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News worth sharing.
Answers can be found on February 22 at telusmobility.com/crossword.
Across 1 A 5.3" screen makes it easier to ___ the Internet
3 Earth is one and so are Jupiter, Mercury and Neptune
7 See 14 Across
8 The operating system of the Samsung Galaxy
9 Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk the moon;
___ Cernan, the last
11 To create
14 It appears every 76 years (with 7 Across)
16 Having to do with the sun
17 Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were aboard Apollo ___
18 Mass of stone or metal heading this way
Down 1 It’s possible to ___ a signal off the moon back to Earth
2 The final space ___ mission ended last July
4 The Galaxy Note runs on the TELUS 4G ___
5 Use the Galaxy Note’s browser to stay on top of the latest ___
6 TELUS Flex ___ Plans automatically adjust to your needs
10 Darkening of the sun – don’t stare
11 Use the S Pen to literally write a text ___
12 What they once thought the moon was made of
13 Bowl-like depression on the moon
15 The ___ of the Galaxy Note makes it part
smartphone, part tablet
Is it a tablet? Or …
Actual device size
… a smartphone?
It’s the new .
An owner’s walk with her petsturned into a nightmare when herdog became ill after eating rat poi-son at a city park.
Jennifer Tillet says she was tak-ing her two dogs and her baby fora walk last Tuesday morning, inthe off-leash area of Hadden Parknear the Vancouver MaritimeMuseum, when she noticed herseven-year-old dog, Daisy, playingwith a black box in a fenced areabehind the museum.
She started running towardsthe dog, but Daisy had knockedthe poison out of the box and eat-en it.
Tillet says she rushed Daisy, aGerman shorthaired pointer, tothe veterinarian the same day.The next day, Daisy couldn’t moveher back leg and lost her appetite.
“I’m extremely happy that shedidn’t die and I was able to gether treated right away,” she said.“If some other animal hadknocked over the poison first andDaisy ate it later, then she wouldprobably have all these symptomsand I wouldn’t even know it.”
Daisy’s medical bills are nowmore than $1,000 and Tillet saysshe wants to be compensated.
Vancouver park board generalmanager Malcolm Bromley saysthey are in talks with Tillet andthey are investigating how thedog got in the fenced area to pre-
vent a similar incident in thefuture.
“We’re very careful in the citywhere we use pest-control man-
agement of any type,” he said.“We want to make sure that itdoesn’t pose any threat to ani-mals.”
Bromley adds they haveadvised Tillet on how to go aboutclaiming Daisy’s medical expens-es.
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Canada’s top cops an-nounced Monday in Van-couver that they arebacking the federal govern-ment’s controversial Inter-net-surveillance billintroduced in the House ofCommons earlier thismonth.
Speaking at the VPD de-tachment on CambieStreet, officers, represent-ing both the Vancouver andCanadian police, defendedand endorsed Bill C-30,which has come under fireamong Canadians andgroups, saying it invadespeople’s privacy.
The proposed legislationwould allow Internet serv-ice providers to turn overbasic customer informa-tion such as name, phonenumber, address, email ad-dress, IP address and thename of the serviceprovider to police withouta warrant.
VPD Deputy Chief War-ren Lemcke, who also
spoke on behalf of theCanadian Association ofChiefs of Police, blamed“misinformation” aboutthe bill for instilling fearand confusion among thepublic.
“This bill does not allowpolice to monitor phonecalls, email or Internet surf-ing at will without a war-rant,” he said. “There is nodoubt those who areagainst the legislation maywant you to believe that itdoes.”
He added the bill wouldallow police to quickly re-spond to serious crimessuch as kidnapping, identi-
ty theft, child exploitationand organized crime.
Lemcke said this allowspolice to keep up with thetechnology criminals use,noting that organized-crime groups shop around
for ISPs that don’t have theinfrastructure to providethe information when re-quested.
Micheal Vonn, policy di-rector of the B.C. Civil Lib-erties Association, said the
proposed infrastructurecould be exploited by hack-ers and the complexity ofthe bill has the police, thepublic and even PublicSafety Minister Vic Toewsin a state of confusion.
VPD backs Internet-surveillance bill
Vancouver police Deputy Chief Warren Lemcke throws his supportfor federal Bill C-30 Monday at the
VPD headquarters.
PHYLICIA TORREVILLAS/METROPolice contend bill will allow forquick response to serious crimes
If approved, the proposed student-union building will be built in the Lorne Davies Complex at the SFU Burnaby campus.
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New SFU complex to make some spaceA $65-million student-union building is in theworks at Simon Fraser Uni-versity’s Burnaby campusthat would add 100,000square feet of studentspace, as well as an outdoorstadium, the Simon FraserStudent Society (SFSS) an-nounced Monday.
