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Knights welcome Domi

“We both have hands, but I usethem for a little bit different (pur-pose) — I like to score goals.”

In one succinct statement, 16-year-old Max Domi was able to dif-ferentiate his style of play from hisformer NHL enforcer father Tie,and also let London know what toexpect as he embarks on his rook-ie season in the OHL.

The Knights got Domi fromKingston for two second-rounddraft picks in 2012 and one third-round pick in 2015. General man-ager Mark Hunter was eager to addDomi to the roster.

“He’s a great player. He’s gotgreat skill and he works his tail offon the ice,” Hunter said. “More

importantly, he’s contagious aboutwinning, and wanting to win, andfinding ways to win, which youcan’t have enough of in your organ-ization.”

Domi was introduced at a newsconference yesterday at the JohnLabatt Centre where he also mod-elled the Knights’ new third jersey.He knows the transition fromminor hockey to major junior willcontain a learning curve.

“(My dad said), ‘You’re going toface some adversity and you’regoing to have to battle throughthat,’” Domi said. “That’s whatmakes you a good player — beingable to go through those bumps inthe road and be able to recoverfrom them.”

As a member of the Don Mills Flyers last season, Domi scored 27 goals (57 points) in 30 games.

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Team acquires Max Domi — taken 8th in2011 OHL draft — from Kingston Frontenacs

Training camp opened yesterdayMIKEARSENAULTLONDON@METRONEWS.CA

New season

The 2011-12 season marks the

10th anniversary of play for the

Knights in the JLC.

The first on-ice session of the2011 training camp will have 80players in attendance.Camp will run for three days withtwo full days of scrimmages opento the public today and

tomorrow.The Knights host the Sarnia Stingon Friday at 7:30 p.m. at the JLCto open their pre-season sched-ule. Tickets are available atlondonknights.com.

Perry stickswith whatworksReigning NHL MVP Corey Perryis not one to rest on the laurelsof last season’s success.

“Every season you comeinto, you have to proveyourself,” Perry said atthe Knights’ news con-ference yesterday.

“Everything’s notgoing to be exactly asit ended last year, soyou have to adjust.”

That being said, Per-ry kept things the

same when it came to his off-season conditioning program.

“Same trainer, same icetimes, same group of guys I wasaround all the time. You don’twant to change what’s workedin the past,” he said.

Perry, a member of the 2005Memorial Cup championKnights, is hoping the Ducks

can build on their lateseason success lastyear in 2011-12.

“We finished lastseason on a roll andwe have to be ready tocome out of the gateand not get behind theeight ball right away.

MIKE ARSENAULT

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First Fridays pick up steam

The city’s First Fridayevent is making a pusheastward.

Three groups — theLondon Potters Guild, 664Dundas St.; The Arts Proj-ect, 203 Dundas St.; andThe Metropolitan Market,140 Dundas St. — havesigned on to participate.They’ll make their debutfrom 5p.m. to 9 p.m. Fri-day.

Getting businesses andorganizations outsideRichmond Row involvedin First Fridays has been amajor goal for BradScrinko, a driving forcebehind the event andowner of Gift of Art, 575Richmond St.

“I’ve heard from othercities who (have First Fri-day events) … that once itgets rolling it really rolls,”Scrinko said. “I thinkwe’re getting to thatpoint.”

First Fridays started lastOctober as a way to drawpeople downtown on —you guessed it — the firstFriday of every month.

Participating business-

es offer up something spe-cial during each event.That something, Scrinkosaid, could range frommusicians outside thedoor to the launch of anew clothing line or prod-uct.

Scrinko bills First Fri-days as the perfect datenight for couples — leavework, change clothes andthen hop downtown for abite to eat, a strollthrough participatingstores and then keepthings going past 9 p.m.at a club.

“Once a month it’s anexcuse to go out,” Scrinkosaid. “Here’s your excuseto kind of have some fun.”

In the first few months,only a handful of Rich-mond Row businesseswere participating,Scrinko said.

Now, about 30 havesigned on, excluding thenewest additions.

Jordan Scott of London works on a traditional Greek pot yesterday at the London Clay Arts Centre, 664 Dundas St. The centre, owned and operated by the London PottersGuild, has signed on to be partof the First Friday event.

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Three participants considered‘big players’ Organizer wants theevent to bring thousands downtown

The union representingsupport staff at Ontario'scommunity colleges saysit has little hope of reach-ing a deal with theschools in time to avoid astrike.

The Ontario PublicService Employees Union,which represents about8,000 support staff, saysthe two sides have agreedon some details but notmajor sticking pointssuch as job security andwages.

The unionized workers,which include cleaners,food service staff and reg-istration officers, willlegally be able to strike at

12:01 a.m. Thursday.A strike could compro-

mise the new school yearset to start next week,and a student group hasurged the schools to dowhatever they can to stayopen.

Bargainers for theprovince's 24 colleges lastweek offered support staffannual salary increasesand no benefit cuts.

The union has beenseeking a three per centannual wage increase andjob protection against theschools' use of part-timeand temporary hires.

Negotiations picked upMonday, but “the progno-sis is not good,” OPSEUpresident, Warren(Smokey) Thomas said ina news conference inToronto.

Union members votedlast month to give nego-tiators the option to call astrike.

The last time the sup-port workers went onstrike was in 1979.THE CANADIAN PRESS

Strike could impactcollege school year

Most teachersback on job: ReportAfter announcing morethan 100 layoffs, the Lon-don District CatholicSchool Board will bebringing back nearly allof its teachers for thestart of the school year.

A new report says 81 ofthe 116 teachers threat-ened with layoffs will berecalled to permanent po-sition.

Another 32 will be giv-en "long-term" positions.

The last time the boardissued layoff notices was1997. AM980/AM980.CA

No moretweets frommayorimposterThe person posing as atweeting Mayor JoeFontana has been ousted.Elaine Gamble, the city’sdirector of corporatecommunications, con-firmed yesterday that@MayorFontana has beendisabled.

The account violatedTwitter’s rules regardingimpersonation, accordingto an e-mail Gamble re-ceived from the company.The fake Fontana’s ac-count used a picture ofthe mayor, listed cityhall’s address and includ-ed the URL for the city’swebsite. METRO

News in brief

“The hope is itbecomescontagious andother businessesjump on board.”BRAD SCRINKO, GIFT OF ART OWNER

“At this rate, I’mnot optimistic thata settlement canbe reached.”WARREN (SMOKEY) THOMAS, OPSEUPRESIDENT

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There’s been a lot of talkin hockey lately about con-cussions and their linger-ing effects, and whetherit’s time fighting bebanned from the game.

“I don’t know aboutthat,” said Dale Hunter,owner and coach of theLondon Knights. “It’s in therules — fighting has beenpart of hockey for 90 years.”

For 19 of those years,Hunter was a willing par-ticipant in that part ofhockey in the NHL. Just 5-foot-10 but 200 pounds, inmany ways Hunter was aconcussion on skates,throwing his weightaround (as well as a fewlefts and rights) on his wayto accumulating 3,563penalty minutes — secondall-time behind TigerWilliams. Consider him an

expert on rugged play.Speaking at yesterday’s

Knights news conference atthe JLC, Hunter says hockeyhas done a good job in min-imizing concussions, espe-cially at the junior level.

He points to the OHLcommissioner’s initiativesto penalize head shots.

“Oh yeah. Dave Branchbrought it in, he did a

great job,” said Hunter.“I’ve got to give credit tohim — he was ahead of alot of other people, otherleagues doing it.”

As for fighting, Huntersays it’s not as much of anissue as it was in his hay-making days.

“It’s gone down signifi-cantly,” he said. “There’sno bench-clearing brawlsany more, there’s none ofthat stuff.

