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at’s how many Albertans approve of Premier Alison Redford, according to a new Angus Reid poll released this week. While this is lower than Redford’s rating in previous polls, it still puts Redford as the second-most popular premier in the country, behind only Saskatchewan’s Brad Wall, who garnered a 67 per cent approval rating. Alberta’s opposition leader, Danielle Smith of the Wildrose, clocked in at 48 per cent popularity. e country’s least popular premier is Ontario’s Dalton McGuinty, who only received a 23 per cent approval rating, although he is stepping down in 2013.

It’s only ve more sleeps until that jolly old elf, Santa Claus, pays a visit to all the boys and girls in the world, loading presents under the tree for them to open when they wake up on Christmas morning. We here at the St. Albert Leader wish you and yours a very Merry Christmas and all the best this holiday season!

A national honour has le one local service organization almost speechless.

On Friday, the Lo-Se-Ca Foundation, based out of St. Albert’s Campbell Business Park, was the recipient of one of the rst-ever Prime Minister’s Volunteer Awards, with executive director Marie Renaud travelling to Ottawa to receive the award personally from Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

It was an experience that le Renaud at a loss for words.

“I’m kind of speechless, actually,” she said. “e only sad thing is that we all couldn’t go, because this is in no way a one-person deal. I mean, this was so many people working so hard for so many years that everyone’s a little bit giddy.”

Lo-Se-Ca — which stands for “Love, Service, Care” — started in 1992, providing residential and day supports to adults with developmental disabilities in St. Albert and Edmonton. Today, they look aer clients in more than 20 homes, as well as providing programs in their oce on Carnegie Drive.

ere were 17 awards handed out in total Friday, including two national awards for Emerging Leader and Lifelong Achievement and three awards for each of ve regions (Atlantic, Quebec, Ontario, the Prairies, and British Columbia and the North) across Canada: Business Leader, Community Leader and Social Innovator.

Lo-Se-Ca won the Social Innovator award for the Prairie region. In addition to the awards, Renaud also had the chance to participate in a workshop with other winners to compare best practices.

“e Lo-Se-Ca Foundation shows how a not-for-prot organization can help foster a thriving community,” Harper said in his remarks at Friday’s ceremony.

Renaud said that the foundation has worked hard over the years on innovative ideas and programs to help their clients, which was ultimately what the award selection committees were looking for.

“We worked hard to nd other ways to fund our programming, and we wanted the programs to be outstanding — everything from transportation to subsidized aordable housing to bringing in music therapists and yoga teachers,” she said. “It’s about having unique opportunities for our sta and for the men and women we support.”

e foundation also operates the I’m Unique thri store, and has an employee planned giving program in place. In March 2013, a group of sta and clients will travel to Africa to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro to raise funds for the Brothers of Charity,

a group that does similar work in Kigoma, Tanzania. ey hope to raise $1 for every vertical foot of the mountain — a total of $19,340.

e nomination process actually started a while ago and was initiated by Edmonton-St. Albert MP Brent Rathgeber. Lo-Se-Ca’s nomination then went to regional and national selection committees, both of which took months to narrow down the nalists.

When they actually found out they won, though, the reaction at the foundation oces was understandably emotional.

“We cried. We cried a lot,” Renaud said. “It’s a group that, we work really hard, we love what we do, we love the men and women we work with. And I guess we always focused on the daily grind and what we need to get done. Sometimes it’s a little frustrating and dicult, so to get this was really amazing for us. It just inspired us to work harder.”

“Until we got there, we didn’t realize the enormity of the recognition and the enormity of what we had done,” she added.

e award also comes with a $5,000 cash prize, but Renaud didn’t have any plans for that money yet, although the foundation has one particular project it is trying to get o the ground.

“We’re in the process of trying to launch an employer-sponsored daycare centre, to have subsidized spots for our sta, which would be another retention tool,” she said. “Some of the folks with disabilities who want to work in daycare and learn those skills, we want to be able

to host them too.” But, more than the money, she

hopes the award will help open doors in the community and build awareness of the foundation and their projects.

“We’re so supported by this city, from the mayor to the councillors to our neighbours — even the neighbours of some of our group homes — the support that we feel is incredible,” Renaud said, “and it’s my hope we can get this information out there for people to know this little agency — which has become a fair amount bigger — that is supported by this community is doing things on a national level that are really innovative, and it’s because of the support we have received.”

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e tragic events in Newtown, Conn., have shaken the education community to its core, and the ripples are even being felt in St. Albert.

On Friday morning, a gunman opened re in Sandy Hook Elementary School in the Connecticut town, killing 20 students and six teachers before turning the gun on himself.

Ocials with both local school boards say that the tragedy’s eects have reached all the way to local teachers and administration.

