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“It’s quite possible they mighthave been prowling in the area,searching the area for a period oftime before they came upon her,”said APD spokesman Const. IanMacDonald.

The victim contacted police Fri-day and gave excellent physicaldescriptions of both suspectsdespite being traumatized fromthe incident, said MacDonald.

Police released sketches of twoSouth Asian men in their late 20s.The driver is described as five feet,10 inches tall and clean-shavenwith short black hair. The passen-ger is said to be six feet tall withshort dark hair and a full beard.

“There’s nothing short of thisbeing classified as an act of couragefor this young woman to, first ofall, muster the strength to get her-self home. And then to have the

courage to seek out help is remark-able,” MacDonald said.

Police have received several tipsand are canvassing the area for wit-nesses and video surveillance fromlocal businesses.

“We’re motivated by herstrength and we’re equally moti-vated to get these heinous men offthe street,” he said.

Anyone with information isasked to call police. DANIEL PALMER

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The shelter, developedby the United Gospel Mis-sion with the help of the

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ImageworksexpandingstudiosSony Pictures Imageworksis doubling its space inVancouver. The AcademyAward–winning operationsaid it’s opening an addi-tional 16,000 square feetin Yaletown by March, twoblocks from its other stu-dio. The local studios willbe working on visualeffects for Men in Black 3,Oz the Great andPowerful, the animatedfeature Hotel Transylvaniaand The Amazing Spider-Man. PHYLICIA TORREVILLAS

Two dead in head-oncrashPolice are investigating acar crash in Maple Ridgethat left two teens deadand four others in seriouscondition early Sunday.

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Supporters of fair tradeparticipated in a flash mobto educate and encourageshoppers to choose fair-trade-certified gifts thisValentine’s Day. Led by go-

rilla-costumed organizerSasha Caldera, seventeenvolunteers chanted whilehanding out fair-tradeValentine cards alongGranville Street.

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First Nations and resi-dents of a community onBritish Columbia’s NorthCoast are protesting a pro-posed pipeline that wouldcarry crude oil from Al-berta to the West Coastfor tanker shipment toplaces like China.

The No Oil Tankers ral-ly kicked off Saturdaymorning in a Prince Ru-pert park and wound itsway to a civic centrewhere First Nations lead-ers were scheduled tospeak and musicians likeBif Naked performed.

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Residents of HartleyBay came to the rescue ofthe B.C. ferry Queen ofthe North, which sankduring an accident inMarch 2006.

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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei,in a speech broadcastacross Iran on Friday, alsopledged to aid any nationor group that challenges Is-rael.

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The most popular protestsong in Moscow todaycomes from burly men inblue berets, unlikely heroesof a peaceful middle-classmovement challenging thestrongman rule of VladimirPutin.

The simple but catchysong was performed at aprotest rally for the firsttime this weekend, butmany of the tens of thou-sands in the crowd alreadyknew the words.

On a snowy squareacross a frozen river fromthe Kremlin, the protesterssang along with the chorus,which sums up their weari-ness with Putin as he in-

tends to extend his 12 yearsin power by winning a pres-idential election in March:“You’re just like me, a mannot a god. I’m just like you,a man not a sod.”

The men were joined onthe stage by some of Rus-

sia’s most respected cultur-al figures who have playedmajor roles in organizingthe protests along with vet-eran politicians now in theopposition.

The former paratroop-ers’ song is just one of themany musical, literary andartistic creations that haveinspired and enlivened theprotest movement that isstill largely the reserve oferudite, urban Russians.

Mikhail Vistitsky, a 45-year-old veteran of the eliteforce, wrote the lyrics afterattending one of the firstbig anti-Putin demonstra-tions in late December.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Anti-Putin songstriking a chord

1MA video of the formerparatroopers andthree others performing the songlit up the Internet, getting more than onemillion views in thefirst few days.

Occupy DC forced to pack it inAuthorities say 11 people have been arrested in Washington’s McPherson Square since park police began clearing away tents Saturday from one of the last remaining Occupy sites in the U.S.

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It’s a snow-go all over EuropeIn Bosnia, more than 100remote villages have beencut off by two metres ofsnow in the mountains.More than one metre fellin Sarajevo, the capital,where a state of emer-gency has been declared.

