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Vancouver’s Canada Daycelebration felt more likeFourth of July than a tribute to a nation thatprides itself on peacekeeping, says a Vancouver woman who attended the festivities.

Tanya Fink, 31, said shewas “shocked” to see an en-tire block outside the Con-vention Centre taken up by

a Canadian Forces tent,where soldiers allegedlyshowed children how tohandle weapons.

A military spokespersonsaid the soldiers were sim-ply keeping Canadians in-formed of their activities.

To Fink, it was a “brazenstate-sponsored recruit-ment campaign” and “glo-rification of violence andwar.”

She said some visitorswere lined up to try afirearm simulator while

soldiers applied fake mili-tary-themed tattoos to chil-dren’s arms and faces.

“And that was the biggestattraction down at Canadaplace,” Fink said. “Sincewhen is touting our coun-try’s military and support-ing its occupations of othernations the mainstay ofCanada Day celebrations?”

Fink said people had toexit under an archwaymade up of two giant con-verging guns, and she wasembarrassed to imagine

what tourists were think-ing.

“It goes against our im-age that we’re trying toportray,” she said.

“The last time I checked,our anthem sings, ‘ourhome and native land,’ not‘bombs bursting in air.’”

Lt.-Cmdr. Nathalie Garciasaid the display was part ofthe military’s effort to keep

the public educated aboutits role.

“As members of thiscommunity, we participatein many events and festi-vals such as the Pacific Na-tional Exhibition, theCloverdale Rodeo and theAbbotsford Air Show,” Gar-cia said.

“Consistent with federalgovernment policy, wehave a responsibility toCanadian taxpayers to in-form them of our role andmission.”

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Did military glorify war at fest?Citizen questions strong presence; Forces spokesperson calls it ‘responsibility’

A 20-year-old man locatedThursday morning after get-ting lost with a friend dur-ing a camping trip said he’sgrateful to British Colum-bia’s search and rescuers.

Lukas Hyrman and FinleyHyde, 18, waved frantically asa search and rescue helicop-ter approached them after

four days lost near WidgeonLake.

“We didn’t bring enoughfood because we were plan-ning on catching some fish,but we didn’t catch any,”said Hyrman. “We had ourlast bit of food on Wednes-day morning.”

Exhaustion limited their

attempt to hike out of thebackcountry.

“We weren’t even very farfrom Vancouver and we stillgot lost,” said Hyrman whosaid they had trouble get-ting a cellphone signal. Eventually, they found “afluke couple of seconds ofreception” and were able to

send a friend a text messagefor help. “We texted himright when the sun wentdown, and they showed upright when the sun cameup.” Hyrman said. “But thecrew was looking for us inthe night in the forest, theyjust couldn’t find us.”DANIEL TAM/FOR METRO VANCOUVER

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OLYMPICS Roberto Luongo isthe lone Vancouver playerinvited to Hockey Canada’sOlympic tryout camp inCalgary, which will be heldin late-August.

Luongo is competing withNew Jersey’s MartinBrodeur, Columbus’ SteveMason, Carolina’s CamWard and Pittsburgh’s Marc-Andre Fleury for one ofthree goaltending spots.

Hockey Canada willannounce the final rosterfor the Vancouver 2010Olympics in late-December.

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Clothing-optional run/walk on beachThe 13th annual five-kilometre Wreck Beach Bare Buns Run/Walk is Sunday. Hundreds of people are expected to take part in the cloth-

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Grouse Grind closed FridayThe Grouse Grind will be closed for repairs on Friday after the trailbecame unsafe for hikers. The recent heavy trail usage has result-ed in numerous large boulders along the upper sections becom-ing unstable and threatening to roll down the mountain onhikers. The Grind is expected to reopen Saturday.

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Hunt for missing teen ongoingRCMP deny reports that search for Jodi Henrickson has concluded

The RCMP denied reportsthat the active search for amissing Squamish teenhad ended Thursday andstressed that they werecontinuing the hunt for Jo-di Henrickson, whom theybelieve is still on BowenIsland.

“We’re still workinghard, furious and fast,”said Cpl. Dave Ritchie, anRCMP spokesman inSquamish. “We want tofind Jodi and get herhome.”

Henrickson, 17, wentmissing the morning ofJune 20 after attending ahouse party on the island.She was last seen by a for-mer boyfriend and was re-

ported miss-ing to thepolice onJune 24.

On Cana-da Day,RCMP andsearchersfrom NorthShore Res-cue scoured

the Scarboro and EagleCliff areas on the island.

Ritchie said there wassome confusion that theconclusion of that groundsearch meant police hadstopped looking for her.

“We’ve done multiplesearches,” Ritchie said.“We base the searches onevidence, clues, tips, inter-views … It’s not a blanketsearch of Bowen Island andit hasn’t been.”

He said most of their ef-

forts were on the island,but added that investiga-tors had followed leads asfar afield as Calgary.

Jodi’s older brother, RobHenrickson, 19, said Thurs-day the dearth of new in-formation was tough forthe family.

He described his sister as“an outgoing, active, socialperson who loves beingaround friends.”

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Short-track hopefuls take to Olympic venue

COMPETITION For Olympichopeful Michael Gilday,the thrill of short-track isthe fact that the winnerdoesn’t have to be theswiftest on the ice, but thesmartest.

“It’s a head-to-head race,and for me that’s the ap-peal,” said Gilday, 22, at Pa-cific Coliseum in Vancou-ver on Thursday.

“If you go out and try tohammer as fast as you can,guys are just going to sitbehind you, suck off you inthe draft and pass you inthe end. You’ve got to beintelligent.”

Members of Canada’s na-tional and developmentteams are in Vancouverthis weekend, holding a

training camp at the futureOlympic venue.

Camp concludes Satur-day with a half-day ofmen’s racing that is open

to the public.Gilday has been on the

national team for the pasttwo years and he is one of16 athletes challenging for

four open spots on Cana-da’s Olympic team.

“It’s going to be a hugebattle for those last fourspots.”

Speedskaters Francois-Louis Tremblay, left, Dustin Miller, centre, and Antoine Gelinas-Beaulieu

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Fireworks mix-upon Canada DayHOLIDAY Around 10,000people turned up atEnglish Bay to watch theCanada Day fireworks, on-ly to hear them going offbehind them in Coal Har-bour.

“Every year it seems thatthere’s a group of people… that goes to English Baythinking that it’s the samevenue as the Celebrationof Light,” Vancouver policeConst. Lindsey Houghtonsaid Thursday. “Hopefullyit’s not the same peoplegoing to the same placeyear after year.”

The fireworks, whichwere lit on a barge on theBurrard Inlet, started at 10p.m. Around 20,000people filled the streetsaround the VancouverConvention Centre towatch the show after tak-ing in the Canada Day fes-tival and parade nearby.

Houghton said officersdumped out 50 bottles orcups of alcohol at Vancou-ver beaches, and one manwas taken to hospital afterbeing stabbed in an alter-cation at Locarno Beach.

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The Zinedine Zidane chari-ty soccer game, originallyscheduled for thisSaturday at B.C. Place, hasbeen postponed after theretired French soccer starhurt his back.

“He injured himself yes-terday with the family atCanada Day,” said AhceneAdlani, the event’s pro-moter. “He just tried to lifthis kid and he injured hisback.”

Adlani said that Zidanewas taken to a phys-iotherapist and un-derwent treatmentuntil about mid-night on Wednesday.

The injury won’tcancel the ZidaneFriendship Tour’s fi-nal stop in Vancou-ver but does post-pone the charitymatch to July 12.

“We decided he wouldstay here until the follow-ing Sunday and we willhold (the game then),” Ad-lani said.

He added that the gamemight switch ven-ues from B.C. Placeto Swangard Stadi-um in Burnaby.Tickets for Satur-day’s game wouldstill be valid and adefinitive decisionon the game site isexpected to be madeon Friday.

With only about7,000 tickets sold for theevent, Swangard alsomakes more sense finan-cially.

The Zidane Friendship

Tour consists of charitysoccer games with benefitsgoing to charities, such asUNICEF. The tour also hadstops in Toronto and Mon-treal.

KARL YUfor Metro Vancouver Background

• Aside from being a three-time FIFA World Player of theYear, Zinedine Zidane isknown for headbutting anItalian player and being sentoff in the 2006 World Cup fi-nals. He claims Marco Mater-azzi insulted his family.Zinedine

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Brianna Bryant, centre, and HEROS founder Norm Flynn, stand-

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FATALITY A 60-year-old busi-nessman was killed Thurs-day morning during an al-tercation involving an old-er-style van.

Cpl. Brenda Gresiuk, aspokeswoman for the Burn-aby RCMP, said the ownerof Burto’s Contractors wasdead when police arrivedjust before 10 a.m. outsidethe business in the 7500block of Meadow Avenue.

“That’s part of what we’reworking through,” said Gre-siuk, when asked if the manwas hit by the van.

“He succumbed to someinjuries and whether those

were from him banging hishead, or from the car run-ning him over, we don’tknow that yet.”

A media report suggestedthe man may have been try-ing to prevent a robberyand may have thrown him-self onto the hood of thevan. This was not con-firmed.

The van, which fled thescene before police arrived,is described as an older FordEconoline van, covered in acoat of red primer and witha temporary operating per-mit in the rear window.

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SPORTS Many of us take it forgranted that hockey unitesCanadians, but for at-riskchildren from low-incomefamilies, equipment costsand lesson feesmake our nationalsport inaccessible.

Yesterday, 36 boysand girls from Van-couver’s inner citystarted a weeklonghockey camp at Bri-tannia ice rink, forthe ninth annualHockey EducationReaching Out Society(HEROS) summer program.

Norm Flynn, who

launched the program, saidit provides at-risk kids witha sense of belonging and asafe environment to learnlife skills and build self-es-teem.

“We use hockey as a cata-lyst to encourage positivebehaviour,” Flynn said.

Brianna Bryant, 9,joined the HEROSprogram three yearsago and said shewants to be a profes-sional hockey play-er.

“I like hockey be-cause it’s good foryour body,” she said.

“I got to make friendshere (and) the program ishelpful. It teaches you disci-pline.”

HEROS• HEROS oper-ates 10 pro-grams in sixcities acrossCanada.

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Program helps make hockeyaccessible for lower-income kids

MOUNTAINS Yesterday, closeto 370 mountain bikersfrom more than 16 coun-tries rode just shy of 50kilometres of therenowned singletrack trailfrom the Village of Sechelt,up and over ridges, anddown to the finish at Lang-dale ferry terminal.