“Because it aects the education sector, it’s never good news, and it’s sobering news,” said David Keohane, superintendent of Greater St. Albert Catholic Schools. “It’s news that makes us reect on doing the best we can to ensure safe environments within our schools.”

“Our heartfelt condolences go out to all those aected by the event; it is really an unimaginable tragedy. ere are no words to describe that,” added St. Albert Public Schools associate superintendent Michael Brenneis.

However, in the wake of the shooting, both school boards are also reassuring parents and teachers that they have their own procedures in place in the event of a similar incident here, and took the opportunity this week to go over those procedures once again.

Brenneis said that St. Albert Public Schools works with a private company that specializes in security in the education sector, and re drills and lockdown drills are common in each school.

“What they are able to bring to the table for us are some common practices and some research practices that try to deal with events like this,” he said, also acknowledging the support from local

reghters and RCMP. “Granted, when you’re faced with unimaginable tragedies like this, it’s very dicult to plan for every eventuality. But what you try to take comfort in is that you do have plans in place, that are well-researched, and that are brought to bear in terms of a common approach by all schools in the district.”

Meanwhile, Greater St. Albert Catholic Schools also sent a letter to parents on Monday to reassure them. Keohane said there’s a ne balance between creating community schools that are welcoming and accessible to all and ensuring student safety.

“We are prioritizing, in the new year, further discussions on what we are doing with respect to security in our schools, and we can learn from each other’s best practices as we practically can,” Keohane said. “It’s been about reinforcing what we’re doing. Our schools do an excellent job of sustaining safe and caring environments; our data would indicate that.”

As students returned to school in St. Albert on Monday for the last week of classes before their Christmas breaks, both school boards were ready to help teachers deal with any questions children may have had about the incident.

“We maintain that the relationship between students and sta can be as strong as possible, and the relationship is such that student feel they can speak to someone,” Keohane said, pointing to the support system at St. Albert Catholic High School as a prime example.

“ere is an interconnection between all our counsellors that is co-ordinated centrally but recognizes the uniqueness of each school,” Brenneis said. “And in events like this, there is a protocol where we put additional resources into any one school should it be required for counselling or grief support, as well as reaching out to external agencies.”

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Forget red and green — Nolan Crouse’s holidays will be all about the red and white of Team Canada.

St. Albert’s mayor is heading to Ufa, Russia, this Christmas to watch Canada’s national junior hockey team take part in the IIHF World Junior Championships, which start on Boxing Day.

With the National Hockey League lockout dragging on, allowing some of Canada’s top young hockey talents — like Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Jonathan Huberdeau and Mark Scheifele — to take part, it looks like Crouse picked the right year to make the trek.

“I ended up getting a little luck from that point of view,” said Crouse, who stressed that he is not making the trip in any sort of ocial capacity, nor is he doing it on the local taxpayer’s dime. “All the countries will have their best juniors available, so from a fan point of view, you’ve got all the thoroughbreds in one location.”

e trip was organized through

an agency that has booked trips to Russia and to the world juniors in the past.

“I had tried nding somebody local — I checked with Farlie Travel and Marlin and others, but nobody really had experience,” he said. “ere was a group that was putting it together out of another part of Canada, so they were gathering individuals from across Canada who would be interested.”

Meanwhile, Crouse noted, his wife Gwen wanted to go to New Zealand over the holidays, so she is heading there with her sister while he makes the trek to Russia alone.

Ufa is a city of a little over one million people, located roughly 1,300 kilometres east of Moscow. Its economy is dependent on oil rening and other industrial enterprises. Its climate is fairly similar to St. Albert’s, and is home to Salavat Yulaev Ufa, a club in the Kontinental Hockey League that won the league title in 2010-2011 and whose current roster boasts familiar names from the NHL like Nikita Filatov and Oleg Saprykin.

Between his career and his background coaching hockey,

Crouse has travelled extensively, but never to Russia before.

“You go to a lot of countries, and it’s a social culture — the streets and the food. But this is a sports culture immersion, so I’ve got a good frame of reference,” he said. “It’ll be an interesting contrast. And they did set it up for Canada to play Russia on New Year’s Eve, and New Year’s Eve in Russia is the holiday of the year, their major celebration. So I think it’ll be a rockin’ night.”

And with a strong Canadian squad, he likes his chances of seeing a rematch in the gold medal game.

“Since the Russians are hosting it, they’re going to be as loaded as they’d ever be,” he said. “I’m predicting a Canada-Russia gold medal game — that’s what I’m hoping for also, since I’ve got tickets.”

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Intersections in St. Albert with red light cameras installed are still seeing a high number of collisions, according to a report given to city council last month.

City of St. Albert sta slotted to councillors late last month a report on the most dangerous intersections in the city both in 2011 and over the past ve years, ranking them by the number of injury related collisions that occurred at each.

e report found that, from 2006 to 2011, the three intersections that saw the most injury related collisions are the three in the city that have trac cameras installed.

