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David and Sasha Moriarty-Schieven nervously wait to perform a rendition of Spamalot during the Vancouver auditions for Canada’s Got Talent at the Westin Bayshore yesterday.
CHELSEA ALTICE/FOR METRO
Amanda Zhaomurder trial heads to court
Ex-boyfriend accused indeath of Coquitlam College international student {page 2}
Local
Hop to Luke’sCorner Bar &Kitchen for a bite
Mammoth veggie burger an unexpected treat at SouthGranville eatery {page 22}
Food
Timberlake,Kunis shrug offhacking reports
Former co-stars deny exchanging suggestive photos, texts {page 19}
Dish
To travel 20 years in time to solar cars, green jobs, baby athletes and more
Flip this edition of Metro
Show them what you’ve got Hundreds line up at Westin Bayshore for Canada’s Got Talent Skipping, roller-skating and singing hopefuls
among various talents vying to make first cut Celebrity judging panel will be announced in two weeks
Rick Faraci can hammer 50 nailsin 48 seconds using only his hands.
The feat, which Faraci displayedfor producers of Canada’s Got Tal-ent in Vancouver yesterday, is justpart of his Tameshiwari act, or as hecalls it, “the art of breaking stuff.”
Faraci, who was wearing a green-stone necklace to honour his wife’s
Maori heritage, said he was encour-aged by her to audition for theupcoming televised variety show.
With Faraci’s wife undergoingcancer therapy, he thought audi-tioning for Canada’s Got Talentwould be a fun way to celebrate thesport that introduced him to hiswife.
“The show is a brilliant way toshowcase Canadian talent,” saidFaraci, who was excited to be a partof the buzz. “We very rarely stim-
ulate and promote our own andhere we get such a variety.”
Vancouver is the third city of sixto hold auditions in the nationwidetour, which continues today at theWestin Bayshore.
Executive producer Ed Robin-son said he was excited to be in Van-couver, which is always a sourcefor new talent.
Robinson has worked on realityTV for years on shows such as Cana-dian Idol, but said there was a spe-
cial component to the variety talentshow.
“You learn how important theshow is to people,” he said. “For somany people the show is a way toexpress themselves that (they)wouldn’t normally get. It takes agreat deal of courage.”
For auditions, Robinson said hemost looks forward to unusual acts,whatever they may be.
“The imagination of people iswhat we’re hoping this show will
capture,” he said.Brother-sister musical-theatre
duo David and Sasha Moriarty-Schieven were among hundreds ofcontestants lined up at the WestinBayshore, vying to make the cut forthe final $100,000 prize and debutin an unnamed Las Vegas venue.
“If we made it, it would be thefulfilment of a lifelong dream.We’ve found success in our ownways, but this would be a wholenew level of awesome,” said Sasha.
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The family of an interna-tional student killed inBritish Columbia will fi-nally have their day incourt.
Nine years after Aman-da Zhao’s body was foundin a suitcase near StaveLake, her ex-boyfriend,
Ang Li — who fled Canadabefore being charged byRCMP — is scheduled tostand trial today in Beijingfor the 21-year-old’s mur-der.
NDP MLA Jenny Kwan,who has been acting as theCanadian advocate forZhao’s parents, said shewas thrilled the case is fi-nally moving forward, af-ter the Canadian
government agreed toshare evidence when Chi-na agreed to drop thedeath penalty.
“The family will gettheir day in court,” Kwantold media in Vancouver.“That’s what they wantedfrom the outset, so theycan get justice.”
Li fled to China after be-coming a prime suspect inthe case and remained at
large because there is noextradition agreement be-tween China and Canada.
In 2009, Chinese au-thorities arrested Li andhis cousin Han Zhang,charged with helping todispose of Zhao’s body, inresponse to intense inter-national pressure.
Zhao was living in Burn-aby while studying at Co-quitlam College.
Accused killer of 21-year-old English student to stand trial in Beijing RCMP provided evidence after China agreed to drop death sentence
MLA Jenny Kwan speaks yesterday at a media conference in Vancouver where she announced that Ang Li will stand trial in Beijing for the murder of international student Amanda Zhao, pictured in the portrait above.
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Justice finally in sight forAmanda Zhao’s family
Premierrolls outjobs planThe province will kick in$15 million toward a $90-million port-enhancementproject in Prince Rupert toimprove trade with Asia,Premier Christy Clark saidyesterday as she made thefirst of five dailyannouncements about herB.C. Jobs Plan.
The $90-million Phase 1will see construction ofnew rail lines andextension of current tracksand facilities. It is expectedto begin next year and ispart of a planned $300-mil-lion development at thePort of Prince Rupert.
The project will createan estimated 570 on-siteconstruction jobs and4,000 other positions.
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Charge laidin 11th citymurderthis yearShane Frederick James Yu-kich, 22, faces one count ofhomicide. He was arrestedSunday and appeared inprovincial court in Vancou-ver yesterday.
Joshua Jonathan Tana-siuk, 24, was stabbed byanother passenger in a ve-hicle in the 1300 block ofVictoria Drive early Satur-day. The driver, fearing forhis safety, stopped the ve-hicle and ran away. Tana-siuk was found in criticalcondition by passersby butsuccumbed to his injuriesSaturday.
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Brent Parent, the driver ofthe truck that allegedlystruck down and killed 21-year-old Silas O’Brien in2008, told the court yester-day he did not know some-one had been killed untilthe next day.
Parent, who pleaded notguilty to five charges in-cluding criminal negli-gence and dangerousdriving causing death andtook the stand yesterday inhis own defence, admittedhe tapped on his brakes toslow down the truck be-hind him, describing hismove as “stupid and child-ish.”
When the other truck —driven by Sam Dooley withpassengers Luke Stephenand O’Brien — tried topass, Parent testified he ac-
celerated and saw the vehi-cle go into the ditch on16th Avenue near 264thStreet.
He claimed he returnedto the scene of the incidentto check if everyone wasOK.
“I was a little bit angry… mostly (at) myself be-cause all this could’ve beenavoided if I just had pulledover in the first place andjust let them drive past,”Parent testified.
When he approachedthe crash scene, Parentclaimed the people on theroad attacked his vehicleand he heard a bang beforedriving off.
