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Calgarians clean upThousands come out to clear pathways, riverbanks of waste

More than 2,000Calgarians descended onthe city’s pathways andriverbanks yesterday toclean litter from the city’sgreen space.

The 43rd annual Path-way and River Cleanupsought to cover about 200kilometres of pathwayalong the Bow and Elbowrivers, Nose Creek andGlenmore Reservoir.

City of Calgary Parks or-chestrated 87 groups toparticipate in the project.

Businesses, non-profit or-ganizations, environmen-tal, cultural and churchgroups, community associ-ations and casual groups offriends joined in.

A group of nine from Pol-icy Works in Kensingtoncleaned between Edmon-ton Trail and the LRT cross-ing on Memorial Drive.

Justin Siemens, theleader of the group, saidmost of the employees usethe pathway system to getto work.

“I’m a pathway com-muter. It would be nice ifmore people were,” hesaid.

“The cleaner we canmake it, the nicer it is forpeople to be down here andthe more people will use it.”

The Inglewood Commu-nity Organization has helda barbecue afterwards forthe past seven years.

Liz Tompkins, the groupleader, said the cleanup is“a great way for the neigh-

bours to gather whileteaching our kids aboutthe value of communitystewardship.”

City of Calgary Parksspokesperson Corinna Bax-ter said the event not onlyserves to clean the path-ways, but promotes theneed to keep them cleanyear-round.

A pair of fuzzy handcuffswon a contest for most un-usual item found.

Last year’s winner, astolen motorcycle strippedof parts, was traced to itsowner, but the handcuffswill hopefully remainanonymous.

PETER MCCARTNEYfor Metro Calgary

C-Trainstationsclose todayTRANSIT C-Train Stations atcity hall and 3rd Streetclose as of today as part ofthe City of Calgary’s 7thAvenue LRT refurbishmentproject.

During the closures,which last until June 2011,the city will outfit newplatforms with the abilityto accommodate a four-cartrain, according to RonCollins, a spokespersonfor Calgary Transit.

Two new “twinned” plat-forms will be built oneither side of 7th Avenuebetween Macleod Trail and3rd Street.

“New platforms will befour car lengths, makingsure we are able to havemore capacity and moreefficient service,” Collinssaid.

The new platforms willalso be more pedestrianfriendly, with “wider side-walks, improved lightingand enhancedstreetscapes,” according tothe city.

The work had to be donein order to accommodate agrowing city and anincrease in ridership,Collins said.

During the construction,passengers are asked touse the Olympic Plaza andCentre Street stations in-stead.

Collins said he did notexpect any delays for rid-ers during theconstruction and that it’s ashort walk to the otherstations.

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Left to right: Corinna Baxter, Tom Camac and Liam Wild from City of Calgary Parks and Graham Harris of Stantec Developments showoff items entered in the 43rd annual Pathway and River Cleanup’s “most unusual find” contest, held at the Inglewood Bird Sanctuary.

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LocalHistoric hotel burns downHansen’s Hotel, in the northeast Alberta community of St. Paul, wasgutted by fire Saturday night. The fire started at the back of the 85-year-old building, which also has a restaurant and a nightclub, butinvestigators have not yet been able to determine the cause. Fire-fighters were able to save other buildings in the area. METRO CALGARY

Simply serving lunchbecame an eye-opener fora group of Calgarians yes-terday afternoon.

Six members of the Ur-ban Exposure Project vol-unteered at the Drop InCentre as part of the UnitedWay’s poverty-awarenesscampaign. The groupserved lunch to more than500 guests before touringthe facilities.

Fiona Lui, a member oflast year’s project, organ-ized the volunteer event af-ter being inspired by thepeople working at the DropIn Centre during a previousvisit.

“After my tour last year, Iwas able to relate to thepeople that come here,”said Lui. “There is a lot ofpositivity here.”

Current UEP group mem-ber Lesley Hansen was sur-prised by the number ofpeople the Drop In Centreserves during the day. “Thefact that they are able to fa-cilitate the need for peopleto have a place to go isgreat,” she said.

Beyond serving meals toclients, the Drop In Centreoffers a variety of services,

including art and musicprograms.

“A lot of the people hereare so talented,” said UEPgroup member Jenn Mayu-ga. “But they are in unfortu-nate situations, and theirtalent can’t shine.”

The UEP is part of theUnited Way’s 2335 initia-tive to engage 23- to 35-year-olds in discussions ofsocial issues. The projecthas members using photog-raphy to capture poverty vi-sually in order to initiateconversations.

PETER MCCARTNEYfor Metro Calgary

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The sun was shining and skateboarders were out in full force atthe Shaw Millenium skateboard park yesterday afternoon.

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DOWNTOWN Aldermen willhave to decide if $14.5 mil-lion in funding for the sec-ond phase of constructionon the Devonian Gardensshould come from thecity’s reserve funds.

The community and pro-tective services committeewill decide Wednesdaywhether to approve therecommendation for fund-ing. Construction on thegardens will help create a

vibrant city centre, citydocuments say.

Plans for the renovationof the building includehigh-end shops and anopening in the gardens fornatural light to reach shop-pers below, as well asevent space for functionsin the gardens. The firstphase, set to open in Octo-

ber of this year, includesmuch-needed infrastruc-ture improvements and achildren’s playground. Butthe city says leaving theconstruction at that wouldbe a disappointment.

“I know many peoplewho work there go and re-lax during their lunchbreaks,” said CharleneSoares, a former down-town worker and frequentTD Square visitor who sup-ports the improvements.“We want to build moretourist attractions in thiscity and get it on the map.”

COLLISION Police could laycharges after a young girlwas hospitalized Saturdayafternoon after beingstruck by a car in the Fal-conridge/Castleridge Com-munity Hall parking lot.

According to police, the25-year-old driver of thevehicle was practisingbacking abilities when the11-year-old, whose namewas reported as AmberLefaivre, was hit.

Her father immediatelyrushed her to the hospitalbefore police or EMS couldarrive.

