5,000 GAY MARRIAGES PUNCHLINES IN LEGAL LIMBO DAN SAVAGE VOWS TO FIGHT BACK CELEBS BRACING {page 4} FOR THEIR ROAST SIX YEARS LATER BRADY BATTLES BAILEY AT THE GLOBES AGAIN IN SATURDAY’S PLAYOFF GAME {page 18} {page 12} WINNIPEG Weekend, January 13-15, 2012 www.metronews.ca News worth sharing. JOHN WOODS/THE CANADIAN PRESS CCaauugghhtt ‘Modicum of clothing’ Public nudity law oouutt upheld Man discovers it’s illegal to be nude when you hit the drive-thru for Timbits {page 5} Love ain’t cheap Lopez said to pay boyfriend $10K a week {page 15} A reason to smile U of M students provide ’Peggers in need with free dental implants {page 2} Manitoba big on giving Winnipeg Foundation The San Jose Sharks’ Jason Demers stops the Winnipeg Jets’ Eric Fehr’s shot from dropping in behind goaltender Antti Niemi reports philanthropy during the first period in Winnipeg Thursday night. For coverage of the game, see page 17. ‘alive and well’ {page 2} 02 metronews.ca news: winnipeg WEEKEND, JANUARY 13-15, 2012 1 2011 proves a banner year for giving SHANE GIBSON/FOR METRO The Winnipeg Foundation Winnipeg Foundation what came in last year. The the Winnipeg Foundation, released its 2011 annual board chair Richard Brack- foundation points to its 90- also noted 2011 was a year report on Thursday, and en at the release. “Contri- Hour Giving Challenge and of “fresh thinking and in- despite a fluctuating finan- butions from the Sharing Circles program as spiring action” for the or- cial year, the organization community amounted to reasons for the increase. ganization with the says its 90th year in opera- $22 million — the most The foundation also cre- creation of a number of tion was a success. we’ve received since the ated a record 238 new en- new programs and part- “Even with the uncer- market volatility began in dowment funds last year nerships. tain economic climate, 2008.” and granted $22.1 million The Winnipeg Founda- Manitoba’s tradition of The contributions came to nearly 800 charitable or- tion’s 2011 report is avail- philanthropy was alive from more than 6,000 ganizations. able at wpgfdn.org. Richard Bracken news and well in 2011,” said gifts, more than double Richard Frost, CEO of SHANE GIBSON Students give reason to smile SHANE GIBSON/FOR METRO University of Manitoba dental students giving needy Winnipeggers free dental implants A Harvard scholar reveals the secret ingredients of envious.” carneadt aiv ditays:h a o pfi dnicshh oonf emsetyn.d Saccainty SGHIBASNOEN The project, called the the code for the story. [email protected] Niznick Overdenture Pro- gram, cost $500,000 and 1 Download the free Thirty-five needy will see U of M dental stu- ScanLife app with Winnipeggers have some- dents doing the your smartphone thing to smile about procedures. at 2dscan.com thanks to a partnership Ohrling, who has been between the University of off the street and living in 2 Use your Manitoba and Siloam Mis- his own place for about a smartphone to sion’s health centre. year now, says he feels scan 2D barcodes Beginning on blessed to be in Metro Thursday, the patients of participating in the pro- Siloam’s dental clinic be- gram. 3 The codes will gan a 12-week procedure ‘It’s almost like real direct your mobile to receive complete den- teeth,” he said. browser to m.metronews.ca tal implants — which “They told me when would usually cost they’re through with me upwards of $10,000 each I’m going to look like a On the web at — at no cost. million dollars.” metronews.ca “I’m ecstatic,” said 63- The patients will take year-old Bryon Ohrling, chartered buses provided who is one of nine people at no cost by Tony’s Acad- who began the procedure emy Auto Service from this week. Siloam Mission to the U “I’ve told many of my of M’s dental clinic on Bryon Ohrling, seen here with Siloam Mission dental hygienist Louise Zimmer, personal friends and the Bannatyne Avenue over is one of 35 patients from Siloam’s dental clinic receiving free dental implants Lord about what I’m the coming weeks to have through a partnership with the University of Manitoba. doing and they’re the work done. The King of Bain, a film acquired While at the door, she Another local truck driver killed