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The Jets’ Evander Kane sends the Minnesota Wild’s Nick Schultz into the Wild bench during the

first period at the MTS Centre last night. For more coverage of the Jets 2-1 win, see page 12.

Separating swimming lessonsfrom all other types of recreationalactivities seems to have done thetrick.

Ken Carpenter, recreation co-ordinator for the City of Winnipeg,said there was a slight decrease inwait times for those calling 311 tosign up for swimming lessonsthrough the Leisure Guide.

“We did take down the ‘systembusy’ notifications (on the web-site) earlier than before,” said Car-penter.

The city decided to stagger reg-istrations for classes and recre-ational activities after numerouscomplaints earlier this year aboutlong wait times on 311, online andin person, to register for the fallsession.

Carpenter said wait times wentdown the most in person, thanksto a new registration centre set upin the Louis Riel library that fea-tured six desks to process in-per-

son registrations.“We seem to have hit upon

something here,” he said.Charleswood father of two Ron

Roland said he was able to registeronline without much difficulty. “Ithink I was in line for about 30minutes. Last time, it was threehours, so it was a little less of anightmare.”

However, there were still glitch-es. St. James resident Stacy Part-ington said she was cut off from311 twice. “I’m on hold, and thenit suddenly cuts off. Then I’m onhold again, and it cuts off again.At first I thought it might be myphone, but it’s never done thatbefore.”

Partington said on the thirdtime she managed to sign herdaughter up for swimming les-sons. “I mean, I’m glad we got inbut that was a bit of a waste oftime. We were on the phone forabout an hour.”

Registration for all other class-es and recreational activitiesbegins today at Winnipeg.ca or bycalling 311.

Swimmingahead of theregistrationcurrent

Leisure Guide class registrationsstaggered to keep city’s online 311services from being overwhelmed

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Winnipeg’s city councilpassed the 2012 capitalbudget in a special meet-ing yesterday by a vote of10-6.

Council increased in-frastructure spending by$393 million over thenext several years, includ-ing a $23-million increasenext year to $154 millionin capital spending.

Council will have itsregular meeting today,where few major deci-

sions will be made, butthere are some interest-ing tidbits.

Coun. Ross Eadie willhave one more chance toconvince council to blocka proposed four-plexhousing development onhis street. He will likelyfail.

Community-club uni-versal funding is reviewedevery five years. City ofWinnipeg administratorsare recommending an 8.1per cent increase to theuniversal-funding formu-la for community clubs,the same rate as the rate

of inflation over the pastfive years.

The street Mostyn Placewill be changed to Gran-ite Way to commemoratethe Granite CurlingClub’s 100th anniversary.

City council will beable to use the Canadian-based Green Globe envi-ronmental certification,rather than just LEED cer-tification, to proclaim abuilding “environmental-ly friendly.”

Winnipeg Police Servic-es will be the proud own-ers of two moreautomated licence-plate

readers, paid for by MPI— to the tune of $60,000.

Several committeeswill see citizens appoint-ed to their board, includ-ing former councillorGord Steeves, who has ap-plied to be on the Win-nipeg Convention Centreboard.

No one from theprovince has stepped upto be on the board for thehistorical buildings com-mittee or the housing re-habilitation committee,even though provincialrepresentation is avail-able and desired.

Council increases infrastructure spending by $393 million Some decisions left until today A few committee memberships open to public

Capital budget passesChild-deathprobes takingtoo long:OmbudsmanManitoba’s ombudsmansays it’s taking too long toinvestigate the deaths ofchildren in care.

Irene Hamilton saysthere were 106 cases thathadn’t been looked atwhen the children’s advo-cate took over reviews in2008. That number hadgrown to 186 by lastMarch.

Hamilton says some in-vestigations aren’t conclud-ed until years after a childdies — making any recom-mendations irrelevant.THE CANADIAN PRESS

‘Imprudent’drivingleads toarrestsA reminder to crooks: driv-ing like an idiot is a stupidway to get caught.

Winnipeg police saidthey stopped a speedingcar on Portage Avenue onMonday at about 12:30p.m. near Lyle Street.

Inside the vehicle werethree people from theToronto area, said police,along with 38 counterfeitdebit cards, electronics as-sociated with credit cardfraud, credit card giftcards and $10,200 cash.

Winnipeg allege thethree in the car were intown to use the fake cardsat local merchants.

They have been chargedwith numerous fraud-related offences, and theyhave been detained.

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Goldeyesgive backto Harvest

The Goldeyes packed175 pounds of food intwo hours for 35families. The Goldeyesalso donated $1,000from their Field ofDreams Foundation tothe charity.

Home Run. Effort

Dan Chase, director of sales and marketing for the Winnipeg Goldeyes, and

mascot Goldie fill an emergency bag with food at Winnipeg Harvest yesterday morning.

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A Montreal family accusedof killing three childrenconcocted a story that couldhelp absolve them of guiltand told a surviving child togo along with it — but heslipped up, prosecutors al-leged in court yesterday.

Mohammad Shafia, 58,

his wife Tooba Yahya, 42,and their son Hamed, 20,have told police that thenight of the deaths, theireldest daughter came intotheir motel room to borrowthe car keys.