“With no holding in theneutral zone now, it’s a fasthockey game out there.And if you watch it live,you can’t believe how fastit is. It’s good hockey now.”

The first phase of a sen-iors’ housing complex inOld East Village will beopen in less than a year.

Developer Jens Stick-ling, president of WestanyHoldings in London, saidCentretown’s six retailstorefronts and 12 walkupapartments will be readyfor tenants by June.

The second phase of the

637 Dundas St. develop-ment — a nine-story apart-ment tower — is expectedto be finished by Novem-ber. Rent will start at $570a month.

Stickling and elected of-

ficials were at the develop-ment yesterday for a cere-monial groundbreaking.

The affordable housingcomplex is being builtwith financial supportfrom the municipal,provincial and federal gov-ernments, Stickling said.

Stickling said develop-ments such as his are thekinds of “seeds that needto be planted to get criti-cal mass to revitalize”downtown.

Housing projectto open doors

Seniors’ complex, retail space to open in formerCentretown Mall Project been in works since 2009

72The number of unitsplanned for the housing complex.

Be carefulwhere youbuy smokesThe National CoalitionAgainst Contraband Tobac-co has launched an ad cam-paign to raise consumerawareness of the harmsthat result from buyingcontraband tobacco. Thecoalition says recent stud-ies of tobacco use in theLondon area found thatmore than one in four ciga-rettes consumed were ille-gal, which supports gangactivity. METRO

Vote for your faveballpark

Don’t forget to help makeLabatt Park Canada’sFavourite Ballpark. Votingcontinues until Sept. 6 at10 a.m. METRO

Apply nowto studyoverseasIf you are a high schoolstudent interested inspending a year abroad onexchange, you might con-sider the Rotary Youth Ex-change Program.Applications are being ac-cepted until Sept. 9 for the2012-2013 school year.Contact Randy Harden(rharden@uniserve.com)or Michele Parkin(michelemparkin@gmail.com). METRO

By the rules

The OHL rule book says

“the act of checking an op-

ponent to the head in any

manner” warrants at least

a minor penalty.

Hockey is minimizingconcussions: Hunter

Dale Hunter

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Backpacks for students in needAt last count, student volunteers had filled more than 1,400 backpacks and arewell on their way to surpassing their goal of 1,500 before school starts nextweek. Supplies for Students provides filled backpacks to kids in need.

Supplies. For Students

From left, Maxine Ridgewell, donations assistant with the Thames Valley District

School board; Jenny Couse, assistant with the Thames Valley Education Foundation;

and Natalie Trimble, program co-ordinator for Supplies for Students.

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A very healthy improvement.

IN 2003 BABIES WERE SCREENED FOR 2 DISEASES. NOW THEY’RE SCREENED FOR 28.

Source: Ministry of Health, 2011.

Deb Matthews, MPP www.debmatthews.ca

Khalil Ramal, MPPwww.khalilramal.onmpp.ca

Chris Bentley, MPPwww.chrisbentley.onmpp.ca

Vancouver police are ask-ing the public to helpthem bring hundreds ofsuspects from the June 15Stanley Cup riot to justicethrough a new interactivewebsite (riot2011.vpd.ca).

Insp. Les Yeo of the riotinvestigation team saidthey have posted 40 pho-tos of suspected rioters onthe website in the hopesthe public can identifythem.

Yeo said police will beadding 100 more photos inthe coming weeks so in-vestigators won’t be over-whelmed and will haveenough time for a thor-

ough investigation.Police Chief Jim Chu al-

so again defended the VPDover the lack of chargesstemming from the inci-dent. He said police aretaking their time to collectevidence to make surethat people are held ac-countable to the full ex-tent of their involvementduring the riots.

“We don’t get twochances at this,” Chu said.“We can’t charge (suspectswith) rioting and then say,‘Hey, your honour, wefound some more informa-tion three months later.Can we charge [them] withrioting again?’ ”

Chu added 42 peoplehave already turned them-selves in, and police are in-vestigating 1,100 names ofpeople who may havebeen involved in the riots.Still no charges have beenlaid.

An independent reportinto the riot is expected tobe released tomorrow byformer head of VANOCJohn Furlong and formerNova Scotia deputy justiceminister Doug Keefe.

Riot investigationgiven high-tech spin

Vancouver police encourage public to log on tonew website and help identify suspected rioters

Thieves usechainsaw tocut downchurch signA tiny church for Ethiopianimmigrants outside of Hali-fax has been hit again byvandals, the latestoccurance seeing their signcut down with a chainsaw.

There have been two orthree minor vandalism in-cidents since St. GebrielEthiopian Orthodox Tewa-hedo Church inHammonds Plains openedmore than a year ago, butthe latest incident hasgone too far, said DeaconLes Zewdie.

At around 10:30 p.m.Monday night, several peo-ple got out of a van andrevved up a chainsaw.

They cut down thechurch’s sign, threw it inthe back of the van andtook off.

Halifax RCMPspokesman Cpl. ScottMacRae said it appearsplanning was involved.

“There have been minorcomplaints of vandalism inthe past — but definitelythis is a uniqueoccurrence,” he said.“There’s obviously more tothe story.”THE CANADIAN PRESS

Child survivescougar attack UCLUELET, B.C. An 18-month-old child is recov-ering in hospital after acougar attack insideVancouver Island’s Pacif-ic Rim National Park Re-serve.

Renee Wissink, man-ager of resource conser-vation at the park, saidthe attack occurred atabout 6 p.m. Monday onthe beach of a popularday-use area at KennedyLake, some 16kilometres east of thecommunity of Ucluelet.

The toddler is nowlisted in seriouscondition at Vancouver’s

Children’s Hospital. THE CANADIAN PRESS

Clerk chargedwith lotteryfraudWINNIPEG. A Winnipegman is facing seriousfraud charges after he al-legedly held ontoa customer's lottery tick-et that ended up beingworth $90,000.

Police said theemployee went to theWCLC on Aug. 2claiming to be the win-ner.

The employee hasbeen charged with theftunder $5,000 and fraudover $5,000.THE CANADIAN PRESS

Power returnsto GoderichGODERICH, ONT. Most peo-ple can turn on thelights again in Goderich,Ont.

Mayor Deb Shewfeltsays electricity has beenrestored to just about allfunctioning buildings af-ter a tornado hit thecommunity on LakeHuron on Aug. 21. THE CANADIAN PRESS

News in brief

Restoring the traditionalnames of the navy and airforce has the support of amajority of Canadians, anew poll suggests.

A survey by The Canadi-

an Press-Harris/Decimafound that 56 per cent ofrespondents agreed withthe change and 31 per centopposed it. THE CANADIAN PRESS

Approval for military name change

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Ramadan wraps with Eid festivitiesEid Al-Fitr marks an end to the holy month of Ramadan. Thousands of area Mus-lims attended the 26th annual event at the Metro Toronto Convention Centreand other celebrations throughout the region yesterday.

Eid. Holiday

A young boy watches as men pray during the Muslim Association of Canada’s

Eid celebration at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre yesterday.

41Regionally, therewas marked dis-

agreement only inQuebec, where 41 percent approved of theidea and 46 per centwere against it.

“You get one kickat the can andthat’s why we needto take our time toensure thesesuspects, theseaccused, don'tevade justice.”POLICE CHIEF JIM CHU

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Gadhafi’s mystery daughterRebel orders

The rebels are tightening

their grip on Libya after a

military blitz and have

taken several steps to en-

sure control.

Libyan rebels issued an

ultimatum yesterday toGadhafi’s hometown ofSirte: surrender this week-end or face an attack.There has been

speculation that the dicta-tor is seeking refuge inSirte or one of the other re-maining regimestrongholds, among themthe towns of Bani Walid orSabha.Rebels also demanded thatAlgeria return Gadhafi’swife and three of hischildren, who fled thereMonday.They also insisted they are

slowly restoring order inwar-torn Tripoli by deploying police andcollecting garbage.

