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AEntrepreneur Summer company

University of Ottawa student Ekaterina Shestakova is one of 23 Ottawa-area student

entrepreneurs who will receive strategic business assistance through the provincial government’s

Summer Company Program to help her start a business. Shestakova is running her own summer

theatre day camp for children. Story, pg 2

There’s an old sayingabout politicians usingyour own money to buyyour vote.

In Prime Minister StephenHarper’s government thissummer, that adage comeswith a visual aid: Huge bluecheques emblazoned withthe maple leaf logo of theCanadian government, thesignature of a benevolentMP and, in some cases, Con-servative sloganeering.

Some critics and evenconstituents say the govern-ment is blurring the line be-tween its public and parti-san jobs with the bigcheques, just a few years af-ter the sponsorship scandalin Quebec, when federalLiberals were also accusedof using government mon-ey to further their partisanaims against the BlocQuébécois.

Public Safety Minister Pe-ter Van Loan (York-Simcoe)showed up a couple ofweeks ago at a summer festi-val in his riding, bearing twoof the cheques to symbolizea $1.26-millioninfusion ofcash to thesmall town ofInnisfil.

They weredone with theminister’s sig-nature, to ap-pear as thoughVan Loan himself was sign-ing over Canadian taxpay-ers’ money, and bore the slo-gan: “Delivering Change forthe Better.”

Other Conservative MPshave been photographedwith the same kind of props.

Syd Lucas, one of VanLoan’s constituents, was notpleased with the messageconveyed by the cheques.

“Let’s be clear that thesemonies are part of Govern-ment of Canada programs

funded by our tax dollars.This is not money from theConservative party,” Lucaswrote to the Toronto Star.“Government programsshould never be used to ad-vertise for the party inpower.”

Dimitri Soudas, aspokesmanfor the PrimeMinister, did-n’t commenton the appro-priateness ofthe cheques.

GerardKennedy, theLiberals’ infra-

structure critic, says he’snot surprised the Conserva-tives are politicizing fund-ing announcements.

He cites the Liberals’ find-ings earlier this year, show-ing that 78 per cent ofBuilding Canada funds weregoing to Conservative rid-ings. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE

Gatineau police said Thurs-day they have identified animportant witness after afire destroyed a historicAylmer church last month.

Police had issued a com-posite sketch in hopes thepublic would be able to helpidentify the man, who wasseen in the St. Paul Churchparking lot half an hour be-fore the blaze started in the

early hours of June 11.Police later said they

found evidence of a breakand enter and a gas cannear the church.

After an investigation,

Gatineau police said Thurs-day that they have identi-fied the age and brand ofthe gasoline can found atthe scene.

Police believe the red, 10-litre gasoline can was pur-chased in the last fewmonths from a CanadianTire store. Investigators arenow asking area residentswho bought a gasoline canfrom a Canadian Tire storesince last spring to makesure that they are still inpossession of it.

ANNOUNCEMENT The Cityof Ottawa, along with thefederal and provincialgovernments, willannounce on Friday $6.7million in funding fortwo construction-readyprojects that will add 61affordable housing units,a spokeswoman for Cana-da Mortgage and HousingCorporation saidThursday.

The funding is a part ofa $1.2-billion joint invest-ment under the amendedCanada-OntarioAffordable HousingAgreement, said NicoleBurgers.

The $6.7 million willfund two buildings — onethrough the Shepherds ofGood Hope and the otherthrough the City of Ottawa— and will provide 61units of affordablehousing for low-incomeseniors, families and per-sons with disabilities.

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Big cheque:Prop or Tory promo?Harper government blurringpublic, partisan lines: Critics

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Cops progress in blaze investigation

$6.7M set for61 affordablehousing units

Official face• The federal Treasury Boardguards how the official“face” and “voice” of thegovernment are presented.• The Treasury Board lookedat the cheques this week,and spokesman Robert Ma-kichuk said there is nothingin the formal identity policy“that would prohibit the useof a prop cheque” contain-ing the Canada logo or Con-servative slogans.• The political props werereportedly the brainchild ofTransport Minister JohnBaird when he served asTreasury Board minister inthe first year of the Harpergovernment.

Aylmer church• Anyone who is missing agasoline can or has informa-tion concerning the fire cancall Det.-Sgt. Robert Char-bonneau at 819-243-2345,extension 6007.

“Governmentprograms shouldnever be used toadvertise for theparty in power.”Constituent Syd Lucas

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Help sought in suspicious incidentOttawa police are asking for assistance in relation to a suspicious incident in thecity’s south end on June 28. A 26-year-old woman was walking her dog along apath connecting Wisteria and Dean Martin crescents when she lostconsciousness. When she woke up, her necklace and ring were missing and shehad suffered minor injuries to her head, face and wrist. She could not identify asuspect. METRO OTTAWA

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Young entrepreneurs get leg upProgram offers funding, advice for students looking to start a business

Like many other universitystudents, Ekaterina Shes-takova is working at a daycamp during the summer.

But unlike most stu-dents, she’s the boss.

As artistic director at theOnce Upon a KingdomTheatre Studio, Shestakovais used to calling the shots,but this summer, the 21-year-old University of Ot-tawa student is taking on anew role — business-woman.

With help from theprovincial government’sSummer Company pro-gram and the Ottawa Cen-tre for Research and Inno-vation’s EntrepreneurshipCentre, the fourth-yeartheatre student will berunning the Once Upon aKingdom Theatre SummerDay Camp for children.

Shestakova is among 23

Ottawa-area student entre-preneurs who will receive$1,500 and strategic busi-ness assistance to start abusiness. Students are alsogiven another $1,500 whenthey complete the pro-gram.

While she said the grantcertainly helped to set upthe three two-week camps,Shestakova said having ac-

cess to experienced busi-ness people through OCRIhas been invaluable.

“It’s very hard to start abusiness from nothing,”she said. “This has been sohelpful, instead of findingall the information your-self. You just come to thecentre and they give it toyou.”

A lot of the learning alsocomes from the other stu-dents in the program whomay be wrestling withcommon obstacles in a dif-ferent order.

“(For) any student who isat all entrepreneurially in-

clined, this is a really low-risk way to try it out,” saidStephen Daze, OCRI’s exec-utive director of entrepre-neurship and innovation.Each year, many of thebusinesses starting in theSummer Company pro-gram will continue beyondthis summer and blossominto careers, said Daze.

Some of the other busi-ness ventures include apersonal assistance andtemporary staffing solu-tions company, a businessthat serves court papersand a home-based tennisracquet stringing business.

TIM WIECLAWSKI [email protected]

Last chance to catch International Jazz Festival

MUSIC With one of the bestlineups yet, the Ottawa In-ternational Jazz Festival isentering its final weekend,but there’s still time tocheck out some of the acts.

“The festival has beengoing great,” said festivalspokeswoman Suzan Zi-lahi. “We had a record-breaking attendance onCanada Day — we hadmore than 80,000 peoplethroughout the day — andtwo stages that were con-tinually attended,” Zilahisaid Thursday.

So far, SMV (StanleyClarke, Marcus Miller andVictor Wooten), TromboneShorty and Al Green havebeen very popular, shesaid. “They were absolutelyawesome. People are stilltalking about it.”

This weekend, “we stillhave some great acts,” Zi-lahi added.

On Friday, Claudia Acu-na and Chucho Valdes willcomprise the “Latin extrav-aganza” and “will havepeople dancing the nightaway,” Zilahi said. “It’s go-ing to be an amazing nightfor Latin music.”

Al Di Meola is the bigname for Saturday night,

Zilahi said. “He’s a leg-endary, prolific guitarist,”she said.

On Sunday, Brian Bladeand the Fellowship Bandand the Charles Lloyd NewQuartet are just some ofthe acts wrapping up thefestival.

Between the shows at

Confederation Park andthe National Arts Centreand the late-night jam ses-sions at the Crowne PlazaHotel, “this year’s lineup isconsidered to be incrediblyrich and having a depth toit,” said Zilahi.

“We definitely do havesomething for everyone.”

Police issuewarningafter theftsCRIME Ottawa police arewarning people to remainvigilant after a slew of per-sonal robberies in the westend Wednesday night andThursday morning.

Police said a manapproached a victim onthe Centrepointe bikepath at 12:45 a.m. Thurs-day and pointed ahandgun in the victim’sface. Police are seeking a15- to 18-year-old blackmale with a large build.

Police are also looking ata robbery at Craig HenryPark after four malesapproached two youths.Police said that a male waspushed to the ground andkicked repeatedly. Theyare seeking a Latino male,a black male and a whitemale, all aged 15 to 16.

The third incidentoccurred in the area ofWoodridge Crescent andBayshore Avenue, whenpolice said a victim had aknife pointed at him. Po-lice are seeking a 17-year-old black male.


Carleton presidentreflects on 1st yearEDUCATION On her first dayas president of CarletonUniversity, Dr. RoseannRunte ran into Mayor Lar-ry O’Brien at the 2008Canada Day fireworksshow and he joked thatthey would throw a partylike that every year in herhonour.

“I’ve had a really warmwelcome and I’ve reallyenjoyed it,” Runte said.

Carleton has seen anumber of highlights inthe year since Runte tookher post, including a fund-ing commitment of $52.5million from the federaland provincialgovernments for two newbuildings for theWaterfront Project.

And while she’s not tak-ing credit for it, the majorcontribution from Richardand Pamela Joho to theCollege of the Humanitieswas a nice thing tocelebrate, said Runte.

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Traffic issues at Alexandra BridgeThe Alexandra Bridge will be closed to vehicular traffic from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. in both directions until July 9.The lane closures are necessary to allow for the reinforcement of the steel structure. METRO OTTAWA

A Company of Fools’ production of Much Ado About Nothing be-

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The University of Ottawahas announced that it isoffering free tuition forchildren of Canadian mili-tary parents killed in ac-tion.

Starting Sept. 1, uOt-tawa is waiving all under-graduate tuition fees fordependants of CanadianForces personnel killedwhile serving in an activemilitary mission as part of

Project Hero. The new policy is being

adopted in recognition ofthe bravery and personalsacrifice exemplified byCanadian military person-nel while serving theircountry.

“Canadians owe a hugedebt of gratitude to themen and women who puttheir lives at risk for ourcountry,” said uOttawapresident Allan Rock.

“As Canada's university,we think the best way ofhonouring those who

have made the ultimatesacrifice is to ensuretheir children have freeaccess to education on ourcampus.”

Students must be underage 26; citizens or perma-nent residents of Canada;dependants of a memberof the Canadian Forceswho died while serving inan active mission; andregistered as a full-time

undergraduate student atuOttawa in a program ofstudy eligible for fundingby the province.

“I am very proud thatmy alma mater hasstepped up to supportProject Hero. It is my goalto get broad-based, na-tional support from allCanadian universities,”said Hon. Lt.-Col. KevinReed.

uOttawa offers free tuition with Project HeroTRACEY [email protected]

In simpler times, a bignight out meant peoplegathering under the starsfor a theatre performance,where they could bewhisked off to anotherworld for anevening.Thissummer,there’s a way you can travelback to Elizabethan timesand experienceShakespeare the way it allbegan.

Ottawa independent the-atre ensemble A Companyof Fools is touring city parksthis month and next to puton nightly shows of Shake-speare’s Much Ado AboutNothing.

The play follows two pairsof lovers — Claudio andHero, who are in love, andBenedick and Beatrice, who

are at each other’s throats —and has a storyline of twists,turns and villainous plots.

“For a lot of people, MuchAdo About Nothing is theirfavourite Shakespearianplay,” said director RichardGélinas. “It’s really a lot offun, and has one of Shake-speare’s most famous cou-

ples in it.”The opening

night of theall-ages show

is this Friday at StrathconaPark in Sandy Hill, with sub-sequent shows running atparks all over Ottawa untilAugust 10.

Fools’ artistic directorScott Florence said the com-pany has been struggling abit financially since theeconomy turned, but he seesbeing forced to make do asactually an opportunity forsomething more artistic andcreative to emerge.

“Art thrives in uncertaintimes,” he said.

Much adothis summerMJ DESCHAMPSfor Metro Ottawa

News in brief

ARRESTS Ottawa police report-ed 22 arrests in relation toCanada Day festivities – downfrom 2008. Police saidThursday they made six crimi-nal arrests, include one for awarrant, three in relation to

drugs and two for breach ofconditions. They also made 16 non-criminal arrests. “The numbers are lower thisyear,” said Const. J.P.Vincelette.


