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HRM residents have one chance to get together with the Halifax Mooseheads to cele-brate the team’s dramatic run to its first Canadian Hockey League title.

The city is holding a short procession and rally at noon Tuesday for the first-ever “Mooseheads Day,” in honour of the Herd’s victories in the President’s Cup and Memorial

Cup finals.“It’s not every day a city

gets to push out its chest and say, ‘We’re No. 1,’” said Mayor Mike Savage Monday. “We have the best junior team in the CHL and that’s worth com-ing out to celebrate.”

The Mooseheads will carry the Memorial Cup from the Metro Centre down Carmi-chael Street to the Grand Parade at noon. Carmichael Street and Argyle between Duke and Prince will be closed from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

“We hope maybe some em-ployers will be a little flexible with some of their employees so they can go home and get their kids from school and bring them down,” said Savage.

The event has garnered some criticism on Facebook and Twitter for not taking place at night or on a weekend, but Savage said the city had to work with the team’s schedule.

“Some of the players … are already going to be late getting to the (NHL draft) combine,” he said. “Everybody has training regimes and places they have to go to, so this has to be done very quickly.”

Grand Parade. Celebration to honour Mooseheads is on Tuesday at noon

Party time in Halifax

THE CHAMPS ARE HOMEHalifax Mooseheads defenceman and co-captain Trey Lewis shows off the Memorial Cup to an excited crowd at the Stanfi eld International Airport on Monday afternoon. The team arrived home from Saskatoon and were welcomed by about 100 fans. Story, page 3. JEFF HARPER/METRO

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To and fro

Free Metro Transit shuttles will run from Mumford Road and the Bridge Terminal to Duke Street from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Ferries will be free during the same time frame.

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SThe Halifax Mooseheads are back on home turf.

The 2013 Memorial Cup champions touched down at Halifax Stanfield Inter-national Airport around 5:15 p.m. Monday, less than 24 hours after successfully battling the determined Portland Winterhawks for the first CHL title in fran-chise history.

Co-captain Trey Lewis appeared in the doorway of the plane looking just as happy as a kid on Christmas morning — and probably running on a lot less sleep.

“It was surreal, best night of my life,” he said, cradling the hefty cup in his arms. “I got a little bit of sleep, but sleep’s overrated at this point.”

Memorial Cup MVP and the subject of NHL draft speculation Nathan MacKinnon also said the reality of the team’s red-hot performance and gruel-ling 6-4 final victory hadn’t quite sunk in.

“It’s amazing,” he said. “We’re Memorial Cup cham-pions, one of the hardest trophies to win. Definitely an indescribable feeling.”

MacKinnon said he was looking forward to Tues-day’s public celebration, which includes a short

parade down Carmichael Street.

“I’ve never been in a pa-rade before, so I’m looking forward to my first time,” he said. “I’m sure we’ll get pretty good support, so it should be fun.”

Cole Harbour native Ste-phen MacAulay admitted Sunday’s game — during which Portland closed to within one goal not once but twice — was as nerve-racking for the Herd as it was for the fans watching

across the country.“There were some tense

moments at times, maybe a little closer than we would have liked,” he said. “They played a heck of a game and we were just happy to hold on to get the win.”

MacAulay, in his last sea-son as a junior player, said it was pretty special to wrap up his tenure with a cham-pionship in his hometown.

“It’s definitely pretty well the perfect way to go out,” he said.

Owner Bobby Smith said Sunday’s win was a “pretty

special moment.“I’m extremely proud

of this team,” he said. “I’m beaming with pride and that’s the only way to de-scribe it.”

Speechless. Mooseheads return victorious from Saskatoon, say there are no words to describe the team’s fi rst CHL win

A sweet homecoming for Halifax’s hockey heroes

‘Best fans in the league’ make noise for their boysIt might be an exaggeration to say Moose Mania rivalled Beatlemania at the team’s homecoming Monday — but it might not.

A small but enthusiastic horde of Mooseheads fans waited in the rain for hours to see the Memorial Cup champions return home, huddling under soggy blan-kets and umbrellas until the team’s arrival.

“We wanted to see the cup and the Mooseheads, cause they’re awesome!” said a breathless Bobbie Day Wilson.

Chants of “Go Moose go!” morphed into “We’re No. 1!” as the plane rolled to a stop — and as Trey Lewis appeared with the trophy, the chants morphed into a din of screams, whistles and cowbells that drowned

out any other sound on the tarmac.

“They deserve it. They worked hard all year, they deserve it!” hollered Kim Davidson, waving a Moose-heads flag in the crowd.

The players, in turn, had plenty of love for the fans — though they expressed it at a lower volume.

“We knew we had the best fans in the league, but

... it’s a pretty crappy day and to see the support, it’s very overwhelming and we

appreciate it,” said Stephen MacAulay.

Fan devotion to the team is so strong, it had at least one young man sort of hoping that pro careers could wait, at least another year, for Jonathan Drouin and Nathan MacKinnon.

“I want them to stay in Halifax,” said a grinning Kyle Scanlon. RUTH DAVENPORT/METRO

Halifax Mooseheads forward Stephen MacAulay talks to the crowd after landing at Halifax Stanfi eld International airport from Saskatoon on Monday.JEFF HARPER/METRO

Halifax Mooseheads forward Nathan MacKinnon.JEFF HARPER/METRO

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“It’s a great honour with a team like that to win the Memorial Cup. It’s the greatest thing you could ever accomplish. It beats all the individual tro-phies.”Jonathan Drouin, Halifax Mooseheads

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“They deserve it. They worked hard all year, they deserve it!”Mooseheads fan Kim Davidson

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Two Nova Scotia towns woke up to reports of a bear on a tear and moose on the loose Monday morning.

A black bear was spotted in New Glasgow, while in Am-herst a gangly young moose wandered into town.

“This is the time of year when people and wildlife sort of come together,” said Hope Swinimer, founder of the Hope for Wildlife Society.

“They’re probably as sur-prised as we are once they

arrive: ‘Oh, I guess I made a wrong turn along the way,’” she said.

Curious black bears are usually drawn to towns be-cause of tempting food smells drifting from garbage cans, Swinimer said, which is why it’s important to keep green bins and bags locked away.

Peter MacDonald, large-mammal biologist with the Department of Natural Re-sources, said moose change their eating patterns during the spring, which may lead to them looking for new sources of food close to a town.

Spring also means moose moms are having babies and

it’s time for older calves to leave the nest, MacDonald said.

“What they’ll do is chase that yearling out. They don’t want them around anymore,” said MacDonald.

Black bears do a very simi-lar thing when mating season starts in May, MacDonald said, so most of the bears you see exploring neighbour-hoods are year-old males looking for food.

“Quite often with bears, really they’re just passing through,” MacDonald said, adding people should only be concerned if they keep hang-ing around and manage to find open garbage.

“If there’s no food there, the bears are going to move on,” he said.

Swinimer said as long as animals aren’t feeling cor-nered or threatened, they’re not likely to strike out. If you stumble across a bear, just back away slowly while try-ing to make yourself bigger and make lots of noise, she added.

“If you’re going out in the woods take a buddy, take your dog ... take something that’s going to protect you,” Swinimer said.

A Halifax RCMP officer has helped a fine feathered family in need by rescuing six ducklings from a storm drain.

At about 9 p.m. on Friday, police say several motorists pulled over on the side of the road or swerved to avoid a mother duck running “fran-tically” across Highway 7 by the Superstore in Porters Lake.

After getting a call from a citizen worried about both ducks and the traffic issue, a nearby officer responded

to the scene and found six baby ducks who had fallen through a storm grate.

The officer managed to pry the drain open with a

crowbar and then, reaching down with a shovel, the offi-cer scooped up all ducklings at once and returned them to their happy mother.

“I would imagine it was a scary situation to be trapped,” said RCMP spokesperson Cpl. Scott MacRae about the duck-ling’s fall. “Three feet is quite a drop for them.”

MacRae said the duck family soon continued on their rainy evening journey, no worse for the wear.Haley Ryan/metRo

two wings up: Ducks saved in fowl weather

Bear and moose hit the town; have wild time Just passing through. Spring means more wildlife looking for food in N.S., exploring woods and trails

On guard

“Nature is out there and we need to enjoy it but we also need to be smart about it.”Hope Swinimer, founder of the Hope for Wildlife Society

RCMP in Colchester say they were forced to shoot and kill an aggressive dog while arrest-ing a suspect on a weapons complaint.

Police received a 911 call around 5:30 a.m. Sunday from a home on Greenfield Road in Murray Siding.

According to a release issued Monday, responding officers were greeted by a woman who said she’d been threatened by a man with a gun.

When the officers ap-proached the house, the sus-pect was at the door but re-

fused to step outside, saying he “wanted police to shoot him.”

Police used a taser on the man when he refused to show his hands, and as two officers were arresting him, a third was charged by a dog described as “aggressive.” metRo

Weapons call. Police shoot and kill ‘aggressive’ dog

Dartmouth Sobey’s

2 women charged after guard slashedTwo women are facing charges after police say a security guard at a Sobey’s in Dartmouth was slashed with a sharp object last week.

