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U of A students break the ice with igloo

University of Alberta students Lisa Dahlke, Kathrin Kapfinger and Tudor Apan sit in the International House igloo made by university students. STEPHANIE DUBOIS/METRO

Brick by brick. Students use igloo to cope with winter months STEPHANIE DUBOIS

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International and Canadian University of Alberta students decided to embrace winter by building an igloo.

Built using milk cartons to make the bricks, students living in the university’s International House joined together to make the iconic winter structure to cope with the

colder months.

In da IHouse Romanian student Tudor Apan led the igloo-building campaign, saying building the There are students from 45 winter structure was a unique different countries staying experience. at IHouse this semester.

“It was so hard, especially at the end because I think I • Students from around swallowed a lot of snow and the world and Canada water,” he said. “It’s also symshare the accommodabolic with all the colours and tions each semester. multiculturalism.”

The igloo took two weeks • More than 700 milk to build, and the opening cerecartons were collected to build the igloo. monies were held Dec. 19 with students on hand.

Students started collecting milk cartons at the beginning milk cartons getting fairly of the semester to build the competitive, according to igloo, with a competition for IHouse students.

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A Spruce Grove father says he was the target of recent credit card fraud while vacationing in Anaheim, Calif.

Ron Zapisocki was vacationing with his family at Disneyland when they decided to stop at a nearby Target department store to buy snacks for their trip.

After trying to pay for the items with his MasterCard, Zapisocki was told by the cashier his card didn’t work. Confused, Zapisocki paid for the items with his Visa during the Dec. 13 store trip. It was only when he returned to Alberta that he learned his MasterCard credit card had been compromised, with about $3,000 in unauthorized purchases charged to his account.

Zapisocki believes he is one of the 40 million Target customers who swiped their debit and credit cards between Nov. 27 and Dec. 15 and were targeted by hackers.

According to a message posted by Target president and CEO Gregg Steinhafel on target.com, “the cause of this issue has been addressed.”

After receiving spraying equipment that he believes was purchased with his card at his home on Saturday, Zapisocki is now worried the hackers can use his home address.

“This is a little disturbing because of them having my address and I’m assuming it opens up an opportunity for them to apply for credit in my name,” he said. Zapisocki doesn’t owe any money towards those purchases but is warning travellers to be careful when using credit or debit cards. STEPHANIE DUBOIS/METRO,

ing milk cartons but it was worth it,” said Kathrin Kapfinger, a student from Germany who won for collecting the most milk cartons.

Many students living in the campus residence are visiting from countries without snow and campus staff said the igloo represents a sense of community for the students.

“When people are away from home, it’s really important that they can create wonderful things where they’re at, share and come together on projects like this. It’s symbolic of the diversity of all the people that are building it,” said Leslie Weigl, global education co-ordinator with IHouse.

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Edmonton cops, kids set for fifth annual McCauley Cup Hitting the rink.

Officers will take to the ice for a fun game of hockey with local youth Edmonton’s downtown division police officers are sharpening up their skates to face off against local youth for the annual McCauley Cup. The game, now in its fifth year, brings together members of the McCauley community to play a game of pick-up hockey against police who work the downtown beat.

“This is an annual hockey game that fosters positive relationships between police and kids, youth and the neighbouring community,” said Noreen Remtulla, an EPS spokesperson.

“There is always lots of smiles and laughter on the ice, no matter what the weather,” she added.

With kids ranging in age from five to 18, Remtulla said that the hockey game acts as a common ground for youth to meet the area’s police officers.

“Sometimes it’s the first time a lot of these kids are meeting the police, so it is always a good idea to have them meet (officers) in a posi-

Hobbema man charged

Arrest made in attempted murder case A Hobbema man has been charged with attempted murder after he allegedly stabbed a 50-year-old man and then set his house on fire, said RCMP. Ryan Okeynan, 26, was arrested shortly after authorities responded to a house fire in the Samson Cree Nation.

The victim was found with multiple stab wounds at a neighbour’s residence.

RCMP suspect the victim attempted to flee his burning house.

Along with attempted murder, Okeynan is being charged with aggravated assault, arson and breach of conditions.

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The fifth annual McCauley Cup, a hockey game for Edmonton police and youth from the McCauley neighbourhood, is set for Dec. 27. Contributed

tive light and to build and foster those relationships and get to know them as well,” she said.

According to Meredith Porter, president of the McCauley community league,

the event is more than just a hockey game with EPS. “It’s a wonderful way for people who live in the neighbourhood to connect with people who skate in the neighbourhood from all

corners,” she said. “I think it is nice because it puts faces to names for residents in terms of police officers and it’s nice for police officers to also know who is around and know what is going on in

people’s lives.”

Porter called the event a bridge for the community.

The puck drops Dec. 27 at 2 p.m. at the McCauley outdoor rink at 96 Street and 108 Avenue. Leah Germain/Metro

An Edmonton police helicopter made an unexpected landing on Monday at about 3 a.m. at a west-end parking lot after freezing rain reduced the pilot’s visibility.

