoman of his indifferentaffections.
Roger is a failed indierock musician, who livesin a near-comatose stateof disregard for everybodyand everything.
It’s another skewed
view of the state of mod-ern romance fromwriter/director NoahBaumbach, and it leadsprecisely nowhere.
But Stiller redeems thefilm with his astute obser-vation of a man who is of-fered much yet can’t seepast his owndisillusionment.
PETER HOWELL
Invisible CityGenre: Documentary Director: Hubert Davis888
Toronto’s much-malignedRegent Parkneighbourhood is laidbare in this measuredpiece of cinema. Or is it?The film, which won BestCanadian Feature at lastyear’s Hot Docs,
chronicles the lives of twoinner-city black teens —Mike and Kendell. Bothare mired in their impov-erished milieu, constantlybattling the social forcesthat are shaping their un-certain, and possibly crim-inal, destinies. DirectorHubert Davis shoots thekids with deft intimacy,aiming to reveal the big-
ger picture through theeveryday minutae of theirlives. But, in the end, theOscar-nominatedfilmmaker’s camera can-not penetrate the desolat-ing veneer of Regent Park.It remains a questionmark, much like thefuture of Mike andKendell.
KUMAR SAHA
Sex andthe cityChloeGenre: ThrillerDirector: Atom EgoyanStars: Amanda Seyfried8888
Atom Egoyan’s thriller-ishremake of the 2003French film Nathalie, sig-nificantly quickens theToronto auteur’s pulse. Itdoes the same for Toronto,bathing the city in a sen-sual light that is almost in-decent to behold.
The plot dynamicsremain much the same.The gynecologist wifeCatherine (Julianne Moore)
hires hooker Chloe (Aman-da Seyfried) to tempt herprofessor husband David(Liam Neeson). But the stat-ed purpose is to confirmCatherine’s suspicions ofinfidelity. Hooker Chloe,all long legs and blondetressess, is only too happyto play along. Whatneither woman counts onis that this cat-and-mousegame might lead to cat-and-cat attraction.
Extras include acommentary withEgoyan, Seyfried andwriter Erin Cressida Wil-son (Secretary), deletedscenes plus a making-offeaturette.
PETER HOWEL
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The end ofThe Hills REALITY The sun sets forgood on The Hillstonight. The realityseries, about a group ofCalifornia friends, isending after four yearsof partying, tears. (MTV)THE CANADIAN PRESS
Karaoke goesCanadianMUSIC Big Voice takesamateur Canadiancrooners from thekaraoke stage to the re-al one. Vocal coachElaine Overholt helpsparticipants prepare tosing in public. (W Net-work) THE CANADIAN PRESS
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CATTRALL GETS U.K. DEGREECanadian Kim Cattrallhas swapped sleek Man-hattan for grey Liverpoolto accept an honoraryfellowship from a uni-versity in her Englishhome town.
The Sex and the Citystar was named a fellowof Liverpool JohnMoores University inEngland yesterday inrecognition of her con-
tribution to the arts.The 53-year-old ac-
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She told hundreds ofgraduating studentspacked into Liverpool’sAnglican cathedral thatthe honour was “adream come true.”THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Roman Polanski was de-clared a free man yesterdayafter Switzerland rejected aU.S. request to extraditehim to be sentenced forhaving sex in 1977 with a13-year-old girl.
The Swiss governmentblamed the decision onU.S. authorities, sayingthey had failed to addressdefence arguments thatthe 76-year-old filmmakerhad actually served his sen-tence before fleeing LosAngeles three decades ago.
Nine months after ar-
resting Polanski, the Jus-tice Ministry said U.S. offi-cials should have backedup their request by provid-ing confidential testimonyabout Polanski’s sentenc-ing procedure in L.A.
“Mr. Polanski can nowmove freely,” Justice Minis-ter Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf declared. “He’s afree man.”
The decision could endthe U.S.’s long pursuit ofPolanski. France does notextradite its own citizens.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Roman Polanski is a free man.
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Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa in Charlottetown yesterday.
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Swiss set Polanski free
Morning duo praise P.E.I.’s greenrolling vistas Thousands show support Philbin in awe of Mounties
Regis and Kelly takeover Charlottetown
Television stars RegisPhilbin and Kelly Ripawere flanked by eightMounties yesterday as theygreeted thousands ofcheering fans and broughttheir New York-based showto Charlottetown.
The popular morningduo, who normally hostLive! With Regis and Kellyfrom Manhattan, kicked offtheir visit to P.E.I. withplenty of praise for theprovince’s green rolling vis-tas.
The show was stagedoutdoors at the city’s Con-federation Landing Parkwith the waterfront in thebackground.
“It’s not that well knownbut it really is a master-piece of a place, isn’t it?”
Philbin said during an in-terview with style guru Car-son Kressley.
Kressley said he’d neverbeen to Prince Edward Is-land and was loving thetrip.
“It’s a real hidden gem,”he said.
Other celebrity guests in-cluded Twilight star PeterFacinelli and country sensa-tion Lady Antebellum.
Monday’s show was oneof four to be shot in Char-lottetown, which will airthrough Thursday on CTV.Other guests are to includeStephen Moyer of TrueBlood, John Corbett of Sexand the City and Canadi-ans Elisha Cuthbert, Caro-line Rhea and MelanieFiona. THE CANADIAN PRESS
show of support
CTV said there were 4,500people on hand to watchthe show’s taping.Prince Edward Island’s
government spent$800,000 to help bring theshow to the province,while the Atlantic CanadaOpportunities Agency con-tributed $200,000.
Canadian musicfans think theyknow every-thing aboutthis country’smusic scene,
but I’m sorry to say, theydon’t. And neither do I.
Like most Canucks, Idon’t know a whole lotabout Francophone music.I know there are manygood bands but beyondMalajube and a few others,Quebec’s music scene re-mains a mystery to me.
But, it shouldn’t. A lot offrancophone music is muchbetter than what’s comingout of the rest of Canada.
Take Karkwa and RadioRadio, two Montreal-basedacts who are short listedfor this year’s Polaris Mu-sic Prize. I hadn’t heard ofthem until they were dis-cussed on the Polaris mes-sage board — a placewhere the prize’s 198 ju-rists discuss music.
