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Sidney Crosby waves the Canadian flag following Team Canada’s 3-2 overtime victory in the men’s gold-medal hockey game against

Team USA on Day 17 of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics at Canada Hockey Place yesterday. More coverage, page 12.

GoldstandardBrimming with pride asOlympic hosts, Canada ex-ploded in a collectivespasm of national joy yes-terday as hockey hero Sid-ney Crosby dispatched theUnited States in atightrope-tense hockeythriller that capped theGames with a record-set-ting 14th gold medal.

Downtown Vancouverexploded in a deafeningdin of car horns and cow-bells in the seconds afterCrosby put the puckthrough U.S. goaltenderRyan Miller’s legs for a 3-2overtime win, avengingthe Ameri-can domi- nation ofanOlympicpodiumCanadaoriginallyhaddesigns onowning.

Instead,the hostcountryopted torent the top floor: Yester-day’s triumph set anOlympic record for mosttop-tier finishes in a Win-ter Games.

The partisan crowd — aroiling, flag-flappingocean of Canadian colour,except for the odd islandof Americana — shookCanada Hockey Place to itsfoundations when it wasover, an uncharacteristicshow of national priderarely witnessed north ofthe 49th parallel.

“Before this, Canada on-ly seemed patriotic whenthere was a beer commer-cial on TV,” said Tony Sam,41, who drove to Vancou-ver with friends fromChilliwack, B.C., to watchthe game.

“This is the most excit-ing thing that’s happenedin Canada, maybe ever.”

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CEREMONIES Following anunprecedented Olympicgold rush that inspired acollective swelling of patri-otism, Canadians relaxedyesterday with the closingceremonies, remindingthe world of our uniquesense of humour.

There were marchingMounties in mini-skirts,table-top hockey players,red-clad lumberjacks andgiant inflatable beavers.

Michael Bublé — neveropposed to poking fun athimself —- even rode atopa motorized Mountie’s hatwhile performing TheMaple Leaf Forever.

Bronze-medallist figureskater Joannie Rochetteheld the Canadian flagaloft as the Olympicathletes circulated aroundthe B.C. Place stage, theCanucks clad in Cowichansweaters with ear-flappedhats pulled down overtheir foreheads.

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It was a sea of red andwhite at local wateringholes as the Canadianmen’s hockey team tookhome gold and Canadians’hearts yesterday.

Fans sipping suds at Origi-nal Joe’s on 4th Street SWarrived early to back home-town hero Jarome Iginlaand his teammates andcheered non-stop for thelast five minutes of the 3-2game, all the way to SidneyCrosby’s overtime winner.

Chants of “Canada,” cow-bells, and hockey wavesgreeted each goal, save andAmerican mishap, butthat’s all part of whatmakes us Canadian, fanVince Bodnar said.

“We kicked some Ameri-can butt. This spirit andpride is what makes usCanadian and it’s amazingto see,” he said.

Original Joe’s managerAdam Powell said businesswas booming and was excit-

ed to share the momentwith patrons.

“Super exciting, it’s goodfor business, good for Cal-gary and good for Canada.It’s a goosebump experi-ence,” he said.

Strangers, friends andeven waitresses cheered,

embraced and gave highfives after the overtimegoal.

“Oh my God. That wasamazing,” Mark Chakersaid. “I will never forgetthis moment. Ever.”

Outside local pubs, Cal-garians lined the streets and

brought back memories ofthe Red Mile.

Marie Bourgeois and herhusband took in the sightsof 17th Avenue SW.

“This is incredible. Theweather, hockey gods andstars aligned. Go Canada,”she said.

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Shane Iutzi, Brian Willard and Paul Edmunds hug it out at Original Joe’s on 4th Street SW after Sid-

ney Crosby scored the gold medal-winning goal in overtime.

News in brief

OLYMPICS Premier EdStelmach is saluting Canadi-ans after the success of theWinter Games. “Like all Cana-dians, I watched the Gameswith immense pride in thisgreat country,” said Stelmach.

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Quebec heavy in debt, analysis suggests

An analysis by the Quebec Ministry of Finance suggests the province has one of themost heavily indebted economies in the industrialized world. THE CANADIAN PRESS

Boomers factor intimes ahead: AnalystsHospital lineups, federal-provincial squabbles,crumbling infrastructure, amilitary starved of equip-ment, and stagnating liv-ing standards.

That may sound like adescription of Canada inthe mid-1990s as the then-Liberal government strug-gled with deficits and debtthat were swallowing 36cents out of every taxpayerdollar just to pay the inter-est.

But it may also describethe country in a few years,say analysts who havelooked at the long-termimplications of Canada’sfiscal gap as the country’sbaby boomers retire.

And many believe Fi-nance Minister Jim Flaher-ty should start planning inThursday’s federal budgethow to head-off the trainwreck, although they

doubt he will. Flahertycontinues to insist thateconomic growth and lim-iting government spend-ing increases will eventual-ly eliminate the deficit.

“So far, the governmenthas basically said there is-n’t a problem,” said ScottClark, a former deputyminister of finance.

“The thing about demo-graphics is that they arepretty reliable because youcan’t change fertility ratesovernight. You cannot de-

ny the reality that it’s com-ing.”

Parliamentary budget of-ficer Kevin Page laid outthe broad outlines of thedilemma confronting theConservative government— and by extensionprovinces — a week ago.Over the next 40 years, theratio of retirees to workerswill go from one in five toone in two, decimatinggovernment revenues andincreasing health-care andother social costs.

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Foreign aid

• Canada's lofty interna-tional ambitions — includ-ing winning a seat on theUN Security Council — facefailure if foreign aid is ig-nored in the federal budget,experts say.

Last week's cross-burning was no surprise to many black Nova Scotians,who face deep racial divides. Scan this

code for the story.OLYMPICS If China used thelast Games to introduce it-self to the world, it wouldseem the VancouverOlympics introduced Cana-dians to themselves.

When the Great One litthe Olympic cauldron, itwas a spark that lit nation-al pride.

“This has been a great

human occasion for thecountry,” said John Fur-long, the chief executiveofficer of the 2010 Olympicorganizing committee,known as VANOC.

The Games have come toCanada twice before, but itwasn’t until this third datethat things seem to havereally clicked. Yes, the ear-ly moments of the relation-ship were tragic and un-comfortable. The death ofa Georgian luger will forev-er mark these Games.

The teething problemsof the first few days andthe drubbing from thepress also had a nationquestioning whether thedrive to own the podiumwas more than it couldhandle.

But then the sun cameout, not just in the sky butin the form of the first goldmedal won by a Canadianat a Canadian Games. Thehome turf drought endedwith mogulist AlexandreBilodeau. THE CANADIAN PRESS

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AIR SECURITY Canada’s air-security agency has or-dered officers to stop theroutine screening of trav-ellers of the opposite sex.

Instead, passengers whoset off an alarm as theywalk through airport met-al detectors must besearched by a screening of-ficer of the same sex.

The official policychange was quietly dissem-inated by the Canadian AirTransport Security Author-ity in December to thefirms it contracts to handlesecurity at 89 airportsacross the country.

A copy of the bulletinwas obtained by The Cana-dian Press under the Ac-

cess to Information Act.Once a metal-detector

alarm is triggered at a pas-senger checkpoint, thescreening of a traveller canbe invasive. A hand-helddevice is run along allparts of the body scanningfor metal. Belts can be or-dered unbuckled, shoes re-moved. THE CANADIAN PRESS

Same-sex search to be implemented

Parliament to resume this weekLet the political games begin — again. Stephen Harper’s Conservatives will launch

a new session of Parliament this week aimed at steering the country through a

fragile economic recovery. But opposition parties are hoping to continue stoking

the fires of public anger over the prime minister’s decision to delay Parliament’s

scheduled Jan. 25 reopening by five weeks. THE CANADIAN PRESS

Canada meets itself at Games

Ottawa Ice breakers

People watch on shore as City of Ottawa employee Grant Card

signals to set off the explosives that were planted in the ice on

the Rideau River near the Ottawa River yesterday. City employ-

ees use explosives to break up the ice each spring to prevent

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SPACE It has travelledthousands of kilometres inspace, repaired orbiting satel-lites, unclogged astronauts’toilets and helped build the In-ternational Space Station. TheCanadian Press has learnedthat NASA and the CanadianSpace Agency have been work-ing to bring home the originalCanadarm, which first flew intospace in 1981. HEALTH CARE Experts say theescalating price of a new hos-pital in Truro, N.S., is sympto-matic of growing costpressures on public and privateprojects, brought on partly bya growing shortage of skilledworkers.

