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metronews.ca WEEKEND, October 12-14, 2012
Hammers and swords. Defence turns tables in trial over brutal killing The threads of a potential defence theory in a trial about a brutal beating and sword killing began to emerge Thursday as a pathologist was crossexamined. The defence suggested the victim in a brutal May 2009 fight might have at one point been wielding a sword. Toby Land, 28, has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder in the May 2009 death of Dominic Doyon, 31, who was found in an apartment with indented, crescentshaped marks on his skull — allegedly made by a hammer — and stab wounds the Crown alleges were made by a Samurai sword. The Crown alleges Land was upset Doyon was dating a teenager. Under cross-examination, Dr. Christopher Milroy said Doyon had defensive wounds to the outside of his forearms
A court sketch of Toby Land. contributed
and outside of his hands. Milroy told defence lawyer Neil Weinstein he couldn’t rule out the possibility Doyon had been holding the sword when he sustained the defensive wounds. But he added a note of skepticism at the idea. “It would be more difficult to get close to somebody. You have to consider the sword is one and a half feet long.” SEAN MCKIBBON/METRO
Ice hockey. Feds help fund women’s world championships in April Ottawa is getting $500,000 in funding from the federal government to bring the world championship of women’s hockey to the city next spring. “This event will have an economic boost (to) the region,” said Bal Gosal, minister of state (sport), at the city’s sports hall of fame. A similar event, January 2012’s NHL All-Star Game and skills competition, poured $29 million into the city’s economy. “We expect it will generate more ‘Where were you when?’ moments,” said Cyril Leeder, president of the Ottawa Senators. The games will take place at the Nepean Sportsplex arena from April 2 to 9, 2013. “We’ve got the product,” said Tessa Bonhomme, who plays defence on the national
Local designers flaunt their threads Model Mahlet Seifu, founder of Me.Tu Style, hopes to catch the ear of industry players at Ottawa Fashion Week. courtesy of muse mohammed photography
Ottawa Fashion Week. New talent like Mahlet Seifu see event as a stepping stone for their careers Mayor Jim Watson, left, and Minister of State (Sport) Bal Gosa pose with the National Women’s Team’s Tessa Bonhomme. graham lanktree/metro
women’s team and helped bring home a gold medal at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games. “Many middle-aged men came up and said after how fast and skilled our game is.” GRAHAM LANKTREE/metro
cal designers and it might be easy to get out there, but you have to work,” said Mahlet Seifu of Me.Tu Style, a handbag-and-purse line preparing for launch late this month. “The online world makes things smaller. You can’t slack off and think you’ll get recognition. If Ottawa is Graham a stepping stone, designers Lanktree need to step it up.” graham.lanktree@metronews.ca After modelling for OtAs Preston Street turns into a tawa designers for years, fashion boulevard for Ottawa Seifu wanted to step it up in Fashion Week, young local de- her own way. Travelling to signers say that, thanks to the Ethiopia in April, she spent Internet, even the city’s small a month there working with industry is a great place to start traditional textile weavers T:10”making designs and protoflaunting their threads. “People here support lo- types for her handbag line.
When and where
Ottawa Fashion Week runs Oct. 9-14 at the Sala San Marco.
inspired designs. Alishka sells her work in boutiques across Canada including Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver and here in Ottawa at Victoire. “It’s easy to look them up online. Then I just call them up,” she said. “I’ve never done anything like this before,” she added. “It’s a great way to get my name out there and meet new people in the industry.”
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By modelling in a couple of Fashion Week shows, Seifu hopes to catch the ear of industry players on the sidelines to tell the story of how her designs are employing a team of Ethiopian artisans in the country of her birth. “In Ottawa everybody wants to help each other out,” she said. “A lot of collaboration happens between designers. Fashion Week can help. It’s important to make those connections.” The most difficult part of being a designer in the city is finding fabric, said Alice Alishka, whose spring line debuting Sunday uses generative software to print floral-