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stitute in Memramcook, N.B., on Thursday. A state funeral service will be held on Friday.

More Canadians will beout of work in 2014 thanprior to the recession, evenif the economy recoversquickly and expands at ahealthy clip for the nextfive years, a prominenteconomist forecast onThursday.

Canada’s economy ap-pears set to stop shrinkingin the third quarter of 2009and begin to grow by year-end. But consumers andbusinesses should notcount on recouping thelosses from three quartersof recession for years tocome, according to a studyby Dale Orr, an independ-ent economist and former-ly one of Canada’s leading

forecasters at Global In-sight.

“Moving from negative topositive economic growth isa pretty obvious measure ofrecovery. But there’s quite afew other perspectives thatwe should be looking at thesame time and none ofthem are quite as opti-mistic,” said Orr.

The report is offered as areality check for markets

and pundits cheering oversmall signs that recovery ison the way.

Unemployment, one ofthe most important meas-ures of economic perform-ance, will peak at 10 per-cent but won’t fall to 2007levels of six per cent, evenafter average annual eco-nomic growth of 3.4 percent in the 2011-14 period,Orr said. REUTERS

Economy may takeyears to recoverRecession will still be felt in 2014: Economist

No more stimulus bucks planned • Canada has no immediateplans to increase the size of itstwo-year stimulus plan, whichis designed to pump an extra

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CSIS errors put case in jeopardy: JudgeTERRORISM A Federal Courtjudge said revelations thatCanada’s spy service mis-handled evidence in the ter-rorism case of a Syrianrefugee is of “great concernto the court” and could af-fect the outcome of thecase.

The Canadian Security In-telligence Service admittedit failed to disclose evidencethat a confidential inform-ant was “deceptive” whenanswering questions. A sec-ond source cited in the gov-ernment’s case against Has-san Almrei was not subject-ed to a lie-detector test, con-trary to what the agencyhad claimed in court docu-

ments. The disclosures were out-

lined in two letters writtenby Federal Court JusticeRichard Mosley. They comejust weeks after an Ottawajudge criticized CSIS foromitted evidence in a sepa-rate terrorism case, prompt-

ing an internal CSIS investi-gation.

Lorne Waldman, Almrei’slawyer, began closing sub-missions on Thursday argu-ing the mistakes are anabuse of process and thatthe case must be thrownout. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE

Fifth EnCanablast setdeliberatelyINVESTIGATION Someone de-liberately set the explosionthat damaged another En-Cana gas pipeline in north-eastern B.C. early Wednes-day morning, RCMP investi-gators say, CBC NewsOnline is reporting.

According to the RCMP’sIntegrated National Securi-ty Enforcement Team, theblast was the fifth in aseries of criminallymotivated acts at EnCanasites since October.

As of noon Thursday, En-Cana was still working tocontain the leak at the well-head site near PouceCoupe. Once the leak iscontained, a full forensicexamination will be startedby the same special RCMPunit that investigated thefour previous bombings,Cpl. Dan Moskaluk said.

The explosion wasdiscovered by EnCana em-ployees after they detecteda sudden drop in pressurein a sweet gas pipeline onWednesday and traced thesource of the leak toremote wellhead abouteight kilometres south ofDawson Creek.

EnCana spokeswomanRhona DelFrari said fortu-nately, no residents were inthe vicinity and no one wasat risk. METRO NEWS SERVICES

Case background• Hassan Almrei was detainedin October 2001 on a nationalsecurity certificate and helduntil earlier this year, when hewas released on strict condi-tions. The government ac-cused him of belonging to aforgery ring that provided

documents to terrorists andsupported the ideology es-poused by al-Qaida leaderOsama bin Laden. He admit-ted to helping a Syrian friendprocure a fake document andmisleading Canadian authori-ties.

RCMP seize 100 guns and loads of ammoMounties in Red Deer, Alta., discovered an arsenal on Tuesday when they responded to a complaint about a man making

threats. The officers seized more than 100 firearms and up to one million rounds of ammunition. METRO NEWS SERVICES

Less dough for vacations: PollClose to half of Canadians are planning to spend less on their summer vaca-tions than they typically do, suggests an EKOS poll, CBC News Online report-ed Thursday. The poll found that 48 per cent of respondents plan to spendless on summer vacations than they have in recent years. About 20 per cent ofrespondents indicated they would spend more, while 32 per cent said theywould spend about the same amount. METRO NEWS SERVICES

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POLITICS The federal Liber-als have regained theirslender lead in public sup-port, according to a newpoll.

A weekly Ekos survey forthe Canadian BroadcastingCorp, re;eased Thursday,put the Liberals at 32.2 percent, down from 32.6 percent last week.

The Conservativesdropped to 31 per centfrom 34.8 per cent whilethe New Democratic Partywas at 16.2 per cent, upfrom 14.3 per cent.

Ekos said the Tories havelost the short-term advan-

tage they gained the previ-ous week after the Liberalseffectively backed downfrom a threat to bringdown the government overthe way it’s tackling theeconomic crisis.

“The most striking pat-tern may be one of grid-lock, in which neither ma-jor party can breakthrough to become an ob-vious election favourite,"the firm said.

A party needs 36 to 37per cent of the vote tostand a chance of forminga minority government.

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Liberals regainedge in new poll

Vancouver’s Canada Daycelebration felt more likethe Fourth of July than atribute to a nation thatprides itself onpeacekeeping, says a Vancouver woman.

Tanya Fink, 31, said shewas “shocked” to see an entire block outside the Convention Centretaken up by a CanadianForces tent — where sol-diers allegedly showedchildren how to handleweapons.

A military spokespersonsaid the soldiers were sim-ply keeping Canadians in-formed about their activi-ties.

To Fink, it was a “brazenstate-sponsored recruit-ment campaign” and “glo-rification of violence andwar.”

She said some visitorswere lined up to try afirearm simulator whilesoldiers applied fake mili-

tary-themed tattoos to chil-dren’s arms and faces.

“Since when is toutingour country’s military andsupporting its occupationsof other nations the main-stay of Canada Day celebra-

tions?” Fink asked.Fink said people had to

exit under an archwaymade up of two giant con-verging guns.

“The last time I checked,our anthem sings, ‘Our

home and native land,’ not‘Bombs bursting in air.’”

Lt.-Cmdr. Nathalie Gar-cia said the display waspart of the military’s effortto keep the public educat-ed about its role.

Harper to meet PopePOLITICS Prime MinisterStephen Harper is expect-ed to meet with Pope Bene-dict XVI during his travelsto Italy next week for theG-8 summit .

Officials in the PrimeMinster’s Office would notconfirm the meeting.

But the Toronto Star haslearned a special audience

is in the works. Harper is not Catholic,

but an active member ofthe Christian and Mission-ary Alliance Church, anevangelical Protestant de-nomination.

In Ottawa, he attendsthe East Gate AllianceChurch.

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Canada Day ‘shock’Canadian Forces’ Vancouver display glorified war, woman says

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Shrinking sheep due to climate change: ResearchersWild sheep on the remote Scottish island of Hirta are shrinking, and scientists blame global warming. Soay sheep are on average five per cent smaller than 25 years ago,

an indication climate change can have a rapid effect on natural populations and a sign of possible more widespread changes in future, researchers said on Thursday. REUTERS

Rome restaurant in hot soupItalian authorities have shut down a historic Rome restaurant days after it charged aJapanese couple nearly 700 euros ($988 US) for a seafood lunch to become an unwitting

symbol of tourist rip-offs in the capital. The tourists filed a fraud complaint with police after being surprised with the bill for downing pasta and lobster with wine and gelato

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WorldThousands of U.S.Marines stormed deepinto Taliban territory inan Afghan valleyThursday, marking thestart of a major neweffort by the Obama ad-ministration to regainthe initiative in the war.

The Marines met littleresistance on day one ofOperation Khanjar, orStrike of the Sword, toseize almost all the lowerHelmand River valley,heartland of the Talibaninsurgency and theworld’s biggest opiumpoppy producing region.

One U.S. Marine waskilled and several otherswere wounded during theday, the Marines said in astatement, adding thatthey had not received anyconfirmed reports of civil-ian casualties or damage

to property. The Taliban vowed that

thousands of militantswould fight back againstthe offensive by U.S. forcesbacked by Afghan andBritish troops.

The Marines said theyanticipated violencewould rise in the daysahead.

“I expect we are going tosee enemy pretty soon,”said Capt. Junwei Sun,commander of a unitwhich moved into the vil-lage of Sorkhdoz.

In swiftly seizing and

holding onto so much ofthe Helmand valley, U.S.commanders hope to ac-complish what over-stretched NATO troopshave failed to achieve overseveral years, and help se-cure Afghanistan for anAug. 20 presidential elec-tion.

But launching such abold operation carriesgreat risk.

A protracted, bloodyfight could erode supportfor the war in the UnitedStates, among its NATO al-lies and Afghans. REUTERS

India Gay rights landmark

Bollywood actress Celina Jaitley, middle, poses with a transgender,

right, and gay rights activist during a news conference in Mumbai.

An Indian court Thursday ruled gay sex was not a crime, a verdict

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Americans hoping for tipping point • The operation marks the firstbig test of Washington’s newregional strategy to defeat theTaliban and its allies and stabi-lize Afghanistan. The 10,000

U.S. Marines in HelmandProvince, 8,500 of whom ar-rived in the past two months,form the biggest wave of anescalation ordered by Obama.

Amnesty reportrips Israel, HamasMIDDLE EAST AmnestyInternational said onThursday Israel inflicted“wanton destruction” inthe Gaza Strip in attacksthat often targeted Pales-tinian civilians during anoffensive in December andJanuary in the Hamas-runenclave. The London-basedrights group, in a 117-pagereport on the 22 days offighting, also criticized theIslamist movement Hamasfor rocket attacks onIsrael, which it called “warcrimes.” Among other con-clusions, Amnesty said itfound no evidence to sup-port Israeli claims thatGaza guerrillas deliberate-ly used civilians as humanshields, but it did, howev-er, cite evidence thatIsraeli troops put childrenand other civilians inharm’s way by forcingthem to remain in homestaken over by soldiers.

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News in briefCRASH The Air France planethat crashed into the Atlanticlast month hit the water intactand at high speed but wasmissing for six hours before anemergency was declared,French investigators said on

Thursday. Evidence fromwreckage indicates the planewas broken apart by impactwith the water, which it struckfacing forwards. The cause ofthe crash is still not known.

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Airline tries clothes-free safety videoAir New Zealand has hit on a novel way to make sure even the most jaded flyers keep their eyes glued on its flight safety briefing. The na-tional carrier’s safety video for domestic services on its Boeing 737 planes show pilot and cabin crew dressed only in body paint. REUTERS

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Iranian Nobel Peace Prizerecipient Shirin Ebadicalled on UN SecretaryGeneral Ban Ki-MoonThursday to appoint a per-sonal envoy to investigatehuman rights abuses inIran.

In a letter also signed bythe International Federa-tion for Human Rights andthe Iranian League for theDefence of Human Rights,Ebadi asked Ban to appointthe envoy to look into abus-es following June’s disputedpresidential election.

A spokesman for Ban said

the letter had been receivedby his office. Ban currentlyis on a trip to Myanmar in abid to get the military juntathere to release all politicalprisoners and prepare forcredible elections next year.

The letter said Ebadi, ahuman rights lawyer, hadmade the request to Ban di-rectly in a telephone con-versation on June 23.

Ebadi was given the No-bel Peace Prize in 2003 forher efforts to promote dem -ocracy and human rights,in particular the rights ofwomen and children.

Action by Iranian securityforces against demonstra-tors who charged that theelection had been rigged infavour of incumbent Presi-dent Mahmoud Ahmadine-jad drew condemnationfrom Western countriesand from Ban. Iranian au-thorities said the vote wasfair. REUTERS

Marshalsseize MadoffapartmentFRAUD U.S. marshals seizedthe luxury $7-million USNew York City penthouseapartment of imprisonedfraudster Bernard Madoffand his wife, Ruth, officialssaid Thursday.

