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The Liberals are accusingthe provincial governmentof wasteful jet-setting asanother high-ranking NDPofficer prepares to flyoverseas.

Speaker Charlie Parkerheads the office in chargeof handling MLA expensereforms. He’s heading to aCouncil of State Govern-ments meeting in Mainefrom today to Saturday,then Sunday he flies toEngland for a 12-day West-minster Seminar on parlia-mentary practices.

“It’s almost like they’venot understood the severi-

ty of the anger Nova Sco-tians have towards this is-sue,” Liberal LeaderStephen McNeil saidof the expense scan-dal. He said Parkerneeds to be in theprovince to overseefixes to the system.

Opposition mem-bers have criticizedother recent NDPtrips as wasteful,such as Premier Dar-rell Dexter heading toCopenhagen and the Win-ter OIympics in Vancou-ver.

“Find me a report fromany one of the last tripsthey’ve gone on, or anyonehas gone on, that tells youwhat benefit there was to

Nova Scotians,” McNeilsaid. “You can’t find one.”

Reached by phone yes-terday, Parker saidthe trip to Maine isnecessary becauseHalifax will be host-ing the 2011 meet-ing of the Council ofState Governmentsnext August. He saidabout 700 peoplewill be coming from12 eastern states

and the five other easternprovinces.

As for the London trip,Parker called it “an invest-ment in democracy.”

“This is a unique oppor-tunity for me as speaker togo and rub shoulders withother parliamentarians

and, hopefully, bring backsome good ideas we canuse here in Nova Scotia,”he said.

He didn’t know the totalcost of the trip, but his reg-istration fees for the semi-nar are $600. Parker notedpast speakers have attend-ed the seminar and said ithelps teach how to bestserve constituents in a par-liamentary democracy.

Parker said he will beable to keep in constanttouch with his officethrough telephone andemail so reform work willnot be held up.

PAUL [email protected]

MUSIC Is anybody listening?Apparently so.

Enfield rapperClassifield, a.k.a. LukeBoyd, landed three Junonominations yesterday, in-cluding Single of the Yearfor his hit Anybody Listen-ing.

“For the Junos, that’spretty crazy,” Boyd said ofbeing nominated threetimes. “The Junos are onsuch a big level.”

Classified faces stiff com-petition in a marquee cate-gory for the April 18 showin St. John’s, N.L. The Tragi-cally Hip (Love Is A First),Michael Bublé (Haven’tMet You Yet), Drake (Best IEver Had) and Billy Talent(Rusted From The Rain) arethe othernominees.

Classifiedis also nomi-nated forRap Record-ing of theYear for thealbum SelfExplanatoryand Video ofthe Year for AnybodyListening. This is the thirdtime Classified is nominat-ed in the rap category.

“When news like thiscomes out, it makes youfeel good,” he said.

“It shows all your hardwork is not going underthe radar.”

Classified wasn’t the on-ly local musician to receivemultiple Juno nominationyesterday. Halifax’s JoelPlaskett landed two nomi-nations: Songwriter of theYear and Adult AlternativeAlbum of the Year, both forthe record Three.

The Halifax-based musi-cal production DRUM! wasnominated for the MusicDVD of the Year categoryfor DRUM! Live. PHILIP CROUCHER/METRO HALIFAX

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CRIME A Dartmouth mancalled Halifax Regional Po-lice this week to reportfour men broke into hisapartment and stole cash,electronics — and hismarijuana.

The 23-year-old man al-leges the men held him atgunpoint in his BolandRoad apartment just after4 p.m. Tuesday.

Police spokesman Const.Brian Palmeter said it isunlikely the victim willface drug possessioncharges because theydon’t know how muchdrugs are actuallyinvolved.

“We do have peoplethat call from time totime and report thatsomebody has stolentheir drugs,” he said.

Police are still lookingfor the break-and-entersuspects. METRO HALIFAX

Man calls copsover stolen pot

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Huskies Chopping down the Axemen

Saint Mary’s Huskies players celebrate a first-period goal against the Acadia Axemen during last night’s AUHC semifinal game at

the Halifax Forum. The Huskies celebrated often as they crushed the Axemen 9-2. The Huskies won the best-of-five series 3-1 and

will now take on the St. Francis Xavier X-Men, who upset the University of New Brunswick in the other semifinal. Story, page 9.

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Bill Estabrooks accepts hehas to slash his donationsspending, but he isn’t happy about it.

“To put it to you candidlyit makes me real damn an-gry,” said the NDPcabinet minister yes-terday.

Estabrooks was themost generous giveramongst MLAs. Hespent $29,750 on do-nations and gifts overthe 12 months beforethe June election,more than any other mem-ber. He also spent $14,674on advertising.

That will have to end af-ter the internal economyboard decimated advertis-ing spending limits to about$400 per month — one-tenth of the previous maxi-mum. Another $1,050 fundwas cut altogether.

“I’m frustrated, I’m disap-pointed, but I’ll do as I’mtold,” Estabrooks said. “I’vegot to live with the decisionthat was made, that’s thebottom line.”

He said the recipients ofhis donations includedchurch groups, sports teamsand needy constituents. Hementioned one case wherehe helped a single mother

afford to enrol her kids inhockey and gymnastics.

“I guess I can’t help herout anymore. That’s theway it goes,” he said.

Estabrooks’ most contro-versial advertising was tohave a junior hockey teamwear “Bill MLA” on thebacks of its jerseys. He said

he was hurt by accu-sations of vote buy-ing, and said that wasnever his intention.

The practice ofMLAs using their ex-pense accounts to do-nate to charities hascome under the mi-croscope since the

auditor general’s report lastmonth. Scott Hennig, presi-dent of the Canadian Tax-payers Federation, said thespending was inappropriate.

This week former speakerArt Donahoe, who ischarged with crafting thenew rules around MLA ex-penses, is also skeptical ofcommunity donations.

“I think that’s very laudi-ble,” he said this week.“What I’m not certain,though, is whether theyshould come out of the pub-lic purse.”

Donahoe’s recommenda-tions include banning any“word, initial, colour or de-vice” that links an MLA to apolitical party in con-stituency advertisements.

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A firefighter descends a ladder from the roof of an apartment building on Dundas Street in Dartmouth

yesterday morning. Residents of the three-storey building at the intersection of Portland and Dun-

das streets were forced to evacuate their apartments around 6:30 a.m. No one was hurt in the fire.

