INCOMPATIBLE MADE RESOLUTIONS? PLANNING AND BABY STEPS WILL GIVE THEM WAS KATY MOMENTUM {page 12} TOO FAMOUS FOR RUSSELL? {page 11} CALGARY Tuesday, January 3, 2012 www.metronews.ca News worth sharing. Burris bound for Steeltown During nine years in Calgary, Henry Burris threw for more than 32,000 yards and 230 touchdowns He also steered the team to a Grey Cup in 2008 Franchise’s pivot of the future Drew Tate was re-signed last week THE CANADIAN PRESS It appears Henry Burris has smiled for the last time in a Cal- Leaving his mark gary Stampeders uniform. According to two league Quarterback Henry Burris will sources who requested anonymi- leave the Stampeders as a leader ty, the Stamps have reached a in passing yardage, completions deal with the Hamilton Tiger- and touchdowns. Cats that will swap the longtime quarterback for fellow pivot have shed some light on his feel- Kevin Glenn and offensive ings of dressing for the Stamps lineman Mark DeWit. via Twitter. The deal comes after the sea- “NEW & EXCITING THINGS IN son ended at a low point for the MY FUTURE!! CAN’T WAIT (Bart popular Burris. Scott voice),” he tweeted Sunday. Less than a year after earning Stamps fans speaking to Metro the league’s most outstanding said they understood the need to player honour, Burris was deal Burris but were sad to see sidelined with three games left him go. in favour of younger quarterback “It’s kind of a bittersweet Drew Tate, due to what thing, but I’m glad to see that coaching staff somebody is picking up Henry deemed to and he’s going to do what he be inconsis- does,” said devoted team fol- tent play. lower Connie Fekete. Local football coach Gar- ret Everson said he believes Glenn will do well in a mentor role to Tate but deemed his CFL play to date “up and Neither the Stamped- down.” Longtime Calgary Stampeders quarterback Henry Burris will don the familiar ers nor Tiger-Cats would JEREMY NOLAIS/ yellow and black of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, while quarterback Kevin Glenn and confirm the deal WITH FILES FROM THE CANADIAN University of Calgary product Mark DeWit are coming to the Stamps. 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That’s six more than in 2010 and four more than the 2011 was an unusual year for murders in Canada, with some areas setting records previous record of 13 from 2009. Most of the 17 homicides weren’t random, but in for most or fewest homicides Here’s a look at all nine of Metro Canada’s cities late November three teens were charged in the indiscriminate Vancouver Edmonton Winnipeg shooting of a Halifax-area senior Population: 578,000 Population: 730,000 Population: 633,000 out for a walk. The City of Vancouver saw Edmonton saw its deadliest year ever in 2011 — in- Winnipeg saw a record 39 homicides 15 homicides in 2011. The cluding two slayings in the final 24 hours, with a 35- in 2011, up from the previous record final homicide in the city year-old man and a woman in her 20s becoming the of 34. The high number of killings Montreal 47 was the New Year’s Eve stab- 46th and 47th homicide victims. The was attributed to increasing gang vi- Population: 1.6 million bing death of 19-year-old city, which led the country in homi- olence and one instance 3where9 a Montreal saw 35 homicides on its Dylan Cody Smith at an cides, surpassed its previous record woman allegedly set territory in 2011, down two from apartment. In Metro of 39 from 2005. fire to a rooming 2010. In the province of Quebec Vancouver and the Fraser house, killing five oc- there were 102 35 Valley, there 15 cupants. homicides, an in- Ottawa were 35 crease of 28 per Population: 812,000 homicides in cent. Ottawa had 11 2011, accord- homicides in 2011. Four ing to CBC. victims were women and the rest men. Knives were used in five of the Calgary Toronto cases. Three other Population: 988,000 Population: 2.5 million victims were shot, all of Early intervention and funding Toronto recorded 46 murders in 2011, the whom were men with commitments from municipal and provin- lowest number in 25 years. This was the criminal ties. The shoot- cial governments are being touted as ma- fourth straight year of declines since 2007, METRO CANADA/ ings remain unsolved as jor factors in keeping Calgary’s homicide when the city recorded its deadliest year TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE do three other cases: in number at 11, the lowest it’s been in eight (matched in 1991) with 86 homicides. Police one case, the cause of years. The final count is in stark contrast to Chief Bill Blair attributed some of the decline London death has not been re- 46 killings at the height of the 11 to the disruption of gang Population: 352,000 8 leased. 