Since the rebel takeover ofTripoli, evidence has beenmounting that MoammarGadhafi may have liedabout the death of hisadopted baby daughterHana in a 1986 U.S.airstrike.

The strike hit Gadhafi’shome in retaliation for theLibyan-sponsored bombingof a Berlin nightclub earlierthat year that killed twoU.S. servicemen. At thetime, Gadhafi showedAmerican journalists a pic-ture of a dead baby and saidit was his adopted daughterHana — the first publicmention that she even ex-isted. Diplomats almost im-mediately questioned theclaim. But Gadhafi kept thestory alive through theyears.

But when Libyan rebelstook over last week, they

found a room in Gadhafi’shome with Hana’s birthcertificate and pictures of ayoung woman with thename “Hana” written onthe back, possible indica-

tions that she lived beyondinfancy.

Many Libyans believeHana was never killed andtalked about her existenceopenly. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Evidence mounts the exiled leader faked the death ofhis daughter Libyans believe Gadhafi wanted to garner sympathy and foster hatred towards the West

Col. Moammar Gadhafi holds, presumably, his daughter

Hana in Tripoli in this undated 1996 photo.

LINO AZZOPARDI,/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Passenger getsrevenge on boy INJURY. San Diego policesay a boy throwing rocksat vehicles was struck inthe abdomen by acrossbow bolt fired by apassenger in small sportutility vehicle.

The boy was shot in theabdomen and was takento a hospital. The SanDiego Union-Tribunenewspaper says hisinjuries are not life-threat-ening. His name and ageweren’t released. Nobodyhas been arrested. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Israel rampsup securityMILITARY. Israel sent twomore warships to the RedSea border with Egypt,the military saidyesterday, as part of mili-

tary reinforcement.Earlier this week,

Israel’s military orderedmore troops to the borderarea, days after militantscrossed into Israelthrough the Egyptian bor-der and killed eightIsraelis in a brazen attackthat touched off a wave ofviolence between Israeland militants in the GazaStrip.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Greek prisonersalmost escapedJAIL BREAK. Officials atGreece’s largest prisonsay they have preventedan escape by discoveringa 10-metre-long tunneldug by an allegedmurderer and two otherinmates awaiting trial forburglary.

The inmates allegedlycut through the wall anddug the tunnel usingmostly makeshift tools.The tunnel wasdiscovered late Monday.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

News in brief

Hunted throughout herhomeland and forced toflee into exile across a dan-gerous desert border, thedaughter of ousted Libyanleader Moammar Gadhafipaused somewhere in theSahara to have a baby.

The dramatic birth ofGadhafi’s granddaughter,after her mother and otherrelatives escaped Libyanterritory into Algeria, lendsa human dimension to thedictator’s downfall and theongoing mystery of hiswhereabouts. The birth inexile was disclosed by theAlgerian Health Ministryyesterday.

Algeria’s U.N. Ambassa-dor, Mourad BenmehidiBenmehidi, said the coun-

try allowed them to enterfor “humanitarian consid-erations.” Algerian news re-ports had said Aisha’spregnancy was one reasonfor the country’s controver-sial decision to take the

family in.An Algerian newspaper

reported that the exiles,who also included an un-known number of Gad-hafi’s grandchildren by hiseight children, had waited12 hours to receive authori-zation to cross the Algerianborder from President Ab-delaziz Bouteflika — whileAisha was in labour.

Libya’s interim govern-ment criticized Algeria’s de-cision and demanded thatAlgiers hand them over fortrial in Libya.

The departure of Gad-hafi’s family was one of thestrongest signs yet that hehas lost his grip on Libya after 42 years in power.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Violentprotestserupt inSouth AfricaSupporters of SouthAfrica’s firebrand youthleader are the latest politi-cal salvo in a power strug-

gle that could determinethe future of SouthAfrica’s president and theman who helped catapulthim to power — youthleague chief JuliusMalema.

Demonstrators burnedflags of the ruling AfricanNational Congress and ranthrough the streets of

downtown Johannesburgholding up flaming T-shirts bearing the imageof President Jacob Zuma.

When the protestersbegan lobbing stones andbottles, police detonatedstun grenades and turnedwater cannons on thecrowd of thousands. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Gadhafi’s otherdaughter gives birth

Aisha Gadhafi waits

before making a speech in

Cairo in this photo taken

April 28, 2005.

AMR NABIL/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The New York man suingfor part ownership of Face-book must give lawyers forthe social networking com-pany access to all hisemails dating to 2003.

A federal judge yester-day denied Paul Ceglia’s re-quest to delay Facebook’saccess to his emails so hecould voice his objectionsin court. Ceglia’s lawyerhad made the request in afiling late Monday, hopingto protect Ceglia’s privacy.

Ceglia claims he made adeal with Facebookfounder Mark Zuckerbergin 2003 that entitles him to half ownership of the$50 billion company.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Forget the old-fashionedweb suffix “.com”— com-ing up with eccentricnames to make websitescatchier and easier to re-member is the new trendon the Internet.

Icann, the global inter-net body that creates newweb addresses, announcedit will be taking applica-

tions next year for domainsuffixes of almost any wordand in any language.

From the current 22 do-main endings available,websites ending with theadverb-sounding “.ly”, thebroadcast-hinting “.tv” orthe captivating “.me” arenow the hippest choice.

“Businesses always needquirky names that are easyto spell and to remember. Ifyou come up with a morebrandable name for yourwebsite, then you should

go for it,” marketing expertAndrew Girdwood fromglobal digital media compa-ny bigmouthmedia toldMetro.

As Girdwood explains,the downside is that web-sites ending in .ly — thecountry code domain forLibya — are designated asformal property of Libya’sstate-controlled telecom-munications corporation,whose status is uncertaindue to unrest in the region.

Montenegro has ar-

guably the coolest-sound-ing ccTLD (country codetop-level domain) with .me.Indeed, it has been a realgold mine for a countryborn only in 2006. Accord-ing to Hosterstats.com,more than 500,000 .me do-

mains have been regis-tered, so far.

Yet despite the rise intrendy domain names, oldhabits die hard, as majoronline search engines stillfavour the old-fashioned.

“Dot-tv sounds perfect

for a broadcasting compa-ny, but for search engineoptimization, the dot-comis more popular,” Mick Say,an expert at England’s On-line Marketing Academy,tells Metro.

“If a person is searchingthe Internet for a service ora global business, Googlegives priority to the dot-com extension. It tells thesearch engine that ‘I wantto be known international-ly as an international busi-ness.’”

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Sticky situation for oil firmGreenpeace is demanding that Anglo-French oilcompany Perenco, and other companies, stop theirexploration in Abrolhos, a large mating area forhumpback whales off the coast of Brazil.

Brazil. Greenpeace protest

A Greenpeace activist helps a person dressed

as a whale covered in oil during a protest at the

headquarters of oil company Perenco, yesterday,

in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

“A great quirky domain can work reallywell. But I don’t envisage mostestablished companies moving theirprimary web presence away from .comany time soon.”WILL CRITCHLOW, DISTILLED SEARCH MARKETING COMPANY

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Economy may be stallingEconomists widely expectthat the Canadian economystalled in the second quar-ter and may have even con-tracted slightly amid theglobal economic slowdown.

“It is going to be a hairwithin positive or negative,but the balance is slightly

tilted to the negative,” CIBCchief economist AveryShenfeld said yesterday.

“Either way, it is essen-tially a flat profile for theeconomy.”

Statistics Canada is ex-pected to report the coun-try’s second-quarter gross

domestic product resultsthis morning, and a readingthat economic growth wasslower or even reversedcourse a little would indi-cate the economy is stillstruggling to throw off theeffects of the recession. THE CANADIAN PRESS

Consumerconfidencedrops in U.S.A private research groupsays that American con-sumers’ confidence in theeconomy in Augustdropped almost 15 pointsto its lowest level in twoyears.

