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It started as an idea to im-prove upon what was donelast year. The next thinganyone knew, it was offi-cial.

The third week in No-vember is now known asNational Bullying Aware-ness Week, and while it’sbeen around unofficially forabout 10 years, this year, itwas made official in about10 days.

Local radio host AceBurpee of Hot 103 was be-hind the campaign to seethe week legitimized by theCanadian government.

“We started a petition,and we did a ‘Twitition’(getting people to supportthe idea on Twitter),” saidBurpee. Thousands of signa-tures and tweets later, theresults were handed over toManitoba education minis-ter Nancy Allan, who went

to work on it right away.Ten days after the petitionwas presented, it was offi-cial.

“We moved this procla-mation along very quicklybecause we recognized theimportance of raisingawareness about bullyingand the steps that we cantake as politicians, adminis-trators, teachers, parents,and students to make ourschools safe and respectfulenvironments,” said Minis-ter Allan in an email.

Burpee said the station isholding a contest, challeng-ing people to come up witha video in relation to anti-bullying week. He said he’sreceived everything frompersonal stories to skits tosongs.

“It’s unbelieveable, thequality of the stuff we’regetting. People are writingthese brilliant songs … it’sreally good. And it makes ahuge difference, peopletelling their stories.”

Radio host gets governmentto listen to anti-bullying idea

Hot 103 morning show host Ace Burpee managed to turn a petition into an official proclamation in 10 days. Who knew government could move so fast?

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Host said petition for a NationalBullying Awareness Week wasdone ‘the right way’ to motivategovernment to move quickly

Chefs to go the whole hog at BaconFestAce Burpee isn’t just rais-ing awareness for bully-ing, he’s also knee-deep ina campaign to single-hand-edly raise $100,000 for theUnited Way. His latestevent: BaconFest.

“I knew I wanted to dosomething that ended in‘fest’ or ‘bash’,” saidBurpee, “Something posi-tive and fun.”

Burpee approached lo-cal chefs Ben Sigurdson

and Alex Svenne about theidea, and both signed upright away to not onlycook, but help organize.

“And these are two verybusy guys,” said Burpee.“It’s a lot of work. I could-

n’t believe how calm theywere about it.”

BaconFest has a simplepremise: 12 chefs, 12 dish-es involving bacon. Only100 tickets are being soldat $75 each, with proceeds

going to the United Way.Baconfest will happen

on Nov. 30. Tickets are being sold at

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The Winnipeg Jets and the Manitoba gov-ernment are releasing a limited editionWinnipeg Jets licence plate on Dec. 12.Plates are $70 and will be available at MPIbrokers. METRO

The Winnipeg Goldeyes’ Field of DreamsFoundation is now accepting funding re-quests from registered children’scharities through Dec. 16. METRO

The RCMP have started a new program inManitoba to crack down on dangerousdrivers. The newly formed teams will in-vestigate serious traffic accidents wherecriminal charges are possible. METRO

The Be A Santa to a Senior programlaunched at Victoria General Hospital yes-terday, which partners generous peoplewith a senior who has a small Christmaswish. For more information visit beastantatoasenior.com. METRO

The City of Winnipeg’s infrastructure andpublic works committee turned down aproposal yesterday that would allow peo-ple to plug in their vehicles if parked onthe city street. METRO

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Winnipeg-based game de-signer Alec Holowka canadd iPad app Top Seller tohis list ofaccomplishments.

His iPad game Aquaria,released Nov. 3, reachedNo. 4 overall in iPad appsand remained within thetop 10 for a few days.

Holowka, the game’s co-creator, said he was happywith its success in the AppStore and estimates it hasbeen downloaded 25,000times.

Holowka said he and fel-low designer Derek Yu be-gan working on Aquaria in2005. The game was origi-nally released for Windowsin 2007.

After Holowka spentsome time playing on an

iPad, he decided Aquaria’sunderwater setting wouldbe well suited to the touch-screen device.

“The controls actuallyfeel way better on it than inthe original version,” saidHolowka.

But selling Aquaria as aniPad app has had itsdifficulties.

“It’s way morecrowded,” said Holowka,referring to Apple’s AppStore.

“There’s only one gate-way to get to customersand you’re competing withtons of stuff going up con-stantly.”

Holowka is unsurewhere the game is current-ly ranked, but said it hasdropped.

“But we’ve got someideas up our sleeves abouthow to get people interest-ed again.”

Local designer’s gameswims to iPad app top 10

Alex Holowka shows off Aquaria, which is available for

download at Apple’s iTunes app store.

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Alec Holowka’s Aquaria followscharacter Naija on an underwaterjourney to uncover her past

Boy gets 3 years jail timeA 14-year-old Manitoba boywill spend the next threeyears behind bars for shov-ing a knife through the roofof a 14-year-old girl’s mouthand into her brain whileshe slept.

The boy, who courtheard has battled alcoholand drug addiction since hewas nine years old, was sen-tenced last week in Thomp-

son. He was 12 at the timeof the December 2009 slay-ing at a northern reserveabout 1,000 kilometresnortheast of Winnipeg.

He pleaded guilty to sec-ond-degree murder earlierthis year.

Judge Brian Colli im-posed the maximum sen-tence under the YouthCriminal Justice Act of sev-

en years custody and super-vision, in addition to nearlytwo years of time alreadyserved.

The boy will spend thenext three years in custody,then be under strict releaseconditions in the communi-ty for the remaining fouryears.

“She had a future full ofpromise. You’ve taken away

this life forever,” Colli toldthe boy.

