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Three members of an Afghanistan-born Montreal family were con-victed Sunday of killing threedaughters and a co-wife in what thejudge described as “cold-blooded,shameful murders” spawned froma “completely twisted concept ofhonour.”

Mohammad Shafia, 58, his wifeTooba Yahya, 42, and their sonHamed, 21, were each found guiltyof four counts of first-degree mur-der in a case that has captivatedCanadians from coast to coast, andtouched off post-911 criticism ofMuslim culture.

Canadians are now debatinghow to describe the murders — isit domestic violence or honourkilling?

The debate represents a funda-mental divide in the way the Shafiatrial is being interpreted.

Some, like Saleha Khan, boardmember of the London-based Mus-lim Resource Centre for Social Sup-port and Integration, believe thatdomestic violence is the issue.

“The essence is that it’s theman’s sense of control,” said Khan.“It’s unfortunately something thatcould be anywhere,” she said.

“In certain communities it willbe called crime of passion,” she

said, “but for others it will be anhonour killing.

Many agree with her. MP Rona Ambrose tweeted,

“Honour motivated violence is NOTculture, it is barbaric violenceagainst women.”

Similarly, Laura Babcock, presi-dent of Powergroup, a communi-cations firm, tweeted, “Killingwomen and girls because they arefemale is femicide NOT HonorKilling.”

Yet others say the Shafia mur-ders are honour killings.

“This is a real issue,” said TarekFatah, founder of the Muslim Cana-dian Congress, a non-profit advo-cacy group.

Fatah says his concern is thatCanadian political correctness isgetting in the way of a frank dis-cussion of the problem: That someMuslims consider women the pos-session of men.

“If these four women were whitewomen they would still be alivetoday,” he said. “These girls wentto the school, the cops, child serv-ices, and everyone wanted to pro-tect multiculturalism — not thelives of these young women.”TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE/THE CANADIAN PRESS

Murder by any other nameFemicide, honour killing or domestic

violence? Canadians struggle to come toterms with the killing of four women

Mohammad Shafia, centre, wife Tooba Yahya,

and their son Hamed Shafia arrive at the Frontenac

County courthouse in Kingston on Sunday.

A jury took 15 hours to find each guilty of four counts

of first-degree murder in a so-called mass honour killing.

GRAHAM HUGHES/THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Ford Nation no more. Themore appropriate nameshould be City Council Na-tion.

That’s the sentiment ex-pressed by some Torontocouncillors a day after a re-spected law firm said May-or Rob Ford hadoverstepped his authoritywhen he decreed the Tran-sit City plan dead in De-cember 2010. As mayor, heis considered simply anoth-er member of council andhad little authority to makedecisions on his own, thelegal report suggests.

“It was an assumed pow-er. It was something themayor just decided hecould do,” said Josh Matlow(Ward 22, St. Paul’s).“Nowhere was it writtenthat the mayor has authori-ty to unilaterally createtransit policy for the city ofToronto.”

When Ford announcedafter taking office that hewas scrapping the transit

plan, “A number of council-lors stood up and said youhave no authority to killTransit City, ethically,morally or legally,” saidNorth York CouncillorMaria Augimeri, who is al-so a TTC commissioner.

The legal report saysthat Transit City was ap-proved by council in 2007as part of the ClimateChange, Clean Air and Sus-tainable Energy ActionPlan.

The report, written byFreya Kristjanson andAmanda Darrach, will bereleased today by Ford crit-ic Councillor Joe Mihevc. Italso claims the mayor wenttoo far when he signed anon-binding memorandumof understanding with theprovince that authorizedspending money theprovince had set aside forTransit City on a new tran-sit plan based on a fullytunneled Eglinton LRT.TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE

Transit plan jamFord foes on attack after legal

report says mayor oversteppedpower in declaring Transit City dead

Gurnek Singh will contest the

$250,000 in damages awarded

by a judge last week.

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Auto body shop owner to fight on A convicted auto bodyshop owner, who built“something of an automo-tive Frankenstein” for anunsuspecting couple, sayshe won’t stop fightingcourt awards of about$250,000 against him de-spite another legal setback.

Gurnek Singh, who stilloperates Brampton AutoCollision Centre, said in a

brief interview Friday thathe will contest a judgmentlast week that would clearthe way for a St.Catharines couple to col-lect on damages, interestand legal costs.

“No, no, I won’t pay any-thing yet,” Singh said fromhis shop. “I don’t want to.My lawyer will be taking itfurther.”

Dr. Kalimuddin Pirbhaiand his wife have beenpursuing Singh for dam-ages for 12 years over thesale of a rebuilt luxuryLexus wreck that swayed,swerved, wobbled, emittedunusual noises and be-came a public safety dan-ger, according to courttestimony.TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE

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Film crew has a blast on sceneA film crew shot the explosion that lasted only seconds, ending with a giantfireball and the house securely standing in its place. Rumours are swirlingthat the explosion, which could be seen from more than 2.5 kilometres away,was for an Our Lady Peace music video.

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The Ontario government’splan for a sleek new sys-tem of online higher learn-ing that would helpstudents mix and matchonline credits and trainprofs to design better web-based courses appears tohave stalled nearly twoyears after it was unveiled.

The Ontario Online In-stitute was announced bythe McGuinty governmentin the 2010 throne speechand cited again in a speechby MPP John Milloy lastMay, when it also was tout-ed on a government web-site as coming “in latesummer 2011.”

But it still hasn’t materi-alized, despite a 150-pagefeasibility report delivered

to Queen’s Park lastspring.

A ministry spokesper-son said it has been nei-ther shelved, nor given thego-ahead.

“We’re putting an awfullot of work into looking in-to the best way to moveforward; there may beways that we can do more,but I can’t say any more,”said Heather Wright, direc-tor of communications forthe Ministry of Training,Colleges and Universities.

While there has beenno announcement as towhy the institute did notlaunch last summer, MPPGlen Murray, the new min-ister of training, collegesand universities, hasmused publicly that one ofthe government’s prom-ised three new Ontariocampuses might be “on-line.” TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE

Plan for onlinestudies stalls

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Dalton McGuinty’s government had promised theOntario Online Institute would open by fall

Rafiqul Islam paid his land-lord $8,600 of rent upfrontfor a bachelor apartment inMississauga.

Unaware of tenants’rights, new immigrantslike Islam are being askedby landlords to pay asmuch as a full year of rentup front to secure their firsthome because they have noCanadian employment orcredit history.

Housing advocates saysuch demands are illegaland the exploitation of im-

migrants has become alltoo common due to loop-holes in the Ontario Resi-dential Tenancies Act, aswell as weak provincial en-forcement.

“Sad to say there is a sub-set of landlords who preyon newcomers’ lack of edu-cation of the law and lackof understanding of therental situation,” saidGeordie Dent of the Federa-tion of Metro Tenants Asso-ciation.

“The biggest problem is

by the time we hear aboutit, the tenant has alreadypaid and moved in. Theydon’t want to make wavesand risk losing their apart-ment.”

There are one millionrenters in the city, of whichabout half are immigrants.

The federation often getscalls from immigrantsabout the so-called “rentdeposits” requested bylandlords, demanding apayment of six to 12months.

In one case, Dent said,an immigrant family paidthree years of rent amount-ing to $36,000 upfront tosecure an apartment.TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE

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of Metro Tenants Association

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The day my child-hood bully re-en-tered my life I felt allthe old emotions:

Fear, embarrassment, butmostly indignation.

All while looking at acomputer.

I was catching up withold friends on Facebookwhen I got the friend re-quest.

Are you kidding me? Ithought.

I was a kid again, my earsburning, my shoulderstense.

Matt Gabriel was not myworst tormentor. We wereonce even pals. Then hestarted hanging aroundwith older kids who bulliedme as a group.

Tripping, pushing,names, fights, alienation. Ifelt then like I was walkingaround with a label on myforehead.

He kept sending friend

requests. Each time I reject-ed him with a click and felta nasty glee exacting arighteous revenge.

