Bigger class sizes, higher electrici-ty and water bills and new parkingfees at public-transit stations areamong the bitter pills deficit-rid-den Ontario must swallow to avoidthe same fate as debt-plaguedGreece, economist Don Drum-mond warned Wednesday.

Unless all 362 of his recom-mendations are implemented,Canada’s most populous provincewill double its deficit by 2017-18and raise its debt to a staggering$411 billion — a little more thanhalf its gross domestic product,Drummond predicted.

“Ontario’s finances do not yetconstitute a crisis, and with earlystrong action a crisis can be avert-ed,” the report says.

Ontario’s debt-to-GDP ratio hasmore than doubled to 35 per centsince the late 1980s, putting it onpar with the three Maritimeprovinces. Only Quebec has a high-er ratio — 50 per cent — but that’sexactly where Ontario is headed ifnothing is done to balance thebooks, Drummond warned.

If the Liberals don’t heed hisadvice, but instead stick to theircurrent plan to slay the deficit by2017-18, they will still end up witha $30.2-billion shortfall, Drum-mond said.

Ontario’s debt is still “relativelysmall” by international standardsand its spending “is neither out ofcontrol nor wildly excessive.” But“unprecedented” action must betaken over the next six years beforethe province drowns in red ink, thereport says.

Ontario needs to cap annualgrowth in program spending at just0.8 per cent, which would slash realprogram spending by 16.2 per centfor every man, woman and child,the report advises. About one-thirdof Drummond’s recommendationsare directed at health care.

“Our message will strike manyas profoundly gloomy,” the reportsays. “It is one that Ontarians havenot heard, certainly not in therecent election campaign, but onethis commission believes it mustdeliver.” THE CANADIAN PRESS

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can pare back spending. For local

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Cancel the full-day kindergarten

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Months in the making andthick as a novella, the im-pacts of Don Drummond’ssuggestions for slashingOntario’s deficit can’t bedigested in a day, local of-ficials said.

Nor can — or will —they be implemented thatway, Health Minister andLondon MPP DebMatthews said Wednesday.

“This is advice to (poli-cymakers). Now it’s ourturn as government to doour due diligence, to listento comments on the re-port,” Matthews said. “Wewill move forward in the(2012) budget on some ofthe recommendations.Others will require moretime and more study.”

While the Drummondcommission’s report cov-ers the gamut from educa-tion to public utilities,health care is among itsmain topics. Many of thegroup’s suggestions fall inline with a health-care “ac-tion plan” Matthewsrolled out last month.

The Ontario HealthCoalition has been criticalof Drummond’s work, say-ing it was done behindclosed doors without true

public engagement. That message contin-

ued as the report was re-leased. There was no“healthy debate” aboutthe recommendations,said Jeff Hanks, who repre-sents the coalition’s Lon-don chapter.

The Liberal-hired com-mission is “manipulative”and an effort to sidetrackpeople from planned cuts,he said, adding that deepcuts border “on negli-gence.”

If Drummond and oth-ers behind the reportsought advice from a widearray of people, as somepoliticians have suggest-ed, they weren’t the“right” people, Hankssaid.

“Did he talk to nurses,physicians?” he said.“When they finally metwith the Ontario HealthCoalition ... it was like thereport was already writ-ten.”

Health minister says only time willtell how recommendations affect us

It could be described as thephone call that shook Lon-don. Or at least city hall.

But as Coun. SandyWhite takes flak on social-media sites and from lead-ers of some social-serviceagencies, the person whofielded the call in questionsays it didn’t necessarilymake him uncomfortable.

White was “profession-al” and “cordial,” ScottCourtice, chairman of theEmerging Leaders’ boardof directors, said in emails.

Emerging Leaders is anon-profit that aims to re-tain and develop pools oftalent in London.

The councillor calledCourtice last week afterSean Quigley, a social ac-tivist and executive direc-tor of Emerging Leaders,posted a blog criticizingcity council’s support ofputting less money towardaffordable housing.

During the call, Whiteasked Courtice if Quigleywas speaking on behalf of

Emerging Leaders or if hisviews were personal.

“I was able to clarifythat he was speaking as acitizen and not on behalfof the organization.... Shedid not request that anyaction be taken with re-spect to Sean’s employ-ment,” Courtice saidWednesday.

Some say White over-stepped her bounds andthe call could be seen as acity official trying to “in-timidate” a group that re-

ceives city funding. Cour-tice said he never got that

impression. “I do think it would

have been preferable for(White and Quigley) tohave discussed this be-tween themselves, thenwe wouldn’t be having thisconversation,” he said.