Karkwa have actuallybeen around for 12 yearsand have won a host ofawards since releasing adebut disc in 2003. They’vereleased four albums sincethen, and their latest is acollection of infectious in-die pop that moves fromdreamy atmospherics tomore straight ahead rock.
As good as they are,every Canadian needs tohear Radio Radio. They’re
a dance pop rap act that’sso saccharine it’s almostcheesy, and the lyrics,which move seamlesslyfrom English to French,are hilarious. 9 Piece Lug-gage Set is one of thecatchiest songs I’ve heardall year and it’s weirdhearing those three Eng-lish word repeated overand over again while therest of the lyrics areFrench.
Both bands are worthyof a Polaris nod, but even ifthey don’t win we’ll still bebetter off. Not only willmore people hear thesediscs, but maybe the Cana-dian music scene can final-ly start including everyonewho plays music in thiscountry.
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No Rehab forTequilaTHAT HEADLINE JUSTWROTE ITSELF. MTV starTila Tequila won’t beappearing on the nextseason of Celebrity Re-hab after all, despite be-ing the first castmember to sign up, ac-cording to RadarOnline. Her managerwouldn’t elaborate onthe change in plan,though producers forthe show, hosted by Dr.Drew Pin-sky, are re-portedlyhappyabout thedecision.
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The actor’s ex records him admit-ting to domestic abuse, promptinga criminal investigation
Mel Gibson is heard al-legedly acknowledgingthat he hit the mother ofhis 8-month daughter.
The eight-minuterecording posted yesterdayby RadarOnline.com ispurportedly a phone argu-ment between Gibson andthen-girlfriend OksanaGrigorieva. A voice sound-ing distinctively like theAcademy Award-winner isheard telling Grigorievathat she “deserved” to behit after she chastised himfor allegedly punching herin the face and breakingtwo of her teeth.
“Oh, you’re all angrynow!” Gibson responds.“You know what, you ...(expletive deleted) de-served it!” An L.A. County
Sheriff’s Departmentspokesman would not saywhether the recordingswould become part of theinvestigation. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Lohan planning prison break?Lindsay Lohan is certainshe can avoid jail time oneway or another, accordingto Popeater. “She doesn’tcare what it takes,” asource says. “They aretreating Lindsay differentlybecause she is a star, so it’s
about time she used herstar power to help her.She’s seen the movieChicago several times, soit’s not like she doesn’tknow how this sort ofthing works.” But firstshe’ll need to find a new
attorney, as Stuart Gold-berg, the lawyer she hiredlast week, is reportedly nolonger handling her case.Goldberg’s camp tells TMZthat Lohan couldn’t affordhim.
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Roxy Hart, is that you?
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Despite their nastybreakup, Oksana Grigorie-va won’t be seeing muchof Mel Gibson’s billion-dol-lar fortune, according toRadarOnline. The Russiansinger reportedly signed acohabitation agreementwhile she was pregnantwith his child that stripsher of any claims to hismoney. Grigorieva saidshe will appeal.
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Kelsey Grammer, wife put on ashow for theatre awardsDespite the fact that KelseyGrammer’s marriage toCamille Donatacci had re-portedly already implodedbefore last month’s TonyAwards, the former Frasier
star insisted she still fly toNew York to attend theshow and walk the red car-pet with him, according togossip website Page Six.“Kelsey was so cold,” a
source says. “He told her itwas over and he wanted tosee other people, but stillasked her to be at theTonys.”
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Joke’s over forBatman sequelLAST LAUGH. Batman is re-turning, but he won’t havethe Joker to contend withnext time.
Director ChristopherNolan says he will notbring back the Joker, thevillain played so mania-
cally in The DarkKnight by the lateHeath Ledger. The role
earned him an Acade-my Award a year after his
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Toning but not bulking“Women want to be trim,toned and lean so we do ex-ercises that use and manip-ulate their own bodyweight, so as not to createbulk or heavy muscle,” hesays. “Knee pushups, rock-ing lunges and jumpingsquats will and moves on
the Swiss ball will all workon the core.”
Shape and sculpt“With women, I focus oncreating lean muscle in thelegs, upper body and stom-ach areas,” Strom says. “Cir-cuit training is a fantasticway of getting the heart rateup by doing 15-20 repeti-tions of the same moves us-ing light weights anddumbbells, a method I usedthoroughly on Scarlett.”
Surprisingly, it seemsthat men favour definedmuscle tone over big andbulky, something Strom iscurrently doing with RyanReynolds in preparation forhis role in Green Lantern.“Men want to be lean aswell and the focus is on theback and the shoulders …
it’s not all about beingbuff.”
On the menu?MetabolismDuring exercise, your heartis pumping and your me-tabolism is working at afaster rate, but how canyou keep this up after thework out? According toStrom, it’s all about howyou eat. “Think of the bodylike a race car — you wantthe car to be light so that itcan get around the track asfast as possible — so onlyput enough fuel to finishthe track,” he says. “Food isfuel and we should think ofeating as re-fuelling. At theend of the day, fat is noth-ing but stored food so ifthere is no food to storethere will be no fat.”
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Ever envied Ryan Reynolds’ six-pack and Scarlett Johansson’s sexy silhouette? Fitnessguru Bobby Strom is the body-blitzer Hollywood turns to when serious action’s involved
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“It could takeweeks before younotice significantweight loss ormuscle definition.”BOBBY STORM
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Celebrity fitness trainer Ramona Braganza, thewoman behind HalleBerry’s toned silhouette,gives Metro tips on why weshould all be thinkingabout taking a nap …
1 Napping can lower lev-els of stress hormonesduring the day, leavingyou feeling morerelaxed and capable ofhandling the rest of theday more effectively.
2 Short naps give you ex-tra energy, making youmore alert and produc-tive throughout the restof the day.
3 Regular naps may lowerthe risk of having aheart attack in the longterm, related tolowered stress levels.
4 Naps help increase yourmemory, giving you bet-ter learning power bymaking sure you arewell rested.
5 A 20-minute nap canhelp recuperate lostsleep from the previousnight.
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Do you ignore heat andsmog alerts and still jogoutdoors?
If you are healthy, this isprobably fine, but here’s atip from an expert in air pol-lution: “Jog in the morningbecause exposure is quite alot lower on highly polluteddays,” says Dr. Greg Evans,professor of engineeringand applied chemistry atUniversity of Toronto anddirector of the Southern On-tario Centre for Atmospher-ic Aerosol Research.
