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Canadian snowboarderMike Robertson said itwas a bittersweetmoment when heglanced over while blaz-ing down the snowboardcourse at Cypress and re-alized that American SethWescott would repeat asOlympic champion.

“Obviously I wanted towin,” said Robertson, whowon Canada’s fourth

medal, a silver, yesterdayin men’s snowboard cross.“But I’m so happy to besecond. It’s amazing.”

Robertson, 24, dominat-ed much of the final race.After battling early withAmerican Nate Holland,he took a commandinglead, but missed a landinglate in the race. The errorallowed Wescott, the de-fending gold medallist, to

quickly close the gap andnose Robertson into sec-ond. France’s Tony Ramointook bronze.

Afterwards, Robertsonpraised the 33-year-oldAmerican as a “big eventrider.”

“It’s not that fun for meto ride a crappy course inBad Gastein, Austria, withzero visibility,” Wescottsaid. “But, you get toOlympics and you get mo-tivated.”

Despite the 11th-hourcancellation of 8,000

standing room tickets,the crowd was boisterousand loud, clanging cow-bells and waving flags.There were large pocketsof U.S. and France fans(one of whom even worean oversized floppy blueberet) as both nationswere expected to bemedal threats. It was anoverwhelmingly Canadi-an crowd though. As thefinal race began, a cheerof “Hol-land” morphed into “Rob-ert-son” beforesettling into “Ca-na-da.”

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OLYMPIC ACTION Hockeyfans, today is it! The puckdrops at 4:30 p.m. whenthe Canadian men take onNorway.

That game follows whatcould be a gold-medalsnowboard crossperformance by MaëlleRicker at 12:40 p.m. atCypress Mountain. TheNorth Vancouver native isranked No. 1 in the sport.

Also worth watching areChristine Nesbitt in 500-metre speedskating (1 p.m.), Alex Gough inluge (2:50 p.m., final run)and Patrick Chan in figureskating (4:15 p.m.). Cana-da’s men’s and women’scurling teams are inaction at 9 a.m. and 2 p.m.respectively. GREG DOWNS/

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HOMAGE A small funeralwas held in Vancouveryesterday for the Geor-gian luger who died inWhistler last Friday.

Members of the Geor-

gian Olympic delegation,the InternationalOlympic Committee andVANOC gathered at a fu-neral home to bid good-bye to Nodar Kumari-

tashvili.About 50 members of

the public also showedup with flowers and can-dles to pay homage tothe 21-year-old and Van-

couver police sent an ho-nour guard.

The body of the youngathlete arrives in Geor-gia today.

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Vancouver funeral held for Georgian luger

Mike Robertson of Canada, left, and Seth Wescott of the United States compete against each other in the big final heat during

the Men’s SBX Finals on Day 4 of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics at Cypress Snowboard & Ski-Cross Stadium yesterday.

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You know Olympic feverhas the city hit when Van-couver police are yelling“car” for a local streethockey game.

Five Yaletown businesseshave created their own mi-ni street hockey league tohave some fun during workhours.

Jodi Stewart, marketingmanager at Capones Restau-rant, organized the tourna-ment. She said that whenthe day started the streetwas open for use, but thatchanged.

“We actually had VPDyelling ‘car,’ (then) the citycame by and shut down thestreet for us.”

She added police mayeven enter a team.

Jinno Fuentecilla, playingfor the United Games team,

said the matches are forfun, but are more than justa nice break from work.

“It feels like we’re part ofthe Olympics, kind of a niceshow,” he said.

The teams will play twogames a day all week alongHamilton Street until Fri-day.

In the hotly contestedopening match, UnitedGames edged out Capones7-6.

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Keep that up because theroad closures continue inthe downtown core andaround Olympic venues.Olympic lanes and parkingrestrictions remain in effectand are being heavily moni-

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• On Whistler vs. Vancou-ver: Our no-holds-barredmountain town cares littleabout weather and simplygets on with partying. AWhistler Village weekendshows how different thecelebrations are from theVancouver crush. Foreignvisitors are drooling overwhat they’re seeing.

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• Did we take away fromkids by not closing schoolsor giving them an opportu-nity to find the Games ontheir own? The majority ofschools are using thisopportunity to allowstudents to bring storiesand experiences to theclassroom using social me-dia. — Jesse Miller

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PROTESTS After respectingthe wishes of protest organ-izers and not attending lastSaturday’s anti-Olympicdemonstration, the B.C. Civ-il Liberties Association saysit will be a presence at everyrally for the remainder ofthe Games.

Members of the OlympicResistance network askedthe civil rights group to stayaway claiming that under-cover police officers hadregistered as volunteers.

“We had reason to believethat undercover officerswere at our training ses-sions and could have regis-tered,” the organization’sdirector, David Eby said.“But, there is no way toknow for sure.”

Const. Lindsey Houghton,spokesperson for the Van-couver Police Department,confirmed police presenceat the sessions, but saidthey were invited.

“We attended their train-

ings at their request,” saidHoughton. “I have noknowledge of any under-cover presence.”

Saturday’s demonstrationsaw protesters break a num-ber of windows in down-town buildings. Three peo-ple have been charged.

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Canada will help the Hait-ian government get backon its feet by building anadminsitrative base to re-place a number ofsmashed buildings in thecountry's shatteredcapital.

During a visit to Haiti,Prime Minister StephenHarper announced yester-day Canada would spendup to $12 million to createa temporary facility tohouse government depart-ments and civil servants.

A number of Haitiangovernment buildingshave been reduced to rub-ble, from the presidential

palace to the tax depart-ment and the educationministry.

Workers have been try-ing to salvage any scrapsof paper documents whilecrews remove bodies andbulldozers demolishwhat's left of the con-demned buildings.

The Canadian-fundedbase will include soft-cov-ered tents and hard-

shelled temporary build-ings. It is expected to beup and running for up to ayear, and construction willstart once the Haitian gov-ernment chooses a loca-tion.

“(This is) an importantstep toward recovery andreconstruction,” Harpersaid.

The prime ministerplans to get a glimpse ofCanadian aid efforts, as-sess longer-term needs,and stress the messagethat Canada is in Haiti forthe long haul.

The Canadian militaryand civilian volunteershave been providing cleanwater, food, security andmedical care since the Jan.12 earthquake.