White said her call toEmerging Leaders — andanother to the Glen CairnCommunity Centre whereQuigley used to work —was meant more tosmooth out any lingeringfriction. ANGELA MULLINS

Call to blogger’s boss was status check: Coun.

Digesting Drummond’s report will taketime: Official

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U.S.band gets some stage timeThe Providence, R.I., band was originally scheduled as a supporting act for Cityand Colour’s concert at Centennial Hall. When that show was postponed untilMarch 28, APK Live and 379 Collective, a London event-management company,rallied to give Low Anthem some stage time.

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Low Anthem’s lead singer Ben Miller rolls outsome tunes Wednesday at APK Live at 40 Wellington St.

“I really do thinkthat these toughfiscal times areforcing us to makethe changes we allknow need to bemade anyway.”HEALTH MINISTER DEB MATTHEWS

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Vandalismmeeting at libraryCoun. Bill Armstrong, pic-tured, will host a meetingThursday night from 6:30to 8 as a followup to a pre-

vious discussionabout increasedneighbourhoodvandalism.

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About 1,600 jobs and al-most double the number ofapplicants.

That was the scenarioWednesday at EmploymentOntario’s London job fair.

Mike Depoorter, of Lon-don, didn’t have to dig toodeep to sum up what thatmeans. “In one sense, it’s al-most comforting: You’renot the only out there(looking for a job),” the 52-year-old said. “At the sametime, it’s sad.”

Left jobless by the clo-sure of Ford’s St. Thomasassembly plant, Depoorterwas hoping to catch a breakWednesday. He arrived atthe Western Fair District 45minutes before the job fair

began and was 20th in line. When the first round of

job hunters floodedthrough the doors at 9:30 a.m., about 1,000 peo-ple were in line.

“We let 400 people in,and it hardly made a dent,”said Brian Malott, a fair co-ordinator from the LondonEmployment Help Centre.

Given the slow economy,organizers had expected de-mand to be high, and madesome changes to the fair’sformat in an attempt tohelp more people.

The fair — marking its

10th year — previously in-cluded booths for employ-ers and groups that provideservices to the unemployed.This year, space for serviceproviders was limited and

more businesses werebrought on board, Malottsaid.

Organizers also focusedon making sure each of thebusinesses on hand had po-

sitions to fill.Pitching himself to po-

tential employers in personwas a bit new to AaronRankin, 28, of Woodstock.He, like several others, said

he’s willing to pack up andleave Ontario if doing someans finding work. “It’sthe first time I’ve been laidoff,” Rankin said. “I’ve nev-er been unemployed.”

Competition fierce at London job fairNearly 3,500 take a shot with

companies ranging from local call centres to construction firms

Mike Depoorter, 52, of London, left, takes a business card from Home Depot’s Josh Dowswell on Wednesday during

Employment Ontario’s London job fair at the Western Fair District. Depoorter and thousands of others flocked to the

fair, with a line forming more than an hour before doors opened.

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50Number of companiesparticipating inWednesday job fair.

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London police suspect arash of recent car fires arerelated

Police are looking forinformation regardingseven car fires over thepast few weeks.

On Wednesday at about12:07 a.m., police re-sponded to a report of acar fire on Crystal Cres-cent. About seven min-utes later, they werecalled to a second car fire,on Admiral Drive. A thirdcar fire was later reportedon Southdale Road East at3 a.m.

On Jan. 29, police re-sponded to four other carfires — two were on Edge-

worth Avenue, one onWhitney Street and oneon Andover Road. Thesefires also occurred in theearly-morning hours.

There have been no in-juries reported and the to-tal damage is estimated at$91,000.

Police continue to ex-amine these fires to deter-mine if there is anyconnection.

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Police suspect rash of car fires related

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A fire started by an inmatetore through an overcrowd-ed prison in Honduras,burning and suffocatingscreaming men in theirlocked cells as rescuers des-perately searched for keys.

Officials confirmed 358people were killed in theworld’s deadliest prison firein a century.

The local governor toldreporters Wednesday thatan inmate called her mo-ments before the blazebroke out, screaming: “Iwill set this place on fireand we are all going to die!”

Comayagua Gov. PaolaCastro said she called theRed Cross and fire brigadeimmediately.

But firefighters said theywere kept outside for halfan hour by guards whofired their guns in the air,thinking they had a riot ora breakout on their hands.

Officials have long heldlittle control over condi-tions inside many Hon-duran prisons, whereinmates have unfettered ac-cess to cellphones and oth-er contraband.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

A woman grieves outside

Comayagua prison, where a

fire broke out early Wednesday.