Three helicopterscruised over easternBosnia Sunday, deliveringfood and picking up peo-ple who needed evacua-tion. Sarajevo has beenparalyzed since Fridayevening and authoritieshave ordered all schoolsclosed. Residents have vol-unteered to remove snowand ice from the tramsthat are stuck along the

city’s tracks.In neighbouring Serbia,

officials said 70,000 peopleremain cut off. So far, 32municipalities throughoutthe country have intro-duced emergency meas-ures, said senioremergency official PredragMaric. Later Sunday, Ser-bia’s emergency board wasto meet to discuss the cri-sis.

In Montenegro, the

north of the country re-mained cut off, althoughemergency crews havemanaged to clear some ofthe blocked roads.

The situation also hadimproved somewhat inCroatia, where bus traffictoward the coast resumed,even as snow slowed traf-fic throughout the coun-try. In the coastal town ofSplit, where authorities de-clared emergency meas-ures, dozens of peoplesought medical help for in-juries sustained on ice andsnow. Snow is extremelyrare in Split, which is onthe Adriatic coast. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

People walk along an icy promenade on Sunday past ice-

covered cars and trees on the shores of Lake Geneva in

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“The snow isbeautiful, but let’shope spring comessoon.”POPE BENEDICT XVI

QUEEN ELIZABETH II BRAVES COLD,SNOW AHEAD OF DIAMOND JUBILEEQueen Elizabeth II bravedthe cold and snow to at-tend church Sunday onthe eve of her Diamond Ju-bilee anniversary.

Bundled in a browncoat and matching fur hat,Elizabeth was joined byher husband, PrincePhilip, at the service atWest Newton church onher Sandringham Estate ineastern England.

Following a service thatlasted less than an hour,the queen took time togreet and accept flowersfrom well-wishers hud-dled in the freezing tem-peratures to catch aglimpse of her.

The 85-year-oldmonarch marks 60 years

on the throne on Monday.The anniversary will bemarked by a series ofevents throughout 2012.

Elizabeth ascended thethrone when her father,George VI, died on Feb. 6,1952. She is the longest-serving monarch afterQueen Victoria, who ruledfor more than 63 years.

Over the course of2012, members of the roy-al family — includingPrince William and hiswife, the Duchess of Cam-bridge — will travel toCommonwealth countriesincluding Canada, Jamaicaand Belize in honour ofthe Queen’s Diamond Ju-bilee. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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The United States proposedan international coalitionto support Syria’s opposi-tion Sunday after Russiaand China blocked a UN at-tempt to end nearly 11months of bloodshed, rais-ing fears that violence willescalate. Rebel soldiers saidforce was now the only wayto oust President Bashar As-sad, while the regimevowed to press its militarycrackdown.

The threat of both sidesturning to greater force af-ter Russia and China vetoeda UN Security Council reso-lution raises the potentialfor Syria’s turmoil to moveinto an even more danger-ous new phase that coulddegenerate into civil war.

The uprising, inspired byother Arab Spring revolts,

began in March with peace-ful protests against Assad’sregime, sparking a fiercecrackdown by governmentforces. Soldiers who defect-ed to join the uprising laterbegan to protect protestersfrom attacks.

U.S. Secretary of StateHillary Rodham Clintonwarned that chances for “abrutal civil war” would in-crease as Syrians under at-tack from theirgovernment move to de-fend themselves, unless in-ternational steps provideanother way.

Speaking to reporters inthe Bulgarian capital Sofia,she called the double vetoat the UN Security Councilon Saturday “a travesty.”

“Faced with a neuteredSecurity Council, we haveto redouble our efforts out-side of the United Nations,”she said, calling for friendsof democratic Syria to“support the Syrian peo-ple’s right to have a betterfuture.” THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

U.S. calls for coalitionto end Syrian violence

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Russia, China veto UN-backed resolution to stop thebloodshed Rebels say only force will oust regime

Saudi womenchallengelegality ofdriving banSaudi women leading acampaign against the king-dom’s ban on female driv-ing are calling on thecourts to take up their law-suits demanding the rightto drive.

Manal al-Sherif said Sun-day that she and anotherwoman activist are urgingjudicial authorities tobegin proceedings on com-plaints they lodged afterbeing refused driver’slicences.

Al-Sherif says she filedher suit in November andit was transferred to the In-terior Ministry.

Al-Sherif was detainedfor nearly two weeks lastyear after posting anonline video of herself driv-ing. It helped launch widerprotests.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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A show like no otherAn Indian Muslim youth displays his skill by blowinga ball of fire as others look on during a procession tocelebrate Eid-e-Milad-un-Nabi, or the birthday ofProphet Mohammed, in Ahmedabad, India, on Sun-day.

