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Prime Minister Stephen

Harper refused the

resignation of Natural Re-

sources Minister Lisa Raitt

yesterday after a binder

containing confidential nu-

clear documents was left

in a television studio.

The documents were leftin a CTV studio after a visitby Raitt and at least oneother official. CTV said ithad kept the documentsfor six days to see if any-body would try to retrievethem, and no one did.

“This is a serious matter.

Clear procedures were notfollowed in this case.Corrective action hasbeen taken,” Raitttold Parliament in aquestion perioddominated by the is-sue.

“I offered to resignif the prime ministerfelt it necessary. Hedid not accept it. Theperson responsible for han-dling the documents of-fered their resignation, andI did accept it.”

Government officials

would not name the politi-cal attache who hadaccompanied Raittto the television stu-dio.

The oppositionsaid the incidentshowed incompe-tence on the part ofthe minority Conser-vative government,already under fire

for its handling of the eco-nomic crisis.

“The issue here is an is-sue of competence, and notjust competence in relation

to this minister, but com-petence in relation to thewhole government,” saidLiberal Leader Michael Ig-natieff.

A Liberal colleague washeard muttering, duringthe exchange between Ig-natieff and Raitt, that thegovernment was making ascapegoat of the politicalaide.

Ignatieff said Tuesday hewould likely decide nextweek whether to try tobring down the Tory gov-ernment. REUTERS

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TRANSIT OC Transpo busdrivers are finally subjectto the same work-restrules as their colleagues inthe rest of the country.

Yesterday, federal Trans-port Minister John Bairdannounced rules govern-ing work-rest hours willsoon be in place for transitoperations under federaljurisdiction.

For over two decades,public transit services op-erating in Ottawa,Gatineau and Windsor hadbeen exempt from therules.

“These changes willmake it safer for everyoneinvolved, from transit pas-sengers to motorists, andpedestrians,” said Baird.“This will greatly reducethe risk of driver fatigue-related incidents and colli-sions.”

The new regulationswould limit drivers to 14hours of work per daywith at least eight hoursbetween shifts.

The number of hoursthat bus drivers are eligi-ble to work consecutivelyand the length of time be-tween shifts were two ofthe main stumbling blocksin negotiations during thecity’s 53-day strike earlierthis year.

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The letter says researchshows Sun Life, which mar-kets life and health insur-ance in Canada, has morethan $1 billion invested intobacco firms.

In an email response toTorStar, a senior Sun Lifeofficial called the informa-tion cited in the journal“categorically incorrect”and said the company’s“exposure to ‘tobacco’stocks” was less than 0.005per cent of an investmentportfolio worth “well over”$100 billion.

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Ottawa police are investigating an attempted robbery at an Esso gas station on Merivale Road at Viewmount Avenue at 11 p.m. Tuesday.Police said a man entered the gas station and demanded cash claiming that he had a gun, but left empty-handed. METRO OTTAWA

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Karupuchamy’s uncle and

aunt both died during the

final weeks of the civil war

in Sri Lanka.

They were both civilians.The last Karupuchamy

heard about their grandson,a young child, is that he isin a hospital somewhere inSri Lanka, but that was fouror five months ago.

“I heard from people who

are friends with my family.They told me about my fam-ily’s situation,” he said.

The civil war in Sri Lankamay be over, butKarupuchamy and the thou-sands of Tamil supporterswho gathered on Parlia-ment Hill yesterday insistthe human tragedy contin-ues.

“Our people are still inthe iron clutches of the gov-ernment,” said Pon Balara-jan, chairman of the Coali-tion to Stop the War in SriLanka. “There are 300,000

civilians in a big campwhere there is not enoughwater … it’s more like aconcentration camp.”

Balarajan said the camp isa massacre waiting to hap-pen unless countries likeCanada take action to de-mand that the United Na-tions take responsibility forthe Tamils in the camp.

Balarajan said the SriLankan government is notallowing any non-govern-mental organization or theinternational media intothe conflict zones.

He said they are con-cerned that a lot of evidenceof war crimes committedduring the fighting will dis-appear.

The Tamils are demand-ing the Canadian govern-ment take steps to bring SriLankan authorities respon-sible for war crimes to theInternational War CrimesTribunal.

The RCMP is estimatingthat 3,500 people attendedyesterday’s peaceful rally,which was much less thanthey anticipated.

In its 34th year, the Festi-val Franco Ontarien is notonly expanding, it’s return-ing to its ByWard Marketroots.

The festival, which be-gan in the ByWard Market,will expand from its Festi-val Plaza site to feature ac-tivities in the market thisyear, said Melany Gauvin,director of communica-tions for the festival.

While the featured con-certs, children’s activitiesand the ferris wheel willremain at Festival Plaza,free activities, includingperformances by buskersand other street perform-ances, will be located inthe ByWard Market.

“There is such a buzzhere that it’s natural for usto come to the market,”said Gauvin. “It’s got a veryEuropean feel.”

Held from June 11 to 14,this year’s festival has ex-panded from three to fourdays, said Gauvin.

In its third year, the an-nual Grand Parade is ex-pected to draw thousandsof spectators on June 13.

On the main stage, per-formers include Big Nazo,

Not many people do it, butit’s possible to commute towork on a bicycle yearround. You just have to bedressed for it.

“It is a really viable alter-native,” said cityspokesman Michael Fitz-patrick, who biked to workevery day last winter.

Yesterday, in recognitionof Clean Air Day in Ottawa,residents got a glimpse ofwhat the cool urban cyclistscould be wearing this sum-mer at the Vélo Vogue fash-ion show.

Only 1.7 per cent of Ot-tawa residents ride their bi-cycles to work on a goodday, but Capital Ward Coun.Clive Doucet insists thatwith proper investment incycling infrastructure, thatnumber could change to 27per cent.

“It takes public invest-ment in bicycle lanes,bridges and signage,” saidDoucet. “We need to createa city where hopping on abicycle is as easy as hoppingin a car. We need manymore bike lanes.”

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CONTRIBUTIONS CTV newsanchor Max Keeping andformer governor general ofCanada Adrienne Clarksonare heading back to school.

Keeping and Clarkson aretwo of nine people receiv-ing honorary degrees fromCarleton University inrecognition of outstandingcontributions.

Others receiving degreesare: IBM Canada presidentDan Fortin, Rick Hansen,former UN special envoy forHIV/AIDS in Africa StephenLewis, former NDP leader EdBroadbent, Western Unionpresident and CEO ChristinaA. Gold, Hilary Pearson,president of PhilanthropicFoundations Canada andPlanned Parenthood Federa-tion of Canada pastpresident Norman Barwin.

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an international troupe ofmarionettes; Les JAAK bar-bershop quartet; percus-sion troupe Theatre a Tem-po and circus showLaboKracBOOM. Musiciansinclude Lost Fingers,Claude Dubois, the PornFlakes and reggae legendAlpha Blondy.

Between 40,000 and45,000 people are expectedto attend the festival.

Marlene Barre models clothes for the urban cyclist at the Vélo

Vogue fashion show held yesterday at city hall to mark Clean Air

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Deemed by organizers and

paddlers as one of the

“best” dragon boat

festival sites in Canada,

Mooney’s Bay will play

host to more than 70,000

people as the Ottawa

Dragon Boat Race Festival

kicks off later this month.

The first load of dragonboats arrived at Mooney’sBay yesterday, signalling toracers, volunteers and or-ganizers that the festival,held from June 19-21, isabout to begin.

More than 70,000 people,including 5,000 racers row-ing on 190 teams and65,000 spectators are ex-pected to attend, said JohnBrooman, executive direc-tor of the Ottawa DragonBoat Race Festival and theOttawa Dragon Boat Foun-dation.

Mooney’s Bay is the idealsite for the event, said festi-val logistics manager MarkMorrison.

Through speaking withparticipants, Morrison hasheard the site is a great ven-ue. There’s lots of room forspectators, and Mooney’sBay is unique in that there’sa beach where attendeescan spend their time.

“It’s one of the best loca-tions in Canada,” he said.

The Ottawa Dragon BoatRace Festival began in 1993with about 50 participantsand has been growing since,said Brooman.

From participants tosponsors to volunteers —the event requires over 450,volunteer co-ordinator LeahBarton said — the Ottawacommunity has embracedthe event, said Brooman.

The festival — the largestin North America — drawseveryone from highly com-petitive paddlers coming

from as far as the U.S.,Toronto and Montreal, butalso brings out local first-time teams, Brooman said.

The event infuses mil-lions of dollars into theeconomy, but perhaps moreimportantly, the OttawaDragon Boat Foundation —which is separate from thefestival — is expected toraise $300,000 for localcharities this year.

For people who won’t bepaddling, lots of entertain-ment is planned on site.

Volunteers with the Ottawa Dragon Boat Race Festival helped

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Google engineer creates map for fallen soldiers

A Google Earth engineer has included Canadians in his “map of the fallen,” which allowsbrowsers to connect a soldier’s hometown to where they died. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE

Tourist killing connotes ordeal of kidnapped journalist

Remembering Lindhout

Few cut as glamorous a

figure as the freelance

journalist in a conflict

zone, especially when she

is a long-legged beauty.

Laptop computer, digitalcameras and colourfulhead scarves in tow, shecinematically charms herway through police check-points and border cross-ings to report on war andhumanitarian disaster.

The description fitsAmanda Lindhout, Cana-da’s forgotten hostage inAfrica.

The killing yesterday ofBritish tourist Edwin Dyerin the West African coun-try of Mali, by an al-Qaidawing, brings her wrench-ing ordeal to mind.

So does the image last

week of Lindhout beggingfor her life in a five-minutephone interview withAgence France-Presse inParis.

Lindhout was 27 yearsold at her capture. Shegrew up in the Albertatourist town of SylvanLake, just outside Red Deer.