Finally he wrote: “DearSean: I keep asking for yourfriendship on Facebookand keeping getting denied— which is understand-able. I am not looking foryou to be able to forgive mefor picking on you in pub-lic school a lot — butmaybe just to give yousome perspective. Mymother was dying a terribleand painful death fromcancer and I acted out quitea bit.”

And then he apologized.I wrote back. I apolo-

gized too. I thought I’dmoved on, but I’d been car-rying around resentment. Ilooked at my own behav-iour back then. Most of uskids at the bottom of thesocial order weren’t any

kinder to each other thanMatt and his cronies. Onlything was, Matt was manenough to reach out to peo-ple (not just me) to makeamends.

Turns out the older kidsthat picked on us were getting beat up by evenolder kids.

“We were scared, butthen we would go intoschool and do the samething,” he recalls.

Matt was physically big-ger and began studyingmartial arts. Rather than bea victim he tried to intimidate others beforethey could go after him.

He realized in his 20s,while working as a bounc-er, he didn’t like wherethings were going. He’djust become a father and hedidn’t want to hurt people.

“I guess it was a processof maturing,” he said.“Hurting people is wrong.And helping people is soeasy. There’s no negativeemotions afterward.”

He works in telecommu-nications now. He became

a union shop steward, hesays, because he wanted tohelp and he found he wasgood at it.

Did he know as a kid hewas doing somethingwrong?

“I don’t know that youhave that well-developed asense of right and wrongwhen you’re young,” hesays.

It sounds like a cop out,but I know Matt is right. Itwas easy for me to seewhen I was being wronged,but when I got into fights Ialways felt I was right.

“There were mixed mes-sages coming at us, evenfrom our teachers and parents,” Matt says.

I have to agree again.

There were mixed mes-sages: corporal punish-ment, religion, movies —all had a good guy fightingand punishing a bad guy.

Matt says he struggledwith his mother’s illnessfrom kindergarten untilGrade 8 when she died. Hedidn’t get counselling andhis father was often awayworking, trying to makeends meet.

“It’s not an excuse, but ithelps explain things,” Mattsays.

Matt and I continue tobe friends on Facebook.And we may all get togeth-er (him and his brothers)for a beer now that my earsdon’t burn every time Ithink of him.

It’s hard to admit that youare bullying someone.In fact, most children rec-ognize their actions, butdo not understand whythey are doing it, said Dr.John LeBlanc, an associateprofessor of pediatrics atDalhousie University inHalifax.

He said there are threecomponents of bullying:An intent to harm, a pow-er imbalance and repeti- tion. So the person who isbullying is well aware oftheir actions, saidLeBlanc.

“But they just don’tknow why.”

He said it’s hard “forsomeone who is bullying,for them to have theinsight to say, ‘Oh, I’mbullying. I better stop.’”

“Usually they are bully-ing because they want tobully. Children who bullydo it for a reason. They’reusually troubled childrenthemselves,” he said.

Consequently, it’s rarefor a child to stop the behaviour without somesort of intervention, hesaid.

“You can’t expect thebully to stop it on theirown, nor the victim. Thevictim is already in a weak-ened position,” he said.

“It never felt good.It didn’t feel rightand it’s not who I was inside.”MATT GABRIEL

Politicians are drafting legislation to combat bullying in schools But if they really want to tackle the problem, they’ll have to delve deeper than kicking kids out

Bullies can be victims too, as Metro Ottawa’s managing editor discoveredSEAN MCKIBBON/METRO

Expert advice

Dr. LeBlanc’s strategies to

prevent or stop bullying:

Bullying amongst childrenshould be dealt with ingroups: Ask each childhow they would feel ifthey were being bullied.In the “no blame ap -proach,” the adult asks thevictim if the incident canbe brought to a group thatincludes the child who isbullying. The group is thenasked how they can helpthe child and some times,the child who is bullyingwill actually offer to help.

My bully,my friend

Tuesday in Metro: More on bullying

In the second instalment of our three-part series:

We investigate the differences between boys and girls

when it comes to bullying tactics.

And we take a look at what we can learn from

those TV bullies we love to loathe.

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Authorities say at least tenpeople died in a series ofcrashes apparently causedby heavy smoke and fogovernight on Interstate 75

in north Florida.Florida Highway Patrol

Lt. Patrick Riordan saysthe pileups happenedaround 3:45 a.m. Sunday

on both sides of I-75 southof Gainesville. All lanes ofthe interstate are stillclosed.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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The big fat Indian wedding

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mass wedding ceremony in Virar, near

Mumbai, India, Sunday. More than 1,000

couples were married during the event

that was organized by a local politician.

Syrian troops stormed re-bellious areas near thecapital Sunday, shellingneighbourhoods that havefallen under the controlof army dissidents andclashing with fighters.

The offensive near thecapital suggested theregime is worried thatmilitary defectors couldclose in on Damascus,which has remained rela-tively quiet while mostother Syrian cities de-scended into chaos afterthe uprising began lastMarch.

The rising bloodshedadded urgency to Araband Western diplomaticefforts to end the 10-month conflict.

The violence has gradu-ally approached the capi-tal. In the past two weeks,

army dissidents have be-come more visible, seiz-ing several suburbs on theeastern edge of Damascusand setting up check-points where maskedmen wearing military at-tire and wielding assaultrifles stop motorists andprotect anti-regimeprotests.

Their presence so closeto the capital is astonish-ing in tightly-controlledSyria and suggests the As-sad regime may either belosing control or settingup a trap for the fightersbefore going on the offen-sive.

Residents of Damascusreported hearing clashesin the nearby suburbs,particularly at night, shat-tering the city’s calm.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Syrian troops stormDamascus suburbs

Dozens of tanks and armoured vehicles lead chargeAt least 62 people killed nationwide, activists say

Iran’s foreign minister ex-pressed optimism Sundaythat a visit by UN inspectorsto Iran’s nuclear facilitieswould produce an under-standing, despite worldconcerns that Iran is tryingto build nuclear weapons.

The three-day inspectiontour by the InternationalAtomic Energy Agency(IAEA) comes during spik-ing tension. The West is im-posing new sanctions to tryto force Iran to slow or halt

its nuclear program, andIran is threatening to closethe Strait of Hormuz, a vitaloil passage, in retaliation.

Visiting Ethiopia, IranianForeign Minister Ali AkbarSalehi appeared to be tryingto defuse the crisis.

“We’ve always tried toput transparency as a prin-ciple in our co-operationwith IAEA,” Salehi said.“During this visit, the dele-gation has questions andthe necessary answers will

be given.”The findings from the

visit could greatly influencethe direction and urgencyof U.S.-led efforts to rein inIran’s ability to enrich ura-nium, which Washingtonand allies fear could pro-duce weapons-grade materi-al. Iran has declined toabandon its enrichmentlabs, but claims it seeks tofuel reactors only for ener-gy and medical research.

The team is likely to visit

an underground enrich-ment site near the holy cityof Qom, 130 kilometressouth of Tehran, which iscarved into a mountain asprotection from possibleairstrikes.

Earlier this month, Iransaid it had begun enrich-ment work at the site,which is far smaller thanthe country’s main urani-um labs but is reported tohave more advanced equip-ment. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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holds a poster to support

Iran’s nuclear activities

in Tehran on Sunday.

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UN nuclear team arrives in Iran seeking answers

Numbers vary

The Syrian Observatory forHuman Rights said at least27 civilians were killed Sun-day in Syria. Twenty-six sol-diers and nine defectorswere also killed, it said. The Local Coordination Com-mittees’ activist networksaid 50 people were killedSunday, including 13 whowere killed in the suburbs ofthe capital and twodefectors. That count exclud-ed soldiers killed Sunday.The differing counts couldnot be reconciled, and thereports could not beindependently confirmed.Syrian authorities keep tightcontrol on the media andhave banned many foreignjournalists from entering thecountry.