A spokesman for the U.S.Marshals Service said RuthMadoff was present whenagents took possession ofthe four-bedroomapartment on Manhattan’sEast Side under courtorders and then she left. Itwas not known where shewould live and her lawyercould not be reached forcomment.

Disgraced financierBernard Madoff, 71, wassentenced on Monday to aneffective life term for WallStreet’s biggest investmentfraud of as much as $65 bil-lion. He was arrested by theFBI last December and hepleaded guilty in March.

U.S. Marshals Servicespokesman Roland Ubaldotold reporters and photog-raphers outside the build-ing that marshals spentabout three hours securingthe premises.

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DEAD SEA Israel and thePalestinian Authority com-promised in the name ofnature this week, teamingup at the last moment toback the Dead Sea in a con-test to chose the world’s topseven natural wonders.

Just days before the con-test rules would have forcedthe Dead Sea’s elimination,Israel’s ministry of tourismtook over as official sponsor

from the Megilot Dead SeaCouncil, removing a big po-litical obstacle blockingPalestinian participation.

The Palestinians had re-fused to form a sponsorshipcommittee because Israel’sMegilot municipality coversoccupied West Bank land,including Jewish settle-ments near the Dead Seawhich it considers illegal.

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Call for United Nationsto probe abuses in Iran

Violence• In the aftermath of Iran’sJune 12 vote, which drewthe most vigorous organ-ized protests since the 1979Islamic revolution, statemedia said 20 people diedin violence.

News in briefFINANCIAL CRISIS As Californiamarked its second day of anew fiscal year without abudget agreement, the stategovernment moved aheadThursday to issue billions ofdollars in “IOUs” in order toavoid a cash crisis. Californiafaces a financial stranglehold

after lawmakers failed to bal-ance the budget by the start ofthe state’s new fiscal year onWednesday, leaving a $26.3-billion deficit.MYANMAR UN Secretary-Gen-eral Ban Ki-moon has a raremeeting with Myanmar’s topgeneral on Friday where he

will urge the secretive leaderto free all political prisonersand ensure next year’selections are credible. Ban toldreporters in Singapore hewould ask Senior General ThanShwe to allow him to see op-position leader Aung San SuuKyi. REUTERS

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Japan has first case of H1N1 resistant to TamifluJapan confirmed the case of a genetic mutation of the new H1N1 fluvirus that shows resistance to Tamiflu, the main antiviral drug. REUTERS

Countries on the front linein the “war on terror” areusing the battle againstextremists as asmokescreen to crackdown on minority groups,an international humanrights group said on Thurs-day.

For the fourth straightyear, Somalia, Iraq, Sudanand Afghanistan topped anannual index compiled byMinority Rights Group In-ternational (MRG) of coun-tries where minorities aremost at risk of genocide,mass killings or violent re-pression.

“You see governmentswho have faced a genuinethreat, but the point is theactions they have takenagainst the wider civilianpopulation, including mi-nority civilians, has beenjustified as part of the ‘war

on terror,’” MRG directorMark Lattimer toldReuters.

“It has included disap-

pearances, torture and ex-trajudicial executions.”

A two-year insurgency inSomalia led by al Shabaabmilitants, who have linksto al-Qaida and include for-eign Islamists among theirranks, has killed some18,000 civilians.

Despite a decline in vio-lence in Iraq, the report

said civilian deaths fromviolence were still estimat-ed at 300-800 a month overthe past year.

The rest of the top 10 listwas comprised of Myan-mar in fifth place, followedby Pakistan, DemocraticRepublic of Congo,Ethiopia, Nigeria and Is-rael/Palestinian territories.

Pakistan rose on the listdue to an escalating con-flict against different Is-lamist groups, combinedwith growing violence innational politics and sup-pression of dissidents.

Ethiopia, Eritrea andYemen were assessed asunder greater danger thana year ago with their gov-ernments’ involvement inregional conflicts com-pounding the risk of re-pression at home.

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‘War on terror’used to targetminorities: Report

“It has included disappearances, torture and extrajudicial executions.”MRG directorMark Lattimer

Pet python kills toddlerTRAGEDY A Florida toddlerwas strangled on Wednes-day by a 12-foot albinoBurmese python that es-caped from a holding tankin the girl’s home, authori-ties said.

The pet’s owner, aboyfriend of the child’smother, found the pythonon top of the two-year-oldgirl in the rural communi-ty of Oxford, about 50miles northwest of Orlan-do.

The python apparentlybroke free in the night, en-tered the girl’s bedroomand attacked her.

“This is very rare,” Patri-cia Behnke of the FloridaFish and Wildlife Commis-sion told reporters.

The owner stabbed thesnake when he found it on

the child but she was deadwhen emergency crews ar-rived, the Orlando Sentinelnewspaper said. It said hewas being questioned andcould face child endanger-ment charges.

Wildlife officials are in-creasingly concernedabout the proliferation ofnon-native pythons inFlorida’s wilderness areas.

State officials say theremay be as many as 150,000Burmese pythons, whichare native to SoutheastAsia, living in the wild inthe Everglades, where theyhave no natural predator.

Wildlife experts say thepopulation grew fromsnakes dumped in the frag-ile wetlands by pet ownerswho no longer wantedthem. REUTERS

News in briefIRELAND The cost of threelong-running anti-corruptiontribunals in Ireland couldamount to nearly $522 millionwith some senior barristers be-ing paid 2,500 euros a day, gov-ernment officials said onThursday. Tribunals, headed bya senior judge, have beenwidely used to probe corrup-tion allegations against politi-cians in Ireland.U.S. POLITICS Democrat AlFranken, a satirist turned politi-cian, was declared the winnerof a Senate seat in MinnesotaTuesday, clearing the way forPresident Barack Obama’s par-ty to secure a critical 60-seatmajority in the U.S. Senate.Ending one of the longest Sen-ate races ever, the MinnesotaSupreme Court unanimouslyrejected each of RepublicanNorm Coleman’s five legal ar-guments. REUTERS

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Amid recession, hot dogs are choice food for U.S. holiday Americans will be throwing more hot dogs and hamburgers on their backyard grills rather than higher-priced meat like steaks thisJuly 4 U.S. Independence Day holiday, according to analysts, as the recession and high unemployment crimp celebrations. REUTERS

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Vatican criticizes itselfThe Catholic Churchshould not fear scientificprogress and possibly re-peat the mistake it madewhen it condemnedastronomer Galileo in the17th century, a Vatican of-ficial said Thursday.

Galileo, who lived from

1564 to 1642, was con-demned by the Inquisitionin 1633 for asserting thatthe Earth revolved aroundthe sun. Known as the fa-ther of astronomy, he was-n’t fully rehabilitated bythe Vatican until 1992,nearly 360 years later.

At a news conferencepresenting a new volumeof documents on theGalileo case, MonsignorSergio Pagano, head of theVatican’s secret archives,said today’s Church andVatican officials can learnfrom past mistakes and

shed their diffidence to-wards science.

“Can this teach ussomething today? Icertainly think so,” hesaid, in a rare display ofself-criticism for the Vati-can.

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Britainpredicts morecases of fluH1N1 Britain is projectingmore than 100,000 newcases a day of influenza A(H1N1), also known asswine flu, by the end ofAugust and will changethe way it deals with thevirus, the government saidon Thursday.

He said the number ofconfirmed cases of thevirus is doubling everyweek, putting pressure onhealth services.

The World HealthOrganization declared inJune that the outbreak ofthe virus was a pandemic.More than 77,000 peoplehave been infected world-wide.

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News in briefMILITANTS Islamic militantsmay be planning attacks aimedat influencing public opinionagainst Germany’s Afghanistanmission ahead of a nationalelection, a senior official saidon Thursday. Authorities havedetected an increase in threat-ening video messages aheadof the September elections, the

Deputy Interior Minister told anews conference.SOMALIA Heavy fighting in theSomali capital killed at least 20people on Thursday, thesecond day of fierce clashes asgovernment forces tried todrive hardline Islamists out oftheir Mogadishu bases.

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“People say graffiti is ugly,irresponsible and childish.But that’s only if it’s doneproperly.” — Banksy, graffi-ti artist.

Michael (Iz the Wiz) Mar-tin, the famed New Yorkgraffiti artist, died earlierthis month at 50. He wentfrom tagging subway carswith his colourful andcriminal creations in the1970s and ’80s to respect-ful obituaries in the NewYork Times. Iz, there can beno doubt, was here.

Meanwhile, the City ofOttawa spent $2.3 million

last year fighting graffiti,declaring zero-tolerancezones and controversiallybilling property owners formandatory removal.

The website of the Ot-tawa Police Service graffitimanagement program of-fers a quick primer on graf-fiti: “Tagging is the quickand repetitive writing,painting or ‘bombing’ of aword, name, symbol oracronym that may or maynot contain letters, num-bers, or symbols. Othertypes of graffiti include:Gang, hate-based, personal-ized, political and profane.”

It’s perhaps telling thatpolitical expression getslumped in with dirtywords, hate crimes andgang tags, and that there’sno mention of other possi-ble types, the satirical, thethought-provoking, thejust plain cool. It’s all crime

to them.Cops, in general, make

lousy art critics, and oursare not in the mood to dis-cuss the merits of any ofthe stuff on our walls. In-stead, they speak of “bro-ken window syndrome,” inwhich unsightly graffitispreads, wrecks neighbour-hoods, hampers economicdevelopment and leads tomore serious crime.

It’s an old argument, butI wonder if perhaps there’sa little confusion of causeand effect here. Maybegraffiti is not the cause ofurban malaise but a symp-tom.

Meanwhile, the futilecampaign to erase all graffi-ti continues, but as the oldbathroom wall taunt goes,“Janitor, janitor, give uphope. We got more inkthan you got soap.”

The police ask concerned

citizens to report graffitiwherever they see it, anamusing suggestion,which, if taken even slight-ly seriously, could jam po-lice switchboards day inand day out.

Here’s a tip, though, offi-cers: The wall of the build-ing next door to the Com-munity Police Centre onSomerset displays severaltags, three surreal cartooncreations, and that enig-matic local slogan: “NoAir.”

The meaning of this lastone, ubiquitous in Ottawa,is unknown. Is it just anartist’s signature? Is it anenvironmental message?An ironic pun on“nowhere?”

There is no clear answer.Maybe it’s art.

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Pension plans may not be enough for your retirement

How’s your nest egg?

The storm warningsof Canada’s im-pending pensioncrisis are hard tomiss. Some 3.5 mil-

lion of us have no work-place pension plan whatso-ever. Those who do are en-rolled in plans that maynot be able to meet long-term commitments.

Not surprisingly, thereare calls for new publicpension plans, mandatoryand voluntary. The idea isto supplement the incomesof retirees, whose rankswill swell as baby boomersflood into retirement. Asthings stand, the outlook isgrim. According to HSBC

Insurance, which annuallysurveys the global retire-ment scene, 83 per cent ofCanadians have no realidea what their retirementincome will be.

Even the bedrock of ourpension system, the Cana-da Pension Plan, is beingfine-tuned to reflect grow-ing stresses. As part of theirtriennial review, the feder-al and provincial financeministers who oversee theCPP decided to further re-duce the size of benefitstaken between the ages of60 and 65. This change willbe phased in over fiveyears, starting in 2012.Conversely, those who waituntil they’re between theages of 65 and 70 to applyfor the CPP will get morethan before. These increas-es will be phased in overthree years, starting in2011. The intent, clearly, isto encourage those whocan manage it to delay tak-ing their CPP benefits as

long as possible.Also in 2012, the CPP will

eliminate the work cessa-tion test, which states youeither stop working for thetwo-month period whenbenefits start or keep otherincome below $908.75 permonth, the current maxi-mum CPP benefit. The aimis to provide benefits soon-er without financial disrup-tion for those with lowerincomes.

Despite recent criticismsover its investment per-formance (the CPP fund’sassets dropped 14 per centto $105.5 billion in the lat-est fiscal year) and thebonuses given to managersat the CPP Investment

Board, the CPP is one of thepension world’s greatestsuccesses. Since reformsstabilized the plan in the1990s, the CPP has grownhugely on the strength ofan increasingly sophisticat-ed investment strategy.And given the current levelof contributions, invest-ment income won’t beneeded to pay benefits for11 years.

