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Premier Greg Selinger ispromising that Manitobawill have the shortest can-cer wait-times in Canada,high-school dropouts willget more support andthere will be more policeofficers on the streets ifvoters re-elect the NDP.

A week before he is offi-cially expected to drop thewrit to start the provincialelection campaign, Selingerheld a small rally Tuesdayto release what he called a“vision document.”

The colourful pamphletdwells on the NDP recordand urges voters not to“turn back.” It's short ondetails, but does outlinegoals that include morefamily doctors, low tuitionfees and more crime pre-vention programs.

“It's not enough to reston our record,” Selingertold a small, but enthusias-tic crowd of party faithful.“We have to have a go-for-ward plan.”

So far the go-forward

plan consists of staying thecourse and building onprevious commitmentsmade by the government.By 2014, the New Democ-rats want to balance thebooks without cuttingfront-line services.

Conservative LeaderHugh McFadyen said theNDP has made the samepromises for years.

McFadyen said all thecommitments can onlymean one thing — highertaxes.

The Conservatives areset to officially releasetheir platform today. Sofar, the party has said itwill eliminate the provin-cial deficit by 2018 — fouryears later than the NDP— without cutting front-line services.

It also says it willreroute a controversial hy-dro transmission linedown the east side of LakeWinnipeg rather than thewest.THE CANADIAN PRESS

Premier makes health care, policing promises a week ahead of start of election campaign Tory leader vows to cut deficit by 2018

Premier Greg Selinger addressed NDP faithfuls yesterday morning and outlined his government’s vision for Manitoba for the next few years.

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Selinger releases‘vision’ for province

Grits bringin Trudeaustar powerWhile provincial LiberalLeader Dr. Jon Gerrardsays he won’t release theLiberal platform until the“election really starts,”he’s already bringing inthe star power.

Quebec MP JustinTrudeau will be inWinnipeg today to attenda dinner and a rally forthe beleaguered ManitobaLiberal party, which justhas one seat after MLAKevin Lamoureux gave uphis to run in the federalelection. Trudeau, son ofthe late Pierre Trudeau, iswidely considered to be afuture federal Liberal Par-ty leader contender.

“Manitoba Liberals arevery excited about the up-coming electioncampaign, and I can’tthink of a better way tokick it off than with a vis-it from Justin Trudeau,”said Gerrard in a press re-lease.

Gerrard said a policyplatform announcementwould also be made at therally. The dinner and rallywill take place at 6 p.m.at the CrescentwoodCommunity Centre.

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Gas bar clerk’s ‘luck’deemed fraud: Police

A Lotto 6/49 lover in Win-nipeg nearly missed outon a lucky payout worthmore than $90,000 due tothe alleged criminal ac-tions of a gas bar clerkwho worked in The

Maples area. The 30-year-old clerk is

accused of stealing a 61-year-old man’s multi-draw ticket and trying toclaim it as his own whenfive numbers plus thebonus number matchedthe winning numbers in aJuly 27 draw, said police.

The victim, described

as a regular lottery player,had gone into the gas barto check his numbers andwon $5. But the clerk did-n’t give him his originalticket back, which wasstill good for two moredraws, said police.

A few days after thewinning draw, the clerkwent to try and claim a

$90,641.40 prize but lot-tery officials instead grewsuspicious and notifiedpolice.

The suspect, who was-n’t identified, faces theftand fraud charges.

The ticket was not orig-inally purchased at thegas bar in question, policesaid.

Clerk allegedly kept lotto player’s ticket and tried to claim prize

EQUAL ACCESS

HealthresearchoverlooksFirstNationsOttawa is spending morethan $21 million overfive years on research tohelp address gaps inhealth equity acrossCanada and around theworld.

But nowhere on a listof 11 projects outlinedin Winnipeg by HealthMinister LeonaAglukkaq is there astudy involving aborigi-nal Canadians.

First Nations havelong complained theyare on the wrong side ofthe health-equity gap.

Aglukkaq says she is-n't afraid aboriginalneeds will be left be-hind.

She says it's necessaryto look at health careoverall, although shenotes Ottawa is spendingmoney on aboriginalhealth issues such as dia-betes.

She describes healthequity as everyone hav-ing the same opportuni-ty for a healthy andproductive life, regard-less of social or econom-ic status, gender or age.

Research will be sup-ported in Benin, BurkinaFaso and Ecuador aswell. THE CANADIAN PRESS

A mysterious traveller ar-rested after a weekend barbrawl and found with anumber of fake IDs waslast in Winnipeg in thewinter and is accused of us-ing a number of fakenames during the visit, ac-cording to court docu-ments outlining the 45charges he faces.

The 25-year-old came tothe city in January and issuspected of fraudulentlyimpersonating five differ-ent men for his own advan-tage during that time,police allege.

He was picked up earlySaturday after a bar fight inthe Exchange District. Hearrived on a WestJet flightfrom the east a day earlier,police said.

He faces assault charges,

along with others relatingto the fake IDs, said police.

The suspect is also ac-cused of breaching bailconditions stemming fromoutstanding charges in Al-berta.

Forged driver’s licencesfrom B.C. and Alberta, so-cial insurance numbers,Canadian citizenship cardsand credit card data wereseized, police allege.

Andrio Andre Martin isbeing held at the WinnipegRemand Centre.

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Man had manyIDs: Court

45Suspect faces 45charges after

allegedly impersonat-ing five different menand using a number offake names, accordingto police.

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Weaponsseized in raid

Four adults, along with a 15-year-old boy, were arrested inMonday’s raid. One of the suspects, who is 18 years old, is thoughtto have gang ties, according to police. In addition to the 12-gaugeshotgun, officers seized knives, bear spray and a replica handgun.

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Sgt. Scott Kaler of the Winnipeg Police Street Crimes Unit displays a sawed-off 12-gauge shotgun seized in a raid on a Grassie Boulevard home on Monday.

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Vancouver police are ask-ing the public to helpthem bring hundreds ofsuspects from the June 15Stanley Cup riot to justicethrough a new interactivewebsite (riot2011.vpd.ca).

Insp. Les Yeo of the riotinvestigation team saidthey have posted 40 pho-tos of suspected rioters onthe website in the hopesthe public can identifythem.

Yeo said police will beadding 100 more photos inthe coming weeks so in-vestigators won’t be over-whelmed and will haveenough time for a thor-

ough investigation.Police Chief Jim Chu al-

so again defended the VPDover the lack of chargesstemming from the inci-dent. He said police aretaking their time to collectevidence to make sure thatpeople are held account-able to the full extent oftheir involvement during

the riots.“We don’t get two

chances at this,” Chu said.“We can’t charge (suspectswith) rioting and then say,‘Hey, your honour, wefound some more informa-tion three months later.Can we charge [them] withrioting again?’”

Chu added 42 peoplehave already turned them-selves in, and police are in-vestigating 1,100 names ofpeople who may havebeen involved in the riots.Still, no charges have beenlaid.

An independent reportinto the riot is expected tobe released tomorrow byformer head of VANOCJohn Furlong and formerNova Scotia deputy justiceminister Doug Keefe.

Riot investigationgiven high-tech spin

Vancouver police encourage public to log on tonew website and help identify suspected rioters

40 photos posted on website, 100 more to be put up in the coming weeks, according to police

Restoring the traditionalnames of the navy and airforce has the support of amajority of Canadians, anew poll suggests.

A survey by The Canadi-

an Press-Harris/Decimafound that 56 per cent ofrespondents agreed withthe change and 31 per centopposed it. THE CANADIAN PRESS

Military name change gets the OK

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Ramadan wraps with Eid festivitiesEid Al-Fitr marks an end to the holy month of Ramadan. Thousands of Muslimsattended the 26th annual event at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, as wellas other celebrations across Canada, yesterday.

Eid. Holiday

A young boy watches as men pray during the Muslim Association of Canada’s

Eid celebration at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, yesterday.