The victim is in seriousbut stable condition, saypolice.

“They are looking atcharging the driver withunsafe backing or carelessdriving,” said Insp. MichaelWaterson. The passengerwill likely receive the samecharges, he said.

The driver, possessing aclass 7 learner’s licence,was allegedly practisingher driving skills in the lotnear a busy playground,say police. A family mem-ber, acting as an instructor,was in the passenger seatwhen Lefaivre was struck.

Police were still investi-gating the incident as ofyesterday evening.

INJURIES A Calgary man wasairlifted to Foothills Med-ical Centre after being elec-trocuted trying to retrievea model rocket caught in ahigh-tension power line.

Bystanders were givingthe 47-year-old man CPRyesterday morning whenemergency workers ar-rived at the scene nearStrathmore.

The man fell roughly

eight metres from a ladderafter being jolted withelectricity while trying todislodge the rocket using apole or stick.

An EMS spokesman saidthe man was in cardiac ar-rest and was later revived.

The man, whose namehas not been publicly re-leased, was listed in criticalcondition.

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“A lot of the people here are so talented.But they are in unfortunate situations,and their talent can’t shine.”Jenn Mayuga, Urban Exposure Project

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FOSTER CARE RCMP are nowsaying that a 13-year-old fosterchild was actually at asleepover at a friend’s housewhen he died. The boy’s deathin Stony Plain on Friday — thethird Alberta child in fostercare to have died in the lastyear — prompted calls fromopposition politicians for aninquiry. But Children’s ServicesMinister Yvonne Fritz says thisboy was in a “stable, lovinghome” for years.

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Beer stunt leads to suspension of kids’ coachAn assistant coach has been suspended after a video appeared on YouTube showing 10-year-old hockey players in Humbolt, Sask., posing with cans and bottles of beer. THE CANADIAN PRESS

Media blackoutA sweeping court-orderedpublication ban that pre-vents anyone from report-ing on a high-profile courtcase into the slaying of aneight-year-old girl hasraised some hackles acrossthe country.

With front-pageeditorials lambast-ing the temporaryban as one that goestoo far, experts inmedia law agree theextent of the ban onthe Victoria Staffordcase is unusual andone that will fuelrampant speculation.

“It’s unusual in its scopeand how broad it is, andhow much it covers,” saidIain MacKinnon, a lawyeracting on behalf of severalmedia organizations.

Stafford disappeared in

April last year, after leavingher school in Woodstock,Ont. Her remains werefound three months later,some 100 kilometres awayin a field north of Guelph.

One of the suspectscharged in her death,19-year-old Terri-Lynne McClintic, wasset to appear in courtFriday facing a first-de-gree murder charge.

A blanket publica-tion ban issued by Jus-tice Dougald McDer-mid prevents all me-dia from saying any-

thing else. The decision hassparked fierce criticism.

One Toronto Star editori-al points out that opencourts give the public confi-dence that justice is beingdone. A second front-pageeditorial goes further with

blacked out sections indi-cating where details ofwhat transpired Fridaywould have been written.

“I think the media is rightto feel outraged,” said thelawyer, who plans to argueagainst the ban at a laterdate. “It’s quite frustratingand discouraging.”

The reason for the ban isalso off limits. MacKinnonsaid the ban was issued soany information from Fri-day’s court proceedingswould not undermine thecase in the future.

“Since we have no ideawhatsoever what this publi-cation ban is all about andwhat it seeks to protect, itmay lead to all kinds ofspeculation,” said KlausPohle, who teaches medialaw at Carleton University.

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FLYING The first female bossof the renowned Snow-birds aerobatic team jokesthere were rumours thatthe rudder of her CT-114Tutor jet might be paintedpink. But the only thingdistinguishing Lt.-Col.Maryse Carmichael’s jetfrom the others on the tar-mac are the black letterson the tail — “CO,” forcommanding officer.

Carmichael will break asky-high glass ceiling Thurs-day by officially taking com-mand of the Snowbirds, be-

coming the first woman tolead the squadron in its 40-year history. But she notesthat while it’s a first for theSnowbirds, womenhave already ledother squadronsin the CanadianForces.

“I don’t wantto downplay it,it is a fact,” shesaid of being the first.

“But really, for me thisposting is about thesquadron.”

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Lt.-Col. Maryse Carmichael is set to officially become the first fe-male boss of the Snowbirds aerobatic team Thursday.

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Research aimsto understandsuicide-by-railSTUDY Suicide researchersat the Universite deQuebec a Montreal arestudying the issue ofsuicide-by-rail, a phenome-non too horrible tocomprehend for most peo-ple, but known too well byanyone who spends theircareer on Canada’s 48,000kilometres of rail.

The letter to workersfrom researchers said “thisproject’s overall goal is toprovide a betterunderstanding of rail-relat-ed accidents and suicides,as well as their impact.”

Transport Canada isfunding the study in co-op-eration with Canada’s rail-ways, the Teamsters’s raildivision and OperationLifesaver. A September2007 Transport Canada re-port said one of the topreasons for railwaytrespassing fatalities wassuicide. THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Ceremony Battle of the Atlantic

A wreath is tossed from HMCS Sackville into the waters of Halifax harbour yesterday during a cer-emony marking the Battle of the Atlantic. The campaign lasted from 1939 to 1945, involvingthousands of ships as Germany attempted to destroy Allied convoys.

Kandahar memorialto include AmericansIt is a sign of unwaveringrespect, but also a sign ofthe times, and perhaps asign of things to come.

The Canadian memorialto soldiers at KandaharAirfield is about to under-go a major expansion,adding two wings to theexisting structure to ac-commodate American sol-diers who have been killedserving under Canadiancommand.

The white marble andblack granite cenotaphhas grown steadily overthe years. It started in2006 as a simple boulderwhere plaques of fallensoldiers were hung.

But as the casualtiesmounted with heartbreak-

ing regularity, the tributequickly outgrew its placeand the current open-airvault was created.