“Exposure to pollutantsis the worst in the mid tolate afternoon.” The bonusof exercising in the morn-ing, of course, is that it’scooler and heat stress isn’t
as much of a factor.Are you a commuter?
Evans warns that the sub-urbs don’t necessarily havecleaner air. “Often air quali-ty in surrounding commu-nities is as bad or worsethan downtown Toronto.For example Oakville or Os-hawa are not necessarilybetter.”
Air pollution is thoughtto exacerbate respiratoryand heart problems, so peo-ple who are vulnerableshould heed warnings care-fully. His advice for the restof us?
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take it a bit easier. We’renot invincible,” says Evans.
Air quality in Ontariohas actually improved overthe last 10 years. That’s thegood news. The bad news iswe’re not seeing the equiva-lent reduction in health ef-fects. Over time, it takesless pollution to make peo-ple sick.
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4 Cut sausages into bite-size pieces; set aside.Peel, quarter and seedpeppers; slice and addto dressing. Toss to coat.
5 Cut radicchio in halflengthwise; removecore. Grill, turningoften, until leaves aretender and slightlycharred, 5 minutes.
6 Transfer to cuttingboard; slice. Add todressing. Add pasta,sausage, cheese andbasil; toss to combine.
Grilled sausage, pepper and bocconcini pasta salad.
Grilled sausage, pepper and bocconcini pasta salad A hearty salad that is quick andeasy to prepare Full of colourful and seasonal vegetables with a light, fresh dressing
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Ingredients:• 3 cups (750 mL) penne• 1 large clove garlic• ¼ tsp (1 mL) salt• ¼ cup (60 mL) extra-virginolive oil• 3 Tbsp (45 mL) red winevinegar• ¼ tsp (1 mL) pepper• 4 hot or mild Italiansausages• 1 each sweet red, yellowand green pepper• 1 head radicchio• 1 container (200 g) smallbocconcini cheese• ¼ cup (60 mL) looselypacked fresh basil, thinlysliced
Colourful penne & sausage salad
Makes 4 servings
Prep time: 10 min.
Cooking: 15 min.
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Preparation(topping):
1 In bowl, stir togetherflour, sugar, cinnamonand salt. Using fingers,rub in butter, squeezingto form clumps. Setaside.
2 In large bowl, beat but-ter with granulated sug-ar; beat in eggs, 1 at atime. Beat in vanilla.
3 In separate bowl, whisktogether flour, bakingpowder and salt; stir in-to butter mixture alter-nately with milk,making 3 additions offlour mixture and 2 of
milk. Fold in sour cher-ries. Spread in 9-inch(2.5 L) square metal cakepan.
Preparation (filling):
1 Toss sour cherries withsugar; spread over bat-ter. Sprinkle with
topping.
2 Bake in 375°F (190°C)oven until tester insert-ed in centre of cakecomes out clean, 50 to60 minutes. Let cool onrack.
Ingredients:• ½ cup (125 mL) unsaltedbutter, softened• ⅔ cup (150 mL) granulatedsugar• 2 eggs• 1 tsp (5 mL) vanilla • 1⅓ cups (325 mL) all-purpose flour• 1½ tsp (7 mL) baking powder • ¼ tsp (1 mL) salt • ⅓ cup (75 mL) milk • 1½ cups (375 mL) drained pitted sour cherries
FILLING:• 1½ cups (375 mL) drainedpitted sour cherries• ¼ cup (60 mL) granulatedsugar
TOPPING: • ½ cup (125 mL) all-purpose flour• ¼ cup (60 mL) granulated sugar• ¼ tsp (1 mL) cinnamon • Pinch salt • ¼ cup (60 mL) unsalted butter
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Makes 12 servings
Prep time: 15 min.
Cooking: 50 min.
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RICE & PEAS
RICE & PEAS
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Prep Time: 5 mins. | Cooking Time: 30 mins.
Serves: 4-6 persons
Ingredients2 cups (500ml)
Grace Coconut Milk Can2 cups (500ml) water1 stalk of green onion
1 small onion, chopped½ tsp. Grace CaribbeanTraditions Thyme leaves
1 can Grace RedKidney Beans
½ tsp. (2.5ml) salt1 lb. (450g) Grace White Rice
1 whole hot peppereg: Scotch Bonnet
Caribbean Cooking
Method1. Combine Grace Coconut Milk,
Grace Red Kidney Beans and waterin a 3 litre (3 quart) pot and bring to a boil.
2. Add the crushed green onion,chopped onion and Grace CaribbeanTraditions Thyme leaves, salt and stir.
Allow to simmer for 10 minutes.3. Stir in Grace White Rice and the
whole hot pepper, cover andbring to a boil.
4. Lower the flame and allow rice tocook until grains are tender.
Caution: Be careful when stirringto avoid breaking the pepper.
A summer berry pie is aperfect way to make themost of the fresh fruitthat's in season.
This version is easy tomake and takes less than45 minutes. You can savemore time by using instantvanilla pudding for thecustard instead of makingit from scratch. Mix andmatch seasonal berries to
your preference, and alsoconsider adding kiwi.
With its tangy-sweetflavour, it's an ideal com-plement to berries and willadd vibrant colour to thepie. More summer pierecipes can be found on-
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Preparation:
1 Prepare and bakeTenderflake pie shell ac-cording to package direc-tions for a baked pieshell. Set aside to cool.
2 Whisk egg yolks, sugarand flour in a mediumbowl.
3 Heat milk in saucepanuntil almost boiling. Re-move from heat; add toegg mixture, ¼ cup (50
mL) at a time whiskingcontinuously, until all ofmilk has been added.
4Return custard tosaucepan and cook overmedium-low heat,whisking continuously,until custard has thick-ened to a consistencysimilar to pudding (5-7minutes).
5Place plastic wrap direct-ly onto surface ofcustard (this prevents a'skin' from forming).Set aside to coolcompletely.
6 Spoon cold custard intobaked pie shell and topwith sliced fruit.
7 Serve the same day ofmaking. Refrigerate anyleftovers. Beforeserving, sprinkle with adusting of icing sugar.
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A variety of berries give this dessert a tangy-sweet flavour and vibrant colour Save timewith this recipe by substituting instant vanilla pudding for freshly made custard.
