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Bait locker pilot is coming to all city-run gyms

Sticky fingers are the target of a new pilot project at city recreation centres, where po-lice are looking to nab thieves stealing from gym lockers.

Using what is called a “bait locker,” facility staff and Ed-monton police are hoping to deter locker-room theft by installing, in all city-operated gyms, bait lockers that sound an alarm when broken into as part of the project.

“It’s not a problem that hasn’t existed before. We’re just able now with differ-ent tools and technologies to better address it,” said Ron

Nichol, operations supervisor with Kinsmen Sports Centre.

Break-ins at city gyms comes in “waves,” said Nichol, and although not unique to city-operated facilities, Ed-monton officials want to be proactive when dealing with locker-room theft.

“The hope is the deterrent is enough to encourage these thieves to go elsewhere,” he said.

Terwillegar and Common-wealth recreation centres were the first to test out the bait lockers, which will soon expand to all of the facilities over the next couple of weeks.

But it doesn’t stop with the bait locker program.

In addition to security cam-eras, reinforced lockers and other security measures in city sports facilities, administra-tion is also looking at adding locker-room concierge attend-ants to all facilities, something which was piloted at Kinsmen

this summer, said Nichol. “We’re looking at hir-

ing year-round. Every time the goal is to have no locker break-ins when the concierge is on shift. We’ve met that goal every single time,” he said.

The city isn’t the first place to test security measures in locker-rooms, with recreation facilities in British Columbia also using the program to thwart thieves.

Patron education will also keep theft numbers down, with city staff telling people what to do with their valu-ables when entering a facility and which types of locks are best to avoid theft as much as possible.

“We’re trying everything we can possibly think of to discourage this activity. It still happens but the main reason it still happens is poor choice of locks by patrons,” said Nichol.

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Education Minister Jeff Johnson estimates it would cost more than $100 million to end all school fees in Alberta. METRO FILE

More than $100 million would be needed to end school fees, says Education Minister Jeff Johnson as Wil-drose and Liberal MLAs call on the government to ditch the extra costs associated with sending kids to class.

Wildrose education critic Bruce McAllister is asking Albertans to sign a petition to eliminate school fees.

“They’ve been created, frankly, because the PC government has not hon-oured its commitment to boards and continues to shortchange them,” McAl-lister said Tuesday. “Their only way out, as they see it, is to come up with another

money-making scheme.... It always rolls downhill and it always seems to wind up with the government’s hand in your pocket as a parent.”

Yet, according to John-son, the decision regarding fees is largely left to local school boards.

“The reality is that gov-ernment’s always trying to find that right balance,” he said. “You’ve got to find a balance between doing what’s best for the students in responding to parents and giving local school boards the autonomy they need to make decisions.”

Edmonton mother Chris-tina Fox expects to pay roughly $550 this year for

her children’s school fees. When asked if she’d like

to see the fees tossed to the wayside, she answered with a big yes.

“That (money) really comes in handy, especially as school clothes and school supplies are so expensive,” she noted.

For Johnson, eliminating school fees is a possibility, but not necessarily some-thing every Albertan would like to see funded.

“What we need to do is focus on where we’re going to put that money.... I know that if you had $100 million to put into the system to eliminate school fees, which is roughly what it will take, and you went to parents and teachers and administrators and you said, ‘Where do you want this $100 million to go? Do you want it go to eliminate school fees or do you want it to decrease class size? Or do you want it to increase supports for inclu-sion and special needs?’”WITH FILES FROM JEREMY NOLAIS

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Do you believe the cuts to post-secondary education made in 2013 were a mistake? If so, how would you rectify them? Yes. They were counter-intui-tive to what I want to achieve; that was the other premier’s platform and her vision. This is the brain trust that is going to drive our economy forward. I believe our economy is going to grow on smarts, not muscle, so cutting advanced education is not conducive to that.

If the province could only fund one of these projects, would you want to spend the funds on upgrades to a com-muter highway or adding to the city’s LRT network? LRT. The more cars we can take off the road, the more bums we can put into an LRT seat, the less pressure you are going to have to upgrade a com-muter highway. Would you fund full-day kin-dergarten in Alberta schools and how would you find the

money to fund it? Yes, it’s a 100 per cent com-mitment. The only limitation is infrastructure at this time, because there are schools that simply can’t afford one extra grade level.

Do you believe the Munici-

pal Government Act (MGA) should be changed to treat the big cities of Edmonton and Calgary differently than other municipalities?There is a review of the MGA right now and I want to pull it back a little to put some of those questions into the mix.

Our legislation seems to be rather monolithic, assuming the only difference is popula-tion — big cities (means) big-ger problems, smaller cities smaller problems. That’s not the case.

Would you support adding

demerit points to the current fine for distracted driving? I don’t think we’re there yet, because there’s a step we would skip. I don’t mind getting there in the long run, but I’m not convinced that we are serious and diligent about enforcing the current law.

Provincial politics. Metro reporter questions Lukaszuk on education, transportation, the MGA

Q and A with PC leadership candidate Thomas Lukaszuk

Progressive leadership candidate Thomas Lukaszuk talks with Metro about his vision for the province. Ryan TumilTy/meTRo

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Lukaszuk hoping to set new courseAs he attempts a come-from-behind win for the PC leadership, Thomas Lukaszuk is asking party members to ask where they want Alberta to go.

In a sit-down interview with Metro, the former cabinet minister said it’s time for Alberta to be more forward-looking when it comes to shaping the province.

“We need to decide who we’re going to be when we grow up from an economic perspective,” he said.

Lukaszuk said for the province’s long-term suc-cess, having one successful industry is not enough and Alberta needs to do more to make people want to live here and start businesses here. “You need to have more. You need to have hospitals and you need to have daycares. You need to have senior centres.”

Lukaszuk said to pay for all these things there would have to be new debt, paying for what the province needs now and into the future.

“That’s not an expense, it’s an investment. It’s the cost of doing business.”

He said building more social infrastructure for Alberta will help turn the province from a place people want to work to a place they want to call home. “If you’re building a work camp it’s very easy — continue doing what we’re doing.” RyAn TumiLTy/meTRo

Registration issues crop up with PC vote days awayWith just days to go in the Pro-gressive Conservative leader-ship race, candidates are saying the new online voting system may mean not everyone gets a chance to cast a ballot.

The party is using an online system and verifying that vot-ers are eligible to cast a ballot by cross-referencing members with the Elections Alberta vot-ers’ list.

Ric McIver said his team is working hard to fix issues where potential supporters didn’t align with the list.

“We have had a lot of re-jections for a whole variety of reasons and we have just been working through them one file at a time,” he said.

Thomas Lukaszuk said his campaign is having similar problems and is working hard to correct them.

“I want to make sure that all of those who bought a membership get a chance to

vote,” Lukaszuk said. Kelley Charlebois, the

party’s executive director, said it has been a challenge and he doesn’t know if the issue will be entirely resolved before Sat-urday’s vote.

“Do I think we are going to have 100 per cent coverage? No. But I can’t give you a number because it would be a guess,” he said.

He said the party has dedi-cated staff to working on the issue and he knows the cam-paigns are focused on the prob-lem as well.

“I think if everybody is working hard, we can get a lot of people on there.”RyAn TumiLTy/meTRo

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“Do i think we are going to have 100 per cent cover-age? No. But i can’t give you a number because it would be a guess.”Kelley Charlebois, PC party executive director, on the registration issue being resolved by Saturday’s vote

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Mayor Don Iveson said he wants the city to take a hard look at Uber, as the company considers coming to Edmon-ton.