There’s just one catch.The CPP is only designed toreplace about 25 per centof your pre-retirementearnings. That meansyou’ll need other income— in entitlements like OASand GIS, company pensionplans, and personal savings— to have a comfy old age.

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Thieves are increasinglygoing after iPhones andother “smart phones” butvictims now can fight backwith technology.

One device allows a userto remotely activate aloud siren designed torattle the thief. An-other application,for iPhones, can re-veal the phone’slocation.

Police statis-tics show pettycrime is downin New Yorkbut anecdotalevidence and recentheadlines about streetmuggings targeting costlyand coveted devices likeApple’s iPhone have dis-turbed smart phone usersconcerned about protect-ing access to email, pass-words and other data.

“When we have seen

spikes in thefts, a signifi-cant portion has to do with... highly desirable prod-ucts,” said policespokesman Paul Browne.“In the last couple of years

it’s been iPods, Side-kicks, iPhones.”

He said mostof these mug-

gings involveteenagers robbing

other teenagers andtake place on sub-

ways in the afternoonafter schools get out.Fear of a gadget-relat-

ed crime wave is not new.In 2005, as Apple’s signa-ture white earphones werebecoming ubiquitous inU.S. cities, the New YorkPolice Department report-ed an increase in subwaycrime linked to iPod thefts.Before that, victims weretargeted for their expen-sive sneakers. REUTERS

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Delinquencyrate leaps 19%More than half a millionCanadians have fallen be-hind on credit payments,fuelling a 19 per cent risein the average nationaldelinquency rate in theone-year period endingMay 31, 2009, says a reportfrom Equifax Canada.

The credit bureau calledthe jump “alarming,” not-ing the average delinquencyrate for Canada hit 1.52 percent at the end of May. Alotof the trouble stemmedfrom missed payments oncredit card bills and forsales finance purchases ofitems such as furniture.

Equifax defines delin-quent bills as those at least90 days overdue. The reportcomes just days after a Sen-ate committee released a re-port urging the federal gov-

ernment to take action toshield consumers and smallbusinesses from rising in-terest rates and fees.

Finance Minister Jim Fla-herty continues to reviewall input on credit cards, aspokesperson said. Whilehis office gave no timeline,Pierrette Ringuette, the Lib-eral senator who spearhead-ed the study, appeared to upthe ante Thursday by vow-ing to introduce legislationif the government fails toact. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE

Double-digit rise• Credit card and sales fi-nance purchases have risenby 38 per cent and 58 percent, respectively, since May2008, the report said.

LABOUR Negotiators for AirCanada’s biggest union aremeeting on Thursday to re-view their options beforeholding talks with the air-line on Friday to try toforge a contract unionmembers will accept.

A slim majority of theworkers at Air Canada —members of the Interna-tional Association of Ma-chinists and AerospaceWorkers — voted against a

tentative 21-month dealthat would have frozenwages and pension fund-ing. The rejection, by aslim 50.8 per cent, couldjeopardize Air Canada’sfederal approval for a tem-porary freeze on pensionfunding and $60 million inloans, which analysts sayare critical to help thedebt-laden airline avoid asecond bankruptcy filingin six years. REUTERS

Air Canada union eyeingoptions after deal rejected

AUTO Ford Motor Co. ofCanada was the No. 1-sell-ing automaker in the coun-try for the first time in 50years as it posted a 25 per-cent jump in sales in Juneover a year earlier, thecompany said Thursday.

Overall auto sales fell by13.2 per cent in June to

138,500 units, the eighthmonth in a row of year-over-year sales declines.

Ford, the only Detroit au-to company not supportedby emergency governmentfunding, sold 27,408 vehi-cles in Canada in June, itsfirst year-over-year sales in-crease of 2009. REUTERS

Ford auto sales jump by 25%

Business in brief TAKEOVER Magna’s board ofdirectors is set to approve onTuesday a plan for the acquisi-tion of German carmaker Opel,two sources said on Thursday.

The Canadian auto parts sup-plier and Opel parent GeneralMotors expect to resolve thelast few issues holding up thetakeover by July 7. REUTERS

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EVENINGS IN THE BYWARD MARKETELLIOTT BROOD

BORN RUFFIANS

GEORGE CLINTON AND

PARLIAMENT FUNKADELIC

OHBIJOU

KID KOALA

THE PROCLAIMERSWINTER GLOVES

OUR LADY PEACEKISS

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Thursday July 9 Friday July 10 Saturday July 11 Sunday July 12 Monday July 13

THE YORK STREET OUTDOOR STAGE

7 PM DJ REHKA8 PM GEORGE CLINTON & PARLIAMENT FUNKADELIC

7 PM THE PROCLAIMERS8:30 PM ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT

7 PM UNITED STEELWORKERS OF MONTREAL 8:30 PM LEE SCRATCH PERRY

2 PM HARLEM GOSPEL CHOIR 3:30 PM CJ CHENIER7 PM NAOMI SHELTON & THE GOSPEL QUEENS 8:30 PM BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE

7 PM THE CHISLERS8:30 PM SERENA RYDER

CABIN 11 PM DJ DUSTY12 AM SPEECH OF ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT - DJ SET

11 PM CURUMIN 11 PM THUNDERHEIST12 AM MISTRESS BARBARA

12 AM THE JUAN MACLEAN

CAPITAL 11 PM DEAN LICKYER12 AM MATT MAYS

11 PM MOTHER’S CHILDREN12 AM WINTERSLEEP

FAT TUESDAYÕS* 12 AM DAVID MAXWELL 11 PM MUMBO JUMBO12 AM CJ CHENIER

11 PM MUMBO JUMBO12 AM CJ CHENIER

11 PM MUMBO JUMBO12 AM CJ CHENIER

11 PM MUMBO JUMBO12 AM LIL BRIAN AND THE TRAVELLERS

HARD ROCK CAFE* 11 PM THE HEAVY12:30 AM DANIELLA COTTON

11 PM THE ROUGH SEA12 AM WATTERS BROS

11 PM THE ROUGH SEA12 AM WATTERS BROS

11 PM LIL BRIAN & THE TRAVELLERS12 AM NAOMI SHELTON AND THE GOSPEL QUEENS

HEART & CROWN* 10 PM KITCHEN PARTY TRIOWATERS EDGE

10 PM WHISKEY DEALERSTOWN PANTS

10 PM WHISKEY DEALERSTOWN PANTS

10 PM BEN COOPER

RAINBOW 11 PM FIVE ALARM FUNK12 AM DAVID GOGO

11 PM PETER VOITH 11 PM YOUNG RIVAL12 AM CARLOS VARELA

11 PM SILVERCREEK12 AM ALBERTA CROSS

11 PM SILVERCREEK12 AM LIL ED AND BLUES IMPERIALS

LIVE LOUNGE 11 PM THINK ABOUT LIFE12 AM GRAHAM WALSH HOLY F*CK-DJ SET

11 PM DOWN WITH WEBSTER12 AM SAINT ALVIA

11 PM THE ETHICS12 AM THE GRATES

MAVERICKS 11 PM THE MURDER PLANS12 AM BORN RUFFIANS

11 PM AD-VER-SARY12 AM PETER MURPHY

5 PM POLYTONES12 AM THE MIDWAY STATE

11 PM YOUNG RIVAL 11 PM BASIA BULAT12 AM GREAT LAKE SWIMMERS

PIER 21 11 PM THE SOIRÉE12 AM ELLIOTT BROOD

12 AM POP GUN 12 AM POP GUN 11 PM OCTOBERMAN12 AM EAMON MCGRATH

11 PM BIBLE ALLSTARS12 AM TOM FUN ORCHESTRA

RITUAL 11 PM SERGENT GARCIA12 AM RJD2

10 PM DJ DRASTIC11 PM FLOSSTRADAMUS12 AM JOKERS OF THE SCENE

11 PM DJ ILLO12 AM KID KOALA

10 AM BLONDE VIRGIN12 AM GIFT OF GAB

ZAPHOD BEEBLEBROX

10 PM DJ REKHA 9 PM SEWING WITH NANCIE10 PM THE CREEPSHOW

9 PM SICK FRIEND10 PM VIDEOTAPE

9 PM SEBASTIEN GRAINGER10 PM OHBIJOU

9 PM WINTER GLOVES10 PM MELIGROVE BAND

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Hard Rock Cafe Stage

Black Sheep Stage

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Le Breton Gallery

Wednesday, July 8

JEFF BECK

AMOS THE TRANSPARENT

THE BLACK KEYS

AMANDA RHEAUME

VAN DE GRAAF GENERATOR

BLUE KING BROWN

MONKEYJUNK

ERIC LINDELL

SERGENT GARCIA

JON & ROY

JOHN CAMPBELLJOHN

JOHN CREEDEN

Thursday, July 9

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HOLY F*CK

SAFFIRE - THE UPPITY BLUES WOMEN

THE ROAD HAMMERS

RYAN SHAW

OUMOU SANGARE

COLIN LINDEN

ANA MIURA

Friday, July 10

JACKSON BROWNE

CARLOS VARELA

SAM ROBERTS BAND

THE STILLS

STEVE EARLE

BROCK ZEMAN

OKKERVIL RIVER

DEVOTCHKA

THE DODOS

KING SUNNY ADE & HIS AFRICAN BEATS

DOYLE BRAMHALL

ERNIE HAWKINS

Saturday, July 11

BRIAN SETZER ORCHESTRA

HEY ROSETTA!

LOREENA MCKENNITT

RACHEL YAMAGATA

MATISYAHU

THE CHURCH

HUBERT SUMLIN

JESSE COOK

CURUMIN

FEMI KUTI & THE POSITIVE FORCE

YAHOWHA 13

ANDERS DRERUP

ORNETTE COLEMAN

Sunday, July 12

JOE COCKER

ESTELLE

NEKO CASE

JW JONES BAND WITH LITTLE CHARLIE BATY

LOS LONELY BOYS

HUBERT SUMLIN

GIRL TALK

ANI DIFRANCO

THUNDERHEIST

MOTHER MOTHER

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JOHN VANDERSLICE

Monday, July 13

STONE TEMPLE PILOTS

GYM CLASS HEROES

Tuesday, July 14OUR LADY PEACE

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XAVIER RUDD

MISHKA

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JAPANDROIDS

THE ALLRIGHTS

JOE LOUIS WALKER

DNA

SPAM ALLSTARS

MATT ANDERSEN

JOE PUG

Wednesday, July 15

KISS

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THE NATIONAL

THE ARKELLS

ALAN PARSONS LIVE PROJECT

MICK TAYLOR

LEE HARVEY OSMOND

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SILENT DISCO

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SHEMEKIA COPELAND

LES CLAYPOOL

M83

SHARON JONES & THE DAP KINGS

HOODLUM

STEVE MARRINER

Friday, July 17

BLUE RODEO

SILVER CREEK

CAKE

WATTERS BROTHERS

PAOLO NUTINI

LIBRARY VOICES

LARRY GARNER

DAVE MASON

KEN WORKMAN & THE UNION

CLEM SNIDE

BOB CORRITORE THE RHYTHM ROOM ALL-STARS

TJ WHEELER

Saturday, July 18

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BECKY ABBOTT

LUDACRIS

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DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS

DAVID LINDLEY

ISRAEL & NEW BREED

PAPA SAN

PAPA MALI

BLACK MOUNTAIN

HENRY BUTLER

JEFF LANG

Sunday, July 19

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HANDSOME FURS

THE DEAD WEATHER

DEER TICK

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DAVID LINDLEY

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Sport’s most enduring sib-ling rivalry will be playedout on U.S. IndependenceDay after Venus Williamsexacted brutal revengeand Serena Williamsdisplayed raw desire to inflict a double defeat onRussia at Wimbledon.

The American sisterswill be settingoff fireworkson women’s fi-nal day for the second yearrunning at the All EnglandClub, but on ThursdaySerena came within aheartbeat of missingout on the Fourth ofJuly celebrations.

At 4-5, 30-40 downin the deciding set, Ser-ena was staringdefeat head onas Elena De-mentievastood onepoint awayfrom reach-ing her firstWimbledonfinal.

Instead,a split sec-ond’shesita-tion bythe Russ-ian allowedSerena to hit awobbly back-hand volley

off the tape and the Ameri-can snatched her get-out-of-jail free card to crawlover the finishing linewith a 6-7, 7-5, 8-6 win overthe fourth seed.