The Crown alleges thewomen were killed before

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Another brother was un-der cross-examination yes-terday, and Crown attorneyGerard Laarhuis hammeredhim about his statement topolice that Zainab came tothe motel room that night

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Hundreds flee as grenades lobbed into market, bullets fired

Attacker found dead at scene

Gunman kills Belgian shoppers

Police officers guard the street, following a grenade attack in the city centre of Liege, Belgium, yesterday.

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Brother made up story: Crown

Summoned for questioningby Belgian police, a manwith a history of weaponsand drug offences lefthome armed with handgrenades, a revolver and anassault rifle. Stopping at acentral square filled withholiday shoppers, helobbed three grenades intothe crowd, then openedfire.

Four people were killed,including an 18-month-oldtoddler, and 122 werewounded in the assault yes-terday that brought tragedyto the pre-Christmas seasonof students revelling in ex-am results and preschool-ers enchanted by brightlylit trees and holiday stalls.

Authorities said theshooter also died.

The midday attack in theeastern Belgian city of Liegesent hundreds of panickedshoppers stampeding downthe cobbled streets of theold city, fleeing explosionsand bullets.

Belgian authorities iden-tified the shooter as Nor-

dine Amrani, a 33-year-oldLiege resident who haddone jail time for offencesinvolving guns and drugs,and had been called in forquestioning in a sexualabuse case.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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In Italy yesterday, a manopened fire in an outdoormarket in Florence, killingtwo vendors from Senegaland wounding three otherimmigrants before killinghimself. Investigators iden-tified the attacker as 50-year-old Gianluca Casseri,and RAI state TV said hewas known to police forhaving participated inracist marches by anextreme right-wing group.In Norway last July, far-right extremist AndersBehring Breivik went on abomb and shooting spreethat killed 77 peoplearound Oslo.

Inmate takesprison workerhostageA corrections employeetaken hostage by an in-mate was freed after anine-hour ordeal Tuesdayat a federal prison in Que-bec's Eastern Townships.

The inmate barricadedhimself in a room in the

Cowansville penitentiary,locking himself there withthe worker who was in thearea with him.

Correctional Service ofCanada said nobody wasinjured in the incident atthe medium-securityprison, which holds 410male inmates.

Authorities wouldn’tconfirm the victim was fe-male.” THE CANADIAN PRESS

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RETIREMENT

Pre-retireesplan but don’t do: SurveyNearly three-quarters ofCanadian pre-retireesplan to spend their retire-ment years travelling,but a new poll indicatesonly 58 per cent ofretirees actually do.

While 30 per cent ofpre-retirees think they’llbecome snowbirds —spending winters in thesouthern U.S., for exam-ple — the survey

conducted by RBC saysonly 14 per cent actuallytake on that lifestyle.

The poll found thenumber of nearly retiredCanadians expecting tobecome snowbirds roseto 30 per cent in 2011from 28 per cent on 2010.However, the numberwho flocked southdropped to 14 per centthis year from 17 percent in 2010. It alsofound a majority plannedto do volunteer work butonly 41 per cent ofwomen and 35 per centof men actually do volun-teer. THE CANADIAN PRESS

McDonald’s Corp. spent$460,000 lobbying the U.S.government in the thirdquarter, on issues includingimmigration, menu la-belling and debit card fees.

That amount represent-ed a 48 per cent increasefrom the same period ayear ago, when it spent$310,000 on federal lobby-ing costs, according to dis-closure reports. It was alsoup from the second quarter,

when it spent $370,000.The world’s biggest burg-

er chain lobbied Congress,the White House, the De-partment of Labor and theDepartment of Health andHuman Services on thesweeping health-carechanges that were signedinto law in March 2010.

The new health-carerules will require morecompanies to offer health-care insurance to employ-

ees. McDonald’s alsohomed in on part of the lawthat would require morerestaurants to add calorieinformation to menus. It al-so said it lobbied on pro-posed new federalguidelines that would curbmarketing junk food tochildren and a new law thatgives the Food and Drug Ad-ministration more authori-ty over food suppliers.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

McDonald’s racks up bill on lobbying

A McDonald’s employee

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Canadians keep taking onmore debt even as they getpoorer, a new StatisticsCanada report shows

Average household debthit a new record high of al-most 153 per cent to dispos-able income in the thirdquarter, a sizable jumpfrom 150.7 per cent the pre-vious quarter, the agencyreported yesterday.

As well, household networth declined by 2.1 percent to $180,100 from$184,700, the sharpest dropin almost three years.

The report came afterBank of Canada governorMark Carney again warnedabout the dangers of house-hold debt poses to the econ-omy going forward.

But analysts cautionedagainst taking too dark aview over household fi-nances. “It’s not black andwhite,” said Benjamin Tal, aCIBC World Markets econo-

mist. Most debt accumula-tion is from mortgages, andunlike the U.S. before thesub-prime fiasco, the seg-ment of home buyers con-sidered “marginal” inCanada is very small.THE CANADIAN PRESS

Canadian household debt risesabout twice rate of income: StatsCan

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Retail sales keep risingAmericans spent more on autos, furniture andclothing last month as retail sales rose for the sixthstraight month.

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A shopper takes a rest with purchases at Northpark

Mall in Ridgeland, Miss., on Nov. 25.

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AREN’T YOUPEOPLE SUPPOSEDTO BE STRAPPEDFOR CASH?