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agreement only inQuebec, where 41 percent approved of theidea and 46 per centwere against it.

“You get one kickat the can, andthat’s why weneed to take ourtime to ensurethese suspects,these accused,don’t evadejustice.”JIM CHU, VANCOUVER POLICE CHIEF

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Child survivescougar attack UCLUELET, B.C. An 18-

month-old child is recov-ering in hospital after acougar attack inside Van-couver Island’s PacificRim National ParkReserve.

The attack occurred atabout 6 p.m. Monday onthe beach of a popular

day-use area at KennedyLake, some 16 kilometreseast of the community ofUcluelet.

The toddler is now list-ed in serious condition atVancouver’s Children’sHospital.THE CANADIAN PRESS

Mulcair mullsleadership runMONTREAL. NDP deputyleader Thomas Mulcair isconsidering a bid tosucceed Jack Layton, butsays it will likely be anoth-

er three weeks before heannounces his decision.

The fluently bilingualMontreal MP, who hasrepresented the party inthe Commons since 2007,joins NDP president BrianTopp in expressing inter-est in becoming leader of

the official Opposition.Mulcair told a news

conference in Montrealyesterday that he hasreceived support from col-leagues, but is unlikely tomake any announcementbefore the House resumesSept. 19. THE CANADIAN PRESS

News in brief

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Gadhafi’s mystery daughterRebel orders

The rebels are tightening

their grip on Libya after a

military blitz and have

taken several steps to en-

sure control.

Libyan rebels issued an ultimatum yesterday toGadhafi’s hometown ofSirte: Surrender this week-end or face an attack.There has been speculation that the dicta-tor is seeking refuge inSirte or one of the otherremaining regime strong-holds, among them thetowns of Bani Walid orSabha.Rebels also demanded thatAlgeria return Gadhafi’swife and three of his chil-dren, who fled there Mon-day.They also insisted they are slowly restoring order inwar-torn Tripoli by deploying police and col-lecting garbage.

Since the rebel takeover ofTripoli, evidence has beenmounting that MoammarGadhafi may have liedabout the death of hisadopted baby daughterHana in a 1986 U.S.airstrike.

The strike hit Gadhafi’shome in retaliation for theLibyan-sponsored bombingof a Berlin nightclub earlierthat year that killed twoU.S. servicemen. At thetime, Gadhafi showedAmerican journalists a pic-ture of a dead baby and saidit was his adopted daughterHana — the first publicmention that she even ex-isted. Diplomats almost im-mediately questioned theclaim. But Gadhafi kept thestory alive through theyears.

But when Libyan rebelstook over last week, they

found a room in Gadhafi’shome with Hana’s birthcertificate and pictures of ayoung woman with thename “Hana” written onthe back, possible indica-

tions that she lived beyondinfancy.

Many Libyans believeHana was never killed andtalked about her existenceopenly. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Evidence mounts the exiled leader faked the deathof adopted girl Libyans believe Gadhafi wanted to garner sympathy and foster hatred toward the West

Moammar Gadhafi holds, presumably, his daughter

Hana in Tripoli in this undated 1996 photo.

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Passenger getsrevenge on boy INJURY. San Diego policesay a boy throwing rocksat vehicles was struck inthe abdomen by acrossbow bolt fired by apassenger in small sportutility vehicle.

The boy was shot in theabdomen and was takento a hospital. The SanDiego Union-Tribunenewspaper says hisinjuries are not life-threat-ening. His name and ageweren’t released. Nobodyhas been arrested. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Israel rampsup securityMILITARY. Israel sent twomore warships to the RedSea border with Egypt,the military saidyesterday, as part of mili-

tary reinforcement.Earlier this week,

Israel’s military orderedmore troops to the borderarea, days after militantscrossed into Israelthrough the Egyptian bor-der and killed eightIsraelis in a brazen attackthat touched off a wave ofviolence between Israeland militants in the GazaStrip.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Greek prisonersalmost escapedJAIL BREAK. Officials atGreece’s largest prisonsay they have preventedan escape by discoveringa 10-metre-long tunneldug by an allegedmurderer and two otherinmates awaiting trial forburglary.

The inmates allegedlycut through the wall anddug the tunnel usingmostly makeshift tools.The tunnel wasdiscovered late Monday.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

News in brief

Hunted throughout herhomeland and forced toflee into exile across a dan-gerous desert border, thedaughter of ousted Libyanleader Moammar Gadhafipaused somewhere in theSahara to have a baby.

The dramatic birth ofGadhafi’s granddaughter,after her mother and otherrelatives escaped Libyanterritory into Algeria, lendsa human dimension to thedictator’s downfall and theongoing mystery of his

whereabouts. The birth inexile was disclosed by theAlgerian Health Ministryyesterday.

Algeria’s UN ambassa-dor, Mourad BenmehidiBenmehidi, said the coun-try allowed them to enterfor “humanitarian consid-erations.” Algerian news re-ports had said Aisha’spregnancy was one reasonfor the country’s controver-sial decision to take thefamily in.

An Algerian newspaper

reported that the exiles,who also included an un-known number of Gad-hafi’s grandchildren by hiseight children, had waited12 hours to receive authori-zation to cross the Algerianborder from President Ab-delaziz Bouteflika — whileAisha was in labour.

Libya’s interim govern-ment criticized Algeria’sdecision and demandedthat Algiers hand themover for trial in Libya. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Gadhafi’s other daughter gives birth

Aisha Gadhafi

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Violentprotestserupt inSouth AfricaSupporters of SouthAfrica’s firebrand youthleader are the latest polit-ical salvo in a powerstruggle that could deter-mine the future of SouthAfrica’s president and theman who helped catapulthim to power — youth

league chief Julius Male-ma.

Demonstrators burnedflags of the ruling AfricanNational Congress andran through the streets ofdowntown Johannesburgholding up flaming T-shirts bearing the imageof President Jacob Zuma.

When the protestersbegan lobbing stones andbottles, police detonatedstun grenades and turnedwater cannons on thecrowd of thousands. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Police saveChina bushostagesChinese police subdued aknife-wielding assailantand freed a busload ofpassengers he’d takencaptive yesterday outsidea major eastern city inChina, authorities andstate media reported.

State media reports ofthe incident near Nanjingsaid at least three peopleaboard the bus wereinjured and taken to ahospital. Media accountsdiffered, with some say-ing there were multiplehijackers, at least one of

whom had been shot andkilled by a police SWATteam.

However, a Nanjinggovernment spokesmanwho gave only hissurname, Zhang, said allthe hostages weresuccessfully rescued anddid not mention any in-juries.

A news release fromthe city government didnot say whether thehostage taker had beenkilled or merely arrested.

There was no immedi-ate word on the hostagetaker’s identity, hismotive or any specific de-mands he might havemade.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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The New York man suingfor part ownership of Face-book must give lawyers forthe social networking com-pany access to all hisemails dating to 2003.

A federal judge yester-day denied Paul Ceglia’s re-quest to delay Facebook’saccess to his emails so hecould voice his objectionsin court. Ceglia’s lawyerhad made the request in afiling late Monday, hopingto protect Ceglia’s privacy.

Ceglia claims he made adeal with Facebookfounder Mark Zuckerbergin 2003 that entitles him to half ownership of the$50 billion company.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Forget the old-fashionedweb suffix “.com”— com-ing up with eccentricnames to make websitescatchier and easier to re-member is the new trendon the Internet.

Icann, the global inter-net body that creates newweb addresses, announcedit will be taking applica-

tions next year for domainsuffixes of almost any wordand in any language.

From the current 22 do-main endings available,websites ending with theadverb-sounding “.ly”, thebroadcast-hinting “.tv” orthe captivating “.me” arenow the hippest choice.

“Businesses always needquirky names that are easyto spell and to remember. Ifyou come up with a morebrandable name for yourwebsite, then you should

go for it,” marketing expertAndrew Girdwood fromglobal digital media compa-ny bigmouthmedia toldMetro.