The reading came asworries about the economyfuelled the wildest stockmarket swings since the fi-nancial meltdown in 2008.

The Conference Boardsays that its consumer con-fidence index dropped tothe lowest level since April2009. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Federal EnvironmentMinister Peter Kentrecently announced newregulations for limitingemissions for any newcoal-fired power plantsthat will be built inCanada starting July2015.

While framed as legis-lation that Kent claimswill act as “theequivalent of takingeight million cars offCanadian roads” this leg-islation falls drasticallyshort of an effective lev-el of environmental pro-tection for two centralreasons: Firstly, the leg-islation essentially givesexisting plants licenceto continue to pollute;secondly, it allows Max-im Power to build a new500-megawatt coal plantin Alberta before the Ju-ly deadline, thereby es-caping the newregulations.

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Snakes on aplane attemptan epic failU.S. officials say a man tried toboard a flight from Miami to Brazilwith bags of exotic snakes andtortoises stuffed in his pants.

Transportation Security Adminis-tration spokesman Jonathon Allensays the man was stopped after pass-ing through a body scanner at MiamiInternational Airport last week.

Security officials spotted thenylon bags filled with seven snakes

and three tortoises hidden in theman’s pants.

The South Florida Sun Sentinelnewspaper reports the animals weretaken by the U.S. Department of Fishand Wildlife.

The unidentified passenger wasarrested.

It’s not the only time someonehas tried to smuggle snakes on aTAM Airlines flight, the paperreported.

In 1996, a woman attempted tosneak 75 live snakes inside her brain Sweden, according to theSentinel. And, in 2007, a man triedto smuggle a tiny monkey under hisshirt on a flight from FortLauderdale, the paper said.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

VANCOUVER’SNEW RANKREEKS

Vancouver: the world’s mostliveable city – NOT!

There is no joy in lattéland today with the newsthat the EconomistIntelligence Unit has demot-

ed Vancouver, for years the mostliveable city atop its list, to third,behind Melbourne and Vienna.

Even worse news? Toronto andCalgary are 4th and 5th, hot on ourheels.

Oddly, the stupid Stanley Cup riotplayed no role in the demotion, although it may hit uswhere we rank. The reason for this year’s demotion: abrief closure of the Malahat Highway due to a tankerspill in April led to a fractional reduction in infrastruc-ture points, enough to allow Melbourne and Vienna tosurge ahead.

Melbourne? Wasn’t that the place that was hit withdevastating floods earlier this year?

What’s really puzzlingis that the Malahat High-way is on VancouverIsland. Which iselsewhere. You have totake a ferry to get to Van-couver Island. All told,that’s about a four to four-and-a-half hour trip fromVancouver. I would wagerthat many of the peoplewho live in Metro Vancou-ver have no idea wherethe Malahat Highway isand have never been on it.It’s relevant if you live inVictoria, which, like Van-couver, starts with a “V”,but that’s about it.

So you have to wonderabout the Economist Intel-ligence Unit and its wholeWorld’s Most Liveable Cityproject. The problem isthere was no wondering

when Vancouver was on top of the list. We just satback, relaxed, and gloated.

Even when it rained 40 days and 40 nights. Even asit took a king’s ransom to buy a rundown bungalow inKerrisdale. Even as we rolled up the tinted windows onthe SUV to avoid being tainted by the Downtown EastSide. So now it’s not going to do us much good to castaspersions on the intelligence of the Intelligence Unit.

Meanwhile, Toronto and Calgary are flexing theirgloating muscles. They can hardly wait for next year’slist, when the EIU takes the riot into account. I’m notsure I’ll have the strength to carry on if Calgary turnsout to be more liveable than Vancouver.

There’s one thing I do know. I’d rather live in Toron-to, or even (gasp) Calgary than in one of the cities atthe bottom of the list, although they say #140: lastplace Harare, Zimbabwe, is nice this time of year.

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What can you tell us, withoutgiving too much away, aboutShark Night 3D?David Ellis: There’s sharksin it (laughs). It’s really

weird. And a lot of themovie takes place at night.Katharine McPhee: I’m in it.DE: Kat’s in it.KM: My character’s name isBeth. That’s all I know.

David, you’re no stranger togenre movies. What’s the ap-peal of them as a filmmaker?DE: For me, I think it’s justfun to be able to entertainpeople — for them to beable to go an escape fromeverything crazy that’s go-ing on in the world for anhour and a half and gohave fun, to kind of scare

them and make themlaugh and make them cry,and just kind of play withtheir emotions.KM: You like making peo-ple cry.

Were you afraid of sharks be-fore you made the movie?KM: I’m one of those peo-ple who, especially as akid, would spend hours inthe ocean swimming. Ilove swimming. Butalways in the back of myhead there was that fear ofa shark coming andgetting you. I could say

that, yeah, this hasdefinitely made it a littlebit more of a threat.DE: For me, I grew up inthe ocean as well — mywhole life in Malibu —and I’m aware of them,you respect them. But youhave a better chance ofgetting hit by a coconutthan getting killed by ashark. But it’s a primalfear for people.KM: It’s just not a way youwant to go. There’s a cou-ple other ways I couldthink of wanting to go oth-er than sharks.

With summer coming to an end, it’s the perfect time for a movie to scareyou off the beach Here to do it is Shark Night 3D,

from Snakes on a Plane director David Ellis

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What lurks belowCanuck stars JasonPriestley, CatherineO’Hara, Hugh Dillonand Alan Thicke areamong the celebsset to appear at theGemini Awards nextmonth. Dillon’s copseries Flashpointleads the dramanominees with 17nods whilePriestley’s racy pro-gram Call Me Fitzleads the sitcomswith 16. Priestleysays he’s thrilled tosee widespreadrecognition for hisNova Scotia-basedcast and crew and islooking forward tothe celebration inToronto. Before thebroadcast, comicTom Green will hosta behind-the-scenesshow online calledthe Tom GreenRoom, featuringceleb interviews.The Geminiscelebrate the best ofCanadian televisionwith a gala Sept. 7hosted by comicRussell Peters.THE CANADIAN PRESS

Ed O’Neill to get HollywoodWalk of Fame star in front of

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Movie review

The DebtGenre: Thriller/DramaDirector: John MaddenStars: Helen Mirren, SamWorthington and TomWilkinson888

The Debt is an espionagestory with a twist. In 1996retired Mossad agentsRachel, David and Stefan(Helen Mirren, CiaránHinds and TomWilkinson) are heroes, ac-claimed for their bravecapture and execution ofa notorious war criminalin 1966.

In flashback we meetthe same charactersplayed by JessicaChastain, Marton Csokas,and Sam Worthington,learn the personal dynam-ics of the mission and thekey to a long held secret.

The flashbacksequence makes up thebulk of the film so it’s fairto say this isn’t Helen Mir-ren’s film, but her charac-ter Rachel’s. Unusual for aspy movie, the story istold through the eyes of awoman but that addsdepth to what is essential-ly a pulpy spy story.

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Andrew Garfield says theonly thing that made himnearly say no to being thenew Spider-Man was themovie star status thatwould come with it.

“That was absolutelythe one thing I ques-tioned. I thought about itfor a month, constantly,”he tells the L.A. Times.

“It terrifies me. I justsaw that I was given an op-portunity to play a partthat I’ve been wanting toplay since I was a two-year-old. I don’t want therest of it.

METRO

With all the speculationgoing around about herfamily life, Angelina Joliewants to clear a fewthings up.

“I’m not pregnant. I’mnot adopting at the mo-ment,” Jolie tells VanityFair. She added that thereis no “secret wedding”planned for her and BradPitt.

