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If hockey trades were com-pared to Dion Phaneuf’shits, it’s safe to say therearguard had his headdown coming across theopposing blue line — witha steam engine headed inhis direction.

Looking to add depth andscoring punch to the Cal-gary Flames, general man-ager Darryl Sutter acquiredforwards Niklas Hagman,Jamal Mayers and Matt Sta-jan along with defencemanIan White, paying a highprice by shipping off Pha-neuf along with forwardFreddie Sjostrom and de-fensive prospect KeithAulie.

Phaneuf, 24, was sur-prised to learn the news

yesterday. “It was definitely a shock,

but I’m very excited aboutgoing to Toronto and beinga Maple Leaf,” said Phaneuf,who’s slated to make an av-erage of $6.5 million USover the next four seasons.

Hockey fans werebuzzing with news of thetrade, which had been ru-moured for some time, butfans like Matt Finard saidhe didn’t think it wouldhappen.

“You hear the rumours,but then you hear the

coach and he says it’s nothappening. But I think it’s agood move on the Flames’part. We definitely needscoring up front,” Finardsaid.

Scoring seemed to bewhat Sutter was after.

“There is a gap in ourteam in terms of produc-tive forwards,” said Sutterat a news conference yes-terday. “The guys coming inare all having good years,so that’s what you want —for them to continue it.”

While most fans agree achange was needed, someare sad to see Phaneuf go.

“He is an Alberta boy andplayed his whole, young ca-reer with the Flames. Heused to be a pillar of theteam, but these things hap-pen, I guess,” Derick Collinssaid. WITH FILES FROM

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REVIEW A five-member pan-el that has been appointedto look into animal deathsat the Calgary Zoo couldget down to work by themiddle of February.

Laurie Herron, a zoospokeswoman, says thefive members of thereview panel have beenchosen.

Their names haven’tbeen released.

The panel memberswere selected by the Asso-ciation of Zoos and Aquari-ums, based inWashington, D.C., and itsCanadian affiliate.

The zoo has been thesubject of controversy forseveral animal deaths inrecent months.

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Panel chosento investigatedeaths at zoo

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COUNCIL A city alderman isconcerned about the possi-ble limitations protestersat city hall could face ifcertain rules are approvedthis week.

Last fall,administration’s proposalfor changes to rules fordemonstrating in andaround city hall and themunicipal plaza were sentback for tweaking, andthey are to be presentedagain at Wednesday’s com-munity and protectiveservices meeting.

Ward 12 Ald. Ric McIversaid he is still against anyrules that would requireprotesters to book inadvance or pay fees beforesetting up at city hall, assuggested last fall.

“People have the rightto demonstrate and in factwe should encourage it.It’s a simple, basic Canadi-an right and if we try to in-fringe on that, it could bevery dangerous,” McIversaid.

However, Ald. GordLowe said the issue isn’tabout freedom of speech,but security.

“This is an issue aboutsecurity for the people us-ing the area, and the peo-ple going in and out of cityhall, and the employees.This would stopcompeting groups fromprotesting at the sametime,” he said. “Why invitetrouble?”

Dion Phaneuf, the centrepiece of a huge trade announced yester-

day between the Calgary Flames and Toronto Maple Leafs.

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I think the Pha-neuf trade is a netpositive for theFlames. That said,I liked watchinghim (Saturday) night.@ctoverdrive

@metrocalgary I neverthought I’d see The DougGilmour Trade - Part 2.#flames@nicolesaxton

@metrocalgary so we tradeda guy who can’t score for 4more players who hardlyscore either?@JamieTheJedi

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Fundraiser a hitCalgary’s first-ever charity tweet-up #yyc4haiti was a hit among

Calgary’s social media circles. Hundreds of people attended the

event, held last Thursday night during the Calgary Flames and

Phoenix Coyotes game, to raise money for earthquake victims

in Haiti. Nearly $30,000 was raised. METRO CALGARY

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CalgaryObits.com notes the following deaths

in our community:

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ARMSTRONG, Edward Albert (Ed) ASH, Cynthia Ann (nee MacLeod) BENTSON, Wayne Douglas EARL, Audrey Lillian (nee

Blakeman) ELLIS, Robert (Bob) Sampson EVANGELISTA, Antonietta Matilda

(nee Petrollini) FRASER, Katherina Ann FROGGATT, Beatrice HOOPER, Asta May Rita (nee

Zuckerberg) HYSHKA, Bernice Frances JACKSON, Ervie Harvey Willis JOBIN, Louis Joseph KANNA, Agnes Aki LAVERS, Richard James (Dick) LUEY, Mildred Ruth MACDONALD, D. Lorne MACKEY, John-Michael MCGREGOR, Leslie Ann MCLAREN, Geoffrey Charles MCLEAN, Marie Blanche (nee

Pouliot) MORRISON, Donald Bruce NEGENMAN, Diane Lorraine (nee

Desnoyers) PETLEY, Allen Michael (Mike) PHELAN, Donald (Don) Gordon REINHOLDT, (Avery), Hudson

Aksel John SABA, Hiam SCOTT, Wayne SHERWOOD, Gladys (Joy) (Essa) THACKER, Anne Margaret TURNER, Robert (Bob) VACHON , Joyce (nee Shuttleworth) VINCENT, Jennifer (Jenny) WALDER, William Donald (Don) WOLF LEG, Trudy Louise

ACCIDENT A Calgary manhas been seriously injuredafter he was kicked off aparty bus that later ranhim over after he fell un-der the vehicle.

The man, believed to bein his 20s, was rushed tohospital with life-threaten-ing injuries, but is expect-ed to survive, police said.

Police say the man start-ed pounding his fists onthe side of the party busafter he and his girlfriendwere kicked off, but whenit pulled away from thecurb, he slipped underthe wheels and was runover.

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@lisalin_326 Ihope i’m not theonly one whothinks Calgaryjust traded away 50% ofthere team and pretty muchany hope of winning theStanley Cup@ecardoza Drying back to#yyc. Only half way throughand we’ve seen 15 cars in theditch

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GAMES Canada has been agreat host nation, accord-ing to Danish Olympicspeedskater CathrineGrage, who has been livingand training in Vancouverand Calgary for six months.

While Canada was ac-cused of not sharing theRichmond Olympic Ovalice with internationalskaters in March of 2009,Grage said her experiencehas been very different.

“I haven’t had the sametroubles the Americans

complained about,” Gragesaid in Danish. “I wasalone, so I just walked in

while the Oval was openfor public speed skatingand skated.”

Grage, who holds Danishrecords at all distances, isher country’s entire speed-skating team. The 33-year-old receives no fundingfrom Team Denmark andhas spent the last fouryears training in Berlin,Holland and with theSwedish national team, butsaid nothing compares tothe treatment she’s beenreceiving since moving toCalgary.

“As soon as you arrive inCanada, as an athlete,you’re accepted as part of a

sporting community andthat’s not the case every-where else.”

She is part of a group ofathletes from countrieswithout speedskating pro-grams who are all men-tored by a former teamCanada coach paid for bythe University of Calgary.

She is the only one in hergroup who will be at theVancouver Olympics, hav-ing qualified for the 3,000-and 5,000-metre events.She expects to finish 11th.

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Despite reliving the horrorof losing her police officerhusband on the job in apreventable accident, aCalgary workplace safetycrusader hopes new publicservice announcementshelp save future lives.

Maryanne Pope, widowof John Petropoulos andboard chair of the JohnPetropoulos MemorialFund, kicked off the PutYourself in Our Boots safe-ty campaign yesterday inpartnership with the city’spolice, fire and EMS.

“Companies often thinkabout workplace safetyfrom the perspective ofemployees, but we wantthem to think also in theperspective of emergencyresponders who are not fa-miliar with their work-

place,” Pope said. Pope lost her husband

on Sept. 29, 2000, when hewas responding to a late-night break-and-enter call

and stepped through afalse ceiling. He sufferedsevere brain damage. Oneof the three public serviceannouncements on air be-

ginning today re-enactsthat exact situation in aneffort to raise publicawareness.

“It’s still emotional towatch it, even though Ihave seen it so manytimes. But I hope it savessomeone else from feelingand going through what Ihave had to go through,”Pope said.