But Mayor Nolan Crouse said that what’s missing from the report, however, is a comparison of collision gures before and aer the installation of the trac cameras, which Crouse said would provide more of an apples-to-apples comparison.

“If you didn’t have it, what would be the dierence? I don’t know,” he said. “You have that accident rate with the camera, but what you would have without the camera, I don’t know.”

For the period from 2006 to 2011, St. Albert Trail and Boudreau Road/Giroux Road topped the list with 61 collisions. St. Albert Trail and Gervais Road/Hebert Road was second with 58, while St. Albert Trail and Bellerose Drive and McKenney Avenue was third with 47.

All three of those intersections have trac cameras installed, which catch both drivers who run red lights and who speed through green lights, although the camera at St. Albert Trail and Boudreau Road/Giroux Road was just installed earlier this year.

In 2011, the intersection at St. Albert Trail and Gervais Road/Hebert Road was the most dangerous, with 11 injury related collisions occurring there. Second was St. Albert Trail and Erin Ridge Road/Villeneuve Road with seven collisions, and

there was a tie for third between Boudreau Road and Bellerose Drive and St. Albert Trail and Boudreau Road/Giroux Road with six each.

Brian Hartman, manager of engineering for the City, said that there are no more cameras slated to be installed anytime soon.

“We looked at the Giroux Road intersection, and it’s been problematic in terms of a few high-speed runs, people running red lights,” Hartman said. “At this time, there are no other intersections scheduled.”

In the meantime, though, Hartman said the City has made several improvements to the highest priority intersections, including the installation of a prototype traction material placed on the wheel paths on the driving surface.

“It’s a microlm that basically has some aggregate in it, which allows traction to be increased between the road surface and the rubber of the tires,” Hartman said. “... We’re trying to use it and watch what it does for public visibility, in terms of people seeing it and asking questions, and also if it actually helps reduce collisions and severity of collisions.”

As well, the installation of pedestrian countdown timers along the entire St. Albert Trail corridor has been lauded not only by those on foot, but those on four wheels.

“While those are meant for pedestrians, the road users have given us feedback that it greatly helps in estimating their time and being able to navigate safer during the green phase,” Hartman said.

“You know absolutely where you stand on red light-green light,” Crouse said. “at, to me, is has been one of the biggest changes to my personal behaviour. I know exactly where I stand 75 yards away.”

Hartman added that the City also uses signal timing adjustments and cameras atop signal lights that both detect and count trac to keep intersections safe.

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I’m afraid to say that, the day aer Christmas aer every present is opened, all the wrapping paper is thrown away in a garbage bag. Aer Christmas dinner, aer the dishes are done, aer the Christmas tree is put away and the CDs with all the Christmas carols are on the shelf, it won’t make any dierence in our lives.

I like to suggest a dierent perspective. Replace giving with receiving. Sometimes receiving is more of a blessing than giving.

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changing the tradition? e main reason is that Christmas is not a story about giving, but actually the real Biblical Christmas story is really about receiving.

Christmas can be a memory, a monster or a meaningful time. We get into the nostalgia of chestnuts roasting on an open re, egg nog, and all the images of old. We try and recreate that perfect Christmas for our families. But what actually tends to happen is that we get into a sort of frenzy, and that

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ewtown, Conn., is a sleepy little suburb near a major metropolitan area. Most of the people who live

there commute to that metropolitan area to work. It was, until recently, considered by its residents to be one of the safest places they could imagine.

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respects, St. Albert isn’t all that different from Newtown — which is why the tragic killing of 20 students and six teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary School on Friday should serve as not only a time to grieve the loss of children taken far too soon, but also as a wake-up call.

That’s certainly not to suggest that there is some gun-toting psychopath living among us here in St. Albert, polishing up an automatic assault rif le while studying blueprints of local schools. Far from it, in fact; the same sort of zealotry for firearms that is present in the United States simply — and thankfully — does not seem to exist north of the 49th parallel.

But to think that it couldn’t happen here is naïve and irresponsible.

That’s why it’s reassuring to hear both Greater St. Albert Catholic Schools and St. Albert Public Schools say this week that they have plans in place for incidents of this nature, and that they practice them on a regular basis. It’s an unfortunate reality of our times, but knowing that schools have the safety of students as their number one priority is comforting.

It’s sad to think that schools — especially elementary schools — are no longer places of sanctuary and calm as they once were. Hopefully, those drills will remain just drills and never have to be put into actual practice.

This Christmas, as gifts are unwrapped and stockings unstuffed, remember to hug your kids a little tighter and cherish the moments you spend with them. Because, for 20 families in Newtown, Conn., there are gifts under the tree that will go unopened. And that’s a feeling that should be familiar to no one.