Here’s a Christmas question.If 40 per cent of Canadians

plan to do some or all of theirholiday shopping online, up11 per cent over last year, whyam I stalled in this two-block

lineup waiting to turn into the mall?You’d expect the malls to be decked

with 40 per cent fewer shoppers. Not onlythat, there’s a recession on, people. Aren’tyou supposed to be at home shivering inthe dark instead of standing in front of meat the checkout, your arms full of holiday

goodies, while your annoying children cling to you,wheedling for more?

Something doesn’t add up here.Think about it. Walmart is open 24-7. You could shop at

3 a.m. and avoid me and the rush altogether. Of course,for all I know, there could be lineups at 3 a.m. too. I’m notcurious enough to find out.

Then there’s Amazon,eBay, Indigo, Best Buy, etc.,where you can buy all yourpresents on your phone andangels in brown uniformswill deliver them overnight.

And you can pick up giftcards for anything fromiTunes to African safaris atthe gas station or the drugstore.

It’s simply not necessaryto go out at peak hours,which are defined as thosetimes when I like to do myown Christmas shopping:between 2 and 4 p.m. onweekends, prior to or imme-diately after my afternoonnap.

Somehow the message is-n’t getting through. Thisyear, I may have to do my

Christmas shopping on Dec. 28, which is far enough awayfrom Boxing Day, which is just another excuse for peopleto get in my way.

I’m sure friends and loved ones won’t mind. There’susually a big letdown after all the presents areunwrapped, and there’s not much to look forward to oth-er than four to six more months of winter. Gettingthoughtful gifts on December 28 will be a surprise treat.

Look, it’s not all bad. When I got to the mall near myplace this past weekend, it was a zoo, as expected, butsome marketing genius decided to offer valet parking:eight bucks. Drive up, hand the family SUV over to a pro-fessional, and walk directly into the mall. Best eight bucksI ever spent.

And my wife had just enough Christmas spirit left tobake the traditional family dark Christmas cakes. I helpedby waiting until she had them all wrapped and stored, andonly then snuck into the kitchen and plundered at will.

There are some things you just can’t do online.

JUST SAYIN’ ...PAUL SULLIVANMETRO

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“It’s simply notnecessary to go

out at peakhours, which aredefined as thosetimes when I like

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In particle they trust

Hints of Godparticle foundGENEVA. Science collideswith faith in the God parti-cle. After two experimentsusing the Large HadronCollider, the world’sbiggest atom smasher,scientists at CERN physicscenter say they haveglimpses of the Higgs bo-son subatomic particle,the last missing link in un-derstanding the universe.

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How they findnew particlesSCIENCE. Scientists at CERNhave been firing particlesin opposite directionsaround a 27-kilometre-long underground tunnel,known as the LargeHadron Collider. Whenparticles reach near thespeed of light, they crashinto each other. The resul-ting debris is then exami-ned for new particles.

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“It would beextremely kind ofthe Higgs boson tobe here. It’s tooearly (to say forsure).”FABIOLA GIANOTTI,SCIENTIST AT LHC

HOMEMADEGIFTS, ALLTHE WAY

Higgs boson

Last undiscovered particle.

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This helps particles formatoms, which shapeseverything in universe.Famous nicknames.

The brick that built theuniverse, Angel ofcreation.

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Young Adult

Comedian, author and actor Patton Oswalt

‘GOOD TIMES CAN KEEPHAPPENING, JUST NOT

THE SAME ONES’

“How f—king amazing wasshe in this movie?” PattonOswalt asks when one ofCharlize Theron’s scenes inYoung Adult is mentioned.Playing the sidekick to awoman on a mission toseduce her married highschool boyfriend, Oswaltwent to great lengths to gethis character right.

You used an acting coach forthe first time with this role.Why did you think this char-acter merited that kind ofpreparation?Because the script was sogood but there was somuch nuance and so

much of a delicatetightrope back and forthbetween despair andhumour. The humour nev-er came out of “let’s sticka joke here.” The humourcame out of real humanbehaviour. I had this mixof exhilaration for beingoffered the script and thenterror. I didn’t want to dowrong by it because it wasso well-written.

The film has to do with senti-mentality and trying tobring the past into the pres-ent. Are you ever tempted todo that?It’s very dangerous. I’m

just as guilty of it asanyone else. I think FrankZappa said, “some daywe’re all going to die ofnostalgia.” Nostalgia is al-so an anagram for lostagain. You have to keepmoving forward because abig part of life is loss... It’salmost like if you want thesame good times to keephappening, that’s what’sdangerous. Good timescan keep happening, justnot the same ones and ifyou expect to be the sameperson having the samegood time, then that’s alsoreally dangerous.

HEIDI PATALANO

It would probably be nicefor Charlize Theron to getan Oscar for her perform-ance in Jason Reitman’s lat-est film, Young Adult.

Most critics seem tothink she deserves one. ButTheron herself notes: “Ican’t even think about any-thing like that … And plus Ihave an Oscar,” she says,referencing her win for2003’s Monster. She catchesherself with a laugh. “Thatwas such an asshole thingto say.”

Maybe the 36-year-old isjust channeling her innerjerk because that’s the na-ture of her character in thefilm, Mavis Gary, a di-vorced, young adult authorand all-around mess. Garyreturns to her hometown totrack down her high schoolboyfriend, now marriedwith a new baby, in thehopes of rekindling theirromance. While promotingthe film, which was pennedby Oscar-winning screen-writer Diablo Cody, Theronrevealed some of her ownMavis-like behaviours.