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That has left many won-dering what RIM’s seeming-ly cloudy future wouldmean for the region of Wa-terloo, which experienced aboom after becoming thego-to place for tech compa-nies.

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Ads score big bowl buzzAbout 20 of the roughly 36 Super Bowl advertisers,eager to stand out during the big game, put their TVcommercials online in the days leading up toSunday’s broadcast — a big break with tradition.

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Supermodel Adriana Lima stars in an ad for florist company Teleflora that was set to launch during Super Bowl XLVI.Millions had already viewed the ad online prior to the game.

RetailerprotestsCaterpillarMark’s Work Warehousehas pulled Caterpillar bootsfrom its London, Ont.,stores after the heavy-equipment giant shut downa local locomotive plant.

The chain says it’s show-ing support for hundreds ofworkers who lost their jobs

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Caterpillar said the coststructure at the Londonplant was unsustainable,even though the companyreported a 58 per cent in-crease in its quarterly earn-ings. THE CANADIAN PRESS

Facebook invokes hackingculture in IPO filing

The term ‘hacking,’ which dates back half a century, only took on negativeconnotations in the 1980s That outlook is now changing, tech experts say Facebook’s billionaire CEOMark Zuckerberg calls him-self a hacker.

For most people, thatword means somethingmalicious — shady crimi-nals who listen in on voicemails or anonymous vil-lains who cripple websitesand break into email ac-counts.

For Facebook, though,hacker means somethingdifferent. It’s an ideal thatpermeates the company’s

culture. The hacker ap-proach has made Facebookone of the world’s mostvaluable Internet compa-nies.

Hackers “believe thatsomething can always bebetter, and that nothing isever complete,” Zucker-berg explains in an essay,The Hacker Way, includedin Facebook’s initial publicoffering, which is seeking$5 billion US ininvestment.

“Symbolically, it doesn’tbode well to Facebook andto potential investors,” says

Robert D’Ovidio, an associ-ate professor of criminaljustice at Drexel University

who studies computercrime. “I think it showsmaybe an immaturity onhis part. He should definite-ly know better.”

By using the word,

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Media will always have toreport on the tough stuff.But we know that Canadais full of compassionate in-dividuals, inspiringprojects and stories worthcelebrating. Here’s justone.You wake up to 15

centimetres of snow andthe first thing that cross-es your mind is, “Great, Ihave to shovel.” But thenan angel appears andsays, “Can I help?”

Last year, Port Coquit-lam launched its SnowAngels program, wherevolunteers clear thesnow off of sidewalks forthose who are unable todo it themselves.

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unteers, this is an oppor-tunity not only to helpothers, but to get someexercise. Thirty minutesof shovelling burns morethan 200 calories.

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Riders literallydragged by horseSWITZERLAND. First-place ri-der Fadri Casty, pulled byBergonzi, centre, competesduring the Skijoring GrandPrix Credit Suisse race onthe frozen Lake of St. Mo-ritz, during the firstweekend of White Turf ra-ces in St. Moritz on Sunday.

The unique race, whichcombines skiing and horseracing, has been an annualevent in the town since1906. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Taking the sportto the lakeTRADITIONAL. Theweekend also includesthe Grand Prix AmericanAirlines — a more tradi-tional horse race, if youcan call riding horses on afrozen lake traditional.

The participants ridenearly 2,000 metresacross the snow and ice,which gives the annualraces the name WhiteTurf. The racing wraps upFeb. 19. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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VOTING FORTHE LAST MANSTANDING

Ladies and gentlemen, I giveyou Adrian Dix.

Our next premier. If the latest poll is right,

sometime on the night of May14, 2013, it will be so (plus or

minus 3.5 per cent).For a while, the polls have shown the

NDP ahead of the governing Liberals invoter sentiment. But for the first time, anAngus Reid poll shows voters believe NDPleader Adrian Dix is a better choice forpremier than Christy Clark.

Poor Christy. The people have tied one end of a chainaround the HST and the other around Christy’s ankle andtossed her into English Bay. It will take a political miraclefor her to recover over the next 16 months and lead herbattered and bruised Liberals to another term in office.

Which leaves Adrian Dix,the last man standing afterwhat seems like an endlessprocess of leadership battlesand referendums, churnedup in the “see ya, don’t wan-na be ya” exit of the notori-ous Gordon Campbell.