Police were called to Sobey’s at 60 Tacoma Dr. on Friday afternoon after two women allegedly tried to steal items from the grocery store.

Police say there was a scuffle and the security guard was slashed with the object. metRo

Remembering the fallen on Deadman’s IslandA member of the Stadacona Band performs during an Memorial Day ceremony at Deadman’s Island in Halifax on Monday morning. Nearly 200 American soldiers, prisoners of the War of 1812, are buried on the island. Haley Ryan/metRo

Moving on

“Hopefully they could put the ordeal behind them and enjoy the wet weather.” Halifax RCMP spokesman Cpl. Scott MacRae

Man facing charges

• A25-year-oldmanfromMurraySidingisfacingchargesofassault,as-saultwithaweapon,andcarelessuseofaweapon.

A moose ran through downtown Amherst on Monday morning. amHeRst DaIly news

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Annapolis valley. Officer cleared in vehicle pursuitNo charges will be laid against a Nova Scotia police officer in-volved in a pursuit last year that ended with the crash of a flee-ing vehicle.

The province’s Serious In-cident Response Team says the police officer in Annapolis Royal who followed the vehicle was driving slower than the car that crashed.

It says the officer received a report of an impaired driver and was making a reasonable attempt to stop the vehicle on Highway 1 in Annapolis Royal

late at night on Dec. 23. The sus-pect vehicle went through an intersection and left the high-way just outside of the town limits, flipping onto its roof in a ditch. the cAnAdiAn press

A 21-year-old man was arrested after the taxi cab he allegedly stole was involved in a rollover.

Cape Breton Regional Police said in a release a taxi was re-ported stolen from Bud’s Taxi at 6 a.m. Tuesday on Catherine Street in Glace Bay.

Police later saw a person driving the taxi an hour later on King Edward Street and at-tempted to pull the vehicle over. The man continued driv-ing, turning on to Argyle Street when the taxi rolled over.

Regional police spokes-woman Desiree Vassallo said there was no police pursuit in-

volved in the incident.“The (police) lights were

turned on and by the time the police vehicle had turned around in order to stop the vehicle the rollover had already happened,” she said.cApe BretOn pOst

cape Breton. Man arrested after stolen taxi rolls over

Order of Merit

Halifax’s deputy police chief honouredThe deputy police chief in Halifax has received a presti-gious award.

Bill Moore has been invested as an officer in the Order of Merit of Police Forces.

The 27-year veteran of the force was recognized for his extensive volunteer work and his work on telecommunica-tions for police and emer-gency management.

The ceremony in Ottawa was hosted by Gov. Gen. David Johnson.

The award was created in 2000 to recognize exception-al service by members and employees of Canadian police forces. the cAnAdiAn press

Premier Darrell Dexter, pictured earlier this year, said the proposed underwater hydro link with Newfoundland and Labrador is ‘a visionary project’. Jeff Harper/metro

Boris Mirtchev will watch wari-ly as regulatory hearings begin Tuesday on a proposed under-sea hydro cable to Nova Scotia that’s being touted as a green and reliable solution to the province’s energy woes.

The Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board will consider whether the Emera Inc. project, called the Maritime Link, is the province’s lowest-cost alterna-

tive for electricity over the next four decades.

Mirtchev said he’s looking for a clear answer to that ques-tion as he cites rising rates over the past four years as a contrib-uting factor in the recent clos-ure of his Japanese restaurant in Halifax.

“If the result is stable rates but we don’t know what they’ll be, that’s not good enough,” he said of the 35-year deal that would see Nalcor Energy, Newfoundland and Labrador’s Crown utility, provide power to Nova Scotia from Muskrat Falls.

The review board says over-all residential rates in Nova Scotia have gone up 67 per cent since 2005, making them

among the highest in the coun-try. However, the province’s NDP government has argued the $1.5-billion undersea link — which would provide a min-imum of eight to 10 per cent of the province’s electricity — would help end sharp price hikes for Nova Scotia Power’s 490,000 customers.

Emera spokeswoman Sasha Irving said the link only creates a one-per-cent rate hike per year for five years beginning in 2017, and then rates would be steady or decline afterwards.

Irving said the link would put Nova Scotia in the mid-dle of a transmission system that allows it to buy surplus energy at market prices from

various vendors. But consumer advocate

John Merrick says ratepayers have justified fears.

“What I know and what I’ve seen is that I’m not satisfied this is the best deal for Nova Scotians,” he said.

Premier Darrell Dexter says he remains a firm supporter of the proposal, adding it has won the crucial support of a federal loan guarantee.

“I believe that if, for some reason, this project does not go forward then in the years to come people ... will say ‘Why is it the government of the day didn’t have the vision to follow through on this kind of a pro-ject?” he said. the cAnAdiAn press

hearings to decide fate of n.s. energy Maritime Link. Premier Darrell Dexter behind proposal, opposition parties want wider review

Police custody

The man was transported by ambulance to the Cape Breton Regional Hospital as a precaution, but was back in police custody by 9 a.m.

Unborn child lost

SIRT says the male driver was injured in the crash and a 16-year-old passenger, who was nine months preg-nant, lost her unborn child.

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The United States carried out a rigorous followup with Can-adian military intelligence centres in the wake of a navy spy scandal to ensure that new, stricter security proto-cols had been enacted, say multiple defence and intelli-gence sources.

American liaison officers were asked to verify that en-hanced compliance and ac-countability measures for the handling of shared intelli-gence were in place and work-ing, said a military source.

The Harper government

has acknowledged that fixes were underway as a result of the Jeffrey Delisle case, but the scope of U.S. direction startled Wesley Wark, a visit-ing professor at the University of Ottawa’s graduate school of public and international affairs.

“As far as I’m aware, that is the first time in the history of Canada’s allied relation-ships on the intelligence front that we’ve ever been faced with that kind of stringent requirement and deadline to fix things,” Wark said in an interview.

“Perhaps the Americans didn’t quite trust the Can-adians to come up with a suf-ficient security fix, sufficient-ly quickly.”

The increased oversight comes as a result of lapses that allowed former sub-lieu-tenant Jeffrey Delisle, 42, to use a floppy disk and thumb drive to copy and smuggle top secret information out of a Halifax intelligence centre.

Delisle, arrested in January 2012 by the RCMP, was sen-tenced to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to pass-

ing classified material to Rus-sia in exchange for cash on a regular basis for more than four years.

Senior Canadian defence officials acknowledged the introduction of more strin-gent controls over the down-loading and printing of classi-fied information.

“What disturbs me is that the terminal with the most sensitive, top-secret informa-tion on it was not disabled and blocked from downloading to a removable device,” one source said.

The Americans have since been trying to determine whether the improvements are adequate. The Canadian Press

No parachute, no problem

Man OK after jump from moving planeA man flying into Toronto shocked his fellow passen-gers when he leaped from a moving plane at Pearson International airport early Monday.

The 32-year-old To-ronto man was on a flight returning from Cuba when the incident took place just after midnight.

The plane landed safely

and was taxiing towards its gate when the man opened an emergency exit and jumped, said Peel Regional Police.

“The door opened and somebody on the plane had to yell out that this gentle-man had opened the door,” said Const. Fiona Thivierge.

“Luckily, he was not injured.”

It was discovered the man had mental-health issues. He was taken to a local hospital.The Canadian Press

Lack of hard evidence puts the hurt on G20 police brutality case

The first trial of a Toronto police officer facing criminal charges in the G20 protests is focusing on photos and video of one man’s arrest, though none captured the moment he says he was hit with a riot shield.

Dorian Barton, whose shoulder was broken on June 26, 2010, had ventured down to the Ontario legislature to scope out the scene.

A line of police officers had formed to the south of him, and as he was facing east taking pictures he was hit from behind, Barton said.

A witness, Andrew Wal-lace, said he saw Barton, 32, getting “charged” by a police officer, who hit Barton with his shield, knocking him over, and then struck Barton with his baton.

“It was disgusting,” he testified. “A police officer who, with no provocation ... charged an unarmed person.”

Const. Glenn Weddell has pleaded not guilty to assault causing bodily harm and as-sault with a weapon. His law-yer said at the start of the trial that the only contact Weddell had with Barton was to help him up after he tripped.

Wallace was taking photo-graphs of Barton’s arrest and

two videos of it also surfaced, yet none show Barton being knocked to the ground by a shield or being hit with a baton.

The clearest video starts with Barton already on the ground. One officer helps him up, and quickly he is sur-rounded by several other offi-

cers in riot gear. They usher him a few steps forward, then one of the officers appears to shove him. He trips over a curb and falls to the ground again.

The officer who pushed him quickly walks away and isn’t seen on the video again.The Canadian Press

Pics or it didn’t happen. Victim struggles to prove that cop’s riot shield caused broken shoulder

Toronto Police Const. Glenn Weddell, charged with assault causing bodily harm in the alleged beating of Dorian Barton. Rene Johnston/toRstaR news seRvice

Picked from the crowd

After the arrest, witness An-drew Wallace took photos of the officer who he said had hit the victim. Those photos were used to help identify Glenn Weddell.