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MOUNT UNIACKE The RCMPsay a child’s claim of at-tempted abduction inMount Uniacke was madeup.

Sgt. Brigdit Leger saystheir investigation has de-termined there was no sub-stance to claims by a 10-year-old boy that a mantried to drag him into a ve-hicle last week.

The boy claimed he wasapproached by a man short-ly after he got off a schoolbus in Mount Uniacke.

Leger says their investi-

gation determined theclaim was false after theboy sat down with a sketchartist to describe his pur-ported attacker.

She says there is acharge under the CriminalCode for misleading policebut the boy won’t becharged because of his ageand the file is closed.

Leger says such incidentsare unfortunate becausethey draw police resourcesaway from areas wherethey are really needed.

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DARTMOUTH Twelve peopleescaped unharmed from anearly morning fire in down-town Dartmouth yesterday.

Halifax Regional Fireand Emergency Servicesresponded to reports of afire at a three-storeyapartment building onthe corner of Dundas andPortland streets just after

6 a.m. yesterday.The Red Cross says ten-

ants could return to thebuilding as early as today,though four apartmentsnear the back of the build-ing were extensively dam-aged.

“The firefighting crewsdid a really good job stop-ping (this) one early,” said

Capt. Dave Meldrum of Hal-ifax fire, adding the causeof the blaze is still under in-vestigation.

A first-floor pub and alaundromat escaped dam-age from the blaze. Fivepets inside the building al-so got out unharmed.

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INVESTIGATION Halifax re-gional fire is continuing toinvestigate the cause of Tues-day’s fatal fire that claimedthe life of a Dartmouth man.

According to Capt. DaveMeldrum of Halifax fire,investigators have left thescene of the fire at 112Pinecrest Drive, but arestill trying to determinethe cause.

“Sadly, there’s not awhole lot of new informa-tion I can provide ... until(investigators) get a chance

to do their work,” he said.Firefighters responded

just after 5 p.m. Tuesday tothe blaze at the three-storeybuilding. According to pla-toon Chief Mike Blackburn,the fire was quickly putout, and one person wasfound dead inside.

The name of the victimhasn’t been released pend-ing notification of next ofkin. Police do not believethe fire to be suspicious.

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News in briefHEATING HELP N.S. will donate$400,000 to the SalvationArmy’s home heating help pro-gram. The province gave$800,000 to the program lastwinter. About $400,000 of thatwas left over for this year, butthat money is almost depleted. CHARGES A 38-year-old Halifaxman is facing multiple chargesin connection to a drugstorerobbery Tuesday night in north-end Halifax. The man is chargedwith robbery, assault with aweapon and possession of aweapon. METRO NEWS SERVICES

Estabrooks‘damn angry’about changesMLA upset new rules means hehas to cut donation spending

Cause of fatal fire still unknown

PAUL [email protected]

Attempted abductionclaim made up: RCMP

Firefighters stop apartment blaze early

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Paintball vandal strikes LouisdaleSome people are known for painting the town red, but in Louisdale, they’ve also been using blue. Police say someone shooting paintballs Mondaynight covered a business in the colour blue. A number of homes and a vehicle were also hit. Police have made no arrests. METRO HALIFAX

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Susan Stackhouse, left, and Patricia Zentilli rehearse a scene from Rabbit Hole at Neptune Theatre

on Tuesday. The play, written by David Lindsay-Abaire, won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Rab-

bit Hole premieres Friday and runs until March 28.

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Rescue couldhave beenfaster: OfficerAnother ship was 4 hours awayfrom Concordia, sailor saysThe first officer of a NovaScotia-owned tall ship thatwent down off Brazil saidhe and 63 others on boardcould have been rescuedwithin hours if Brazilianofficials had sent out anemergency call for helpsooner.

Kim Smith said yester-day he knew there was atleast one other vessel fourhours away from his train-ing vessel, the Concordia,just before it went over onits side on Feb. 17 and sank20 minutes later.

Smith said an emer-gency beacon on the 57-metre ship would have im-mediately alerted Brazilianofficials to a problemwhen the Concordiaheeled, about 500 kilome-tres offshore.

Once the navy con-firmed it was a real emer-gency, Smith said theyshould have spread themessage to other ships inthe region to come to theaid of the Concordia,whose crew managed toget off the crippled vesseland into life-rafts before itwent down.

But Smith said it tookabout 20 hours before anydistress call was issued and40 hours before the crewwas rescued.

“There was a vessel with-in four hours of us and I

know they received a dis-tress call almost instantly,”he said from Lunenburg,the home base for the Con-cordia.

“There could be a falsesignal, but when you seethat there are 64 people in-volved you’d think theywould step it up a little.”

Brazilian navy officialshave said it took themtime to confirm that it wasa legitimate distress callsince emergency beaconsare notorious for going offaccidentally.

The navy did not returncalls yesterday seekingcomment. THE CANADIAN PRESS

Investigation • Officials with the Trans-portation Safety Board ofCanada said response timewill be one of the areas theyexamine in an independentinvestigation they an-nounced yesterday into thesinking of the Concordia,which served as a floatingclassroom for students fromaround the world. Ken Pot-ter, manager of investiga-tions for the marine branchof the TSB, said they aregathering information on arange of issues to deter-mine what caused the shipto sink and if there are anysafety deficiencies.

Director invites you down the Rabbit HoleNEPTUNE Director DarylCloran admits Rabbit Holecould be a hard show tosell to an audience on thesurface.

The new Neptune The-atre play tells the plight ofa family dealing with theloss of their four-year-oldson — not exactly date-night material for some.

But dig a little deeper,and you’ll find a lot aboutthis play you might wantto take in.

For one, it’s a PulitzerPrize winner by playwrightDavid Lindsay-Abaire. Sec-ondly, according to Cloran,it has a really good story.And thirdly, and maybemost surprisingly giventhe subject matter, thereare some laughs.

“There are a lot of reallyrapid-fire comic scenes,”Cloran said of the two-hour play, which at timestakes a light-hearted ap-proach to a devastatingscenario for a family.

Cloran said he feels he’sthe perfect fit to directRabbit Hole. While he’snever lost a child, he doeshave an 18-month-old son,and when putting this play

together he thought abouthow he’d handle thisunimaginable situation fora parent.

“I can really get into themindset for what itmeans,” the 35-year-oldToronto director said. “Itcertainly feels very person-al to me.”