The sun-filled SunshineCoast journey was the fifthof seven stages of mountainbike racing that this fitcrowd signed up for withthe B.C. Bike Race.

An epic stage event likethis attracts a range of rid-ers — from top pros to rela-tive newcomers, the fullspectrum is representedhere.

Seven days straight of sin-gletrack riding is a chal-lenging goal, but attainable

with the right amount oftraining before and mainte-nance during the event it-self.

Each day participantscrossing the finish linehave been telling event or-

ganizers how much funthey are having out on thetrail, despite the hard workriding.

The singletrack trailstake riders through areasnot normally accessed by

the public. If riders remem-ber to look up from theirfocus on the trail, they of-ten witness memorableviews — from soaring ea-gles to snow-topped peaksto expansive oceanscapes.

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RCMP looking into death ofman after van altercation

News in briefEXPLOSION It was an explosionthat caused a gas leak in a sec-tion of EnCana pipeline innorthern B.C., the RCMPconfirmed on Thursday. The ex-plosion on Canada Day was thefifth blast in the area around

Dawson Creek. EnCana is work-ing to seal the rupture so a fullexamination can be conducted.ARREST An unlicensed driverwho tried to get rid of afirearm was arrested during asafety road check on Highway

1 near Ashcroft, police said.The man also had 1,776 gramsof marijuana in the vehicle. ASSAULT A man threw down awomen and grabbed her frombehind near the bottom of theFourth Avenue off ramp on the

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More Canadians will beout of work in 2014 thanprior to the recession, evenif the economy recoversquickly and expands at ahealthy clip for the nextfive years, a prominenteconomist forecast onThursday.

Canada’s economy ap-pears set to stop shrinkingin the third quarter of 2009and begin to grow by year-end. But consumers andbusinesses should notcount on recouping thelosses from three quartersof recession for years tocome, according to a studyby Dale Orr, an independ-ent economist and former-ly one of Canada’s leading

forecasters at Global In-sight.

“Moving from negative topositive economic growth isa pretty obvious measure ofrecovery. But there’s quite afew other perspectives thatwe should be looking at thesame time and none ofthem are quite as opti-mistic,” said Orr.

The report is offered as areality check for markets

and pundits cheering oversmall signs that recovery ison the way.

Unemployment, one ofthe most important meas-ures of economic perform-ance, will peak at 10 per-cent but won’t fall to 2007levels of six per cent, evenafter average annual eco-nomic growth of 3.4 percent in the 2011-14 period,Orr said. REUTERS

Economy may takeyears to recoverRecession will still be felt in 2014: Economist

No more stimulus bucks planned • Canada has no immediateplans to increase the size of itstwo-year stimulus plan, whichis designed to pump an extra

$46 billion into the economy,Finance Minister Jim Flahertysaid Thursday.

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News in briefCSIS A Federal Court judge saidrevelations that Canada’s spyservice mishandled evidence inthe terrorism case of a Syrianrefugee is of “great concern tothe court” and could affect theoutcome of the case. The Cana-dian Security Intelligence Serv-ice admitted it failed to discloseevidence that a confidential in-formant was “deceptive” whenanswering questions. HassanAlmrei’s lawyer, Lorne Wald-man, wants the case be thrownout.

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People pay their respects while standing next to the casket containing the remains of Canada’s

former governor general Romeo LeBlanc as he lie in state at the chapel on the Memramcook In-

stitute in Memramcook, N.B., on Thursday. A state funeral service will be held on Friday.

POLITICS There’s an old say-ing about politicians usingyour own money to buyyour vote.

In Prime MinisterStephen Harper’s govern-ment this summer, thatadage comes with a visualaid: Huge blue cheques em-blazoned with the mapleleaf logo of the Canadiangovernment, the signatureof a benevolent MP and, insome cases, Conservative

sloganeering.Some critics say the gov-

ernment is blurring the linebetween its public and par-tisan jobs with the bigcheques, just a few years af-ter the sponsorship scandalin Quebec, when federalLiberals were also accusedof using government mon-ey to further their partisanaims against the BlocQuébécois.

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RCMP seize 100 guns and loads of ammoMounties in Red Deer discovered an arsenal of more than 100 firearms and up to one million

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Thousands of U.S. Marinesstormed deep into Talibanterritory in an Afghan val-ley Thursday, marking thestart of a major new effortby the Obama administra-tion to regain theinitiative in the war.

The Marines met little re-sistance on day one of Op-eration Khanjar, or Strikeof the Sword, to seize al-most all the lower Hel-mand River valley, heart-land of the Taliban insur-gency and the world’sbiggest opium poppy pro-ducing region.

One U.S. Marine waskilled and several otherswere wounded during theday, the Marines said in a

statement, adding that theyhad not received any con-firmed reports of civiliancasualties or damage toproperty.

The Taliban vowed thatthousands of militantswould fight back againstthe offensive by U.S. forcesbacked by Afghan andBritish troops. The Marinessaid they anticipated vio-lence would rise in the days

ahead.“I expect we are going to

see enemy pretty soon,”said Capt. Junwei Sun, com-mander of a unit whichmoved into the village ofSorkhdoz.

“You come in prettyheavy, with helicopters andstuff, they do not want totest us. But I expect oncewe settle down they will trysomething,” Sun said. “It’s

always like that. The calmbefore the storm. Then wetake care of the storm.”

In swiftly seizing andholding onto so much ofthe Helmand valley, U.S.commanders hope to ac-complish what over-stretched NATO troopshave failed to achieve overseveral years, and help se-cure Afghanistan for anAug. 20 presidential elec-tion.

But launching such abold operation carries greatrisk.

A protracted, bloodyfight could erode supportfor the war in the UnitedStates, among its NATO al-lies and Afghans. REUTERS

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symbol of tourist rip-offs in the capital. The tourists filed a fraud complaint with police after being surprised with the bill for downing pasta and lobster with wine and gelato

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Shrinking sheep due to climate change: ResearchersWild sheep on the remote Scottish island of Hirta are shrinking, and scientists blame global warming. Soay sheep are on average five per cent smaller than 25 years ago,

an indication climate change can have a rapid effect on natural populations and a sign of possible more widespread changes in future, researchers said on Thursday. REUTERS

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India Gay rights landmark

Bollywood actress Celina Jaitley, middle, poses with a transgender,

right, and gay rights activist during a news conference in Mumbai.

An Indian court Thursday ruled gay sex was not a crime, a verdict

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Americans hoping for tipping point • The operation marks the firstbig test of Washington’s newregional strategy to defeat theTaliban and its allies and stabi-lize Afghanistan. The 10,000

U.S. Marines in HelmandProvince, 8,500 of whom ar-rived in the past two months,form the biggest wave of anescalation ordered by Obama.

Air France planehit sea intactCRASH The Air Franceplane that crashed intothe Atlantic last month hitthe water intact and athigh speed but was miss-ing for six hours before anemergency was declared,French investigators saidon Thursday.

The wreckage indicatesthe plane was brokenapart by impact with thewater, which it struck fac-ing forwards.

“The plane was not de-stroyed while it was inflight. It seems to have hitthe surface of the water inthe direction of flight andwith a strong verticalacceleration,” said AlainBouillard, who is leadingthe investigation onbehalf. The cause of thecrash is still not known.

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Amnestyrips Israel,HamasMIDDLE EAST Amnesty Inter-national said on ThursdayIsrael inflicted “wanton de-struction” in the Gaza Stripin attacks that often target-ed Palestinian civilians dur-ing an offensive in Decem-ber and January in theHamas-run enclave.

The London-based rightsgroup, in a 117-page reporton the 22 days of fighting,also criticized the Islamistmovement Hamas for rock-et attacks on Israel, whichit called “war crimes.”

Among otherconclusions, Amnesty saidit found no evidence to sup-port Israeli claims thatGaza guerrillas deliberatelyused civilians as humanshields, but it did, however,cite evidence that Israelitroops put children andother civilians in harm’sway by forcing them to re-main in homes taken overby soldiers. Amnesty Inter-national said some 1,400Palestinians were killed inIsrael's Operation CastLead, including 300children. REUTERS

North Korea testsmore missilesASIA North Korea test-firedfour short-range missilesThursday, further stokingalready high regionaltension due to its nucleartest and threats to boost itsnuclear arsenal in responseto UN sanctions.

The North, which oftenfires short-range missiles aspart of military drills andusually times the launchesfor periods of diplomaticfriction, was hit with UNsanctions following its May25 nuclear test. The salvobegan with two surface-to-ship missiles fired off NorthKorea’s east coast that flewabout 100 kilometres out tosea. REUTERS

Minister saysZelaya will returnCOUP Honduras’ ousted fi-nance minister said onThursday she expects to re-turn to office with deposedPresident Manuel Zelayaand showed up as her coun-try’s delegate at a meetingof regional economic lead-ers in Chile. Rebeca Santossaid the international com-munity is behind Zelaya,who was thrown out of thecountry on Sunday in a mil-itary coup that has beenwidely condemned. “Wewill be part of President Ze-laya’s delegation when hereturns to the country,” shesaid. REUTERS

News in briefFRANCE A French court handedsuspended prison sentences tofour people and fined twofirms over an accident in 2003in which 16 people visiting thecruise liner Queen Mary II diedwhen a gangway collapsed.The accident happened whenconstruction workers and theirfamilies crowded on to thegangway during a weekend

visit to the luxury liner, whichwas nearing completion indockyards in the French port ofSt. Nazaire on the Atlanticcoast. The structure collapsedand people plunged more than15 metres to the ground. RUSSIA A human rights watch-dog accused the leadership ofRussia’s Chechnya region onThursday of collectively

punishing family members ofanti-government rebels byburning down their homes. UN Japanese diplomat YukiyaAmano was elected the nexthead of the UN atomic watch-dog on Thursday and hevowed to tackle rich-poor ten-sions weakening the fightagainst the proliferation of nu-clear weapons. REUTERS

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Airline tries clothes-free safety videoAir New Zealand’s safety video for domestic services on its Boeing 737planes show pilot and cabin crew dressed only in body paint. REUTERS

Iranian Nobel Peace Prizerecipient Shirin Ebadicalled on UN SecretaryGeneral Ban Ki-MoonThursday to appoint a per-sonal envoy to investigatehuman rights abuses inIran.

In a letter also signed bythe International Federa-tion for Human Rights andthe Iranian League for theDefence of Human Rights,Ebadi asked Ban to appointthe envoy to look into abus-es following June’s disputedpresidential election.

A spokesman for Ban said

the letter had been receivedby his office. Ban currentlyis on a trip to Myanmar in abid to get the military juntathere to release all politicalprisoners and prepare forcredible elections next year.