Slow to act

The Canadian Press revealed this week that the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) had Delisle under surveil-lance for months before the RCMP stepped in to build a criminal case.

U.s. cracked whip following delisle affair: sources

U.K. Tenth arrest made in fatal street slashingBritish police arrested a 10th suspect Monday in connection with the vicious street killing of a soldier in London, appar-ently an Islamic extremist at-tack.

The 50-year-old man was detained in Welling, east of London, on suspicion of con-spiring to murder Lee Rigby, Scotland Yard said. Police gave no further information.

The arrest came as more details trickled out about of

one of the two main suspects, who were shot by police.

Officials say the pair had been known to them for some time, but revelations that one, Michael Adebolajo, had been arrested in Kenya in 2010 — and claims that security offi-cials had tried to then recruit him as an informer — have fuelled questions about wheth-er authorities could have done more to prevent last week’s killing. The assoCiaTed Press

B.C. Family terrorized slain woman, friends sayA B.C. woman whom Indian authorities believe was the victim of an honour killing planned in Canada 13 years ago spent the final months of her life in fear of her family, her friends testified Monday at the extradition hearing of her mother and uncle.

Jaswinder Sidhu was found dead in India at age 25.

Her mother and uncle are facing extradition to India to see conspiracy charges for al-legedly unleashing the attack

on the woman and her poor, lower-caste husband.

At one time, Sidhu ar-ranged a code with coworker Jody Wright, one of her few confidants, that would initi-ate a call to police. Wright said she made that call twice.

“The code word was, ‘I’m sick or I have the flu.’ That was my trigger to call the cops because she was locked in her bedroom,” Wright told the court. The Canadian Press

Well-deserved

“I think Canada has got to take its lumps on this.... Our security system failed and failed abysmally.”Wesley Wark, visiting professor at the University of Ottawa’s graduate school of public and international affairs

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Rob Ford lost two more senior members of his staff Monday, leaving the already belea-guered mayor with an increas-ingly depleted office as he at-tempts to quell a still raging crack cocaine scandal.

The departure of Ford’s press secretary and his dep-uty came days after his chief of staff and the mayor parted ways, but Ford insisted it would be “business as usual” at city hall.

“We’re just soldiering on,”

Ford said.Facing reporters, Ford

would only say George Chris-topoulos and Isaac Ransom had “decided to go down a dif-ferent avenue.”

He refused to talk about the circumstances, saying he never discusses “personnel issues.”

Neither man offered any immediate explanation for their decision to leave, but within minutes, their email and cellphone accounts had

been disabled.Last week, it was announced

that Ford’s chief of staff Mark Towhey was no longer on staff — reportedly after advising the mayor to get help. Towhey said only that he did not resign.

In a tweet following word of the latest resignations Monday, Towhey called Christopoulos and Ransom “outstanding, honest and honourable profes-sionals.”

Before announcing the de-partures, Ford said Monday he wanted to “sincerely apolo-gize” to reporters for deroga-tory remarks about the media. Over the weekend, Ford used his radio show to attack the media as a “bunch of maggots.”

“It has been bothering me, a lot,” he said of his comments. THE CANADIAN PRESS

‘Soldiering on.’ Ford says his brother’s executive assistant would become his new communications head

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford makes a statement to the media after the resignation of his communications aides, George Christopoulos and Isaac Ransom, in Toronto on Monday. Chris Young/ThE CAnADiAn PrEss

Fundraising goal

$200KAmerican-based website Gawker on Mon-day hit its fundraising goal to buy what it says is a cellphone video appearing to show Ford smoking crack cocaine. Whether the site would in fact be able to collect the video as it has promised re-mained unclear. Gawker editor John Cook indicated he was having difficulty finding the video’s owner. Gawker has promised to donate the money to a Canadian non-profit that deals with substance abuse if the deal were to fall through.

Two more top aides leave Toronto mayor

Tories play offence. Avoiding taxation has equal representationOpposition politicians have been hammering away at the Senate expenses scandal dur-ing question period, but the government is getting in some jabs of its own.

With Prime Minister Ste-phen Harper skipping the Monday session, as is his prac-tice, it fell to Heritage Minis-ter James Moore to deflect a barrage of Senate questions.

But recent missteps for both NDP Leader Tom Mulcair and Liberal Leader Justin Tru-deau made it easy for Conserv-atives to blunt their attacks.

Mulcair wanted to know when Harper would provide answers about the $90,000 cheque written by the prime minister’s former chief of staff to cover Sen. Mike Duffy’s questionable expense claims.

“When will the prime min-ister take responsibility, show accountability and finally start answering questions?” Mulcair thundered.

Moore countered by bring-ing up NDP MP Tyrone Ben-

skin, who Mulcair fired from his critic’s job last week after he admitted he owed almost $60,000 in back taxes.

How many more of Mul-cair’s MPs are behind in their taxes? Moore wondered aloud.

Trudeau got up to promote Liberal efforts to move a mo-tion before the Senate ethics committee to study the Senate scandal and call both Harper and Nigel Wright, his former chief of staff, to testify.

Instead, he got a pointed reminder of his comments about Senate reform, pub-lished in Montreal’s Le Soleil, that landed him in hot water. Trudeau was expressing his opposition to abolishing the Senate when he pointed out that it gives Quebec an ad-vantage — more seats than Alberta and British Columbia.

“It is kind of interesting to see him stand in the House and pretend as though he actually cares about Senate reform because he does not,” Moore said. THE CANADIAN PRESS

Robocalls

The former head of Elec-tions Canada, Jean-Pierre Kingsley, says a toughly worded Federal Court ruling helps make the case for reforming election-cam-paign rules on robocalls. Judge Richard Mosley ruled last week that fraud took place and his judgment linked that fraud dir-ectly to the Conservatives’ internal database — but found no evidence that any candidate or official was involved. THE CANADIAN PRESS

Social security

Tribunal staffed with Tory donorsUp to a third of the people who landed cushy patron-age jobs on the new Social Security Tribunal gave money to the Conserva-tive party, Elections Can-ada records show. None appear to have given money to any other party. THE CANADIAN PRESS

Ruling should help reforms: Kingsley

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“I wish them the best of luck in their future endeavours.”Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, in regards to the two departing staffers

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By Michael Hill’s estimation, 90 per cent of the people pumping gas at his station just south of the U.S.-Canada border in Wash-ington state are Canadians.

Gas north of the 49th paral-lel, he said, is about $1.30 per gallon more expensive than in the United States. But that’s not the only product that Can-adians seek in visits to Wash-ington state: Beer, wine and milk are significantly cheaper (beer and wine alone are rough-ly half the price in the U.S.).

Add a strong Canadian dol-lar and the result is a key ele-

ment of the economy in the towns of Whatcom County. For example, the town of Blaine, population just shy of 5,000, generates over $225,000 from a penny per gallon gas tax, which is about 30 per cent of its street maintenance budget.

That’s why Hill and others are troubled by the notion of charging a fee to enter the U.S. by land. Last month, in its 2014 fiscal year budget proposal, the Department of Homeland Se-curity requested permission to study a fee at the nation’s land border crossings.

“It’s a deterrent,” said Hill, whose station is fully stocked

with wine and has a reader board that says “Thank you Can-adians.”

“They should be doing any-thing they can to get them down here to buy more,” he added.

That lone request sparked wide opposition among mem-bers of Congress from north-ern states, who vowed to stop it. A fee, they say, would hurt communities on the border that rely on people, goods and money moving between the U.S. and Canada.

Lawmakers and people from the southern border, though, did not show such strong op-position, highlighting a north-

south divide on how to pay for border infrastructure.

Democrat Congressman Ruben E. Hinojosa, who repre-sents a district in Texas that in-cludes McAllen and its nearby border region, said fees would be good if the revenue stream is used to improve infrastructure.

It now costs nothing to en-ter the U.S. by land. Air and sea crossings already have a fee of under $2 US, which are includ-ed in ticket prices.The AssociATed Press

Prospect of U.s. border fees divides states north-southProposed study. Opposition to levies is strong in communities close to 49th parallel, but folks near Mexican border feel differently

Quoted

A border fee would be “a deterrent. They should be doing anything they can to get (Canadians) down here to buy more.”Michael Hill, who runs a gas station just south of the border in Washington state.

A sign outside a gas station in Blaine, Wash., thanks cross-bordershoppers for their business.The associaTed Press File

Both sides in the battle over whether to allow jets to fly out of Toronto’s waterfront airport say they are confident that they will ultimately prevail.

Porter Airlines CEO Rob-ert Deluce believes municipal politicians will give their nod because Porter’s plan addresses the technical issues that con-cern most people.

“I think that we have an excellent chance of getting the required approvals that would allow these whisper jets to start operating by as early as January 2016,” he said. Deluce was in Montreal on Monday to receive an honorary doctorate of sci-ence degree from McGill.

Toronto Coun. Adam Vaughan said he’s equally sure that his colleagues will reject the effort when it comes back for a final vote. He said it would be very difficult to restrict the airport to just one type of jet.