The ads show the policescenario as well as fire andEMS, and all are 30-secondclips meant to spur view-ers into thinking aboutworkplace safety for every-one. The campaign also in-cludes a 10-minute onlinevideo and a new website atwww.ourboots.ca.

“I think the videos arejarring and they are jar-ring for a reason,” firechief Bruce Burrell said.“We’re just asking for peo-ple to give us a fightingchance.”

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‘Give us a fighting chance’Factor first responders into workplace safety, new ads urge

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ments will help remind people of the importance of workplace

safety for everyone, including emergency responders.

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Graffiti charges pending

Charges are pending against three males in connection with 16 spray-paintgraffiti-tagging locations in Banff, Alta., police said. METRO CALGARY

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Junior reporter for a day grills Flames11-year-old Belle Carmichael chats up Bouwmeester, Kiprusoff after winning contest

She shot and she scored.Junior reporter for a day

Belle Carmichael, 11, hadher dreams come truewhen she interviewed notonly Jay Bouwmeester ofthe Flames, but chit-chat-ted with Miikka Kiprusoffabout soccer and crossedpaths with her favouriteplayer, Jarome Iginla.

Carmichael won theHomes By Avi junior-re-

porter-for-a-day contest inpartnership with the Fan960 and spent her Satur-day watching the Flamespractise before hitting thechange room for someone-on-ones and auto-graphs. Later, she got towatch the game with herdad and visit the press box.

“I was so nervous, I al-most dropped the micro-phone. But it was so muchfun and I really enjoyed in-terviewing Jay and askinghim questions,”Carmichael said after-

wards. “My friends didn’t be-

lieve me, but they willnow.”

The Fan 960’s Peter Ma-her showed Carmichaelthe ropes and the youngFlames reporter’s inter-view with Bouwmeesterplayed during the first in-termission of the Flames-Oilers game.

Carmichael’s favouriteinteraction was with theFlames top tender becauseshe’d heard he normallydoesn’t talk much, but was

also surprised byBouwmeester’s interview,as he was unusually chat-ty.

Homes By Avi spokesper-son Anita Bustos said thebest part about givingyoung kids a chance to bea junior reporter is wit-nessing the excitement.

“The kids are so excitedand sometimes I think thedads are even more excit-ed,” she said, adding Aviruns the contest threetimes a season. The nextone is in March.

KRISTA SYLVESTER [email protected]

News in briefFUGITIVE Police inSaskatchewan are searchingfor a female prisoner who wasmistakenly released from a jailin Prince Albert. Karie AnneCasper, 37, was released morethan a week ago from the PineGrove Correctional Centre. ButSaskatchewan’s correctionsservice said she still had an ad-ditional 60-day sentence toserve. Police say Casper may betravelling to Calgary, but is notconsidered a threat to publicsafety.

HIGH SPEED A 55-year-oldwoman was seriously injuredafter two people allegedlystole a Ford Escape near 37Street and Richmond Road SWSaturday and crashed it into anoncoming Honda Civic. Thepair had allegedly tried todrive eastbound on RichmondRoad, but traffic congestionforced them into the oncominglane where they struck the vic-tim. The female driver was tak-en into custody, but the malepassenger fled the scene.

SHOOTING District 2 Calgarypolice detectives are searchingfor suspects in a Marda Loopshooting early Saturday morn-ing. Police were called to 21Street and 33 Avenue SWwhere they found a vehiclewith two men inside, one ofwhom had been shot in theupper body, police said. Thevictim is now in stable, non-life-threatening condition inhospital. Anyone with informa-tion is asked to call 403-266-1234. METRO CALGARY

Satellite search for the dead?

CEMETERIES Tracking thedead may soon come to acemetery near you.

The city recently ap-proved a new strategy thatcould incorporate technol-ogy like GPS and environ-mentally friendly “green”burials in the future, ac-cording to the city’s man-ager of cemeteries.

“This is cutting-edgetechnology and while theGPS technology is notwhere it needs to be rightnow to pinpoint exact loca-tions, there is no doubt itwill be,” Archie Lang said.

The GPS technologywould serve as a burial lo-cator in favour of droppinglarger tombstones forsmaller plaques in an ef-

fort to save burial spaceand help find where peo-ple’s loved ones are buried.

“I think like most thingschange is hard at first, butif you look at 50 years ago,cremation was strange andlook at that now,” Langadded.

Lang’s vision for greencemeteries would include

long flowing grass, an ab-sence of embalming fluidsand bodies placed inbiodegradable caskets.

The techniques would allbe used to make the mostof new cemetery land,which could include twonew cemeteries approvedfor southeast and north ofthe city.

While Cammy Garciasaid she wouldn’t choosethese new methods for herfamily members, she issupportive of offeringchoice to people.

“I think it’s good thatthere will be alternativesto the norm,” she said.

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locate deceased loved ones in

future Calgary cemeteries.

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Obama health-care package could see RNs heading south: Officials

Nursing exodus to U.S. looms U.S. President Barack Oba-ma’s health-care package,although in politicallimbo, has nursing expertsin Canada concernedabout another exodus intheir profession if provin-cial governments aren’tvigilant in retaining nurs-es.

Canada will be short al-most 66,000 registerednurses by 2022, says theCanadian Nurses Associa-tion. As of 2007, the coun-try had 217,000 registerednurses delivering care butneeded about 11,000 more,it added.

“We’re always very con-cerned when we see poten-

tial of a renewed migra-tion,” said Rachel Bard, theCEO of the association.

“What is happening inthe U.S. is a potentialthreat, because we alreadyknow that the UnitedStates is (going to be) shortover 750,000 registerednurses (by 2020).”

House and Senate Demo-

cratic leaders in the U.S.are scrambling to see ifthey can salvage Obama’sambitious health-careplan, which Republicansalmost universally oppose.

If it passes, the U.S. couldembark on a renewedsearch for nurses abroad,Bard said.

The country’s emer-

gence from the recessioncould also play into a de-mand south of the border.

The recession has re-duced inpatient admis-sions and decreased the de-mand, but Linda Aiken, aprofessor of nursing saidher country will see asurge. THE CANADIAN PRESS

Union urges CEO wage freeze

• Hospital executives whohave received “eye-popping”pay increases in recent yearsshould have their wagesfrozen, a union representing

hospital workers is urging theprovince, claiming they havequite bloated salaries at themoment.

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Law and order Seeking to clear name

Romeo Phillion laughs with his sister Simonne Snowdon and brother Armand Phillion after the Court of Appeal in Ontario

overturned his decades-old murder conviction last year in this file photo. The court ordered a new trial, but made it clear it had not

concluded Phillion was innocent. Phillion now wants the court to go one step further and exonerate him.

AFGHANISTAN Canada’s topenvoy in Afghanistanwarns wooing the Talibancould backfire on coalitionforces if peaceful Afghansfeel put out.

William Crosbie, Cana-da’s ambassador toAfghanistan, told reportersyesterday the gesture ispointless if others perceivethe Taliban as beingfavoured.

A scheme to lure moder-ate militants from the in-surgency’s more radical el-ements emerged from a re-cent international confer-ence in London.

The plan involves payingout hundreds of millionsof dollars to low-and mid-level Talibs in the hopesthey’ll defect.

Jobs and vocationaltraining to militants wholay down their arms wouldalso be offered under thescheme.

But Crosbie cautionedagainst any move that

makes ordinary Afghansfeel like the Taliban aregetting a better deal thanthey are.

“There’s no point devel-oping some kind of a fundto which former insur-gents are eligible if we’renot equally providing sup-port to Afghans who arenot part of the insurgencynow,” he said.

“So we don't want to cre-ate the impression thatsomehow if you’re a mem-ber of the insurgency thatyou would be uniquely beable to benefit from thefund. On the other hand,the fund can be used tocomplement and supple-ment the economic devel-opment efforts that wehave underway already.”

Other efforts to enticethe Taliban to stop fightinggenerally haven’t worked.Past incentives have tend-ed to attract low-levelfighters.

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Taliban wooingcould backfire: Envoy

HAITI Canada’s Disaster As-sistance Response Team isputting a new tool in thefield in earthquake shat-tered Haiti.