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By the end of thismonth, we’ll knowwhich inner citybus routes will beshortened, altered

or eliminated. There are afew on the chopping blocksince city council mandated21,500 hours of service be

cut, but with a growingpopulation cutting transitservice doesn’t make sense.

While our population hasbeen growing by roughly22,000 annually, CalgaryTransit ridership took a hitlast year dropping to 94.2million trips in 2009, a 1.1-million decrease from theprevious year.

Mayor Dave Bronconnierdownplayed the results:“Transit ridership is downone per cent, but holdingup very, very well underdramatically changing eco-nomic times,” he said.

There may be fewer peo-

ple needing to commute towork due to job loses, but asAld. Brian Pincott has point-ed out, our transit system isdesigned around movingpeople in and out of down-town. In response, weshould expand the networkto serve people beyondwork hours.

Not all cities affected byjob loss saw a correlatingdecrease in ridership. Infact, ridership in Ottawa seta new record. Their growthis attributed to an extensionof their bus-only Transit-way, a new park-and-ridelot, 24-hour service for their

busiest cross-city bus routeand other service improve-ments.

And so it doesn’t seem tomake sense that we’re cut-ting service hours. Instead,increased service should pro-duce increased ridership.

I’m all for increasing effi-ciencies and frankly, if theroutes in question are un-derutilized, then it’s logicalto cut them. But moniessaved in creating new effi-ciencies should be directedto increased service in otherareas.

Instead, while $1.2 mil-lion has been cut from Cal-

gary Transit’s budget, fareshave increased, park-and-ride users pay where theydidn’t before and overallservice has decreased.Seems like a recipe for a fur-ther dwindling in ridershipnumbers.

Calgary Transit’s last cus-tomer survey, conducted inNovember 2008, could helpguide which areas to im-prove in order to retain rid-ers. Respondents identifiedservice frequency, being ontime, not being overcrowd-ed, and convenience of con-nections and transfers asservice areas that need im-

provement.These findings fly in the

face of planned service cuts.The cuts also fail to re-

spond to the objectives ofPlan It, which calls forquadrupled service levelswith cross-town bus routesand increased service fre-quency.

The city needs to show itscommitment to public tran-sit and increase service, notdecrease it.

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Monday morning. March 1.It’s no longer the winterOlympics. Now it’s just win-ter. And where I live, it nolonger feels like Christmasmorning as we bound out ofbed every day eager to dis-cover what new medals ar-rived during the night.

Worst of all, my prizedred mittens have gone frombeing the trendiest winter

accessory to being just asouvenir.

Why can’t the Olympicslast forever? In Olympicworld, success isn’t as com-plicated and overwhelmingas passing a national policyon global warming — it’ssimply whether or not ourspeedskater got across thefinish line first.

Compare, the real world: Partner: You’re still on the

couch. You were therewhen I left nine hours ago.

You: It’s a “Flip thisHouse” marathon.

Partner: I’m so leaving youfor someone who takes outthe garbage.

... To Olympic world:Partner: You’re on the

couch. You’ve been there allday.

You: It’s the Olympics.Partner: Of course. Let me

get you a snack.Or, real world:Me: Let’s watch women’s

sports tonight.My friend, Rob: Oh yes,

let’s. Oh dear. There’s onlymen’s sports on again. Oh,well ...

Olympic world:Me: You know, since 80

per cent of Canadianmedals in the last twoOlympics were won bywomen, don’t you think itmakes sense to fund onlysports for female athletes?

Rob: (gasping, chokingand making other very sat-

isfactory noises.)I realize the Olympics

can’t last forever. Sooner orlater Rick Mercer would runout of human interest sto-ries. Possibly by this Friday.Sometime, we have to re-turn to the real world.

But not yet. For a fewdays, I’m holding onto thepure, simple joy of feelingthat our country is the cen-tre of the universe and hap-piness is no harder to ob-tain than a bronze in snow-board cross. And then, I’llreturn to real life again. Butonly for another four years.

Olympic world is way more fun

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Dutch group protests Catholic church

About a hundred activists walked out of a Netherlands church to protest theCatholic policy of refusing communion to homosexuals. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Ukraine For the love of sports

Ukrainian police try to prevent a demonstration by members of the Ukrainian activist pressure

group FEMEN at Independence Square in Kiev, Ukraine, yesterday. The group made fun of their

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In the wake of anearthquake that shatteredcities and killed at least708 people, Chile’spresident, MichelleBachelet, sent the army tohelp police stop lootingyesterday and appealedfor international help.

Bachelet announced thesharply higher new deathtoll after a six-hour meet-ing with aides and emer-gency officials. “We face acatastrophe of such un-thinkable magnitude thatit will require a giant ef-fort” for Chile to recover,Bachelet said, adding agrowing number of peoplewere listed as missing. Shealso signed a decree givingthe military control over

security in Concepcionprovince, where looterspillaged supermarkets andbanks.

She added Chile wouldaccept aid offers that havepoured in from around theworld. In addition to res-cuers, she said the countryalso needs field hospitals,temporary bridges and wa-ter purification plants.

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Chile’s deathtoll climbing

Storm leaves

dozens dead in

western Europe

FRANCE A violent late win-ter storm with fierce rainand hurricane-strengthwinds ripped across west-ern Europe yesterday, bat-tering France and four oth-er countries, leaving atleast 51 people dead.

The storm, named Xyn-thia, was the worst to hitFrance since 1999, when90 people died. Prime Min-ister Francois Fillon heldan emergency cabinetmeeting and afterwardcalled the storm a “nation-al catastrophe.”

Many of the at least 45victims in Francedrowned, while othersdied after being hit byparts of buildings, or treesand branches ripped off bythe wind.


Other nations

• 400,000 residents onJapan’s northern coastswere evacuated • In Hawaii, the Navymoved a half dozen vesselsout of Pearl Harbor.

News in brief

LUXOR Archaeologists haveunearthed a massive red gran-ite head of Amenhotep III, oneof Egypt’s most famouspharaohs, who ruled nearly3,400 years ago.AFGHANISTAN More than

2,000 U.S. marines and about1,000 Afghan troops whostormed Marjah during a NATO offensive against resur-gent Taliban will stay severalmonths to ensure insurgentsdon’t return.

DUBAI The assassins of a sen-ior Hamas operative used apowerful muscle relaxant to in-capacitate him before suffocat-ing him with a pillow in his ho-tel room, say Dubai police.


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Israeli police, Palestinianyouth clash at holy siteIsraeli police forcesstormed the mostcontentious holy site inJerusalem yesterday todisperse masked Palestin-ian protesters hurling ob-jects at a crowd of visitors,authorities said.

The incident was overquickly, but the area re-mained tense afterward. Inthe past, violence at thesite — known to Jews asthe Temple Mount and toMuslims as the Noble Sanc-tuary — has erupted intodeadly battles, and Pales-tinian officials warned yes-terday’s unrest threatenedto undermine new at-tempts to restart peacetalks.

Police spokesman MickyRosenfeld said police dis-persed some 20 maskedprotesters who had holedup overnight in the Al-Aqsamosque inside the hilltopcompound. The protesters

pelted tourists with objectsearly yesterday, and threwrocks at the police whenthey responded to the inci-dent, he said.

Calm was quickly re-stored, he said, and about1,000 tourists managed tovisit the area after orderwas restored.

Palestinian officials saidthe youths thought Jewish

extremists — not tourists— were entering the com-pound and would try totake it over. Small groupsof masked Palestinianscontinued to clash with po-lice elsewhere inJerusalem’s Old City and ina nearby neighbourhoodjust outside the walledarea.