On Aug. 20, 2008 she ar-rived with 37-year-old Aus-

tralian photographer NigelBrennan in Mogadishu, So-malia, one of the world’smost lawless places.

Three days later, on Aug.23, Lindhout and Brennanwere kidnapped by bandits20 kilometres away at Af-goye, a shantytown forpeople displaced by fight-ing.

Their condition appearsto be deteriorating.

In February, word of afailed escape attemptreached Journalists With-out Borders, AmbroisePiere on the Africa desksaid this week from Paris.Reports that Lindhout hassince been beaten, rapedand become pregnant can-not be confirmed, he said.


MILITARY Canadian soldiers,sailors and airmen whohave retired are complain-ing that that the dirtywork of war is losingground to a force obsessedwith image, political cor-rectness and the kind of in-clusiveness one might ex-pect to find in the mostcorporate of corporations.

A sampling of the ques-tionnaires that are com-pleted by all retiring mem-bers of the military were

obtained by the TorontoStar under the Access to In-formation Act.

Retirees were asked whythey decided to leave themilitary and then werepresented with a numberof statements about theCanadian Forces withwhich they could agree ordisagree.

The main reason behinda soldier’s decision to findnew work has been family.


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Prime Minister Stephen Harper speaks at the Institut National d’Optique (INO) in Quebec City,

yesterday. Harper used the time in part to warn against a potential summer election brought on

if the Liberals brought down the government.

News in briefAIR TRAVEL Dubai’s Emiratesairline slammed “ludicrous”Canadian restrictions yesterdaythat limit the largest Arab carri-er to just three weekly flightsto the entire country.

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PROBE The RCMP has norecords to support Brian Mul-roney’s evidence that officersescorted him to at least onemeeting where he receivedcash payments from KarlheinzSchreiber, the Oliphant Inquiryheard yesterday.


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WestJet foresees a tough second quarter

WestJet Airlines Ltd. warned yesterday about a difficult second quarter as ongoing economic weakness put a damper on air travel. The airline’s revenue per available seatmile, a measure to compare cost across carriers, is showing declines in the second quarter, with an expected drop of 16 per cent to 18 per cent year over year. REUTERS

The Ontario government

does not plan to pull down

a school-finder website

that at least one Toronto

educator calls “an

appalling way for families

to shop for schools that

have ‘people like us.’”

Doug Jolliffe, head of theToronto high school teach-ers’ union, said yesterdayhe is discouraged theprovince does not intendto scrap its controversial“school information find-er” website that posts a de-mographic snapshot ofeach public school.

The profile includes thepercentage of studentsfrom low-income families,

the portion whose parentswent to university, the per-centage whose first lan-guage is not English, thepercentage who qualify forspecial education help andthe number who came re-cently from non-Englishspeaking countries.

“If parents are actuallypicking a school on thatbasis, it becomes an exer-cise in self-streaming andyou lose the mix that we

want in public education,”said Jolliffe, president ofthe Toronto district of theOntario Secondary SchoolTeachers’ Federation (OS-STF).

The OSSTF is one of 21groups representing prin-cipals, teachers, schoolboard officials and parentswho called yesterday onthe McGuinty governmentto take down the websiteuntil it consults with edu-

cators about what infor-mation should be includ-ed.

Education Minister Kath-leen Wynne said she issending out invitations“shortly” to the groups to a special roundtable dis-cussion on the sensitivenew website, but she doesnot plan to take down —in part because it is soheavily used.

“We’re getting 600 hits aday on that website — a to-tal of 28,000 hits since itbegan — and although thecomments are mixed, peo-ple are going to it for infor-mation,” Wynne said.


“We’re getting 600 hits a day on that web-

site … and although the comments are

mixed, people are going to it for informa-

tion.” Education Minister Kathleen Wynne

Vancouver Pump it up

Personal trainer and body builder Linda Cusmano outside Spar-

tacus Athletic Club on Commercial Drive in Vancouver

yesterday. Cusmano, who once battled chronic bronchial asth-

ma and anorexia, is gearing up for the B.C. Provincials body

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McGuinty says he won’tbreak ban for HST adsCAMPAIGN The Liberal gov-ernment will have to “care-fully” structure its plannedad campaign to promotethe 13 per cent harmo-nized sales tax, PremierDalton McGuinty says.

In the wake of revela-tions yesterday that a mul-timedia ad blitz on thenew tax is looming, thepremier insisted he wouldnot break his own law ban-ning publicly funded parti-san political advertising.

The harmonized salestax (HST) will blend theeight per cent provincialsales tax and the five percent federal goods andservices tax. As of July 1,2010, Ontarians will pay ablended tax of 13 per cent

on hundreds of items thathad previously been sub-ject to only the GST. Thatmove will boost the priceof items such as gasoline,heating fuel, fast food,newspapers, taxi fares, drycleaning and new homescosting more than$400,000, among otherthings. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE

Taxpayer funds

• The Liberals, who out-lawed partisan ads fundedby taxpayers in 2004 afterprevious PC governmentsspent $400 million on simi-lar campaigns, have to con-vince Auditor General JimMcCarter to allow the ads.

Hillier suggests time limit on welfareMARKHAM Ontario needslimits on how long peoplecan collect welfare to stopfamilies staying on it for“generations,” says Pro-gressive Conservative lead-ership candidate RandyHillier.

“There are people whoare satisfied with thatlifestyle,” the first-termMPP for Lanark-Frontenac-Lennox and Addingtonsaid yesterday as he andthree rivals campaignedfor the June 27 vote at a

convention in Markham.The problem has been

there are not enough “ex-pectations” that people getoff social assistance, whichshould be a temporary aid,Hillier said.

A welfare cut-off point,which is in place in someU.S. states, is not part ofHillier’s platform in therace to replace John Tory,as party leader, and Hilliersaid he has not decidedwhen benefits should becut off. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE

Officer probed over towing kickbacksPORT CREDIT The OPP is in-vestigating whether a sen-ior officer at the force’sPort Credit detachment re-ceived kickbacks from towtruck drivers after mo-torists had their vehiclesimpounded, according totowing companies inter-viewed by police.

Sgt. Dennis Mahoney-Bruer, 49, was arrested andcharged last week with

three counts of breach oftrust and one count of at-tempting to obstruct jus-tice following a criminalinvestigation.

The OPP says Mahoney-Bruer, a 12-year member ofthe force, allegedly usedfalse evidence to laycharges last month againstthree drivers, two of whomhad their cars impounded.


News in briefOIL Suncor Energy Inc.’s acqui-sition of Petro-Canada will cre-ate a company with enoughheft to keep a lid on oilsandscosts and check inflation.Shareholders of both compa-

nies are set to vote today onSuncor’s offer of 1.28 sharesfor each Petro-Canada share.The value of that offer hasclimbed 20 per cent to $22.18billion. REUTERS

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Common pill may give powerful boost

A common diabetes pill may help trick the body into making more powerful immune system cells that could helpmake vaccines and cancer treatments work better, U.S. and Canadian researchers said yesterday. REUTERS

A federal judge has blast-

ed a heavy-handed search

by border enforcement

agents of Mohamed

Harkat’s home less than

three weeks before the

government’s case into

deporting the alleged ter-

ror suspect was to be

heard.

“I just find the exercisewent really far. Dogs? Ex-plosives? Guns? … I justfound the whole thing

blew up. It appears out ofproportion,” Justice SimonNoel told a federal lawyer.

Although Noel reserveddecision on the ultimate le-gality of the May 12 searchby the Canada Border Serv-ices Agency and whatshould now happen with12 boxes of seized docu-ments and tapes, he ventedhis concerns in open court,one day after he questionedCSIS spell out actions in the

same case.The judge incredulously

questioned a border officialwho had just finished de-fending the agency’s ac-tions.

“Weren’t you concerned

about going in with 16 offi-cers and three dogs thatyou were extremely intru-sive and it wasn’t necessaryto be as intrusive as this?”the judge asked the team’ssupervisor, Jasmine

Richard. “It’s a small armycoming in.”

Richard and another wit-ness admitted thesearchers intended to turnover any intelligence or in-formation to analystspreparing a “risk assess-ment” on Harkat for theupcoming effort to deporthim.

Security certificates —deportation orders issuedunder immigration law

against persons deemed tobe national security threats— are not criminal lawmatters, but the judgepointed out the SupremeCourt of Canada ruledthey’re pretty close when itordered greater legal pro-tections for those likeHarkat. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE

INVESTIGATION The hunt forthe gold is on. The missinggold, that is.

The world-renownedRoyal Canadian Mint hascalled investigators to lookinto what could be thetheft of a significant quanti-ty of gold, silver and otherprecious metals.

“We’re conducting a re-view. We’ve asked a thirdparty to assist us with thatand we should have the re-sults within the next fewweeks and by the end ofmonth we’ll be makingthem public,” said mintspokeswoman ChristineAquino.

The mint won’t say howmuch might be missing,but the outside auditors areprobing a discrepancybetween the value of theprecious metals on themint’s books and the actualstockpile on hand at its Ot-tawa headquarters.

Aquino said the discrep-ancy could be the result ofanything from a heist tosloppy record-keeping.

“We review our financialstatements and we decidedto conduct this review,” sheexplained.

She said an unprecedent-ed demand for gold in 2008put pressure on the mint’sinternal control systems,which led to the “unrecon-ciled difference” betweenthe gold on hand and thevalue recorded in themint’s books.

The increase in demandwas due to a 352 per centrise in production of themint’s Gold Maple Leafcoins.

In the Commons, LiberalMP Joe Volpe said themint’s problem, coupledwith the Conservative gov-ernment’s huge fiscal mis-calculations, could under-mine Canada’s reputation.

“Today we learned thatgold and other preciousmetals are unaccounted forat the Canadian mint, andyet the police have notbeen called in toinvestigate,” Volpe said.


