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LOCAL. About 1,000 Ontarioschools will be more energy-efficient thanks to a $550-million program. Page 3Ontario will have the tough-est rules when its pesticideban takes effect. Page 4COMMENT AND VIEWS. PaulSullivan weighs in on what afatter planet will mean forthe environment. Page 14.GO GREEN. Metro’s specialEarth Day section takes alook at environmental issuesaround the world — fromwhat changing climatesmean to wine producers, tothe effect plastic is having onour oceans. Pages 19-22.METRO DRIVE. We take alook at Toyota’s reinventedPrius hybrid. Page 29.An expert tells us why variety in Green technologyis needed. Page 30.ENTERTAINMENT: Our movie

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In honour of EarthDay, Metro Torontowill be published onrecycled paper everyday this week.

Albert Einstein famouslypredicted that if beeswere to cease to exist, humans could last onlyfour years after the lastbee died.

A shocking estimation,but these pollinators trulymake our ecosystems

work. What’s frightening is

that the world’s pollina-tors, predators, prey, vege-tation and oceans that werely on for food, oxygenand water are at risk.

Which is precisely whyMetro is dedicating this

year’s annual Green Metroto the topic of biodiversity— a term that, quite sim-ply put, means the vast va-riety of plants, animalsand natural resourcesfound on Earth.

Like bees. So read on — and plant

a garden. Rideyour bike. Remem-ber the oceans, thebees, the worms — theyare your neighbours ...and our heroes.

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Ontarioranked second on greenreport cardRATINGS British Columbia isthe greenest province inCanada, says a nationwidereport set for release onEarth Day today.

The first ever GreenProvincial Report Cardissued by the independentCorporate Knights groupsays B.C. gets a C+ with 69per cent, and Ontario placessecond with 67 per cent.

Prince Edward Island isthe brownest province inCanada, earning an F with ascore of 32 per cent.

The report’s authorslooked at 10 categories,including greenhouse gases,green jobs, green energy, or-ganic food, water use, biodi-versity and car dependency.

Corporate Knightsspokesman Toby Heaps saysB.C. comes in first because ofits green jobs, green build -ings, organic food and ener-gy efficiency.

Prince Edward Islandranks lowest due to its poorrecord on protecting land,car dependency, green build-ing, energy efficiency andenvironmental rights.

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TRAVEL Other travel agen-cies may be facing finan-cial woes similar to Con-quest Vacations, whosesudden collapse standedthousands of travellersabroad, PremierDaltonMcGuintysaid yes-terday as hecalled for a reviewof the travel indus-try’s self-regulating watch-dog.

While the Travel Indus-try Council of Ontario(TICO) came under fire fornot warning consumersabout Conquest's precari-ous position, McGuintysaid the agency has to walka fine line.

“The problem is right

now there are likely anumber of businesses thatare experiencing some realchallenges, and if TICOwere to blow the whistleon them, that’s the equiva-lent of a death sentence,”

he said.Since there’s no “warn-

ing card” equivalent underthe TICO system, McGuin-ty said he wants a quick re-view of the agency to see ifit needs more powers toprotect consumers.

“If TICO blows the whis-tle too early, then all thepeople who are employed

in that travel business aregoing to be out of a job.”

The travel council hassaid it’s trying to help

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rooms afterConquest

closed its doors last weekbecause of economic prob-lems, leaving many of itscustomers in the lurch.

TICO administers a $29-million travel industryfund that will reimbursetravellers up to $5,000 ifthey’re forced to pay theirhotel because their touroperator did not pay thebill. THE CANADIAN PRESS

About 1,000 Ontarioschools will become moreenergy-efficient thanks toa $550-million, two-yearprogram announced yes-terday by Premier DaltonMcGuinty.

The 72 school boards inthe province will decidewhich schools will be eligi-ble for the green improve-ments, which could in-clude more efficient heat-ing and cooling systems,smart thermostats, lightoccupancy sensors, andhigh-efficiency windows,roofs and boilers.

“By retrofitting ourschools, we’re creatingjobs while saving energyand money, and teachingour kids about greenerways to live,” McGuintysaid.

The school projects willstart this summer after

classes end in June, hesaid, and will help createabout 5,500 temporaryjobs.

The money comes from

the government’s $32-bil-lion infrastructure pro-gram announced in thisyear’s provincial budget.

The Progressive Conser-

vatives complained thegovernment lacks a de-tailed plan for the infra-structure spending.

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Man in hospital following home invasionThree men, one with a gun, burst into a Scarborough home and attacked a resident, sending him to hospital with serious injuries, police said. The home invasionon Ascolda Boulevard, near Markham Road and Eglinton Avenue East, happened around 4 a.m. Monday. Police are seeking three suspects. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICES

Clinton, Bush coming to TorontoFormer U.S. presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush will appear togetherin Toronto on May 29. The two will appear at the Metro Toronto ConventionCentre for their first public meeting since Bush left the White House in Janu-ary. The two are expected to discuss challenges facing the world and the Unit-ed States in a discussion expected to last a couple of hours. THE CANADIAN PRESS

INDEXCanada Pg 7World Pg 9Comment Pg 14Workology Pg 15Go Green Pg 19Sports Pg 23Metro Drive Pg 29Travel Pg 36Entertainment Pg 42TV Pg 48Celebrity Buzz Pg 49Take Five Pg 50

Tomorrow’s Metro

RelatingAndrea Woogives readersher take ondealing withmodern daydating and rela-tionships.

Video Tamil protestersrally on Parliament Hill, atmetronews.ca/CanadaVideo Hijacked flight pas-sengers reunite with family,at metronews.ca/canadaBlogs Kenya Hunt weighsin on the Susan Boylemakeover debate. TheBritain’s Got Talent contest-ant wowedaudienceswith heramazingvoicedespite a lessthanstunningappear-ance.

What’s online today.

LotteriesOntario Pick 3: 6 9 8; Ontario Pick 4 : 9 0 7 5

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TICO under fire for Conquest

G2 drivers tobe allowedpassengersPOLICY Young drivers in On-tario will soon be facingnew restrictions now thata government bill haspassed in the provinciallegislature.

The new rules impose azero blood-alcohol limitfor all Ontario drivers aged21 and under.

But drivers aged 16 to 19with a G2 licence won’t belimited to just one otherteen in the vehicle.

The government put thebrakes on that proposalfollowing a public uproaron the social networkingwebsite Facebook.

More than 150,000 peo-ple joined the onlineprotest and members ofthe legislature were inun-dated with complaints.

At the time, Premier Dal-ton McGuinty admittedhe’d “stepped in it” withthe restriction and jokedthat even his four grownchildren were giving him ahard time about it.

THE CANADIAN PRESS

Province dives into save city poolsSCHOOLS Premier DaltonMcGuinty says the debateover pools at Torontoschools has gone on longenough.

McGuinty confirmed yes-terday the Ontario govern-ment will provide capitalfunding to keep the poolsopen at Toronto schools.

He said the schools arean important resource forstudents and for the publicin the neighbourhood —even though no otherschool boards in Ontariohave swimming pools.

Toronto has 79 pools atschools, but has only 30city-run indoor pools forits 2.5 million residents, somany public swim pro-grams operate in schoolpools. THE CANADIAN PRESS

News in briefEARTH DAY The Boys and GirlsClubs of Canada and Direct En-ergy will have Earth Day cele-bration and family barbecue inRegent Park today. The celebra-tion kicks off at 4 p.m. at theToronto Kiwanis Boys and GirlsClubs at 101 Spruce St., nearParliament and Gerrard streets.

STUDENT FEES Angry Universi-ty of Toronto students will askOntario’s Superior Court of Jus-tice to block plans to chargepart-time students a full-timefee, claiming officials failed tofollow proper rules of orderwhen they changed theproposal at a recent meeting.The University of Toronto Stu-dents’ Union and the Arts andScience Students’ Union areslated to appear in courttomorrow against the “flatfee” plan. METRO NEWS SERVICES

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With some help from Mayor David Miller, Grade 5 students from Chalkfarm Public School startthe planting of city hall’s green roof, part of the new green initiatives taking place in the city.

Pesticide crackdownOntario will enact thetoughest rules in Canadawhen its pesticide bantakes effect today, a movethat could land theprovince in the legalcrosshairs of aninternational tradedispute.

Ontario is joining Que-bec in restricting the use ofpesticides, but its rules gofurther by prohibiting thesale and cosmetic use ofmore than 80 ingredientsand 250 products, with fewexceptions, experts say.

Other provinces are con-

sidering similar restric-tions to protect the envi-ronment and publichealth, including BritishColumbia, Prince EdwardIsland and New Brunswick,said Lisa Gue of the DavidSuzuki Foundation.

Science hasn’t yetproven what effect, if any,pesticides have on ourhealth, but given the risks,governments must err on

the side of caution, Guesaid from Ottawa.

Experts, such as the On-tario College of FamilyPhysicians, have warnedthat the long-term effectsof exposure to pesticidescan be devastating, espe-cially to pregnant womenand children.

Ontario will still allowpesticides to be used infarming, forestry or forhealth and safety reasons,such as controlling mos-quitoes that can carry dis-eases like the West Nilevirus. THE CANADIAN PRESS

Ontario pushing plan forits ‘Zero Waste Future’GREEN The experts agree.Within 20 years, they say,Ontario’s landfill sites willbe maxed out with a prolif-eration of waste, much ofit bottles, cans, bags andan endless panoply ofpackaging. At the sametime, expectations forsweeping change — fromstudents, environmental-ists and policy-makers —have never been higher.

So how do we convert allthat momentum into ac-tion?

One of the most preva-lent steps being taken by

Ontario is to implementExtended Producer Re-sponsibility, the Europeanconcept that the manufac-turer must cover the fullcost of properly recyclingor disposing of a product atthe end of its life cycle.

While corporate cultureremains wary of the costs,Ontario Environment Min-ister John Gerretsen hasembraced EPR, and theprovince will push forwarda massive review of wastediversion called “Toward aZero Waste Future.”

TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE

Caribana gets injection of life

FESTIVAL The recessioncould swell Caribanacrowds by forcing somepeople to look for summer

fun in Toronto instead ofabroad, organizers say.

Last year, some 1.3 mil-lion people took in theCaribbean festival. The fes-tival struggled financiallyfor years but yesterday or-ganizers announced a new,three-year sponsorshipagreement with Scotia-bank TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE

NDP fuming overbudget motionPOLITICS Loud cries, hecklesand fist-pounding broughtthe Ontario legislature toan abrupt halt yesterday asoutraged New Democratsprotested what they calleda government attempt topass its budget withoutproper public debate.

The NDP are upset witha motion to limit public de-bate on the budget bill toone day, depriving peoplewho are upset about amerged sales tax and pen-sion reforms the opportu-nity to air their concerns.

TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE

News in briefCOURT An admitted sexoffender showed little reactionas hours of child pornographyhe has admitted to making inhis Whitby home were shownin court yesterday as theCrown continued to make itscase. Michael Ross Stratton, 41,taped more than 60 hours ofsexual abuse during a 14-yearperiod leading up to his arrestin June 2006. The case contin-ues today. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE

EARTH DAY: APRIL 22

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Police release Beer Store robbery videoDurham police have released video they hope will help locate two men who smashed the window of a Beer Store on Main Street North in

Uxbridge around 1:30 a.m. on April 14, making off with nine boxes of beer. Police are looking for two men, ages 16 to 19. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE

Earth Day a hitMost Canadians still seeEarth Day as important de-spite concerns that currentstormy economic timesare raining on the environ-mental parade, a new sur-vey suggests.

The Harris-Decima poll,released yesterday, findsCanadians are more likelyto give a green thumbs-down to the financial crisisthan see its environmentalbenefits.

Overall, one-third of re-spondents said the econom-ic downturn has had a nega-tive impact on making envi-ronmentally friendly choic-es, while 26 per cent be-lieved the effect is positive.

“There’s still a senseamong many Canadiansthat making an environ-

mental choice might be amore costly choice, at leastin the immediate term,”said Jeffrey Walker, seniorvice-president of Harris-Dec-ima. “(But) there’s a largesegment of Canadianswhose behaviour does notappear to be affected basedon where the economy isgoing.”

Organizers say about sixmillion Canadians will joinas many as one billion peo-ple in 170 countries world-wide in marking Earth Daytoday.

“It’s when times are

tough that you’ve got to re-ally show that you’re will-ing to adjust to this kind oflifestyle,” said Toronto resi-dent Miranda Fong.

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COURTS A former beer mag-nate was acquitted yester-day by a judge who said heis “probably” guilty of sexu-al assault but that conflict-ing and equally credible tes-timony left him with rea-sonable doubt.

The now 22-year-oldwoman accused FrankD’Angelo of grabbing her,stripping her and forcingher to have sex in a hotelroom in June 2007.

D’Angelo, the formerowner of Steelback Brewerywho turns 50 this week,maintained the sex with hislongtime friend’s daughterwas consensual.

Yesterday, Justice JohnHamilton said there was lit-tle evidence for him to con-

sider other than the two sto-ries. While Hamilton saidhe found the evidence ofD’Angelo and his accusercredible, he added “at most,he may be or probably isguilty.”

“But I am left with a rea-sonable doubt on the totali-ty of the evidence and so heis acquitted,” Hamilton said.

Outside court D’Angelo’slawyer, Gary Clewley, dis-missed the judge’s com-ment and stressed that hisclient had been acquitted.

Court heard that thewoman from Aurora, Ont.,met D’Angelo for lunch inhopes of landing a job as anevents co-ordinator at theSteelback Grand Prix.

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D’Angelo acquitted

OLG ticketsprinted withwrong date RECALL Ontario’s scandal-plagued lottery corporationsays it’s recalling 92 lotterytickets.

The Ontario Lottery andGaming Corp. says it’sreplacing or refunding 92tickets because the wrongdraw date was printed onthe tickets, which makesthem null and void. All tick-ets were sold between 2p.m. and 5 p.m. on Monday.

Forty of the recalled tick-ets were part of Monday’sdraw for the Pick 3, DailyKeno and Pick 4 games. Theremaining 52 tickets wereissued for the Super 7, Lot-tario, Lotto 6-49 and Paydaygames to be drawn thisweek. THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Frank D’Angelo was acquitted yesterday at 361 University Court-house on charges of sexual assault against a 22-year-old woman.He was joined by his lawyer Gary Clewley after the decision.

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cy protection.Ontario Superior Court

Justice Alexandra Hoy ini-tially ruled that Chrysler,General Motors, Magna In-ternational, New ProcessGear and Gates Canadashould pay the originalprice into security at thecourt until it is determined

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fied ruling that the partiesshould pay 1.75 times theoriginal price, and modifiedthat ruling again late lastweek, asking the parties topay twice the original priceuntil the matter is resolved.

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News in briefARSON Police are seeking twosuspects in a Monday night fireat a real estate office on MainStreet in Unionville in Markham.The first suspect is described aswhite, 18 to 19, 6’0”, 160 poundswith a thin build, shaved head,wearing a brown suede jacketand brown jeans. The second isdescribed as 18 to 19 years, 5’8",thin build and wearing a whiteT-shirt. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE

Survey says• 21 per cent worry govern-ment and businesses arebuckling under fiscal pres-sure when it comes to mak-ing green choices.• 37 per cent said the badeconomy is having no im-pact on their eco-friendlychoices.• 71 per cent said Earth Dayremains important, but al-most one-quarter believethe event has outlived itsusefulness.

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Cop charged with fraudA St. John’s, N.L., RCMP officer is facing seven fraud charges after the police force conducted an internal review into government credit cardspending between June 2006 and May 2007. Cpl. Donald Perrett was charged with seven counts of fraud under $5,000. THE CANADIAN PRESS

Cracking down on crimeThe best way to fight gangs and organized crime is to disrupt thecriminal enterprises they depend on, Justice Minister Rob Nichol-

son said yesterday as the Tory government introducedlegislation to crack down on the $1-billion-a-year auto-theftindustry. Nicholson made the announcement in Montreal —Canada’s stolen vehicle capital. THE CANADIAN PRESS

Tamil protesters packedthe front lawn ofParliament in one of thelargest demonstrations inyears to demand the Cana-dian government pressureSri Lanka to end a militaryassault in their homeland.

The RCMP said therewere at least 33,000 Tamilsupporters assembled onthe lawns in front of thePeace Tower. The size of thedemonstration promptedsome MPs to acknowledgethe protesters for the firsttime in two weeks.

Highways into the capitalwere choked with busesand cars ferrying Tamil sup-porters onto the Hill earlyyesterday. Their numbersgrew throughout the day.

Entire families, fromgrandmothers to babies in

strollers draped in plasticto ward off rain, pulled outof school and work tostand together at thedemonstration. Protestersbeat drums, chanted, andmarched in a procession offoam crosses and coffins

amid a steady drizzle.The demonstrators want

Canada to do more to forcethe Sri Lankan governmentto end its offensive againstthe last stronghold of theTamil Tigers.

The offensive has report-

edly killed thousands ofcivilians, although casualtyfigures are impossible toverify because the govern-ment has barred reportersfrom entering the war zone.

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JAMAICA Canadian-trainedJamaican military com-mandos pulled a CanJet co-pilot through an opencockpit window beforethey climbed in them-selves, poised to put abloodless end to theovernight hijacking dramaaboard Flight 918.

More details emergedyesterday about what hap-pened in Montego Bay, Ja-maica, during the finalmoments of the ordeal,which began with 167 pas-

sengers and crew beingheld hostage and endedpeacefully with the arrestof their Jamaican captor.

Once inside, members ofthe Jamaican Defence For ce– trained in Canada byCanadian Forces members –lay in wait for the gunman.