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WEATHER More than 200,000homes and business were stillwithout power yesterday asrestoration efforts continued

days after a slow-movingstorm battered the U.S. North-east with heavy snow, rain andhigh winds. Nearly 100,000

utility customers still lackedelectricity yesterday in NewHampshire, the hardest-hitstate. New York had about

96,000 outages. More than amillion utility customers lostpower at the storm’s peak.


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Purim Colourful revelry

Jewish settlers are dressed in costumes as they participate in

the annual Purim parade in the divided West Bank town of He-

bron yesterday. Purim commemorates the rescue of Jews from

genocide in ancient Persia.

U.K.’s UFO unit says

it will shred old X-files

RECORDS Britain’s defenceministry says it will shredrecords of UFO sightingsafter a huge rise in thenumber of reports submit-ted by the public.

The Ministry of Defencesaid yesterday that new re-ports will be thrown out af-ter 30 days, rather than

kept on file.The ministry had 634 re-

ports of UFO sightings in2009, the highest totalsince 1978 when the pub-lic submitted 750.

Britain’s governmentsaid the service was awaste of defence resources.


Trainer’s death

a PR challenge

for SeaWorldFLORIDA After decades ofcultivating a corporate im-age around one of theocean’s greatest predators,SeaWorld managers mustreassure visitors that akiller whale’s fatal maul-ing of its trainer doesn’tmean the parks aren’tsafe.

Veteran trainer DawnBrancheau, 40, was killedat the close ofWednesday’s lunchtimeshow by the killer whaleTilikum, in front of a hor-rified audience.

SeaWorld halted Shamushows at the Orlandotheme park and at sisterparks in San Antonio andSan Diego, but said Fridaythey will resume thisweekend.

Marketing and public re-lations experts say whatthe company does in com-ing days will be key to pre-serving its image with thepublic.


Thousands of dead fish wash up on Brazilian shore

Workers in a popular Brazilian beachside lagoon in Rio de Janeiro have cleared nearly 78 tons of dead fish as of yesterday, newswebsite G1 says. There is no immediate estimate of how many died, but several species are involved. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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A decade of the tigerWWF vows to bring animal back from ‘tipping point’

The Chinese New Year re-cently entered into theyear of the Tiger.

The largest of the catspecies, tigers are a power-ful and majestic symbol inmany cultures yet todayfind themselves at whatscientists refer to as “tip-ping point” — meaningthat left to their own de-vices in the wild, their des-tiny could go either way —survival or extinction.

There are as little as3,200 tigers left in the wildand the WWF togetherwith the World Bank havelaunched a global cam-paign, T x 2, urging to dou-ble this number by thenext year of the Tiger in2022.

The process started inOct. 2009, where talks ledby tiger experts discussed aseries of actions to change

the existing trajectory oftigers from the verge of ex-tinction, to one of survival.

The talks will culminatein Vladivostok, Russia, inSeptember 2010 where theGlobal Tiger Summit willaddress the following is-sues to be tackled in thenext decade:

1Strict protection ofsurviving tiger popula-

tions to allow their preybase to return.

2Once the foundationfor survival has been

set, tigers need large in-tact landscapes to expandin, without the conflict-ing presence of humans.In many places.

3Bring to a minimumand eventually halt

the international demandfor tiger parts by control-ling business operationsand borders.

4Political engagementat the highest level

and budget. Governmental commit-

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• The tiger is at top of foodchain, feeding off largemammals such as deer, an-telope, buffalo. They havebeen known to eat croco-diles and bears. • Tigers can consume up to40 kg of meat at one time.• Males of the largestspecies weigh up to 300 kg.• There are 13 tiger states;Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cam-bodia, China, India, Indone-sia, Lao PDR, Malaysia,Myanmar, Nepal, Russia,Thailand and Vietnam.• There are six living sub-species of tiger; The Amur,Bengal, Indochinese,Malayan, South China andSumatran tiger. The threeother sub-species, the Bali,Caspian and Javan becomeextinct in the 20th century.

Building a sustainable future

ACTIVISM WWF scientist Er-ic Dinerstein is working onthe forefront of the TigerInitiative.

Metro spoke to Diner-stein on why the initiativeis important and how theyare ensuring tigers willhave a future in this world.

Why are wild tigersbeing poached somuch today?It’s much cheaperto go out and hunta wild tiger than it

is to feed and maintainone in captivity. We needto work closely with localgovernments as very fewpeople are benefiting fromthis illegal activity.

In your opinion,what are the mostshocking tiger

facts?As of today, tigersoccupy seven percent of their histor-

ical coverage and that theyhave 40 per cent less habit-able and hunting area thanthey did 10 years ago.

What is the keystrategy needed forthe survival of wild

tigers?

Mustering politicalwill between the 13tiger states. We also

need to stabilize the cur-rent situation. Take the case of bluewhales, despite efforts tosave them, they are breed-ing very slowly — tigersare the opposite as theybreed faster than theirprey.

What kind of dietdoes a tiger needin order to survive?Approximately 50deer sized animalsare needed to feed

one female tiger across aone-year period.

Once you know howmuch prey is needed, youcan sustain its’ breedingpopulation.

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CLOGGED DRAIN Got a cloggeddrain but don’t want to usesomething that will harm theenvironment to get it fixed?Pour a half-cup of baking sodadown the sink and add at leasta cup of vinegar. Cover thedrain and wait a few minutes,then rinse with a mixture ofboiling water and salt. Repeatas many as three times.

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The simple life

Simplify your life as much as possible. Only keep belongings that you use/enjoy on a regular basis. By making the effort toreduce what you own, you will naturally purchase less/create less waste in the future. METRO NEWS SERVICES

Peddling doubtAs the science of global warming has grown

more certain over the last two decades, the

attack on that science has grown more shrill;

the book Merchants of Doubt helps explain

that paradox, and not only for climate

change. METRO NEWS SERVICES

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Olympic sponsorsMARKETING Wayne Gretzkyclutched a recyclable torchas he rode in a hybrid pick-up en route to ignite the nat-ural gas Olympic flame,shining an internationalspotlight on the creators ofthose clean-energy innova-tions.

This moment was a veri-table showcase of productsfrom high-profile corpo-rate sponsors seeking to tietheir brands to Vancou-ver’s promise to host thegreenest Games in history,including GM Canada,maker of the Silverado hy-brid, and Bombardier Inc.,which manufactured themostly recyclable torch.

Environmental sustain-ability is a well-publicizedtheme for the VancouverOlympic organizing com-mittee, which has pres-sured corporate sponsors,from Bell Canada to Cana-dian Pacific Railway, to re-duce their environmental

footprints.The 62 sponsors who

committed to VANOC’spledge of carbon neutralitywere rewarded with a “sus-tainability star.” Theirgreen initiatives are first tobe touted when interna-tional media come knock-ing for sustainability-themed Games stories.

VANOC hopes the pres-sure they’ve put on corpo-rate sponsors will have a“ripple effect” and perma-nently change the waythey do business, Duffysaid.

Corporations that cleanup their image for theOlympics can garner long-term payoffs by tying theirenvironmental initiativesto a brand image that con-sumers already recognize,said Marc Stoiber of Van-couver’s Change market-ing, which helps brandspromote themselves asgreen. THE CANADIAN PRESS

You can avoidonline scams

The Internet has affordedmany conveniences —from online banking, toshopping, to dating, toreading and watching thenews — done from thecomfort of home.

But there’s a darker sideto Internet use: Increasedrisk of becoming a victimof fraud. Internet fraudcomes in many forms —phishing, click fraud,spam, online marketing,and contests and surveys.

In the past few years, theRCMP has seen an alarm-ing rise in the number ofInternet-based scams inCanada.

Because the Internet is adecentralized networkwith no company or gov-ernment control, it’s all theharder for police to crackdown on cyber-criminals.

Tim Richardson, an e-commerce professor atSeneca College and an au-thority on Internet priva-

cy, says much online fraudis building towards identi-ty theft, which is why it’simperative to protect sen-sitive information.