by a group with turned to find a man in News in brief her vehicle who took off ties to Newt with it, police said. Gingrich, accuses Ontario Provincial Police bound passenger vehicle was driving one of the Her son was found by a Vehicle stolen say a 45-year-old Win- were involved when they first big rigs to be in- local resident unharmed. Mitt Romney of nipeg truck driver has could not avoid the colli- volved in the pile-up just with child METRO killing jobs in died in a collision east of sion ahead of them. south of Merritt, B.C., on order to line his Kenora, Ont. Police say those vehi- the Coquihalla Highway. inside Men survive pockets. Watch at Police say Amir Mo- cles were damaged, but Singh had gotten out of after truck goes hammadi died Wednesday the drivers were not in- his cab to speak with the A mother watched in hor- metronews.ca/ when his eastbound trac- jured. other driver when a third ror as her vehicle was through ice tor-trailer collided with a The highway was truck plowed into the ve- stolen on Wednesday video westbound tractor-trailer. closed from early Wednes- hicles and killed him. with her young son in the Rescuers say both men The westbound trans- day until Wednesday af- His body wasn’t discov- backseat. who were in a truck that port had jackknifed across ternoon. ered until tow trucks ar- The 40-year-old woman crashed through the ice Follow us on Highway 17 in the Dog- This is the second truck rived on the scene and had gone to a house in into the frigid waters of Twitter tooth Lake area. driver crash this week began to pull apart the Tuxedo when she left her Lake Winnipeg Wednes- @metrowinnipeg Another westbound that saw a Winnipeg man wreckage. 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See rogers.com/regulatoryfee for details. A one-time Activation Fee of up to $35 (varies by province) also applies. Where applicable, additional airtime, data, long distance, roaming, options and taxes are extra and billed monthly. ©2012 04 news metronews.ca WEEKEND, JANUARY 13-15, 2012 Feds criticized PABLO MARTINEZ MONSIVAIS/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 5,000 over same-sex divorce issue NDP MP Olivia Chow said that Canada used to be a “beacon of hope” for gay and les- bian couples wanting PM says he won’t reopen debate to get married but now it is a “a laughing after doubt cast on gay marriages stock.” Chow said if federal lawyers win The Harper government is “I think it’s the their argument, then being accused of taking U.S. journalist Dan Savage, right, with his husband Terry Miller, at the LGBT Pride as many 5,000 non-res- radical right by away same-sex rights by Month event at the White House in Washington last June. Savage said his husband idents who came to “stealth” in light of a sur- stealth.” reacted to the news they may not be legally married with “nothing you can print.” Canada to wed are not prise government stand BOB RAE, INTERIM LIBERAL LEADER legally married. that thousands of the non- ‘We’re going to fight’: U.S. writer Dan Savage resident gay and lesbian Thursday. couples who came to Cana- Thousands of same-sex da to exchange vows aren’t marriages since 2004 in- legally married after all. volving couples from out- JOE LOFARO in an interview from Seat- floor, we’re getting up and 2005. “So if we’re not mar- “The narrow interpreta- side Canada are in limbo as IN OTTAWA tle. we’re going to fight,” he ried in Canada, we’re not tion of the law shows that a result of a new position Outspoken American au- The couple were react- said. “But we’re pissed.” domestic partners here.” the Harper government is taken by the Conservative thor and journalist Dan ing to news reports that Savage said that the Savage said the news trying to take away same- government. Savage told his husband the Conservative govern- controversy has left mar- was “personally distress- sex rights by stealth, and In a nutshell, govern- Thursday morning their ment argued non-resident riages like his in “legal ing” and “a big step back- Canadians need to know ment lawyers are arguing in marriage was no longer same-sex couples who limbo.” wards for Canada.” that the advances we court that if same-sex