Judge slams search of Harkat’s home“I just find the exercise went really far.

Dogs? Explosives? Guns? … I just found the

whole thing blew up.”

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A New Zealand man,spurned by the woman ofhis dreams, has come upwith a novel way of dispos-ing of the diamond engage-ment ring hebought her — atreasure hunt.

Anyone keento pick up thering, valued at$3,268 US, willneed to be inNew Zealand’s capi-tal city, Wellington, Satur-day to join the hunt, theDominion Post newspaperreported.

“I met this girl I thoughtwas pretty cool, bought aring. Turns out she wasn’tas keen,” Anthony Gar-diner, a 29-year-old call-centre worker, told the Do-minion Post.

Clues to the ring’s

whereabouts will start be-ing posted on social net-working site Twitter at 8a.m. New Zealand time Sat-urday.

Having bought the ringin Hong Kong, he could-

n’t return it, anddidn’t want to sellit, so he hit uponthe treasurehunt.Hanging on to it

in the hopes of findinga willing recipient is alsonot an option.

“Obviously, it’s been apretty unlucky ring forme,” Gardiner said, addinghe hoped it would befound by somebody whohas “found a cool chickand who wants to givethem something they nor-mally wouldn’t be able toafford.” REUTERS

Frustration has beenrainbow-colouredsince the CaliforniaSupreme Courtruled on Prop 8, up-

holding the ban on same-sex marriage in the GoldenState.

The announcement,made last Tuesday, meansthe roughly 18,000 coupleswho married in the shortwindow they were legallyable — from mid-June toearly November 2008 —will not be affected. Othersame-sex couples who wantto swap rings from here on

out, however, are SOL.It’s a little disheartening

that in an era of change andrenewed optimism suchprejudice is still legally en-forced, no?

Here in Canada, same-sexmarriage was legalizedprovince-by-province since2003, until it was recog-nized nationwide two yearslater. It is currently legal insix other countries and isexpected to be legal in sixU.S. states by the end of theyear.

California Gov. ArnoldSchwarzenegger, cyborg as-sassin from the future anda longtime Republican whoupheld the court’s decision,conceded that one day “ei-ther the people or courtswill recognize gay mar-riage.” Even former U.S.vice-president Dick Cheney,another killer automaton,voiced his support.

“I think that freedommeans freedom for every-one,” Cheney said at the Na-tional Press Club earlierthis week, echoing state-ments he made in 2004. “Ithink people ought to befree to enter into any kindof union they wish, anykind of arrangement theywish.”

Some opponents say ithinders procreation andtarnishes the sanctity ofmarriage, but people in“traditional” marriagesaren’t required to have kidsand us straight folks havebeen ruining the sanctity ofmarriage for as long as mar-riages have existed.

Some states offer domes-

tic partnerships and civilunions — a major step inthe right direction — butstopping there is akin tothe “separate but equal”doctrine under the JimCrow laws of the late 1800sand early 1900s that hadblacks drinking from sepa-rate water fountains thanwhites.

Slavery was legal in theU.S. just 150 years ago,some women couldn’t votejust 100 years ago and thereality of a black presidentseemed far away just twoyears ago. It is my beliefthat we will one day lookback on the banning ofsame-sex marriage — per-haps the last legally en-forced prejudice in NorthAmerica — with the samehumility and quiet shame.

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The two previous columnsin this series have talkedabout what governmentshouldn’t be doing — bail-ing out corporate failuresand becoming active par-ticipants in the private sec-tor. But what is govern-ment’s proper role in theeconomy?

To take a spin throughEconomics 101, govern-ment is there to define theground rules of commercethrough laws and regula-tions. It regulates econom-ic activity by using fiscalpolicy (taxing and spend-ing) and monetary policy(interest rates and othercredit controls). It also

monitors and regulatesCanadian internationalbusiness interests by mak-ing and enforcing tradeagreements.

Government rightly pro-vides a social safety net inthe form of employmentinsurance, public pensionsand other supplementsbased on age and/or cir-cumstances. In a reces-sion, government isobliged to use its resources— our tax dollars — tohelp out.

It’s best prepared to dothis by running budgetsurpluses in good times,building up a reserve thatcan be used in hard timeswhen it may be necessaryto run a deficit. Mostly,this doesn’t happen be-cause governments tend tomake economic decisionsfor political reasons.

One way the HarperConservatives managed toturn a surplus into arecord $50-billion deficit

in a blink of Jim Flaherty’seye is they cut the GST be-fore the recession to ap-peal to voters, forfeitingrevenues that would behelpful right about now.

It’s perfectly reasonableto spend tax dollars to pro-vide assistance to individu-als (in the form of extend-ed benefits) and compa-nies in general (tax meas-ures) in a recession. Publicworks spending on infra-structure or research anddevelopment that benefitsthe economy in general isalso useful.

It’s also fitting that gov-ernments provide supportto key industries — i.e.aerospace and forest prod-ucts, to name two — so

they can compete interna-tionally on an equal foot-ing with foreign compa-nies that have equivalentsupport from their govern-ments. The critical distinc-tion here is that govern-ment should not be in thebusiness of shielding un-competitive and/or dyingcompanies like GM orChrysler from market real-ities.

Otherwise, governmentis there to be the honestbroker or economic refer-ee — providing clear, fairand consistently appliedbusiness regulation andenforcement, tax policiesand broad-based incen-tives.

In short, its job is to lev-el the playing field soeveryone — companies aswell as individuals — getsa fair shake.

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Gates encourages rich to give away wealth

Microsoft founder Bill Gates said yesterday that billionaires ought to give away most of their wealth to charitable causes, and that they wouldeven find they enjoy it. Gates has given much of his wealth to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, a philanthropic powerhouse. REUTERS

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Trade backlash feared‘Buy Canadian’ reaction may hurt Canada: MPThe Canadian government

is worried that towns and

cities could start introduc-

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policies in response to in-

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yesterday.

A “Buy American” provi-sion in the U.S. economicstimulus package passedby Congress in Februarysays public works projectsshould use iron, steel andother goods made in theUnited States.

Ottawa says Canadiancompanies are being dis-criminated against by U.S.state and municipal gov-ernments on some waterand sewage treatmentprojects funded by the bill.

Day said the Federationof Canadian Municipali-

ties, which is due to holdits annual general meetingfrom tomorrow to June 8,would discuss a proposalto shut out companiesfrom nations that imposetrade restrictions on Cana-dian firms.

“I understand that reac-tion. I’m also very con-cerned about that reac-tion,” Day said in a speech,adding that both countrieswould be hurt by increasedprotectionism.

Canada sends about 75per cent of all its exports tothe United States andcould be economicallycrippled by a serious waveof U.S. protectionism.

“If one country starts tobuild protectionist barriersthat hurt businesses in an-other country, there willbe an impulse to retaliate,and I would like to see thisresolved at the executivelevel in the United States,”Day later told reporters.

Later in the day, PrimeMinister Stephen Harpersaid in Quebec that the“Buy American” policies ofcertain state and local gov-ernments were “reallyproblematic (and) is part ofthe increasing protection-ism ... that we must avoidto ensure a global recov-ery.” REUTERS

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Bombardier Profits shrink

Bombardier Inc.’s Laurent Beaudoin, chairman of the board of

directors, and his son Pierre Beaudoin, president and CEO,

speak at the firm’s annual general meeting in Montreal yester-

day. Bombardier said yesterday it earned $158 million US dur-

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But Toronto and Calgaryremain in the global top 50because Canada has beenrelatively healthy com-pared to other financialcentres, according to a re-port by CB Richard Ellis re-leased yesterday.

Toronto is the 46th mostexpensive place to renttop-quality office space, up

one spot from last year,with average rents of$51.82 US per square foot.Calgary moved up threespots to 39th, with averagecosts per square foot of$54.57.

“It’s not that Calgary andToronto did all that great;it’s that other world mar-kets have taken a bashing,”said John O’Bryan, vice-chairman of CB Richard El-lis. “We took one step backbut the rest of the worldtook five.”

Former No. 1 Londonwas knocked off this yearby Tokyo.


TD traders probedfor market rumoursINVESTIGATION Toronto-Do-minion Bank saidyesterday that it was look-ing into allegations that ahandful of traders improp-erly passed on rumours toclients about a stock,believed to be oilsandscompany OPTI Canada.

While TD declined todisclose any details aboutthe investigation reportedby the Globe and Mail, aspokeswoman said thecompany knew about theincident.

The Globe, citingsources, said an analyst atTD emailed a marketrumour to the firm’s salesand trading desk in NewYork, which then passed itto some institutionalsources.

The practice has comeunder scrutiny as U.S. reg-ulators crack down on gos-sip that causes stock gyra-tions. REUTERS

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Japanese transport ministry officials got tips this week from professional comedians as part of training. “By experiencing comedy routines, we hope they can learn more about how to speak to clients,” said Atsuya Kawada, deputy director of the ministry’s personnel division. REUTERS

British woman gets life in Laotian jailA British woman who became pregnant while awaiting trial in Laos was

sentenced yesterday to life in prison after being found guilty of drug

smuggling. A court gave Samantha Orobator, left, the maximum prison term

after a three-hour hearing held behind closed doors. The state-run Vientiane

Times reported that Orobator impregnated herself to avoid the death penalty

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Search crews flying over

the Atlantic found debris

from a crashed Air France

jet spread over more than

90 kilometres of ocean yes-

terday, reinforcing the pos-

sibility it broke up in the

air.

The first Brazilian navyship was nearing the crasharea, about 1,100 kilometresnortheast of Brazil’s coast, tobegin the difficult task of re-trieving the remains of theAirbus A330 that mysteri-ously fell out of the sky twodays ago on its way from Riode Janeiro to Paris.