I’m trying to keep anopen mind. Dix was electedto the legislature in 2005,after spending the first partof the decade wanderingaround the political wilder-ness as a B-list pundit. Heacquitted himself very well,earning a reputation as anastute, if humourless, oppo-sition critic.

Somehow, he beat theequally beige MikeFarnworth to become theNDP leader. And, as leader,he’s been a bit of surprise.In a good way. Turns out hehas a sense of humour aswell as a head on his shoul-

ders. Compared to the perpetually giddy Ms. Clark, heseems comfortable in his own skin — sharp but level-headed; left-wing without appearing extreme. Kind of theGreg Selinger of B.C. politics. You know, the NDP premierof Manitoba? They’re doing all right in Manitoba, aren’tthey?

But there’s still a nagging doubt about Adrian Dix. In1999, at the height of the Glen Clark scandal, Dix waschief of staff to the premier. He was forced to resign afterit came to light that he wrote a phoney, back-dated memoto make it appear that Clark had instructed him to keephim at arm’s length from the process of awarding casinolicences.

A big mistake? A lie? Yep. Maybe “Tricky Dix” haslearned his lesson and will never tell another lie. Andmaybe he hasn’t. So far, he’s pretty much had a free ridefrom the Anybody But Christy Movement. But the lasttime Mr. Dix occupied the office of the premier, heresigned in disgrace.

I’d be careful what you ask for.

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in office.”

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Some unknown kidswith superpowershave nudged out theworld’s most famousteen wizard at theweekend box office.Chronicle, featuringa relatively unknowncast as youths whogain telekinetic abili-ties, debuted as theNo. 1 movie with $22million. It edged outHarry Potter starDaniel Radcliffe’s TheWoman in Black.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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A different kind of rom-comCanadian indie director parlays web donations into rom-zom-com A Little Bit Zombie

It was in 2006 that ThunderBay, Ont.-native CaseyWalker set out to make hisfirst feature film and wonover the web with his pitchto shoot an “unromanticcomedy” for a millionbucks.

A lot can change in five-plus years, including theidea for your film, and howmuch it’ll cost to make it.

Walker eventuallychanged gears and decidedto make his debut film a“rom-zom-com” called ALittle Bit Zombie, which isgetting its world premierethis weekend at the Victo-ria Film Festival. And whilehe initially nicknamed theproject “my million dollarmovie,” it ended up costingjust about double that.

The journey to create hisfirst film actually datesback at least 10 years or so,when he started workingon a script for his big-screen debut with anotherwriter.

“We quickly discoveredyou can’t make a movie inthis country unless you’vemade a movie,” said Walk-er.

Years later, inspired by astudent’s online campaignthat collected donations topay for his tuition, Walkerset up mymilliondollarmovie.com, asking for $10pledges to help fund hismovie.

The website was a hit,made international head-lines and gave Walker thepush he needed to seriouslypursue the film — even ifthe campaign didn’t pay for

it entirely.“We tried to raise a mil-

lion dollars, that was thegoal,” he said.

“But we got $85,000 on-line, I put in personally an-other $275,000 and the restcame from tax credits andthe Northern Ontario Her-itage Fund Corporation,”based on plans to shoot thefilm in Sudbury, Ont.

Walker went with thezombie theme after meet-ing with Christopher Bond(co-creator of Evil Dead, TheMusical!) and Trevor Mar-

tin, who would become thewriters for A Little Bit Zom-bie.

Kristopher Turner (TheL.A. Complex, Instant Star)stars as mild-mannered

nice guy Steve, who is en-gaged to raging bridezillaTina, played by CrystalLowe (Hot Tub Time Ma-chine, Final Destination 3,Smallville). They’re spend-ing a weekend away in acountry cabin when thingsstart getting strange, short-ly after Steve gets bitten bya mosquito.

That mosquito had justfinished feasting on a zom-bie’s blood before getting toSteve.

“The (writers) told methe one-sentence idea of

what happens when a guygets bitten by a zombiemosquito: he becomes a lit-tle bit zombie,” said Walk-er, adding that the film is afusion of multiple genresand not aimed at one demo-graphic.

“We went for a broad au-dience ... this is a moviethat if you don’t love zom-bie movies, you’re going tolove, and if you love zombiemovies you’re going to loveit. There’s something therefor everyone,” he said.THE CANADIAN PRESS

Director Casey Walker, right, talks with cast and crew on the set of A Little Bit Zombie.