Ingredients :• 1 Tenderflake deep dishfrozen pie shell • 2 egg yolks • ¼ cup (50mL) sugar • ¼ cup (50mL) flour • 1 cup (250mL) whole milk• 2 tsp (10mL) vanilla extract• Peeled and sliced kiwis• Rinsed, well-drainedberries (raspberries/blueberries/blackberries)• Rinsed, well-drained,hulled and slicedstrawberries
Very berry summer custard pie
Serves 6-8Prep time:
30 to45 minutes
27metronews.caTUESDAY, JULY 13, 2010relationships
Elizabeth Gilbert's autobio-graphical Eat, Pray, Lovebecame an internationalbest-seller and is about tobe released as a movie star-ring Julia Roberts. Thisweek her new book Com-mitted was also released inEurope.
Why did you call the bookCommitted?The word ’Committed’ hastwo meanings.
One is having a con-tract, to be connected andthe other, obviously, is be-ing admitted to a mentalinstitution. So I’m playingon that a little bit. I likethat there’s a kind offierceness to the word – inboth meanings. It’s got alot of muscle, it’s not ahappy-go-lucky word —and that appeals to me, be-cause that goes well withthe way we decided to getmarried.
What were you most afraid of
about getting married? I was afraid of becomingsomeone else.
I was afraid of the powerof the language of mar-riage. There are so manyexpectations connected toit, and I was afraid it wouldcause me to be someone Ididn’t want to be. I wasafraid that marriage wouldbe the end of my privacyand of me being in control.
What would have happenedif you had fallen in love withsomeone who wanted to getmarried?I don’t think it was an acci-dent that I fell in love withsomeone who didn’t wantto get married, who didn’twant any more kids, whodoesn’t have any trace oftraditional views on whatmen and women are.
That’s what I was at-tracted to. If he had beensomeone who wanted toget married, I don’t thinkthere would have been asecond date. And the goodthing about neither one ofus wanting to get marriedis that now none of us hasa feeling that we weretricked into it by the otherone.Have you seen anything fromthe Eat, Pray, Love movie?I have seen the entire film,and it’s really good.
I’m very happy to saythat. I would never say any-thing negative about it – Ithink it would be tacky to... criticise what they do,but they’ve made it easyfor me
Metro
Interview
Javier Bardem and Julia Roberts star in Eat, Pray, Love — an autobiography by Elizabeth Gilbert.
Writing from a place of personal experience, Elizabeth Gilbert wroteEat, Pray, Love for those lying on the bathroom floor, crying, losing
their mind as they battle to keep their marriages together.
“I was afraid ofthe power of the
language ofmarriage.”ELIZABETH GILBERT
Get to know her
Just who is this Elizabeth
Gilbert?
Born: July 18, 1969 in Con-necticut, USA.She lives: in New Jersey.BA in: Political studiesfrom New York University.Worked as:
A freelancewriter forseveralmagazines,amongthem GQ,Esquireand TheNew YorkTimes Magazine.Released her first book:
Pilgrims, in 1997Second and third books
were: Stern Men and TheLast American Man.Eat, Pray, Love was
released in: 2006It has sold: More than 7million copies worldwideand has been turned into afilm starring Julia Roberts.It opens in the US inAugust.
ELIZABETH GILBERTON BEING TERRIFIEDAT GETTING MARRIED
COURTESY OF COLUMBIA
Smug Marrieds
HONESTLY,WHY NOT JUST TRY HONESTY?
KATE STEWART &BRET DAWSON2FORCOUPLES.COM
Q: Is biting your tonguearound your partner some-times the key to a healthyrelationship, or best to leteverything out?
Bret says…Here are some clearguidelines. If the thingin your mind istroubling you or makingyou hurt or making yousad or making you feelweird and lonesome, sayit. Tell your partnerwhat’s on your mind.Maybe it will turn out tobe nothing, or maybe itwill spark a fight, but atleast you will have letthe tension out.Conversely, if the thingin your mind is a ball ofmean, and if you havebeen rolling it around inyour head, looking fornotches where you canattach hurtful littlespikes to it, and if youhave been fantasizingabout how when youthrow it out there it willexplode and make yourpartner feel crumpledand small, bite yourtongue.
Then later, when youare alone, apologize.Apologize to yourself.Apologize to everyoneyou have ever shared athought with.Understand that younearly shat in the pool.Be grateful that you did-n’t.
Kate says…Yup.
Q: Our couple friends havegotten quite a bit wealthierthan us, which poses adilemma when we go outfor dinner together andsuch. We can no longer af-ford to split the bills. Howdo we fess up that we justcan’t afford their lifestyle?
Bret says…Are they just rich, or arethey rich and also the
boss of you? Here is howyou afford to split thebill on nights out togeth-er: You go to places thatserve cheap food andcheap drinks. Colloquial-ly, they are known as“pubs” or “casual diningrestaurants.” Maybe youhave heard of them.When you are makingplans with your richfriends, suggest placeslike these. Then you cango out and have wingsand nachos and pitchersof Coors, and when thetab comes, you can goDutch and everybody’swallet survives thenight.
If your friends don’tlike cheap food andcheap drinks anymore,and if they can’t bear tobe seen in a restaurantwith fewer than two anda half stars, they are los-ing their taste for life it-self.
Wish them every hap-piness with their newfriends, who are alsorich and have nothing totalk about but real estateand how hard it is tofind a good nanny.Savour the memories ofthe good old days, andgood riddance.
Kate says…Nothing to beembarrassed about. Justtell them, “We aren’t asrich as you and we can’tafford to keep going outto these expensiverestaurants. Come to ourhouse and we’llbarbecue some burgersinstead.” This is Canada,after all, where everyonepretends we are a class-less society. So if you ac-knowledge your lack ofcash, the only possiblereaction your friends canreasonably have is, “Oh,of course! No problem!We love burgers!”Anything else would besnotty.
Biting your tongue in front of your partnerwon’t come back to bite you but if youaren’t honest with your wealthy friends itcertainly could eat away at your wallet.
NINA [email protected]
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I’ve spent thepast coupleof weeks de-bunking vari-ous financialmyths, suchas the invest-
ment industry’s mantrathat buy and hold is theonly way to go and thatthe young can afford totake risks.