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First to show up • The prime minister isthe first G20 leader to visitHaiti since theearthquake, following theheads of severalneighbouring countrieswho have already madethe trip.

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Investigations into onethe worst accidents on theBelgian rails were likely tofocus on whether humanerror was responsible or ifit could have been influ-enced by the persistentlyfreezing temperatures thathave iced up the European

capital.Officials said 80 people

were injured, 20 of themseriously, and the deathtoll — 15 men and threewomen — was not consid-ered final. As darkness fellmore than 10 hours later,rescuers were still looking

for victims in the wreck-age, said Jos Colpin, thespokesman for the federalprosecutor’s office.

The fate of the two driv-ers was not immediatelyknown, and officials saidthey were having difficultyidentifying some of the vic-tims.

The trains, carrying a to-tal of about 300 passen-gers, collided in light snowjust outside of the stationat Buizingen about 15 kmsfrom Brussels around 8:30a.m.

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India defence expo Tanks a lot

Foreign exhibitors look at a bullet-proof armoured vehicle yes-

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Troops: Strict rules hamperAfghan advancementWAR Some American andAfghan troops say they’refighting the latest offen-sive in Afghanistan with ahandicap — strict rulesthat routinely force themto hold their fire.

Although details of thenew guidelines are classi-fied, U.S. troops say the Tal-iban are keenly aware ofthe restrictions.

“I understand the reasonbehind it, but it’s so hardto fight a war like this,”said Lance Cpl. Travis An-derson, adding his platoonhad repeatedly seen mendrop their guns and blendin with civilians. If a manemerges from a Talibanhideout after shootingerupts, U.S. troops say they

cannot fire at him if he isnot seen carrying aweapon — or if they didnot personally watch himdrop one. The U.S. army ac-knowledges the risk to itstroops, but maintain thatcivilian casualties canalienate the populationand lead to a prolongedconflict. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

News in briefBAGHDAD Iraq is crackingdown on shops and tailorswho sell and make police andmilitary uniforms after attack-ers disguised themselves as se-curity to slip through check-points and carry out suicide

bombings in heavily guardedBaghdad. Recent security laps-es that allowed bombings atgovernment buildings and ho-tels in Baghdad haveembarrassed the Iraqi govern-ment. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Hit squadkilled Hamasman: DubaiHAMAS Dubai’s police chiefsaid yesterday an 11-mem-ber hit squad withEuropean passports wasresponsible for the killingof a Hamas commander inhis hotel room last monthand released their photos,names, nationalities andpassport numbers.

Lt. Gen. Dhahi KhalfanTamim did not directly im-plicate Israel, as the Islam-ic militant group has. Butthe details he released arethe most comprehensiveaccusations since the bodyof Mahmoud al-Mabhouhwas found Jan. 20.


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News in briefU.S. A polygamous church inUtah led by Warren Jeffsbefore he was jailed in 2007has named a new presidentwho is facing bigamy charges.Wendell Loy Nielsen, 69, wasnamed president in documentsfiled with the UtahDepartment of Commerce. Hehas long been a senior leaderin the hierarchy of the south-ern Utah-based Fundamental-ist Church of Jesus Christ of Lat-ter Day Saints.


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Heritage MinisterJames Moore hada point of sortsin saying therewasn’t enough

French content in the open-ing ceremonies of the Van-

couver Olympics. Therecould have been more.

But it was hard to keepfrom yawning. His com-plaint sounded 20 or 30years out of date, from a by-gone era. Bilingualism isstill a noble cause but inthe public psyche it hasfaded in importance. It waspart of the Quebec griev-ance era. That era, begin-ning with the arrival of sep-aratist forces in the early1960s, spanned almost fourdecades.

It was remarkable when

you think about it. Quebecangsts, Quebec separatists,Quebec issues dominatedthe national agenda to anastonishing degree. Therewas the rise of RenéLévesque, the October Cri-sis, the election of the PartiQuébécois, the 1980 refer-endum, bilingualism up-roars, the repatriation de-bate, Meech Lake, Charlot-tetown, Jacques Parizeau,Lucien Bouchard, the 1995referendum, the ClarityAct. There was the run ofQuebec-based prime minis-

ters — Trudeau, Mulroney,Chretien, Martin.

Nothing lasts forever. Thegrievance era has passed.Nobody gets excited aboutthe separatist threat any-more. Nobody gets excitedabout bilingualism any-more.

In British Columbia, only55,000 of four million peo-ple are native French speak-ers. They are overwhelmedin the multi-ethnicprovince by those whospeak South Asian or Chi-nese dialects.

The opening show didspotlight French singerGarou and three of theeight Olympic flag-bearerswere from Quebec. CelineDion had been invited butdidn’t attend. Games CEOJohn Furlong said only ahandful of words in Frenchin his welcoming address.Given his appalling pro-nunciation we were thank-ful he stopped at that.

The opening couple daysof the Games had enoughmisfortunes — the death ofthe luger, the glitches with

the hydraulic lifts at thetorch lighting, the spring-like weather. Organizersdidn’t really need com-plaints about not enoughFrench to rain further onthe parade.

Such complaints mayhave some merit. But Cana-dians don’t want to hearthem any more. They haveheard them for 40 yearsrunning.

Forget about following day-to-day stock market action.It is too unstable and onlybreeds nausea, heartburnand indigestion.

The longer view, on theother hand, can be, andusually is, cheerily opti-mistic. Despite its recentgyrations, the market,measured by the S&P/TSXComposite Index, is nearly50 per cent above its bot-

tom of last March.That’s very good news.

It’s sad, then, that so manyCanadians have completelymissed out on it, with nega-tive consequences forthemselves, and the econo-my. A recent report esti-mates that over the pastyear or so, Canadian in-vestors have tucked away asmuch as $90 billion in hy-per-safe but low yieldinginvestments like savings ac-counts and guaranteed in-vestment certificates ratherthan chancing the equitymarket.

It’s worth reflecting onthis depressing phenome-non here as the end ofRRSP season nears. Retailinvestors have always been

creatures of extremes, driv-en into hiding by bear mar-kets; then becoming cock-eyed, nay greedy, oppor-tunists after the bull hastaken flight. They almostinvariably manage to becounterintuitive, sellinglow and buying high. In thequest for security, they ig-nore the fact that a gradualand consistent accumula-tion of stocks through goodtimes, and especially badtimes, eventually produceswealth.