U.S. casualties started tooutpace Canadian losseslate last year and that’s be-fore the summer fightingseason and NATO’splanned Kandahar offen-sive gets underway.

Brig.-Gen. Dan Menard,the commander of Canadi-an troops in Afghanistan,says the two countrieshave been fighting along-side each other here formonths and the lossesshould be recognized, re-gardless of nationality.

“This memorial is ex-tremely important forCanadians, but we want tomake it more all-inclu-sive,” he said.

“When you look at thismemorial, it is just notrepresentative enough asfar as I’m concerned. A lotof (U.S. soldiers) have paidthe ultimate price and it’simportant that there’sroom here for them.”

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U.S. losses• Over the past year, 26American soldiers servingunder a Canadiancommander have died inaction, the vast majoritythrough insidious home-made bombs and mines.

Tests prove hunter shot offspring of hybrid polar-grizzly bear

Travellers warned of ‘imminent attacks’ in IndiaThe U.S., Australia and Canada have warned travellers that terror groups were likely planning “imminent attacks” in India’s capital and foreignersthere should be vigilant. Markets and other areas frequented by Westerners in New Delhi have been targeted in past attacks. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ANIMAL Researchers in theNorthwest Territories saythey may have found thefirst recorded case of a sec-ond-generation hybrid po-lar-grizzly bear in the wild,but an expert says it’s notclear what the significance

may be.Government officials in

the Northwest Territoriessaid a hunter, David Kup-tana, shot an unusual-look-ing bear during a huntingtrip April 8 near Banks Is-land, in the Inuvik region.

He provided federal scien-tists with samples to seewhat type of bear it was. Of-ficials with the territorialgovernment said those testsshowed the dead bear was ahybrid — the offspring of afemale hybrid polar-grizzly

mix who had mated with amale grizzly. Scientists con-firmed this by comparingthe dead bear’s DNA withthat of local polar bear andgrizzly populations, andthat of a male polar-grizzlyhybrid. THE CANADIAN PRESS

News in briefDAIRY The U.S. government’sbid to expand a border stationon the U.S.-Canada boundary isthreatening a dairy farmwhose owners have been toldto sell some of their land orrisk having it seized. The Mors-es Line Port of Entry, in

Franklin, Vt., is located right inthe middle of the Rainville fam-ily’s dairy farm. The U.S.Department of Homeland Se-curity wants to spend about $7million to renovate and expandit.

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Storms wreak havoc on southern U.S.Six people were killed in Tennessee and three in Mississippi by a line ofstorms that brought heavy flooding and possible tornadoes to the regionover the weekend. Emergency officials in Tennessee sought help from thestate’s Army National Guard, and urged people to stay off roads andinterstate highways turned into raging rivers. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Scandal-plagued Legionaries accept papal takeoverConnecticut-based Legionaries of Christ says it has accepted the Pope’s decision to appoint a deleg-ate to lead the order after revelations its founder sexually abused seminarians. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Pakistani Taliban claimcredit for NYC car bombThe Pakistani Talibanclaimed responsibility in avideo released yesterdayfor the attempted carbomb attack in TimesSquare in New York City.

In the video allegedly re-leased by the Pakistani Tal-iban, the group says the at-tack is revenge for thedeath of its leader, Baitul-lah Mehsud, and the re-cent slayings of the topleaders of al-Qaida in Iraqwho were killed by U.S.

and Iraqi troops lastmonth north of Baghdad.

A speaker on the tape,uncovered by the U.S-based SITE monitoringgroup, also says theattack comes in

response to American “in-terference and terrorismin Muslim countries, espe-cially in Pakistan.” Theclaim could not be imme-diately confirmed.

The tape makes no spe-cific reference to the at-tack. A text at the start ofthe video congratulatesMuslims for the “jaw-breaking blow to Satan’sUSA.”

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News in briefFRAUD Another controversialtradition among some Muslimimmigrants to Europe hasemerged: Polygamy. The issueresurfaced last week after awoman received a traffic cita-tion for driving with a veil over

her face. Officialsthen accused her hus-band of having at leastthree other wives, and said hemay be profiting from them fi-nancially while the state paysthe bill. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Arizona’s largest newspa-per criticized U.S. Sens.John McCain and Jon Kyland a host of other electedofficials in a rare front-page editorial yesterday,saying the politicians havefailed to find solutions toillegal immigration.

The state has becomethe target of calls for boy-cotts since adopting a lawthat requires local andstate law enforcement offi-cers to question peopleabout their immigrationstatus if there’s reason tosuspect they’re in thecountry illegally.

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one day after thousandsmarched against the law inPhoenix and Tucson, whileMay Day demonstrators inChicago, New York, SanFrancisco and other U.S.cities also criticized themeasure. In Los Angeles,about 50,000 demonstra-tors took to the streets.

McCain was once achampion of immigrationreform, but has abandonedhis principles while hefights off a Republican pri-mary challenge this yearfrom former U.S. Rep. J.D.Hayworth, the Republicsaid. Kyl has also droppedreform efforts and is nolonger willing to workwith Democrats on the is-sue now that he’s a mem-ber of the Senate Republicleadership, the paper said.

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HISTORY A 13th-centuryskeleton unearthed on thegrounds of a friary may bethe earliest physical evi-dence that Africans livedin England in medievaltimes, researchers said yes-terday.

Forensics experts at theUniversity of Dundee Scot-land say that the bonesmost likely belonged to aman from modern-dayTunisia who spent about a

decade living in Englandbefore he died.

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• Researchers were able topin the man to Tunisia usingisotope analysis, a tech-nique analyzing the mix ofelements that build up in aperson’s teeth, bones or tis-sues.

Skeleton earliest proof Africans livedin medieval England, researchers say

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The results are inand Calgary’syouth have givenour city anabysmal grade for

transportation. They alsolist “better transportation”as the No. 1 change thatwould improve their quali-ty of life. The kids havepointed out the obviousand I’m sure most of usadults would say the samething.