So much of the press for thisfilm discusses what an unsym-pathetic character Mavis is.How do you see her? I thought that the thingsshe did were pretty despica-ble but then again, not tothe point where I was dis-gusted by her. I never had ahard time not liking her.

I would love to go andhave a beer with her. Iwould never let her hangout with my boyfriend. …

What I liked when I readDiablo’s script was the ideaof a woman who is dealingwith very common mid tolate 30s issues that womencan really relate to but be-cause of how she went

through life, is dealing withthem the way a 16-year-oldwould deal with them.

She says things like,“don’t you know love con-quers all?” I mean, it’s likethe typical 16-year-oldwould say that and here sheis 37, trying to get her lifetogether and she just does-n’t have the tools to do it.

With this and Bridesmaidswe’re seeing more of womenbehaving badly. Do you con-sider this a step forward?I talked a lot about thiswhen I did Monster. I thinkpeople get kind of freakedout when they see realwomen, conflicted. I thinkwomen are almost waymore conflicted than men

and I think we come from asociety where we’re verycomfortable with theMadonna/Whore complex.

We’re either really goodhookers or really goodmothers. But we’re not badhookers and we’re not badmothers and we’re nothingin between.

I grew up on cinemawhere guys got to do that— Gene Hackman andDustin Hoffman andDeNiro got to play all thosecharacters that I saw a littlebit of myself in — thosekinds of struggles and thelurking dark things.

I think women are get-ting a chance to play thosekind of honest charactersand also, people keep say-ing, “it’s so brave!” It reallyisn’t. It’s just refreshing.

HEIDIPATALANOSCENE@METRONEWS.CA

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Charlie Sheen is return-ing to CTV with hisnew sitcom AngerManagement. Sheenmade theannouncement Mon-day night with an on-air message that airedafter his old show Twoand a Half Men. Sheenwas famously firedfrom the show after hisvolatile personal lifeand ridicule of theshow’s producerexploded in thetabloids. His newsitcom is loosely basedon the 2003 film of thesame name. Sheenplays an angermanagement therapistwhose methods wreakhavoc on the lives ofhis patients. “You seemlike the nicest peoplein the world,” Sheensaid in the short broad-cast. “But I know thetruth. You’re holding ina lot of anger. Whyelse would you drinkso much beer, put onshoes with sharpblades, and smackeach other aroundwith wooden sticks?”THE CANADIAN PRESS

Box office

Bosnian Serb war victim says Angelina Jolie’s film should bebanned, says it vilifies Serbs.

Charlize Theron: Closet nerdWhile talking about her latest film, Young Adult, Theron reveals excruciating details of her awkward youth and says that she doesn’t need another Oscar

Glasses girl

Theron talks about her

high school experience:

“I wasn’t in the popularcrowd. I went to an artsschool. I was obsessed withballet. I wore really, reallynerdy glasses. I was as blindas could be and boys don’treally like big nerdy glasses. I had a massive crush onthis guy that this interview-er who just did a story onme for Vogue actuallyfound. This guy did notknow I existed in schooland he was all “yeah, tellher the crush was mutual.”F— that. It was so not mu-tual. And then it was like, “Iremember she wore thoseglasses.”

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Charlize Theron plays Mavis Gary in Young Adult.

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“I don’t think Kate be-haved well and it is stillvery raw for me,”Dowler tells the DailyMail.

The pair dated afterWinslet’s divorce fromdirector Sam Mendes,though she’s sincemoved on to dating NedRocknroll, Richard Bran-son’s nephew.

“I was in love withher and you can’t switchthat off overnight. I’mnot sure Kate treated mewell,” admits Dowler.

“She met my parentsand family. I thought wewere inseparable. I cer-tainly haven’t foundanyone else since.”

METRO

Ryan Reynoldsgetting LivelyBLAKE LIGHTING HISLANTERN Blake Livelyand Ryan Reynoldswere reportedly“very cuddly” duringa midmorning dou-ble date in NYCrecently with Lively’solder sister andbrother-in-law, ac-cording to UsWeekly.

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even seen leaning on eachother in the booth,” asource says.

The brunch wasn’twithout incident, though,as Lively “hit her head ona lamp as (she sat down in

the booth) andput a napkin

jokingly onher head.”

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Bullock suffers fromfirst world problems

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To spoil kids or not? Actress struggles with hard questions at ChristmasSandra Bullock is torn overwhat sort of Christmas togive her 2-year-old son,Louis.

“The less you give, theless they’ll expect. Andthat way, if I give himnothing, he won’t remem-ber and he won’t expect itnext year and it’s cheap-er,” Bullock tells AccessHollywood of the morefrugal option. On the otherhand, “I want the photoops to be really great be-cause he’s not going to re-member it, but he’llremember it by the photosand when he’s 16 and says,‘I hate you — you’re a hor-rible mother,’” she jokes.“I’ll go, ‘Do you see thisChristmas? Do you seethat I got you that life-sizelion? Shut up! Get in yourroom and do your home-work. I was a good motherthen.’” METRO

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New York City has the highest concentration of Jews outside of Israel Nosh on kosherfood, watch the lighting of a massive menorah and visit some historic sites Mazel Tov!