The cast for Rabbit Holeincludes Jeff Meadows,Drew O’Hara, Susan Stack-house, Genevieve Steeleand Patricia Zentilli. It willbe the fourth play Cloranhas directed at Neptuneand his first at FountainHall. His last play at Nep-tune was Ubuntu: TheCapetown Project, whichwas shown last March onthe Studio Theatre stage. PHILIP CROUCHER/METRO HALIFAX

Get your tickets • Rabbit Hole officiallyopens tomorrow and runsthrough March 28 at Nep-tune Theatre’s FountainHall. For tickets and showtimes, visit neptunethe-atre.com.

HRP won’t comment ondecision to retain RCMP

COUNCIL Halifax RegionalPolice are declining tocomment on council’s de-cision to maintain the sta-tus quo in HRM policing.

Police spokesman Const.Brian Palmeter said yester-day the matter is for themayor and council to dis-cuss, not HRP.

“It’s a council decision,between them and the po-lice commission,” he said.“They went through theprocess and council madethe decision ... It’s not a po-lice matter to speak to.”

Council voted behindclosed doors Tuesday tokeep the integrated modelof policing. Currently, theHRP service urban areaswhile the RCMP patrol out-

laying regions such asSackville and Cole Har-bour.

The Board of Police Com-missioners, chaired byCoun. Russell Walker, rec-ommended HRP take overall policing responsibilitiesin the municipality.

The board’s report, re-leased Tuesday evening,cited financial savings, in-creased cohesion and theelimination of overheadsas the reasons for the rec-ommendation.

HRP have been tight-lipped about the issuesince the recommendationwas leaked to media lastweek. But Chief Frank Bea-zley told CBC last Wednes-day he considered the re-port “just good business.”

RCMP Supt. Darrell Beat-on came out in favour ofthe decision Tuesday.

NHL team won’t beback, mayor saysFUNDING The mayor of PortHawkesbury says the Flori-da Panthers won’t be com-ing back to his town fortraining camp this fall.

Time has run out aftermonths of talks with theprovincial governmentabout funding to bring theNHL team back to PortHawkesbury.

Mayor Billy Joe MacLeansays he never got ananswer from thegovernment and realizedthe province wasn’t com-ing through.

MacLean says heconcluded he was just“beating a dead horse.”

The town had extendeda deadline to secureprovincial funding for thetraining camp until theend of last month — buthe says that date came andwent without an answer.

MacLean says the townis shifting its focus to host-ing a curling event.

THE CANADIAN PRESS

N.S. shipbuilders to restore BluenoseALLIANCE A consortium ofNova Scotia shipbuildershas been chosen to restorethe schooner Bluenose II.

The Lunenburg ShipyardAlliance was the successfulrespondent to a requestfor interest issued inDecember.

The consortium includesCovey Island Boatworks,Snyder’s Shipyard andLunenburg IndustrialFoundry and Engineering.

The province will issue arequest for proposalsshortly that will be the ba-sis of a contract with thealliance.

Restoration work on the47-year-old wooden tallship is expected to beginlater this year.

The project is beingfunded by the provincialand federal governments.

THE CANADIAN PRESS

No charges to be laid after man hit, killed by car on highwayDEATH There will be nocharges in the death of aNova Scotia man hit by acar over the weekend.

Forty-one-year-old PaulEdwards of Tennecape wasstruck Saturday night on

Highway 215 in the com-munity.

The RCMP said on theweekend that an officerdrove over a rise on thehighway to see a carstopped on the road and a

body on the ground.Sgt. Brigdit Leger said

yesterday it appears Ed-wards was already lying onthe road when he wasstruck.

THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Weed killer turns male frogs into femalesOne of the world’s most common weed killers, atrazine, can chemically castrate male frogs, turning them into females that lay

eggs, researchers say. Atrazine is used on cornfields in Canada, but is no longer approved for use in Europe. METRO NEWS SERVICES

Kenney denialImmigration Minister JasonKenney is denying any role inthe removal of gay rights refer-ences from a citizenship guide.“I did not do such a thing,” hesays. THE CANADIAN PRESS

Bye-bye big spenderTories’ austerity plan in throne speech ends our glory daysSay goodbye to Canada’sbig-spending glory days.

After a two-month par-liamentary shutdown to“recalibrate” its agenda,the Conservative govern-ment laid out an austerityplan for the country in yes-terday’s throne speech in abid to chop the record $56-billion deficit.

The government said itwill restore the country’s“fiscal balance” by re-straining spending, start-ing with a proposed sym-bolic freeze on lofty MP

salaries.Despite the recalibra-

tion, there are no majornew initiatives and noplans for huge spendingcuts — and none of the bigspending of past budgets.

As expected, the Toriesconfirmed that the last $19billion from the big-mon-

ey, recession-fighting stim-ulus fund will be doled outnext fiscal year, and thenthe taps are off for good.

The government is re-placing cash-heavy pro-grams with other meas-ures, such as: looseningforeign investment rules,cutting environmental redtape, and increasing thechild-support payment forsingle-parent families.

Liberal Leader MichaelIgnatieff called the speech”regurgitation” ratherthan recalibration.

“They shut down Parlia-ment for this?” he asked.

“Is this the result of pro-rogation? There is no vi-sion for the future of ourcountry. It’s just a collec-tion of old announce-ments.”

NDP Leader Jack Laytonsaid: ”Given that they’vehad so many weeks with-out bothersome MPs ask-ing them questions in theHouse, you’d think theycould have come up withsomething better thanthis.” THE CANADIAN PRESS

“They shut downParliament forthis?”Michael Ignatieff

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Rick on the run Paralympic torch sets young hearts aflame

Comedian Rick Mercer runs with the Paralympic torch during the Vancouver 2010 Paralympic torch relay launch ceremony on Parlia-

ment Hill yesterday. The relay will visit 11 communities in 10 days before the lighting of the Paralympic cauldron at B.C. Place in

downtown Vancouver on March 12, opening the first Paralympic Winter Games ever held in Canada.

Women lose out: Study Family fears formissing momMYSTERY The family of aNew Brunswick womanmissing for more thanfour days says she is notthe kind of person whowould abandon her family.

Donna O'Rielly, 54, has-n’t been seen since Fridaynight when she left workin Moncton.

“She is an amazingmother,” said daughterAmy Popovich.

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SEXES Women have seenonly a small part of the ac-tion in the Conservativegovernment’s EconomicAction Plan.