Clocking in at two hoursand 50 minutes, it was thelongest women’s semifinalmatch at Wimbledon sincerecords started being kept

in 1969.“It’s definitely

one of mymore dramat-ic victories. Ifelt like I wasdown prettymuch thewhole match.To come out

on top was, youknow, a greatfeeling. I want-ed to win reallybad,” Serenatold reporters.

While littlesister Serena hadto fight tooth-and-nail to survive amatch thatshowed off every-thing that is goodabout women’stennis, Venusproved that thereis still a gulf be-tween her andthe rest of thewomen’s field atWimbledon

when she wallopedclueless top seed Di-

nara Safina 6-1, 6-0.

Safina’s ranking as worldNo. 1 looked like a statisti-cal error as she sufferedthe ignominy of sufferingthe most lopsided semifi-nal defeat since Billie JeanKing beat Rosie Casals bythe same score 40 yearsago.

The Russian sprayederrors longand wideto foldinjust

51 minutes.Grilled about whether

she deserves the top rank-ing after her outing, Safinacould only say: “It’s defi-nitely disappointing, fin-ishing the match less thanone hour and winning onlyone game ... I have to swal-

low this defeat, but it’snot the end of

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Back to MannywoodManny Ramirez, left, is set to return to MajorLeague Baseball Friday night after serving a 50-game suspension for violating the league’s drugpolicy. The National League West-leading L.A.Dodgers were 21-8 before Man-Ram’s suspensionand have gone 29-21 since. METRO NEWS SERVICES

Lots of surprise inviteesto Olympic hockey camp

HOCKEY When you glanceat the stats, you mightwonder why Dan Cleary’s40 points are going toHockey Canada’s Olympicmen’s orientation campover Marc Savard’s 90.

Or Milan Lucic’s 42 overMike Cammalleri’s 82. OrPatrick Sharp’s 44 over Ja-son Spezza’s 73.

The answer? HockeyCanada’s staff, which un-veiled its 46-man roster forthe Aug. 24-27 camp inCalgary yesterday, doesn’twant an all-star team withfour lines of scorers.

“When we put this listtogether, we wanted tobring in different types ofplayers,” said Team Canadaexecutive director SteveYzerman. “Some guys whoaren’t leading their teamsin scoring, but are verygood players in a differentrole (were invited). In do-ing that, we had to remove(some high-scoring play-ers).”

That said, there is noabsence of skill, led bythree-time 100-point manSidney Crosby of the Pitts-burgh Penguins as well asJoe Thornton, VincentLecavalier, Jarome Iginla,Dany Heatley and RyanGetzlaf.

But players such asCleary, Lucic, Sharp andBrenden Morrow bring agrinding element that iswell suited for a fourthline at the internationallevel. Yzerman covets that.

“It’s important for us tohave some big, strong guyswho can wear down theopposition,” Yzerman said.

In addition to 25 for-wards, Yzerman invited 16

defencemen and five goal-tenders. Veterans ScottNiedermayer and ChrisPronger headline the de-fensive invites, while Mar-tin Brodeur and Robert Lu-ongo are the big names ingoal.

Yzerman listed hockeysense, skating ability, com-petitiveness and versatilityas the assets he’s lookingfor. He said most impor-tantly he wants a roster of“responsible players.”

“If you lose a game,you’re out,” he said. “Youcan’t afford to have guyswho are high-risk andmake a lot of mistakes.”

Canada’s roster will ulti-mately be made up of 23players.

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Heatley’s invite • Dany Heatley has alienat-ed fans across the countryin the past week, but notHockey Canada’s brass.

The Ottawa Senatorswinger — who has madeheadlines all week with hisrequest for a trade and sub-sequent veto of a move tothe Edmonton Oilers — isone of 46 players headedto Canada’s Olympic orien-tation camp in August.

Management couldn’tignore the 2006 Olympian’stwo 50-goal seasons, two40-goal seasons and his all-time Canadian record of 38goals at the IIHF worldchampionships.

Canadian general man-ager Steve Yzerman said heunderstands “the reactionof the fans,” but said hepicked the 46 players whowere “most suitable” forthe team.

“His invite to camp wasreally secured based on hisplay throughout his career,his play at internationalevents,” Yzerman said.“He’s been a very goodplayer for us.”

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Every Canada Day isgut-check time fortrue fans of sport inthis country.

It’s that time of yearwhen we take note of thethings that make us differ-ent as a sporting nation.

For instance, there’s theCalgary Stampede. Billedas “the greatest outdoorshow on Earth,” it is therichest rodeo in the world.

In spite of bleedinghearts that object to calfroping and chuck-wagon

racing, the Stampede sol-diers on. It is a rollickingtestament to how theWest was won. The fron-tier spirit of the cowboy, itseems, will never die andthis wonderful rodeo hascontinued to grow everyyear since its inception in1912.

On Canada Day, the CFLkicked off another season.On the prairie and in bigcities at either end of thecountry, the beginning ofthe chase for the Grey Cupsignals a game that re-flects the vastness of theland.

It’s a big field — muchbigger than the one in theNFL — one that begs an ad-venturous spirit. In theCanadian Football League,risky passing and open-field running are standard

fare. It’s football by explo-ration and the ballchanges hands frequently.There are only threedowns and plenty of scor-ing, making each posses-sion a voyage of discovery.

In every way, the brandof football played in theCFL mirrors Canada. It’swild and unpredictableand rarely boring.

The ubiquitous sport inthis country is hockey.Every year on Canada Day,hockey creates a stir in thenational consciousness.

The great Jean Beliveau,a man once asked to bethe governor general, willbe the honorary captain ofthe 2010 Olympic men’shockey team. It’s a natu-ral choice — so Canadianin its overtones.

Finally, isn’t it fitting

that in the sports pages onthe country’s birthday,hockey dominated theheadlines?

The Canadiens and theFlames acquired new play-ers who promise freshhope next season whensummer has given way toour obsession with ice.

You know you’re a Cana-dian sports fan when awild west rodeo, three-down football and the con-stant magic of hockey mat-ter most.

Then again, on Canada’sbirthday, these are thethings about sport thatmake it a party not to bemissed.

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Sports in briefMAPLE LEAFS Mikhail Grabovs-ki will be back with the Toron-to Maple Leafs. The Belarusianforward signed an $8.7-millionUS, three-year deal with theMaple Leafs on Thursday. Thataverages out to $2.9 millionper season — a big raise onthe $850,000 salary he earnedlast year. THRASHERS Nik Antropov hascashed in with the AtlantaThrashers. The big centre signed

a $16-million US, four-year con-tract with the Thrashers, joininghis third different team sinceMarch. BAY Canadian left-fielder JasonBay married an American, hastwo American daughters andmakes his living playing Ameri-ca’s pastime. The 30-year-oldfrom Trail, B.C., was among 360people to become U.S. citizensThursday in Boston.

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It’s overdramatic to sug-gest that having a babymeans you’ll never haveanother exciting vacationin your life. However it is agood time for expectantparents to spend time to-gether, stock up on somesleep, have someone elsedo the cooking and visitsome sights that will beless practical to navigatewith a baby buggy.

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Guerrilla guffawsBrüno’s prankish conceit has many precedents

It’s a proven fact thatSacha Baron Cohen takesfew prisoners in his go-for-broke quest for laughs.The British born enfantterrible has made acottage industry out ofskewering stereotypes,adopting personas — likeAli G and Borat — and dis-rupting American idealswhile milking majorlaughs in the process.

His new film, the eagerlyanticipated and muchhyped Brüno, sees Cohenessaying his third most pop-ular character — the flam-boyantly gay fashionista —setting him loose upon theplanet’s most pretentiouscatwalks and the back al-ley’s of conservative societyto raise all manner of realitybending hell.

It’s a prankish conceitthat Cohen may have per-

fected but by no means in-vented. A casual look at popculture history reveals a cav-alcade of media terroristswho delighted in pulling thewool over the eyes of politeand not-so-polite society.

CANDID CAMERA Thoughthe practical joke’s originsprobably dates back to theStone Age, it was in the1940s that a comediannamed Allen Funt createdthe ABC radio show CandidMicrophone. Every week,Funt and his friends wouldhide a recording device in acovert location and trickpundits into falling for elab-orate fictional gags. Later,when TV reared its head,Funt adapted, creating thelong running and highly in-fluential show into CandidCamera.

FUNNY MEN In the 1970scontroversial comedianAndy Kaufman took theshtick to another, more

avant-garde level in night-clubs and TV with hisbizarre “foreign man” andTony Clifton characters. Inrecent history, JohnnyKnoxville and his Jackasscrew shocked the worldwith their bizarre and con-frontational stunts on MTV.Ashton Kutcher became acult hero with his star tar-geting hit series Punk’d,while Montreal’s Just forLaughs team produced theever popular Gags show air-ing regularly on the CBC.Even fallen football heroO.J. Simpson tried his handat the format with his pay-per-view show Juiced. Theless said about that one, thebetter…

STING OPERATIONS And, inmany ways, filmmakerMichael Moore, with hishigh-minded agenda pic-tures, manages to set uphis victims with elaborate“sting” operations just likeFunt did, though his aim isto ignite a dose of outrageto accompany a darkerstrain of laughter.

When the dust settlesand the smoke clearsthough, it’s Cohen whohas truly created an artform out of the cameraprank shtick but howlong can he keep it up?

With the Ali G and Boratcharacters already exhaust-ed, after Brüno, will therebe anyone alive ignorantenough of his legacyenough to fool?

• Brüno hits theatres nextweek.

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Woody Allen as sharp as ever

REVIEW Woody Allen has fi-nally rediscovered his mo-jo and pulled off one of hisbest films in years. He’sback in New York after acouple of soggy Euro trashoutings, as robust and in-ventive as he’s ever been.

And Larry David, as thecentral character and anewer model of the mas-ter, is perfection; Allen ap-pears to hand him hismantle. Not only doesDavid seamlessly sub forAllen but he’s hysterical inhis own right. They’re Hol-lywood’s hottest new cou-ple, and as sharp as it getsthese days.

David is Boris Yellnikoff,a younger, sexier malcon-tent, a scathingly hilariousbut unforgiving moaner,who “sees everything” andso is able to break the cine-matic fourth wall to ad-dress the audience directly.He immediately shares hisprimary belief — that lifeis “whatever works.”

His café friends wonder

who he’s talking to as hedelivers his big monologue,because they don’t see “us.”Don’t worry, Boris tellsthem. “They’re here to seeme.” And he’s right, David’sthe draw. He’s the real deal,delivering Allen’s densescript with zing.

Boris is a bitter stringtheorist, who was oncenearly nominated for theNobel Prize. He apparentlymarried to “quell the pan-ic” but that too flopped.When he failed at suicide,he “moved downtown andgave up.” He’s a study incontrasts, the life of theparty and a self-righteoushater of people (“inch-worms and cretins”). Hecraves isolation but hedoesn’t find it.

A Southern teenagernamed Melodie St. Ann Ce-lestine (Wood) shows up onBoris’ doorstep looking forfood. He lets her in, againsteverything he stands for,but starts to feel twinges oflife rising. He’s a ‘genius’and she’s ‘stupid’, but theydevelop a bond.

Allen has renewed his ca-chet in this, his 42nd film.He’s back with New York,his longest-lasting, truestlove. The city may be filledwith inchworms andcretins and the occasionalgenius but they are inch-worms and cretins and ge-niuses Allen understands.

Whatever WorksDirector: Woody AllenStars: Larry David, Evan RachelWoodClassification: PG-13Rating: 1111

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Evan Rachel Wood and Larry David star in Whatever Works.

REVIEW Kevin McMahon’sdocumentary could be al-most be called a characterstudy of the Great Lakes,so closely does the direc-tor align the film’s visualinformational rhythmswith the flow of H2O.

This is not to say thatthere are no compelling

human figures in this HotDocs prize winner: As thefilm progresses, we’re in-troduced to a number offolks whose lives pivot invery different ways aroundwater or the lack thereof.

Waterlife is most re-markable, however in themoments where the cam-era submerges, probingdeeply into an ecosystemthat’s ultimately no saferfor being so well hidden.

Throughout the film,McMahon takes stock ofthe damage being done tothe Great Lakes via indus-trial pollutants, building apatient, credible case thatsuch developments are

simply foreshocks of alarger water crisis to come.