“At about 7 o’clock ... theoperation was carried outto disarm him, overpowerhim, and free the crew,”said Jamaican National Se-curity Minister Dwight Nel- son. THE CANADIAN PRESS

News in briefREPORT A new report says thefederal government needs todo much more to assist the ag-ing population, including beef-ing up pension, old age assis-tance and compassionate carebenefits.APPEAL Federal Court will hear

an appeal in the case of thefirst female U.S. soldier whofled to Canada to avoid fight-ing in Iraq. Kimberly Rivera’srequest to stay in Canada onhumanitarian and compassion-ate grounds was rejected inJanuary. THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Water strategy called into questionEnvironment commissioner Scott Vaughan says the Tory government has made negligible progress on a national water strategy, promised more than two years ago.

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Tori Stafford’s mother saidyesterday she hopes aguilty conscience drivesher daughter’s abductor tolet the eight-year-old girlgo and had a directmessage for whoever hashurt her family.

“I don’t know why you’vedone this to my family,”Tara McDonald said outsideher small, Woodstock, Ont.,home. “I don’t understand,but just let her go. She does-n’t deserve this. Wedon’t deserve this.”

McDonald said shehopes that the “guiltjust eats” at Tori’s ab-ductors.

“Honestly, I hopethat they see the painand agony that theyare causing my fami-ly.”

After nearly two weeks ofan apparently fruitlesssearch of the city of Wood-stock for the bright andbubbly little girl, her frus-trated mother hopes thesearch area will be expand-ed.

“I want it to start going

elsewhere,” McDonald said.“Who would be stupidenough to keep her in thissmall community?”

Provincial and local po-lice have scoured the city ofabout 35,000 since April 8for the missing girl withdoor-to-door canvasses,searches of lakes and eventhe landfill.

But they have come upempty-handed. Not onlyhave they not found Tori,

no physical evidenceof the girl or whoev-er took her hasturned up at all. Po-lice are treating thecase as an abduction.

The only tangiblelead police have dis-cussed publicly is sur-veillance video show-ing Tori walking with

an unidentified womannear her school the day shedisappeared.

Police have said they have“pretty substantial direc-tion” regarding the wo -man’s identity, but declinedto divulge more details.

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Politicians question RCMPTaser-use policyOTTAWA Members of a par-liamentary committeehave accused the RCMP ofloosening rules on the re-peated zapping of suspectswith a Taser.

Opposition MPs on theCommons public safetycommittee grilled RCMPCommissioner William El-liott yesterday.

They asked why theforce dropped a writtenwarning not to fire Tasersrepeatedly unless the situ-ationdemands it.

Elliotttold thecommitteethere is nosimple pre-scription forusing theweapon. Buthe insistedthat overall, the new Taserpolicy is more restrictivethan before.

“I wish that all of thiswas simple,” he said. “Butit is not simple.”

He said officers aretaught that any use offorce must be necessaryand reasonable.

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Google defendsStreet ViewTECHNOLOGY The chief finan-cial officer of Google Inc. in-sists people love the compa-ny’s Street View despite theprivacy concerns surround-ing the technology.

Street View uses a special360-degree camerainstalled on the roof of a ve-hicle and was created togive users the ability to vir-tually roam the streets ofurban centres, downtowncores, tourist attractions,commercial centres andneighbourhoods.

The Canadian version ofStreet View is expected tobe launched in severalcities in the coming weeks.

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News in brief

FLOODING Flood water isreceding across most of Mani-toba, but officials say it willtake weeks for it to disappear.Forecasters say wind and rainare now the only threats formuch of the province.

INQUIRY A police Taser expertwho analyzed the unit used onRobert Dziekanski says his de-partment no longer uses theelectric stun guns on its ownofficers in training.

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Victoria Stafford’s mother, Tara McDonald, speaks to reportersyesterday as partner James Gorris announces from the doorwaythat she was finished with questions for the day. Wednesdaymarks two weeks since eight-year-old Victoria, nicknamed Tori,failed to return home from school in Woodstock, Ont.

‘I don’t know why you’vedone this to my family’

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Horse deaths investigatedFlorida authorities have begun a criminal investigation into the deaths of 21 polo horses from aVenezuelan-owned team preparing to play a match over the weekend. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Some love for CanadaSome Connecticut legislators want the state to honour its

neighbour to the north, and they’re not talking aboutMassachusetts. The state senate has unanimously ap-proved a bill that would establish June 24 each year asCanadian-American Day in Connecticut. It now goes to

the state house for a vote. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

A diplomatic skirmishbroke out yesterday oversuggestions by Janet Na -politano, the U.S. home-land security secretary,that terrorists have rou-tinely entered the U.S.through Canada, includ-ing the perpetra tors ofthe Sept. 11 attacks.

Napolitano’s remarks ina CBC interview earlier thisweek have angered someCanadians and promptedthe normally reserved Can -adian ambassador to theUnited States, Michael Wil-son, to forcefully set therecord straight.

As the keynote speakerat the Border Trade Al-liance meeting in Wash-

ington, Wilson said he was“frustrated” that the 9/11myth has resurfaced onceagain, almost eight yearsafter the terrorist attacks.

“Unfortunately, miscon-ceptions arise on some-thing as fundamental aswhere the 9/11 terroristscame from,” Wilson said.

“As the 9/11 commissionreported in 2004, all of the9/11 terrorists arrived inthe United States fromoutside North America.They flew to major U.S. air-ports. They entered theU.S. with documents is-sued by the United Statesgovernment and no 9/11terrorists came from Cana-da.” THE CANADIAN PRESS

9/11 mythresurfaces

COLOMBO Sri Lanka’s Tamilrebels said yesterday that1,000 civilians died in a gov-ernment raid on their terri-tory that the military saysfreed thousands of noncom-batants from the war zone.The military denied the ac-cusation.

Government forces saythey rescued thousands ofcivilians Monday after theybroke through a barrierbuilt by the rebels to pro-tect their territory. By Tues-day evening, the militarysaid some 52,000 had es-caped.

Thousands of civilians al-so took to the sea, packingonto small boats to flee thecoastal strip of land that themilitary has backed the

rebels into. Naval boats pa-trolled the waters, pullingthose fleeing aboard theirown vessels before trans-porting them to camps,where Tamils who have es-caped the war are beingheld. On Monday, morethan 2,000 people in about100 boats were picked up.

Rights groups say the

rebels are holding manyagainst their will to use ashuman shields. But thosegroups have also accusedthe government of indis-criminate shelling in thetightly packed region in itsbid to end the 25-year war.Both sides deny the allega-tions against them.

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Tamil rebelssay 1,000civilians diedin army raid

A Sri Lankan government soldier carries a child as civiliansleave the last sliver of land held by the rebels near Putumat -talan, Sri Lanka, in this image taken from TV footage.

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Gun found at homeof murder suspect CRAIGSLIST Prosecutors saidyesterday they found asemiautomatic weapon atthe home of a Boston med-ical student who has beenordered held without bailon charges he shot todeath a masseuse he hadlured to a hotel throughCraigslist.

Philip Markoff saidnothing during the briefhearing in Boston Munici-pal Court.

Authorities said they fol-lowed a computer trail toMarkoff, linking anaccount used to set up ap-pointments on Craigslistwith two women.

Markoff, a second-yearBoston University medicalstudent, is charged withmurder in the death ofJulissa Brisman of NewYork City and kidnappingand armed robbery in theother assault.

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Iraq war unconstitutional?Opponents of the Iraq war say former U.S. president George W. Bush overstepped his authority when the United States invaded Iraq in 2003. A veteran and two

mothers of soldiers are trying to get the war declared unconstitutional. Their lawyers made arguments in federal court in Newark, N.J. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

More than 100 countrieshave agreed on a declara-tion to combat racism andrelated forms ofintolerance worldwide.

The United States was notamong them, promptingsharp criticism from

African-American groupsparticipating in the UN’ssecond global conferenceon racism.

Canada also stayed awayfrom the conference inGeneva, as did Germany,Italy, Poland, Australia, New

Zealand and the Nether-lands.

The 143-point declarationis a broad call to fightracism and discriminationagainst minorities.

It also warns againststereotyping people be-

cause of their religion, a keydemand of Islamic stateswho say Muslims have beenunfairly targeted for theirbeliefs since the Sept. 11,2001, terrorist attacks inthe United States.

“The boycott of the Oba-

ma administration bothsaddens us and angers us,”said Jaribu Hill, executivedirector of the MississippiWorkers’ Center for HumanRights. “We will not let Mr.Obama off the hook simplybecause he stands inside

black skin, or because hiscampaign served to ener-gize and inspire thousandsof young people and peopleof colour, and those whohave historically beenlocked out,” she said.

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Declaration signed, harsh words for Obama Over 100 countries agree to combat racism, intolerance at UN global conference

Leona Helmsley and her dog Trouble photographed in her ParkLane Hotel apartment in New York in 2003.

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Trustees of real estatebaroness Leona Helmsley’sestate say they’re giving$136 million to charity —with just $1 million goingto the dogs.

Helmsley’s estate an-nounced 53 charitablegrants yesterday, the bulk ofwhich went to New YorkCity hospi-tals andmedical re-search. Thelargestgrant, $40million,went to a di-gestive dis-eases centreat New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Cen-ter, while $35 million wentto start two research facili-ties in Helmsley’s name atMount Sinai Medical Center.

The estate for Helmsley— who died in 2007 at age87 — divided $1 millionequally to 10 animal rightscharities, including theAmerican Society for the

Prevention of Cruelty to An-imals.

Animal rights groups re-joiced last year at public re-ports that Helmsley speci-fied in her will that hermultibillion-dollar hoteland real estate empireshould go entirely to dog-re-lated charities.

But a surrogate courtjudge ruled in Februarytrustees for the Leona M.and Harry B. Helmsley Char-itable Trust had sole authori-ty to decide which charitiesbenefit from her estate.

“Throughout their lives,the Helmsleys were com-mitted to helping othersthrough the innovations ofmedical research of re-sponding to those in needduring critical times and inother areas,” the trusteessaid in a statement yester-day. “We now have the priv-ilege of continuing theirgood works by providingsupport where it will makea difference.”

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Baroness’ dogs lose,but charities win big

News in brief

KABUL The Afghangovernment has held “gooddiscussions” with Taliban mili-tants as it seeks a way to endan increasingly bloodyinsurgency against Afghan andforeign forces, an official saidyesterday. No specifics onprogress made was offered.

DEATHS Four people founddead in a hotel room near Bal-timore were members of aNew York family, police saidyesterday, and they continuedto investigate the case as amurder-suicide. Autopsieswere planned yesterday.

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Swine flu in humansU.S. authorities are investigating two cases of swine flu in children in Cali- fornia who had no contact with pigs or with each other. THE CANADIAN PRESS

Bush aides warned‘Torture lawyers’ could face prosecutionPresident Barack Obamasaid yesterday the U.S. lost“our moral bear ings” withgruesome terror-suspectinterroga tions and he leftthe door open to prosecut-ing Bush administrationofficials who vouched fortheir legality.

Obama said the questionof whether to bring char ges“is going to be more of a de-cision for the attorney gen-eral.” Obama had said earli-er that he didn’t want to

see prosecutions of CIAagents and interrogatorswho took part in harsh in-

terrogationtactics, solong as theyacted withinparametersspelled outby govern-ment supe-riors who

held that such practiceswere legal at the time.

But the administration’s

stance on Bush administra-tion lawyers who actuallywrote the memos approv-ing these tactics has beenless clear.

The president orderedthe release last week oftop-secret Bush-era memosthat gave the govern-ment’s first full accountingof the CIA’s use of simulat-ed drowning and otherharsh methods while ques-tioning terror suspects.

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Candidates for the 2009 Miss Philippines Earth beauty pageant display placards urging ways tosave Mother Earth during media presentation in Manila, Philippines, yesterday. A total 50 Filipinobeauties are vying for this year’s title in a unique contest with a goal to save Mother Earth.

Kenyan villagers clash withcriminal gang, killing 28 BANNED Villagers in centralKenya clashed with a crim-inal gang using machetes,axes and clubs, killing atleast 28 people and leavingstreets stained with blood,police said yesterday.

Residents near the townof Karatina fought Mungi-ki members overnight be-cause the gang had beenextorting money fromthem, police said.

The Mungiki emerged in

the 1990s, inspired by the1950s Mau Mau rebellionagainst British colonialrule, and the gang hasbeen linked to extortion,murder and political vio-lence. The banned group isbelieved to have thousandsof followers, drawn fromthe Kikuyu, Kenya’s largesttribe and the dominantforce in the country’s poli-tics and business.

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British taxi rapistjailed for 8 yearsCABBIE A British court hassentenced London taxidriver John Worboys to aminimum of eight years inprison after he was con -vict ed of drugging and sex-ually assaulting a dozen fe-male passengers.

Prosecutors said the 51-year-old black-cab drivertargeted women who hadbeen out late and drink ingover 18 months before hisarrest in February.

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Happy Earth Day.If you’re lookingfor somethinguseful to do to-day (other than

picking up a free coffee),you might try checking ifyou can see your toes.

It turns out the world’spopulation is getting fat-ter, and that adds to the al-ready heavy load on theplanet, greenhouse gas-wise.

No, the problem is notexcessive flatu-lence, al-though Iexpectthatdoes-n’thelp.Theprob-lem, ac-cordingto British re-searchers fromthe LondonSchool of Hygiene

and Tropical Medicine, isthe fatter we get, the morelikely we are to use ourcars to get around and themore fuel those cars haveto burn to haul our sorrybutts around.

There is no doubt thespecies is increasing inbulk. Between 1994 and2004 in England, the aver-age body mass index (BMI)increased from 26 to 27.3for men and 25.8 to 26.9for women. I regret to re-port that anyone with aBMI of more than 25is considered over-weight, and over30 is obese. InCanada two-thirds of thepopulation is

overweight and one-quar-ter is obese. South of theborder, birthplace of theBig Mac, 40 per cent areobese.

The British researchersestimate one billion leanpeople will emit one bil-lion fewer tonnes of car-bon dioxide a year thanone billion fat people.

So how’s that for an in-centive? Lose weight; savethe planet.

I confess I’ve alreadybeen inadvertent-

ly saving theplanet. I

start-ed los-ingweightthisJanu-arywhen Irealizedtherewas noway Iwas go-ing torun the

Vancouver Marathonin time to qualify for

the Boston Marathon, theHoly Grail of marathons, ifI continued to weigh in ata porky 205 pounds. Sonow I weigh 179, with a

BMI of 24.3. Mother Earthhas yet to send me a thank-you card even though Icheck the mail every day,but I guess she’s prettybusy shouldering the in-creased load.

OK, maybe she won’t no-tice the reduction, butyou’ve got to start some-where. I have to admit Ihaven’t felt this, uh, boun-cy in years. It may not beenough to beat four hoursin the marathon on May 3,which is what I need to doto qualify for Boston, butlumbering around thestreets of Vancouver for 26miles at 205 pounds is nofun. For so many reasons,light is right.

So Canada, I dare you.Take the challenge: Lookdown. No toes? Then it’stime to get off the couch,get out of the car, and putone foot in front of theother. Take a load off Moth-er Earth … and yourself.

Word on the street: In celebration of Earth Day, what’s the biggest lifestyle changeyou’ve made to help the environment?

CarolynSladeHalifax

A: I’m trying toremember eachday to drive less… even a littlebit is going tomake a differ-ence.

SamanthaStrickerage 25,

Vancouver

A: The biggestchange I madewas selling mycar. I use transit,my roller-bladesor I’ll walk.

AmbrosiaMacDonaldage 32,

Edmonton

A: We recycleeverything. Weonly throw awayone bag of trashevery two weeks.

Adam Travisage 25, Toronto

A: We upgradedto a high-effi-ciency furnaceand air condi-tioner.

Cameron MacQuarrieage 23, Toronto

A: I don't usewater bottlesanymore. I usemy reusable Nal-gene bottle.

JefBradshawage 22, Toronto

A: Biking ... Butit’s not just onechoice, it’s aboutconstantly beingaware. I’m an ac-tivist for Green-peace.

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EARTH DAY: APRIL 22

GoGreen

Reduce, reuse and recyclecan be environmentallychallenging when it comesto a growing mountain ofdiscarded consumer elec-tronics created by the questfor all the latest gadgets.

More than 140,000tonnes of electronic wasteend up in Canadian landfillsites every year, says JedGoldberg, president ofEarth Day Canada.

Unfortunately, a lot ofconsumers don’t knowwhat to do with their dis-carded TVs, computers andvideo game consoles, hesaid from Toronto.

Part of Earth Day Cana-da’s mission is to helpCanadians lessen their im-pact on it. Canadian com-munities planned hundredsof events to celebrate EarthDay today — everythingfrom e-waste pickups andcommunity cleanups tofestivalsand lec-tures.

BothEarth DayCanada andGreenpeacesupport so-called “takeback”

programs, in which retail-ers and especially manufac-turers take back devices tohave them recycled.

“In the end, it has to bethe producer that takes re-sponsibility for recycling,”said Iza Kruszewska of U.K.-based Greenpeace Interna-tional’s toxics campaign.

She said most of the toppersonal computer makers,such as Apple, Dell, HP,Lenovo and Acer, have com-mitted to eliminating toxicchemicals, although Applehas moved more quicklythan the others.

TVs are a “huge, hugeproblem” because they areheavy and bulky and they

have cadmi-um andmercury.Older setshave leadin them,Goldbergsaid.

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vated, despite the finan-cial challenges of running

a pet store.“The costs of doing busi-

ness are very high andthey keep going up. Youhave to run a lean opera-tion to survive but you al-so have to find a decentbalance. You can’t just paypeople seven or eight dol-lars an hour and expecteverything to get donecorrectly,” Yaghejian said.