That’s according to anew study of how the sex-es are faring in federalstimulus spending.

As the federal govern-ment prepares to roll outits new budget today, anew study by a Queen’s

University professor ar-gues that men are seeing adisproportionate share ofthe benefits of Ottawa’srecord spending over thepast year.

Kathleen Lahey sayswomen have only receivedabout seven to 22 per centof federal infrastructurespending, because they areunder-represented in theconstruction, manufactur-

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Couple accused of bartering sex with daughterAuthorities in Georgia say a mother and father offered sex with their 14-year-old daughter in lieu of making payments on their minivan. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

It happened for years,again and again. Everymorning before class, theboys had to undress andFather Ludger Stuepersprayed them with coldwater from the hose, frontand back.

The boys also had to liedown on Stueper’s couchwhere the Roman Catholicpriest would take their tem-perature — rectally for sev-en minutes. Then therewere the photos taken ofthe boys, forced to posenaked.

A few of the at least 150victims are now willing tospeak out in an ever-widen-ing scandal involving allega-tions of priests sexuallyabusing their pupils at sev-

eral Catholic high schoolsacross Germany.

The scandal has spiralledsince seven alumni of theprestigious Catholic Cani-sius Kolleg in Berlin firstcame forward with allega-tions of abuse in January,

shocking the homeland ofPope Benedict XVI.

While the focus of the sexabuse scandal in theCatholic church centred onthe U.S. for several years,abuse scandals have in re-cent years erupted in othercountries as well, includingCanada, Ireland, the Philip-pines, Poland, Mexico, Italyand elsewhere.

More than one month af-ter the first victims cameforward in Berlin, new reve-lations of child abuse byCatholic priests are surfac-ing on an almost daily basis.

“This is just the tip of theiceberg,” the Rev. KlausMertes, the director of Cani-sius Kolleg said last month.

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Widening scandalshocks Germany

Uganda Death toll rises

Men carry a coffin up towards the area of the mudslides in

Uganda yesterday. Rivers of mud swamped houses, stores and

at least one school after torrential rains Tuesday, killing at least

92 people with some 250 still missing, officials say.

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ATC let child radioplane instructionsNEW YORK An air trafficcontroller at New York’sKennedy Airport wassuspended yesterday for al-lowing his young son to ra-dio instructions to severalpilots. The few quickexchanges between the ele-mentary-school-aged childand jets waiting to take offfrom JFK, one of America’sbusiest airports, appearedto delight pilots at thetime. But the Federal Avia-tion Administrationsuspended the controllerand a supervisor afterrecordings of the calls wereposted on the Internet,then reported on by aBoston TV station.


News in briefSTATISTICS Road accidents arethe leading cause of death forworld youths from ages five to29, and nearly half of the 1.2million traffic fatalities eachyear are pedestrians, cyclistsand motorcyclists, the WorldHealth Organization said yes-

terday. The study finds thatmore than 90 per cent of thefatalities occur in developingnations.SOCIAL MEDIA The Israeli mili-tary says a planned raid on aWest Bank village was calledoff after an Israeli soldier dis-

closed its details online. Themilitary says the combatsoldier posted the time and lo-cation of the raid on his Face-book page saying that troopswere planning on “cleaningup” the village.


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Papal reaction• Neither Pope Benedict XVInor the Vatican has madespecific remarks about theabuse scandal in Germany, aVatican spokesman, the Rev.Ciro Benedettini, said, buthe added that previousstatements on other suchscandals — including mostrecently about Ireland — arecertainly valid for Germany.

This just in: Cheat-ing is dumb. Dr.Satoshi Kanazawa,an evolutionarypsychologist of the

London School of Econom-ics and Political Science,has published a study sug-gesting that men withhigher IQs are less likely tocheat on their partners.(“Or,” posited Gawker’sRichard Lawson, “are theyjust better at not getting

caught?”)The publication of the

paper in Social PsychologyQuarterly has if nothingelse provided yet anotheropportunity for less cere-bral media to publish morepictures of Tiger Woodsand various faithless foot-ballers. (As well as glib, sci-entifically illiteratecolumns like this one, Isuppose.)

Kanazawa’s theory isthat primitive man washard-wired for promiscu-ity, and monogamy is amore recent invention, an“evolutionary novel” be-haviour that requires a lit-tle more head-horsepowerto achieve.

He also found liberalsand atheists tended to

have higher IQs than con-servatives and believers,again reaching for the ex-planation of evolutionarynovelty. Is it any wonderreligious conservatives arethe least likely to believein evolution? What’s in itfor them?

Smart women, mean-while, were found no lessapt to get some on the sidethan those with lower IQs.Evolution is tricky stuff,

eh? With all due respect to

the good doctor, there maybe a bit of confusion ofcause and effect going onhere. Maybe cheatingmakes you stupid. Thelikes of Eliot Spitzer andBill Clinton, initially con-sidered pretty sharp, end-ed up looking distinctlydumb once their recklesshorndoggery was exposed.

And maybe we’re read-

ing too much into Kanaza-wa’s findings that “moreintelligent men are morelikely to value monogamyand sexual exclusivity thanless intelligent men,”which is hardly a predictorof behaviour. Mostcheaters will acknowledgethat it’s wrong, but they doit anyway.

I note another recentstudy, this one from re-searchers at the GenevaSchool of Business, thatsuggests women wantinghappier marriages shouldseek out husbands less in-telligent than themselves.Fine advice if you don’tmind living with a doltwho would, according toKanazawa, be more proneto adultery.

All of which maybe goesto show that science, whilea nifty pursuit foreggheads whose presumedpenchant for monogamyleaves them with time ontheir hands, is a crude toolfor mapping the complexi-ties of the relationship youactually live in.

Where does this leaveus? Why are you askingme? If you’re dumbenough to sleep around,and experience teachesthat many of us are, I’dsuggest you’ll need asmarter plan than blamingeither your modest IQ ormillions of years of evolu-tion when you get caught.

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Both our hockey teamsstruck Olympic gold in Van-couver. The next day, hock-ey fever raged on for theNHL. But whither thewomen after the podiumwas packed away? Is theresupport for women’s hock-ey beyond the Games?

I polled a few hockey-ob-sessed friends: The answerwas no. For one, there’s noprofessional league; even ifthere were, the game lacksspeed and finesse, one said.

Another said women don’texcite the way pugilisticNHLers do. Wait, where didthat fuzzy feeling go? Ithought we were proud ofour golden girls.