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Eight days before Christmas, St. Albert city council put a bow on the 2013 municipal budget — but not without a little friction rst.

Coun. Cam MacKay deviated from his council colleagues Monday aernoon, casting votes against the utility capital, utility operating and municipal operating portions of the budget when it came to rubber stamping the plan that they had worked on for the past six weeks.

“When I go back and look at the numbers since I’ve been on council, I just cannot reconcile them,” MacKay said. “A 3.27 per cent increase certainly is not out of the realm of what has occurred before, but when I look at the lack of growth our community has had, combined with the 2.25 per cent assessment growth, the sum total of that compound is about 5.6 per cent. And so you’re le thinking to yourself, ‘I have to go home and sleep at night.’ And I just cannot see how a municipality requires an extra 5.6 per cent every year.”

Local resident Norm Harley also registered his opposition to the budget, calling the 3.27 per cent property tax increase contained therein “insulting and embarrassing.”

“It’s insulting to seniors on xed incomes that will have to reduce their spending in other areas such as the monthly food bill or having to turn the thermostat down a few degrees,” Harley said. “It’s insulting to hardworking taxpayers who will not be getting the same the same seven or eight per cent salary increase. And it’s embarrassing to think that, out of a budget of $122 million, the only reductions administration can come up with are in overtime and air travel.”

But the rest of council voted in favour of the budget — although Coun. Roger Lemieux was absent — saying the time to object was weeks ago during deliberations.

“We had our shot. We each had chances to bring forward motions,” said Mayor Nolan Crouse, who added that he felt the economic development and social conscience aspects of the budget were very strong. “Anyone who chooses to not vote on any part of this, that’s an individual right, but we also had an individual right to bring recommendations and debate them.”

rough the budget deliberations, council cut back the base budget increase to 1.71 per cent, while the additional business cases added another 1.56 percentage points.

“In an environment where the rate of ination for municipal services is somewhere in the three per cent range, I’m glad we were able to bring in a base budget in the 1.7 per cent range,” city manager Patrick Draper said.

One of the last remaining hurdles for the City of St. Albert in adding more land for light industrial development was cleared last week.

e Capital Region Board approved amendments to the City’s Municipal Development Plan at their meeting on ursday, Dec. 13, clearing the way for city council to continue with a public hearing and possibly pass the amendments in late January.

Coun. Cathy Heron, the City’s representative on the CRB, said she thought the issue would never have to go to the board for approval, but she is glad they eventually got the green light.

“It was actually a little bit of a panic situation on council’s behalf, because we’ve spent pretty much my whole term talking about the employment lands — are the numbers right, where are they going to go,” Heron said. “If we couldn’t have had this approved by the CRB, all our planning would be out the window and we’d have to start fresh.”

e proposed changes would amend maps in both the MDP and the Intermunicipal Development Plan between St. Albert and Sturgeon County — which the county pulled out of in 2010 but the City still maintains and uses — as well as removing

text clauses that refer to “Future Study Areas” and adding clauses that talk about the need for industrial and business park lands.

e amendments were rst referred to the CRB on Sept. 24. Council had hoped to have them approved by the board’s subcommittee of regional chief administrative ocers and resume the public hearing on Nov. 26, but they were not unanimously approved and were thus referred to the whole board.

Heron said that, when the debate on the amendments came up, the main objections came from Sturgeon County.

“It really goes back to the fact that they’re not part of the IDP and we’re still honouring it,” she said. “ey see any Municipal Development Plan amendment on our part that includes the IDP as opposition to what they’re doing.”

With the CRB hurdle out of the way, Heron is looking forward to resuming the public hearing on the matter and nally getting it dealt with.

“It’s been 40 days that this public hearing has been open,” she said on Friday, the day aer the CRB meeting. “One mayor said, ‘What’s the rush?’ But I wanted to say, ‘Why are you slowing us down?’ ... We’ll have designated industrial land by the end of January, and you can quote me on that.”

Council will resume the public hearing on the amendments to both the MDP and the IDP on Jan. 21.


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St. Albert is working its way back to being one of Canada’s safest cities, but the statistics for one particular crime are worrisome to the city’s mayor.

Maclean’s magazine recently released its annual ranking of Canada’s Most Dangerous Cities, and St. Albert moved signicantly toward the bottom of the most dangerous list this year, ranking 73rd out of Canada’s 100 largest municipalities. at’s a drop of 14 spots from 2011, when St. Albert ranked as the 59th most dangerous city in the country.

Mayor Nolan Crouse said he was glad to see St. Albert moving in the right direction.

“Every report that you can nd and read that moves you in the right direction is encouraging,” he said.

St. Albert RCMP detachment commander Insp. Kevin Murray agreed, but also said there is more work to do.

“Anytime you can move closer to being the safest in the Maclean’s calculation, to being the safest community in the country, that’s a good thing,” Murray said.