Air force pilots searchingthe area have reported nosigns of survivors or even

the bodies of any of the 228people on board. French offi-cials said they may never dis-cover why the plane wentdown as the flight data andvoice recorders may be lostat the bottom of the ocean.

With officials strugglingto explain how a modern air-craft could have crashed instormy weather that is rou-

tine on the transatlanticroute, speculation grew thata bomb could have causedthe worst crash in AirFrance’s 75-year history.

Officials and aviation spe-cialists have said bad weath-er could be behind the disas-ter, but have refused to ruleout other causes, includingterrorism. REUTERS

Bomb threat four days earlier

• Air France said yesterday ithad received an anonymoustelephone warning that abomb was on a flight leavingBuenos Aires, Argentina, onMay 27, four days before the

crash. A spokesman said theplane was checked, no bombwas found and the aircraft leftan hour and a half late. Headded that such alerts wererelatively common.

Air France bomb not ruled outOAS lifts ban on

Cuba membership

CUBA The Organization ofAmerican States lifted itssuspension of Cuba yester-day, opening the door forthe country to return tothe regional group after 47years. The 34-memberbody unanimouslyscrapped a 1962 decisionthat suspended Cuba as Fi-del Castro’s revolutiontook the island towardcommunism. U.S.president Barack Obamahas taken steps toward amore open relationshipwith Cuba. Cuba hasrepeatedly said it has nointerest in returning to theOAS, describing it as an in-strument of U.S. policy inLatin America. REUTERS

U.S. president Barack Oba-ma plans to tell Arabs andIsraelis to stop saying onething in public and anotherin private when he speaksto the Muslim world inCairo today.

In an interview with theThe New York Times published yesterday, Obama

suggested parties to theconflict were engaged in aconstant “Kabuki dance”he hoped to break down byholding up a mirror and of-fering U.S. help as the sidesforge peace.

A key part of his mes-sage, Obama said, wouldbe: “Stop saying one thingbehind closed doors andsaying something else pub-licly.”

Many Israelis recognize aneed to make tough choic-es on Jewish settlements,many Palestinians recog-

nize a need to stop incite-ment against Israel and bemore constructive, andmany Arab states view thethreat of a nuclear Iran asgreater than any threatfrom Israel — but nonewould say these thingspublicly, he said.

In office four months,Obama headed to the Mid-dle East Tuesday hoping tomend ties to the Islamicworld in a speech aidessaid would deal with toughissues such as the deadlockin U.S.-brokered Arab-Is-raeli peacemaking.

“We have a joke aroundthe White House,” the pres-ident said.

“We’re just going to keepon telling the truth until itstops working — andnowhere is truth-tellingmore important than theMiddle East.”

The president said hehoped to persuade theArab street and ultimatelytheir leaders to work withthe United States.

Obama and Israeli PrimeMinister Benjamin Ne-tanyahu are at odds over apush by Obama for Israel tohalt Jewish settlement ex-pansion in the West Bank.About half a million Jewslive in settlements amongnearly three million Pales-tinians in the occupiedWest Bank and Arab EastJerusalem. REUTERS

Paris Archbishop Andre Vingt-Trois, right, French President Nico-

las Sarkozy, middle, and first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy leave the

Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris after a service yesterday for rela-

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• Osama bin Laden threat-ened Americans in a newtape recording aired yester-day, saying U.S. PresidentBarack Obama has inflamedhatred toward the U.S. byordering Pakistan to crackdown on militants in SwatValley. The message wasbroadcast on Al-Jazeera Tel-evision at the same timeObama arrived in Saudi Ara-bia. METRO NEWS SERVICES

Obama prepares to make case to Muslim world“We’re just going to keep on telling

the truth until it stops working –

and nowhere is truth-telling more

important than the Middle East.”

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Not guilty pleas

in NYC bomb plot

TERROR Four men accusedof trying to blow up a pairof New York synagoguesand shoot down militaryplanes pleaded not guiltyyesterday to the charges ina U.S. court. Their appear-ance came a day after a fed-eral grand jury indictmentwas unsealed, formally ac-cusing them of conspiracyto use weapons of mass de-struction and conspiracy toacquire and use anti-aircraft missiles.

James Cromitie, DavidWilliams and OntaWilliams, who are U.S. citi-zens, and Laguerre Payen, aHaitian national, were alsoindicted for conspiring andattempting to kill officersand employees of the Unit-ed States. If convicted, theycould be sentenced to lifein prison. REUTERS

Australian troops

aghast at food

AFGHANISTAN Australia’ssoldiers fighting Talibanmilitants in Afghanistanare up in arms, overDutch food. A specialteam of Australian cookshad been rushed toAfghanistan to produce“Aussie food” after scoresof soldiers complainedabout the Dutch-run messat Tirin Kot military base,in Uruzgan province, par-liament was toldyesterday. “It’s true thatpeople have been quitestrong in their viewsabout the European food,”Australia’s military com-mander Angus Houstonsaid. Australia, the largestnon-NATO contributor inAfghanistan, agreed inApril to boost troop num-bers to around 1,550.

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The United States

demanded yesterday that

China account for those

killed in the Tiananmen

Square protests in rare

public criticism ahead of

the 20th anniversary of

the government

crackdown on the demon-

strations.

One day before the an-niversary, U.S. Secretary ofState Hillary Clinton alsocalled on China to releaseall those still imprisoned inconnection with the pro-democracy protests, to stopharassing those who tookpart in them and to begin adialogue with the victims’families.

The demands, issued in awritten statement fromClinton, reflect views Wash-ington has long held butrepresent a tougher stanceon China’s human rightsrecord than the top U.S.

diplomat had taken in herfirst four months in the job.

In February, Clinton dis-appointed many rightsgroups by saying that hu-man rights issues could not“interfere with” tacklingthe global financial crisis,

climate change and securitychallenges such as NorthKorea’s nuclear programs.

“A China that has madeenormous progress eco-nomically and is emergingto take its rightful place inglobal leadership should ex-

amine openly the darkerevents of its past and pro-vide a public accounting ofthose killed, detained ormissing, both to learn andto heal,” Clinton said in thestatement.

Tanks rolled into Tianan-

men Square before dawn onJune 4, 1989 to crush weeksof student and workerprotests. The ruling Com-munist Party, which hasnever released a death toll,fears any commemorationcould challenge its hold onpower. REUTERS

French police block a demonstration by the press activist group Reporters Without Borders to com-

memorate the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre in Paris yesterday.

Heavy presence

• Chinese security forcesblanketed TiananmenSquare before today’s 20thanniversary of the June 4crackdown on pro-democ-racy demonstrators, and aday after Twitter and otherInternet services in Chinawere blocked. Black policevans lurked at the side ofthe Forbidden City, near thesquare, while police andparamilitary forces pa-trolled through crowds oftourists.

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to hurt Brown

BRITAIN A second Britishcabinet ministerannounced she was resign-ing yesterday, underminingPrime Minister GordonBrown’s authority and rais-ing doubts about his politi-cal future. CommunitiesMinister Hazel Blears’ deci-sion to quit, on the eve ofEuropean and localelections in which Brown’sLabour Party faces a rout,followed a similiar move byBritain’s first female interi-or minister and pre-empteda widely expected cabinetreshuffle. Blears and JacquiSmith are the highest pro-file casualties of disclosuresabout outlandish, taxpayer-funded expense claimsmade by members ofparliament at a time whenrecession is forcinghundreds of thousands outof work. Hard-hit by thescandal, Labour trails theopposition Conservativesby up to 20 points with aparliamentary election dueby mid-2010. REUTERS

AUSTRALIA A student whofell with a noose around hisneck during a mock classhanging that was arrangedby teachers has enragedAustralian authorities.

The high school studentfell from a table while fel-low students, under the su-pervision of a teacher, werephotographing a stagedhanging as part of an Eng-lish class project.

“It beggars belief thatsuch an incident could takeplace,” Queensland state Ed-ucation Minister Geoff Wil-son told local radio yester-day.

“I’m a parent. The lastthing I’ve ever wanted anyof my children to do is put arope around their neck,”

Wilson said. Students andteachers rushed to the boyand cut the rope when hefell, although local newspa-pers said the boy turnedblue before he was freed.

The student was allowedto go home with his motherafter being examined byparamedics, while authori-ties launched an investiga-tion into how the incidentoccurred. REUTERS

Mock hanging hasauthorities seeing red Police officers responsible

for the death of more than1,000 people followingKenya’s December 2007elections “remain immunefrom prosecution 18months later,” a United Na-tions human rights envoysaid yesterday.

Philip Alston, UN specialrapporteur on extrajudicial,summary or arbitrary exe-cutions, said police shoot-ings also remain unrecord-ed and unaccounted for,and human rights defend-ers are being “systematical-ly harrassed and intimidat-ed.”

“For all its strengths,Kenya has a major problemof extrajudicial executionsand it is one which has notyet been adequately ac-knowledged and ad-

dressed,” the Australian lawprofessor told the 47-mem-ber UN Human RightsCouncil.

Dozens of Kenyan hu-man rights activists wentinto hiding or exile after re-ceiving death threats forhaving collaborated withAlston on his damning Feb-ruary report about arbi-

trary police killings in thecountry.

Nairobi’s delegation tothe 47-member UN bodysaid major efforts were un-derway to improve over-sight of the Kenyan police.

“The Kenyan governmentdoes not condone extra-ju-dicial killings, and there isno government policy sanc-tioning such a violation ofthe law,” its representativesaid.

President Mwai Kibakiwas criticized for keepingsilent on the Alston reportwhen it was first released. Aspokesman for the Kenyanpolice told Reuters earlierthis year that no innocentcitizen was being pursuedbut the Mungiki posed adeadly threat that wouldnot be tolerated. REUTERS

Police go unpunished: UNDamning report

• In a February report,Philip Alston backed accusa-tions that Kenyan securityforces killed 500 suspectedmembers of the outlawedMungiki crime gang, 400political demonstrators dur-ing a post-election crisis lastyear, and 200 suspectedrebels.