Despite limited interestin the game itself, I lovewomen’s hockey. The play-ers push the envelope ofwhat’s seen as acceptablefor “the fairer sex.” Look nofurther than the constantchortling about lesbianplayers and coaches, andabout Team Canada’s cigar-and- beer-fuelled celebra-tion (which I maintain wasa tongue-in-cheek jab athow male players celebrate)to understand its place inour social fabric.

Female hockey playershave always been a bit sub-versive. The sport began

with men, and as a result,fans have come to see theboys’ version as the way itought to be played. Now,women are adopting it, butwith a style that’s all theirown. I must be among a mi-nority who would welcomethat kind of play — if thiswasn’t the case, a NorthAmerican league like theNHL would exist by now.

There are some examplesof women in men’s hockey:Hayley Wickenheiser in Eu-ropean leagues; ManonRheaume in NHL exhibi-tion games — but oneleague said Wickenheisershouldn’t play with men,while Rheaume was dis-missed as a publicity stunt.Still, everyone rubber-necked — eager to see ifthese gals could overcome

that unspoken notion thatmen always outclasswomen, and actually beat aguy.

It’s a difficult pill to swal-low, acknowledging thatsome spectators will neverbe inspired by women fortheir sheer athleticism;that she will always begood ... for a girl.

Add to that the talk thatwomen’s hockey ought tobe removed from theOlympics. Supporters criedfoul, maintaining that itwill just take time to estab-lish the sport and develop adeep talent pool. I hopethat’s the case. That wouldbe golden.

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Expect moreauto recalls inthe future,say analystsAUTO Nissan has joined thegrowing list of automakersrecalling their vehicles,with a recall of more than6,000 trucks and minivansin Canada to fix problemswith brake pedals and fuelgauges.

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Vehicle companies arealso stepping up their safe-ty initiatives in responseto the regulatory pressureon Toyota due to a massiveglobal recall of itsproducts.

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Canadian bankruptciesup 25 per cent in 2009The number of Canadianswho filed for bankruptcywas up by more than aquarter last year, but bothbusiness and personalbankruptcies fell for thethird straight month in De-cember.

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Firms fare well• Canadian firmsappeared to have faredremarkably well duringthe downturn. Businessbankruptcies fell 7.7 percent in December and for2009 as a whole, theywere down 12.1 per cent.

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Anthony snaps pointless streak in Sea Dogs’ lossHalifax’s Steven Anthony ended a 12-game pointless slump with the lone goal in the Saint John Sea Dogs’ 3-1 loss to thevisiting P.E.I. Rocket in QMJHL action last night. Anthony hadn’t recorded a point since Jan. 17. METRO HALIFAX

Alleyne joins D-LeagueThe tallest player in Halifax Rainmen history has a new home.Shagari Alleyne, a seven-foot-three centre who started the season in Halifax before being cut, has signed with the NBA D-League’s Albuquerque Thunderbirds. METRO HALIFAX


The Saint Mary’s Huskies’power play awoke fromdormancy and shreddedthe Acadia Axemen.

The Huskies lit the lampfour straight times on thepower play in the first peri-od — more than they’dscored in five previous play-off games combined — in a9-2 drubbing of the Axe-men before a crowd of3,228 at the Forum lastnight.

The win completed a 3-1upset over the favoured Ax-emen in the best-of-fivesemifinal and sends theHuskies to their thirdstraight Atlantic UniversitySport hockey final andgives them a shot at theirsecond straight banner.

The Huskies’ power playended up with five goals —three off the stick of all-

Canadian defenceman An-drew Hotham as part of amemorable four-goal, two-assist showing — and did-n’t fail until the third peri-od when the No. 1 unitwent to the bench with asix-goal cushion.

“Our power play has real-ly struggled (lately),” saidHotham, whose Huskieshad converted just threetimes on 25 attempts com-ing in. “We got back to ba-sics and tried to get thepuck on net as much as wecould … and our powerplay really stepped up.”

There was some debateover how Saint Mary’s end-ed up on the power play so

much early on. The Huskiescredited their live legs andhard work for forcing Aca-

dia to hold them up on thecycle, while Axemen headcoach Darren Burns said he

was “completely baffled”by the infractions.

“We’re a pretty disci-plined team and I didn’t seeus taking any blatant penal-ties out there,” said Burns,whose troops had a penalty-killing rate of 90 per centcoming in. “But the bottomline is, we got ’em and wedidn’t kill ’em.”

Former Halifax Moose-heads forwards JustinMunden and Colby Prid-ham each scored a pair forthe third-place Huskies,while Patrick O’Keefeadded a single and goalieNeil Conway made 23saves.

The Axemen, who fin-ished second overall,hadn’t lost by more thanfour goals all season.

“I definitely didn’t seethat coming,” Hotham said.“They played so well allyear … But with them play-ing well, it made us playbetter.”

CURLING Glenn Howard hasheard — from more than afew people — that he hasn’thad a very good curling sea-son.

All he can do is shake hishead.

The 47-year-old fromPenetanguishene, Ont., fin-ished the year atop theWorld Curling Tour’s mon-ey list and order of meritranking and went a perfect12-0 at last month’s provin-

cials en route to a recordfifth Ontario championship.

But it seems some arehung up on the fact he lostto Alberta’s Kevin Martin —an eventual gold medallistin Vancouver — in the finalat Olympic trials in Decem-ber.

“It’s ironic (to hear peoplesay that) because it’s actual-ly been a phenomenal year,probably one of the bestyears we’ve had,” Howardsaid. “The one chink in thearmor was losing to Kevinat Olympic trials — but nota bad team to lose to, be-

cause they went on to win agold medal.”

With Martin not aroundfor the Tim Hortons Brier,Howard — along with bignames such as Brad Gushueof Newfoundland andLabrador and Jeff Stoughtonof Manitoba — will be con-sidered among thefavourites when the eventopens on Saturday at theMetro Centre.

Martin won the last twoBriers but it was Howardwho claimed the title in2007 and finished runner-up in 2006 and 2008. Last

year, he lost to Stoughton inthe semifinals.

Howard, who has piledup 10 top-three finishes in adozen Brier appearances invarious roles, described thepast month as “low-key,”saying his team just tried tostay sharp while taking inthe Olympic Games on tele-vision.

“Not everyone can go tothe Olympics and we gave ita great shot,” Howard said.“We played great all yearand there’s no reason wecan’t continue that into theBrier.”