Waterlife eschews thefinger-wagging Power-point tactics of An Incon-venient Truth, opting in-stead for a more elegiactone — the only recenteco-doc it recalls is LauraDunn’s terrific The Un-forseen, which is alsoabout the encroachmentof civilization on our liq-uid natural resources.

McMahon leans a bit

too heavily on his sound-track, which includes se-lections from SufjanStevens, Sigur Ros, andthe Tragically Hip (withGord Downie pulling dou-ble duty as the narrator).But there’s something tobe said for accessibilitywhen presenting such de-spairing material. If hip-ster-friendly aural accom-paniment can help togrease the turnstiles,well, why not?


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Mr. Cool’s comebackTwo new films on Steve McQueen in pipelines

Suddenly the world’s goneMcQueen crazy.

With both Brad Pitt andDaniel Craig rumoured tobe “in talks” to play SteveMcQueen in two recentlyannounced biopics, andMcQueen’s own screenplaybeing readied for thescreen 27 years after hisdeath, the King of Cool isback.

Producers are looking tocast an untitled biopicbased on the book SteveMcQueen: Portrait of anAmerican Rebel — whichlooks at his early years inreform school, his affairwith Ali McGraw, and hisfascination with fast carsand drugs — and secondbiopic, focusing on his 15-year marriage to NeilieToffel, is currently beingadapted for the screen.

And Yucatan, an actionadventure film based onMcQueen’s own 1,700-pagescript and storyboards, isbeing rewritten for produc-tion.

A-list stars even cameout to New York’s LincolnCentre last month for aweek of screenings of Mc-Queen’s films and lec-tures. Norman Jewisonand Peter Yates wereamong co-stars, friendsand directors who paidtribute to him.

So why the interests inMcQueen?

McQueen, a.k.a. the Kingof Cool/Bandito, was a hip-ster Hollywood icon who isstill admired for his inde-

pendent strength and blue-eyed good looks.

“I don’t believe in thatphony hero stuff,” he said.

McQueen could be trou-ble onset. He famouslydrove co-workers to dis-traction. He was quiet,tough yet vulnerable and afighter to the core. He bait-ed and threatened direc-tors and manipulated stu-dio executives with hischronic indecision.

He often began work ona film but feared he wasdoing the wrong thing andstopped production. “I livefor myself and I answer to

nobody,” he said.Even though McQueen

was extremely wealthy, hedelighted in what he called“hondling,” or the art of ac-quiring freebies. Hecharged the studio rentalfees for wearing his ownclothes and jewelry in films.

He “gave” a swimmingpool to disadvantaged chil-dren in San Francisco andcharged it back to the stu-dio.

McQueen’s salary alwaysincluded a percentage ofthe film, which was unusu-al at that time. He was oneof the first actors to earn

multimillions per picture— $3 million at his peak —plus pages of perks and rid-ers. It has even been re-ported he would dream upnew ones during produc-tion.

Mr. Cool avoided the gos-sip rags until 1973, whenhe left his wife and threechildren for Ali McGrawwho was also married. Mc-Queen and McGraw werethe Pitt and Angelina Jolieof the day.

Two generations of ac-tors, including Colin Far-rell, Kevin Costner, BruceWillis and Pierce Brosnan,have cited him for inspir-ing them.

And, if this renewed in-terested in McQueen con-tinues, another genera-tion is about to have a lookat the man who definedthe word “cool.”

Producers are eyeing Brad Pitt, bottom right, and Daniel Craig for the role of acting legend Steve Mc-

Queen, above, in two separate biopics. A film based on a McQueen screenplay is also in the works.

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Steve McQueen selected filmography• The Great Escape (1963)• The Cincinnati Kid (1965)• The Thomas Crown Affair(1968)

• Bullitt (1968)• The Getaway (1972)• Papillon (1973)• The Towering Inferno (1974)

Waterlife flows as elegiac eco-docWaterlifeDirector: Jevin McMahonStars: Gord DownieClassification: STCRating: 111

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A scene from the Great Lakes documentary Waterlife.

Code, Confessions leadDVD RENTALS With no high-profile theatrical featureshitting DVD shelves, videoconsumers are turning tonew material.

Case in point: The Code,a direct-to-video thrillerfrom First Look Studios, isthe No. 1 rental for theweek ended June 28, ac-cording to Home MediaMagazine’s market re-search department.

The film stars MorganFreeman and Antonio Ban-deras and was helmed by

veteran TV producer and di-rector Mimi Leder, whoserecent credits include E.R.and Vanished.

The Code bumped theprevious week’s top renter,Warner Bros.’ Gran Torino,to No. 4, behind two othernew releases, each withmoderate box-office earn-ings: Walt Disney Studios’Confessions of a Shopa-holic, which debuted atNo. 2, and third-rankedInkheart, a fantasy fromWarners. REUTERS

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Movie di-nosaurscome in allforms. Asscreen char-

acters — from JurassicPark’s terrifying T-Rexes tothe cute and cuddly babydinos of this weekend’s IceAge: The Dawn of the Di-nosaurs — they are as ver-satile as they are extinct.

Just as varied are themethods used to bring theprehistoric behemoths tobig screen life.

The first film dinosaurwas a pen-and-ink creatureseen in a fanciful 1908British film called Prehis-toric Man. In it a cavemansketch comes alive and

threatens its creator. Theartist survives by drawing apicture of a dinosaur, whichalso comes to life and eatsthe prehistoric man.

Another of the originalcelluloid dinosaurs wasGertie the Dinosaur. Re-leased in 1914, the film fea-tured 10,000 hand-drawnimages to animate the tan-go-dancing Apatosaurus.

After Gertie, pen and inkanimated dinosaurs re-mained popular for thenext seventy years ineverything from 1915’sStone Age Adventure to1988’s Land Before Time.

The word dinosaurmeans “fearfully-greatlizard” so it makes sensethat lizards have frequent-ly subbed for their van-ished cousins on celluloid.

A 1914 film called OnMoonshine Mountain triedto pass off geckos as di-nosaurs while 1940’s OneMillion B.C. dressed uplizards with cardboard finsfor a more “realistic” di-nosaur appearance. D.W.

Griffith tried for a moremenacing look, using analligator dressed up as a di-no for his two-reeler BruteForce, which described thegreat beasts as “one of theperils of prehistoric apart-ment life.”

Other methods of craft-ing on-screen dinos includethe old “man in a rubbersuit” trick (pioneered bycheapo producer RogerCorman in Voyage to thePrehistoric Planet but per-fected by Toho Studios inthe Godzilla films) and thewondrous stop motion ani-mation of Willis O’Brien(The Lost World) and Ray

Harryhausen (The Beastfrom 20,000 Fathoms) butthe biggest and baddestshow biz dinosaurs sprungfrom the mind of StevenSpielberg (and the comput-ers of his animators).

Even though JurassicPark’s binary code veloci-raptors and triceratopsesweren’t biologically accu-rate and didn’t exist duringthe Jurassic days (most did-n’t live until the Cretaceousperiod) they were the loud-est and proudest dinos themovies had ever seen.

Hundreds of films havefeatured dinosaurs and au-diences never seem to tireof them, but why?

“Perhaps people’s fasci-nation with prehistoric lifehas something to do withbridging fantasy with reali-ty,” offers Harryhausen.“They are connected withthe shadowy key to ourmysterious origin.”


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Hollywood tappinginto hipster marketBatten down the hatches— the hipsters are coming.

Even as Hollywood stu-dios increasingly aim at thebroadest possible audience,a few companies are experi-menting with the oppositeapproach in these summermonths and beyond:They’re making smart,quirky movies for a sophis-ticated young audience.

The pics are trying to bethe next Garden State, a2004 film that, like otherhipster pics, can be general-ly defined as trafficking inmoody music, casual styleand characters who are dis-affected.

But to succeed, thesefilms will need to competein a more difficult marketthan Garden State did onlyfive years ago — and doeven bigger business thanthat picture’s $27 million.

Perhaps the most promi-nent example of the form isFox Searchlight’s upcomingbreakup comedy-drama(500) Days of Summer, MarcWebb’s subtle, funny an-

duncharacteristically guy-centric view of modern ro-mance. The film opens July17 in limited release.

Starring Joseph Gordon-Leavitt as a reflective youngman and Zooey Deschanelas his ethereal, sometimesunattainable love interest,the movie was one of thebreakout hits at Sundancethis year.

But even by the stan-dards of Searchlight —which with films like Gar-den State and Juno has ele-vated hipster marketing toan art form — Summer’smost appealing aspects aremoments of quirky, con-textual comedy and itsmood of melancholy, notexactly the kind of stuff

that plays well as you diginto your popcorn waitingfor the feature to begin.

“This movie is particular-ly challenging to put for-ward in a 30-second spot oreven a two-minute trailer,”says Fox Searchlight presi-dent Nancy Utley.

The specialty division hasthus staged a remarkablyprolific screening cam-paign. Since its Sundancepremiere, the movie hastravelled to 28 festivals andplayed 215 word-of-mouthscreenings. Searchlight alsostaged a six-city June 21giveaway of food and othermerchandise at retailers,watching as Twitter andFacebook fuelled theevents’ popularity. REUTERS

“Perhaps people’sfascination withprehistoric life hassomething to dowith bridging fantasy withreality.”Ray Harryhausen

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I’m not sure how thishappened so soon —maybe it was the lousyspring across much ofthe country — but as of

Tuesday, 2009 is half done.Time for a highly subjectivereview of what I think aresome of the best albums ofthe year — so far, anyway— listed in the order inwhich they were released.The Panics/Cruel Guards:

Technically, this album isn’tnew at all. It was released athome in Australia in the fallof 2007, but it’s only recent-ly been released interna-tionally. The music is soul-ful, dipping into Motownterritory while moderatingit with Coldplay’s earnest-ness while adding just adash of Bono. Everyone I’veplayed the CD for has lovedit. Key track: Don’t Fight It.White Lies/To Lose MyLife: I found last summer’sdemos intriguing enoughto mark Jan. 19, 2009, onmy calendar as the album’sofficial release date. WhenI finally heard it, I was gob-smacked at how three 20year-olds could sound soworld-weary. To say that

this is a work displayingtalent and a worldview be-yond their years is an un-derstatement. Key tracks:To Lose My Life, Death.Fight Like Apes / Fight LikeApes and the Mystery of

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• Guns Don’t Kill People ...Lazers Do, Major Lazer:Fun-filled fu-sion of dance-hall and reg-gae withhouse beats,zany samplesand all-star Caribbean vocal-ists.• Dinosaur Jr. Farm:Dino Jr.’s trade-mark mix ofsearing, fuzzyguitar alt-rockis infused withcatchy pophooks.• Dirty King, The Cliks:Toronto-basedtrio adds pow-er ballads toits passionatepop-punksound, suitingLucas Silveira’s gender-bend-ing vocals nicely.

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Drummer Kramerhits ‘Rock Bottom’PEOPLE Aerosmithdrummer Joey Kramersays he wrote his newbook, Hit Hard: A Story ofHitting Rock Bottom atthe Top,” in order “to beentertaining, but at thesame to ... help people.”

Hit Hard chronicles thedrummer’s substanceabuse problems, hispsychologically scarring re-lationship with his fatherand a similarly tumultuous,“co-dependent” battle withAerosmith frontmanSteven Tyler. REUTERS

the Golden Medallion: Re-leased at home in Irelandlast fall but not issued else-where until January 2009,this awkwardly titled al-bum has been on “repeat”in my iPod ever since.MayKay, the singer, soundslike she’s teetering on theedge of insanity — and Imean that with all the lovein the world. By the way,FLA calls their music“karate rock.” Listen andyou’ll see why. Key track:Tie Me Up with Jackets.Mastodon/Crack the Skye:A metal concept album re-leased in March that en-compasses everything fromczarist mystics to worm-holes to Stephen Hawking.What’s not to like? It wasespecially good at rebut-

ting a pool party last week-end where they playednothing but BeeGees fortwo-and-a-half hours. Sixminutes of Oblivion fixedthem. Key tracks: Oblivion,The Last Baron.Spinnerette/Spinnerette:I’ll admit it: I have a thingfor Brody Dalle who fillsthat gap between CourtneyLove and Karen O of theYeah Yeah Yeahs. A pre-Christmas release of an EPcalled Ghetto Love hinted atsome cool things and a fullself-titled album — whichwas released just ten daysago — has me hooked. Keytracks: Baptized by Fire.