“I thought they threwsomething or kicked mytruck,” he testified.
He began to cry as hetestified about finding outfrom his estranged wifethe next morning that aman had been run over
and killed by a truck on16th Avenue. But whenCrown prosecutor DonnaBallyk asked him if thatsomething was SilasO’Brien, Parent said, “itmay have been, I do notknow.”
Vancouver City Coun.Geoff Meggs, whose wife isO’Brien’s aunt, said Silas
was just getting started inlife and would’ve been verygood with business.
“(The family) suffered aterrible loss but they’revery strong,” Meggs saidoutside court. “The wholeextended family’s beenbound together by a verydeep Christian faith that’scarried them through this.”
Parent testified two men attacked his vehicle and that he heard a ‘bang’ when he drove off Says he returned to crash scene to check up on passengers
Michelle O’Brien gets emotional yesterday
outside the B.C. Supreme Court in New Westminster
after hearing the testimony of the man accused
of running over and killing her 21-year-old son.
Ousted Eskimofaces gunchargesFormer Edmonton Eski-mo defensive end AdamBraidwood was arrestedSunday in Port Coquitlamduring the Terry FoxHometown Run onweapons-related charges.
According to police,Mounties were called to abreak-and-enter around10:30 a.m. at a housealong the route of theTerry Fox Run. There was
no robbery, but someonedid enter the home andfire several shots insidethe residence.
However, as officers re-sponded to that call, an-other Mountie, who wason crowd-control dutiesfor the run, spotted aman who appeared to beholding a gun.
The man was arrestedwithout incident and thefirearm was seized. Braid-wood, 27, Edmonton’sfirst-overall pick in the2006 Canadian CollegeDraft, was taken to hospi-tal with injuries and isscheduled to appear incourt tomorrow. METRO
The Vancouver Canuckswill host more than 1,000police officers, firefighters,paramedics and hospitalstaff who were on duty dur-ing the Stanley Cup riotsduring the first four pre-sea-son games. The preseasonbegins tonight against theCalgary Flames.
On their final pre-seasongame, Oct.1, the team plansto give away 100 pairs oftickets to people who tookpart in the cleanup efforts.The team is asking fans tosubmit photos of them-selves cleaning up alongwith a 100-word story onthe experience. METRO
Honouring riot heroes
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Team Canada captain cleans up
Scott Niedermayer, captainof Canada’s Olympic gold-medal-winning hockeyteam, said he’s been keep-ing himself busy as a dadand spokesperson sincehanging up his skates lastyear.
The retired NHL de-fenceman hit up LocarnoBeach yesterday as a fresh-water ambassador for theWorld Wildlife Fund andtook part in the GreatCanadian ShorelineCleanup.
“Growing up in B.C., Ihad a great appreciation ofthe natural beauty and ani-mals in this greatprovince,” said Niedermay-er, who played 18 seasonsin the National HockeyLeague for the New JerseyDevils and the Anaheim
Ducks.Aside from his
spokesperson work forWWF Canada, he’s beenenjoying more time withhis family.
“Being used to the hock-ey schedule for 20 yearskeeps you pretty busy ...
and all of a sudden I havean abundance of time, butI have four (boys) at homewho keep me racingaround doing things,” hesaid.
Niedermayer, who grewup in Cranbrook, was re-cently inducted to the B.C.
Sports Hall of Fame withfellow British ColumbiansDuncan Keith, BrentSeabrook, Shea Weber andCanuck goalie Roberto Lu-ongo for their contribu-tions to Canada’sgold-medal run at the 2010Vancouver Winter Games.
Retired NHL defenceman Scott Niedermayer picks up cigarette butts, plastic wrappers and bottle caps at Locarno Beach
Retired NHL defenceman Scott Niedermayer
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the Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup.
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Woman drunkwhen killed,trial hears HOUSE PARTY. A closefriend of a young womanmurdered 18 years ago inKelowna says the victimwas drunk when she waskilled.
Pam Cologne was testi-fying in the trial of NeilSnelson, who’s accused ofmurdering 19-year-oldJennifer Cusworth after ahouse party in October1993.
Cologne says Cusworthwas uncharacteristically“touchy feely” towardsher during the party andthat’s why she knew thewoman was drunk. CKFR
Search entersfourth dayPILOT. The search for a
missing B.C. pilot and hishelicopter is continuingfor a fourth day with helpfrom a Winnipeg-basedCanadian Forces planethat joined the effort yes-terday.
Search spokesman Lt.Trevor Reid says the huntfor the Aerospatiale A350helicopter is focusedbetween Hope and Kelow-na, a mountainous andheavily forested area withsteep valleys.THE CANADIAN PRESS
Fire crew fightborder flamesWILDFIRE. A 20-person firecrew is dousing hot spotsalong the B.C.-Washington State borderafter a wildfire jumpedthe line.
Airtankers based in thesouthern Okanagan bom-barded the flames with re-tardant on Sunday, in anunsuccessful attempt tokeep the fire from cross-ing the border west of Os-oyoos. CKOR
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Bold farmers in Indonesiaroutinely ignore orders toevacuate the slopes of livevolcanoes, but those livingon Tambora took no
chances when history’sdeadliest mountain rum-bled ominously this month.
Villagers like Hasanud-din Sanusi, 45, have heard
since they were young howthe mountain they callhome once blew apart inthe largest eruption everrecorded. Hundreds refused
to return to their moun-tainside villages for severaldays despite assurancesthey were safe. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Villagers in awe of mountainApril 1815 eruption killed 90,000 people Left crater 11 kilometres wide,
one kilometre deep Spewed estimated 400 million tons of sulphuric gases
An archaeologist working along the flanks of Mount
Tambora shows unearthed remnants of villages.
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Officialsstruggle torespond tofloodingFlood victims camped outnear inundated fields andcrowded hospitals yester-day as authorities and aidgroups struggled to re-spond to Pakistan’s sec-ond major bout offlooding in just over ayear.
The return of the floodsis testament to the power-ful penetration of themonsoon rains that envel-
op much of Asia at the endof summer. It also pointsto the limits of Pakistan’sgovernment, often blastedas weak and corrupt.