Rainmen signGilchrese PBL The Halifax Rainmenmade another roster moveyesterday, signing pointguard Eric Gilchrese.

The six-foot graduate ofthe NCAA Division I NewHampshire Wildcatsstarred for the ManchesterMillrats earlier this season,but was released yesterdayjust before signing with theRainmen. He is averaging18.2 points and 4.1 assists.

He instantly becomes theRainmen’s best free-throwshooter with a .838 averagefrom the stripe.

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Saint Mary’s headed to AUS finalLethal power play leads Huskies to 9-2 blowout over Axeman to clinch series

St. Mary’s Huskies forward Andrew Hotham slides a puck into the Acadia net as he crashes into

Axemen goalie Kristofer Westblom during the second period of last hight’s AUHC semifinal at the

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SCOREBOARD

Brian Burke said it best,as he often does.

“I would say it was decid-edly quiet,” the TorontoMaple Leafs general man-ager said after the NHLtrade deadline had passed.“Lots of activity, but it’s alow hum, you know? Nobig thunder claps.”

Burke and his colleagueshad moved plenty offreight yesterday, but nomove on its own seemedlike it could change a sea-son. The Washington Capi-tals added plenty of veter-an depth, while the Leafsand the Carolina Hurri-canes shed some of theirs,but the league’s annualbazaar closed without onesignature, marquee move.

Defenceman TomasKaberle remained with theLeafs. Goaltender TomasVokoun was still employedby the Florida Panthersand Ray Whitney was, re-markably, still with theHurricanes.

“It’s challenging to tryand find the space to fitplayers in, both roster-wiseand financially,” Vancou-

ver Canucks general man-ager Mike Gillis said in aconference call with re-porters. “That, combinedwith the number of teamsthat are still in playoffraces, I think made it apretty difficult day to getmuch accomplished.”

Washington acquired de-

fenceman Joe Corvo fromCarolina, with one reportsuggesting he would sharethe blue-line with MikeGreen on the power play.The Capitals also picked upforward Scott Walker fromthe Hurricanes, defence-man Milan Jurcina fromColumbus and forward Er-

ic Belanger from Minneso-ta.

Toronto shipped wingerAlexei Ponikarovsky to thedefending Stanley Cup-champion Pittsburgh Pen-guins Tuesday night, andmade a series of smallermoves in the final hoursbefore the deadline. TheLeafs flipped defencemanMartin Skoula — whomthey had landed onlyhours earlier in thePonikarovsky deal — tothe New Jersey Devils for afifth-round pick.

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Local connections• Columbus traded formerMoosehead Milan Jurcinato Washington for a condi-tional sixth-round pick.• Toronto traded Bayview’sJoey MacDonald to Ana-heim for a seventh-roundpick in 2011.• Edmonton traded SteveStaios to Calgary for PortHawkesbury’s Aaron John-son and a conditional third-round pick.

‘No big thunder claps’ at deadlinePlenty of smaller deals made by NHL GMs, but no blockbusters

The Washington Capitals acquired defenceman Joe Corvo from the Carolina Hurricanes yesterday.

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cellphone number for his followers to call. The file notes that Daly has been suspended five times and cited 21 times for not giving his best effort. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Awards? What awards?For many, Oscar night isthe world’s most elabo-rate fashion show, achance for the sartoriallyminded to revel in thebeauty (and occasionalbeastliness) of Hollywoodglamour.

Just in case you can’t waituntil the weekend, Metrohas assembled an expertpanel to drop a few hintsabout what to expect onthis year’s Academy Awardsrunway.

The LadiesLos Angeles-based Ali

Rahimi is anawards showpro, havingdressed starslike AmyAdams, Anjeli-ca Huston andJane Lynch fortheir respec-tiverompsdownthe redcarpet.And al-

thoughhewon’t tellus who,don’t besurprisedto seeone ofhisgownsfloat-ingintoTheKo-dak

Theatre on Sunday.“In the past few years the

trend has been discoveringnew designers – not juststicking with the same oldguard – and feeling com-fortable enough to take achance and wear colour orfabrics that are a little moreout there. There’s alwaysgoing to be black, but Ithink we’re also going tosee a lot more fabrics likesilk taffeta, which is verymalleable to drape differentdesigns in, silk duchess,crepe, and we’re seeing a lotof wonder-fully

complicated,intricateknits aswell.”

The GentsMenswear designer Dim-

itri Chris has been stitchingup his niche on the Montre-al fashion scene for the pastdecade, and is the veteranof not one, but two prêt-à-porter collections during labelle ville’s Fashion Week.His use of shape and cre-ative combinations has sin-gled him out as one towatch.

“If a guy doesn’t wear atraditional black tuxedoand tie he will automatical-ly stand out and not neces-sarily in the right way. So tomake a good statement, Ithink the men should optfor a real knotted bowtie,preferably in a patternrather than solid black.They can also try a less con-ventional tuxedo with alightweight velvet dinnerjacket or a full-on silk tux ina navy or dark gray insteadof the classic black.”

The ShoesStuart Weitzman’s ‘mil-

lion dollar shoes’ have beenan Oscars staple since 2002,and his work can be seensupporting many of theworld’s most famous arch-es.

“(This year we will see)lots and lots of platforms —the higher the better, aswell as some unique featherdetail designs, crystals, ofcourse, and color palette ofnudes and metallics. Starsare always ahead of thecurve when it comes to em-bracing the latest in cut-ting-edge fashion, so ex-pect the unexpected, es-pecially from MaggieGyllenhaal and Pene-lope Cruz.”

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Timberlake, Diaz reunite — on screenJustin Timberlake is back with ex Cameron Diaz — on the big screen. He has signed on to star alongside her in the comedy The BadTeacher. According to Variety, Diaz, 37, plays a middle school teacher who gets dumped by her boyfriend. USMAGAZINE.COM

Rising starSam Worthington will be honouredas the ShoWest Male Star of theYear at the annual cinema owners’

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Derülo sings heart out

AFTER YEARS

OF writingfor otherartists, lat-est R&B sen-sation JasonDerülo finally has his ownsuccess with hits WhatchaSay and In My Head. Creat-ing a full-length on theirbacks, this nine-trackeponymous effort rangesfrom simplistic dance an-thems to more of thesame. Completely vacuous,Derülo solely bleats aboutlove in various states(falling into it, emotionalhangovers and so on) andseems more concernedwith finding vocal hooks

than crafting anything ofmerit. Richly upbeat andoverflowing with synthe-sized effects, Jason Derülois danceable and quirkybut it’s also far from en-during or in danger of re-defining pop music. In-stead, it does as planned:makes a quick cash grabwith rudimentary, dispos-able aural Pabulum.