The letter said Ebadi, ahuman rights lawyer, hadmade the request to Ban di-rectly in a telephone con-versation on June 23.

Ebadi was given the No-bel Peace Prize in 2003 forher efforts to promote dem -ocracy and human rights,in particular the rights ofwomen and children.

Action by Iranian securityforces against demonstra-tors who charged that theelection had been rigged infavour of incumbent Presi-dent Mahmoud Ahmadine-jad drew condemnationfrom Western countriesand from Ban. Iranian au-thorities said the vote wasfair. REUTERS

Nobel laureate calls forprobe of abuses in Iran

Violence• In the aftermath of Iran’sJune 12 vote, which drewthe most vigorous organ-ized protests since the 1979Islamic revolution, statemedia said 20 people diedin violence.

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U.S. marshalsseize Madoff’s$7M New YorkapartmentFRAUD U.S. marshals seizedthe luxury $7-million USNew York City penthouseapartment of imprisonedfraudster Bernard Madoffand his wife, Ruth,officials said Thursday.

A spokesman for theU.S. Marshals Service saidRuth Madoff was presentwhen agents took posses-sion of the four-bedroomapartment onManhattan’s East Side un-der court orders and thenshe left. It was not knownwhere she would live andher lawyer could not bereached for comment.

Disgraced financierBernard Madoff, 71, wassentenced on Monday toan effective life term forWall Street’s biggestinvestment fraud of asmuch as $65 billion. Hewas arrested by the FBIlast December and hepleaded guilty in March.

U.S. Marshals Servicespokesman Roland Ubaldotold reporters and photog-raphers outside the build-ing that marshals spentabout three hours secur-ing the premises.

The Madoffs agreed withU.S. prosecutors to forfeitany claims to their assets,property and accountswith proceeds going to thethousands of investors de-frauded in his worldwidescheme.

Court documents saidthe apartment’s contentsinclude a Steinway pianovalued at $39,000, clocks,lamps, lighting fixturesand sconces worth about$1.7 million; paintings,prints and photographs of$1.6 million and othervaluables. REUTERS

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CONTEST Israel and the Pales-tinian Authority compro-mised in the name of na-ture this week, teaming upat the last moment to backthe Dead Sea in a contest tochose the world’s top sevennatural wonders.

Just days before the con-test rules would have forcedthe Dead Sea’s elimination,Israel’s ministry of tourismtook over as official sponsorfrom the Megilot Dead SeaCouncil, removing a big po-litical obstacle blockingPalestinian participation.

The famously buoyantDead Sea, the world’s mostsaline lake, lies at the bot-tom of the Jordan Rift Val-ley at the lowest spot on

earth, some 400 metres be-low sea level.

The Palestinians had re-fused to form a sponsorshipcommittee because Israel’sMegilot municipality coversoccupied West Bank land,including Jewish settle-ments near the Dead Seawhich it considers illegal.

This made it impossible tomeet the rules of the NewSeven Wonders of NatureInternet vote, which stipu-late that a nominee “locatedin more than one country”must be backed by all. Forthe Dead Sea, Israel, Jordanand Palestinian sponsorshipcommittees were a pre-req-uisite for continuing in thecontest. REUTERS

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It was a perfect evening:Out for dinner, then downto Waterfront Park inNorth Vancouver to watchthe Canada Day fireworksbloom over Burrard Inlet.

The twilight air wasbalmy as people spreadblankets across the grassand the kids raced around.

It was downright festive,or would have been ifthere weren’t a fullsquadron of RCMP officersarmed with flashlights andTasers and their K-9 bud-dies patrolling the crowdwith an intensity usually

reserved for a dragnet op-eration.

Judging by the oohs andaahs as the pyrotechnicalwizards worked their mag-ic, I seemed to be the onlyspectator disturbed bysuch an aggressive displayof policing power.

Of course, it wasn’t un-expected. Our big publicevents are routinelyplagued by drunken ordrug-induced incidents,and Waterfront Park itselfhas been the scene of uglygang confrontations. Onceagain this week, Vancou-ver’s gang epidemic drewinternational press with aLos Angeles Times featurethat told readers: “Thiscrisp region of polishedhighrises, emerald spruce,azure waterways and feel-good vibes finds itself inthe midst of a gang warthat has killed at least 18

young people this year.”Meanwhile, the B.C. Civil

Liberties Association isworried that dozens of sur-veillance cameras broughtin to provide security forthe Olympic Games willbecome permanent fix-tures long after the Gamesare over, a reasonable con-cern considering officialshave admitted the controlcentre and wiring built tosupport the system is per-manent, and no host cityhas ever dismantled thecamera array after theGames were over.

Big Brother is watchingyou, and will continue todo so for the foreseeablefuture. I suspect most peo-ple will tell you (as a num-ber told me at the fire-works) they welcome theextra police presence andsurveillance. Frankly, justgoing out in public freaks

them out, as they have toendure a post-industrialnightmare worthy of Hi-eronymus Bosch — heavilyarmed gangstas zippingaround in bullet-proof SUVs, bizarre, threateningsqueegee “kids,” or smok-ing crack on the sea wall— and they’d rather havemore security and less free-dom, thank you.

So there we were, hun-dreds of happy sheepbursting into spontaneouseruptions of O Canadawhile our human shep-herds shone flashlights inour faces and their Ger-man shepherds sniffed outour picnic baskets.

And I was left to wonder:Just what kind of birthdayparty is this, anyway?

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Pension plans may not be enough for your retirement

How’s your nest egg?

The storm warningsof Canada’s im-pending pensioncrisis are hard tomiss. Some 3.5 mil-

lion of us have no work-place pension plan whatso-ever. Those who do are en-rolled in plans that maynot be able to meet long-term commitments.

Not surprisingly, thereare calls for new publicpension plans, mandatoryand voluntary. The idea isto supplement the incomesof retirees, whose rankswill swell as baby boomersflood into retirement. Asthings stand, the outlook isgrim. According to HSBC

Insurance, which annuallysurveys the global retire-ment scene, 83 per cent ofCanadians have no realidea what their retirementincome will be.

Even the bedrock of ourpension system, the Cana-da Pension Plan, is beingfine-tuned to reflect grow-ing stresses. As part of theirtriennial review, the feder-al and provincial financeministers who oversee theCPP decided to further re-duce the size of benefitstaken between the ages of60 and 65. This change willbe phased in over fiveyears, starting in 2012.Conversely, those who waituntil they’re between theages of 65 and 70 to applyfor the CPP will get morethan before. These increas-es will be phased in overthree years, starting in2011. The intent, clearly, isto encourage those whocan manage it to delay tak-ing their CPP benefits as

long as possible.Also in 2012, the CPP will

eliminate the work cessa-tion test, which states youeither stop working for thetwo-month period whenbenefits start or keep otherincome below $908.75 permonth, the current maxi-mum CPP benefit. The aimis to provide benefits soon-er without financial disrup-tion for those with lowerincomes.

Despite recent criticismsover its investment per-formance (the CPP fund’sassets dropped 14 per centto $105.5 billion in the lat-est fiscal year) and thebonuses given to managersat the CPP Investment

Board, the CPP is one of thepension world’s greatestsuccesses. Since reformsstabilized the plan in the1990s, the CPP has grownhugely on the strength ofan increasingly sophisticat-ed investment strategy.And given the current levelof contributions, invest-ment income won’t beneeded to pay benefits for11 years.

There’s just one catch.The CPP is only designed toreplace about 25 per centof your pre-retirementearnings. That meansyou’ll need other income— in entitlements like OASand GIS, company pensionplans, and personal savings— to have a comfy old age.

Next: Why personal savings and companypensions won’t fill thegap.

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Thieves are increasinglygoing after iPhones andother “smart phones” butvictims now can fight backwith technology.

One device allows a userto remotely activate aloud siren designed torattle the thief. An-other application,for iPhones, can re-veal the phone’slocation.

Police statis-tics show pettycrime is downin New Yorkbut anecdotalevidence and recentheadlines about streetmuggings targeting costlyand coveted devices likeApple’s iPhone have dis-turbed smart phone usersconcerned about protect-ing access to email, pass-words and other data.

“When we have seen

spikes in thefts, a signifi-cant portion has to do with... highly desirable prod-ucts,” said policespokesman Paul Browne.“In the last couple of years

it’s been iPods, Side-kicks, iPhones.”

He said mostof these mug-

gings involveteenagers robbing

other teenagers andtake place on sub-

ways in the afternoonafter schools get out.Fear of a gadget-relat-

ed crime wave is not new.In 2005, as Apple’s signa-ture white earphones werebecoming ubiquitous inU.S. cities, the New YorkPolice Department report-ed an increase in subwaycrime linked to iPod thefts.Before that, victims weretargeted for their expen-sive sneakers. REUTERS

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Unemployment 26-year high

Day labourer Fredy Arias waits outside a Home Depot store in

hopes of finding work yesterday in South Miami, Fla. U.S. em-

ployers cut 467,000 jobs last month, far more than expected.

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Delinquencyrate leaps 19%More than half a millionCanadians have fallen be-hind on credit payments,fuelling a 19 per cent risein the average nationaldelinquency rate in theone-year period endingMay 31, 2009, says a reportfrom Equifax Canada.

The credit bureau calledthe jump “alarming,” not-ing the average delinquencyrate for Canada hit 1.52 percent at the end of May. Alotof the trouble stemmedfrom missed payments oncredit card bills and forsales finance purchases ofitems such as furniture.

Equifax defines delin-quent bills as those at least90 days overdue. The reportcomes just days after a Sen-ate committee released a re-port urging the federal gov-

ernment to take action toshield consumers and smallbusinesses from rising in-terest rates and fees.

Finance Minister Jim Fla-herty continues to reviewall input on credit cards, aspokesperson said. Whilehis office gave no timeline,Pierrette Ringuette, the Lib-eral senator who spearhead-ed the study, appeared to upthe ante Thursday by vow-ing to introduce legislationif the government fails toact. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE

Double-digit rise• Credit card and sales fi-nance purchases have risenby 38 per cent and 58 percent, respectively, since May2008, the report said.

LABOUR Negotiators for AirCanada’s biggest union aremeeting on Thursday to re-view their options beforeholding talks with the air-line on Friday to try toforge a contract unionmembers will accept.

