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The brazen shooting of three menat a Transcona home Sunday nightis not linked to the city’s ongoingbiker war, police say.
However, police are keen to dis-cuss what happened with the vic-tims of the crime, saying the vio-lence that broke out around 9 p.m.on Lou Peltier Cres. could be relat-ed to a separate dispute within thecity’s organized crime underworld.
Three men, aged 30, 29 and 26,were shot after a lone male suspectwalked up near the home’s garageand opened fire. The victimsremained in hospital in stable con-dition yesterday. Two of them wererushed there in critical conditionfrom their wounds.
Eight to 10 people were in thearea of the home and may havebeen targeted, said Const. NatalieAitken.
“It was not a random act,” shesaid.
“A number of (the victims) wouldhave had previous involvement
with police. … We’re hopeful thesepeople will be able to explain …why someone would want to dothis to them,” Aitken added.
Neighbours who may haveheard or seen the shooting werenot threatened in any way, policesaid. Aitken said police wereunaware of reports people wereoften seen coming and going fromthe home at all hours, and urgedresidents to report suspicious activ-ity.
No arrests have been made andpolice have not recovered the gun,Aitken said. JAMES TURNER
Shooting notpart of bikerwar: Police
Lone gunman still at large Anyone withinformation asked to call Crime Stoppers
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Rypien’s death not considered suspicious
A Jet. Lost
Rick Rypien, a former player for the Manitoba Moose and Vancouver Canucks who recently signed
with the Winnipeg Jets, was found dead in his home in Alberta yesterday. Story, page 14.
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Officers outside a Transcona
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A local councillor hascalled a community meet-ing after a rash of arsons inhis ward.
St. James-BrooklandsCoun. Scott Fielding willbe holding an open meet-ing at Sturgeon CreekCommunity Centre on RitaStreet today at 6:30 p.m. todiscuss arson in the neigh-bourhood.
The Sturgeon HeightsCommunity Centre, beingbuilt next door to Stur-geon Creek, was the recentsite of an arson after van-dals broke in and ignited apile of construction mate-rials in the middle of thefloor. Damage estimatesare as high as $200,000due to the fact the newcentre was being built tostrict LEED environmental
standards.The same night, fire-
bugs ignited a garage thatlevelled the building anddestroyed several vehicleson Thompson Drive, andtwo garbage dumpsters,one near a restaurant andanother near a garage.
Fielding said he’s heardfrom a number of commu-nity residents.
“I can tell you, peopleare concerned about this,”said Fielding, adding themeeting will address people’s concerns and goover steps they can take to help protect theirproperty. ‘You’re not al-ways going to completely
stamp out crime, but thereare steps people can take.”
The St. James arsonscame one night after a major fire in nearby
Crestivew destroyed theroof of a townhouse com-plex and left several fami-lies homeless. Fielding saidpeople from all over the
city are welcome to attendthe meeting, adding St.Charles Coun. Grant Nord-man will try to attend.
Fielding calls arson meeting
The number of arsons in Winnipeg is way up this summer.
ELISHA DACEY/METRO FILE
Reps from Arson Task Force, police, local firefighters, all levelsof government to be in attendance
Swanson accused a suspect in other attackA suspect arrested in thespringtime homicide of aWinnipeg single mom wasalso wanted in connectionwith an alleged attack po-lice say took place just twoweeks ago.
But homicide officialssaid the recent investiga-tion does not in any wayrelate to their probe intothe death of Gina Swan-son.
Police allege SchuylerFrancis Vanwissen, 26, brutally attacked GinaSwanson, 33, in her Edder-
ton Avenue home on May 14. Vanwissen is pre-sumed innocent.
Other than stating thetwo were “completestrangers” and that rob-bery was a possible motivefor the attack, police havebeen tight-lipped abouttheir months-long homi-cide investigation.
In addition to the first-degree murder charge Van-wissen faces, he’s alsoaccused of taking a swingat a man with a beer bottleduring a July 30 argumentin Winnipeg.
Police said only that a
“physical argument” led toan assault call. All initialattempts at locating a sus-pect failed, and there wereno injuries.
“That incident was com-pletely unrelated to the
Swanson case, and was nota factor in the homicideunit identifying him as themurder suspect in theSwanson matter,” saidConst. Natalie Aitken.
Vanwissen was arrested
in Toronto Friday and heldthere until Winnipeg po-lice arrived to fetch himthe next day. He remainsin custody at the WinnipegRemand Centre and hasnot yet applied for bail.
A 17-year-old boy is accusedin the multiple stabbing ofa younger teen in the inner-city area Sunday night,Winnipeg police say.
Officers were called tothe 400 block of Ross Av-enue at 8:20 p.m., wherethey found a 15-year-old
had been stabbed a numberof times. He was sent tohospital in critical condi-tion, but has since stabi-lized.
Police arrested the sus-pect on Bushnell Street notlong after.
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78The number of arsonscity-wide in July, com-pared to 38 last year.
Stay-away order
Vanwissen’s formercommon-law wife soughtout and was granted an order seeking court protection from him more than three years ago, according to courtrecords.
In her application, thewoman alleges Vanwissenhad a cocaine problem andhad behaved violentlytoward her and their youngson. She also accused himof breaking into her home.
“I was scared for my lifeand for my son’s safety,”
she wrote. Vanwissen wasordered to stay at least twocity blocks away from her atall times. The stay-away or-der expired in February.
Vanwissen was served withthose orders at home, oneblock from where singlemom Gina Swanson lived.
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The accused is also sus-pected of being involvedin a confrontation at apark on Pacific Avenueearlier that evening.
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Canada’s judges will get noleeway on mandatory mini-mum sentences as Ottawaproceeds with its anti-crime agenda during thefall session of Parliament,Justice Minister RobNicholson said yesterday.