The helicopter, Air 2, was returning to the Villeneuve Airport early this morning when it encountered freezing rain.

Rather than taking the risk to proceed to the airport, the flight crew made an immediate decision to land at Callingwood Mall.

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High River. Flood-ravaged town lets one neighbourhood return to natural state An Alberta town hit hard by flooding last spring has decided to buy out one neighbourhood and leave it undeveloped.

High River Mayor Craig Snodgrass says council has agreed with engineers to let the neighbourhood of Wallaceville return to its natural state.

Snodgrass says doing this will also protect the rest of the community.

“The decision to return Wallaceville to an undeveloped state was not taken lightly, however we do believe it is the responsible direction to take, and we know that the property owners need a decision so they can move forward,” he said in a release.

The mayor says Wallaceville was one of the hardest hit areas of the June flood because it sits at a critical choke point along the Highwood River, and it has repeatedly flooded.

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Those who own property in the area but do not live there are asked to phone 403-6033583 with their details.

River, says in order to protect Wallaceville, a 3.2 metre-high dike would have to be built around it.

He says the feasibility of doing that was questionable.

The properties to be included in the Wallaceville naturalization are those contained between Lineham Canal and the main channel of the Highwood River along and east of Centre Street. Valuation of the properties in the neighbourhood will be based on 2013 municipal tax assessments. Details on the property purchase program are being finalized and will be available in January. the canadian press

New Year’s Eve

Man arrested for library voyeurism

Ring in 2014 with a bang, Edmonton

Edmonton police have arrested a man in relation to a voyeurism incident in the public washrooms at the Lois Hole Library.

Antonio Petraglia, 47, is charged with voyeurism after a 19-year old woman reported to police that “an elderly male” followed her into the women’s washroom and peered up at her from the adjacent stall on Dec. 7, said a news release.

Police arrested Petraglia at the same library Dec. 15 after witnesses identified the suspect from a photo.

The city and Events Edmonton want Edmontonians to ring in 2014 with a bang at the New Year’s Eve family event on Dec. 31.

Starting at 7 p.m. at city hall, live entertainment, kids’ crafts, magicians and face painters will entertain all ages.

At 10 p.m. live music, ice skating and food concessions and a midnight fireworks show will close the evening’s events. Public transportation will be free that night. More details can be found at the Events Edmonton website. metro

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Shane Schroeder remembered Sarah Janzen and her brother, Shane Schroeder, pose together. Shane was killed Dec. 20 in an avalanche near Golden, B.C. Facebook

Avalanche victim.

Edmonton woman calls brother ‘gentle soul’ after he was killed in an avalanche leah Germain

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It has been a tough few days for Sarah Janzen and her family.

After her brother Shane Schroeder was killed by an avalanche in Golden, B.C. on

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Friday, Janzen said she and her parents spent the weekend remembering who he was as a person.

“He was a good guy and it’s good to let people know who he was,” Janzen said in an interview with Metro. “I wish everyone could live like he did: just a kind-hearted, gentle soul.

Schroeder, 29, was killed Dec. 20 while snowboarding out of bounds at Kicking Horse Mountain Resort.

“I think almost anyone could call him a best friend, kind and always full of love and

Facebook page

Friends and family have set up a memorial page for Schroeder on Facebook — www.facebook.com/ShaneSchroederMemorial

laughter,” Janzen continued.

Despite a five-and-a-halfyear age difference, Janzen said her and Schroeder were always friends.

An avid snowboarder, Janzen said her brother fell in love with the winter sport im-

mediately after his first time five years ago.

“When he found something he loved, he would go all in,” she said.

While no date has been set for a memorial, Janzen and her parents are working on a service for Schroeder that would be more of a celebration of his life instead of a funeral.

A sticker campaign, #shred4shane, was also launched this past weekend by some of Schroeder’s friends to raise awareness for avalanche safety.

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Hydro crews work around the clock to get lights back on Ice storm. Hundreds of thousands in Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick may still be without power on Christmas Day A nasty ice storm that left hundreds of thousands without power in Ontario and Quebec tracked through the Maritimes on Monday as authorities worked frantically to clear tree-strewn roadways, restore downed hydro lines and get stranded travellers to their destinations.

Hydro companies in the Greater Toronto Area — which appeared to be the hardest hit by the weather system — warned some residents to brace for the possibility of being without power until Boxing Day or later.

Some neighbourhoods resembled crime scenes with yellow police tape used to cordon off areas where electric wires or large trees had come crashing down over the weekend.

Sidewalks around some high rise buildings were also closed off due to the risk of falling ice.

Meanwhile, travellers trying to get home for the holidays continued to face delays and cancellations on airlines and trains.

Environment Canada said the storm had hit Eastern

metronews.ca Tuesday, December 24, 2013

Montreal. Alleged mafia boss dies in hospital Vito Rizzuto, the reputed head of the Montreal Mafia who built a powerful criminal organization with international tentacles, died in hospital Monday.

