SKIN DEEP Want to see the Jets in action? FIERCELY FABULOUS Winnipeg Transit has plenty of great seats ANIMAL PRINT to the game! FASHION winnipegtransit.com or call 311 {page 11} WINNIPEG Thursday, January 12, 20122 www.metronews.ca 0 1 News worth shaarriinngg.. e g a p n o Auditor r e Buster f Ball. f o t s e General t a l r u o ut sounds o k c e h C alarm Report details problems with child welfare agencies, MPI, food inspections, among others Premier promises to address shortcomings Manitoba’s auditor general says purview were expired. some of the province’s foster When the auditor’s office homes are not being reviewed delved into 10 foster home files, consistently and the central child it found half had not received welfare database is inaccurate. quarterly visits by social workers The problems continue to exist as required under provincial stan- despite being raised years ago, dards. The review also found the Carol Bellringer writes in a wide- agency hadn’t provided up-to-date ranging report that also high- information to the province’s cen- lights problems with food inspec- tral registry for children in care. tion, automobile insurance and The auditor also examined the government appointments. way the province fills more than “Similar issues were reported 1,200 appointed positions to in our 2006 report ... and we provincial boards, agencies and would have expected these areas commissions. She found that one to have been remedied within in five appointees had been in (child welfare) agencies,” Bell- their position for more than 10 ringer wrote in the report years. Bellringer suggested there Cables sway in the wind, inset, after a wrecking ball, working to demolish a 106-year-old building at released Wednesday. be term limits to allow other the Misericordia Hospital, snapped and got stuck in the wreckage, halting wrok. Demolition, Bellringer’s office examined members of the public to partic- part of a $43 million redevelopment at the aging facility, will continue for several weeks. Animikii Ozoson Child and Fam- ipate. ily Services Agency, which serves The audit also found that one Demolition proves a hard crSoHANE GsIBSOsN/ME TRtO ANoD JOLA INEb THOMSeON/COaNTRIBrUTED aboriginal children in Winnipeg. in four appointees was serving a The review found 22 of 62 foster term that had expired. home licences under the agency’s THE CANADIAN PRESS 02 news: winnipeg metronews.ca THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 2012 Be careful 1 around new House. Fire Townhouse Transitway blaze doused The City of Winnipeg is asking Winnipeggers to in East keep away from the newly constructed Southwest Rapid Transit Corridor Elmwood Transitway and to be care- ful at intersections along the corridor. Winnipeg Transit is cur- Emergency crews were news rently training drivers on called to the fire in an the corridor, which is now upstairs room of a two- active with test buses level townhouse in the reaching speeds of 80 300 block of Keenleyside km/h. Street shortly before Transit began driver 8:30 a.m. Crews had the training on the new 3.6 fire controlled and were km corridor — which seen leaving the scene spans from Queen within 45 minutes. Elizabeth Way and Strad- There were no injuries brook Avenue to Pembina Firefighters quickly put out a fire that broke out in an reported and a damage Highway and Jubilee East Elmwood townhouse early Wednesday morning. estimate was not imme- Avenue — in mid Decem- diately available. ber last year. SHANE GIBSON/METRO The corridor is A dispute over buggy safety scheduled to officially Kenhtuacs kmya’sd Ae msciosfflh, aawnsd osfome open on April 8. Wife of Keystone Air crash could face jail time. SHANE GIBSON Scan the code for the story ELISHA DACEY/METRO 1 Download the free survivor ‘very relieved’ ScanLife app with your smartphone at 2dscan.com 2 Use your Fire wouldn’t go out since snow was saturated with fuel smartphone to Airline to provide grief counseling for victim’s families scan 2D barcodes Ellice Avenue in Metro and Berry Street Residents of a northern As word spread about shock when she heard her his vital signs were 3 The codes will A fender Ontario reserve where a what happened, Keesick about the crash. good and he was awake. direct your mobile plane crashed into a lake was one of many who Her husband, Brian “Relieved, very, very re- browser to bender kind Tuesday frantically tried fought through deep Shead, 36, works for Abo- lieved and I can’t wait to m.metronews.ca to douse the flaming snow on foot to get to the riginal Strategies Inc., an see him,” Shead said. of morning wreckage with snow but scene to help. administrative service for Condolences poured in On the web at couldn’t save four of the People tried to put the First Nations based in from neighbouring re- metronews.ca people trapped inside. flames out with