Better transportationwould improve the lives ofmost Calgarians —whether you’re a 14-year-old living in Oakridge com-

mitting more than an houron bus, train and foot tosee your best friend whohappens to live in Brent-wood (as I once was), or acommuter trying to find away to navigate a least-pol-luting path from home inthe south to work in thenorth (as I am now).

Our city doesn’t make iteasy to get from point A topoint B. I can imagine ifyou’re a young person liv-ing here, unless you’ve gotparents willing to taxi youaround at your will, you’rebound to feel the transitpain.

One survey respondentsays, “Bus access and con-venience in certain areas ispoor. Some buses havebeen consistently late andunreliable as a mode oftransportation.”

Calgary’s youth, aged 12to 24 years, are feeling thepain. They gave transporta-

tion a grade of C+, the low-est score given in thisyear’s Youth Vital Signs Re-port produced by the Cal-gary Foundation and YouthCentral. Transportation, asthey judged it, includescost, accessibility, conven-ience of the bus/C-Train,bike routes, reliance oncars, and accessibility foryouth with disabilities.

In a sprawling city thathas chronically underfund-ed public transit and bicy-cle infrastructure, it onlymakes sense that gettingaround can be a bit cum-bersome.

Respondents have a fewsuggestions to improvetransportation includingincreasing the reliabilityand punctuality of buses,increasing transit routesand frequency, and lower-ing transit fares. Fair sug-gestions — I’ll secondthose.

One respondent feelstransit fares are “becomingridiculously expensive.” Idon’t think that’s an exag-geration considering faresincreased again this year(for all of us 15 years andolder) despite reducedservice.

I agree with Calgary’syouth: Transportationsucks here. And I’ve gotsome advice for thoseyouth (the ones between18 and 24 years old): If youdon’t like it, vote for some-thing better.

The last civic election inCalgary drew a shameful19.8 per cent (with youthnumbers consistently lack-ing) — so kids, if you wantto see a more transit-friendly city, come Octo-ber, vote for it.

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Stand guard against feeling superiorIf Canadians perceive them-selves as Americans do —safe, sound, sensible, snugand maybe a bit snoozy —they could arguably add an-other adjective as theywatch events fold south ofthe border in recentmonths: Smug.

But some observers ofCanada-U.S. relations sayCanadians should guardagainst a feeling of superi-ority as America strugglesthrough a period ofseething discontentment.

While Canada may nothave an anti-governmentTea Party movement of itsown or protest-ers marching onthe nation’s cap-ital to questiontheir leader’sbirth certificate,neither is it en-during a stub-born recessionthat’s left one in10 of its citizensout of work — adire reality thathas spurred some

Americans into political ac-tivism.

“We are fundamentallyvery similar, we have large-ly the same values, thesame hopes and aspira-tions; we live our lives invery similar ways,” ChrisSands, a Canada-U.S. rela-tions expert at the HudsonInstitute in Washington,said in a recent interview.

But he cites the viewpointof Richard Van Loon, a for-mer civil servant and one-time president of Ottawa’sCarleton University whoonce asserted that a key dif-ference between Americansand Canadians is that Cana-dians are less likely to get

politically in-

volved when unhappy.“He argued that Canadi-

ans were spectator partici-pants in politics, they feltdisconnected, they didn’tget organized, they didn’tstart up groups or get peti-tions signed — that isn’t re-ally the Canadian way,”Sands said in a recent inter-view.

“Canadians have opin-ions, but they don’t reallythink their politicians care,so they watch it all go byand weigh in at voting time,when they often do some-thing dramatic like reducethe government to a smallnumber of seats.”

In the U.S., Sandspoints out, Ameri-

cans take to the streets re-gardless of whether they’reon the right or the left sideof the political divide.

In D.C. at the end of themonth, hundreds of so-called Birthers will marchnear the White House tovoice their belief that U.S.President Barack Obamawas not born on Americansoil, meaning recentlypassed health-care legisla-tion is “unconstitutionaland voidable.” They’veasked those who want tojoin the march to bringtheir birth certificates.

“Americans have a notionthat they can change theworld and they have to getinvolved, they have to be

heard, theyhave toprotest, theyhave to go

on talk ra-dio andrant, thatit’s the onlyway to

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Attractive co-workersfluster men, study finds

Men’s brains stop workingafter talking to attractivefemale colleagues, accord-ing to a new study.

In an experiment at theDutch University of Rad-boud, students took part ina series of tests that wereinterrupted midway by aconversation with a personof the same or oppositesex.

When the test continuedthe men’s performancehad deteriorated notably ifthey had been talking to awoman.

And the results gotmarkedly worse if they had

found the woman attrac-tive.

For the women in thestudy there was no differ-ence in performancewhether they were speak-ing to either sex.

The difference is thoughtto be that when men talkto beautiful women theyare so preoccupied withthinking about what theyare saying, what they looklike and how they are per-ceived that some brainfunctions are shut down —even after the conversationhas ended.

Researcher Johan Karre-mans said: “The resultswere dramatically worse ifthe man thought thewoman was attractive.”

Quote of the Day

“We just think somebody ought to get upand say: ‘Bravo, Michaëlle Jean; you’vedone a great job for Canada and in ourview it would be great if you continue.’”– LIBERAL LEADER MICHAEL IGNATIEFF, WHO IS URGING THE PRIME MINIS-TER TO EXTEND MICHAËLLE JEAN’S TERM AS GOVERNOR GENERAL WHEN HERFIVE-YEAR APPOINTMENT EXPIRES IN SEPTEMBER.

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Last July, U.S. PresidentBarack Obama launched aCash for Clunkers programdesigned to get old,polluting vehicle offAmerican roads.

Response was so over-whelming, the operationwas shut down less thantwo months later when itsimply ran out of money.

What is less well-knownis that Canada already hada similar plan in place.Launched in February2009, Retire Your Ride hasalready exceeded its goalof 50,000 cars, nationally.It still has plenty of re-sources, and will continueuntil the end of nextMarch.

“This is Canada’s nation-al vehicle scrappage pro-gram,” national directorCarla Kearns says. “It’sabout working with Cana-dians to encourage themto responsibly retire theirolder vehicles.”