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Blazing a trail in HollywoodFilm star Pam Grier saysthere’s still a lack of oppor-tunities for African-Ameri-can actors in Hollywoodand it’s partly due to mar-ginalized audiences.

Film investors are look-ing to make the widestprofit margins possibleand build upon “brands”(such as actors or franchis-es) that can “keep the in-dustry going,” explains theFoxy Brown screen siren.

And if they do invest ina marginalized brand, thebudget will likely be smalland sometimes the targetaudience won’t even sup-port it, she said.

“We have conservativeAfrican-Americans whowill not see certain films,will only see Tyler Perry butwill not see Spike Lee,” Gri-

er, 62, said in an interviewahead of her appearance atthe Canadian Film Centre’scelebration of Black HistoryMonth in Toronto.

“I know a lot of African-American women that did-n’t want to see The Helpbecause they had lived it aslittle girls.... It brought backhorrible memories andthey couldn’t see it, norwill they read the book.”

Grier, of course, hashelped blaze a trail forAfrican-American womenin Hollywood by portray-

ing a slew of fearless fe-male characters, from thevoluptuous villain hunterin Foxy Brown, to the pri-vate detective in Sheba, Ba-by, to the vigilante inCoffy. In 1998, she wasnominated for the best-ac-tress Golden Globe forplaying a fierce flight at-tendant in Jackie Brown —a role Quentin Tarantinowrote with Grier in mind.

Though she’s often re-ferred to as an icon of the’70s classic blaxploitationfilms, Grier isn’t comfort-able with the title.

“There were severalfilms done before me bymale actors — FredWilliamson, Jim Brown,Isaac Hayes — a lot ofblack, male-lead films. Butwhen I stepped into the

Actress Pam Grier built career on portraying slew offearless females Blames marginalized audiences,brands for lack of African-American movie roles

role, now it’s ‘exploita-tion,’” she said.

Grier began her empow-ering career path on thebig screen after a lifetimeof abuse, she said, notingshe was raped twice —first at age six and again atage 18. She said she was al-so the victim of an at-tempted rape at age 21.

That’s when B-moviehoncho Roger Corman castGrier in the female prisonflick The Big Doll House.

“And so that’s how I wasreally transformed andstarted bringing mystrength to the screen, andI just said, ‘I’ve got to fightback,’” said Grier.THE CANADIAN PRESS

Memoir

Grier runs down her life

story in her 2010 memoir,

Foxy: My Life in Three

Acts, which she says is

now being adapted for

the big screen.

The book dishes on every-thing from the men she’sdated — including KareemAbdul-Jabbar, FreddiePrinze Sr. and Richard Pry-or — to her job as a recep-tionist at the AmericanInternational PicturesCompany.

These days, Grier lives ona farm in Colorado, where

she lets impoverished chil-dren ride her four horsesfor free. She and her sisteralso knit hats for U.S. mili-tary soldiers to wear undertheir helmets and forchemotherapy patients.

Grier battled cervical can-cer at age 39 and the bat-tle forced her to take abreak from acting. It senther on a life-long journeyfor alternative and holistictherapies, includingChinese medicine andherbs. Now, she’s physical-ly, spiritually and mentallya different person who’sfound her yin and yang,she said.

“It was justbasically a monikerthat described ablack action film.”PAM GRIER, ON HER STATUS AS ANICON OF BLAXPLOITATION FILMS

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Now that he’s done beingHarry Potter, Daniel Rad-cliffe is coming clean aboutwizarding under the influ-ence.

“I can honestly say I nev-er drank at work on HarryPotter. I went into workstill drunk, but I neverdrank at work. I can pointto many scenes where I’mjust gone. Dead behind theeyes,” Radcliffe says in aninterview with Heat maga-zine. “I have a very addic-tive personality. It was a

problem. People with prob-lems like that are veryadept at hiding it. It wasbad. I don’t want to go intodetails, but I drank a lot andit was daily — I mean night-ly.”

We’re happy to hear thatRadcliffe, wise young manthat he is, has since soberedup — allowing us to deviseHarry Potter drinkinggames with a clear con-science. Our personal gold-en snitch: A shot of himgetting queasy on a broom-

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Colorado lawmakers delay considering tough restrictions

on trans fats at schools.