In part, the risk aversionis understandable. A whiffof casino atmosphere hasalways hovered over thestock market, and we’vejust been through the worstof a recession that has ruth-

lessly pared jobs and in-comes. This kind of stuffterrifies investors, especial-ly older ones who are moreliable to be concerned withpreserving savings for thecost of nursing home carethan building a portfolio.

But think longer term.Freight car loads of person-al finance books and milesof copy on the subject inthe popular press havefailed to convince investorsto build their wealth thesensible way, by making along-term commitment tostocks, and by patiently rid-ing out the rough patches.

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Just hours after his gold-medal win in freestylemoguls Sunday, AlexandreBilodeau celebrated with atrip to a local McDonald’s,scarfing down a Big Macand fries after posing for apublicity shot.

The medal — the firstOlympic gold won onCanadian soil — will likelylead to many opportuni-ties for the 22-year-old ski-er to partner up with cor-porate Canada.

For Bilodeau, accoladesbegan to rain down almostas soon as he had postedthe win. The Royal Canadi-an Mint and Canada Postplan to honour the Quebe-cer’s victory with the im-mediate release of goldmedal commemorativecoins and stamps.

Royal Bank spokesmanGeoff Owen, whose banksponsors the freestyle ski-

ing team, says Olympic tie-ins are marketing gold forsponsors. THE CANADIAN PRESS

Freestyle Moguls skier Alexandre Bilodeau, left, celebrates at the

McDonald’s at the Olympic press centre within hours of winning

Canada’s first gold medal on Canadian soil.

Marketing gold

Iceland’s government hopes to dodgea referendum on a controversial debtpayment plan with new negotiationsin Europe. Scan this code for the story.

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Toyota has morebrake problemsCOMPLAINTS The U.S. gov-ernment has received newcomplaints alleging 34deaths in Toyota vehiclesdue to sudden accelerationsince 2000. A database yes-terday showed the govern-ment has received com-plaints alleging 13 addi-tional deaths during thepast three weeks. Thedeaths allegedly attributa-ble to this problem hap-pened in nine crashes be-tween 2005 and 2010.


Feds eye tighterhome buyer rules MORTGAGES The federal gov-ernment is expected to an-nounce new rules todaythat would make it moredifficult for first-time buy-ers to enter Canada’s hothousing marking becauseof concerns Canadians maybe taking on too much debt.

Economists have advisedFinance Minister Jim Fla-herty the best way to pro-tect Canadians is to insti-tute a debt affordabilitytest to qualify for a Cana-dian Mortgage and Hous-ing Corp. insured mortgage. THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Sports in briefSOCCER England’s PremierLeague is reportedly consider-ing the introduction of play-offs to decide which teamtakes its fourth ChampionsLeague place. The top fourclubs currently qualify auto-matically for Europe’s top clubcompetition but The Guardiannewspaper says the PremierLeague could reduce that tothree and give the final placeto the winner of end-of-sea-son playoffs involving teamsfinishing fourth through sev-enth.WARRANT A French judge hasissued a national arrest war-rant for U.S. cyclist Floyd Lan-dis in connection with a caseof data hacking at a dopinglaboratory, a prosecutor’s of-fice said. Landis denied thehacking allegations in anemail to the Los AngelesTimes yesterday and said nowarrant has been servedagainst him. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Blockbusters brewing?

Few impact free agentsleft on the CFL market

everything he can to become the majority owner of the club in his home state. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Electrifying as teammatesfor one night, imagine LeBron James and DwyaneWade together for an entire season.

At least one of them does.“We can dream, can’t

we?” Wade said. “I dream.”After watching them Sun-

day night in the all-stargame at Cowboys Stadium,who wouldn’t? Well, exceptrival coaches.

“I don’t think you neededto see tonight to under-stand that would scare anyof us in this league,” EasternConference coach Stan VanGundy said.

Wade scored 28 pointsand was the MVP, Jamesadded 25 and the East beatthe West 141-139.

A James-Wade partner-ship could happen, but thatwouldn’t be until the sum-mer. In the meantime, oneor both of them still couldget some all-star calibrehelp.

The NBA trade deadline isThursday, with Clevelandand Miami among theteams most frequently ap-pearing in the usual mid-February speculation. Andfor the second consecutiveyear, much of it focuses onAmare Stoudemire ofPhoenix.

The Cavaliers and Heatboth have been linked tothe all-star forward, a terrif-ic Plan B if neither canmake a James-Wade tan-dem happen.

But the Cavaliers may not

need a deal after rolling intothe break with a 13-gamewinning streak and an NBA-best 43-11 record, evenwithout the injured MoWilliams.

But they also want toshow James they are totallycommitted to winning be-fore he becomes a freeagent this summer, andthere’s still some improvingthat can be done.

Miami needs a little ofeverything after reachingthe break in seventh placein the East with a 26-27

record. Wade has warnedthe Heat his decision to staythis summer will be basedon whether he believeshis team can be a con-tender. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

A remade Dallas Mavericks squad exits the break looking to

challenge the Lakers’ dominance. Scanthe code for the full story.

LeBron James and Dwyane Wade of the Eastern Conference cele-

brate their 141-139 victory over the Western Conference in the

NBA all-star game in Arlington, Texas, on Sunday.

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From his off-seasonhome in Atlanta, the veter-an CFL cornerback stum-bled across an Olympicbiathlon broadcast overthe weekend and was as-tonished to learn that“guys are getting medalsfor skiing and shooting BBguns.”

Parker has spent thewinter wondering whatkind of reward he mightreceive when he became afree agent. The 28-year-oldwas set to find out thismorning, when a modestgroup of established freeagents would be free to selltheir services to the high-est bidder.

Some of the biggestnames had already re-signed with their teams be-fore the deadline, includ-ing Calgary running backJoffrey Reynolds andSaskatchewan receiverAndy Fantuz. Only two es-tablished running backs(Toronto’s Jamal Robertsonand Saskatchewan’s WesCates) and one quarter-back (Saskatchewan’sSteven Jyles) were left onthe market heading intothe free-agent period.

Not every team em-braces the free-agent mar-ket. Montreal general man-ager Jim Popp has histori-cally been among the leastactive in free agency, opt-ing instead to groom andretain his own players.

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dren to assess the benefitof using all three routines.

“Each of these house-hold routines by them-selves was associated withlower risk for obesity, andthe more of them chil-dren had, the better,” saidAnderson.