Channeling New York

ChutzpahEllis Island

An obvious place to start is Ellis Island, wherethe ancestors of so many American Jews firstset foot on U.S. soil. Boats run from BatteryPark — schedules at statuecruises.com — tothe National Park site in New York Harbor.The Ellis Island museum offers a wealth of ar-tifacts connected to Jewish immigrants, in-cluding a photo of a kosher kitchen thatopened on the island in 1911 and an eye chartwith a line of Hebrew letters.

MARTY LEDERHANDLER/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO

Museum of Jewish Heritage

The Museum of JewishHeritage is in BatteryPark City. Through sum-mer 2012, the museumis hosting a fascinatingexhibit about EmmaLazarus. Lazarus’ sonnetThe New Colossus withits famous line “Giveme your tired, yourpoor, your huddledmasses,” is engraved ona tablet in the Statue ofLiberty’s pedestal, and La-dy Liberty can be seenfrom the museum win-dows. Lazarus was bornin New York to an oldSephardic Jewish family;a letter about religious

freedom from her great-great uncle to GeorgeWashington is part of theshow. The Museum ofJewish Heritage was cre-ated as a memorial tothose who perished inthe Holocaust.

THEW JEWISH MUSEUM/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Ellis Island

Hanukkah lamp from the

1920s at the museum.

Kutsher’sKutsher’s Tribeca, whichopened in November at 186Franklin St., is the brain-child of Zach Kutsher,whose grandparents ranKutsher’s Country Club, apopular Catskills resort inits mid-20th century hey-day. The menu reinventsand updates favourite Jew-ish comfort foods, offeringsavoury brisket meatballs,

chopped liver made fromduck, and yummy matzoball soup with dill. You caneven order caviar with yourlatkes — though the roe isnot from sturgeon, whichisn’t kosher. On Dec. 25,Kutsher’s will offer a spe-cial Chinese-themed menuin honour of the AmericanJewish tradition of goingout for Chinese food onChristmas Day.

BETH HARPAZ/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Kutsher’s

Light the menorahDuring Hanukkah, theChabad-Lubavitch Jew-ish outreach organiza-tion sponsors thelighting of a massivemenorah, about 10 me-tres tall, on Fifth Av-enue and 59th Streetnear Central Park, be-tween Dec. 20-27. Can-dles are lit at 5:30 p.m.,except for the Sabbath,with a 3:30 p.m. light-ing on Dec. 23 and an8:30 p.m. lighting onDec. 24.

LUBAVITCH YOUTH ORGANIZATION/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Menorah on Fifth Avenue and 59th Street

The Lower East Side Tenement Museum

The Lower East Side Tene-ment Museum at 97 Or-chard St., tenement.org, ishoused in a building thatdates to 1863, but it was atime capsule when themuseum acquired it in1996: Its apartments hadbeen sealed off since 1935.Tours now tell the storiesof the people who livedthere. The buildinghoused immigrants fromvarious backgrounds, butsome tours focus on Jew-ish families. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

One of the

apartments at the

museum.

KEIKO NIWA/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Go toSynagogue

Heading north, where Chi-natown runs into the Low-er East Side, you’ll findthe Eldridge Street Syna-gogue, 12 Eldridge St., el-dridgestreet.org. It wasfounded in 1887 as thefirst great house of wor-ship built by Eastern Euro-pean Jews in the U.S. In2007, after a 20-year, $18million restoration, a mu-seum opened on site

about the synagogue andlocal Jewish history.

Other worthwhile stopsinclude the BialystokerSynagogue, organized in1865 and housed in an1826 fieldstone Federalstyle building at 7-11 Wil-lett St.; and the Lower EastSide Jewish Conservancy,which offers walkingtours on New York Jewishhistory and operates astorefront visitor centre at400 Grand St.

KATHY WILLENS/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The Ten Commandments displayed over the

altar at the Eldridge Street Synagogue.

The Jewish Children’s Museum

The Jewish Children’s Mu-seum, in Crown Heights,Brooklyn (792 EasternParkway, Kingston Avenuestop on the No. 3 train), of-fers hands-on interactiveexhibits about holidaysand culture along with aclimbing wall for youngchildren and a minigolfcourse. Kids can crawlthrough a challah breadtunnel and go shopping ina kosher supermarketjcm.museum.

Travel in brief

A “snow village” tobe set up in Montre-al’s Jean DrapeauPark — completewith hotel, restau-rant, bar,conference centreand chapel, allmade out of ice andsnow — will be aNorth Americanfirst, organizers say.The $2.1-millionproject — mostlyfunded by a groupof Quebec entrepre-neurs and $100,000from Tourism Que-bec — is scheduledto open Jan. 6. Thebackers say they en-countered the snowvillage concept inLainiotie, Finland,and decided tobring it to Montrealin a more elaborateversion.The 0.6-hectare sitewill feature replicasof Montreal build-ings, lighted snowtunnels, a maze andslides.THE CANADIAN PRESS

Chabad sponsors publicmenorah lightings in more

than 70 countries forHanukkah

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Cuba, without kidsTake a break from the hustle of family life with a

kid-free holiday It will make you a better parentYou’ve spent sleeplessnights nursing sick kids,early mornings gettingeveryone out the door forwork and school, andweekends juggling activi-ties, chores and homework.