“But we’re certainly wanting to work on even those less serious crimes, because those are signicant to our community,” he added. “We’re fortunate we don’t have a large number of the more serious crimes here, but that doesn’t mean we’re going to let o on the pedal.”

e Maclean’s rankings are based on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index and municipal crime data for six major criminal oences, including murder, sexual assault, aggravated assault, breaking and entering, robbery and auto the. e cities are ranked based on how much their own rate deviate from the national average.

St. Albert ranked as the ninth-safest community in Canada in the inaugural Maclean’s ranking in 2008, and improved to sixth-safest in 2009.

But, in 2010, St. Albert tumbled down the list of safe cities, landing as the 69th most dangerous (32nd safest), and continued to fall another 10 spots in 2011 to 59th most dangerous (42nd safest).

Ocials chalked those changes to a change in the methodology of the Maclean’s rankings.

Prince George was named the most dangerous city in Canada in the Maclean’s ranking for the second year in a row. Caledon, Ont., which had been safest

city since 2008, lost their title this year to nearby Wellington County, Ont.

However, even though it didn’t factor into the overall ranking, of particular local concern was the fact that St. Albert ranked ninth in the country in the number of impaired driving charges, with 471.9 incidents per 100,000 people.

“It’s hard to know if you’re stopping lots or if you have an impaired driving problem that is dierent than anybody else,” Crouse said. “at being said, any statistic in that category is unacceptable.”

But Murray felt that the high number of oences is an indication of increased enforcement and actually catching impaired drivers before they get into collisions.

“Of the ones they highlighted, if you’re going to be in the top 15 for anything, impaired would be the one, because you can say positively that we do a signicant

amount of self-generated work toward that crime,” he said, noting that there are also a good number of people who call the local detachment to report impaired drivers.

“In other jurisdictions, maybe they just don’t have the ability to get to those complaints right away,” Murray added. “And I think our members are out there looking and actively seeking out that type of crime.”

ree Alberta communities — Grande Prairie, Red Deer and Medicine Hat — are at the top of the impaired driving rankings, while the Regional Municipality of Wood Bualo, which includes Fort McMurray, is also in the top 10.

Getting the message about impaired driving across to drivers — especially during the holiday season — is a tough task, Murray said.

“It’s out there all the time and we’re still seeing it, so that’s certainly frustrating for us, that people still aren’t getting the message completely,” he said.

As far as the other crime categories, both Murray and Crouse are satised with where St. Albert wound up, but Crouse said there are always opportunities to learn from other municipalities’ experience.

“One thing that is not easily understood, from a statistics point of view, is what is unique about Ontario and Quebec cities to rank so high year aer year,” said the mayor, who has mused openly about making a fact-nding trip to Caledon at times. “But certainly we’re heading in the right direction overall.”

St. Albert city council is setting the bar high when it comes to RCMP ocers — too high, in fact, but that’s on purpose.

On Monday aernoon, council voted unanimously to authorize the mayor to ask the federal government for ve more ocers to bring the local detachment’s total to 61. It’s all in an attempt to bring the city’s complement of RCMP to the long-desired number of 54.

General manager of community and protective services Chris Jardine explained to council that, aer many frustrating years of not getting as many ocers as they ask for, the City has decided to “over-ask” to actually get what they need.

“We’ve struggled with getting the full complement supplied that we’ve asked for in the past. … We’re hoping to grow our complement from 48 this year to

54 and provide the inspector with the right number of boots on the streets,” Jardine said.

Council was fully on board with the plan, especially aer recent meeting with RCMP K Division ocials and hearing about the process of recruitment and assigning members to dierent communities.

“It seems counterintuitive that you would ask for more than you really need in order to get what you really do need, but nonetheless that’s sort of the mechanism we’re going to use to receive the correct number of ocers for St. Albert,” Coun. Wes Brodhead said.

Coun. Malcolm Parker asked what would happen to the extra budgeted funds if the magic number of 54 ocers is not reached. Jardine said that, in the past, those extra funds have gone toward the overall bottom line, but administration is looking at the possibility of creating a police stabilization for the “odd time when we may have one too many.”

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Despite widespread rumours, Quentin Tarantino never wrote the title role of his anti-slavery western, Django Unchained, for Will Smith. Nor did he formally oer it to the Hollywood superstar, despite meeting to discuss the project.

“It’s funny,” Tarantino said recently during a Toronto visit. “It’s been a little bit blown out of proportion that I was oering Will Smith the part of Django on a silver platter — or that I was writing it for him. at really wasn’t the case. Django was Django when I was writing him the entire time. I didn’t really have an idea who would play him.”