As Girdwood explains,the downside is that web-sites ending in .ly — thecountry code domain forLibya — are designated asformal property of Libya’sstate-controlled telecom-munications corporation,whose status is uncertaindue to unrest in the region.

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Yet despite the rise intrendy domain names, oldhabits die hard, as majoronline search engines stillfavour the old-fashioned.

“Dot-tv sounds perfect

for a broadcasting compa-ny, but for search engineoptimization, the dot-comis more popular,” Mick Say,an expert at England’s On-line Marketing Academy,tells Metro.

“If a person is searchingthe Internet for a service ora global business, Googlegives priority to the dot-com extension. It tells thesearch engine that ‘I wantto be known international-ly as an international busi-ness.’”

No more limits to new domain namesWeb addresses could soon be more personalized and funky But search engines still look for .com

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Sticky situation for oil firmGreenpeace is demanding that Anglo-French oilcompany Perenco, and other companies, stop theirexploration in Abrolhos, a large mating area forhumpback whales off the coast of Brazil.

Brazil. Greenpeace protest

A Greenpeace activist helps a person dressed

as a whale covered in oil during a protest at the

headquarters of oil company Perenco, yesterday,

in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

“A great quirky domain can work reallywell. But I don’t envisage mostestablished companies moving theirprimary web presence away from .comany time soon.”WILL CRITCHLOW, DISTILLED SEARCH MARKETING COMPANY

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Economy may be stallingEconomists widely expectthat the Canadian economystalled in the second quar-ter and may have even con-tracted slightly amid theglobal economic slowdown.

“It is going to be a hairwithin positive or negative,but the balance is slightly

tilted to the negative,” CIBCchief economist AveryShenfeld said yesterday.

“Either way, it is essen-tially a flat profile for theeconomy.”

Statistics Canada is ex-pected to report the coun-try’s second-quarter gross

domestic product resultsthis morning, and a readingthat economic growth wasslower or even reversedcourse a little would indi-cate the economy is stillstruggling to throw off theeffects of the recession. THE CANADIAN PRESS

Consumerconfidencedrops in U.S.A private research groupsays that American con-sumers’ confidence in theeconomy in Augustdropped almost 15 pointsto its lowest level in twoyears.

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Federal EnvironmentMinister Peter Kentrecently announced newregulations for limitingemissions for any newcoal-fired power plantsthat will be built inCanada starting July2015.

While framed as legis-lation that Kent claimswill act as “theequivalent of takingeight million cars offCanadian roads” this leg-islation falls drasticallyshort of an effective lev-el of environmental pro-tection for two centralreasons: Firstly, the leg-islation essentially givesexisting plants licenceto continue to pollute;secondly, it allows Max-im Power to build a new500-megawatt coal plantin Alberta before the Ju-ly deadline, thereby es-caping the newregulations.

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WEIRD NEWS

Snakes on aplane attemptan epic failU.S. officials say a man tried toboard a flight from Miami to Brazilwith bags of exotic snakes andtortoises stuffed in his pants.

Transportation Security Adminis-tration spokesman Jonathon Allensays the man was stopped after pass-ing through a body scanner at MiamiInternational Airport last week.

Security officials spotted thenylon bags filled with seven snakes

and three tortoises hidden in theman’s pants.

The South Florida Sun Sentinelnewspaper reports the animals weretaken by the U.S. Department of Fishand Wildlife.

The unidentified passenger wasarrested.

It’s not the only time someonehas tried to smuggle snakes on aTAM Airlines flight, the paperreported.

In 1996, a woman attempted tosneak 75 live snakes inside her brain Sweden, according to theSentinel. And, in 2007, a man triedto smuggle a tiny monkey under hisshirt on a flight from FortLauderdale, the paper said.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

VANCOUVER’SNEW RANKREEKS

Vancouver: the world’s mostliveable city – NOT!

There is no joy in lattéland today with the newsthat the EconomistIntelligence Unit has demot-

ed Vancouver, for years the mostliveable city atop its list, to third,behind Melbourne and Vienna.

Even worse news? Toronto andCalgary are 4th and 5th, hot on ourheels.

Oddly, the stupid Stanley Cup riotplayed no role in the demotion, although it may hit uswhere we rank. The reason for this year’s demotion: abrief closure of the Malahat Highway due to a tankerspill in April led to a fractional reduction in infrastruc-ture points, enough to allow Melbourne and Vienna tosurge ahead.

Melbourne? Wasn’t that the place that was hit withdevastating floods earlier this year?

What’s really puzzlingis that the Malahat High-way is on VancouverIsland. Which iselsewhere. You have totake a ferry to get to Van-couver Island. All told,that’s about a four to four-and-a-half hour trip fromVancouver. I would wagerthat many of the peoplewho live in Metro Vancou-ver have no idea wherethe Malahat Highway isand have never been on it.It’s relevant if you live inVictoria, which, like Van-couver, starts with a “V”,but that’s about it.

So you have to wonderabout the Economist Intel-ligence Unit and its wholeWorld’s Most Liveable Cityproject. The problem isthere was no wondering

when Vancouver was on top of the list. We just satback, relaxed, and gloated.

Even when it rained 40 days and 40 nights. Even asit took a king’s ransom to buy a rundown bungalow inKerrisdale. Even as we rolled up the tinted windows onthe SUV to avoid being tainted by the Downtown EastSide. So now it’s not going to do us much good to castaspersions on the intelligence of the Intelligence Unit.

Meanwhile, Toronto and Calgary are flexing theirgloating muscles. They can hardly wait for next year’slist, when the EIU takes the riot into account. I’m notsure I’ll have the strength to carry on if Calgary turnsout to be more liveable than Vancouver.

There’s one thing I do know. I’d rather live in Toron-to, or even (gasp) Calgary than in one of the cities atthe bottom of the list, although they say #140: lastplace Harare, Zimbabwe, is nice this time of year.

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Canuck star JasonPriestley is set to ap-pear at the GeminiAwards next month.His racy program CallMe Fitz has 16 awardnominations. Priest-ley says he’s thrilledto see widespreadrecognition for hisNova Scotia-basedcast and crew and islooking forward tothe celebration inToronto.THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Scene in brief

Metro recently caught upwith Shark Night 3D direc-tor David Ellis and one ofthe flick’s stars, AmericanIdol runner-up KatharineMcPhee, to see what secretsabout the film they’re will-ing to spill. As it turns out,not many.

What can you tell us, withoutgiving too much away, aboutShark Night 3D?David Ellis: There’s sharks init (laughs). It’s really weird.And a lot of the movietakes place at night.Katharine McPhee: I’m in it.DE: Kat’s in it.

KM: My character’s name isBeth. That’s all I know.

David, you’re no stranger togenre movies. What’s the ap-peal of them as a filmmaker?DE: For me, I think it’s justfun to be able to entertainpeople — for them to beable to go an escape fromeverything crazy that’s go-ing on in the world for anhour and a half and gohave fun, to kind of scarethem and make themlaugh and make them cry,and just kind of play withtheir emotions.KM: You like makingpeople cry.

How was the Shark Night ex-perience for you, Kat?

KM: Oh, it was so muchfun. I love going to set. Ilove getting up early. Imean, on a regular basis,you will never find me upearly, but I love when myalarm goes off and I get toput on my pyjamas and getto set and get my coffeeand my food and get inhair and makeup.

I love everything aboutit, so for me just the wholeexperience is great. Weshot in Shreveport, La., andeven though it’s not a par-ticularly exotic place, itwas gorgeous. And I justlove being in new placesand feeling like you’restarting something new.DE: I love the free food part.Like, every day when you

go to the set and they haveall this free food. But whatmade it so fun for me wasthat we had an amazingcrew and we had a cast thatwas into it 110 per cent.