Rizzuto, 67, passed away of natural causes, said Maude Hebert-Chaput of Montreal’s Sacre-Coeur Hospital.

His death raises questions about the future of the Rizzuto clan’s decades-old empire. the canadian press

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Russia. Pussy Riot calls for boycott of Olympics The last two imprisoned members of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot walked free Monday, criticizing the amnesty measure that released them as a publicity stunt, with one calling for a boycott of the Winter Olympics to protest Russia’s human rights record.

Maria Alekhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova were granted amnesty last week in a move largely viewed as the A crew subcontracted to assist with restoring power following the ice storm in Toronto works on a power line on Monday. Matthew Sherwood/the canadian press

Canada hard. “It was a mighty blow,” senior climatologist David Phillips told The Canadian Press.

The weather agency said the system had turned particularly vicious thanks to a combination of warm air from Texas colliding with cold air over Canada to create a drawnout period of freezing rain.

“We had freezing rain from south of London, all the way through to Ottawa and Montreal and southern Quebec and now today to central and southern New Brunswick, all of P.E.I. and most of Nova Scotia,” said Phillips. the canadian press

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2 dead from carbon monoxide Police in Durham Region, east of Toronto, say two people are dead after carbon monoxide seeped into their home from a gas generator running in the garage.

Police say emergency services were called to the home at about 3:30 p.m. Monday

regarding several people who were feeling ill. A 52-yearold man and his 72-year-old mother were rushed to Lakeridge Health Bowmanville but did not survive. Their names have not been released.

Police say a gas-powered generator was running in the garage to supply electricity to heat the house, and although there was no access to the house from the garage, the fumes still got inside the home. the canadian press

Kremlin’s attempt to soothe criticism of Russia’s human rights record before the Sochi Games in February.

The amnesty — part of a wide measure passed last week by the parliament — and President Vladimir Putin’s pardoning last week of political rival Mikhail Khodorkovsky freed some of the most prominent convicts in politically-tainted cases. the associated press

Ammolite. National treasure stolen in heist Police in Vancouver are looking for a rare gemstone stolen early last Friday morning in a robbery in the city’s Gastown district.

The front window of Rocks and Gems Canada was smashed Dec. 20 and police say the crook made off with a nearly 28 centimetre-long piece of ammolite. The opallike gem is worth $500,000.

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Smartphones. Apple inks deal with China Mobile as it battles cheaper rivals Apple’s stock rose three per cent in morning trading on Monday, a day after the company announced a long-anticipated agreement to bring the iPhone to China Mobile, the world’s biggest phone company.

The deal has the potential to boost iPhone sales in a market where Apple Inc. faces intense competition.

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SHE SAYS ing. Sulk away Christmas babies! Because reHe is not alone in his misery. Many Caprigardless of whether or not you choose to celecorn babies are quite vocal about their illJessica Napier brate, this eternally merry and bright holiday timed birthdates and the dreaded Birthdaymetronews.ca is impossible to ignore.

Christmas combo gifts. Why is it that a joint Competing with Christmas is not an option and so yulegift would be a complete outrage for an individual born in tide birthdays will inevitably become an afterthought. BirthJune but it’s totally justifiable for anyone afflicted with a Deday gifts are wrapped in snowman-print paper, tinsel garcember 25th adjacent birthdate? lands adorn the hallways instead of balloons and banners, There are even parenting blogs dedicated to helping

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and an abundance of gingerbread cookies and candy canes are placed around the house so that requesting an actual birthday cake seems out of the question.

Worse still is the absence of people willing and available to celebrate your special day. Absentee friends are out of town or suffering from holiday party fatigue. Even those high school acquaintances you never speak to are too distracted to remember to leave an obligatory ‘Happy Birthday’ Facebook wall post.

Of course there are some perks: Everyone is already in a celebratory mood, you’ll probably have the day off work or school, and you’ll be surrounded by all of your family (this may or may not be a good thing). If you’re very lucky, perhaps some sympathetic friends and family will try to overcompensate with some extra special attention.

But perhaps we can all take a little time this holiday season to do our part to make the neglected birthday boys and girls feel extra special. And please, no Follow Jessica Napier on combo gifts.

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Polar bear pic wins top award An eerie picture of a polar bear lurking beneath melting sea ice has won the grand prize of the 2013 National Geographic Photo Contest.

Seattle-based photographer Paul Souders captured this striking image last year in Hudson Bay, as the setting midnight sun glowed red from the smoke of distant fires. METRO

‘Hasn’t been done before’ PAUL SOUDERS Wildlife and travel photographer, 52, based in Seattle, Wash.

How did this photograph come about?

In July last year, I travelled to Churchill, Man., and in

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my inflatable zodiac boat I found one bear. She swam up to an iceberg, ducked under and stayed underwater for several seconds. She hung there, just below the surface, watching me, then came up for another breath before swimming away.

The polar bear looks pensive yet menacing. How does she seem to you?