However, there is onerule that I (and my granny)wholeheartedly endorse.Don’t Put All Your Eggs inOne Basket. It’s as true ofinvesting and financialplanning as it is of prettymuch every aspect of life.
The technical name isdiversification, but I likethe eggs analogy. If youhave too many eggs in too
few baskets, you risk disas-ter should the basket (thestock market) fall. We sawit with real estate in themid-’90s, tech stocks in2000 and the financial sec-tor in 2008.
Spreading your eggsover a number of basketsis the essence of defensiveinvesting which is ab-solutely the best approachfor most people.
Right now many in-vestors are heavy into goldstocks or resource basedmutual funds, which havebeen riding high. Butthose sectors will havetheir day and that day willbe done before the averageinvestor realizes what’s go-ing on. And it will godown much more precipi-tously than the rest of themarket.
Diversification doesn’tjust mean spreading thoseeggs among the various
stock market sectors. It al-so means popping a few in-to nice safe baskets such asbonds, preferred sharesand cash-like investmentssuch as GICs or even justhigh interest (yeah, Iknow, an oxymoron thesedays) savings accounts.
However, avoid thetemptation to fling thoseeggs too far afield as overdiversification actually re-duces return and increasescost.
We wouldn’t need to di-versify if we all had shiny,clear crystal balls. Butguessing which stock\sec-tor\country is going toboom and for how longhas always been a mug’sgame.
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Fun and Frugal
magine for amoment that youwere able to turnyour passions intoextra income oreven a new job. Do-
ing something you’re pas-sionate about is one of theeasiest ways to makemore money.
I’ve developed a simpleincome building model,called the Core and Petals,which you can use to turnyour passion into more in-come. Envision a daisyflower with its whitepetals and yellow corethat’s connected to thestem which is rooted inthe ground. The stem andcore take in the nutrientsthat the flower needs tostay alive. Think of thecore and stem of the flow-ers as your day job. Yourjob is necessary for yoursurvival. You collect asalary which enables youto pay your bills, keep aroof over your head andfood on the table.Without income stability,you’re not likely tosurvive. Now, think ofyour extra-curricularinterests as the petals onthe flower. Because youhave income stability
through your day-job it’sactually easier, and wayless stressful, to start de-veloping your petals assupplemental streams ofincome. The number onereason entrepreneurs failat their business isbecause they didn’t haveadequate cash flow. Thecore and petals model ac-tually encourages you tokeep working at your dayjob and generate regularcash flow, while simulta-neously developing yourentrepreneurial ideas inyour spare time.
What do you need toget started? Take a briefmoment to focus on whatyou love to do in yourspare time. Then, think ofways to make money offyour interests.
When you’re ready, setup a small corporation,partnership or soleproprietorship using alawyer or independentlyregistering the business.
Then, get started. Makesure your monitor yourprogress regularly. Whenyour small business isstrong enough to becomeyour primary source of in-come, it then becomesyour core and stem. But, itoften takes time to devel-op a sustainable businessand therefore it’s a goodidea to keep your coreday-job while you putyour plans in place.
TURN PASSION INTO PROFITSBefore you quit thatday-job you hate, getyour new business offthe ground
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How to paywhen abroadMany people enjoy discov-ering new places and visit-ing other countries.
Traveling abroad maylose its charm, however, ifyou return home and finda lot of unexpectedcharges on your creditcard and bank statements.Service charges andnetwork access fees fordebit cards can rack upfast. For more informationabout foreign currencyconversion, networkaccess and other fees, visitthe Financial ConsumerAgency of Canada websiteat fcac.gc.ca. NEWS CANADA
It happens gradually: Ajob that used to inspireyou begins to tire you, oneteardrop of boredom at atime.
“Sometimes, people re-alize that the job theywere into at 19 is nolonger of any interest ormeaning to them,” Fear-less Career Change authorMarky Stein notes.
The distinction to draw,she advises, is whetheryou’re suffering from afleeting disinterest withthe workload at hand —or does your disillusion-ment burrow soul-deep?
Chances are high, ac-cording to Career-Builder.com, that if you’veweathered the recessionin the same desk chair,you’re feeling wiped out,disinterested, confused.The site says more than a
quarter of all workersclaim to be dissatisfiedwith their daily grind —the highest CareerBuilderadviser Allison Nawoj hasseen it. It’s a probableconsequence, she specu-lates, of taking on “I neversigned up for this” taskslike administration, ac-counting, and other typesof tedium that turn a jobinto a daytime snooze.
“A job should open youup, creatively, mentally,or physically,” Nawoj pro-poses. “If you feel thatyour job is taking awayfrom your creativity, yourmental well-being, oryou’re physically burntout, it’s time to stepback.”
To move on or not? Thechecklist
Before you chuck yourday job into the dustbin ofbroken dreams, makesure you’ve “mastered itto your own satisfaction,”Stein recommends. “Youwant to make sure youcome out with industryknowledge,” agrees Na-woj. Plus, consider thepossibility that landingyour ideal gig may notmean galloping out of theoffice into utter jobless-ness, but just pressing abigger number on the ele-vator wall.
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If the satisfaction you used to feelat your job is gone, now’s the time tofind a job that makes you feel alive
Save up for thejobless plungeFor some people, workgets so unbearable theyhave to quit, even beforelanding a new job. But, be-fore you leave make sureyou’ve at least got somemoney saved up.
Mathieu Paradis, a fi-nancial advisor with Ot-tawa-based WealthStrategies, says fourmonths of savings worksfor someone with strong
job prospects, but sixmonths may be better ifyou’re searching for yourideal job.
If you know you want toleave in a few months,start saving now. “Put a bitof every paycheque in ashort-term savings accountso when you’ve hadenough you have the fi-nancial freedom to changejobs.” BRYAN BORZYKOWSKI
If you know you’re on your way out, save up!