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Dozens of Occupy Oaklandprotesters broke into cityhall on Saturday, smash-ing display cases, spray-painting graffiti, andburning a U.S. flag.

The demonstration inCalifornia’s eighth-largest

city was the climax of aday of clashes with policethat saw nearly 400 peoplearrested on charges rang-ing from failure to dis-perse to vandalism.

In a news release Sun-day, the Occupy Oakland

Media Committee criti-cized police conduct, say-ing most of the arrestswere made illegally be-cause police failed to allowprotesters to disperse.

Saturday’s protestswere the most turbulent

since Oakland policeforcefully dismantled anOccupy encampment inNovember.

Mayor Jean Quan facedheavy criticism for the po-lice action. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Hundreds arrested in OaklandAfter weeks of quiet, occupiers vowed to shut down port for a third time

A lawyer for the tiny FirstNations community of At-tawapiskat is going tocourt in Toronto on Tues-day, seeking to overturn agovernment decision tohave a third party dealwith its housing crisis.

“We are afraid of whatCanada and its agent ... willdo if authority and controlover the First Nations oper-ation and administration isassumed by them,” ChiefTheresa Spence wrote inher affidavit, filed byToronto lawyer KatherineHensel. “Based on my owncommunity’s experience,such unrestrained authori-ty over us has not been ex-ercised responsibly orwisely.”

The community is seek-ing a judicial review of Ot-tawa’s decision to imposethird-party control and in-terim relief to address ahousing crisis. The federal

government is expected tofile a response in court thisweek.

Families in the commu-nity of 2,000 are living inmakeshift tents and shedswith no running water,electricity or heat, butSpence said it’s not fair toblame the band’s leader-ship for the conditions.

She said responsibilitylies with government hous-ing and construction poli-cies for aboriginals for thepast four decades.TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE

Occupy Oakland protesters knock down fences

to escape from police after they were surrounded

in a vacant lot on Saturday.

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Chief Theresa Spence

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Europe’s crippling debt cri-sis dominated the world’sforemost gathering of busi-ness and political leaders,but for the first time thegrowing inequality on theplanet became a talking-point, thanks largely to theArab Spring uprisings, theOccupy movement and oth-er protests around theglobe.

Plenty of champagneflowed in this alpine ski re-sort — but the atmospherewas flat and the bubblingenthusiasm of some pastWorld Economic Forumswas noticeably absent.

Despite some guardedoptimism about Europe’slatest attempts to stem theeurozone crisis, fears re-main that turmoil could re-turn and spill over to therest of the world. And therewere no answers to thewidening inequality gap,but a mounting realizationthat economic growth must

include the poor, that jobcreation is critical, and thataffordable food, housing,health care and educationneed to part of any solution.

Just before the forum be-gan, the International Mon-etary Fund reduced itsforecast for global growthin 2012 to 3.3 per cent fromthe four per cent pace itprojected in September.Many other economic fore-casters also predict a slow-ing economy.

Asia is expected to re-main the engine for globalgrowth though at a slowerrate, with China leading theway at more than eight percent, followed by India andIndonesia.

IMF chief Christine La-garde warned that the euro-zone crisis is not theregion’s problem alone.

“What I have seen, andwhat the IMF has seen innumbers and forecasts, isthat no country is immuneand everybody has an inter-est in making sure that thiscrisis is resolved adequate-ly,” she said.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Economic crisisdominates Davos

Growing gap between haves and have-nots also a big issue Mood at end of forum described as sombre

Topless Ukrainian protesters demonstrate at the entrance to the congress centre

where the World Economic Forum took place in Davos on Saturday.

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Looking ahead

This year for the first time,the forum invited about 60“Global Shapers” — youngleaders under 30 — to theforum to try to address is-sues confronting the gen-eration that will berunning the world indecades to come.Among them were ChelseaClinton, daughter of theformer U.S. president andpresent secretary of state,who moderated a panel onphilanthropy; and philan-thropist Howard Buffett,son of Warren Buffett,whose foundation focuseson promoting agricultureand fighting hunger, espe-cially in Africa.

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Foreign workers senthome over permit snarlThousands of temporaryforeign workers are at riskof losing their permissionto work in Canada and be-ing sent home — ironical-ly, just as Ottawa isfast-tracking work permitprocessing.

Since November, manyforeigners working inskilled jobs and trades inCanada have had their re-newal applications reject-ed. Some are being forcedto collect wages under thetable while trying to re-store their work status.

Legal experts blame thechaos on two governmentdepartments being out ofsync in processing the doc-uments required to get atemporary work permit.

“It is a colossalheadache,” said David

Coombes, an immigrationconsultant based in Victo-ria, who has had sevensuch refusals recently.“This is unfair to the em-ployers and especially tothe workers, who will haveto go home.”

A foreign worker needstwo documents to worklegally in Canada. The first

is a Labour Market Opinion(LMO) from Service Canada,which assesses whether aforeign worker is needed.

The second comes fromCitizenship and Immigra-tion Canada, charged withprocessing the work per-mit application, which in-volves verifying the job aswell as medical and crimi-nal checks.

According to ServiceCanada, the average pro-cessing time for an LMO isup from 15 business days ayear ago to 22 days — a fig-ure that’s widely disputed.

Cobus Kriek, a Toronto-based immigration con-sultant, said it’s taking upto 12 weeks now to get anLMO for his clients.

“This is a massive crisisfor both employers and

workers,” said Kriek, whohas had two work permitrefusals on the basis thatan LMO was not ready.TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE

“This is a massivecrisis for bothemployers andworkers.”COBUS KRIEK, TORONTO-BASEDIMMIGRATION CONSULTANT

Service Canada delays lead to widespread rejections of permit renewals

Ecstasyoverdosepatientsflood ER For each ecstasyoverdose being broughtto light publicly in Cal-gary, frontline doctorsare treating dozensmore with similar, near-fatal symptoms.

The discovery ofanother body in a north-east Calgary residenceSunday raised fears thatthe total number ofdeaths linked to a toxiccompound known asPMMA could rise. Policebelieve the compound isbeing used in place ofstandard MDMA in ecsta-sy tablets following a re-

cent crackdown byRCMP.

Officials also said Fri-day a sixth individual’sdeath last summer hasbeen tied to PMMA.

With each reporteddeath, emergency roomphysicians are also treat-ing a wave of patients re-acting negatively to thedrug, explained Dr. MarkYarema, medicaldirector for the Poisonand Drug InformationService and emergencyroom physician.

A true number of howmany patients are beingadmitted withsymptoms caused by thePMMA compound is un-known, but AlbertaHealth Services hasrecorded more than 100severe cases, he said.

JEREMY NOLAIS IN CALGARY

Foreign workers

Temporary foreign work-

ers in Canada, according

to Citizenship and Immi-

gration Canada:

2001: 96,3902002: 101,0992003: 109,6792004: 125,0342005: 140,6902006: 160,8542007: 199,2462008: 249,7962009: 281,3492010: 282,771

CHRISTIANN DAVIS/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Man admits to beatingJose Ramon Acosta Quintero is accused by stateauthorities of the brutal beating of Canadian SheilaNabb. He claims Nabb was naked when he encoun -tered her in the elevator, and that he was drunk andhigh on cocaine at the time of the incident. He admit-ted he tried to hold Nabb in the elevator and pun chedher several times in the face when she cried for help.

Suspect. Nabbed

Jose Ramon Acosta Quintero, a.k.a. “El Ray,” is

escorted by soldiers during his presentation

to the press in Mazatlan, Mexico, Saturday.

best workers. The plaintiffs claim that

company emails showSteve Jobs himself soughtand orchestrated at leastsome of the so-called “gen-tlemen’s agreements”while he was Apple’s CEO.

“I believe we have a poli-cy of no recruiting from Ap-ple,” then-Google chiefexecutive Eric Schmidtwrote in a 2007 email citedby the plaintiffs. The emailwas originally furnished tothe U.S. Justice Depart-ment, which investigatedsimilar allegations in 2010.