Jolie is more concernedwith her directorial de-but,

In the Land of Bloodand Honey, and says that

Pitt tried his best to behelpful during the mak-ing of the project.

“He’d come in and saywhat he liked or what hedidn’t understand,” shesays.

“Like any woman, Iwould listen to most of itand fight a few things.He’s been so supportive.

But it’s hard to sepa-rate the person that lovesyou from the critic, so Idon’t think he’s a fairjudge.”

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Lost star Matthew Fox wasdetained by police inCleveland after an alterca-

tion outside a bar with afemale bus driver, accord-ing to TMZ.

The driver, Heather Bor-man, says a clearly inebri-ated Fox was trying to theparty bus she was driving,though he wasn’t a part ofthe group who had rentedit.

“He just kept staringat me with his mouthwide open and not say-ing anything. I toldhim, ‘You have toleave buddy. You aretrespassing onmy bus,’” Bor-man says.

She addedthat Fox then“leaned inand started

punching my crotch andbreast.”

Borman struck back,punching Fox in the faceand splitting his lip, whichdeterred the actor.

Borman says she wasacting in self-defence.

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Kate Winslet is finallybreaking her silenceabout her harrowing es-cape from a recent housefire on Richard Branson’sprivate Caribbean is-land.

“I’m justglad thateveryone issafe,”Winslettold Enter-tainmentTonight re-cently.

“And this easily couldnot have been the case.”

She gives credit to herhost for making the mostof the terrifying situation.

“I will never forgetRichard placing his arms

around both my chil-dren as we werewatching the flames,and saying, ‘At theend of the day, whatyou realize is that allthat matters is thepeople that you love.

Everything else isjust stuff. And none of

that stuff matters,’”Winslet remem-

bers of theemotionalday.

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Lindsay’s bro receivesthreatening callsLindsay Lohan’s 15-year-old brother, Cody Lohan,hasn’t been having thebest summer.

The teen has reportedlybeen receiving threaten-ing phone calls that wereunsettling enough forhim to call 911, accordingto reports from TMZ.

Cody reported to policethat the caller was threat-ening to “harm him,” lawenforcement sources say.

There was some ques-

tions raised about whowas watching the teenagebrother of star Linsday.

Reports indicated hismother, Dina Lohan, wasstill in Los Angeles at thetime after attending therecent, high-profile wed-ding of socialite Kim Kar-dashian.

Sources have since toldthe celebrity-driven web-site that Cody is “underproper care now.”

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Steven Soderberghadmits he is consid-ering leaving film-making behind.

“I’m interestedin exploring anoth-er art form while Ihave the time andability to do so,” hetells the New YorkTimes. “I’ll be thefirst person to say ifI can’t be any goodat it and run out ofmoney I’ll be back

making anotherOcean’s movie.”

The filmmakersays earlier thisyear he told MattDamon about hisplans during a“drunk” chat.

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Yankee mag offers foliageapp and annual fall issue forNew England leaf-peepers

Guided hikes reveal Niagara’s geology

A series of guided fallhikes along Ontario’slong-distance BruceTrail will explore thegeology of the Niaga-ra Escarpment. Sevenlocations on the trailare highlighted,including Waterdown,the Credit River valley,the NottawasagaBluffs and the BrucePeninsula on GeorgianBay. A walk in theCaledon area, 60 kilo-metres northwest ofdowntown Toronto,will find geological ev-idence — includingcoral reefs and muddeltas — from the Up-per Ordovician, LowerSilurian and MiddleSilurian periods, hun-dreds of millions ofyears ago, say organiz-ers. Dubbed “Geology101 on Foot,” thewalks are afundraising project tosupport the Bruce TrailConservancy. The trailstretches almost 900kilometres fromQueenston, near Niag-ara Falls, toTobermory..THE CANADIAN PRESS

Prepare for a scare at

Ghost stories and sightings abound at Halifax’s most popular tourist sites

With its long history of dis-asters and shipwrecks,there is an air of tragedythat hangs over Halifax,not unlike the dense fogthat often rolls in from itsharbour.

Though the port city haslong established itself as adown-home, good-timeburg — a place to unwindto a toe-tapping Celtic tuneand a dram of whisky —those thirsty for spirits ofthe paranormal kind won’tbe disappointed.

One of Halifax’s mostinfamous spooky sites isthe Five Fishermen Restau-rant and Grill, perched onthe bustling corner ofCarmichael and ArgyleStreets. Having onceserved as a mortuary, it’sperhaps not surprisingthat the 194-year-old struc-ture is equally known forits hauntings as well as itshalibut.

The four-storey, brick-and-wood building openedin 1816 as a schoolhouseand was eventually takenover by a local family andturned into a funeralhome.

It became the last stopof sorts for victims of twosignificant disasters of the20th century — the sink-ing of the Titanic off New-foundland in April 1912and the Halifax Explosionof 1917. The explosion oc-curred when a supply ves-sel and a munitions shipcollided in the harbour,killing 2,000 people andleaving some 9,000 in-jured.

Shane Robilliard, theFive Fishermen’s generalmanager, says tales of cut-lery moving on its own,disembodied voices andshadowy figures have actu-ally been good for busi-ness.

Robilliard recalls a re-cent instance when dinerstried to send a text mes-sage from their table. Butinstead of the intendedmessage, Robilliard says

only one word flashed onthe recipient’s mobilephone: death.

“People dine at the FiveFishermen to experiencesomething or to be a partof the history of this build-ing,” he says.

More eerie experiencesawait just up CarmichaelStreet at one of the city’smost recognizable sites,the Halifax Citadel Nation-al Historic Site.

The British fort, com-pleted in 1856, offers 90-minute tours exploringevery dark nook and cran-ny where the ghosts of for-mer soldiers are said tolurk.

A steep walk downsome 33 stone steps on thesouthwest demi-bastionleads to a pair of dark,dank rooms with a half-dozen metal cots andgrimy, barred windows —a former prison for sol-diers.

Hal Thompson, thesite’s visitor experience of-ficer, remembers one visi-tor to the site who said shespied a uniformed man en-ter a room and seemingly

vanish. The woman wasunaware of the site’sghostly reputation andwanted to know how theman — whom she pre-sumed to be a staff mem-ber — managed to leaveundetected from a roomwith only one exit.

At first, Thompson sayshe joked that perhaps thewoman had seen a ghost.But then he began to won-der.

“It doesn't make anysense. There should nothave been anyone therewearing that uniform anddisappearing into thin airlike that,” he recalls. “Sothat’s a fairly convincingstory.” THE CANADIAN PRESS

Halifax haunts

Visitors claim to have seen ghosts in the garrison cells at Halifax Citadel National Historic Site.

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OTHER SITES

Ghostsgalore Other sites that arerumoured to be hauntedcan be found in andaround Halifax’s historicharbour.

Near the waterfront isthe Alexander Keith’sbrewery, which is said tobe inhabited by theghost of the brewmasterhimself. McNabs Island,accessible only by boat(ghost ship notrequired), is reputed to

be haunted by the ghostof a former resident whowas found drowned.

At least twocompanies in Halifax of-fer ghost walk tours forvisitors eager to learnabout the creepier sideof the city.THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Jamaica has a Dogsled teamYou can find a perfect ex-ample of the Jamaicanspirit in an unexpectedplace: the Chukka CoveFarm, home to the 30 orso mutts that comprisethe Jamaican dogsledteam.

“It’s about the can-do at-titude of Jamaicans,” saysfounder Danny Melville,64, as he rattles off severalother examples of Ja-maicans’ determination,including reggae musicand the beloved Olympicbobsled team.

Located near Ocho Rios,in St. Ann Parish, hisChukka farm offers visi-tors an opportunity to rideon a dry-land sled pulled

by 15 dogs, all of themstrays that Chukka hasadopted. It’s one of severalthrill rides offered byChukka Caribbean Adven-tures.