Operators of the rideshare app announced last month they hope to come to the city soon. Iveson asked administra-tion for a report on the city’s current bylaws and where they might conflict with Uber.

Iveson said he has used

Uber’s system in other cities and sees how it could be use-ful.

He said he also wants the report to outline why the city can’t just open the doors to Uber.

“I want to get a clean report that explains to citizens why we have a vehicle for hire by-law, why we regulate the taxi industry,” he said. Ryan TumilTy/meTRo

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Weight loss. Key is commitment, not diet plan: u of a researchersDoing something is always bet-ter than nothing — that’s what a new study published from local researchers is claiming when it comes to dieting.

As part of a joint study com-pleted by researchers at the U of A and McMaster University in Hamilton, Ont., adhering to any diet — whether it’s low-carb, high-carb or low-fat — is the

best recipe for success.“Adherence to the diet was

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After winning an appeal citing he was unfairly fired, a former Edmonton teacher is back fighting against a new public school district policy he said is far too similar to the ditched “no-zero” rule.

At Edmonton Public School Board’s first meeting of the 2014-2015 school year Tuesday, Lynden Dorval called unaccept-able a new administrative regu-lation that expects teachers to follow a five-step process before handing out a zero.

Dorval first made headlines after he was fired in 2012 for handing out zeroes to students who missed tests or failed to hand in assignments.

Now retired, the former

Ross Shepherd High School teacher said while the board reversed the “no-zero” policy in 2013, the administrative regula-tion blocks a teacher’s ability to evaluate students.

According to the regulation, teachers are expected to go through five intervention steps before handing out a zero.

“We’re the people who know the students best,” Dor-val said Tuesday. “The super-intendent, principals do not know the students, therefore they shouldn’t be making deci-sions on how to evaluate.

“That’s a professional right and responsibility of the teach-er.”

Dorval said the administra-tive regulation is too similar to the “no-zero” policy.

“Students need to see the zeroes up front to see the con-sequence of not doing the work has on their mark,” he said.

EPSB spokeswoman Lisa Austin said the new regulations aims to achieve consistency across the district.

“This is a regulation we are very proud of,” she said. “It was

built over the last year in col-laboration with 5,000 teachers, with parents all over the city and with principals.”

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the recent ruling from Alberta courts, which found Dorval’s treatment was unfair, citing “no evidence of deliberate mis-conduct.”

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Former Edmonton physics teacher Lynden Dorval called a new EdmontonPublic School Board administration regulation far too similar to the recently ditched “no-zero” policy. File Photo

City weighs lower gym fee optionEdmontonians looking to pump some iron during the day in city-operated gyms might pay less in the future, as city officials look at changing their current policy.

As it stands, the rates avail-able at city-run recreation cen-tres are limited, according to city officials who hope to get

council’s approval to allow for policy changes at Wednesday’s community services commit-tee meeting.

“In our low use times, our policy does tie our hands a little bit in terms of our rates or our discounts,” said Rob Smyth, branch manager of community and recreation.

“We want to at least have that opportunity to look at it.”

If approved by council, city officials wouldn’t look at changing rates in the budget discussions for 2015, with any changes expected to not happen anytime before early 2016.

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ges would be to increase at-tendance, said Smyth.

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Justin Bieber’s camp is point-ing a finger of blame at the paparazzi for the Canadian pop star’s latest run-in with the law in Canada.

Ontario Provincial Police said Bieber, 20, was arrested Friday and charged with dan-gerous driving and assault fol-lowing a collision between a minivan and an ATV in a rural area northeast of Bieber’s hometown of Stratford.

The driver of the ATV and an occupant of the minivan “engaged in a physical alterca-tion,” according to police.

Const. Kees Wijnands would not say whether Bieber was driving the ATV, but pic-tures posted online show the star and on-and-off girlfriend Selena Gomez riding on an ATV on Friday.

Wijnands said there were no injuries as a result of the collision but couldn’t say whether there were any injur-ies from the altercation.

“He attended our office and he was arrested,” Wi-jnands said. Bieber was then

released on a promise to ap-pear in court Sept. 29.

In a statement emailed to The Canadian Press, Bieber’s lawyer in Toronto indicated the paparazzi were involved but provided no details.

“Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez’s peaceful retreat in Stratford this weekend was unfortunately disrupted by the unwelcome presence of the paparazzi,” said Brian Greenspan.

“This has regrettably re-sulted in charges of danger-ous driving and assault. Mr. Bieber and Ms. Gomez have fully co-operated in the police investigation. We are hopeful that this matter will be quick-ly resolved.”THE Canadian PRESS

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A dethroned 16-year-old beauty queen from Myanmar said Tuesday she won’t re-turn her bejeweled $100,000 crown until pageant organiz-ers apologize for calling her a liar and a thief.

May Myat Noe — the country’s first winner of an international beauty contest — lashed back at her accus-ers at a tightly packed news

conference.She said representatives

of the Miss Asia Pacific World pageant lied about her age — saying she was 18 instead of 16 — and tried to pressure her into getting plastic surgery “from head to toe.”

Noe denied having breast implants as claimed by David Kim, director of media

for the South Korean-based pageant. He said the surgery was provided free of charge, part of efforts to boost the teen into super-stardom.

Kim said Noe was stripped of her title last week because she was dishonest and un-appreciative and that she ran off with her tiara after learning of the decision. THE aSSOCiaTEd PRESS

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Extremists from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group released a video Tuesday purportedly showing the be-heading of a second American journalist, Steven Sotloff, and warning U.S. President Barack Obama that as long as Amer-ican airstrikes against the mil-itants continue, “our knife will continue to strike the necks of your people.”

The footage — depicting what the U.S. called a sicken-ing act of brutality — was post-ed two weeks after the release of a video showing the killing of James Foley and just days

after Sotloff’s mother plead-ed for his life. Barak Barfi, a spokesman for the family, said that the Sotloffs had seen the video but that authorities have not established its authenti-city.

Sotloff vanished in Syria in August 2013 and was not seen until he appeared in a video re-leased last month that showed Foley’s beheading. Dressed in an orange jumpsuit, Sotloff was threatened in that video with death unless the United States stopped airstrikes on ISIS.

In the video distributed Tuesday titled A Second Mes-sage to America, Sotloff ap-pears in a similar jumpsuit before he is apparently be-headed by a fighter with ISIS, the extremist group that has conquered wide swaths of territory across Syria and Iraq and declared itself a caliphate.

The fighter who apparently

beheads Sotloff in the video calls it retribution for Obama’s continued attacks.

“I’m back, Obama, and I’m back because of your ar-rogant foreign policy toward the Islamic State … despite our serious warnings,” the fighter says. “So just as your missiles continue to strike our people, our knife will con-tinue to strike the necks of your people.”

In the video, the organiza-tion threatens to kill another hostage, this one identified as British citizen David Caw-thorne Haines. It was not im-mediately clear who Haines was.

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‘A Second Message to America.’ Terrorist group says murder of Steven Sotloff is retribution for continued U.S. airstrikes

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Squeezed into tighter and tighter spaces, airline passen-gers appear to be rebelling, taking their frustrations out on other fliers.