The study involved a na-tional sample of about8,550 four-year-old chil-dren enrolled in the EarlyChildhood LongitudinalStudy in the U.S. Eight-een per cent of the chil-dren were obese.

Although every familyand every child is differ-ent in terms of what’sneeded, there are a fewtargets to aim for.

“We saw a lower risk ofobesity associated with10 and a half hours ofsleep each night, twohours maximum ofscreen-viewing time perday, and family mealsmore than five times perweek,” said Anderson.

Screen time includestime spent watching

videos and DVDs.Establishing these rou-

tines probably has otherbenefits to children’s de-velopment, such as emo-tional stability.

“Families with young

children may want toconsider what it wouldtake for them to havethese routines for theirchild,” she said.

The study is scheduledfor publication in the

March issue of the jour-nal Pediatrics. Ander-son’s co-author wasRobert Whitaker, profes-sor of public health andpediatrics at Temple Uni-versity.


Healthy home habits mean healthy kids

Is your child headed forobesity? Here’s someadvice your grandmothermight have given you —chances are slimmer thatyour kids will be fat if theyeat meals at home, don’twatch too much TV, andget lots of sleep.

Researchers in Ohioanalysed data on thou-sands of four-year-old chil-dren to find out whethersome good, old-fashionedhousehold habits were as-sociated with lower riskfor obesity. And the resultswere quite dramatic.

“Children living inhouseholds where theyregularly ate dinner as afamily, got enough sleepat night, and were limitedin their daily TV viewingwere 40 per cent less like-ly to be obese compared tochildren who had none ofthese household rou-tines,” said Dr. Sarah An-derson (PhD), assistantprofessor of epidemiologyat Ohio State Universityand lead author of thestudy.

Each of the routines hadbeen linked in previousstudies to lower obesity,but this was the first timeresearchers had studiedsuch a large group of chil-

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ALCOHOL It’s a cruel combo.If you consume energydrinks with alcohol, you’reprobably drunker than youthink.

Kids of college and uni-versity age will often useenergy drinks such as RedBull with alcohol to boosttheir buzz. A study in Flori-da has found that addingcaffeine to alcohol increas-es the risk of being very

drunk and deciding to drive.Researchers from the

University of Florida did in-terviews with more than800 randomly selectedyoung people leaving barslate at night. The partici-pants were asked whatthey had been drinkingand also whether they in-tended to drive home.Their breath alcohol levelswere tested. The studyfound that those whodrank energy drinks mixedwith alcohol had a three-fold increased risk of leav-

ing a bar highly intoxicated. More ominously, they

were four times more like-ly to intend to drive thatnight than those who onlydrank alcohol.

“When caffeine is mixedwith alcohol it overcomesthe sedating effects of alco-hol and people may per-ceive that they are less in-toxicated than they reallyare,” said the study’s leadresearcher DennisThombs, an associate pro-fessor in the UF College ofPublic Health.

Red Bull and vodka may increase chance of reaching for car keys

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Mixing energy drinks with

alcohol may make you feel

less drunk than you actually

are, a study reports.

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When Team Canada opensthe Olympic men’s hockeytournament, there will beno one more at homethan the man in goal.

Roberto Luongo willstart when Canada playsNorway today, a somewhatsurprising call from coachMike Babcock. Then again,the Vancouver Canucksgoaltender is no strangerto Canada Hockey Place —better known as GM Placeoutside of the Olympics —and hopes the buildingprovides the entire teamwith a lift.

“It’s mostly the comfortlevel,” Luongo said yester-day. “We’re comfortablewith the arena.”

Part of the reason Bab-cock decided to give Luon-go the start in the opener isbecause the game will beplayed in his home NHLrink. The coach always in-tended to split the openingtwo starts and figured itmade more sense for Mar-tin Brodeur to play the sec-ond game against Switzer-land on Thursday.

“I thought because (Luon-go’s) from here and I wasplaying one of them in(each) game,” explainedBabcock. “Marty’s played aton of hockey and I thoughtthis provides him a littletime.”

Beyond that, the goal-tending plans remain awork in progress — muchlike the rest of the team.

The Canadian playerswere put through their on-ly pre-tournament practicelast night, a brisk workoutthat was very business-like.With so little time to pre-pare for as a group, it was

important for the coachingstaff to deliver a lot of infor-mation. “We tried to getthrough our material, wetried to get everyone back

on the same page,” saidBabcock. “We’re like allteams here — you’ve got tobe a work in progress andyou’ve got to try to get bet-

ter each and every day. Wethink we’re capable of do-ing that. If we don’t, wewon’t be in the tournamentvery long.” THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Vancouver Games

NATION TOTAL

U.S. 2 2 4 8

Germany 1 3 1 5

France 2 0 2 4

Canada 1 2 1 4

Switzerland 3 0 0 3

South Korea 2 1 0 3

Norway 0 2 1 3

Italy 0 1 2 3

China 1 1 0 2

Czech Republic 1 0 1 2

Japan 0 1 1 2

Netherlands 1 0 0 1

Slovakia 1 0 0 1

Sweden 1 0 0 1

Australia 0 1 0 1

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MedalCount HOCKEY Ryan Getzlaf hasbeen cleared to play forTeam Canada at theOlympics.

The Anaheim Ducks cen-tre missed a couple of NHLgames this week with asprained left ankle, but wasgiven the thumbs-up tocompete for Canada oneday after scoring four pointsin his return to the lineup.

As a result, Canada willenter the men’s Olympictournament with the same23 players executive direc-tor Steve Yzerman an-nounced Dec. 30.

Getzlaf was really the on-ly question mark. Team

Canada associate directorDoug Armstrong trav-elled to Edmontonto watch himplay Sundayand Getzlaf re-sponded withtwo goals andtwo assists inan Anaheimvictory. Afterthe game, he ex-pressed hope thathe would be included onthe final Canadian roster.

“In my mind, it’s prettymade up,” said Getzlaf. “Ob-viously, I would like to bethere.”

The roster was officially

submitted yesterday andcannot be changed at

any point duringthe event. The

Canadian teamopens the tour-nament todayagainst Nor-way.

PhiladelphiaFlyers forwardJeff Carter flewto VancouverSunday in case

Getzlaf was unable to com-pete and headed homewithout ever havingstepped on the ice at Cana-da Hockey Place.