Toronto council recently voted 29-15 to send the propos-al to staff for further study and recommendation. But Vaughan said many who voted yes indi-cated to him that they did so only because they want more information to back up their opposition. The cAnAdiAn Press

Air travel. Both sides confident of victory in T.o. waterfront jets fight

Bob Deluce, CEO of Porter Airlines, announces a conditional order for 12 Bombardier CS100 jets in earlyApril. The caNadiaN Press File

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snC-Lavalin offers ‘amnesty’ to whistleblowersSNC-Lavalin Group Inc. says it is making a limited-time offer of “amnesty” to whistleblowers within its workforce. The Montreal-based engineering giant

says it won’t seek damages or unilaterally fire employ-ees who voluntarily provide a full, truthful report about potential corruption and anti-competitive activities.

SNC is undergoing both internal and police investigations for alleged fraud and corrupt practi-ces in Canada and abroad by some former employ-ees. The cAnAdiAn Press

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If you’re ever lucky enough to meet Brad Pitt face-to-face, you should know that he’ll probably forget you right away.  And it’s not just because he’s Brad Pitt the movie star who meets hundreds of new people on a weekly basis, it’s because he might be ‘face blind.’

In a recent interview with Esquire magazine, Pitt revealed that he believes he has prosopagno-sia, a medical condition which makes it almost impossible for him to remember the faces of the people he meets. And while it might sound like a convenient excuse for an egocentric movie star’s forgetfulness, this facial recognition disorder is actually surprisingly common — affecting about one in 50 people with varying degrees of severity.

But what about the rest of us? A little memory lapse is forgivable every once

in awhile, but I think there’s something inherently arrogant about individuals who make little effort to remember other people. For most of us, recognizing familiar faces isn’t the main

issue — it’s trying to remember names.We’ve all found ourselves in that awkward

situation: You see an acquaintance at a party and attempt to gauge whether or not they re-member you while racking your brain to recall their first name. Eventually you’re introduced to one another by a mutual friend and both awk-wardly pretend that you’re meeting for the first time. It seems to be an unspoken social rule that it’s better to play dumb than actually admit you don’t know each other’s names.

From professional networking events to im-promptu run-ins with high school classmates, forgetting someone’s name can be an embar-rassing blunder for everyone involved. It’s hard to say whether it feels worse to be the nameless individual who can’t seem to make a lasting im-

pression or the jerk who can’t be bothered to remember other people’s names.

Whenever I hear someone quip, “Sorry, I’m so bad with

names,” I can’t help but think that what they’re truly saying is, “I won’t be making an effort to think about you after this conversa-tion.” Sure you might make excuses about being hopelessly forget-ful, but an inability to recall names does reflect your interest level in others — at least to some degree. If you aren’t particularly con-cerned with developing interpersonal relationships, you’ll be less likely to remember if your neighbour’s name is Laura or Lauren.  

People who are “good with names” aren’t just well-mannered; they’re attentive listeners with a higher level of investment in their social circles. And it’s not just about winning friends; some of the most successful businesspeople are the ones that have a knack for names and memorizing details about their clients and customers.

There’s no doubt first impressions are important and al-though it might seem like a small detail, remembering a name is one of those vital social graces that can make or break a relationship with a new(ish) acquaintance.

Unless you’re Brad Pitt of course; I’d be happy to forgive him for forgetting me.       

FORGETTING FACES IS THE PITT’S

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I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but some-where out there lurks an unflattering photo of you. Of all of us. Which means we’re all one dry joke written in impact font away from becoming an unwitting Internet meme. Just ask these three, who eventually learned to embrace their, um, fame.

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Scumbag Steve:Clad in questionable fashion while leer-ing through an open door, Blake Boston became the perfect stand-in for boorish, selfish behaviour. But, when he finally got wise to his fame he handled it like Good Guy Greg. @BlakeBoston617

Overly Attached Girlfriend:While filming a Justin Bieber parody video, Laina Walker wore a wide-eyed

stare of unhealthy devotion that be-came a touchstone for anybody who has dealt with a partner’s warped definition of “caring.” But don’t be fooled, she ac-tually seems lovely. @laina622

Grumpy Cat:So, saying Grumpy Cat is handling her fame well would perhaps be giving too much credit to the emotional range of your standard house cat. But then again, how would you be able to tell? @RealGrumpyCat

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Passing the Olympic torch

Coming out sparks LGBT donation Mark Tewksbury, winner of the gold medal for the 100 metres backstroke at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, donated an Olympic torch in support of Come Out and Play, the gala fundraiser in support of the

Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives and OutSport Toronto.

“I wanted something to represent that moment in history,” said Tewksbury, who came out in 1998, adding that, in a way, this is about passing the torch to a new generation of LGBT athletes. METRO

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“It’s starting to pop again.”Mark Tewksbury, Olympian,said of athletes coming out and referencing the recent announcement by professional basketball player Jason Collins that he is gay, and out soccer player Robbie Rogers making his Major League Soccer debut with the Los Angeles Galaxy last week. Tewksbury’s advice to athletes trying to decide whether to come out: “Do it in your own time.”

The archives

• The Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives (clga.ca) is a repository for books, documents and other material related to the LGBT community in Canada.

• Among the other sports-related items at the archives is a championship belt donated by boxer Mark Leduc, who won a silver medal at the 1992 Barcelona Summer Olympics and came out in 1994.

Olympic pride returns

homeMark

Tewksbury received the torch

in Athens, Greece, in 1996, when he took part in a ceremony commemorating the centennial of the Summer Olympics. After the event, each athlete was presented with a torch to take home. METRO

12 metronews.caTuesday, May 28, 2013SCENE

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Behind the Candelabra, star-ring Michael Douglas as Lib-erace and Matt Damon as his younger lover, premiered Sun-day on HBO Canada. Most of the coverage, inevitably, has revolved around two major male stars playing gay together, as well as Douglas’ spot-on im-personation as the flamboyant (and closeted) pianist.

Somewhat under reported is that this is the alleged final film of Steven Soderbergh, the storied and award-winning dir-ector who, among many other things, helped breathe life into both independent and main-stream American cinema.

Soderbergh had threat-ened to retire a few years ago, citing exhaustion with the movie business, and even with moviemaking itself. His plan is to concentrate on painting and maybe do some TV. It’s very possible (or we’re simply hoping) this is a Jay-Z-style “retirement” — a sab-batical/mental health break that will set up a triumph-ant return to the medium he conquered. But for now, Candelabra is his swan song. (Although if you really want to be a stickler, Side Effects, his last film released theatric-ally, is his farewell to cinema. But Candelabra is currently in competition at the Cannes Film Festival.)

In honour of this per-haps non-ending to what we feel has been a fantastic and thrilling career, filled with excellent and experi-mental work that flexed the muscles of what mainstream (and underground) film can do, we’ve decided to round up a handful of amusing tid-bits about the director that might have flown over many people’s heads.

His fi rst fi lm was a Yes concert documentary

Soderbergh was only 26 when his debut fiction feature, Sex,

Lies and Videotape, won the Palme d’Or at Cannes. Young as that seems — and he was the youngest director to have a film win the festival’s top prize — it wasn’t his first. That would be Yes 9012Live, released in 1985, and featur-ing lots of then-cutting-edge video editing effects as the prog rock legends played one of their most popular albums. (It’s the one with Owner of a Lonely Heart.) Released on video, it was even nomin-ated for a Grammy. It still

took him another four years to get a real feature off the ground — but it’s OK because he was still only in his mid-20s.

His ex-wife was the body double for

Jessica RabbitTill 1994, Soderbergh was married to Betsy Brantley, an actress who has two minor credits in ma-jor motion pictures:

she was the body double for Roger Rabbit’s curvy wife, and she was Fred Savage’s mother in The Princess Bride. Brantley also played his wife in the no-budget 1996 com-edy Schizopolis, two years after they were divorced. Which brings us to…

During a rebellious period, Soderbergh made a super-bizarre no-budget comedy

This isn’t the first time Soder-bergh has dropped out of Hollywood. After his Palme d’Or smash, Soderbergh made three projects that failed to catch much atten-tion: Kafka, King of the Hill (not the TV show) and The Underneath. These are, re-spectively; flawed but inter-esting, a neglected master-piece and underrated. He became the poster child for squandered potential. So he quit. To refuel his creative juices, he spent three years tackling low budget pro-ductions, such as the Spald-ing Gray monologue film Gray’s Anatomy, and doing for-hire writing jobs, includ-ing Nightwatch, Mimic and the failed Henry Selick film Toots and the Upside Down House. The most insane of these is Schizopolis, a tiny, excessively idiosyncratic ex-perimental comedy in which he essentially dumps all of the insane comic, alienating ideas he’s never used into one film. It’s much tighter than that sounds, although sometimes bewildering and even inscrutable. It’s also hil-arious and incisive into his frail mental state at the time, not only because it featured

him acting (hilariously, it should be added

— he needs to act a lot more) along-side his recent ex as marrieds. (Her character winds

up cheating on him with an-o t h e r c h a r a c -ter, also played b y him.)

H e p u b -

l i s h e d a hilarious self-

deprecating book about said per-iod.

So, you think you know Soderbergh?