Oscar-winner Jamie Foxx ended up with the role, a character with the potential to become a cinematic icon. Now Tarantino is overjoyed, aer reportedly considering others such as Chris Tucker, Idris Elba, Terrence Howard, Michael Kenneth Williams and Tyrese Gibson, once he had parted ways with Smith. “Yeah, now, I can’t imagine anybody but Jamie being Django!” Tarantino said.

Tarantino blew into Canada

last week to present a public preview of his blockbuster, which opens Christmas Day. Foxx co-stars with Austrian Christoph Waltz (from Tarantino’s WWII thriller Inglourious Basterds), as well as Leonardo DiCaprio, Samuel L. Jackson, Kerry Washington and a rogues gallery in cameos. ey include Don Johnson, Jonah Hill and Italian legend Franco Nero, star of a 1966 spaghetti western called Django, which inuenced Tarantino with its extreme operatic violence.

Django Unchained tells the complex story of a German-American bounty hunter (Waltz) who frees and then partners with up an African-American slave (Foxx). Together, aer chasing outlaws in the Old West, they go on an epic mission to the Old South. ere, they face down the misery and degradation of slavery in the Antebellum era, just two years prior to the Civil War.

Tarantino said that he approached the historical background of Django Unchained dierently from that of Inglourious Basterds. “You know, in the case of Inglourious Basterds, you can’t really bristle much if (someone) says it’s an alternative history, because I kill Hitler at the end.

“But I don’t really think this (Django Unchained) is alternative history at all. Everything that happens in the movie has a really strong historical basis. I’m not following a true story. But the world that the movie takes place in, and the business of slavery and the Mississippi of that time, is very true to life!”

Foxx understood what the lm could evoke, Tarantino said. “Jamie got all that — and he was my cowboy. ere’s a cowboy quality to him. He’s from Texas.”

Smith did not t the role in the same way, Tarantino said. “It’s got to t like a glove, especially if you’re going to be the lead character, if I’m going to trust you with my lead character. And this didn’t t like a glove.”

When he found Foxx, however, the t was perfect. “You know, you don’t have to be convinced, you don’t have to be talked into it. You’re just waiting to fall in love ... and Jamie walked in!”

Director Quentin Tarantino sought the advice of acting icon Sidney Poitier before starting to shoot Django Unchained because he was “uncomfortable” about re-enacting the slave scenes with black actors whose ancestors suered the same fate.

e lmmaker admits he had never before experienced the wave of doubt he felt as he imagined having to bring his story to life, instructing a hundred extras to march, in chains, on a former plantation eld in Louisiana, where much of the western was lmed.

He explains, “ere was only one thing I felt uncomfortable about in the beginning stages of nishing the script. It’s one thing to write about a slave auction town where 100 slaves walked through deep s--- mud in chains wearing metal collars. is whole town was almost like a Black Auschwitz.

It’s one thing to write but to get 100 black folks, put ’em in chains and march them through the mud and putting an army of black folks dressed as slaves in the hot sun picking cotton... I started to question if I could do it and I don’t think I’ve ever thought that when it came to my work before.

“I thought of maybe shooting those sequences in the West Indies where they have their own issues of slavery, but since this is an American story, there would be a once-removed quality. My problem was having Americans do those scenes. I was trying to get around it to escape the pain.”

Tarantino consulted his pal Poitier, the rst black actor to win an Academy Award, and the veteran star immediately told him he had to face up to his fears for the sake of his own movie — and the local economy: “I went out to dinner with Sidney Poitier, who

is like a father gure, and was explaining my scheme of escaping. He basically told me I had to man up, ‘For whatever reason, you were born to tell this story and you need to not be afraid of your own movie. You just need to do it. Everybody knows what time it is. Just treat the actors with love and respect, not atmosphere, and it’ll all be good. By the way, those people in the South need money, they need jobs. You gotta do it.’

“ere were a lot of extras who were like, ‘I was a slave in (Steven Spielberg’s) Abraham Lincoln (movie) and I’m a slave in this. I’m good with that!’”

Meanwhile, actress Kerry Washington insists she was drawn to play Jamie Foxx’s wife Broomhilda Von Sha because the western was dierent from other slave movies she had ever seen.

She says, “In the past, people might have

felt nervous playing a slave because so many narratives on television about slavery are about helplessness. is is about a black man who nds his freedom and rescues his wife. I was very moved by the love story, particularly in a time when slaves weren’t allowed to fall in love and get married. I told Quentin I want to do this movie for my father because he grew up in a world where there were no black superheroes and that’s what this movie is.”

And Leonardo DiCaprio, who portrays ruthless plantation owner Calvin Candie, hopes the new lm will prompt fresh discussions and examinations about America’s past as a slave nation: “It’s a sore subject matter that should be looked at more oen and not shied away from. As daring as it is, I commend Quentin for making the movie entertaining for an audience.”

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Rogen and Streisand are sitting in a car clearly improvising their scene — and it proves to be the rst of several unscripted sequences.