A resolution passed bythe Canadian Bar Associa-tion in Halifax during itsannual conference saysjudges should have morediscretion in cases wherethere could be an injustice
by use of a mandatory min-imum sentence.
But Nicholson told the as-sociation that the govern-ment is “comfortable” withcurrent sentencing guide-lines.
“There are a number ofmandatory minimum sen-tences ... and I would sug-gest to you that the onesthat we have introduced arereasonable and appropri-ate,” Nicholson said, addingthat sentencing guidelines
allow judges to use discre-tion when delivering sen-tences. Nicholson said thepublic gave the governmenta mandate to proceed basedon an omnibus crime billthat was introduced but notpassed before the May 2 federal election. Theproposed legislation con-tained a number of newprovisions, including newminimum and maximumguidelines.THE CANADIAN PRESS
Justice Minister Rob Nicholson takes questions
after addressing the Canadian Bar Association’s
annual conference in Halifax yesterday.
ANDREW VAUGHAN/THE CANADIAN PRESS
Exemption
The Canadian Bar Associa-tion is seeking a legal ex-emption from mandatoryminimum sentences forcertain cases, such asthose suffering from per-manent brain injury or thementally ill. Other coun-tries have adopted such ameasure.
No leeway for judges on mandatory sentences
With the brazen daytimemurder of Jonathan Bacon,British Columbians got avivid and disturbingglimpse of how the crimeworld operations.
Kelowna RCMP con-firmed yesterday the mankilled in a targeted hit out-side a hotel Sunday wasthe alleged Red Scorpiongang member, the oldestof three siblings all be-lieved to be players inB.C.’s Lower Mainlandcriminal scene.
Three other people in acar with Bacon, 30, wereinjured: A male Hells An-gels member now in criti-cal condition and twowomen expected to recov-er.
One other victim fled
the scene after the shoot-ing and has yet to be locat-ed.
Rob Gordon, the head ofcriminology at Simon Fras-er University, said thehigh-profile incidentshould come as no sur-prise.
“(Bacon) has created alot of enemies and this ishow gang members settledisputes. They don’t uselawyers or a courtroom,they do it on the street,”Gordon said.
Mounties are trying tohunt down the shooters —clad in all black clothingand masks — but Gordondoesn’t believe the trigger-men will be found.
“They were probablycontracted and have goneback across the (U.S.) bor-der. I don’t think they’ll beidentified,” he said. “Thefocus now will be on whois behind the whole thing.”
Police tape seals off a downtown Kelowna, B.C., street corner at the scene of a multiple shooting on Sunday.
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Violent end to a notorious lifeJonathan Bacon shooting in B.C. illustrates vicious cycle of drug trade Expert doubts shooters will be caught
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Sure, riding the bus cansometimes be frustrating,with long waits at transitstops, overcrowded busesand the occasional crankydriver.
But driving a bus canbe just as trying on thenerves, according to busdrivers across the coun-try.
Gavin Davies, who hasbeen driving a bus in theVancouver area for morethan 20 years, said he of-ten has to deal withdrunk and “inconsider-ate” riders while trying tokeep focused on the road.
Toronto Transit Com-mission driver SherryNewton has had her shareof people yell at her fornot pulling over onceshe’d pulled away from astop.
“People yell andscream at you for notstopping to pick them
up,” she said. “What they don’t know
is that it’s (a safety) policy.“It would be nice if (rid-
ers) were more aware ofour do’s and don’ts.”
Wayne Slawter, a 13-year veteran bus driver inHalifax, said one negativepassenger experience canruin a driver’s day.
“You have some dayswhere, in all reality, thepublic is just not very niceto you, and sometimesyou might get a littledown from it,” he said.
“(But one) person canget on after that, sayplease and thank you andhave a good day, and iterases all that negativitythat just happened toyou.”
According to Angelo DaSilva, an Edmonton busdriver, patience is the keyto staying calm and happyon the job — whether it’sdealing with obnoxiousdrivers, rush-hour trafficor construction delays.
“If you don’t have pa-tience, you’re not cut outfor driving (for a living),”he said with a laugh.TERRIS SCHNEIDER IN VANCOUVER,PHOEBE HO IN TORONTO, HEATHERMCINTYRE IN EDMONTON, RACHELWARD IN HALIFAX
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Hackers cause headaches for transit system
Mubarak trial continues in EgyptEx-president Hosni Mubarak returned to court yesterday for his trial on charges ofcorruption and complicity in killing protesters during the mass uprising that oustedhim from power.
Food aid being hijacked, ending up in wrong hands: UNGovernment officials deny food for refugees being stolen
Royal Dutch Shell estimat-ed yesterday that 204,000litres of oil have spilled into
the North Sea from a rig offScotland’s eastern coast.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Oil spill in North Sea
KHALIL HAMRA/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Egypt. Court
Supporters of Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak gather outside a police academy
during a court hearing for the former president in Cairo yesterday.
180The GannetAlpha oil rig
is located 180kilometres east ofthe city of Aberdeen,Scotland.
Thousands of sacks offood aid meant for Soma-lia’s famine victims havebeen stolen and are beingsold at markets in thesame neighbourhoodswhere skeletal children infilthy refugee camps can’tfind enough to eat, an As-sociated Press investiga-tion has found.
The UN’s World FoodProgram for the first timeacknowledged it has beeninvestigating food theft inSomalia for two months.The WFP said that the“scale and intensity” ofthe famine crisis does notallow for a suspension ofassistance, saying that do-ing so would lead to“many unnecessarydeaths.”