It’s time for a break —without the kids. While thefirst few days might be dif-ficult and you’ll fret aboutyour offspring you left be-hind with grandma andgrandpa, Cuba’s charmswill be hard to resist.

You’ll soon ease yourselfinto endless hours ofbeach, warm, salty oceanwater and no more respon-sibilities than walking tothe buffet for a meal.

Varadero is one of themost visited beach destina-tions in Cuba, with endlessresorts dotting its 21 kilo-metres of beaches, a com-mercial downtown andfriendly staff determined tomake sure tourists enjoythemselves enough to re-turn time and time again.

Tourism is a key driver ofCuba’s economy and Va-radero’s resorts know howto make people feel wel-

come. Some recommendthe more tranquil, secludedbeaches of Cayo Coco, butVaradero also has the ad-vantage of being about atwo-hour drive from Ha-vana, a must-see for anyoneinterested in Cuban cul-ture. With the option of aday trip to Havana, Va-radero offers the perfectcombination of relaxingbeach vacation and culturalexperience, a great balancefor overtired, stressed-outparents looking torecharge. It’s also the kindof initiative parenting ex-

pert Alyson Schafer saysparents need to take fortheir well-being, as well asthat of their children.“Everybody feels guilty, cer-tainly the first time, andprobably more if (the kids)are younger,” said Schafer, apsychotherapist and the au-thor of the book Ain’t Mis-behavin’. “It’s just a matterof giving parents the confi-dence that it’s a healthything to be able to hand ourkids off and trust that ...other people can actuallycare for our kids.”THE CANADIAN PRESS

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The beaches of Varadero can soothe away your worries

of leaving the kids at home while you take an adult break.

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Following abad day atwork andthinking thathe would befired, Philip

Chan elected to resign in-stead. However, in anoth-er tale from theworkplace trenches withan ending you would notexpect, a court found thatChan’s resignation wasactually a termination.

Chan, the general man-ager of a busy Denny’srestaurant in Langley,B.C., had his fair share ofproblems with his super-

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visor, who had repeatedlycriticized his perform-ance.

Although Chan hadbeen well-regarded withinthe company, by May2009 the tone and contentof the communicationfrom his boss led him tobelieve that he wouldsoon be fired. Matterscame to a head whenChan was given thechoice of being dismissedor resigning.

For Chan, “saving face”was paramount, so he re-signed rather than facedismissal.

However, at the urgingof another senior employ-ee, Chan soon returned tohis job. His content withhis boss would not lastlong.

After another hecticday at the restaurant,Chan’s manager came tohim once more and said

that he could choose toresign or else he would befired. Again, faced withthe possibility of explain-ing his termination toprospective employers,Chan opted to resign. Hedrafted a letter confirm-ing his decision and leftwork.

This time, however, al-though Chan’s departurewas permanent, he wasnot about to go quietly.Chan recently sued Den-ny’s, arguing that the ulti-matum he was given wastantamount to a dis-missal.

At a recent trial, thejudge drew a clear brightline between an employeewho voluntarily leavesand one who is told hewill otherwise be fired. DANIEL LUBLIN IS AN EMPLOYMENTLAWYER WITH WHITTEN & LUBLINLLP. TO READ THIS ARTICLE IN ITSENTIRETY VISIT METRONEWS.CA

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Little comes up big in win

Bryan Little scored on thepower play with five min-utes remaining in regula-tion yesterday to lift theWinnipeg Jets to a 2-1 vic-tory over the MinnesotaWild.

The loss halted NHL-leading Minnesota’s win-ning streak at sevengames. It also ended theWild’s road win streak atseven games, the longestin the league so far thisseason.

Zach Bogosian had theother goal for Winnipeg,while Guillaume Laten-dresse replied for Min-nesota.

Ondrej Pavelec made34 saves for the Jets, whohave won eight of theirlast nine game at home.Niklas Backstrom stopped25 shots in defeat.

Dustin Byfuglien andBlake Wheeler assisted onLittle’s goal, which cameat the end of a slick pass-ing play.

Minnesota went on thepower play with 1:06 leftto go in the third whenBogosian was called forboarding and a game mis-conduct but the Wild

couldn’t find a way pastPavelec.

Backstrom made a cou-ple of key saves late in thescoreless first period be-fore Minnesota scored4:39 into the second on atwo-man advantage.

Latendresse took a re-bound off Mikko Koivu’sshot and put the puckover Pavelec, who rolledon his back to try to makethe save.

The assist extendedKoivu’s point streak tofive games.

Dany Heatley, playingin his 700th NHL game, al-so assisted on the goal toextend his point streak toseven games.

The lead lasted lessthan four minutes as theJets started swarmingaround Minnesota’s end.

Bogosian scored hisfirst of the season whenhe stopped a clearing at-tempt, put the puck downand fired a shot from justinside the blue-line thatbeat Backstrom at 8:37.

The Jets had a goal

waved off because of goal-tender interference with2:46 left in the period.

The game was the firstof a six-game homestandfor the Jets, who uppedtheir record to 14-12-4 infront of a crowd of 15,004at MTS Centre.

Minnesota was playingits last contest of a five-game road trip anddropped to 20-8-3. TheWild’s 43 points is twoahead of Philadelphia,which beat Washington 5-1 yesterday.