Manitoba justice officialsweren’t able to apply tohave the boy raised to adultcourt — where he wouldhave faced much stiffersanctions — because of hisage. The victim’s namecan’t be published underterms of the act.THE CANADIAN PRESS

Bieber-signed guitargiven to food bankA guitar signed by JustinBieber is being auctionedoff on eBay to raise moneyfor Winnipeg Harvest.

Bieber gave the signedinstrument as a thank yougift to Kenny Boyce, Win-nipeg’s “host to the stars”and manager of film andspecial events at city hall.

Recent news coverage onBieber’s use of food banksgrowing up promptedBoyce to donate the guitar.

“It was a thrill for me toreceive the autographedguitar from Justin Bieberand an even bigger thrill indonating it to WinnipegHarvest.” ASHLEY GABOURY

Guitar signed by Justin Bieber.

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Stolen carfound 27years laterNewfoundland’s provincialpolice service announcedMonday that it had locateda stolen car. The 1970 Opelhad been reporting missingnearly three decades ago.

The vehicle was stolenfrom a garage and was re-ported missing by its own-er in 1984. Now, 27 yearslater, it was found in anoth-er garage. Patrol officers,acting on information,checked the garage on Tor-bay Road in St. John’s andconfirmed the vehicle wasin fact the long-missingOpel.

They are trying to deter-mine how the vehiclewound up in the garagewhere it was found andwhere it’s been since 1984.

Police were not able toelaborate on details aboutthe car. While they havebeen in touch with theowner, they have notreleased the person’sname. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE

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Protesters given noticeOccupiers of the small tent city in Calgary were giv-en 24 hours to leave.

Occupy. Calgary

Police and bylaw officers hand out eviction

notices to Occupy Calgary protesters yesterday.

Largely unmoved by thevariously gentle and aggres-sive attempts by detectivesto get him to confess,Hamed Shafia takes particu-lar interest when he catchessight of some photos.

Held by Det. Sgt. MichaelBoyles, the photos are of hissisters’ bodies, having beenfound dead inside a NissanSentra the family boughtjust days prior, submergedin a canal at Kingston Mills.

Boyles, of the KingstonPolice Force, at first hesi-tates to show Hamed thephotos. “Please,” Hamedpleads. Boyles relents.

Boyles uses the photosduring his interrogation ofHamed as he prods him totell him what he knows —to get Hamed to explain his

father’s alleged role in thedeaths, and his own allegedrole.

Your sisters, the officerreasons, “deserve to knowthe truth, Hamed. They de-serve better than this. Theydon’t deserve this, Hamed.

“This wasn’t for your fa-ther to decide. This was for

God to decide.”Hamed seems transfixed,

but shows no emotion. “Wedon’t have Geeti,” he says.The pictures only show thetwo other sisters.

Found dead in the canal,on June 30, 2009, wereHamed’s three sisters,Zainab, 19, Sahar, 17 and13-year-old Geeti, alongwith Rona Amir Moham-mad, his father’s first wife.

Investigators keep sug-gesting to Hamed that he’slying. They explain theirwiretap evidence.

They tell him his cell-phone signals place him inthe Kingston area while thefamily was on a holiday inNiagara Falls just two daysbefore the alleged murder.TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE

Interrogation shownat honour-killing trial

Hamed Shafia

Hamed Shafia pleaded to see photos of sisters’ bodiesHe’s accused, along with parents, of murder

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Crackdowns against theOccupy Wall Street en-campments across thecountry reached the epi-centre of the movementyesterday, when policerousted protesters from aManhattan park and ajudge ruled that their freespeech rights do not ex-tend to pitching a tent andsetting up camp formonths at a time.

It was a potentially dev-astating setback. If crowdsof demonstrators return toZuccotti Park, they will notbe allowed to bring tents,sleeping bags and otherequipment that turned thearea into a makeshift cityof dissent.

But demonstratorspledged to carry on withtheir message protestingcorporate greed and eco-nomic inequality, either inZuccotti or a yet-to-be cho-sen new home.

“This is much biggerthan a square plaza in

downtown Manhattan,”said Hans Shan, an organ-izer who was workingwith churches to findplaces for protesters tosleep. “You can’t evict anidea whose time hascome.”

State Supreme CourtJustice Michael Stallmanupheld the city’s evictionof the protesters after anemergency appeal by the

National Lawyers Guild.The protesters have

been camped out in theprivately owned park sincemid-September. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Occupy Wall Street protesters clash withpolice at Zuccotti Park after being orderedto leave their longtime encampment inNew York, early yesterday.

Police disperse protesters near theencampment at Zuccotti Park. At about 1a.m. yesterday, police handed out noticesfrom the park’s owner and the city sayingthat the park had to be cleared.

A protester is arrested during a march onBroadway after police ordered demonstra-tors to leave the park.

Sanitation workers gather at the site tostart the cleanup effort.

Two protesters and their dog, who saidthey have slept with other protesters forthe last 56 nights, sit along a police barricade at the edge of Zuccotti Park.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Judge’s ruling

Supreme Court JusticeMichael Stallman denied a motion by thedemonstrators seeking tobe allowed back into thepark with their tents andsleeping bags.

The protesters “have notdemonstrated that theyhave a First Amendmentright to remain in ZuccottiPark, along with their tents,structures, generators andother installations to theexclusion of the owner’sreasonable rights ... or tothe rights to public accessof others who might wishto use the space safely,”Stallman wrote.

New York Mayor MichaelBloomberg said he orderedthe sweep because healthand safety conditions andbecome “intolerable” inthe crowded plaza.