“It beggars belief

that such an

incident could

take place.”

State Education Minister Geoff Wilson

News in briefKASHMIR At least 35 peoplewere injured after police anddemonstrators clashed in Indi-an Kashmir for the fifth dayyesterday in protests over therape and murder of two Mus-lim women, hospitals and wit-nesses said. Police fired teargas shells and used batons todisperse angry residents whoburnt the effigy of the chiefminister of Jammu and Kash-mir. Shops, businesses andschools were shut across theMuslim-majority Kashmir val-ley in response to a strike callby separatists to protest thedeaths. Near daily streetprotests are giving new life toa separatist movement in thedisputed Himalayan region.Residents said the two women,aged 17 and 22, were abduct-ed, raped and killed by securityforces on Friday south of Srina-gar, Kashmir’s summer capital.

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Vancouver Olympic organizers have signed a deal to offset carbon emissions from the 2010 Winter Games. B.C.-based Offsetters will invest in technology such as hydrogen fuel cells tooffset 110,000 tonnes of carbon emissions. But the $5-million deal doesn’t include an estimated 190,000 tonnes of “indirect” emissions generated by the Games. METRO NEWS SERVICES

T.O.’s house-hunting woesNew Buffalo Bill wide receiver Terrel Owens, left, has apparently run into a

snag looking for a place to stay in Buffalo. Tuesday night, Owens posted a

message through Twitter.com that he’s “tripping about residents” that

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Detroit Red Wings centre

Pavel Datsyuk, a finalist

for the Hart trophy as NHL

MVP, could be fit to play in

Game 4 of the Stanley Cup

finals, the defending

champions said yesterday.

Datsyuk, who has notplayed since injuring hisfoot blocking a shot dur-ing the Western Confer-ence final against theChicago Blackhawks, saidhe felt good and was keento get into the lineupagainst the PittsburghPenguins tonight.

Detroit coach Mike Bab-cock said the team wouldwait until after this morn-ing’s skate before makinga final decision.

“What we’ll do is we’llgo for the optional skatein the morning and seehow he responded todayand see how he felt,” Bab-cock told reporters. “He’sa Hart Trophy candidate.He’s one of the best play-ers in the world.

“Obviously, we’d like tohave him. But it’s one ofthose injuries. I thoughtwe needed him the day welost him against Chicagoand I think we’ve neededhim every game since.

“But guys have steppedup, done a real good joband given us an opportuni-ty.

“Just likelast night,they gave usa good op-portunityand weweren’t ableto finish.”

Detroit leadsthe best-of-sevenfinal 2-1, but ap-peared to lack energylate in Tuesday’s 4-2 Game3 defeat.

Datsyuk’s re-turn would liftsome of theburden off Hen-rik Zetterberg,who has beenlogging heavyminutes check-ing Pittsburghcaptain SidneyCrosby. REUTERS

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BASKETBALL Los Angeles Lak-ers guard Kobe Bryant hasenjoyed one of the most re-warding seasons of his ca-reer, but he says that wouldcount for nothing if histeam fails to win the NBAFinals against the OrlandoMagic.

The best-of-seven seriesstarts tonight with Game 1at Staples Center in down-town Los Angeles with theWestern

Conference champion Lak-ers installed as favourites.

“It’s been a helluva year,winning a gold medal andmaking it to the finals lastyear,” Bryant told reportersafter the Lakers completeda practice session at StaplesCenter. “We didn’t win, butwe gained valuable experi-ence.”

The Lakers were beatenby the Boston Celtics inlast year’s finals, twomonths before Bryant and

his U.S. teammates wonOlympic gold in Bei-

jing with an 118-107 victory over

world champi-ons Spain.

“Being onthatOlympicteam,buildingthe friend-ships we

built there, coming back tothis season and having theseason that we’ve had tothis point, it’s been very re-warding.”

Asked if all that would goto waste if the upstart Mag-ic upset the Lakers in theNBA’s season finale, Bryantreplied: “In my eyes, yes.

“This is what I play for allsummer. All I thoughtabout was the Olympicsand the gold medal. Wewere able to accomplishthat. My next goal is win-ning the NBA champi-onship and we don’t wantto fall short of that.”

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NBA Final Preview

All for naught without NBAchampionship, Kobe says

TENNIS A new name will beengraved on the FrenchOpen women’s trophy af-ter a courageous SvetlanaKuznetsova exacted sweetrevenge on SerenaWilliams to reach the lastfour.

Williams had been thelast former champion leftstanding at Roland Garrosand Kuznetsova, whorolled her ankle in the sec-ond set, handed the Ameri-can second seed a 7-6, 5-7,7-5 defeat yesterday.

The Russian world No. 7will face doubles special-ist Samantha Stosur afterthe Australian expelledRomanian high school

student Sorana Cirsteawith a 6-1, 6-3 victory toreach her first majorsemifinal.

The other semi will becontested between worldNo. 1 Dinara Safina andSlovak 20th seed Domini-ka Cibulkova.

“In the third I had an op-portunity and I got reallytight, and I pretty muchgave it to her,” saidWilliams, the 2002 cham-pion, who had a 5-1 recordover Kuznetsova going intothe match.

“It was like, ‘Here, doyou want to go to thesemis? Because I don’t. Shewas like, ‘OK.’” REUTERS

Serena out as French Open upsets continue

BASEBALL The At-lanta Braves made a

couple of stirringmoves yesterday, first re-

leasing 305-game winnerTom Glavine,only a day af-ter he pitchedsix scorelessinnings in arehab start,and acquiringcentre-fielderNate McLouthfrom the Pitts-burgh Pirates

for three prospects.Glavine had elbow and

shoulder surgery last yearand had not pitched at all in2009, suffering a setbackearlier this season during arehab assignment.

The players traded forMcLouth were pitchersCharlie Morton and JeffLocke and outfielder GorkysHernandez.

McLouth is batting .256with nine homers and 34RBIs in 45 games this sea-son. METRO NEWS SERVICES

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quarter-final loss to Svetlana Kuznetsova yesterday at the French

Open tennis tournament at Roland Garros in Paris.

Sports in briefNHL The Colorado Avalanchebegan their rebuildingprocess in a major way yester-day, firing head coach TonyGranato and naming GregSherman general manager.The NHL club sacked Granatoand five other members ofthe hockey operations staff af-ter the team posted its worstrecord since moving to Den-ver from Quebec in 1995.SOCCER FIFA released its latestworld rankings yesterday andCanada’s men’s national teamclimbed six places to No. 83after its 1-0 win over Cyprus.European champion Spain cel-ebrated a year at No. 1 whilethe Netherlands climbed tosecond.

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Janssen, Blue Jaysthumped by AngelsBASEBALL Jered Weaverstruck out a career-high 10batters in seven strong in-nings, Bobby Abreu hit atwo-run homer and drovein four as the Angelscruised to an 8-1 win overthe Toronto Blue Jays.

Weaver (5-2) surrenderedonly one run on three hitsand walked two in his startfor Los Angeles, which lostthe opener of this three-game series on Tuesday af-ter Toronto’s Roy Halladaystruck out a career-high 14in a complete game effort.

Casey Janssen (1-2) tookthe loss after giving up fiveruns on seven hits in fourinnings. METRO NEWS SERVICES

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SPECIAL FOCUS ON:

Gardening

Always in bloomTake the guesswork out of your garden

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Attracting nice birdseasier than you thinkFor many gardeners, hav-

ing songbirds visit is one

of the benefits of having a

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It’s always a delight to see

the variety of birds that

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natural sources of food as

well as bird feeders.

Birds have simple needs:Food, water, shelter, andprotection from predators.Naturally, native birdsthrive on native plants, sochoose a selection of re-gional beauties that pro-duce seeds, berries, or nec-tar. Work dead trees or oldstumps into your landscapeto attract insect-eaters andprovide shelter. The morediverse your food supply is,the greater the variety ofbirds you’ll see. Also, youcan help birds out by plac-ing bird feeders in youryard, filling them with ahigh-quality seed that is bal-anced in nutrition, likeScotts or Morning SongWild Bird Food. The type offood you feed attracts differ-ent kinds of birds. Smallerseeds like thistle seed at-tract bright yellow goldfinches.

“People like buying ourpre-filled thistle sock be-

cause all you do is hang it inthe tree and within daysyou can have several birdsfeeding from it — it easyand convenient. You do noteven need a feeder for it,”says Syd Pell, who heads upthe bird food division atScotts Canada. Larger birdslike to perch on feeders andeat mixes of seed, with sun-flower seeds as an all-timefavourite. “A mixed foodwill provide a good ratio ofnutrients for the birds. Weworked with the TorontoZoo to develop the rightmix of seeds to meet the nu-tritional needs of birds,”Pell explains.

In addition to putting out

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• Black-Eyed Susan (seeds)• Common Evening Prim-

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“Selecting the right soil isyour first step to gardeningsuccess,” says Syd Pell,Scotts Canada growing me-dia specialist. “Soils are ac-tually made up of severaldifferent ingredients, blend-ed for a specific gardeninguse. These ingredients mayinclude topsoil, sand, ma-nure, sphagnum peat moss,humus, compost, perliteand bark. The mix ratio de-termines how well the soilwill support the specific re-quirements of each planttype, such as nutrients, rootsupport, drainage and mois-ture retention.”

Here’s a guide to some ofthe most popular soil types.

• Lawn Soil is specificallyblended to support over-seeding and the growth ofhealthy grass. It is a blendof sphagnum peat moss,compost and manure.These ingredients increaseporosity, allowing more wa-ter and nutrients to reachthe roots.