Though the world ofbusiness can be challeng-ing and often feel gloomy,Yaghejian says the bestmedicine is integrity, fair-ness and the occasionalsmile.

“You’ve got to have apositive outlook. Be hon-est and don’t hesitate totreat customers fairly andyour staff well,” he said.

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While franchiseheavyweights have comeand gone, Menagerie PetShop in Toronto has keptgrowing and defying theodds for almost threedecades.

The independentlyowned store which spansthree storefronts at 549-553 Parliament St. hasbeen a Cabbagetown sta-ple for the last 29 years ina success story that sur-prises even its owner.

Menagerie owner GarenYaghejian, 49, says hestarted the shop in 1980as a labour of love whenhe was just 20, hoping atbest to keep the storeafloat for a while.

“I was a grade ninedropout who just lovedanimals. Menagerie start-ed as a fun thing and thengrew and grew and grew,”Yaghejian said.

Born in Cairo, Egypt, toArmenian parents, Yaghe-jian grew up learningabout animals from hisdad who bred a variety ofpets as a hobby.

Yaghejian bought thestore’s location and left-over stock from a previ-ous owner in 1980, re-branding the shop andspending every last dimehe had on renovations.Menagerie’s first incarna-

tion was a tiny 350-square-foot space butgrew with its success totake over the two largeradjoining storefronts andexpand to nine or tentimes its starting size to-day.

While he has no secretsas to why the store hasprospered for all theseyears, particularly in theface of stiff competitionfrom larger pet store fran-chises, Yaghejian suspectsit may have something todo with his focus on cus-tomer service.

“We’ve kept up with thebig chains that have comethrough here over theyears. I think it’s because

we treat people right andwe don’t give people ahard time when theybring pets back,” he said.

Another likely reasonfor the store’s successcould be Yaghejian’s phi-losophy of listening close-ly to customer feedbackto decide what to put onshelves.

“Customers dictate tous what they want so overthe years we’ve listenedand gotten the productsthat work for them,”Yaghejian said.

Keeping staff happy hasalways been a priority forYaghejian who insists onpaying his workers well inorder to keep them moti-

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• Metro would like thankeveryone who has sent in apicture of their pet, we’ll tryto publish as many as wecan throughout the monthof April.

Here’s Cessena, who’s beensick for a long time, but re-cently celebrated being 10.

Here’s Bronte, makingfriends with a groundhog.

This isChewbacca, actingall crazy.

Here’s Ziggy the seven-year-old Bermese.

A staff member helps customers at the Menagerie Pet Shop. The store’s owner Garen Yaghejiansays that listening to customer feedback has help the independent story thrive against the largerpet store franchises.

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RESEARCH The water dog —a Portuguese breed fa-mously chosen by the U.S.first family as their pet —is the most studied in theworld and as a result, hasgiven many clues con-cerning several diseases.

Not only is this breed ofdogs hypoallergenic, andso harmless to ownerslike Malia Obama — theU.S. president’s eldestdaughter — who sufferfrom an allergy to fur, butscientists also expect toextract from the dogs’genes the answers to dis-eases like cancer, os-teoarthritis and hypothy-

roidism.The scientists working

on the effort are from theGeorgie Project at UtahUniversity. The main re-

searcher, Kevin Chase, ex-plained to Metro why thePortuguese water dogs areso special to science.

“They belong to a very

unique population thatpassed through the bottle-neck,” Chase said. “Alldogs in our day comefrom an initial group ofaround 30 animals.

“When we look to thewater dogs’ genetic mark-ers, they separate into afew big groups instead ofmany small ones. If theyhad separated into manysmall groups, we wouldnot be able to see the ef-fect of genes so easily.”

This Portuguese breedof dog has given cluesabout “the genetic con-trol of size and shape, alocus for osteoarthritis,for hip dysplasia and alsofor Addison disease,which suggests this is anautoimmune illness.”

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A certain type of personprefers the cold comfort ofa reptile over the warm af-fection of a puppy dog.Grant Crossman is one suchperson — he runs the trav-elling Ontario Reptile andExotic Pet Expo and owns amenagerie of cold-bloodedcreatures, including agreen-tree python.

The snake has no name— at least, none Crossmanknows of — and that’s okaywith him. Unlike main-stream pets, reptiles andother exotics are not bred tolove you.

“Interaction is going to belimited,” he dryly notes.

What they lack in intima-cy, they make up for in

longevity. You and your boxturtle are going to be livingtogether for 30 to 40 years.Snakes have lived 40-plusyears in captivity. On aver-age, you’re looking at a 25-year commitment for a rep-tile/exotic pet.

“You don’t get the im-pulse purchases,” Crossmannotes, adding that it’s an ex-pensive hobby, too. “The an-imal might cost you $100,but guaranteed the mini-mal set up is about $400.”

Crossman has livedaround snakes, lizards, am-phibians, turtles, tortoises,birds and “pocket pets” fora long time, and has tips for

those considering inviting aslithering creature home.

Can you provide thespace? This can be tricky ifyou rent. “Reptiles are al-ways on the bottom of thechain of respect and sup-port,” he says, cautioningthat many landlords won’tallow them.

Feeding is easier than itused to be, thanks to “mou-sicles.” “Everything is condi-tioned to be fed frozen-thawed rodents, so you’renot having to go grab Ham-my the hamster and throwit in.”

The average customer atthe expo is a serious hobby-ist, male or female, be-tween the ages of 25 and 40.

“You don’t get the stereo-types of long-haired and tat-tooed and young teenagersbuying this stuff because

it’s gone from 20 years ago,when the big item was a$20 iguana, to now, with$100 to $200 animals,” hesaid.

The focus on the expo iseducation, not selling. “Weexpanded it into the worldof framed insects, becauseit’s a real novelty item. In-sects and reptiles go handin hand: one’s a feeder andthe other one isn’t.”

Many municipalitiesadopted Toronto’s rules onexotic pet ownership. Thatmeans snakes no longerthan three metres, lizardsmust be under two metresand no venomous animals.

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As the economy dwindles,employers continue to seekcreative means to reducetheir bottom line.

They have tightenedbudgets through dismissals,temporary layoffs and re-duced hours, and by slash-ing more generous terms ofcompensation. Some em-ployees will resist thesechanges, and our courts areincreasingly asked to inter-vene. As an Ontario courtrecently ruled, while em-ployees have no legal enti-tlement to continued em-ployment, they do retainsome basic rights.

Just promoted, DarrellWronko had negotiated anew contract promisinghim two years’ severance ifhe was fired. His elation wasshort-lived. Shortly aftersigning the contract, hisemployer, Western Invento-ry Service Ltd., hired a newpresident who determined

Wronko’s contract had tobe changed.

Considering Wronko tohave negotiated a “sweet-heart” deal for himself,Western’s president senthim new contract that pro-vided him with only sevenmonths’ severance. Relyingon his current contract,Wronko refused to sign. AsWronko saw it, he had adeal and that deal could on-ly be changed with his con-sent. In response, the presi-dent then sent Wronko amemo advising him that intwo years’ time, his con-tract would be changed.

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Wednesday, April 22, 2009

G GreenEDITOR: MIKE.DEREZYCKY@METRONEWS.CA

Nature has always inspiredmankind. Leonardo Da Vin-ci and the Wright brotherslooked at birds in flight toinspire their flying devices.

In the same way, Swissinventor George de Mestralcreated Velcro in 1948 byanalyzing the burrs stuckto his pants and to hisdog’s fur after a walk in thecountryside.

Today, this science has aname: Biomimicry, a wordcoined by American re-searcher Janine Benyus,who published, Bio-mimicry: Innovation In-spired by Nature in 1997.

“Biomimicry, or bio-mimetics, is all about look-

ing to nature for inspira-tion and borrowing na-ture’s blueprints, its chemi-cal recipes and ecosystemstrategies,” says Benyus.

“Why reinvent the wheelwhen we have optimal so-lutions in nature that havebenefited from 3.8 billionyears of field testing andnatural selection?”

This idea actually ap-peals more and more tocompanies that are tryingto find solutions to prob-

lems nature has been deal-ing with since the dawn oflife, such as minimizing en-ergy use and manufactur-ing without toxins.

“The natural world is fullof hints on how to manu-facture in life-friendlyways,” says Benyus.

Nature is full of exam-ples of adaptation, so“when we now talk aboutthe extinction spasm,we’re talking about losingwisdom, ideas that we

would not normally havethought of,” says Benyus.

We can no longer takethis wealth for granted.That’s why the BiomimicryInstitute has initiated aprogram called InnovationThrough Conservation,asking companies to do-nate a percentage of theirproceeds to conserve thehabitat of the species theytook inspiration from.

Biomimicry proves oncemore that the loss of biodi-versity is a lot more thanan animal lover issue.

NADIA LODDO

METRO WORLD NEWS

IN PARIS

Join in the funMore than six million Canadians are expected to join 500 million peoplein more than 180 countries to celebrate Earth Day events and projects toaddress local environmental issues. Nearly every school child in Canadawill take part in an Earth Day activity.

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To our readers,

We are the world’slargest newspaper andwhatever we do can im-pact — every week — 37million people on fourcontinents.

There are things thatonly the world’s globalnewspaper can do. GoGreen is a great exampleand Metro is proud to em-brace such a huge cause.

And what is Metro do-ing to Go Green?

The philosophy behindthe Metro business planlends itself to be moregreen than its paid-for

colleagues. Our aim is toreach as many readers aspossible with the mini-mum amount of copies —as opposed to that of apaid-for newspaper,where the number ofcopies is the key, notreaders.

We print our editionson recycled paper whenwe can — all of our south-ern European editions areprinted on 100 per centrecycled paper — andwhen we can’t, we buypaper from special farmsthat use less water togrow their trees. We arethe news in brief: It takes

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USA and Canada: California may become toohot and too dry to producequality wine. The samegoes for Yakima Valley inWashington. The EastCoast looks as if it couldbenefit. The same goes forBritish Columbia and it’sOkanagan Valley.

South Americas: Both Chile and Argentinaare considered winners.The cooler sea currents inthe southern hemispherewill be to their advantage,and wine growers such asthe well-known MiguelTorres from Spain are buy-ing land here.

Africa: South Africa looks as if itwill suffer less from globalwarming than most places.However, wine growers arelooking to move to themountains.

Australia, New Zealand: Many districts are becom-ing too hot and too dry.Some of the wine growersare moving to mountainousTasmania where the cli-mate is cooler. In NewZealand, Central Otago onthe South Island could be-come the world’s possiblysouthernmost wine district.

Europe:The warmestplaces are introuble. Spainand Portugal arepredicted to bethose most likelyto suffer. Majorwine growerssuch asMiguel Tor-res in Spainare movinginto the Pyre-nees. In dis-tricts alreadyaffected,growers con-template ex-changing theTempranillowith othergrapes moresuited towarmer cli-mates. Italy, too,is suffering, es-pecially

places in the south likeSicily. Some local expertsadvocate irrigation, whichis now banned, to savevineyards in Tuscany forinstance. In France, itlooks as if the west and thesouth will be affected themost. Growers are movinginto higher regions, whenpossible, or buying land inother countries. For in-stance, winemakers fromthe famous ChampagneDistrict in France are mov-ing across the EnglishChannel, buying into thechalky regions of southernEngland. The British Islesare basking in the sun,winemakers are multiply-ing, the same goes for theamount of land taken upby vineyards. SouthernEngland could be theChampagne District of thefuture, some experts pre-dict.

Other countries: Denmark, Sweden, Finlandand other countriesaround the Baltic Sea haveso far only had amateur en-thusiasts involved in wine-making. But now it is be-coming commercial, withsome of the wines actuallyexported to buyers in oth-er countries. However,these countries will possi-bly still be too cool forlarge productions, ratherthey will produce interest-ing quality wine in smallamounts.

Asia: As surprising as it mayseem, China is already theseventh largest wine pro-ducing country in theworld. And some expertshave their eyes on an areanorthwest of Beijing asone of the most promis-ing — wines from hereare already winningprizes at internationalfairs. So get used tonames like Changyu,Dragon Seal, Great Wall

or Dynasty.

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Vin-nersand losersThe changing face of wine regions

How nature can inspire design“The natural world is full of hints on howto manufacture in life-friendly ways.”Researcher Janine Benyus

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propriate items. Also, attempt to reduce the amount of packaged goods you purchase. EARTH DAY CANADA

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Denis Hayes is the manwho made Earth Day aworld phenomenon.When Earth Day waslaunched in 1970, Hayeswas its first co-ordinatorand turned the environ-mental day into a series ofevents attended by 20 mil-lion Americans. Twentyyears later, Hayeslaunched the first interna-tional Earth Day. Result:

200 million participants in141 countries. Today, heheads Earth Day Network,which co-ordinates EarthDay activities around theworld.

Can the world become green-er through a one-dayevent?Of course not!We have noillusionsabout that.What wewere doing in1970 was toget peoplefrom very dif-ferent quar-ters to act together onproblems like lead paintand highway construction.Today, too, people have torecognize thatenvironmental problemsdon’t stop at borders. Weshould start thinking ofourselves as one species.

Has the world become greener since 1970?The United States hasbecome substantially

cleaner. We’ve cleaned uprivers and lakes and savedendangered species. Butthe world is in poorershape than it was in 1970,in almost every aspect.

What is Earth Day’s biggestaccomplishment?

1970 to ’74was the gold-en era. Wepassed the en-vironmentallaws on whichsociety stilloperates.Since then itsbiggest accom-plishment hasbeen getting

millions of school childreninvolved. Environmental-ism has become a part ofsociety. In 1970, most peo-ple didn’t even think aboutthe environment. Now, it’spart of everyone’s vocabu-lary.

What will the next environmental crisis be?The growing acidificationof the world’s oceans. Ithas devastating effects on

the smallest organisms,which will have tragic con-sequences on the wholefood chain, includinghumans.

What is the most immediateenvironmental danger today?Carbon emissions.

What is the most importantthing people can do to helpthe environment?Have no more than onechild, or two at most. Livein an energy-efficienthouse. Walk and ride yourbike.

ELISABETH BRAW

METRO WORLD NEWS

IN SAN FRANCISCO

The Inter-governmen-tal Panel on Cli-mate Change (IPCC),the scientific body createdby the United Nations toevaluate the risk of climatechange, has shown howstrong an influence scien-tists all over the world canhave on politicians andpublic opinion when theyspeak with one voice. Thiswas proven once again in

2007when the

IPCC shared the NobelPeace Prize with formerU.S. vice-president Al Gore,nearly 20 years after itsbirth.

But what about biodiver-sity? The lack of recog-nized scientific expertisein a field just as vital as cli-mate was underlined in

January 2005 at an inter-national meeting inParis by the then-French president

Jacques Chirac. Over thepast four years, theidea has progressed,and the creation ofwhat will be called theIntergovernmentalPlatform on Biodiver-sity and EcosystemServices (IPBES) is nowonly a question of time. “The IPBES should

work more or less like theIPCC,” says Didier Babin,the researcher who led ne-gotiations until the UnitedNations Environment Pro-gram (UNEP) officially tookover the project in Febru-ary.

Just as the IPCC (which iscomposed of more than2,000 scientists worldwide),the IPBES will not carry outresearch, but will be taskedto publish special reportsthat gather state-of-the-artstudies conducted by recog-nized scientists around the

world. Its main objective isto bring about common in-dicators that will have aninternational scope andwork as a bridge betweenthe distant worlds of sci-ence and politics to makeaction … and fast.

“IPCC and IPBES willprobably also work togeth-er,” says Babin, as there arestructural links betweenbiodiversity and climatechange.

“Think about the rainforests that are immensecarbon reservoirs and atthe same time among theglobe’s major biodiversityhot spots.”

IPBES will certainlyhave a lot to do in the nextfew years. A lot of hope islaid in this new panel thatshould be officiallyopened in 2010, duringwhat the UN has alreadylabelled the “year of biodi-versity.”

NADIA LODDO

METRO WORLD NEWS

IN PARIS

Greetings, EarthlingsFounder of Earth Day comes clean on being green

“In 1970, most peopledidn’t thinkabout the environment.”

Every week, 37 million people in 20 countries read MetroImagine if all of those readers — if all of us — banded together to change the world? What a difference37 million makes ...

RunningthroughthedropsWhen 37 million peopletake a five-minute shower,it only uses 3.5 trillionlitres of water, comparedto a 10-minute shower,which uses seven trillionlitres of water.

It’s exhaust-ingWhen 37 million peopleuse average sedan cars, itemits 2.59 trillion tonnesof CO2 during the lifetimeof their cars, as comparedwith 3.7 trillion tonnes ofCO2 if they used SUVs.

Drive me wildWhen 37 million driversleave their cars at homeand commute togetherwith their spouses/part-ners/neighbours, theycause the emission of 107million tonnes of CO2 an-nually, compared with 214million tonnes of CO2should they decide to usetheir own cars.

Dot-bombWhen 37 mil-lion people donot switch offtheir computers afterwork, they use 37 millionmegawatt hours of electric-ity annually, compared toaround 9.2 millionmegawatt hours if comput-ers and monitors areswitched off after work.

Guess who’s coming todinner?When 37 million people usemodern dishwashers withthe best rating once a day,they would use 666 millionlitres of water, comparedwith 1.5 trillion litres of wa-ter used by less efficientdishwashers.

Flushed awayWhen 37 million people re-furbish their bathroomswith low-flush toilets (sixlitres per flush), each flushuses 222 million litres of wa-ter, compared to old toilets(12 litres per flush), thatwould take 444 millionlitres of water to flush col-lectively.

Watt’s up,doc?When 37 mil-lion peoplechange justone 100-wattincandescent bulb for a 20-watt compact fluorescentlight bulb, giving the sameamount of light, during onehour they would be using740 megawatt hours of ener-gy to receive the same light-ing, compared with 3,700megawatt hours with theregular bulb.