Improvisation? at’s par for the course where Rogen’s concerned, but Streisand? A self-admitted perfectionist whose micro-managing pursuit of excellence is the stu of legend? Improvising?

Could it be that Rogen, who, at age 30 is a full 40 years younger than his iconic co-star, has managed to loosen Streisand up?

Picking up where they le o, sitting around a Four Seasons Hotel coee table, along with the lm’s director, Anne Fletcher (e Proposal) and screenwriter Dan Fogelman, who based the script on a road trip taken with his own, late mother, the playful, relaxed rapport would appear to be no act.

How did they initially feel about working with each other?

“Seth, it turned out, sussed me out,” claims Streisand.

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movies, right?”“I was actually working with

John Schwartzman, who was the cinematographer on Meet the Fockers around the time this came up,” recalls Rogen. “I think I asked him what he thought of Barbra and he said she was great.”

“And Ben Stiller, you called,” adds Streisand.

“I think I might’ve run into Ben Stiller and asked him,” laughs Rogen. “Yeah, she checked out. is Barbra Streisand lady checked out, so I thought I’d give her a shot.”

“I didn’t know who to call,” says Streisand. “I don’t know any of those people from his movies. So what was I going to do? But I thought he was adorable and this was interesting, if unlikely, which makes it interesting, and yet, we’re both Jewish, so ...”

“So we met and got along very well, very fast,” adds Rogen.

Director Fletcher, who had no one other than Streisand and Rogen on her wish list, underscores what is readily apparent.

“eir chemistry is insane, which means they’re incredibly connected,” explains Fletcher.

“e 10 biggest laughs in the lm are all stu Seth and Barbra came up with,” admits Fogelman, who also penned Crazy, Stupid Love and the animated lms Cars and Tangled.

“e way we talk in real life is not entirely dierent than our rapport in the movie when we’re getting along,” Rogen points out. “It’s a lot of me trying to explain things to her about modern times and her trying to feed me s--- I don’t want to eat.”

“Yesterday he asked me if I had a Twitter account,” shares Streisand. “I said I didn’t know. So he looked it up.”

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Fictional action hero Jack Reacher is a six-foot, ve-inch Adonis built like a Greek god.

Real-life Tom Cruise is in great shape for a 50-year-old Hollywood actor. But he is no Greek god and stands a foot shorter than the rogue character author Lee Child conjured in 17 Jack Reacher novels.

So what does lmmaker Christopher McQuarrie do? He casts munchkin Tom as giant Jack in a eponymous movie, Jack Reacher, which opens Friday.

Many of Child’s readers are outraged, especially because Cruise already had an “in” as the movie’s co-producer.

McQuarrie shrugs o the controversy at a New York press conference, with Child sitting nearby and co-star Rosamund Pike at their side. Cruise is not in the room and unavailable to promote the movie, an action thriller set in Pittsburgh.

“When we started to compile the list of six-foot-ve, 250-pound, blond-haired, blue-eyed, American actors,” McQuarrie explains of his casting process, “(we) discovered that, not only were there none, there never had been one, and there were none in the pipeline. We knew very early on that fans were going to have a reaction no matter who we cast.

“So we thought: ‘Well, if they’re going to be angry, let’s make sure they’re angry before they see the movie and not aer they see the movie!’ So we knew we were going to makes compromises on the physical size of the

character. at meant that we could not compromise on any other aspect of the character.”

e movie Jack Reacher is based on One Shot, the ninth Reacher novel. Reacher is brought in to investigate the actions of an accused mass murderer whom he already knew as a psychotic killer from serving with him in the U.S. armed forces. Reacher uncovers evidence the

police overlooked — or cooked. He also roughs up local thugs.

Including One Shot, Child’s books have sold more than 60 million worldwide. ey have been translated into 40 languages and distributed in 95 countries. So it was not surprising when McQuarrie’s choice of Cruise hit the fan — and the fans hit back. Child says he appreciates the feedback.

“First of all, I’m extremely grateful that any of my readers are so passionate about it. I mean, the rst gold-standard metric that I would have given my right arm for at the beginning of my

career was that people were going to care.”But, he added, it is inevitable that dierent choices

are made by novelists and lmmakers. In the case of Reacher, size is signicant on the written page. “It’s necessary for the book. It’s not absolutely necessary for the lm. Let me put it this way: I’m condent that 10 per cent of my fans are going to hate the movie anyway because this is their possession and it’s being taken away from them. I absolutely understand that!

“But 90 per cent of them, if they go with open minds, are going to come out like I did and think: ‘I want to see it again. Right now, immediately! Because it was great.’”


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It’s that time of year when those bitten by the holiday bug are dreaming of a white Christmas. But depending on where you live, your backyard may look more like Death Valley than the North Pole. Wannabe winter wonderlanders, take heart: You can tell Mother Nature to take a hike and make your own darn snowakes.