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• Before entering person-al information on a web-site, read their unique pri-vacy and security policies.

• If you suspect anyfraudulent activity online,report it to the police.

• Shop only from rep-utable online stores.

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Business in brief

STOCK MARKET Expect Marchtrading to get off to a subduedstart this week as investorsawait a raft of top-drawer eco-nomic news, including an an-nouncement from the Bank ofCanada on interest rates.Also coming is the latest read-

ing on Canadian economicgrowth and a fresh reading onthe U.S. manufacturing sector.But investor attention will beparticularly focused on devel-opments in the Greek debt cri-sis and the release of the U.S.non-farm payrolls report on

Friday. “Ahead of those(employment) numbers,there’s going to be a lot of hes-itation, a lot of nervousness,”said Serge Pepin, director of in-vestments at BMOInvestments.

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EU scolds Google on privacyONLINE European Union da-ta privacy regulators aretelling Google to warn peo-ple before it sends camerasout into cities to take pic-tures for its Street Viewmaps. In a letter to thecompany, regulators alsosay Google should shortenthe time it keeps the origi-nal photos from one year

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Bosh misses 5th straight game

All-star forward Chris Bosh did not travel with the Toronto Raptors and missed his fifth straight game last night due to a sprained left ankle. Bosh islisted as day-to-day for the Raptors, who played at Oklahoma City last night and are scheduled to play at Houston tonight. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Watch out for England: DungaBrazil coach Dunga says England and Spain are the main favourites to win

the 2010 World Cup, along with his own team. He tells SporTV that “Eng-

land will be very strong” with Fabio Capello, as the Italian coach will be

able to make his players as competitive in the national team as they are

at club level. Dunga says Spain will be the main favourite as the 2008

European champion is “continuing to play well.” THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Blue Jays won’t rushrecovering McGowanDustin McGowan waspitching to major leaguehitters yesterday for thefirst time in more than ayear and a half.

Having him make Toron-to’s opening-day roster isnot a priority for the BlueJays — and it shouldn’t befor McGowan, either.

“We’ve talked to himabout it. That date is non-existent for us with him,”general manager Alex An-thopoulos said.

“If it happens to fall onthat date, great. If it hap-pens a week later, that’sfine as well, even threemonths after that.

“This is a young guy whocertainly has a greatchance to be part of this or-ganization for a long timeand we want to make surewe get it right and not takeany chances.”

The 27-year-old lastpitched on July 8, 2008,and was removed early in agame against Baltimorewith a sore right shoulder.

Two days later he wenton the disabled list and un-derwent surgery July 31 torepair fraying of thelabrum.

It finished him for thatseason and last year’s aswell.

Then on July 9, 2009, hehad surgery to repair dam-aged cartilage in his rightknee, delaying his rehabili-tation by about six weeks.

McGowan was scheduledto throw only in thebullpen yesterday, without

facing batters, “but I talkedwith (pitching coach)Bruce Walton,” Anthopou-los said, “and our trainersigned off on it, and Dustinfelt good and wanted tothrow to hitters. We didn’thave a problem with it.”

McGowan said he threw25-30 pitches in thebullpen and about 20 tobatters.

“Actually, to tell you thetruth, I was a little nervousall last night,” he said.

“I didn’t know what toexpect. But we didn’t callany inside pitches. I wasjust trying to get a feel for

pitching again and justfinding the plate.

“The important thing isthat I got to do it andeverything felt good.

“I enjoyed it, having funagain.”

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BASEBALL Mets shortstopJose Reyes said yesterdayhe met with U.S. federal in-vestigators last week re-garding a Canadian doctoraccused of selling an unap-proved drug.

Dr. Anthony Galea is fac-ing four charges in Canadarelated to the unapproveddrug known as Actovegin,which is extracted fromcalf’s blood and used forhealing. His assistant alsohas been charged in theU.S. for having HGH andanother drug while cross-ing the border in Septem-ber.

Galea is known for usinga blood-spinning tech-nique — platelet-rich plas-ma therapy — that is de-

signed to speed recoveryfrom injuries. BesidesReyes, he has also treated

Tiger Woodsand severalother pro-fessionalathletes.

“They justasked mebasicallyhow I metthe guy andstuff likethat and

what he put in my body,”Reyes said. “I explained tothem what he (was) doing.... I don’t worry about any-thing because I didn’t doanything wrong.”

SI.com reported Satur-day night that U.S. federal

officials have told severalathletes to expect grand ju-ry subpoenas in the case.The website cited threeanonymous sources famil-iar with the investigation.

The New York Times re-ported in December, citinganonymous sources, thatthe FBI opened an investi-gation into Galea based inpart on medical recordsfound on his computer re-lating to several profes-sional athletes. Reyes saidhe met with investigatorsfor about 45 minutes at theMets’ spring facility afterthey contacted him Thurs-day morning.

One of his agents, ChrisLeible, also was present.


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Sports in brief

MAN U Wayne Rooney scoredhis 28th goal of the club sea-son as Manchester United re-tained the Carling Cup with a2-1 victory over Aston Villayesterday. Rooney sent apowerful header over Ameri-can goalkeeper Brad Friedelin the 74th minute to settlethe first meeting of U.S.-owned clubs in an English fi-nal.SOCCER Italy coach MarcelloLippi named three new facesin his 23-man squad forWednesday’s friendly matchagainst Cameroon in Mona-co. Palermo goalkeeper Sal-vatore Sirigu, Bari defenderLeonardo Bonucci andCagliari midfielder AndreaCossu were all included in

the Italy squad for the firsttime yesterday.BASEBALL Chan Ho Park hasjoined the New YorkYankees. The 36-year oldPark took part in his firstworkout with the team yes-terday. The South Koreanright-hander agreed to termslast week on a $1.2 millionUS, one-year deal with an ad-ditional $300,000 inincentives.GOLF Ai Miyazato won theHSBC Champions yesterdayto become the first LPGATour player in 44 years tosweep the first two events ofa season, closing with 3-un-der 69 for a two-stroke victo-ry over Cristie Kerr. Miyazato,the 24-year-old Japanese star

who won the LPGA Thailandlast week, took the lead witha birdie on the par-4 16th —a hole she played in 5 underfor the week — and parredthe final two holes to finishat 10 under on TanahMerah’s Garden Course.INTER MILAN Inter Milanscored three first half goalsto beat Udinese 3-2 awayyesterday and maintain itsfour point lead at the top ofSerie A. Mario Balotelli,Maicon and Diego Militoscored after Simone Pepehad given Udinese an earlylead. Antonio Di Natale con-verted a penalty shortly afterthe restart, but Jose Mourin-ho’s team held on for thewin. METRO NEWS SERVICES

NBAYESTERDAY’S RESULTS

Oklahoma City 119 Toronto 99San Antonio 113 Phoenix 110L.A. Lakers 95 Denver 89Atlanta 106 Milwaukee 102 (OT)

Washington 89 New Jersey 85Orlando 96 Miami 80Sacramento 97 L.A. Clippers 92 Dallas 108 Orleans 100

TODAY’S GAMESDallas at CharlotteNew York at Cleveland

Orlando at PhiladelphiaAtlanta at ChicagoPortland at MemphisSan Antonio at New OrleansToronto at HoustonDenver at PhoenixUtah at L.A. Clippers

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Sidney Crosby didn’teven see his game-winning overtime goalthat captured gold forCanada yesterday inmen’s ice hockey.

He just heard thescreaming.

“I just shot it and didn’tsee it after that,” said Cros-by, who took a feed from afalling Jarome Iginla andwhistled it past tourna-ment MVP Ryan Miller asCanada beat the U.S. 3-2and won the final goldmedal of the 2010 WinterOlympics.

Crosby skated into thecorner as 16,000 raucousfans in Canada HockeyPlace, who spent much ofthe game chanting, cheer-ing, dancing and wavingflags, erupted in a roar.Crosby was engulfed byhis teammates as theystreamed off the bench.

“I dreamed of this mo-ment,” Crosby said after-wards. “It’s pretty incredi-ble.”