TV starsWhen 37 million people un-plug their TV sets (1 wattstandby) while going tosleep, they would save296,000 kwh per day.

DANIEL DENISHUK

METRO WORLD NEWS

IN POLAND

World moves toward an IPCC in biodiversity

Dennis Hayes speaking at thefirst Earth Day event in 1970.

When 37 millionpeople share their newspaper(approximately 0.3 kg of paper), they save

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Washing in cold water can help reduce greenhouse gas emissionsUse cold water to wash your clothes. If every household in Canada did this, it would reduce approximately1.5 billion kilograms of greenhouse gas emissions each year. EARTH DAY CANADA

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At the heart of theoceans, areas as big asFrance, maybe more, arecovered in garbage.

The most famous ofthese is the Great GarbagePatch, discovered in thelate 1990s in the North Pa-cific Ocean between theU.S.A. and Asia. But itseems that another sevensimilar patches may exist,according to Seattleoceanographer Curtis Eb -bes meyer, one of the firstscientists to take interestin the strange routes ofplastic trash in the sea.

In his new book, Flotsa-metrics and the FloatingWorld: How One Man’sObsession with RunawaySneakers and RubberDucks RevolutionizedOcean Science, Ebbesmey-

er explains his “science offloating objects,” or “flot-sametrics.”

By observing trash onbeaches, such as Nikes orrubber ducks, he identi-fied several circular cur-rents, or gyres, which,like whirlpools, bring to-gether all the plastic andother solid garbage thatends up in the seasaround the world.

Eb besmeyer says thepatches of debris may cov-er a surface “equivalent toseveral times the UnitedStates.”

However, the garbage

patches are still unrecog-nized and neglected be-cause they are basicallydifficult to see.

“From a boat, you startseeing everyday objectslike toothbrushes andplastic bags on the out-skirts of the vortex,” ex-plains François Chartier,director of the oceanscampaign at GreenpeaceFrance, the organizationthat revealed the exis-tence of the Great Gar -bage Patch to the media.

“When you approachthe centre of the patch,the trash is thicker and

some birds have actuallystarted nesting on it.”

But from the sky, evenfrom satellites, there is“nothing to be seen,” saysEbbesmeyer. “It’s liketracking a ghost!”

Invisible plastic? Not re-ally. The fact is that mostof the pieces are quite see-through, like plastic bags.Others are fractions ofbigger pieces of plasticthat have disintegrated in-to bits as small as plank-ton.

“In the middle of thepatch, there is six timesmore plastic than plank-

ton,” Ebbesmeyer says. This accumulation of

plastic in the oceans is aserious menace for the en-vironment and for humanhealth.

“Dolphins suffocate onplastic bags, birds can dieof hunger because theirstomach is so full of undi-gested plastic that theycan no longer eat,” saysChartier.

But plastic also containstoxins (PCBs, heavy met-als) that are harmful tohumans and that are as-similated by plankton andother fish, which end upin the ocean’s food chain,and, consequently, in yourseafood chowder.

NADIA LODDO

METRO WORLD NEWS

IN PARIS

More plasticthan planktonOur oceans are covered in patches of garbage as big as a continent

“From a boat, you start seeing everyday objects like toothbrush-es and plastic bags on the outskirts of the vortex.” François Chartier, oceans campaign director at Greenpeace France

Their are numerous warn-ing signs that global warm-ing is affecting the Earth aswe know it.

Here are some examples:Adélie penguins

Global warming is affect-ing the Adélie penguincolonies in the Antarcticpeninsula. Over the last 50

years, wintertemperatureshave risen byabout 5 C inthe penin-sula, re-ducingtheamountof packice. Packice di-

rectly af-fects the

availabilityof algae

available for krill, the mainstaple of the penguin’s diet.Without pack ice, there isno algae and no food forkrills — a direct repercus-sion on the penguin’s diet.In the last decade, the pop-ulation of Adélie penguinshas declined by almost 50per cent.

SOURCE: NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

BeesScientist Albert Einstein

famously said: “If the beedisappears from the surfaceof the Earth, man wouldhave no more than fouryears to live. No more bees,no more pollination … nomore men!”

Excessive pesticide use inNorth America has led to adecline of up to 50 per centof managed colonies ofhoneybees.

Crops such as apples,pears and berries dependentirely on pollinators forfruit production.

SOURCE: BUMBLEBEE.ORG

Coral reefsCoral reefs provide goods

and services worth about$375 billion each year —yet the coral ecosystem cov-ers less than one per cent ofthe Earth’s surface.

In fishing, both the foodand marine ornamentaltrade are often caught us-ing cyanide, which stunsfish for easy capture.Cyanide kills the coral andmany other coral reef or-ganisms such as coralpolyps. Less than half thefish caught with cyanidesurvive long enough tothen be sold to restaurantsor aquariums.

SOURCE: PEOPLEANDPLANET.NET

ROMINA MCGUINNESS

METRO WORLD NEWS

IN LONDON

Canariesin globalcoal mine

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What would we do with-out worms?

“When we talk aboutbiodiversity, we never real-ly mention worms,” saysDenis Loyer, deputy direc-tor of the French Develop-ment Agency (AFD). “Butthey actually have an es-sential role in producingfood.”

Without worms, therewould be no fertile lands.Worms are actually onesingle long digestive tube.Feeding on organic waste,they end up excreting apowerful natural fertilizer.That’s how compost heapswork!

If pesticides can beharmful to these hard-working animals, it is sur-prising to discover thatwhat is really bad for themis working the land.Worms are killed by birdsand by the lack of food,while UVs finish the job bydestroying all other micro-scopic life in the soil.

“The difference is enor-mous: Where land islaboured, you can find upto 50 kilograms of wormsper hectare against two tofour tonnes on non-laboured agricultural ex-ploitations,” says Loyer. To-day, many soils are biologi-cally dead, with no morethan one per cent of organ-ic substance.

Chemical fertilizers feedplants but do not rebuildthe natural capi-tal ofsoils.Moreover,worms digtunnels inthe landthat allowwater topenetratedeeply in-stead of wash-ing awaywastefully —or worse, caus-ing floods. Thisis why a non-laboured agricul-ture is beinghailed as the fu-ture solution tofeeding the world.

“A project wehave in Tunisia shows thatthe farms are just as effi-cient, but have reducedcosts thanks to less labourand less chemicals. More-over, in dry countries,stocking water in the soilis very important,” addsLoyer. “This kind of agri-culture is growing by 15per cent per year.”

That’s good news,and not only forworms. As a matter offact, some climatechange experts be-lieve these shy creatureswill also be on the frontline tackling climatechange.

One worm may be likeDavid against the climateGoliath, but spread themaround the world, and youget a result that may equalthe benefit of stopping de-

forestation.How?

“Organic substance is ba-sically carbon, so like treesstock carbon as they grow,increasing the quantity oforganic substance in soilswill develop their capacityto sequestrate carbon,”

says Loyer. And we all know there’s

no one that can do thatbetter than worms.

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Worms provide vital services to mankind such as workingland … and fighting against global warming

“When wetalk aboutbiodiversity,we neverreally mentionworms.”Dennis Loyer

Most of us see trees, gar-dens, maybe evensome fields or a riverduring our daily com-

mute. Even in the busiest city,we can enjoy some contact withnature. Whether we live in agreat rain forest or an urbanapartment, our livelihoods —and our lives — depend onkeeping the planet’s biodiversi-ty in good shape.

The truth is, we’ve spent our natural capitallike there’s no tomorrow and now we’refaced with the bill. Just as irresponsible bor-rowing and spending got us into the present

economic recession, so we’ve been piling up ecolog-ical debt by consuming and wasting more and morenatural resources. If you think the economy is inbad shape, take a look at the planet.

WWF’s Living Planet Report tells us thatthree-quarters of us live in countriesthat are ecological debtors — using upresources faster than nature can replace

them. If we carry on consuming at our current rate,by 2030 we’ll need the equivalent of two planets tomaintain our lifestyles. Over the past 35 yearsalone, we have squandered nearly one-third of theEarth’s biodiversity. Not only is this hugely damag-ing for the environment, but it doesn’t make anyeconomic sense. One recent report estimates thatforest ecosystems alone are worth around $28billion a year — and a lot of that money is literallygoing up in smoke.

As we increasingly worry about jobs andmortgages, we may be tempted to ignorethe bigger picture. But Amazondeforestation, hungry polar bears and over-

fished tuna are a challenge for all of us, becauseprotecting natural resources means better food andwater security, better human health and a betterchance of fighting climate change.

The good news is — we know what needs to bedone and we can afford it. We have a uniqueopportunity to use the trillions of dollars instimulus packages to create a green global

economy that could lift us out of recession, protectnatural resources and tackle global warming. Thefirst step is to agree to a fair, fast and effective glob-al deal on climate change in Copenhagen thisDecember. Then, in 2010 — the International Yearof Biodiversity — the UN must lead the rest of theworld in taking bold steps to reduce consumptionand stop biodiversity loss within 10 years.

Earth Day is a good time to think about ourshared responsibility to consume and sustainthe planet’s natural resources wisely — afterall, it’s in our own interest.

“The truth is, we’ve spent ournatural capital like there’s notomorrow and now we’refaced with the bill.”

Martin AtkinWWF International

Small creaturesdo great things

Look after the planet – and look after yourself

Darwin & worms• British naturalist CharlesDarwin should be remem-bered for more than his the-ory on the evolution of thespecies. The last book hepublished in 1881 showshow, by many means, hewas ahead of his time. WithThe Formation of VegetableMold Through the Action ofWorms, he opened thedoors of science to a seemlyinsignificant species: Theworm. He had friends andscientists send him samplesof worm waste to analyzethe benefits of this organicfertilizer. He took his jobvery seriously and also stud-ied their behaviour — heeven played the piano tothem to test their hearing.Worms are actually deaf.

Sidney Crosby and the Pen-guins can finish off the Fly-ers back on home ice.

A sliding Crosby scored agoal that ricocheted off hisskate, his midsection andinto the back of the net tospark Pittsburgh to a 3-1win over Philadelphia lastnight.

Marc-Andre Fleury wassensational with 45 savesand the Penguins grabbed a3-1 lead in the Eastern Con-ference first-round playoffseries. Tyler Kennedy andMaxime Talbot also scoredfor the Penguins, who caneliminate the Flyers in fivegames just like they did inlast year’s Eastern Confer-ence finals. Game 5 is to-morrow in Pittsburgh.

Red Wings 4, Blue Jackets 1Henrik Zetterberg scored

two goals and the DetroitRed Wings dominated fromstart to finish last night tobeat the Columbus BlueJackets 4-1 and grab a 3-0lead in their first-round se-ries. The first NHL playoffgame at Nationwide Arena

— in the Blue Jackets’ 659thgame — was a mammothletdown for a franchise-record crowd of 19,219.

Dan Cleary had a goal andtwo assists, Tomas Holm-strom scored 1:07 in and Jo-han Franzen added two as-sists.

The Red Wings can ad-vance to the conferencesemifinals with a win to-morrow night.

Hurricanes 4, Devils 3Jussi Jokinen deflected in

Dennis Seidenberg’s slap-shot with 0.2 seconds re-maining and the Carolina

Hurricanes evened their se-ries with New Jersey at twogames apiece by beating theDevils 4-3.

Eric Staal, Ryan Baydaand Chad LaRose alsoscored for the Hurricanes,who blew a 3-0 lead but re-grouped just in time toavoid a third straight over-time game.

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The Texas Rangers put anend to Roy Halladay’s per-fect start to the season ina game delayed 10minutes when the barrelof a broken bat struckhome plate umpireKerwin Danley in the sideof the head.

Ian Kinsler clubbed a go-ahead, two-run shot in theseventh inning of a 5-4 vic-tory over the Toronto Blue

Jays last night. But much ofthe drama in a terrificgame was lost amid con-cern for Danley, who neverlost consciousness but wastaken off the field on astretcher and to hospitalfor examination.

Adam Lind’s RBI singlein the eighth off relieverC.J. Wilson made it a one-run game but there wouldbe no rally for the Blue Jays(10-5), whose offencecooled off while taking twoof three from Oaklandover the weekend and nev-er got in gear against Bran-don McCarthy (2-0) and theRangers (6-7).

Frank Francisco came onwith one out in the eighth

and loaded the bases be-fore Rob Barajas lined outto third and Travis Sniderflew out to end the frame.

Francisco followed with aquiet ninth for his secondsave.

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Hasek back with Czech teamDominik Hasek is coming out of retirement to play for his former club in the top Czech league. The 44-year-old goaltender will play next season for HC Moeller Pardubice in the town where he was born and started his career. Hasek will be the oldest player in the league. METRO NEWS SERVICES

Bynum under Rihanna’s umbrella?Various gossip sites and bloggers are reporting that Los Angeles Lakers centre

Andrew Bynum is currently dating singer Rihanna. “The couple dined in Beverly Hills. When they left together, a witness reports that they looked‘very couple-y, sitting real close to each other in the car,” said a report onThe Big Lead. METRO NEWS SERVICES

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DeRo out at least twoMLS Toronto FC star mid-fielder Dwayne De Rosariocould be out for severalweeks with a hamstring in-jury. The Scarborough na-tive is due to have a scan todetermine the extent of thedamage and has alreadybeen ruled out of homegames tonight againstChivas USA and Sundayagainst Kansas City.

“He’s definitely out fortwo (games) and it might bemore than that,” Torontocoach John Carver said yes-terday.

De Rosario aggravated thehamstring Sunday in a lossin Dallas andcame offin the74thminute.

“Yousaw

from his reaction he didtear it,” Carver said. “Towhat degree, we’re going tofind out once he had a scan.But he has a tear in thereand that can be anywhere(from) three to four weeks.”

In other TFC news, Carverwas fined $750 yesterday byMLS for making publiclycritical remarks about offi-cials after the loss in Dallason Sunday.

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Carolina 4 New Jersey 3

Detroit 4 Columbus 1

Pittsburgh 3 Philadelphia 1

Vancouver at St. Louis

San Jose at Anaheim

TONIGHT’S GAMESBoston at Montreal

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YESTERDAY’S RESULTSCleveland 94 Detroit 82

Houston at Portland

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TONIGHT’S GAMESPhiladelphia at Orlando

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Texas 5 TORONTO 4

N.Y. Yankees 5 Oakland 3

Pittsburgh 3 Florida 2

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Minnesota at Boston

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Milwaukee at Philadelphia

Atlanta at Washington

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SOCCER Yossi Benayoun scoreddeep into injury time yesterdayto give Liverpool a dramatic 4-4draw with Arsenal and keep histeam in the Premier League ti-tle race. The draw tookLiverpool — at least temporari-ly — back to the top of the Pre-mier League on goaldifference.

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Fridge hospitalizedFormer Chicago Bears defensive lineman William (The Refrigerator) Perry is in serious condition at a South Carolina hospital. Reports say the 46-year-oldPerry was hospitalized with complications from Guillain-Barre Syndrome, a chronic inflammation disorder of the peripheral nerves. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Howard received 542points, including 105first-place votes from apanel of 119 writers andbroadcasters. Cleveland’sLeBron James was secondwith 148 points and Mia-mi’s Dwyane Wadefinished third with 90points. The 23-year-oldHoward is the youngestplayer to win the award.

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LeBron James is fouled by Detroit’s Rasheed Wallace during Game 2 of their Eastern Conferencefirst-round playoff series last night. For a complete game recap, visit www.metronews.ca/sports.

Rana namedcoach of U17 teamBASKETBALL EasternCommerce basketballcoach Roy Rana has beennamed coach of the Cana-dian men’s under-17 team.Rana’s record in 14seasons at the high schoolis 384-78.

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When outfielder ElijahDukes made a personalappearance at a VirginiaLittle League’s season-opening gathering for alittle extra cash a fewhours before aWashington Nationalsgame, he turned up late athis day job and was fined.

Now the Great Falls, Va.,Little League — already outthe $500 US Dukes waspromised so he’d show upover the weekend — says itwill raise another $500 tocover Dukes’ penalty forfailing to arrive at Na-tionals Park on time.

Dukes’ 2009 salarywith the Nationals is$415,500.

“We felt terriblebecause he wasdoing work forus that madehim late,”

Great Falls Little Leaguepresident Jim Mraz said yes-terday in a telephone inter-view. The Washington Postfirst reported on hisleague’s plans to coverDukes’ fine.

“We’re raising the money.We’re going to pay the fine.It’s not a question ofwhether he can afford it ornot. That’s none of our busi-ness,” Mraz said. “If he wasput in a bad light because ofus, we should at least paythe $500 for him.”

The league planned tohave collection jugs at its

games starting lastnight. Any extra moneyraised will be donated to

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Elijah Dukeswas fined$500 US by theNationals.

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Tillman enters not guilty pleaThe general manager of the Saskatchewan Roughriders has pleaded not guilty to a charge of sexual assault. Eric Tillman was notat the provincial courthouse in Regina yesterday, but his lawyer, Aaron Fox, entered the plea on his behalf. THE CANADIAN PRESS

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The word is out thatthe NHL’s nextoutdoor game willtake place nextseason at Fenway

Park in Boston. And withit, comes complaints fromup here that the league isavoiding holding one inCanada.

Yet the reason is simple. At this moment, there is

only one outdoor stadiumin this entire nation thatseats more than 40,000people — CommonwealthStadium in Edmonton, thevery field that hosted theNHL’s first outdoor ven-ture in 2003.

While it might make youfeel warm and fuzzy toimagine NHLers taking theice at Montreal’s PercivalMolson Stadium or Toron-to’s BMO Field, thesegames aren’t staged tomake the league feel warmand fuzzy. They are stagedto maximize profit, andthat (and that alone) is theonly reason they arestaged. When you sell40,000 tickets to a hockeygame, you double yourgate in addition to swellingTV numbers.