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Getzlaf cleared for action with Team Canada

Goaltender Roberto Luongo will start for Team Canada today against Norway.

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Luongo gets the nod FRANCE Vanessa James saysshe had two big reasons tofeel proud on the ice yes-terday: She was part of thefirst black figure skatingpair in Olympic history;and she did it in the coun-try of her birth.

Toronto-born James andpartner Yannick Bonheur,skating for France, delight-ed the crowd at the PacificColiseum with an elegantand technically-rich rou-tine in their free skate.They are among the fewblack skaters who haveclimbed the ranks of inter-national figure skatingand the first to reach theseheights as part of a pair.

“We’ve actually had a

few people who had comefrom the U.S. to watch theOlympics and they hadnever seen us before, andthey have children whoare black figure skatersand now they want to bethe best,” James said aftertheir routine yesterday.

“They see that it’s possi-ble, so I hope we do seemore black skaters in fig-ure skating, and then we’llsee more skaters.”

James said she is thrilledto be skating in Canada.

“My mom is Canadiantoo, and she’s very proudthat I’m skating in Canadaand that I’m Canadian,”she said.

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Almost ready to toss some rocksCurler Cheryl Bernardwon’t have much time toget her feet wet at her firstWinter Olympics.

The Calgary skip willmake her Games debut to-day in front of what’s sureto be a raucous Vancouvercrowd and will square offagainst the woman whohas claimed the silvermedal in each of the lasttwo Olympics, Switzer-land’s Mirjam Ott.

Easing into the tourna-ment against a tough op-ponent, Bernard isn’t wor-ried.

“They’re an offensiveteam and they’ll go at itand I don’t mind thatgame at all,” Bernard saidyesterday after her finaltraining session in Vancou-ver. “I’m looking forwardto playing them.”

The 43-year-old, whoclinched her spot at theOlympics by winning theCanadian curling trials lastDecember, sounded asthough she’d take on just

about anyone if it meant fi-nally getting the Gamesunderway.

“I came in (the mediaarea) and I said, ‘I don’tknow what else I have tosay because we haven’tplayed yet,’” Bernard saidto reporters with her cus-tomary off-ice laugh.

While Bernard will openwith a difficult matchupagainst Ott, the odds werequite high her first round-robin contest wouldn’t bea walk in the park.

The women’s Olympiccurling field is deep andthere’s no shortage ofteams that could wind up

on top of the podium.Sweden’s Anette Nor-

berg is the defendingOlympic gold medallistand a two-time worldchampion.

China’s Bingyu Wangwon the world champi-onship last year and hasbeen picked by some to

claim gold in Vancouver.And then there’s Ott.

With her two Olympic run-ner-up performances, theSwiss skip has becomesomething of internationalcurling’s bridesmaid.

But she insisted she willbe perfectly content withanother silver, or evenbronze, and appeared justas eager as Bernard toget the tournament under-way.

“Now all the jet lag isgone, we are used to theOlympic village, we areused to all this entourage,the security, so we are real-ly ready to start and happythat we can start (today),”she said.

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After much anticipation, Canadian curler Cheryl Bernard hits the ice today

Team Canada second Carolyn Darbyshire, centre, jokes as skip Cheryl Bernard, left, and lead Cori

Bartel smile during practice at the Olympic Centre yesterday at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in

Vancouver. The Canadian rink will take on Switzerland today.

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Drought • Cheryl Bernard will beattempting to claim Cana-da’s first women’s gold incurling since SandraSchmirler in 1998.

CLOTHING When Olympicsnowboard cross racers hitthe mountain for the lastday of training before themen’s event, their conver-sation slopeside includedstrategy, track conditionsand fashion — especiallythe Canadians’ ever-so-tight snowpants.

American boarders, rid-ing in their baggier gear,have been gently ribbingthe Canadians duringtraining runs, tellingthem to loosen up a lit-tle.

“We want to keep thecool factor in snow-boarding, we don’twant it to go speedsuits,” Nick Baumgartnersaid on Cypress Mountain.

Fellow U.S. rider NateHolland said the Canadianteam is pushing the limitsof a longstanding gentle-men’s agreement to keep

boardercrossers in loose-fitting pants.

The form-fitting teampants worn by some Cana-dians give them an aerody-namic edge and eventhreaten the future ofsnowboard cross itself, hesaid.

“It’s the red-headedstepchild of snow-boarding, and so I

think it’s just really impor-tant to keep that integrityintact,” Holland said afterthe last day of men’s train-ing before yesterday’sOlympic event.

“I’m a snowboarderthrough and through andboardercross is a freestylesnowboarders’ race. I think

it should stay that way.”THE CANADIAN PRESS

Canuck boarders told to loosen up

Canadian snowboarder

Robert Fagan

SKIING Being the top Cana-dian didn’t mean much toErik Guay after the hostcountry was shut out ofthe medals in the men’sdownhill at the WinterOlympics yesterday.

The race was won bySwitzerland’s Didier Defa-go in one minute, 54.31seconds. Guay, from Mont-Tremblant, Que., was fifthin 1:54.64

“It’s heartbreaking a lit-tle bit to be fifth,” saidGuay. “It wasn’t a bad runand it’s my best result ofthe year in downhill.

“You hope and pray forOlympic miracles. I wouldhave loved to be on thepodium but fifth place iswhere I am standing.”

Manuel Osborne-Paradisof Invermere, B.C., wasseen as Canada’s topmedal threat in themarquee event on thealpine skiing schedule. Acouple of mistakes costhim time and he finished17th in 1:55.44.

Norway’s Aksel LundSvindal was second in1:54.38.

THE CANADIAN PRESSCanada headed to semifinals after handing Swiss blowoutHOCKEY Canada punchedits ticket to the semifinalsof the Olympic women’shockey tournament yester-day with a 10-1 win overSwitzerland.

The Canadian womenimproved to 2-0 and canfinish first in Group A witha win over Sweden in thefinal preliminary-roundgame for both countries to-morrow.

The top two teams ineach group advance to thesemifinals Feb. 22.

The top seed crosses overto play the runner-up inthe other pool in the

semis.While Canada’s high

goal output may seem un-necessary to some, shouldCanada and the U.S. meetin the final with the same

record, the country withthe better goal differentialwill be designated thehome team.