Soderbergh has had highs and lows in his career. GETTY IMAGES

Career in review. There are whispers the fi lmmaker has had his fi nal hurrah — so what better time to look back on his Hollywood legacy?

Bizarre Twitter account

As alluded to here, Soderbergh has a strange, wonderfully bizarre sense of humour, which manifests itself even in his dramas, and in “impersonal” Hollywood fare. (“Ocean’s Twelve” is one of the silliest sequels ever made.) Soon after his retirement from fi lm, he announced he had a “stealth” Twitter account, which was outed as “@Bitchuation.” Every week or so, without announce-ment, he goes on a tweet

bender, spouting inscrutable — and often weirdly sage — pronouncements in 140 characters or less. Right now he’s in the middle of writing a Twitter novel, which appears to be a globe-trotting spy story comprised mostly of gnomic utterances and dry silliness. The account doesn’t have his name on it, but it did have an offi cial blue “confi rmed” check next to it — which has since mysteriously disappeared.

MATTHEWPRIGGEMetro World News in New York

DVD reviews

Beautiful CreaturesDirector. Richard LaGravenese

Stars. Alden Ehrenreich, Alice Englert, Viola Davis

•••• •

A momentous life change awaits Lena Duchannes (Alice Englert) upon her 16th birthday: She’ll of-ficially become a witch or simply remain a bitch. The terminology in Beautiful Creatures, a movie of heaving bosoms, hearty winks and atrocious southern accents, is that Lena will be “claimed” by family voodoo and involuntarily turned Dark (extremely witchy) or Light (merely bitchy). You might well argue there’s not much difference between the two, and that’s certainly the view of Lena’s erst-while boyfriend Ethan Wate (Alden Ehrenreich), who is tired of being treated as a doormat by fretful Lena and her freaky kinfolk. But Ethan appreciates absurdity, maybe because he looks like a younger version of Johnny Knoxville from Jackass. So does the mov-ie, written and directed by Richard LaGravenese (P.S. I Love You ), which makes this inevitable attempt to fill the post- Twilight void of supernatural teen romance easy to take. It’s based on the first book of the four-volume (and counting) Caster Chron-icles by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl. Trouble is a-brewin’, but Beautiful Creatures is in no rush to get there or to make the story excessively grave. This may disappoint moviegoers who prefer to see bloody bite marks and exploding heads. Extras include deleted scenes and making-of featurettes.PETER HOWELL

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Amanda Bynes

Bristling Bynes tries to rile Rihanna while letting o� steam on Twitter

Amanda Bynes is on the warpath, taking to Twitter to blast media outlets that reported on her recent arrest and start trouble with pop star Rihanna.

Bynes tweeted directly at the singer with the shock-ing, “Chris Brown beat you because you’re not pretty

enough.” She followed that up with, “I almost named my new dog Rihanna.” She later deleted all posts related to the singer. As for the media, responding to E! News’ report that she’d thrown a bong out her apartment win-dow before being arrested, Bynes tweeted: “Nothing

was thrown out the window! They asked if a vase was a bong, to which I replied no, that’s a vase. “Stop writing pathetic articles about me! E! isn’t run by beauty queens like me! I’ve met you all! You’re a bunch of drug users and alcoholics! I don’t drink or do drugs!”

Twitter

@ChloeGMoretz • • • • •Hell yeah Disney Land

@TomArnold • • • • •A nice glass of wine can make any meal a relapse.

@AnnaKendrick47 • • • • •No Game of Thrones this week. So, I’m just gonna go back to sleep for another 7 days.

Roman Polanski

Controversial director

Polanski takes a pop at the Pill

Roman Polanski isn’t neces-sarily a fan of birth control, complaining during a press conference in Cannes for his new film, Venus in Furs, that the Pill has had a “masculinizing” effect on women. The 79-year-old director says the Pill has “changed the place of women in our times.” He also gripes that moves toward gender equal-ity are having a negative impact on chivalry, noting that “offering flowers to a lady” has now become “indecent.” Polanski’s wife, Emmanuelle Seigner, stars in Venus in Furs as a strong actress dominating her director during the produc-tion of a play.

14 metronews.caTuesday, May 28, 2013WELLNESS

LIFE

Even though skin cancer can be as deadly as breast or any other cancer, people still take chances with sun and tanning bed exposure. Every year, there are more new cases of skin cancer than breast, prostate, lung and colon cancer combined, according to The Skin Can-cer Foundation.

We had Dr. Sarah Gora, medical and scientific rela-tions leader at Vichy Lab-oratories, and Dr. Ellen Marmur, a board-certified dermatologist and mem-ber of the American Acad-emy of Dermatology, give us the lowdown on staying healthy.

Are people wearing enough sunscreen?“No, most people don’t, and most people apply sunscreen too thinly. At Vichy we recommend using half a teaspoon for the face and at least 30 ml (the equivalent of a golf ball) for an adult body,” says Gora. A good general rule, she adds, is to reapply every two hours of sun time. If you’re swimming and perspiring apply more often. “(People) forget about their ears, their neck, the back of their hands, parts of their

feet, their scalp and their lips. And if you can’t reach it, have someone apply sunscreen there for you.”

What SPF should we all be wearing?“The choice of the SPF index (UVB only) depends on your skin’s phototype and the sun exposure length and intensity. If your phototype index is low (fair skin), it requires a higher SPF index,” says Gora. “Intense exposure to sun, such as a day on the beach, also requires a higher SPF index and a protection against UVA. For a weak sun exposition and

for the average person, we recommend a minimum SPF index of 30.”

Seriously, stop tanning“Tanning beds are known to increase the risk of skin cancers by 75 per cent,” Marmur says. “No one should use them.”

Can you please explain the difference between UVA and UVB?“From sun radiation, we re-ceive ultraviolet (UV) rays A and B (UVC are globally stopped by the ozone lay-er). UVB (five per cent of UV rays) are well-known to be responsible for tan and sunburn, but they are also involved in skin cancer

development,” says Gora. “UVB rays do not cross through glass and are par-tially absorbed by cloud. Therefore they are mainly present during the summer and between 10 and 2 p.m.UVA (short and long) repre-sent 95 per cent of the UV radiation received. They are not blocked by glass and they are responsible for im-mediate pigmentation, skin aging, sun intolerance and skin cancer. Long UVA, the most prominent UV rays (75 per cent of UV rays) penetrate deeply into the skin and are responsible for many damages in the skin with a build-up and long term effects.” LINDA CLARKE AND METRO

Without protection, summer paradise can be a nightmareSummer health. Check your body — and your SPF — to stay safe this summer when you’re having fun in the sun

Tanning beds

Did you know?

• Get out of the bed. Just one (one!) session in a tanning bed ups your risk of melanoma by 20 per cent, according to The Skin Cancer Founda-tion.

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Lather up before you lap up those rays. ISTOCK PHOTOS

Superstar support

Landon Donovan on why sunscreen mattersLandon Donovan has won titles on the pitch, but now he’s trying to help out off it.

“I’ve spent most of my life playing soccer outdoors, but I wasn’t always diligent in apply-ing sunscreen. That all changed when my father discovered a bump on his eyelid that turned out to be skin cancer. My father was lucky to have caught it early. He’s now cancer-free. Many men overlook the importance of sun protection. In 2012, The Skin Cancer Foundation found that nearly half of men don’t wear sunscreen. So, I’ve partnered with The Skin Cancer Foundation and the makers of Banana Boat and Hawaiian Tropic sunscreens to educate men on the risk and how they can protect them-selves. Visit sunblunders.com to learn more.”

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Shellfish Kabobs are easy as presto, or in this case, pesto

This recipe serves four and contains 229 calories and 11 grams of fat per serving. Brian MacDonalD, rose reisMan’s coMplete light Kitchen (Whitecap BooKs)

These shellfish kabobs make a great appetizer or an en-tree when served over rice or couscous. If shellfish isn’t what you like, fish such as sal-mon and halibut are equally delicious. Feel free to use any combination of vegetables (as in the photo).

If you’re using wooden skewers, soak them for at least 20 minutes in water be-fore barbecuing.

1. Thread the scallops, shrimp and tomatoes evenly onto 4 large or 8 small skew-ers.

2. To make the pesto, purée the basil, Parmesan, pine nuts, cream cheese, garlic, stock and oil in the bowl of a small food processor until smooth. Brush half the pesto

over the kabobs.

3. Preheat a grill to high, or spray a non-stick skillet with cooking oil and place over high heat. Grill or sauté the kabobs on both sides just until cooked, about 5 minutes. Serve with the re-maining pesto. Rose Reisman’s Complete light KitChen (WhiteCap BooKs) By Rose Reisman

Health Solutions

Vinegar isn’t just for windows

Thank goodness the balsam-ic vinegar bullying is over.

The range of vinegars goes well beyond the bold or the pale white. The nuance of tastes and uses of vin-egar is coming into its own.

Aging in oak barrels and im-ported starters called “vinegar mother” are creating exquisite products.

Gingras Vinegars, for instance, say “the noble vinegar moth-er from France converts alco-hol to acetic acid in apple cider. The oak cask imparts

flavour and colour.” Sounds a lot like fine wine and not something you sprinkle on fries.