The addition will be builtin the Lorne Davies Com-plex at the south end of the
Terry Fox Field. It will in-clude lounge space, individ-ual study areas, meetingrooms, recreational facili-ties, and a 2,500-seat out-door stadium. “Since 1989the campus population hasdoubled. We didn’t haveenough space then and westill don’t have enoughnow,” said Jeff McCann,president of the SFSS.
Undergraduate students
will vote on the project inan online referendum fromMarch 20-22.
If the project is given thegreen light, full-time under-graduate student levies willincrease by $10 beginningin 2014 and will continue toincrease in $10 incrementsover a 30-year period tofund the project. If ap-proved, it is slated to openin 2017. KENDRA WONG
“Obviously, there’sa powerfulargument forpulling this billapart into all of itsdifferentcomponents so wecan examine itproperly.”MICHEAL VONN, B.C. CIVILLIBERTIES ASSOCIATION
A campaign aimed to edu-cate youth about the dan-gers of street drugs waslaunched Monday by Ab-botsford police in responseto two ecstasy-relateddeaths in their community.
Const. Ian MacDonaldsaid youth, social pressureand a lack of information isa formula for trouble.
“The primary differenceof drug consumption
amongst youth and adultsis that we (adults) recognizethe decision is ours tomake,” MacDonald said.
Operation X includes aseries of posters in youthhotspots like high schoolsand recreation centres, aswell as bus-bench signs inAbbotsford.
Also part of the cam-paign, a letter written byChief Const. Bob Rich was
sent out to 15,000 familiesto arm parents with infor-mation about drugs anddrug prevention.
JENNIFER KWOK
Operation X educates on ecstasyAn Operation X poster.
COURTESY OF ABBOTSFORD POLICE DEPARTMENT
More protectionfor sled dogsCODE OF PRACTICE. Theprovince is bringing in an-other layer of protectionfor sled dogs, almost twoyears after a mass cull ofthe working dogs inWhistler. The Sled DogCode of Practice sets out
standards of care foreverything thing fromhealth, nutrition andhousing, to working con-ditions, transportationand euthanasia. The codewas developed by the sleddog industry, veterinar -ians, animal-welfare aca-demics and the B.C. SPCA.The SPCA investigation in-to deaths of 56 dogs in2010 determined the dogswere shot or had theirthroats slit.THE CANADIAN PRESS
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The report released Mon-day reviewed a sample of213 disability-benefit deci-sion letters sent between2001 and 2010 and foundthat none clearly stated thereasoning behind the deci-sion. About one in five gaveenough detail for veteransto attempt to deduce the ra-tionale, but the remaindercame up entirely short.
Parent says that failing toprovide supporting infor-mation for decisions is atodds with the Veterans Billof Rights and other laws.
His report recommendsthat reasons for decisionsbe stated in plain English,not medical or legal terms,
and that manuals be re-viewed to make sure adjudi-cators are aware of whathas to be in the letters. Aquality-assurance systemmust also be in place.THE CANADIAN PRESS
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A report on how former sol-diers are told whether theyhave qualified for disabilitybenefits is the start of awide-ranging look intoproblems plaguing veter-
ans’ care, the veterans om-budsman says.
In his report intowhether veterans are givenenough information aboutwhy they are granted or de-
nied disability benefits, GuyParent found the govern-ment is failing.
And failure so early inthe process can have adomino effect that Parent
says he intends to studyover the coming years.
“We needed to startsomewhere and I think thisis a good point,” he said inan interview.
Ottawa blasted over veterans’ aidVets not given proper reasons for denial of benefits Adjudicators need systematic approach, ombudsman says
Reaction
A spokeswoman for
Veterans Affairs MinisterSteven Blaney said he welcomes the report andintends to act quickly.“Cutting red tape and
providing hassle-free serv-ices to our veterans is min-ister Blaney’s top priority,”Codie Taylor said.
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Veterans ombudsman Guy Parent is concerned that many
veterans who are wrongly assessed may not pursue the
matter because the decision letter is unclear in its reasons.
FIGHT FOR THE CURE
Trudeau theunderdog incharity fightConservative SenatorPatrick Brazeau is thefavourite against LiberalMP Justin Trudeau in anupcoming boxing match,an online book-maker says.
Bodog.ca saidit looked at themen’sexperience —particularlyBrazeau’s black
belt in karate — andphysical stature and putBrazeau at -500 odds andTrudeau at +300. Thatmeans Brazeau has morethan an 80 per centchance of winning, itsaid.
“I was just trying tosize up these fighters as ifthey were actual boxersand trying to put them ata number,” said Adam
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The Fight Forthe Cure matchis on March 31 inOttawa. JESSICASMITH IN OTTAWA
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Third chargelaid in ‘couch
A Quebec man accused ofdriving a vehicle thatdragged a sofa carryingtwo of his friends, one ofwhom was killed, facesthree criminal charges.