Is that same job you dreamed of as a 19-year-old now
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Challengeshiring atuniversityJOBS AT SCHOOL Beyondfunding constraints,there are two key factorsdriving the current diffi-culties in university hir-ing in Canada, accordingto a new report titledCourting Success in Sen-ior Hiring at CanadianUniversities and report-ed by Academica Group.One factor is the increas-ing professionalizationof universitiesthemselves, as seniorpositions require morespecialized skill sets.The other is shrinkingcandidate pools, whichhave necessitatedincreased recruitmentfrom outside academiaat all levels of senior hir-ing, with mixed results.The basic remedy, thereport states, is to workactively at widening thetalent pool, the reporturges. METRO NEWS SERVICES
Studentlabour marketgetting betterJOBS AFTER SCHOOL Com-pared to the samemonth a year earlier,employment among stu-dents aged 20 to 24increased by 63,000 inJune 2010. This increasepushed their unemploy-ment rate down 3.7 percentage points to 10.3 per cent. Despite theimprovement, theunemployment rate for20- to 24-year-oldstudents remains abovethe 9.2 per cent record-ed in June 2008, a sum-mer when studentemployment was partic-ularly strong. For 17- to19-year-old students,their employment edgedup 11,000 from June2009. Theirunemployment ratedropped 2.1 percentagepoints to 16 per cent lastmonth, but remains wellabove the rate of 11.7per cent observed inJune 2008. STATISTICS CANADA
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English may be the linguafranca of the businessglobe, but if you’re not upfor a rendezvous with alanguage prof, you couldbe drawing your own lim-its.
“Foreign languagesthese days have only ad-vantages,” notes globalcitizen coach Elizabeth
Kruempelmann — andthat’s not just for thetime zone-trotting poly-glots who close deals inforeign restaurants beforejetsetting to exotic air-ports.
A little bit of Deutch,Español, Swahili, or Urducan usher in opportuni-ties to the average joesworking the airports, andthe restaurants, too.
“We’re talking aboutmillions of jobs,” says
Elizabeth Lunney, CEO ofNew York’s ABC LanguageExchange. “It can be serv-ice industry, health indus-try, anything wherelearning a language is go-ing to help you interact.”
If you’ve never fath-omed a foreign tongue,the idea of climbing fromlanguage-deaf to conver-sational may seem daunt-ing. That’s why Lunneyrecommends you “bebrave in the language.”
“Once you get over thefear of speaking, learningbecomes much easier,”agrees Kruempelmann.Besides, she adds, “it’s thespeaking that companiesare looking for.”
It’s a good habit, bothconcur, to seek out sym-pathetic native speakers— people patient enoughto smile while you disfig-ure their verbs.
“In any metropolitanarea, there will be groupsthat speak the languageyou’re learning,” Kruem-pelmann says.
Start with a restaurant,the French bistro or theNigerian chop bar —“that can be fun,” Kruem-pelmann adds, and lan-guage learning should be.
“You have to treat thislike an adventure,” offersLunney. “Just take it onestep at a time. If you keepat it, you’ll get there.”
Detailed below are four es-sential tax tips for postsecondary students offeredby the Certified GeneralAccountants of Ontariopertaining to tuition feesand education credits:
Full-time students mayclaim a federal credit of 15per cent of their eligibletuition fees, plus an educa-tion credit of 15 per centof $400 per month in2010. Students registeredto attend part-time studiesmay also claim the tuitionfee credit of 15 per cent ofeligible fees; in addition,they may deduct $120 amonth toward the 15 percent federal education taxcredit.
Students with disabili-ties may be enrolled part-time to qualify for afull-time credit. Individu-als with disabilities whoare enrolled in approvedHuman Resources andSkills Development Cana-da (HRSDC) or equivalentprovincial/territorial-ap-proved training programscan also deduct those re-lated expenses.
The education tax creditalso applies to studentswho are pursuing career-related, post-secondary ed-
ucation at their own ex-pense (e.g., the CGA pro-gram of professionalstudies). NEWS CANADA
31metronews.caTUESDAY, JULY 13, 2010education
Taking controlfinancially
“Taking control of your
finances means a little
upfront planning with a
budget,” says Kavita
Joshi, director of Student
Markets at RBC.
Joshi recommendsstudents use tools likeRBC’s Better Student Lifewebsite (to learn aboutmoney management),and Student Budget Check (to calculate whatyou can spend to getthrough the school year).You can find this informa-tion at betterstudentlife.ca.She also notes that youshould decide when andhow to take on debt — if you have somestudent debt, consider the level you’re comfort-able with, and how it in-fluences your spendingdecisions.NEWS CANADA
Talk your wayinto a new job,in a new tongue
Looking to turn a new page in your career? Start with thecover of a phrase book because a new language can really help
If you want to learn another language try to speak it and be around people speaking it to get the best results.
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Timeline
In three months: “If youdo your homework,” Lun-ney says, “you’ll haveenough to go to that coun-try and navigate.”
One year: Proficiency. “Youcould probably go to a
business meeting, followquite a bit of it, and com-municate what you wantto say,” Lunney suggests.
Beyond: “It takes years toconduct a business meet-ing,” Lunney warns. “It’s alot of work.”
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Privately, however, therehas never been a better timeto become an instructor saysGregory Dixon, representa-tive for Montessori TeachersCollege (MTC).
“(This is) something that
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Since its 2005 inceptionwith the Early ChildhoodDevelopment (ECD) course,MTC has become one of On-tario's most prominent/ac-complished instructionalprograms. Thanks to thatsuccess, Dixon reveals thatMTC is expanding its varietyof programs this year in or-der to broaden both their ar-eas of assistance to youthand employment opportuni-ties for adults.
Post-secondary education isnever cheap yet a wealth ofavailable scholarships,grants and bursaries couldtake some of the financialburden off of your educa-tional journey.
Website scholarship-scanada.com that tracksCanadian scholarships cur-rently lists details for 23,885scholarships offered by edu-cational institutions thro-ughout Canada and not allof them are based strictly offof your grades.
Once you’ve got your re-sume polished, here aresome tips to get you readyfor some web-surfing andletter-writing in your searchfor educational cash:
Distinguish yourselfMany scholarships are
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Ryan Howard is sick of allthe talk about the Ameri-can League’s dominance inthe all-star game.
The Phillies sluggerknows all too well it’s been13 years of AL braggingrights. And, no, that wacky7-7 tie in 2002 did little toboost NL morale in base-ball’s Midsummer Classic.
In this year of the pitch-er, the National League isdownright loaded, even foran all-star game with thebest of the best coming toOrange County tonight.
“This should be the yearfor us to go out there andhopefully end thisdrought,” Howard said.
“I’m getting tired ofhearing about the Ameri-can League winning andhow long they’ve won,every year for the last 13years or whatnot. Basicallygo out there and try tochange it up.”