Mastodon’s Crack the Skye encompasses everything from czarist mystics to wormholes.

The Ongoing History Of New Music can beheard on stations across Canada. Read more at

ongoinghistory.com and exploremusic.com

Moby worth the waitArtist abandons market pressures in favour of making ‘private music’

When Moby started mak-ing music, he never antici-pated his career to lastmore than six months.

“My dream was of havingmore than 10 people listento the music that I made.More than 100 seemed ab-surd and presumptuous,”said the 43-year-old NewYork musician, bornRichard Melville Hall.

Twenty-four years later,he’s got nine solo albumsunder his belt — and that’soutside of earlier bandstints. Moby’s music hasbridged the techno, ambi-ent, electronica and rockgenres and previous releas-es have largely shared hismotivation of creating mu-sic for the ears of others.

But on his new release,Wait For Me, Moby’s aban-doned market pressures,making what he considers,“private music.”

“It’s music that only real-ly makes sense listened to

at home by yourself or withone other person,” he said,likening it to creations bylate English singer/song-writer Nick Drake and con-temporary Wisconsin folksoloist, Bon Iver.

“When I found myselfgetting more involved inthat world of commercial,mainstream music, half ofme felt like an anthropolo-gist because it was just so

foreign,” he said. “To be atan MTV awards show andbe sitting between JustinTimberlake and Ludacris ... Iwas like, I’m sure these peo-ple are nice. I have no ideawhat motivates them.”

What motivates Moby?Creation, chiefly, he said.He’s careful not to criticizethe world of commercialmusic, but when it boilsdown to art vs. commerce,

he hails the prior as superi-or and indicates there’s aproblem with compromis-ing one’s artistic principlesfor the sake of accommo-dating the marketplace.

“Life is short, the mar-ketplace is cheap and art isone of those few thingsthat actually gives mean-ing to peoples’ lives. I hateto see potentially greatartists sacrificing their

principles on the altar ofcommerce,” he said.

That’s why, to launch hisfirst truly independent re-lease, Moby committedwhat he said a friend of hisdubs “commercial suicide”— releasing the album’sfully instrumental first sin-gle Shot in the Back of theHead, unlikely to be playedon radio, accompanied bya rather dour video illus-trated and animated bynonconforming filmmakerDavid Lynch, even less like-ly to be seen on television,and giving it away for free.

“The old punk rocker inme really likes that,” hesaid, smirking. But eventhough Moby boasts punkrock’s anti-establishmentattitude, such independ-ence still yields private tri-als, which he aimed to ad-dress with Wait For Me.

“The most challengingthing is the human condi-tion — mortality. We mightnot have significance, butwe can have the solidarityof the fact that we’re all ex-periencing the same thing.”

BRIAN COULTONfor Metro Canada

Wait for Me, the new album from New York-based artist Moby, was released earlier this week.

Billboard’s top albums1. Lines, Vines and Trying Times, Jonas Brothers; 2. The E.N.D., The Black Eyed Peas; 3. Big Whiskey and

the GrooGrux King, Dave Band Matthews Band; 4. Relapse, Eminem. METRO NEWS SERVICES

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Five great albums released this year

Now on your phonem.davesdrumshop.com


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Katie’s song and dance routineIt’s official! Katie Holmes will perform on So You Think You Can Dance in celebration of the FOX show’s100th episode, airing July 23, in a song and dance tribute to Judy Garland. PEOPLE.COM

Carradine died ofasphyxiation PEOPLE The medical exam-iner who oversaw a privateautopsy on DavidCarradine said Wednesdaythat the Kung Fu star diedfrom asphyxiation and theway the actor’s body wasbound allowed him to ruleout suicide. Carradine wasfound hanging in the closetof his Bangkok hotel suiteon June 4 and his familyhired a New York-basedforensic pathologist to con-duct a follow-up death in-vestigation. REUTERS

Michael Jackson’s brother Jermaine Jackson (pictured) says

reports of the late pop star’s drug use hurt his family.

Jermaine wishes itwas him insteadJermaine Jackson said onThursday that when hefirst saw his brother, popstar Michael Jackson, deadin a hospital room hekissed him on theforehead and wished thathe had died instead.

“I don’t know how peopleare going to take this, but Iwish it was me,” Jermainesaid on the Today morningtalk show on NBC televi-sion.

“I’ve always felt that I washis backbone;someone to —someone to bethere for him,”said Jermaine,who withMichael andthree otherbrothersformed theMotown bandthe Jackson 5and who isfour years old-er thanMichael.

MichaelJackson, wholater enjoyedmassive success as a soloartist with hit albums like1982’s Thriller, died a weekago after suffering cardiacarrest at his rented Los An-geles mansion.

Speculation has swirledin the media that the 50-year-old pop star was abus-ing prescription drugs andperhaps intravenous drugsahead of comeback con-certs this month in London.

An official autopsy hasbeen performed but toxicol-ogy tests won’t be ready forweeks. Results of a private

autopsy by a Jackson familydoctor have not been re-leased.

Jermaine Jackson said re-ports of Michael Jackson’spossible drug use hurt hisfamily. “For people to comeforth and say things thatthey don’t have the facts tois very damaging to thefamily, to me, to us, becausewe don’t know,” he said.

“Michael has always beena person who was againstanything like that. But I’m

not sayingit’s right, be-cause it’s notright, but inthis businessthe pres-sures andthings thatyou gothrough,you neverknow whatone turn(s)to,” Jer-maine said.

He notedthat MichaelJackson un-derwent a

physical exam before start-ing rehearsals and had beencleared by doctors.

In a will that surfacedWednesday, Michael Jack-son nominated his 79-year-old mother, Katherine Jack-son, to care for his threechildren in the event of hisdeath, and Jermaine saidthe family matriarch wascapable of handling the re-sponsibility.

“I thought it was a greatwill because the childrenare fine, my mother’s theperfect person to be there,

and it’s definitely him,” Jer-maine Jackson said.

He also said Jackson’sNeverland Valley Ranch incentral California wouldmake the perfect, final rest-ing place for his brother.“This is his home. He creat-ed this. Why wouldn’t he behere?” Jackson said.

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Custody battle

• Debbie Rowe, the motherof Jackson's two eldest chil-dren, told NBC4 televisionin Los Angeles she wouldseek custody of the kids,setting the stage for a legaltussle with Jackson’s par-ents. “I want my children,”Rowe said in a telephone in-terview with NBC4. Tempo-rary guardianship wasgranted to Jackson’s moth-er, Katherine. REUTERS

TOURISM Abandoned byMichael Jackson after a hu-miliating child molestationtrial in 2005, the latesinger’s Neverland Ranchcould now become one ofthe biggest draws in theworld as a memorial to theKing of Pop.

Jackson’s family has saidthere are no plans for a fu-neral or burial of his body atthe ranch in central Califor-nia after his death lastweek.

But the rural playgroundinspired by Jackson’s alter-ego, Peter Pan, would re-main an attraction in a re-gion already visited bytourists, and it could rivalElvis Presley’s Graceland asa future venue for his mil-lions of fans around theworld.

“Michael Jackson has

worldwide appeal and prob-ably a stronger fan basethan even Elvis. Neverlandis a lot larger than Grace-land and Los Angeles is amajor tourist destination al-ready,” said Roger Brooks,CEO of tourism companyDestination DevelopmentInternational. “Neverlandembodied who MichaelJackson was — the goodand the bad. I think it coulddraw about one million visi-tors a year,” REUTERS

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Neil Patrick Harris to host Emmy’s?CBS, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences and Neil Patrick Harris are working on a deal that would make the

How I Met Your Mother star the host of this year’0s Primetime Emmy Awards, airing Sept. 20. TVGUIDE.COM

Shoes key to MJ’s danceMichael Jackson was not onlya great pop singer and danceartist — but he was also an in-ventor, patenting newtechnologies to support hissignature moves.

One trick Jackson liked tocarry out during his con-certs was to defy gravity.During a number, he wouldlean so far forward that theaudience was amazed athow he did not fall over. Thesecret behind the gravity-de-fying trick? A shoe he in-vented and patented.

On Google Patents, it ispossible to see Jackson’s in-vention in its entirety, withsketches of how the special-ly designed shoes work onstage. By attaching the shoeto the floor, Jackson could besure he would remain stand-ing even when he leaned for-ward to near-toppling de-grees. METRO WORLD NEWS

Michael Jackson from his 1993

Super Bowl performance.

How it was done• Jackson’s specially de-signed shoe went above theankle;• The heel of the shoe had aV-shaped notch;• Screws in the stage floorwhere attached to holesscored into the heels; • Jackson could then leanforward and be sure not tofall over;• One the move was com-pleted, the heel could bedetached from the screws.

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Mix of Six

Much Ado AboutNothingWhen: Friday throughAugust 3Where: Various city parks

A Company of Fools pres-ents its annual TorchlightShakespeare production,full of romance, treacheryand fun. For a completeschedule and more infor-mation visit fools.ca.

Claudia AcuñaWhen: Friday, 7:30 p.m.Where: Confederation Park

Inspired by jazz and Latinmusic from her homecountry Chile, the charm-ing vocalist performs atthe Ottawa InternationalJazz Festival’s Concert Un-der the Stars series. See ottawajazzfestival.com.

Burning ColdWhen: Friday Aug. 30Where: Ottawa Art Gallery,

Curator Scott Marsdenpresents a touring exhibi-tion of ten Northern artistsorganized by the YukonArts Centre Public ArtGallery. For info visit ot-tawaartgallery.ca

Jay Brown When: Friday & SaturdayWhere: Yuk Yuk’s, 292 Elgin

Comedian Jay Brown hasbeen doing stand up sinceage 7. Check him out withspecial guests ChristopheDavidson and TrevorThompson. For info call613-236-5233.

Dressed To ClownWhen: Friday, 8 p.m.Where: Grace O’Malley’s,1151 Ogilvie Rd.

Can’t wait to see KISS atBluesfest? Then comecheck out the next bestthing with this dynamicand fun KISS tribute band.For info call 613-422-4547.

Strawberry SocialWhen: Sat., 9 a.m.- 2 p.m.Where: St. Paul’s UniversityGrounds, 223 Main St.

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BOOK Montreal-basedTransit Publishing isready to cash it in withthis biography, the firstone to be publishedsince Jackson’s death.On sale next week, thetell-all by Canadianwriter Ian Halperinclaims to have all kindsof inside information.Not excited yet? OK,Halperin predicted lastDecember that Jackowould die within sixmonths.

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Kevin SkinnerPERSON As expected, American’s Got Talent got its Su-san Boyle moment this week with the unassumingchicken catcher from Kentucky. There were sniggers at

Skinner’s rustic appearance until he blew the judges with his ren-dition of Garth Brooks’ If Tomorrow Never Comes. Needless tosay, search engines and blogs were abuzz. Even the Hoff was visi-bly moved.

2Seth Rogen and Michael CeraACTORS This week, Canada’s golden boys of comedy made the exclusive Hollywood clubthat votes on the Academy Awards. Vancouver-born Rogen, whose hits include KnockedUp and Pineapple Express, and Brampton, Ont., native Cera will be feted by the academy

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ty’s rising popularity in parts of Europe. Their platform? Peopleshould have the right to share and copy music, movies and virtu-ally any material, as long as it is for personal use, not for profit.

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“Together now!” is aphrase I normally deploywhen taking my waywardchildren out for a walk,mall visit or as a desperateplea to have them allsmile in the annual familyphotograph.

So I was pleasantly sur-prised when Iheard my twoyoungest kidssay these twowords, thinkingsome of my ter-rific team bond-ing parentingskills were finally showingresults.