Aside from Common-wealth, McMahon Stadiumin Calgary is the only cur-rent outdoor venue in thecountry worth doing it in.

With 36,000 seats, it’s17,000 more than the Pen-growth Saddledome (andonly about 2,000 smallerthan Fenway).

BMO? Twenty thousand,or merely 2,000 more thanthe Air Canada Centre.Similar story with MolsonStadium and the Bell Cen-tre.

The Big Owe? Sorry, theroof’s screwed on tightnow. The Rogers Centre?Sorry, no on-field drainagesystem. The retractable-roofed version of Vancou-ver’s B.C. Place? Possible,but still unbuilt.

Some corners have saidthe Ottawa Senators couldplay a game on the RideauCanal. My advice to themwould be to not smokemarijuana before makingsuggestions for where theOttawa Senators play out-door games. A frozen wa-terway with 40,000 tempo-rary metal seats? That'seven more temporary seat-ing than most Grey Cupgames.

And anybody thinkabout the luxury suites?It’s doubtful Eugene Mel-nyk or any other ownerwould look the other wayon that sweet action.

Canadian outdoor NHLgame? Only in Alberta

Julian Radlein is not a typi-cal environmental activist.He is a six-foot-two, 245-pound former fullbackwith the Hamilton Tiger-Cats who was adept atcrushing opposinglinebackers. But he’s alsoone of Canada’s leadingadvocates for environmen-tal awareness.

Radlein enjoyed a five-year career with Hamiltonfrom 2003 to 2007. Duringthis time, he was active inthe Hamilton environmen-tal community. His involve-ment ranged from encour-aging people to eat locallyto performing an environ-

mental audit at Ivor Wynnestadium. Radlein credits hisinterest in the environmentto early exposure.

“My dad was a chemist, soI grew up with science and arespect for the environ-ment. I studied ecology atUBC. I like to think of my-self not as an environmen-tal activist, but more as asurvivalist. Clean air, waterand soil are essential to sus-taining life.”

After retiring from theCFL last year, Radlein

formed Evergreen SportsProgramming with formerSaskatchewan RoughriderDustin Cherniawski.

The company focuses ondelivering an environmen-tal message by using foot-ball players as theirspokespersons. The key-stone activity of their com-pany is the GreenZone Sus-tainability Blitz — SpeakerSeries.

“We focus on three pillarsof sustainability: Reduce,reuse and recycle,” saidRadlein.

B.C. Lions linebackerJavier Glatt spent his off-sea-

son presenting the Sustain-ability Blitz program toschools across B.C. Glattfeels the high-energy activi-ties of the program help tomake it popular with chil-dren of different ages.

“We always start with apep rally where the wholeschool comes together.There are environmentalgames that have studentscompeting against the ath-letes. We have a water re-lay, energy challenge andwaste relay. It is funny howthe students always seem towin.”

Glatt tries to deliver hismessage in a language thestudents understand.“When I speak to schools inVancouver, I always ask thestudents to imagine if they

could not see the moun-tains due to smog. Also, Italk about the importanceof clean air and fresh grassfor things like recess.When you start talking

about recess being in jeop-ardy, all the students imme-diately listen.” The Green-Zone Sustainability Blitz iscurrently being presentedin B.C., Alberta and Ontario.

From blocking back to environmentalistFormer CFL fullback Julian Radlein spreads the word about the importance of conservation

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EARTH DAY: APRIL 22

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Julian Radlein started Evergreen Sports Programming.

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Sports in briefNFL Lions general managerMartin Mayhew says thechances are very good Detroitwill have a deal done with theNo. 1 pick before the NFLdraft begins Saturday.Mayhew declined to say muchelse during a news

conference yesterday. The Li-ons have taken great pride instaying quiet about theirplans. “I hope nobody expectsme to say anything earth-shattering,” Mayhew said inhis opening comments.

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Disney and Metro have a convenient truth for you: for every ticketpurchased during the opening week of EARTH, being released

across North America on Earth Day (April 22), a tree will be planted in your honour.

"We couldn't think of a better way to launchthe new Disneynature banner, and tocelebrate the spirit of the film and Earth Dayat the same time," says Dick Cook, chairman

of The Walt Disney Studios.

Trees will be planted in the BrazilianAtlantic Forest which, at only 7

percent of its original capacity, isconsidered the most endangered

rain forest in the world. Disney is overseeing their

planting and care, and Metro iscontributing advertising space

to support the program.

For more information, includingticket availability at your localtheatre, visit disney.com/earth.

On April 22, Disney will celebrate Earth Day with thepremiere of the first film in its Disneynature series.Narrated in thrilling detail by James Earl Jones, EARTH

follows the journeys of three animal families as they interact withthe ever-changing world around them.

On a group of Nordic islands is where you’ll meet the polar bears.The world’s largest land predators travel hundreds of miles forsomething to eat, yet they don’t drink water. A male ventures far tohunt as a mother emerges from a snow den with her two cubs. Thepack ice melts earlier each year, and food is becoming a challenge.

To visit the next family, you’ll travel far south as an elephantmother guides her tiny calf across the Kalahari Desert in search offresh water, of which an adult can drink 50 gallons each day. In thisdry season, however, thick clouds of dust threaten to separatethem, and they are forced to share what little refreshment theyfind with hungry lions.

Finally, you’ll witness an epic 4,000-mile migration. In tropicalwaters, a humpbacked whale calf receives over 600 quarts of milkeach day, but its mother is starving. The pair set out on the longestjourney undertaken by any marine mammal to the southernmostAntarctic waters to feed on krill and small fish before they turnaround and journey back to the Equator.

The supporting cast of this story includes, among over 40 otheranimal species, some painfully adorable mandarin ducklings who,at their mother’s urging, fling themselves 30 feet from their nest tothe ground. Will they fly? Will they bounce? You’ll just have to waituntil Earth Day to find out…

To check out more exclusive and super-cute behind-the-scenes footage ofthe film’s three main families, visit disneynature.com/earth.

Seeking to capitalize on the recent success of naturedocumentaries, Disney looked back at its own long-dormantTrue-Life Adventures division—which not only garnered eight

Academy Awards from 1948 to 1960, but also fostered fondmemories for generations of schoolchildren—to inspire the firstDisney-branded film label in over 60 years.

“Nature invents the most beautiful stories,” says Jean-FrançoisCamilleri who, besides having been involved with the AcademyAward-winning film March of the Penguins, is executive vicepresident and general manager of Disneynature. “So in a place likethe Disney Studios, where storytelling is key, we are going to goand… bring them to the big screen. This was a vision of Walt Disneyback in 1948, and this is the vision of Disneynature today.”

For its first film, EARTH, the Disneynature teamlooked no further than directors AlastairFothergill and Mark Linfield, the creative teambehind the Emmy Award-winning Planet Earthseries, for assistance. “I think EARTH is a perfectfilm to start the Disneynature series… because itis a portrait of the whole planet,” Fothergillasserts. “In over five years‚ we filmed at over200 locations in 64 countries worldwide and

employed 60 cameramen… Nobody in the history of cinema hasever had so much time, resources, and talent brought together forone true-life feature.”

Disneynature is developing numerous titles concurrently and plansto release at least one feature-length documentary each year.Oceans, slated for 2010, will rely on new technology to capturedetailed underwater drama where few have previously ventured.Big Cats, to be released in 2011, follows three species as theyprotect and teach their cubs on the great plains of Africa. And thedirectors of EARTH will reunite for 2012’s Chimpanzee, shot overthree years in the tropical jungles of the Ivory Coast and Uganda.

To find out more about the Disneynature brand or to downloadeducational materials, visit disneynature.com

Nature, Disney-StyleDisneynature revives tradition of documentary excellenceBy Lori Dance

Trees for TicketsPlant yourself in front of EARTH, andDisneynature will plant a tree on EarthBy Lori Dance

Three Families,One EARTHDisneynature’s first film explores theanimal kingdom from pole to poleBy Lori Dance

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Business28 Martha Stewart Living co-CEO to step down

Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc. said yesterday that Wenda Harris Millard, co-chief executive in charge of media, will be leavingthe company, after less than a year in that position, to join the New York public relations firm Media Link LLC. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Video war brewingBlockbuster lowers rental rates for new releasesAmid growing competi -tion and problems at itsU.S. parent, Canada’s lar -gest video rental chain haslowered the price of newreleases to $3.99, as longas you return it on time.

Blockbuster Canada saidyesterday that represents a30 per cent price reduc-tion, or $2 savings, over its

previousprice on atwo-nightrental.

The vid -eo rentalstore in-dustry isfacinggrowingcompeti-tion fromalternativeforms ofmedia,such as on-line DVDrental serv-ices, and

falling prices in discountstores, such as Wal-Mart,for video purchases.

Blockbuster’s move un-dercuts its nearest rival,Rogers Plus, which loweredits price in March to $4.99

for a two-night release. Much like Rogers’ recent

price changes, the newpricing regime at Block-buster reintroduces a formof “late fee.” Customerswho fail to return theirtwo-night rental on timewill face a $1.99 per nightadditional fee. Or they canopt to pay the old two-

night price, $5.99, up frontand keep the movie for upto seven days.

Rogers adopted a similarapproach in its pricingstructure, saying the elimi-nation of late fees had de-pleted its shelves, as cus-tomers took too long to re-turn the movies.

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Top bank cuts interestrate to its lowest level SLUMP The Bank of Canadahas taken its key policy in-terest rate to the lowestpractical level in an effortto combat what it says hasbecome a deeper than ex-pected economic slump.

The central bank slicedits target for the overnightrate in half to 0.25 per centand signalled it will keep itthere until at least mid-2010 in an effort to arrestthe economy’s steep fall.

The commercial banksquickly cut their primelending rate in step withthe Bank of Canada’smove. They were led byBank of Montreal, whichannounced less than twominutes after the centralbank’s announcement thatprime — the benchmark

for variable-rate mortgagesand other loans — wasdropping by a quarter-point to 2.25 per cent.Some fixed rates were also

trim med.Yester-

day’s Bankof Canadaaction sug-gests gover-nor MarkCarney iswilling topull out all

the stops to boost borrow-ing and ease lending, saideconomist Michael Grego-ry of BMO Capital Markets.

Carney will be outliningoptions for quantitativeeasing (expanding themoney supply) tomorrow.

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Quebecorlooking forfresh startINSOLVENT Quebecor Worldhas filed a restructuringplan designed to give theinsolvent printer a freshstart. A court hearing isscheduled for May 15 atthe U.S. Bankruptcy Courtin New York.

The Montreal-basedcompany plans to sever itsties with its founders bychanging its name and re-placing its board with in-dependent directors,according to court filings.

New company sharesare expected to be publiclytraded on the TorontoStock Exchange once it ex-its bankruptcy and credi-tor protection by mid-July.

The reorganization plandoesn’t anticipate any re-covery for the holders ofits existing multiplevoting shares such as thePela deau family, redeem -able first preferred shares,or subordinate votingshares.

Quebecor World filedfor court protection inCanada and the UnitedStates in January 2008 af-ter its debt was estimatedto exceed $1 billion US.

THE CANADIAN PRESS

Mark Carney

Business in briefBEVERAGES Coca-Cola Co. saidyesterday that its first-quarterprofit fell 10 per cent onrestructuring charges andwritedowns but the resultsmet analysts’ estimates. TheAtlanta-based company hasbeen focusing on core brandslike Sprite and Coke asconsumers pull back.

MINING Teck Cominco hasbeen given some relief from itslenders, sending its stock soar-ing 30 per cent yesterday. Tecksaid its lenders have agreed todefer $4.4 billion US of pay -ments due this year and extendthe maturity date of $3.5 billionUS of the bridge facility to Octo-ber 2011. METRO NEWS SERVICES

GM, Chrysler mayget more cashBAILOUT General MotorsCorp. could get as much as$5 billion US more in U.S.federal loans, while Chry -sler LLC could get $500million as they race ag -ainst government-imposeddeadlines to restructure,according to a governmentreport filed yesterday.

The report by a specialinspector general on theauto industry and bankbailout programs says themoney will be made avail-able for working capital.

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29Wednesday, April 22, 2009

EDITOR: KUMAR SAHA, KUMAR.SAHA@METRONEWS.CA

Canadian student car winsA student team from Laval University in Quebec topped morethan 500 students from North and South America to win the2009 Shell Eco-marathon Americas. The team took the grandprize in the prototype division, with a combustion-engine ve-hicle that achieved 1,172.2 km per litre.

METRO NEWS SERVICES

Metro DriveToyota Prius reinvented

I’m standing on the gas,the pedal flat to the floorand that’s where it’sgonna stay, fuel economybe damned.

We’re leaving the flats ofthe Napa Valley, spiraling upinto the Mayacamas, treesand rock face blurring past,engine moaning, tires grip-ping nicely, only the occa-sional peep-peep-peep oftraction and stability controlwarnings as I go into a hair-pin corner too hot, youknow, one of those cornerswhere you almost have tolook behind yourself to seewhere you’re going. Then,back on the gas and we areclawing towards yet anothercurve on the mountain road.

And, no, you’re not read-ing the wrong story.

This is the 2010 ToyotaPrius, the third and latestgeneration of the fuel-effi-cient, low-emissions hy-brid dear to the hearts ofthe 14,000 or so environ-

mentally-sensitive Canadi-ans who have bought onesince its introduction adecade ago.

To build a car that ap-

peals to a broader audi-ence while staying true tothe environmental expec-tations of the faithful, over2000 engineers worked ona product that boasts along list of firsts alongwith over 1000 patents.

The 2010 Prius starts onthe MC platform sharedwith Scion XB. The previ-ous Prius had all the soul-less enamor of a scienceproject — econo car trap-pings and no-nonsensetrim topped by a utilitari-an little shifter stickingawkwardly out of the dash.

The 2010 Prius is a dri-ver’s car, with true cockpitfeel courtesy of a raisedconsole in “freeform geo-metric design,” mountinga handsome little shifterthat’s so cute you just wantto hang onto it. The layoutis complemented by asporty oval steering wheel,

push button start, newgraphic displays, softtouch padded materials,more comfortable seatingand a leaf pattern graintexture on dash, door pan-els and fabric.

But enough about looks,let’s get to the meat of thematter.

The Prius’ Hybrid Syner-gy Drive is ninety per centnew for 2010. Unlike mostother hybrid vehicles avail-able, Prius has always beena “full” hybrid, allowing it

to run on engine alone,battery alone, or both.

The powertrain improve-ments start with a bigger1.8-litre DOHC gasoline en-gine. Other improvementscome with the new engine,a lighter electric motor andgenerator, improved cool-ing to components, morecompact battery packaging,a lighter transaxle, an im-proved CVT transmissionand, importantly for Cana-da, an exhaust heat recov-ery system that was winter-tested in Timmins, Ont.,and that proved to providequicker warm-up and bettercold weather fuel efficiency.

The net result? Twenty-two per cent more powerand seven percent less fuelconsumption. The 2010Prius is rated at 3.8L/100kmcombined, better than theprevious model’s4.1L/100km rating.

Hybrid aims to win hearts without compromising green thinking

NissanroadsterunveiledDEBUT The 2010 Nissan370Z roadster made itsglobal debut at the recentNew York auto show, wow-ing visitors with its classicopen-air sports car looks.

The roadster shares itsengine, transmissions, sus-pension, platform andmost major componentswith the coupe. The cut-ting-edge technology in-cludes the standard 332-horsepower 3.7-litre DOHCV6 engine and choice of 7-speed automatic transmis-sion or close-ratio six-speed manual with avail-able SynchroRev Match(the world’s first synchro-nized downshift revmatching manual trans-mission).

“The 370Z Roadster deliv-ers the same exceptionalperformance offered in theCoupe and more refinementthan any other Z convertiblethat has come before,” saidJeff Parent, vice president ofsales and marketing, NissanCanada Inc. “Features suchas its one-touch, auto-lock-ing convertible top andbeautifully crafted interiormight be unexpected in acar this sporty.”

The Z(R) Roadster is ex-pected in Canadian Nissandealerships in late sum-mer. METRO NEWS SERVICES

EARTH DAY: APRIL 22

GoGreen

2010 Toyota Prius

Type: Mid-size hybrid sedanPrice: Not availableEngine: 2ZR-FXE 1.8-litre VVT-IDOHC four-cylinder with elec-tric motor assist (134 hp / 105lb-ft of torque).HP: 3.7/4.0/3.8L/100km(city/hwy/comb)

The new 2010 Prius really sets itself apart with a totally revisedand handsome driver-oriented layout.

ROB BEINTEMAfor Metro Canada

2010 Nissan 370Z roadster

The 2010 Toyota Prius hasmore room, more power, and, ofcourse improved fuel efficiency.

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metro drive30Wednesday, April 22, 2009

A diverseapproach

Robert Bienenfeld hasbeen with Honda’s U.S.subsidiary for 25 years buthe cut his teeth on south-ern California’salternative-fuel and elec-tric vehicle movement.

Bienenfeld, AmericanHonda’s head of environ-ment and energy strategy,is paid to think about long-term approaches to meetgovernment emission andfuel-economy regulationsand the Japanese automak-er’s goal to produce effi-cient, environmentally sus-tainable vehicles.

And he has a warning:Don’t let the auto indus-try’s financial problemsstampede us into makingbad choices, specificallypicking technological win-ners and losers in the fightagainst global warmingand declining oil supplies.

GM’s talisman has beenthe Chevrolet Volt, a plug-in electric car it promisesto debut within a year.Chrysler has been showing

a battery-powered vehiclebuilt on the Lotus Elisesports car, among otherconcepts.