Ouster raises doubtsabout Occupy’s future

New York City police officers keeps a demonstrator affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement from entering Zuccotti Park yesterday in New York.

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New York City protesters gather to discuss options to sustain movement

Police apprehend a protester in Toronto.

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Can’t ‘evict an idea’: Occupy T.O.A judge says Occupy Toron-to protesters can remain ina downtown park while themerits of a city eviction or-der are argued in court.

Occupy Toronto protest-ers went to court yesterdayafter receiving the evictionnotices and are requestingan injunction against theeviction.

The judge says the pro-testers can’t be removed

pending his decision fol-lowing arguments on Fri-day, but added that no newstructures can be erected inthe park.

As police looked on, by-law officers threaded theirway between tents andthrough the mud yesterdaymorning to put up the no-tices, which were quicklytaken down.

The protesters said the

city could not “evict anidea” whose time hadcome, and they said theyplanned to stay.

But some demonstratorssaid they would leaverather than risk confronta-tion with police and possi-ble criminal charges.

The protesters took overthe park several blocks eastof Bay Street on Oct. 15.THE CANADIAN PRESS

Reporters takeninto custodyNYC. Journalists havebeen detained whilecovering Occupy WallStreet. N.Y. police didn’thave a count of howmany journalists werearrested and didn’t im-mediately comment. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Bearlyoccupied While ice-hog mascotswaved, oblivious to theprotester behind them,NCC mar keting chief Guy La flamme deflectedquestions about the impend ing clashbetween his organi -zation and the activistsin Ottawa’sConfederation Park, oneof the main venues forWinterlude.

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Protester Darren Noftall holds up a sign at a National Capital Commission photo-op promoting the capital’s annual winter festival, Winterlude.

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Army defectors ambusheddozens of Syrian troopsand regime forces gunneddown civilians during oneof the bloodiest days of thecountry’s eight-month-olduprising, which appearedyesterday to be spirallingout of President Bashar al-Assad’s control.

Up to 90 people werekilled in a gruesome waveof violence Monday, ac-tivists said. The extent ofthe bloodshed only cameto light yesterday, in partbecause corpses lying inthe streets did not reachthe morgue until daylight.

As the bloodshedspiked, al-Assad’s formerallies were turning on himin rapid succession — asign of profound impa-

tience with a leader whohas failed to stem monthsof unrest that could ex-plode into a regional con-flagration.

Amateur video providedby activists showed a fireat the end of an alley send-

ing up a plume of smoke,followed by an explosion.Other videos showed tankson streets firing their can-nons and crowds of peoplerunning from the sound ofautomatic gunfire.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Defectors ambushSyrian troops

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Turkey, Jordan, Arab League fed up with president’sresponse to uprising, ready to pressure him to go

Support for the Talibanamong Afghans has steadilydeclined in recent yearsand people strongly back agovernment peace initia-tive, according to a surveyfunded in part by the U.S.government.

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The survey found that anoverwhelming majority ofAfghan adults, 82 per cent,back reconciliation and

reintegration efforts withinsurgent groups. It saidthat the number of peoplewho said they sympathizedwith the aims of Talibanhad dropped to 29 per centcompared to 40 per centlast year and 56 per cent in2009.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Support for Taliban drops in Afghanistan

Experts sayFeds shoulddecriminalizeeuthanasiaA long-awaited experts’report on how Canadaand Canadian familieshandle the end of lifecalls on the federalgovernment todecriminalize euthanasiaand assisted suicide.

And if Ottawa won’t co-operate, the panel saysprovinces should go italone, by making clearthey won’t prosecutehealth-care professionalsinvolved in assisted dying.

“Assisted suicide andvoluntary euthanasiashould be legally permit-ted for competent individ-uals who make a free andinformed decision thattheir life is no longerworth living,” says the re-port by the Royal Societyof Canada’s expert panelon end-of-life decision-making.

The report was twoyears in the making. Itbrought together a panelof experts on medicine,philosophy, ethics andhealth to look at what isbeing done in other coun-tries, examine Canadianpractices and sentiments,and formulate recommen-dations.

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But the Euthanasia Pre-vention Coalition ofOntario dismissed the re-port before it was evenpublic, saying at least oneof the panel members is anoted euthanasiaadvocate.

But the panel says thatCanadians are overwhelm-ingly in favour of findingan even-handed way to al-low voluntary assisted sui-cide but would not permitanything involuntary.THE CANADIAN PRESS

“When we furtherinvestigated thepanel members itwas clear that ...this report wouldbe a pro-euthanasiapropagandareport.”EUTHANASIA PREVENTIONCOALITION OF ONTARIO

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Scrapping the requirementto register rifles and shot-guns could fuel illegalfirearms trafficking acrossthe Canadian border, warnsan internal federal memo.

It says the move wouldweaken import controls byeliminating a requirementfor border officials to verifyfirearms coming into thecountry.

“Such a loophole couldfacilitate unregistered pro-hibited and restrictedfirearm trafficking into andthrough Canada,” says thedeclassified memo, origi-nally marked secret.

The memo was releasedunder the Access to Infor-mation Act to the NationalFirearms Association andposted along with hun-dreds of other pages on the

organization’s website.It was prepared by Mark

Potter, a senior Public Safe-ty Department official, foran assistant deputy minis-ter as Parliament was de-bating a private member’sbill to kill the registry. THE CANADIAN PRESS

Memo warns of illegal arms tradeMinister quick to dismiss own

department’s analysis on endingregistry of rifles and shotguns

Shooting Edge range officer Patrick Deegan displays long guns at the store in Calgary.