11 city’s gang war in 2008 and activity following sweeping London police reported eight homicides in 2011 — up from seven Ottawa 2009, when roughly three raids carried out across the in 2010 — the most murders on record since slayings spiked to 14 had 10 times the murders were region. in 2005. The last murder was reported on Dec. 27, when Said Had- homicides recorded. bai, 20, was found shot in a parking lot. He died in hospital. in 2010. January Man arrested in connection with L.A. arson spree 3 Suspect is a German national Federal authorities recognized him from immigration court: Police DAN STEINBERG/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Authorities arrested a Ger- man man yesterday in con- Firefighters extinguish numerous cars on nection with dozens of fire in a carport in the Sherman Oaks suspected arson attacks neighbourhood of Los Angeles yesterday. that destroyed parked cars, Resolution scorched buildings and rat- tled much of the second- largest U.S. city over the ready. New Year's weekend. Harry Burkhart, 24, was booked for investigation of arson of an inhabited dwelling and was being interest” captured on sur- More than 50 blazes held without bail, authori- veillance video. He was have flared since Friday in ties said. Police said he told stopped by a reserve sher- Hollywood, neighbouring arresting officers he's from iff's deputy in a van being West Hollywood and the Frankfurt. sought by arson investiga- San Fernando Valley, caus- Burkhart was arrested tors, who did not rule out ing about $3 million in earlier in the day because the possibility that others damage. he resembled a “person of may be involved. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 3 more Three more Grenada po- and charged in the beat- 67 calories per 341mL bottle. That’s about half the calories officers lice officers were charged ing death of 39-year-old with manslaughter on Oscar Bartholomew of of wines or mixed drinks*. Here’s to a win-win resolution. charged in Sunday in the beating Toronto, who was visiting death of a Canadian. the island to see family. Grenada A police statement said The Sunday arrests officers Edward Gibson, brought the number of Mseurvsitn bge o lfe mgaixl eddri ndkriinnkg) .a Dgeet. a* iClsa alct umlaotilosonns cbaansaeddia onn6 7a.nc aa verage serving (6 oz glass of wine and single death Shaun Ganness and Rud- police suspects to five. dy Felix were arrested THE ASSOCIATED PRESS metronews.ca 05 TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, 2012 CONTINUING EDUCATION Mubarak charges could be dropped Acquittal of policemen accused of killing protesters raises speculation about former Egyptian president MOHAMMED AL-LAW/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The trial of Hosni Mubarak resumed in Cairo on Mon- day amid speculation that a recent acquittal of police- men tried in the killings of protesters could be a prel- ude to the dismissal of charges against the ousted Egyptian leader. Mubarak, 83, is accused of complicity in the killing of more than 800 protest- Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak is wheeled ers during the uprising into a Cairo courthouse on Monday to face charges of that toppled his 29-year complicity in the killing of protesters last year. regime last year. He was brought by heli- copter to the Cairo court- licemen of charges of ers in self defence. house from a hospital killing five protesters dur- The ruling angered fam- where he is held in cus- ing the uprising last Jan. ilies of the victims. Ac- tody. He was then taken in- 25 to Feb. 11. The court tivists demanded justice to the defendants’ cage on said three of the defen- and complained that simi- a gurney. dants were not at the site lar cases are languishing in Another Cairo court on of the killings while the courts in several Egyptian Thursday acquitted five po- other two fired on protest- cities. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Show. 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Information: 403.440.7785 or [email protected] Israeli-Palestinian peace talks to resume Registration: 403.440.3833 Israeli and Palestinian en- But Saeb Erekat, the Erekat is set to meet voys will meet in Jordan chief Palestinian negotia- Yitzhak Molcho, Israel’s mtroyal.ca/conted on Tuesday in a last-ditch tor, warned that, without a envoy, in what officials say effort to salvage peace breakthrough, the Pales- is not a formal negotiating talks, the first time the tinians will likely abandon session but an attempt to sides are meeting since talks and look to alterna- find enough common talks collapsed in Septem- tives such as trying again ground to resume negotia- ber 2010. for recognition at the UN. tions. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 06 business metronews.ca TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, 2012 Media mogul tweets Gas. Up his 2012 resolutions 80-year-old Murdoch joins Twitter for the new year More than 46,000 followers by Monday morning SUSAN WALSH/FILE PHOTO/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Rupert Murdoch has begun also started tweeting — the new year by setting up she’s @wendi-deng — refer- in a new field of communi- ring to the setbacks: “A lot cations. He’s started tweet- of bad things happened in ing. 2011 but I hope in 2012 we The media mogul, who is can put them all behind us recovering from perhaps and sail on to a bright fu- his most difficult year in ture for everyone Wxx.” An attendant sells fuel at a petrol station in Lagos, Nigeria, Monday. the business, is posting on She also gently reminds Twitter under the handle fellow tweeters to spell her SUNDAY ALAMBA/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS @rupertmurdoch, spokes- first name with an “i” at the Nigeria’s gas prices may fuel unrest woman Daisy Dunlop at end, not a “y.” News International con- The Murdochs’ entry in- firmed Monday. to the world of Twitter was Nigeria is ending fuel subsidies, an official said Sunday, a move that is sure to be The account was opened met with some bemuse- unpopular in the oil-rich nation where citizens see cheap fuel as one of their few over the New Year’s holi- Rupert Murdoch ment and some hostility. government benefits. Two union groups are threatening strikes and protests. day, but many doubted its John Prescott, former authenticity because Mur- U.K. deputy prime minister, doch, 80, has generally “My resolutions, try to came up with one of the Pipeline top of tried to stay out of the spot- maintain humility and al- wittier responses. “Wel- tussle over a proposed Some labour unions say the light as his media empire ways curiosity,” he tweets, come to Twitter,” he writes election agenda 2,735-kilometre oil pipeline pipeline would create thou- comes under increased making no mention of his to the mogul. “I’ve left you that will force the White sands of jobs, while envi- scrutiny because of wide- business troubles. “And of a Happy New Year message President Barack Obama House to make a risky ronmentalists fear it could spread phone hacking at course diet!” on my voicemail!” and Congress are starting choice between two key lead to an oil spill disaster. his U.K. newspapers. His wife Wendi Deng has THE ASSOCIATED PRESS the election year locked in a Democratic constituencies. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Corporate Canada reaping more money: StatsCan Picture making a difference PnbceSovtrieleomeslpifnsoieeh tn saet a bnaaslrx i eHen s PasCaerravptiadm inetndoraegi dc rtsieoi oaMiamnnnpi a pn 2$llbi 02asu1i.ti8nsen2i5sr,-- TMmSXaormkeent tDollar PRICES AS OF 5 P.M. FRIDAY about all the private “mon- Dream of working in the health care field? ey sitting on the sidelines.” The last of five annual What’s holding you back? corporate tax cuts took ef- fect Sunday, reducing the + 113.4 + 0.37¢ Become a health care aide. federal rate by another 1.5 (11,955.09) (98.33¢ US) points to 15 per cent. 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Those cash reserves per assets climb $33 billion have climbed nine per cent in the third quarter of since last year and 27.3 per 2011. cent since 2007, when the THE CANADIAN PRESS metronews.ca 07 voices TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, 2012 12 RESOLUTIONS Register at Local tweets metropolitanpanel.ca WORTH KEEPING and take the quick poll @erictiptap- than it ever has. Winter? Ok. tip: Streets @jamwil:Just had the pleas- Who would win a telepathic battle of were oddly ure of meeting @tsnjames- FOR 2012 smartness? empty this duthie. I love World Junior morning. Thought I slept time. #yyc through the apocalypse and @momwhoneedswine:A no one told me. http://twit- lovely afternoon in #yyc for 38% 50% BANK OF CANADA ter.com/search?q=%23yyc some outdoor skating! SHE SAYS ... Snoe wh ayveea ry’osu r ebsroolkuetino nalsl yyeotu?r WTHHEOSE ARE CHICEAF RMNAERYK? @#ysyhcaylay08: What a beauti- @Elerevbateollri/oduosoyor/gbiu:s/train eti- Of course you have. Now for- NERDS? ful day in the quette: allow the people to get those lofty ambitions neighborhood!!! #yyc exit FIRST then enter/board. JESSICA NAPIER that would have you forsake @tonieminhas:Just watched They come out... then