cou- valid. married in Canada are not “In Washington state, He said he and his hus- thought were secure are ples could not be legally What did husband Ter- legally wed if same-sex my husband and I are do- band will continue to now under threat from the married in their home ry Miller have to say about marriages are unlawful in mestic partners because fight to ensure the issue is Harper neo-conservatives,” country, then their Canadi- that? their home jurisdictions. we’re married in Canada,” debated until equality is Interim Liberal Leader Bob an wedding is not valid. “Nothing you can “We’re not crawled up said Savage, who married granted to all same-sex Rae told the Toronto Star TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE print,” Savage told Metro in the fetal position on the Miller in Vancouver in couples. 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Ships of public nudity Ontarian charged after going through drive-thrus naked Claimed nudity was legal form of expression PAOLA LORIGGIO/THE CANADIAN PRESS An Ontario court upheld up of Tim Hortons, of Canada’s public-nudity A&W, without one’s pants law Thursday, saying it expresses little meaning doesn’t infringe on free- about naturism to others, dom of expression or the and it is certainly not per- right to practise naturism. ceived as having impor- While nudism could be tant meaning,” he said. considered a protected One of Coldin’s form of expression under lawyers, Nader Hasan, Defence Minister Peter MacKay, left, and his new bride, certain circumstances, told reporters he is disap- Nazanin Afshin-Jam, chat with ironworker Matthew “requiring people to wear pointed by the decision Jardine at the Halifax Shipyard on Thursday. some modicum of cloth- and his client will consid- ing when in public is a er whether to appeal. Feds reach deal over navy shipAsNDREW VAUGHAN/THE CANADIAN PRESS reasonable limit,” Justice In Canada, it is illegal Jon-Jo A. Douglas told the to be nude in a public court in delivering his place, or while on private Peter MacKay and his wife, Nazanin Afshin-Jam, joined Prime Minister Stephen judgment. property but exposed to Harper as he announced that the federal government and Irving Shipbuilding Inc. The court ruling comes public view. have reached an agreement in principle to begin building the next fleet of navy after a constitutional Brian Coldin appears at Coldin’s lawyers have ships under the $35-billion federal shipbuilding program. challenge by a man court in Bracebridge, Ont., said the law was overly charged in incidents in- on Thursday. broad and should be volving public nudity in struck down. RCMP spied on Rae during the Bracebridge area. Douglas expressed con- Brian Coldin was found when he came to the cern Thursday about re- guilty of partial nudity drive-thru windows and strictions on nudity on student days, documents show that offended public or- one worker said he pre- private property, but de- der for incidents at a park tended to reach for a wal- clined to rule on that as- and two fast-food drive- let as if wearing pants. pect of the law because it SEAN KILPATRICK/ THE CANADIAN PRESS thrus. Outside court Thurs- didn’t apply to Coldin’s The RCMP spied on Bob Rae student council, apparently He was found not day, Coldin said he wasn’t case. during his student activist relying on a secret inform- guilty in another incident nude during that inci- The Crown has asked days and likely amassed a ant to glean information that started on his own dent, but was wearing a the court to fine Coldin personal dossier on the fu- about Rae and other council property, a clothing-op- towel. and place him on three ture Liberal leader, newly members. tional resort he operates In his ruling, Douglas years probation. declassified documents re- The RCMP Security Serv- in the Bracebridge area found Coldin’s actions ex- The defence in court veal. ice conducted widespread north of Toronto. pressed “not much more Thursday argued that Mountie security agents, surveillance of myriad At Coldin’s trial, A&W than his desire to be pub- Coldin isn’t dangerous wary of late-1960s campus groups during the Cold War and Tim Hortons workers licly nude.” and should be