In normal times, Islam-abad officials are seen asbarely helping citizens.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
220Monsoon rainssince early Au-
gust have killed morethan 220 people, dam-aged or destroyedsome 665,000 homesand displaced morethan 1.8 million peoplein the southern Sindhprovince, according tothe government andthe United Nations.
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Rescue efforts hampered
Rescue workers dug through mudslides as they strug-gled yesterday to reach thousands of villagers cut offby a powerful earthquake that killed at least 53 peopleand damaged more than 100,000 homes in mountain-ous northeastern India, Nepal and Tibet.
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The military says it is readyfor the lifting today of aban on gays serving openly,
while supporters applaudthe historic change as a vic-tory for equal rights.
Last week, the Pentagonsaid 97 per cent of the mili-tary has undergone train-ing in the new law.Defence Secretary LeonPanetta, Joint Chiefs chair-man Adm. Mike Mullen,and President Barack Oba-ma have all certified that
allowing openly gay servicemembers will not under-mine the effectiveness ofthe military or its recruit-ing.
The revisions, such aseliminating references tobanned homosexual serv-ice, are in line with policy
guidance issued in January,after Obama signed the leg-islation that did away withthe “don’t ask, don’t tell”policy.
The lifting of the 18-year-old ban also will meana halt to all pending inves-tigations, discharges and
other administrative pro-ceedings.
Existing standards ofpersonal conduct, such asthose pertaining to publicdisplays of affection, willcontinue regardless of sex-ual orientation.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Children wincash, gunsAn Islamist radio station inSomalia says it is awardingguns, bombs and books tothree children in a Qur’anrecital contest.
Andulus radio station isrun by the al-Qaida-linked
al-Shabab militia, which isbattling Somalia’s weak,UN-backed government.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
U.S. military opens doors to gay recruits
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No to nuclear powerChanting “Sayonara nuclear power” and waving ban-ners, tens of thousands of people marched in centralTokyo yesterday, calling on Japan’s government toabandon atomic energy in the wake of the Fukushi-ma nuclear accident.
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Protesters in costume perform during an anti-nuclear demonstration in Tokyo yesterday.
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Armed men from Congoburst into a pub in thecentral African nation ofBurundi and killed 36 peo-ple, an official said yester-day.
Burundi, a tiny nationstill reeling from a civilwar that killed more than250,000 people, is awashin weapons, but attackslike the one Sunday nightare rare. Still, the regionborders eastern Congo,which is wracked by vio-lence from a myriad ofrebel groups.
Background
For the past year, therehave been reports that theextremist Burundian Huturebel group is operatingin eastern Congo and maybe preparing for war inBurundi.
Congolese officialswere “astonished’’ by re-ports that the attackerswere believed to be fromhis country.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Leaders say repealing policy waslong overdue Gay-rights groupsplanning a day of celebration
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Jack Layton died of cancer lastmonth Prime minister says NDPleader was a fighter until the end
Politicians unite to remember Jack
Politicking and partisan-ship briefly evaporated inthe House of Commonsyesterday as MPs remem-bered Jack Layton’scourage, optimism andkindness.
The bitterness that hasbecome a hallmark ofparliamentary debate inrecent years was nowherein evidence as thetributes rolled out towaves of applause in thechamber where Laytonoften pleaded for greatercivility.
Prime MinisterStephen Harper praisedthe late NDP leader assomeone who earned the
affection and respect ofhis fellow MPs.
Harper spoke of friend-ships that can grow evenbetween opponents.
“In the case of JackLayton, I believe that allof us developed this affec-tion inexorably,” Harpersaid.
“His passion, his perse-verance, his ability to beat once tough and cheer-ful would eventually winover even those whomost strongly disagreedwith him.”
He said he and Laytonrarely agreed, but theyshared a love of country.
Interim NDP Leader
Nycole Turmel pledged tokeep her party true toLayton’s legacy.
“Day after day, hefought for the little guy,”
she said. “In Jack Layton’smemory we carry on thiswork.”
Bob Rae, the interimLiberal leader, had a
catch in his voice as heremembered Layton.
“While Jack is goneand has passed away, thethings that he stood for
and the values that hehad and the warmth andstrength and quality ofhis personality will neverdie, will neverdisappear,” Rae said.
He said Layton will notbe forgotten.
“As an adversary andas a friend we shall misshim.”THE CANADIAN PRESS
Olivia Chow, MP and widow of former NDP leader Jack Layton, is applauded after
delivering a tribute to her husband in the House of Commons yesterday.
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“His passion, hisperseverance, hisability to be atonce tough andcheerful wouldeventually winover even thosewho most stronglydisagreed withhim.”PRIME MINISTER STEPHEN HARPER
The country’s top militarycommander has done anabout-face, saying he’llconsider reimbursing tax-payers the commercialcost of a 2010 Caribbeanvacation flight aboard agovernment VIP jet.
Gen. Walt Natynczyk,the chief of defence staff,met with the prime min-
ister and opposition crit-ics yesterday amid a furorover his travel expenses.
He defended the use ofthe Challenger jet fleetand the January 2010flight that allowed him tomeet his family for a vaca-tion cruise in St. Maarten.The VIP jet was used afterthe general missed his
charter flight because heremained behind for arepatriation ceremony.
On Sunday, Natynczyksaid the trip was author-ized by Defence MinisterPeter MacKay and that hewouldn’t repay the cost ofthe vacation flight.
“If the government, asthe prime minister indi-
cated, his office looks atthe trip — and the inter-pretation the TreasuryBoard guidelines — is in-correct, then I will reim-burse as required,” he saidyesterday.
“If I have to pay for theticket, then I will dothat.”THE CANADIAN PRESS
Chief of Defence Staff
Gen. Walter Natynczyk
still believes his use
of a government jet
was justified.
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Top soldier retreats from spending comments
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Wipe Britain’s slate clean
If you were feeling alittle generous, youcould donate the en-tire amount to theUnited Kingdom anderadicate its nationaldebt.
a 10-year deficit-reductionpackage totalling morethan $3 trillion. He vowedto veto any deficit- reduc-tion package that cuts bene-fits to Medicare recipientsbut does not raise taxes onthe wealthy and big corpo-rations.
The president's proposalwould predominantly hitupper-income taxpayersbut would also reducespending in mandatory -benefit programs, includingMedicare and Medicaid, by$580 billion. It also countssavings of $1 trillion over 10years from the withdrawalof troops from Iraq andAfghanistan.