It’s so spooky, knowing that the bear was peering back at me, so watchful and curious. It really feels like a moment of communion and trust for me.

Why do you think it caught the judges’ eyes?

It’s pretty tough to create a picture that hasn’t been done before, and I think maybe this is one of them.

RE: Nova Scotia Still Bucking Boxing Day Trend By Keeping Stores Closed On Dec. 26, published online Dec. 23 A government shouldn’t even have any say on when a business can open or not. We live in a free country.

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Good for N.S. and let’s keep it up.

Retail workers already get so few real holiday days (because most so called ‘holidays’ only benefit students/ teachers and certain government workers) to spend with their families, now heaven forbid greedy people might have to, gasp, wait two days to buy their Boxing Day sales items!

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Comedy

Grudge Match Director. Peter Segal Stars. Robert De Niro

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Bruce Willis wallops the legacy of John McClane for a quick paycheque in A Good Way to Die Hard. CONTRIBUTED

Rocky or Raging Bull, who would prevail in a boxing match? That’s the question asked in Grudge Match. Robert De Niro and Sylvester Stallone star as retired Pittsburgh boxers who get the chance to step back in the ring to settle a three decade old grudge and make “Kardashian sex tape” kind of money. This is a new story, occasionally funny and touching, but with lots of elements borrowed from other classic movies. RICHARD CROUSE

The worst of film in 2013

Forgettable fare.

In a year of great films, there were still plenty of stinkers NED EHRBAR

Metro World News in Hollywood

Yesterday we looked at some of the best films of 2013.

Today, to balance out that bright note, we look at some of the dark spots of 2014.

Man of Steel While there may have been many technically worse films this year, Zack Snyder’s bombastic, tone-deaf update on Superman fails on a spectacularly higher level. Consider it a weighted grade. Moralizing, wanton destruction and clumsy product placement are a

tough mix.

A Good Way to Die Hard Bruce Willis further tarnishes the legacy of John McClane with this loud and unfun entry that’s a Die Hard film in name only. Maybe he’s squinting the whole time because he can’t bear to look at what he’s creating.

Safe Haven Romance-loving audiences deserve better than this poorly executed dreck from the mind of bestseller Nicholas Sparks. From the wooden acting to the contrived plot to the limping pacing, this would’ve seemed bad as a Lifetime movie.

Free Birds Kids’ movies generally get more of a pass critically, but some things we can’t let slide. Children deserve

better than this odd, clumsy tale of turkeys stealing a time machine to change the menu at the first Thanksgiving.

The Last Stand The kitschy 1980s action tropes that made Arnold Schwarzenegger a star just don’t work anymore, as the former California governor painfully learned when no one showed up to see his first starring vehicle since returning to acting.

Bizarre character actor Peter Stormare attempting a Texas accent almost makes it worth enduring.

Almost.

The Host There’s a certain amount of satisfaction to be taken in watching Twilight guru Stephenie Meyer’s attempt at a follow-up franchise crash and burn, but it’s a shame

it had to involve the lovely Saoirse Ronan. Still, she should come out of this fine.

Delivery Man Listen, if Vince Vaughn isn’t going to bother showing up for his films anymore, why should we? Paying to watch a haggard movie star sleepwalk through scenes doesn’t sound like very much fun.

Stand Up Guys Al Pacino and Christopher Walken as aging wiseguys felt like a throwback itself in all the wrong ways. And in a year dispiritingly full of signs of creeping chauvinism and misogyny, this was one of the worst offenders.

Romeo and Juliet Julian Fellowes’ take on Shakespeare’s classic teens at least gave audiences a new appreciation for Baz Luhrmann.

Biography/Comedy

The Wolf of Wall Street Director. Martin Scorsese Stars. Leonardo DiCaprio

••••• Set during Wall Street’s cocaine and hookers era, The Wolf of Wall Street is based on real life brokers Jordan Belfort (Leonard DiCaprio) and Donnie Azoff (Jonah Hill), who snorted and scammed their way to the top, only to become the subject of an FBI investigation into financial corruption. With its fourth wall breaking narration, scandalous set pieces and absurd antics this is a wild cinematic experience. At three hours it’s almost as excessive as Balfort’s $26,000 dinners.

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Biography/Drama

Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom Director. Justin Chadwick Stars. Idris Elba, Naomie Harris

••••• Nelson Mandela’s life is so astonishing even Hollywood cannot seem to bring its incredulity to life. Based on his autobiography, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom attempts to cram the subject’s lifetime battle against apartheid into 139 minutes and the result only dilutes the measure of the late South African President’s story. It winds up more encyclopedic than epic.

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METRO DISH OUR TAKE ON THE WORLD OF CELEBRITIES Holidays in Hollywood

Beyoncé

Attention Walmart shoppers, there’s a Beyoncé in aisle four The Queen Bey visited a Massachusetts Walmart before her Boston concert on Friday and spread some holiday cheer to the tune of $39,800.

The singer, who might be the only human alive (other than Yeezus, of course) rivaling Miley in the headline-making department, did a mic-check on a Tewskbury Walmart’s PA system and announced that she would pay the first $50 of every customer’s purchase.