discharged. turmoil, kept a close eye on to identify left-wing subver- testified he was nude “Attending at the pick- THE CANADIAN PRESS Bob Rae the University of Toronto sives.THE CANADIAN PRESS 06 news metronews.ca WEEKEND, JANUARY 13-15, 2012 An image from an undated RAMON ESPINOSA/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Text video posted on Wednesday donations shows men in U.S. marine gear standing over three bodies, become new allegedly urinating on the corpses of Afghans. popular way to give back A woman lies on the ground as she and others pray as they visit different The massive earthquake areas of the city where that devastated Haiti two people were killed during years ago prompted an out- the massive January 2010 pouring of charitable dona- U.S. slams marines in earthquake in Port-au-Prince. tions and propelled a new way of giving — through HAITI ANNIVERSARY text messages — into the ‘golden shower’ video public eye. A new survey shows that text messages are NATION MARKS TWO becoming a viable avenue YEARS SINCE QUAKE to give and receive charita- Officials investigating video of men urinating on corpses ble donations, even though people give smaller A video depicting four U.S. tary of State Hillary Clinton held fully accountable.” amounts.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS marines supposedly urinat- said Thursday. A caption beneath the Haitians are marking the placed 1.5 million. 56% ing on the corpses of Clinton expressed “total video, which was posted on second anniversary of a More than 500,000 are Afghans has been con- dismay” over the video, YouTube, identifies the devastating earthquake still in temporary settle- demned as “utterly de- which shows men dressed men as part of a scout with church services ment camps. plorable” and in combat gear standing sniper team assigned to 3rd throughout the deeply National memorial “disrespectful.” over three bodies. It is un- Battalion, 2nd Marines, out religious country. services were planned at The majority of those It is “absolutely inconsis- clear how the three died or of Camp Lejeune, N.C. One The earthquake took a UN base and the site surveyed — 56 per cent tent with American values, whether they were Taliban man in the video says, place on January 2010 north of Port-au-Prince — have contributed to with the standards of be- or civilians. “Golden like a shower.” An- and, according to govern- where thousands are more recent disaster haviour ... that the vast ma- “Anyone found to have other begins to say, “The ment officials, killed buried. recovery efforts via jority of marines hold participated or to have whole thing,” before it 316,000 people and dis- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS text since the Haiti themselves to,” U.S. Secre- known about it ... must be ends. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS quake. IINN 22001122,, MMYY RREESSOOLLUUTTIIOONNSS AARREE TTOO…….. 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Wow its cold out here. #mothernature not the ex- METRO So let’s get started with 25% #winnipeg tremely cold weather you this week’s Metro List, the @RobinMariano: Who feel that should go with it. authoritative compendium of what’s turned on the air- @WpgPeanut: I left the goin’ on: DON’T HOG THE 12% LEAVE A WING conditioner in #winnipeg ? house today. Which is a MACHINES SPAN BETWEEN Somebody turn it off! good thing. I do my best FLOOR MATS 1 PR nightmare: Four U.S. marines @bharapiak:It seems win- pretending that way. are caught urinating on dead Tal- iban with extreme prejudice. Once again, the smartphone proves its PETER DEJONG/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS worth as a weapon of mass embarrassment. Daily Zoom 2 Awwww: Vancouver Aquarium’s sea otter Milo, the world’s cutest animal, succumbs to cancer at 12. A YouTube video of Milo and Nyac — also a sea otter — holding paws and floating on their backs, has racked up 17-million views. Nyac was the older woman; she died last year at 20. Who says otters are slippery? Milo was staunch. 