The DART will send out amobile medical team todayfor the first time in Haiti.

The team will spend theday in an area about 15kilometres from the vil-lage of Leogane.

In an email, CanadianForces Major BernardDionne says the area hasbeen assessed as onewhere many Haitians suf-fered earthquake-relatedinjuries.

The mobile medical

teams consist of nearly adozen medical personnel,plus a few soldiers to offerprotection and Dionnesays they can treat 100 peo-ple a day.

He says the militaryplans to send one team outeach day, and will use heli-copters to get them into ar-eas where no road access isavailable. Dionne says theconcept was used success-fully in Pakistan after thatcountry was hard-hit by anearthquake in 2005.

Personnel from theteams are drawn fromDART’s medical clinic.

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Dart med team gets mobile

Reserve scrambles for supplies after fire

A fire inside the water treatment plant of the Yellow Quill First Nation in Saskatchewan has the reserve scrambling for alternate supplies, CBC News Onlinereports. The reserve is home to about 1,000 people and is located in the Rose Valley area, about 200 kilometres east of Saskatoon. METRO NEWS SERVICES

Police seek missing Ontario womanThe Ontario Provincial Police took to the air yesterday as they ramped up their search

for a Belleville, Ont., woman who was last heard from on Thursday. The OPP deployed

a helicopter over the Belleville area to look for Jessica Elizabeth Lloyd, 27, who disap-

peared under what police consider to be suspicious circumstances.

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It’s taken 15 blownbudgets in the past 20years and a record-breaking season of com-plaints about winter

driving conditions for coun-cil to send our snow re-moval program back to thedrawing board. I wonder if

we will ever have the mind-set to get it right.

Ald. Brian Pincott, chairof the city’s audit commit-tee, called for an audit aftermonths of scattered sugges-tions failed to address theperennial problem of snow-drifts and slick streets. Pin-cott’s plan will see a panelof citizens and councilmembers weigh in with in-terim findings by July and afinal review by late Novem-ber when the next budget isset.

I’ve got one suggestionfor the panel and one forCalgarians.

To the panel — let’s giveall forms of transportationequal weight at the table.Our current system seessnow plowed from roads in-to bike lanes, atop side-walks and in front of busstops.

Why is it that driversshould travel in a safermanner than cyclists andpedestrians? Sure, the cityhas an existing priority sys-tem that concentrates ef-forts on high traffic areasfirst, including pedestrianhot spots downtown, majorbus routes and expressways.We’re even fortunate

enough to have 130 kilome-tres of our pathways clearedduring the winter.

Despite this, residentswith mobility issues can’treliably get around, access-ing transit is all too oftencumbersome, and cyclistsalready braving winteryconditions are met with ad-ditional hazards.

It’s a simple argument —whatever clearing measuresare provided to motorizedvehicles should be providedin equal measure to non-motorized forms of trans-port.

And to Calgarians — a re-

minder there’s one reasonwe’re in this mess that’s notbeing discussed. True, we’vegot a climate that quite of-ten buries us in snow, butthat’s not within our con-trol — our size, however, is.

Our tax dollars are spreadtoo thin over too far a dis-tance. The city has morethan 14,000 lane kilome-tres of roads to clear and on-ly 1,435 residents persquare kilometre to pay forthem, four times less densethan a city like Vancouver.

Compounding the prob-lem, municipal taxes arebased on market assess-

ments that value inner cityproperties higher thanthose in the suburbs. Subur-banites should be payingmore though since infra-structure costs for sparselypopulated, far reaching ar-eas are exponentiallygreater.

I’d like to put the topic ofsnow removal to rest withall forms of transportationgiven equal considerationand all residents payingtheir fair share.

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A very wise piece of advicegoes: If you don’t want toannoy anyone, don’t talkabout politics or religion.So, today, I’m going to avoidtalking about politics.

For the last few years I’vebeen training to become aminister in the UnitedChurch of Canada. This pastweek I had my final inter-view. Many years of study

and training came down tothe result of a two-hourchat. After which I would ei-ther be: a) approved to do ajob I’ve worked for, plannedfor, and know I’ll love, or b)cast into the world with nohope, no future and no ob-vious reason for existing.Frankly, I was hoping forthe former.

An interview like this iswhat I call a Big Moment.Sometimes, this kind of mo-ment is marked by sayingmemorable words such as,“I do,” or “Oh my God, thetest strip is blue. I told youto stop buying contracep-tion products at the dollarstore!” In any case, a Big Mo-ment means your life is

about to change forever.To prepare for this Big

Moment, I had a plan: First, I prayed. I’ve had

training in praying. I raisedtwo teenagers.

Next, I checked out ad-vice on interview tech-niques. These include tipssuch as, “Go in knowingsomething about the CEO.”In my case, this would beGod. Or, “Be prepared to askquestions.”

I also read not to takesomeone with you to the in-terview, “Always go alone.”This was a problem. Ifthere’s one thing we’retaught in religious school,it’s that we’re never alone.

Finally, I took the precau-

tion of making a list of allthe things my trainingwould qualify me to do,should I not pass. These in-cluded, “Sell pencils onstreet corner, offer self toaliens as human sample,and learn not to eat.” It’sgood to know your options.

I’m happy to say I passed.I will be ordained in May.

So, is my future set? Ofcourse not. Big Momentshappen all the time. Lifecan turn on a dime. Butthere is a plan that will helpyou be prepared. Let go andenjoy the ride.

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PORT-AU-PRINCE Ten U.S.Baptists were being held inthe Haitian capital yester-day after trying to take 33children out of Haiti at atime of growing fears overpossible child trafficking.

The church members,most from Idaho, said theywere trying to rescue aban-doned children.

But officials said theylacked the proper docu-ments when they were ar-rested Friday night in a busalong with earthquake sur-vivors ages 2 months to 12years.

The group said it wantedto help the children by tak-ing them to an orphanageacross the border in theDominican Republic, saidthe group’s spokesperson,Laura Silsby, at the policeheadquarters in the capi-tal, where they were beingheld pending a hearing to-day.

No charges had beenfiled. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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U.S. to listen to locals on terror trial decision

The Obama administration said yesterday it would consider local oppositionwhen deciding where to hold Sept. 11 terror trials. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Relief groups rollout women-only aid

Relief workers beganhanding out women-onlyfood coupons, launching anew phase of what theyhope will be less cutthroataid distribution to ensurethat families and the weakget supplies followingHaiti’s devastating quake.

Young men often forcetheir way to the front ofaid lines or steal from oth-ers, meaning aid doesn’treach the neediest at distri-bution centres, accordingto aid groups.

The World Food Programcoupons can be turned inby women at 16 sites in the

capital, and entitle eachfamily to 25 kilograms ofrice. United Nations offi-cials say they are still farshort of reaching all twomillion quake victims esti-mated to need food aid.

Meanwhile, doctorsskirted a bureaucratic log-jam to save the life of threecritically ill child victimsof the earthquake on yes-terday, flying them to U.S.hospitals on a private jet toavoid a suspension of med-ical evacuation flights.

A five-year-old tetanusvictim, a 14-month-old boywith pneumonia and a ba-by with third-degree burnswere sent to Philadelphiaby the aid group Partnersin Health.

The airlift had been indoubt after the U.S. mili-tary stopped medical evac-uation flights Wednesdaybecause of apparent con-cerns over the long-termcosts to U.S. public hospi-tals.

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Health concerns

• Shortages of food, clean wa-ter, adequate shelter and la-trines are creating a potentialspawning ground for epi-

demics in a country with an es-timated one million peoplemade homeless by the Jan. 12quake.

A girl who lives at an orphanage run by Austria-based SOS Chil-

dren’s Villages carries an infant in Port-au-Prince yesterday.

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News in briefDAVOS The world’s foremostgathering of business and gov-ernment leaders wrapped up afive-day meeting yesterdaywith widespread agreementthat a fragile recovery is under-way. But the annual World Eco-

nomic Forum, which brought2,5000 VIPs to a Swiss resort,produced no consensus onwhat’s going to spur jobgrowth and prevent anotherglobal economic meltdown.