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The Public Safety memo al-so says elimination of theregistry would “significant-ly compromise” lawenforcement’s ability totrace firearms in Canada —for instance, linking aweapon left at a crimescene with an individualowner — or to support for-eign police forces trying todo the same.

Attack on royalwebsite blockedLONDON. Scotland Yard’scyber-crime unit helpedfend off an attack on theofficial website of Britain’sroyal wedding in April,the division’s chief saidyesterday.

Det. Supt. CharlieMcMurdie told a cyberse-curity conference that ac-tion was taken tosafeguard the site, whichreceived 15 million hitswhen Prince William mar-ried Kate Middleton onApril 29. Asked for moreinformation by The Asso-ciated Press, she said herunit had “been called in”to deal with an attack. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Literary goldrush for authorTORONTO. VancouverIsland native Patrick de-Witt says he was plaguedwith doubt about hiscomic western novel TheSisters Brothers when itfirst entered the wildworld of publishing.

But that feeling is gone

now that the story hasstruck book-prize gold,winning a $25,000 Gover-nor General’s LiteraryAward for fiction yester-day — two weeks after itlanded the $25,000Rogers Writers’ Trust Fic-tion Prize. DeWitt’s nov-el, about two gunslingingbrothers en route to Cali-fornia in the gold-rushera of the 1850s, was alsonominated for the ManBooker Prize and the Sco-tiabank Giller.THE CANADIAN PRESS

Nazi victims eye litigationMIAMI. Thousands ofaging Holocaust survivorsin the U.S. want Congressto clear a path for themto sue Europeaninsurance companiesthey contend illegallyconfiscated Jewish life in-surance policies duringthe Nazi era and have re-fused to pay an estimated$20 billion still owed.

A hearing is scheduledtoday on a bill that wouldprovide the survivorswith access to U.S. courtsand also force companiesto disclose lists of policiesheld by Jews before theSecond World War.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Murderersexecuted in Ohio and FloridaTwo U.S. men were execut-ed yesterday, one forkilling his three sleepingsons, the other for killinga woman and her twodaughters after they visit-ed Disney World.

In Ohio, ReginaldBrooks of East Clevelandwho fatally shot his threesons while they slept in1982, shortly after his wifefiled for divorce, was exe-cuted in with each of hishands clenched in an ob-scene gesture.

In Florida, Oba Chan-dler was executed forkilling an Ohio womanand her two teenagedaughters in June 1989 asthe victims returned froma dream vacation to Dis-ney World.

Brooks died first at 2:04p.m. local time. At 66,Brooks is the oldest personput to death since Ohio re-sumed executions in 1999.

In Florida, Chandler, 65,was administered a lethalinjection and pronounceddead at 4:25 p.m. localtime yesterday at the stateprison. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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The federal telecommunica-tions regulator has rejecteda controversial plan thatwould have allowed the bigphone and cable companiesto impose a usage-basedbilling model on Internetservice resellers, a systemthat the Conservative gov-ernment and many con-sumers had opposed.

The Canadian Radio-tele-vision and Telecommunica-tions Commission’sdecision yesterday insteadgives the companies a

choice of either chargingthe smaller Internetproviders a flat rate per useror selling the ISPs a specificamount of capacity on theirnetworks.

“The net effect of it isthat there will be no caps,no limitations, no meteringof use for retail customersas a result of this CRTC deci-sion,” CRTC chairman Kon-rad von Finckenstein said.

The regulator launchedits review after a social me-dia campaign launched by

the ISPs and an ensuingpublic backlash, as well asurging by former industryminister Tony Clement.

Under the new capacitymodel for billing, a smallISP buys a certain amountof network capacity fromone of the big providers,and if its customers unex-pectedly increase their us-age, their service couldslow.

“If they buy too littlethey have a problem withtheir end customers, if they

buy too much they pay forsomething that they don’tuse,” von Finckenstein said.

Industry Minister Chris-tian Paradis said the govern-ment would study thedecision carefully to ensureit stimulated competitionand investment and al-lowed Canadians to choose.“Let me be clear: our gov-ernment’s policy will al-ways be to encouragecompetition, ensure con-sumer choice and minimizeregulation,” he said in a

statement last night.Independent Internet

service provider TekSavvywas pleased with the struc-ture, but said the actualrates will increase costs forconsumers. “The rates ap-proved by the commissiontoday will make it muchharder for independent ISPsto compete,” TekSavvy CEOMarc Gaudrault said. “Thisis an unfortunate develop-ment for telecommunica-tions competition inCanada.” THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Trimming thecost of a haircutOne Ohio barber has turned theprice of a haircut on its head.

After a mortgage crisis, macro-un-employment, stock-market tumblesand poor consumer confidence, Gre-gory Burnett is only charging peoplewhat they can afford for a haircut, ac-cording to the Canton Repositorynewspaper.

After his usual back-to-school rushfailed to show, he put up a sign thatsays, “TIMES ARE HARD WHAT CANYOU PAY FOR A CUT.”

He has accepted as little as $5 for aregular $12 haircut, the newspaperreports.

The owner of Old School BarberShop said he named his shop for thatmantra.

“Old school is making somethingout of nothing,” Burnett told theRepository.

The 56-year-old has been a work-ing man all his life by doing servicejobs: shining shoes, driving cabs, andfor the last 25 years he has workedas a hairstylist and barber, the Repos-itory says.