• Garden Soil helps im-prove soil condition andcontrol moisture. It isblended to support andnurture the delicate rootsof vegetables and flowers. Itoften comprises nutrient-rich ingredients such ascomposted matter, ma-nure, and peat.

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and lawns and for filling inholes and leveling lawns.Typically low in nutrients,they should be amendedwith other more nutrientrich products. Premiumtopsoils, such as Scotts ProBlends Top Soil add com-post and sphagnum peatmoss for improved nutri-ents and drainage.

• Organic Compost is de-signed for in-ground gar-dens. Scotts Pro Blends Or-ganic compost is a profes-sional-quality blend of com-post and manure, contain-ing essential organic matterfrom composted leaves andyard clippings. Add it toflower and vegetable bedsfor healthier plant growthand more abundant vegeta-bles and blooms.

• Potting Mix. Since con-tainer-bound plants live ina self-contained eco system,proper moisture control isessential. Miracle-Gro Mois-ture Control Potting Mixcontains coconut fibre,which retains moisture be-tween waterings while im-proving soil aeration anddrainage.

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Mulch not only makes yourgarden look great, but alsoretards weed growth, helpsconserve soil moisture andact as a plant blanket bymoderating soil tempera-tures. Keep your gardenlooking beautiful longerwith innovative NatureScapes mulch, which isguaranteed not to fade togrey. NEWS CANADAKnowing the best soil for your need is imperative in gardening.

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As many greens grow in sandy soil, cleaning in

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Grazing through the greensSome of the first greens of spring are showing up at your local market

A variety of greens are

one of the first crops at

the market: Lettuces,

spinach, arugula and wa-

tercress. These tender

greens tend to be delicate

and supple in texture and

provide variety, flavour

and texture to salads.

More mature greens,dandelion, mustard, chard,kale and the like, willcome along in a few weeksand they generally needcooking. Mature greenstend to have large, toughleaves. If you break off apiece and chew it, it willbe leathery.

Some mature greens,such as dandelion andmustard, will be unpleas-antly bitter even if they arenot especially tough. Ma-ture greens should beblanched by steaming or

boiling briefly inwater beforecookingthem.

Simple

Spring Salad

with Maple

Glazed Nuts

Look for local-ly grown arugulaand watercress for apeppery punch. The sweet-ness of the maple-glazedpecans contrasts nicelywith the bitterness ofsome greens and thesharpness of Asiagocheese. Asiago is a goodgrating cheese, so buy apiece and use a cheeseshaver for attractivepieces. Makes four serv-ings.

INGREDIENTS:

• 6 cups (1.5 L) mixed let-tuce greens • 3/4 cup (175 ml) pecanhalves • 1 tbsp (15 ml) maplesyrupDressing:

• 1 tbsp (15 ml) red winevinegar• 2 tbsp (30 ml) extra-vir-

gin olive oil • 1/4 tsp (1 ml) salt• Pinch pepper• 1 oz (30 g) Asiago cheese,

shaved

METHOD:

Wash greens and spin dry.

Wrap in clean tea towel inplastic bag, or store greensin salad spinner in refrig-erator until needed.

Place pecans in large dryskillet over medium heat.Stir a few minutes untilfragrant. Stir maple syrupinto nuts and cook a fewminutes or until well coat-ed and syrup is absorbedinto nuts. Transfer toparchment-lined plate tocool. Before serving, breakany pecans apart that sticktogether.

For dressing, whisk to-gether vinegar, oil, salt andpepper, cover and refriger-ate until serving.

To serve, re-whisk andtoss greens with dressing.Arrange on plates and topeach salad with pecans andshaved cheese.

TIPS:

• Dark green cruciferousvegetables, such as arugu-la, kale, collards, kohlrabi,mustard greens and water-cress are members of theBrassica family and arepacked with folate, vita-mins E and C, potassium,calcium and iron.

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Barb Holland is a professional home economist and food writer who believes in

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Check your market for some local spring produce — there are countless ways to dress a salad.

Fresh

and light

Merlin Griffiths, master

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al bartenders alike on the

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• Don’t be afraid to keep itsimple — using too manyflavours will confuse your

taste buds. As a generalrule, never use more thanfour ingredients in a cock-tail. • Don’t forget ice — andplenty of it. Remove theice from the freezer fiveminutes before use toavoid the ice from be-ing too cold whichwill make it becomebrittle and sticky.• Citrus twists willstay intact in ice wa-ter.• Zests and sliced cit-rus fruits need storing inan airtight container in acool place.• Whole tropical fruits,like pineapple, are beststored at room tempera-ture.• Soft fruits and berriesslice easier when cold.• Keep all prepared gar-nishes chilled in airtightcontainers until needed.• Remove from the fridgein portions to keep fruitfresh all evening.• To ensure a complete barkit, add the following tools

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shaking. Although it doesthe job, most professionalbartenders prefer the two-piece version — called theBoston shaker. It includesa glass which allows you tosee the ingredients andquantities and a metal tinto give more space toshake the ingredients.

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Merline Griffiths, Bombay Sapphire global brand ambassador,

demonstrates his mixing techniques at an event in Canada.

Merlin’s mixing tips for the perfect party cocktail

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Nicole Richie’s resumémay be peripatetic — real-ity-TV star, novelist, wildchild, mother — but hersense of personal style isunswerving. No surprise,then, that Richie launcheda jewellery line, House ofHarlow 1960, this springthat will expand toinclude clothingaccessories next year. “I’vealways loved jewellery, butI didn’t know anythingabout designing,” explainsRichie. “I was inspired byAfrican and Indianjewellery books; I wantedthe pieces to have avintage but cultured feel.”Does Richie, a mainstay onthe best-dressed list, haveany fashion advice?“Always wear a ton of jew-ellery at once,” she saysfirmly. “I designed all thepieces so that they can belayered” (at Holt Renfrew,holtrenfrew.com).

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The film, which opensthis month, is set in the late1920s and based on a socialcomedy by Noel Coward thatpokes fun at snooty Englishhigh society and, at a deepersocial level, exposes howAmerican entrepreneurialzeal was overshadowingBritain’s imperialism.

Larita, who is a race-cardriver, represents the bravenew world crashing into theold when she marries British

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For Biel, starring in EasyVirtue was a career-enhanc-ing move. “It was exactlywhat I was looking for,something I could throw my-self into where everyone isexpecting me to fail,” Bieltold the British press. “Iknew I could do it. That’s thejoy of this business: shakingit up — surprising myself,surprising everybody else —otherwise, people just putyou in a box.”

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Phoenix delivers

dance-rock gem

PHOENIX HAS

DONE it. The break-downs, rock-instru-ments-as-rhythm-ma-chines and synthesizer vo-cals of the band’s past al-bums have meshed into anear-perfect expression ofdance-rock. Singer ThomasMars uses words like pianokeys, seemingly chosen forcadence and rhythm overmeaning (maybe one rea-son the Frenchman sings inEnglish). Stitched deep intoa bed of warm, rolling per-cussion and analog bass,they mimic the arrange-ments of the band’s Frenchhouse pedigree. Influencesfrom Daft Punk (and for-mer bandmate) ThomasBangalter and Philippe Zdarfrom Cassius (who pro-duced the album) also popup in the funky bassline inFences and the sparklingbuilds of Love Like a Sun-set, Parts I and II. I chal-lenge anyone to listen toLisztomania and 1901 back-to-back and not start head-nodding. Heck, I’m doing iton an airplane right now.

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AMERICA’S

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queen grace-fully entersmiddle ageby caressing the candle-light-and-wine set. VanessaWilliams’ fans fall intothree categories — theones who remember thePenthouse pictures andher fall from from grace 25

years ago as the first blackMiss America, the oneswho remember her stun-ning comeback as an ur-ban R&B singer and theones who now know her asWilhelmina on TV’s UglyBetty. This album is for theoldsters who still keep hercentrefold tucked undertheir mattress. It’s filledwith sultry renditions of’60s and ’70s jazz, pop andLatin standards. Backed bylush orchestration,Williams’ voice handlesthe material surprisinglywell. The Real Thing bub-bles over with class.Graham Rockingham/for Metro Canada

THE

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KING is thenicknameof DaveMatthewsBand sax virtuoso LeRoiMoore who died last yearin a tragic ATV accidenton his Virginia farm.Luckily, Moore’s presencehis strongly preservedthroughout this dynamicalbum that will serve tokeep the Dave MatthewsBand at the forefront ofinnovative American rockfor years to come. It’ssteeped in the Mardi Grastradition of New Orleanswhile providing a show-case for DMB’s mutiple in-strumental talents. Thereis an urgency to the vocalsof Matthews and the play-ing of Stefan Lessard(bass), Carter Beauford(drums) and Boyd Tinsley(violin) that may havebeen lacking on previousDMB studio efforts. This isa band that can still turnon a dime as well, or bet-ter, than any in the busi-ness.Graham Rockingham/for Metro Canada

RECORDING

AN ALBUM inthree daysshould be arecipe fordisaster, butnot when the cook is ElvisCostello. Here, the leg-endary guitarist teams upwith T Bone Burnett to cre-ate a barn-burning acousticset of Americana completewith copious amounts ofslide guitar and banjo pick-ing. While there are somegreat tunes — Sulpher toSugarcane is one — withtracks from his Hans Chris-tian Anderson opera, aBing Crosby cover and anew version of Complicat-ed Shadows, it is a bit allover the place. While it’snot his most focused work,it’s still one that Costellofans will enjoy.

Bryan Borzykowski/for Metro Canada

DESPITE

WHAT SOME

grunge-lov-ing ’90s fansmight think,the Eels did-n’t disappear after Novo-cain for The Soul, an MTVhit 13 years ago. Thegroup’s ninth record(they’ve released fairly solidalbums every year or two)follows a half wolf, halfman character first intro-duced to fans on 2001’s DogFace Boy. Now, the boy is anadult, dealing with thingslike loneliness, love andheartache — all emotivestuff wrapped in the band’sswaggering alt-rock sheen.The disc is full of both loud,infectious tunes and soft,introspective numbers,making Hombre Lobo aneclectic, and catchy listen.