A snowake is more than just one tiny part of the pile of snow that drivers love to leave sitting on their roof rack as they rocket down the highway. It’s a network of ice crystals. A crystal is made out of an organized group of atoms or molecules. In a crystal structure, the molecules bond together in a regular pattern like a fancy tile oor. Depending on the type of crystal, the shape could be a cube, like salt; hexagonal, like a perfect snowake; or a long, jagged beam, like Superman’s Fortress of Solitude.

To make a snowake, you just need to nd a way to grow some crystals. And while you’re at it, why not give that unco-operative Jack Frost another kick to the shins and improve on nature with a snowake that won’t melt.

STEP 1: You’ll need a tall, wide-mouthed glass or jar, a pipe cleaner, a pencil, string, boiling water and some Borax. Start by snipping the pipe cleaner into three pieces and bend

them into a six-sided snowake shape.STEP 2: Tie one end of the string

to one end of the pipe cleaner and the other end of the string to the middle of the pencil.

STEP 3: Pour boiling water into the jar and begin adding Borax. Use three tablespoons for each cup of water and mix to dissolve.

STEP 4: Place the snowake in the jar so it’s completely covered by the liquid. Place the pencil across the mouth of the jar so the snowake hangs freely inside. Now all you have to do is wait overnight. In the morning, remove your snowake and you’ll see large crystals have formed around the pipe cleaner.

Borax or, as the more fancied might call it, sodium borate, is a mineral that naturally grows into crystals. Yes, the same stu your mother uses to scour the bathtub is great for making decorations. Borax is also easy to nd, usually sold alongside laundry detergent. Bend the pipe cleaners into whatever shape you want or use coloured ones for extra air.

Since Borax is pretty non-toxic as cleaners go, you can display your creations throughout your house. But obviously keep those newly formed Boraxakes out of

reach of anyone who might mistake them for rock candy. Ingesting the mineral is reported to cause things like stomachache, nausea and diarrhea — probably not the result you want from your holiday décor.

’Tis the season to eat and entertain — but doing it on a budget and stress-free may give you indigestion.

To the rescue! — Party planners extraordinaire.

“e holidays are the best reason to bring friends and family together with a fun evening of cocktails, great music and delicious food,” says famed celebrity party planner to the stars Colin Cowie (ColinCowie.com).

Whether it’s a potluck party, wine and appetizers only, a tree cutting/trimming get-together, an ugly sweater or a dessert party, “just open up your house,” says Cowie. “e key is to set everything up the night before. at way, the day of the party, you just have to put food and drinks out, and still have time to shower and change.”

Refrain from making the party too structured, advises party guru Tara O’Grady, owner of the award-winning Bliss Events. “e party and guests will take the party in the direction they want to.” And if you can’t handle it, ask for help when hosting, stresses O’Grady, adding most guests are willing to help out by bringing food or drinks. “And having people of dierent backgrounds/cultures will surely spice up the food buet with dierent taste sensations.”

Cowie suggests picking three things and doing them well, rather than ve things on the skinny. Spend your money on elements that your guests will get the most out of — quality wine instead of party favours — and oer a signature cocktail.

Make a buet station of sliced salami, dried meats, ve assorted cheeses (from creamy and rich to hard) some dried fruit, nuts and assorted breads and crackers, advises Cowie. “ese are all store bought and, when arranged creatively, will make a great statement. Pair with a selection of red wines from around the world — you can nd good quality drinkable

wines for $15 a bottle.”Dessert bars are big: Pick a simple holiday

colour palette of two to three colours. Buy some desserts and make the rest — present it on dierent plates and vessels. Add a vertical element to the table to give it a focal point.

“A must have on a dessert bar is a goody bag. Send guests home with a bag of your famous homemade cookies and include the recipe — this is personal and totally aordable,” adds Cowie.

Have fun, adds O’Grady. “Nothing kills the energy of a party like a stressed-out host! Leave the dishes ’til the end, and ... truly enjoy your guests.”


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If you just graduated, you might want to consider never leaving home. Instead, consider starting a home business.

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Going from “having someone assign you tasks with due dates, checking up on you, providing guidance and having regular communication to having nothing can be a traumatic experience,” Gordon says.

But if you can drum up your own projects, then go for it. e added bonus of living at home can make it an easy and economical arrangement, adds Gordon.

According to Wes Lenci, vice-president of Regus Canada, the world’s largest provider of exible workplaces, “if you have a solid idea, the drive and commitment, anything is possible at any age or at any stage in your career. Some of the today’s best known brands like Apple and Ford were launched at home.”

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Gordon predicts a boom in home-based businesses: “With the increase in consulting and service-based industries, there’s no need for an oce — and working from home helps to reduce overhead costs.

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