Every carmaker has dif-ferent and often multipletechnologies in the works.Bienenfeld thinks that’s asit should be and govern-ments should resist theurge to push one or theother.

“It’s clear we need totake a portfolio approach,”says Bienenfeld.

Honda recently unveiledits Insight hybrid four-doorhatchback, a decade afterit launched the first In-sight as a tiny two-seatcommuter hybrid that in-troduced the technology toNorth American drivers.The new model goes onsale today.

Toyota is into the third

generation of its popularPrius and has seven hy-brids wearing Toyota andLexus badges.

Hybrids may be in themainstream now but theymay not be The Answer.Nor should companies bewedded — by choice orgovernment mandate — toa particular approach forbattery-car development.

The herd mentality hasled down some technologi-cal dead ends in the past,Bienenfeld says.

In the 1970s, when

smog was seen as the bigenvironmental threat,clean-burning methanolseemed like the solution.But its corrosive effect onengine metals and plas-tics, plus shorter rangethan the equivalent

amount of gasoline, haslimited it largely to use inrace cars that like its high-octane rating.

Ethanol, another alco-hol-based fuel, looked likethe answer to a prayer foranyone worried about di-minishing oil supplies andcarbon emissions. After all,it’s made from plants.

But it takes as much en-ergy to produce as it pro-vides, has the same rangeproblems as methanol andif you're using corn as afeedstock it drives up the

price of tortillas in Mexico.That doesn’t mean it has

no place. Ethanol-gasolinemixes are in widespreaduse and biofuels that usewaste products such ascorn stalks or wood chipsare still promising if thefull-cycle energy cost canbe overcome.

Bienenfeld’s point is thatall viable technologiesshould stay on the tablewhile they evolve and theirrelative merits and prob-lems are fully explored.

THE CANADIAN PRESS

Variety in green tech shouldbe encouraged: Expert

Robert Bienenfeld, manager of American Honda's environment and energy strategy, stands with Honda’s new Insight hybrid in Vancouver. Bienenfeld says automakers must develop a portfolio of green technologies rather than try to pick a single winner.

MyKey: Putting brakes on teen drivers

When your teenager takesout the family car, youmay not always knowwhere he is. But thanks toFord’s new MyKey system,you’ll have a better idea ofwhat he’s doing.

Debuting on the 2010 Fo-cus and planned for sever-al more models, MyKey is ano-charge standard featurethat limits the car’s topspeed, prevents the trac-tion control from beingdisabled, chimes warningsat pre-set speeds, encour-ages seatbelt use, and capsthe volume on the audiosystem. It works throughthe message centre in theinstrument cluster, and isinvisible to drivers whodon’t want to use it.

Parents program keysthrough the ignition, turn-ing them into “MyKeykeys.” These trigger thepre-set system whenthey’re used to start thecar, limiting what the vehi-cle will do.

One key always remainsthe “administrator,” and isused to program others; italso lets parents operate

the vehicle without limits.The MyKeys can be wipedclean or reprogrammed atany time, if desired. Anymicrochipped key can be-come a MyKey, whetherit’s one of the keys thatcomes with the car, or pur-chased from the dealer.

Starting the car with aMyKey always triggersthree automatic defaults.The regular seatbelt re-minder chimes, but thestereo won’t work untilthe driver has buckled up,as well as any front-seatpassenger. The low-fuel

warning comes on at 120km to empty, rather thanthe usual 80 km notice.And if the vehicle isequipped with special safe-ty features such as ParkAid or the new Blind SpotInformation System, thesecan’t be disabled by thedriver.

Beyond those, parentscan also program in speedalert chimes at 72, 88 or105 km/h; the inability todisable the traction con-trol; a limit of 44 per centof the stereo’s volume; anda limited top speed of 130

km/h. (That’s higher thanmost of Canada’s speedlimits, but it’s permissibleon some U.S. highways,and Ford determined thatthe car must be driveableeverywhere.)

And if your teen’s a tech-nology wizard, fear not.“The system tracks thekilometres, and so the par-ents can see if the MyKey isbeing used,” said KerriStoakley, Ford’s communi-cations manager. “The par-ent may note that the childhad the car, but there areno kilometres registered

on the MyKey, so she cantell if the teenager is usingthe administrator key. Itwill also show the numberof MyKeys programmed,which lets parents know ifthe MyKey has been wipedclean and is now an admin-istrator key. And theteenager can’t “de-MyKey”it alone, because you needthe administrator key tochange it.”

Research found thatwhile most teens initiallydisliked the system, theywere more in favour if theythought it would lead togreater driving privileges.

“Buckle up, watch yourspeed, and turn down theradio are the three thingsparents ask,” Stoakley said.“So mom and dad mightgive more seat time withthe system. It’s a good re-minder to children thatthey need to drive safely.”

EARTH DAY: APRIL 22

GoGreen

Honda Element adog’s best friendPETS A new offering fromHonda may get dogs moreinterested in checking outthe inside of their riderather than hanging theirheads out the window. TheJapanese automakershowed off a Dog Friendlyversion of the Honda Ele-ment SUV at the New YorkInternational Auto Showrecently. The concept fea-tures a cushioned pet bedin the cargo area, a spill-resistant water bowl, andeven a ventilation fan tokeep canines comfortable.There’s also an integratedpet carrier and machine-washable seat covers tomake it convenient andsafe to carry smaller petsin the back seat. Hondasays the Dog Friendly Ele-ment will be available thisfall. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

JIL MCINTOSHfor Metro Canada

“It’s clear we needto take a portfolioapproach. American Honda’s Robert Bienenfeld

“Buckle up, watchyour speed, andturn down the radioare the three thingsparents ask.”Ford’s Kerri Stoakley

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metro drive31Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Fun heart of Soul

One of several new boxycars coming out, this newKia is not just full of soul,it’s stylish and it’s also ahuge amount of fun.

The Korean carmaker’scompact SUV is its mostdistinctive design yet andset to be a trailblazer forthe brand.

New design director andAudi TT designer PeterSchreyer has produced astriking car with faux-4x4credentials. It has boxy

looks along the same linesas the Nissan Cube, HondaElement and Scion xB, ishigh off the road and it al-so offers the same in-town

practicality as a 4x4, but isobviously cheaper to buyand far more economical— and ecological — than areal off-roader.

There’s a selection of funcoloured exteriors andoriginal interiors — includ-ing a dogstooth pattern.There are three special edi-tions including the Divaand Samba, but it’s theSoul’s Burner that’s thebomb — this bad boycomes in black with redhighlights, a dragon designon the outside, hot blackwheels and a flashy redand white interior.

This model also has abrilliant feature — redlights in the speakers thatflash in time with the mu-sic you’re listening to.

These things are essen-

tial for the type of driverthat Kia expects to appealto, a young, urban crowdlike you, who will want toferry their friends aroundand maybe not mind so

much that the boot won’tfit more than one babybuggy. It all adds to the funexperience of driving thiscar — it feels solid, but isalso nippy and agile.

Kia impresses with new compact SUV

EMMA E FORRESTMetro World News

• Wallet-friendly, eco-friendlyoff-roader• Fun to drive

2010 Kia Soul

Type: Compact SUVPrice: from $15, 495Engine: 1.6 litreHP: 124 bhp

Highlights

Metro Global Motoring Editor Emma E Forrest poses

with the 2010 Kia Soul

Carbon fibre catching on

At first blush thejust-releasedMercedes-BenzSLR StirlingMoss might not

appear to be the ideal sub-ject to discuss today ... to-day being Earth Day.

Some of you might evensuggest that such an ex-travagant vehicleshouldn’t even be built inthe first place. Well, yousort of have your wish, be-cause they’re only making75 of them. There, happynow?

But everyone and every-thing has a part to play inmoving towards moreEarth-respectful humanmobility — even, surpris-ingly, a $500,000-plussports car that can onlycarry two people andabout 18 minutes worth ofluggage.

The part played by this,and the other models inthe SLR range (roadsterand coupe), is advancingthe use of carbon fibre in“mass produced” produc-tion vehicles.

Carbon fibre is incredi-bly strong and stiff for itsweight. As such, it’s be-come the material ofchoice for such things ashockey sticks, tennisand badmintonracquets, andnow bicyclesframes. (Iplay a bit ofhockey andbadminton,so when theyget around tomaking a beer

bottle out of the stuff, I fig-ure my leisure time will becarbon-fibre complete.)

Its strength comes fromthe way it’s made —strands are layered and wo-ven together in specificpatterns, and each timeout, it’s done differently, toprecisely fit the task athand. Not dissimilar to theway Mother Nature goesabout building her stuff.

But such a customizedand fussy process, addsmuch cost and time. Andthe raw material for car-bon fibre is already waymore expensive than alu-minum or steel.

The SLR is unique notonly because its body pan-els are made of carbon fi-bre, but also its super-structure. This body shellis made by McLaren — thesame firm that buildsMcLaren F1 racing cars. F1is where all the big enve-lope pushing gets done,when it comes to carbon fi-bre and four wheels.

Mercedes and McLarenhave developed materialand process systems tospeed up both the creationand assembly of carbon fi-bre components. The teamtook their cues from the

textile in-

dustry, as some of the auto-mated systems resembleweaving machines.

High heat areas, such asengines and exhausts, willalways be made of metalfor the foreseeable future,but how about everythingelse?

In an email interview,James Banks, Mercedes’body function manager,said, “It is quite feasiblethat small structural partscould start appearing onproduction cars within thenext few years … Personal-ly, I believe carbon fibrecrash systems and class Abodywork are the two ar-eas of the automobile thatare likely to see the biggestadvances in the comingyears.”

When this does happen,it will be another exampleof trickle-down technolo-gy, in the constant pursuitto make all cars safer andlighter and more fuel-effi-cient.

And if you have to buildsomething high, to get thenecessary gravity, youcould do worse than thisgorgeous SLR, built as ahomage to the original SLRthat racing legend, StirlingMoss, which famouslydrove to a succession ofvictories in 1955.

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Michael Goetz has been writing about cars andediting automotive publications for more than20 years. He lives in Toronto with his family and

a neglected 1967 Jaguar E-type.

“Carbon fibre isincredibly strongand stiff for itsweight.”

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gling with a little torquesteer only under the hard-est acceleration, pullingthe MKS’ somewhat porky

1872 kg (4127 lbs) of curbweight satisfactorily up tospeed with a burly back-ground roar. Fuel economy

numbers vary according tosources but we’ll go withthe optimistic CanadianEnerguide ratings of12.9/8.8L/100km(city/hwy).

After almost a hundredyears of automotive his-tory, it’s easy to equateLincoln with luxury.Which carries its owndangers of design inertiaand hidebound tradition.But Lincoln designersseem to be aware that“tradition should be aguide, not a jailer.” Espe-cially in the face ofincreased competition inthe premium class.

Lincoln continues to tryto reinvent itself to appealto a younger audience anda wider swath of the mar-ketplace.

It’s not an easy process.It requires the compromiseof pleasing your regularfans with the familiar,while simultaneously try-ing to attract new buyerswith novelty and innova-tion. The latest end resultof that blended process —the 2009 Lincoln MKS.

Central to the design, astriking double-wing grille,playing on Lincoln’s tradi-tional waterfall grille mo-tif, angles to the jewel-

styled headlamps thatwrap around the ventedfront fascia and flow into asharp crease along thehigh beltline.

That high beltline is em-phasized by the sweep ofwindshield, the elevatedrear deck, and the deepseating and high consoleinside the car.

In a new age of tall wag-ons, CUVs and othercrossover hybrid styles, theMKS sits and feels verymuch like a traditional car,still typically North Ameri-can in style and spirit. But,then again, this ain’t exact-ly Grandpa’s Lincoln.

A full suite of very mod-ern available technologiesincludes:

• SYNC, a hands-free, voice-activated hands-free in-carcommunication and enter-tainment system developedby Ford and Microsoft. Thesystem integrates Blue-tooth-enabled cellphones,your iPod, or other digitalmedia players. • Intelligent Access withPush Button Start — a firstfor Lincoln — allows thedriver to unlock the vehi-cle with the fob or touchthe heat-sensitive keylessentry pad on the B-Pillarand start the engine with apush-button on the instru-ment panel.

As tested, my front-wheel-drive model be-haved civilly enough, wrig-

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Car boom hits BaghdadBusiness, not bombs, isbooming at Baghdad cardealerships, as well-heeledIraqis are indulging in apassion long out of reach— spiffy, new cars.

BMWs, Nissans, Hyundaisand even military-styleHummers are now weavingaround the shabby, smoke-belching wrecks and don-key carts that have cloggedthe streets over two decadesof sanctions and war.

That may make Baghdadone of the few cities world-wide where the auto indus-try is doing relatively well— at least compared to theworst of the war, whensales were stagnant.

With its limited bankingsystem, Iraq has largelyavoided the global finan-cial meltdown.

And unlike elsewhere inthe world, gas prices aren’tmuch of a deterrent tothose Iraqis eager and ableto catch up with the goodlife behind the wheel of anew car.

Not so long ago, cruisingthe capital in a new carwas asking for trouble.Carjackers were seeminglyeverywhere — either envi-ous militiamen or kidnap-pers on the lookout for vic-tims with enough cash topay fat ransoms.

Those bad days are notentirely over. But with vio-

lence ebbing, Iraqis whocan afford it are eager tolive large and bask in thestatus that only a nice newcar can bring.

“Despite the high price,driving a new car gives mea great sense of happinessand comfort,” said Muhan-nad Khazim as he cruisedan upscale neighbourhoodwith three friends in a2007 Hyundai Elantra he’dbought two days earlier.

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ment refused to say howmany new cars were regis-tered over the last year. Butshowrooms are popping upin safer neighbourhoodsaround town to meet thedemand.

Hassan Saleh, who sellsJapanese and South Koreanfour-wheel-drive vehiclesand American-made Hum-mers at an east Baghdaddealership, attributes theboom to better security,which has given Iraqis theconfidence to treat them-selves to luxuries.

“Nowadays, most peopleare not afraid of drivingfancy new cars in thestreets. Two years ago, thatmeant imminent danger ofbeing kidnapped for ran-som,” said Saleh.

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metro drive35Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Porsche thrillsfor the people

When Porsche announcedit was pulling out of mostmajor auto shows, includ-ing February’s CanadianInternational Auto Showin Toronto, it causedwaves in the industry.

In an effort to thrillwould-be customers intobuying, the company de-cided to throw its fullweight behind its WorldRoadshow, a travelling cir-cus of Porsche vehicles andpersonnel that providesthe ultimate test drive.

While this is the road-show’s 11th year, it’s beingheld in Canada for the firsttime. The event kicked offlast week at the Mosport In-ternational Raceway nearToronto and is scheduled toend this Friday.

The goal is to run 350prospective buyers througha one-day program, in thehope, as one official put it,of spreading “the Porschevirus.”

The program involvesdifferent activities, rangingfrom performance testinga 911 Turbo Cabriolet, tousing a Cayman S or Box-ter S around a slalomcourse, to off-road drivingwith a number of Cayennemodels, and, of course, lap-ping Mosport’s challenging

four-km circuit. The machines in use to

pound around the roadcourse are a great mix ofmodels, from a basic-but-focused 911 C2S with sport-chrono package and six-speed manual, to a more re-laxed 911 Targa 4 with PDK,Porsche’s new twin-clutchautomatic gearbox.

There was a full-on track-oriented Cayman S withbody-hugging one-piecesport seats, PDK and car-bon brakes that was a realfavourite on media day,while the bright-copper

Cayenne GTS at the taildidn’t hold anyone up,with the large SUV easilyhitting 190 km/h up theAndretti Straight.

“The Porsche WorldRoadshow is a large, ambi-tious event,” said JasminRawlinson, Porsche Cana-da’s director of marketing.

“Experience with theroadshow in other coun-tries has proven the bestway to sell Porsches is toput people behind thewheel. This way, they expe-rience for themselves justwhat makes our vehicles sospecial.”

Porsche Canada is hop-ing for to attract a goodnumber of orders from theevent, especially as“eighty-plus per cent of thepeople sent to the eventhave never owned aPorsche before,” LauranceYap, public relations man-ager for Porsche Canada,explains.

MARK ATKINSONfor Metro Canada

Daimler testing car2goTESTING Daimler is bring-ing its innovative mobilityconcept to the U.S. by thefall of this year.

The first internationalpilot will start in the Texascapital Austin with an ini-tial fleet of about 200 fuel-efficient smart fortwo cars.

Called car2go, it providesa simple, flexible, and cost-effective solution for citydriving. The U.S. introduc-tion coincides with the ex-pansion of the pilot in Ulm,Germany, where the com-pany opened the service tothe public on March 26 af-ter the internal test whichstarted last October.

The car2go concept isbased on a fleet of Smartfortwo vehicles which areavailable for rent to regis-tered members at anytime, 24/7, making citydriving as easy as using amobile phone.

Contrary to traditionalcar-sharing programs,car2go offers the freedom

to get in a car and drive atany time of day without re-serving a car in advance.

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The Cayenne was among Porsche’s fleet at the World Roadshow.

Daimler will bring its innovative mobility concept to the U.S. bythe fall this year with an initial fleet of about 200 fuel-efficientSmart fortwo cars available for rent to members.

“(People)experience for themselves justwhat makes our vehicles so special.”Porsche Canada’s Jasmin Rawlinson

Porsche Canada allowed its would-be customers to test drive its models at the World Roadshow.

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If a rugged wildernesswith golden eaglessoaring overhead andmountains that go on formiles sounds like a settingthat’s only on offer inNorth America, maybe it’stime for you to experiencethe natural magnificenceof rural Scotland.