Melville, who lives inToronto, was first drawn tothe concept when he spot-ted a dry-land sled whileshopping for dune buggiesin Alberta.

He thought a dogsledtour would be a great ad-dition to Chukka’s dozensof other offerings, whichinclude everything fromflying through the treeson a zipline and riding anATV into the mountainsto taking a pilgrimage onthe Zion Bus Line through

musical history to BobMarley’s birthplace.

You can even go swim-ming in the ocean onhorseback, a signaturetour that Melville says hepioneered himself nearlythree decades ago.

It was a challenge forMelville, who had onlyever seen sled dogs on tele-vision, to put together theteam.

“You’re getting a bunchof dogs off the street andthey’re kind of looking atyou like, ‘What do youmean, pull?’ What is thisall about?’” says Melville.

Visitors who take thetour will get to meet andgreet the dogs before the

ride. They’ll also get to expe-

rience the only dogsledmuseum south of the Arc-tic Circle before thethrilling ride.

“When we hook up 15or 16 dogs to that sled, youfly,” says Melville.

Today the dogsled team,which Melville says is theonly such operation in theCaribbean, is much morethan the adventure tourthat it was intended to be.

In addition to taking vis-itors on high-speed dry-land runs, some ofChukka’s mushers com-pete in races, from smallerones in Ontario to theworld-renowned Iditarodrace in Alaska. The mush-ers lease dog teams forthose endeavours, saysMelville, because the Ja-maican mutts wouldfreeze to death in the sub-zero temperatures.

“You don’t just enter

those races by going andpaying an entry fee,” saysMelville. “You have to qual-ify for those races becauseyou could die. People getfrostbite, lose fingers.These are tough races.”

The expeditions, whichcan take two weeks tocomplete, are a true test ofone’s ability to survive insome of the world's harsh-est winter conditions, saysMelville.THE CANADIAN PRESS

Farm near Ocho Rios offers visitors the chance totake a dogsled ride in an unlikely locale

A musher takes tourists for a dogsled ride through the Jamaican countryside.

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Mango SmoothieThis refreshing drinkmakes a perfect after-school snack for the lit-tle ones. It containshealthy ingredientssuch as milk, mangoand fresh ginger.

• Flesh of 1 large ripemango, chopped• 2 ml (1/2 tsp) fresh gin-ger, grated• 75 ml (1/3 cup) frozenorange juice concentrate• 375 ml (1 1/2 cups)milk, chilled• 250 ml (1 cup) ice

In a blender, puree thepeeled and chopped man-go, ginger and orangejuice concentrate togetheruntil the mixture issmooth. Add milk and iceand blend again. This recipe makes 500 ml(2 cups).THE CANADIAN PRESS

Drink of the week Let your creative sideshine with their lunches

Believe it or not, school lunches can consist of a lot more than a peanut butter and jellysandwich and a juice box Leftovers and deconstructing meals are great places to start

Tortellini Veggie Skewers

Preparation:

1 Cut yellow pepper into6 strips. Using eachpepper strip as a skew-er, push 2 tortellini on-to each strip.

2 Use a paring knife topoke a hole into thetop of each cherrytomato and cap end ofeach pepper strip witha tomato and an olive.Cut slices of turkey andprovolone into 6 long

strips, then wrap oneof each around skew-ers. Serve skewers witha side of your child'sfavourite salad dress-ing.

Ingredients:

• 1/2 yellow bell pepper• 12 cooked tortellini• 6 whole black olives• 6 cherry tomatoes• 1 slice deli turkey• 1 slice provolone cheese

Getting creative with kids’lunches can be a bit of aminefield. It can be hardenough to get them to em-brace new foods at home,never mind when they aresurrounded by friends atschool.

But that doesn’t meanyou can’t break free of thesame old sandwich rou-tine. It’s just a matter ofusing foods already in yourchildren’s comfort zone,but working with them innew and creative ways.

Leftovers are a greatplace to start (assuming

they were well receivedthe first time around).Plenty of thick stews andchilies can be repurposedas chilled fillings forwraps, especially whentopped with shreddedcheese. Ditto for salads, in-cluding the pasta and pota-to varieties.

Or consider decon-structing something, suchas pasta salad. Put it backtogether in a way that’sfun for kids, as we did forthe tortellini veggie skew-ers. Also, breakfast is greatfor the beginning of the

day and makes a fun sup-per, so why not consider itfor lunch too?

Cold Ham andCheese Casserole

This “casserole” is a greatway to use up leftovers.Feel free to play with theingredients. Chicken,steak and even choppedleftover hamburgers arefine substitutes for theham.

Preparation:

1 In a small bowl, stir to-gether mustard, mayon-naise and vinegar. Addrice, ham and cheddar,then mix well.ALL RECIPES THE ASSOCIATEDPRESS

Ingredients:

• 5 ml (1 tsp) mustard• 30 ml (2 tbsp) low-fatmayonnaise• 5 ml (1 tsp) apple cidervinegar• 125 ml (1/2 cup) cookedrice (white or brown)• 50 ml (1/4 cup) cubedcooked ham• 30 ml (2 tbsp) shreddedcheddar• 1 scallion, thinly sliced, togarnish

Breakfast lunch

This easy pancake and ba-con breakfast-lunch let’skids assemble their ownmeal.

You just need to givethem the basics — tinypancakes, cooked baconslices, blueberries andmaple syrup for dunking.

Preparation:

1 Pancakes: In a mediumbowl, whisk togetherflour, cornmeal, bakingsoda, sugar and salt.Add yogurt and milk,then whisk until just

smooth.

2 In a large skillet overmedium-high heat, meltbutter. Drop spoonfulsof batter into pan, leav-ing space between eachto allow for spreading.Cook for 1 to 2 minutes,flip and cook for an ad-

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3 Pack the pancakes withthe bacon, fruit andmaple syrup on the sidein their lunch bags.

Ingredients:

• 50 ml (1/4 cup) all-purpose flour• 15 ml (1 tbsp) cornmeal• 1 ml (1/4 tsp) baking soda• 15 ml (1 tbsp) sugar• Pinch salt

• 50 ml (1/4 cup) plain yo-gurt• 45 ml (3 tbsp) milk• 15 ml (1 tbsp) butter• 2 slices cooked bacon• 125 ml (1/2 cup) blueber-ries (or favourite fruit)• Maple syrup, for dipping

This Cold Ham and Cheese Casserole

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As a second-year businessstudent tired of spendingmy summers working inretail, I jumped at the op-portunity to enrol in theco-operative education op-tion (co-op) offered at myschool.

I joined co-op under theimpression that I wouldeasily be able to secure

Shake all the hands you can along the waySTUDENT

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meaningful summer em-ployment, but I quicklydiscovered this was notthe case.

I applied to countlessjobs and had no difficultygetting interviews; myproblem lay in receivingan actual job offer.

I left each interviewfeeling as if it had gonewell, only to be informeda few days later that I hadnot been chosen as thesuccessful candidate forthe job. And I was notalone. Several of my fel-low classmates were expe-riencing the exact same

dilemma.As a well-qualified ap-

plicant, this frustratingprocess led me to wonder

which students were be-ing selected for these jobs.It turned out that stu-dents with more experi-

Erin Hayes

Where Erin is now

I had nearly resorted to handing out resumés atthe local mall when an opportunity arose.

I was contacted by a professional I had met dur-ing a networking event hosted by a student societyI belonged to. My professor had spoken with thisindividual and requested that they consider mefor a job before formally posting the position, andfollowing the interview I was fortunate enough toreceive a job offer.

My story has proven that although what youknow is undoubtedly the most important, whoyou know can’t hurt.

ence and education, suchas third and fourth yearsand graduates with whomI could not compete, weregetting those offers.