A slim majority of theworkers at Air Canada —members of the Interna-tional Association of Ma-chinists and AerospaceWorkers — voted against a

tentative 21-month dealthat would have frozenwages and pension fund-ing. The rejection, by aslim 50.8 per cent, couldjeopardize Air Canada’sfederal approval for a tem-porary freeze on pensionfunding and $60 million inloans, which analysts sayare critical to help thedebt-laden airline avoid asecond bankruptcy filingin six years. REUTERS

Air Canada union eyeingoptions after deal rejected

AUTO Ford Motor Co. ofCanada was the No. 1-sell-ing automaker in the coun-try for the first time in 50years as it posted a 25 per-cent jump in sales in Juneover a year earlier, thecompany said Thursday.

Overall auto sales fell by13.2 per cent in June to

138,500 units, the eighthmonth in a row of year-over-year sales declines.

Ford, the only Detroit au-to company not supportedby emergency governmentfunding, sold 27,408 vehi-cles in Canada in June, itsfirst year-over-year sales in-crease of 2009. REUTERS

Ford auto sales jump by 25%

Business in brief TAKEOVER Magna’s board ofdirectors is set to approve onTuesday a plan for the acquisi-tion of German carmaker Opel,two sources said on Thursday.

The Canadian auto parts sup-plier and Opel parent GeneralMotors expect to resolve thelast few issues holding up thetakeover by July 7. REUTERS

Software company Oracle to lay off 1,000 in EuropeOracle Corp. plans to lay off up to 1,000 workers in Europe, or about one per cent of its global staff, as therecession erodes the giant software company’s earnings, French news agency AFP reported Thursday. REUTERS

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The American sisters willbe setting off fireworks onwomen’s final day for thesecond year running at theAll England Club, but onThursday Serena camewithin a heartbeat of miss-ing out on the Fourth of Julycelebrations.

At 4-5, 30-40 down in thedeciding set, Serena wasstaring defeat head on asElena Dementieva stoodone point away fromreaching her first Wimble-don final.

Instead, a split second’shesitation by the Russian al-lowed Serena to hit a wob-bly backhand volley off the

tape and the Americansnatched her get-out-of-jailfree card to crawl over thefinishing line with a 6-7, 7-5, 8-6 win over thefourth seed.

Clocking in at two hoursand 50 minutes, it was thelongest women’s semifi-nal match at Wimble-don since records start-ed being kept in 1969.

“It’s definitely one ofmy more dramaticvictories. I felt like Iwas down prettymuch the wholematch. To comeout on top was,you know, agreat feeling. Iwanted to winreally bad,”Serena told re-porters.

While little sis-

ter Serena had to fight tooth-and-nail to survive a matchthat showed off everythingthat is good about women’s

tennis, Venus proved thatthere is still a gulf be-

tween her and therest of thewomen’s field atWimbledon whenshe walloped clue-less top seed Dinara

Safina 6-1, 6-0.Safina’s ranking

as world No. 1looked like a statisti-cal error as she suf-

fered the ignominyof suffering the mostlopsided semifinal de-feat since Billie JeanKing beat RosieCasals by the samescore 40 years ago.

The Russiansprayed errors longand wide to fold in

just 51 minutes.REUTERS

Every Canada Day isgut-check time fortrue fans of sport inthis country.

It’s that time of yearwhen we take note of thethings that make us differ-ent as a sporting nation.

For instance, there’s theCalgary Stampede. Billedas “the greatest outdoorshow on Earth,” it is therichest rodeo in the world.

In spite of bleedinghearts that object to calfroping and chuck-wagonracing, the Stampede sol-diers on. It is a rollickingtestament to how the westwas won. The frontier spir-

it of the cowboy, it seems,will never die and thiswonderful rodeo has con-tinued to grow every yearsince its inception in 1912.

On Canada Day, the CFLkicked off another season.On the prairie and in bigcities at either end of thecountry, the beginning ofthe chase for the Grey Cupsignals a game that re-flects the vastness of theland.

It’s a big field — muchbigger than the one in theNFL — one that begs an ad-venturous spirit. In theCanadian Football League,risky passing and open-field running are standardfare. It’s football by explo-ration and the ballchanges hands frequently.There are only threedowns and plenty of scor-ing, making each posses-sion a voyage of discovery.

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The ubiquitous sport inthis country is hockey.Every year on Canada Day,hockey creates a stir in thenational consciousness.

The great Jean Beliveau,a man once asked to bethe governor general, willbe the honourary captainof the 2010 Olympic men’shockey team. It’s a natu-ral choice — so Canadianin its overtones.

Finally, isn’t it fittingthat in the sports pages onthe country’s birthday,hockey dominated theheadlines?

The Canadiens and theFlames acquired new play-ers who promise freshhope next season whensummer has given way toour obsession with ice.

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When you glance at thestats, you might wonderwhy Dan Cleary’s 40 pointsare going to Hockey Canada’s Olympic men’sorientation camp overMarc Savard’s 90.

Or Milan Lucic’s 42 overMike Cammalleri’s 82. OrPatrick Sharp’s 44 over Ja-son Spezza’s 73.

The answer? HockeyCanada’s staff, which un-veiled its 46-man roster forthe Aug. 24-27 camp in Cal-gary yesterday, doesn’twant an all-star team withfour lines of scorers.

“When we put this listtogether, we wanted tobring in different types ofplayers,” said Team Canadaexecutive director SteveYzerman.

“Some guys who aren’tleading their teams in scor-ing, but are very good play-ers in a different role (wereinvited). In doing that, wehad to remove (some high-scoring players).”

That said, there is no ab-sence of skill, led by three-time 100-point man Sid-

ney Crosby of the Pitts-burgh Penguins as well asJoe Thornton, VincentLecavalier, Jarome Iginla,Dany Heatley and RyanGetzlaf.

But players such asCleary, Lucic, Sharp andBrenden Morrow bring agrinding element that iswell suited for a fourthline at the internationallevel. Yzerman covets that.

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have some big, strong guyswho can wear down theopposition,” Yzerman said.

In addition to 25 for-wards, Yzerman invited 16defencemen and five goal-tenders. Veterans ScottNiedermayer and ChrisPronger headline the de-fensive invites, while Mar-tin Brodeur and RobertoLuongo are the big namesin goal.

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sense, skating ability, com-petitiveness and versatilityas the assets he’s lookingfor. He said most impor-tantly he wants a roster of“responsible players.”

“If you lose a game,you’re out,” he said. “Youcan’t afford to have guyswho are high-risk andmake a lot of mistakes.”

Canada’s roster will ulti-mately be made up of 23players.

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Lucic gets a shot• Vancouver’s Milan Lucichas taken a big step to-ward competing at theOlympics in front of hishometown crowd.

The Boston Bruinswinger got the nod yester-day as one of 46 playerswho will attend HockeyCanada’s Olympic orienta-tion camp in Calgary fromAug. 24 to 27.

If Lucic, a throwbackpower forward at 6-foot-4,220 pounds, makes theteam, it will be throughthe hard-nosed style thathas made him a favouritein Boston.

But Canadian generalmanager Steve Yzerman al-so likes the skill Lucic hasshown, particularly in theNHL playoffs last seasonwhen he had nine points in10 games.

“He’s got an opportunityto make this team,” Yzer-man said. “His playoff per-formance showed he’s gotskill, he’s got hockey senseand he can make a play. He’snot just there because he’s abig, strong guy.”

Sports in briefBAY Canadian left-fielder JasonBay married an American, hastwo American daughters andmakes his living playing Ameri-ca’s pastime. The 30-year-oldfrom Trail, B.C., was among 360people to become U.S. citizensThursday in Boston.

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One of the first things peo-ple say when you tell themthat you’re expecting a ba-by is that you must imme-diately book your final ex-otic holiday before yourlife changes forever.

It’s overdramatic to sug-gest that having a babymeans you’ll never haveanother exciting vacationin your life. However it is agood time for expectantparents to spend time to-gether, stock up on somesleep, have someone elsedo the cooking and visitsome sights that will beless practical to navigatewith a baby buggy.

People have differentideas of what they’d like todo on their last child-freeholiday with partner orbest friend, depending onhow anxious or adventur-ous they’re feeling.

Do you want to loungeon a faraway beach, haveyour last crazy adventureor splash out on a luxuri-ous romantic break?

You could indulge inyour favourite sport or restsomewhere low-key andreassuringly close to home.

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considerations, however.In the first trimester preg-nant women can sufferfrom morning sickness,phenomenal tiredness andweird food cravings; and inthe last trimester they notonly feel huge, but they’reexhausted, too.

So the ideal time to go isduring the middle threemonths. Most airlines letyou fly until 36 weeks, butwill ask for a letter fromyour doctor after week 28.

You might fancytrekking in the middle ofthe jungle, but remember

that pregnant womencan’t take malaria pills andyou might want to besomewhere near reason-able medical facilities. Andeven if the mother-to-be isno longer slave to her crav-ings, you don’t want to goanywhere where youmight get food poisoning.

I took my first baby-moon with my oldestfriend, who lives in Wash-ington, D.C. and was 27weeks pregnant. She sug-gested an expedition to Pe-ru until I asked how she’dfeel if she went into labourat high altitude in the An-des, far away from her niceobstetrician.

My holiday choices weremore restricted; pregnantby about 10 weeks, I couldonly face eating hamburg-ers or apples. This madeMiami the ideal destina-tion, with its mix of glam-our, shopping, beaches,

good weather, access to su-perlative medical care —thanks to its population ofwealthy pensioners — andof course, top quality burg-ers. In Miami we gave anod to our Sex and the Citydays by shopping at Ameri-can Apparel and sippingvirgin cocktails on therooftop bar of the trendyGansevoort hotel.

Then we headed downthe Florida Keys to the ulti-mate babymoon destina-tion, Little Palm Island. Anidyllic retreat on a tiny pri-vate island surrounded bythe azure waters of theCaribbean, it offers fabu-lous food, a pool, activitiesfrom fishing to kayakingand snorkelling and a pam-pering spa with maternity

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The so-called babymoonis a big trend with upmar-ket hotels and there areplenty of indulgent pack-ages you can book. Take acity break in Vienna andbook the Luxury BeforeBirth package at The Ringhotel, which includes twonights in a top room, mas-sages for both parents, alimousine tour through Vi-enna and gifts; theringhotel.com.

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Alternatively, book a spe-cialist Mama Mio treat-ment or sign up for a Relax& Indulge overnight stay atthe gorgeous, wood-pan-elled Brown’s Hotel inMayfair, which involves arelaxing aromatherapy forDaddy-to-be and a MellowMama massage for themother to be; roccofortecollection.com. For aromantic break in the Eng-lish countryside explorethe breathtaking UNESCO-listed city of Bath then re-lax at beautiful countryhouse hotel Lucknam Parkand enjoy one of the AnneSemonin mother-to-be faceand body treatments intheir new spa; lucknam-park.co.uk.