Bryan Borzykowski/for Metro Canada

JUSTIN HINES

IS the littleguy fromNewmarket,Ont., withthe big voicenow being featured on theOntario tourism commer-

cials. (Why don’t those adsever tell you who the artistis?) Chasing Silver is a col-lection of wonderfullycrafted folk songs thatreach back into the early’70s era of the singer-song-writer. The 11 originaltracks here are filled withmusical references toJames Taylor, Jim Croceand Carole King. There aretimes on this album, espe-cially on tracks like While

You Are Out There, whenHines’ voice is eerily remi-niscent of Cat Stevens, cir-ca Tea For The Tillerman.That kind of charming folkmusic has been gaining anew audience from young,retro-mining fans. Andthere’s nothing wrong withthat. Hines’ outstandingcover of Peter Gabriel’s Sal-isbury Hill will draw a lotof new fans to his music.Graham Rockingham/for Metro Canada

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Album: Chasing Silver Label: Orange/Universal Rating: 111½

Vanessa Williams

Album: The Real Thing Label: Concord/UniversalRating: 111

Elvis Costello

Album: Secret, Profane & SugarcaneLabel: Hear/UniversalRating: 111

Eels

Album: Hombre Lobo:12 Songs of Desire Label: Vagrant/UniversalRating: 111

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Album: Big Whiskey and theGrooGrux King Label: RCA/Sony Rating: 1111

French band Phoenix has created a near-perfect expression of dance-rock on its latest album.

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Nia Vardalos couldn’t

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to her fellow Canadians in

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Ruins.

“Once a Canadian, al-ways a Canadian,” quippedthe Winnipeg-born writer-actress, whose 2002 debutMy Big Fat Greek Weddingcame out of nowhere toearn more than $241 mil-

lion US.In the romcom My Life

in Ruins, Vardalos plays aGreek-American collegeprof who retreats toAthens to work as a tourguide to find her lost kefi— Greek for mojo.

Over the phone from herLos Angeles home, Varda-los says one exchange shepenned for the movie wasinspired by a scenario shefaced a lot when she firstmoved to California: Amer-icans consider Canada tobe the 51st state, some-thing that’s guaranteed torile any True North resi-dent.

Ever a polite Canuck, the

46-year-old refused to takea screenwriting credit onMy Life in Ruins.

“I asked permissionfrom the writer (The Simp-sons Movie’s Mike Reiss) toadd the Canadian stuff, butI didn’t want a credit.That’s gross,” says Varda-los, sounding appalled atthe mere suggestion.

Such is the down-to-earth style that mademoviegoers fall for Varda-los’s autobiographical taleof her wedding to a non-Greek. (She and spouse IanGomez wed in 1993.)

Vardalos was on top ofthe world when GreekWedding hit it big, the cul-

mination of a Hollywoodfairy tale that began withactor-spouses Tom Hanksand Rita Wilson investingin the project, which wasbased on a stage show writ-ten by Vardalos. Nomina-tions for an Oscar and aGolden Globe followed.

(Hanks and Wilson areback on board for My Lifein Ruins. Wilson also has asmall role.)

Things then got bumpyfor Vardalos. A 2003 TVshow based on the movielasted only a handful ofepisodes. Connie and Car-la, a Vardalos pennedSome Like It Hot-style gals-on-the-run flick, co-star-ring Toni Collette, didmediocre box office andgot lukewarm reviews.

Vardalos all but disap-peared.

“I lost my mojo for awhile, yeah,” she says. “Iwas very clear. I chose tostep back and grieve a per-sonal situation of being atthe end of a 10-year fertili-ty battle.”

Vardalos talks quicklyand pointedly; she’s clearlymade the speech to re-porters before. Themessage comesthrough clearly:she’ll offer a bitof information,nothing more.

“It was hap-pening to me at32. All duringthe success of MyBig Fat Greek Wed-ding, it was this.”

She politely refuses tosay if she and Gomez triedin vitro fertilization or fer-tility drugs.

Last year they did start afamily, when the coupleadopted a three-year-old

daughter. Although Varda-los won’t allow the child tobe photographed or hername made public, “I dounderstand all this hap-pened to me so that I coulduse my big mouth to talkabout foster adoption,” shequips.

The other bigchange in Varda-

los’s life is hersvelte figure.Two yearsago, shechangedher way ofeating,

sheddingabout 30

pounds fromher Greek Wed-

ding days.“I was having dizzy

spells and diabetes runs inmy family. My doctor gaveme a very stern warning:hire a trainer and a nutri-tionist. I started writing

down everything I ate.”Ditching cheese, a new

walking routine and stick-ing to a Mediterranean diethelped her shed thepounds. “I did manythings,” she says. “And Ifelt a glow come back.”

Now a healthy size fourto 10 “depending on thedesigner,” Vardalos saysher blood sugar is undercontrol and she feels great.She laughs at any thoughtsof being seen as a glam-orous star, despite rockingthe red carpet when MyLife in Ruins closed theTribeca Film Festival lastmonth.

“Please make it clear ittakes three people threehours to make me looklike that,” she says with agiggle. “Three people withcurling irons wearing haz-mat suits and using a floorbuffer on my face.”

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Writer andactress ‘lostmy mojo fora while’

It’s, like, totally time fora musical Valley GirlFILM Valley Girl, the 1983cult comedy, is beingreimagined as a musicalfeature, and Broadway di-rector Jason Moore hassigned to helm the movie.

The original film starredNicolas Cage and DeborahForeman in a romance thatbridged the ’80s punkscene and suburban SanFernando Valley culture.Martha Coolidge directed,from a script by WayneCrawford and AndrewLane

Amy Talkington’s updat-ed screenplay for the MGMproject revamps the storyas a Romeo and Juliet-in-spired musical builtaround the first movie’sNew Wave soundtrack(think Modern English,Sparks and the PsychedelicFurs).

The ’80s archeology ispart of MGM’s strategy torepackage classic cata-logue titles for new audi-ences in novel ways.

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The original Valley Girl film,

made in 1983, starred Nicolas

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Paul Haggis helms

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FILM Writer-director PaulHaggis and Lionsgate arereuniting on The NextThree Days, a thrilleradapted from the Frenchmovie Pour Elle.Lionsgate acquired the re-make rights to the origi-nal, written and directedlast year by Fred Cavaye,from Wild Bunch and Fi-delite Films.

It starred Diane Krugerand Vincent Lindon as amarried couple who face aharrowing situation whenthe wife is imprisoned formurder.

“I’m looking forward toexploring the depths offaith and the limits oflove,” said Haggis, whowill write, direct and co-produce. Lionsgate distrib-uted Haggis’ Crash in2005; the film went on towin Oscars for best pictureand original screenplay.

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Cher sues UniversalMusic label accused of ‘hiding’ album revenuesCher has sued Universal

Music Group, claiming

that the label’s creative

accounting has

shortchanged her and the

heirs of her late ex-

husband, Sonny Bono, to

the tune of $5 million.

The lawsuit, filed Tues-day in Los Angeles Superi-or Court, claims an auditof UMG’s accounting tothe singer-actress from2000 to 2003 showed thatUMG executives “engagedin wrongful tactics” de-signed to hide revenuefrom two hit compilationalbums.

The five-count, 22-pagecomplaint claims breach oftwo recording contractsCher had with UMG prede-cessors, one with MCA di-vision Kapp Records in1972 and a 1987 deal withthe David Geffen Compa-ny. Cher claims that thosedeals entitled her — and,in the case of the 1972deal, Bono — to receive upto 50 per cent of net royal-ties received by UMG.

The complaint alleges

that UMG later made a dealwith Warner Music U.K. todistribute a 1999 compila-tion called Cher The Great-est Hits, then funneled themoney through UMG’s in-

ternational arm to concealthe amount of royaltiesowed to Cher and the Bonoheirs.

“Instead of reporting toand paying plaintiffs their

share of the revenues gener-ated by Warner U.K., UMGRecordings, in an egregiousexample of self-dealing, ap-parently inserted UniversalInternational as a middle-man in the transaction ...for the sole purpose of di-verting money that rightful-ly belonged to plaintiffs toUniversal International,”the complaint says.

“The claims are meritless,and we are confident thatwe will prevail in court,”said UMG spokesperson Pe-ter Lofrumento.

Cher also challenges ac-counting on a second com-pilation, 2002’s The VeryBest of Cher. REUTERS

Nicholson eyes role in rom-comCASTING Jack Nicholson isconsidering reuniting withJames L. Brooks, the film-maker who directed him inOscar-winning performanc-es in Terms of Endearmentand As Good as It Gets.

Nicholson is in talks tojoin the cast of Brooks’ lat-est project, an untitled ro-

mantic comedy that starsReese Witherspoon, PaulRudd and Owen Wilson.

Written by Brooks, thestory involves a profession-al softball player who’storn between two men, asolid guy and a charmingpitcher with a 94-mile-an-hour fastball. REUTERS

Hirsch takes on

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FILM Emile Hirsch will playHamlet in a modern takeon the Bard’s play that theactor helped to conceive.Twilight and Thirteen di-rector CatherineHardwicke, who workedwith Hirsch on Lords ofDogtown, will helm theproject for Liberty Media-owned studio OvertureFilms.