A new study refutes thelink between childhoodobesity and junk food inschools. The epidemic, itsays, is rooted closer tohome than we thought.And with one in threekids overweight or obese(in the U.S., at least), itcan’t just be blamed on afew negligent parents.Well-meaning moms anddads are part of the prob-lem, too.

That’s because, in an at-tempt to bolster their kids

self-esteem by avoidingfat-talk, many have be-come too afraid to speakplainly and frankly aboutwhat is and isn’t a healthybody weight.

But putting blinders onisn’t going to make theproblem go away — ormake kids feel any better.

Dr. David Katz of theMindStream Academy inSouth Carolina, a healthand wellness boardingschool, has an opinionshared by many: “Never

Is it OK to call a fat kid fat?Maybe, if it prevents obesity

later, says our Mommyish writer

One boy from the ’80s adventure flick The Goonies was openly made fun of because of his weight, and even had the nickname Chunk.

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send your kids the mes-sage that they need to lose weight, get thinner,drop pounds, look better,etc.,” he said, “If you do,they’ll still develop unhealthy attitudes evenif you never so much asutter the d-word. Instead,always frame your mes-sage in terms of your kids feel-ing better about them-selves, having moreenergy, becoming healthi-er and happier. These aresustainable goals thatwon’t damage your child’sself-esteem.”

As someone who wasoverweight as a kid (I even

wrote about how I wishedmy parents had put me ona diet when I was young), Ican attest to the fact thatif my parents hadn’t beenafraid of hurting my feel-ings and talked to me hon-estly about weight loss,I’m fairly sure I wouldhave been better off. Theirfrankness about myhealth would have been alot easier to bear than theteasing of kids and the an-gry voices in my own headabout my body.

That’s the tricky part:Kids may not tell you thatthey feel terrible abouttheir body because they’reoverweight. But the truth

is that few overweight orobese kids are unawarethat they’re bigger thantheir peers.

Here’s a stat worth re-membering: 75 per cent ofparents ignore or don’t re-alize that their over-weight kids are gettingmade fun of, and feel badabout themselves, accord-ing to Strong4Life, an anti-obesity organization.

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Dip into water for dinner

any, and cook 3 mins.Transfer to parchmentpaper lined baking sheetand roast in 425ºF(220ºC) oven for 10 mins.or until fish is opaqueand flakes easily.

4 Return skillet to mediumhigh heat with remainingbutter and melt, untilfoamy. Drizzle over fish.

Spinach Skillet SidePreparation:

1 In skillet, heat oil overmedium heat and cookgarlic and minced ginger,stirring 2 mins. or untilsoftened.

Ingredients:Fish

• 1 pkg (14 g) dried wildmushrooms, such as porcini

• 1 tbsp (15 mL) coriander• 1 ½ lbs (750 g) fresh fish fil-lets such as cod or trout• 1/2 tsp (2 mL) kosher salt• 3 tbsp (45 mL) butter

Spinach• 1 tbsp (15 mL) canola oil• 2 cloves garlic, minced• 1 tbsp (15 mL) ginger• 1 bag (8 oz/227 g) spinach

Fish Prep:

1 In cleancoffee

grinder, grindmushrooms

until fine powder. Placein small bowl and addfinely choppedcoriander; set aside.

2 Coat each piece of fishwith mushroom mixtureand place in baking dish.

3 Sprinkle fish with salt. Inskillet, melt 2 tbsp (25mL) of butter over medi-um-high heat until juststarting to brown. Addfish, skin side down, if

EMILY RICHARDS

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Canada Post is greening upits act. That means the en-vironmental footprint ofall your letters and pack-ages is being reduced, as isthe carbon cost of all thatjunk mail.

“We travel about 80 mil-lion kilometers everyyear,” says Anick Losier, di-rector of media relationsfor Canada Post. “We’re inevery single community inCanada. We have threetimes as many postal coun-ters as there are Tim Hor-tons.”

For the past three years,Canada’s national postalservice has been workingto reduce its significantgreenhouse-gas emissionsby 20 per cent by the endof this decade.

“We’re using more envi-ronmentally-friendly vehi-cles, and are testing a fullyelectric vehicle to see how it can fit in Canadian

winters,” Losier explains.“This is already producingsome significant results,just in the past year or so. We’ve seen about a fiveper cent reduction in greenhouse gas emis-sions.”

There’s also a massive,nationwide overhaul of thecompany’s infrastructure.Old, outdated facilities arebeing closed, and new,

LEED-certified buildingsare taking their place.