• Snazzy cocktail makers are using a splash in drinks

• Salads benefit from a finer, less sharp, richer vinegar

• Many swear by a teaspoon-ful of apple cider vinegar for indigestion

• A splash of vin-egar in a broth helps remove more calcium from bones to the liquid

• Boil down a cheaper vinegar to intensify its flavour and use as a drizzletheResa alBeRt is a Food CommuniCa-tions speCialist and pRivate nutRi-tionist in toRonto. she is @theResaal-BeRt on tWitteR and Found daily at myFRiendin-Food.Com

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Ingredients

• 8 oz medium scallops

• 8 oz peeled and deveined large shrimp

• 16 cherry tomatoes (or a combination of bell pepper and red onion)

• 1 cup packed fresh basil leaves

• 2 tbsp grated Parmesan cheese

• 1 tbsp toasted pine nuts

• 2 tbsp light cream cheese

• 1 tsp minced fresh garlic

• 3 tbsp low-sodium chicken stock or water

• 2 tbsp olive oil

Barbecue with gusto: Beef Tenderloin with Red Peppers

This recipe serves six. the canaDian press h/o

1. Combine salt, black, white and Szechuan peppercorns, onion flakes, garlic, mustard seeds, coriander seeds, ancho

pepper and dill seeds. Fill a pepper grinder with as much of the mixture as it can hold. Store remaining Steak Spice in an airtight container in a cool, dry place away from heat and light

2. Season filets with Steak Spice, pressing seasoning into meat. Set aside.

3. Roast peppers on the grill, turning periodically, until pep-pers are charred and blister-ing. Place peppers in a bowl and cover with plastic wrap. The heat from the peppers will produce steam that makes the skin easier to peel. After 10 minutes, peel and seed pep-pers and cut into 1-cm (1/2-inch) wide strips, place in a bowl and let cool.

4. At the same time as you are grilling the peppers, grill on-ion. Remove from grill, cut on-ion rings in half and add to red peppers. Season with a drizzle of olive oil, balsamic glaze and fresh oregano. Season with a squeeze of fresh lemon juice and salt and black pepper. Mix well and set aside.

5. Crumble goat’s cheese and refrigerate until needed.

6. Fire up your grill to 290 to 345 C (550 to 650 F). Add cheese to roasted red pepper mixture. Season to taste with a little more salt and pepper. Gently mix.

7. Grill filets for 3 to 4 min-

utes on one side. Turn steaks and top each with a handful of roasted red pepper and goat’s cheese mixture. Close lid and cook for 3 to 4 more minutes for medium-rare doneness. Re-move from grill and serve im-mediately. the Canadian pRess/ gastRo gRill-ing: FiRed-up ReCipes to gRill gReat eveRyday meals

Ingredients

Steak Spice

• 75 ml (1/3 cup) coarse sea salt

• 50 ml (1/4 cup) each whole black peppercorns, whole white peppercorns, Szechuan pepper-corns, dried onion flakes

• 45 ml (3 tbsp) granulated garlic

• 30 ml (2 tbsp) each mustard seeds, coriander seeds

• 15 ml (1 tbsp) each flaked ancho pepper, dill seeds

• 6 beef tenderloin filets (about 170 g to 225 g/6 to 8 oz each), cut 4 cm (1 1/2 inches) thick• 2 red bell peppers• 1 medium red onion, sliced into rings• 30 ml (2 tbsp) olive oil• 30 ml (2 tbsp) balsamic glaze• 15 ml (1 tbsp) chopped fresh oregano• 1/2 juicy lemon• Salt and black pepper, to taste• 125 ml (1/2 cup) soft goat’s cheese

16 metronews.caTuesday, May 28, 2013relationships/YoUr MoneY

These moms curse a lot, drink to excess, reveal scary truths and draw twisted little stick figures of their kids pooping and whining relentlessly. And they’re bringing their derelict parenting to you. The authors behind a fresh round of parenting books love their munchkins, to be sure, but there’s something about the scorched

earth narrative that sells memoirish parenting books these days. Is the goal an instructional one? Inspirational? How about some advice? the assoCiateD press

Four ways to get fresh parenting advice Can you do it all?“We’ve opened up the dialogue,” offered Nicole Knep-per, who has two kids and wrote Moms who Drink and Swear, complete with a chap-ter titled, Suck it, Santa Claus.

“People have really found ways to be more authentic about who they are and how it affects us as parents. My mom’s generation, they did a lot of pushing down their own interests and their own personalities because they were all about the kids, and this was their job and their focus, whereas my generation (She’s 43 and lives in Plainfield, Ill.), the expecta-tions are different. You multi-task. You do it all, only nobody can do it all well.”

no advice“No, there isn’t any. I don’t have anything. No advice. Nobody has any advice,” laughed Amber Dusick, a Los Angeles mother of two who brings us Parenting: Illustrated with Crappy Pictures. The book’s 50 “crappy laws of parenting” include this at No. 16: “When you sneak to the pantry to eat chocolate, you will get caught.”

Dusick, whose boys are six and three, began blogging nearly two years ago. Her childlike drawings lend a creepy air to life with the Crappy family, including that fateful day when they all get sick. Tempers and temperatures flare, and bodily fluids fly all night, brought alive by her hollow-eyed illustrations.

scary mommyJill Smokler’s Scary Mommy certainly can’t do it all. Motherhood Comes Naturally (And Other Vicious Lies) is her second spin off of her popular blog and parenting commun-ity at Scarymommy.com. The first was Confessions of a Scary Mommy. The 35-year-old mom of three, including boys just 20 months apart, has noticed a difference in exactly how much filth and frustration parents are willing to reveal in the five long years since she first put up her blog.

“There wasn’t this acceptance about being this sort of less-than-perfect mother, but all of a sudden it feels like that is becoming the norm rather than the excep-tion,” said Smokler, in Baltimore, Md. “There came a tipping point where every-body just couldn’t keep up that facade anymore and there was just a backlash, and here we are.”

the expletive-infused parentIan Frazier’s popular cursing mommy character from his columns in The New Yorker now has her own novel called The Cursing Mommy’s Book of Days, a diary of dereliction spread over a year of boozing, bad parenting and expletive-infused mockery of a capacitor-hoarding husband named Larry.

There’s this entry for Wednesday, April 13: “Yes, lying in a steaming tub with a bottle of Kahlua and ignoring the children’s knocks on the bathroom door all afternoon is not the most mature cop-ing strategy. So stipulated, your honour!”

The first time is special — when it comes to home ownership. Istock Images

Are you going to get into your dream home?

There are a few million mil-lennials dying to have a home of their own.

However, despite record low interest rates, they’re confronted with huge chal-lenges not faced by previous generations.

Aside from anything else, research is clear that young buyers are earning relatively less than their parents did

with reduced job security and fewer benefits regardless of education.

The good news is the real estate market is softening. Sales volumes are declining and unsold inventories are building, historically both are precursors of lower prices.

For example, the Halton Region is a desirable com-munity served by rapid transit just outside Toronto. Accord-ing to real estate and mort-gage agent Domenic Manchi-si, residential inventory stood at 1.9 months a year ago. It’s now 2.6 months, meaning if no other properties came on the market it would take that long to sell everything.

“When inventories reach about four and a half months we’re slipping into a buyer’s market,” he says.

It’s still a far cry from 2009 when there was 7.5 to eight months of inventory in Hal-ton. However, there are clear

signs across the country that the trend is similarly tilting in favour of house hunters.

The toughest part of buy-ing for newbies is the down payment. Manchisi advises buyers to focus on carrying costs, which are relatively lower than they were for their parents.

TD senior economist Sonya Gulati points out that 1988 average house prices were just under $130,000 in Canada. Today they are just more than $361,000.

Assuming a typical 10 per cent down payment, mil-liennial parents had monthly mortgage costs of $1,310 with an interest rate of 12 per cent. Today, at a three per cent fixed rate and with a 20 per cent down payment (required to avoid mandatory mortgage insurance) the monthly out-lay would be $1,391. (Bear in mind today’s dollar has con-siderably less buying power

than it did in 1988.)“Young buyers should look

at a five-year closed rate at around 2.9 per cent, but I’d be accelerating my payments as if it was four per cent,” Man-chisi advises.

Manchisi refinanced his rental properties when rates plunged but kept the pay-ments at 5 per cent.

“I shaved six or seven years off the life of the mort-gages and will end up saving $90,000.”

Money. Prospective homeowners faced with challenges previous generations didn’t have — but it’s not all bad news

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SPORTSQMJHL

Charlottetown Islanders reborn as P.E.I. Rocket diff usedSay hello to the snazzy new Charlottetown Island-ers. The new colours, name and logo of the Que-bec Major Junior Hockey League team — formerly the P.E.I. Rocket — were unveiled Monday in Char-lottetown.

The colours are roughly similar to the gold, black and white of NFL’s New Orleans Saints and the logo features the Confederation Bridge. The Islanders name reaches into the 1960s and 70s when the Junior Islanders were barn-burning their way through major junior hockey.