Alex Labbe, 21, of St-
Benjamin, had alreadybeen charged with hit-and-run causing deathand dangerous drivingcausing death. OnMonday, the Crown laid athird charge of criminalnegligence causing deathin the Saturday-nightstunt that killed FrancoisHallee, 22. He was freedon $2,000 bail.THE CANADIAN PRESS
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More than 40 people, mostof them children, havefrozen to death in what hasbeen Afghanistan’s coldestwinter in years, an Afghanhealth official said Monday.
The government hasrecorded 41 deaths fromfreezing in three provinces— Kabul, Ghor andBadakhshan, said HealthMinistry spokesman Ghu-lam Sakhi Kargar.
All but three or four ofthose deaths were children,he said. Twenty-four of thedeaths were in the capitalof Kabul, mostly in campsfor people who have fledfighting elsewhere in thecountry.
Kabul has been experi-
encing its worst cold snapand heaviest snowfall in 15years, according to the Na-tional Weather Center. Itsaid the weather was to im-prove by the end of theweek.
Heavy snowfall in DayKundi province caused anavalanche late Sunday inthe Sang-i-Takht districtthat damaged three dozenhomes and shops. The ava-lanche caused no injuries,said Nasrullah Sadiqizada, amember of parliamentfrom the central province.
The hardest-hit havebeen people living in tentsin a number of campsaround the capital. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Afghan coldclaims morethan 40 lives
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A child stands with his father as they wait to receive
blankets and winter jackets at a camp in Kabul for
internally displaced Afghans.
Coldest winter in years forces locals into camps Number ofdeaths in capital city outrages public
Red Cross urgingceasefire in SyriaThe International Com-mittee of the Red Cross(ICRC) said Monday that itis trying to broker a cease-fire aimed at allowingemergency aid to reachpeople in the areas mostaffected by fighting in Syr-ia, where thousands havedied in an 11-month up-rising against PresidentBashar Assad’s regime.
An ICRC spokeswoman,Carla Haddad, said the Geneva-based aidgroup has been in talks
with Syrian authoritiesand opposition groups forsome time, but attemptsto negotiate a ceasefirehad begun only recently.Haddad declined to speci-fy when.
“We are currently dis-cussing several possibili-ties with all thoseconcerned, and it includesa cessation of fighting inthe most affected areas,”Haddad told The Associat-ed Press.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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The growth of online retail-ers represents the biggestopportunity in a genera-tion, but Canada Post chiefexecutive Deepak Choprasays the post office needs tochange to survive as fewerletters get delivered eachyear.
Chopra says the organi-zation is going through itsbiggest upheaval since theintroduction of postal codesand machine sorting.
While the number ofwindowpaned envelopeswith the latest Visa bill orbank statement are de-creasing, the volume of en-velopes with eBaypurchases are on the rise.
“We’re on the verge of amassive explosion in e-com-merce,” said Chopra.
Postal services aroundthe world are facing thesame trends that squeezetheir business, undercutrevenues threaten to pro-duce mass layoffs. The U.S.Postal Service says it may
lose as much as $18.2 bil-lion a year by 2015 unlessthe government allows it toeliminate Saturday deliv-ery, slow first-class mail byone day and raise the priceof a postage stamp.
Though not as dramatic,Canada Post is also pursu-ing its own restructuring tomodernize and adapt.
It opened its first newplant in 20 years in Win-nipeg in 2010. The organi-zation is also retrofitting itsmassive operations inToronto, Montreal and oth-er cities. Modern equip-ment is speedingprocessing times, but it alsomeans less manual han-dling — and rising tensionswith unionized workers.THE CANADIAN PRESS
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If Facebook is like a diary ofwhat my life actually lookslike (albeit a carefully curat-ed one), then Pinterest is myvision board for what I wishmy life looked like.
If you’re unfamiliar with this rapidlygrowing social-networking site, well,where have you been? Here’s how itworks: images of beautiful clothes,adorable animals, elegant homes andperfectly styled foodstuffs are virtually“pinned” onto thematic boards. Users
can edit and share their digital pinboards with fellowpinthusiasts who can then comment on, like and re-pin the images on their own boards and so on.
While a small percentage of the images are purelypractical — think “the best DIY drain cleaner” — themajority are simply things that are nice to look at. Thephoto-sharing site is especially popular among youngwomen (hi there!) who grew up tearing images out ofmagazines and tacking them up on corkboards to cre-ate aspirational collages. Taking this low-tech practiceand moving it online is both genius in its simplicityand its revenue-generating potential.