Three U.S. flights made un-scheduled landings in the past

nine days after passengers got into fights over the ability to recline their seats. Disputes over a tiny bit of personal space might seem petty, but for passengers whose knees are already banging into tray tables, every inch counts.

To boost their profits, air-lines have been adding more rows of seats to planes in the past few years.

Southwest and United both took away one inch from each row on certain jets to make room for six more seats. Amer-ican is increasing the number of seats on its Boeing 737-

800s from 150 to 160. Delta installed new, smaller toilets in its 737-900s, enabling it to

squeeze in an extra four seats. And to make room for a first-class cabin with lie-flat beds on its transcontinental flights, JetBlue cut one inch of leg room for coach passengers.

Airlines say passengers won’t notice because the seats are being redesigned to create a sense of more space. Southwest’s seats have thin-ner seatback magazine pock-ets, Alaska Airlines shrank the size of tray tables, and United moved the magazine pocket, getting it away from passen-gers’ knees.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Plane passengers turn on each other

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84%Passengers aren’t just losing leg room; they’re losing elbow room. Airlines in the u.s. sold 84 per cent of their seats on domestic flights so far this year, up from 81 per cent five years ago and 74 per cent a decade ago, according to the bureau of Transportation statistics. That means there are fewer and fewer empty middle seats on which passengers can spread out.

Packed in like sardines. As everything from leg room to toilets shrink on planes, people are taking their anger out on fellow fliers

New York attorney general. Evans Bank avoided giving loans to African-Americans A bank purposely avoided giving mortgages to African-Americans by locating all of its branches outside black neigh-bourhoods and directing adver-tising and loan products toward largely white communities, New York’s attorney general said in a lawsuit filed Tuesday as part of a wider investigation into an illegal practice known as redlining.

Evans Bank is accused in the federal civil complaint of violating federal, state and lo-cal housing and discrimination laws, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said at a news conference in Buffalo.

The bank’s practice of not making home improvement loans and mortgages available in Buffalo’s east side, home to more than 75 per cent of the city’s African-American popu-lation, perpetuated racial seg-regation and the decline of the city’s housing stock, the law-suit alleges.

“This is a problem we thought we put behind us a couple of decades ago,” said Schneiderman, who was joined

at the news conference by more than a dozen representatives from civic organizations, in-cluding the NAACP, New York Civil Liberties Union and Part-nership for the Public Good.

Evans Bank is headquar-tered in the suburb of Ham-burg and has 13 branches in western New York and US$830 million in total assets.

The bank’s president and chief executive called the ac-cusations “meritless” and said Evans will vigorously defend itself. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Icelandic volcano starts to chill out after eruption Experts say the seismic activity near the Bárðarbunga volcano in Iceland is calming down as tall fountains of fi re and lava continue to lick the air along a

volcanic fi ssure, producing a huge plume of steam and gas.

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Thousands of small earthquakes have rocked the region in recent days, leading to concerns that Bárðarbunga, which lies under a vast glacier, could erupt.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

What with celebrity selfies and Vladimir Putin, you probably didn’t think the world could get much weirder.

That’s because you don’t know about nipsters.Allow me to plug your knowledge gap.Nipsters are Nazi hipsters. As Vladimir Putin

is Nikita Khrushchev 2.0, so nipsters are an up-date on neo-Nazi skinheads. Instead of jack boots and swastika armbands, nipsters sport skinny jeans, coloured glasses, messenger tote bags and beards.

You can watch German nipsters doing the Harlem Shake on YouTube, flashing signs that encourage the viewer to have unprotected sex with Nazis, which sounds so ... unclean.

Other signs in the video deplore multiculturalism, so it’s clear that the unreconstructed hearts of xenophobes continue beating to a goose-stepping rhythm, with a little hip hop thrown in to bring things up to date.

Nipsters also favour animal rights and support environmental causes. There’s even a neo-neo-Nazi vegan cooking show featuring two guys in the kitch-en wearing balaclavas.

Rolling Stone published the full lowdown on nip-sters earlier this summer in an article titled Heil Hipster: The Young Neo-Nazis Trying to Put a Stylish Face on Hate.

It’s mainly based on an interview with a founder of the movement, Patrick Schroeder. Everything’s on-trend about Patrick. He has his own webcast where he blends pop culture into hate culture in a way that is supposed to appeal to mainstream right-

wing lunatics. In fact, he says, “If the definition of the nipster is someone who can live in the mainstream, then I see it as the fu-ture of the movement.” He dismisses North American neo-Nazis as dressed up for a costume party. No style.

Despite the user-friendly front, Schroeder’s ideological ob-servations are distinctly paleo. He calls Barack Obama Amer-

ica’s “neger president” and tells Rolling Stone journalist Thom-as Rogers that black people don’t belong in Germany because it’s “against nature. There’s a reason we’re not walking around in the sun, in Ghana, with our skin colour.”

All this would be horribly amusing if it weren’t for the fact that racism is on the rise in Europe. And in echoes of Nazi Ger-many, according to the European Agency for Fundamental Rights, up to 90 per cent of all hate crimes in the European Union go unreported because respondents are afraid of social ostracism. It’s OK to spout nipster nonsense, but it’s not OK to report it?

Nipsters aren’t the only xenophobic fungus growing on European culture. Recent anti-Semitic riots in France and Ger-many, on the surface a response to the Israel-Gaza conflict, have an ugly undercurrent of racism.

It’s quite the monster mash-up. Hate is an equal opportun-ity disease. Fortunately, an effective vaccine exists. Love is all you need, and by love we don’t mean unprotected sex with a Nazi.

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Bruce Greenwood first met director Atom Egoyan in a singles bar. “Atom was alone in the corner and I felt sorry for him,” says Greenwood. “We were introduced by a mutual friend.”

That was in the early 1990s, when Egoyan was on the brink of international acclaim as a director and Greenwood was a film and television star with a hand-ful of movies and recurring roles on St. Elsewhere and Knots Landing under his belt.

That chance meeting led to their first film together, Exotica, a study of loneliness and desire in a lap-dancing club that Roger Ebert called “a deep, painful film” in his four-star review.

“We became good friends during that process,” said Greenwood, “and in the en-suing years.”

Three years later the pair collaborated on The Sweet Hereafter, an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Russell Banks about the effects of a tragic bus acci-dent on the population of

a small town. Greenwood earned a Genie Award nom-ination playing a grieving father and in 2002 readers of Playback voted it the great-est Canadian film ever made.

Next was a small role in Ararat, Egoyan’s story of a young man whose life is changed during the making of a film about the Armenian genocide, and then, in 2013, a cameo in Devil’s Knot. Greenwood played a judge in Egoyan’s retelling of the events leading up to the West Memphis Three mur-ders and the “Satanic panic” that fuelled the hysteria sur-rounding the subsequent trial of teenagers Jessie Mis-skelley Jr., Damien Echols and Jason Baldwin.

These days Greenwood is best known for his work as Capt. Christopher Pike in the 2009 Star Trek film and its sequel, Star Trek Into Darkness, but he’s not too busy in Hollywood — the Quebec-born actor has lived in Los Angeles since the late 1980s — to reteam with his Canadian cohort.

In Egoyan’s new psycho-logical thriller, The Captive,

Greenwood joins stars Ryan Reynolds, Scott Speedman,

Rosario Dawson and Mireille Enos in a story of a child kid-

napping. Egoyan says he and Greenwood share a short-hand that makes for easy work on set.