The same email includeda forwarded message fromJobs complaining thatGoogle’s recruiting depart-ment was trying to lureaway an Apple engineer.

“Can you get thisstopped and let me knowwhy this is happening?”Schmidt wrote. Google’s di-rector of staffing said the re-cruiter “will be terminatedwithin the hour.”

Defence attorneys con-tend the emails are beingdistorted by the plaintiffsand show nothing beyondlegitimate one-to-one agree-ments. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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In Silicon Valley’s white-hotcompetition for tech talent,programmers can face adaily barrage of calls fromrecruiters seeking to woothem to rival companieswith better pay and perks.

But workers for some ofthe biggest names in thebusiness claim their phonesfell silent because of a con-spiracy among their em-ployers.

A federal lawsuit claimssenior executives at GoogleInc., Intel Corp., Adobe Sys-tems Inc., Intuit Inc., Lucas-film Ltd., Pixar and AppleInc., violated antitrust lawsby entering into secret anti-poaching agreementsnot to hire each other’s

Email exchanges

In a 2005 email, an Adobehuman resourcesexecutive wrote: “Bruce(Bruce Chizen, formerAdobe CEO) and Steve Jobshave an agreement thatwe are not to solicit ANYApple employees, and viceversa,” according to courtdocuments.Ex-Palm Inc., CEO Ed

Colligan wrote to Jobs in2007: “Your proposal thatwe agree that neither com-pany will hire the other’semployees, regardless ofthe individual’s desires, isnot only wrong, it is likelyillegal,” the plaintiffs’ filingsaid.

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Congressional Republicansare refusing to back downin their attempts to winspeedy approval of Tran-sCanada’s Keystone XLpipeline, vowing to link ap-proval of the controversialproject to a new jobs bill be-ing introduced next week.

“Now that the presidenthas decided for politicalreasons that we’re not go-ing to move ahead just yet,not until after the election... we’re going to have tofind another way to lean onthe Senate, to take this is-sue up, because the Key-stone pipeline will createover 100,000 indirect jobs,”John Boehner, speaker ofthe House of Representa-tives, said Sunday on ABC’sThis Week.

If the Obama administra-

tion has not given thegreen light to the $7.6-bil-lion US pipeline by the timethe House examines the so-called American Energyand Infrastructure Jobs Act,Republicans will add thepipeline approval provisionto the bill, he said.

It will be the second timeRepublicans have attempt-ed to force the hand ofPresident Barack Obama on

Keystone XL as they insistthe project represents ajobs boon and will help endU.S. reliance on oil from of-ten hostile OPEC regimes.

They successfully insert-ed a pipeline provision intoa temporary payroll tax-cutlegislation in late Decem-ber that imposed a Feb. 21deadline on the WhiteHouse for approving theproject. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Republicans to linkpipeline to jobs bill

Obama rejected the initial Keystone XL application TransCanada set to reroute the pipeline and reapply

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PHOTOGS HAVEART BUYER’S BACK

When art buyer Heather Mor-ton was diagnosed with fibro-matosis, a rare condition thatrequired her to undergo twoyears of chemotherapy, mem-bers of the photography com-

munity rallied together to get her back. Onseveral different levels.

For years, Morton had experienced anintense pain in her back that wouldn’t goaway. She assumed it was a result of thetime she spent in front of her computer,writing her influential blog

HeatherMorton.ca. The popular website gavephotographers an insider’s perspective on how to sellwork to an ad agency and the best way to promotethemselves. It was the go-to site for aspiring photographersand became an important forum for the industry.

“What was really nice is that the community really gotinto it; there were fantastic discussions,” says Morton,who’s been an art buyer for nearly 10 years. “Because Ihave a lot of connection in the art buying world (the web-site was), able to pull them in to make a broader perspec-tive.”

Most people assume the term art buyer refers to asocialite who collects expensive art, but it’s also the title ofthe person at an ad agency who coordinatesphotographers.

Although Morton loved blogging, and did so diligentlyfive days a week, the pain in her back became distractinglyunbearable.

No matter how many acupuncture and chiropractictreatments she received, the pain wouldn’t go away. Whenshe finally went to see a specialist, Morton was told shehad a non-malignant tumour that would requiretreatment, which would leave her feeling sick andexhausted. As a result, Morton was forced to cut down onher workload, while upping her expenses on things likedaycare for her children and help around the house.

After a particularly difficult round of treatment, Mortonwas approached by two photographer friends, Kristin Sjaar-da and Lisa Kannakko, who told her they wanted to help.

To show support for everything Morton’s done, the twoToronto-based photographers, along with another photog-rapher, Jamie Rosenthal, have organized a fundraiser.HMAb: The Fundraiser takes place on Feb. 5 at theGladstone Hotel. It includes a silent auction of 44 prints aswell as talks by three prominent photographers: NaomiHarris, Daniel Ehrenworth and Brett Gundlock, who willall speak about their current projects.

The overwhelming support has undoubtedly touchedMorton, who’s excited to be back, contributing to the com-munity, though on a much different level.

“It was really nice that when I put that much work intosomething, the community has really rallied around, andit’s affirming for the work that I did,” says Morton.

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Survival ofthe fittestA competitor is seen afterwalking though fire at theannual Tough Guy eventin Perton, England, onSunday.

Tough Guy claims to bethe world’s most demand-ing one-day survivalordeal. First staged in1986, it has been widelydescribed as “the toughestrace in the world,” with upto one-third of the startersfailing to finish in atypical year.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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“Normally,” says DanielRadcliffe, “I hate watch-ing my movies and hatewatching myself.”

Why, then, did he sitthrough his new film, TheWoman in Black, duringits Canadian premier lastweek in Toronto?

“The last time I willwatch it was last night,”the former Harry Pottertold me the next day.

“I’ve picked this apartenough now. I don’t needto watch it any more.

“The line between self-critical and self-hating isblurred.

“Normally when Iwatch my stuff, I say, ‘Idon’t like that but I don’tknow what to do about it,’but last night I was watch-ing and thinking, ‘Oh,this is how that could beimproved.’”

Despite being one ofthe most beloved actorson the planet and the starof some of the highestgrossing films of all time,Radcliffe isn’t content torest on his laurels.

“I know I have a longway to go as an actor,” hesays.

“I’m 22 and at the stagewhen most actors wouldbe coming out of dramaschool but because I’vegot 10 years of experienceon a film set I think peo-ple expect me to be morecomplete, perhaps, than Iam.

“I think that there aresome things I do really

well and some things I seeand go, ‘OK, I know howto fix that now.’”

One thing he can’tchange is the way his fansrespond to him.

“It’s kind of part of mylife,” he says of the fanda-monium that followswherever he goes.

“The thing you have toremind yourself is that itis not about me.

“It’s about the fact that

I played this character,which became belovedand anyone who took onthat character would begetting this reaction.

“The fact that I’m nowgetting it on my ownaway from the series isvery gratifying, althoughit is still kind of residualfrom Potter, unless theyare fans of that and of me.

“You just have to laugh

at it and have a sense ofhumour about it.

“As I said to you, whenI’m at home, smoking acigarette and it’s cold andI’m in my Canada Goosejacket eating half a pizza,those are the momentsyou have to take a pictureof yourself and play it toyourself when you are onthe red carpet and go,‘Yeah, yeah, yeah, you’renot all that, really.’”

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The Grey topped theweekend box officewith $20 million, con-tinuing Liam Neeson’ssuccess as an actionstar. Also openingwere Man on a Ledgeand One for the Mon-ey with Katherine Hei-gl. One for the Moneytook home $11.8 mil-lion, while Man on aLedge opened with$8.3 million.Underworld: Awaken-ings, came in secondwith $12.5 million.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Kellie Pickler wants you toknow she’s a traditional gal— and she’s making it veryclear with her new album,100 Proof.

The platinum blondeAmerican Idol alum ispulling back from the pop-country tunes that once de-fined her, like Red HighHeels and Best Days Of YourLife, and replacing themwith ones that reflect hertraditional country roots.The album was released lastweek.