Were you afraid of sharks be-fore you made the movie?KM: I’m one of those peoplewho, especially as a kid,would spend hours in theocean swimming. I loveswimming. But always inthe back of my head therewas that fear of a sharkcoming and getting you. Icould say that, yeah, thishas definitely made it a lit-tle bit more of a threat.DE: For me, I grew up in theocean as well — my wholelife in Malibu — and I’m

aware of them, you respectthem. But you have a betterchance of getting hit by acoconut than getting killedby a shark. But it’s a primalfear for people.KM: It’s just not a way youwant to go. There’s acouple other ways I couldthink of wanting to go oth-er than sharks.

How creative do you get withthe deaths in the movie?DE: Pretty creative. Eachone is different and unique.And what’s cool about it iswe had so many differenttypes of sharks. We havehammerheads and greatwhite sharks and bullsharks and cookie-cuttersharks...

With summer coming to an end, it’s the perfect time for a movie to scare you off the beach Here to do it is Shark Night 3D, from Snakes on a Plane director David Ellis

Alyssa Diaz stars in Shark Night 3D.

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ABC says the 13th seasonof its hit show Dancingwith the Stars will featurea mix of actors, athletesand TV personalities.

Set to tango and quick-step with professionaldance partners will be bas-ketball star Ron Artest;World Cup soccer playerHope Solo; reality starsRobert Kardashian, KristinCavallari and Chaz Bono;TV personalities NancyGrace, Carson Kressley andRicki Lake; singer-actressChynna Phillips; actorsDavid Arquette and J.R.Martinez; and Italian ac-tress Elisabetta Canalis,who may be better knownin the U.S. for being GeorgeClooney’s ex.

The new cast members willperform their first danceroutines on the season pre-miere on Sept. 19. The firstcelebrity contestant will beeliminated on Sept. 20.Online:THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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George Clooney’s The Idesof March opens a star-studded Venice Film Festi-val today, and fans willalso see two other Holly-wood actor/directors,Madonna and Al Pacino,premiering their latest di-

rectorial efforts.Clooney’s political dra-

ma is among 23 films vy-ing for the covetedGolden Lion, which willbe awarded Sept. 10.

The jury will be headedby American director Dar-

ren Aronofsky, a two-timeGolden Lion winnerwhose Black Swan waslaunched to huge Oscarsuccess after opening inVenice last year.

The Ides of March tellsthe story of an ambitious

Clooney flick opensVenice film festival

In all, 66 movies will make their world premiereat the 68th edition of the world’s oldest festival

Man of the hour: Actor George Clooney arrives at the Venice Film Festival, yesterday.

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One of the most highly-an-

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this year is Madonna’s sec-

ond feature film, the U.K.

production W.E.

The movie intercutsbetween the romance of amodern woman and the re-lationship of American so-cialite Wallis Simpson andBritain’s King Edward VIII,who abdicated the thronefor love in the 1930s.

campaign press secretary,played by Ryan Gosling,who gets swept up in a po-litical scandal in the lastfrantic days of a heavilycontested primary race.

Clooney said the moviewas ready to begin film-ing when Barack Obamawas elected U.S. presidentin 2008.

“Suddenly, a cynicalfilm about politicsseemed badly timed.Everyone was too opti-mistic,” Clooney wrote infilm notes. “It only tookabout a year before all theoptimism evaporated andthe timing seemed per-fect.” THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Movie review

The DebtGenre: Thriller/DramaDirector: John MaddenStars: Helen Mirren, SamWorthington and TomWilkinson888

The Debt is an espionagestory with a twist. In1996 retired Mossadagents Rachel, David andStefan (Helen Mirren,Ciarán Hinds and TomWilkinson) are heroes,acclaimed for their bravecapture and execution ofa notorious war criminalin 1966.

In flashback we meetthe same charactersplayed by JessicaChastain, Marton Csokas,and Sam Worthington,learn the personaldynamics of the mission

The Debt. Screen times

and the key to a long heldsecret.

The flashback sequencemakes up the bulk of thefilm so it’s fair to say thisisn’t Helen Mirren’s film,but her character Rachel’s.

Unusual for a spymovie, the story is toldthrough the eyes of awoman but that addsdepth to what is essential-ly a pulpy spy story.

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This weekend Apollo 18uses (fictional) foundfootage from NASA's aban-doned Apollo 18 mission toreveal the reason the U.S.has never returned to themoon.

In the wake of BlairWitch, theatres were over-flowing with found footagemovies, partially becausethey’re cheap to make, andpartially because audiencesraised on reality TV seemedto respond to them.

Movies like The St. Fran-

cisville Experiment, TheLast Horror Movie, Septem-ber Tapes and The Cursetried, most unsuccessfully,to cash in on the box officebonanza of Blair Witch, but[Rec], a Spanish horror filmabout a haunted buildingwas the most successful,artistically and financially.

Less successful but inter-esting is Redacted, a BrianDe Palma war film shotthrough the lens of one ofhis characters.

De Palma came up withthe idea when he wasasked by HDNet Films tomake a movie for $5 mil-lion on HD.

If the Blair Witch Projectand Paranormal Activityare the successful of thegenre, the most con-tentious, the most contro-versial, must be CannibalHolocaust.

The 1980 fake cannibalfootage was so convincingthe director was arrestedand charged with murder.

Police believed severalactors had been killed onscreen but charges weredropped when the actors

showed up at the trial, safeand sound.

The most fa-mous “foundfootage” filmbegins withthe words, “InOctober of

1994, three student film-makers disappeared intothe woods of Burketville,Maryland while shooting adocumentary. A year latertheir footage was found.”

Thus began the BlairWitch Project, a movieRoger Ebert called an “ex-traordinarily effective hor-ror film.” He also called it a“celebration of rock bot-tom production values” forits rough hewn camerastyle and no-budget scares.

Those are trademarks offound footage style movies.The premise is almost al-ways the same: someonehas recovered film left be-hind by, as Wikipedia says,“missing or dead protago-nists,” and pieced it togeth-

The Blair Witch Project capitalized on the trend of missing footage later discovered.

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Sept. 11 is etched in thememories of millions, andas the 10th anniversarynears, cartoonists are etch-ing their thoughts about 9-11 into comic strips.

With the anniversaryfalling on a Sunday, morethan 90 cartoonists withfive different syndicateshave banded together todedicate their strips onSept. 11 to those whoselives were lost in the at-tacks. The strips will appearfrom the writers and artistsof Family Circus, MallardFillmore, Candorville,Doonesbury and Pluggers,among others.

Jeff Keane, who co-au-thors The Family Circus,was sold on the idea.

“Because Family Circus ismore of a realistic look atfamily, and I don’t necessar-ily have a cartoon that is a‘joke a day,’ but more senti-mental and more emotion-

al, it was easier for me tolook at it that way,” he said.

Jim Borgman, the co-cre-ator of Zits with Jerry Scott,about a teenager and hisparents, called the upcom-ing anniversary somethingthat cannot be ignored.

“As a cartoonist wewould have all been won-dering ‘Is it OK to deal withthis topic in our work?’ Of

course you can, but there issomething comfortingabout the thought that abunch of us are going to bestruggling to say somethingon that day,” he said.

It’s not the first time thatcartoonists have banded to-gether. Previous effortshave included Earth Dayand breast cancer aware-ness. But the scope of this

one is unprecedented, withfive syndicates participat-ing.

They will be featured in afull-colour section and on-line at www.cartoonistsre-member911.com.

The tone is varied, withsome taking a sentimentaltack, while others may tryto make a reader laugh.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Cartoonists to commemorateSept. 11 with weekend strips

Thought bubbles, witty banter and cartoon characters deal with tragedy

A scene acknowledging 9-11 is shown in the Snuffy Smith comic strip.

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Andrew Garfield says theonly thing that made himnearly say no to being thenew Spider-Man was themovie star status thatwould come with it.

“That was absolutelythe one thing I ques-tioned. I thought about itfor a month, constantly,”he tells the L.A. Times.

“It terrifies me. I justsaw that I was given an op-portunity to play a partthat I’ve been wanting toplay since I was a two-year-old. I don’t want therest of it.