Group held for trying to take kids out of Haiti

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Affair costs lovers livestock

A news report says a Malaysian court has ordered two lovers to pay a fine of four buffaloesand a pig after they were found guilty of having an illicit affair. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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China Swift travels

In this photo released by the Xinhua news agency, a passenger hurries to catch her train at the rail-

way station in Nanchang, east China, on Saturday. China’s transport network is gearing up for mil-

lions of travellers expected during the annual Chinese Spring Festival period in February.

Getting to space is aboutto be outsourced.

The Obama administra-tion today will propose inits new budget spendingbillions of dollars to en-courage private companiesto build, launch and oper-ate spacecraft for NASAand others.

Uncle Sam would buy itsastronauts a ride intospace just like hopping in ataxi.

The idea is that gettingastronauts into orbit,which NASA has been do-ing for 49 years, is gettingto be so old hat that some-one other than the govern-ment can do it.

It’s no longer really theRight Stuff. Going privatewould free the spaceagency to do other things,such as explore beyondEarth’s orbit, do more re-

search and study the Earthwith better satellites.

And it would spur a newgeneration of private com-panies — even some withInternet roots — to inno-vate.

But there’s some con-cern about that — fromformer NASA officials wor-ried about safety and fromcongressional leaders wor-ried about lost jobs.

Some believe space isstill a tough, dangerous en-terprise not to be left toprivate companies out fora buck. Government wouldlose vital knowledge andcontrol, critics fear.

Proponents of privatespace, an idea that hasbeen kicking around fornearly 20 years, point tothe airline industry in itsinfancy. Initially the Armyflew most planes. But pri-vate companies eventuallystarted building and oper-ating aircraft, especiallywhen they got a guaran-teed customer in the U.S.government to deliver airmail.

That’s what NASA wouldbe: a guaranteed customerto ferry astronauts to theInternational Space Sta-tion through 2020.


Taxi into orbitU.S. looks to private space industry for rides

Spaceship

• Last year as part of thestimulus package, NASAsaid it would give out $50million in seed and plan-ning money for the ideaof a commercialspaceship. Several firmsexpressed interest andNASA will soon pick awinner or winners.

OPPOSITION Russian policebroke up anti-Kremlinprotests in Moscow and St.Petersburg yesterday, anddetained scores of demon-strators, including severalopposition leaders.

Several hundred demon-strators gathered in a cen-tral Moscow square, defy-ing a ban imposed by au-thorities.

The protesters said theirrally was banned in viola-tion of the Russian consti-tution’s guarantee of theright to gather.

They denounced thepolicies of President Dmit-ry Medvedev and his pred-ecessor and mentorVladimir Putin, who con-tinues to wield broad pow-ers as Russia’s powerfulprime minister.


Russian policebreak up protests

Armed men attackparty in MexicoKILLINGS Law enforcementofficials say a group ofarmed men stormed aparty in the violentMexican border city ofCuidad Juarez, killing 13teens and young adultsand injuring about twodozen.

The bodies of thevictims, whose agesranged from 15 to 20, layscattered around thehouse where the attackhappened Saturdaynight.


News in briefRELIGION Thousands ofIranians gathered at duskagainst a snowy mountainbackdrop to light giantbonfires in an ancientmid-winter festival datingback to Iran’s pre-Islamic pastthat is drawing new interestfrom Muslims. Saturday’scelebration was the first inwhich the dwindling remnantsof Iran’s once plentifulZoroastrian religiousminority were joined bythousands of Muslims,reflecting a growing interestin the strict Islamic society forthe country’s ancient

traditions.SRI LANKA Riding high on hisbattlefield victory against theTamil Tiger rebels and hislandslide re-election, SriLanka’s president appears un-der little pressure to tackle thedeep ethnic tensions thatfueled a generation of conflictthere. Any effort to empowerthe marginalized Tamil-speak-ing minority could only angerSinhalese nationalists, andmany observers fear that anopportunity to bring real peaceto the country will besquandered.


Pakistan investigates reportsTaliban leader killed in strikeMISSILE The Pakistani gov-ernment was investigatingreports yesterday that Pak-istani Taliban leaderHakimullah Mehsud diedfrom injuries sustained ina U.S. missile strikelaunched in mid-Januaryafter he helped orchestratea deadly bombing againstthe CIA in Afghanistan.

Mehsud’s predecessorwas killed in a missilestrike less than six monthsago, and inflicting anotherblow to the militantgroup’s leadership wouldbe an important successfor both Pakistan and theU.S.

The U.S. unleashed morethan a dozen drone strikesin the month following theDec. 30 suicide bombingagainst the CIA inAfghanistan, and Mehud’s

death would be furtherproof of the ability of theunmanned aircraft to tar-get Taliban and al-Qaidaleaders holed up in Pak-istan’s lawless tribal areas.

Pakistani government of-ficials said they were inves-tigating whether Mehsudwas mortally wounded inone of those strikes afterstate television reportedthat he died in Orakzai, anarea in Pakistan’s tribal re-gion. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

CIA bombing

• The drone strike that tar-geted Mehsud came afterhe appeared in a video be-side the Jordanian man whokilled seven CIA employeesin a suicide bombing at a re-mote base in Afghanistan.

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Hope for Haiti housing Retrofitting shipping containers possible solution

Thirteen months ago, ateam of researchers atClemson University,including PernilleChristensen, Martha Skin-ner and Doug Hecker, de-veloped a concept, SEED,providing temporary relieffor victims of natural dis-asters.

Their method involvesturning used shipping con-tainers into sustainablehousing.

SAFE AND SUSTAINABLESHIP

In order for SEED towork, you need a surplusof shipping containers, aport and labor. When re-cent mudslides in Colum-bia left thousands home-less, the lack of port actionmeant SEED was unable totake action.

The Caribbean, borderedby the ocean and whosesurplus of imports over ex-ports means an accumula-tion of shipping contain-ers, is ideal — there are anestimated 30 million un-used containers.

“Sometimes it’s cheaperfor the containers to re-main in port than for themto get sent back. We wantto achieve a system where-by we have the containersready in case of an emer-gency,” explains Chris-tensen.

One 40-foot shippingcontainer can carry up to67,200 pounds (an averagefamily of 5) and resist over-turn when exposed towinds of up to 140 mph. SHORT TERM SOLUTION

Ideally, SEED would likethe shipping containers tobe set in place if therewere to be a disaster.

The emergency homeswould be able to withstandextreme weather condi-tions and provide otherhousing solution ratherthan tents.

According to Hecker,Haiti isn’t quiet ready forthe containers.

“When we will be able toset up homes for the esti-mated 400,000 homelessremains ambiguous. Weare hoping it will be in thenext month, but this willdepend on capturing thesurplus of containers, get-ting the professionalsthere and all other logisti-cal issues.” LONG TERM SOLUTION

In the long term, SEEDwants to use the contain-ers as a basis for distraughtcommunities to re-con-nect.

Hecker and Christensenare working on the cus-

tomization of the contain-ers.

“After natural disasters,the soil loses its nutritionalvalue so we’ve designed anemergency garden. We’veidentified local plant cy-cles ones that grow fastand produce the fruit andvegetables necessary forthe community to becomeself-sufficient, such asbread fruit, yams and pota-toes,” explains Chris-tensen.

Helping Haiti can onlyhappen once SEED has es-tablished shipping con-tacts and some sort offunctioning infrastructure,will they be able to fullyimplement the project inHaiti.

“Because of the scale ofthe disaster, there is cur-rently a surplus of contain-ers which have been usedto ship in emergencygood,” says Skinner.

In the long run, SEEDwould be able to convertthese into houses.

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ECO-HOUSING Built within acenturion sweet chestnuttree, perche dans la Pecheis a unique twist on greenarchitecture and design.

The owners, coupleClaire Stickland and IvanPayonne, wanted to buildsomething that would bein harmony with the localenvironment and land-scape, and their tree wastheir answer.

“One issue we had wasfitting construction plans

around the branches. Thewood in itself, red cedar isperfect because it requiresno treatment, in fact theless treatment the better,”says Stickland.

For isolation, the coupleused Triso Aluminum andhemp and grey water inthe kitchen and the show-er.