Meghan Agosta ofRuthven, Ont., paced Cana-da with a pair of goals. Jay-na Hefford of Kingston,Ont., scored her secondshort-handed goal of thetournament and the hostsalso got goals from Mon-treal’s Catherine Ward,

Marie-Philip Poulin ofBeauceville, Que., Toron-to’s Cherie Piper, GillianApps of Unionville, Ont.,and Sarah Vaillancourt ofSherbrooke, Que.

Goalie Shannon Szaba-dos of Edmonton earnedthe win in front of an en-thusiastic crowd at theThunderbird Arena at theUniversity of British Co-lumbia. THE CANADIAN PRESS

Scoring onslaught

• Canada, the defendingOlympic champion, hasoutscored its opposition 28-1 in its first two games. The

18 goals scored against Slo-vakia on Saturday were anOlympic women’s hockeyrecord.

No sentimentalvictory forQuebec’s Guay

Rules of pants• The Americans have un-successfully called on the In-ternational Ski Federationto follow the X Games leadand set a minimum pant-legwidth for snowboard cross.

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13Slower track agreed upon for SochiThe international luge federation and Sochi organizers have agreed on a slower track for the 2014 Olympics, reducing the risk of the kind of fatal accident that marred the start of the Vancouver Games. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Sliding Centre yesterday.

Above: Chelsea Marshall of

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Above: Young fans cheer

on Canada at the Women’s

hockey preliminary game

against Switzerland at the UBC

Thunderbird Arena yesterday. Above right:

Canadian Alex Harvey grimaces after finishing the

men’s 15-kilometre free event at Whistler Olympic

Park. Right: Didier Delfago of Switzerland reacts to his

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He’s one of the most deco-rated sprinters in men’sspeedskating, and lastnight Canada’s JeremyWotherspoon ended his il-lustrious career with aninth-place finish in the500-metre race to araucous hometown crowd.

Wotherspoon wasn’t ex-pected to medal, but therewas the hope that the 33-year-old veteran — who hascompeted in three otherOlympics, won countless

World Cup medals and tookhome Silver in Nagano —would end his career on thepodium. Despite the factthat three other Canadianswere competing in theevent at the RichmondOval, it was Wotherspoon’sappearance that nearlybrought down the housewith a deafening roar ofcheers, cowbells andpounding feet.

It was his comeback per-formance after breaking hisarm at the World Cup inBerlin in 2008. He also felltwo years earlier in the SaltLake City Games, where he

was a gold medal favourite. In the end, it’s Korea’s an-

them that will play at B.C.Place for the Victory Cere-mony tonight after Tae-BumMo won. Japan’s KeiichiroNagashima took silver andhis teammate Joji Kato tookbronze. The only glitch inthe night came when therace was delayed by morethan an hour because ice-resurfacing machines start-ed experiencing technicalproblems. An issue with theice delayed the women’s3,000-metre event on Sun-day. Canadian Jamie Greggcame in seventh.

Wotherspoon brings down houseSpeedskater doesn’t medal, but receives raucous sendoff in final Olympic appearance

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Problemspersist inRichmondICE MACHINES Maybe theyshould have gone with aZamboni. The ice-resurfac-ing machines at theRichmond Olympic Ovalcontinue to struggle on theWinter Games stage, with amechanical breakdownleaving behind a pile ofsnow and a puddle of waterin the middle of aspeedskating competitionfor the second straight day.

Both times the messeswere left about 20 metresfrom the inner lane’s finishline, and yesterday the ma-chine was pulled off the icefor repairs. A plain-whitebackup machine, lookingnaked in comparison to themain unit dressed withOlympic decorations, cameout of an alternate garageand was eventually pressedinto action, with chief ice-maker Mark Messer at thewheel.

Dutch national teamcoach Wopke de Vegt andAmerican counterpart RyanShimabukuro both skatedbehind Messer, shakingtheir heads in frustration.Speed Skating Canada'sOlympic program directorBrian Rahill also piped in ashe stood in the infield.

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Gold medal not only inspirationfrom Bilodeau and brotherCEREBRAL PALSY AlexandreBilodeau’s Olympic goldmedal will forever be en-shrined as Canada’s first onhome turf. But for peoplewith cerebral palsy, it is thefreestyle skier’s tender —and very public — esteemfor his brother Fredericthat will long glitter inmemory.

For Bilodeau, the cere-bral palsy that has affectedhis older sibling’s speechand muscle control is justone aspect of the man heunabashedly calls his heroand daily inspiration.

So seeing the TV imagesof the brothers joyfully em-bracing near the bottom ofthe moguls run was a magi-

cal moment for JoanneHutchinson, a volunteerfor the Halifax RegionalCerebral Palsy Associationwho was born with thecondition.

“It made me feel good,”said the 54-year-old, point-ing out that many peoplewith cerebral palsy avoidgoing out in public, espe-cially if they have a notice-able disability or uncon-trolled muscle movementsor spasms. “They don’tknow much about us, theydon’t have an understand-ing and there’s a lot of(public) misconceptions,”added Hutchinson, who

hopes the focus on FredericBilodeau’s no-holds-barredsupport of his brother andhis place of honour at thefront of the spectatorsgallery will help raiseawareness of the conditionthey share.

“So it’s marvellous that itbrings attention to us.”

Craig Langston, presi-dent of the Cerebral PalsyAssociation of British Co-lumbia, said the Quebecbrothers’ story “speaks ofinclusion.”

In Canada, an estimated50,000 people are livingwith cerebral palsy.

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About CP• Cerebral palsy is a gener-al term for a group of disor-ders affecting body move-ment and co-ordination.Most cases are believed tobe caused by brain damagethat occurs before, duringor shortly after birth,although some cases havebeen linked to braininjuries or infections duringthe first few months oryears of life.

Frederic Bilodeau, left, celebrates with his brother Alexandre

Bilodeau in this 2006 file photo.

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15Bilodeau win brings ratings gold for CTVSome 7.3 million Canadians watched Alexandre Bilodeau win gold at the Vancouver Olympics, with the TVaudience for Sunday’s moguls final peaking at 9.7 million, according to CTV. THE CANADIAN PRESS

Vancouver Games

Apparently Dale Begg-Smith’s act is wearing a lit-tle thin Down Under insome quarters.

The taciturn Canadian-born moguls skier whonow competes for Aus-tralia avoided most of the

media before his Olympiccompetition Sunday night.