And the aid is not evensafe once it has been dis-tributed to families hud-dled in the makeshiftcamps popping up aroundthe capital. Families atthe large, government-run Badbado camp, whereseveral aid groups have
been distributing food,said they were oftenforced to hand back aidafter journalists had tak-en photos of them with it.
Somali governmentspokesman AbdirahmanOmar Osman said the gov-ernment does not believefood aid is being stolen ona large scale but if suchreports come to light, thegovernment “will doeverything in our power”to bring judicial action
The UN says more than3.2-million Somalis —nearly half the country’spopulation — need foodaid after a severe droughtthat has been complicatedby Somalia’s long-runningwar.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Stealing fromSomalia’s poor
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San Francisco’s mass tran-sit system prepared for re-newed protests yesterday,one day after hackers an-gry over blocked cellphoneservice at some transit sta-tions broke into a websiteand posted company con-tact information for morethan 2,000 customers.
The action by a hackergroup known as Anony-mous was the latest show-down between anarchistsangry at perceived at-tempts to limit free speechand officials trying to con-
trol protests that grow outof social networking andhave the potential to be-come violent.
Anonymous posted peo-ple’s names, phone num-bers, and street and emailaddresses on its own web-site, while also calling for adisruption of the Bay AreaRapid Transit’s eveningcommute yesterday.
BART officials said Sun-day that they were workingon a strategy to try to blockany efforts by protesters totry to disrupt the service.
Spokesman Jim Allisonsaid BART police will bestaffing stations and trainsand that the agency had al-ready contacted San Fran-cisco police.
The transit agency dis-abled the website, my-BART.org, Sunday nightafter it also had been al-tered by apparent hackerswho posted images of theso-called Guy Fawkesmasks.
The cyber attack camein response to the BART'sdecision to block wireless
service in several of its SanFrancisco stations onThursday night as theagency aimed to thwart aplanned protest over atransit police shooting. Of-ficials said the protest hadbeen designed to disruptthe evening commute.
BART’s decision to shutdown wireless access wascriticized by many as heavyhanded, and some raisedquestions about whetherthe move violated freespeech.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
How they did it
Computer security expertssay the San Francisco tran-sit agency websiteattacked by hackers was aneasy target.
Josh Shaul, chief technolo-gy officer of ApplicationSecurity Inc., said theattack was “low tech” andcould have beenaccomplished bydownloading free softwareavailable online.
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Mayor sendsex-wife a rock-solid giftA Quebec mayor could face criminalcharges after he delivered anunwelcome birthday present to his ex-wife: A 20-tonne boulder, topped witha pink ribbon, dumped on her frontlawn.
Dany Lariviere, mayor of St-Theodore-d’Acton, delivered the not-so-happy birthday gift over theweekend to Isabelle Prevost — fromwhom he divorced last year after a
decade of marriage.The giant stone was spray-painted
with the message, “Happy birthday,Isa.”
Lariviere owns an excavation com-pany. He said he used one of his ownfront-end loaders to transport the rock.
He jokingly compared it to a giantdiamond ring. He said his ex-wifealways wanted one, and he describedhis “present” in one newspaper inter-view as 18-to-24 “carat-tonnes.”
“I brought what we call a big rockto my ex-wife,” Lariviere later added inan interview with The Canadian Press.
“I took a rock from one of my quar-ries and I brought it to her place witha little message and a nice ribbon, justlike a real gift.”THE CANADIAN PRESS
ADULTHOOD:ARE WETHERE YET?
Tomorrow is my 26th birth-day. I am officially enteringthe early stages of my late20s and I’m not having apanic attack about it … sur-prisingly. I remember when
26 seemed impossibly old, the way 35seems to me right now I guess, but nowI’ve really started getting comfortable inmy quarter-life status.
The days of looking forward to age-specific birthdays as they relate to laws— driving, voting, gambling, drinking
— are long gone as all of the milestones start to blendtogether. When people ask, “How old are you?” I oftenanswer incorrectly, not because I’m embarrassed butbecause I really cannot remember — another sign ofjust how much I’ve settled into being a “20-something” rather than a specific number.
When I look in the mirror I don’t feel old and yet,when I revisit photo albums from a mere three or four
years ago, I amflabbergasted at just howyoung I looked. Even if Icould kid myself intothinking I was still ayouthful 22-year-old,there’s always someonethere to remind me that Imost certainly am not.
Last weekend I was at adepartment store buyingoverpriced face wash (Igrew out of my Neutroge-na years a long time ago)when the saleswoman atthe cosmetic counterinquired about my anti-ag-ing skin-care regime.“Purely preventative, ofcourse,” she said, eyeingmy apparently not-so-smooth complexion. Ispent that afternoon sur-veying the landscape ofmy face: A little sun dam-age but no discernablewrinkles to date —although maybe I should
give up frowning just in case.But it’s not just the physical changes that have me
feeling like I’m getting on in years.All of my peers in the 25-to-30 age bracket seem to
make a habit of complaining about just how ancientwe’ve gotten. We whine sardonically about being “tooold” for stuff that we still do on a regular basis. We’retoo old to host keg parties, too old to live in abasement apartment, too old to wear five-inch heels,too old to be waking up in a stranger’s bed, too old togo back to school and so on.
And herein lays the irony of mid-20s limbo: Oldenough to know better but immature enough to do itanyway. We’re almost grownups, but we’re not quitethere yet.
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MAD COWS. A University ofAlberta scientist has fig-ured out a way to trans-form cattle parts intoplastic to offer apotentially profitable al-ternative to the disposalof all those bits that themad cow crisis turned in-to waste.
Canada’s cattle indus-try was devastated in2003 when mad cow dis-ease was discovered onan Alberta farm. In addi-tion to trade disruptionsthat continue to plagueranchers, cattle brainsand spinal cords, knownas specified risk materi-als, could no longer beused for fear of possibleinfection and wererendered worthless.