Not only is Pinteresteasy to use, it’s also hope-lessly addictive. I’ve stayedup until 1 a.m. browsingonline catalogues of stun-ning interiors because Idecided my home-decorboard absolutely neededsome new material. I catchmyself pinning at home,at the office, in transit ...heck, I’ve pinned 10 timesalready while writing thiscolumn.
Interestingly,Pinterest’s userdemographics in North
America differ vastly from those across the pond. Theoverwhelming majority of American users are females(83 per cent) using the site to post images fromfeminine interest areas such as fashion, hair and beau-ty, wedding decor, recipes, etc. In Britain, more than50 per cent of the users are males sharing very differ-ent materials, including SEO and marketing resources,web analytics and venture-capital-related items.Notwithstanding these differences, images concernedwith homemade crafts rank pretty high in both coun-tries. I guess you can’t deny the popularity of DIYtchotchkes.
While you could dismiss this photo-sharing site as afrivolous collection of eye candy, you’d be a fool not torecognize its potential. I’m sure plenty of companiesand brands would love to know that I have visitedwebsites and even made a couple of purchases as a di-rect result of something I stumbled upon onsomeone’s virtual pin board.
In January of this year, Pinterest became the fastestwebsite in history to break through the 10-million-unique-visitor mark and it’s growing exponentiallyevery single day. So are you getting nervous, Mr.Zuckerberg?
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Revellers gatherin Rio for paradeRIO DE JANEIRO. This year’sCarnival celebrationsseem to have drawn someof the unlikeliest of fans.These “Smurfs” were someof the many revellers whodescended on Rio de Janei-ro to watch the elaborateparades of Carnival whichculminate on Fat Tuesdaybefore the start of the Cat-holic season of Lent.
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Swivelling hipsfor 40 minutesPARADE. The main event ofthe Carnival takes place atthe Sambadrome, a citystrip flanked by standswith 80,000 spectators,where 13 samba schoolsperform with lavishmoving floats. Feathereddancers dance and swiveltheir hips nonstop for 40minutes to compete forthe prize of the parade’schampion. MWN
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Carnival facts
History. Carnival datesback to the 18th centuryand mixes the traditionsof Portuguese settlerswith the culture and his-tory of the African slavepopulation. The first pa-rade of samba schoolswas in 1928.What samba schools do.
Each school features up to6,000 drummers, dancersand other participants as
well as spectacularly dec-orated floats. The schoolsdevelop an allegoricaltheme with a speciallywritten samba song.Queens of the Night
Each school has a rainha,or queen, who leads thedrum corps. Usuallydressed in little morethan a huge plumedheaddress and high-heeled shoes, they are often famous actresses or models.
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Filming on a missionAct of Valor crew had their work cut out for them following the days of real-life Navy SEALs
“We wanted to show thatthese guys were human be-ings and not Terminators,”says Scott Waugh, the co-director of the unconven-tional new feature Act ofValor, an action movie star-ring real-life Navy SEALS.
“Originally, they turnedus down, saying that theyweren’t actors, and thatthey weren’t Hollywoodguys. “We told them thatwe only wanted them to bethemselves.”
Waugh is a formerstuntman and his co-direc-tor Mike McCoy used torace motorcycles for a liv-ing, so it’s no surprise thatthey were able to relate toa group of alpha-maletypes. Act of Valor grew outof documentaries the pairmade for the Air Force andthe Navy, but it’s a fictionalnarrative, featuring script-ed dialogue, plot twists,and actors in supportingroles (mostly as the terror-ist villains on the wrongend of the SEALS’ gun-sights).
McCoy says that the sto-ry is rooted in reality, how-ever. “Everything thathappens to a SEAL in thefilm has happened to a
SEAL on the battlefield.” In some cases, the line
between filmmaking andfield work blurred togeth-er: a scene where the SEALteam rendez-vous with anuclear submarine wasshot using the real thing.
“We waited until a trueinsertion operation wasplanned and then hoppedon,” says Waugh, who saysthat they weren’t given ex-act coordinates on thesub’s location until themorning of the shoot. “All
that stuff is real and shot inreal time.”
“We avoided CGI,” addsMcCoy. “It’s all real stuff,like in the action movieswe were raised on.”
That also means that theSEALs did their own stunts,which McCoy says was lessof a stretch than one mightthink. “The way they train,they’re the most physicallycapable people on theplanet.”
While Waugh and Mc-Coy acknowledge that re-
leasing such a pro-militarymovie into such a polar-ized political moment is arisk, they say they don’thave any agenda: their ad-miration for their subjectsand subject matter is sin-cere. “We had one goalwhen we started the film,”says Waugh, “and that’sthat the guys would stillwant to have a beer with uswhen we were done. AndI’m proud to say that we’restill drinking beer togeth-er.”
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Act of Valor is the product of a pair of documentaries made for the U.S. Air Force and Navy.