Obama’s call served as asharp counterpoint to Re-publican lawmakers, whohave balked at tax hikes.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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If you were to stack$1,000 bills, the heightof the pile formed by$1.5 trillion would be193 kilometres.$1.5 trillion in single-dollar bills wouldweigh about 1.7 million tonnes. If youstacked that sum indollar coins, you couldreach Mars.
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You could provideeverybody in Los Ange-les with twoLamborghini Gallardos,or give every man inthe U.S. a men’s Presi-dential Rolex watch.You could send all U.S.citizens on an all-inclu-sive vacation to Tahitior buy 1,500 QueenMary 2 cruise ships.
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Netflix Inc. is moving toseparate the DVD-by-mailplan it built its business onfrom the online streamingservice it’s betting will befuture of entertainmentconsumption.
The mail-order plan,which the company onlyoperates in the UnitedStates, will be renamedQwikster.
In a few weeks, Netflixsubscribers who want to getDVDs by mail will go to aseparate website to accessQwikster. The streamingbusiness will continue to becalled Netflix.
The move appears tohave no impact on Canadi-an Netflix subscribers whoare estimated to number atabout one million. In Cana-
da, the company only offersonline-streaming services,and chose to skip the mail-order option entirely whenit launched about a yearago.
Under the new plan, U.S.members who subscribe toboth mail and streamingservices will have two en-tries on their credit cardstatements. Instead of Net-flix, the distinctive red en-velopes will now sayQwikster.
It’s a risky bet. Theamount of streaming con-tent the company offers isstill far less than the num-ber of DVDs in its cata-logue. And competition,from Hulu, Amazon, Coin-star’s Redbox kiosks andother services, is growing.
Netflix could even alienatecustomers further by ask-ing them to now deal withtwo separate websites andaccounts instead of justone.
The changes come as thecompany faces increasingscrutiny from customersand shareholders over thedecision announced in Julyto separate its mail-orderand Internet streamingservices into two separateplans. The change raisedthe prices for users whowant both services, by asmuch as 60 per cent forsome.
“Our view is with thissplit of the businesses, wewill be better at streaming,and we will be better atDVD by mail,” wrote NetflixCEO Reed Hastings in ablog post Sunday.
The post, which was alsoemailed to Netflix sub-scribers, was part apologyand part explanation of thechanges.
Last week, Netflix low-ered its U.S. subscriber fore-cast for the third quarterand the former stock mar-ket darling’s shares took abeating as a result.
Acknowledging that he“messed up,” Hastings saidhe “slid into arrogancebased upon past success”when he did not adequatelyexplain the reasons behindthe plan separation and ef-fective price hike.
He said the reason is thatinstant streaming and DVD-by-mail are becoming “two
quite different businesses,with very different coststructures, different bene-fits that need to be market-ed differently, and we needto let each grow and oper-ate independently.”
Explaining the reasonsbehind the plan change“wouldn’t have changedthe price increase, but itwould have been the rightthing to do,” Hastingswrote.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CEO claims DVD service will stay the same without any pricing changesSites will host video-game upgrades and additional streaming content
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Netflix splits businesswith new site for DVDs
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Ministerreacts asstrikeloomsAir Canada and its flightattendants were negoti-ating non-stop yesterdayin an effort to reach adeal ahead of a strikedeadline later this week— and also to avoid cer-tain intervention by thefederal government toimpose a settlement.
“We will act to pro-tect Canada’s economy,”Federal Labour MinisterLisa Raitt told the Houseof Commons duringquestion period.
The two sides werestill at it during the af-ternoon in a marathonsession that began onSunday morning.
Raitt was scheduled
to meet with the unionand the airline at 5 p.m.EDT yesterday in Ot-tawa, where she was ex-pected to press the twosides to reach a deal.
A senior executivefrom Air Canada andPaul Moist, nationalpresident of the Canadi-an Union of Public Em-ployees, whichrepresents the flight at-tendants, were to repre-sent the two sides at themeeting with the minis-ter while the main talkscontinued in Montreal.
The roughly 6,800flight attendants havethreatened to walk offthe job at 12:01 a.m. to-morrow morning iftheir demands aren’tmet.
However, a strikemay be short-lived. Awalkout in June by theairline’s customer-ser-vice agents lasted justthree days after Raitt in-dicated she would legis-late them back to work.THE CANADIAN PRESS
Ireland’s “bad bank” andChristie’s auctioneers saythey are selling a bankruptproperty baron’s art collec-tion, including a work byAndy Warhol.
The auctions Nov. 9 inNew York and Nov. 17 inLondon include Warhol’sDollar Sign and Man DoingAccounts by Jack B. Yeats.The 14 paintings for salehave an estimated value of$2.4 million to $3.1 mil-lion.
Ireland’s National AssetManagement Agency has
seized control of tens ofbillions’ worth of posses-sions of the nation’s bank-rupt property speculators.
The state-run debt man-agement bank said Mon-day this will be its first saleof impounded art.
Irish media have identi-fied the former owner asreal estate entrepreneurDerek Quinlan, who pur-chased much of the artshortly before Ireland’sproperty bubble burst in2008.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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“Our view is withthis split of thebusinesses, we willbe better atstreaming and wewill be better atDVD by mail.”REED HASTINGS, NETFLIX CEO
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Re: Cities can’t ban sharkfins, report says,published Sept. 7.
In Canada, laws that banhunting demonstrateCanada’s motive of pre-serving and protectingwild animals.
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Catch me ifyou can: Mandisguised aspilot escapesA man who disguised himself as anairline pilot tried to enter a restrict-ed area of a New Zealand airportand then escaped after he was chal-lenged.
New Zealand police say they arelooking for a man who on Saturdayentered the Auckland Airport
dressed in a white shirt withepaulets on his shoulders and a darkcap with a silver winged badge.
He was also carrying a large brief-case.
According to the police, the mantried to get into a restricted“airside” area before beingchallenged by ground staff.
The man then escaped from theairport and jumped into the passen-ger seat of a black Toyota van anddrove away.