What producers ormeat processors oncesold for up to $100 atonne now costs them$30 a tonne in disposalcosts.
Biochemical engineerDavid Bressler and histeam found they coulduse highly pressurizedwater to break down pro-teins in the materials in-to smaller bits that couldbe bound together with asecond chemical, muchlike the rungs joiningtwo sides of a ladder.
The process creates abrownish, opaque,odourless powder thatcan be cast into anyshape. THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Billionaire investor WarrenBuffett is calling on the so-called “mega-rich” to paymore in taxes.
Buffett said yesterday ina New York Times opinionpiece that he would imme-diately raise rates on house-holds with taxable incomeof more than $1 million,and he would add an addi-tional increase for thosemaking $10 million ormore.
He also recommendsthat the 12 members of U.S.Congress charged with de-vising a deficit-cutting planleave rates for 99.7 per centof taxpayers unchanged.
“My friends and I havebeen coddled long enoughby a billionaire-friendlyCongress,” Buffett wrote.“It’s time for our govern-ment to get serious aboutshared sacrifice.”
Buffett noted that themega-rich pay income taxesat a rate of 15 per cent onmost investment incomebut practically nothing inpayroll taxes.
The middle class, mean-while, typically falls intothe 15 per cent and 25 percent income tax bracketsand is hit with heavy pay-roll taxes. He said Washing-ton legislators “feelcompelled to protect us,much as if we were spottedowls or some other endan-gered species.”
Buffett said he knowsmany of the mega-rich well,and most wouldn’t mind
paying more in taxes, espe-cially when so many fellowcitizens are suffering. He al-so said he has yet to seeanyone shy away from in-vestments because of taxrates on potential gains,even when rates weremuch higher in the mid-1970s, 1980s and 1990s.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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The rich should betaxed more: Buffett
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TD buyingcredit cardunitTD Bank has agreed tobuy the Canadian creditcard business of Bank ofAmerica Corp., bulkingup its position in thecards segment of theCanadian consumer debtmarket, an area where ithas often lagged behind.
The bank said yester-day that it would pay a“modest premium” overthe value of the assets,
which is in the ballparkof $100 million.
The agreement comesas Canadians householdssaddle more debt thanever. TD Bank will paycash consideration of$7.5 billion, assuming$1.1 billion in liabilitiesand wind up holding $8.5billion in outstandingbalances from about 1.8-million active credit cardaccounts.
The bank has been onthe hunt for credit cardassets since the Competi-tion Bureau forced it tosell off its Mastercard as-sets when it merged withCanada Trust in 2000.THE CANADIAN PRESS
Google Inc. is buying cell-phone maker MotorolaMobility Holdings Inc. for$12.5 billion US in cash.It’s by far Google’s biggestacquisition to date and asign the online searchleader is serious about ex-panding beyond its core In-ternet business.
Google said yesterdaythat it would pay $40 pershare, a 63 per cent premi-um to Motorola’s closingprice on Friday.
Motorola Mobility wasseparated from the rest ofMotorola in January. Thecompany has remade itselfas a maker of smartphonesbased on Google’s Androidsoftware, but has struggledagainst Apple Inc.
The transaction couldsignal a wave of consolida-tions in the smartphoneindustry as players try tohook up manufacturingand software applications
providers to compete morewith each other.
That could put Canadi-an technology giant Re-search in Motion Ltd. inplay as a potentialtakeover target, especiallysince its shares are well be-low where they have trad-ed in the past.
The deal gives Googledirect control over themanufacturer of many ofits Android smartphones.THE CANADIAN PRESS
Google makesbet on Motorola
17,000Motorola Mobility hasmore than 17,000issued patents andGoogle intends to pro-tect the Android eco-system from lawsuits,probably through theacquisition of morepatents.
Warren Buffett has given tips to the U.S.
government on raising the taxes of the “mega-rich.”
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Feature film faceoffThe verdict
As two Snow White films get ready for release next year, we look back at the box officerevenue of other similar projects that were released within months of each other
Battle at the OK Corral
Fighting in Europe
Eruption of the Volcanoes
Catastrophic clash
Tale of a princess
Tombstone (Dec. 25, 1993)Gunslinger and law enforcer WyattEarp moves to Tombstone and gets ina gunfight at the O.K. Corral with theoutlaw Cowboys.
Stars: Kurt Russell and Val Kilmer.
Wyatt Earp (June 24, 1994)Wyatt Earp becomes a broken-heartedwidower and then moves to Tombstone,where as a gunslinger and law enforcer heshoots up the outlaw Cowboys.
Stars: Kevin Costner, Dennis Quaid andGene Hackman.
First shot winsTombstone sold$57 million at theU.S. box office. Wy-att Earp grossed less thanhalf of that, $25 million,about six months later.
Rob Roy (April 7, 1995)The leader of a Scottish clanbattles with feudal landownersin the 18th century.
Stars: Liam Neeson and Jessica Lange
Braveheart (May 24, 1995)A Scottish rebel leads an uprising againstEnglish oppressors in the 13th century.
Stars: Mel Gibson
Courage prevailsRob Roy sold $59 millionworldwide. Braveheart cameout less than two months lat-er yet grossed much more,$204 million.
Dante’s Peak (Feb. 7, 1997)A dormant volcano in Washington state erupts, endanger-ing a nearby town.
Stars: Pierce Brosnan and Linda Hamilton.
Volcano (April 25, 1997)A dormant volcano under LosAngeles erupts and rains lavabombs on the city.
Stars: Tommy Lee Jones, AnneHeche and Don Cheadle
Dante deliversDante’s Peak grossed $169million worldwide, while Volcano grossed $120 millionabout three months later.