snow Winnipeg. serves. There appeared to be no Darcy Keesick of the while others gouged a She told CTV Winnipeg Grand Chief Stan major injuries in a crash at North Spirit Lake First Na- hole in the lake to try to that at first, it was be- Beardy, head of the Nish- the corner of Ellice tion was one of the peo- pump water onto the lieved he had died. But nawbe Aski Nation in Avenue and Berry Street at ple who rushed to the burning plane, he said. then Shead got the news northern Ontario, said about 8 a.m. Wednesday, crash. One person survived that her husband was the thoughts and prayers where one silver vehicle He said it happened and was transported to a lone survivor. were going out to all who was spun up onto the during a blinding snow- Winnipeg hospital where She said she was told were grappling with “this grass and snow, losing its storm. he was listed in stable her husband has a frac- sudden and very terrible front bumper in the “You couldn’t see condition. tured face and ankle and tragedy.” process. ELISHA DACEY across the lake,” he said. Tracy Shead was in a doctor with him told THE CANADIAN PRESS Denver Nuggets mascot Youth charged in violent robbery driving one of the first big rigs to be involved in summons some News in brief the pile-up. Tim Tebow SHANE GIBSON/METRO THE CANADIAN PRESS A 14-year-old male youth is 20The teenage sus- mystique for a Trucker killed facing a number of charges pect was arrest- Four face guns, half-court shot. in connection to a violent ed by police at a home in crash Watch at robbery in the North End near the corner of Flo- drug charges on Tuesday afternoon. ra Avenue and Powers A Winnipeg trucker has metronews.ca/ The incident happened Street within 20 min- been identified as the Four men are facing video near the corner of Selkirk utes of the attack. man killed when several charges after police Avenue and Andrews Police at a semi-trailers collided in found drugs and firearms Street at about 12:55 Tues- pect produced a large home on Flora Avenue. icy conditions on the Co- at a home in the 100 day when the 19-year-old knife and assaulted the vic- quihalla Highway in block of Lorne Avenue. Follow us on victim was approached by tim in the upper body. witness. Police would not B.C.’s southern interior. Police executed a search Twitter a male suspect who re- The suspect then stole a confirm witness reports Regional Coroner Mark warrant at the residence @metrowinnipeg quested a cigarette. package of cigarettes be- that a machete was used in Coleman says 44-year-old just after midnight on When refused, the sus- fore being chased off by a the attack. SHANE GIBSON Dilbara Singh was Wednesday. SHANE GIBSON J WINNIPEG oin Me to We and Free The Children for an unforgettable leadership experience at the 2012 Take Action Academy. Be a part of a global Balmoral Hall - July 22-28 community and join a network of young people who are changing the world, right now! Sign up by March 30th! (cid:113)(cid:1) Gain new perspectives on the world by learning about social justice Space is limited. 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Motorcycle riders flashed by and attached a magnetic bomb onto a car carrying a top nuclear scientist working at Iran’s main uranium-enrichment facility. By the time the blast tore apart the silver Peugeot, the motorcycle was blocks away, weaving through Tehran traffic. Behind it, the nuclear scientist lay dead and his driver dying. A pedestrian was wounded. It was the latest strike in what Iran calls an esca- lating covert war — at least the fourth targeted hit against a member of Iran’s nuclear brain trust Magnetic-bomb aftermath: A car is removed by mobile crane in Tehran on Wednesday in two years. in this photo provided by Iran’s semi-official Fars News Agency. Wednesday’s blast killed Israel hints at ‘bad things’ Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, 32, a chemistry expert and U.S. denies it “I want to categorically a director of the Natanz deny any United States uranium-enrichment facil- involvement in any kind of Whodunnit? Iran pointed “I don’t know who settled the score with ity, the centrepiece of act of violence inside Iran,” the finger at Israel for the the Iranian scientist but I certainly am Iran’s expanding program said Secretary of State bomb assassination. not shedding a tear.” to make nuclear fuel. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Israeli officials, howev- ISRAEL’S CHIEF MILITARY SPOKESPERSON BRIG. GEN. YOAV MORDECHAI “A heinous act,” said left. er, hinted at covert cam- Iran’s Atomic Energy “We believe there has to paigns without directly Organization. be an understanding admitting involvement. department. “Iran is in a quoted as telling a parlia- But it warned defiantly: between Iran, its “Many bad things have situation where pressure mentary panel that 2012 “We will continue our (nu- neighbours and the inter- been happening to Iran in on it is mounting, and the would be a “critical year” clear) path without any national community that the recent period,” said latest assassination joins for Iran — in part because doubt … Our path is irre- The United States insisted finds a way forward for it Mickey Segal, a former di- the pressure.” of “things that happen to versible.” it had nothing to do with to end its provocative be- rector of the Israeli mili- Israeli military chief Lt. it unnaturally.” THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Wednesday’s killing. haviour.” tary’s Iranian intelligence Gen. 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Haiti committed to this, so I Supporter proceeded with it,” said King. appears His presentation to the National Energy before Board panel, which is conducting environmen- hearing tal review hearings across B.C. and Alberta for at least the next 18 Environmental hearings months and perhaps into the proposed North- more, did not generate ern Gateway pipeline any public reaction even heard from the first sup- though most people in porter Wednesday, but the audience do not sup- Peter King says he almost port the project. stayed home. Enbridge Inc., plans to King, a steam fitter build a twin pipeline who has lived in Kitimat, from Alberta to located about 1,500 kilo- northwest B.C.where it A youth walks around an earthquake-damaged cathedral in Port-au-Prince this week. metres northwest of Van- will send oil to a port at Canada to assist DIEU NALIO CHERY/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS couver, for 53 years, said Kitimat,where huge Beverley Oda, Canada’s minister of international co-operation, says he realized he was a tanker ships will her government will help Haiti move people who have been in relocation “lone voice” after transport it to Asian mar- camped outside the National Palace since the 2010 earthquake. passionate denunciations kets. Oda said Canada was proud to be able to help clear the Champ de of the development The municipality of Mars plaza and move people to homes north of the capital. voiced Tuesday by area Kitimat is about 10 kilo- aboriginal leaders. metres north of the Hais- The chiefs say the la village of Kitamaat. Genocide accused stays project points a double- Enbridge says the $5.5 barrelled environmental billion pipeline project threat at their homes has the potential to gen- and lifestyles. erate $270 billion to the despite deportation order The opposition “gave Canadian economy. me pause that perhaps I THE CANADIAN PRESS Harper to travel to PAUL CHIASSON/THE CANADIAN PRESS UN to investigate claims that China next month he will be tortured in Rwanda After nearly two decades in “Our fair legal Stephen Harper will pay a Canada, a man accused of system has return visit to China in Feb- Investment helping to incite the Rwan- determined that ruary. dan genocide may have he is here illegally, The prime minister an- After arriving in Beijing in been granted one more re- nounced his travel plans 2009, Harper was chided by prieve that would delay de- he’s guilty of Wednesday before a meet- his hosts for taking too portation back to his serious war crimes ing with Zhang Junsai, Chi- long to visit China after homeland. and that he has to na’s ambassador to Canada. coming to power in 2006. Leon Mugesera had been He will travel to China in ordered to be deported ear- face justice in his the second week of Febru- China has since invested ly Wednesday when a Fed- country of origin.” ary. billions of dollars into ener- eral Court ruled against his JASON KENNEY “Canada and China en- gy projects in Alberta’s oil- last-ditch effort to stay in IMMIGRATION MINISTER joy a strategic partnership sands, while the Tories have Canada, his home for the based on mutual respect worked hard to repair rela- last 19 years. Meanwhile, Mugesera and collaboration and root- tions and boost trade with But a pair of other devel- was brought to hospital to ed in strong social and cul- the Asian economic power. opments, later in the day, be treated for an unspeci- tural links, shared by over complicated matters. fied health issue. Television one million Canadians of dominate discussion be- Mugesera’s lawyer an- images showed him being Chinese descent,” Harper tween Harper and China's nounced the United Na- carried out of his Quebec said in a statement. communist leaders tions Committee Against City home, laid out on a Energy is expected to THE CANADIAN PRESS Torture has ordered Canada stretcher. His lawyer, Jo- Leon Mugesera is accused of inciting to keep him here while it hanne Doyon, said the man the Rwandan genocide. investigates his claims he’d fell ill amid news about his be tortured in Rwanda. case. THE CANADIAN PRESS List of wanted The government