And now that he has his own bar-ber shop, he still shines shoes.Although it’s $5, and that’s non-negotiable.

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DAD’S DOINGDOUBLE DUTY

Life is full of doublestandards, and here’s one ofmine: I can admit I protect(and sometimesmicromanage) my daughters,11 and 9, in a way I probably

wouldn’t if I had boys. When I was dating my now-wife in

high school — yes, high schoolsweethearts! — I used to snicker whenshe had to get home by midnight to turnoff her dad’s alarm clock. If she didn’tbeat the alarm, he said he’d go out

looking for her, call police, call hospitals. I said I’d neverbe that kind of dad.

I am that kind of dad. More so because I have girls.Why? Well, for one thing, I’m fully aware there are

boys who will try to take advantage of them. Not allboys, but some.

There are also predators/monsters in the real worldand online, enormous pressures around drugs and alco-hol, and bullying (in recent weeks, a 10-year-old Illinoisgirl, Ashlynn Conner, hanged herself after being bulliedat school). I know these things apply to boys as well, but Ijust think the implications are compounded for girls.

It’s not that I don’t trustmy daughters. It’s that Iknow what kids are like. Iwas one. Kids are kids, notadults. They will make mis-takes. They will make baddecisions sometimes. Thereare so many peer pressures.

What I tell my girls iswe’re instantly accessiblewhenever they’re in a bind.Text us, call us, tweet us —we’ll be there. Noquestions. No judgments.(Well, questions will comelater.)

Mobile devices are ablessing for this generation,allowing kids to be muchmore accessible to theirparents if they’re in harm’sway. But adding social me-dia to the mix does createmore trigger points.

The extent of our bad“social media” growing up: crank calls and rolled-uppieces of paper (e.g., “Johnny loves Sarah”) passedaround class. Now there’s the quick distribution ofvoyeuristic photos from a party that go “viral” and MeanGirl tactics (“You’re fat,” “You’re ugly,” “You’re Stupid”)that don’t end in the schoolyard but continue onFacebook.

We let our daughters use social media — there aremany virtues to it — but monitor it very closely.

Sure kids have to have some sense of forging an iden-tify outside their parents. We will give ours some line.But my blinders will not be on. Denial and ignorance dono good. As parents, you have to anticipate and react.Particularly with girls.

My angels won’t understand all the decisions we makeuntil they have grown into women and parents.

In the meantime, all we can do is protect them — andhopefully empower them at the same time.

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They are Italy’s invisi-ble poor, unseen bytourists, ignored by thecountry’s fat-catpoliticians and living in areality that’s a far cryfrom former prime min-ister Silvio Berlusconi’sdescription of an affluentcountry where “therestaurants are full.”

Or in the words ofFrancesa Zuccari, whoruns a soup kitchen inRome: “There is anothercity out there where peo-ple can’t get to the end ofthe month.”

This is the Italy facingMario Monti, theeconomics professortapped to form an inter-im technocratic govern-ment after Berlusconiwas forced to resign.

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At the startof the ani-mated pen-guin pictureSurf’s Up,Cody Maver-ick (the voice

of Transformer’s star ShiaLaBeouf ) takes a shot atanother cartoon tuxedoedbird movie.

Asked if he has anyother skills besides surf-ing. Cody sarcasticallysays, “Like what? Singingand dancing?”

Of course, he’s refer-ring to Happy Feet, theOscar winning movie

about an Emperor Pen-guin who can’t find hissoul mate the usual way— through song — so heuses his other talent —tap dancing.

The musical penguinsof Happy Feet shimshammed their way tohuge box office in 2006,and will paddle and rolltheir way back into the-atres again this weekendin Happy Feet Two.

For a while, it seemedlike you couldn’t swing aherring without hitting apenguin at the movies.

March of the Penguins,a real-life look at the mi-gration march of Emperorpenguins to their tradi-tional breeding ground,was a left field hit in 2005.The winner for Best Docu-

mentary not only outgrossed all the nomineesfor Best Picture that year— it took in $77 millionvs. $75 million for Broke-back Mountain — but alsobecame the second high-est grossing theatricaldocumentary afterFahrenheit 9/11.

It was such a huge hit itinspired an R-rated paro-dy, Farce of the Penguins.Featuring the voices ofSamuel L. Jackson, JasonAlexander and ChristinaApplegate, it’s an R-ratedspoof that imagines whatsex-starved penguinsmight talk about on the70 mile walk to their mat-ing grounds.

“I am tired of the clubscene,” says one penguin.“So are the baby seals!”replies another.

More family friendlywas Madagascar, the storyof four Central Park Zooanimals who get strandedon the island of Madagas-car. The movie featured alarge menagerie of char-acters, but the zoo’s pen-guins, Skipper, Kowalski,

Rico and Private, provedto be audience favorites.They have most of themovie’s best lines — onlanding in Africa one ofthe flightless birds says,“Africa? That ain't gonnafly!” — and were featuredin a short film, The Mada-gascar Penguins in aChristmas Caper, a TV se-ries and video games.

Probably the most fa-mous penguin characterin the movies is OswaldCobblepot a.k.a. The Pen-guin, as played by DannyDeVito in Batman Re-turns.

This super villain is hu-man, but dresses like apenguin, eats raw fish andtries to conquer Gothamwith an army of speciallytrained penguins.

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From March of the Penguins to Farce of the Penguins to the return of Happy Feet, it’s hardto toss a fish without hitting one at the movies But who is the most famous penguin of all?

Much ado about penguinsHappy Feet Two dances into theatres this weekend.