The incident is reminiscent of the2002 movie Catch Me If You Can,which recounts the true story of ayoung con artist who successfullyposes as an airline pilot beforebeing caught by the FBI.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
UGGS, CROCS,YOGA PANTSAND NOW ...LEGGINGS
Last week, MSN Travelreleased their top 10 list ofthe world’s worst-dressedcities. Anyone familiar withinternational travel won’t besurprised to learn that eight
out of the 10 cities listed are in NorthAmerica; two of those offenders are Cana-dian.
Ottawa, you’re forgiven for your eighth-place ranking — as home to sensible-suit-clad politicians you’ve got more seriousthings to worry about than leopard print
versus polka dots for fall.Vancouver, on the other
hand, rightly earns its spotin third-place for its yoga-pant epidemic. Those ubiq-uitous stretchy black pantsseem permanently affixedto every woman (and mostof the men) living in theLower Mainland, regardlessof whether or not they haveplans to do Ashtanga.
But here’s the thing, yo-ga pants aren’t really allthat bad. Yes, wearing themas outwear when you’re not
en route to the gym reeks of laziness and an “I’ve givenup” attitude, but at least they’re functional as athleticwear.
Canada’s biggest fashion faux pas is plaguing citiescoast to coast. I’m talking of course about the yoga pant’sghastly cousin: leggings. Despite what you might want tobelieve, leggings, in all of their questionable incarnations(pleather, patterned, embellished), are not pants. Don’tbe fooled. While they do resemble a trouser, leggings arenever an acceptable substitute for proper leg wear unlessyou’re a superhero or a cat burglar.
I’m not going to lie, I’ve been there. For years Iworshipped at the altar of American Apparel. I purchasedthose black cotton Spandex jersey standbys in bulk,ensuring that when one pair ripped — because theyalways did — there would be three more understudieswaiting to step in. Oh how I loved those mercifulwaistbands, keeping me blissfully ignorant of my winterweight gain.
But then, in a luminous moment of clarity, I realizedjust how unforgiving these stretchy staples really are. Iwas kidding myself with my black-is-slimming mentality.They don’t disguise anything; they cling in an entirelyshameful manner to every lump and bump from your tor-so onward. And so I banished them to the back of thecloset and embraced structured leg wear.
I’ll admit, I still slip up from time to time — usuallywhen I’m running late for a hungover brunch date and Ican’t face the suffocating reality of denim. But wheneverI’m tempted to reintroduce them into my regularwardrobe rotation, I just remind myself Lindsay Lohandesigned an entire collection around this fashion DON’T.
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Stephen Colbertmeeting Radioheadcalls for an hour-long episode of TheColbert Report.The Comedy Centralshow will air its firsthour-long episodeSept. 26, when Col-bert sits down withthe British rockgroup. Radioheadwill perform foursongs, featuring ma-terial off its most re-cent album, The Kingof Limbs. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Music has always played amajor part in directorCameron Crowe’s films,with 2000’s Almost Famousbeing perhaps the mostmusic-centric. So it was on-ly a matter of time beforehe threw himself complete-ly into a rock and roll docu-mentary like he’s donewith Pearl Jam Twenty,about the iconic Seattleband. “Almost Famous wasabout loving music and be-ing a fan, and Pearl JamTwenty is about loving mu-sic and being a band,”Crowe explains.
The film premierestonight in cities around theworld as a one-night cine-matic event before starting
week-long runs in selectcities Friday and heading toDVD October 25. Accompa-nying the film is a compre-hensive book by JonathanCohen with Mark Wilker-son and a two-disc sound-track of live recordings andbootlegs hand-selected byCrowe.
Crowe, a longtimefriend of the band, admits alot of inspiration for theproject came from MartinScorsese’s 2005 Bob Dylandocumentary, No DirectionHome, which also es-chewed a traditional the-atrical run. “I felt sosatisfied and inspired bythat movie that I wanted tolisten to more Bob Dylan,”Crowe says. “It felt like aBob Dylan experience, andI thought that if we can
make a movie the way aPearl Jam record makesyou feel, then we’re ingood shape.”
The director, who man-aged to squeeze all theband members into hisSeattle-set romantic come-dy Singles back in 1992, in-sists this isn’t yourstandard Behind the Musicfare. “I’ve always felt thatthe story of Pearl Jam is agreat story,” Crowe says.“It’s beyond just a rock sto-ry. In fact, it takes the usualrock story and turns it onits head. The usual rock sto-ry is incredible promise —brilliance, maybe. Tragedycuts it short. And aren’t wesad that we’ve lost thiswonderful opportunity.Pearl Jam is exactly the op-posite. It’s a tragedy that
was surmounted. Andthese guys found joythrough survival, andstudying what happenedwith rock before with someof their heroes.”
For the band, while theamount of focus and intro-spection might be uncom-fortable at first, they’remore than happy with thefinished product. “Maybeit’s good that this moviekind of happened now.We’ve been in gratefulmode and appreciation
mode of each other for, Ithink, for quite some time,”says lead singer Eddie Ved-der. “It’s a galvanizing kindof moment to look at eachother. It doesn’t happenthat often. You look at allthe crowd reaction, or thefamily that is the peoplethat come to see theshows,” Vedder says. “It’sjust music. It’s just guitarsand drums and bass. Tohave it turn into this otherthing is kind of a monu-ment. ... I don’t mean toself-aggrandize, but it’s real-ly something to see it andwitness it, and, in this case,be reminded of it and haveit right there in front of usso that we can appreciate iteven more. And know thatwe have a really strong baseto, like, cover the next 20.”
Screenings
Pearl Jam Twenty screenstonight at select theatresacross Canada. Visit filmswelike.com forlocations and times.
For the love of musicDirector Cameron Crowe indulges his passion for music and Eddie Vedder in Pearl Jam Twenty
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BridesmaidsGenre: ComedyDirector: Paul FeigStars: Kristen Wiig, MayaRudolph, Rose Byrne881
The surprise summer hitBridesmaids is smart, fun-ny and frequently gross.The fact is that the gals canbe every bit as riotous andrude as the guys, but theyaren’t always given achance.
SNL’s bright light Kris-ten Wiig stars (and also co-writes with AnnieMumolo) as terminal fail-ure Annie, a woman on
the verge of a marital melt-down not of her making.Annie is pulled into themine field of weddingplanning when her child-hood BFF Lillian (MayaRudolph) asks her to beher maid of honour.