As for Greenwood, he says he trusts the director, “more than anyone I’ve ever worked with. He can ask me to do anything and if my initial instinct is ‘Oh no,’ it ends up being the right idea. He’s a tremendous guy.”

Dynamic duo Greenwood and Egoyan rock the movie screenA history of hits. Whether the script’s about lap dancing or a kidnapped child, these two can be trusted to deliver movie magic

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Plans for 24 movie resurfaceFollowing the finale of 24: Live Another Day, the miniseries that stood in as the show’s belated ninth season, producers have returned to the idea of bringing Jack Bauer’s adven-tures to the big screen, TV Line reveals.

According to the website, 24 producer Brian Grazer has developed a pitch that he plans to present to 20th Century Fox. The studio, however, is said to be more interested in producing additional miniseries such as the one aired this summer. The idea of a movie on the counter-terrorist agent has been in discussion since the show ended its eighth season in May 2010. AFP

Kiefer Sutherland stars in 24.GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP

Season 5

Downton Abbey trailer hints at romance, fireITV has unveiled the first trailer for the next season of Downton Abbey, which premieres Sept. 21 in the U.K.

The fifth season is poised to be an eventful one for the protagon-ists. In its new video, the British network hints at romance — as Lady Mary grows closer to Lord Gill-ingham and the footman Jimmy Kent pursues his forbidden love affairs — as well as drama, as Lord Grantham fears that his grandson is about to be stolen from the family. There is also a shot that hints that a terrible fire may break out at the estate.

The new season, which is written once again by the show’s creator Julian Fellowes, is set in 1924 and finds the family cop-ing with reforms carried out by the first Labour government. AFP

Golden Lion. Film editor scores achievement awardOscar-winning film editor Thelma Schoonmaker, who has worked hand-in-hand with dir-ector Martin Scorsese for over 40 years, was awarded the Gold-en Lion for Lifetime Achieve-ment in Venice on Tuesday.

The 74-year-old American has edited some of the biggest selling and critically acclaimed movies of the past 30 years, from Goodfellas to Gangs of New York and The Wolf of Wall Street, and only works with Scorsese.

After winning Oscars for

Raging Bull, The Aviator and The Departed, Schoonmaker said she was honoured to be awarded the top Venice accol-ade — and to be the first film editing artist to receive it in the festival’s history.

“I had started a six-week course at NYU (New York Uni-versity) in editing when I first met Marty, and it changed my life,” Schoonmaker told jour-nalists at the world’s oldest film festival ahead of the ceremony on Lido island in Italy’s floating city. AFP

Film editor Thelma Schoonmaker received a Golden Lion award for lifetime achievement Tuesday during the 71st Venice Film Festival. GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP

The Venice Film Festival has feted the career of Frances Mc-Dormand, the Oscar-winning actress of Fargo fame, ahead of the premiere of a new HBO miniseries she called the cul-mination of her life’s work.

McDormand, who is mar-ried to director Joel Coen and has starred in several Coen brothers films including Fargo and Burn After Reading, was presented with the Visionary Talent Award for a career that began on Broadway in 1984.

The 57-year-old American told journalists ahead of the ceremony that she felt de-veloping, producing and acting in the four-part miniseries Ol-

ive Kitteridge was “the culmin-ation of everything that I have attempted to do.”

McDormand plays a witty, acerbic math teacher in a New England town in a story that spans 25 years, based on a Pul-itzer prize-winning collection of short stories by Elizabeth Strout, and directed by Lisa Cholodenko. Television has “al-lowed all of us to reinvent on our own terms what we want our professional lives to be,” she said. “For a female elder, ac-tion roles in films are limited, but television opens up new possibilities.” AFP

Frances McDormand, who produces and acts in Olive Kitteridge, receivedthe Visionary Talent Award at theVenice Film Festival. GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP

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‘I do not have a perfect body,’ says Charlize. Yeah, right.

We’ve been thinking a lot about famous women’s bodies this week, obviously, so here’s some food for thought to go with all that virtual ogling. Oscar winner Charlize Theron, generally regarded to be pretty darn beautiful, has a few flaws.

“I do not have a perfect body,” she tells Modern Lux-ury magazine. “I’m always finding things I can work on, but I definitely reached a

point where I feel comfort-able and happy with the way my body looks.” Oh, good. I was worried. I mean, if she can’t feel comfortable with how she looks, what hope do the rest of us have?

“I like to think I am a woman who is comfortable (with) and celebratory of my strengths and indulges in the qualities that make me feel beautiful,” she says, ap-parently not done yet.

“I definitely am not one of those people that is constantly counting calories and doesn’t allow myself to enjoy food — I love food. But I just try to be mindful of what I eat and be good to myself.”

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go be good to myself with this deep-dish pizza.

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Years-old injury still bringing

George pain George Clooney is still feeling the effects of a back injury he suffered on the set of Syriana almost 10 years ago and re-cently visited a hospital in Dus-seldorf, Germany, to address the ongoing pain, according to E! News. “George arrived at the clinic Friday morning and had a series of tests with the clinic’s top neurosurgeon, Dr. Ralf Buhl,” a source says. “Buhl specializes in non-invasive methods, which lessen the need for surgery.” The injury is believed to have caused ongoing spinal cord problems and bad headaches. See? So it’s not necessarily just the Daily Mail that’s made him so grumpy lately.

Miley still loves Liam Hemsworth (and weed)

Miley Cyrus may have broken off her engagement to Liam Hemsworth almost a year ago, but that doesn’t mean she doesn’t still have feelings for the Australian actor. “I love Liam. Liam loves me,” she tells Australia’s Sunday Night during an interview. Of course, she might just be saying that because she doesn’t want to upset any Australians on their home turf.

On the more controversial topic of her open indulgence in drugs and alcohol, Cyrus gets a bit defensive: “I put pictures of me smoking weed, I’m not going to lie, on my Instagram,” she says. “I don’t promote it in my songs or whatever, but it’s not like I’m sitting around telling a bunch of kids to do a bunch of drugs.”

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In his stout workboots and black oilskin duster, Bill Mat-thews looks more like a sheep rancher than a Maori sage and storyteller. Yet, by the time he has collected me at the Copthorne Hokianga Hotel and we’ve arrived at a dizzy-ing lookout over Hokianga Harbour near the tip of New Zealand’s North Island, he has summoned the ancient world of the country’s first peoples — his ancestors — and brought to life their legends of creation and conquest.

At the verge of the fabled Waipoua Forest — a primeval rainforest and sanctuary for the vast, native Kauri trees — twi-light is now filtering through the silver ferns, symbol of New Zealand and as big as rooftops.

When we finally meet the forest celebrities, Te Matua Ngahere (Father of the Forest) and 2,000-year-old Tane Ma-huta (Lord of the Forest), it’s full dark, and Bill’s stories of the Maori’s journey from their mythical homeland of Hawaiki, their discovery of Aotearoa, the Land of the Long White Cloud, and even of how Tane Mahuta created the world seem as real as the nighttime calls of the tui and kiwi, and as divine as smouldering kauri resin.

Think of a spiritual journey, and you might first think of the mystical destinations of India or the Holy Land. Increasingly, however, seekers of renewal,

enlightenment and self-discov-ery are drawn to New Zealand — a land of epically ethereal landscapes, rich mythological history and soul-satisfying re-moteness.

It’s not surprising, really, that the misty ranges, bubbling hot springs and vast forests that were such inherently sacred sites for the Maori have, in more recent years, inspired and attracted pilgrims of all spirit-ual stripes.