And while he spoke gra-ciously about AlexandreBilodeau, at least one criticback in Australia did notlike what he saw. In a Syd-ney Morning Herald col-

umn entitled Why Mr. Mis-erable leaves us icy cold,Peter Fitzsimons wroteabout why “there has beensomething very close to anational yawn” over Begg-Smith’s showing at theGames.

“It is probably becausehis whole shtick all seemsso ruthlessly joyless,”Fitzsimmons wrote. “He isinfamous for offeringmonosyllabic answers tojournalists. And even invictory, or near victory, he

offers nothing. To see himon the podium, between awildly celebrating Ameri-can and Canadian, whilehe looked like he had justsucked on a lemon, was tocringe.”

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No need for ‘mercy rule’ inwomen’s hockey,says presidentHOCKEY Would you ask anOlympic marathoner whowas 15 minutes ahead ofthe pack to slow down sothey didn’t humiliate otherathletes?

No, suggests Rene Fasel,president of theInternational Ice HockeyFederation, and that’s whythere’s no mercy rule need-ed for Olympic women’shockey.

The Canadian womenreached the semifinalround yesterday beatingSwitzerland 10-1. Theytrounced the Slovaks onSunday night with a recordscore of 18-0. Fasel said hespoke to the Slovaks andthey were good-naturedabout the loss.

“Competition is competi-tion,” he said in aninterview with The Canadi-an Press. “And for sure I’mnot so happy whathappened, but it was agreat experience. I spoke alittle bit with the Slovakdelegation, it was a greatexperience for the girls,playing in front of 18,000people, in a real hockey,NHL arena, with greatcrowds.”

How the game is playedis more important than thescore, said Chris Rudge,chief executive officer ofthe Canadian OlympicCommittee.

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VancouverGames in brief

DOWNHILL SKIING LindseyVonn says a “bumpy” and “jar-ring” downhill training coursedidn’t do her badly bruisedshin any favours. Calling it“probably the worst course formy shin,” the Americanfinished the upper section ofthe course in the fastest timeof the morning training runsyesterday. Her time of oneminute, 30.75 seconds was0.39 seconds faster than team-mate Julia Mancuso’s. BrittJanyk of Whistler, B.C., was thefastest Canadian, finishing fifthin a time of 1:31.76. Soon afterthe men’s downhill finish, thewomen skied the much shorterbottom section. There, Vonnfinished in 18.52 seconds.

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Mardi Gras grubYou may not get down toNew Orleans for MardiGras, but that doesn’tmean you can’t eat as ifyou’re there.

This speedy version ofgumbo is prepared in twopans. Combined at the end,the two parts have all theflavour of the traditionalhearty dish. If you have theopportunity, letting it sit inthe refrigerator overnightwill seriously improve theflavours.

While there are manydifferent styles of gumboacross the South — includ-ing variations between Cre-ole and Cajun — okra is amust-have ingredient(among other things, itserves as a thickener) ofthis meat- and seafood-richstew. Most grocers sellchopped or whole okra inthe freezer section.

Fast and Intense GumboMAKES 8 SERVINGS

INGREDIENTS:• 125 ml (1/2 cup) butter,divided• 50 ml (1/4 cup) all-purpose flour• 3 cloves garlic, minced• 375 ml (1 1/2 cups)chopped yellow onion(about 2 small)• 175 ml (3/4 cup) choppedcelery (about 3 stalks)• 500 g (1 lb) okra, chopped• 1 can (398 ml/14 oz) dicedroasted tomatoes withchilies• 425 ml (1 3/4 cups) water• 2 ml (1/2 tsp) dried thyme• 5 ml (1 tsp) sugar• Salt and ground blackpepper• 500 g (1 lb) sirloin steak,cubed• 500 g (1 lb) large shrimp,

peeled and deveined• 500 g (1 lb) Andouillesausage, sliced into rounds• 500 g (1 lb) crab meat• Juice of half a lemon• 30 ml (2 Tbsp) Worcester-shire sauce

METHOD:In a large, heavysaucepan overmedium, melt50 ml (1/4cup) of thebutter. Stirin flour andcook, stir-ring con-stantly, untilmixture is a deepbrown, about 10 min-utes.

Stir in garlic, onion, cel-ery and okra. Continue tocook until onion is translu-cent and okra is stringy, 8to 10 minutes. Add toma-

toes, water, thyme, sugar, 5ml (1 tsp) salt and 1 ml (1/4tsp) pepper. Simmer for 20minutes.

Meanwhile, in a largedeep skillet over medium-high, melt remaining but-ter. Add 2 ml (1/2 tsp) salt, 1ml (1/4 tsp) pepper andsteak. Sear beef, turning oc-

casionally, for about 3minutes. Add

shrimp and sauteuntil pink, about2 minutes. Addsausage, crab,lemon juice and

Worcestershiresauce. Stir gently to

heat through.The mixtures can be

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Genre-busting superhero

Just 24 hours before goinginto production onDefendor, a funny, genre-busting superhero movie,director Peter Stebbingsgot a mixed message fromhis star Woody Harrelson.

“Woody invited me to hisplace and said ‘I have neverbeen more unsure aboutwhat I’m going to do on amovie as I am on Defendorand I’ve never been as OKwith that as I am on De-fendor,’” says the director.

Harrelson was preppinghimself to play Arthur, anemotionally stunted man

who, with the help of ahomemade costume andmakeshift weapons, em-barks on a crime fightingspree to bring down hisarch enemy, Captain Indus-try, in his hometown ofHamilton, Ont.

“My nerves were a jan-gle,” says Harrelson.

“I felt like I was out of myturf. It’s one of those thingsthat you can study and lookat it from a lot of angles,which I did, but thatdoesn’t mean you knowwhat you’re doing on theday they say ‘Action!’”

Turns out the pre-gamejitters were dispelled on thefirst day when Harrelsonshot some of the film’s

most difficult, emotionalscenes — a series of psycho-logical interviews oppositeactress Sandra Oh.

“I’m glad it happenedlike that,” he says. “It

pushed me. I didn’tknow what I was do-ing but at the end of thatday I told my buddy, ‘Rudy,I think I’m getting it.’”

Stebbings courted Harrel-

son for the part after seeinghim in No Country for OldMen.