Your adventure shouldstart in London when youboard the CaledonianSleeper train. This over -night train is a magical ex-perience — you step on atLondon’s hectic EustonStation, have a few beersin the bar carriage as youpass though England, putyour head down in yourcosy bunk, and whenyou’re woken up with acup of tea at 6 a.m., youfind yourself in the wide-open Scottish countryside.

Our destination was For-est Lodge, a Victorian-erahunting lodge on theAtholl estate in Perthshire,right at the heart of Scot-land. The estate is alsohome to Blair Castle,which comes completewith suits of armour andhallways full of antlers,and is base to Europe’s on-ly private army, the AthollHighlanders.

We got out at the pictur-esque village of Pitlochry— where we had to waitfor the local taxi companyto deliver the local kids toschool before driving usfor 40 minutes through thesnow to the lodge.

Forest Lodge is like

something out of anAgatha Christie movie, ahuge white house nestledin the crook of the valley.

Inside there are comfort-able bedrooms, a diningroom with a giant banquet-ing table for 20, a huge

kitchen with a larder, anda living room with plumpsofas, tartan curtains andan open fire.

There’s even a gun roomand a drying room whereyou can air your wet coatand your walking boots af-ter a romp round the coun-tryside. This is an aristo-cratic weekend withoutthe price tag — the cost ofaccommodation and foodis small when shared, andthere’s nowhere to squan-der your hard-earned cashon fancy restaurants, ex-pensive pubs or silly sou-venirs.

There is no mobile

phone reception, just anancient payphone with acrackly line, so you areforced to completelyswitch off from the realworld.

It pays to plan ahead —there’s no chance of pop-ping out for a pint of milkhere. Calculate who’s cook-ing what and you can haveexactly what you need de-livered by local grocersTilt Stores. We arrived tofind a larder bursting withfresh fruit, vegetables,meat reared on localfarms, wine, and evensome welcome snacks in-cluding shortbread and

tablet, a sweet and tastytype of Scottish fudge thathits the spot when you’vejust hit the one of the localsummits.

Deer hunting is a popu-lar activity here — it’s alsoessential for controllingnumbers — but we chose adaily hike up the moun-tains instead.

Armed with an Ord-nance Survey map thatmarks every contour ofevery elevation, we set offto conquer the nearbymunro, the name for aScottish mountain with a

Exploring the Scottish countryside

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Rural retreatThe Lodge• Book Forest Lodge throughAtholl Estates. There arelodges sleeping differentnumbers, all work out toaround $130 each for threenights; atholl-estates.co.uk.Getting there• Book the CaledonianSleeper from London at sco-trail.co.uk. You can get a dis-count for a group booking

(for about $270 a head), orkeep an eye out for the “bar-gain berths” — each month1,200 single tickets are re-leased from £35 apiece.Food delivery• Local grocers Tilt Storeswill source whatever youneed, from fresh produce towine and locally-sourcedmeat, tel. 01796 481 206.

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height over 910 metres.Hiking fanatics call it“munro bagging” as theytry to tick all 284 munrosoff their list, but one wasmore than enough for usnovices. The two-hour trekto the top is rewarded witha plateau with mountainsstretching for as far as theeye can see.

As well as eagles andgrouse, there were theflashing white tails ofmountain hares dartingaway, and a huge herd ofdeer led up a ridege by astately stag silhouetted

against a radiant pink sun-set.

After all that fresh air,it’s time for for haggiscanapés in the lounge,then a four-course banquetof smoked salmon, locallamb and pudding fol-lowed by port and cheese.

It would be difficult toleave this place at the endof the weekend, were itnot for the fact that goingback to London is also partof the adventure — after afull day admiring icicles inthe river of the glen, wehad another night of sleep-er train-fun to keep us ingood spirits.

More ideas for Scottish getaways

Whisky tour• Take a tour round the distill-eries of Speyside, north westof Aberdeen — the area ishome to more than half ofScotland's distilleries. Checkout visitscotland.com for afour-day trip where you cantake in seven different distill-eries as well as coastline andHighland landscapes.Islands• You can drive around therugged island of Mull forhours with just sheep and thehandsome Highland Cattlewith their russet shag-pile fur

for company. Stop off forfresh fish and chips in themain town of Tobermory withits brightly painted harbourhouses, and treat yourself to abed and breakfast stay in a re-al castle, Glengorm; see glengormcastle.co.uk.Glasgow• Scotland’s second city is alively place what with its cul-tural, clubbing, and musicscenes. Stay at the jumpingAbode hotel in the centre oftown, abodehotels.co.uk, orat One Devonshire Gardens, aluxurious and stylish bou-

tique hotel in the upmarketWest End neighbourhood;onedevonshiregardens.com.Lochs• Take a road trip round theTrossachs National Park in theWest Highlands and you candrive round the lovely lochs(lakes) and enjoy some gour-met experiences, too. Stop offin Inverary for haggis, tattiesand neeps at historic inn TheGeorge, thegeorgehtel.co.uk,and slurp fresh oysters atLoch Fyne, lochfyne.com.Golfing• Scotland is where golf was

invented, so it’s no wonderthe courses are second tonone. There are 550 tochoose from, but the ultimateprize is a round on the OldCourse at the historic St An-drews Royal and Ancient GolfClub; golf.visitscotland.com.Skiing• With the cold winter, there’splenty of snow in Scotland.Glenshee and The Lecht havea decent range of slopes andlifts, and of course you caneat haggis for lunch; checkout ski.visitscotland.com.

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From the tops ofMachu Picchu, tothe rose-red rock ofPetra’s canyon-likeSiq, to the divine-

ly-inspired churches ofnorthern Ethiopia, thereare plenty of places onearth that inspire. If you’relooking for a holiday with aspiritual element, here area few suggestions:

Korean retreatLive like a monk at the

Lotus Lantern InternationalMeditation Centre. Locatedtwo hours from Seoul, this12-year-old Buddhist tem-ple was designed for for-eigners looking to study thereligious philosophy of ZenBuddhism. Visitors sleep ontraditional Korean cots,wake up at the crack ofdawn (3:45 a.m., to be ex-act), slip into itchy greytraining suits, eat simplefood, wash their own dish-

es and meditate manytimes a day.

Sun rise in NamibiaBordering South Africa

and Botswana, Namibia iswhere the Atlantic Oceanmeets the desert, andwhere rich wildlife and tra-ditional African culturemeet some of the world’smost stunning sunrises. Apopular tourist activity isclimbing up Dune 45, oneof Namibia’s many naturalsand castles. The hikealong the ridge isn’t easy,but it’s all worthwhile

when you see the sun’swarm, orange light illumi-nate the 80-million-year-oldNamib Desert.

Get enlightened in IndiaRishikesh, a holy city in

northern India, is a placemany travellers go to findthemselves. It’s a wildlypopular spot on the banksof the Ganges River thatdraws Hindu pilgrims, new-age hippies, young Israelibackpackers and wiseBabas who spend their daysin the lotus position. Locat-ed some 200 kilometres

from Delhi, this self-pro-claimed yoga capital of theworld is packed with medi-tation centres, ash rams,Ayurvedic massage par-lours, vegetarian rest au-rants and spiritual commu-nities. With its nightly cere-monies along the river andvibe of collective spirituali-ty, there’s something magi-cal about Rishikesh.

Fountain of youthFor a look at the cradle

of Incan civilization and ataste of her sacred waters,head to Isla del Sol on theshores of Bolivia’s sacredLake Titicaca. On the southend of the island, walk up200 steps to a sacred springthat’s said to be the foun-tain of youth. A sip of thewater is not only refresh-ing, it’s an important partof Incan tradition. Lake Tit-icaca is also the highestnavigable body of water inworld — which means youmay have difficulty differ-entiating between yourown spiritual enlighten-ment and good old-fashionaltitude sickness.

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Officials say the parties tothe 50-year-old AntarcticTreaty have agreed to im-pose binding restrictions onthe size of cruise ships thatland passengers there andthe number of people theycan bring ashore at any onetime.

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The move mandates, un-der international law, cur-rent voluntary limits. Thechanges will become legallybinding once each of the 28countries that have signedthe treaty ratify them.

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Ever wonderedwhat to get yourwife for her birth-day? It was Lynn’s50th and I wanted

to make it something spe-cial. Then it came to me —gorillas!

Mountain gorillas re-main one of the greatestand rarest wildlife won-ders of the world. Withjust 700 left on the planet,seeing them is somethingvery special.

We were 8, 000 feet upin Rwanda’s Volcanoes Na-tional Park when ourguides finally locatedthem. Gasping in the thinmountain air, we’d clam-bered upwards for over anhour through thick, lushnettles, thistles and bam-boo, when we emerged in-to a clearing and saw theKwitonda family. It was adelightful scene — the gi-ant silverback, his wivesand babies, eating, preen-ing and playing just feetaway, seemingly unfazedby our presence.

Visiting time is limitedto one hour a day and justeight visitors are allowedto meet each of the sevenhabituated gorilla families— so only 56 lucky touristsget to see them per day.This is to prevent thesesplendid primates fromgetting stressed or catch-ing diseases. After all, theyhave 93 per cent of humanDNA: They can get colds,just like us.

It was the American re-searcher Dian Fossey —whose work in VolcanoesNational Park inspired themovie Gorillas in the Mist— who pioneered gorillaconservation here in thelate 1960s. The ecotourismthat arose from her projectwas going well until Rwan-da became engulfed intribal genocide exactly 15years ago this month.Nearly a million peopledied in that brutal attemptat ethnic cleansing, horrif-ic events I reported at thetime as Sky News’ AfricaCorrespondent.

Although roving militias

and throngs of refugees en-croached on gorilla habitatduring those violent times,remarkably only one crea-ture is known to have beenkilled. Soon after the newgovernment sent army pa-trols to help park rangersprotect the gorillas. Gorillatourism was able to restartin 1997 and has been grow-ing ever since.

Rwanda’s Tourism Min-istry recently agreed to atrans-boundary conserva-tion plan with Uganda andCongo — the two neigh-boring countries where go-rillas are also found.

Another major initiativehas been community

tourism, a joint venturebetween Rwanda’s govern-ment and the private sec-tor, backed by foreignNGOs, designed to ploughmoney back into the localcommunities and improvetheir quality of lifethrough better educationand healthcare.

Returning after all theseyears, I was struck by thepeaceful order of today’sRwanda. The genocide isnot forgotten. Almostevery village has its ownmemorial — the skulls inthe window are a grim re-minder of the past. But

there is a collective deter-mination to move forwardas a united country, nolonger divided by destruc-tive tribalism.

Now the streets of thisbeautiful land in the heartof Africa are filled with thelaughter of children — anew generation free fromviolence. And the welcomewe were given couldn’thave been warmer or morehospitable. Rwanda soonhopes to be known for itsgorillas, not its genocide.

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JEREMY THOMSONfor Metro World News

In search of mountain gorillas A correspondent who covered the Rwandan genocide returns

Jeremy Thompson is an anchorman for Sky News.

Sky News anchorman Jeremy Thompson poses with a family ofRwandan mountain gorillas in the background.

Jeremy Thompson visits a genocide memorial.

Officials place strict limits on the number of visitors who may go to see the mountain gorillas onany given day.

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Earth hits big screen

Filmed at the same timeas the BBC series PlanetEarth, Alastair Fothergilland Mark Linefield’s Earthis a remarkableachievement of naturedocumentary filmmaking.

The movie is filled withthe beautiful cinematogra-phy that defined PlanetEarth even if it isn’t quiteas intellectually satisfying.

It is impossible to watchEarth without comparing itto its predecessor, andwhile the confines of a 90-minute movie funded byDisney prevents the film-makers from capturing thedepth of the series, this isstill an impressive compan-ion piece that demands tobe seen on the big screen.

The longer running timeand family-focus of this fea-ture forced the filmmakersto construct a narrative outof the footage captured forEarth. Fothergill and Line-field have structured theirfilm around three familiesof animals (polar bears,whales, and elephants) em-barking on epic journeysacross their natural habi-tats.

The narrative deviceworks, but limits what thefilmmakers are able to ex-plore thematically and the

animals are given humanqualities in a manner thatcreates unfavorable com-parisons to March Of ThePenguins. It’s an outdatednature documentary tech-nique that hurts the filmever so slightly, but canprobably be attributed toDisney’s involvement inthe project and not thefilmmakers.

Despite a questionablestorytelling device, Earth isstill a remarkable achieve-ment. The stunning high

definition photographythat sold countless copiesof Planet Earth Blu-rays re-ally comes alive on the bigscreen.

This is a film that simplymust be seen in a theaterand will hopefully find awider audience than mostnature documentaries.James Earl Jones’ com-

manding voice providesthe narration that links themovie together (oddlyPatrick Stewart narratedthe movie in Europe, butnot here) and just mightcause audiences to burst in-to applause when he utters“the circle of life.”

Though hardly perfectand less impressive thanit’s small screen predeces-sor, Earth is still a wonder-ful film sure to please fami-ly audiences tired of theusual Zac Efron tripe.

PHIL BROWNfor Metro Canada

EarthDirector: Alastair Fothergill,Mark LinefieldStars: James Earl Jones and avariety of cuddly animalsClassification: GRating: 111

A male Superb Bird of Paradise displays its feathers to attract a mate in the documentary Earth.

New doc an impressive companion piece to BBC series

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He immortalized IndianaJones. He has been Peo-ple Magazine’s SexiestMan Alive.

One of the most success-ful film actors of all time,Harrison Ford is also along-time environmentalactivist. Recently hewaxed his chest in a TVcommercial to highlightthe effects of deforesta-tion. Now Ford unveils —in a Metro exclusive -— hisnew environmental cam-paign: Team Earth.

Team Earth(teamearth.org) willlaunch worldwide onWorld Environment Day,June 5.

How is Team Earthdifferent from othergreen campaigns?

We’re trying tobring together peo-ple from every av-

enue of life, for exampleyoung people, corpora-tions and politicians. Wewant to bring everyonetogether into the environ-mental discussion. Thecommon good isn’tserved by the ac-tions of individ-uals, no matterhow right youare and howwell you con-duct yourpersonal life.

Whydidyou de-

cide to getinvolved?

I’ve been deeply in-volved in environ-mental issues for a

long time, so it was an easydecision. I sit on the boardof Conservation Interna-tional, and that’s a boardwhere you don’t just sit;you act.

Do you have a greenlifestyle?

I do what I can. I re-cycle and do othereveryday things. I

fly an airplane, but I buycarbon credits, though Imust say I’m not totallyconvinced by the conceptof carbon credits.

We’re constantly toldto drive less and con-sume less energy.

What else can regularpeople do to help the envi-ronment?

Conserve and pro-tect water. Reducewaste. Don’t buy

products with toxic materi-als. The Earth canno longer provide

us with the serv-ices we’re usedto, and we have

to come togetheras a powerful po-

litical forceto makepoliti-cians un-derstandthat. Wehave tomake itclear tothemthat theenviron-

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Quick recovery for MadonnaDon’t worry about Madonna, who fell off a horse in the Hamptons over the weekend. Her trainer Tracy Anderson

told Usmagazine.com that the singer will be back in the gym today. USMAGAZINE.COM

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A group of Hollywood ac-tors remains staunchlyopposed to a proposedtwo-year deal with themajor studios, and isgearing up to fight its rat-ification by members.

The Screen Actors Guildboard approved the tenta-tive deal by a slim marginof 53 per cent to 47 percent on Sunday. But the mi-nority group against thedeal, a faction called Mem-bership First, remains vo-cal and has a well-fundedpolitical machine it intendsto use to fight ratification“as hard as anything I’vecampaigned against,” saidits spokeswoman, Anne-Marie Johnson.

Talks on a contract cover-ing movies and prime-timeTV shows have run wellpast the contract’s expira-tion last June. But with bal-lots to be sent to 120,000members for a vote in thenext few weeks, actors inHollywood are bracing fora final battle.

Scott Wilson, a 67-year-old actor who has been inmore than 50 movies andnearly a dozen TV shows,is part of the hardlinegroup opposing the dealand has protested the stu-dio’s offer for the last 12weeks in front of theGuild’s headquarters in LosAngeles.

On Monday, followingthe board’s weekend vote,he took up his post again.

“I believe if this shouldbe ratified by member-ship, it is the end of actingas a profession,” Wilsonsaid.

Wilson argues that theagreement is dangerousbecause it allows produc-ers to create Internet-onlyshows with non-union ac-tors, opening the door to

the union’s eventual irrel-evance.

The agreement also re-duces residual payments —checks that actors receiveon DVD sales or show re-runs — for content that isoffered on the web versuson traditional platforms.

Wilson said actors’ resid-ual income, sometimeshalf their earnings, willshrink by millions of dol-lars because networks arecutting back on TV rerunsand more and moremovies and TV shows areending up online.

He said the same tacticswere used by the studios totrim actors’ compensationon emerging technologies

when cable TV became aforce in the 1980s, andagain when DVDs tookhold in the 1990s.

“Now they’re singing thesame old song: ‘We’ll sun-set this and renegotiatethis in two years,’” Wilsonsaid. “You know from his-tory what that means.Once they have the tem-plate, that’s going to be themodel and they’re not go-ing to change it.”

The Alliance of MotionPicture and Television Pro-ducers, which representsthe studios, declined tocomment.

A moderate Guild fac-tion called Unite forStrength pushed Member-

ship First out of power lastfall in internal electionsthat reflected actors’ un-happiness with the longdelay in reaching a deal.

The moderates willmount a campaign of theirown, courting actors by“disabusing them of someof the disinformation andscare tactics” that Mem-bership First has used torally opposition, said SamFreed, president of theGuild’s New York division,which is working with themoderate group.

He argued that underthe proposal, non-unionactors are only allowed on“low budget” shows cost-ing less than $15,000 perminute, and only then ifno actor hired has creditson stage or screen — ex-ceptional cases that don’tmatter much to workingactors.