The win marks the firsttime since the 1980 “mira-cle on ice,” when the U.S.beat Russia, that a hostcountry has won hockeygold.

“It’s unreal,” said goal-tender Roberto Luongo.“You work hard yourwhole life for somethinglike this and it’s nice to get

rewarded. This medal isnot for myself, but forCanada and for the peopleof Vancouver and the fansthat have supported me

since the first day I gothere.”

Canada, which sported a2-0 lead halfway throughthe second period on goals

from Jonathan Toews andCorey Perry, watched indismay as Zach Parise, un-touched in front of thenet, pounced on a reboundto beat Luongo with only24 seconds remaining inthe final period.

“I thought we deservedbetter,” said U.S. forwardRyan Kesler, who deflecteda weak shot by PatrickKane past Luongo to scorethe Americans’ first goal.

“We proved that it’s notjust Canada’s game. Wetook them to overtime. Webeat them once already. Itwas anybody’s game inovertime.”

‘I dreamed of this moment’Crosby nets winner in overtime as Canadian men bring home gold

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Canada’s Sidney Crosby scores an overtime goal against the USA’s Ryan Miller to win the gold

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• It seems U.S. PresidentBarack Obama owes PrimeMinister Stephen Harper afew cold ones. The twoleaders had a friendly beton the outcome of yester-day’s gold-medal Olympichockey game.• Team Canada came outon top, so Obama will haveto pick up a 24-pack of Mol-son Canadian for the primeminister. Harper wouldhave had to buy Obama acase of Yuengling beer ifthe U.S. had taken the tophonour at the tournament.

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NATION TOTAL

U.S. 9 15 13 37

Germany 10 13 7 30

Canada 14 7 5 26

Norway 9 8 6 23

Austria 4 6 6 16

Russia 3 5 7 15

South Korea 6 6 2 14

China 5 2 4 11

Sweden 5 2 4 11

France 2 3 6 11

Switzerland 6 0 3 9

Netherlands 4 1 3 8

Czech Republic 2 0 4 6

Poland 1 3 2 6

Italy 1 1 3 5

Japan 0 3 2 5

Finland 0 1 4 5

Australia 2 1 0 3

Belarus 1 1 1 3

Slovakia 1 1 1 3

Croatia 0 2 1 3

Slovenia 0 2 1 3

Latvia 0 2 0 2

Britain 1 0 0 1

Estonia 0 1 0 1

Kazakhstan 0 1 0 1

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Near miss in 50-km race

Cross-country skier Devon Kershaw from Sudbury, Ont., just missed the podium in the men’s classical 50-kilometre, placing fifth in two hours 5:37.1 seconds. Norway’s Petter Northug won gold. THE CANADIAN PRESS

SELECTION Canadian forwardJonathan Toews and de-fenceman Shea Weber werenamed to the Olympicmen’s hockey tournamentall-star team yesterday, join-ing three Americans andone Slovak.

The all-star team, selectedby the media, also includedAmerican goaltender RyanMiller, the tournamentMVP, and two of his team-mates: Defenceman BrianRafalski and forward ZachParise. Slovak forward PavolDemitra rounded out theteam.

Toews, the young Chica-go Blackhawks captain, wasone of Team Canada’s topplayers and scored the firstgoal in its 3-2 overtime winover the United States inyesterday’s final.

Weber, the rock-hardNashville Predator with alethal shot, was a force on

defence and offencethroughout the tourna-ment.

Miller, an NHL star withthe Buffalo Sabres, stopped139 of the 147 shots hefaced throughout the tour-nament, including 36 inyesterday’s final. Parise ofthe New Jersey Devilsscored the tying goal the

gold-medal game with 24.4seconds left to force over-time.

Rafalski, who plays withthe Detroit Red Wings, wasa steadying influence onthe U.S. blue-line andscored key goals as theAmericans went undefeat-ed until the final.

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Team Canada celebrates its gold win last night.

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Slovak hockey player under fire for doping

The IOC has issued a reprimand against Slovakian hockey player Lubomir Visnovsky after tests revealed he broke anti-doping rules by takingtoo much cold medicine with the ingredient pseudoephedrine prior to his team’s semifinal game against Canada. THE CANADIAN PRESS

Last minute ruling won’t

break Paralympian: CoachDECISION A longtime coachof Brian McKeever says thepartially blind cross-countryskier will bounce back fromthe disappointment of notcompeting in the OlympicGames.

“I think Brian is strongenough mentally to parkthis and move on,” KasperWirz said from the Can-more Nordic Centre in Al-berta.

The 30-year-old athletelearned Friday his dream ofracing in the Gameswouldn’t happen.

Cross Country Cana-da had claimed McK-eever would “com-pete” in the Games,and emphasized re-peatedly he was mak-ing history as the firstParalympian to enterthe Winter Games.

McKeever said he re-spects the coaching decisionto start four other Canadi-ans — all of whom have per-formed well in the Games— in yesterday’s 50-kilome-tre race.

However, he’s also said hewas “crushed” by the deci-sion.

He told CTV the blow wassimilar to learning he hadStargardt’s disease, an in-herited macular degenera-tion that has left him with10 per cent of his vision.

Wirz said McKeever’sstyle is to vent emotionallyand then carry on.

“My job is to build Brianback up so that he is in thebest state of mind going in-to the Paralympics,” hesaid.

The two will meet andspend some time hashingover the tumult of theGames.

“The low point is proba-bly (Saturday). As a Para-lympic team we will em-brace him as a team, whenhe comes back to us.”

He said he’s taken McK-eever through thehighs and lows be-fore.

McKeever hasbeen named toWorld Cup teams,but also has had oc-casions when hewasn’t chosen torace on the nationalteam on the interna-tional circuit.

“Not to be able to startand not to be able to provethat he can be there, that’s ahard blow,” Wirz said. “I to-tally understand that, andI’m 100 per cent certain wecan fix that.

McKeever will race thebiathlon pursuit, the 10-kilometre cross country,the 12.5-km biathlon andthe sprints in the Para-lympic Games, which beginMarch 12.

McKeever and his broth-er, Robin, are expected tobe medal contenders.

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Athletes gave us lifelong memories

On the last dayof the Games,it all becameclear to me.

I was in the presence ofthe Olympians, athleteswith skill and drive whohave the ability to workmagic and restore faith.

People like 27-year-oldDevon Kershaw of Sud-bury, Ont., who raced hisheart out in the cross-coun-try marathon only to finishfifth and miss a medal bysix tenths of a second. Ker-shaw’s result was the bestever by a Canadian in thisevent. He more than heldhis own against the leg-endary European giants ofNordic sport.

The thing withOlympians is that outward-ly they resemble the rest ofus. They come from smalltowns and loving familiesand are built in a variety ofshapes and sizes. What dis-tinguishes them is an abili-ty to express incredible tal-ent and grace in a pres-sure-filled crucible on theinternational field of play.

No better illustration ex-ists than Joannie Rochette,the figure skater who sur-vived the sudden death ofher mother mere hoursfrom the biggest momentof her life. Rochette soaredto a bronze medal and de-livered the most inspira-tional performance of theOlympics.

She is a remarkableyoung woman, the girlnext door if you will, withthe ability to conjure up aheroic act.

“I cannot begin to under-stand what she is goingthrough,” said bobsledgold-medallist HeatherMoyse of Summerside,P.E.I. “Her mother is gonenow. Joannie was left tohonour her memory withher performance and she

did.”The Canadian men who

captured precious hockeygold here received the li-on’s share of the attentionand that is understand-able. We live in a countrywhere supremacy in thatsport is a vital element tothe people’s sense ofworth.

But we should never for-get that all the Olympianswho graced the stage inboth Vancouver andWhistler have been part ofthe story at these Games.

From across the country,they are our neighbours,our friends, our sons andour daughters.

These CanadianOlympians are ordinarypeople, it’s true, but theyhave proven they are capa-ble of creating extraordi-nary memories.

The kinds of things we’llnever forget.

Gemini Award winner and authorScott Russell is the Host of CBC SportsWeekend seen Saturday afternoons. A

20-year CBC Sports veteran, he has covereda variety of professional and amateur

sports including nine Olympic games andnumerous world championships.