you METRO all your vices simultaneous- Switzerland beat Denmark go in. Exit > enter. Capice? ly, and let’s try to focus on in OT! Good game! #world- #yyc setting some small goals for the new juniors #yyc @MyLeatherJacket:There’s year. 12% @toofreshh: This weather in definitely something more I’ve taken the liberty of compiling a PARLIAMENTARY #yyc is great but freaking enjoyable about being able BUDGET OFFICER list of 12 entirely achievable resolutions KEVIN PAGE? me out now... January 2nd & to walk around #yyc today that I’d like you (yes YOU) to make and the sun is shining brighter versus driving. keep for 2012. Don’t worry, I promise to try my best to adhere to them as well. After all, even a few minor changes can make the BINSAR BAKKARA PHOTOS/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS world a much better place for me, you and everyone Daily Zoom 1we know. I will stop Keeping Up with the Kardashians once and for all and spend more time with my HHoommeelleessss iinn IInnddoonneessiiaa 2 own family. I will stand right and walk left on escalators. 3 I will stop doing that thing where I see an acquaintance on the street and pretend I don’t know them. We both know what’s going on; 4let’s just stop being awkward and say hello. I will take better care of my hair because some- day I might lose it all. 5 The same thing goes for my money. 6 I will resist the urge to Like a Facebook status update about an engagement or pregnancy in order to prevent a never-ending stream of annoying comment notifications in the days that 7follow. I will stop letting the smug woman behind the GPS navigation voice jeopardize my relationship, and surrender to the fact that 8maybe she does know best. I will recognize that the only things that belong on the dinner table are food and cutlery, not my 9 cellphone. I will stop blaming public transit for my late ar- Half of country’s Living in a rival at the office every single morning and ad- mit to myself (and my boss) that maybe I should rainforests lost concrete jungle be getting up 10 minutes earlier. Alternatively, I will 1think0 of some new excuses for my tardiness. Orphaned baby Veterinarians conduct sur- I will buy the $14 bottle of wine, not the $9 orangutans Septian and gery on an estimated 40- bottle. Yes, I want to save money, but the Seroja play inside a basket year-old orangutan named 12-hours-from-now version of me will at a Conservation Puyul, who suffers from a 1appre1ciate my largesse. Programme facility in Batu broken leg, at their facility I will listen to my mother and wear the ap- Mbelin, North Sumatra, in Batu Mbelin, North propriate footwear for the weather condi- Indonesia. Indonesia has Sumatra, Indonesia. Puyul 12 tions. lost half of its rainforests broke his leg falling from a I will actually pay attention to the auto-cor- in the last half century, tree while being rescued by rect function on my phone and stop send- putting the remaining conservationists after he ing embarrassing typo-filled messages to 50,000 to 60,000 was found roaming a rub- friends and family. After all, “Did you show your orangutans living in scat- ber plantation too close to boss?” is a very different question than “Did you show tered, degraded forests in a village. The vets also your boobs?” frequent, and often dead- found air-rifle-pellet ly, conflict with humans. wounds in Puyul’s body. 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My daughter was in including a son with Colin the third grade and I took Firth. her when I did Leaving She’s back in a passion Normal. When we went project, Bomb Girls, set in back, her best friend was Box office an Ajax, Ont., munitions best friends with someone factory during the Second else and there were only World War. seven girls in the class and Tilly relishes her role as she didn’t have anyone to Lorna, whose abusive hus- eat lunch with and she band returned from the cried. I thought this is why war paralyzed and who su- a lot of actors mess up. Tom Cruise’s new pervises the girls on the Coming from a mission remains im- factory line. challenging childhood, I possible to beat at Tilly sat down with didn’t want to leave my the box office. Metro to talk about Bomb kids with someone else. If I Studio estimates Girls and gender issues that took them away with me Sunday placed Mis- are still relevant in 2012. six or seven months a year sion: Impossible - “I have my little chick- they wouldn’t have any Ghost Protocol in the adees to look after on kind of life. I realised what No. 1 spot for the Bomb Girls,” says Tilly. would pay me the most for second-straight “Everyone’s younger the least amount of