“We wanted to installdry toilets but as it’s aguesthouse, we didn’twant to make it awkwardfor whoever was staying, itcan be a cultural issue. Wemay eventually build a sep-arate unit in the field

where we can install theseas they are more environ-mentally friendly,” ex-plains Stickland.

For the heating, they hadno choice but go for elec-tric as the trees leavesmade solar energy an inef-ficient method.

In terms of the linen, itsall organic cotton.

All food served is organicand locally sourced pro-duce and the couple con-sume very little meat so asto not disrupt the naturalbalance in the regions foodchain. For more info visit:perchedansleperche.com

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Bloomingdale’s opens in Dubai

The city with the world’s tallest building now has one more claim to fame: The only Bloomingdale’s outside the United States. The first international branch of the Manhattan institution opened in Dubai yesterday. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Environmentalists and op-position politicians are dis-missing the Conservativegovernment’s latestpledge to reducegreenhouse gas emissions,with one group predictingthey’ll actually increaseunder a new agreementhammered out last year.

The federal governmentformally notified the Unit-ed Nations that Canadawill cut its carbon emis-

sions by 17 per cent from2005 levels over the next10 years as part of theCopenhagen Accord on cli-mate change, Environ-ment Minister Jim Prenticesaid Saturday.

But a spokesman forGreenpeace says these tar-gets will actually increaseemissions, not lowerthem. While the govern-ment’s previous emissiontargets, announced in

2006, would have resultedin a three per cent reduc-tion in emissions over1990 levels, these latesttargets will actually in-crease emissions by 2.5 percent, said Dave Martin, aclimate and energy co-ordi-nator with Greenpeace.“We’re heading in exactlythe opposite direction thatwe need to head,” Martinsaid.

The Canadian targets are

similar to those of theUnited States, somethingthe federal governmentplanned all along, Prenticesaid. “Throughout theCopenhagen negotiationswe maintained that ourclear policy was to supportthe outcome of Copen-hagen and also to align ourclean energy and climatechange policies with thoseof the Obama administra-tion.” THE CANADIAN PRESS

Emission targets too low?Greenpeace says change going in the wrong direction

Gasoline Chevron posts loss

The reflection from a gas tanker truck is shown at a Chevron

gas station in San Francisco. Chevron announced this weekend

that its fourth-quarter profit fell 37 per cent as higher crude

prices led to huge losses in its refining business.

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BREWING How well KerryScarsbrook has preparedfor the 2010 Olympicswon’t be discussed on thesports pages, but it couldaffect the Games all thesame.

He’s the man in chargeof making the official beer.

“All I can think about allthe time now is theGames,” said Scarsbrook,

Vancouver brewmaster forMolson Coors, the official2010 supplier of beer.

It’s meant that what’susually a slow winter ismoving a lot faster as thecompany prepares to pro-vide the suds for all of thesports venues, pavilionsand other Olympic events.

The brewery is doublingthe number of brews

they’re doing per weekand have added shifts tomake more cans and kegs.

It takes one minute tofill 1,600 cans of MolsonCanadian, but about onemonth to make the beer it-self, so what will be on tapduring the Games hasbeen in production sinceJanuary.

“The fact that our brew-ery is right in the backyardof where all the action isgoing to be, it puts us inthe center point,” saidWade Bayne, director ofsales in Western B.C. forMolson Coors.

While Molson’s is the of-ficial beer, the unofficialcontenders are also antici-pating a sharp uptick inbusiness.

Across the province, it’s

estimated that 36 millioncans of all beer will be con-sumed in February, up sev-en million cans from nor-mal, according to the Mol-son’s forecasts.

“We know the Gamesare as much about hospi-tality as they are sports-manship so we know peo-ple are going to come andwant to enjoy the Gamesbut also enjoy the localflavour of the city,” saidWalter Cosman, generalmanger of Granville IslandBrewery.

Games-time planning athis brewery began ninemonths ago examiningeverything from whetherthey had enough boxes toenough brew.

Cosman said he foreseesselling about 15,000 kegsof beer — three timeswhat he’d normally sell inthe month of February.

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DOWNTURN Ever sinceRichard Garneau began histenure as chief executiveof Catalyst Paper in 2007,he has watched the pricesof its products plummetbeyond anything he’d ex-perienced over his 30 yearsin the industry.

Garneau has guided theVancouver-area companythrough one of the mostbrutal slumps in the pulpand paper industry.

Demand for newsprinthas collapsed and pricesand profitability in the in-dustry has deteriorated,due to the rise of digitalmedia, and aggravated bythe recession.

And Garneau said it’s un-likely the industry will

ever return to 2005 levelsof consumption.

“I’m no fool that in 2010we’re going to see im-provement,” said Garneau,who announced last weekthat he will be leaving thecompany in April.

“I think it may takeprobably another year be-fore we see a recovery.”

The Forest Products As-sociation of Canada is ex-pected to release Mondaythe findings of a study rec-ommending a course of ac-tion for the industry’s sur-

vival.Lower demand is expect-

ed to be permanent giventhe loss of newspaper ad-vertising and circulation aselectronic media contin-ues to rise.

Meanwhile, Garneau’sdeparture to deal withfamily issues at home inQuebec means he will notbe able to complete hisgoal of reshaping Catalystinto a company with a sus-tainable future.

But given the problemsGarneau faces as head of

one of the country's largestpaper makers, he says hissemi-retirement seemslike “an eternity away.”

Despite industry-wideunion concessions, a re-covery isn’t coming soonenough for hundreds ofCanada’s forestry workerswho have watched em-ployment slide 9.5 percent from 90,700 in 2008to an estimated 82,000 in2009.

Figures from the Confer-ence Board of Canada pre-dict employment will fallto 77,000 jobs in 2010. Thereport said the industry’scapacity utilization ratehas fallen to 73.1 per cent,its lowest point since 1975.

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Low prices hit forestry industry hard“I think it may take probably another yearbefore we see a recovery”Richard Garneau, CEO of Catalyst Paper

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Roger Federer beat Andy Murray 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 (11) for his fourth Australian Open title yesterday, extendingthe British men’s drought in Grand Slam singles championships into a 74th year. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS



Looking to add depth andscoring punch to theCalgary Flames, generalmanager Darryl Sutterswung a seven-player dealyesterday morning withthe Toronto Maple Leafs.

To acquire forwardsNiklas Hagman, Jamal May-ers and Matt Stajan alongwith defenceman IanWhite, Sutter had to pay ahigh price by shipping blue-liner Dion Phaneuf toToronto along with forwardFreddie Sjostrom and defen-sive prospect Keith Aulie.

Phaneuf scored his 10thgoal of the season in the vic-tory over the Oilers to givehim 22 points in 55 games.The 24-year-old former Nor-ris Trophy candidate wassurprised to find out thenews yesterday morning.

To get four players whocan step right into Calgary’slineup for tonight’s game atthe Pengrowth Saddledomeagainst the PhiladelphiaFlyers, Sutter knew he’dhave to give up some valu-able assets.

“It’s not a one-trickpony,” said Sutter, whosesquad broke out of a nine-game losing streak on Sat-urday night with a 6-1 winat home over the Edmon-ton Oilers. “It’s about thewhole group and you needguys who complement thegroup. This move wasn’tmade because of Dion. He isa great kid and a he’s a real-ly good hockey player andhe’ll continue to be a reallygood hockey player.”

While he was surprisedto find out that Phaneufwas part of the deal, Flamescaptain Jarome Iginla saidthe trade should provide aboost to Calgary’s scoringattack. “I think it adds skilland creativity to our team,which we need,” Iginla said.

Stajan said he’s excited togo to a hockey city and playfor a team that’s in the run-ning for a playoff spot.

“To go with three other

teammates, I know we’reall pretty close, and to go in-to this together, with agreat group from what Ihear in Calgary, it’s excitingfor all of us,” said Stajan,who’s slated to become anunrestricted free agentalong with Mayers in thesummer, while White is a

restricted free agent.Coach Brent Sutter said

he likes what Stajan willbring to the table for theFlames.

“He’s putting up some re-ally good numbers and he’sa guy that also has got goodplaymaking skills,” saidBrent Sutter, who also likes

the fact that all four playersacquired in the deal haveconsiderable NHL experi-ence.