Shooting SEALs
The Act of Valor crew followed real SEAL trainingsessions and althoughthere might be concernabout revealing the identi-ties of these special opera-tions forces, the SEALs theyfollowed weren’t in an op-erational position, butmerely in training. Thefaces of the SEALs andtheir first names are usedin the movie.
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Woody Allen’sromantic fantasyMidnight in Paris andAlexander Payne’sfamily drama The De-scendants have wontop screenplay hon-ours from the WritersGuild of America.Allen won for origi-nal screenplay. Direc-tor Payne won foradapted screenplay.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Tower HeistGenre: Action/ComedyDirector: Brett RatnerStars: Eddie Murphy, BenStiller, Casey Affleck811⁄2
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da, totally believable as asmug bajillionaire investorliving in the penthouse lux-ury of the Tower (in realitythe Trump Tower). Shaw’severy want and whim isserviced by the Tower’sbuilding manager Josh (BenStiller) and the colourfulcharacters who assist him.Everything is fine untilShaw’s illegal money pyra-mid collapses, taking downthe trusting Tower employ-ees’ pension plan with it.
How to get the employ-ees’ dough back? A heist isin order. And the person toengineer it is Murphy, inone of his funniest live-ac-tion roles since his 1980sheyday. Ratner breaks allthe rules of the universe, in-cluding gravity. But ifyou’re willing to suspendyour disbelief, he’ll leaveyou smiling.
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Singing legend was buried on Saturday and already her Bodyguard dress,earrings are up for grabs How much will these pieces of Whitney go for?
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able after her death on Feb.11. “It proves a point thatthese items, they’re an in-vestment,” Julien told TheAssociated Press. “You buyitems just like a stock. Buyat the right time and sell atthe right time, and they justincrease in value.” He con-tinued: “It’s a celebration ofher life. If you hide thesethings in fear that you’regoing to offend someone —her life is to be celebrated.These items are historicnow that she’s passed.”
Point taken. But herdeath is already so tragic.Can’t we have an appropri-ate amount of time tomourn before everyonestarts to profit off of her?Say, a week?
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“I don’t want mykids get-ting tat-toos. AndI wantedthem tobe [re-moved]by thetime Idid the
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Identify, target andfix problem areas When standing tall, a manwill look stronger and a
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Weights don’t needto weigh you down The celebs use weights —well, light ones.
“Think of it this way:walking is good, jogging isbetter and sprinting isbest,” says Alarcon. “Addingfive-pound ankle or armweights to any exercise ishard as heck but causesmore of a burn, as it maxi-mizes the effort and short-ens the time needed to gainthe maximum amount ofmuscle. You can go from do-ing 20 reps to 10 to 15, andget the exact same results,”he continues.
If it’s bad, don’t eat itAlarcon doesn’t believe indiets. Allow yourself to eatwhat you want to eat or youwill crash.
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“I am not built tolift weightsmentally. I do notlike lifting heavymetal over myhead. I have a lot ofrage, I guess, and itcomes out whenI’m hauling steeloverhead.”EMMA STONE, ON WORKING OUTWITH ARMANDO ALARCON
Alarcon onEmma“Emma is the perfect ex-ample of someone whocontrols her eating verywell. She doesn’t go ondiets and does indulgeonce in a while butoverall, she eats very lit-tle meat and fatty foodsand lots of fresh fruitand vegetables.”
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Don’t leave money on thetable at work: Many com-panies offer retirementcontribution matches for
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Set up an automatic sav-ings program to make reg-ular savings a breeze:Setting up an automaticsavings plan (ASP) ensuresthat saving for retirementis a priority. Putting thatmoney into a high-interestsavings account mean youcan comfortably save foryour future, and the auto-matic regular withdrawalsensure you don’t feel thepinch of setting moneyaside. NEWS CANADA
Are you confused abouthow your company’s pen-sion plan works and fits in-to your overall retirementgoals?
Thirty-nine per cent ofCanadians have a work-place pension according toStatistics Canada, yet someare unsure of how it fits in-to their retirement puzzle.
“Pensions are a great op-portunity for employees togrow their wealth and savefor retirement so it’s im-portant that they under-stand how their planworks,” said Duane Green,senior vice-president ofFranklin Templeton Insti-tutional.
Four ways you can findthe maximum value inyour plan are:
1 Start early. The sooneryou begin, the more
money you can save.When you get your firstfull-time job that offers apension plan, inquireabout how it works andstart contributing if that’san option. Your money willgrow tax free within thepension until you retire.
2 Take the free money.Employers typically
contribute to your pensionif you do. For example, ifan employer contributes50 cents for every dollaryou contribute, you willget an immediate 50 percent return on your sav-ings before you even in-vest it. Try to make themaximum contributionthat is required to get theemployer match.