METRO

With all the speculationgoing around about herfamily life, Angelina Joliewants to clear a fewthings up.

“I’m not pregnant. I’mnot adopting at the mo-ment,” Jolie tells VanityFair. She added that thereis no “secret wedding”planned for her and BradPitt.

Jolie is more concernedwith her directorial de-but,

In the Land of Bloodand Honey, and says that

Pitt tried his best to behelpful during the mak-ing of the project.

“He’d come in and saywhat he liked or what hedidn’t understand,” shesays.

“Like any woman, Iwould listen to most of itand fight a few things.He’s been so supportive.

But it’s hard to sepa-rate the person that lovesyou from the critic, so Idon’t think he’s a fairjudge.”

METRO

Jolie sets baby bumprecord straight

Rumours of secret wedding and another baby en route make headlines

Garfieldfears bigfame

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Lost star Matthew Fox wasdetained by police inCleveland after an alterca-

tion outside a bar with afemale bus driver, accord-ing to TMZ.

The driver, Heather Bor-man, says a clearly inebri-ated Fox was trying to theparty bus she was driving,though he wasn’t a part ofthe group who had rentedit.

“He just kept staringat me with his mouthwide open and not say-ing anything. I toldhim, ‘You have toleave buddy. You aretrespassing onmy bus,’” Bor-man says.

She addedthat Fox then“leaned inand started

punching my crotch andbreast.”

Borman struck back,punching Fox in the faceand splitting his lip, whichdeterred the actor.

Borman says she wasacting in self-defence.

METRO

Matthew Fox detained by police

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Kate Winslet is finallybreaking her silenceabout her harrowing es-cape from a recent housefire on Richard Branson’sprivate Caribbean is-land.

“I’m justglad thateveryone issafe,”Winslettold Enter-tainmentTonight re-cently.

“And this easily couldnot have been the case.”

She gives credit to herhost for making the mostof the terrifying situation.

“I will never forgetRichard placing his arms

around both my chil-dren as we werewatching the flames,and saying, ‘At theend of the day, whatyou realize is that allthat matters is thepeople that you love.

Everything else isjust stuff. And none of

that stuff matters,’”Winslet remem-

bers of theemotionalday.

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Lindsay’s bro receivesthreatening callsLindsay Lohan’s 15-year-old brother, Cody Lohan,hasn’t been having thebest summer.

The teen has reportedlybeen receiving threaten-ing phone calls that wereunsettling enough forhim to call 911, accordingto reports from TMZ.

Cody reported to policethat the caller was threat-ening to “harm him,” lawenforcement sources say.

There was some ques-

tions raised about whowas watching the teenagebrother of star Linsday.

Reports indicated hismother, Dina Lohan, wasstill in Los Angeles at thetime after attending therecent, high-profile wed-ding of socialite Kim Kar-dashian.

Sources have since toldthe celebrity-driven web-site that Cody is “underproper care now.”

METRO

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Steven Soderberghadmits he is consid-ering leaving film-making behind.

“I’m interestedin exploring anoth-er art form while Ihave the time andability to do so,” hetells the New YorkTimes. “I’ll be thefirst person to say ifI can’t be any goodat it and run out ofmoney I’ll be back

making anotherOcean’s movie.”

The filmmakersays earlier thisyear he told MattDamon about hisplans during a“drunk” chat.

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Ghost stories and sightings abound at Halifax’s most popular tourist sites

With its long history of dis-asters and shipwrecks,there is an air of tragedythat hangs over Halifax,not unlike the dense fogthat often rolls in from itsharbour.

One of Halifax’s mostinfamous spooky sites isthe Five Fishermen Restau-rant and Grill, perched onthe bustling corner ofCarmichael and ArgyleStreets. Having onceserved as a mortuary, it’sperhaps not surprisingthat the 194-year-old struc-ture is equally known for

its hauntings as well as itshalibut.

The four-storey, brick-and-wood building openedin 1816 as a schoolhouseand was eventually takenover by a local family andturned into a funeral home.

It became the last stop ofsorts for victims of two sig-nificant disasters of the20th century — the sinkingof the Titanic off New-foundland in April 1912and the Halifax Explosionof 1917. The explosion oc-curred when a supply ves-sel and a munitions ship

collided in the harbour,killing 2,000 people andleaving some 9,000 injured.

Shane Robilliard, theFive Fishermen’s generalmanager, says tales of cut-lery moving on its own, dis-embodied voices andshadowy figures have actu-ally been good for business.

“People dine at the FiveFishermen to experiencesomething or to be a partof the history of this build-ing,” he says.

More eerie experiencesawait just up CarmichaelStreet at one of the city’s

most recognizable sites,the Halifax Citadel Nation-al Historic Site.

The British fort, complet-ed in 1856, offers 90-minutetours exploring every darknook and cranny where theghosts of former soldiersare said to lurk.

Hal Thompson, thesite’s visitor experience of-ficer, remembers one visi-tor to the site who said shespied a uniformed man en-ter a room and seeminglyvanish. The woman wasunaware of the site’sghostly reputation and

wanted to know how theman — whom she pre-sumed to be a staff mem-ber — managed to leaveundetected from a roomwith only one exit.THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Visitors claim to have seen ghosts in the garrison cells at Halifax Citadel National Historic Site.

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A series of guided fallhikes along Ontario’sBruce Trail will explorethe geology of the Ni-agara Escarpment.Seven locations on thetrail are highlighted,including Waterdown,the Credit River valley,the NottawasagaBluffs and the BrucePeninsula on GeorgianBay. Dubbed “Geology101 on Foot,” thewalks are afundraising project tosupport the Bruce TrailConservancy. THE CANADIAN PRESS

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• Flesh of 1 large ripemango, chopped• 2 ml (1/2 tsp) fresh gin-ger, grated• 75 ml (1/3 cup) frozenorange juice concentrate• 375 ml (1 1/2 cups)milk, chilled• 250 ml (1 cup) ice

In a blender, puree thepeeled and chopped man-go, ginger and orangejuice concentrate togetheruntil the mixture issmooth. Add milk and iceand blend again. This recipe makes 500 ml(2 cups).THE CANADIAN PRESS

Drink of the week

Let your creative lunch side shine Believe it or not, school lunches can consist of a lot more than a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and juice

Tortellini Veggie Skewers

Preparation:

1 Cut yellow pepper in-to 6 strips. Usingeach pepper strip as askewer, push 2tortellini onto each.

2 Use paring knife topoke hole into top ofeach cherry tomatoand cap end of eacpepper strip with

Ingredients:• 1/2 yellow bell pepper• 12 cooked tortellini• 6 whole black olives• 6 cherry tomatoes• 1 slice deli turkey• 1 slice provolone cheese

Getting creative with kids’lunches can be a bit of aminefield. It can be hardenough to get them to em-brace new foods at home,never mind when they aresurrounded by friends atschool.

But that doesn’t meanyou can’t break free of thesame old sandwich rou-tine. It’s just a matter ofusing foods already in yourchildren’s comfort zone,but working with them innew and creative ways.

Cold Ham andCheese Casserole

This “casserole” is a greatway to use up leftovers.Feel free to play with theingredients. Chicken,steak and even choppedleftover hamburgers are

fine substitutes for ham.

Preparation:

1 In a small bowl, stir to-gether mustard, mayon-naise and vinegar. Addrice, ham and cheddar,then mix well.ALL RECIPES THE ASSOCIATEDPRESS

Ingredients:• 5 ml (1 tsp) mustard• 30 ml (2 tbsp) low-fatmayonnaise• 5 ml (1 tsp) apple cidervinegar• 125 ml (1/2 cup) cookedrice (white or brown)• 50 ml (1/4 cup) cubedcooked ham• 30 ml (2 tbsp) shreddedcheddar• 1 scallion, thinly sliced, togarnish

Breakfast lunch

This easy pancake and ba-con breakfast-lunch let’skids assemble their ownmeal.