Jesse James sets

Spike TV record

SHOW Jesse James’ newstunt series is alive andkicking on Spike TV, with apremiere episode that setnew ratings records for thecable network. Jesse JamesIs a Dead Man debuted Sun-day night at 10 p.m. anddrew two million viewers— including 900,000among the network’s tar-get demographic of men18-49. REUTERS

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Jesus has a new hobby

Madonna has reportedly been shelling out big bucks to help 22-year-old Brazilian model Jesus Luz learn a new skill. According tothe Sun, the singer has spent more than $50,000 US on DJ equipment and lessons for her alleged boyfriend. METRO WORLD NEWS

BAD FIRST IMPRESSIONS Ac-cording to several fellowvacationers, Kate Gosselindidn’t pay her eight kidsmuch attention on theirgetaway to Bald Head Is-land, N.C., when the cam-era crew wasn’t around —even though she pulledtwin daughters Madelynand Cara, 8, out of schoolfor the trip, us-magazine.com reports.

Between texting on herphone and allegedly hud-dling with her bodyguardSteve Neild (with whomhusband Jon once feared

she was having an affair),“she completely ig-nored her chil-dren the entiretime,” fellowvacationerAnn MicheleSweeney tellsthe newest is-sue of UsWeekly.

“When Katesat on theedge ofthe pool,she toldone of(the

twins), ‘If you splash me,you’re dead meat,’”

Sweeney said.“She was not jok-ing at all.”

Another vaca-tioner, KimKirsch, tells Usthat “Everyone

that’s encoun-tered her says

she’s beenrude, meanand hate-ful.”

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Townies have no love for KateThis hasn’t been

Eminem’s week

CAN’T CATCH A BREAK It’sbeen a rough week for Em-inem. First he was the buttof Sacha Baron Cohen’sjoke at the MTV MovieAwards, then the nextnight he had thousands ofdollars worth of itemsstolen from his L.A. hotelroom, including a $60,000US diamond necklace andhis personal laptop,according to Gatecrasher.

So it’s no wonder that ata charity event onMonday, the rapper wasn’texactly up to form.“People were pumped tosee him, but he wasn’t in-teracting with his fans. Hisperformance was mechan-ical, without a lot ofpersonality, and peoplewere pretty disappointed,”a source said.

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LeAnn stalking Eddie?

THREE’S A CROWD Eddie Cib-rian cut ties with his Life-time movie costar LeAnnRimes two months ago —after their steamy affairwas exposed — but hiswife, Brandi Glanville, tellsthe new issue of Us Week-ly that Rimes can’tlet go of her obses-sion with him.

“LeAnn is a stalk-er,” Glanville tellsUs. “She refuses toleave us alone — it isshameful and scary.People are go-ing to sayit takestwo totangoand I

get that, but at some pointLeAnn needs to stop askinghim to dance.”

Glanville, a model, al-leges that Rimes (who wascaught on video suckingCibrian’s finger during a

date) intentionallytracked down her

husband at a L.A.Lakers game onMay 17 — two

weeks after hechanged his phone

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and calling.”METRO

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Vanessa drops wedding hint

NO SUBTLETY Memo to NickLachey: Vanessa Minnillohas marriage on the mind— and hand, people.comreports.

Pointing to a five-caratring on her middle finger,Minnillo, 28, told Las Vegascolumnist Robin Leach, “Itwill be 10 carats when itmoves to the fourthfinger!”

Leach says it wastongue-in-cheek,but in the brief in-terview, Minnillomentions marriagethree times.

Noting thatLachey, 35, couldn’tmake it to Ve-gas with herbecause heof a

friend’s birthday, she pout-ed, “So once again it looksas if I’m always the brides-maid but never the bride.”

Not that there’s a prob-lem, she quickly adds.“This romance is still goingstrong,” she said. “Therewill always be rumblingsand rumours that we’ve

broken up, but in fact,it’s very much stillon — and it keepson getting better.”

So much so, shesays, that “maybethis will be the onetime I wind up thebride instead of thebridesmaid.”

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Jennie’s heart problems

HEALTH ISSUES Though af-flicted with a heart ail-ment, Jennie Garth leads anormal life, the actress’husband, Twilight star Pe-ter Facinelli, tells People.

“My wife has a leakyvalve, which is prettycommon. A lot ofpeople have aleaky valve andthey don’t evenknow that theyhave it,” Facinel-li, 35, said.

“My wife is anadvocate forgetting yourheart checked, be-cause her father hadheart disease, soshe found outshe has a leaky

heart. But there’s reallynothing you can do for it,so you just leave it alone.”

People.com says some re-ports misconstrued the sto-ry by claiming Garth, 37,suffers from heart disease.Facinelli said. “I don’t

know how that hap-pened. I was sitting athome with her, and Isaw a ticker tape onthe news that said,‘Jennie Garth hasheart disease.’ Isaid, ‘Honey,

you did-n’t tell

me.’ But no,she’s fine.She’s fine.”

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Anne’s musical ambitionsSERENADE Anne Hathawaytaught herself how to playthe guitar — so she canserenade herboyfriend, actorAdam Shulman,femalefirst.co.ukreports.

The actresslearned to play TheBeatles’ Blackbird asa special birthdaypresent for Shul-man, who turned28 in April.

Hathaway, 26, showedoff her skills on Mondaywhen she was challenged

by Late Night host Jim-my Fallon to playsomething for the au-

dience.She said, “I know

how to play twosongs, Blackbird and

this other song. Ilearned this off ...

YouTube lessons.”METRO NEWS

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GIRLFRIEND NOT GROUPIE KateHudson and Alex Ro-driguez were spotted get-ting cozy last month at arestaurant in New YorkCity, and now a sourceconfirms they aredating, people.comreports.

“It’s somewhatserious,” the sourcetells People in itsupcoming issue. “Heintroduced her to abunch of hisfriends.”

Hudson fol-lowed Ro-

driguez on the road latelast month to Dallas, whenthe Yankees played theTexas Rangers in a three-game series. The actress

and son Ryder, 5, stayedat the same hotel asRodriguez, andthe couple“worked out to-gether in the fit-ness centre,”

said an eyewit-ness.

For one of the games,she sent Ryder and his nan-ny to the ballpark whileshe “stayed behind andwatched the game fromthe hotel,” adds the eyewit-

ness. “She remarked sev-eral times about what abig baseball fan she is.”

Will their relation-ship last past the sea-son? Another sourcesaid it’s too early totell: “You never know

with Kate.” METRO NEWS

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Kate plays A-Rod’s Band Aid?

Melissa muses:

Farrah’s death or

me on the cover?

SO INSENSITIVE Melissa JoanHart, who graces thisweek’s People magazinecover to show off herrecent weight loss,allegedly wasn’t so grace-ful when talking withfriends backstage at a re-cent KTLA interview. Hartwas reportedly heard say-ing she hoped Farrah Faw-cett wouldn’t lose her bat-tle to cancer that week, as

it would surely bumpHart off the

cover,accordingto Page Six.

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Chace has big

shoes to fill: Kyra

SUPPORTIVE WIFE One hottopic in Kyra Sedgwick’sfamily is the casting of herhusband Kevin Bacon’s sig-nature role of Ren McCor-mack in the remake of1984’s Footloose,people.com reports.

“It’s that ChaceCrawford guy, right?” saidSedgwick. “We met him atthe White HouseCorrespondents Dinner.

Kevin and he had achat. He’s verysweet.”

Ever loyal to herhusband, Sedg-wick adds, “He

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Clafoutis

INGREDIENTS:

2 tsp (10 ml) extra-virginolive oil 1 lb (500 g) cherrytomatoes4 tbsp (60 ml) snippedfresh chives3/4 cup (175 ml) coarselygrated sharp pecorinocheese6 extra large eggs1/3 cup (75 ml) all-purposeflour3 tbsp (45 ml) sour cream1-1/4 cup (300 ml) 2% milkMETHOD:

1. Preheat oven to 375 F(190 C). Lightly grease 4shallow ovenproof dishes,each 5 to 6 in. (13 to 15cm) in diameter. Dividecherry tomatoes amongdishes, spreading themout. Sprinkle with chivesand all but 1 tbsp (15 ml)of cheese.

2. Break eggs into bowland whisk. Slowly whiskin flour until smooth. Addsour cream, then gradual-ly whisk in milk for thin,smooth batter. Seasonwith salt and pepper totaste. 3. Pour batter over toma-toes, dividing evenlybetween dishes. Sprinkleremaining cheese and anextra grinding of pepperover. Bake until set, puffedand lightly golden, 30 to35 minutes. 4. Remove clafoutis fromoven and leave to cool forfew minutes beforeserving, because tomatoesare very hot inside. SERVES 4

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If you are the kind of Scorpiowho is impetuous then todayyou’ll likely go way over thetop. Chances are you’ll getaway with it.

SAGITTARIUS

NOV 23-DEC 21

Something shiny and new willcatch your eye today andyou’ll want it no matter howmuch it might cost, but keepyour cash in your pocket.

CAPRICORN

DEC 22-JAN 20

Bold decisions will come easi-ly to you today, but you won’tknow for sure if they’re gooddecisions until tomorrow, somake sure you can back out.

AQUARIUS

JAN 21-FEB 18

By now it should be obviousyou’ve taken a wrong turn.What are you going to doabout it? Ignoring it is not anoption.

PISCES

FEB 19-MARCH 20

You may be having secondthoughts about a plan of somekind but there is too muchmomentum behind it to stopit now.

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It is often assumed that the monthly cost of rent is less expensive than the monthly cost of a mortgage. In a lot of cases that assumption is false.

For example, if you rent a 2 bedroom apartment or home in Barrhaven, expect to pay $1000.00 to $2000.00 per month. If you buy a freehold Mattamy Village Home at Mattamy on Half Moon Bay in Barrhaven the price starts at $182,990.

Your monthly mortgage payment will be $733.37(Based on a 5% down payment. A 3-year fixed mortgage with an interest rate of 3.45% amortized over 35 years, including CMHC insurance)

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Because the longer you pay rent, the less you end up with in the long run.

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