“We’re talking aboutplayers that are starting toestablish themselves in theNHL and have some experi-ence doing so.”

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Trade ‘adds skill andcreativity to our team’Iginla expects new teammates to boost Flames’ offence

The new Flames

• Before the trade, Matt Sta-jan led all Toronto forwardswith 16 goals and 25 assists in55 games.• Niklas Hagman led the Leafswith 20 goals to go with 13 as-sists in 55 games at the time

of the deal• Jamal Mayers, who has 710games of NHL experience, isexcited about the opportunityof improving upon the twogoals and six assists he put upin 44 games with the Leafs.

• In 56 games with the Leafs,Ian White notched nine goalsand 17 assists to tie his careerhigh of 26 points that herecorded in both the 2006-07and 2008-09 seasons withToronto.

NHLYESTERDAY’S RESULTS

Florida 2 N.Y. Islanders 0Los Angeles 3 New Jersey 2Pittsburgh 2 Detroit 1 (SO)

Phoenix 4 Dallas 2Washington 3 Tampa Bay 2N.Y. Rangers 3 Colorado 1

NBAYESTERDAY’S RESULTS

Toronto 117 Indiana 102Cleveland 114 L.A. Clippers 89Denver 103 San Antonio 89

L.A. Lakers 90 Boston 89Minnesota 112 New York 91Oklahoma City 112 Golden State 104Orlando 91 Detroit 86Philadelphia 83 New Jersey 79Phoenix 115 Houston 111 (OT)

SCOREBOARD

There was a timewhen I would tellanyone who wouldlisten that soccerwould soon eclipse

every major sport in thiscountry — including hock-ey.

I would point to the slowdemise of baseball in Toron-to, the youth participationnumbers across Canada out-stripping any other sportand the rise of professionalfranchises in cities likeMontreal, Vancouver andToronto as reasons why thenext generation in Canadawould be an Adidas Genera-tion.

It was often an argumentthat was one part smart-ass,one part self-delusion andtwo parts self-preservation(there aren’t a lot of nation-al soccer columns in thiscountry).

And after a few pints atthe pub I’ll still tell any BlueJays-cap wearing nutbar toenjoy the team while he can— I have to be honest abouta few things.

One — domestic soccerhere just doesn’t draw tradi-tional TV ratings. Whetherit is for the national team orone of the Whitecaps, Im-pact or TFC, it just does nothave the same numberspull as the establishedsports.

Two — the likes of TSNwill continue to ignore thesport as nothing but a nichemarket until they figure outhow to generate revenuefrom it.

If you look at the cover-age SportsCentre provideson any given night, it is al-ways reflective of its ownprogramming. TSN is heavi-ly involved in NHL and CFLcoverage and those are thesports that are given priori-ty on any given night.

When it became obviousthat no networks were go-ing to broadcast Canada’sgame last night, I jokinglyposted an ad on CraigslistJamaica asking anyone witha camera and Internet ac-cess to broadcast the gamefor $100.

Needless to say, I didn’tget any response from theJamaicans, but the flood ofCanadians who wrote me toask if I had any luck certain-ly were interested.

Canadian fans famouslycrashed pockets of theMacedonian Internet lastyear when they latched onto several web streamsbroadcasting a Canadianfriendly.

While the rating num-bers aren’t big enough forthe major networks to justi-fy a broadcast, there is amarket for games likethese.

Toronto FC has recog-nized this in the past and asa thank you of sorts to theirfans broadcast pre-seasongames through their web-site.

The Canadian Soccer As-sociation could easily do thesame. It may not have re-sources to self-broadcast butwith a growing number ofprivate companies like SSN(which broadcasts anotherniche market — CIS sports)out there, there is no reasonnow for games like these togo unseen any longer.

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Sports in briefCURLING Ontario’s KristaMcCarville and Canada’sJennifer Jones lead the ScottiesTournament of Hearts after fivedraws with 3-0 records. NFL The Indianapolis Colts insistPro Bowl defensive end DwightFreeney has a low ankle sprain,not a torn ligament, and that hemay play next week.SOCCER Luton Shelton scored inthe second half yesterday tohelp Jamaica beat Canada

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Schumacher set for returnThe new Formula One campaign begins today with the start of pre-season

testing that will also bring the return of German Michael Schumacher at

Mercedes GP after three years out of motor racing’s premier sport. The three-day

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Matt Stajan, then with the Toronto Maple Leafs, checks Calgary Flame Jarome Iginla during a game

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Vancouver Games

Skicross racer injured, but hoping to compete in Games

The Canadian Olympic freestyle team may be without one of its top medal hopefuls. Skicross racer Julia Murray tore ligaments in her knee duringtraining last weekend but is hoping to compete in the Vancouver Games, the Canadian Ski Cross Team said yesterday in a release. THE CANADIAN PRESS

Jessie Vetter has brokenthe hearts of Canada’swomen’s hockey team be-fore.

Can she do it again in thebiggest game in the sport ofwomen’s hockey?

If Canada and the U.S.face each other for theOlympic gold medal Feb. 25,chances are Vetter will be inthe American net.

She’s had more successagainst Canada in recentyears than any other U.S.goalie

The Americans won twostraight world champi-onship finals against Cana-da for the first time withVetter in goal.

Canada and the U.S. didnot even meet at the 2006Olympics in Turin, Italy,where the under-preparedAmericans were upset inthe semifinal by Sweden.

Vetter, who joined the na-tional team the followingyear, has been the key inher country’s resurgence inwomen’s internationalhockey since then.

Goaltending had tradi-tionally been the Achilles’heel of the U.S. in big gamesagainst Canada. That is nolonger the case.

“Jessie has gotten us overthe hump as far as makingthe big saves and being un-der that pressure,” U.S. cap-tain Natalie Darwitz said.

“It’s difficult to score onher the first opportunity.She gets into people’s headsand they may grip theirsticks a little bit tighterthen.”

From April 10, 2008, toNov. 6, 2009, Vetter carrieda 6-1 record versus Canada.Her most recent start was a3-2 shootout loss on Jan. 1 in

Ottawa, where the twocountries played the last ofsix exhibition games priorto the start of the Olympictournament Feb. 13.

Two of her victories werethe world championship fi-

nals of 2008 and 2009. An-other was the Hockey Cana-da Cup final on Sept. 6 atVancouver’s GM Place,which will be renamedCanada Hockey Place forthe Olympics.

“It’s amazing to evenbeen playing in back-to-back worlds in the champi-onship game against a greatteam like Canada,” says theeffervescent Vetter.

If anyone can giggle at

thousands of Canadian fanstrying to get into her headby chanting “Vet-ter, Vet-ter” at Canada HockeyPlace, it’s this curly haired,25-year-old from CottageGrove, Wis.

“I love playing in Cana-da,” Vetter insists. “I justlike having people in thestands.

“They will definitely beagainst the American teamand obviously, a goaltender,you obviously stick out. Iwon’t be a fan favourite. I’mlooking forward to it and itshould be a good time.”

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As university tuition riseswhile job marketscontract, the pressuremounts for institutes ofhigher learning to justifythemselves as job-gettingengines. But does anundergrad really makepeople more employableand is that the purpose ofuniversity anyway?

Harold Jarche of JarcheConsulting thinks the“university myth” hasbeen busted by its ownpopularity.

