TALKER ENERGIZE YOURSELF AND THAT DOESN’T MEAN CAFFEINE PIERS MORGAN ON {page 12} TAKING OVER FROM WE’RE NOT DATING, SERIOUSLY LARRY KING SANDRA SQUASHES RYAN RUMOURS {page 8} {page 10} OTTAWA Tuesday, January 18, 2011 www.metronews.ca News worth sharing. Tech company Health Battling the gets a big boost bulge New surgery tackles obesity One in four Canadians are obese, and that number is rising Costs millions in 353 new jobs to be created in research and development sector in Ottawa over five health care {page 11} years Local company to recruit 125 university grads over same time period JOE LOFARO/FOR METRO Is marriage a thing of the past? More Canucks are single, so do we really care about matrimony? {page 14} Shock in Haiti as one-time dictator returns Duvalier free to come home, Haitian PM says {page 3} Ciena senior vice-president James Frodsham, left, and MPP for Ottawa West-Nepean Bob Chiarelli chat after announcing a $900-million deal between the province and company, which aims to create an estimated 353 jobs. Feds take aim at borrowing JOE LOFARO “This is not just big news for “We’re targeting to hire at least 25 [email protected] Ottawa, but for the grads per year from Ontario universi- ties.” (information communication Household debt labelled No. 1 A $25-million grant from the provincial Ontario Minister of Economic Develop- government announced yesterday will and technology) sector at ment and Trade Sandra Pupatello said the risk to economy {page 2} mean more jobs at Ciena Canada and large right across Canada.” announcement is significant for Ottawa. more opportunities for university gradu- “It ensures that Ottawa and Ontario SANDRA PUPATELLO, ONTARIO MINISTER OF ECONOMIC ates in Ottawa. DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE will continue to be the global leader in Not easy in The grant will go toward the Ottawa developing advanced telecommunica- company’s $900-million investment in tions and networking solutions,” she the Big Easy broadband and mobile data networks as forts and leveraging the talent and we’re said. well as expanding partnerships with using that at the front end of the recruit- One avenue of research the grant will Queen’s, Waterloo, and Carleton univer- ment process,” said James Frodsham, support is 100G high-speed fibre optic Raptors fall in New Orleans sities. senior vice-president and chief strategy networks that deliver data across a vari- “We’re tying into their research ef- officer of Ciena. ety of platforms, she said. matinee {page 16} 02 news: ottawa metronews.ca TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, 2011 Leftover funds back to work 1 STEVE COLLINS/FOR METRO With local stimulus proj- ing ones as long as work is pressed. ects on-track to be com- completed by Oct. 31. “Municipal politicians pleted on time and $38 “It’s a great opportuni- perhaps more than any million under budget in ty to not only deliver the other politician fail to October, the city has ap- $401 million program un- grasp the concept that plied to put some of the der budget, but to utilize there is only one taxpay- leftover funding back to the savings and accom- er,” said CTF national re- work. plish a little over $30 mil- search director Derek The money can’t go to lion extra work is really Fildebrant. new projects, infrastruc- good for the city,” he said. He added the surplus ture service director Councillors praised city should be returned to tax- news Wayne Newell told city staff for their work, but payers in the form of tax council yesterday, but can the Canadian Taxpayers relief. City infrastructure boss Wayne Newell. be used to expand exist- Federation was not im- STEVE COLLINS New rule on buying a home: Go modest News on the move 1 Download the free ScanLife Ottawa market has many price FRED CHARTRAND/THE CANADIAN PRESS application with your smartphone points, likely won’t be hurt by new at 2dscan.com rules: OREB president 2 Use the ScanLife application on SEAN your smartphone MCKIBBON Cutting debt to scan 2D @METRONEWS.CA barcodes in Metro Would-be first time home Federal Finance Minister 3 The codes will buyers may have to save up Jim Flaherty has unveiled direct your mobile longer and opt for more three new rules he said browser to modest houses because of are aimed at reducing relevant new mortgage rules Canadians’ household content at announced by the federal debt. m.metronews.ca government yesterday, say local real estate experts. Reduced Mortgage amorti- On the web at “Maybe it just means zation periods will be re- metronews.ca they will need to be a little duced to 30 years from 35 more prudent about the years. type of home they buy,” Limit The maximum said Joanne Tibbles, presi- amount Canadians can dent of the Ottawa Real Es- borrow to refinance their tate Board (OREB). mortgages will be lowered “Will it limit some peo- from 85 per cent to 90 per ple and make it more diffi- cent. cult to borrow? Yes it will. Risk The International That’s exactly what it’s in- Monetary Fund has called tended to do,” said Pierre household debt the No. 1 Allan Small on De Varennes, owner of Roy- risk to the Canadian econ- al LePage Performance real- omy. whether it’s ty, who said he always time to start advises client to make cer- 147The ratio of investing in U.S. tain the home they buy is household debt