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Syria’spresidentcalls fornational voteAs Syrian forces steppedup their assault Wednes-day on rebellious cities,President Bashar Assadordered a referendum,set for Feb. 26, on a newconstitution that wouldcreate a multipartysystem in a country thathas been ruled by his au-tocratic family dynastyfor 40 years.

Assad’s regime is tout-ing the new constitutionas the centrepiece of re-

forms aimed at calmingSyria’s upheaval.

But after 11 months ofbloodshed, with wellover 5,000 dead in theregime’s crack down onprotesters and rebels, Assad’s opponents saythe referendum and reforms are notenough and that thecountry’s strongmanmust go.

The White House alsodismissed thereferendum.

Press secretary Jay Car-ney called the move“laughable” in light ofongoing brutality by theSyrian military, and saidit “makes a mockery” ofthe uprising.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Daredevil Nik Wallenda iseager to walk the walk after getting approval forhis plan to cross NiagaraGorge on a tightrope.

The Niagara Parks Com-mission board gave itsthumbs-up on Wednesday,reversing an earlierdecision against the stunt.

Wallenda says he’llwalk along a cable, fivecentimetres in diameter,

stretched across the gorgefrom the U.S. to Canada.

The board says it nowhas 45 days to work outdetails — including a datefor the walk — with theman who calls himself“King of the High Wire.”

Wallenda, 32, had beenhoping for a day in July orAugust, but thecommission is looking atJune, before the busy

tourist season begins.The tightrope walker,

who is descended from thefamous circus performersThe Flying Wallendas, sawhis request turned downin December.

New York Gov. AndrewCuomo signed legislationlast year allowing Wallen-da to walk over the famedgorge.THE CANADIAN PRESS

On life support after Tory win inCommons Senate will pull plug

Gun-registry bill passes HouseADRIAN WYLD/THE CANADIAN PRESS

Nik Wallenda says he feels “like I’m on top of the world”

after getting the green light for his Niagara walk.

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High-wire cash

A study has suggested thatlive TV coverage of theevent could help generatea $120-million shot in thearm to Niagara’s economy.An official said the boardwill consider requests forsuch events only onceevery 20 years, and only byskilled professionals.

Gasp! He’ll walk a tightrope over the Falls

Federal Tories erupted incheers Wednesday after fi-nally securing House ofCommons approval toscrap the controversiallong-gun registry.

The Harper governmentused its majority to passthe bill by a vote of 159-130, with the support oftwo maverick New Democ-rats — John Rafferty andBruce Hyer.

All other NDP, Liberal,Bloc Québécois and GreenMPs voted against it.

“Many of us have waitedfor this day for a very longtime,” said Public SafetyMinister Vic Toews.

Toews said the registry— created by Jean Chré-tien’s Liberal governmentafter the massacre of 14women at Montreal’s ÉcolePolytechnique in 1989 — is

“a billion-dollar boondog-gle” that does nothing butpenalize law-abidinghunters and farmers.

“It does nothing to helpput an end to gun crime,nor has it saved one Cana-dian life,” he argued.

The vote effectively putsthe registry on life sup-port. All that remains is forthe Senate to pull the plug.

Since the Tories enjoy acommanding majority inthe upper chamber as well,the registry’s fate is sealed.

Women’s groups andvictims of gun violence ex-pressed outrage.

Quebec says the mo-ment the bill is enacted,the province will launchcourt action to prevent reg-istry records from beingdestroyed.THE CANADIAN PRESS

Trouble in store?

What will be the fate of

maverick New Democrats

John Rafferty and Bruce

Hyer for defying the

party’s line on the gun

registry?

Interim NDP leader NycoleTurmel said there will be“consequences” for them.But it’s unclear what moreshe can do to the pair, who also broke rankswhen the registry bill wasput to a second reading

vote last November. At that time, Turmelsuspended their travelprivileges and bannedthem from participating inquestion period, sitting oncommittees or makingpublic statements.

Public Safety Minister Vic

Toews, pictured Wednesday,

says his campaign against

the registry began 15 years

ago when he was attorney

general in Manitoba.

Battle overmandatorysentencesbrewingThe Harper government iskeeping its powder dry inthe face of a courtjudgment that delivered abroadside to mandatoryminimum sentences.

An Ontario SuperiorCourt judge ruled thisweek that sending a first-time offender to prison forthree years for possessinga loaded, illegal gun is“cruel and unusualpunishment.”

Prime Minister StephenHarper told the Commonson Tuesday: “I think Cana-dians believe the courtshave not been toughenough in dealing withgun crime.”