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‘Icons’ help bid farewell

It seemed like the perfectending to an OlympicGames that had a rockystart.

On the heels of SidneyCrosby’s spectaculargame-winning goal in over-time, 60,000 jubilant spec-tators made their wayfrom Vancouver’s packeddowntown streets into B.C.Place for the closing cere-monies.

The event began with amime pulling up theOlympic cauldron’s fourtharm — which failed to riseduring the opening cere-monies — and spectatorscheered as Catriona LeMayDoan reappeared to igniteit properly this time.

For the next two hours,the crowd was dazzledwith a spectacle that cele-brated all things Canadian,including toques, beer,poutine and our propensi-ty to apologize.

Performers included NeilYoung, Michael Bublé,Nickelback, Avril Lavigne,Alanis Morissette and k-os.

“If the Canada that cametogether on opening nightwas a little mysterious tosome, it no longer is,” saidJohn Furlong, CEO of theVancouver organizingcommittee.

“Now you know us, eh?”A “parade of Canadian

icons,” including Moun-ties, hockey players,voyageurs in birch canoes,beavers, moose and log-gers in red plaid shirtsdanced through the stadi-um to the Hockey Night InCanada theme song.

William Shatner, Cather-ine O’Hara and Michael J.

Fox made cameos to sharetheir tongue-in-cheek per-spectives of Canada.

“My name is Bill, and I’mproud to be Canadian,”said Shatner.

“I’m proud of the factthat we are a people whoknow how to make love ina canoe. I’m proud of ‘Lou-uuuuu.’”

Furlong said the Games

have brought Canadianstogether in a way he could-n’t have imagined.

“That quiet, humble na-tional pride we were some-times reluctant to ac-knowledge (took) to thestreets as the most beauti-ful type of patriotismbroke out all across ourcountry,” he said.

“Alexandre (Bilodeau),your first gold medal gaveus all permission to feellike and behave like cham-pions. Our last gold will beremembered for genera-tions ... Good-bye.”

Performers entertain during the closing ceremonies for the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Winter

Games at B.C. Place in Vancouver yesterday.

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“If the Canada that came together onopening night was a little mysterious tosome, it no longer is.” John Furlong, VANOC

Vancouver Games in brief

COURAGE Inside taxis, bars andeven the usually privateconfines of bathtubs, Olympicathletes have been document-ing their Vancouver Games ex-

periences with an unprecedent-ed amount of detail. Thanks toTwitter and Facebook, fans nowget an interesting look insidethe lives of athletes who other-

wise stay out of the spotlight.And it adds dimensions to per-sonalities that are sometimesdifficult to crack through the TVscreen. THE CANADIAN PRESS

soon got transferred tothe forensic unit. His bossspent a lot of time teach-ing him the unique craft.“Are you comfortableworking outside thebox?” he’d ask.

Malamed was, and keptupgrading his educationso today he now has aninvestigative forensic ac-counting diploma, a certi-fied fraud examiner’scourse and certified fraudinvestigator’s course.

New investigationsstart with a call from aclient — usually someonenew, Malamed doesn’t geta lot of repeat customers— who’s just discoveredsomething bad has hap-pened. Usually they’vebeen scammed or an em-ployee has stolen money.

The person or represen-tative from a business isoften pretty upset andwants to know what hap-pened, how it can be pre-vented again and, ideally,get the money back.

Malamed immediatelystarts asking questions.“We’ve got to work prettyfast. We’ve got to find outif it’s something live orold. And if it’s live, do weneed to control it, shutthings down?”

After shutting downbank accounts or the liketo stop any more losses,Malamed comes up with awork plan on how totrack down the missingmoney. He looks throughdocuments, financialstatements, bank ac-counts, emails, comput-ers and cancelledcheques. He interviewsthe people involved —some of these people mayeventually be chargedwith a crime — to findout if their stories matchup with how funds movedaround.

Often the police are in-volved. Malamed has evenjoined them in visiting acrime scene. They bangon the door, walk in with

their guns. When it’s allclear, Malamed starts col-lecting files and comput-ers.

And while he’s workingfor a client, his goal is tochase down the facts, notjust take the client’s wordfor what happened.That’s because his investi-

gations can end up as evi-dence at a trial or for aninsurance settlement, sohe cannot be biased.

Investigations can takea week, or two years. Hesometimes works 40hours a week, but if he’sin the middle of an in-tense investigation, hisphone can ring day ornight and he can sudden-ly be putting in 100 hoursto get the job done.

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While there, he took acourse in forensic ac-counting and loved it. “Interms of accounting, thisis the most exciting thingI could do.”

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Workology in briefRECORD NUMBER OF

REGISTERED APPRENTICES IN

2007, STATSCAN REPORTS Ac-cording to Statistics Canadafigures released last week, thenumber of registered appren-tices in the country reached arecord high of 358,555 in 2007,more than twice the number12 years earlier. In 2007, thebuilding construction tradeswere the largest trade group,with 80,205, or 22 per cent, ofthe registered apprentices.Completions in apprenticeshiptraining reached 24,495 in2007, up from 19,725 in 1991.

QUEBEC DOING LITTLE TO EN-

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TO STAY POST-GRADUATION

Quebec Premier Jean Charestand university officials cantravel the world to recruit inter-national students, but they aredoing far too little to encour-age them to make their careersin the province, argues HenryAubin in a column in lastweek’s Montreal Gazette.While there’s no complete lackof action to encourage foreign-ers to stay, writes Aubin, pro-posals outlined in a 2005 Mon-treal Board of Trade report,which noted that “no real con-certed strategy has been devel-oped” regarding the retentionof international students post-graduation, remain ignored.

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McMaster faces major cutsIn a financial update to the campus community, McMaster University’s

president and vice-president (academic) report that the demands on the

school’s finances for 2010-11 are “staggering.” Over the last four years, Mc-

Master's expenses could exceed revenues by more than $100 million. Mc-

Master anticipates these budget pressures will require a minimum of 50

and up to 100 positions to be cut across the university. METRO NEWS SERVICES

Alberta rejects NAIT’s tuition hike proposal

The Edmonton Journal reports that Alberta’s advanced education ministry has turned down the Northern AlbertaInstitute of Technology's proposal to increase tuition by 40 per cent over the next three years. METRO NEWS SERVICES

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Oscar pools a greatway build your team

With the Olympics just fin-

ished, the Oscars dawning

and March Madness draw-

ing near, offices across

Canada are abuzz with

pools, but are they a team-

building force for good or a

distraction that risks turn-

ing the office into The

Office?

Dr. Ian Bradley, a work-place psychologist inMontreal, says there arerisks and rewards to officepools. “Some people getreally into it and one won-ders how much work timeis devoted to the pool,” hesays. “The benefits are interms of camaraderie andexcitement.”

He considers pools anorganic form of officialteam-building exercises,but without the price tagof a seminar or a weekendbonding in the woods.Pools can connect staff atdifferent levels and in dif-

ferent departments, open-ing new lines of commu-nication.

“We need as much funin the workplace as possi-ble, within bounds. Themore things that are hu-morous and bring peopletogether and allow themto forget about the drudg-ery and stresses of thework, I think all the bet-ter,” Bradley says.

Because of those advan-tages, he urges bosses toaccept pools even if staffgo overboard for the Os-cars, so long as they don’tgo all Michael Scott, fromThe Office, on their col-leagues.

Maricel Dicion organiz-es the Oscar office pool atthe Toronto branch of theglobal communicationsfirm Cohn & Wolfe.“Everyone participates.We’re a full-service PRagency and we all havelots of things to do, butthings like this really helpbuild team moral,” shesays. “It’s just something

fun to think about andsomething fun to do.”

The email-organizedpool doesn’t involve mon-ey and doesn’t distractpeople from their work,she says, but in fact givesthem a useful break in theday. “Plus, if you win youget bragging rights untilthe next Oscar pool,” shenotes.

As Bradley predicted,the pools cut across thenormal office barriers ofrank and department, en-couraging staff to get toknow their coworkers.