Winnipeg hosts Wash-ington on Thursday, whileMinnesota is home toChicago on Wednesday.THE CANADIAN PRESS

Winnipeg Jets, from left, Bryan Little, Zach Bogosian and Blake

Wheeler celebrate after Bogosian scored to even the game

at one against the Minnesota Wild last night in Winnipeg.

TREVOR HAGAN/THE CANADIAN PRESS

Bryan Little’s 11th goal of the season came at the end of a Wild penalty in the third period

Philadelphia Flyers starClaude Giroux is out indefi-nitely with a concussion.

Flyers general managerPaul Holmgren said yester-day that Giroux’s symp-toms have become worsesince he suffered a head in-jury against Tampa Bay lastweek.

“He skated a little bit to-day; didn’t feel that good.Just didn’t feel like him-self,” Holmgren said lastnight in Washington beforethe Flyers faced the Capi-

tals. “I don’t know thatthere’s any good news inthis other than after 15minutes or so, once hestopped skating, he did

start to feel a little better.”The immediate treat-

ment will be rest.“We’re just going to take

it easy with Claude,” Holm-gren said. “We’ll probablyjust give him some time off(today) and revisit again (to-morrow). Obviously we’reconcerned. Claude is one ofour better players and obvi-ously is off to a great startthis season. We’re going toerr on the side of caution.”

Giroux took an inadver-tent knee to the head by

teammate Wayne Sim-monds near the end of thesecond period on Saturday.

The Flyers said on Mon-day that Giroux had beenfeeling better. But anotherexamination yesterdayfound Giroux has a concus-sion.

Giroux leads the Flyerswith 16 goals and 23 assists.His 39 points were threeahead of Toronto’s PhilKessel for the NHL leadheading into last night.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Flyers’ Giroux latest star felled by concussion

Claude

Giroux

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39Claude Giroux leadsthe NHL with 39points and has led theFlyers to the top of theEastern Conferencestandings.

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Quoted

“I am deeply honoured to winthis very specialand very historic

award. ... To berecognized with

this award forsomething I love

to do, which isfigure skate,

means so much.”CANADIAN FIGURE SKATER

PATRICK CHAN, AFTERWINNING THE 2011 LOU

MARSH AWARD YESTERDAY.THE 20-YEAR-OLD FROM

TORONTO WON THE WORLDCHAMPIONSHIPS LAST

SPRING IN MOSCOW, SETTINGTHREE WORLD SCORINGRECORDS, AND WON THEGRAND PRIX FINAL LAST

WEEKEND IN QUEBEC CITY TOCAP AN UNDEFEATED SEASON.THE HONOUR — DECIDED BY APANEL OF NATIONAL SPORTSEDITORS, REPORTERS ANDBROADCASTERS — IS GIVEN

ANNUALLY TO CANADA’SOUTSTANDING ATHLETE BY

THE TORONTO STAR.

Streak busted

Minnesota’s loss endedtheir seven-game winningstreak.

The team’s longestwinning streak in franchisehistory was nine games in2007.

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Award Winner

Ford F-150 nabsMotor Trendhonour

The Ford F-150 wasnamed 2012 Truck ofthe Year by MotorTrend this week. Themagazine felt theF-150 best met theaward’s six key crite-ria: engineering ex-cellence,advancement in de-sign, efficiency, safe-ty, value, andperformance of in-tended function.“The bottom line isthat the F-150 simplyexcels at being … atruck. It masteredevery task wesubjected it to,” saidEdward Loh, MotorTrend’s editor-in-chief. METRO

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The 2013 Audi Q5 Hybrid will be available in Canada next summer.

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When they were intro-duced, gasoline-electric hy-brids were small, basiccars. As the technologymatured, so did the vehi-cles, and today, most pre-mium brands includehybrids in their lineup —as Audi will, when the hy-brid version of its Q5 com-pact SUV goes on sale nextsummer.

Although they pay morefor their vehicles initially,premium-vehicle ownersstill don’t want to spend alot at the pumps, and theyappreciate the fuel savingsa hybrid can provide.

That said, while exactpricing is yet to come, theQ5 Hybrid will cost around$55,000, about $10,000more than the non-hybridQ5 upon which it’s based.

There has to be morethan just fuel economy,and in this case, it’s per-

formance.The Q5 Hybrid uses the

turbocharged, direct-injec-tion 2.0-litre four-cylinderfrom the regular Q5, withan eight-speed automatictransmission and the com-pany’s “Quattro” all-wheel-drive.

An electric motor issandwiched between theengine and transmission,fed by a 72-cell lithium-ionbattery pack mounted un-der the cargo floor.

The engine produces211 horsepower and 258

lb-ft of torque, but whenyou mash the throttle, theelectric motor can add abrief boost to 245 horse-power and 354 lb-ft oftorque.

Since electric motorsmake their peak powerright from the start — un-like gasoline engines,which have to rev up —the power surge is imme-diate.

This hybrid is great funto drive.

It’s a “full” hybrid (butyou don’t plug it into the

wall), capable of startingand running solely on itsbattery at 60 km/h for upto three kilometres.

If you’re already cruis-ing, it can switch over toelectricity at speeds ofup to 100 km/h.Come to a stopand the gasolineengine shuts off,although all theelectronics contin-ue to function, in-cluding theelectrically-operated airconditioning.

An animated display inthe dash shows what typeof power is being used.