time, weekend with $38.3 than me and there’s all this Meg Tilly, shown in blue, says the reason she left acting was to give her children a chance so I did TV, guest stints and million. With a female power. It’s very to have a normal childhood. saved the money, socked it $141.2 million sweet. away and when I had domestic total, it’s “I feel so privileged to enough, I quit. the first $100 million work in this environment. Lorna is nurturing yet stern in One of her charges is do something about them. hit with Cruise in the How often can you walk this dangerous place, where Gladys, a headstrong Gender stereotypes dis- lead role since back in a chunk of time one spark from a ring or hair- Rosedale debutante played criminating against to this way of being, the 2006’s Mission: Im- and explore it and life in it pin could blow it sky high. by Jodi Balfour. Gladys works women can be dealt with; chivalry of it all. possible III. The and love it? I wanted that, “Whoa, she’s in the office but dreams of there are channels you can It wasn’t an easy time to movie led a solid “There is also such good tough!” But why is she joining the line, even as her process these things be a woman and I am nos- New Year’s weekend will for this show. It was tough? If someone makes a father demands that she quit through now. talgic for it. I feel I missed as Hollywood man- a brave choice to do decision you don’t agree and marry. Balfour says the But it doesn’t mean atti- out on the best time to be aged fair business to such an unlikely look with you have to under- series reflects social realities tudes have changed. alive. end a sluggish year at the Second World War. stand the whys. It’s her job that still exist. And being wartime, they on a more promising The women had their to keep the factory safe. These issues never become Balfour says the series sucked the marrow out of note for 2012. Sher- jobs and husbands overseas She doesn’t want some irrelevant. We may have inspired nostalgia for a time every day. lock Holmes: A but they were fighting be- dilettante coming here come a long way in gender she never knew. Game of Shadows hind the lines to protect who could kill them all. I issues since the war and Entirely, but I’ve been like Bomb Girls, starring Meg Tilly finished second their men and their chil- love the humanness of the the overt discrimination, that all my life. I’ve always and Jodi Balfour, starts again with $26.5 mil- dren at home. They were characters, more noble but those things still exist. felt I was born into the Wednesday night on lion, raising its soldiers.” than they realize. We have the resources to wrong era. I relate so much Global. domestic total to $132.1 million. The DVD Releases Buy it 88888| Rent it 8888 Borrow it 888 | Yawn 88 | Don’t bother 8 family sequel Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked was Contagion Working as his own cin- China is now returning still at No. 3 with $21 Genre:Thriller ematographer from a script home with her to Minneso- million to lift it to Director:Steven Soderbergh by screenwriter Scott Z. ta, where her new hus- $94.6 million. Stars: Matt Damon, Kate Burns (The Bourne Ultima- band, Mitch (Matt Damon), THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Winslet, Jude Law tum), Soderbergh spares and young son are waiting 811⁄2 few sensibilities in outlin- to welcome her home. Steven Soderbergh’s Conta- ing how quickly a conta- Beth is barely through gion is the feel-bad movie gion would cross the door when crisis of 2011. A star-studded international boundaries. strikes. As Mitch struggles thriller, it’s reminiscent of Gwyneth Paltrow is Pa- to take in what’s happened 1970s disaster movies, yet tient Zero, a business trav- to his family, governments it’s more grounded in reali- eller named Beth Emhoff, attempt to grasp an escalat- ty. The film details the rap- who is intriguingly intro- ing infection rate and body id spread of a lethal new duced on Day Two of her count as scientists search virus, MEV-1, and does so swiftly developing infec- for a vaccine. delity, a government in- stream movie. Just don’t quite realistically, at least tion — we don’t immedi- At times, Soderbergh quiry and a father-daughter forget to Purell before Berlin film festival to honour until an outbreak of ately know what happened seems to lose track of too trek. But Contagion watching. Extras include Meryl Streep for career achievements. maudlin illogic near the on Day One. Whatever many subplots that include demonstrates he still has it making-of featurettes. end. Beth caught on a trip to a kidnapping, marital infi- in him to deliver a main- PETER HOWELL