You just need to givethem the basics — tinypancakes, cooked baconslices, blueberries andmaple syrup for dunking.

Preparation:

1 Pancakes: In a mediumbowl, whisk togetherflour, cornmeal, bakingsoda, sugar and salt.Add yogurt and milk,then whisk until just

smooth.

2 In a large skillet overmedium-high heat, meltbutter. Drop spoonfulsof batter into pan, leav-ing space between eachto allow for spreading.Cook for 1 to 2 minutes,flip and cook for an ad-ditional 1 to 2 minutes,or until golden andcooked through. Letcool thoroughly beforepacking.

3 Pack the pancakes withthe bacon, fruit andmaple syrup on the sidein their lunch bags.

Ingredients:

• 50 ml (1/4 cup) all-purpose flour• 15 ml (1 tbsp) cornmeal• 1 ml (1/4 tsp) baking soda• 15 ml (1 tbsp) sugar• Pinch salt

• 50 ml (1/4 cup) plain yo-gurt• 45 ml (3 tbsp) milk• 15 ml (1 tbsp) butter• 2 slices cooked bacon• 125 ml (1/2 cup) blueber-ries (or favourite fruit)• Maple syrup, for dipping

This Cold Ham and Cheese Casserole

takes 10 minutes to make.

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tomato and an olive.Cut slices of turkey andprovolone into 6 longstrips, then wrap oneof each around skew-ers. Serve skewers witha side of your child'sfavourite dressing.

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As a second-year businessstudent tired of spendingmy summers working inretail, I jumped at the op-portunity to enrol in theco-operative education op-tion (co-op) offered at myschool.

I joined co-op under theimpression that I wouldeasily be able to secure

Shake all the hands you can along the waySTUDENT

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meaningful summer em-ployment, but I quicklydiscovered this was notthe case.

I applied to countlessjobs and had no difficultygetting interviews; myproblem lay in receivingan actual job offer.

I left each interviewfeeling as if it had gonewell, only to be informeda few days later that I hadnot been chosen as thesuccessful candidate forthe job. And I was notalone. Several of my fel-low classmates were expe-riencing the exact same

dilemma.As a well-qualified ap-

plicant, this frustratingprocess led me to wonderwhich students were be-

ing selected for these jobs.It turned out that stu-dents with more experi-ence and education, suchas third and fourth years

Erin Hayes

Where Erin is now

I had nearly resorted to handing out resumés atthe local mall when an opportunity arose.

I was contacted by a professional I had met dur-ing a networking event hosted by a student societyI belonged to. My professor had spoken with thisindividual and requested that they consider mefor a job before formally posting the position, andfollowing the interview I was fortunate enough toreceive a job offer.

My story has proven that although what youknow is undoubtedly the most important, whoyou know can’t hurt.

and graduates with whomI could not compete, weregetting those offers.

Employers shouldn’toverlook the applicationsof promising young stu-dents simply because theylack experience.

Students who actively

achieve and aim to im-prove themselves shouldbe given fair considera-tion from employers;these students should notbe automatically placedon the back burner tomore senior and experi-enced applicants.

To compete with moreexperienced applicants,younger students shouldtake advantage of themany opportunities of-fered by universities, suchas volunteering, confer-ences and competitions.

By making an effort toget involved, students candevelop relevant skills totheir field of study, aswell as establish relation-ships and build their pro-fessional network. Whenparticipating in extra-cur-ricular activities, you nev-er know whatopportunities will presentthemselves or who youmight meet.

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What I learned

Key take-aways from

Erin’s experience:

Becoming involved withinyour school throughstudent groups,conferences and competi-tions is a great way to de-velop career-related skillsand build your resumé.

Get to know yourprofessors and attend asmany on-campus network-ing events as you can. Al-though relevant skills anda strong GPA areimportant, my story high-lights that who you knowis often equally as impor-tant.

Young scholars are breaking the cycleA recent Statistics Canadastudy has found that peo-ple whose parents didn’tgraduate from universityare nearly twice as likely toget a degree today thanthey were more than twodecades ago.

The study revealed that

in 2009, 23 per cent of peo-ple whose parents didn’tget a university educationheld a degree, up from 12per cent in 1986.

The 2009 General SocialSurvey attributes theshrinking disparity in uni-versity completion by fami-

ly background to women.In 1986, only 10 per cent

of women whose parentswere not university gradu-ates held a degree. By 2009,that proportion nearlytripled to 28 per cent.

But Martin Turcotte, asenior analyst at Statistics

Canada who authored thestudy, said there was a sig-nificant increase in thenumber of women withhighly educated parentswho got degrees, too.

“Really the fact thatmore women from alltypes of families get de-

grees contributed a lot tothe decreasing gap,” saidTurcotte.

Despite the increasethere’s still a sizable differ-ence between the twogroups, with a personwhose parents hold a de-gree much more likely to

complete university.“The gap is still impor-

tant,” said Turcotte. “Peo-ple with parents who havea university education aretwice as likely to get the de-gree themselves, comparedto other people.”THE CANADIAN PRESS

Having a parent with a degree is not the steadfast predictor of post-secondary success that it was in the past

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School supplies?

Balancing the schoolbudget can get complicat-ed when you and yourchild’s other parent arenot together. Here aresome tips to the scholas-tic year fiscally fair, evenif you are not divorced.

Balance needs versus wants

Make a list of “needs” andagree that kids will get afew “wants” met. Allocatea set dollar amount theyare free to spend.

Set the budget before you

go shopping Before youventure into a store set anon-negotiable budget.This is not just for theirpurposes but also to keepparents from caving in.

Make a detailed list before

you hit the stores We know not to go groceryshopping when hungryand the same rule applies

for back-to-schoolshopping. There are manypurchase temptations toabstain from, even for thestrong-willed.

Set the budget for extracur-

ricular activities before you

sign up Set a budget perchild that covers lessons,equipment and other hid-den costs, then engage ina conversation with thekids and the other parentto ensure you are notdoubling up on activitiesor creating a conflictingschedule.

Empower your kids finan-

cially Allot an allowancefor extra purchases andone for necessities to en-gage kids in responsiblebudgeting and shoppingat an early age. KAREN STEWART IS THE PRESIDENT,CEO AND FOUNDER OF FAIRWAY DI-VORCE SOLUTIONS.

Are you a divorced parent dealingwith back to school? Help is here

Your pre-boot action planKeep those contacts close to you just in case the worst does happen

Should the axe fall andyour job get severed, ca-reer counsellors warn,you’ll have to get by witha little help from yourfriends.

Except, big problem: Ifyou’re like the averagelaid off employee, yourfriends will all be left be-hind in that same burningbuilding.

That’s why career coun-sellors recommend youfoster industry friend-ships far beyond theblock where you work,while you’re still work-ing.

“It’s much easier tohave that network readyin place when you need itthan to try to scramble andconnect the people at thelast minute,” About.com

jobseekers’ guru AlisonDoyle cautions. “Then allof a sudden you’re beg-ging people.”

And that, she explains,is what you’d least like tobe doing: scroungingstrangers for jobs.

Instead, agrees Con-necting With Success au-thor Kathleen Barton,

your network should be in con-stant development, a reg-ular exchange of favoursand tips.

“It’s about buildingmutually beneficial rela-tionships, where you’renot always asking for helpwhen you’re contactingthem,” she says. “Maybe

you’re giving updates, orfinding out how they’redoing, or how you cansupport them.”

Or maybe you’re justcalling to say howdy —one friendly lunch hourphone call at a time.

Find The Little Reasons

Great networking, Barton offers, is about seizingthose little excuses toreach out to a mere ac-quaintance.

“There are so many cre-ative ways you can dothat,” she says. Holidayshelp —and not just thepassé ones like Christmasand birthdays. Think Hal-loween, she suggests.

“Rather than Christ-mas, when everybody getscards, I send Thanksgiv-ing cards to let themknow I'm thinking aboutthem,” she adds.