Deep Impact (May 8, 1998)A comet is on its way to destroy Earth,and 800,000 people are randomly se-lected to keep the human race alive.
Stars: Robert Duvall, Tea Leoni andMorgan Freeman
Armageddon (July 1, 1998)An asteroid is on its way to destroyEarth and a team of offshore drillersis sent to plant a nuclear bomb thatwill knock it off course.
Stars: Bruce Willis, Ben Affleckand Liv Tyler
Low impactDeep Impact sold $349million worldwide andArmageddon grossed $555million despite coming outjust two months apart.
Mirror, mirrorStay tuned to see whichprincess finds favourwith audiences.
Untitled Snow White Project (March 16, 2012)An exiled princess enlists seven dwarvesto win back her birthright from an evilqueen in an adventure comedy.
Stars: Julia Roberts and Armie Ham-mer
Snow White and the Huntsman(June 1, 2012)An exiled princess trains in the art ofwar with a huntsman dispatched to killher and tries to overthrow an evil queenin an epic adventure.
Stars: Kristen Stewart, ChrisHemsworth and Charlize Theron
Movie ‘B’Movie ‘A’
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Next year, a pair of live-ac-tion adventure flicks basedon Snow White will comeout in theatres justmonths apart.
The first, still-unnamedSnow White movie is set forrelease March 16. Thatgives moviegoers two and ahalf months before SnowWhite and the Huntsmanon June 1. Executives areconfident that both proj-ects can succeed, giventheir differences in stars,tone and plot.
This cinematic standoffpits a couple of “frenemy”studios against each other— newbie studio RelativityMedia and its longtime dis-tribution partner, Univer-sal Pictures.
Since 2005, Relativityhad provided financialbacking for most of Uni-versal’s new movies in adeal that was to lastthrough 2015. But Relativi-ty has been eager to makemoney from distributingas well.
So in June, Relativitypassed its co-financingdeal with Universal to Rel-ativity's financial backer,
Elliott Management. Thatpaved the way for the twostudios to compete head tohead — Relativity with theunnamed movie and Uni-versal with Huntsman.
“It’s the nature of com-petition. It’s the nature ofthis business,” said TuckerTooley, Relativity's presi-dent of worldwide produc-tion.
Universal executives de-clined to comment.
Executives argue thatthe two Snow White
movies are spaced farenough apart so that ad-vertising one won’t inad-vertently drive people tothe other.
Most movies make 95per cent of their sales inthe first four weeks. Sothere's plenty of time toget refreshed and go outagain.
“Ten weeks in themovie business is a life-time,” said Huntsman pro-ducer Joe Roth.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Studios take bite from the same apple
Charlize Theron is set to play an evil queen.
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Paris Hilton hasreportedly lost twomobile devices on aflight to thePhilippines for a visitto promote a hotelresort.
Television footageshowed Hilton comb-ing through a baglooking upset whileshe was surroundedby airline staff at theManila airport lateSunday after arrivingfrom Dubai.
Manila radio sta-tion DZBB reportedthat airport and air-line authorities areinvestigating.
In 2005, hackersgained access toHilton’s Sidekick cell-phone and famouslysplashed the privatemobile numbers ofher celebrity friendsonline.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Cellphone drama
Box set about Presley’sbreakout year of 1956 to beunveiled during Elvis Week
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Remake ofLone Rangera no-goSORRY JOHNNY. Looks likeJohnny Depp won’t beriding off into the sunsetin a big-screen remakeof The Lone Ranger, asDisney reportedly pulledthe plug on the filmproject after producerswere unable to bringdown the whopping$250 million budget, ac-cording to Deadline.Depp was going to playTonto, METRO
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Former child star grows up Breaks the news on anniversary
Hilary Duff and husbandMike Comrie know how tocelebrate an anniversary— by starting a family. Thesinger and actress took toher official website to an-nounce that she’s expect-ing her first child. “Thisweekend, Mike and I arecelebrating our one year
anniversary,” Duff posted.“We also want to share theexciting news that babymakes three! We are ex-tremely happy and readyto start this new chapter ofour lives. Thanks to every-one for the continued loveand support throughoutthe years.” METRO
Baby on way for Duffand Canadian hubby
Hilary Duff and Mike Comrie
Tara Reid had a whirlwindweekend in Greece, firstannouncing via Twitterthat she and a man namedZack Kehayov were en-gaged.
But mere hours later,she updated her statusagain. “Just got married inGreece. I love being awife.” Reid was previouslyengaged to Internet entre-preneur Michael Axtmann,but called it off in April2010. METRO
Tara Reid
You did what this weekend?Tara Reid announces engagement,
marriage, from Greece Shares infovia Twitter within the span of a day
Did Reeseget someink done? Joe Jonas celebrated his
22nd birthday in LasVegas over the week-end with a day of par-ties at a number ofclubs, according toPeople magazine.
Jonas — whose actualbirthday was yesterday —started the day pool-side at the LiquidPool Lounge.
“Femalefans surround-ed the area,trying to get aglimpse ofhim in hisbathingsuit,” asourcesays.
He got
more female atten-tion as the nightwent on, whichwas fine by him.
“I’m single,”the birthday boyadmitted to
Hollyscoop.
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Reese Witherspoonshowed off her beach-ready body — and somesurprising new body art— while vacationing inHawaii recently, accord-ing to Us Weekly.
The bikini-clad Oscar-winner was spottedbeachside with husbandJim Toth Sunday, where atattoo of a star flanked bytwo birds was prominent-ly displayed on Wither-spoon’s abdomen.
The ink was first spot-ted over the July 4thweekend, but it wasn’tclear at the time if it waspermanent.