“I guess it’s been likethree-and-a-half years sincemy last record came out. ...So a lot has happened in mylife. I'm married. I’ve grownup a lot, because when Istarted this I was 19 andgreen when I did my firstrecord, Small Town Girl,”said Pickler. “So much hashappened in my life. Mostof it is on the record.”

Pickler, 25, took cuesfrom her musical heroes,the big wigs of women incountry music. The open-ing track even name checksone of those legends inWhere’s Tammy Wynette.

“I love Tammy Wynette.She’s a big reason why I fellin love with country music.You wouldn’t know that ifyou listened to (my) past

things,” Pickler said. “I lovethat sound, and I wanted tosprinkle a little bit of the

people that influenced meto be here...”THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Forget the romancerumours, let’s justfocus on the film

Bradley Cooper, Zoe Saldana celebrate thepremiere of their Sundance-closing film, The Words

Bradley Cooper and ZoeSaldana came to the Sun-dance Film Festival to pro-mote their closing-nightfilm, The Words.

The two actors play amarried couple in themovie, which follows anaspiring writer who gainsfame when he finds an oldmanuscript and passes itoff as his own.

The pair avoided any ap-pearance of their reportedoff-screen romance by stay-ing apart from one anoth-er while posing for photosand giving interviews tosupport the film. Saldanadid affectionately touchCooper as they passed in ahallway, though.

Both had been to Sun-dance before, where snowfell throughout the festivaland the weather dipped in-to the teens. Still, Saldanamaintained her fashionistaedge.

“I did bring warm stuffbut I also brought fashion-y stuff. Come on. You’vegot to pay the price, even ifit’s too cold,” she said.

The 33-year-old actresswore green suede shoeswith spiked stiletto heelsdespite the slushy condi-tions.

“They’re kind of fabu-lous. They’re also lethal. SoI have to be really careful,and somebody has to becareful not to piss me off,”she said with a smile.“Yeah right. I’m just tryingnot to fall. It’s like, ‘Pleasedon’t fall. Please don’t fall,’when I’m walking.”

Cooper’s first time atthe festival was 12 yearsearlier with the eventualcult comedy hit Wet HotAmerican Summer.

“I wasn’t even able toget into the screening,” herecalled.

Saldana said playingCooper’s wife in TheWords made her thinkabout how she approachesrelationships and the con-cept of unconditional love.

“Like how uncondition-al am I when I’m in love.

Do you bypass certainthings? Would I be able tobe with a man — or withsomeone — that feels in-complete, doesn’t matterwhat we do?” she said.

“If we change this, if weget married, if we have ababy — just someone thatfeels incomplete. Would Ibe able to deal with thatfor so many years and ac-cept them as who they areand go, ‘Come as you are.This is who I fell in lovewith and I don’t want tochange you?’

“I’m not like that,which is why I wanted toplay her, because it was achallenge, you know. Lookat me, I totally said I’m notunconditional at all. So aw-ful.”

Cooper’s part as author-plagiarist Rory Jansen ishis second writerly role af-ter playing a novelist inlast year’s Limitless. Butthat’s just coincidence, hesaid. Despite having a de-gree in English, the 37-year-old actor says hetypically only writes in his“girlnal.”

“Journal, sorry,” he said.“That’s a ‘Wet Hot’ refer-ence. Paul Rudd says that.”THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Actor Bradley Cooper, from the film The Words, poses for a portrait

during the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, last week.

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After almostseven years to-gether, itlooks likeBrad Pitt andAngelina Joliemight make it

official. The royal couple is

abandoning their originalplan to wait until gaymarriage is legal in ex-change for some peaceand quiet around thehouse.

“We’re getting a lot ofpressure from the kids,”Pitt admits in an inter-view with CBS SundayMorning that aired yester-day.

“It means something to

them.” It seems their six-pack

— count ’em: Maddox,Pax, Zahara, Shiloh, Knoxand Vivienne — havebeen telling him to “getMommy a ring” and he’spromised, “OK, I will! Iwill!”

So, just to sum it up:When pressured by sixyoung children to buy adiamond for a womanwho has let him stickaround since 2005 with-out one, Brad Pitt runs hisstrong, rugged handsthrough his shiny blondehair and says, “Sure kids,why not.”

Angelina, we don’tknow what you did to thisman, but we’re im-pressed.MONICA WEYMOUTH WROTE MON-DAY’S THE WORD. DOROTHY ROBIN-SON WILL BE BACK TUESDAY.

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When I first read that amother in Acworth, Ga.,allowed her 10-year-oldson to get a tattoo, Ithought, “A tattoo, peo-ple?! On a 10-year-old!”

Then I discovered thatthe tattoo is actually inmemory of the boy’s olderbrother, Malik, who washit and killed by a teenage

driver at age 12. The 10-year-old, Gaquan, waswith his brother when hedied.

That was a couple ofyears ago now, but he re-cently told his mom,Chuntera Napier, that hewanted to get a tattoo as away of honouring Malik’smemory. (Gaguan has sev-eral tattoos of her own inher late son’s memory.)

“My son came to meand said, ‘Mom, I want toget a tattoo with Malik onit, rest in peace.’ What do Isay to a child that wants toremember his brother?”Napier told the local TVstation.

She claims she didn’tknow it was illegal for a10-year-old to get a tattoo,and so she took her son toa tattoo artist, who gavethe boy a tattoo featuringMalik’s old jersey number.As Napier explained, “Itmade me feel good toknow that he wanted hisbrother on him.”

Gaquan then returnedto school, where someonenoticed his new ink andcalled authorities. Napieris now facing child crueltycharges because it’s illegalfor anyone under 18 to geta tattoo, even with theirparent’s consent.

“We hope that they can

Would you let your child get a tattoo?

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Tattooed 10-year-oldIn Georgia, a mother has been

arrested for allowing her child toget a tattoo Before you judge,read the details recounted by oneMommyish blogger

What do

you think?

Is it OK for 10-year-olds to

get tattoos? Twitter was

buzzing with these

tweets:

@lyjo67

[the reason] doesn’t mat-ter. tell him to go plant atree or start a foundationor something more sensi-ble than a tattoo@dakneez

It is never, ever ok to allowa ten-year-old to get a tat-too.@aysharempel

can you imagine what thattattoo is going to look likein 10 years #disaster@337wallace

tattoos are an expressionof self. Understand that itis permanent, and it does-n’t matter how old you are:)

find something that cansustain them through thatloss, but this is not theway. It is illegal and it’ssomething that we werebound by the law to inves-tigate and to prosecute,”

said Acworth police chiefMike Wilkie. (They’re alsoinvestigating the tattooartist.)

I don’t think there’sever justification for per-manently inking a child,

though my heart justbreaks for this family whosuffered such a tragic loss.Napier is set to appear incourt in March.CONTRIBUTED BY SHAWNA COHENOF MOMMYISH.COM.

Advocates say Canadi-ans and their govern-ments must take actionto tear down barriersthat hurt people withdisabilities.

The plea cameFriday with the Torontolaunch of a report bythe World HealthOrganization (WHO)and World Bank.

The World Reporton Disability suggeststhat more than one bil-lion people in theworld today experiencedisability and their bar-riers are many.

WHO’s Tom Shake-speare, one of thereport’s authors, pointsout that in Canada —as in many high-income countries —disabled people aretwice as likely to be un-employed and facemany other barriersthat leave them feelingexcluded.THE CANADIAN PRESS

After surviving cancer, 10-year-old cat gets new knee andchance at more pain-free life

WHO Report

Double takePink and Green Ribbon campaign

ties breast health to environmentAfter spotting the Pink Rib-bon logo on packaging forchemical-laced householdcleansers and candy withartificial colours, environ-mental consultant and biol-ogist Julie Budgen decidedto mix the cause with amore green approach.

With friends, shestitched up a twist to thepopular movement and cre-ated the Pink and Green

Ribbon campaign. Thegrassroots initiativebloomed, and its Canmore,Alta.-based founders put ef-forts into cancer preventionthrough education.