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More than a dozenCanadians are stillin the running togo on a tourorganized bydrummer RogerTaylor of the clas-sic rock bandQueen. He organ-ized webauditions to find afive-piece coverband and three vo-calists to performclassic Queentunes. Lead singer,Freddie Mercury,shown, died in1991.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Patti LaBelle accused of screamingat a toddler and punching its mother

The diva vs. the babyIf you are a ba-by and happento come acrosssinger Patti La-Belle, it’s best ifyou pull upyour diaper,grab your rat-

tle, and crawl right out ofthere.

It was disclosed yester-day in a lawsuit filed inManhattan Supreme Courtthat the singer screamedobscenities at a toddler andthrew a punch at the baby’smother (who also happensto be a school teacher)sometime this year.

The mother, RoseannaMonk, is now suing LaBelle,who was living in her Man-hattan apartment buildingwhile appearing on Broad-way’s Fela. Apparently, thisis what happened, accord-

ing to Monk’s lawyer, re-ports The New York DailyNews: The 18-month-oldtoddler, named Genevieve,was “scampering” aroundthe apartment building’slobby when LaBelle, who isdescribed as being in “fullstar regalia with oversizeshades and a fur coat” be-came upset at the baby asshe walked through.

“‘What are you doing let-ting your kid run aroundlike that?’ she reportedlyyelled. And then, accordingto the lawyer yet again,‘started screaming at myclient, throwing water froma bottle at the mother’s faceand the baby’s face.’”

As if that wasn’t enough,LaBelle then took a swing atthe baby’s mother.

She then was shoved in-to a waiting car by her en-tourage and the baby

“violently” threw-up. So far, LaBelle hasn’t re-

sponded to the allegations. She’s probably too busy

not-babysitting to do so.

And in other baby news...Christina Applegate mightnot want to have LaBelle asa guest star on her TV showUp All Night anytime soon.

As she tells The View,having her nine-month-olddaughter Sadie around wasa priority when deciding todo the new NBC show.

“My whole thing was,‘I’m not doing this unless Ican bring her.’ So they hadto build me a room for herand it’s got her toys and acrib and she takes her napsthere,” the actress ex-plained. “That’s called acrazy mother who said, ‘No,I’m not doing anything un-less I can be with my baby.’”

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Jay-Z says his own experi-ence of his father leavingwhen he was 11 had a last-ing impact on him.

“If your dad died beforeyou were born, yeah, ithurts, but it’s not like youhad a connection withsomething that was real,”Jay-Z tells GQ magazine.

“My dad was such agood dad that when heleft, he left a huge scar. Hewas my superhero.”

The rapper is currentlyexpecting a daughter withwife Beyoncé Knowles, andhis main priority is beingthere for his child.

“Providing — that’s notlove. Being there — that’smore important,” he says.

And does being theremean changing diapersonce the little girl arrives?

“Of course, of course,”he says. “One hundred percent.” METRO

Jay-Z: I’ll changeour baby’s diapers

With the first part of theTwilight finale hitting the-atres, actress Nikki Reed isopening up about the less-than-familial atmosphereamongst the cast.

“In the beginning, it wasinnocent and fun, and wewere like one big happy

family. “It was like being at

sleep-away camp,” Reedtells Seventeen magazine.

“Success came along andchanged the dynamic.We’re not all best friends,and we’re not all going tohang out together after the

final movie is done.” And watching her co-

stars’ relationships fallapart once filming stoppedwasn’t the easiest thing.

“It was very, very sad.Let’s just leave it at that,”she says.

METRO

Twilight cast wasn’ttight: Nikki Reed

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Escape the resortWe could all use a littlequality time in the sunand a dip in the ocean, es-pecially as another longCanadian winter ap-proaches.

But if you’re like someof the thousands of Cana-dian travellers who flockto this Caribbean islandnation of 10 million peo-ple each year, you wantthe all-inclusive travel ex-perience to be about morethan just sitting aroundthe resort all day with thelatest Danielle Steel/JohnGrisham novel.

That’s where the ItZone comes in. Launchedin November by Nolitours(a member of Transat A.T.Inc.), the It Zone is de-signed for travellers toPuerto Plata who enjoythe home base of an all-in-clusive resort — ours wasthe scenic Be Live GrandMarien — but who are ea-ger to get in touch withthe local culture, try someoutdoor adventure activi-ties and check out thenightlife beyond sportshighlights at the hotelbar.

Eat

A recenttour gave agroup ofCanadianjournalists aclose-upglimpse of lifeoutside theperimeter, but first wehad to fuel up with an in-timate dinner at chefRafael Vásquez Heinsen’sMares Restaurant andLounge. Vásquez Hein-sen’s shaded backyard ter-race serves as the maindining area, and the lob-ster is fresh from theocean that day.

Monkey business

The next day, a short driveoutside Puerto Plata, inSosua, is the Monkey Jun-gle, run by the husbandand wife team of Chuck

and Candy Ritzen. TheAmerican ex-pats have hiton an innovative businessmodel that contributes tothe economy, creates jobsand provides some basicdental and health care tothe local population.

Monkey Jungle ishome to 15 pro-

tected squirrelmonkeysand six Ca-puchinmonkeys,with acare

providerwho was for-

merly withthe Toronto Zoo.

You can walk throughthe squirrel monkey habi-tat and the curious simi-ans just hop on yourshoulders for a ride. It’sthe first time I’ve literallyhad a monkey on myback.