Keith Carman/for Metro Canada

OAKLAND’S

ROGUE WAVE

have neverquit lived upto the prom-ise theyshowed on their stunning

debut Out of the Shadow.But, after two lacklusterdiscs, their fourth recordfinally comes close. Therecord is filled with a mixof soft acoustic numbersand more upbeat electro-tinged tunes. It’s the for-mer where they reallyshine — Solitary Gun is agorgeous mid-tempo track.Unfortunately, some of thetracks sound a lot likeDeath Cab for Cutie, whichtakes away from ZackRogue’s improved song-writing.

Bryan Borzykowski/for Metro Canada

YOU HAVE TO

BE nuts torelease atwo-hour,three-albumrecord filledwith spare harp-filledsounds, so it’s no surprisethat Joanna Newsom hasdone exactly that. Theeclectic singer-songwriterlays down 18 delicate, al-most musical-like trackson her third effort. This al-bum is her most directand lyrically realized, and

while it’s difficult to wrapyour head around at first,these oddly infectioustunes are growers. Herone problem is the sameissue anyone releasing a

double disc or more faces— cutting a few of themore forgetful tuneswould have made this afive star listen.

Bryan Borzykowski/for Metro Canada

Jason Derülo’s self-titled album is danceable and quirky but it’s

also far from enduring or in danger of redefining pop music.

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Jason DerüloAlbum: Jason DerüloLabel: WarnerRating: 11

Rogue WaveAlbum: PermalightLabel: UniversalRating: 111

Joanna NewsomAlbum: Have One On MeLabel: Drag CityRating: 1111

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Bublé leads with 6 Juno nomsThe Juno Awards are crazyfor Vancouver croonerMichael Bublé and his hitalbum Crazy Love.

Bublé scored a leadingsix nominations as thisyear’s Juno contenderswere announced Wednes-

day.Rockers Billy Talent, rap-

per Drake and countrysinger Johnny Reid all land-ed four nominationsapiece.

Teen sensation JustinBieber and Toronto indie-

rockers Metric receivedthree nods each.

Bublé will compete forthe Juno fan choice award,single of the year forHaven’t Met You Yet, al-bum of the year, artist ofthe year, songwriter of the

year and pop album of theyear.

Crazy Love also landedproducers Bob Rock andDavid Foster a nominationeach in the producer of theyear category.

Rockers Billy Talent,from Mississauga, Ont., areup for single of the year forRusted From The Rain, al-bum of the year, group ofthe year and rock album ofthe year.

Drake, fresh off twoGrammy nominations, willcompete for single of theyear (Best I Ever Had), newartist of the year, and adouble nomination in thecategory of rap recordingof the year.

Finally, singer-songwriterJohnny Reid — who wasborn in Scotland, raised inToronto and now lives inNashville — is up for fanchoice, album of the year,artist of the year and coun-try album of the year.

Bublé, Drake and JustinBieber will be among theperformers at the Junos,set for April 18 in St.

John’s, N.L.Bryan Adams is slated to

receive a humanitarianaward and April Wine willbe inducted into the Cana-dian Music Hall of Fame.

Comedian Russell Petershas hosted the show forthe last two years, but aspokeswoman for theCanadian Academy ofRecording Arts and Sci-ences confirmed that the

funnyman would not beback for this year’s festivi-ties.

Instead, the Junos willuse several hosts.

THE CANADIAN PRESS

Juno contenders• Read the full list of nomi-nees at metronews.ca/music.

Michael Bublé has scored a leading six Juno nominations.

Billy Talent, Johnny Reid, Drake each up for 4 prizes

Yes Means Yes!

Jacyln Friedman

War vet sues makers of Hurt LockerA bomb disposal expert who served in the Iraq war plans to sue the makers of The Hurt Locker, claiming the film’s lead character

is based on him and that they cheated him out of “financial participation in the film,” his lawyer said. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Food-borne illnesses cost billions: ReportFood-borne illnesses, such as E. coli and salmonella, cost the United States $152 billion annually in healthcare and other losses, according to a report released yesterday by a food safety group. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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The Good Food Emporium2179 Gottingen St.Halifax 422-3150

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Sunday Brunch at TheGood Food Emporium islively. This unpreten-tious, funky, rough-around-the-edges restau-rant is crowded withyoung people enjoyinglive music.

We arrive before 2 p.m.and are told the kitchensoon closes, so we orderquickly. The brunchmenu has the usual sus-pects plus vegan offeringssuch as granola with soymilk and fresh fruit salad.

We try the TraditionalFrench Toast ($6.75), agenerous serving, attrac-tively arranged with fruiton top — watermelon,grapes, strawberries, mel-on, and a blackberry —and the requisite realmaple syrup. It hits thespot.

There are six varietiesof omelets so we trySpinach and Feta ($7.50).There’s lots of spinachand onion in the omelet,but a bit more feta wouldbe great. It looks appetiz-

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We help ourselves tocoffee and cold drinks.On our way out we spotsomeone’s scrumptiouslooking fishcakes andbeans and realize we or-dered too quickly. A rea-son to return.

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AGAIN Since her split fromboyfriend Chuck Wicks inNovember, country anddancing darling JulianneHough appears to be enjoy-ing the single life, peo-ple.com reports.

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Celebrity Buzz

You know you’ve had too much when ...Beverly Hills plastic surgeon Frank Ryan recently performed 10 procedures on Heidi Montag. Now he tells UsMagazine.com

he won’t operate on The Hills star, 23, again. “There’s really nothing to do,” he said. METRO NEWS SERVICES

BLOOD IS THICKER THAN WA-

TER BUT NOT AS THICK AS 60

MILLION ONE DOLLAR BILLS

Christian Bale — whosefamily had him arrested inJuly 2008 on assaultcharges after an incident atLondon’s Dorch-ester hotel — isunlikely to of-fer his sisterSharon any ofhis $60 millionfortune, despitethe charges lat-er beingdropped, becausethey have notspoken

since, femalefirst.co.uk re-ports.