3 Know your investmentoptions. If you have
the option to choose your
investments, ensure youunderstand the risks. Re-assess your investments asrequired and consult yourfinancial adviser to ensurethat you have diversifica-tion amongst your pensionand RRSP.
4 Be prepared for the fu-ture. Find out what
happens to your pension ifyou leave your job or re-tire. Ask about the vestingrules — that is how longyou have to be part of thepension plan to receive allof your employer’s contri-butions.
A pension plan is a greatstart towards saving for re-tirement. Your adviser canhelp you build a retire-ment plan that’s right foryou that accounts for yourpension, RRSP and govern-ment benefits. NEWS CANADA
Feb. 29 is the deadline tocontribute to your RRSPfor 2011.
“You have earned itand you should keep it,”said Don Reed, presidentand CEO of Franklin Tem-pleton Investments Corp.“An RRSP is a tax-efficient way for Canadi-ans to save forretirement.”
Consider these threelast-minute tips:
1 Contribute now. Tem-porarily park your
RRSP contribution in amoney market fund.Meet with yourinvestment adviser to re-balance your portfolio inthe spring.
2 Go global. Canada ac-counts for about five
per cent of the worldmarket. Boosting foreigncontent in your RRSP willdiversify your portfolioand limit risk.
3 Dollar-costaveraging. Set up au-
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Have you contributed toyour RRSP yet? The dead-line for contributing andusing it on your 2011 in-come tax return is Feb. 29.Here are ways you can do it:
All at once: At this point intime, your only choice is tomake a lump sum contri-bution. Whether it’s be-cause you have an unevenincome flow, you forgot, oryou don’t have a retire-
ment plan in place, “we doknow that in February, peo-ple stress about making acontribution,” says PeterDrake, vice-president, re-tirement and economic re-search, FidelityInvestments Canada. “Ifyou’re in that situation, it’sbetter to do somethingthan do nothing.”
Next year, try to con-tribute the lump sum earli-er in the year rather thanlater, advises Mike Henry,senior vice-president of re-tail products at Scotiabank.
“Once money is inside anRRSP, it’s growing tax free.”
Loan: You might also con-sider borrowing money.“This is still a great way forsomeone to get money intoretirement savings,” saysHenry. Most banks havespecial RRSP loans. For ex-ample, “We can set up acatch-up RRSP line at Sco-tiabank to help you catchup on any unused RRSPcontributions,” says Henry.But paying off the loan asquickly as possible is rec-
ommended. “We let cus-tomers defer payments forthree months while theywait for their tax return tocome in. Then they can usethe refund against theloan.”
Throughout the year: Reg-ular contributions (weekly,monthly, etc.) are the mostconvenient and effectiveway to contribute, says An-thony Williams, vice-presi-dent of academic affairs,Canadian Institute of Fi-nancial Planning.
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The sooner you start sav-ing for retirement, themore money you will havebecause the more time itwill have to grow!
A Scotiabank calcula-tion, for example, showsthat if you start contribut-ing $100 per month toyour RRSP at age 20, withan average return of sixper cent you will have$263,589 when you retireat age 65 and your totalcontribution would be$54,000.
If you start 10 years lat-er, you will have $138,068by age 65 and your totalcontributions would be$42,000.
If you start at age 40,you would need to make
monthly contributions of$388 to have $263,751 atage 65 (with an averagerate of return of six percent) and your total contri-butions would be$116,400. Starting 10 yearslater at age 50 would giveyou $111,895 when you re-tire and you will have con-tributed $69,840.
Here is an online toolthat can help determinehow much you need to setaside to reach a goal suchas retirement savings: sco-tiabank.com/payyourself-first/ScotiaPAC.html.
Rates of Return: Rates ofreturn are a concern buthave to put into context ofhistorical norms, explainsAnthony Williams, vice-president of academic af-fairs, Canadian Institute of
Financial Planning. “Over a period of time,
things will get back to areasonable level. We’vehad periods of time whereinterest rates were ex-tremely high — for exam-ple, they were 20 per centin the ‘80s. Now, we’re atthe other end of the spec-trum, at one or two percent. But it all averages outat the end of the day.”
The other way of think-
ing about this, says PeterDrake, vice-president, Re-tirement and EconomicResearch, Fidelity Invest-ments Canada, is it’s still areality that we need tosave for retirement. “Weobsess over investment re-turns but in a time whenreturns are lower andmore volatile than in thepast, we also need to thinkabout the fact that we mayneed to compensate for
that by saving more now.”