And Geoff Boyle, one of the new owners repre-senting the ownership group, was more than pleased with the team’s steps toward the 2013-14 season and its nod to former days.

“I’ve been a hockey fan in Charlottetown (for years and have) proud and fond memories of Island teams of the past,” Boyle said. “I can’t wait for the opportunity for this team and our group to put our stamp on Island hockey history.”

New members to the ownership group were also unveiled. It brings the group to 16 members. A management structure is still being worked out.

The group, which purchased the team from Serge Savard and Serge Savard Jr., takes owner-ship June 1.

The season-ticket campaign also began and highlights include no price increase from last season (early bird $440, regular price after July 15 is $475), a $99 youth season-ticket price and a flex package that allows purchasers to build a customized package of games. CHARLOTTETOWN GUARDIAN

Dominique Ducharme re-sisted the urge to gush about his biggest stars immediately after the Halifax Mooseheads’ historic Memorial Cup title on Sunday night.

The Herd’s head coach chose to look at the broader picture, focusing on a few of the more unheralded players who helped anchor his team to greatness.

“It was a great group ef-fort, everybody brought what they could give to the team,” said Ducharme at ice level. “Early in the tournament, people asked me about our D-core. I said probably they were underrated. Tonight they showed they are a pretty solid group.”

Of course, he had plenty of praise for his terrific netmind-er Zach Fucale and the top line of Nathan MacKinnon, Jonathan Drouin and Martin Frk who were simply brilliant on Sunday’s 6-4 win over the Portland Winterhawks, com-bining for 13 points.

“They like to be playing in big moments, they like play-ing in big games. They want to be difference makers and tonight they were,” Ducha-rme said.

Clearly, the Mooseheads were dominant — losing just two games through four play-

off rounds and at the Memor-ial Cup.

But in his elation, Ducha-rme remembered the grind, stemming from the overtime games, the constant travel, the planning and prepara-tion.

“We played a lot of solid high-level teams along the

way,” said Ducharme. “We played a great team tonight and London’s the same and Saskatoon.

“We’re the first Memorial Cup team from the QMJHL to win out West; it means a lot.

“It speaks a lot about the character of that team and their will to win.”

Celebrating on the fringes of the Credit Union Centre’s ice surface was one of the masterminds of this remark-able team, general manager Cam Russell.

As proud as he was for his players and coaching staff, he was also thinking of the fans back home.

“They stuck with us for the last four years, those years were really difficult,” said Russell. “So to reward them with a Memorial Cup feels pretty special.”

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“All that even keel stuff we’ve been talking about is out the window now.” Mooseheads general manager Cam Russell

We are the champions. After months of keeping emotions in check it’s party time for Halifax

The Mooseheads celebrate Nathan MacKinnon’s empty-net goal to secure the Memorial Cup title on Sunday night in Saskatoon. DEREK MORTENSEN/THE CANADIAN PRESS

#congrats. Herd alumni applaud winning e� ortHalifax Mooseheads alumni took to Twitter after Sunday’s victory to congratulate the team on its historic win:

@shelleyhawk45: The best city in junior hockey finally got rewarded! Congratula-tions to theHalifax Moose-heads on winning the mem cup! #proudformermoose-head

@16Ran: Congrats to the @HFXMooseheads. Props to the boys for winnin last game of the year..well deserved, for the organization and

city..#jealous

@BryceSwan16: Congrats to the @HFXMooseheads #memorialcup CHAMPS!!!!

@hali_bods: @HFXMoose-heads @cdrusty8 @Midgley77 Congrats!!! So amazing watch-ing the entire year, what a way to cap it off !!! #thanks #memorylane

@Critchlow11: Congrats to everyone in the @HFX-Mooseheads organization. Good people and a lot of hard work. Enjoy it boys! Memorial

cup champions

@Reider5145: First off congrats to #halifaxmoose-heads #2013MemorialCup-champs @HFXMooseheads @HerdHistory @cdrusty8 and wow what a game!!!

@BrandonBenedict: Con-grats to the @HFXMooseheads

@cpridham: So happy for the great fans of the @HFX-Mooseheads but even happier for all the people who make it the best organization in Can-ada. METRO Jody Shelley THE CANADIAN PRESS FILE

The Charlottetown Islanders unveiled their logo on Monday in Charlottetown. CHARLOTTETOWN GUARDIAN

ANDREWRANKINMetro in Saskatoon

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NBA PLAYOFFS

NHL PLAYOFFS MLBCONFERENCE SEMIFINALS

(Best-of-7 series; All times Eastern)

EASTERN CONFERENCEPITTSBURGH (1) VS. OTTAWA (7)

(Pittsburgh wins 4-1)

BOSTON (4) VS. N.Y. RANGERS (6)(Boston wins 4-1)

WESTERN CONFERENCECHICAGO (1) VS. DETROIT (7)

(Series tied 3-3)Monday’s resultChicago 4 Detroit 3Wednesday’s gameDetroit at Chicago, 8 p.m.

LOS ANGELES (5) VS. SAN JOSE (6)

(Series tied 3-3)Sunday’s resultSan Jose 2 Los Angeles 1Tuesday’s gameSan Jose at Los Angeles, 9 p.m.

CONFERENCE FINALS(Best-of-7 series; All times Eastern)

EASTERN CONFERENCEMIAMI (1) VS INDIANA (3)

(Miami leads 2-1)Sunday’s resultMiami 114 Indiana 96Tuesday’s gameMiami at Indiana, 8:30 p.m.Thursday’s gameIndiana at Miami, 8:30 p.m.Saturday’s gamex-Miami at Indiana, 8:30 p.m.

WESTERN CONFERENCESAN ANTONIO (2) VS MEMPHIS (5)(San Antonio wins 4-0)

Monday’s resultSan Antonio 93 Memphis 86x — if necessary.

AMERICAN LEAGUEEAST DIVISION W L Pct GBBoston 32 20 .615 —New York 30 20 .600 1Baltimore 28 23 .549 31/2

Tampa Bay 26 24 .520 5Toronto 22 29 .431 91/2

CENTRAL DIVISION W L Pct GBDetroit 29 20 .592 —Cleveland 27 23 .540 21/2

Chicago 24 25 .490 5Kansas City 21 27 .438 71/2

Minnesota 20 28 .417 81/2

WEST DIVISION W L Pct GBTexas 32 19 .627 —Oakland 29 23 .558 31/2

Los Angeles 23 28 .451 9Seattle 22 29 .431 10Houston 15 36 .294 17Monday’s resultsToronto 9 Atlanta 3St. Louis 6 Kansas City 3Houston 3 Colorado 2 (12 inn.)Tampa Bay 10 Miami 6Oakland 4 San Francisco 1Detroit 6 Pittsburgh 5Sunday’s resultsToronto 6 Baltimore 5Tampa Bay 8 N.Y. Yankees 3L.A. Angels 5 Kansas City 2Oakland 6 Houston 2Chicago White Sox 5 Miami 3Seattle 4 Texas 3 (13 inn.)Boston 6 Cleveland 5Detroit 6 Minnesota 1Tuesday’s games — All times Eastern

Atlanta (Maholm 6-4) at Toronto (Morrow 2-3), 12:37 p.m.

Colorado (De La Rosa 6-3) at Houston (Lyles 2-1), 2:10 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Gomez 2-0) at Detroit (Por-cello 2-2), 7:08 p.m.

Philadelphia (Lee 5-2) at Boston (Demp-ster 2-5), 7:10 p.m.

Miami (Slowey 1-5) at Tampa Bay (Hellickson 2-2), 7:10 p.m.

St. Louis (Lyons 1-0) at Kansas City (Santana 3-4), 8:10 p.m.

San Francisco (Kickham 0-0) at Oakland (Parker 2-6), 10:05 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUEEAST DIVISION W L Pct GBAtlanta 30 20 .600 —Washington 26 25 .510 41/2

Philadelphia 24 27 .471 61/2

New York 19 29 .396 10Miami 13 38 .255 171/2

CENTRAL DIVISION W L Pct GBSt. Louis 33 17 .660 —Cincinnati 32 19 .627 11/2

Pittsburgh 31 20 .608 21/2

Chicago 20 30 .400 13Milwaukee 19 30 .388 131/2

WEST DIVISION W L Pct GBArizona 29 22 .569 —San Francisco 28 23 .549 1Colorado 27 24 .529 2San Diego 22 28 .440 61/2

Los Angeles 21 28 .429 7Monday’s resultsCincinnati 4 Cleveland 2San Diego 9 Seattle 0Baltimore 6 Washington 2Minnesota 6 Milwaukee 3N.Y. Mets 2 N.Y. Yankees 1Chicago Cubs 7 Chicago White Sox 0Boston 9 Philadelphia 3L.A. Dodgers 8 L.A. Angels 7Arizona 5- Texas 3- (DH)Sunday’s resultsSan Francisco 7 Colorado 3St. Louis 5 L.A. Dodgers 3Arizona 6 San Diego 5Washington 6 Philadelphia 1Chicago Cubs 5 Cincinnati 4 (10 inn.)Pittsburgh 5 Milwaukee 4N.Y. Mets 4 Atlanta 2Tuesday’s games — All times Eastern

Baltimore (Gausman 0-1) at Washington (Karns 0-0), 7:05 p.m.