Which, of course, is super nice. But also, what? What compelled Beyoncé (other than a top notch PR team who

I’m sure gently suggested this might be a not-terrible stunt to pull) to casually drop by a Walmart in nowheresville, Mass., and pay for some lastminute holidays shoppers’ layaway crap? I’m not saying it was a bad stunt, I’m just saying it’s a random one.

Anyway, this is all to say that Beyoncé’s image as one of the most likable (and that’s saying a lot, because it’s pretty easy to hate someone so fabulous) ladies in the biz isn’t in danger of cracking anytime soon. metro

Twitter @robdelaney ••••• Just saw a Hasidic man & 2 Asian girls laugh at a dog knocking over a garbage can so don’t even act like peace isn’t possible guys. @Brittanysnow ••••• I bet cats really hate the fact that they can’t hashtag #yolo

@RebelWilson ••••• All this reminds me of when I got kicked out of an ‘Open House’ Pretty Woman style last weekend coz the broker thought I couldn’t afford it

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Studio puts the brakes on Fast & Furious sequel in wake of tragedy Looks like Duck Dynasty won’t be without a home pat healy

Metro World News

Aw, here’s a heartwarming story just in time for the holidays. Thanks to Hunt Channel — a Christian television network that markets almost exclusively in reality shows about Bible-lovin’, gun-totin’ folks who kill defenseless creatures for sport — Duck Dynasty will not go homeless if A&E decides to drop it on its redneck butt.

A lot of people are calling for the network to pull the plug on Duck Dynasty — surprisingly one of the highestrated reality shows of all time (proof, I think, of the rapid decline of our intelligence as a society thanks to the Internet and sexting and global

warming or whatever) — after patriarch in charge Phil Robertson’s recent eloquent musings on homosexuality.

And, apparently, the other Duck Dynasty cast members are among those calling for the show to be yanked.

Robertson’s brood of fellow people who like to make the duckies go bye-bye with the boom boom stick have his back, and have recently gone on record saying that they don’t want to do the show without him.

Fortunately, the Hunt Channel is making it their business to ensure that they won’t have to. A Christmas miracle!

According to a TMZ report, Hunt channel owner Merrill Sport thinks that A&E should “put on their big boy pants” and support the cast of Duck Dynasty for being the unapologetic bigots they are. Further, Sport is more than happy to put on his own pair of big kid trousers and air the show himself.

Because, at Hunt Channel, he says, “we don’t censor our personalities.”

Universal Pictures has delayed the release of Fast & Furious 7 for almost a year following the death of star Paul Walker.

The studio announced Monday that the Fast & Furious sequel will be released in April 2015, instead of July next year.

Shooting on the film was about halfway finished when the 40-year-old Walker died in a car

crash outside of Los Angeles.

Walker still will appear in the film, though Universal has not said exactly how it will handle his unfinished performance.

Co-star Vin Diesel first posted the news on Facebook, telling his fans that, “He’d want you to know first.”

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Miley beckons us into her boudoir, but do we really want to be there?

Have you guys seen this clip that’s going around from Miley’s new music video for her song Adore You? If you haven’t, because, I guess, you don’t have a google alert set up for “Miley Cyrus” like I do, here’s the relevant info: It features grainy, sex tape-esque footage of Miley, er, pleasuring herself.

I guess we now have the answer to the age-old question “where does one in eternal pursuit of shock value and press go, after humping a foam finger while practically naked onstage?”

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Healthy highs and lows this year In our look back at 2013: HIV cures, HIV scares and how a pet can save your life MICHELLE CASTILLO Metro World News

LIFE

LOW: U.S. porn industry shuts down three times due to HIV scare

HIGH: The nextgeneration condom

Debbie didn’t do many people this year. Numerous HIV-positive test results in the U.S. porn industry forced a moratorium on production while all potentially infected performers were re-tested for the virus. Current regulations require porn stars to be tested every 14 days in the U.S., limiting the number of people who could be exposed.

No glove, no love may be the motto but many men, particularly in developing countries, remain adverse to the prophylactics. To encourage use, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation offered $100,000 to anyone that could come up with the next evolution of the male condom, with up to $1 million for additional research.

Eleven ideas won the firstround funding, including a condom made out of bovine tendons.

HIGH: A big year for ART

HIGH: Get a pet, save your life

Across the world, more than 5 million screaming bundles of joy are born to people who may otherwise never have the experience of having a child without fertility treatments.

More than half of the 5 million ART babies have been born in just the last six years, meaning the technology is improving.

If you need another reason to convince yourself to get a pet, the American Heart Association confirmed what was once an old wives’ tale: that having a pet was linked to lower heart disease, lower blood pressure, lower cholesterol levels and lower levels of obesity.