“Being in the Southern Alps, on the shores of Lake Waka-tipu, there is a real sense of spirituality and calmness,” says Paula Ryan, co-creator of the new, 21-acre Aro-Ha Wellness Retreat near Queenstown.

Although it’s been open less than a year and hosts a maximum of 20 guests at once, Aro-Ha is making international

waves for its luxury accommo-dation, rigour (paleo-based veg-an cuisine) and permaculture (a focus on ecological, sustainable design).

At Aro-Ha, “every guest has a personal experience and they all leave feeling increased ob-jectivity and more clarity,” says Ryan.

In addition to mindfulness and other spirituality sessions, Aro-Ha focuses on nutrition and what it calls wellness ad-ventures: sub-alpine hiking, strength training, kayaking and twice-daily yoga sessions.

Further north and over-looking New Zealand’s most populous city, the Auckland Zen Garden offers an entirely different landscape, but a simi-larly contemplative experience, personalized for each guest. Owner Johnny Leung, who de-

signed the 75-acre Garden with rippling streams, private lodges and contemplative walks in the ancient Kyoto style, says he wants guests to “feel close to the sky and heaven.”

In addition to yoga and meditation sessions, a max-imum of 14 guests take part in two- to four-day retreats complete with the services, if desired, of psychiatrists and “soul consultants,” who guide individuals seeking to reset their priorities or make major life changes, says Leung.

Interestingly, one of Aro-Ha’s guests used almost identi-cal language: “Aro-Ha isn’t a life saver; it’s a life changer.”

But Bill Matthews showed that quests for perspective, in-sight and priority aren’t neces-sarily new. As we left Waipoua Forest, he leaned over, felt the

ground for a kauri seed, and presented it to me with a trad-itional ancient Maori message. “You are a seed. Even though you are small, you have value.”

Maori ImmersionMuseums, cultural centres and special events throughout New Zealand will give you a great introduction to Maori history and culture, but if you want to jump in feet first, check out Potiki Adventures.

The company is the pas-sion and brainchild of Bianca Ranson of Waiheki Island, who started it 10 years ago when she was just 24 and has since won a clutch of awards for it.

Her aims: to further Maori traditions among Maori youth, and also to give Pakeha (non-Maori people) a hands-on ex-perience of Maori activities, perspectives and spirituality. Guests stay in the Marae, a traditional ancestral meet-ing house, visit historical paa (power) sites and participate in activities such as flax weav-ing, poi-making and mau rakau (martial arts).

For more information: potikiadventures.co.nz

Soul-searching in New ZealandSpiritual trip. Epically ethereal landscapes and a history drenched in mythology make this island nation a must for meditators

New Zealand’s beauty can bring out the spiritual in visitors. Scan this image with your Metro News app to see pictures of a journey through New Zealand that’s guaranteed to stir the soul. ERIC LINDBERG

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The Afterlife of StarsAs a special end-of-summer gift to our readers, Metro brings you the first chapter of The Afterlife of Stars, the newest book by award-winning author Joseph

Kertes. Over the next three days, we will be introduced to the Beck brothers, two young boys grappling with the world around them as Russian tanks roll into Budapest during the final days of the Hungarian revolution. In Part 2 of four, the Beck family has an encounter with Russian soldiers in their home.

There was a pounding at the door, quite a commanding one, and we all looked out that way, as if to interpret what it meant. We followed my father into the vestibule and huddled behind him, except for my brother, who stood by his side. It was Attila who opened the door. A man, a soldier the size of a tree, stood outside. He had such an overgrowth of beard, he could have supplied a whole room of teenagers with all the tufts they needed. He barked something at us in Russian. The red star gleamed from his furry officer’s cap. He barked something again, and Judit squeaked and held her stomach.

The tree man paused, but then he parted us and stepped up to Judit. He looked at her, gazed down at her belly, then bent down to listen there. No one knew what to do. He pointed a long brown fin-ger at her abdomen. Andras looked ready to lunge at the Russian, and so did my broth-er behind him. Judit whim-pered.

The man laughed as he straightened all the way up again. His mouth was like a jewel box, full of gold and glitter. He pushed past us and marched straight to our em-pire clock on the sideboard in the front room as if he knew where it was. We followed him, and he waited for us to gather. He pointed to the clock, circled his long brown finger a number of times past the twelve and motioned that we were all to leave. Then, to our relief, the of-ficer marched out again and slammed the door.

“We have until three o’clock,” our father said to us, “and then we have to be gone.”

“For how long?” I asked him.

“We don’t know,” my grandmother said gently.

“For about two centuries,” Attila said, “before we check back in with them.”

“What do you mean?” “They want us to get out,”

Andras said. “Not out of the country. We’re not supposed to leave the country, not al-lowed, actually. We’re just supposed to find other lodg-ings somewhere.”

“But we’re not doing that,” Attila said.

“Be quiet,” our father said.

Judit whispered, “We can’t leave now.” I could hardly hear her.

“We have to,” her husband said. “Now is our only chance. The Hungarian rebel army is rising up. There are breaks in the border. It’s the only time.”

“But Andras ...” our grand-mother said, putting her arm around Judit.

My brother looked straight at me. “We’re leaving,” he in-sisted. “Forever. I told you — we’re going west.”

“Why can’t we just get the Russians to like us instead?” I asked.

Attila shook his head. “Lambkin, you’re not too bright.” But my remark made Judit tear up. She embraced me and kissed me on the head before leaving with Andras.

The Russian was back with-in an hour, and he brought other soldiers with him, two women and one man. But the original one with the beard was obviously overseeing the proceedings. They moved through our home more like movers than invaders. They acted as if we weren’t there. From the china cabinet, they gingerly removed Herendi porcelain cups, saucers and platters and a silver sugar box and teapot, wrapping them in cloth before placing them in

large canvas sacks. Attila and I watched from the sofa.

They took down the paint-ings one at a time, leaving rectangular blond ghosts in the gold wallpaper. The largest of these was called “Christmas, 1903.” It depicted two old women dressed in dark coats and fur hats, one bent over a walnut secretary desk, writing a letter, the other looking out and down at us from the wall. Between them stood a potted Christ-mas tree on a table, festooned with bright ribbons and bau-bles and a star at the top. I always wondered why such a cheerful tree did not manage to spread its joy to the dark women in the parlor, who had most likely decorated it. Now the women were gone, together with their tree.

One solitary picture still hung on the wall among the ghostly rectangles. It was a drawing done by my brother of a Spitfire fighter plane tearing through the skies, spitting impressive bursts of fire. In the corner of the pic-ture was the sun, and it too fired off spikes instead of rays of light. It was a sketch Attila had done in school, and our mother had had it framed in gold and hung over the gilded double-headed-eagle clock on the sideboard, which stood

guard over the room. The fierce-looking bird was the emblem of the Austro-Hun-garian Empire.

I had done a picture I knew my mother would like too, a watercolor, but it was still at school. My teacher, Mrs. Molnar, had hung it up where the photographs of Stalin and Khrushchev hung, but on the opposite side of the clock. My painting featured a weeping

willow. It was surrounded by impressionable trees, which also wanted to weep, so I gave them their own tears in many colors flying off the leaves. My classmate David thought the other trees might have been sweating after a run, but I explained my intent.