Lillian neglects to tell
her that she’s also askedher new BFF Helen (RoseByrne, deliciously bitchy)to do much the same job,which the affluent Helen isall too eager and capableto do. The inevitable fric-tion between the two andthe other brides continues
on a road trip to Vegas.PETER HOWELL
Conan O’Brien Can’t StopGenre: DocumentaryDirector: Rodman FlenderStars: Conan O’Brien, AndyRichter, Stephen Colbert881
Where others might havespeed-dialed the suicide-prevention hotline follow-ing the late-night lunacy ofearly 2010, Conan O’Brieninstead called his travelagent. Humbled by hisabrupt exit from TheTonight Show, and blockedfrom immediate TV work,the ginger-haired funny-
man exorcised his demonsin public. His resulting 33-city touring song-and-jokevariety show, captured bythe documentary lens ofRodman Flender for ConanO’Brien Can’t Stop, is com-bination therapy and screw-you retribution.
Flender doesn’t belabourthe events that led up toO’Brien’s rise, fall and sub-sequent rise again (he has anew show on TBS) in thelate-night wars. But neitherdoes Flender deliver a bigsloppy valentine to O’Brien,who comes across as affableyet prickly during his coast-to-coast trek. PETER HOWELL
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Maya Rudolph is not achildless, self-absorbed talkshow host. She just playsone on TV.
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Rudolph plays Ava, thedemanding boss to Christi-na Applegate’s new mom,Reagan (Will Arnett stars asthe baby daddy).
Ava’s cluelessness whenit comes to the reality ofraising a kid spikes on Rea-gan’s first day back to work;the boss awkwardly pleasthat they party in the nameof work.
But Rudolph doesn’thave to think back too farto remember what it waslike to be perhaps over-in-
vested in her own job. “Anything outside of
New York City when youhad show week was reallyhard to fathom becauseeverything for me was liv-ing, breathing SNL at thetime,” she says of her for-mer gig. It’s funny whenyou think back to the per-son that you thought youwere going to be or youhold any sort of judgmentover parents,” Rudolphadds, reflecting on her char-acter and younger self.
“You really don’t know(what it’s like to be a par-ent) until you have that ex-perience.”
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Gym, tanning and laundryare just a few things thestate of New Jersey will bepaying for after reality TVgiant Jersey Shore will re-ceive hundreds of thou-sands of dollars worth oftaxpayers money.
The Associated Press re-ports show that New Jer-sey’s EconomicDevelopment Authorityapproved $420,000 worthof production costs back in2009, before the worldever knew the new mean-ing of “grenade.”
The MTV reality TVshow follows eight younghousemates boozing andpartying their waythrough New Jersey’s
beach-side bars. A boozingand partying rampage thatNew Jersey Governor ChrisChristie thinks the towncan do without. GovernorChristie has been quotedin reports saying that theshow casts a “negative”and inaccurate portrayal ofNew Jersey.
Surely that’s not up fordispute. (Does anyonethink Jersey Shore reflectswell on the state of NewJersey?)
But local authorities inNew Jersey have expressedtheir delight at the flurryof economic activity theproduction brings to thearea.
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Justin Timberlake and MilaKunis are shrugging off re-ports that Kunis’ phonewas hacked last week,leading to the discovery ofseveral steamy photos ofthe Friends with Benefitsstars, according to Peoplemagazine.
“At no time did Mr. Tim-berlake and Ms. Kunis ex-change inappropriate textsor emails,” a joint state-ment from their repsreads.
“The insistence thatthere is any inappropriatecorrespondence betweenthe two parties is entirelyfalse.”
One of the alleged pho-
tos was said to be of Kunisin a bathtub, while anoth-er reportedly showed Tim-berlake with lingerie onhis head. A third photo re-portedly featured malegenitalia.
“We would like to con-firm that the photo ad-dressed in the media of Ms.Kunis was in fact not fromany phone but from an in-active email account thathas not existed in threeyears,” the statementreads. “In regards to theother photos in question,they were never ex-changed between the twoparties.”
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Alec Baldwin bowing out ofthe Emmys Sunday hadnothing to do with a tiffover Rupert Murdoch-relat-ed humour.
The actor had allegedlyrefused to take part in acomedy sketch for theawards show after a joke he
planned to make about theNews of the World phone-hacking scandal was nixedby the show’s network, Fox.
But Baldwin, who at-tended Tony Bennett’sbirthday party in New Yorkthat night, insists that hadnothing to do with it.
“I skipped the Emmysbecause of this — because Iwanted to be here,” he toldPeople magazine. “The Em-mys have been in Augustfor the last several years,but they moved to this dateand I’d already committedto this.” METRO
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For his 43rd birthday, MarcAnthony got a visit fromsoon-to-be ex-wife JenniferLopez, who visited Anthonyat the Miami home theyused to share this weekend,according to Us Weekly.
Lopez, on a break fromfilming What to ExpectWhen You’re Expecting,brought by the couple’sthree-year-old twins, Emmeand Max.
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Can you safely take Advilwhile you are pregnant?Ask your doctor.
A new study from theUniversity of Montreal hasrevealed a possible link be-tween NSAID painkillersand miscarriage.
While this study is auseful reminder thatwomen should be cautious
about taking drugs in preg-nancy, it certainly doesn’tprove anything, says Dr.Gideon Koren, director ofthe Motherisk program atthe Hospital for Sick Chil-dren in Toronto.
“It is a national sport inCanada to scare pregnantwomen, even through re-search which cannot provethe point,” says Koren ofthe study.
“As a rule, Motherisk be-lieves that in pregnancy
women should not self-prescribe, but rather talkto their physicians onneeds, benefits and risks.”
Here’s how the Montre-al study worked: Using aQuebec registry of pa-tients, researchers found4,705 women who had hada miscarriage.
Each case was com-pared to 10 women in theregistry who had not had amiscarriage.
They looked back over
records to find out whichwomen had been pre-scribed NSAIDs by a doc-tor. NSAIDs includecelecoxib (Celebrex), rofe-coxib (Vioxx), ibuprofen(Advil) and naproxen(Aleve).