There’s Colorado 15-game winner UbaldoJimenez starting at AngelStadium. In the bullpen:Marlins ace Josh Johnson,Mr. Perfect Roy Halladayand two-time reigning NLCy Young Award winnerTim Lincecum. And so on.
The AL run is one of themore perplexing streaks insports. Is it simply a quirk,or evidence of true domi-nance? The AmericanLeague has ruled inter-league play for severalyears, and also done well inthe World Series, winningfour of the last six titles.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Can NL bust out of all-star slump?
Ubaldo Jimenez smiles while speaking at a news conference yesterday.
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Senior Circuit hasn’t won gamefor 13 years NL looks to elitegroup of pitchers to turn tables
Derek Fisher will stay with the Lakers.
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Fisher picks Lakers over HeatAlthough Derek Fisherthought about joining thatburgeoning superteam inMiami, he’s staying in theLos Angeles Lakers’ owncollection of stars.
The veteran point guardsaid yesterday he’ll re-signwith the Lakers, stickingwith Kobe Bryant and thedefending two-time NBAchampions after speakingwith several teams as a freeagent.
“I have decided to con-tinue with Kobe, continue
with our teammates andthe fans of Los Angeles,”Fisher said in a statementon his website.
“While this may not bethe most lucrative contractI’ve been offered this off-season, it is the most valu-able. I am confident I willcontinue to lead this teamon and off the court. Let thehunt for six begin.”
The five-time NBA cham-pion said he consideredcontract offers from severalteams in the past two
weeks after playing a keyrole in the Lakers’ champi-onship repeat.
He spoke with the Heatlast weekend, entertainingthe prospect of running anoffence for LeBron James,Dwyane Wade and ChrisBosh, who all left free-agent money on the tableto sign teammates of Fish-er’s ability.
Fisher averaged 7.5points and 2.5 assists lastyear.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Chicago Blackhawks,who have lost seven play-ers since winning the Stan-ley Cup a month ago, saidyesterday they plan tokeep 23-year-old restrictedfree agent defencemanNiklas Hjalmarsson.
Calling Hjalmarssonone of his team’s “core”players, Blackhawks gener-al manager Stan Bowmansaid yesterday that Chica-go will match the four-year, $14 million US offer
sheet the defencemansigned with the San JoseSharks last week. Bowman
said the team would com-plete the paperwork with-in the next day.
Hjalmarsson earned$660,000 last season. TheSwede averaged a just un-der 20 minutes of ice timeper game in the regularseason and 21 minutes inthe playoffs as the No. 4defenceman behind NorrisTrophy winner DuncanKeith, Brent Seabrook andBrian Campbell.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Hawks match Sharks’ offer
“I’m getting tiredof hearing aboutthe AmericanLeague winningand how longthey’ve won.”RYAN HOWARD
Spanish teamreturns homeMADRID. Spain’s footballteam returned home to ajubilant nation and ahuge fiesta yesterday af-ter winning the WorldCup, finally givingSpaniards a break frommonths of economicgloom and politicalsquabbling.
NCAA adds toMarch MadnessTOURNAMENT. The NCAAhas decided to add a newround to the NCAA men’sbasketball tournamentnext year, when the fieldexpands to 68 teams.
The men’s basketballcommittee announced itsplans yesterday for fourearly games, with thewinners earning theirway into the 64-team sec-ond round.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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The Toronto Raptors arebigger and faster and en-tirely Bryan Colangelo’s asthe latest roster re-jiggingis close to completion.
In a major tradingbinge, the president andgeneral manager got rid ofthe last playing link to theprevious era yesterday andbegan charting a newcourse for the future.
By dealing away JoseCalderon — the last re-maining player from theRob Babcock days — alongwith Hedo Turkoglu andReggie Evans, and addingLeandro Barbosa, Boris Di-aw and Tyson Chandler,
Colangelo is now solely re-sponsible for the entireroster.
League sources say thecomplex trade won’t bedone until today at the ear-liest. The NBA must be sat-isfied it meets salary caprules and the conferencecall to deal with that was-n’t held yesterday.
But sources have con-firmed Toronto plans tomove Turkoglu to Phoenix,Calderon and Evans toCharlotte and take backthe Suns’ Barbosa and Di-aw and Chandler from theBobcats.TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
Raps continue remakeComplex trade nets Raptors Barbosa, Diaw and Chandler Calderon,
Turkoglu and Evans shipped off in deal that could soon become official
Leandro Barbosa is headed to the Raptors.
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$14.5MThe Raptors’ moves will leave
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12.4Tyson Chandler averaged
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$45.8MBarbosa has two years and
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years and $18 million;
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BASEBALL
AL EAST
W L Pct GB
NEW YORK 56 32 .636 -
TAMPA BAY 54 34 .614 2
BOSTON 51 37 .580 5
TORONTO 44 45 .494 12.5
BALTIMORE 29 59 .330 27
AL CENTRAL
W L Pct GB
NEW YORK 56 32 .636 -
TAMPA BAY 54 34 .614 2
BOSTON 51 37 .580 5
TORONTO 44 45 .494 12.5
BALTIMORE 29 59 .330 27
AL WEST
W L Pct GB
TEXAS 50 38 .568 -
LOS ANGELES 47 44 .516 4.5
OAKLAND 43 46 .483 7.5
SEATTLE 35 53 .398 15
NL EAST
W L Pct GB
ATLANTA 52 36 .591 -
NEW YORK 48 40 .545 4
PHILADELPHIA 47 40 .540 4.5
FLORIDA 42 46 .477 10
WASHINGTON 39 50 .438 13.5
NL CENTRAL
W L Pct GB
CINCINNATI 49 41 .544 -
ST. LOUIS 47 41 .534 1
MILWAUKEE 40 49 .449 8.5
CHICAGO 39 50 .438 9.5
HOUSTON 36 53 .404 12.5
PITTSBURGH 30 58 .341 18
NL WEST
W L Pct GB
SAN DIEGO 51 37 .580 -
COLORADO 49 39 .557 2
LOS ANGELES 49 39 .557 2
SAN FRANCISCO 47 41 .534 4
ARIZONA 34 55 .382 17.5
Today’s game
All-Star Game (at Anaheim, Calif.),
8:05 p.m.