His sister Sharon, 42,faced a bankruptcy hear-ing at Bournemouth Coun-ty Court, and is in the pre-carious financial situationbecause of a number of dis-

astrous property invest-ments.

“Christian doesn’tknow about the bank-ruptcy. I wouldn’t ex-pect him to help,” she

says. “We don’t speakanymore. It’s totally his

decision and it makes usall very sad. I started

my own propertyinvestment

compa-ny

and made some mistakes.”Bale’s 61-year-old moth-

er Jenny — whose daugh-ter now faces the possibili-ty of losing her home — re-vealed they not had anycontact with the actor forthe past year.

“Sharon is in a prettydire situation and has al-ways tried her hardest tosupport her family,” saysBale’s mom. “We don’thave Christian’s currentnumber and he doesn’tknow anything aboutwhat’s happening.”

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No financial Bale out for sis

NOT A SEMI-AUTOMATIC OR A

BAZOOKA? A lawyer forKatherine Jackson is zap-ping reports that JermaineJackson’s 13-year-old sonJaafar allegedly tried toharm the late King of Pop’sson Blanket with a stungun, people.com reports.

The L.A. County Depart-ment of Children and Fam-ily Services visited theJacksons’ Encino, Calif.,home, but the family in-sists it was much adoabout nothing.

“Blanket Jackson neversaw or heard the stungun,” says attorneyAdam Streisandin a state-ment.

“Neitherdid ParisJackson.Princesaw thestun gunin the posses-sion of se-curity.

There is no second stungun.”

Streisand says Jaafar,who lives with his moth-er Alejandra at thehome, or-dered a stungun onlinetwo weeksago andopened thepackagealone in hisbathroomand tested iton a piece ofpaper.

“Mrs. Jack-son and secu-

rity heardthesoundcom-

ingfrom the secondfloor of the

house,” thelawyer says.

“Immediately,securitywentup-stairsandcon-

fiscated the stun gun. Mrs.Jackson took control overit and then had it removedfrom the house. There wasno other incident.

“All of the kids are hap-py, healthy and wonderfuland that is Mrs. Jackson’sonly objective and con-cern,” Streisand adds.

METRO NEWS SERVICES

This was abouta stun gun, right?

Dancing into Dane Cook’s life

TO THE PRESS PLEASE Of allthe problems Lindsay Lo-han has faced recently, shesays the worst is herfather, Michael Lohan,talking about her to thepress.

“He’s nuts. He is some-one who is crying out forhelp and attention. He isthe one who should be inrehab,” Lohan says,according to Hollyscoop.

“The real issue here? Idon’t condone that he hasnever paid child support.He has never stepped up.It’s not fair, my mom hasbeen such a great motherand hasdone sucha great jobraising us.”

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CONAN O’BRIEN

isn’t adaptingwell to Twitter, KEL-

LY OSBOURNE hasher priorities set,DIABLO CODY isn’t proud ofherself, and TAYLOR SWIFT

has poor impulse control. @ConanOBrien This is onlymy 5th tweet and I’m alreadyexhausted. My God, howdoes Ashton do it?@MissKellyO I would notwaste money on plastic sur-gery people have alreadymade up there minds as towhat I look like and I wouldrather buy a new dress@diablocody Justtransformed a full bag of“Tacos at Midnight” Doritosinto a half-empty bag of“Shame at Noon” Doritos.@taylorswift13 At the nail sa-lon. Toes under the nail-dryerthing. They put mein front of thebowl of tootsierolls. Nowthey’re havingto refill it.

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CelebTweetsBetty White not dead yetGOSSIP WRITERS —

SHOULDN’T TRUST THEM. EX-

CEPT FOR US, OF COURSE

There are some peoplewho you just shouldn’tmess with, and one ofthem is GoldenGirls goddessBetty White,popeater.careports.

In the weehours of Tues-daynight/Wednes-day morn-ing, a das-tardly

hoax was perpetrated inthe comments area of pop-ular gossip blog Oh NoThey Didn’t, where ascreen-shot of a fake TMZarticle was posted claimingthe actress had died.

How’d she perish? Thefaux article said it was

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and quickly became ahot trend on Twitter

and Google. A blog called

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‘COMING OUT’

Harry Potterstar DanielRadcliffetakes ru-mours abouthis sex-ualityin

stride,hetells

MTV News. “My favourite thing I

saw was a guy on theInternet thatsaid, ‘Ofcourse he’sgay. He’s

got a gay face,’ which Ithought was kind of an oddthing to say anyway,” saysRadcliffe.

“Like they’ve sat at homeand have got pictures of menext to other famous gay(people) — Elton John, I

don’t know — just com-paring across the

years.” The 20-year-old

star insists if hewere gay, he’d sayso, despite beingfamous. “I don’t

think my positionwould have stopped

me if I was gay,”Radcliffe says.

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Avatar considered off limits

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HE’D DO WITH IT IF IT WASN’T?

If there was anyone whocould fall into the “too

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So it’s nosurprise

that the man behindraunchy-yet-hysterical al-ter egos like Borat andBruno had his skit vetoedfrom this weekend’s Os-cars telecast.

Why? Because it ap-parently contained

some jokes directedat Avatar directorJames Cameron,and the show’s

producers didn’twant to insult the

man behind the biggestmovie ever.

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Moroccanchickpea stew

INGREDIENTS:

15 ml (1 tbsp) olive oil1 large onion, chopped2 ml (1/2 tsp) groundginger2 ml (1/2 tsp) each salt andfreshly cracked black pep-per1 ml (1/4 tsp) each turmer-ic, cinnamon and chilipowder1 can (796 ml/28 oz) dicedtomatoes (undrained)500 ml (2 cups) vegetableor chicken broth2 peeled sweet potatoes,cut into chunks250 ml (1 cup) long-grainwhite rice1 can (540 ml/19 oz)chickpeas, rinsed anddrained2 zucchini, sliced

METHOD:

1. In a Dutch oven or largesaucepan, heat oil overmedium-high heat. Addonion, ginger, salt, pepper,turmeric, cinnamon andchili powder. Cook untilonion is tender and golden,about 10 minutes. Stir intomatoes with theirjuices and broth, scrapingany bits from the bottom ofthe pan. Add sweetpotatoes and rice; bring to aboil. Reduce heat tomaintain a simmer, coverand cook for 15 minutes.

2. Stir in chickpeas and zuc-chini and cook until rice istender and most of theliquid has been absorbed,about 10 minutes.

SERVES 4

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