3 Dining alfresco:Breast-feeding pix nixed on Facebook as sexually explicit, which leads us to wonder just how kinky they are at the world’s foremost social network. Meanwhile, that “naturist” guy who kept going through the drive-thru at Timmy Ho’s starkers had his sentence upheld. So what’s the big deal? They’re both cases of little boys having dinner. 4 World’s most dangerous job: Iranian nuclear scientist No. 4 gets blown up this week. The Is- raelis: Who, Us? If this keeps up, Mahmoud Ah- madinejad will have to make his own damn atomic bombs. 5 Katy Perry:5; Russell Brand: 0: She’s hot enough to melt your popsicle, winning five Peo- Signed, sealed, delivered ple’s Choice Awards. Ex-hubby Russell Brand? He loses the California Gurl. And the consolation prize of being referred to as the star of Arthur is no consola- tion at all. Dutch storms create wave “Some of the seals 6 Good news, bad news:In the same week, Toron- to Maple Leafs defenceman Dion Phaneuf gets ‘Screamers’ are really friendly. of orphaned seal pups voted to the all-star squad and is rated the ... They will come NHL’s most overrated player. Somebody’s wrong. American volunteer Torrey right up to you and A volunteer feeds a seal a on beaches and dikes. An Utne said Thursday that in sniff you because 7 HBD:Kate Middleton, er, the Duchess of Some- herring at the Pieterburen existing Pieterburen seal the last 10 days, more than where, turns 30. You think that’s something? seal creche, north of the rehabilitation and 100 seals have been they know you are Betty White turns 90 this week, and she’s still town of Groningen, in research center (SRRC) brought to the centre for the one bringing funny. Kate Middleton has never — to our knowledge northern Netherlands on near the northern city of treatment and it now fish.” — been funny. Although she does smile a lot. Thursday. Groningen has been so in- houses some 350 of the Storms that have lashed undated with pups and marine mammals. AMERICAN VOLUNTEER TORREY 8 Show us the file: The RCMP spied on Bob Rae the Dutch coast this year older seals in recent weeks UTNE, OF BOSTON when he was on the University of Toronto have created a wave of or- it has erected a temporary Many of them are young student council. Now that he’s Liberal leader, phaned baby seals, some tent to house them while pups known as theydon’t care … as he’s a threat to no one. so young their umbilical they are nurtured back to “screamers” for their high- cords are still attached, health before being pitched whining. 9 Bieber watch: He’s going back into the studio to wrenched from their returned to the wild. work on his next album. Will his voice crack be- mothers and washed up THE ASSOCIATED PRESS fore he’s finished? 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To square the deal and pay-off Andy’s debt, Chris agrees to go back in- to his old line of work — scene smuggling. In this case he must illegally transport millions of dollars in coun- terfeit bills. But can he nav- igate around the police, ruthless drug lords and double crosses to keep Scene in brief Andy and his family safe? Mark Wahlberg easily straddles the world of family man and tough guy in Contraband. Ratings: Old plot, new twist Richard: 1111⁄2 Mark: 111 Reel Guys Will Smith will host Nickelodeon’s 25th- RICHARD annual Kids’ Choice CROUSE & The ‘one last heist’ genre gets the grit of Mark Wahlberg in Contraband Awards. Nickelodeon announced Wednes- MARK day that 10-time win- Richard:Mark, Maybe Jan- dives; this flick is the anti- and The Mechanic. Cage. He was fun. Beckin- ner Smith will host BRESLIN uary isn’t a dumping dote to Miami Vice — sale, not so much. Why the March 31 ground for awful movies there’s zero glamour in MB: And I was all excited cast her and then simply ceremony from the anymore. Used to be that this smuggling game. As to see Kate Beckinsale out make her the damsel in Galen Center in Los only the dregs came out af- far as Wahlberg goes, I of Vampirella drag — and distress? You’d think after Angeles. The show ter Christmas, but Contra- found him totally believ- then they gave her noth- kicking werewolf butt in will air live on Nick- band is actually a pretty able and it’s the best thing ing to do; the worst wifey four Underworld movies elodeon. The actor good thriller. It’s not bril- he’s done