“It gives you an excuseto congratulate the per-son who won,” Dicion ex-plains. “If you don’t get tosee someone over at theother side of the office,you might go over andsay, ‘What do you think?’It’s just an excuse to seeone of your colleagues.”

JON TATTRIEfor Metro Canada

Hollywood Votes

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Precious wins big at

NAACP Image AwardsIt was a winning night forPrecious at the 41stNAACP Image Awards.

The heart-wrenching taleof an illiterate and abusedteen who finds hope in aHarlem classroom wasnamed outstanding motionpicture and outstanding in-dependent film at Friday’sceremony. Stars Mo’Niqueand Gabourey Sidibe,screenwriter GeoffreyFletcher and director LeeDaniels also won.

Daniels excitedly accept-ed the best-picture prize,surrounded by his cast andfellow producers.

“No one in Hollywoodtold me they wanted to seea movie about a 350-poundblack woman with HIV,” hesaid. Sidibe objected, andDaniels corrected himself:“She’s not 350 pounds. Thiswas before you were hired.”

Presented by the Nation-al Association for the Ad-vancement of Colored Peo-ple, the Image Awards hon-our diversity in the arts andoutstanding achievementsin film, television, musicand literature.

Sidibe cried as she accept-ed the award for outstand-ing actress in a motion pic-

ture for her turn as Precious,the overweight, twice-preg-nant teen who discoversself-worth through readingand writing.

“It’s so awesome to win! Ilove winning,” said the Os-car nominee, who madeher acting debut with thisfilm.

Fellow Oscar nomineeMo’Nique, who has sweptthe supporting actress prizethroughout Hollywood’sawards season for her mov-ing turn as abusive motherMary Jones, added anothertrophy to her collectionwith the Image Award forher role in Precious.


Precious director Lee Daniels.

Last year, New York Timescolumnist Nicholas Kristofand his wife, SherylWuDunn published theirbook Half the Sky: TurningOppression into Opportu-nity for WomenWorldwide

The book shows howmost societies suppresswomen through terrible —and culturally accepted —measures, such as stoning,genital mutilation, sexslavery, maternal morbidi-ty, forced marriage, hon-our killings and otheratrocities.

But the book also focus-es on the small, empower-ing steps these oppressedwomen are doing tochange the status quo.

This Thursday, in cele-

bration of InternationalWomen’s Day on March 8,movie theaters acrossNorth America will broad-cast Half the Sky LIVE;a combination ofdocumentary andcelebrity discus-sion panel,based on Kristofand WuDunn’swork.

Filmed on asnowy February day atNew York University andpresented by the poverty-fighting organizationCARE, Half the Sky LIVEfeatures a celebrity paneldiscussion about the plightof women, readings bycelebrities such as MariaBello and Marisa Tomei,musical performances byIndia.Arie and Diane Birch,as well as the world pre-miere of Woineshet.

It is a short film made by

Tomei that is based on apoor Ethiopian womanfeatured in Half the Skywho triumphs over dis-

crimination, rape,and forced mar-

riage.“We hoped

(the book)would reach alot of people,”

said the Puliz-er-prize winning

Kristoff in an im-promptu interview afterthe filming. “But this hasbeen a very pleasant sur-prise.”

Sarah Ferguson, theDuchess of York, who par-ticipated in the panel dis-cussion and read the storyof Prudence, a woman inCameroon who died inchildbirth due to lack ofproper treatment, said thatlending her voice was a no-brainer.

“I was taken with Pru-dence because my sisterhad many sad miscarriagesand my mother had pre-eclampsia and would havedied if she not had medicalcare,” she said, noting thatshe’s happy to give back.

“I just believe the truecelebrities are the womenwho have been through somuch. My job is an easyone. I simply tell their sto-ries.” • For more information, orto buy tickets, visit care.ca.

Status quo challenged

DOROTHY ROBINSONMetro World News

Sarah Ferguson, Sheryl WuDunn, Nicholas Kristof and Marisa Tomei at the Half The Sky LIVE recording.

Half the Sky LIVE explores plight of oppressed women

Half the Sky LIVE screens this Thursday at Empire Studio

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Grandpa JimJim Carrey is a grandpa. His daugh-

ter, Jane, 22, welcomed a baby boy

in Los Angeles Friday, a rep confirms

to usmagazine.com. Jackson Riley

Santana was born Friday morn-

ing. METRO NEWS SERVICES

Bachelor couple wed

Bachelor couple Jason Mesnick and Molly Malaney officially said “I do” on Saturday. An estimated 300 guests witnessed Mesnick, 33,and Malaney, 25, exchange vows at the breathtaking Terranea Resort on the coast of Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif. PEOPLE.COM

Entertainment

Half the Sky facts

• More girls have beenkilled in the last 50 years be-cause they were girls, thanmen were killed in all thewars of the twentieth centu-ry, write Kristof andWuDunn in Half the Sky.

1Shutter Island:

$22 million US

2Cop Out:

$18.6 million

3The Crazies:

$16.5 million

4Avatar:

$14 million

5Percy Jackson and the

Olympians: $9.8 million

6Valentine’s Day:

$9.5 million

7Dear John:

$5 million

8The Wolfman:

$4.1 million

9The Tooth Fairy:

$3.45 million

10Crazy Heart:

$2.5 millionTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Weekend box office

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The chin comebackThe chin is coming back tolate-night on NBC. So isthe desk, the couch and,the network ferventlyhopes, the audience.

When Jay Leno reclaimsThe Tonight Show tonight,NBC is banking that theratings spiral that markedConan O’Brien’s brieftenure as host will quicklyfade to a dim memory.

If viewers want to dwellon the messy ditheringthat led to this point —Leno moved to prime-time,NBC affiliates rebelling athis low ratings, O’Brienbalking at NBC’s directivethat he and Tonight shift tomidnight, O’Brien exitingand leaving a diminishedaudience behind — thenetwork is focused on theend result.

With the WinterOlympics providing a bigplatform, NBC aired a pro-motional spot advising that“the chin” was back. An-other spot had Leno breez-ing down a coastal highwayin a snazzy convertible thatshed the number “10” for“11:35.” It cast him as a

happy traveller headedhome, back where he be-longs, after a misadventurenot even worth a postcard.

Lisa Howfield, generalmanager of NBC affiliateKVBC in Las Vegas, thinksLeno’s fans will be right be-hind him.

“I suspect he’ll get thesame numbers (ratings) he

had in prime-time, whichare the same numbers hehad in late-night. ... I thinkit’s probably going to getright back into normalviewing patterns,” How-field said.

Media analyst SteveSternberg agrees Lenoshould regain the late-night lead, which he held

for most of his run, despitesome observers’ assertionsthat he ended up cast asthe villain when O’Brientook a powder.

“I don’t think Leno’s im-age took much of a hit withhis fans at all,” said Stern-berg.

“That was more of apress and Conan fan-Twit-ter creation than anythingelse. Half of Leno’s audi-ence is over 55, a groupthat tends to be very loyal.”

Leno averaged 5.2 mil-lion viewers nightly in hisfinal season of Tonight be-fore O’Brien took over lastMay, and was drawing vir-tually the same number —5.3 million — to his prime-time show.

Expectations were high-er for the new show, how-ever, because more peoplewatch TV in prime-time,and affiliates complainedloudly to NBC becausetheir local newscasts weretaking a viewership hit be-cause of the weak lead-in.NBC eventually bowed tothe pressure.


Will Leno regain his late-night lead? Media analyst says ‘yes’

Jay Leno returns to late-night TV on The Tonight Show tonight.

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Celebrity Buzz

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YEAH, STRANGE THAT PEOPLE

THINK A WILD ANIMAL

SHOULD BE, YOU KNOW, IN

THE WILD. Hollywood starMatt Damon has thrownhis support behind a cam-paign to close down Sea-World in Orlando, Fla., af-ter the tragic death of akiller whale trainer at thetheme park on Wednesday,femalefirst.co.uk reports.

Dawn Brancheau, 40,was killed by orca Tilikumduring a show with themammal at the city’s Sea-World aquarium.