Employers shouldn’toverlook the applicationsof promising young stu-dents simply because theylack experience.

Students who activelyachieve and aim to im-prove themselves shouldbe given fair considera-tion from employers;these students should notbe automatically placedon the back burner tomore senior and experi-enced applicants.

To compete with moreexperienced applicants,younger students shouldtake advantage of themany opportunities of-fered by universities, suchas volunteering, confer-ences and competitions.

By making an effort toget involved, students candevelop relevant skills totheir field of study, aswell as establish relation-ships and build their pro-fessional network. Whenparticipating in extra-cur-ricular activities, you nev-er know whatopportunities will presentthemselves or who youmight meet.

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Key take-aways from

Erin’s experience:

Becoming involved withinyour school throughstudent groups,conferences and competi-tions is a great way to de-velop career-related skillsand build your resumé.

Get to know yourprofessors and attend asmany on-campus network-ing events as you can. Al-though relevant skills anda strong GPA areimportant, my story high-lights that who you knowis often equally as impor-tant.

School supplies?

Balancing the schoolbudget can get complicat-ed when you and yourchild’s other parent arenot together. Here aresome tips to the scholas-tic year fiscally fair, evenif you are not divorced.

Balance needs versus wants

Make a list of “needs” andagree that kids will get afew “wants” met. Allocatea set dollar amount theyare free to spend.

Set the budget before you

go shopping Before youventure into a store set anon-negotiable budget.This is not just for theirpurposes but also to keepparents from caving in.

Make a detailed list before

you hit the stores We know not to go groceryshopping when hungryand the same rule applies

for back-to-schoolshopping. There are manypurchase temptations toabstain from, even for thestrong-willed.

Set the budget for extracur-

ricular activities before you

sign up Set a budget perchild that covers lessons,equipment and other hid-den costs, then engage ina conversation with thekids and the other parentto ensure you are notdoubling up on activitiesor creating a conflictingschedule.

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Are you a divorced parent dealingwith back to school? Help is here

Your pre-boot action planKeep those contacts close to you just in case the worst does happen

Should the axe fall andyour job get severed, ca-reer counsellors warn,you’ll have to get by witha little help from yourfriends.

Except, big problem: Ifyou’re like the averagelaid off employee, yourfriends will all be left be-hind in that same burningbuilding.

That’s why career coun-sellors recommend youfoster industry friend-ships far beyond theblock where you work,while you’re still work-ing.

“It’s much easier tohave that network readyin place when you need itthan to try to scramble andconnect the people at thelast minute,” About.com

jobseekers’ guru AlisonDoyle cautions. “Then allof a sudden you’re beg-ging people.”

And that, she explains,is what you’d least like tobe doing: scroungingstrangers for jobs.

Instead, agrees Con-necting With Success au-thor Kathleen Barton,

your network should be in con-stant development, a reg-ular exchange of favoursand tips.

“It’s about buildingmutually beneficial rela-tionships, where you’renot always asking for helpwhen you’re contactingthem,” she says. “Maybe

you’re giving updates, orfinding out how they’redoing, or how you cansupport them.”

Or maybe you’re justcalling to say howdy —one friendly lunch hourphone call at a time.

Find The Little Reasons

Great networking, Barton offers, is about seizingthose little excuses toreach out to a mere ac-quaintance.

“There are so many cre-ative ways you can dothat,” she says. Holidayshelp —and not just thepassé ones like Christmasand birthdays. Think Hal-loween, she suggests.

“Rather than Christ-mas, when everybody getscards, I send Thanksgiv-ing cards to let themknow I'm thinking aboutthem,” she adds.

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Wozniacki mum on new coachAfter winning at U.S. Open, No. 1 player talks about her love life but not who’s coaching her

It’s funny what questionssome people will and won’tanswer.

Take the world’s top-ranked tennis player, Caro-line Wozniacki.

Her boyfriend? Sure,she’s been seeing RoryMcIlory of late.

Her new coach? Well,that, Wozniacki insists,must remain a mystery.

Wozniacki opened herlatest quest for her firstGrand Slam title with a 6-3,6-1 victory over NuriaLlagostera Vives of Spainyesterday. It was a drama-free match in Arthur AsheStadium that left the mostinteresting stuff for thepost-match interview.

How were things goingwith McIlroy, golf’s reign-ing U.S. Open championwhom she started datingthis summer?

“You know, he has some-thing I’m looking for and Ihave something he’s look-ing for,” she said. “Hewants to be No. 1. So it’sgood to have something oneach other.”

Does the No. 1 ranking,when it’s not accompaniedby a major title, feel like aburden or an honour?

“I’m trying to stay upthere as long as possible,and it doesn’t really matterwhat people are saying,”she said. “No one can evertake that away from me.”

And why not end thesuspense and tell us whothat new coach of yours is?

“Yeah, well, I have to re-spect him, as well,” shesaid. “So if he wants to bein the background and nothave his name out, I haveto respect that.”

Though she’s refusing toname names, Wozniacki isclearly looking for anothergear and a few moreweapons as she tries to addto a resumé that includes

46 of the last 47 weeks atNo. 1 but no major champi-onships and only one tripto a Grand Slam final —two years ago at the U.S.Open, when she lost to KimClijsters.

She had what someviewed as a rough summer,losing her first match atboth Toronto and Cincin-nati — considered key lead-ups to the year’s last GrandSlam. But last week, shewon for the fourth straight

year at New Haven, andsuddenly, the critics seemmore like alarmists.

“I know that I’m back ontrack,” she said. “I knowthat everyone has to writetheir stories, but I think weshould move on. Ask meabout something else,something more interest-ing.”

There wasn’t much in-teresting about this match,except maybe for the obser-vation that Wozniacki did-

n’t need to bring out anynew weapons to defeatLlagostera Vives, thediminutive counterpunch-er ranked 125th and play-ing her first singles matchon the U.S. Open showcourt.

This was typical Wozni-acki — steady ground-strokes and long points,made longer on a surfacethat players say has beenplaying slower this year.

Elsewhere on the secondday at the U.S. Open, No. 4seed Victoria Azarenka de-feated Johanna Larsson ofSweden 6-1, 6-3. Shereached her first GrandSlam semi earlier this yearat Wimbledon and is an-other good candidate towin in a wide-openwomen’s field.

“I always take it matchby match,” she said. “But Ihave been closer to mygoals, so I can only lookand stay positive and keepgetting better.”

Vancouver’s RebeccaMarino and Frank Dancevicof Niagara Falls both losttheir first-round matchesyesterday.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Caroline Wozniacki returns a shot against Nuria Llagostera Vives yesterday.

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Sports in brief

TD Waterhouse Stadium is beingconsidered as a possible locationfor the HamiltonTiger-Cats to play atnext year whiletheir new stadiumis underconstruction.

Western’s SusanGrindrod said therehave been nodiscussions withthe Ticats, but theuniversity wouldwelcome the oppor-tunity. AM980/AM980.CA

“I’m No. 1 in theworld, and ofcourse I can stillimprove. ”CAROLINE WOZNIACKI

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EngineGetting the Beetle up to speed is handled by threedistinct powerplants.

Base models come with a 170-horsepower 2.5-litrefive-cylinder engine that pretty much carries over fromthe New Beetle. Optional is VW’s popular 140-horsepow-er 2.0-litre turbo-diesel (TDI) that offers a very real alter-native to most gas-electric hybrids when overall fueleconomy and initial purchase cost are factored in.

The top-rung and most performance-focused Beetlefeatures a 200-horsepower 2.0-litre turbocharged four-cylinder that also returns slightly better fuel economythan the base five-cylinder.

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‘Adult contemporary’The 2012 Beetle features more people-friendlydimensions.