A year before, I had done another picture in crayon of sunflowers. It wasn’t a field of sunflowers, exactly, but sun-flower after sunflower, quite a few of them. My brother seemed to admire the picture. He said my flowers looked like the handiwork of God as a child, trying out designs for the sun. That wasn’t my intent either. I don’t know where that picture got to, exactly.

One of the Russian women carrying a canvas bag looked at the Spitfire twice as she passed by us. We watched her closely. She removed her snug army cap to reveal straw-colored hair tied back as tightly as the cap, giv-ing her head the look of an onion. She paused by the drawing but moved on. The eagle watched with its four sharp eyes. On her third trip by, she picked up the eagle clock with a strong arm and wrapped it up like a mummy before bending over to make room for it in her heavy sack.

Attila watched the oper-ation, kept glancing up at his own drawing in its precious frame, waited for her to leave our home with the sacks, and then tore off madly to our room.

I tiptoed to the dining room to see if the Russians had taken our bowl of rose cream chocolates. I cared less about the red crystal bowl than about the chocolates. They were still there. I won-dered if it would be all right to sit at the table and steal a chocolate. I took a chance. I peeled the red foil wrapper off the delicacy and put it into my mouth whole, let its creamy sweet essence enjoy its new home. I didn’t want to chew, to take a single bite. I put my cheek down on the cool surface of the dining room table. My grandmother had bought this table for my parents for their “wood” an-niversary, she told me. She said it was made of walnut by Sebastyan Balaban, the famous furniture maker. He had told her it would last a

thousand years. We had had it for eleven years, just 1.1 percent of its lifespan, mean-ing some nice Russian family could enjoy meals and choco-lates off it for 989 more years. I took another chocolate to eat in my room and one for my brother.

But I had a second table to visit first. It was the round-topped pedestal table in the front room. It was the one I hid under when I was in tur-moil. Made of heavy black maple and standing on beast-ly wooden lions’ paws, it sat between two dainty ladies’ lamps in all its manly glory. I ducked underneath. I want-ed to sit in its darkness one last time. When I was much younger, I thought that this unlucky lion had grown a table-top instead of a head, but when my brother taught me the facts of life, I realized that a lion and a table had lain down together to make this child. I hoped it was the table that was the mother. I ran my fingers through the carved fur and the hard claws and said my goodbyes.

I heard something fall in the kitchen, but not a dish, because it didn’t shatter. I jumped out and ran back to our room. I found my brother holding his june bug collec-tion up to the light of the window before shelving it again. The collection had won him a science prize a couple of years back.

From: The AFTerliFe oF STArS by JoSeph KerTeS. CopyrighT © JoSeph KerTeS, 2014. reprinTed by permiS-Sion oF penguin CAnAdA booKS inC.

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Kickin’ off the Canadian Country Music Awards!Start your day with a plate of flapjacks and sausage served by Councillors Andrew Knack and Scott McKeen, while rising stars Sydney Mae and Kayla Patrick perform country tunes!

All proceeds go to the Unison Benevolent Fund,supporting the Canadian music community.

September is a great month to enjoy tomatoes in so many ways.

Cooking them up in a sauce or in a soup makes for easy meals, but one of my favourites is including them in salads. Putting together some family favourites cre-ates a whole entree salad that everyone will love.

For this Grilled Chicken Panzanella Salad, my family prefers chicken thighs, but you can also use leftover chicken or turkey to speed up prep time.

If you are using leftover chicken or turkey, you will

need about three cups (750 ml) chopped or shredded.

You can also substitute three to four boneless skinless chick-en breasts for the thighs. Grill them for about 12 minutes or until no longer pink inside.

1. Toss chicken thighs with 1 tbsp of oil, and sprinkle with half each of the salt and pep-per. Place on greased grill over medium-high heat and grill for about 10 minutes, turning once or until juices run clear. Place on cutting board and chop.

2. Toss bread with remaining oil, salt and pepper and spread onto baking sheet. Toast in 400 F (200 C) oven for about 10 min-utes or until bread is crispy and golden.

3. In bowl, combine tomatoes, cucumber, red and yellow pep-pers, onion, basil and capers, if using. Add chicken and bread; toss to combine.

4. Dressing: In bowl, whisk together vinegar, broth, gar-lic, mustard, salt and pepper. Drizzle over salad and toss well.

Let stand 30 minutes before serving.

Fresh tomatoes in salad spotlightGrilled Chicken Panzanella Salad. This dish makes a light dinner and allows you to switch up protein

This recipe makes six servings. emily richards

Start to finiSh

about 35minutes

Ingredients

• 6 boneless, skinless chicken thighs (about 1 1/2 lbs/750 g)• 2 tbsp (30 ml) extra virgin olive oil• 1/4 tsp (1 ml) each salt and pepper• 4 cups (1 l) cubed crusty Italian bread• 2 large tomatoes, chopped• 1 English cucumber, sliced • 1 each red and yellow pepper, chopped• Half red onion, thinly sliced (optional)• 1/2 cup (125 ml) fresh basil, coarsely chopped• 1 tbsp (15 ml) capers, drained (optional)Dressing• 1/4 cup (50 ml) aged balsamic vinegar• 3 tbsp (45 ml) sodium-reduced chicken broth• 2 garlic cloves, minced• 1 tsp (5 ml) Dijon mustard• 1/4 tsp (1 ml) each salt and pepper

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Whether you’re heading into your first-ever round of post-secondary education or returning to school for even more time in the classroom, it’s important to start with a strong foundation. There’s a lot of new information to ab-sorb, and you may find it all a little overwhelming. Not really sure how to make the best of the next few years? Start with these steps.

Get organizedAs a new student, this post-sec-ondary adventure may be the first time you’ve had to learn without the structure of the school bell — or a high level of engagement from parents or peers.

If you’re a returning stu-dent, you may have forgotten how easy it is to overlook key dates or lose track of import-ant information. Find a meth-od that helps you keep track of your class schedule and other commitments, whether it’s an agenda, digital calendar, app or some combination of all three. Getting organized isn’t just a good way to stay productive. It can also help you identify spare time you have left over for other activities.

Get involvedYour post-secondary experi-

ence will go by in a flash. Make the most of that time by getting involved — this experience can be incredibly valuable when you face the school-to-work transition.

Working on or off campus

is a great way to gain some ex-tra money while building work experience, while volunteer work can enable you to pursue a personal commitment and build new connections to your community.

Both kinds of involvement allow you to build meaning-ful experience. They offer evi-dence of your time manage-ment and teamwork skills and will be a definite asset when you are looking for work.

Another way to get involved is to join or create a club. This is a good way to meet new people on campus while dem-onstrating some initiative and leadership.

Build relationships with your profsYou’ll have many opportun-ities to make new friends at school, but don’t forget to focus on building relationships in other areas, too.

Networking with instruct-ors may sound like a task for a teacher’s pet, but it’s import-ant to make connections out-side of your peer group where you can. Connecting with your instructors can help you uncover promising positions (as a research assistant, for example) and position you for success if you plan on heading to grad school.

Of course, your instructors teach hundreds (if not thou-sands) of students, so it’s im-portant to be mindful of their

time. As with any effective net-working, make sure you have a specific goal — and aren’t wasting anyone’s time or over-stepping boundaries.

Attend on-campus eventsTake a break from the books every now and then to get in-volved by participating in and attending on-campus events. This is a great way for you to meet new people and de-stress. Developing new inter-ests and connecting with new people will expand your hor-izons and get a better sense of where you’d like to go in the future.