Guess again. I shouldhave been suspicious whenthey recited it in unison,on key, and to a beat.These guys are never thatharmonious. Until now, be-cause of a new game onour Nintendo DSi calledRhythm Heaven. It’s basi-cally all in the pen-tap-

ping, asplayers worktheir way through aseries of intriguing gamesthat mostly require themto hit or flip the pen on thescreen at precisely theright time. We’ve discov-ered it’s more about listen-ing to the soundtrack thanwatching the screen, andthat’s a cool way to inte-

grate hand-eye co-or-dination and listen-ing skills. (If youaren’t a parent or ateacher, you maynot be aware thatchildren are notmasters at listen-

ing, per se.) “The game consists of

easy-to-learn starter levelsthat progress to‘remix’ levelsthat requiremastery of theprevious mini-games,” saysNintendoCanada’sMatt Ryan. “It’s a lotof fun and quite silly and

will build the player’ssense of rhythm and co-or-dination.”

Personally, I had neverthought of Ping Pong as arhythm-based game, butafter playing it in RhythmHeaven (excellent graphicsand sound, unlike my ex-perience with Pong, 20years ago), the next time Iplay on a real table I’ll belistening for the ball as

well as watching for it. Other games in-

clude jumping mon-keys; alien planets ...even an ancient islandtalking head who getsbird droppings on hishead as a penalty whenyou miss the beat. This

is a terrific game for thewhole family — perfect forthe cottage on a rainy daywhen you’re in the moodfor giving your brain agood workout.

What’s also giving me abrain workout right now ismy teenage son getting hisdriver’s licence. If it’sspeed that he needs, I’mhoping that letting himplay Mario Kart DS will bea good way for me to dis-tract him from getting outon the real road.

“Mario Kart DS is an easyto pick-up-and-play racinggame that uses Mario fran-chise characters and over-the-top tracks, items andKarts (similar to go-karts)to race in circuits,” saysRyan.

And honestly, at presentmy seven year-old son Nicis displaying a little moredriving finesse than hisolder brother at this funand sometimes challeng-ing zippy game.

“To get first in the races,players need to strategical-ly use the ‘items,’ jumpsand short cuts to their ad-vantage and beat the otherracers,” explains Ryan.This makes sense as Nichas consistently demon-strated these moves in or-der to be first in line at theschool bus stop.

Driving cars and a driv-ing beat — these twogames make a great startto a family game collec-tion. Together now, kids.

KATHY BUCKWORTHfor Metro Canada

A sample of some of the games available on Rhythm Heaven.

A littletaste ofHeaven

Rhythm Heaven, which helps

players improve their hand-

eye co-ordination, is now

available for the Nintendo DSi.

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Speidi the doomsayersOn Alex Jones’ Infowars radio show on Monday, Spencer and Heidi Pratt said that 9/11 was an “inside job,”that global warming theories are “mind-boggling” and lamented the “end of humanity.” USMAGAZINE.COM

33% OF FANS ARE HEARTBRO-

KEN Kevin Jonas surprisedhis girlfriend DanielleDeleasa by showing upat her doorstep in NewJersey early Wednesdaymorning and droppingdown to his knee to askher to marry him.

Presented with a cush-ion-cut diamond ringthat Jonas designedwith Jacob & Co., De-leasa couldn’t believewhat was happening,people.com is reports.

Then,“She saidyes, yes,

yes like500

times su-per fast in arow,” the

oldest of

the Jonas Brothers toldPeople.

Jonas, 21, and Deleasa,22, who met in May of2007 while vacationingwith their families in theBahamas, haven’t set awedding date yet. “It stillfeels like a dream,” shetold People.

When Deleasa, a formerhairdresser, first metJonas two years ago, sheadmitted, “I didn’tknow who the JonasBrothers were.” It was

Jonas who eagerly pursuedher after meeting her andthen spotting her walkingon the beach with a flowerin her hair.

Jonas popped the ques-tion after arriving in NewJersey on an overnightflight from a concert inVancouver. “It was toughperforming last night,knowing that I was goingto ask the biggest questionin my life to the mostamazing girl in the world,”he said. METRO NEWS SERVICES

Jonas Bro off the marketUH OH R. Kelly has beenbattling more rumoursabout troubles with under-age girls after the NationalEnquirer published a storysaying he had his homeraided by cops lookingfor a 17-year-old girlwho was believed to bestaying there.

“This is completelyfalse. No policeever showedup at Kelly’shouse witha searchwarrant

nor was his house eversearched,” Kelly’s rep, Al-lan Mayer, said in a state-ment to E! News. “It is alsonot true, as the unsub-

stantiated reportclaimed, that anysuch girl ever stayedovernight in Kelly’shouse or that she

had been there butleft shortly before

some mythicalpolicesearch.”

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New rumours denied

FALLOUT First Kate Gos-selin’s book was delayed,then her reality showwent on hiatus. Now herclothing line promotiondeal with Healthtex is upin the air,usmagazine.com reports.

“Our project is on holdwhile she focuses on herfamily,” Healthtex repScott Pryzwansky toldradaronline.com.

Gosselin, 34, was hawk-ing the line as recently asMay on the Rachael RayShow. She handed out agift bag that contained

what Ray described as “aHealthtex outfit (Kate)helped design and create.”

The fall clothing line isstill available at Wal-Mart, but Gosselinis not involved.

On Monday —one week after sheand her husbandJon filed divorce pa-pers — Christianpublisher Zonder-van announcedher upcomingcookbook,Love Is inthe Mix:

Making Meals into Memo-ries, wouldn’t hit stores

this November asoriginally

planned.The book

promised an“inside look

at one ofAmerica’smost fa-

mous close-knit families.”

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Kate’s career stalls on divorce?SETTLING DOWN Kate Mossis engaged to Jamie Hince,femalefirst.co.uk reports.

The 35-year-old super-model — who has beendating The Kills rockersince summer 2007 —has sparked rumoursthe pair is planningto wed after shewas spotted wear-ing an impressivediamond on herring finger duringa romantic trip toParis.

A sourcesaid: “Kate

and Jamie looked totallyloved-up. Jamie took her tothe trendy La Maison DuCaviar restaurant for a ro-

mantic lunch.“People kept notic-

ing the ring on herengagement fin-ger but she didn’tsay anything.”

This is not thefirst time it hasbeen reported

the Britishbeautyandthe40-

year-old musician are setto tie the knot.

Earlier this year, Hincerevealed he was desperateto commit to Moss.

He said: “I want to mar-ry Kate. She’s all I want.She’s all I need.”

Shortly after they start-ed dating, and just monthsafter she ended her en-gagement to troubledBabyshambles singer PeteDoherty, it was reportedMoss had popped the ques-tion to guitarist Hince at afriend’s wedding.

METRO NEWS SERVICES

Moss getting hitched to Hince?

FRACTURED FAMILY RyanO’Neal went to greatlengths to make sure hisson Redmond O’Nealcould be allowed out ofprison to attend FarrahFawcett’s funeral, but hereportedly put just asmuch effort into makingsure his older son, GriffinO’Neal, was barred fromentering the service, ac-cording to Inside Edition.

Ryan toldthe pro-gram hehad Griffinbanned“becausehe’s a badguy.” Griffin,who drove480 kmto at-tendhis

stepmother’s funeral, said,“I just wanted to say good-bye to someone that Iknew and loved for 33years.”

His sister, Tatum O’Neal,was reportedly also asked

to skip the funeral. METRO WORLD

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O’Neal drama at funeralGUEST SPOT Hilary Duff iscoming to start some dra-ma on the Upper East Side,people.com reports. Thesinger and actress is join-ing the cast of Gossip Girlfor several episodes, re-ports ew.com.

Duff will play OliviaBurke, a famous film starin search of the normalcollege experience. Herschool of choice will be

New York University,where Blair(LeightonMeester),Dan(PennBadgley)and

Vanessa (Jessica Szohr)were also accepted.

And in an excellenttwist, Olivia will be room-ing with Vanessa! Willthey be friends? Howwill Blair react? Andcould she catch theeye of a certain Brook-lynite?

Duff’s first episode is setto air Oct. 5.

METRO NEWS SERVICES

Hilary joins Gossip Girl

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HOW TO PLAY: Digits 1 through 9 will appear once in eachzone – one zone is an outlined 3x3 grid within the largerpuzzle grid. There are nine zones in the puzzle.Do not enter a digit into a box if it already appearselsewhere in the same zone, row across or column downthe entire puzzle.

SUDOKU SOLVE TIME:

Under 13 min ...............Genius13-17 min.....................Scholar

17-21 min .......................Smart21-25 min....................Not bad25+ min...........Keep practising

PREVIOUS DAY’S CROSSWORD AND SUDOKU ANSWERS:

1 Lummox2 “CSI” evidence3 Rum recipe4 Privately made movie5 Retain6 Historic time7 Comcast alternative8 Affectionate9 Terrible guy?10 Carte11 Galena and cinnabar16 Stratagem19 Oliver Twist’s request20 Component of stockfootage?21 Gumbo item22 Sir’s counterpart

23 Unctuous25 Occupy26 Waiting area27 Small grimace28 Undergoes recession30 Jet forth33 Monkey in a lab34 Punch36 Onward37 “Phooey!”38 Reverberate39 Dweeb40 Platter42 Retainer43 Motorists’ org.44 Ram’s fan?45 On pension (Abbr.)

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1 Peculiar4 Furniture brand8 Long ride?12 Ortiz of “Ugly Betty”13 Infamous lyre player14 Finished15 Truman’s economic poli-cy17 Barn roof decoration18 Witticism19 Less20 Hugh Laurie series22 Apollo 11 goal24 Dust Bowl migrant25 One justifiably ridiculed29 Bobby of hockey

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Stir-fried Beefwith Vegetables INGREDIENTS:

1 lb (500 g) round roast,thinly sliced2 tbsp (25 ml) oyster sauce3 tsp (15 ml) low sodiumsoy sauce1/2 tsp (2 ml) sugar2 tbsp (25 ml) corn starch2 garlic cloves, chopped2 tbsp (25 ml) vegetable oil1 small onion, cut intowedges1 small carrot, peeled andsliced1 red pepper, deseededand sliced3 ½ oz (100 g) broccoli, cutinto florets5 fresh baby corn cobs,halved lengthways1 bunch asparagus,trimmed and cut on diago-nal into 2-in. (5-cm)lengths1/2 cup (125 ml) waterMETHOD:

1. Put beef in bowl withoyster and soy sauces, sug-ar, corn starch and garlic.Mix and allow to marinate15 minutes.

2. Heat well-seasoned wokor large, non-stick fryingpan over high heat. Add 1tbsp (15 ml) oil, then addmeat and stir-fry 3minutes until cooked andbrowned. Remove andkeep warm.3. Clean wok out bywiping with paper towel.Heat over medium heatand add remaining oil.Add onion, carrot, pepperand broccoli and cook 1minute, tossing frequent-ly. Add corn, asparagusand water; return meat towok and cook 1 minute, oruntil sauce has thickened.Vegetables should beslightly softened but stillretain their crispness.Serve immediately.SERVES 4

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TAURUSAPRIL 21-MAY 21Others are more likely to re-spond to words of encourage-ment than to complaints thatthey are not trying hardenough.

GEMINIMAY 22-JUNE 21It’s important today that youkeep control of your mind.Your imagination will wanderall over the place if you let it.

CANCERJUNE 22-JULY 22Now that mind planet Mercuryis beginning its transit of yoursign you will see things with abit more clarity. You’ve wastedtoo much time on trivialities.

LEOJULY 23-AUG 23You will be a bit more subduedthan usual today. Of course, asa Leo, your idea of subdued isprobably loud and assertive byother people’s standards.

VIRGOAUG 24-SEPT 22You see no reason to be reticentabout telling the world whatturns you on — and off — andif it’s a bit too candid for some,well, that’s too bad.

LIBRASEPT 23-OCT 23Mercury’s entry into the statusarea of your chart today urgesyou to make an impression onemployers and other authorityfigures.

SCORPIOOCT 24-NOV 22Some of the thoughts that in-vade your head will be so wayout that you dare not tell oth-ers what you are thinking.

SAGITTARIUSNOV 23-DEC 21It may be tempting to tell oth-ers what they want to hear to-day but why should you per-jure yourself just to make themfeel good?

CAPRICORNDEC 22-JAN 20Someone you have not beengetting on with too well of latewill put out feelers of reconcili-ation today.

AQUARIUSJAN 21-FEB 18If you’ve been looking for waysto get others to take some ofthe workload off your shoul-ders you will find just the rightwords to persuade them today.

PISCESFEB 19-MARCH 20Mind planet Mercury joins theSun in the most dynamic areaof your chart today, so therecan be no more excuses.

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