With mandatory mini-mum drug and sexsentences awaitingpassage by the Senate, thebattle is set to begin.THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Co-founder Tobias Lutkecreated Shopify after realiz-ing back in 2005 just howdifficult and expensive itwas to launch a web busi-ness. After figuring it wouldcost at least $100,000 to gethis snowboard store online,Lutke decided the company

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Cereal maker Kellogg isswooping in and made adeal of $2.7 billion US topurchase the brand.

With Diamond out ofthe picture, the Pringlesbrand is headed toKellogg. The companysaid the transaction willhelp to strengthen itssnack business, which itis trying to make as bigglobally as its cereal business. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Canadian homesales down in JanuaryCanadian home sales post-ed their biggest monthlydecline in a year and ahalf in January, suggestingthe long-expected marketslowdown may finally beon its way.

The Canadian Real Es-tate Association saidWednesday that sales ofexisting homes fell 4.5 percent to a seasonally-adjusted 38,294 in Januaryfrom 40,115 the previousmonth. It was the firstmonthly decline since Au-gust 2011.

The monthly declinereversed a string ofmonth-over-month

increases in the fourthquarter of 2011, CREAsaid. THE CANADIAN PRESS

Target Canadapartners withStarbucksDiscount retailer TargetCorp. is partnering withStarbucks to bring coffeeshops into its new Canadi-an stores.

The American chainpicked the Seattle-basedcoffee company to openin the majority of its up to135 Target stores, it saidWednesday.

The agreement extendsthe 12-year relationshipbetween Target and Star-bucks in the UnitedStates.

Target plans to open itsfirst Canadian stores in2013. THE CANADIAN PRESS

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GREEK CRISIS

Eurozonedoubtspersist overbailout planGreece has madeprogress convincing therest of the eurozone thatit should get a $170-billion US bailout — butthe country’s austerity ef-forts will need muchtighter surveillance, thechairman of theeurozone’s finance minis-ters said Wednesday.

During a three-hourconference call betweenthe finance chiefs of the17 countries that use theeuro, the ministersreceived assurances fromGreece that it had founda further 325 million eu-ros in cuts on top of aus-terity measures alreadyagreed on.

However, in a sign ofthe deep distrust that hasbuilt up — especiallyamong rich euro nations

such as Germany, theNetherlands and Finland— Jean-Claude Juncker,the prime minister ofLuxembourg, who alsochairs the finance minis-ters’ meetings, saidbetter surveillance mech-anisms had to be set upbefore new aid could bereleased.

“Furtherconsiderations are neces-sary regarding the specif-ic mechanisms tostrengthen thesurveillance of programimplementation and toensure that priority is giv-en to debt servicing,”Juncker said.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Tank built outof egg cartonsLONDON. It looked like shellwarfare at England’s Impe-rial War Museum after theunveiling of a “tank” madeout of egg cartons. Sculp -tor Stuart Murdoch’scarton-made mockup of aChallenger II vehicle wasbuilt to launch a nationalegg-and-spoon race organi-zed by Eggs for Soldiers, acharity that raises moneyfor injured soldiers. MWN

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must have made many

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Getting it through thedoor at London’s ImperialWar Museum. The doorwas too small, so we hadto break it up into separa-te sections to get it in. Will it stay there forever?

No. It’s going outside onpublic display on March 4for one day. After that, Ihave no idea what willhappen to it. My dream isto see it retired at theTank Museum in Dorset,southwest England.What other curiosities have

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Nicolas Cage admits he isn’t a vampireIs Nicolas Cage an immor-tal creature runningaround, reinventing him-self every 75 years?

People.com reports thatCage denies this unusualrumor, and says he’s notan immortal vampirewhose image was caughtin the Civil-War era. Cagestated as much on DavidLetterman’s Late Show.

“I don’t drink blood,and last time I looked inthe mirror I had a reflec-

tion.”Cage understands the

confusion with the Ten-nessee man in the 1890photo. The eBay sellerclaims the photograph isof a “walking undead/vampire” who “reinvents

himself once every 75years.”

“Let me say that there isa resemblance, but howcan I be polite about this.It’s a somewhat slowed-down version of me,” Cagestated,

What a way to burst ourblood thirsty bubble. Andthere goes our True Blooddream of Cage as a reallife Civil-War vampire.

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“I don’t drinkblood and lasttime I looked inthe mirror I had areflection.” NICOLAS CAGE

Country singer Mi-randa Lambertdoesn’t get whycontroversial R&Bstar Chris Brownwas allowed toperform twice atthe Grammys onSunday. She tweet-ed on Monday:“He beat on agirl...not cool thatwe act like thatdidn't happen.”Brown beat upthen-girlfriend Ri-hanna the nightbefore the Gram-mys in 2009. Hepled guilty to anassault charge andwas sentenced tofive years of pro-bation and sixmonths ofcommunitylabour. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Ballet for beaten womenGhosts of Violence — a performance aimed at raising awareness — comes to London

A new mul-timedia bal-let aboutdomestic vi-olence iscoming toLondon for

a one-night-only perform-ance.