“With my parents, it waspretty simple: Go to univer-sity and get an educationbecause that means you geta better job. But correlation

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The University of Calgary is taking advantage of a one-time offer from the Alberta government to apply for increases in base tuition amounts incertain programs. University officials are proposing tuition hikes of up to 47 per cent in professional programs next year. METRO NEWS SERVICES

Vet college on W-5The University of Guelph’s Ontario Veterinary

College was the subject of last Saturday’s

broadcast of CTV’s W-5. The episode focused on

cancer research at the vet college and explain how

treating cancer in animals can assist efforts to under-

stand the disease in humans. METRO NEWS SERVICES

WorkologyWorkology in briefUOTTAWA WAIVES TUITION,

RESIDENCE FEES FOR HAITIAN

STUDENTS The University of Ot-tawa announced last week it willcover tuition and residence feesthis term for the 23 Haitianstudents attending the institutionon a student visa. Shortly afterthe earthquake, uOttawa presi-dent Allan Rock met with the stu-dents, some of whom were griev-ing lost relatives, others unsure ofthe whereabouts of theirfamilies. EXPELLED MCMASTER STUDENT

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RESIDENCE FIRE A formerMcMaster University student wassentenced last week to two yearsless a day in jail for an October2008 arson that endangered thelives of fellow residents of a uni-versity dormitory and costMcMaster more than $5 million.Emerson Pardoe, a first-year stu-dent at the time, set of pile ofnewspapers on fire as he was rid-ing the elevator to the third floorof Brandon Hall. CHARGES DROPPED AGAINST

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Charges have been droppedagainst Irnes Zjelkovic, a 22-year-old University of Western Ontariostudent whose violent arrest oncampus in October was caughton video and posted on YouTube.The Crown agreed to stay thecharges as long as Zjelkovic con-tinues to receive psychiatric treat-ment. $32 MILLION FOR RESEARCH

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Olympicsponsorship,full-time job

Like it or not, majorsports events likethe Olympics needcorporate sponsorsto help pay the

bills. And those sponsorsneed someone to run theshow.

For Coca Cola, that per-son is Nicola Kettlitz, 47.From support on the torchrelay to providing enter-tainment and refresh-ments at the games, Ket-tlitz has organized it all.

He moved to Vancouverthree years ago. The jobstarted with about twoyears of planning.

Kettlitz has spent thelast year hiring staff andseeing his ideas come tolife. He’s been followingthe torch as much as possi-ble: When he does he pret-ty much lives out of his carand answers his BlackBer-ry constantly.

Now, he’s back in Van-couver hiring more staff:He’ll have 600 in total oncethe games start. He’ll putthe finishing touches onhow Coke will sell drinksand provide refreshmentsfree for staff and athletesat sports venues, and pulltogether programming forCoke’s special events ven-ues, like the 8,500 squarefoot tent in downtownVancouver.

Finding justificationin hitting the books

doesn’t equal causation —it’s not because you’ve gotthis schooling that you gotthe better job, it was be-cause you were part of asmall elite,” says theSackville, N.B.-based con-sultant specializing in inte-grating work and learning.“I’m not saying universityis bad or wrong; I’m sayinguniversity is not job prepa-ration.”

The Canadian Councilon Learning reports one infive Canadians aged 25 to44 has a degree. A recentGlobe and Mail article saidenrolment has jumped by40 per cent since the early1990s and tuition hastripled over the same peri-od, saddling students with

greater debt. Jobless gradslearn the curriculum isn’tbased on industry needs,as community colleges are,meaning degrees don’t lineup with work.

Jarche says universitieshave intrinsic value, butjob-focused studentsshould ask themselves: “Isthe return on investmentworth it?” He suggests anentrepreneur could betterinvest the money in a start-up business or a tradesmenstudying at college.

Jeff Rybak, a Maclean’sblogger and the author ofWhat’s Wrong With Uni-versity And How to Make ItWork For You Anyway, saysuniversities reluctantlytook the role of job en-

gines. “Universities don’twant to be the gateway tothe job market, but as tu-ition is rising they’re stuckhaving to justify whatthey’re doing in economicterms,” says the law stu-dent at the University ofToronto.

Some students are atuniversity to learn, somebecause they want to be ac-countants and some arejust there because “theyhave absolutely no way ofexplaining to their parentsthat they’re not going.That’s when you’re reallyscrewed,” he says.

It’s the “holding pen”drifters who are just wast-ing time and money. Ry-bak urges them to insteadfollow the British exampleof the “gap year” after highschool to travel and decidewhat you really want to donext — and whether uni-versity will help you do it.

JON TATTRIEfor Metro Canada

Getting an undergraduate degree does not necessarily equate to a job, or as one consultant puts it, “university is not job preparation.”

“I’m not saying university is bad or wrong;I’m saying university is not jobpreparation.” Consultant Harold Jarche

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Parks and Recreation has been renewed early for next season, TVGuide.com has confirmed. The Amy Poehler-led sitcomtakes a behind-the-scenes look at small-town bureaucracy in an Indiana-area parks department. METRO NEWS SERVICES

EntertainmentBeyoncé wins big at Grammys

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The 52nd Grammy Awardsbelonged to Beyoncé as thesinger smashed the recordfor most trophies by afemale artist in a singlenight.

The 28-year-old pickedup a record six prizes lastnight, owning a ceremonyin which a group of youngartists helped put a freshface on the greying Gram-mys.

“Wow, thank you somuch,” Beyoncé said as shetook the stage to claim heraward for best female popvocal performance.

“I’m sorry, I’m nervous.I’d love to thank my familyfor all their support, in-cluding my husband, I loveyou. And I’d like to thankall of my fans for all oftheir support over theyears, goodnight, thankyou.”

Though Beyoncé was setto duel with 20-year-oldTaylor Swift and 23-year-old Lady Gaga in all threeof the Grammys’ main cat-egories, it didn’t end up be-ing much of a fight.

She won song of the yearfor the omnipresent SingleLadies (Put a Ring on It)and brought her all-timeGrammy haul to 16awards.

She had previously beentied for most wins by a fe-male at a Grammys withLauryn Hill, Alison Krauss,Norah Jones, Alicia Keysand Amy Winehouse.

Swift, the Black EyedPeas, Jay-Z and Kings ofLeon had three trophies

last night while Gaga,Kanye West, Rihanna,Maxwell, Eminem, JasonMraz and Bela Fleck wereamong a group of two-timewinners.

Canadians Neil Youngand Michael J. Fox bothwon their first-ever Gram-my prizes, while Vancou-ver’s Michael Buble tookhis second career award.

While Swift couldn’t ri-val Beyoncé’s haul, thesongstress with the longgolden locks seemedthrilled to win at all.

Hours after she won twoawards during the non-televised pre-show (andheld one of the trophiesup, exclaiming in disbelief:

“This is a Grammy!”), Swiftclimbed the Staples Centerstage to claim the prize forbest country album.

“I just feel like I’m stand-ing here accepting an im-possible dream and I thankyou so much for that.”

Beyoncé also won bestR&B contemporary albumfor I Am ... Sasha Fierce,best R&B female vocal forSingle Ladies, best tradi-tional R&B performancefor At Last and best R&Bsong, while Gaga earned

trophies for best dancerecording (Poker Face) andbest electronic/dance al-bum (The Fame).

The platinum-blond elec-tro-pop oddball alsoopened the evening on atypically bizarre note.

Gaga vamped through averse of her Poker Facewith the stage dressed upwith industrial props andsmoke puffing out of steelpipes. Wearing a sparklinggreen unitard with match-ing high heels, Gaga wasthen thrown into a fire-filled vat while a dancerchanted “she’s a monster.”

Below was a double-sided piano with proparms growing out of it andElton John positioned onthe other side. The twothen performed a duet ofYour Song and Gaga’sSpeechless. “Take my pic-ture Hollywood, I wannabe a star!”


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Taylor Swift accepts the

award for best country album.

Paris Jackson accepts the life-

time achievement award on

behalf of late father Michael. Lady Gaga, above, performs at the 52nd annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles last night.

Grammy Winners

• The following is a partial listof Grammy Award winners:Record of the Year: Use Some-body, Kings of LeonBest Rock Album: 21st CenturyBreakdown, Green DayBest New Artist: Zac BrownBandBest Country Album: Fearless,

Taylor SwiftBest Comedy Album: AColbert Christmas: The Great-est Gift of All!, StephenColbertFemale Pop VocalPerfromance: Halo, BeyoncéBest Male Pop Vocal Perform-ance: Make It Mine, Jason

MrazBest Pop Performance By ADuo Or Group With Vocals: IGotta Feeling, Black Eyed PeasBest Rap/Sung Collaboration:Run This Town, Jay-Z, Rihannaand Kanye WestAlbum of the Year: Fearless, Al-bum of the Year

Slash and Jamie Foxx perform

together on the Grammy stage.

Stephen Colbert accepts the

award for best comedy album.

Young wins first GrammyPEOPLE Neil Younghas his first Gram-my Award.

The Toronto-bornrock legendclaimed a trophyfor best boxed orspecial limited edi-tion package forthe first elaboratelydesigned volume of hisArchives collection.