The distance between the front and rearwheels has been increased to create somemuch-needed rear-seat legroom as well as amore generous stowage area with either the50:50 split rear seat occupied or folded flat.

On the inside, the term “adultcontemporary” comes to mind.

A sense of purpose and sportiness prevailswith easy-to-read dials and massive air vents ateither end of the dashboard.

Different lookGone is the New Beetle’s oval, al-most cartoonish appearance, re-placed by a longer hood andflatter roofline that ends in arounded hatchway flanked by aset of prominent taillights.

Overall it’s a look that Dr. Fer-dinand Porsche, who sculpted theoriginal Beetle nearly three-quar-ters of a century ago, would likelyapprove of.

The new 2012 Beetle repre-sents another step back tothe future for an iconicbrand that is simply toogood to let slip away.

The world held its collec-tive baited breath when

Volkswagen launched theNew Beetle back in the late1990s, before surging for-ward to scoop up as manyof the reconstituted Bugs asthe German automakercould produce.

Not many years later, theNew Beetle had become notso new and its popularitywaned.

Although the convertibleversion maintained a re-spectable degree of popu-larity, the hatchback modelseemed to drift uncheckedyear after model year.

Following a one-year ab-sence, the Beetle is backthis fall with sharperstyling, a roomier and up-to-date interior and more

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That the car is returningat all is a gutsy move. Afterall, nobody begrudgedChrysler for cashiering thePT Cruiser econo-hot rodfollowing its lengthy runand well after its “best-be-

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CANADIAN IMPRESSES AT TOYOTA

plan so much he immedi-ately added the title of sen-ior managing officer ofToyota Motor Corporationto Tanguay’s already consid-erable portfolio. There areonly three such positionsworldwide, and they arejust one rung below that ofthe board of directors.

Currently his two othertitles are: Senior Vice Presi-dent, Toyota Motor NorthAmerica; and Chairman,Toyota Motor Manufactur-ing Canada.

The plan is far from hisonly accomplishment. He continues to championmore production and research facilities on thiscontinent. He oversaw the growth of Toyota’s

Canadian production in Cambridge, Ont., and itsevolution into a perennialwinner of internationalquality awards. This made it easy for Toyota to sendLexus RX 350 productionthere in 2003 — still the only Lexus plant outside ofJapan. And when Toyotawas looking to open

a North American plant to build its RAV4, Tanguaycame up with a novel proposal — build the RAV4plant in nearby Woodstock,as a satellite facility of theCambridge plant.

Another recent accom-plishment: The “house thatRay built” in Woodstockjust received confirmationthis month, that it will bethe first North AmericanToyota facility to build anelectric vehicle. In fact, theRAV EV will be built on thesame line as the gasoline-powered RAV4.

Tanguay has FrenchCanadian roots. Silver-haired, tall, and dignified,he reminds one of anothercharismatic French Canadi-an leader — Jean Beliveau,the legendary and gracefulcaptain of the MontrealCanadians.

I don’t know if Tanguayever played hockey. But seeing that he was born andraised in Mattice, a remotetown in northern Ontario,I’m betting he did. And I’m betting that under-neath the controlled per-sona is someone just likeBeliveau, someone with alot of drive, passion, andcompetitive fight.

Sergio Marchionne isthe high-flying andmuch-quotedpresident of Fiat andChrysler. But he isn’tthe only Canadianmaking an impact onthe global automotivestage.

After a promo-tion earlierthis year, RayTanguaybecame thehighest-rank-

ing non-Japaneseexecutive at Toyota MotorCorporation.

During Toyota’s recalldifficulties, he was asked byToyota’s numero uno exec-utive, president Akio Toyo-da, to help draft a GlobalVision Business Plan, whichwould ultimately guide theToyota mothership back oncourse.

Tanguay believed he re-ceived the invite to craft aplan because he made “thebiggest noise” about Toyotalosing its way. The gist ofhis vision was that Toyota’simmense workforce, scat-tered all over the globe,needed a greater sense ofmission and empower-ment. To that end, he sug-gested more localdecision-making and directaccess to the top decision-makers in Japan.

Toyoda liked Tanguay’s

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and develop our people,” commented Ray Tanguay (inset), after his Toyota plant in

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From the road to the roof: Recycling tires

In the past, used tires wereprimarily a waste productin Ontario, thrown intolandfills or shipped to areasthat had recycling facilities.Now they’re a hot commod-ity under a program thatcollects and sends them tobe turned into new prod-ucts.

“Last year we recycledsomewhere in the realm of11 million tires,” says An-drew Horsman, executivedirector at Ontario TireStewardship (OTS), the in-dustry-run association thatadministers the program.

“We have seven compa-nies who are using (recy-cled tire) rubber in themanufacture of finishedproducts, and by the end ofthis year we will have 10.”

Recycling starts with sep-arating the three maincomponents of the tire: itsrubber, steel, and nylon orpolyester fibre.

It’s mostly done throughambient grinding, wherethe tire is shredded at ambi-ent temperature by hugemetal cutters. A smallerpercentage is done with ahigh-tech method calledcryogenic grinding. The tireis cut into fist-sized piecesthat are then frozen withliquid nitrogen and shat-tered with a hammer mill.

The steel in the tire is re-cycled by steel mills, while

“fibre is the problem child,”Horsman says. Most of it iscurrently burned to run ce-ment kilns and some isused for animal bedding,but Horsman says researchis ongoing to find a use forit in molded projects.

Most of the tire is rubberand there are many mar-

kets for it. Loose shreds areused for such things aslandscape mulch and sportsfields, especially rubberthat’s been ground cryo-genically, since its uniqueshape resists compactionand provides better shockabsorption.

Chopped rubber, called

crumb, can be turned into awide range of products in-cluding car parts, landscap-ing and floor tiles, doormats, roof shingles, live-stock mats and carpet orfloor underlay.

“All of these products arenot only ‘green’ becausethey’re recycled, but they

perform better than theproducts they’re replacing,”Horsman says.

“There’s a roof shingle ofcomposite material madefrom recycled rubber andit’s on par with a steel roof.It’s a number of times moreexpensive than an asphaltshingle, but the installedwarranty is 50 years andthe product is recyclable atthe end of its life. You’ll re-place an asphalt roof threeto four times before youneed to replace one ofthese.”

Horsman says that roadsbuilt with rubberized as-phalt have been successful-ly proven in Saskatchewanand several U.S. states, andthat OTS is working tobring the product to On-tario.

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Aries March 21-April 20 Youknow what you are capable of(much more than most people) soget out there and make it happen.

Taurus April 21-May 21Venus, planet of love, is strong inthe most passionate area of yourchart, so make the most of it.

Gemini May 22-June 21 Itwill pay you to come on a little lessstrong today, especially at work.

Cancer June 22-July 22 Enjoyyourself today. Meet up with yourfavourite friends and do the kindof things that make you laugh.

Leo July 23-Aug.23 You knowwhat needs to be done to resolve arelationship issue and get back ongood terms with loved ones.

Virgo Aug. 24- Sept. 22 Listento advice from those you trust be-fore you act. You have lots to learn.

Libra Sept. 23-Oct. 23 Yourmerest whim will be catered for bythose who adore you today.

Scorpio Oct. 24-Nov. 22Focus on things that bring youpleasure today and pretend thatbad things do not exist. It’s up toyou whether you’re happy or sad.

Sagittarius Nov. 23-Dec.21 You may prefer to deal in factsbut today you will have to take somany things on trust.

Capricorn Dec. 22-Jan. 20Something will grab hold of yourimagination and refuse to let go.

Aquarius Jan. 21-Feb. 18Not everyone in this world is moti-vated by selfishness. Who can youhelp be a better person today?

Pisces Feb. 19-March 20.You’re special, and in some waytoday, you will prove it. Make theworld better. SALLY BROMPTON

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