The switch from gas toelectric happens automati-cally, although if all thedriving conditions are ap-propriate, you can hit abutton to keep it in elec-tric-only mode.

The Q5 is one of myfavourites to drive, andwhen I piloted an earlyproduction version on an

event in Spain, I discov-ered that the Hybrid is justmore of the same. It’s in-telligently sized, it wrapsaround corners almost likea sports car, and it’s light

and agile even thoughthe hybrid system

adds 130 kilograms. The electric

steering is tuned tofeel hydraulic, with

excellent weight andfeedback.

If you don’t mind usinga bit more gas, you can putthe Q5 into “Sport” mode,which makes it feel evensharper on the curves.

The price will be a ma-jor factor, and the Q5 Hy-brid will probably remaina relatively rare model onCanadian roads, but it’smeant to pave the way foryet another innovation:the all-electric Audi E-Tronsports car, which willmake the leap from con-cept to production nextyear.

JIL MCINTOSHDRIVE@METRONEWS.CA

2013 Audi Q5 Engine: Turbocharged2.0-litre four-cylinder withhybrid system.

Power: 211 hp/258 torque(gasoline engine); 245hp/354 torque (maximumhybrid combined).

Fuel consumption: TBA

On sale: Summer 2012

Gazing into the not-so-distant futureAudi prepares to enter the hybrid fray in Canada next year with its Q5 Hybrid As writer Jil McIntosh tells us, it’s definitely fun to drive, especially in ‘Sport’ mode

Estimated

price:

$55,000

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A smart designin a small space

Because the Scion iQ is so tiny, engineers had to get creative

One of the major issueswhen designing a vehicleis space. Cars have a lot ofcomponents and only somuch room in which to fitthem. It was a consider-able challenge for Toyotawith the tiny iQ recentlyintroduced in its Scionbrand.

“We used a collection ofdifferent engineering ap-proaches for differentcomponents, which al-lowed us to make this sizeof vehicle but still have thefunctionality of a larger ve-hicle,” says John-PaulFarag, manager of ad-vanced technology andpowertrain for ToyotaCanada.

“The vehicle must havefuel efficiency, agility andsafety within a small pack-age.”

The first challenge wasdesigning what Toyotasays is the world’s smallestair conditioning system. Itisn’t enough to simplydownsize everything. Ifthere isn’t enough spacebetween the fan blades, orif the blades are too thin,the system won’t getenough air and it won’t

work properly. The company had to

come up with a new manu-facturing technique to pro-duce smaller but morerigid blades.

The blower and a/c unitwere integrated into a sin-gle unit that fits behindthe dash. Getting cold airto the occupants was also

challenging. The engineerscame up with a simplifieddesign that reduced thenumber of curves in theductwork, improving theairflow.

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of what we did with thisunit, you may see some ofthese improvements incor-porated into other vehi-cles.”

The engine is a compactdesign, and a continuouslyvariable transmission(CVT), which uses pulleysinstead of gears, and waschosen not only for its fuelefficiency but because it’ssmaller than a regular au-tomatic transmission.

The fuel tank is widerbut much shallower thanmost tanks to fit under therear seat and trunk with-out affecting interiorspace.

Space-saving tricksmust also take passengersinto account: the frontseats were slimmed downfor more interior space buttheir design still had to becomfortable.

A flat-bottom steeringwheel provides morelegroom for the driver. Thedash uses an asymmetricaldesign that sits the frontpassenger further aheadthan the driver for morerear-seat room, without af-fecting the driver’s visibili-ty.

“We were dealt a chal-lenge with this vehicle forspace, and we dealt with itby new engineering anddesigns,” Farag says.

Fuel efficiency, agility and safety are all a

part of the iQ’s small package.

Did you know?

It takes more fuel to movea car with a full tank ofgas, due to its weight. Thetanks are designed to carryjust enough fuel for aver-age driving use, since alarger tank will reduce fuelefficiency.

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Aries March 21-April 20 Youmay find it hard to get a straightanswer out of certain people overthe next 24 hours.

Taurus April 21-May 21 Some-one’s dishonesty may shock yougreatly, but you really should havenoticed it before. Open your eyes.

Gemini May 22-June 21 Acolleague may be too vocal in hisor her criticism, but there’s an ele-ment of truth in what is said.

Cancer June 22-July 22 If youtake on too much, you will sooneror later reach a point where itstarts to go wrong.

Leo July 23-Aug.23 Don’t letanyone talk you out of doingsomething on which you have yourheart set. You know it’ll work.

Virgo Aug. 24- Sept. 22 Some-one in a position of power may becritical of your work today butdon’t let it get to you. Maybe he orshe has a valid point.

Libra Sept. 23-Oct. 23 This isone of those times that if you letnegative events get to you, yourmood could be darkened for days.

Scorpio Oct. 24-Nov. 22 Yes,much may be falling apart — butmuch more still works beautifully.

Sagittarius Nov. 23-Dec. 21 Push ahead with your planstoday, even though others say youare aiming way too high.

Capricorn Dec. 22-Jan. 20You’re too negative in your out-look. Don’t let it get out of hand.

Aquarius Jan. 21-Feb. 18You should seek assistance frompeople whose knowledge aboutspecific topics is superior to yours.

Pisces Feb. 19-March 20.Someone will deceive you today.Keep your annoyance to yourself.Revenge is a dish best served cold.

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