The next-gen condom couldn’t have come sooner. THINKSTOCK

HIGH: Face transplants The practice of transplanting another person’s face onto a patient has been around for a few years — and not just on Nip/Tuck. This year, however, marked many improvements in the field. Polish doctors claimed to complete the world’s fastest face transplant — a 27-hour procedure just three weeks after the patient’s accident.

Meanwhile, several patients in the U.S. who received facial transplants in 2012 were shown to have improved facial sensation just one year later.

LOW: Emergency birth control doesn’t work … sometimes European pharmaceutical regulators approved a warning label change that would alert users of Norlevo (levonorgestrel) that it loses potency for women over 165 pounds and does not work in women over 176 pounds.

The morning-after pill is a form of emergency birth control that was supposed to prevent pregnancy within 72 hours after having unprotected sexual intercourse.

HIGH: Baby “cured” of HIV While a cure for HIV and AIDS still remains elusive, doctors in Mississippi claimed to have eradicated the HIV virus from a baby by giving her a three-drug regiment within 30 hours of her birth. The mother of the child had not received any pre-natal treatment to prevent transmission, and a blood test had determined that the child was HIV positive at the time of birth. The child, who was two and a half years old at the time of the March announcement, no longer has any traces of the HIV virus in her blood.

LOW: Heroin-like drug spreads overseas For years, Russia has battled a problem with krokodil or desomorphine, an opioid drug in the same family as heroin and oxycodone. It is more potent than morphine, and is easily made with codeine, paint thinner, gasoline and other overthe-counter products.

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Lean pork tenderloin gets a flavour boost from prosciutto, mushrooms and fresh herbs My choice for an elegant holiday dinner? It’s hard to beat a roast, and more often than not my pick is a lean and moist pork tenderloin.

But let’s face it, as much as we want to be healthy, there is such a thing as roast that is too lean. A lack of fat often means a lack of flavour. So how to make up this deficit? With plenty of high-flavour ingredients such as prosciutto, fresh herbs, mushrooms and wine.

Prosciutto packs a ton of flavour, and the slight amount of fat it adds is well worth it. As for the herbs, I took a tip from the Italians, who often top off a grilled steak with fresh herbs and a drizzle of olive oil.

Double Pork Roast with Mushroom Marsala Sauce

Ingredients • 2 pork tenderloin roasts

(3/4 to 1 lb each), trimmed of all fat • 2 tbsp packed fresh rosemary leaves, chopped • 2 tbsp packed fresh thyme leaves, chopped • 4 oz thinly sliced prosciutto • 3 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil, divided • Kosher salt and ground black pepper • 1/2 cup finely chopped shallots or onion • 1/2 lb mushrooms (cremini, white button, shiitake, oyster or a mix), trimmed and sliced • 1/2 cup dry Marsala wine • 1 1/4 cups low-sodium chicken broth • 1 tbsp all-purpose flour

1. Heat the oven to 350 F. Cut

down through each tenderloin lengthwise so that you can open it up like a book, but do not cut all the way through.

Sprinkle water on the cutting board under the tenderloin and sprinkle a little water on top of the tenderloin (this will help prevent the meat from tearing when you pound it).

Cover the tenderloin with plas-

This recipe serves six. The Associated Press

tic wrap and pound the meat using a meat mallet or rolling pin until it is about 1/2-inch thick.

2. Sprinkle half the rosemary

and thyme leaves all over the inside of each butterflied and

Dinner. 5-Grain Pilaf with Balsamic Mushrooms Ingredients • 1 pkg (250 g) PC 5-Grain

Blend

• 1 pkg (227 g) white button

mushrooms

• 3 tbsp (45 ml) olive oil • 1 tbsp (15 ml) balsamic

vinegar

• 1 cup (250 ml) sliced

shallots

This recipe serves six. President’s choice

1. Preheat oven to 425 F. Line rimmed baking sheet with foil.

In saucepan, bring 8 cups (2 l) water to a boil. Add 5-grain blend. Return to a boil. Reduce heat to medium-high and cook, uncovered, for 10 minutes.

Drain and set aside.

2.

• ½ cup (125 ml) finely diced

carrots

• 1 large clove garlic, thinly

sliced

• ½ cup (125 ml) chicken

broth • 1 tsp (5 ml) salt • ½ tsp (2 ml) freshly ground black pepper • ½ cup (125 ml) grated Parmigiano Reggiano • ¼ cup (50 ml) chopped fresh parsley

On prepared baking sheet, toss mushrooms with 1 tablespoon (15 ml) of the oil. Roast in centre of oven for 20 minutes.

Toss with 2 teaspoons (10 ml) of the balsamic vinegar; return to oven and roast another 5 minutes. Set aside.

softened. Stir in drained 5-grain blend. Increase heat to high; cook for 5 minutes, stirring.

Stir in chicken broth; cook for 2 minutes. Remove from heat.

3. In large nonstick frying pan,

4. Stir

heat remaining 2 tablespoons (25 ml) oil over medium-low heat; cook shallots, carrots and garlic for 4 to 6 minutes or until

in salt, pepper and remaining 1 teaspoon (5 ml) balsamic vinegar. Stir in mushrooms, cheese and parsley.