The Atlantic Ballet The-atre of Canada will presentGhosts of Violence on Feb.22 at the Paul DavenportTheatre at Western Univer-sity.

Artistic director and cho-reographer Igor Dobrovol-skiy created the piece for afundraiser to build aware-ness about domestic vio-lence and honour womenkilled by abuse. The full-length work debuted at theNational Arts Centre in Ot-tawa on Feb. 15, 2011.

Megan Walker, execu-tive director of LondonAbused Women’s Centre,saw the ballet in Ottawa.She thinks it’s a good wayto reach out to men andwomen who may not evenbe aware of the problem.

“The stories of thewomen in the ballet arestories I’ve heard over andover again in my office,”

says Walker. “They reflectthe tactics of power andcontrol that abusers usewith women every day.”

Every six days a womanis killed in Canada by do-mestic violence, accordingto Statistics Canada.

Jennifer Morse, who losther mother to a murder-suicide by her stepfather in1999, attended the balletwith Walker. Morse identi-fied with the characters be-cause she grew up in aviolent home.

She thinks using a balletto explore domestic vio-lence is very innovative,

and could potentially reacha different demographic ofpeople who are interestedin the arts.

“Nothing like this hasever been done before.Sure we have seen rallies,commercials — but nowwith this ballet we can visu-ally see what it is like to bein these women’s shoes.This is as close as it can get,to see someone act it outon a stage.”

Walker says more dis-cussion about domestic vio-lence is the first steptowards improving theproblem.

“The more we talk aboutthe issue, the more womenfeel supported in comingforward to get help. Therehas been a dramatic in-crease in our service de-mand, not because ofincreasing violence but be-cause women are able toreach out for help,” saysWalker.

The target audience ofthe ballet is the youth com-munity.

“Everywhere we travel,we do performances athigh schools and universi-ties,” says Dobrovolskiy.“The younger we open dis-

cussion about this, the bet-ter.”

The ballet’s multimediaaspect further adds to itsuniqueness.

“It combines dance, mu-sic, video images projectedonto a huge screen andprops on the stage,” saysWalker. “It makes you feellike you are there in thehomes of the women. Youdon’t even have to be a bal-let lover to enjoy it.”

The performance startsat 8 p.m. Purchase tickets,$45 for adults and $25 forstudents, online atgrandtheatre.com.

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Johnny Whitworth talks about be-ing bad and working with Nic Cagein the new Ghost Rider film

When you see JohnnyWhitworth, the first thingthat may come to mind isEmpire Records, in whichhe starred opposite LivTyler as the lovesick A.J.Eerily. The actor has barelyaged over the past 17 years,but on screen in Ghost Rid-er: Spirit of Vengeance, he’salmost unrecognizable asBlackout, a villainous light-manipulator who makestrouble for Nicolas Cage’s

flaming-skulled biker.

What can you tell us about

how your character, Blackout,

is portrayed in the movie

without giving too much

away?

He’s got some cooler pow-ers than in the comic. [Inthe comics], he was bornbasically a mutant, andwhen he went aroundeverything turned black,and then he kind of identi-fied with vampires and hadthese prosthetic fangs putin and claws, and then hewas kind of an assassinkind of guy. In our thing, he

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How is it taking on a villain

role?

It’s fun. It’s challenging justfor the aesthetic reasons,and it’s fun because villainsare fun. Bad guys are moreinteresting, you know? Youhave no limitations, really.

And you go up against the

Ghost Rider himself, Nicolas

Cage. How was that?

It’s a pleasure to work with

Nic. There’s not one partic-ular thing I can elaborateon, you know? I think Nic’sa great guy and an amazingcraftsman. I dig his work.It’s inspiring. What wascool was that I didn’t under-stand anything that was go-ing on in Romania, but wecould be in a cab or arestaurant or whatever andwe’d hear their languageand then, “Nicolas Cage.”The only thing I would un-derstand was “NicolasCage” and then “ciorbă,”which is soup.

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While Katy Perry unveileda new angry breakup songat the Grammys over theweekend, soon-to-be ex-husband Russell Brandwas reportedly al-ready enjoyingthe single life,taking in ashow at com-edy and mu-sic venue theLargo in LosAngeleswith an at-tractiveyoungwoman byhis side, ac-cording toThe Sun.