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ISTOCK

Here’s one way to makesomething out of noth-ing: Turn your unpaid, un-appreciated summerinternship into a salariedjob. Cha-ching!

Too bad the giant leapfrom intern wolf pack topayroll happens less regu-larly than graduating sen-iors often assume, careercounsellors warn.

“Students shouldn’tput too much pressure onthemselves to turn their

specific internships intojobs,” says Lauren Berger,an author and self-pro-claimed “Intern Queen”.“The reality is that notevery internship is usedas a recruitment tool.”

That said, make theright impression, andyour corporate overlordsand fellow interns couldbe the link to your firstout-of-college job.

“Really, really focus onbuilding your network at

your internship and buildreal relationships with asmany executives, coordi-nators, assistants as youcan,” Berger encourages.

“When you leave it’simportant to stay in touchwith those people and letthem know what it is youwant to do.”

Not every internship isa sure leg up, says SamerHamadeh, author of TheInternship Bible.

“But even bad intern-

ships help you figure outthe jobs you don’t want,”he notes. Or they can leadto the jobs you really dowant, he adds.

“While you’re there,get lunch with assistants— they can be more effec-tive than a higher levelexecutive,” Berger sug-gests.

“They’re in the loop.They know what jobs areavailable, and wherethey’re available.”

BEFORE YOU GO

“End of internship prepara-tions should start twoweeks before the end date,”advises Berger. “Requestyour letters of recommen-dations early. Executivestake forever on those.”

Make sure you get coffeeor lunch with your interncoordinator, too, she adds.

“That’s the time for thestudent, if they are interest-ed in a job, to express that,”she explains.

KEEP IN TOUCH

“Anyone who you meetduring the internship, keeptrack of those people’s firstand last names, and whenit comes time to leave theinternship, any executive,any employee who helpedyou, even the janitor, writea thank you note, handwrit-ten,” Berger urges. “Threetimes a year — Fall, Spring,Summer — you want toreach out to those people.”

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Can they make the cut?Recent history suggeststwo of them will still bewearing NHL sweaters inOctober.

As Ryan Nugent-Hop-kins, Gabriel Landeskogand Jonathan Huberdeaupulled on the uniform oftheir new NHL teams yes-terday morning, each ex-pressed a strong desire tocontinue wearing it all sea-son. With training campsapproaching, the top threepicks from June’s draft feeltantalizingly close to final-ly realizing their NHLdream.

“I just want to wear thissweater and I just want toget on the ice and play,”said Nugent-Hopkins,sporting a blue and orangeNo. 93 Edmonton Oilershome jersey.

The 18-year-old centrehas spent a considerableamount of time in the gymsince being selected withthe No. 1 pick at the XcelEnergy Center in Minneso-ta.

Nugent-Hopkins esti-mates that he’s added 12pounds to his six-footframe over the summerand now weighs in atabout 177 pounds. It wasdone with an eye on crack-ing the Oilers roster out oftraining camp.

“Hopefully that willhelp me,” said Nugent-Hopkins. “I’m not too fo-cused on my weight rightnow, I’m just going to fo-cus on how well I play andjust playing as good as Ican. Obviously, the weightwas a little bit of an issueso I tried to address it asmuch as I could.”

The only No. 1 pick whodidn’t jump straight to theNHL since the lockout wasdefenceman Erik Johnson,who spent a season at theUniversity of Minnesotarather than join the St.Louis Blues in 2006. Over-all, 11 of the 18 playerstaken in the top threespots between 2005 and2010 went directly to theNHL.

It was no coincidencethat Nugent-Hopkins, Lan-deskog and Huberdeauwere grouped togetheryesterday at the NHLPA’srookie showcase, an eventwhere 26 prospects took

the ice and posed for pho-tos that will be used ontheir first NHL tradingcards.

They’ve been fieldingquestions about whetherthey were ready to play inthe NHL right away sincebefore the draft. The focuson them will only intensifyin the coming weeks dur-ing rookie tournamentsand their first trainingcamps.

“It’s something thatcomes along with (being atop pick),” said Landeskog,who sported a No. 92 Col-orado Avalanche jersey. “Isee pressure as a positive

thing. I want high expecta-tions (placed on) myself.That’s why I play thisgame — I want to get bet-ter every day.”

He’ll travel to Denvertoday and plans to pick thebrain of teammate MattDuchene, who was select-ed third in the 2009 draftand joined the Avalanchethe following season.

Many believe Landeskogis in the best positionamong this year’s draftclass to earn a job becausehe’s physically mature andtrying to crack the rosterof a rebuilding team. THE CANADIAN PRESS

Oilers pick Nugent-Hopkins, other top prospects seeking first NHL jobs

Ryan Nugent-Hopkins talks to the media yesterday.

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Blue Jayslose to O’sin extrainnings

Ryan Adams capped a two-run, 10th-inning rallywith an RBI single and theBaltimore Orioles beat theToronto Blue Jays 6-5 lastnight.

Matt Wieters led off theBaltimore 10th bydrawing a walk off BrianTallet (0-2), who wastrying for his first careersave. Mark Reynoldswalked and, after RobertAndino bunted a foulthird strike, pinch hitterJake Fox hit a game-tyingsingle to right withReynolds taking third.

Adams followed with adeep fly ball off the warn-ing track beyond a drawn-in outfield.

The victory went toWillie Eyre (1-0), whosewild pitch in the top ofthe 10th had put the BlueJays ahead 5-4.

The Blue Jays werewithout manager JohnFarrell, who is being treat-ed for pneumonia inToronto and is expected tomiss the three-gameseries. Bench coach DonWakamatsu ran the teamin Farrell’s absence.

Wieters homered forBaltimore, which has wonseven of nine.

The Blue Jays have lostfive of six.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

A former NBA player who isaccused of shootingan Atlanta woman todeath appeared to beretaliating for beingrobbed of $55,000 USworth of jewelry, po-lice said.

Javaris Crittentonwas arrested late Monday at a Southern Californiaairport. He has beencharged with murder in the Aug.19 shooting death ofJullian Jones outside her house inAtlanta, FBI spokeswoman LauraEimiller said.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Grand openings in

New YorkNo. 1’s advance

Novak Djokovic began his

first-round match at the

U.S. Open yesterday with a

121 mph service winner

and never looked back in

his first match since Aug.

21.

The top-seeded Djokovicbuilt a 6-0, 5-1 lead beforequalifier Conor Niland ofIreland, who had food poi-soning, stopped after 44minutes.Earlier yesterday, women’stop seed Caroline Wozniac-ki — who’s been rankedNo. 1 for most of the pastyear but has yet to win aGrand Slam trophy — de-feated 125th-ranked NuriaLlagostera Vives of Spain 6-3, 6-1.Sixth seed Li Na was upset6-2, 7-5 by 53rd-ranked Si-mona Halep of Romania.Li’s record is now 5-6 sincebecoming China’s first ma-jor singles champion inJune when she won theFrench Open.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Tennis fans attend the first round

of the U.S. Open yesterday.

Djokovic proves on Day 2 of U.S. Open that he’sfeeling fine after missing time with sore shoulder

Novak Djokovic of Serbia returns against Conor Niland

in the Flushing neighbourhood of the Queens

borough of New York City.

PATRICK MCDERMOTT/GETTY IMAGES

Rafael Nadal of Spain returns a shot in his 6-3, 7-6 (1), 7-5

win over Andrey Golubev of Kazakhstan yesterday.

MATTHEW STOCKMAN/GETTY IMAGES

Ana Ivanovic of Serbia celebrates during

her victory over Russia’s Ksenia Pervak.

Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark

serves against Nuria Llagostera

Vives of Spain.

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EngineGetting the Beetle up to speed is handled by threedistinct powerplants.