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pounded pork tenderloin and spread the prosciutto evenly in one layer over the herbs. Beginning with the long end, roll up the tenderloin tightly, tucking in the ends (as you would a burrito). Use kitchen twine to tie the roll in a bundle, tying it

every 2 inches.

3.

In a large nonstick skillet over medium-high, heat 1 tablespoon of the oil. Season the pork lightly on all sides with salt and pepper, then add it to the skillet. Sear until

golden brown on all sides.

Transfer the pork to a shallow baking pan, then roast on the oven’s middle shelf until the centre reaches 145 F, about 20 to 25 minutes. Remove the pork from the oven and cover

Pot roast that’s fit for a feast 1. Heat the oven to 350 F. In a food processor, combine the red onions, carrots, celery and leeks. Pulse until finely chopped, but not so finely that a paste is formed.

Holiday Pot Roast with Spiced Root Vegetables

2.

In a large Dutch oven or heavy bottomed large pot over medium, heat the olive oil.

Add the onion-carrot mixture and cook, stirring occasionally, until golden brown, 12 to 15 minutes. Spoon the mixture out into a bowl.

3. Trim the chuck roast of any

very large pieces of fat. Season the meat liberally with salt and black pepper. Increase the heat under the Dutch oven to high and add the meat. Sear on all sides until well browned, 3 to 4 minutes per side. Transfer the roast to a plate.

4.

Add a bit of the red wine to the pot and scrape up any browned bits on the bottom.

Return the browned vegetable mixture to the pot along with the rest of the red wine, beef stock, tomato paste, mustard, bay leaves, and rosemary. Stir well. Carefully return the roast to the pot, cover and place in the oven for 3 to 4 hours, or until very tender.

This recipe serves 12. The Associated Press

5.

Meanwhile, prepare the roasted vegetables. In a large bowl, toss together the carrots, parsnips, onions, sunchokes and sweet potatoes. Drizzle with olive oil and toss to coat.

6.

In a small bowl, mix together the salt, black pepper, cumin, coriander and fennel seed. Sprinkle over the vegetables and toss again.

Spread onto a rimmed baking sheet. After the chuck has been roasting for 2 1/2 hours, add the vegetables to the oven.

Roast, stirring occasionally, for 45 minutes to 1 hour, or until

browned and tender.

7. When the chuck is finished

cooking, remove the pot from the oven and transfer the roast to a plate. Cover with foil. Remove the rosemary and bay leaves from the pot and discard. Transfer the remaining contents to a blender and blend until smooth, making sure to use caution when blending the hot liquid. Return to the pot and bring to a boil. Simmer until reduced to about 5 cups, or gravy thickness. Serve with the roast and root vegetables.

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loosely with foil.

4.

Meanwhile, make the sauce. Return the skillet to medium heat. Add the remaining 2 tablespoons of oil and the shallots and cook, stirring, until the shallots are golden.

Add the mushrooms and cook, stirring often, until the mushrooms give off all their liquid and are lightly browned.

5.

Add the Marsala and simmer until almost all of it is reduced. Add 1 cup of the chicken broth and bring back to a boil. In a small bowl whisk the remaining 1/4 cup of chicken broth with the flour. Add the flour mixture to the skillet in a stream while whisking and simmer for 2 minutes. Add any juices that have accumulated from the resting pork to the sauce.

6.

Slice the pork crosswise into 1-inch-thick slices. Transfer several slices to each of 6 serving plates. Spoon some of the mushroom sauce over each serving.

Sara Moulton/The Associated Press

Ingredients

Roast • 2 medium red onions, quartered • 2 medium carrots, cut into pieces • 3 stalks celery, cut into pieces • 2 leeks, trimmed and sliced • 2 tbsp olive oil • 6- to 7-pound chuck roast • Salt and ground black pepper • 3 cups red wine • 2 cups unsalted beef stock • 1/4 cup tomato paste • 2 tbsp Dijon mustard • 3 bay leaves • 3 sprigs fresh rosemary Root vegetables • 6 medium carrots, peeled and cut into 1-inch pieces • 4 parsnips, peeled and cut into 1-inch pieces • 2 medium red onions, cut into wedges • 2 small celeriac roots, peeled and diced • 2 lbs sweet potatoes, peeled and cut into 1-inch pieces • 2 tbsp olive oil • 1 tsp salt • 1 tsp ground black pepper • 1 tsp ground cumin • 1 tsp ground coriander • 1/2 tsp fennel seeds

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YOUR MONEY/Relationships

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Five steps to becoming a millionaire Entrepreneurship. Kim Kaupe describes how to go it alone, even if you don’t have start-up cash or a business background

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“If you have an idea, tell everyone you can. You never know who that person might know.”

Kim Kaupe, co-founder of ZinePak

Emily Laurence

Metro World News

Three years ago, 28-year-old Kim Kaupe quit her job to pursue a business idea she brainstormed with her co-founder.