After theshow, thetworetired tohis home,and Branddrove herhome the

next morning. “Russell is a single man

again and starting to moveon from Katy,” a sourcetells the newspaper.

“Like any bloke, hehad missed female

company. He isn’tquite back to his

old ways yet,but he’s verymuch back inthe saddle.”

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Brand ‘backin the saddle’

Winsletdoesn’twant tosee herselfin 3DKate Winslet is bracingherself for the 3D re-release of Titanic 15years after it originallycame out.

The actress has alreadyseen 17 minutes offootage, and it wasn’t nec-essarily a pleasant experi-

ence. “I was literally like, ‘Oh

my God, make it stop. Isthat me? Oh my God,that’s me. Block my ears,somebody. Somebody clubout my senses. Make it f---ing stop,’” Winslet tellsUSA Today. “I’m sure I was-n’t really a very goodactress. Seriously, we aretalking about somethingthat happened 15 yearsago. It is a very long timeago.”

Don’t worry, Kate. Wehave a feeling everyone inthe audience will have theexact same reaction.

METRO

Brown brushesoff his hatersGood work, America. ChrisBrown is taking all of thenegative attention peoplehave showered on himsince Sunday’s GrammyAwards to heart and is nowon a Twitter rampage aboutit. He tweeted last night:“HATE ALL U WANT BECUZI GOT A GRAMMY Now!That’s the ultimate F-CKOFF!” You know who elsegot a Grammy? Milli Vanil-li. So don’t put yourself insuch high esteem there,buddy. METRO

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Will Bobby attendWhitney’s funeral?

Whitney Hous-ton’s funeralwill be held onSaturday at herchildhoodchurch, theNew Hope Bap-tist Church in

Newark, the church pastorsaid Tuesday night.

The invitation-only fu-neral will probably be at-tended by 1,500 or sopeople, with the public notinvited.

But there’s one personwhose inclusion on the in-vite list is still up in theair: Houston’s ex-husband,Bobby Brown.

Tmz.com reports that

the singer is “extremelydisappointed” after hear-ing that several membersof Houston’s family do notwant him to attend Satur-day’s service.

Apparently, Houston’sfamily isn’t “fond of him”(um, understatement ofthe century, TMZ).

The site reports thatBrown wants to go to sup-port Bobbi Kristina, buthasn’t “decided on a planof action yet.”

However, we do knowBrown will be on the EastCoast as he is scheduled toperform with his groupNew Edition on Saturdayat the Mohegan Sun Arena.The Sun’s publicist sentout a release yesterday say-ing that, as of then, Brownwas still scheduled to per-form.

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RAG & BONEAs temperatures in NewYork dropped, MarcusWainwright and DavidNeville’s dense layeringdidn’t seem like a badidea. Who wouldn’t wanta chic and cosy blanketcoat to toss over a trousersuit like this strong open-ing look? The only prob-lem is that heavy layeringcan only go so far before itadds awkward lumps.Look for their perfectlycool separates and coatsin stores, but maybe playwith layers before imitat-ing this runway styling.

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THAKOONThere was a polished so-phistication to ThakoonPanichgul’s clothes, bestexemplified in the dressesand ruffled coats shift. Butthere were twists: a coat-dress pinched at the waistseemed prim until themodel turned the corner,where sexy black leathercut-outs in the back wererevealed. The designerthen kicked the femininefactor into high gear withsweet peacock featherembroidery and a paletteof bright fuchsia and cran-berry.

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MARC JACOBSMarc Jacobs, New York’smost prominent and influ-ential architect of trends,showed a directional col-lection of multi-layered en-sembles that made subtlenods to the Queen’s land.From the first look out — agiant, furry Stephen Jones’hat and piled-on outfit thatincluded a cape worn overa voluminous coat on topof a slick, tiled, opalescent,dress over croppedtrousers and pilgrim shoes— the show had an air ofmadcap sobriety to it.

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DONNA KARANCOLLECTION

Karan opened with her Casual Luxe collection,which, according to thepress notes, was “tailoredfor the streets of NewYork” yet on the runwayappeared to stem fromBalmoral Scotland. Thesewere heavily-layered cold-weather looks with cosy,chunky shearlingouterwear: oversized tar-tan blanket knits andsweeping kilts. It was astrong, covetablecollection.

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JASON WUFor Wu, the process oftransforming his soft andüber-feminine muse intoa proper badass force tobe reckoned with meantgoing back to his Chineseroots, and exploring im-ages of the countrythroughout history fromthe Qing dynasty to theMao jacket. That translat-ed into a series of beauti-fully-executed militarycoats and jackets loadedwith rich Far East detailsand innovative construc-tion.