Animal rights campaign-ers at the People for theEthical Treatment of Ani-

mals (Peta) have teamed upwith U.S. showbiz veteranBob Barker to write to Sea-World owners The Black-stone Group and appeal forthe closure of thecomplex.

In his letterto Blackstoneboss HamiltonJames, Barkerwrote, “Thedeath of (the)trainer at Sea-World did nothave to hap-pen,and I

must appeal to you to takestrong action now so thatit never happens again.”

Damon has now voicedhis shock at the trainer’s“horrible” death, insisting

all marine mammalparks like SeaWorldshould be “shut down”altogether.

He tells U.S. newsshow Entertainment

Tonight, “I think theyshould just shut them all

down. I’ve never been afan of places like

that.” METRO NEWS

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Freeing (fierce) Willy

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BANANA

CREAM?

John Mayeris continu-ing his apol-ogy tour af-ter hisPlay-boy

magazine interviewcaused such an uproar.

“I hate to come off likean a—hole ever, andthank you guys for believ-ing that I am not an a—hole,” he told the crowd ata recent New York con-cert, according toMTV.com.

“It’s a clean menow, people.Clean me.”

In the infa-mous interview,

Mayer repeatedly usedracial slurs and comparedex-girlfriend Jessica Simp-son to sexual “crack co-caine.”

“Never, ever, in my en-tire life did I ever thinkthat it would be a goodidea to be an a—hole,” headded.

“But you know what?There’s plenty of a—holeswho think the same thing,so I have to thank you.”

METRO WORLD NEWS

Munching on humble pie

MIRACLES CAN HAPPEN,

RIGHT? We’ve heard of“bringing the roofdown” at par-ties, but we’repretty sure it’snot a good signwhen the roofactually collaps-es, popeater.ca re-ports.

A partycele-

brating the Jewish festivalof Purim was interruptedSaturday night when iceshattered a glass atrium ofSony Plaza in Manhattan.TMZ reports that celebguests Chris Noth, Nicole“Snooki” Polizzi and Vin-ny Guadagnino were not

injured.Just after the alarming

accident, Snookitweeted, “It’s

okay Vin andI are stillalive ...

Omg roof just collapsed atthe purim event! Wethought the dj was beatinthe beat hardcore but

nope, the roofcouldn’t han-

dle snookiand vin ...”

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Just a little to the left ...

DEPRESSION IS A SERIOUS MEN-

TAL ILLNESS Michael Blosil,the 18-year-old adopted sonof Marie Osmond, commit-ted suicide Friday by jump-ing to his death from hisLos Angeles apartment, theperformer announced. “My

family and I are devastatedand in deep shock by thetragic loss of our dearMichael and ask that every-one respect our privacy dur-ing this difficult time,” Os-mond said in a statement.

METRO WORLD NEWS

Marie’s son commits suicide

PARIS DIDN’T WANT THE VIP

SECTION IN HER OWN HOUSE

TO BECOME TOO CROWDED

Though her birthday wasback on Feb. 17, ParisHilton kept the cele-brations going fornearly 10 days, cap-ping off her birth-day week with amassive Studio 54-theme party at herL.A. home Friday,

according to E! News.Guests included

boyfriend Doug Reinhardt,sister Nicky Hilton and her

boyfriend, David Katzen-berg, Hayden Panet-tiere, Brandon Davisand Paris’ parents.The former SimpleLife star spent mostof the night in a desig-

nated VIP area. METRO WORLD NEWS

Stay behind the velvet cord

OR THE BOOZE After fessingup to her past drinkingand drug problems andsaying she now only drinksin moderation,Lindsay Lohanhas beenspotted liv-ing it upthree nightsin a row inL.A., includ-ing a nightout to see

ex-girlfriend SamanthaRonson, according to Peo-ple magazine.

“She wouldn’t leave, andat the end of the night, youcould tell she was waitingfor Sam,” a source says ofLohan’s visit to nightclubBardot Hollywood, whereRonson was deejaying.

“They never talked at all,though, and Sam was defi-

nitely avoiding (her).” METRO WORLD NEWS

Lindsay just doesn’tknow how to quit her

SO IS A HEALTHY LIVER ColinFarrell doesn’t regret hiswild child days, fe-malefirst.co.uk re-ports.

The Irish actor,who claims to havenot touched drugsfor three years andalcohol for nearlytwo, insists his life

is not a “sad story” and hasmany great memories.

“The ins and outs ofwhat I’ve been through,even when it comes torehab, is not a sad sto-ry.” he says. “I had a

great time.” METRO NEWS

SERVICES

Drinking is a thing of the past Gatorade:Is it in you?NOT ANY MORE, IT AIN’T Aweek after his public apol-ogy for cheating on hiswife, Tiger Woods wasdropped by big-time spon-sor Gatorade, according toGolf Digest.

The sports drink compa-ny reportedly canceled afive-year, $100 millioncontract it had entered in-to with Woods in 2007.

“We no longer see a rolefor Tiger in our marketingefforts and have ended ourrelationship,”said a Gatoradestatement.

“We wishhim all thebest.”

METRO WORLD

NEWS

LILY ALLEN goesabout ending afeud withCourtney Love thewrong way, ELLIOTT

YAMIN reports live from theChile earthquake, andNATHAN FILLION isconcerned about yourhealth.

@lilyroseallen i would neverfight with her, as a rule idon’t pick on crazy oldladies.

@elliottyamin Hugeearthquake just now inChile!!....I swear I thoughtthis was the end of mylife!!!!!

@NathanFillion So manyfolks have Olympic Fever. I’mjust glad it’s notOlympic Her-pes.

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The ins and outs

Chynna Phillips, left, of the pop group Wilson Phillips, has checked out of the facility where shewas being treated for anxiety, her manager, Lizzie Grubman, tells people.com. METRO NEWS SERVICES

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Take Five

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Andrew Schultz, Meteorologist – Breakfast Television“ I get to spread the word on how your day, evening or weekend will shape up with ourever-changing weather here in Alberta”. WEEKDAYS AT 6 A.M.

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PREVIOUS DAY’S CROSSWORD AND SUDOKU ANSWERS:

Sudoku

Ham ’n’ Pea Soup INGREDIENTS:

2 tbsp (25 mL) olive oil1 large onion, chopped2 3/4 cups (675 mL) frozenpeas3 cups (750 mL) chickenstock7 oz (200 g) cooked ham,diced3 1/2 oz (100 g) reduced-fatsoft cheese1/2 tsp (2 mL) freshly grat-ed nutmeg

METHOD:

1. Heat oil in large pot andfry onion gently 5-6 min-utes to soften.2. Stir in peas and stock,and bring to boil. Reduceheat, cover and simmer 5

minutes. Season lightly.3. Put soup in food proces-sor and whiz to fairlyrough purée. Add ham andreturn to pot. Heat untilboiling.4. Add soft cheese and stirgently until just melted.Ladle soup into bowls andsprinkle with nutmeg.Serve with soda bread orcrusty bread.

SERVES 4

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GEMINIMAY 22-JUNE 21

Something you overhear in ca-sual conversation could lead toa wonderful opportunity today,so keep your ears open.

CANCERJUNE 22-JULY 22

You don’t have to reveal yourdeepest feelings to other peo-ple but it will certainly pay youto open up a little more thanusual.

LEOJULY 23-AUG 23

We all make mistakes and to-day’s cosmic picture meansyou must be ruthless withyourself — but in a positiveway. Forget about the past.

VIRGOAUG 24-SEPT 22

Take control of your life. Refuseto let anyone make decisionsfor you. You know what youwant and you know how to getit.

LIBRASEPT 23-OCT 23

You will have to make somedifficult decisions over the nextfew days. Do what has to bedone, then put it out of yourmind and get on with your life.

SCORPIOOCT 24-NOV 22

There are certain issues that getyour pulse racing and yourblood boiling and one such issuewill set you off today. Be passion-ate but make allowances too.

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You will create something won-derful over the next seven days.The current cosmic climate isespecially good for writing andspeaking, so don’t be shy.

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