If your car is from the1995 model year or older,you can apply to enter theprogram.

If accepted, your carwill be responsibly recy-cled, and you can receive a$300 payment, or choosefrom a series of environ-mentally friendly incen-tives.

“Cash works for a lot ofpeople, but we have a lotof other incentives acrossthe country that actuallyhave a higher value thanthe cash alone,” Kearns ex-

plains. “Many municipalities of-

fer transit passes for sixmonths, a year or even 15months. Or, it could besomething like a member-ship in a car-sharing pro-gram. We also have anumber of automobilepartners who can offer arebate off the purchase ofa new car.”

The program is alsoavailable in French, underthe wonderful name AdieuBazou.

“One of the things we’relooking to do is reducesmog in the air.” Kearnsnotes,

“So we want to makesure that these cars are ac-tually running. We don’twant to be taking cars off

the road that are up onblocks in somebody’s yard.To be eligible for the pro-gram, your car has to beinsured for the past sixmonths, and registered inyour name.”

Kearns adds that vehi-cles manufactured in or af-ter 1996 do not qualify.

“There was a huge leapof improvement in vehicle

emission standards be-tween 1995 and ’96. Re-sults differ by manufactur-er, but 1995 and earlier,they’re pretty much all onthe bad end of that range.”

Retire Your Ride is fund-ed by the federal govern-ment, and overseen na-tionally by Summerhill Im-pact.

They run a range pollu-

tion-reducing programs,including Mow Down Pol-lution, which offers incen-tives to replace gas-pow-ered lawn mowers.

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Less water, more energyDon’t fill up your kettle. Only pour in as much water as you need right now. If every Canadian did this, we’d save

enough electricity to power every street light across the country. METRO NEWS SERVICES

The introduction of theharmonized sales tax intwo of Canada’s largestprovinces and a wave ofother new expenses couldtake a toll just as Canadi-ans begin to feel confidentabout opening their wal-lets again, experts say.

Shoppers in British Co-lumbia and Ontario startedpaying the HST Saturday ona number of services — in-cluding theatre packages,airplane tickets and gymmemberships — that willcontinue to be delivered af-ter July 1, the day the HSTwill start to be broadly ap-plied in both provinces.

The tax, which combinesthe five per cent federalgoods and services tax withthe provincial sales tax, hasmet with opposition fromthose who fear it will driveup the cost services thatwere previously exempt

from provincial sales tax.It comes as electricity

rates in Ontario rose al-most 10 per cent effectiveSaturday and consumersacross the country bracefor higher mortgage ratesand rising municipal taxes.

The rising costs come asCanadians appear to begrowing wary of their fu-ture purchasing power, ac-cording to the ConferenceBoard of Canada’s con-sumer confidence index,which fell a surprising 7.8

points last month to 84.8,the lowest it’s been sinceDecember.

Kenneth Wong, a market-ing professor at Queen’sUniversity, said the HSTaims to benefit provincialeconomies by cutting costsfor businesses, who are ex-pected to pass the savingson to consumers. And manytaxpayers in Ontario don’tknow they’ll receive “tran-sition” cheques of up to$1,000 per family startingin June. THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Consumer toll growsWallet’s pinch• Consumers across thecountry are bracing for theHST, as well as higher mort-gage rates and rising munic-ipal taxes.• In June, the Bank of Cana-da may raise its key ratefrom its record low.

EU agreesto bail outGreece

DEFICIT Canada’s surprising-ly strong economic recoverycontinues gathering steam,with positive implicationsfor both future job growthand government debt.

The country’s gross do-mestic product rose a solid0.3 per cent in February, af-ter an outsized spike of 0.6per cent to start the year,Statistics Canada said Fri-day. The latest data putsgrowth on a path to meetthe Bank of Canada’s rosyprojection of a 5.8 per centannualized advanced forthe first quarter of 2010,which would constitutethe best growth perform-ance in a decade.

The federal governmentalso posted a modest $902-million deficit in the samemonth. THE CANADIAN PRESS

GDP on trackfor recovery

DEBT Finance ministersfrom the 16 countries thatuse the euro agreed yester-day to rescue Greece with$110 billion in loans overthree years to keep it fromdefaulting on its debts.

The loan package withthe InternationalMonetary Fund is alsoaimed at keeping Greece’sdebt crisis from spreadingto other financially weakcountries such as Spainand Portugal — just as Eu-rope is struggling out of apainful recession.

In return, Greece had toagree to an austerity pro-gram that will imposepainful spending cuts andtax increases on its peoplefor years to come.

The plan will still needapproval by somecountries’ parliaments.But the head of theeurogroup, Luxembourg’sJean-Claude Juncker, saidGreece will get the firstfunds by May 19, whenAthens has $8.5 billionworth of a 10-year bondmaturing.

Prime Minister GeorgePapandreou said yesterdaythat the deal, following 10days of talks in Athens, willcut Greece’s budget deficitthrough a range of austeri-ty measures.

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Continental and United to merge: SourceDirectors at Continental and United airlines have approved a deal that would combine theminto the world’s largest airline, a source said yesterday. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Buffett In tune with recovery

Berkshire Hathaway chairman and CEO Warren Buffett playsthe ukulele and sings with the Quebe Sisters Band prior to par-ticipating in an annual shareholders meeting, in Omaha, Neb.,over the weekend. Berkshire Hathaway has rebounded fromlast year’s first-quarter loss and earned $3.6 billion since theeconomic recovery began.

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GOLF Ai Miyazato shot a 6-un-der 67 yesterday to win theTres Marias Championship forher third title on the LPGATour this season. The Japan-ese star finished with a 19-under 273 for thetournament, one better thanStacy Lewis (66) of UnitedStates and two in front ofMichelle Wie (68).GOLF Rory McIlroy won hisfirst PGA Tour event in recordstyle. The 20-year-old fromNorthern Ireland rolled in a40-foot birdie putt on the fi-nal hole yesterday to set thecourse record with a 10-under 62 and win the QuailHollow Championship.