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Weekly

Cookbook

After spending the lastdecade and a half at hisMichelin-starred SanFrancisco restaurant devel-oping modern Moroccancuisine, Mourad Lahloutakes his culinary talents tohis book New Moroccan.

The book is anything buta dutifully authenticdocumentation of Moroccanhome cooking. The 100-plusmodern recipes are illustrat-ed with food and locationphotography. Among themare: Lamb Shank with SpicedPrunes and Brown ButterFaro, Chickpea Spread,Grilled Flatbreads and more.

THE CANADIAN PRESS H/O

Infusing robust Moroccan flavours Turkey cutlets and vegetables are imbued with the tastes of the northern African countryThis warming winter dish is best served over steaming Israeli or traditional couscous

Preparation:

1 Cook couscous accord-ing to packagedirections.

2 In a resealable bag,combine turkey with 2ml (1/2 tsp) each of thepaprika, cumin, salt andpepper and half of theoil. Marinate for atleast 30 minutes and upto 1 day.

3 In a large, non-stickskillet, heat remainingoil over medium-highheat. Brown turkey onboth sides and transferto a plate (it will not becooked through).

4 Cook onion untiltender, about 5minutes. Stir in carrots,fennel and remainingpaprika, cumin, salt and

pepper and cook for 3minutes. Sprinkle withapricots and olives,pour in orange juiceand broth, scraping upany brown bits fromthe bottom of the pan.Nestle turkey into veg-etables, reduce heat tomedium-low to

maintain a simmer, cov-er and cook until turkeyis cooked through andvegetables are tender-crisp, about 15minutes. Sprinkle withparsley and serve overcouscous.ONTARIO TURKEY/THE CANADIAN PRESS

Ingredients:

• 250 ml (1 cup) Israeli ortraditional couscous• 5 ml (1 tsp) paprika, di-vided• 5 ml (1 tsp) groundcumin, divided• 5 ml (1 tsp) each sea saltand fresh cracked pepper,divided• 30 ml (2 tbsp) olive oil,divided• 4 turkey cutlets• 1 small onion, peeled

and sliced• 2 carrots, peeled andsliced• 1/2 fennel bulb, sliced• 125 ml (1/2 cup)chopped dried apricots• 125 ml (1/2 cup) pittedolives, halved• 125 ml (1/2 cup) orangejuice• 125 ml (1/2 cup) turkeyor chicken broth• 50 ml (1/4 cup) freshchopped parsley

MoroccanTurkey

This recipe serves four.

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Lionshang onto key playersWally Buono wasted littletime Wednesday retainingtwo key members of hisGrey Cup-winning team.

The B.C. Lions GM high-lighted the opening day ofCFL free agency by agree-ing to terms with veterandefensive backs DanteMarsh and Ryan Phillips.Buono reached a deal withMarsh just before he wasscheduled to become afree agent before comingto terms with Phillipsroughly two hours after heentered free agency.

CFL free agency kickedoff at noon on Wednesdaybut the top two availableplayers — slotback AndyFantuz and offensive line-man Brendon LaBatte —remained unsignedWednesday evening.

However, they were cer-tainly generating a lot ofinterest.

The Hamilton Tiger-Cats and SaskatchewanRoughriders were said tobe in the running for Fan-tuz, the six-foot-four, 220-pound slotback who wasthe CFL’s outstandingCanadian in 2010. Fantuzmissed the first half of lastseason attending theChicago Bears campbefore suffering an ankleinjury after returning toRegina.

Edmonton andSaskatchewan werereportedly both workinghard to sign LaBatte. Thesix-foot-four, 323-poundnative of Weyburn, Sask.,has spent his entire CFLcareer with Winnipeg.

LaBatte was a CFL all-star in 2011 and helpedWinnipeg reach the GreyCup. The 25-year-old canplay guard or centrealthough his preference isguard. THE CANADIAN PRESS

Jeremy Lin is passed the ball from his fallen Knicks teammate Tyson Chandler

as Jason Thompson of the Sacramento Kings defends on Wednesday night.

Lin had 10 points, 13 assists and five rebounds in the 100-85 Knicks win.

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Lin mania shows no signs of stopping

Knick is a hoops sensation, from New York to Asia to the White House

Bigger than Shaq? Largerthan LeBron? The Knicks asNBA champions?

(Don’t laugh too hard atthat last one. The odds aregetting better, according toone online sports book.)

Nothing seems too Lin-conceivable now after Jere-my Lin’s incredible firstweek as an NBA starter, andthe story keeps getting bet-ter.