By taking advantage of some of the tips above, you’ll have a more fully rounded school experience and be bet-ter prepared to enter the work-ing world upon graduation.

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Tom Dumoulin smartly navi-gated jet leg and shook off the effects of higher altitude to dominate the Tour of Alberta prologue Tuesday. The white cowboy hat gave him a little trouble, as he put it on back-wards.

The 23-year-old from the

Netherlands chose an early start number of 26 in the field of 118 riders to ease the im-pact of the eight-hour differ-ence in time zones.

After laying down a sub-six-minute time in the time trial at Canada Olympic Park, Du-moulin watched and waited for 90 minutes as the rest of the field tried to beat him and failed.

“It was my own decision, and I knew if I had a fast time I needed to wait a long time,” the Dutch national time-trial champion said.

“In Holland, it’s eight hours later, so I decided to

start early. It felt like starting in the middle of the night, so the earlier the better.”

Dumoulin heads into the first of five stages with

a 14-second cushion on pro-logue runner-up Serghei Tvet-cov of Romania. Tom Dan-ielson of the U.S. was 17.01 seconds back in third. Zach Bell of Watson Lake, Yukon, was the top Canadian in eighth.

Riders from 19 countries rolled off the start ramp Tues-day.

Tuesday’s four-kilometre prologue was gentle until the last 1.3 kilometres. Cyclists then climbed 100 metres over six switchbacks to a finish line above the sliding track and ski jumps built for the 1988 Win-ter Olympics. THE CANADIAN PRESS

Canada’s Julien Gagne rides during the prologue of the Tour of Alberta cycling race in Calgary on Tuesday. He is among the 27 Canadian riders in the race, including two-time Olympian Zach Bell of Watson Lake, Yukon, who was the top Canadian in the prologue in eighth place. JEFF MCINTOSH/THE CANADIAN PRESS

Cycling Dutchman dominates prologueTour of Alberta. Tom Dumoulin the only rider to clock in under six minutes at Canada Olympic Park

MLB

Jays hammer Rays in FloridaJose Reyes hit a three-run homer, R.A. Dickey gave up two hits in seven innings and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Tampa Bay Rays 8-2 Tuesday night.

Reyes’ ninth home run broke a 2-all in the fourth inning and sent the Blue Jays to their third win in a row.

Danny Valencia also homered off Rays starter Jeremy Hellickson (1-3). Pinch-hitter Dioner Navarro added a two-run shot off Cesar Ramos in the eighth.

Jose Bautista’s streak of homering in five straight games ended but he had two singles and an RBI for Toronto.

Dickey (11-12) gave up two runs, struck out six and walked three.

Dickey pitched at least six innings for the 13th time in 14 starts. Aaron Sanchez and Todd Redmond each pitched an inning of hitless relief.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Blue Jays

Lawrie shut down for the rest of the seasonThe Toronto Blue Jays have reinstated right-hander Brandon Morrow from the disabled list and shut down injured infielder Brett Lawrie for the rest of the season.

Morrow has been side-lined since May with an in-jured right finger.

Lawrie, who has been dealing with an oblique in-jury since early August, was transferred to the 60-day DL to clear roster space. THE CANADIAN PRESS

Stage race

The race gives $125,000 in prize money. It spans 734 kilometres in three separate stages covering Lethbridge, Innisfail and Red Deer, wrapping up with an 11-lap stage on an 11-kilometre loop through downtown Edmonton on Sunday.

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The Montreal Alouettes will have to continue waiting for Michael Sam.

Both the NFL Network and ESPN reported Tuesday the defensive end is heading to Dallas for a physical with the Cowboys. If Sam passes, he’ll join the NFL team’s practice roster.

Sam is trying to become the NFL’s first openly gay player. The 24-year-old was released Saturday by the St. Louis Rams and bypassed by the team for selection to its practice roster Monday.

Sam, a 2014 seventh-round pick by St. Louis, is on the Alouettes’ negotiation list, giving them exclusive rights to the former Missouri star if he chose to play profes-sionally in Canada.

Montreal GM Jim Popp said he has reached out num-erous times to Sam’s repre-

sentatives but as of Tuesday hadn’t heard back from them. Popp said he put the six-foot-two, 262-pound Sam on the Alouettes negotiation list because he believes Sam can be an effective player in the CFL.

“He’s an outstanding pass rusher,” Popp said during a telephone interview. “With his body type, he’s a real true CFL rush end.”The Canadian Press

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Federer advances at U.S. OpenRoger Federer of Switzerland smiles after defeating Roberto Bautista Agut of Spain 6-4, 6-3, 6-2 during the fourth round of the 2014 U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York on Tuesday. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Cornish racks up weekly awards

Calgary running back Jon Cornish picked up two CFL player-of-the-week awards

for his performance in the Stampeders’ 28-13 victory over Edmonton on Monday.

Cornish was named both the top offensive player and top Canadian, while Sas-katchewan’s Ricky Foley earned the defensive player award and Troy Stouder-mire was named the top special teams player.

Cornish rushed for a season-high 163 yards and

added a touchdown in the Stamps’ Labour Day victory over the Eskimos. The 2013 CFL MVP, who was playing in just his third game of the season after being sidelined with a concussion, had 17 carries, averaging 9.6 yards. He ran in a three-yard touchdown in the fourth quarter.

Foley had a pair of sacks and a tackle, and forced and

recovered a fumble in the Roughriders’ 35-30 victory over Winnipeg.

The award was the second this season for the Riders’ defensive end.

Stoudermire returned a Josh Bartel punt for 64 yards and a touchdown in the Blue Bombers’ loss. He had 224 combined return yards on the day.The Canadian Press

CFL. Stampeders running back named top offensive player and top Canadian after thumping Eskimos

Jon Cornish carries the ball against the Eskimos’ Aaron Grymes in Calgary onMonday. Cornish was named the week’s top offensive player and the topCanadian. JEFF MCInTOSH/THE CAnADIAn PRESS

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An IIHS top safety pick (the only small car to achieve an Acceptable rating in the small overlap frontal crash test), six air-bags, side-curtain airbags have rollover sensors, sta-bility and traction control, hill-start assist, available LaneWatch display and a multi-view rear-view camera with guidelines.

Points

• Built at a new plant in Mexico. Previous models im-ported from Japan or China• Easily the biggest and most flexible interior in its subcompact class• Engine upgraded to direct-injection, DOHC and variable valve timing and duration• Rear-view camera and Blue-tooth now standard features

Market position

Slight upscale position in compact hatchback segment, due to very flexible and large interior, afforded by unique centre-of-car positioning of gas tank. Seats fold in more permutations than a Swiss Army knife, to further expand the cargo-carrying possibilities.

2015 Honda Fit

• Type: Five-door, front-wheel-drive compact hatchback

• Engine: 1.5-litre inline four-cylinder (130 hp)

• Transmission: Six-speed manual, continuously variable automatic (CVT)

• Base price: $16,163, including destination fee

Still funky but a better Fit

In the compact hatchback seg-ment, the Honda Fit stuck out. Not quite like a sore thumb, because it’s not ugly like a sore thumb. It’s ugly more in an egg-shaped way.

That shape, combined with the unique positioning of its gas tank (underneath the driv-er’s seat), helped it stick out some more — by creating the conditions for a cavernous in-terior for its size, and then by its so-called Magic Seat, which allows owners to exploit that space to marvellous effect.