Growth Factors: Here ishow invested money cangrow. In this scenario,John invests $5,000 peryear for 10 years at a fiveper cent annual return. Hethen holds the savings in aportfolio earning five percent per year for an addi-tional 10 years. Susandoesn’t save for the first 10years, but then contributes
$7,000 per year for 10years at a five per cent an-nual return per year. Atthe end of the 20 years, Su-san has contributed$20,000 more than Johnhas, yet her total savingsare $15,115 less.
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CONTRIBUTIONS ARE MADE AT THEBEGINNING OF THE YEAR. TAX CON-
SIDERATIONS ARE NOT INCLUDED.
Do I put money in-to my RRSP (reg-isteredretirementsavings plan) or
my TFSA (tax-free savingsaccount)?
As the deadline for RRSPcontributions rapidlyapproaches, many Canadi-ans may be askingthemselves that questionas they decide where to in-vest money for their futureor their retirement.
The answer to the ques-tion will depend on a num-ber of factors, butCanadians should be look-
ing at both options whenmaking their decision, saysCarol Bezaire, vice-president of tax and estateplanning with McKenzieFinancial.
“While the two savingsplans have differentfeatures and benefits, theyare designed tocomplement each other,”says Bezaire. “As a govern-ment of Canada brochurestates, while an RRSP is pri-marily intended for retire-ment, the TFSA is like anRRSP for everything else inyour life.”
In general, decidingwhere to make your contri-butions depends on yourtax rate when youcontribute funds and yourtax rate when youwithdraw them.
If your tax rate is lowerwhen you contribute youare better to use a TFSA; ifyour tax rate is higher youare better to contribute toyour RRSP because you willreceive a tax refund.
Conversely, if youexpect to be in a lower taxbracket when funds arewithdrawn, an RRSP isprobably a better vehiclefor investments. If you ex-pect to be in a higher taxbracket when money iswithdrawn, a TFSA may bethe better choice becausewithdrawals are tax free.
“For investors looking
to stretch their RRSP con-tributions further, consid-er rolling your RRSP taxrefund into a TFSA,”Bezaire suggests. “This canadd considerable assets toyour retirement fund.”
Another strategy is totake money out of a TFSAwith no penalty, put it intoan RRSP for the tax deduc-tion, and then take the tax
refund and put it back intothe TFSA, although the re-contribution only can bemade in the year followingthe withdrawal.
There are some strongcorrelations betweendemographics and whichsavings vehicle Canadiansuse.
TFSAs tend to be morepopular among youngerCanadians while RRSPs aremore popular among olderCanadians who are closerto, or in, retirement.
“The older generation,like boomers, tend to havea long-term view of theirinvestments,” says Bezaire.“They have been workingfor a number of years, tendto have higher salaries andtherefore can reduce theirtaxes through thedeductions they get fromRRSP contributions.”
Generation Xers (thoseborn between 1964 and1980), however, seem towant more flexibility intheir work and
investments, Bezaire notesand seem to prefer TFSAs,which have no tax implica-tions for withdrawingmoney, unlike an RRSP.
Many Canadians in themillennial generation intheir 20s have borrowedfor their education andgenerally are better off in-vesting in a TFSA becausethey either can withdrawmoney to pay off debt orfor other things withoutbeing taxed, and can putthe money back in later.
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A spousal RRSP is a regularRRSP with one importantdifference, says Mike Hen-ry, senior vice-president ofretail products, Scotiabank:The person making thecontribution is doing so intheir spouse’s name.
“This lets couples divideup their retirement incomeas a way of minimizingtheir overall tax liability inretirement. It’s really usefulin that you can help bal-
ance up the income loadand try and keep eachspouse in a lower overall in-come tax bracket in retire-ment.”
A spousal RRSP is an in-come splitting strategywith the objective of reduc-ing the cumulative familytax bill, according to Antho-ny Williams, vice-presidentof academic affairs, Canadi-an Institute of FinancialPlanning.
Through their workinglife, the person with thehigher income can shift in-
come to the person in thelower tax bracket, saysWilliams. When you bothretire, rather than have adisproportionate pool ofRRSP income, you have
equal amounts, saysWilliams. If you need$50,000 of household in-come, you would pull$25,000 from each plan.
“From a tax perspective,
that’s much better thantaking the entire amountfrom the one.”
Here’s what you need toknow about spousal RRSPs:
A person can contributehis or her entire RRSP al-lowance into a personalRRSP, put it all in a spousalRRSP, or split up the contri-bution.
Once money is in aspousal RRSP, it becomesthat person’s money —even though the other per-son makes contribution.
The contributor gets the
tax deduction. Any withdrawal is taxed.
The contributor will gettaxed if the money is pulledout during the attributionperiod, which is three cal-endar years from the contri-bution. Otherwise, theowner will get taxed whenthe money comes out.
At the same time,spousal RRSPs are just oneway of doing spousal split-ting and, really, you shouldlook at how they fit intoyour whole retirement sav-ings plan, says Williams.