added immigrants another 30 names to its Canada Border Services LARS HAGBERG/THE CANADIAN PRESS Shafia mom suggests son witnessed deaths released Agency watch-list Wednes- day in the hope of expelling these people A woman accused of For this, Tooba Yahya three sisters and Shafia’s The federal government is from the country. killing her three daughters said, she is “upset” with first wife in a polygamous continuing its controver- The new list was the and her husband’s other her son. marriage. The Crown al- sial practice of publicizing third released by the gov- wife over family honour Yahya, 42, her husband leges the June 30, 2009, the names and faces of ernment since last July; indicated Wednesday she Mohammad Shafia, 58, deaths were so-called hon- most-wanted dangerous those being pursued this believes her eldest son wit- and their son Hamed, 21, our killings, and that the immigrants in the hope time are alleged to have nessed the four plunging are on trial in Kingston, family staged it to look Canadians will help track ties to organized crime to their certain deaths, but Ont., charged with murder like an accident. them down. abroad. THE CANADIAN PRESS Tooba Yahya didn’t call police. in the deaths of Hamed’s THE CANADIAN PRESS business metronews.ca 07 THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 2012 Prairies lead economic pack Grand. 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Over the years, I’ve grown ac- put my brand new remote dad thinks I have multiple customed to adoring fans car starter to good use. personality disorder. I am complimenting my writing. #conflicted pissed that he thinks that JOHN MAZEROLLE “I saw your picture in the @mistydemeo: Tempera- about us METRO paper,” they’ll say. Or: “You ture dropped by 15 @SiStinky Silas:I #HATE it look familiar, do you work at 5% degrees overnight. Yay when I open my kinder my Starbucks?” IT SHOULD BE LEFT Winnipeg. (That’s 35 surprise and my toys is a With compliments like that, it’s amaz- THE WAY IT IS degrees for you puzzle. ing my headshot doesn’t swell right out of the frame. But years of headshot viewers acknowl- NATHAN DENETTE/THE CANADIAN PRESS edging my existence have left me wanting Daily Zoom more, and now I dream of getting a book published, so I can hear compliments like, “I saw your picture on a dust cover.” But before I can reach such wuthering heights, I “The best approach have to first — and this is true of many authors — ac- is to write tually write a book. characters based So far, it’s been a great on people you hate success. I’ve writhed around in my chair, stared at the — for example, you cursor, cursed, thought might have a about my shortcomings, villain called Jerky had a bit to drink. In other MacBadhusband.” words, I’m tortured. As far as I understand it, this is an excellent first step. I’ve also read a lot about how to write a book. So that I might create more competition and therefore torture my- self further, here’s what I’ve learned. WRITING A BOOK Choose an idea:Most coffee-shop patrons, first-year university students and other leading philosophers agree there are no new ideas. So it’s OK to steal one. Ripping off one author is called an “homage.” Ripping off multiple authors and mashing them together is called “finding Will and Kate reveal royal gifts your own voice.” Choose characters:The best approach is to write char- acters based on people you hate — for example, you might have a villain called Jerky MacBadhusband. To pro- tect yourself from legal issues, make sure the character Duke and Duchess of CONTRIBUTED wears a hat they don’t wear in real life. Then say, “The character is actually a pastiche of many people I’ve met in Cambridge say thank you my travels.” Choose a plot:Start with a first line that grabs readers, such as, “This book is covered in anthrax spores, sucker!” The Dukeand Duchess of are a diamond-encrusted If stuck for an ending, walk away for a bit. Then quit and Cambridge laugh as they brooch and cufflinks. call it “first in a series.” You’ll get great buzz. receive Team Canada This has incensed the Choose an agent: This person will give you added legit- hockey jerseys in British tabloids, who Rock solid imacy as a writer by making you poorer. Yellowknife on July 5. smell a cover-up in the Corp. They were given to Choose a cover:This is the step by which everyone will Clarence House, the of- website’s describing the Celebrity jeweller Harry the royal couple during judge your book. I recommend you seek out glowing quo- ficial website for the widely reported custom- Winston crafted this 692- their Canadian visit. tations from friends who share names with famous peo- Prince of Wales, his sons made platinum baubles diamond set of polar bear Harry Winston donated ple. If your dentist is Milan Kudera or the kid who mows and Kate, has released encrusted with nearly cufflinks and broochfrom the diamonds and the your lawn is V.S. Naipaul, you’re good to go. the list of all the gifts the 700 tiny diamonds from diamonds from the Diavik workmanship, said a With these tips, you’ll have a completed tome in no royal couple collected in Canadian minesas, sim- Diamond Mine in the spokeswoman for the time. If it goes well, let me know. I may pay homage to it. their cross-Canada tour ply, a “brooch” and “cuf- Northwest Territories, Northwest Territories gov- with one- or two-word de- flinks.” owned 40 per cent by the ernment. Read more of John Mazerolle’s columns at metronews.ca/hesays scriptions. 