When it came time to de-sign an all-new Fit for 2015, Honda stuck with the pro-gram — enhancing the theme of interior versatility, while updating several items that were lacking and/or not up to expectations.

The automaker still man-aged to increase the cargo vol-

ume to 1,492 litres. This was accomplished by stretching the wheelbase, flattening the gas tank, and various other measures. Rear-seat leg room has been greatly increased, but at the expense of the cargo area.

When it came to engine tech, Honda threw the pro-verbial kitchen sink at this new 1.5-litre four-cylinder — direct injection, DOHC, high-end variable valve con-trol systems, and even oil-jet piston cooling. It has more

horses (130) and torque (114) yet manages to get better fuel efficiency than the engine it replaces.

The exterior style is less egg and more wedge, with a substantial lower body to sug-gest a more-planted road feel, which is definitely the case.

There is obviously more power, too, but the predomin-ant first impression is one of vastly improved smoothness, sophistication and quiet.

You can still hear road noise and the engine — espe-

cially on the highway.The interior is several

notches better. The hard plas-tic bits have been replaced by softer materials, and the cab-in is rendered in an elegant, modern design.

In the transformation to a more grown-up car, Fit lost some its teenage-like exuber-ance, which made you want to drive it hard and fling it about.

But the 2015 Fit is more capable in every criteria, and easily one of the best small hatchbacks on the market.

Review. Honda’s redesigned hatchback is less egg-shaped, boasts more power, features and leg room

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Inside, hard plastic bits have beenreplaced with soft materials.

Compare

1Ford FiestaBase price: $16,059

Drives well, lots of standard and available kit, rear seat a bit cramped.

2 Kia Rio5Base price:$16,014

Rio5, and corporate cousin, Hyundai Accent, both off er good value and good looks.

3Nissan Versa NoteBase price: $15,865

Less technology in the engine and entertainment departments but gets the job done.

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Personality: Fun-LovingThe Draw: With a priority on fun-to-drive dynamics and exceptional fuel mileage, the Mini Cooper is frisky, thrifty, cheeky and stylish. Man-oeuvrability and outward visibility are great, too. Test Drive: Confirm oil level and condition on all models, and be sure frequent, on-time oil changes were carried out if turbocharged. Take the car to a mechanic for a pre-purchase inspection, asking for advice on a po-tential timing-chain issue in early turbo models, and to check the water pump for signs of leaks.

2006-11 Honda Civic Personality: Trusty sidekickThe Draw: Civic will appeal to students who like a sure bet, thanks to a decades-long reputation for reliability, durability and no-nonsense operation. Owners note great fuel mileage, plenty of space, and a comfortable ride.Test Drive: Listen to the suspension with the stereo and climate control off. A clunking or popping sound over bumps could indicate a worn-out component or an improperly installed ‘bump stop’ in the suspension. Although very rare, some owners of early models have reported head-gasket issues.

2006-10 Kia RioPersonality: Value-MindedThe Draw: Rio delivers upscale driving feel and a whack of features for the money. Owners enjoyed peppy performance, great headroom and good mile-age.Test Drive: Watch for “check engine” or “airbag” lights. If either or both are illuminated, determine

why before buying. Other potential electronic issues include headlight or tail-lamp failure. Be sure the timing belt isn’t overdue for a change, and if it is, budget for a replacement.

Classic rides for back to class Heading to college or university? Considering a second-hand ride to ease the commute or improve the post-secondary experience?

Here are some suggested models that are relatively reliable and economical, along with some test-drive tips to avoid getting stuck with a lemon.

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2005-10 Chevy Cobalt/Pontiac G5 Personality: Great DealThe Draw: These corpor-ate twins were available in coupe or sedan versions with numerous power-trains. Owners gave them top marks for steering feel, ride comfort and ath-letic performance. Higher-than-average reliability and lower-than-average resale value make these cars a great student buy.Test Drive: Some suspen-sion components have

worn out prematurely, so a good going-over by a mechanic is recom-mended. A GM dealership can check that all recall-related work has been per-formed. Be on the lookout for inconsistent perform-ance from the steering, which could indicate a problem with the electric power steering system.

Road to success

Follow these five tips to find the perfect used car for you.

• Checkup. A safety or certification isn’t the same as a warranty. Get your prospective car inspected by a qualified mechanic.

• Recalls. A dealership can check for outstanding re-call work, if you give them the VIN number.

• Silence. Turn off the radio and listen for unusual noises from under the

hood or the car’s body. Any clunking, rubbing or grinding is probably a sign of trouble.

• Stopandroll. Demand that the seller pay for new brakes and tires, if required.

• Tune-up. If you’re not sure of the service history, budget for a full fluid change and tune-up, just to be safe. Your vehicle will reward you with more trouble-free operation.

2004-09 Mazda3Personality: The AthleteThe Draw: Noted for sporty performance, up-scale looks and its flexible hatchback variant (top photo), the Mazda 3 deliv-ers above-average driving pleasure and style. Driving dynamics and comfort are highly rated by owners.Test Drive: The audio display screen was known to fail over time, so be sure it’s in proper work-ing order. Note that tires are pricier on models with 18-inch wheels, so be sure they’re

in good shape. Check for clutch slippage with the manual transmission, and hard shifting from the automatic. If either is apparent, investigate why. A trip to a mechanic may save you a pricey repair bill. Inves-tigate carefully for rust, especially underneath the doors and around wheel-wells.

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Horoscopes by Sally Brompton

AriesMarch 21 - April 20In recent weeks you’ve thrown yourself into life like there was no tomorrow but not even an Aries can keep going indefi nitely. Slow down and get your world back into balance.

TaurusApril 21 - May 21This is one of the best times of the year to get things done, but the things you do must not be of a minor nature. Use today’s Sun-Pluto contact to aim higher.

GeminiMay 22 - June 21 Make sure you know all the facts before getting involved in a feud. You may want to help but if you’re unaware of what is really going on you may end up making it even worse.

Cancer June 22 - July 23 Today’s cosmic infl uences will smooth your path and make it easy for you to get from A to B with a minimum of fuss. Travel and social activities will go well for you over the next few days.

Leo July 24 - Aug. 23 You need a favour from some-one and because you’re unsure what their reaction will be you aren’t looking forward to it. They’ll give you what you need.

Virgo Aug. 24 - Sept. 23 Today’s link between the Sun in your sign and Pluto in Capricorn means you’re endowed with extra power. Go all out to get what it is you most desire.

LibraSept. 24 - Oct. 23You’ll do best today if you make a conscious eff ort to shut out the world and create a mental and emotional bubble inside which everything is peaceful.

ScorpioOct. 24 - Nov. 22Social activities will bring you luck over the next 24 hours, so get out and impress. The more attention you get, the more you will accomplish.

Sagittarius Nov. 23 - Dec. 21Others may be winding down a but you must keep the tempo going and make sure you stay visible. There are big opportun-ities coming up, so make sure important people know you.

Capricorn Dec. 22 - Jan. 20Actions speak louder than words and with Pluto in your sign activated by the Sun you’ll be all action from the moment you awake to the moment your head hits the pillow.

Aquarius Jan. 21 - Feb. 19You may be tempted to forget about your principles and do something underhand today but you are advised against it. You have a rep for honesty.

Pisces Feb. 20 - March 20Make an eff ort to see things from another person’s point of view today. You may be surprised to fi nd that the way they look at the world is not that far away from your own.

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