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Spousal RRSPs — divide and prosperSecurity
While the tax savings isone reason to choose, theother, says Peter Drake,vice-president, retirementand economic research, Fi-delity Investments Canada,could be described as
emotional. “If the higherearning spousecontributes, then therecipient is going to havesome income inretirement, along with oldage security, CPP, etc.,”And that provides a nicefeeling of security.
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The Canucks (38-15-6)visit Nashville (34-19-6) looking to extendtheir four-game win-ning streak. Hal Gillwas plus-2 with twoblocked shots in hisdebut for the Preda-tors — a 3-2 win overDallas on Sunday.Shea Weber scoredhis 12th goal of theseason in the win.Martin Erat, wholeads Nashville with42 points, has nopoints in the last fourgames. The Predatorshave points in theirlast eight homegames, including a 4-3shootout loss to Van-couver on Feb. 7. MikeFisher (flu) is day-to-day.THE CANADIAN PRESS
Shrugging off controversyAlbert Pujols pulled in forhis first day of spring train-ing with the Anaheim An-gels on Monday amiddozens of television cam-eras and required a sepa-rate press conference backat the team hotel to han-dle the media interest.
Jose Bautista, mean-while, has been goingabout his business in Flori-da the past few days in ad-vance of the Blue Jays’camp in relative anonymi-ty. But there is some com-mon ground for the twosuperstars — both say theyhave been tested for per-formance enhancing drugswell in excess of normalleague protocol.
Bautista addressed theissue Monday in Dunedin,the first time he spoke toToronto media on the mat-ter after a tweet in mid-January fanned into a briefcontroversy.
Bautista maintained hewas tested 16 times overthe course of his back-to-back American Leaguehome run champion sea-sons (2010 and 2011). Ma-jor League Baseball saidthose figures did notmatch up with their num-bers, and for a week afterthe story broke, therewere questions about whowas correct.
“I don’t care,” Bautistasaid about the entire affair.
“At first it got blownway out of proportion. Iwas at a dinner and a play-er asked me a questionand I gave him my answer.I didn’t know there were(press) working there and
that didn’t matter. Then itbecame a story, from thefirst time it got tweeted orwhatever, it went fromthere.”
Major leaguers can ex-pect at least two unan-nounced tests during theregular season and possi-bly two more duringspring training.
Pujols, like Bautista,
said he was tested well be-yond those numbers. Nei-ther has ever testedpositive for any bannedsubstance.
During the off-season,Bautista said that he tooktwo months off, largely torest his body after a seriesof injuries in the second
half of the season.“To me, the most impor-
tant thing is remaininghealthy and staying on thefield to help this team inany way I can,” saidBautista.
“If we win and get intothe playoffs, then that dic-tates what is my success(in Toronto).” TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
‘I don’t care if anybody is singling me out,’ Toronto slugger Bautista says of PED questions
Kelly Scott’s team keepswinning games at the wireat the Canadian women’scurling championship.However, the B.C. skip isconcerned about an off-icedevelopment.
Teammate Sasha Carterdidn’t play in B.C.’s 7-5 winover defending championAmber Holland in Red Deeron Monday because of theflu. Scott’s husband, Chad,and young son, Nash, hadthe same symptoms.
“My roomie Sasha was
up all night sick,” Scottsaid. “Up until now wethought it was food poison-ing, but obviously a fewmore people are having thesame symptoms.
“We probably shouldtake all precautions. I
might move in with ourfifth. We have to preservethe four people that can goon the ice.”
Scott was 4-0 at the Scot-ties Tournament of Heartsand handed Holland herfirst loss of the tournament.
The Kelowna, B.C., rinktopped the standings aheadof Holland and Manitoba’sJennifer Jones, who were at3-1 with a draw remainingMonday.
The pack of teams at 2-2included Saskatchewan’s
Michelle Englot, Alberta’sHeather Nedohin, Ontario’sTracy Horgan and NewBrunswick’s Heather Atkin-son.
Kerry Galusha of Yukonand Northwest Territories,Quebec’s Marie-FranceLarouche and Kim Dolanand Prince Edward Islandwere 2-3. Nova Scotia’sHeather Smith-Dacey was 1-3 with Heather Strong ofNewfoundland andLabrador at 1-4.THE CANADIAN PRESS
B.C. on a roll despite flu concerns
“I wouldn’t have signed that contract if Ididn’t feel (the organization was buildinga winner) ... I feel we have the group inplace and that we’re ready to go for it.”JOSE BAUTISTA ON THE BLUE JAYS’ CHANCES IN 2012
Jose Bautista prepares for batting practice on Monday
under the watchful eye of Blue Jays manager John Farrell in Dunedin, Fla.
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