METRO
It’s his party and he’llflirt if he wants to
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10 wellness metronews.caTUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2011
When Granny’s in hospi-tal, she might recovermore quickly if she walksthe corridors.
Several studies world-wide have found that eld-erly patients who aremobile while in hospitalget released earlier than
those who stay in bed. “Walking really does
pay off,” says Efrat Shad-mi, a researcher at HaifaUniversity in Israel and co-author of a new study.
The study involved 485patients over age 70 who were hospitalized forat least two conditionsover two days or more.There were two groups:those who stayed in bed or
seated next to their bed,and those who walkedaround their room and the
hospital ward. The pa-tients who walked short-ened their hospital stay byan average of a day and ahalf.
“Higher levels of mobili-ty emerges as an impor-tant factor associated withshorter length of stay,” re-ported Shadmi and col-league Dr. Anna Zisberg inthe Archives of InternalMedicine.
Mobility was beneficialfor patients regardless oftheir functional status,age, cognitive ability, sex,and severity of illness.
Older patients mightmistakenly believe theyare supposed to stay in bedin order to get better.
This is not the case. They can lose muscle
power fast if they don’twalk around.
Studies show that patients who are mobile during their hospital visits get released earlier
Walk before you run“Higher levels ofmobility emergesas an importantfactor associatedwith shorterlength of stay.”DR. ANNA ZISBERG
Recent studies have shown that patients who walked shortened their hospital stay by an average of a day and a half.
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Boy or girl? A simple bloodtest in mothers-to-be cananswer that question withsurprising accuracy atabout seven weeks, a re-search analysis has found.
Though not widely of-fered by North Americandoctors, gender-detectingblood tests have been soldonline to consumers forthe past few years. Theirpromises of early and accu-
rate results prompted ge-netics researchers to take acloser look.
They analyzed 57 pub-lished studies of gendertesting done in rigorous re-search or academic set-tings — though notnecessarily the same meth-ods or conditions used bydirect-to-consumer firms.
The authors say the re-sults suggest blood tests
like those studied could bea breakthrough for womenat risk of having babieswith certain diseases, whocould avoid invasive proce-dures if they learned theirfetus was a gender not af-fected by those illnesses.
But the study raises con-cerns about couples usingsuch tests for gender selec-tion and abortion.
Couples who buy tests
from marketers should bequestioned about howthey plan to use the re-
sults, the study authorssaid.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Want to know if it’s a boy or girl?HANDOUT/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Test gives answer with accuracy but raises concerns
Canadians aremore likely tocatch a bug whilereceiving carethan people in al-most any other af-fluent country. Here are rates ofhealth care-associ-ated infections,from the WorldHealth Organiza-tion:Canada: 11.6%U.K.: 9%Spain: 8.1%U.S.: 4.5%France: 4.4%
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Researchers find new ADHD genes,some also seen in autism, schizo-
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Food courtsare a havenfor greasy,fried, starchycombos sit-
ting warmly under heatlamps. Sometimes, that’swhy food court food is soappealing.
I received a tweet fromThe Leaf and Loaf suggest-ing I give it a try.
Its menu contains atasty selection of healthyand fresh options that
aren’t always available in afood court.
The Leaf and Loaf fea-tures healthy salads,wraps, burritos and brownrice bowls. You can chooseone of its popular cre-ations or build your own.
Also on the menu are di-abetic-friendly dishes anddressings. Really countingyour calories? Its websitefeatures a nutritional cal-culator.
The L&L Special Burrito($6.99) combines brownrice, barbecue chicken, redonion, green peppers,mushrooms, sweet cornand your choice of dress-ing wrapped in a whole
wheat tortilla. There’s no mystery to it.
It’s an easy, healthy andtasty lunch to grab on thego. Sit outdoors and you’llnever know it’s food courtfood.
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As a woman approaches 40,popular culture begins to getnasty (in all sorts of ways).One particularly gallingchange is that a 40-ishwoman enjoying a night outwith the girls suddenly getslabelled a “cougar” and is au-tomatically reduced to athing of ridicule — regardlessof her marital status. I hatethat! So my question is, can awoman of a certain age stillhave fun? If so, how?Miaow
Claire: Dear Miaow,I’m going to assume
that you and your friendsaren’t wearing any of thefollowing: Lipliner, span-dex (unless it’s in theSpanx that nobody cansee), Lucite heels, spikeheels, anything shorterthan two-inches above theknee, animal-print cloth-ing so tight that the seamsgo white when you sitdown.
I’m also assumingyou’re not showing: Thekind of cleavage you canlose your appetizer in, un-derwear that is visible, ordance moves that involveyou spanking yourself.
If these assumptions arecorrect, my advice is to ig-nore pop culture.
There is nothing moreattractive than a womanwho is happy, so if a nightout with the girls makesyou happy, tell pop cultureto stick it where the leop-
ard print don’t shine.
Andrea: Dear Miaow,Wait, in your 40s,
shouldn’t you be sitting athome mending clothesand preparing your hard-working man a steak?
No, you’re not, becausewomen broke throughthat stereotype. That, oryou hate sewing.
If you’re out with thegirls having a blast, whatdoes it matter if you’redubbed a cougar?
Would you prefer MamaBear? Redwood? MILF?
As long as you see your-self as someone genuinelyhaving fun vs. trying tobeat away the agingprocess by corruptingyoung bucks, don’t worryabout the name calling.
Call people out on itwhen they’re being obnox-ious.
You’re an adult; you canhandle it.
IGNORE POP CULTURE:
COUGAR IS JUST A WORDTWO SISTERS
ANDREA & CLAIRE [email protected]
TRY TO
MAKE
OTHERS
FEEL
GOOD
Are you a
well-mannered person or
do you simply fake it?