For something more ex-otic, chill out with expertpregnancy spa treatmentsat boutique hotel Thalassain Cyprus, thalassa.com.cy,or babymoon at Montpe-lier Plantation on theCaribbean island of Nevis,with candlelit dinnersoverlooking the island ofSt. Kitts, a romantic picnicon the hotel’s privatebeach, a tour of Nevis andmassages for both of you;montpeliernevis.com.

If you’re on a budget,create your own baby-moon and book a spa treat-ment independently. Mas-sages are great for relaxingyour mind and soothingyour ever-stretching skin,but only if they’re tailoredwith products and tech-niques that are safe foryour bump.

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It’s a proven fact thatSacha Baron Cohen takesfew prisoners in his go-for-broke quest for laughs.The British born enfantterrible has made acottage industry out ofskewering stereotypes,adopting personas — likeAli G and Borat — and dis-rupting American idealswhile milking majorlaughs in the process.

His new film, the eagerlyanticipated and muchhyped Brüno, sees Cohenessaying his third most pop-ular character — the flam-boyantly gay fashionista —setting him loose upon theplanet’s most pretentiouscatwalks and the back al-ley’s of conservative societyto raise all manner of realitybending hell.

It’s a prankish conceitthat Cohen may have per-

fected but by no means in-vented. A casual look at popculture history reveals acavalcade of media terror-ists who delighted inpulling the wool over theeyes of polite and not-so-polite society.

CANDID CAMERA Thoughthe practical joke’s originsprobably dates back to theStone Age, it was in the1940s that a comediannamed Allen Funt createdthe ABC radio show CandidMicrophone.

Every week, Funt and hisfriends would hide a record-ing device in a covert loca-tion and trick pundits intofalling for elaborate fiction-al gags. Later, when TVreared its head, Funt adapt-ed, creating the long run-ning and highly influentialshow into Candid Camera.

FUNNY MEN In the 1970scontroversial comedianAndy Kaufman took the

shtick to another, moreavant-garde level in night-clubs and TV with hisbizarre “foreign man” andTony Clifton characters.

In recent history, JohnnyKnoxville and his Jackasscrew shocked the worldwith their bizarre and con-frontational stunts on MTV.Ashton Kutcher became acult hero with his star tar-geting hit series Punk’d,while Montreal’s Just forLaughs team produced theever popular Gags show air-ing regularly on the CBC.Even fallen football hero

O.J. Simpson tried his handat the format with his pay-per-view show Juiced. Theless said about that one, thebetter…

STING OPERATIONS And, inmany ways, filmmakerMichael Moore, with hishigh-minded agenda pic-

tures, manages to set up hisvictims with elaborate“sting” operations just likeFunt did, though his aim isto ignite a dose of outrageto accompany a darkerstrain of laughter.

When the dust settles andthe smoke clears though,it’s Cohen who has truly

created an art form out ofthe camera prank shtickbut how long can he keep itup?

With the Ali G and Boratcharacters already exhaust-ed, after Brüno, will therebe anyone alive ignorantenough of his legacyenough to fool?

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Moon is filled with somany obvious influencesthat a familiarity with thereferences Jones is makingwill often put the audienceone step ahead of the char-

acters. But even if Moon can be

a little predictable attimes, the director does anadmirable job of resurrect-ing a style of cinematic sci-fi has been missed bygenre aficionados (not justthematically either, thefilm is filled with stunningmodel-based effects thatwill make you long for thepre-CGI era).

Duncan Jones may nothave created a new sciencefiction classic with his de-but, but he’s certainly an-nounced himself as a film-maker with potential.Hopefully Moon will be thecalling card for an intrigu-ing career.

MoonDirector: Duncan JonesStars: Sam Rockwell, KevinSpaceyClassification: STCRating: 111

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Sam Rockwell plays an astronaut in Moon, directed by David Bowie’s son Duncan Jones.

The food, thebad, the ugly

FEATURE When EmmyAward-winner Robert Ken-ner (Two Days in Septem-ber) makes documentaries,he always entertains view-points contrary to his own.

“I find that I learn frompeople whose opinions arevery different from mine,”Kenner explains. But whenhe set out to do Food Inc., acontroversial film that ex-amines how dramaticallythe production of food hasbecome a liability to publichealth in NorthAmerica, the ex-perience turnedout to be radi-cally different.

While try-ing to illus-trate how ma-jor food compa-nies have industri-alized Americanfarms to mass produce foodthat’s ultimately contami-nated with chemicals andbacteria, Kenner found outthat companies like Mon-santo and Smithfield Foodsdeclined to address theseconcerns in the picture.

Instead, they sought totake him to court whereKenner spent three yearsspending most of his budg-et fending off lawsuits fromthese industrial food gi-ants. “I had no idea howsubversive this world offood was,” Kenner remarks.“I think I could have hadgreater access if I was doing

a movie about nuclear ter-rorism.”

Kenner first grew inter-ested in the subject whenhe read Eric Schlosser’sbestselling book Fast FoodNation: The Dark Side ofthe All-American Meal andUC Berkeley School of Jour-nalism professor MichaelPollan’s Omnivore's Dilem-ma: A Natural History ofFour Meals, which both didthorough critical examina-tions of the food industry.

“Farms are now giant fac-tories where 30,000 chick-ens stand in the dark, andthousands of cows are

standing in theirown feces while

being fed corninstead ofgrass,” Kennerexplains. “Thefood compa-nies want to

produce morecalories for less

money.” Ironically, Kenner got to

know something of that ad-diction for quickly con-sumed calories while outpromoting his film.

“I travel and I start togain weight and I’m think-ing you’ve got to changethe way you eat, but I beginto crave fast food,” he ex-claims.

“The minute you’re hun-gry, you start to breakdown — and the food’s de-signed to make you craveit. We’re up against a bigmachine that is very goodat figuring out how to getyou to eat it.”

KEVIN COURRIERfor Metro Canada

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Robert Kenner’s Food Inc. examines how the production of food

has become a liability to public health in North America.

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The return of Mr. CoolTwo new films on Steve McQueen in the pipelines

Bollywoodthriller explores9/11 angleRELEASED In the aftermathof 9/11, more than 1,200men, many of South Asiandescent, were detained byU.S. authorities, accordingto the ACLU. Of these,more than 1,000 were re-leased months and yearslater for lack of evidence.

Kabir Khan’s brisk if for-mulaic thriller, New York,takes a fictional look at thedamaged lives of two suchmen and stands a goodchance of earningrespectable box-office num-bers. Released last Friday,it’s the first big Hindi filmsince Bollywood’s recentlyended two-month strike.

It’s 2001, and three col-lege friends in New York,Samir (John Abraham),Omar (Neil Nitin Mukesh)and Maya (Katrina Kaif),enjoy sun-dappledafternoons and ecstatic slo-mo football games on thegrass as the World TradeCenter’s twin towers gleambehind them. When thecity reels, their friendshipchanges shape. Eight yearslater, Samir and Maya aremarried, with a son, whileOmar is driving a taxi. Thetwo men harbour a deepbitterness over the wayAmerica has treated themsince 9/11, and one of themchannels his rage into aterrorist plot.

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Suddenly the world’s goneMcQueen crazy.

With both Brad Pitt andDaniel Craig rumoured tobe “in talks” to play SteveMcQueen in two recentlyannounced biopics, andMcQueen’s own screenplaybeing readied for thescreen 27 years after hisdeath, the King of Cool isback.

Producers are looking tocast an untitled biopicbased on the book SteveMcQueen: Portrait of anAmerican Rebel — whichlooks at his early years inreform school, his affairwith Ali McGraw, and hisfascination with fast carsand drugs — and secondbiopic, focusing on his 15-year marriage to NeilieToffel, is currently beingadapted for the screen.

And Yucatan, an actionadventure film based onMcQueen’s own 1,700-pagescript and storyboards, isbeing rewritten for produc-tion.

A-list stars even cameout to New York’s LincolnCentre last month for aweek of screenings of Mc-Queen’s films and lec-tures. Norman Jewison

and Peter Yates wereamong co-stars, friendsand directors who paidtribute to him.

So why the interests inMcQueen?

McQueen, a.k.a. the Kingof Cool/Bandito, was a hip-ster Hollywood icon who isstill admired for his inde-pendent strength and blue-eyed good looks.

“I don’t believe in thatphony hero stuff,” he said.

McQueen could be trou-ble onset. He famouslydrove co-workers to dis-

traction. He was quiet,tough yet vulnerable and afighter to the core. He bait-ed and threatened direc-

tors and manipulated stu-dio executives with hischronic indecision.

He often began work on

a film but feared he wasdoing the wrong thing andstopped production. “I livefor myself and I answer tonobody,” he said.

McQueen’s salary alwaysincluded a percentage ofthe film, which was unusu-al at that time. He was oneof the first actors to earnmultimillions per picture— $3 million at his peak —plus pages of perks and rid-ers. It has even been re-ported he would dream upnew ones during produc-tion.

Two generations of ac-tors, including Colin Far-rell, Kevin Costner, BruceWillis and Pierce Brosnan,have cited him for inspir-ing them.

And, if this renewed in-terested in McQueen con-tinues, another genera-tion is about to have a lookat the man who definedthe word “cool.”

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Producers are eyeing Brad Pitt, bottom right, and Daniel Craig for the role of acting legend Steve Mc-

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Movie di-nosaurscome in allforms. Asscreen char-

acters — from JurassicPark’s terrifying T-Rexes tothe cute and cuddly babydinos of this weekend’s IceAge: The Dawn of the Di-nosaurs — they are as ver-satile as they are extinct.

Just as varied are themethods used to bring theprehistoric behemoths tobig screen life.

The first film dinosaurwas a pen-and-ink creatureseen in a fanciful 1908British film called Prehis-toric Man. In it a cavemansketch comes alive and

threatens its creator. Theartist survives by drawing apicture of a dinosaur, whichalso comes to life and eatsthe prehistoric man.

Another of the originalcelluloid dinosaurs wasGertie the Dinosaur. Re-leased in 1914, the film fea-tured 10,000 hand-drawnimages to animate the tan-go-dancing Apatosaurus.

After Gertie, pen and inkanimated dinosaurs re-mained popular for thenext 70 years in everythingfrom 1915’s Stone Age Ad-venture to 1988’s Land Be-fore Time.

The word dinosaurmeans “fearfully-greatlizard” so it makes sensethat lizards have frequent-ly subbed for their van-ished cousins on celluloid.