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NHL PLAYOFFSYESTERDAY’S RESULTS

Montreal 3 Pittsburgh 1 (Series tied1-1)San Jose 4 Detroit 3 (Sharks lead 2-0)

NBA PLAYOFFSYESTERDAY’S RESULTS

Atlanta 95 Milwaukee 74 (Hawkswin series 4-3)L.A. Lakers 104 Utah 99 (Lakerslead 1-0)

BASEBALLYESTERDAY’S AL RESULTS

Toronto 9 Oakland 3Baltimore 3 Boston 2 (10 ings)

Detroit 5 L.A. Angels 1Minnesota 8 Cleveland 3N.Y. Yankees 12 Chicago White Sox3Tampa Bay 1 Kansas City 0Texas 3 Seattle 1

YESTERDAY’S NL RESULTSAtlanta 7 Houston 1Chicago Cubs 10 Arizona 5Colorado 4 San Francisco 1Florida 9 Washington 3L.A. Dodgers 9 Pittsburgh 3San Diego 8 Milwaukee 0St. Louis 6 Cincinnati 0Philadelphia 11 N.Y. Mets 5

CFL DRAFTFIRST ROUND

1. Saskatchewan (via Toronto),Shomari Williams, LB, Queen’s; 2.

Toronto (via Saskatchewan), Joe Ep-pele, OL, Washington State; 3.Toronto (via B.C.), Cory Greenwood,LB, Concordia; 4. B.C., DannyWatkins, OL, Baylor; 5. Calgary, RobMaver, P-K, Guelph; 6. Edmonton(via Winnipeg), Brian Bulcke, DL,Stanford; 7. Montreal, KristianMatte, OL. Concordia.

CALGARY’S PICKS(with round and overall pick,player, position and school)

1-5. Rob Maver, P-K, Guelph; 2-13.Taurean Allen, DB, Wilfrid Laurier;3-17. John Bender, OL, Nevada; 3-21. J’Michael Deane, OL, MichiganState; 5-37. Karl McCartney, LB,Saint Mary’s; 6-46. Oama Cul-breath, OL, British Columbia.

King James extends MVP reignLeBron James, left, won his second straight NBA MVP award, dominating the voting just as he dominated on court all season. The Cleveland Cavaliers starreceived 116 of a possible 123 first-place votes to win in a landslide yesterday over Oklahoma City forward Kevin Durant. Durant was picked first on four ballots.

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Thorpe considering comeback?Australian swimming great Ian Thorpe is reportedly considering a comeback in a bid to qualify for the

2012 London Olympics. Thorpe, 27, retired in 2006 after winning five Olympic gold medals. METRO NEWS SERVICES

CFL The SaskatchewanRoughriders dealt for thefirst pick of the CFL Cana-dian college draft thenused it to take Queen’slinebacker ShomariWilliams yesterday.

Saskatchewan wasscheduled to pick secondand fourth overall but pri-or to the draft dealt thosepicks and veteran punterJamie Boreham to Torontofor the No. 1 and No. 8 se-lections.

With that deal in place,the Riders kicked off thedraft by taking the six-foot-two, 236-poundWilliams, who was thetop-ranked prospect by theCFL’s amateur scouting bu-reau.

The Calgary Stampedersraised eyebrows somewhatat No. 5 with the selectionof Guelph punter-kickerRob Maver. The pick cameafter the Stamps signedWarren Keane, the secondpick of the ‘07 draft by Ed-monton, last week butMaver’s versatility — hecan punt, kick and kickoff— made him a very at-tractive prospect.

“I feel I am a completeguy,” Maver said.

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Riders landtop pick in draft

Sharks tighten grip

Joe Thornton scored hisfirst goal of the playoffswith 7:23 left and the SanJose Sharks beat the De-troit Red Wings 4-3 lastnight to take a 2-0 lead inthe second-round series.

Joe Pavelski kept up hissizzling post-season forSan Jose, scoring twice topush his NHL-high playofftotal to nine and setting upRyane Clowe’s between-the-legs score. Thorntonthen won it by ending hisplayoff drought.

Dany Heatley skated upice on a 3-on-2 break andfired a slap shot at JimmyHoward. Thornton beatBrian Rafalski to the re-bound in the crease andpoked in the winner. Theseries now shifts to Detroitfor Games 3 and 4, startingtomorrow night.

Pavel Datsyuk, TomasHolmstrom and 40-year-old captain Nicklas Lid-strom scored for the RedWings, who were unableto hold onto a 3-2 leadheading into the third in

part because they commit-ted too many penalties.

Pavelski tied it early inthe third when he pokedin a rebound that was inthe crease with the Sharkson a two-man advantagethat he had set up. WithTodd Bertuzzi already inthe box for holding Marc-Edouard Vlasic in the of-fensive zone, Pavelskidrew a tripping call onNiklas Kronwall that gaveSan Jose the 5-on-3 powerplay for 1:20.

Pavelski scored whatproved to be the winner in

the opener on anothertwo-man advantage earlyin the third period thathad Detroit coach MikeBabcock steaming. He fig-ured to be just as upset af-ter this game, when theSharks had an 10-4 advan-tage on power plays, in-cluding one to end thegame.

Evgeni Nabokov made28 saves for San Jose, in-cluding a sharp glove stopon Datsyuk early in thethird to keep the Sharks’deficit at one goal.

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Fusing metals: Best of both worlds

No need to callthe fire depart-ment, but JohnCarnes is run-ning a home-

made kiln at 1,500 de-grees in the spare room inhis Toronto apartment.

The kiln is tiny andCarnes, 45, keeps a fireextinguisher nearby. He’snever had to use it.

He’s using it to createjewelry in an ancienttechnique called mokumegane, which means“wood-grain metal.” Fewin Canada use this tech-nique, which was invent-ed in 17th century Japan.

Carnes was born in LosAngeles, and grew up inHawaii. He liked to paintand draw, but gave up artas a teen to focus on play-ing bass. Back in Califor-nia after high school, hebecame a full-time musi-cian.