You can also zip-linethrough seven stations to-taling 4,400 feet and, be-fore the last zip, descendon a cable from a platforminto a cave; sort of likezip-lining, but vertically.The Ritzens have a self-sustaining operationwhere they use the profitsfrom the zip-lining and

monkey jungle activitiesto fund the health clinicon the premises.

Sustainable tourism

The idea of sustainabletourism has also been tak-en up by tour companies.Transat A.T. Inc. partnerswith SOS Children’s Vil-lages, which provides car-ing, village-style grouphomes for orphaned,abused or abandoned chil-dren.

We were given atour of the villagein Santiago delos Caballeros,about an hourfrom PuertoPlata. Thesmiling kidswere curious,and a sponta-neous game ofbaseball, the na-tional sports obses-sion, broke out using astick and a ball of rolled-up tinfoil.

Go big, or go home

If it’s true you have to gobig or go home, thenOcean World is a must-seebefore you head back tothe Great White North.

Open since 2004, themassive ocean-side com-plex features interactiveactivities with dolphins,sharks and stingrays aswell as exhibits witheverything from tigers totoucans.

In terms of size, theplace filters six millionlitres of seawater an hour.

And, if you like a touchof Las Vegas with your sun

holiday, then OceanWorld has you

covered withits full-ser-vice casino,discolounge, andBravissimo,a glittery

song-and-dance revue

with more cos-tume changes

than a Paris catwalk.Now put that book

down and go!

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The beach and a trashy novel are great for a few days, but when tanning gets old, youmight want to see what’s outside the resort walls Puerto Plata’s It Zone has the answer

ALL PHOTOS: STEPHEN KNIGHT

Don’t just slurp frosty drinks by the pool while in Puerto Plata. Get a taste of the

local culture with trips outside the resort walls.

If you go...

Nolitours offers the It Zonethrough resorts in the Dominican Republic. Visititzone.nolitours.com formore information.

The SOS Children’s Villages provides group homes for orphaned children.

Travel in brief

A new 200-kilome-tre highway in theDominican Repub-lic, from the capitalSanto Domingo totourist hot spotPunta Cana, willmake it easier forvisitors to explorethe Caribbeancountry.The dividedhighway, which hasbeen underconstruction for thelast four years, wascompleted earlierthis year from San-to Domingo to LaRomana on thesouth coast, signifi-cantly reducingtravel timesbetween the twocities. THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Know what you offer

“My foundational coach-ing is to know who you areand know what you bringto the party,” says Doulton.“Pay very close attentionto anything that affectsyour mood — positively ornegatively — and let thatinform you.”

Interview your interviewer

Interviews go both ways.“The trick here isn’t to an-swer the question right,it’s to get the job that’sright for you,” she says.“It’s like a date: ‘Does helike me, does he like me?’Well, do you like him? Doyou want to have coffee

and breakfast with himevery day of your life?”

Be positive

The poor job marketmakes headlines, butDoulton hasn’t seen a dipin business. “I’m recruit-ing for companies all thetime. Attitude is every-thing — if you want to sitaround and say, ‘There are

no jobs out there,’ you’llbe right.”

Answer the question

Even if you don’t have theright answer to an inter-viewer’s question, get tothe point — and don’t takeyour time.

“Don’t skirt around thequestion. People do thatall the time, even when

they do have a good an-swer. And I think it’s be-cause they have thesethings that they thinkthey need to say.”

And answer it honestly

It’s important to comeacross as genuine and putthings out in the open be-fore you get offered a posi-tion that isn’t right for you.

High-profile headhunter and reality TV star Wendy Doulton sharesher top job-hunting tips with Metro

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Verlander unanimous pick for Cy Young

After testing sprained knee, Bombers QB says he has no doubt he’ll be able to startCoach says he’ll need to see Pierce more in practice before he makes decision on top job

Buck Pierce has accom-plished more than mostpeople thought he wouldby returning to the field af-ter dislocating the elbow ofhis throwing arm last year.

Now the Winnipeg BlueBombers quarterback isaiming to cap his come-back by leading his team tothe Grey Cup with a victoryover the visiting HamiltonTiger-Cats in Sunday’s CFLEast Division Final.

After testing hissprained knee while wear-ing a brace at yesterday’spractice, Pierce said hefeels “really, really good”and has no doubt he’ll beready to start and continuea season he’s proud of.

“There was a lot of peo-ple doubting me going intothe year, that I’d even beable to lead this team tothe playoffs,” said Pierce,who turned 30 yesterday.

“We’ve done that. I’mexcited about another op-portunity to help this or-ganization get to a place ithasn’t been in a long time.”

Winnipeg hasn’t wonthe Grey Cup since 1990. Itlast played in the champi-onship game in 2007 andlost to Saskatchewan.

The last time theBombers hosted the divi-sion final was in 2001,when they beat Hamiltonand then lost to Calgary inthe Grey Cup.

Bombers head coachPaul LaPolice said he’llneed to see Pierce practisemore this week before heanoints him the starterahead of Alex Brink.

Pierce has had his shareof injury woes. Last seasonhe was sidelined after dislo-cating the elbow of hisright arm in a Sept. 5 gameagainst Saskatchewan.

After consulting experts,a decision was made to putPierce on an aggressive re-habilitation plan thatBombers head athletictherapist Alain Couture ad-mitted in training campwas “a bit of an experi-ment.”

Couture said yesterday

he’s still a bit amazed athow successful the experi-ment turned out.

“I have a very largesense of pride in it, as he

does as well and heshould,” Couture said.

“I’m proud of what he’sbeen able to accomplish.”