Their two-pronged ap-proach involves maintain-ing healthy breasts whileraising awareness about en-vironmental factors poten-tially related to disease.Volunteer directors include

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The 29-year-old was closeto three women who diedfrom breast cancer. Sheknows another two whowere treated and recovered.

Remtulla shaved herhead last April to raisemoney for the campaign.

To keep the momentumrolling, the campaign haslaunched a competitionasking women aged 17 to30 to submit creative four-minute or shorter videosthat highlight pink-and-green values.

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If you’re reading this story,there’s a good chanceyou’re riding public tran-sit. If you’re not in a busshelter this instant, youmay have been just mo-ments ago.

It’s as simple as struc-ture as you can imagine.Yet, even here, innovativegreener ideas are being de-veloped — and deployed.

The City of San Francis-co is entering the thirdyear of a five-year programto replace its 1,400 conven-tional shelters with mod-ern, solar-poweredalternatives.

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The overall effect? A ze-ro net-draw on the powersystem. Throw in the factthat the shelters are beingbuilt, run and paid for byan advertising agency, andthese updated high-techtransit stops aren’t costing

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The only thing missing— and this would be ofparticular interest to Cana-dian commuters — is heat.

“In terms of using thesolar power, that would bechallenging,” Hughes ex-plains. “Given the generalsize of bus shelters, the

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Blasts from the pastPair of former Senators spark Team Chara to 12-9 all-star win over Team Alfredsson

The NHL all-star game wassupposed to be all aboutDaniel Alfredsson and hisOttawa teammates, but itwas ex-Senator ZdenoChara who had the lastlaugh.

The Boston Bruins cap-tain had the game-winneras he and another formerSenator from Slovakia,Marian Hossa of theChicago Blackhawks,scored 16 seconds apart ina six-goal third period tolead Team Chara to a 12-9victory over Team Alfreds-son on Sunday.

“That was my firstshot,” said the six-foot-nine Chara, who went inalone to snap a shot pastBrian Elliott, who wasbombed for six goals on19 third-period shots.“Early on, (the game) wasreally loose but as wewere going to the end youcould see that guys want-ed to win.

“That’s the way it goessome times at the all-stargame.”

Prime Minister Stephen

Harper chatted in thestands with league com-missioner Gary Bettmanthrough much of a wide-open game. They sawTeam Chara lose the leadfour times only to pile upan insurmountable totalin the third with goalsfrom Phil Kessel, JaromeIginla, Hossa, Chara,Corey Perry and the sec-ond of the game by JoffreyLupul.

They didn’t need thenotable absentees, the in-jured Sidney Crosby and

the holdout AlexOvechkin, to score inbunches.

Marian Gaborik had ahat-trick, while EvgeniMalkin and Patrick Kanehad the other goals forTeam Chara.

Alfredsson scoredtwice, while Jason Spezza,Henrik Sedin, JohnTavares, Jason Pominville,Milan Michalek, ClaudeGiroux and Daniel Sedinscored for Team Alfreds-sonTHE CANADIAN PRESS

Djokovic wins epic battle in finalNovak Djokovic woredown Rafael Nadal in thelongest Grand Slam sin-gles final in the history ofprofessional tennis, win-ning 5-7, 6-4, 6-2, 6-7 (5), 7-5 after five hours 53minutes to claim his thirdAustralian Open title.

Djokovic sealed victoryat 1:37 a.m. Monday localtime and became the fifthman since the Open Erabegan in 1968 to winthree straight Grand Slamfinals.

The 24-year-oldDjokovic tore off his shirt

in celebration after one ofthe most dramatic finalsin the history of the game.He went to his supportcamp and repeatedlythumped the side of thearena in front of them indelight and relief.

Nadal leaned on thenet, while Djokovic sat onhis haunches before thetrophy presentation.Eventually, a nearby offi-cial took pity and theywere given chairs and abottle of water each.

“We made historytonight and, unfortunate-ly, there couldn’t be twowinners,” Djokovic said.

Djokovic’s win main-tained his mastery ofNadal, who has lost sevenstraight finals against theSerb since March last year.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Marian Hossa of Team Chara scores a goal in the third period against Team Alfredsson’s Brian Elliott.

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Novak Djokovic celebrates after defeating Rafael Nadal.

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4:54Length of the previouslongest major singlesfinal: Mats Wilander’swin over Ivan Lendl atthe U.S. Open in 1988.

Sports in brief

Tiger Woods fin-ished in a tie forthird at the AbuDhabi GolfChampionshipafter startingthe final roundtied for the lead.

The PittsburghPenguinsconfirmed Sat-urday that Sid-ney Crosby wasdiagnosed witha neck injury.

LeBron Jamesscored 35 pointsas the MiamiHeat escapedwith a 97-93 winSunday over theChicago Bulls.THE ASSOCIATEDPRESS

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Gaborik scored the first ofhis two goals on Rangersteammate HenrikLundqvist and he took fulladvantage of rubbing it in.Gaborik recreated acontroversial goal celebra-tion by Rangers forwardArtem Anisimov after hisfirst goal on Lundqvist.Anisimov mimed shootingTampa Bay goalie MathieuGaron after a scoring agoal on Dec. 8, a movethat angered Lightningplayers and led to a scrum.


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DeMar DeRozan took overas soon as the third quarterstarted.

DeRozan scored 19 of his27 points in the secondhalf, leading the TorontoRaptors to a 94-73 win overthe Nets in New Jersey onSunday night.

With injuries playing arole in their 7-14 start, theRaptors received a huge liftfrom DeRozan. He madeeight of 12 shots, and 11 of16 free throws.

“The key was patience,”he said. “I watched a lot of

film and I didn’t want toforce a lot of things. Lately,we get kind of slow comingout in the third quarter, so Itried to be aggressive and

get things going.”Raptors coach Dwane

Casey was impressed byDeRozan’s effort.

“I thought DeMarDeRozan did a heck of a jobattacking the basket,”Casey said. “He’s too athlet-ic and too quick to not getto the rim.”

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NHLALL-STARWEEKENDAt OttawaYesterday’s resultALL-STARGAMETeamChara 12 TeamAlfredsson 9Saturday’s resultALL-STARSKILLS COMPETITIONTeamAlfredsson 21 TeamChara 12Tonight’s gamesNoGames Scheduled.Tomorrow’s gamesAll Times EasternOttawa at Boston, 7 p.m.N.Y. Rangers at New Jersey, 7 p.m.Winnipeg at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.Toronto at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.N.Y. Islanders at Carolina, 7 p.m.Buffalo atMontreal, 7:30 p.m.Washington at Tampa Bay, 7:30 p.m.Nashville atMinnesota, 8 p.m.Detroit at Calgary, 9 p.m.Anaheim at Phoenix, 9 p.m.Colorado at Edmonton, 9:30 p.m.Chicago at Vancouver, 10 p.m.Columbus at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.Wednesday’s gamesN.Y. Rangers at Buffalo 7:30 p.m.Pittsburgh at Toronto, 7:30 p.m.Washington at Florida, 8 p.m.Dallas at Anaheim, 10:30 p.m.Columbus at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.Thursday’s gamesCarolina at Boston, 7 p.m.Montreal at New Jersey, 7 p.m.Nashville at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.Winnipeg at Tampa Bay, 7:30 p.m.Minnesota at Colorado, 9 p.m.Chicago at Edmonton, 9:30 p.m.Detroit at Vancouver, 10 p.m.Dallas at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.