Cleveland (McAllister 4-3) at Cincinnati (Latos 4-0), 7:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Kuroda 6-3) at N.Y. Mets (Harvey 5-0), 7:10 p.m.

Minnesota (Diamond 3-4) at Milwaukee 8:10 p.m.

Chicago Cubs (Jackson 1-7) at Chicago White Sox (Sale 5-2), 8:10 p.m.

San Diego (Volquez 3-5) at Seattle (Mau-rer 2-6), 10:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels (Blanton 1-7) at L.A. Dodgers (Ryu 5-2), 10:10 p.m.

Edwin Encarnacion hit a three-run homer while Colby Rasmus and J.P. Arencibia each hit two-run shots as the Toronto Blue Jays opened a home-and-home series with Atlanta by defeating the Braves 9-3 on Monday.

Mark Buehrle (2-3) was solid through six innings for the Blue Jays (22-29), with one earned run allowed on five hits, two walks and six strike-outs.

Tim Hudson (4-4) also went six for the Braves but his pitch-ing line wasn’t so flattering. The right-hander gave up six runs on eight hits with just one strikeout.

He was replaced in the sev-enth by reliever Cory Rasmus, Colby’s brother, who made his second major-league appear-ance and lost points in the sib-ling rivalry.

Cory Rasmus gave up a ground-rule double to Melky Cabrera, walked Jose Bautista and watched Encarnacion send the first pitch over the fence for his 14th homer of the year for a 9-1 lead.

Colby Rasmus also got some family bragging rights after the Blue Jays centre-fielder doubled off his brother later in the in-ning. The Canadian Press

shades of ’92. Blue Jays bash their way past Braves

French Open

Montrealer wins Grand Slam debutPlaying in her first Grand Slam main draw, Montreal native Eugenie Bou-chard defeated Tsvetana Pironkova 6-1, 7-6 (2) Monday to reach the second round of the French Open.

Next up for Bouchard — defending champion Maria Sharapova. The Canadian Press

CFL

Als sign trio of young DinosThe Montreal Alouettes signed first-round draft picks Mike Edem and Steven Lumbala as well as fourth-rounder Michael Klassen on Monday.

All three Calgary Dinos signed two-year contracts.The Canadian Press

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Bryan Bickell scored a go-ahead goal early in the third period and the Chicago Black-hawks held on to beat the De-troit Red Wings 4-3 in Game 6 on Monday night, giving the NHL’s top-seeded team a shot to advance to the Western Conference final.

The Blackhawks, who trailed the second-round ser-ies 3-1, began the third down by one and were up by two goals midway through the period after an offensive flurry. They needed the cush-ion because Damien Brunner scored with 52 seconds left to pull Detroit within one.

The Red Wings pulled their goaltender, but they were unable to score with the extra skater.

Detroit carried a 2-1 lead

into the third but Michal Handzus tied it in the open-ing minute of the final per-iod. Bickell scored about five minutes later. Michael Fro-

lik’s backhander on a penalty shot at the 9:43 mark put the Blackhawks ahead 4-2 and silenced the once-raucous crowd.

The Blackhawks will have the fans on their side Wednes-day night in Game 7 against seventh-seeded Detroit.

Frolik became first player in league history to score two goals on penalty shots in the playoffs, according to STATS LLC.

Frolik got a penalty try when he had a breakaway after blocking Carlo Colaiac-ovo’s shot and was hacked by him from behind. He took ad-vantage by scoring easily on Howard’s glove side.

Detroit goalie Jimmy How-ard was irate, screaming at an official while the Blackhawks celebrated their comeback.

Chicago’s Corey Crawford made 35 saves and Howard stopped 24 shots for the Red Wings. The assoCiaTed Press

Bickell’s goal helps Hawks out of pickle

The Blackhawks celebrate Michael Handzus’ goal on Red Wings goalie Jimmy Howard on Monday night in Detroit. Paul sancya/the assocIated Press

NHL playoffs. Chicago scores 3 in 1st half of 3rd period to come back and force Game 7 against Detroit

spurs whiz past Grizz into nBa finalsSpurs power forward Tim Duncan shoots over Grizzlies guard Tony Allen during Game 4 of the Western Conference final on Monday night in Memphis. San Antonio won 93-86 to complete a four-game sweep and book a spot in the NBA Finals. ronald MartInez/Getty IMaGes

Jose Bautista is greeted by Melky Cabrera after scoring a run against the Braves on Monday night in Toronto. nathan denette/the canadIan Press

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Aries March 21 - April 20 Think big today. With so much activity in the mind area of your chart, your brain will be overflowing with ideas. Many of them will be good.

Taurus April 21 - May 21 Venus, your ruler, links with Jupiter, planet of good fortune, in the money area of your chart today, which suggests good things if you think positive and act fast when an opportunity arises.

Gemini May 22 - June 21 No matter how many serious issues you have to take care of, you must make time for some fun over the next 24 hours. There are so many great things going on in your world. Don’t miss out on them.

Cancer June 22 - July 23 You may be tempted to keep your thoughts to yourself because you don’t want to rock the boat but you know that would be a mistake. If you see an injustice, speak up.

Leo July 24 - Aug. 23 Push work worries to the back of your mind and focus on friendships. You cannot escape your obligations but neither do you have to let them rule your life. Think happy thoughts and happy things will occur.

Virgo Aug. 24 - Sept. 23 Whatever it is you have to work on today, you will be at your most efficient. Not everyone is as organized and focused as you though so try to be patient with those who find it hard to keep up.

Libra Sept. 24 - Oct. 23 Someone you work with will get on your nerves today but be tolerant because they possess something you need. It’s unlikely they will choose to give it to you if you hurt their feelings.

Scorpio Oct. 24 - Nov. 22 Don’t worry too much about the injustices of the world because you cannot possibly resolve them all. What you can do though is be kind to people you meet one-to-one. Even a smile makes the world better.

Sagittarius Nov. 23 - Dec. 21 Don’t listen to that nagging voice at the back of your mind that is trying to convince you that having fun is a sin. Life is about loving and laughing and learning. Have more fun.

Capricorn Dec. 22 - Jan. 20 Do something that shakes up those people who seem to have slipped into an easygoing mode of thought and action. There is a world out there waiting to be conquered.

Aquarius Jan. 21 - Feb. 19 Your conscience demands that you follow a certain course of action and you know from long experience that if you don’t obey, you will regret it later. Do what has to be done and make sure you do it well.

Pisces Feb. 20 - March 20 You may want to gossip today but keep what you know to yourself. If you get a reputation as a bit of a blabbermouth, no one will tell you anything. SALLY BROMPTON

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Based on Energuide combined fuel consumption rating for the 2013 Accent Auto (6.3L/100km)/Elantra Auto (6.3L/100km)/Elantra Coupe Auto (6.6L/100km)/Elantra GT Auto (6.6L/100km)/Veloster 1.6L Auto (6.3L/100km)/Genesis Coupe 2.0L Auto (8.6L/100km)/Sonata 2.4L Auto (7.3L/100km)/Sonata HEV Auto (5.2L/100km)/Tucson 2.0L Auto (8.2L/100km)/Santa Fe Sport 2.4L FWD Auto (8.6L/100km)/2012 Sonata HEV Auto (5.3L/100km) and the combined fuel consumption rating for the 2013 Santa Fe XL 3.3L FWD (9.9L/100km) as determined by the Manufacturer as shown on www.hyundaicanada.com at 15,400km/year which is the yearly average driving distance as referenced by Transport Canada’s Provincial Light Vehicle Fleet Statistics, 2011, minus one full tank of fuel provided at the time of delivery of 2013 Accent (43L), Elantra (48L), Elantra Coupe (50L), Elantra GT (50L), Veloster (50L), Genesis Coupe (65L), Sonata (70L), Sonata HEV (65L), Tucson (58L), Santa Fe Sport (66L), Santa Fe XL (71L), 2012 Sonata HEV (65L), this is equivalent to $0.99 per litre gas up to a total of 645 Litres (2013 Accent/Elantra/Elantra Coupe/Elantra GT/Veloster), 705 Litres (2013 Sonata/2013 Sonata HEV/2012 Sonata HEV) and 890 Litres (2013 Genesis Coupe/Tucson/Santa Fe Sport/Santa Fe XL). Actual fuel efficiency may vary based on driving conditions and the addition of certain vehicle accessories. Fuel economy figures are used for comparison purposes only. ▲Government 5-Star Safety Ratings are part of the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA’s) New Car Assessment Program (www.SaferCar.gov). †Ω*♦Offers available for a limited time, and subject to change or cancellation without notice. See dealer for complete details. Dealer may sell for less. Inventory is limited, dealer order may be required. ††Hyundai’s Comprehensive Limited Warranty coverage covers most vehicle components against defects in workmanship under normal use and maintenance conditions.

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HWY: 5.2L/100 KM CITY: 7.1L/100 KM▼

HWY: 7.7L/100 KM CITY: 10.4L/100 KM▼

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