Base models come with a 170-horsepower 2.5-litrefive-cylinder engine that pretty much carries over fromthe New Beetle. Optional is VW’s popular 140-horsepow-er 2.0-litre turbo-diesel (TDI) that offers a very real alter-native to most gas-electric hybrids when overall fueleconomy and initial purchase cost are factored in.

The top-rung and most performance-focused Beetlefeatures a 200-horsepower 2.0-litre turbocharged four-cylinder that also returns slightly better fuel economythan the base five-cylinder.

Although it looks lower, it’s really because the Beetle is longer and wider than before. Three engine choices greet buyers with the turbo-diesel being our choice for around-town pep and excellent economy.

The new 2012 Beetle repre-sents another step back tothe future for an iconicbrand that is simply toogood to let slip away.

The world held its collec-tive baited breath whenVolkswagen launched theNew Beetle back in the late1990s, before surging for-ward to scoop up as manyof the reconstituted Bugs asthe German automakercould produce.

Not many years later, theNew Beetle had become notso new and its popularitywaned.

Although the convertibleversion maintained a re-spectable degree of popu-larity, the hatchback modelseemed to drift unchecked

year after model year.Following a one-year ab-

sence, the Beetle is backthis fall with sharperstyling, a roomier and up-to-date interior and moreavailable power. Yes, andthe name has been short-ened to just plain Beetle, ifyou please.

That the car is returningat all is a gutsy move. Afterall, nobody begrudgedChrysler for cashiering thePT Cruiser econo-hot rodfollowing its lengthy runand well after its “best-be-fore” date had come andgone. But VW managementobviously thought the Bee-tle brand was worth contin-uing. What has emerged isa well-balanced and sporti-er shape that also projectsthe necessary degree ofcharm that pays homage tothat original look.

Catch the Bugall over again

You would hardly consider the previous New Beetle to be sporty, but Volkswagen is making an honest attempt at it this time around. Helping things out is a much wider cabin with more rear seat room.

On up-level models there’s a trio of gauges (oil temp, turbo boost pressure and clock/stopwatch) that seem inspired by the Porsche 911 cockpit.

MALCOLM GUNNDRIVE@METRONEWS.CAWHEELBASE MEDIA

‘Adult contemporary’The 2012 Beetle features more people-friendlydimensions.

The distance between the front and rearwheels has been increased to create somemuch-needed rear-seat legroom as well as amore generous stowage area with either the50:50 split rear seat occupied or folded flat.

On the inside, the term “adultcontemporary” comes to mind.

A sense of purpose and sportiness prevailswith easy-to-read dials and massive air vents ateither end of the dashboard.

Different lookGone is the New Beetle’s oval, al-most cartoonish appearance, re-placed by a longer hood andflatter roofline that ends in arounded hatchway flanked by aset of prominent taillights.

Overall it’s a look that Dr. Fer-dinand Porsche, who sculpted theoriginal Beetle nearly three-quar-ters of a century ago, would likelyapprove of.

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What you should knowabout the 2012Volkswagen Beetle:

Types: Two-door, front-wheel-drive compact hatch-back coupe.Engine (hp): 2.5-litre DOHCI5 (170); 2.0-litre DOHC I4(200); 2.0-litre DOHC I4, tur-bo-diesel.Transmission: Five-speedmanual (2.5); six-speedmanual (2.0, TDI); six-speedautomatic (2.5); six-speedautomated manual (2.0,TDI).Market position: The Beetleremains true to its NewBeetle origins by retainingits distinctive appearance.This is a car for those whodare to be different.Mileage: L/100 km(city/hwy) 9.5/7.1 (2.5, AT).

By comparison

Scion tCBase price: $22,200Hatchback comeswith all thetrimmings and lovesto dance throughthe turns.

Kia Forte KoupBase price: $20,450Frisky two-doorlooks sharp; appealsto the youthful set.

Honda CiviccoupeBase price: $19,400New-for-2012 modelstresses comfort andqualityappointments.

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Research the used luxurysedan market, and you’lllikely find the Japaneseknack for effectiveengineering and reliableelectronics has translatedinto some of the more reli-able luxury sedans on theroad today.

The last-generation Acu-ra RL is one such sedan.

With a plethora offeatures culminating in themost comprehensively-equipped sedan Honda’sever built, RL shoppers canlook for navigation,Bluetooth, voice command,an advanced audio system,automatic climate control,steerable xenon lights andan intelligent key system,as well as plenty more.

EngineAll RL modelsgot a 3.5-litre, 290horsepower V6 engine, 5-speed automatic transmissionand Super Handling All WheelDrive (SH-AWD). There’s no V8engine available.

Common issuesLow sales volumes meanAcura RL reliabilityinformation is tough tocome by, but a few manda-tory checks should helpshoppers find a healthyunit. Approaching the RL,be sure the intelligent key-fob allows you to lock andunlock the doors with atouch on the handle. Lookinside the wheelwells forsigns of rust, as well as un-derneath the doors andaround the trunk lid.Check for fluid leaksaround the engine,transmission and transaxle.

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Budget for a full fluidchange and tune up to besafe.

What owners likeDrivers of this generation RLreport enjoying a comfortableand quiet ride, agile handling, “under-the-radar” styling and great long-haul comfort dur-ing road trips. Masterful build quality andmaterials impressed many owners, as did Acu-ra’s promise of reliable performance.

What ownersdislikeCommon complaints in-clude small, fussy and complicatedcontrols for the navigation and au-dio system, and a relatively smalltrunk. Some owners report squeaksand rattles as the car ages.

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SergioMarchionne isthe high-flyingand much-quot-ed president ofFiat and

Chrysler. But he isn’t theonly Canadian making animpact on the global auto-motive stage.

After a promotion earli-er this year, Ray Tanguay

became the highest-rank-ing non-Japanese executiveat Toyota Motor Corpora-tion.

During Toyota’s recalldifficulties, he was asked byToyota’s numero uno exec-utive, president Akio Toyo-da, to help draft a GlobalVision Business Plan, whichwould ultimately guide theToyota mothership back oncourse.

Tanguay believed he re-ceived the invite to craft aplan because he made “thebiggest noise” about Toyotalosing its way. The gist ofhis vision was that Toyota’simmense workforce, scat-tered all over the globe,needed a greater sense ofmission and empower-ment. To that end, he sug-

gested more local decision-making and direct access tothe top decision-makers inJapan.

Toyoda liked Tanguay’splan so much he immedi-ately added the title of sen-ior managing officer ofToyota Motor Corporationto Tanguay’s already consid-erable portfolio. There areonly three such positionsworldwide, and they arejust one rung below that ofthe board of directors.

Currently his two othertitles are: Senior Vice Presi-dent, Toyota Motor NorthAmerica; and Chairman,Toyota Motor Manufactur-ing Canada.

The plan is far from hisonly accomplishment. He continues to championmore production and research facilities on thiscontinent. He oversaw the growth of Toyota’sCanadian production in Cambridge, Ont., and itsevolution into a perennial

winner of internationalquality awards. This made it easy for Toyota to sendLexus RX 350 productionthere in 2003 — still the only Lexus plant outside ofJapan. And when Toyotawas looking to open a North American plant to build its RAV4, Tanguaycame up with a novel proposal — build the RAV4plant in nearby Woodstock,as a satellite facility of theCambridge plant.

Another recent accom-plishment: The “house thatRay built” in Woodstockjust received confirmationthis month, that it will bethe first North AmericanToyota facility to build anelectric vehicle. In fact, theRAV EV will be built on thesame line as the gasoline-powered RAV4.

Tanguay has FrenchCanadian roots. Silver-haired, tall, and dignified,he reminds one of anothercharismatic French Canadi-an leader — Jean Beliveau,the legendary and gracefulcaptain of the MontrealCanadians.

I don’t know if Tanguayever played hockey. But seeing that he was born andraised in Mattice, a remotetown in northern Ontario,I’m betting he did. And I’m betting that under-neath the controlled per-sona is someone just likeBeliveau, someone with alot of drive, passion, andcompetitive fight.

Ray Tanguay

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