in a while. But part in recent memory. she’d be able to defend recently finished liant, but succeeds mainly what’s up with Ben Fos- The other supporting roles herself by now. Unfortu- filming Men in Black because Wahlberg can ter? Does he have to be a weren’t all that great, ei- nately the supporting III. play the family man, as he creep in every movie he’s ther, although Giovanni characters are less interest- THE CANADIAN PRESS does in the first part of the in? Ribisi does make a swell ing than the movie as a movie, and then switch bad guy, and I’ll always whole. gears to have believable RC: Foster is a fine but have a soft spot for JK Sim- tough-guy swagger. typecast actor. He really mons after his role in Oz. I MB: It’s not really an ‘ac- needs to break away from like seeing him in any- tor’s movie,’ is it? But the Mark: Well, the plot — the deadbeat kind of char- thing. mechanics of the heist One! Last! Heist! is as old acters he’s been playing work, as well as the action as Dick Clark’s toupee. lately. More work like his RC: With the way Ribisi sequences, and that’s why But the movie is all in the heartrending performance chews the scenery here it’s worth watching. Oh, details — the gritty port in The Messenger please, and his work in The Rum and a fabulous art joke, milieu, the dirty hold of and less like paint-by- Diary he’s proving himself which seems out of whack Sun shines again for Woody Allen after Midnight, the cargo boat, the cheap number creepy guys he to be the hungriest actor with the rest of the film, his latest commercial ‘n’sleazy Panamanian plays in movies like this in Hollywood next to Nic but is a hoot nevertheless. awards hit SEE OUR NEW LOOK AND EXPERIENCE OUR SAME GREAT SERVICE. VISIT THE BRANCH TODAY! 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And they Tatum gushes. “I mean, Channing Tatum meets his match in martial arts found one,” he grins, sit- she’s diesel, but she’s just Gina Carano recalls her ting in a suite at the Four got the best heart and first day of work, which expert Gina Carano They square off in Haywire Seasons in Beverly Hills she’s so good in this had her going toe-to-toe where he’s promoting his movie.” with one of 2011’s break- latest film, Haywire, a Carano, best known for out stars, Michael Fassben- SASHA Channing Tatum knows wasn’t interested in watch- Bourne-esque action her fight appearances and der. “At that point, I had PERL-RAVER how to pick a fight. Last ing or starring opposite a thriller about a covert op- role as Crush on American only read lines with an act- [email protected] year, he quite vocally went female action hero until erative caught in a deadly Gladiators, was ap- ing coach for maybe three METRO WORLD NEWS IN HOLLYWOOD on the record admitting he Hollywood unearthed a double cross that’s head- proached by Haywire di- days,” she cringes. “I rector Steven Soderbergh showed up and Michael to do an action movie, said, ‘You want to run though he did caution her lines?’ And I said, ‘Please.’ it would be “interesting” It was the first time I’d run to see who signed oppo- lines with an actor. He put site on for roles that de- some whiskey down in manded grown men get front of me and said, ‘OK, their butts kicked by a girl let’s do this.’” … who also happens to be a trained Muy Thai fight- also loved Pride and Preju- er. dice,” says she feels incred- “She’s a real fighter, ibly lucky to have been she can beat up most given the chance to do any dudes,” Tatum chuckles. movie, let alone the lead in Her other co-stars are a Soderbergh project. equally enthusiastic: “Oh, I “I don’t consider myself got my butt kicked side- what people are necessari- ways by her and I loved ly looking for,” she says, every minute of it,” Ewan surprisingly sheepish for McGregor offers. “It never someone who knows her crossed my mind for a way around a submission minute not to do the choke-out. movie for some macho rea- “So I knew if I was going son.” to get this opportunity, it Carano, who describes was going to have to come herself as “a tomboy who to me. And it did.” HANDOUT Martial Arts star Gina Carano gets to kick Michael Fassbender’s butt in Haywire, which opens next Friday.