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A Less Than Kind return Loss of cast member Maury Chaykin weighs heavy as Winnipeg-based drama returns to air BACKSTAGE Chaykin (Sam Blecher), and gave us some more 20-year-old Montreal- cho says. who died on his 61st time and more money to based actor. Join McKinney and PASS birthday, from complica- stick around and conceive “I mean it was still Winnipeg Comedy Festi- tions of a heart valve in- of a way of making Sam’s challenging, it was an val artistic director Al Rae fection. passing happen to the emotional day and you’ve tonight at the Winnipeg William Shatner JARED STORY METRO WINNIPEG “We were pretty far Blecher family.” only got so much emotion Art Gallery for a benefit will star in a one- down the road (in the The first two episodes in you, but those scenes in support of Less Than man show called The show writing process) when of season three — avail- were so different because Kind cast member Mike Shatner's World: must go on. Maury passed away sud- able for streaming at hbo- Maury was such a pres- O’Brien, who is undergo- We Just Live in It. Season denly,” says executive pro- canada.com — deal with ence on set and that pres- ing treatment for cancer. Previews begin three of ducer Mark McKinney, the loss of the Blecher ence was still felt, just The show features a Feb. 14 and it runs Less Than one fifth of the comedy family’s patriarch. Jesse not physically.” screening of the first two at the Music Box Kind pre- troupe The Kids in the Camacho, who plays Shel- In life and in death, it’s episodes of season three, Theatre until Mar. mieres Hall. don Blecher, a chunky obvious Chaykin had a plus a musical perform- 4. Shatner was last Sunday at 8 p.m. on HBO “He had got sick at the high school kid always major impact on Less ance by locals Keith & on Broadway in A Canada. beginning of the second finds himself with count- Than Kind’s cast and Renée. Shot in the Dark” Shot and set in Win- season and we had to turf less obstacles, says the crew. Tickets are $30 at Buf- in 1961. The nipeg, the comedy-drama those scripts as well, but tears came easy. “Maury wasn’t one to falo Gal Pictures (33-70 former T.J. Hooker series about a dysfunc- he was on the mend so it “Those scenes, the fu- spoon-feed a lesson but in Arthur St.) or you can do- star won an tional Jewish family con- came really out of the neral shiva stuff, it was the way he handled him- nate via PayPal at buffalo- Emmy for his tinues despite the loss of blue. Fortunately the net- some the easiest acting self in scenes and on set galpictures.com/mikeobri work on Boston cast member Maury work was extraordinary we’ve had to do,” says the was itself a lesson,” Cama- en Legal. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Ambassador for living the fab life Skinny French chicks and Do straight women need ed- coach, but only on short mend a career in window roly-poly straight men. Les- ucating? flights. 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She was tall, ten do, since doubts that he was indeed had a different shape, light they are more the father of Khloe. hair, curly hair. Didn’t look off the market omnipresent “Khloe is not his kid — anything like the other than Star- he told me that after we three children.” bucks), do you ever think, got married,” Jan Ashley, Whatever you do, “Hmmmm ... Which of 63, the woman who mar- Khloe Kardashian Khloe, never, ever take a Halle Berry gagement ring. The pair these things is not like the ried Robert after Kris Jen- DNA test. For now, you get and Olivier met in 2010 as co- other?” ner, revealed to Star. Khloe’s not really a Kar- the best of both worlds: A Martinez stars on the film If you, too, think Khloe “He just kind of looked dashian, don’t you?’ And I cut of the Kardashian em- are report- Dark Tide and Kardashian doesn’t resem- at me and said (it) like it said … ‘OK,’ and that was pire without having to be edly en- started dating ble her famous sisters, you was a matter of fact. He it.” biologically related to gaged, soon after. aren’t the only one — Kris said, ‘Well, you know that But that’s not all. 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