“I had two thoughts,” hesays. “One: Where has hebeen? He took a six yearhiatus, and secondly, whata great jaw line. I thoughthe’s never been bad in any-thing he’s done and he’s al-ways a sympathetic charac-ter so I was thrilled whenhe was excited to be a partof it.”

Despite his initial anxietyHarrelson is pleased

with the result. “I like the fact

that Arthur is go-ing after CaptainIndustry because,

to me, I look atwhat’s wrong with the

world and it’s the captainsof industry — the greedybastards who control thepoliticians.”

RICHARD CROUSEfor Metro Canada

Harrelson fights back against

Captain Industry in Defendor

Surgery for SutherlandProduction on 24 has been suspended so Kiefer Sutherland can undergo a “minor elective procedure” after a cyst near his kidneyruptured last week. The 43-year-old actor missed work Friday, but production continued without him. TVGUIDE.COM

Name in the skyJim Carrey hired a skywriter to

declare his love for Jenny McCarthy.The actress tweeted: “Just had sky

writer come over our house and write J(heart) J in the sky. So fun. Anybody in LA

go look at the sky.” FEMALEFIRST.CO.UKEntertainmentDVD picks

Law AbidingCitizenDirectors: F. Gary Gray

TAKE MOVIE vigilantismto its horrific extremeand the result is LawAbiding Citizen, a bru-tally effective andalarmingly catharticcombination of DeathWish and Saw.

You have to credit di-rector F. Gary Gray(Friday) and screen-writer Kurt Wimmer(Street Kings) for rec-ognizing the darkestinstinct of vengefulvigilantes and their so-cietal cheerleaders:They don’t just wantbad guys imprisoned,they want them de-stroyed.

That’s the psycho-logical ledge GerardButler’s Clyde Sheltonis pushed out on, afterhe witnesses two menrape and murder hiswife and young daugh-ter in his own home.

Previously a believerin the justice system,this mild-mannered en-gineer suffers a psychot-ic reversal after show-boating Philadelphiaprosecutor Nick Rice(Jamie Foxx) cuts a dealwith one of the killers.

The main bad guygets a reduced prisonsentence in return fortestifying against hisoafish accomplice, whogoes to Death Row.

The film becomes in-creasingly implausible.Yet it maintains incred-ible momentum,thanks in no small partto strong performancesby Butler and Foxx.

DVD extras include acommentary by produc-ers Lucas Foster andAlan Siegel DVD andseveral featurettes thatexplore the justice is-sues raised by the film.

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Woody Harrelson is on a quest to bring down arch

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Celebrity Buzz

Murphy charity returns fundsACCIDENTS HAPPEN... TheBrittany Murphy Founda-tion, which is run by Mur-phy’s husband, SimonMonjack and mother,Sharon Murphy, hadn’tfiled the necessary docu-ments to qualify as a chari-ty or nonprofit group andis now returning all the do-nations, popeater.com re-

ports. On Sunday, TMZ first re-

ported that the founda-tion was not registeredas a charity with the IRSor the state of California,as required by law. Thefoundation has is-sued an apology let-ter on the officialwebsite.

“In an effort to get thefoundation off theground quickly, we es-tablished it as a pri-vate foundation withplans to apply for non-profit status down the

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“Any donations made upuntil this point will be re-turned until we have allour paperwork solidified,”the letter reads.

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AVRIL LAVIGNE. When shewas just 14, Avril Lavignewon a singing competitionto perform with ShaniaTwain. Since then she hassold 30 million albumsworldwide and is now atonce a musician, a model, anactor, and a designer, andwill be featured on the up-coming soundtrack for TimBurton’s Alice in Wonder-land. The newly single artistwill release her fourth albumthis year. Here are threethings you might not knowabout Avril Lavigne:ONE The designs for her “ju-niors lifestyle brand” AbbeyDawn are featured in an on-line videogame called Star-doll where users can dressup their favourite starlets inAvril’s clothes. TWO Lavigne had a smallpink heart with the letter“D” tattooed on her rightwrist to honour her now es-tranged husband DeryckWhibley. THREE Lavigne and Whibleyworked together on her newalbum which has beendelayed reportedly due todivorce drama as Whibley issupposedly seeking spousalsupport and could block therelease unless his terms aremet.

etalk’s Lainey Lui dishesout celeb dirt in three’s

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Lainey Lui is a reporter for etalk and runsthe popular gossip site, LaineyGossip.com.As part of CTV’s Olympic Broadcast Team,

Lainey is on the ground in Whistler reportingon entertainment news

from the Vancouver 2010Olympic Winter Games.

Do you want fries with that? Agent Jason Trawick took girlfriend Britney Spears to McDonald’s for Valentine’s Day, usmagazine.com reports.

The couple was spotted at a drive thru in Los Angeles Sunday afternoon. METRO NEWS SERVICES

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The 61-foot dive boat,christened Solitude, wasbuilt over the last twoyears and cost $1 millionto $2 million US, sourcestell People magazine.

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BIGGEST BOOB Heidi Mon-tag will be getting moreplastic surgery — just notanytime soon, people.comreports. “Eventually,” shesays, “for maintenance.”

The MTV star, who hasbeen a lightning rod sinceundergoing 10 proceduresin one day, is thrilled withher new look, saying onthe weekend that it was“the best decision I’ve evermade.”

“My favorite part, I thinkone of them is my chin. Ithink that’s what I was soexcited about,”Montag, said.“And Ilove myboobsbut .. Ididn’tgetthemas bigas Iorigi-nallywant-ed.”METRO

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Sudoku Rice-stuffedCornish HensINGREDIENTS:

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1. Boil 5 cups (1.25 l)water, bouillon and salt.Add wild rice; cover andsimmer 20 minutes. Addlong grain rice; cover andsimmer 25-30 minuteslonger or until water is ab-sorbed.2. In large skillet, cooksausage, celery and onionover medium heat until

meat is no longer pink;drain. Stir in rice mixture.Spoon 3/4 cup (175 ml)stuffing into each hen.3. Place remaining stuffingin greased 2-L baking dish;cover and set aside. Placehens on rack in shallowbaking pan; tie drumstickstogether. Bake, uncovered,at 350°F (180°C) 40minutes.4. In small pot, boilpreserves and remainingwater. Pour over hens.Bake 25-35 minuteslonger, basting occasional-ly.5. Place baking dish ofstuffing in oven for last 35-40 minutes of hens’baking time.

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