A 1914 film called OnMoonshine Mountain triedto pass off geckos as di-nosaurs while 1940’s OneMillion B.C. dressed uplizards with cardboard finsfor a more “realistic” di-nosaur appearance. D.W.

Griffith tried for a moremenacing look, using analligator dressed up as a di-no for his two-reeler BruteForce, which described thegreat beasts as “one of theperils of prehistoric apart-ment life.”

Other methods of craft-ing on-screen dinos includethe old “man in a rubbersuit” trick (pioneered bycheapo producer RogerCorman in Voyage to thePrehistoric Planet but per-fected by Toho Studios inthe Godzilla films) and thewondrous stop motion ani-mation of Willis O’Brien(The Lost World) and Ray

Harryhausen (The Beastfrom 20,000 Fathoms) butthe biggest and baddestshow biz dinosaurs sprungfrom the mind of StevenSpielberg (and the comput-ers of his animators).

Even though JurassicPark’s binary code veloci-raptors and triceratopsesweren’t biologically accu-rate and didn’t exist duringthe Jurassic days (most did-n’t live until the Cretaceousperiod) they were the loud-est and proudest dinos themovies had ever seen.

Hundreds of films havefeatured dinosaurs and au-diences never seem to tireof them, but why?

“Perhaps people’s fasci-nation with prehistoric lifehas something to do withbridging fantasy with reali-ty,” offers Harryhausen.“They are connected withthe shadowy key to ourmysterious origin.”

Dinosaurs, as you like them

Richard Crouse’s Movie Show can be seen every Sunday at 6:30 p.m. on the E! Channel; [email protected].

Hollywood tappinginto hipster marketHIPSTERS Batten down thehatches — the hipsters arecoming.

Even as Hollywood stu-dios increasingly aim at thebroadest possible audience,a few companies are experi-menting with the oppositeapproach in these summermonths and beyond:They’re making smart,quirky movies for a sophis-ticated young audience.

The pics are trying to bethe next Garden State, a2004 film that, like otherhipster pics, can be general-ly defined as trafficking inmoody music, casual styleand characters who are dis-affected.

But to succeed, thesefilms will need to competein a more difficult marketthan Garden State did fiveyears ago — and do evenbigger business than thatpicture’s $27 million US.

Perhaps the most promi-nent example of the form isFox Searchlight’s upcomingbreakup comedy-drama(500) Days of Summer, MarcWebb’s subtle, funny anduncharacteristically guy-centric view of modern ro-mance. The film opens July17 in limited release. Star-ring Joseph Gordon-Leavittas a reflective young man

and Zooey Deschanel as hisethereal, sometimes unat-tainable love interest, themovie was one of the break-out hits at Sundance thisyear.

But even by the stan-dards of Searchlight —which with films like Gar-den State and Juno has ele-vated hipster marketing toan art form — Summer’smost appealing aspects aremoments of quirky, con-textual comedy and itsmood of melancholy, notexactly the kind of stuffthat plays well as you diginto your popcorn waitingfor the feature to begin.

“This movie is particular-ly challenging to put for-ward in a 30-second spot oreven a two-minute trailer,”says Fox Searchlight presi-dent Nancy Utley.

The specialty division hasthus staged a remarkablyprolific screening cam-paign. Since its Sundancepremiere, the movie hastravelled to 28 festivals andplayed 215 word-of-mouthscreenings. Searchlight alsostaged a six-city giveaway offood and other merchan-dise at retailers, watching asTwitter and Facebook fu-elled the events’ popularity.

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SCIENCE WORLD1455 Quebec St., 604-443-7443

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CN IMAX THEATRE201-999 Canada Place, 604-682-4629

Alaska: Spirit of the Wild (G) Fri-Thu 6 Grand Canyon Adventure: River atRisk in 3D (G) Fri-Thu 12-2-4-8 U2 3D (G) Fri-Thu 9 Under the Sea 3D (G) Fri-Thu 1-3-5-7

DUNBAR THEATRE4555 Dunbar Street, 604-222-2991

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FIFTH AVENUE CINEMAS2110 Burrard Street, 604-734-7469

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The Brothers Bloom (PG) Fri-Thu 1:30-4:30-7-9:30 Departures (G) Fri-Thu 1:05-4-6:50-9:50 Drag Me to Hell (14A) Fri-Thu 7:10-9:35 Easy Virtue (G) Fri-Thu 1:25-4:20-6:55-9:25 Gooby (STC) Fri-Thu 1:20-4:10-7:05-9:40 Land of the Lost (PG) Fri-Thu 1:15-4:05 Little Ashes (14A) Fri-Wed 1:10-4:15-7:15-9:45 Thu 7:15-9:45 X-Men Origins: Wolverine (14A) Fri-Thu 1-4:25-7:20-9:55

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Adventureland (14A) Fri 9:25 Sat-Sun3:25-9:25 Mon-Thu 9:25 I Love You, Man (14A) Fri 7:30 Sat-Sun1:30-7:30 Mon-Thu 7:30

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Katie’s song and dance routineIt’s official! Katie Holmes will perform on So You Think You Can Dance in celebration of the FOX

show’s 100th episode, airing July 23, in a song and dance tribute to Judy Garland. PEOPLE.COM

Carradine died ofasphyxiation PEOPLE The medical exam-iner who oversaw a privateautopsy on DavidCarradine said Wednesdaythat the Kung Fu star diedfrom asphyxiation and theway the actor’s body wasbound allowed him to ruleout suicide. Carradine wasfound hanging in the closetof his Bangkok hotel suiteon June 4 and his familyhired a New York-basedforensic pathologist to con-duct a follow-up death in-vestigation. REUTERS

Michael Jackson’s brother Jermaine Jackson (pictured) says

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TOURISM Abandoned byMichael Jackson after a hu-miliating child molestationtrial in 2005, the latesinger’s Neverland Ranchcould now become one ofthe biggest draws in theworld as a memorial to theKing of Pop.

Jackson’s family has saidthere are no plans for a fu-neral or burial of his body atthe ranch in central Califor-nia after his death lastweek.

But the rural playgroundinspired by Jackson’s alter-ego, Peter Pan, would re-main an attraction in a re-gion already visited bytourists, and it could rivalElvis Presley’s Graceland asa future venue for his mil-lions of fans around theworld.

“Michael Jackson has

worldwide appeal and prob-ably a stronger fan basethan even Elvis. Neverlandis a lot larger than Grace-land and Los Angeles is amajor tourist destination al-ready,” said Roger Brooks,CEO of tourism companyDestination DevelopmentInternational. “Neverlandembodied who MichaelJackson was — the goodand the bad. I think it coulddraw about one million visi-tors a year,” REUTERS

“Michael Jackson ...probably (has) astronger fan basethan even Elvis.”Roger Brooks, CEODestination Develop-ment International

Neverland to rival Graceland?

Jermaine Jackson said onThursday that when hefirst saw his brother, popstar Michael Jackson, deadin a hospital room hekissed him on theforehead and wished thathe had died instead.

“I don’t know how peopleare going to take this, but Iwish it was me,” Jermaine

said on the Today morningtalk show on NBC televi-sion.

“I’ve always felt that I washis backbone; someone to— someone to be there forhim,” said Jermaine, whowith Michael and three oth-er brothers formed the Mo-town band the Jackson 5and who is four years olderthan Michael.

MichaelJackson,who laterenjoyedmassive suc-cess as a soloartist withhit albumslike 1982’sThriller,died a weekago after suf-fering car-diac arrest athis rentedLos Angelesmansion.

Specula-tion hasswirled in the media thatthe 50-year-old pop star wasabusing prescription drugsand perhaps intravenousdrugs ahead of comebackconcerts this month in Lon-don.

An official autopsy hasbeen performed but toxicol-ogy tests won’t be ready forweeks. Results of a privateautopsy by a Jackson familydoctor have not been re-leased.

Jermaine Jackson said re-ports of Michael Jackson’spossible drug use hurt hisfamily. “For people to comeforth and say things that

they don’t have the facts tois very damaging to thefamily, to me, to us, becausewe don’t know,” he said.

“Michael has always beena person who was againstanything like that. But I’mnot saying it’s right, be-cause it’s not right, but inthis business the pressuresand things that you gothrough, you never know

what oneturn(s) to,” Jer-maine said.

He notedthat MichaelJackson under-went a physi-cal exam be-fore startingrehearsals andhad beencleared by doc-tors.

In a will thatsurfacedWednesday,Michael Jack-son nominat-ed his 79-year-

old mother, Katherine Jack-son, to care for his threechildren in the event of hisdeath, and Jermaine saidthe family matriarch wascapable of handling the re-sponsibility.

“I thought it was a greatwill because the childrenare fine, my mother’s theperfect person to be there,and it’s definitely him,” Jer-maine Jackson said.

He also said Jackson’sNeverland Valley Ranch incentral California wouldmake the perfect, final rest-ing place for his brother.

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Custody battle

• Debbie Rowe, the motherof Jackson's two eldest chil-dren, told NBC4 televisionin Los Angeles she wouldseek custody of the kids,setting the stage for a legaltussle with Jackson’s par-ents. “I want my children,”Rowe said in a telephone in-terview with NBC4. Tempo-rary guardianship wasgranted to Jackson’s moth-er, Katherine. REUTERS

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Moby worth the waitAbandons market pressures in favour of ‘private music’

When Moby started mak-ing music, he never antici-pated his career to lastmore than six months.

“My dream was of havingmore than 10 people listento the music that I made.More than 100 seemed ab-surd and presumptuous,”said the 43-year-old NewYork musician, bornRichard Melville Hall.

Twenty-four years later,he’s got nine solo albumsunder his belt — and that’soutside of earlier bandstints. Moby’s music hasbridged the techno, ambi-ent, electronica and rockgenres and previous releas-es have largely shared hismotivation of creating mu-sic for the ears of others.

But on his new release,Wait For Me, Moby’s aban-doned market pressures,making what he considers,“private music.”

“It’s music that only real-ly makes sense listened toat home by yourself or withone other person,” he said,likening it to creations bylate English singer/song-writer Nick Drake and con-temporary Wisconsin folksoloist, Bon Iver.

“When I found myselfgetting more involved in

that world of commercial,mainstream music, half ofme felt like an anthropolo-gist because it was just soforeign,” he said. “To be atan MTV awards show andbe sitting between JustinTimberlake and Ludacris... I was like, I’m sure thesepeople are nice. I have noidea what motivatesthem.”

What motivates Moby?Creation, chiefly, he said.He’s careful not to criticizethe world of commercialmusic, but when it boilsdown to art vs. commerce,he hails the prior as superi-or and indicates there’s aproblem with compromis-ing one’s artistic principles

for the sake of accommo-dating the marketplace.