TEAMCHARA 12,TEAMALFREDSSON9First Period1. TeamChara, Gaborik 1 (Datsyuk) 4:342. TeamChara,Malkin 1 (Iginla) 5:383. TeamChara, Gaborik 2 (Hossa, Suter) 10:094.TeamAlfredsson,Spezza1(Girardi,Michalek)10:365.TeamAlfredsson,Sedin1(Hartnell,Letang)12:516.TeamAlfredsson,Tavares1(Pominville,Yandle)13:49Penalties—None.Missed penalty shot—Stamkos, TeamAl-fredsson, 16:33.Second Period7. TeamChara, Gaborik 3 (Hossa, Datsyuk) 1:238. TeamChara, Lupul 1 (Kessel) 3:339.TeamAlfredsson,Pominville1(Neal,Stamkos)7:1710. TeamAlfredsson, Alfredsson 1, 14:3311. TeamAlfredsson, Alfredsson 2 (D.Sedin,H.Sedin) 16:0412. TeamChara, Kane 1 (Eberle) 18:24Penalties—None.Third Period13. TeamChara, Kessel 1 (Campbell) 4:1214.TeamAlfredsson,Michalek1(Tavares,Spezza)5:2115. TeamChara, Iginla 1 (Malkin, Perry) 7:4516.TeamAlfredsson,Giroux1(Hartnell,Couture)9:4017. TeamChara, Hossa 1 (Datsyuk) 12:0418. TeamChara, Chara 1 (Gaborik) 12:2019. TeamChara, Perry 1 (Iginla,Wideman)13:2620. TeamAlfredsson, D.Sedin 1 (H.Sedin, Al-fredsson) 14:2021. TeamChara, Lupul 2 (Seguin, Kessel) 15:33Penalties—None.ShotsTeam Chara 12 13 19 44Team Alfredsson 14 15 21 50Goal (shots-saves)—TeamChara: Howard(14-11), Price (0:00 second, 15-12), Thomas(W,1-0-0)(0:00 third, 21-18); TeamAlfreds-son: Lundqvist (12-9), Quick (0:00 second, 13-10), Elliott (L,0-1-0)(0:00 third, 19-13).Power plays (goals-chances)—TeamChara: 0-0; TeamAlfredsson: 0-0.Referees—Eric Furlatt, Tim Peel. Linesmen—Derek Amell, Brad Kovachik.Attendance—20,510 (19,153).

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d-Detroit 50 33 16 1 0 160 117 67 20-2-1-0 13-14-0-0 9-1-0-0 L1d-Vancouver 49 30 15 0 4 158 122 64 14-6-0-3 16-9-0-1 6-2-0-2 W2d-San Jose 47 27 14 3 3 131 110 60 15-8-2-0 12-6-1-3 4-3-1-2 W1St. Louis 49 29 13 1 6 124 102 65 21-3-1-3 8-10-0-3 7-1-1-1 L2Nashville 50 30 16 3 1 140 127 64 16-7-2-1 14-9-1-0 9-1-0-0 W4Chicago 50 29 15 3 3 162 144 64 19-6-1-3 10-9-2-0 5-3-2-0 L2LosAngeles 50 24 16 4 6 111 111 58 14-11-0-4 10-5-4-2 5-2-1-2 W1Minnesota 49 24 18 2 5 115 126 55 13-6-1-2 11-12-1-3 3-6-0-1 W2Colorado 51 26 23 2 0 131 144 54 14-12-0-0 12-11-2-0 4-5-1-0 L2Dallas 48 25 21 0 2 126 136 52 14-9-0-2 11-12-0-0 4-5-0-1 W1Calgary 50 23 21 3 3 120 137 52 13-7-1-1 10-14-2-2 5-3-1-1 L1Phoenix 50 22 20 3 5 130 134 52 10-9-2-2 12-11-1-3 3-4-1-2 W1Anaheim 48 18 23 3 4 124 144 43 13-12-1-0 5-11-2-4 8-1-1-0 L1Edmonton 49 18 26 1 4 122 142 41 12-8-1-2 6-18-0-2 2-6-1-1 L1Columbus 49 13 30 1 5 115 163 32 8-13-1-2 5-17-0-3 3-6-0-1 L4

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W L Pct GBd-Chicago 17 5 .773 —d-Miami 15 5 .750 1Atlanta 15 6 .714 11/2d-Philadelphia 14 6 .700 2Indiana 13 6 .684 21/2Orlando 12 8 .600 4Boston 9 10 .474 61/2Milwaukee 8 11 .421 71/2Cleveland 8 11 .421 71/2New York 7 13 .350 9New Jersey 7 14 .333 91/2Toronto 7 14 .333 91/2Washington 4 16 .200 12Detroit 4 17 .190 121/2Charlotte 3 18 .143 131/2

WESTERN CONFERENCEW L Pct GB

d-Oklahoma City 16 3 .842 —Denver 14 5 .737 2d-L.A. Clippers 10 6 .625 41/2d-Dallas 13 8 .619 4Utah 11 7 .611 41/2Houston 12 8 .600 41/2Portland 12 8 .600 41/2L.A. Lakers 12 9 .571 5San Antonio 12 9 .571 5Memphis 10 9 .526 6Minnesota 9 11 .450 71/2Phoenix 7 12 .368 9Golden State 6 12 .333 91/2Sacramento 6 14 .300 101/2New Orleans 4 16 .200 121/2d-division leader

FOOTBALLNFLATLANTA FALCONS—Named Pat Hill offen-sive line coach.

HOCKEYAHLHOUSTONAEROS—Returned FMike Radja toElmira (ECHL).

ECHLECHL—Suspended Cincinnati DMike Devinone game and fined him an undisclosedamount for his actions during Saturday’sgame against Chicago.

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AUSTRALIAN OPENAt Melbourne, AustraliaSUNDAYMenSingles — ChampionshipNovak Djokovic (1), Serbia, def. Rafael Nadal(2), Spain, 5-7, 6-4, 6-2, 6-7 (5), 7-5.Mixed Doubles — ChampionshipBethanieMattek-Sands,U.S., andHoria Tecau(8), Romania, def. ElenaVesnina,Russia, andLeanderPaes (5), India, 6-3, 5-7, 10-3 (tiebreak).SATURDAYWomenSingles — ChampionshipVictoria Azarenka (3), Belarus, def.MariaSharapova (4), Russia, 6-3, 6-0.MenDoubles — ChampionshipLeander Paes, India, and Radek Stepanek,Czech Republic, def. Bob andMike Bryan (1),U.S., 7-6 (1), 6-2.Junior BoysSingles — ChampionshipLuke Saville (1), Australia, def. Filip Peliwo,Vancouver, 6-3, 5-7, 6-4.Junior GirlsSingles — ChampionshipTaylor Townsend (14), U.S., def. Yulia Putint-seva (4), Russia, 6-1, 3-6, 6-3.

TENNIS

CONCACAFWOMEN’SOLYMPIC QUALIFYINGAt VancouverLst night’s result

CHAMPIONSHIPU.S. 4 Canada 0

AFRICANCUPOFNATIONSAt Bata, Equatorial GuineaYesterday’s resultsLibya 2 Senegal 1Zambia 1 Equatorial Guinea 0

ENGLANDFA CUPFOURTHROUNDYesterday’s resultsArsenal 3 Aston Villa 2Sunderland 1Middlesbrough 1

FRANCELIGUE 1Yesterday’s resultsEvian 0 Bordeaux 0Rennes 1Marseille 2Valenciennes 1 Ajaccio 2

GERMANYBUNDESLIGAYesterday’s resultsMainz 3 Freiburg 1Stuttgart 0 BorussiaMoenchengladbach 0

ITALYSERIE AYesterday’s resultsACMilan 3 Cagliari 0Cesena 0 Atalanta 1Chievo Verona 0 Lazio 3Fiorentina 2 Siena 1Genoa 3Napoli 2Lecce 1 InterMilan 0Palermo 2Novara 0Roma 1 Bologna 1

SCOTLANDLEAGUE CUPSEMIFINALYesterday’s resultFalkirk 1 Celtic 3

SPAINLA LIGAYesterday’s resultsReal Betis 1 Granada 2Real Sociedad 5 Sporting Gijon 1Levante 1 Getafe 2Racing Santander 2 Valencia 2Malaga 2 Sevilla 1

NLLEAST DIVISION

GP W L Pct. GF GA GBPhiladelphia 3 2 1 .667 35 41 —Buffalo 4 2 2 .500 47 51 1/2Toronto 4 2 2 .500 46 50 1/2Rochester 4 1 3 .250 53 51 11/2

WEST DIVISIONGP W L Pct. GF GA GB

Colorado 4 4 01.000 60 49 —Minnesota 2 1 1 .500 33 33 2Edmonton 2 1 1 .500 28 18 2Calgary 4 2 2 .500 50 46 2Washington 3 0 3 .000 24 39 31/2WEEK FOURSaturday’s resultsToronto 14 Calgary 13 (OT)Edmonton 16Washington 5Minnesota 19 Buffalo 11Colorado 14 Rochester 11Friday’s resultsToronto 13 Rochester 11Philadelphia 13 Buffalo 10WEEK FIVESaturday, Feb. 4All Times EasternToronto at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.Washington at Buffalo, 7:30 p.m.Minnesota at Rochester, 7:30 p.m.Edmonton at Colorado, 9 p.m.