Paperless transactionsare being encouraged aswell.

“We were the first out ofthe gate, 10 years ago, withePost,” says Losier, refer-ring to Canada Post’s on-line bill-payment service.“People wanted to be moregreen and were seeking al-ternatives to paper. Now

we’ve got 2.8 million usersmonthly.”

But when many Canadi-ans go to their mailboxes,most of what we receive isadvertising. A significantportion is thrown out im-mediately — and not all ofit gets recycled. How canthat environmental impactbe eased?

“People who do notwant to have the flyers —what we call Ad Mail —can register on our website

Canada Post is trying to help you do just that And they’re working to reduce mail’s carbon footprint, too

Want to get rid of junk mail?

Canada Post is greening up its act.

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If you think that morethan half your mail isadvertising, you’recorrect. Canada Postdelivered 5.4 billionpieces of direct-marketing ad mail in2010 – 52.2 per cent ofall letters, packagesand other items theyhandled.

for the Consumer’s Choiceprogram,” she says. “Theywill be on a list when theletter carrier delivers yourmail, and will not receiveflyers.”

The program has beenavailable for 10 years, butremains unpopular.

“We only see about six

per cent of Canadians reg-istering for it,” Losiernotes. “It was designed tooffer alternatives to Cana-dians. We know that theywant to be more environ-mentally friendly. We wantto make sure that theyknow we understand howimportant it is to them.”

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Canine made a career out of kindnessHow a playful puppy found his calling in caring for others and taught humans a lesson in unconditional love

When Charmaine Ham-mond and her husband,Chris, adopted Toby, a five-year-old retriever, they hadno idea they had acquired afour-legged demolition dogwith separation issues.

After their home was re-peatedly ripped apart it wasdetermined that Toby need-ed a job. Charmaine en-rolled him in pet therapytraining and it became aturning point for Toby as hebegan ministering love andcompanionship to peoplewith mental illnesses. Tobyhad found his purpose.

For five years Toby faith-fully looked after Char-maine and Chris,ministered to his patients

and visited 10,000 schoolchildren to promote litera-cy and kindness. Char-

maine wrote a book abouther adventures with Tobyand it’s currently in devel-

opment in Hollywood to beturned into a movie.

Last December, Toby

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Corporate trainer, speaker and best-selling author Charmaine Hammond with

her award-winning pet therapy dog, Toby.

passed away peacefully, butin his memory Charmaineis launching a new initia-tive to coincide with Febru-

ary Random Acts of Kind-ness month.

“Toby impacted peoplearound the world and hismission is so importantthat we must continue it.”

Toby’s Global KindnessMission will launch on Feb-ruary 14th — the day oflove.

How fitting for a deter-mined dog that left an in-delible paw print on somany hearts.

“Toby impactedpeople around theworld and hismission is soimportant that wemust continue it.”MARY MORASSUTTI

Lessons I learned from Toby

Charmaine Hammond shares her thoughts on a dynamic dog

Perseverance and Commitment. Toby never gave up.Hope. In the most difficult of days hope carries you through.The power of kindness. I would watch Toby connect withpeople and it was such a beautiful, deep sharing of kindness.Unconditional acceptance. He never judged, and always ac-cepted people for who they were and where they were atthat moment.To find out more about Toby’s Global Kindness Mission, go

to ontobysterms.com.

Future of classA look at in-school innovations

For more than a decade,Milton Chen was the execu-tive director of the GeorgeLucas Educational Founda-tion. The foundation’s flag-ship website, Edutopia.org,represents Lucas’ vision forclassrooms of the future.

Chen’s new book, Educa-tion Nation: Six LeadingEdges of Innovation in OurSchools, highlights thetechnologies and theoriesChen views as transforma-tive possibilities for a bet-ter, more equitableeducation system in theU.S.

“In every urban districtin every state there arethese severe inequalities.That is historic. It’s basedon the way in whichschools are funded, and theability of suburban schoolsto build a much greater eco-nomic base,” says Chen.“But I think part of thehope for this new age oflearning is that technolo-gies can help reduce those

inequalities.”Before taking the lead at

GLEF, Chen was a pioneerin educational television,working as a research spe-cialist for Sesame Street.

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Take that, Brady. You too,Peyton.

Eli Manning is the bigman in the NFL after one-upping Tom Brady and lead-ing the New York Giants toa 21-17 victory over theNew England Patriots inSunday’s Super Bowl — inolder brother Peyton’shouse, at that.