“Life is short, the mar-ketplace is cheap and art isone of those few thingsthat actually gives mean-ing to peoples’ lives. I hateto see potentially greatartists sacrificing theirprinciples on the altar ofcommerce,” he said.

That’s why, to launch hisfirst truly independent re-lease, Moby committedwhat he said a friend of hisdubs “commercial suicide”— releasing the album’sfully instrumental first sin-gle Shot in the Back of theHead, unlikely to be playedon radio, accompanied bya rather dour video illus-

trated and animated bynonconforming filmmakerDavid Lynch, even less like-ly to be seen on television,and giving it away for free.

“The old punk rocker inme really likes that,” hesaid, smirking. But eventhough Moby boasts punkrock’s anti-establishmentattitude, such independ-ence still yields private tri-als, which he aimed to ad-dress with Wait For Me.

“The most challengingthing is the human condi-tion — mortality. Wemight not have signifi-cance, but we can have thesolidarity of the fact thatwe’re all experiencing thesame thing.”

BRIAN COULTONfor Metro Canada

Wait for Me, the new album from New York-based artist Moby, was released earlier this week.

I’m not sure how thishappened so soon —maybe it was the lousyspring across much ofthe country — but as of

Tuesday, 2009 is half done.Time for a highly subjectivereview of what I think aresome of the best albums ofthe year — so far, anyway— listed in the order inwhich they were released.The Panics/Cruel Guards:Technically, this album isn’tnew at all. It was released athome in Australia in the fallof 2007, but it’s only recent-ly been released interna-tionally. The music is soul-ful, dipping into Motownterritory while moderatingit with Coldplay’s earnest-ness while adding just a

dash of Bono. Everyone I’veplayed the CD for has lovedit. Key track: Don’t Fight It.White Lies/To Lose MyLife: I found last summer’sdemos intriguing enoughto mark Jan. 19, 2009, onmy calendar as the album’sofficial release date. WhenI finally heard it, I was gob-smacked at how three 20year-olds could sound soworld-weary. To say thatthis is a work displayingtalent and a worldview be-yond their years is an un-derstatement. Key tracks:To Lose My Life, Death.

Fight Like Apes / Fight LikeApes and the Mystery ofthe Golden Medallion: Re-leased at home in Irelandlast fall but not issued else-where until January 2009,this awkwardly titled al-bum has been on “repeat”in my iPod ever since.MayKay, the singer, soundslike she’s teetering on theedge of insanity — and Imean that with all the lovein the world. By the way,FLA calls their music“karate rock.” Listen andyou’ll see why. Key track:Tie Me Up with Jackets.

Mastodon/Crack the Skye:A metal concept album re-leased in March that en-compasses everythingfrom czarist mystics towormholes to StephenHawking. What’s not tolike? It was especiallygood at rebutting a poolparty last weekend wherethey played nothing butBeeGees for two-and-a-halfhours. Six minutes ofOblivion fixed them. Keytracks: Oblivion, The LastBaron.Spinnerette/Spinnerette:I’ll admit it: I have a thingfor Brody Dalle who fillsthat gap between CourtneyLove and Karen O of theYeah Yeah Yeahs. A pre-Christmas release of an EPcalled Ghetto Love hinted atsome cool things and a fullself-titled album — whichwas released just ten daysago — has me hooked. Keytracks: Baptized by Fire.

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Crack the Skye is a metal concept album from Mastodon.

The Ongoing History Of New Music can beheard on stations across Canada. Read more at

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Five great albums released this year

I Know You Want MePitbullBoom Boom Pow Black Eyed PeasFire BurningSean KingstonDay ‘N’ NiteKid CudiI’m On A BoatLonely IslandKiss Me Thru The PhoneSoulja BoyKnock You DownKeri WilsonBirthday SexJeremihRight RoundFlo RidaI Gotta FeelingBlack Eyed Peas

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• Farm, Dinosaur Jr.: DinoJr.’s trademarkmix of searing,fuzzy guitar alt-rock is infusedwith catchy pophooks.• Dirty King, The Cliks:Toronto trioadds power bal-lads to its pas-sionate pop-punk sound,suiting LucasSilveira’s gender-bending vocalsnicely. METRO NEWS SERVICES

Billboard’s top albums1. Lines, Vines and Trying Times, Jonas Brothers; 2. The E.N.D., The Black Eyed Peas; 3. Big Whiskey andthe GrooGrux King, Dave Band Matthews Band; 4. Relapse, Eminem. METRO NEWS SERVICES

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Neil Patrick Harris to host Emmy’s?CBS, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences and Neil Patrick Harris are working on a deal that would makethe How I Met Your Mother star the host of this year’0s Primetime Emmy Awards, airing Sept. 20. TVGUIDE.COM

Shoes key to MJ’s danceMichael Jackson was not onlya great pop singer and danceartist — but he was also an in-ventor, patenting newtechnologies to support hissignature moves.

One trick Jackson liked tocarry out during his con-certs was to defy gravity.During a number, he wouldlean so far forward that theaudience was amazed athow he did not fall over. Thesecret behind the gravity-de-fying trick? A shoe he in-vented and patented.

On Google Patents, it ispossible to see Jackson’s in-vention in its entirety.

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Super Bowl performance.

How it was done• Jackson’s specially de-signed shoe went above theankle;• The heel of the shoe had aV-shaped notch;• Screws in the stage floorwhere attached to holesscored into the heels; • Jackson could then leanforward and be sure not tofall over;• One the move was com-pleted, the heel could bedetached from the screws.

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Mix of Six

Cosmologies Where: Centre A, 2 WestHastingsWhen: Starts Saturday

A multimedia exhibit fea-turing works from indige-nous cultures. Artists hailfrom Canada, the UnitedStates and New Zealand.Info: centrea.org

Green Day Where: GM PlaceWhen: Saturday

Green Day performs songsfrom their newest album,21st Century Breakdown,as well as classics off theirprevious albums. The con-cert starts at 8 p.m. Info:Greenday.com

Nando’s CanadaCup of BeerWhere: UBC Thunderbird StadiumWhen: Saturday 1 p.m.

Vancouver's largest beerfestival returns this week-end with more than 200different beers on tap. Tix:$20-$25. Visit canadacupof-beer.com for some moreinfo on the brew fest.

Salsa CruisesWhere: Coal Harbour, #1North Foot of Denman StreetWhen: 8:30 p.m. Saturday

Come aboard the MV Bri-tannia, Vancouver’s largestcruising vessel, for a nightof Latin American culture,passionate dancing andtropical music. Info: Sal-sacruises.com

Anne Gaze:Viewpoints MexicoWhere: Havana Gallery andRestaurant, 1212 CommercialWhen: Starts Sunday

Prints, paintings andmixed media pictures ofvarious archaeologicalsites in Mexico by an EmilyCarr graduate.

The Number 14Where: Waterfront Theatre,Granville IslandWhen: Until July 26

In its 16th season, the hitcomedy blends MontyPython and Mr. Bean andcentres around the wild ad-ventures aboard Vancou-ver’s No. 14 bus. Info: ax-istheatre.com

Metro’s 7th Heaven: Metro taps what’s hot right now

MichaelJackson:The FinalYears

BOOK Montreal-basedTransit Publishing isready to cash it in withthis biography, the firstone to be publishedsince Jackson’s death.On sale next week, thetell-all by Canadianwriter Ian Halperinclaims to have all kindsof inside information.Not excited yet? OK,Halperin predicted lastDecember that Jackowould die within sixmonths.

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Kevin SkinnerPERSON As expected, American’s Got Talent got its Su-san Boyle moment this week with the unassumingchicken catcher from Kentucky. There were sniggers at

Skinner’s rustic appearance until he blew the judges with his ren-dition of Garth Brooks’ If Tomorrow Never Comes. Needless tosay, search engines and blogs were abuzz. Even the Hoff was visi-bly moved.

2Seth Rogen and Michael CeraACTORS This week, Canada’s golden boys of comedy made the exclusive Hollywood clubthat votes on the Academy Awards. Vancouver-born Rogen, whose hits include KnockedUp and Pineapple Express, and Brampton, Ont., native Cera will be feted by the academy

at a reception in September, along with other new voting members.6

Firefox 3.5BROWSER They say the best things in life are free. The ar-gument definitely holds for the open-source browser,which once again proved why it’s so far ahead in the webgame. The new version not only sports some cool features

but is incredibly fast as well. So it’s back to the drawing boards, Inter-net Explorer 8.

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The Pirate PartyPOLITICS Shiver me timbers, eh? The copyright-bashingspirit of the Swedish collective is headed for Canadianshores, thanks to a small group of homemade swash-bucklers who are banding together following the par-

ty’s rising popularity in parts of Europe. Their platform? Peopleshould have the right to share and copy music, movies and virtu-ally any material, as long as it is for personal use, not for profit.

3Johnny DeppCELEBRITY The ulti-mate Hollywoodchameleonfloored the crit-

ics with his portrayal ofcelebrity outlaw John Dillingerin Michael Mann’s latestcrime epic Public Ene-mies. Now there’stalk that top pro-ducers are desper-ate to sign the Pi-rates of theCaribbean starto play MichaelJackson.

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Michael Jackson albumsMUSIC Nine of the departed pop megastar’s albumsmade the Top 10 on Billboard Pop Charts this week,breaking all kinds of records. A similar feat was repeat-ed on Amazon. Any doubts about the King of Pop’s

reign have been forever laid to rest.

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“Together now!” is aphrase I normally deploywhen taking my waywardchildren out for a walk,mall visit or as a desperateplea to have them allsmile in the annual familyphotograph.

So I was pleasantly sur-prised when Iheard my twoyoungest kidssay these twowords, thinkingsome of my ter-rific team bond-ing parentingskills were finally showingresults.

Guess again. I shouldhave been suspicious whenthey recited it in unison,on key, and to a beat.These guys are never thatharmonious. Until now, be-cause of a new game onour Nintendo DSi calledRhythm Heaven. It’s basi-cally all in the pen-tap-

ping, asplayers worktheir way through aseries of intriguing gamesthat mostly require themto hit or flip the pen on thescreen at precisely theright time. We’ve discov-ered it’s more about listen-ing to the soundtrack thanwatching the screen, andthat’s a cool way to inte-

grate hand-eye co-or-dination and listen-ing skills. (If youaren’t a parent or ateacher, you maynot be aware thatchildren are notmasters at listen-

ing, per se.) “The game consists of

easy-to-learn starter levelsthat progress to‘remix’ levelsthat requiremastery of theprevious mini-games,” saysNintendoCanada’sMatt Ryan. “It’s a lotof fun and quite silly and

will build the player’ssense of rhythm and co-or-dination.”