MLS
EAST CONFERENCEGP W L T GF GA Pts
COLUMBUS 14 8 2 4 20 12 28
NEW YORK 15 8 5 2 18 17 26
TORONTO FC 14 6 4 4 17 15 22
CHICAGO 14 4 5 5 18 19 17
N.ENGLAND 15 4 9 2 15 26 14
KANSAS CITY 14 3 8 3 11 19 12
D.C. UNITED 15 3 9 3 11 25 12
PHILA. 13 3 8 2 16 25 11
WEST CONFERENCEGP W LT GF GA Pts
LOS ANGELES 16 11 2 3 25 7 36
SALT LAKE 15 9 3 3 28 11 30
SAN JOSE 14 6 4 4 18 16 22
COLORADO 14 6 4 4 16 13 22
FC DALLAS 14 5 2 7 17 13 22
HOUSTON 16 5 7 4 21 22 19
SEATTLE 16 4 8 4 17 24 16
CHIVAS USA 15 4 9 2 17 21 14
Tomorrow’s game
Kansas City at Columbus, 7:30 p.m.
Thursday’s game
Seattle FC at D.C. United, 8 p.m.
CFL
EAST DIVISION
GP W L T PF PA Pt
MONTREAL 2 1 1 0 84 77 2
WINNIPEG 2 1 1 0 83 65 2
TORONTO 2 1 1 0 52 64 2
HAMILTON 2 0 2 0 51 72 0
WEST DIVISION
GP W L T PF PA Pt
SASK. 2 2 0 0 91 69 4
CALGARY 2 2 0 0 53 38 4
B.C. 2 1 1 0 43 47 2
EDMONTON 2 0 2 0 33 58 0
Touchdown leaders
TD RU RC RT O P
THIGPEN, HAM 3 0 1 3 0 24
EDWARDS, WPG 3 0 3 0 0 18
WATKINS, MTL 3 0 3 0 0 18
CATES, SASK 2 2 0 0 0 12
DURANT, SASK 2 2 0 0 0 12
FANTUZ, SASK 2 0 2 0 0 12
GREEN, MTL 2 0 2 0 0 12
BASEBALL
July 11
1943 - The first night game in All-Star
history is played at Philadelphia's
Shibe Park. Boston's Bobby Doerr
provides the big blow, a three-run
homer, for the AL's 5-3 win.
1971 - Reggie Jackson hits a mam-
moth home run off the power gener-
ator on the right-field roof at Tiger
Stadium to highlight a barrage of six
homers - three by each team - as the
AL beats the NL 6-4 in the All-Star
game.
It got to the point whereeven Alex Tagliani’s par-ents would lose track.
They knew their sonwas an ascendant star inopen-wheel racing, loadedwith passion and poten-tial, but they were not al-ways sure exactly wherehe would be competing, oragainst whom. Was theirboy part of Champ Car? Orwas it the Indy RacingLeague?
“I’m their son, I’m theirdriver, and they’re con-fused,” Tagliani said.“Imagine the other fans.”
The split between thetwo series lasted for 12years, confusing sponsorsas well as fans. Its effectsare still being felt in Cana-da, where race organizersare working to healwounds opened by thesometimes bitter feud,
more than two years afterit ended with a diplomaticreunification.
Toronto’s once-mightyrace returned to the calen-dar last year following aforced year-long hiatus,and was greeted withsparsely populated grand-stands. Edmonton’s event
has reportedly lost $9.2million over the last twoyears, and Canada’s goldengeneration of drivers, ledby Jacques Villeneuve andPaul Tracy, has given wayto a group struggling to se-cure rides on a consistentbasis.
Tagliani is confidentthat, as the unified IZODIndyCar Series shifts itsgaze to Canada for thenext two weeks, support-ers and sponsors will see asport slowly shifting backinto gear.
“I think Canadian rac-ing is healthy and rebuild-ing, at the same time,” hesaid. “You will see a newimage, you will see a lotmore action.”
The Honda Indy Torontois Sunday while the Ed-monton race goes July 25.THE CANADIAN PRESS
Slowly shiftingback into gear
Alex Tagliani
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Today’s horoscope
Aries March 21-April 20 Getyour head out of the cloudsand get stuck into your work.Even if you are the kind ofAries who prefers to leave de-tails to other people you willquite enjoy getting involved inthe finer points today.
Taurus April 23-May 21Venus, your ruler, will sweepaway the negative atmosphereboth at home and at work andlife will be fun again.
Gemini May 22-June 21 Ifyou made an error of judgmentyesterday or over the weekendyou must own up to it now.There is no doubt you will beforgiven but others’ generositywon’t extend beyond the next24 hours. You have beenwarned.
Cancer June 22-July 22Make an effort to communi-cate with someone you des-perately want to get back ongood terms with. They will ap-preciate that effort.
Leo July 23-Aug.23 There isnothing you cannot accom-plish if you want it enoughand if you put both your heartand your mind into making ithappen. Do whatever it takesto realize your dream.
Virgo Aug. 24- Sept. 22 Venusin your birth sign does won-ders for your confidence, espe-cially in one-to-onerelationships, so now is thetime to let that special personknow how much you care forthem. They care for you too —and they’ll show it.
Libra Sept. 23-Oct. 23 This isa good time to stand backfrom your life a little and takestock of where you have beenand where you intend to go inthe future.
Scorpio Oct. 24-Nov. 22 Youhave never been the kind toaccept second best and youare not about to start now.However, you are unlikely toget what you want through co-ercion, so why not try persua-sion instead?
Sagittarius Nov. 23-Dec. 21 Your popularity onthe work front will reach newheights today and if ever therewas a time to push for a promo-tion or raise that time is now.Let your boss know why you areworth your weight in gold.
Capricorn Dec. 22-Jan. 20Pluto in your sign is enlivenedby Venus, planet of emotionaland material values, over thenext 24 hours, so positivenews about your money situa-tion or a relationship willcheer you up no end.
Aquarius Jan. 21-Feb. 18 Asituation that has been worry-ing you will be resolved toyour complete satisfactiontoday and you will be glad thatyou did not impose a solutionon it as some people sug-gested.
Pisces Feb. 19-March 20 TheSun in Cancer means this is afortunate time for you andwhatever you do over the nextfew days will be a completesuccess. SALLY BROMPTON
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