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BUTLER
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Dear Charles the Butler:Where is the line between be-ing well mannered, and sim-ply faking it?Just sayin’
Dear Just Sayin’:What a great question! A
well-mannered person al-ways puts themselves insomeone else’s shoes firstand never attempts to belit-tle others or make themfeel badly. One of the ab-solute golden rules of eti-quette is to make othersfeel good. Someone who ispolite and well manneredwill always do their best tomake others around themfeel comfortable, no matterhow awkward the situation.
Someone who is false ordisingenuous doesn’t worryabout others’ feelings ormaking others feel comfort-able in social situations.
These people rely onwhat they see in the moviesand on television for theircues to good manners andproper conduct. In prac-tice, however, nothingcould be further from thetruth!HAVE A QUESTION? EMAIL CHARLES [email protected].
Gloria Steinem at 77“It’s shocking, I know,”says Gloria Steinem, allow-ing herself a wry grin.
And for once, the au-thor, activist and feministicon isn’t talking about acase of gender inequity athome or a human rightsviolation across the globe.This time, she’s talkingabout her age.
Steinem is 77, and mostpeople are even moreshocked than she is. Notonly because she looks tobe in her 50s, but because
she is, in the minds ofmany, frozen in the 1970s— a tall, slim, strikingwoman with long streakedhair (it’s still streaked, butshorter now) and those bigaviator glasses.
But four decades haveindeed passed sinceSteinem helped launch thewomen’s movement. Andthis summer finds her in areflective mode: workingon a book about her yearson the road — a combina-tion of essays and memoir
— and promoting a newdocumentary celebratingher life. Gloria: In HerOwn Words premiered lastnight on HBO.
Nestled on a couch inher comfortable Manhat-tan apartment one recentafternoon, Steinem ac-
Feminist icon
Gloria Steinem
MARY ALTAFFER/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
knowledges that oftensuch tributes come at theend of one’s life and career— and she has no inten-tion of either ending any-time soon.
But, she says, maybethis isn’t such a bad timeto look back a little.
“My hope is, this filmwill make people think:It’s been 30 or 40 years.Where do we want to be 40years from now?” Besides,she adds: “I want people torealize that if a very imper-fect person did this, maybethey can, too!”THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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POPQUIZWhat should you do with yourtax return money?
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Gap years area terrific ex-perience ifyou build inmoney man-agementskills.
I’m a hugefan of gap years for highschool graduates. Manyparents worry that kidswho take a break before go-ing to college or universitywill come to love the free-dom too much to hit thebooks again.
I say, don’t fret. Why?Two words — minimumwage. It takes only a fewmonths for your youngadult to grasp the idea thatbottom of the barrel in-come is the norm for thosewith only a high schooldiploma.
It’s more important thanever before for young
adults to develop moneymanagement skills. The2011 TD Canada Trust Stu-dent Finances survey dis-covered that 58 per cent ofpost-secondary studentsare anxious and stressedabout their finances.
A gap year is a great wayto build financial skills,while setting money asideto reduce reliance on stu-dent loans and lines ofcredit during post-sec-ondary studies at the sametime.
Another benefit is thatthe money saved mightmean less need for a part-time job during the schoolyear. Work is a great learn-ing experience but it can al-so detract from academicsand campus life.
This is what the bottomline looks like for a 35-hourweek (one full-time or twopart-time jobs) at or closeto minimum wage for 50weeks. I’ve used $10 anhour, though the provin-cial rates vary from $8.80 in
Alberta to $10.25 in On-tario. This amounts to$8,750 in savings; $4,375for personal spending, and$4,375 for food and rent.
With the youth unem-ployment rate rangingfrom nearly 15 per cent toover 20 per cent it can bedifficult for young adults tofind full-time work. Evenso, help your gap yearyoungster develop a basicplan for whatever is earnedand the savings will be ap-preciated down the road.
ON MONEY
ALISON [email protected]
With savvy planning,
taking a gap year before
starting college or
university can be a terrific
way to gain money smarts.
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Gap-year goals
A good rule-of-thumb for
managing gap-year earn-
ings for not-so-young
ones still living at home:
50% alloted to savings25% for personal use25% for food and rentParents should stash thehousehold expense cashaway into an education ac-count for use later on.
Please mind the gap, kids
Investors arefeeling vul-nerable, butdon’t let mar-ket uncertain-ly derail yourgoals.
The best way to calmyour investment worries isto focus on your long-termnet worth goals. The nextbest way is to save more.Here are five fundamentalmoney management princi-ples to stick to.
Plan: People don’t juststumble upon wealth. Theycreate a plan with timelinesto reduce debt and invest inassets.
Get help: Who are youturning to during this fi-nancial turmoil? Get profes-sional financial help from afinancial advisor. Ask for re-ferrals from friends and in-terview at least three.
Be frugal: It’s never agood time to overspend.With a skittish market,now is really not a goodtime, as it can lead to joblosses and further econom-ic slowdown. Buy only whatyou need and stick to abudget. If you’ve got debt,get rid of it fast by settingup automatic paymentsthrough online banking,tackle high-interest debt,and pay a little extra on pay-day — even if it’s only $20.
Invest: If you haven’tstarted investing, get on it!If you have, invest more. In-vesting early allows com-pounded interest andreinvested returns to growyour money greater than ifyou wait until mid-life tostart. Stats show we’re liv-ing longer and the cost ofliving is increasing. Thus,experts recommend saving15 to 20 per cent.
Give: Giving doesn’t justhappen; you have to plan togive. So, build some type ofgiving into your financialplan.
FUN AND
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STAY ON COURSE
As a homeowner, we beginto accumulate papers anddocuments the moment wechoose to purchase a home.