That craft took him toNew York in 1993 wherehe played jazz, big band,reggae and funk. But hetired of the lifestyle anddecided to explore artagain.

Living in Woodstock,N.Y., at the time, he set upa studio in his attic andbegan taking courses injewelry making.

Eight years later, heheard about mokumegane. He was teachingjewelry making and hisstudents encouraged himto figure it out — theywanted to learn too.

On his own, using cop-per, silver and inexpen-

sive Japanese alloys calledshakudo and shibuichi, hetaught himself. Since hisjewelry style was mini-mal, the wood-grain lookof the style suited hiswork, and set him apart.“I realized what a nice lit-tle niche this was.”

In 2005, Carnes and hiswife at the time moved toToronto. He began doinghis jewelry full time —along with some music onthe side.

The process begins withsheets of metal — he usesthe Japanese metals, sil-ver and red, white andyellow gold — cut intosmall rectangles. Carnesclamps the sheets togeth-er, heats up his kiln witha jeweler’s torch, and putsthem inside. They getvery hot, and just beforethe melting stage theirmolecules move around alot. The metals fuse andthe colours blend.

The temperature has tobe just right. “They allhave different meltingpoints. It’s difficult, andI’m doing this all visual-ly.”

Carnes then starts twist-ing and drilling into theblock to create patterns

with the fused colours.When that’s done, he useshis traditional jewelrymaking equipment to rollout the metals, file andform the piece of jewelry.

Carnes does mainly cus-tom ordered rings andsells them through hisweb site and high-endstores across Canada.“There are not many oth-ers doing this work. Youhave to get good enoughto not worry about melt-ing a thousand dollarsworth of metal in yourlap.”

The Lowdown

Job title: Mokume gane jew-elry designerSalary: $40,000 or soEducation/training: He’s self-taughtBest Part of the Job:

“Working for myself, beingable to listen to whatever Iwant while I work.”Worst Part of the Job: “Spend-ing a lot of time by myself.And dealing with the ups anddowns of not having apaycheque every week.”

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Mokume gane was invented in 17th century Japan by swordsmiths.

OCAD to get university designation?Last week, the Ontario government proposed amendments to the Ontario College of Art and Design Act, which, if passed, will give official university status to the institution. Through the proposed amendments, the school’s name would becomethe Ontario College of Art and Design University. The act would also officially recog-nize the role of the chancellor and revise the powers of the current board to recognizethe creation of an academic senate. METRO NEWS SERVICES

Governance changes underway for NSACNova Scotia Agricultural College is in the process of transitioning from a branch of the province’s agriculturedepartment to an institution governed by a board like the rest of the universities in Nova Scotia. METRO NEWS SERVICES

“There are notmany others doingthis work. You haveto get goodenough to not wor-ry about melting athousand dollars

worth of metal in your lap.”Mokume gane jewelrydesigner John Carnes

Workology in briefUMANITOBA FACE CENSURE Ata recent meeting of the Canadi-an Association of UniversityTeachers council, delegates vot-ed unanimously to begin theprocess of censuring the Univer-sity of Manitoba and theWinnipeg Regional Health Au-thority after an ad-hoc commit-tee concluded that the universi-ty and the WRHA dismissed Dr.Larry Reynolds, a tenured pro-fessor, without just cause or dueprocess. METRO NEWS SERVICES

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The RefDemi Moore will be a featuredpanelist on an upcoming episodeof The Marriage Ref. Moore, 47,will be joined by Kelly Ripa andLewis Black on the May 20

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The joke goes on forFamily Guy creator

Family Guy creator SethMacFarlane says no topic— including the ProphetMuhammad — should beoff-limits for a comedyshow. As long as it’s a fun-ny joke.

“No one is a bigger criticof organized religion than Iam,” says MacFarlane inreaction to the recent ter-rorist death threat leveledagainst the cartoon SouthPark over its spoofing ofMuhammad.

Broadcaster Com-edy Central eventu-ally censored theepisode without thecooperation of SouthPark creators TreyParker and Matt Stone.

“It’s tricky. You pick yourbattles,” says MacFarlane.“You have to judge how realthe threat is against howfunny the joke is. How muchdo I care about the joke?”

MacFarlane — whose Sun-day cartoon empire alsoincludes American Dad andThe Cleveland Show — sayspotentially controversialjokes on Family Guy go

through “internal discus-sions” before they air.

“It depends on what thejoke is about. Immediacy

has a lot to do with it. Arecent shooting orplane crash, we try tostay away from.”

In one instance, ajoke about Scientol-

ogy was dropped, whilea bit about Terri Schiavo —the U.S. woman at the centerof a right to die debate sev-eral years ago — was used.“The issue had received anenormous amount of atten-tion. It was our duty as a com-edy show to comment on itin some way,” he says.

MacFarlane says themuch-talked-about FamilyGuy movie is still in its “earlystages.”

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Not just a pretty face

For many, Molly Ringwaldwill always be 16, immor-talized at that tender ageby her endearing roles inthe classic ’80s teen flicksSixteen Candles, Pretty inPink and The BreakfastClub.

But today, the formerteen queen is a happilymarried 42-year-old moth-er of three (a seven-year-oldand nine-month-old twins),who has enjoyed acharmed life.

In her new book, Gettingthe Pretty Back: Friend-ship, Family, and findingthe Perfect Lipstick, the ac-tress shares candid storiesfrom her personal life, les-sons she’s learned over theyears, and doles out adviceon everything from datingto dressing.

Part autobiography, partchick lit, part lifestyleguide, the book evolvedfrom what Ringwald sayswas self-reflection as sheneared a milestone in herown life.

“I was turning 40, andit’s sort of an angst-riddentime and I wanted to writea book that I wanted toread,” explains Ringwaldover the phone from NewYork where she and herhusband, writer and editorPanio Gianopoulos, livepart-time when they’re notin Los Angeles.