Pierce hasn’t lit up thescoreboard or stats sheetsthis year, finishing the reg-ular season completing 261of 411 pass attempts for3,348 yards with 14 touch-downs and a league-high18 interceptions.

LaPolice looked beyondnumbers when he assessedhow well Pierce did thisseason and what he means

to the 10-8 team that’s re-bounded from last year’sleague-low 4-14 record.

“Buck Pierce has beenour leader for a majority ofthe season, if not all theseason, and he got his teamto first place,” LaPolicesaid.

“I think quarterbacksare measured not only instats, but also what theydo, how they get teams towin games, and that’s cer-tainly what he’s done.”THE CANADIAN PRESS

Pierce says he’s ready

There was little questionJustin Verlander wouldunanimously win the ALCy Young Award. Now, thefar more intriguing ques-tion: Will he take the MVP,too?

“Do I think it’s possible?Yes. Would I like to win it?Of course,” he said duringa conference call. “It’s kindof a weird scenario.”

No starting pitcher haswon the MVP trophy sinceRoger Clemens in 1986,with Dennis Eckersley the

last reliever to get it in1992. Many say pitchersshouldn’t win the MVP, pe-riod, contending they al-ready have their ownaward.

But Verlander’s season— he won the pitching ver-sion of the Triple Crown,led Detroit to its first divi-

sion crown in 24 years anddrew every first-place voteyesterday in the Cy Youngrace — has ratcheted upthe debate in a crowdedMVP field that includesCurtis Granderson, JacobyEllsbury, Jose Bautista,Miguel Cabrera and more.

“Pitchers are on the bal-

lot,” Verlander said. Bol-stering the case for allpitchers, Verlander point-ed to the “tremendous ef-fect we have on the day ofour game.”

“I’m so different fromeverybody,” he said.

If he doesn’t win, Ver-lander said he’d like to seeGranderson, his formerteammate, get the award.

Verlander breezed to theCy Young, much the waythe Tigers’ ace humbledhitters with his 100 m.p.h.

fastball, sharp curve andwicked slider.

Verlander led the ma-jors in wins by going 24-5and topped baseball with250 strikeouts. His 2.40ERA was the best amongAL pitchers who qualifiedfor the title.

The 28-year-old rightywas listed on top on all 28ballots by members of theBaseball Writers’ Associa-tion of America and fin-ished with 196 points.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

“Since the end of the season, peoplehave been saying that the Cy Young iswrapped up.”JUSTIN VERLANDER

Buck Pierce says he will be ready to play against Hamilton on Sunday.

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Sports in brief

The Baltimore Ori-oles are going retroin 2012, bringingback the cartoonbird for their capsas part of auniform changefor the upcomingseason.

The new cartoonbird head utilizeselements from the1970 and 1983 ver-sions. The homecap will feature thebird head on awhite front panelwith a black backand orange bill andbutton. The roadcaps will featurethe bird on blackwith an orange billand button.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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16Number of gamesstarted by Buck Piercethis season, a careerhigh. Last season heonly started fivegames.

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DodgeChallengerSRT8Base price: $50,500A Mopar fanfavourite that’s noslouch in the powerdepartment.

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It’s your move, Mustangand Challenger. The newChevrolet Camaro ZL1 hasgot your number, or morecorrectly, has beaten yourbest horsepower numbers... by a lot.

How does the high-per-formance ZL1 coupe andconvertible square with

General Motors’ greenifica-tion program of introduc-ing fuel-sipping electrics,hybrids plus a couple ofnew ankle-biter sub-com-pacts?

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And in this club the nu-mero uno bylaw states thathorsepower rules and ab-solute horsepower rules ab-solutely, or at least untilanother club member upsthe ante and overthrowsthe leader.

The 2011 edition of theChevrolet Camaro’s SSmodel was rated at 426horsepower and was cer-tainly nothing to besneezed at.

But it couldn’t catch acold next to the DodgeChallenger’s SRT8 392 thatgenerated 470 horses fromits 6.4-litre “Hemi” V-8 en-gine. That goes double forFord Mustang-based ShelbyGT500’s 550 ponies thatemanate from a super-charged 5.4-litre V-8.

With bragging rights onthe line, you just had toknow that Chevrolet wouldeventually retaliate.

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EngineThe 2012 ZL1’s supercharged 6.2-litre V-8 — a variation of theengines found in the Corvette ZR1 and Cadillac CTS-V — ismated to a six-speed manual transmission and dynos at 580horsepower and 556 pound-feet of torque. This makes it themost powerful production Camaro ever built and, Chevroletproclaims, will be the most powerful Chevy droptop ever.

The ZL1 constitutes much more than just unbridled horse-power, but represents a thoroughly sorted out performanceplatform where nearly every component has been beefed upor completely redesigned to handle the engine’s hefty output.

Often when companies dig out sacred names from the past, they’re stuck to inferior cars that disappoint. Not here.

CabinBoth driver and their front passengershould have no problems stretchingout inside the Camaro’s generouslysized cabin with its power-adjustableheated leather seats with grippysuede-like inserts. They’ll also appre-ciate the sounds from the dual-modeexhaust system that becomes freerflowing (and louder) when the driveropens the taps a bit.

SuspensionThe ZL1’s suspension employs GM’sMagnetic Ride Control, which uses spe-cial shock dampers that constantly varythe degree of firmness, according toroad and driving conditions.

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EnginePower came from oneof two V-6 engines: a3.5-litre with 200 horsepower, ora 3.9-litre with 240. A four-speedautomatic transmission wasstandard and All Wheel Drivewas available.

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