Freed also notes that net-works are making far lessin advertising revenue ononline reruns than withbroadcast TV reruns, andare not about to make aswitch that will hurt ac-tors’ residual income bymuch.

“The networks are notgoing to slit their throatsand rush their product tothe Internet,” he said. “It’sa real bogus argument.”

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Despite tentative studio deal, minority group remains vocal

Actor Scott Wilson, bottom center, with others protest theproposed Screen Actors Guild contract outside the SAG offices inLos Angeles on April 20. Wilson has been protesting outside theScreen Actors Guild for almost 12 weeks now.

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AGREEMENT A tentativedeal between the largestactors’ union in the U.S.and the major studios ispotentially good news forfilm and television pro-duction in Toronto andCanada.

The board of the U.S.Screen Ac-tors Guildhas narrow-ly approveda newagreementwith the Al-liance ofMotion Pic-ture andTelevisionProducers,represent-ing the ma-jor Holly-wood studios, that couldlead to the end of a two-year impasse.

That impasse has meanta dramatic decline in stu-dio approvals of featurefilm productions, some ofwhich get shot in Canada.

“That (tentative deal) isthe good news. The badnews is that it looks likeit’s going to take up tofive or six weeks to get itratified,” said Ken Fergu-son, president of Filmport

Studios, noting the agree-ment still requires mail-inballot approval by the U.S.union’s 20,000 members,which isn’t likely to becompleted until the endof May. “We’ve been wait-ing for this day for a longtime. It is definitely going

to be good forbusiness. Itmay not nec-essarily openthe flood-gates but ... itremoves afairly majorobstacle.”

StephenWaddell, na-tional execu-tive directorof the Al-liance of

Canadian Cinema, Televi-sion and Radio Artists,said the SAG dispute hasmostly held up studio ap-proval of big-budget fea-ture films.

With the Canadian dol-lar falling to about 80cents U.S., the film and TVproduction industry hereis once again poised to at-tract increasing amountsof U.S. business, Waddellsaid.

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SAG deal works for Toronto

“That (tentativedeal) is the goodnews. The bad newsis that it looks likeit’s going to take upto five or six weeksto get it ratified.”Ken Ferguson,Filmport Studios

Looking forward• The Guild’s majoritygroup and its minority op-position will write up mate-rials for and against theagreement in the next twoweeks that will accompanythe ballots, and voting is ex-pected to wrap up in four orfive weeks.

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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The thriller Obsessed maybe best summed-up withthe proverb, “hell hath nofury like a womanscorned.”

The film — which opensthis Friday — stars AliLarter as an office tempwho becomes so enamoredwith a co-worker, she setsout to ruin his marriage.As the title implies, it’s aninfatuation that knows noboundaries.

It’s not necessarily a nov-el idea however. Swimfan,Single White Female,Notes on a Scandal andVanilla Sky are just somefilms that explore a similartrend of female-rooted ob-session. It seems instead ofthe traditionally bewitch-ing femme fatale arche-type, writers are more fre-quently devising roleswhere women become thestalker.

Although the notion of

what has been described asthe fixated “psychofemme” was introduced in1971’s Play Misty For Me,“When most people thinkof (1987’s) Fatal Attraction,(they think of) the ulti-mate case of obsession-gone-wrong,” says Do-minique Mainon.

Co-author of the bookCinema of Obsession,Mainon has studied eroticfixation on film and de-scribes the “female gaze”as influential to the recentgender-flipping trend inmovies.

“The female gaze is aquasi-feminist perspectivewhere the woman is tryingto enforce her own idealswith men instead of theother way around,” saysMainon, noting that whilethis quasi-feminist dimen-sion may seem empower-ing at first, the “psychofemme” always gets herdue in male-dominated

Hollywood.“For the most part, it’s al-

ways presented as a dys-function when you see the

woman in charge likethat,” says Mainon. “She’salmost always consideredemotionally isolated; she

has dysfunctional relation-ships; she’s never, in theend, getting married, goingoff and having a good life.”

While the deviant char-acter may suffer on-screen, theatre owners arehoping the premise of anobsessed woman will atleast fill multiplex seatsthis weekend. After all, asthe popularity of pastthrillers has dictated, cultaudiences do obsess overthe archetype of the “psy-cho femme.”

“I think people want tolive vicariously throughthese characters,” saysMainon. “This is just achance to escape and imag-ine what it would be like.Whether people carry itout or not, I think every-one gets mixed up be-tween love and possessionat one point or another.”

Idris Elba, left, and Ali Larter in a scene from Screen Gems’ new thriller Obsessed.

When obsession goes wrongFemale stalkers always seem to get their due in male-dominated Hollywood

STEVE GOWfor Metro Canada

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Jackie Chan’s commentsthat freedom may not begood for China were takenout of context, hisspokesman said Tuesday,while Facebook users andChinese scholarscondemned the veteranactor on the Internet in aspreading backlash.

The 55-year-old star of theRush Hour action comediescaused a huge uproar afterhe told a business forum onSaturday that it may not begood for authoritarian Chi-na to become a free society.

“I’m not sure if it’s goodto have freedom or not,”Chan said Saturday, addingfreedoms in his native HongKong and Taiwan madethose societies “chaotic.”

Taiwan, which split fromChina in 1949, is democrat-ic and Hong Kong, a formerBritish colony now ruled byChina, enjoys some freeelections.

“I’m gradually beginningto feel that we Chinese needto be controlled. If we’renot being controlled, we’lljust do what we want,” hesaid.

Hong Kong and Tai-wanese legislators lashedout at the comments, withsome accusing Chan of in-sulting the Chinese race.

But Solon So, the chief ex-ecutive of Chan’s companyJC Group and his mainspokesman, told The Associ-ated Press in a phone inter-view Tuesday the actor wasreferring to freedom in theentertainment industry andnot Chinese society at large.

Chan was speaking at apanel discussion aboutAsian entertainment indus-tries and was asked to dis-cuss movie censorship inChina.

“Some people with ulteri-or motives deliberately mis-interpreted what he wassaying,” So said.

But Chan discussed Chinaas a country — not its enter-tainment industry specifi-cally — immediately beforemaking his commentsabout freedom, accordingto an AP reporter who at-tended Chan’s panel discus-sion in the southern Chi-nese island provinceHainan.

“Sure, we’ve got 5,000years of history,but our newcountry hasjust beenaround for 60years and thereforms for 30years. It’s hardto compare

us with other countries,”Chan said, referring to Chi-na’s communist rule andcapitalist-style reforms un-der the communist regime.

“But I feel that in the 10years after Hong Kong’s re-turn to Chinese rule, I cangradually see, I’m not sure ifit’s good to have freedom ornot,” Chan continued.

Meanwhile, the publicbacklash against Changrew.

A group of Chinese schol-ars published a letter on theInternet on Monday accus-ing Chan of “not under-standing how precious free-dom is,” even though “freeHong Kong provided theconditions for you to be-come an international ac-tion star.”

A Facebook group set upby Hong Kong users call-ing for Chan to be exiled toNorth Korea had drawnmore than 2,600 membersby Tuesday. The group also

posted form lettersurging HongKong’s BaptistUniversity andAcademy forPerforming Artsto strip Chan ofhonorary de-grees they gavethe actor.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Many lashing out at ChanActor’s comments taken out of context: Spokesman

Rush Hour actor JackieChan, left, is beingcriticized for commentshe made aboutfreedom not beinggood for China.

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The kudos just keep com-ing for Corner Gas.

Series creator Brent Buttwas honoured at the Writ-ers Guild of CanadaScreenwriting Awards onMonday night, winningthe best half-hour TVepisode award for penninga Corner Gas instalment ti-tled Full Load.

The show ended its six-season run last week.

Geri Hall, who hostedthe 13th annual awardsshow, shared a trophy withher colleagues from CBC’ssketch comedy series ThisHour Has 22 Minutes forbest variety script for theirfirst episode of the season.

Adam Barken won bestone-hour TV episode for aninstalment of CTV’s cop se-ries Flashpoint titledWho’s George.

Best feature film screen-play went to Blindness byDon McKellar, who alsostarred in the film alongwith Julianne Moore andMark Ruffalo. The thriller,about an epidemic ofblindness, hit theatres last

year.John Walker was hon-

oured for his script for thedocumentary Passage,which blends acting andreal-life elements as itchronicles a chapter of theNorthwest Passage’s histo-ry.

Winning the movie-of-the-week and miniseriescategory was Mayerthorpe,written by Andrew Wreg-

gitt. The Gemini Award-winning piece, whichaired on CTV, is a dramati-zation of the real-lifekillings of four RCMP offi-cers near Mayerthorpe, Al-ta.

More than 150 scriptswere nominated in 11 cate-gories for this year’s WGCScreenwriting Awards,which honour Canadiantalent. THE CANADIAN PRESS

CBC unveilsits new fallscheduleTELEVISION A reality showthat pairs figure skaterswith hockey players isamong the new shows setto air on CBC this fall.

Battle of the Blades willbe an elimination-stylecompetition that featurescontestants squaring off ina pairs figure skating per-formance.

Also set to air on thepublic broadcaster this fall

is The RonJames Show,starring thepopular co-median.

Canada’sSuperSpeller,hosted byEvanSolomon,

will also be on the docket.It’s a game show that fea-tures 12 finalists compet-ing against each other in aspelling contest.

Among the winter pre-mieres are 18 to Life, acomedy about a couplethat gets married at 18,and The Republic of Doyle,about a father-son team ofprivate investigators ply-ing their trade inNewfoundland.

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Butt, McKellar takehome writer’s awardsWriters Guild honours Canada’s best

Don McKellar, seen here at the gala premiere of Blindnessduring the Toronto International Film Festival, was honoured atthe Writers Guild of Canada Screenwriting Awards for the film.

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Julie Chen is pregnantFans of Julie Chen have been anticipating it for years, and the news is finally here: The Early Show and Big Brother host is

pregnant, according to Page Six. She and husband Les Moonves are expecting the child in October. METRO WORLD NEWS

Ironically, for an actor soindelibly identified byher distinctive voice, JulieKavner remains adamant-ly unwilling to talk.

Kavner has, for the past20 years, preferred to lether animated alter-egoMarge Simpson do all thetalking for her, eschewingpublic appearances, andrefusing to be videotapedor photographed at work.

She is so notoriouslypress-shy — she oncesnuck out in the middle ofan ensemble interview onInside the Actors Studio —she has been branded a vir-tual recluse.

And yet, here she is onthe phone — and there isno mistaking that throatyrasp, which has been de-scribed, not inaccurately,as the sound of “honeyedgravel.”

“It’s true,” she concedes,“I tend not to like (beinginterviewed). But this wassomething I really wantedto talk about.”

“This” being the long-overdue DVD release of the

seminal ’70s sitcom spinoffRhoda. The first-season sethit stores yesterday, to co-incide with the show’s35th anniversary. “It wasabout time,” Kavner com-plains. “I mean, they puteverything else out there...”

Though her Simpsonssuccess has guaranteed fi-nancial security for severallifetimes — last year sheand her castmates negoti-ated a per-episode paybump to $500,000 — Rho-da remains closest to herheart. “It gave me my life,it gave me my career, itgave me the love of mylife, David Davis.”

Davis, with whom shehas lived since the ’70s,was also responsible forkick-starting her career,calling her in “as a favourto a family friend” to readfor a one-shot role as Rho-da’s sister on Mary TylerMoore. She didn’t get it. “Ayear later,” she says, “theyspun off the show, andDavid remembered meand brought me back in.”

This time, Kavner wonthe role of Brenda Morgen-stern, the sitcom poster-girl for low self-esteem ...initially, both on and off

screen, having suddenlyfound herself surroundedon all sides by seasonedtelevision professionals.“Valerie Harper and Nancy

Walker and Hal Gould andDavid Groh ... and (behindthe scenes) David Davisand James L. Brooks andLorenzo Music and AllanBurns ... I was the newone. It was my first payingjob. “But they couldn’thave been nicer and morewelcoming. It was always,always about the work ...none of that, you know, di-va bulls---.”

Rhoda earned Kavnerthe first of two Emmys (thesecond was for The Simp-sons), and yet, when it wascancelled after four and ahalf seasons, she foundherself slumming it on thedinner-theatre circuit, in-cluding a fondly remem-bered tour of WesternCanada. In the early ’80sshe had a guest shot onTaxi as yet another sitcomsister (Tony Banta’s, playedby Tony Danza), and thenfive years later made an ex-traordinary leap to the bigscreen and her first WoodyAllen film, Hannah andher Sisters.

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A long and winding RhodaVoice of Marge Simpson Julie Kavner lauds DVD release of her ’70s sitcom

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Organizerssay formerFugeessinger Lau-ryn Hill willbe theheadlineact for theStockholmJazz Festivalin July.

Festivalspokesman Gunnar Lager-man says the hip-hop andR&B singer will perform atthe five-day event as partof a 10-stop European tour.

It will be the secondtime Hill has headlinedthe festival. Other artistslined up for the July 15-19festival include tenor saxo-phonist Sonny Rollins andBrazilian singer GilbertoGil.

The event celebrates its26th anniversary this yearand is expected to attractup to 30,000 people.

The Stockholm Jazz Fes-tival is one of Sweden’sbiggest music events, andhas previously hosted starssuch as Mary J. Blige,Sting, Stevie Wonder, EllaFitzgerald and Dizzy Gille-spie.

Lauryn Hill

Seger named inU.S. lawsuit

COURTS Detroit rocker BobSeger and a bandmatehave been named in a neg-ligence lawsuit filed by aman who says he sufferedinjuries in a crash involv-ing a car registered toSeger.

Oxford resident ScottMartin claims in the suithe was injured Aug. 8 inIndependence Townshipwhen his motorcycle wasstruck by the Seger-regis-tered 2004 Lexus driven byChristopher Campbell.

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In briefFIRE Country music legend Jim-my Dean and his wife escapeda fire that heavily damagedtheir house in Virginia. Author-ities said yesterday that threefirefighters suffered minor in-juries fighting the blaze at thehome in Varina.

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Baby on way for GruffuddWelsh actor Ioan Gruffudd, who starred in Fantastic Four, and his English wife, actress Alice Evans, areexpecting a baby, his rep confirms to People. This will be the first child for the couple. METRO NEWS SERVICES

Kanye’s nakedpics no shoe adSCANDAL The pictures ofKanye West and his nakedgirlfriend, Amber Rose arenot for a Louis Vuittoncampaign, as originallythought, femalefirst.co.ukreports.

Last week, the rapper’spersonal images surfacedon the Internet, with re-ports quick to suggest thatit was part of West’s cam-paign for his range ofLouis Vuitton sneakers.

However, according toThe Cut, sources haveconfirmed tothem thatthe im-ages arenotpart ofanycam-

paign for the fashionhouse.

West’s desire to ditchmusic for designing seemsto be gaining momentumin the fashion world

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Swayze ‘kicking butt’amid cancer: WhoopiILLNESS Whoopi Goldbergtells usmagazine.com hercancer-stricken Ghost co-star Patrick Swayze is “do-ing the best he can.”

“He’s kicking butt,” shetold the magazine. “And,you know, he’s sick.And he, like therest of us, doesn’tknow when it’s go-ing to happen —because it will hap-pen, that he is goingto go — but hedoesn’t know when orwhere.

“His attitude is, whywait for it to hap-pen?” she went on.“So he’s busy ashell.”

Since he was di-agnosed with pan-creatic cancer morethan a year ago, the

56-year-old actor — whodenied reports in Marchthat he is nearing “theend” — has thrown him-self into work.

He’s writing a memoirand filmed the first season

of A&E’s crime drama,The Beast, whichconcludes Thursday.It remains to beseen whether theshow will bepicked up for an-other season.

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JT and Jessicastill togetherRELATIONSHIP Ever sinceJustin Timberlake wasspotted “very much actinglike a single guy” at KateHudson’s star-studded30th birthday party overthe weekend, according toUs Weekly, rumors havebeen swirling that he andgirlfriend Jessica Biel havesplit up.

But friends of the couplesay that couldn’t befurther from the truth.“They have not split,” asource says, according toHollyscoop.

Another adds: “Thingsare very good with them.

They do thingsseparately

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CAREER Lindsay Lohan hassparked rumours she’ssigned on to appear in anew topless Las Vegasstage act, femalefirst.co.ukreports.

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Pork withMustard Sauce INGREDIENTS:

1 tsp (5 mL) extra-virginolive oil4 boneless pork loinchops, 3/4 in. (2 cm) thick,trimmed of all fat 4 tbsp (60 mL) dry whitewine or vermouth1 garlic clove, minced3/4 cup (175 mL) chickenor vegetable stock2 tsp (10 mL) cornstarchmixed with 1 tbsp (15 mL)water1/2 cup (125 mL) sourcream1 tbsp (15 mL) Dijon mus-tard1 tbsp (15 mL) choppedfresh tarragonSalt and fresh-groundblack pepperFresh chives

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1. Heat oil in largenonstick frying pan overmedium-high heat. Addpork chops and fry untilbrown, 3 minutes per side.Transfer to plate; set asideand keep warm.

2. Add wine or vermouthto pan with garlic and letbubble briefly. Pour instock and boil 2 minutes.Stir together cornstarchmixture and sour creamuntil smooth. Add to hotcooking liquid, stirringwell. Reduce heat and sim-mer, stirring constantly,until thick and smooth, 2minutes. Stir in mustardand tarragon and seasonwith salt and pepper totaste.3. Return pork chops tosauce in the pan. Reduceheat to low, cover pan,and simmer until chops are cooked through,4 to 5 minutes.4. Arrange pork chops onwarm plates and spoonsauce over. Garnish withchives.SERVES 4

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