Just as Manning did fouryears ago when the Giantsruined New England’s per-fect season, he guided them88 yards to the decisivetouchdown, which the Pa-triots didn’t contest as Ah-mad Bradshaw ran six yardswith 57 seconds left.

Patriots coach Bill Be-lichick reasoned the Giantswould run the clock downand kick a short field goal,so he gambled by allowingthe six points.

The gamble failed.And now Manning not

only has stamped himselfas the elite quarterback heclaimed to be when the sea-son began — in the sameclass as Brady — he’s beat-en the Patriots in twothrilling Super Bowls. TheGiants, who stood 7-7 inmid-December, now ownthe football world, andManning owns two SuperBowl MVP awards, the samenumber as Brady.

It was a classic quarter-

back showdown, and Man-ning won. He finished 30-for-40 for 296 yards andone touchdown, whileBrady was 27 for 41 for 276yards with two TDs and oneinterception.

“It’s been a wild game, awild season,” Manning said.“This isn’t about one per-son. It’s about one team, ateam coming together.”

Manning led six come-back victories during theseason and set an NFLrecord with 15 fourth-quar-ter touchdown passes. Heshowed that brilliance inthe clutch on the winningdrive. He completed fivepasses, including a sensa-tional 38-yard sideline

catch by Mario Manning-ham to open the drive.

On second down at thePatriots six-yard line andwith only one timeout re-maining, Belichick had hisdefence stand up as Brad-shaw took the handoff.Bradshaw thought aboutstopping short of the endzone, then tumbled in un-touched.

Brady couldn’t answer inthe final 57 seconds, al-though his desperation passinto the end zone on the fi-nal play fell just beyond thegrasp of All-Pro tight endRob Gronkowski. New Eng-land, winner of 10 straightsince a loss to the Giants inNovember, was done.

Brady headed off withhis head bowed, holdinghis helmet, while aroundhim was the wild celebra-tion by the Giants, NFLchampions for the eighth— and perhaps most un-likely — time.

“Great toughness, greatfaith, and great plays by anumber of guys today,”Manning said, deflectingsome of the attention. Still,he one-upped Brady. AndPeyton, the IndianapolisColts quarterback who hasone championship ring ofhis own but didn’t play thisseason as he recoveredfrom neck surgery.

“It just feels good to wina Super Bowl, it doesn’t

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New York wins Super Bowl on last-minute touchdown from Bradshaw Patriots come upshort in the big game vs. Giants for second time in four years Manning named game MVP

Eli drives Giants to greatness

The New York Giants celebrate in front of New England Patriots QB Tom Brady

after winning the Super Bowl in Indianapolis on Sunday night

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“I’m very pleased to sign this exten-sion. I believe I can

continue tocontribute to theteam in a varietyof roles and this

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(head coach MikeBenevides) feelthe same way.”

WIDE RECEIVER PARISJACKSON, WHO SIGNED A

CONTRACT EXTENSION WITHTHE B.C. LIONS ON SUNDAY.

JACKSON PLAYED PRIMARILYAS A BACKUP FOR THE LIONSLAST SEASON, WITH SEVEN

RECEPTIONS FOR 117 YARDS,INCLUDING A 51-YARD

TOUCHDOWN STRIKE AGAINSTTHE EDMONTON ESKIMOS INWEEK 17. HE HAS SPENT ALL

NINE SEASONS OF HIS CFLCAREER WITH THE LIONS,TOTALLING 5,533 YARDS

AND 31 TDS.

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streets, focusing on the ar-

eas near college campuses

and sports bars, where pre-

vious celebrations had

turned wild.

At the University of Massa-chusetts-Amherst, policeused flash grenades to dis-perse hundreds of studentswho gathered in the mainresidential part of the cam-pus.

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Aries March 21-April 20Someone you usually get alongwith will be a bit of a pain today,and maybe tomorrow too.

Taurus April 21-May 21 If you reach for something tooquickly today you may find that itslips from your grasp.

Gemini May 22-June 21You may have to sacrifice your ownneeds today as a partner or lovedone demands that you spend moretime with them.

Cancer June 22-July 22 Youmay find that family and friendsare no longer as supportive as theyonce were but it’s no big deal sodon’t get excited.

Leo July 23-Aug.23 It may seem as if certain peoplehave got it in for you but have theyreally or is it your mind playingtricks on you?

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