Offers to purchase, mort-gage documents, inspectionreports, insurance, renova-tion receipts, and appliancewarranties are just some ofdocuments you may needto refer to in the future. Theability to locate these im-portant papers can save youtime and even money.
Royal LePage Canada le-gal consultant Penny Eganrecommends organizing allthese documents in a singlemulti-tab filing system.
“No need for an elabo-rate system — a simple ac-cordion file with labeledflaps will do,” says Egan,who suggests the followingcategories.
Contracts and legal pa-
pers: These include thedeed, surveys, inspectionsand any other reports. Youwill need them if you re-fi-nance or sell your home.
Insurance policy: Createa folder for your homeown-ers insurance policy, as wellas mortgage insurance, ifyou hold a policy. Also usethis space to keep copies ofany past claims.
Purchase and market da-ta: Keep a copy of the origi-nal listing of your home,and, as information is avail-able, homes sold in the areato compare market rates.
Property Taxes: Keepyour tax bills and paymentrecords for as long as youown the home. If you havehome business expenses onyour federal tax return, youmay need them if your taxreturns are audited.
Home improvements:Create a folder for receiptsfor repairs, maintenanceand home improvements.You may also wish to log ofregular maintenance tasks.
Warranties, manuals andreceipts: Keep them for aslong as you own the appli-ances.
Home Inventory: If youwere ever to lose any ofyour possessions due to fireor burglary, a home inven-tory can make filing an in-surance claim.easier. Makea list of valuables and takephotos, including close-upshots of valuables, such asjewelry.
Organizing your filesmay take of time initially,but is time well spent in theevent you need the docu-ments later on.NEWS CANADA
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14 sports metronews.caTUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2011
Jets suffer a tragic loss
Former VancouverCanucks enforcer RickRypien was found dead bya family member yester-day inside his Coleman,Alta., home.
The Jets confirmed Ryp-ien’s passing in a state-ment last night.
“Rick was a talentedplayer with an extremelybright future. His hungerfor the game made him avalued team member bothon and off the ice. Thisloss has impacted us asmore than just a hockeyteam,” the statement said.
Local RCMP officialstold some media outletsthe death was sudden, butnot suspicious.
Rypien, 27, signed aone-year contract with thenewly established Win-nipeg Jets on July 2. Hemissed most of last seasonafter taking a leave of ab-sence in November forpersonal reasons.
That came on the heelsof an October incident inwhich Rypien grabbed afan at Minnesota’s XcelEnergy Center, trying topull him into the tunnelbefore being restrained byteammates and coaches.He was suspended for sixgames and struggled to re-gain a spot in theCanucks’ lineup after-wards.
The Canucks didn’tpublicize the reason forRypien’s leave of absence,his second in three years.But general manager MikeGillis told the VancouverSun at the time, “Whenyou come to know some-body and realize they’re a
really good person, butcrazy. ... You don’t onlysupport them whenthey’re at the top of theirgame ... you support themwhen they’re not feelinggood about things or haveother issues they have todeal with.”
Rypien returned tohockey in March, playing11 games with the Manito-ba Moose, the Canucks’AHL affiliate which gavehim his professional hock-ey start in 2005.
Rypien played 119 NHLgames over six seasons,all with the Canucks, rack-ing up 226 penalty min-utes. The five-foot-11,190-pound Rypien regular-ly fought much larger op-ponents, something thatendeared him to Canucksfans.
Prior to breaking in asan undrafted free agentwith the Moose in 2005,Rypien played four sea-sons with the WHL’s Regi-na Pats.
He’s the second NHLenforcer to die this off-sea-son. In May, New YorkRangers forward DerekBoogaard was found deadat age 28 with a mix of al-cohol and oxycodone inhis bloodstream.TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
Rick Rypien has died at the age of 27.
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Enforcer Rick Rypien found deadin his Alberta home FormerCanuck had been playing for Moose
Sidney Crosby’s summer va-cation is almost over. Still,there’s no telling when thePittsburgh Penguins starwill return to work.
General manager RayShero said yesterday theformer MVP is still dealingwith concussion-like symp-toms and it’s too soon toknow if Crosby will beavailable when the Pen-
guins open camp nextmonth.
“There’s no expectationfrom me that he won’t beready or he will be ready,”Shero said.
Crosby hasn’t played in agame since Jan. 5, missingthe rest of the regular sea-son and Pittsburgh’s first-round playoff loss to TampaBay as he slowly recovered
from a concussion. He saidin April he would be backfor training camp, but withabout a month to go beforethe team reports, Sherowouldn’t guarantee No. 87will be in uniform.
The 24-year-old Crosbyhas spent the summer athome in Nova Scotia work-ing out on his own. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Crosby won’t be rushedFabregas joinsBarcelonaSOCCER. Cesc Fabregas’transfer to Barcelona iscomplete after the Spainmidfielder signed a five-year contract yesterday.Barcelona said it paid 29million euros ($42million) to Arsenal with
extra variables set to takethe figure to 39 millioneuros ($56 million).THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Thome gets600th homerMLB. Minnesota sluggerJim Thome become theeighth player to hit 600home runs, connectingtwice against the DetroitTigers last night.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Sports in brief
“RIP Rick Rypien.He was a warrior.Hit me so hard myeyes couldn’t focusfor 30 secs. Notsure if it was a leftor right.” MIKE COMMODORE, ON TWITTER
Quoted
“I want to keeppitching for the
Cubs. It was amoment of frustration
Friday night,and I pitched sobad I wanted to
retire, you know,I don’t want tobe making $18
million and pitchlike crap.”
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HE’D LIKE TO PITCH AGAINFOR CHICAGO AND WAS
SIMPLY FRUSTRATED WHENHE TOLD CLUB PERSONNEL
HE WANTED TO RETIREAFTER HIS MOST RECENT
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