banks. More at within their means. to disposable income Finance Minister Jim Flaherty concludes a news conference on household debt, held “No one wants to be has reached 147 per yesterday. Flaherty has announced new mortgage regulations aimed at reducing Canadians’ metronews.ca/ house poor.” cent. soaring household debt. investing. Follow us on Twitter Sitting in for Regis Philbin are in stable condition. @metroottawa Police are investigating. News in brief METRO TRIPP PHOTOGRAPHY/FOR METRO After winning thousands of “I’m overwhelmed by Drivers hit 3 Water service votes, Ottawa’s Jeff Mauler the support,” Mauler said set to resume from Hot 89.9 will be sitting yesterday after learning the pedestrians in Regis Philbin’s chair next good news. week to co-host ABC’s Live “I’m personally thanking DOWNTOWN.Drivers hit BREAK. Water service to with Regis and Kelly show. every person who emailed three pedestrians down- Vincent Massey Public The Ottawa-raised co- me and thanking them for town yesterday. A 24-year- School and nearby homes host will join four other voting for me.” old man was listed in was to resume yesterday American radio personali- Mauler is asking his lis- serious but stable condi- evening after a watermain 100-year-old scotch returns from Antarctica on a private jet. Scan ties as they each fill in for teners to suggest a Canadi- Hot 89.9 co-host Jeff tion after a car hit him at break on Smyth Road. the code for the story. Philbin for one day next an artifact to bring his Mauler said his dream Bronson Avenue and Meanwhile, a watermain week while he is on vaca- co-host, Kelly Ripa. would be to interview Brewer Street. Vehicles al- that broke Friday is fixed. tion. JOE LOFARO actress Betty White. so hit two women. Both METRO news metronews.ca 03 TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, 2011 Outrage follows ELECTION POSTURING The Conservatives re- leased a flurry of six ads On the yesterday that attack Lib- eral Leader Michael Ig- campaign natieff, NDP Leader Jack ‘Baby Doc’ return Layton and Gilles trail? Duceppe of the Bloc Que- becois. Ignatieff, who is on an When the prime minister 11-day election-style tour, starts wandering around dismissed the ads as “rub- SEAN KILPATRICK/THE CANADIAN PRESS his office on camera with bish.” Surprise homecoming leaves a Beatles mug in hand, Meanwhile, a Canadi- many in Haiti baffled Former can the blue sweater-vest an Press Harris-Decima be far behind? poll yesterday found the dictator claims he wants to help Federal leaders are Tories with an eight-per- ramping up the election centage-point lead on the Canada’s Haitian communi- posturing, complete with Liberals, 36-28, with the ty reacted in disbelief yes- leaders’ tours, policy roll- NDP at 15 per cent na- terday to the news that outs and TV ads. tionally. THE CANADIAN PRESS Jean-Claude (Baby Doc) Du- valier returned to Haiti on Sunday after 25 years of ex- Jewish leaders ile in France. “How can he come Among those expressing back to Haiti shock was Canada’s former decry attacks governor general. Michaëlle without warning, Jean has in the past spoken like a citizen, about being traumatized by without reproach?” images of blood-soaked Montreal’s Jewish commu- walls during a visit to a po- MICHAËLLE JEAN, CANADA’S nity fears it is being target- Targeted lice station where her fa- HAITIAN-BORN FORMER GG ed in an orchestrated ther was tortured. campaign of hatred, after The attacks came as some In Paris for a conference country from the death of three synagogues, a Jewish Montrealers, including Lib- on Haiti, Jean said she was his father, Francois (Papa school and daycare had eral MP Marlene Jennings, “astounded” and said the Doc) Duvalier, in 1971 until their windows smashed headed out to buy shoes in former dictator deserved to he was ousted in 1986. with rocks on the weekend. support of a store that face justice for his crimes. Yesterday, he reportedly Police suspect the at- sells footwear made in Is- “Will a quarter-century ensconced himself in a tacks are related and are rael and is being boycotted of comfortable exile in im- Port-au-Prince hotel, where hoping surveillance video by other Montrealers. punity be enough to make he met with allies and might offer some clues. B’nai Brith said the Haitians forget the horrors, spoke publicly only The Quebec Jewish Con- attacks brought back the suffering, the injustice through emissaries, who in- gress yesterday denounced “painful memories” of the as well as the human and sisted he is merely an elder the attacks as a threat to firebombing of United Tal- economic cost of decades of statesman who wanted to “our society’s values of lib- mud Torah School just be- Jean-Claude Duvalier and his wife, Veronique Roy, arrive Duvalierist dictatorship?” see the effects of the 2010 erty and tolerance.” fore Passover in 2004. at Toussaint Louverture airport in Port-au-Prince on Sunday. said Jean, a UNESCO envoy earthquake on his home- THE CANADIAN PRESS to Haiti. Duvalier ruled the land. THE CANADIAN PRESS No charges Giffords’ HASSENE DRIDI/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Tunisian first family turfed in freezing recovery The end of President Zine El erated like a mafia, extort- Prime Minister Mo- death steady Abidine Ben Ali’s iron-fisted ing money from shop own- hamed Ghannouchi yester- 23-year rule brought joy to ers and divvying up plum day announced the Neighbours will not face Gabrielle Giffords, the U.S. many in Tunisia, and they concessions among them- formation of a national uni- charges in the death of a congresswoman shot dur- were especially elated at selves such as banks and ty government, allowing Toronto woman who froze ing a community event, the prospect of life without airlines, car dealerships and opposition into the leader- in a driveway after her cries has been able to smile and his wife and her rapacious media outlets. ship for the first time. for help were ignored, focus her eyes, her family. “They are thieves, trick- Ghannouchi, a longtime al- Toronto police said. 