The 64-year-old was al-so up for best solo rock

vocal performancefor the song Fork inthe Road.

Young wasalready honouredthis weekend bythe RecordingAcademy, whichputs on the Gram-mys.

He was honoured onFriday night as the Musi-Cares person of the year.


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Torn accused of breaking into bank

Rip Torn has been charged with breaking into a Connecticut bank and carrying a loaded firearm while intoxicated. Police say the Emmy-winningactor, 78, was arrested Friday after police found him inside a Litchfield Bancorp in Salisbury, Conn. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Bigelow ‘queen of directors’Filmmaker first woman to win DGA’s top honourKathryn Bigelow and TheHurt Locker becameofficial awards-seasonfront-runners Saturday af-ter Bigelow won the topprize from the DirectorsGuild of America.

The 58-year-old film-maker is the first womanto win the guild’s top hon-our, which positions herand the film as shoe-insfor the Academy Awards.The DGA boasts that itswinner has gone on to winthe Oscar all but six timessince 1948.

“This is the most incredi-ble moment of my life,”Bigelow said backstage.She downplayed her gen-der, saying, “I suppose Ilike to think of myself as afilmmaker.”

Still, she was the onlynominated director whoearned accolades for herphysique as well as herfilmmaking. Bigelow wasup against Quentin Taran-tino for Inglourious Baster-ds, Jason Reitman for Upin the Air, Lee Daniels forPrecious and her ex-hus-band James Cameron forAvatar.

Tarantino praised her as“queen of directors.” Hesaid his fellow nomineeshave been spending somuch time together, theyhave become “like a super-star rock band and we’regoing to go on tour togeth-er.”

Clutching a shiny medal-

lion as a souvenir of hisDGA nomination, Taranti-no said, “I don’t give a (ex-pletive) who wins, I am sohappy to have this.”

Reitman told the win-ning director that he grewup watching her films.

“You are more than agreat director, you are oneof the greats,” he said. “I’min awe of you, too.”

Cameron praised hiscompetitors as “truly excel-

lent and brilliant filmmak-ers.”

The six-hour affair at theHyatt Regency CenturyPlaza hotel drew a spate ofcelebrities, including An-gelina Jolie and Brad Pitt,Jodie Foster, Jon Cryer,Cheryl Hines and JasonBateman. All but Jolieserved as presenters duringSaturday’s ceremony.

Carl Reiner hosted theevent recognizing achieve-

ments in directing, as hehas for 22 years.

Modern Family won thetop honour for televisioncomedy for its pilot, direct-

ed by Jason Winer. The dra-ma prize went to Mad Menand director Lesli LinkaGlatter. Ross Katz was hon-oured for the HBO movieTaking Chance. Louie Psi-hoyos’ film The Cove wonthe documentary award.

Cher presented NormanJewison with the guild’sLifetime AchievementAward for his career infilm.

“The studio heads maybehave all the power, butwe’ve got the glory,” hesaid. “And when you re-ceive the lifetime achieve-ment award like this, itmakes you very nervous,like maybe you’re going tofall off the perch or some-thing.”


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The Hurt Locker; Filmmaker

Norman Jewison received the

lifetime achievement award.

“The studio headsmaybe have all thepower, but we’vegot the glory.”Norman Jewison

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Winter’s Bone, Restrepo top at SundanceAWARDS The Ozark Moun-tains drama Winter’s Boneand the war-on-terror docu-mentary Restrepo won tophonours Saturday amongU.S. movies at the Sun-dance Film Festival.

Director Debra Granik’sWinter’s Bone, the story ofa 17-year-old trying to un-cover the fate of her fatheramong the criminal clansof the Ozarks, earned thegrand jury prize for Ameri-can dramas at Sundance,Robert Redford’s showcasefor independent cinema.

Granik and co-writer

Anne Rosellini also won thefestival’s Waldo Salt screen-writing award for theirscript, based on the novelby Daniel Woodrell.

The awards came hoursafter Roadside Attractionsbought North Americantheatrical rights for Win-ter’s Bone. Roadside plansto release the film this sum-mer.

“Life is really diverse onthis continent that we hap-pen to inhabit,” Granik saidin an interview after theawards ceremony. “I thinkthere’s something to un-

derstand that in any coun-ty, there’s a story that issomewhat universal, but

that it’s also worthy just tonote the differences and ap-preciate the differencesamong the counties thatmake up the 50 states, thatmake up, then, the largerpicture.”

The U.S. documentaryprize went to Restrepo,which chronicles the livesof an American platoonfighting in Afghanistan,where the troops haveerected an outpost to a fall-en comrade, Pvt. Juan Re-strepo. The film was direct-ed by journalist SebastianJunger, author of The Per-

fect Storm, and photogra-pher Tim Hetherington.

“We’re in the middle oftwo wars,” Junger said. “Ifour movie can help thiscountry understand how togo forward, we would be in-credibly honoured by that.”

The audience award forfavourite U.S. drama cho-sen by Sundance fans wasgiven to the romance hap-pythankyoumoreplease,written and directed by andstarring Josh Radnor, thestar of How I Met YourMother.


Director Debra Granik accepts

the Grand Jury Prize for

Dramatic Film for Winter’s

Bone at Sundance Film Festival

Saturday.

Girl talkturns to docFILM When a group of pre-teen girls gathered fortheir weekly girl talk atschool three years ago,they never dreamed thatthey would one day be re-leasing a feature-lengthdocumentary film.

Those Thursday noon-hour group gatherings atNechako ElementarySchool in Kitimat, in north-ern B.C., turned into a full-time film-making projectlasting three years and re-sulting in today’s release oftheir documentary aboutyoung girls and eating dis-orders, 36-24-36.

It’s been a crazy and in-spiring adventure, said An-drea Sanders-Crouch, whowas 11 years old and inGrade 6 in February 2007when she signed on to startthe film project with herfriends, Akira Klem-Smithand Justine Shaw.

“It really blossomed intoso much more,” saidSanders-Crouch, who is ex-cited to the point of giddi-ness about the documen-tary’s screening next weekat Mount Elizabeth Second-ary School in Kitimat.

Sanders-Crouch is 14 nowand in Grade 9. Klem-Smithis 15 and in Grade 10, andShaw is 14, in Grade 9.Their film will be releasedtoday, and available for freeon the Internet.

The girls made the docu-mentary under the guid-ance of youth social workerRoderick Taylor and hiswife, Suki Athwal, who livein nearby Terrace, B.C.

The film gives a first-hand perspective of battleswith anorexia young girlsface , said Taylor. It also ex-plores the reality and in-sights of pre-adolescentgirls who, prior to makingthe film, thought very littleabout the perception of fe-male body image withinour society, Taylor said.

“This film is completelygrassroots,” Taylor said. “Itgrew out of a bunch of kidsand then we got a bunch ofyoung women from allover the world submittingphotos to be part of thefilm.” THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Sudoku Aromatic Chickenand VegetableSteamboat

INGREDIENTS:

1 lb (500 g) skinless bone-less chicken breasts, thinstrips1/2 tsp (2 mL) five-spicepowder2 tbsp (25 mL) soy sauce1 1/4-in. (3-cm) piece freshginger, peeled andchopped1 celery stick, sliced1 garlic clove, sliced1 strip lemon peel6 cups (1.5 L) chickenstock1 red pepper, chunks1/2 lb (250 g) baby corn7 oz (200 g) broccoli florets2 scallions, thinly sliced1/2 lb (250 g) rice noodles 1/2 lb (250 g) bok choy,quartered lengthwise

METHOD:

1. Put chicken into bowl.Add five-spice powder andsoy sauce, and mix well.

Set aside.2. Put ginger into pot withcelery, garlic, lemon peeland stock. Boil, thenreduce heat. Cover andsimmer 5 minutes.3. Add chicken to stock,then add red pepper, cornand broccoli. Bring back toboil and simmer untilchicken is cooked and veg-etables are barely tender.4. Add scallions and noo-dles; stir, then bring backto boil. Lay bok choy overtop and simmer or untilbok choy leaves are wiltedand noodles are cooked.5. ladle cooked ingredientsinto bowls with broth.

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