“I wanted the book to bereally light and inspira-tional and uplifting andfun and colourful and I justwanted to write a bookabout being a womanrather than a girl,” shesays.

Divided into nine chap-ters, Pretty tackles the vari-ous elements of woman-hood.

“There’s a motherhoodchapter, a friendship chap-ter, a love chapter, a fitnesschapter,” explains Ring-wald.

Despite finding fame at ayoung age, Ringwald man-aged to stay away from thedrug addiction thatplagued so many of herBrat Pack peers. “I just in-stinctively knew that if Iwent along that path, itwould lead to no good,”she says matter-of-factly.“There was just too much

that I wanted to do in lifethat I thought drugs wouldjust slow me down.”

She left Hollywood in the’90s and moved to France,where she lived with herfirst husband, Frenchwriter Valery Lameignère,before returning to the U.S.and starring in variousBroadway productions, in-cluding Cabaret.

Then came her secondmarriage and motherhood.But that hasn’t sloweddown her professionalprojects. In June, Ringwaldreturns to the TV as AnneJuergens in the third sea-son of ABC’s The SecretLife of the AmericanTeenager. She’s also in themidst of finishing up a jazzalbum and plans to write asecond book — she hasn’tyet decided what it’s goingto be about.

If anything, Pretty servesto remind us that MollyRingwald’s life didn’t beginand end in a teen movie.

“In the end, I’d like to beremembered as a good per-son, as a good friend, as agood mother,” says Ring-wald. “There’s the acting,the writing, the singingand all that, but that’s notthe most important thingfor me.”

Former teen idol Molly Ringwald doles out advice on everythingfrom dating to dressing in her new book Pretty Back: Friendship,Family, and finding the Perfect Lipstick.

HEATHER BUCHANfor Metro Canada Pretty Woman

• Getting thePretty Back:Friendship,Family, andfinding thePerfect Lipstickis the newbook from Molly Ringwald.

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With the fifth season of TheNew Adventures of OldChristine wrapping up nextweek, it’s safe to sayEmmy-winner Julia Louis-Dreyfus has successfullydodged the Seinfeld curse.

The acclaimed comic ac-tress, who receives a star onthe Hollywood Walk ofFame next week, sat downwith Metro to talk aboutthe series that’s been keep-ing her happily busy for fiveyears.

After five seasons,what do you thinkChristine has learned

over the years?Oh, she’s learnednothing. That’s whythings are get-

ting worse.

Where doyou plan totake the

character at thispoint in theshow’s history?

To more humiliat-ing places for sure.That is really our

goal.

Does it always haveto be humiliating? Orwill she be able to

find happiness at some level?I think she finds away to be happy,and sometimes isn’t

even aware of the fact thatshe’s being humiliated,which is also fun to play,that kind of buffoonery. But

sure, thereare mo-ments ofhappi-ness, andthenthere aremo-ments of

despair,and it’s

just a question of, from oneepisode to the next, gettingthe right cocktail of thetwo. But ultimately, youknow, obviously our goal isto be funny. So it seems it’sbetter to laugh at her.

Was it tough switch-ing between playingChristine and playing

a version of yourself on CurbYour Enthusiasm?

Not really. On CurbYour Enthusiasm,it’s strange because

you’re playing yourself butnot really playing yourself,because I would never doanything like that. I don’taccost people that way. Al-though I’d like to. I think Ishould accost people morefrequently. On our show,it’s just a different style ofperforming. I try to bring akind of reality to it even ifit’s not something I woulddo. And there’s certainlyplenty of things playingChristine that I can relate to— being a sort of desperate,well-intentioned person. Ican certainly tap into thosefeelings.

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1A Nightmare on ElmStreet:

$32.2 million US

2How toTrain

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3DateNight:

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4The Back-up Plan

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5Furry Vengeance:$6.5 million

6The Losers:$6 million

7Clash of the Titans:$5.98 million

8Kick-ass,:$4.5 million

9Death at a Funeral:$4 million

10Oceans:$2.6 million

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PART OF HEALTH CARE JessicaSimpson is a singer, ac-tress and reality star, butnow she has a new goal.She wants to be MichelleObama.

“I really do,” Simpsontold People magazine be-fore the White House Cor-respondents’ dinner inWashington, D.C., Satur-day. “She’s such an incredi-ble woman, and she’s with

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mire most about the FirstLady? “Everything she doesshe exudes confidence,”says the singer. “I’m reallyjust here to celebrate her.”

Simpson was just oneamong many celebritieswho came out for the an-nual event and mingled atthe packed pre-party.

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TIME Mariah Carey andNick Cannon renewedtheir wedding vows overthe weekend at their Bev-erly Hills mansion, just asthe plan to do every yearthey’re mar-ried, ac-cordingto theDailyMail.

“I encourage everybodyto do it. If you are happyand in love, celebrate it,”Cannon says.

“Doesn’t everybody dothat? Don’t Heidi Klumand Seal do the same thingevery year? It’s just some-

thing fun to cele-brate. We renewour vows and ex-change gifts.”

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Halle Berry andCanadian GabrielAubry have endedtheir five-year rela-tionship afterspending monthsworking out the fi-nancial details andcustody of their two-year-old daugh-ter

with a lawyer,according toRadar On-line.

“Gabrieljust felt itwasn’tworking

anymore,”a source says. “When they

were first to-gether, the

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year age difference be-tween them didn’t phasehim, she was the mostbeautiful woman he had

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in love. “But as

time wenton he start-ed feelingit moreandmore.”

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LOOK LIKE TO HER? LindsayLohan has reportedly vio-lated the terms of her pro-bation and could face jailtime, according to TMZ.

The troubled actress ison probation for a DUI buthas not had the alcohol ed-ucation requirement laidout by the judge, which

she needsto do atleast oncea week.

Lohanhas re-portedlybeen at-tendingclassesonce

every 21 days. Her lawyer isn’t worried,

though, saying in a state-ment to the website, “Wehave received no negativewritten report from theprogram and contend Ms.Lohan is therefore incompliance.”

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