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And just think; if tivities, preferably anything that that it was –39 C in Eureka last bank account is looking yesterday was the most depress- involves a roaring fire and a night (that’s in Nunavut for JESSICA more tragic than ever. Frigid ing day of the year bearskin rug. those of you who aren’t Canadi- it can only get bet- DECORATE:If be- an geography nerds) the wind NAPIER temperatures and a lack of ter from now on, “... if yesterday low freezing tem- chill here doesn’t really seem all funds have left me right? was the most peratures have that bad. housebound this month and HIBERNATE WITH depressing day you trapped inside THROW A JERSEY SHORE THEME my mood, like the weather, FRIENDS:If you of the year it your apartment PARTY:Get a spray tan, turn up has been icy at best. I am can’t beat the blues you might as well the heat and squeeze into your you might as well can only get make it look good. tightest Ed Hardy tube top. well and truly stuck in the make wallowing a better from Yes, you’re broke Invite like-minded Guidos and post-holiday depressfest group activity. Play from a season of Guidettes over to fist-pump to I now on, right?” known as January. board games and overspending, but the beat of your homemade club- put on bad movies even small touch- anthem playlist. Drink Ron Ron t’s not just me, of course. you would feel es can go a long Juice until you forget what Psychologists (perhaps in guilty watching during patio sea- way. Invest in new couch season it is and try not to collaboration with travel son. Add wine when needed. cushions, craft colourful wall art contract an STD by the end of agents and chocolate mak- HIT THE SLOPES:If there’s one and fill vases with fragrant flow- the weekend. ers) dubbed yesterday Blue thing Canadians do well it’s ers to remind yourself that Monday, allegedly the inventing ridiculously dangerous spring is just around the corner Read more of most depressing day of the year. winter sports. So why not strap (kind of). Jessica Napier’s columns With this not-so-scientific fact on some skis and throw yourself FIND PLEASURE IN SOMEONE at metronews.ca/shesays in mind, here are five ways to down a steep rock face in the ELSE’S PAIN:Go online and look Cartoon Dressing for success MICHAEL DE ADDER Swiss precision Worth mentioning Swiss bank UBS AG is revising its dress code af- ter getting roundly mocked for suggesting employees wear skin- coloured underwear and avoid garlic breath. 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METRO Diploma Alumni Exhibition at the Shenkman Centre. 10 dish metronews.ca TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, 2011 We’re not a think Lindsay and Dawn will have that meeting.” Kanye West Talking points METRO [@kanye couple, really: west]Room But look what service uuu- Fired staffer uugh! I you get hate when I wants to meet order fruit and I can taste Sandra Bullock with Lohan Orlando Bloom is the other food they cut offering up his with the same knife. Beef Dawn Holland, the Hollywood Hills home flavored pineapples former Betty Ford Center for rent — for $18,000 a staffer with whom Lind- month, according to say Lohan famously Radar Online. The four- Eva Longoria clashed with last month, bedroom, three- [@eva Denies ALL PHOTOS GETTY IMAGES wants to meet with the bathroom house was longoria] troubled starlet to bury famously burglarized in Yes I am sit- rumours of the hatchet — and 2009 by actress Alexis ting next to Michael Lohan thinks it’s Neiers and a gang of Zac Efron. romance with a fantastic idea. teens, who also targeted I'm sure millions of young Ryan Reynolds “I think it’s good for the homes of Paris girls are very jealous right them both to put it Hilton and now! behind them and Lindsay Lo- Sandra Bullock is doing show that they’re go- han. Bloom her best to put the rumors ing through these purchased Elizabeth Banks about her and Ryan steps,” he tells Radar the home [@Eliza Reynolds to rest. Online. “One of the in 2007 bethBanks] “I think there will be a major steps is making for $2.75 mil- Cold Coke collective sigh amongst amends, and I think lion. in a bottle women across the United it’s important. Whether METRO (the Mexi- Stated when I say he’s they do it privately or can kind) not my lover,” the Oscar- publicly, that’s opened in front of me, winner told Al Roker in another dripping ice down the an interview over the story, sides and like Pavlov’s weekend. but I dogs, I'm salivating. “He’s just an amazing friend for 10 years,” she explained. “But I don’t get his loving after dark.” METRO Orlando Bloom