GOLF

ABUDHABIGOLFCHAMPIONSHIPAt Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesPar 72 — Final RoundRobert Rock 69-70-66-70—275RoryMcIlroy 67-72-68-69—276GraemeMcDowell 72-69-68-68—277Thomas Bjorn 73-71-65-68—277TigerWoods 70-69-66-72—277

TRANSACTIONS

Yesterday’s resultsMiami 97 Chicago 93Cleveland 88 Boston 87Toronto 94 New Jersey 73Indiana 106 Orlando 85Dallas 101 SanAntonio 100 (OT)Atlanta 94 NewOrleans 72L.A. Lakers 106Minnesota 101L.A. Clippers at DenverSaturday’s resultsWashington 102 Charlotte 99Philadelphia 95 Detroit 74Houston 97NewYork 84Milwaukee 100 L.A. Lakers 89Phoenix 86Memphis 84Utah 96 Sacramento 93Tonight’s gamesAll Times EasternChicago atWashington, 7 p.m.Orlando at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.NewOrleans atMiami, 7:30 p.m.Minnesota at Houston, 8 p.m.San Antonio atMemphis, 8 p.m.Detroit atMilwaukee, 8 p.m.Dallas at Phoenix, 9 p.m.Portland at Utah, 9 p.m.Oklahoma City at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m.Tomorrow’s gamesBoston at Cleveland, 7 p.m.New Jersey at Indiana, 7 p.m.Atlanta at Toronto, 7 p.m.Detroit at NewYork, 7:30 p.m.Denver atMemphis, 8 p.m.Sacramento at Golden State, 10:30 p.m.Charlotte at L.A. Lakers, 10:30 p.m.

CALENDARFeb. 6—10-day contracts can be signedFeb. 10—All contracts guaranteed for remain-der of the seasonFeb. 24-26—All-Star game, Orlando, Fla.April 26—Regular season ends

FREESTYLEAERIALSWORLDCUPAt CalgaryYesterday’s resultsMEN1. Olivier Rochon, Gatineau, Que., 125.67points; 2. Qi Guangpu, China, 124.34; 3. LiuZhongqing, China, 119.03; 4. Thomas Lambert,Switzerland, 115.49; 5. Jia Zongyang, China,87.61; 6. Naoya Tabara, Japan, 85.84; 7. Olek-sandr Abramenko, Ukraine, 85.79; 8. Jean-Christophe Andre,Montreal, 83.19; 9. DylanFerguson, U.S., 79.18; 10. Renato Ulrich,Switzerland, 71.90.11. Stanislav Kravchuk, Ukraine, 52.21; 12.Jonathon Lillis, United States, 46.57.WOMEN1. XuMengtao, China, 98.52; 2. ChengShuang, China, 92.35; 3. Olga Volkova,Ukraine, 85.05; 4. Kong Fanyu, China, 83.47; 5.SamanthaWells, Australia, 79.89; 6. TanjaSchaerer, Switzerland, 79.53; 7. Emily Cook,U.S., 78.90; 8. Olga Polyuk, Ukraine, 77.49; 9.Danielle Scott, Australia, 75.66; 10. Nadiya Di-denko, Ukraine, 70.56.11. ReneeMcElduff, Australia, 70.07; 12. Lau-ra Peel, Australia, 63.00.

FARMERS INSURANCEOPENAt San DiegoPar 72 — Final Roundx—won on second playoff hole(FedEx Cup points in parentheses)x-Brandt Snedeker (500), $1,080,000 67-64-74-67—272Kyle Stanley (300), $648,000 62-68-68-74—272John Rollins (190), $408,000 70-65-68-71—274Bill Haas (123), $264,000 63-71-70-72—276Cameron Tringale (123), $264,000 67-72-66-71—276Hunter Mahan (95), $208,500 69-65-74-69—277John Huh (95), $208,500 64-71-68-74—277Jimmy Walker (75), $162,000 73-65-70-70—278Martin Flores (75), $162,000 65-67-75-71—278Justin Leonard (75), $162,000 65-70-71-72—278Rod Pampling (75), $162,000 64-75-68-71—278D.A. Points (75), $162,000 70-70-67-71—278

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1 Demon4 That woman7 Banshee’s cry11 Bridle strap13 Church seating14 Without acting15 Greek vowel16 Exist17 Apportion (out)18 Honey bunch?20 Highland hillside22 Cage component24 Machine-gun byplane28 Wheedled32 Olympics award33 Acknowledge34 Used a shovel36 Supermarket stack37 River embankment39 Varied41 California city43 Hawaiian garland44 Prisoner’s room46 Oust50 Leaping insect53 Slight touch55 See 45-Down56 Freeway access57 — out a living58 Reddish horse59 Chills and fever60 Butterfly catcher61 “To be or — to be”

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1 Eye part2 Cat’s call3 Pocket bread4 Hot tub5 KFC flavourer6 Basin accessories7 Football position

8 Commotion9 Under the weather10 Caustic solution12 Cliffhanger, often19 Wire measure21 $ dispenser23 Foundation25 Hebrew month26 Bleacherites27 Otherwise28 Young bovine29 State with cer-tainty30 Jupiter’s alias31 Flop35 Hodges of base-

ball lore38 Away from WSW40 Geese’s formation42 Bygone45 With 55-Across,War of 1812 battlesite47 Press48 “Arrivederci”49 Bivouac shelter50 Monk’s title51 Trail behind52 Ostrich’s cousin54 Wager

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Today’s horoscopeFor today’s crossword answersand for expanded horoscopes, go to metronews.ca

Aries March 21-April 20Has someone taken advantage ofyou? Maybe, but more likely youare overreacting.

Taurus April 21-May 21 This could be a hectic week andmost likely you’ll find yourself rush-ing all over the place without get-ting much done.

Gemini May 22-June 21There are many ways to impresspeople, but working yourself intothe ground isn’t one of them.

Cancer June 22-July 22 Putyourself out there and let theworld see what star quality lookslike. You won’t be short of interest-ing offers.

Leo July 23-Aug.23 Try not to be too eager today.

Virgo Aug. 24- Sept. 22 A loved one seems to be in anemotional mood at the moment.All you can do is be there for themwhen they need a shoulder to cryon.

Libra Sept. 23-Oct. 23 You really don’t have to explainyour actions or your motives toanybody.

Scorpio Oct. 24-Nov. 22 The more someone tries to tell youthat something cannot be done themore determined you will be toprove them wrong.

Sagittarius Nov. 23-Dec.

21 No matter how negative a pic-ture certain people may be paint-ing of your current situation, allyou need to know is that they arewrong.

Capricorn Dec. 22-Jan. 20Anyone who expects you to stay inone place over the next few days isgoing to be disappointed.

Aquarius Jan. 21-Feb. 18In a matter of days you’ll be back inthe money.

Pisces Feb. 19-March 20It seems you are having to react toone crisis after another of late. Isthere an end in sight? Yes, ofcourse there is.

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