The undrafted playerfrom Harvard made a three-pointer with half a secondleft Tuesday night to givethe Knicks a 90-87 victory atToronto. The Knicks re-turned home Wednesday tohost Sacramento, lookingfor a seventh straight victo-ry that would get themback to .500 after an 8-15start.

Lin joined the rotationonly then, starting the lastfive games, so hold off onmaking him a Michael Jor-dan, Shaquille O’Neal or Le-Bron James just yet. But theKnicks have seen enough tobelieve this ride may last a

while longer.“I don’t know when

there’s an ending. Maybethere won’t,” coach MikeD’Antoni said.

Lin’s story has blownstraight past the New Yorksports pages and all theircute headlines like “Va-Lin-tine’s Day,” all the way to abasketball-crazed continenton the other side of theworld, where he’s been“kind of like the great Asianhope,” said Orin Starn, pro-fessor and chair of culturalanthropology at Duke.

Lin has done wonders forshares of Madison SquareGarden Inc., the company

that owns the Knicks, theGarden and the namesakesports network. The stockhas surged nine per centsince Lin began his heroicsFeb. 4, reaching an all-timehigh of $33.18 US earlierthis week before retreatingslightly to close at $31.91Wednesday.

“Rangers and Knicksfans do tend to buy thestock when the teams aredoing well,” said MillerTabak analyst David Joyce.

And Linsanity hasreached America’s mostpowerful basketball fan,with President Barack Oba-ma talking about Lin’s win-ner Wednesday.

White House spokesmanJay Carney said Lin was“just a great story, and thepresident was saying asmuch this morning.”

Asia lost its biggest bas-ketball star when Yao Mingretired last summer, butratings are up in China, andTV stations around the con-tinent have rushed to addKnicks games to their

broadcasts.“I like Jeremy Lin (more

than Yao Ming) because YaoMing was already famous”when he started playing inNBA, said Taiwanese univer-sity student Zhang Gan-yu.“For Lin, it’s like nobodyhad heard of him before.Kobe (Bryant) gave an inter-view saying he did notknow who Lin was. So thisis truly a rising star.”

Lin is the NBA’s firstAmerican-born player ofChinese or Taiwanese de-scent. Starn called his emer-gence sort of a “coming-outparty for Asian-Americans.”

“I think it is appealing toa lot of Americans whensomebody comes along thatseems to break out of thisset of stereotypes — and inthis case, an Asian-Ameri-can from the heart of theSilicon Valley,” Starn said. “Ithink Jeremy Lin has thisspecial kind of attractionbecause he seems to cap-ture this visibility of Asian-Americans.”THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

$175KAndy Fantuz is expect-ed to fetch between$175,000 and $200,000on the open market,which could be toorich for the Argos,who will have to payquarterback Ricky Rayaround $400,000 thisseason.

18-1Odds given that theKnicks will win theNBA championship onBovada.lv, down from40-1 before Lin’s runbegan.

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“I’ve had to earnlots of stuff,

nothing’s beengiven to me, but Ialways had a selfbelief in myselfthat one day I’d

play in theNHL.”

JORDAN NOLAN, WHOSCORED HIS FIRST NHL GOAL

LAST WEEKEND IN HISSECOND GAME WITH THE

KINGS, WHO PICKED HIM INTHE SEVENTH ROUND OF THE

2009 DRAFT. NOLAN’SFATHER, TED, PLAYED 78GAMES IN THE NHL AND

WENT ON TO WIN THE JACKADAMS AWARD AS COACH OF

THE YEAR WITH THEBUFFALO SABRES.

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Raptors can’t hang with hot SpursTony Parker scored 34 points and had 14 assists as the San Antonio Spurs extend-ed their winning streak to nine games with a 113-106 victory over the Raptors inToronto on Wednesday.Jose Calderon had 16 points and 11 assists for Toronto, which lost its fourth gamein a row. DeMar DeRozan scored 29 points, while Amir Johnson had 10 points andseven rebounds in the loss.

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Stricken Rangers plan to play next matchThe financiers trying tosave Scottish soccer cham-pion Rangers from liquida-tion assured fans onWednesday that the nextmatch against Kilmarnockwill go ahead.

The Glasgow club willstart Saturday’s game 14

points behind city rivalCeltic after being docked 10points for entering finan-cial administration.

Rangers were forced toseek bankruptcy protectionover tax debts of nine-mil-lion pounds ($14 million)accrued in the nine months

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“We can report we havemade very good progresswithin the first 24 hours ofbeing appointed adminis-trators over Rangers,” jointadministrators Paul Clarkand David Whitehouse said.

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Strathclyde police,” the ad-ministrators promised fansthat Saturday’s homematch would be played atIbrox.

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