Personally, I had neverthought of Ping Pong as arhythm-based game, butafter playing it in RhythmHeaven (excellent graphicsand sound, unlike my ex-perience with Pong, 20years ago), the next time Iplay on a real table I’ll belistening for the ball as

well as watching for it. Other games in-

clude jumping mon-keys; alien planets ...even an ancient islandtalking head who getsbird droppings on hishead as a penalty whenyou miss the beat. This

is a terrific game for thewhole family — perfect forthe cottage on a rainy daywhen you’re in the moodfor giving your brain agood workout.

What’s also giving me abrain workout right now ismy teenage son getting hisdriver’s licence. If it’sspeed that he needs, I’mhoping that letting himplay Mario Kart DS will bea good way for me to dis-tract him from getting outon the real road.

“Mario Kart DS is an easyto pick-up-and-play racinggame that uses Mario fran-chise characters and over-the-top tracks, items andKarts (similar to go-karts)to race in circuits,” saysRyan.

And honestly, at presentmy seven year-old son Nicis displaying a little moredriving finesse than hisolder brother at this funand sometimes challeng-ing zippy game.

“To get first in the races,players need to strategical-ly use the ‘items,’ jumpsand short cuts to their ad-vantage and beat the otherracers,” explains Ryan.This makes sense as Nichas consistently demon-strated these moves in or-der to be first in line at theschool bus stop.

Driving cars and a driv-ing beat — these twogames make a great startto a family game collec-tion. Together now, kids.

KATHY BUCKWORTHfor Metro Canada

A sample of some of the games available on Rhythm Heaven.

A littletaste ofHeaven

Rhythm Heaven, which helps

players improve their hand-

eye co-ordination, is now

available for the Nintendo DSi.

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Celebrity Buzz

Speidi the doomsayersOn Alex Jones’ Infowars radio show on Monday, Spencer and Heidi Pratt said that 9/11 was an “inside job,”that global warming theories are “mind-boggling” and lamented the “end of humanity.” USMAGAZINE.COM

33% OF FANS ARE HEARTBRO-

KEN Kevin Jonas surprisedhis girlfriend DanielleDeleasa by showing upat her doorstep in NewJersey early Wednesdaymorning and droppingdown to his knee to askher to marry him.

Presented with a cush-ion-cut diamond ringthat Jonas designedwith Jacob & Co., De-leasa couldn’t believewhat was happening,people.com is reports.

Then,“She saidyes, yes,

yes like500

times su-per fast in arow,” the

oldest of

the Jonas Brothers toldPeople.

Jonas, 21, and Deleasa,22, who met in May of2007 while vacationingwith their families in theBahamas, haven’t set awedding date yet. “It stillfeels like a dream,” shetold People.

When Deleasa, a formerhairdresser, first metJonas two years ago, sheadmitted, “I didn’tknow who the JonasBrothers were.” It was

Jonas who eagerly pursuedher after meeting her andthen spotting her walkingon the beach with a flowerin her hair.

Jonas popped the ques-tion after arriving in NewJersey on an overnightflight from a concert inVancouver. “It was toughperforming last night,knowing that I was goingto ask the biggest questionin my life to the mostamazing girl in the world,”he said. METRO NEWS SERVICES

Jonas Bro off the marketUH OH R. Kelly has beenbattling more rumoursabout troubles with under-age girls after the NationalEnquirer published a storysaying he had his homeraided by cops lookingfor a 17-year-old girlwho was believed to bestaying there.

“This is completelyfalse. No policeever showedup at Kelly’shouse witha searchwarrant

nor was his house eversearched,” Kelly’s rep, Al-lan Mayer, said in a state-ment to E! News. “It is alsonot true, as the unsub-

stantiated reportclaimed, that anysuch girl ever stayedovernight in Kelly’shouse or that she

had been there butleft shortly before

some mythicalpolicesearch.”

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New rumours denied

FALLOUT First Kate Gos-selin’s book was delayed,then her reality showwent on hiatus. Now herclothing line promotiondeal with Healthtex is upin the air,usmagazine.com reports.

“Our project is on holdwhile she focuses on herfamily,” Healthtex repScott Pryzwansky toldradaronline.com.

Gosselin, 34, was hawk-ing the line as recently asMay on the Rachael RayShow. She handed out agift bag that contained

what Ray described as “aHealthtex outfit (Kate)helped design and create.”

The fall clothing line isstill available at Wal-Mart, but Gosselinis not involved.

On Monday —one week after sheand her husbandJon filed divorce pa-pers — Christianpublisher Zonder-van announcedher upcomingcookbook,Love Is inthe Mix:

Making Meals into Memo-ries, wouldn’t hit stores

this November asoriginally

planned.The book

promised an“inside look

at one ofAmerica’smost fa-

mous close-knit families.”

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Kate’s career stalls on divorce?SETTLING DOWN Kate Mossis engaged to Jamie Hince,femalefirst.co.uk reports.

The 35-year-old super-model — who has beendating The Kills rockersince summer 2007 —has sparked rumoursthe pair is planningto wed after shewas spotted wear-ing an impressivediamond on herring finger duringa romantic trip toParis.

A sourcesaid: “Kate

and Jamie looked totallyloved-up. Jamie took her tothe trendy La Maison DuCaviar restaurant for a ro-

mantic lunch.“People kept notic-

ing the ring on herengagement fin-ger but she didn’tsay anything.”

This is not thefirst time it hasbeen reported

the Britishbeautyandthe40-

year-old musician are setto tie the knot.

Earlier this year, Hincerevealed he was desperateto commit to Moss.

He said: “I want to mar-ry Kate. She’s all I want.She’s all I need.”

Shortly after they start-ed dating, and just monthsafter she ended her en-gagement to troubledBabyshambles singer PeteDoherty, it was reportedMoss had popped the ques-tion to guitarist Hince at afriend’s wedding.

METRO NEWS SERVICES

Moss getting hitched to Hince?

FRACTURED FAMILY RyanO’Neal went to greatlengths to make sure hisson Redmond O’Nealcould be allowed out ofprison to attend FarrahFawcett’s funeral, but hereportedly put just asmuch effort into makingsure his older son, GriffinO’Neal, was barred fromentering the service, ac-cording to Inside Edition.

Ryan told the programhe had Griffin banned “be-cause he’s a bad guy.” Grif-fin, who drove 480 km to

attend his step-mother’s funeral,said, “I justwanted to saygoodbye to some-one that I knewand loved for 33years.”

His sister, TatumO’Neal, was report-edly also asked to skipthe funeral.

METRO WORLD NEWS

O’Neal drama at funeralGUEST SPOT HilaryDuff is coming tostart some dra-ma on the Up-per East Side,people.com re-ports. Thesinger and ac-tress is joiningthe cast of Gos-sip Girl forseveral

episodes, reportsew.com.

Duff will playOlivia Burke, afamous filmstar in searchof the nor-

mal col-lege expe-

rience.Herschoolof

choice will be New YorkUniversity, where Blair(Leighton Meester), Dan(Penn Badgley) and Vanes-sa (Jessica Szohr) were alsoaccepted.

And in an excellenttwist, Olivia will be room-ing with Vanessa! Willthey be friends? Howwill Blair react? Andcould she catch theeye of a certain Brook-lynite?

Duff’s first episode is setto air Oct. 5.

METRO NEWS SERVICES

Hilary joins Gossip Girl

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Stir-fried Beefwith Vegetables INGREDIENTS:

1 lb (500 g) round roast,thinly sliced2 tbsp (25 ml) oyster sauce3 tsp (15 ml) low sodiumsoy sauce1/2 tsp (2 ml) sugar2 tbsp (25 ml) corn starch2 garlic cloves, chopped2 tbsp (25 ml) vegetable oil1 small onion, cut intowedges1 small carrot, peeled andsliced1 red pepper, deseededand sliced3 ½ oz (100 g) broccoli, cutinto florets5 fresh baby corn cobs,halved lengthways1 bunch asparagus,trimmed and cut on diago-nal into 2-in. (5-cm)lengths1/2 cup (125 ml) waterMETHOD:

1. Put beef in bowl withoyster and soy sauces, sug-ar, corn starch and garlic.Mix and allow to marinate15 minutes.

2. Heat well-seasoned wokor large, non-stick fryingpan over high heat. Add 1tbsp (15 ml) oil, then addmeat and stir-fry 3minutes until cooked andbrowned. Remove andkeep warm.3. Clean wok out bywiping with paper towel.Heat over medium heatand add remaining oil.Add onion, carrot, pepperand broccoli and cook 1minute, tossing frequent-ly. Add corn, asparagusand water; return meat towok and cook 1 minute, oruntil sauce has thickened.Vegetables should beslightly softened but stillretain their crispness.Serve immediately.SERVES 4

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TAURUSAPRIL 21-MAY 21Others are more likely to re-spond to words of encourage-ment than to complaints thatthey are not trying hardenough.

GEMINIMAY 22-JUNE 21It’s important today that youkeep control of your mind.Your imagination will wanderall over the place if you let it.

CANCERJUNE 22-JULY 22Now that mind planet Mercuryis beginning its transit of yoursign you will see things with abit more clarity. You’ve wastedtoo much time on trivialities.

LEOJULY 23-AUG 23You will be a bit more subduedthan usual today. Of course, asa Leo, your idea of subdued isprobably loud and assertive byother people’s standards.

VIRGOAUG 24-SEPT 22You see no reason to be reticentabout telling the world whatturns you on — and off — andif it’s a bit too candid for some,well, that’s too bad.

LIBRASEPT 23-OCT 23Mercury’s entry into the statusarea of your chart today urgesyou to make an impression onemployers and other authorityfigures.

SCORPIOOCT 24-NOV 22Some of the thoughts that in-vade your head will be so wayout that you dare not tell oth-ers what you are thinking.

SAGITTARIUSNOV 23-DEC 21It may be tempting to tell oth-ers what they want to hear to-day but why should you per-jure yourself just to make themfeel good?

CAPRICORNDEC 22-JAN 20Someone you have not beengetting on with too well of latewill put out feelers of reconcili-ation today.

AQUARIUSJAN 21-FEB 18If you’ve been looking for waysto get others to take some ofthe workload off your shoul-ders you will find just the rightwords to persuade them today.

PISCESFEB 19-MARCH 20Mind planet Mercury joins theSun in the most dynamic areaof your chart today, so therecan be no more excuses.

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