They found that womenwho received at least oneprescription for NSAIDswere more than twice aslikely to have a miscar-riage than women who didnot.
The study, which waspublished in the CanadianMedical Association Jour-nal, did not ask womenwhether they actually tookthe drugs, and did not in-clude information aboutwomen taking over-the-counter Advil and Aleve.
“The study from Mon-treal has, we believe, ma-jor methodologicalproblems that do not allowdrawing a conclusion,”says Koren.
Director of Motherisk program at Sick Kids preaches talking to your physician, not panic
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My pick as a spread is avocado, hands down Whenthat midmorning hunger hits, there I am spreadinga quarter of an avocado onto a piece of wholegraintoast or a few crackers. A squeeze of lime gives itsome zip, and this is a snack that sets you up untillunch time.
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With blades hitting the icewith the start of NHL train-ing camps last Saturday,the issue of concussions inhockey is top of mind for agroup of doctors, re-searchers and players whowant to educate the publicabout the potential long-term effects of the braininjury.
A public meeting heldon the weekend at Toron-to’s St. Michael’s Hospitallooked at the situationsunder which concussionsoccur and how they can beprevented, with a focus onteaching young playersabout the dangers of headtrauma and how to betterprotect themselves.
“There’s still an attitudeout there that brain injury
is like a broken arm,” saidneurosurgeon Dr. MichaelCusimano, who helped or-ganize the conference.“We take our brains forgranted, and we need tohave people realize thatyou can’t take your brainfor granted.”
Michael Hutchison, apost-doctoral fellow in in-jury prevention at St.Mike’s, presented findingsfrom a study of almost 200concussions that occurredamong NHL players fromthe start of the 2007 sea-son to mid-season 2010.
By analyzing video clipsof incidents that led tothose brain injuries,Hutchison found that, notsurprisingly, most arecaused by direct hits to thehead involving actions byother players — predomi-nantly head shots with ashoulder, elbow or gloves.The study also showed thatforwards incurred moreconcussions than defence-men. THE CANADIAN PRESS
Concussions havean impact on NHL
Max Pacioretty has
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Brain injuries — and how to prevent them — top ofmind as NHL training camps begin Few solutions
FDA saysOZ claimsare falseThe U.S. Food and Drug Ad-ministration and a leadingdoctor are disputingclaims by television showhost Dr. Mehmet Oz thattrace amounts of arsenic inmany apple juice productspose a health risk.
Oz said on his show lastweek that testing by a NewJersey lab has found whathe implied are concerninglevels of arsenic in manyjuices.
However, the FDA saysthe lab methods were notappropriate and that itsown tests show much low-er arsenic levels. Theagency warned the show’sproducers in advance thattheir testing was mislead-ing.
Dr. Richard Besser, for-mer acting head of theCenters for Disease Con-trol and Prevention, alsoscolded Oz.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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After hit-ting twodead-ends on
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Formerly, Red Door PanAsian Grill, SouthGranville’s newly renovat-ed eatery is a casual spotsuitable for shoppers,sports fans (TVs are on),and families. The menu isreminiscent of Earls orCactus Club, listing a slewof interesting salads,meaty entrees and bar
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3 In medium bowl,whisk eggs andlemon juice. Ladleout 250 ml (1 cup) ofbroth and drizzle itinto eggs whilewhisking. Removesaucepan from heat.While whisking broth
Ingredients:
• 15 ml (1 tbsp) butter• 1 yellow onion, diced• 250 ml (1 cup) shreddedcarrots• 2 cloves garlic, finelyminced• 1 l (4 cups) chicken broth• 50 ml (1/4 cup) orzo pas-ta• 5 ml (1 tsp) finelychopped fresh thyme• 3 eggs• 45 ml (3 tbsp) lemonjuice• Salt and black pepper
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As bold in colour as it is intaste, this one-pot fishchowder is packed withflavour. For a more authen-tic flavour, omit theturmeric and substitutewith a pinch of saffron.
Preparation:
1 In a large Dutch oven orsaucepan, heat oil overmedium-high heat. Addonions and cook untiltender, about 5 minutes.Add cumin, coriander,turmeric, salt and redpepper flakes; cook, stir-ring for 1 minute. Addrice and pumpkin orsquash. Stir in broth andbay leaves, scraping any
Ingredients:
• 30 ml (2 tbsp) extra virginolive oil• 2 medium onions,chopped• 5 ml (1 tsp) each groundcumin and coriander• 2 ml (1/2 tsp) turmeric• 5 ml (1 tsp) coarse salt• 2 ml (1/2 tsp) red pepperflakes• 125 ml (1/2 cup) long
grain white rice• 1 kg (2 lb) pumpkin or squash, peeled and diced• 1 l (4 cups) fish or chickenbroth• 2 bay leaves• 500 g (1 lb) skinless had-dock or cod fillets, cut intochunks• 50 ml (1/4 cup) choppedfresh parsley
bits from the bottom ofthe pan. Cover and letsimmer gently, stirringoften for 20 minutes.Add fish and cook, cov-ered, 10 minutes more,
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I keep reading news about a slowdown in theUS economy – should I sell my investments?
A: Money in America? Is that an oxymoron?
B: You should invest! You can’t get the ups without goingthrough the downs.
Allan SmallSenior Investment Advisor – DundeeWealth
Jack is only 3½ years oldbut he has aportfolio.With $1,600in his RESP(RegisteredEducation
Savings Plan), he is startingdown a lifelong path of sav-ing and investing.
Since he’s my grandson,my goal is to make surethat his nascent portfoliogrows happily and safelyuntil he heads off into thepost-secondary world.
With some predictingthat the cost of a four yeardegree will hit $100,000 bythe time he is of universityage, I’d rather he have ashot at higher learningwithout being encumberedby a debt that will haunthim well into his 30s.
His parents, Jeff and
Claudia (my daughter),have all the usual chal-lenges of young moms anddads from mortgages andcar loans to saving for theirretirement, not to mentionall the wants that assailyoung homeowners fromnew carpeting to upgradingtheir kitchen. It’s tough tofind extra dollars for sav-ings. Do they put thosescarce funds in a TFSA (tax-free savings account), RRSP,RESP or devote the moneyto paying down debt?
Every situation is differ-ent, but in Jeff and Clau-dia’s case, I’d rather a bit ofmoney be devoted to Jack’sRESP every month than totheir RRSPs, if they have tomake the choice.
And that’s because edu-cation is a shorter-term ob-ligation. Jack will beheading off to college oruniversity decades beforeJeff and Claudia retire.
While RRSPs provide atax deduction, the CESG (Canada Education
Savings Grant), tops up RE-SP contributions by 20 percent on the first $2,500 con-tributed.
Higher income familieswill get a little less on thefirst $500 and lower incomefamilies more, but the aver-age Canadian can count onthat grant annually up to amaximum of $7,200 overthe life of the plan.
Once the money is insidean RESP you have to decidewhat to do with it. I posedthis question to Jack as he
hammered the siding onmy house with his newtools. He didn’t have an an-swer. Jeff and Claudia don’thave an answer either.
A bank advisor, eager tosell investment products,has already contactedthem. Should they go withmutual funds? And if so,which of the 15,000 aretheir best bet?
Next week I’ll tell youwhat I told them. CONTACT ALISON AT ALISONGRIFFITHS.CA OR [email protected]
ON MONEYALISON [email protected]
Alison’s money rule: Free government money
makes RESPs the best deal going for young families.
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Look way pastyour family’simmediateback-to-school costs
of books, calculators andclothing. According to TDBank, a small child todaywill be faced with approxi-mately $80,000 in post-sec-ondary education expenses.
Parents naturally wantwhat’s best for their kids,but the sheer price tag ofeducation leaves them won-dering how they’re going tomake it happen.
Rest assured; educationis the most lucrative invest-ment you can make in yourchild. According to the Na-tional Graduate’s Survey,their long-term incomeearning ability is up to amillion dollars greater thansomeone without post-sec-
ondary. Plus they’ll benefitfrom more flexibility topursue a career they’re pas-sionate about.
Planning ahead usingthe Registered EducationSavings Plan (RESP) is thebest way for families to savefor a child’s education.
The major benefits of theRESP are; first, moneygrows through the power ofcompounded returns; sec-ond, the growth is tax-de-ferred and; third, thegovernment gives you freemoney toward the plan.
Start now. As soon asyour child is born, or onceyou read this, open an RESPaccount for them. All youneed is a Social InsuranceNumber for your child anda 30 minute appointmentwith your financial advisor.
A professional advisorwill assist you in selectingthe right investments forthe RESP portfolio.
Contribute regularly.Every time you get paid, au-tomatically contribute tothe RESP that same day.
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SAVE FOR SCHOOL
Canadian undergrads arepaying way more than theinflation rate in tuitionhikes this year.
Statistics Canada reportsfull-time students paid anaverage of 4.3 per centmore in tuition this fallthan they did last year,when tuitions rose four percent.
Inflation was 2.7 percent between July 2010and July 2011.
StatsCan says under-graduate students are pay-ing an average of $5,366 intuition fees in 2011-12, upfrom $5,146 a year ago.
Increases ranged from1.4 per cent in Manitoba to5.1 in Ontario.
New Brunswick endedthree years of frozen tu-
ition fees with a 3.6 percent increase, while tu-itions in Nova Scotia rose4.3 after three years of de-clines.
On average, undergradu-ate students in Ontariopaid the highest fees inCanada, at $6,640, fol-lowed by students in NewBrunswick who paid$5,853.
Undergrads in Quebecand Newfoundland andLabrador continued tohave the lowest averagefees, $2,519 and $2,649 re-spectively.
Graduate students paidan average of $5,599 in tu-ition fees for the 2011-12academic year, up 3.7 percent.THE CANADIAN PRESS
Undergrads in Quebec and Newfoundland and
Labrador currently have the lowest average fees.
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RESPs are the way forward
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Tuition fees rose in all butone province, Newfound-land and Labrador, wherethey have been frozensince 2003-04.
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The NFL season is over forJamaal Charles.
The All-Pro running backwill go on injured reserveafter tearing the anteriorcruciate ligament in his leftknee, a person familiarwith the injury told The As-sociated Press, leaving thewinless Kansas City Chiefswithout one of their best of-fensive players.
The person spoke on
condition of anonymity be-cause the Chiefs do not dis-close injury details.
Charles, the NFL’s sec-ond leading rusher last sea-son, sustained the injuryafter taking an awkwardstep finishing off a run inthe first quarter of Sunday’s48-3 loss to the Detroit Li-ons.
Charles had an MRI ex-am yesterday that revealed
the extent of the injury, andcoach Todd Haley said hewould join tight end TonyMoeaki and Pro Bowl safetyEric Berry on injured re-serve. Moeaki tore his leftACL in Kansas City’s pre-season finale against theGreen Bay Packers, whileBerry tore his left ACL in a41-7 season-opening loss tothe Buffalo Bills.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Chiefs lose star running back Charles
Jamaal Charles
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Steve Spagnuolo and the St.Louis Rams came to theMeadowlands bearing giftsand the New York Giantsreadily accepted them.
Eli Manning threw twotouchdown passes and line-backer Michael Boleyscored on a 65-yard fumblereturn to lead New York (1-1) to a 28-16 victory overthe mistake-prone Rams (0-2) last night in the firstmatchup between Giantscoach Tom Coughlin andSpagnuolo, his former de-fensive co-ordinator.
All four of New York’stouchdowns resulted di-rectly from St. Louis mis-takes.
Manning hit HakeemNicks with a three-yard TDpass after a muffed puntand Domenik Hixon madea spectacular juggling grabon a 22-yard score after abusted coverage late in thefirst half.
Sam Bradford threw atouchdown pass and Josh
Brown kicked three shortfield goals for the Rams.
Bradford might havemade the biggest mistake,throwing a pass backwardand seeing Boley run it intothe end zone.
It was that kind of nightfor the Rams.
The Rams killed them-selves in the red zone. Theysettled for three short fieldgoals after drives stalled in-side the Giants 10, with thefirst coming after they got afirst-and-goal at the 1 fol-lowing a 68-yard catch andrun by Danario Alexander.
New York built a 21-6halftime lead and was nev-er threatened again.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Giants cash in on big gaffes
Giants running back Brandon Jacobs rushes for a touchdown
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