Now, she’s the head of multimillion dollar company ZinePak. Like many people who have a gem of an idea, Kaupe didn’t have a business background or any start-up money. Still, she went for it.

Kaupe shares her tips with us so you can pursue your own great idea.

1. Find a hole in the marketplace “I worked at Brides magazine for two years and then got a job at an ad agency. One of my co-workers at the agency used to work at Sony Records. We hatched this idea of putting magazines and music together, and out came ZinePak. We wanted to create special packages for fans. It was something that didn’t exist before.”

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Find someone you gel with and shares your views, but also brings a unique perspective.”

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Niners clinch win at 11th hour

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World juniors

Drouin, Horvat, McDavid help Canada top Swiss Jonathan Drouin scored twice to lead Canada’s national junior hockey squad to a 4-1 exhibition win over Switzerland on Monday.

It was the final tune-up for Canada, which opens the world junior tournament Thursday against Germany.

Canada finished with a 2-1 exhibition record but was coming off a 3-0 loss to Sweden on Sunday.

Bo Horvat and Connor McDavid had the other goals for Canada. Jake Paterson stopped 23 shots in goal. THE CANADIAN PRESS

Hayley Wickenheiser signs autographs following the naming of the team that will compete in the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia, during a news conference in Calgary, Monday. JEFF MCINTOSH/THE CANADIAN PRESS

Less experience, more depth: Wickenheiser Sochi 2014. National Olympic team roster finalized after coaching shakeup, player cuts Canada’s Olympic women’s hockey team has less experience than two previous editions, but believes it has the speed and skill to defend the gold medal in Sochi, Russia.

The 21-player roster that will attempt to win a fourth consecutive Olympic gold in women’s hockey was finalized Monday after the release of three players.

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• Goaltenders. Shannon Szabados, Alta.; Genevieve Lacasse, Ont.; Charline Labonte, Que. • Defenceman. Jocelyne Larocque, Man.; Lauriane Rougeau, Que.; Laura Fortino, Ont.; Meaghan Mikkelson, Alta.; Catherine Ward, Que.; Tara Watchorn, Ont.

a dozen players who beat the U.S. women 2-0 in the 2010 final in Vancouver. The 2010

• Forwards. Meghan Agosta-Marciano, Ont.; Rebecca Johnston, Ont.; Jennifer Wakefield, Ont.; Gillian Apps, Ont.; Caroline Ouellette, Que.; Melodie Daoust, Que.; Jayna Hefford, Ont.; Brianne Jenner, Ont.; Haley Irwin, Ont.; Hayley Wickenheiser, Sask.; Natalie Spooner, Ont.; Marie-Philip Poulin, Que.

and 2006 squads each carried over 14 players from the previous Winter Games.

“We’re a little bit younger in the experience department,” admitted forward Hayley Wickenheiser.

“We’re very similar in the type of style we’re going to play — a tight forechecking style and trying to counteract with a lot of speed. We have a little bit more offensive depth on the back end than in 2010 so we’ll be counting on them to jump into the attack.

“Goaltending is as good or better. Maybe a little bit more depth overall.”

Canada opens their goldmedal defence Feb. 8 against Switzerland. The final is Feb. 20 at the Bolshoy Ice Dome.

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Jones goes from Riderville to B.C. Lions

Khari Jones with the Tiger-Cats in 2011. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE FILE

The B.C. Lions named Khari Jones as their new offensive co-ordinator Monday.

Jones joins the Lions after two seasons as the quarterbacks coach with the Grey Cup-champion Saskatchewan Roughriders.

“Khari is a young, fresh football mind that brings a key combination of significant playing and coaching experience to the role of offensive co-ordinator,” Lions head coach Mike Benevides said in a statement. “After a number of conversations with

Khari over the past couple of weeks, I am very excited about his positive approach to the game, the offensive concepts he will bring to our offence and how they will translate on the field.

Prior to joining the Riders, Jones served as Hamilton’s offensive co-ordinator in 2011.

Jones began his CFL coaching career as the Ticats’ quarterbacks coach in ’09.

Jones began his CFL playing career as a quarterback with the Lions in ’97 before being dealt to Winnipeg in

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Jones also played for Calgary (2004) and Hamilton (2005) and twice went to training camp with Edmonton before joining CBC’s CFL broadcast crew in 2006.

“It’s an honour to return to the same organization that gave me an opportunity to play in this great league many years ago,” said Jones.

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NaVorro Bowman returned an interception 89 yards for a touchdown with 1:10 remaining, and the San Francisco 49ers clinched a playoff berth with a wild 34-24 victory against the Atlanta Falcons on Monday night in the final regular-season game at Candlestick Park.

Tramaine Brock broke up a pass intended for Harry Douglas and Bowman got his hands on the ball and took off, then received a celebratory dog pile from teammates in the end zone.

Matt Ryan threw a 39-yard touchdown pass to Roddy White with 8:42 remaining and a two-yard score to Tony Gonzalez with 2:09 left as the Falcons (4-11) made things interesting until the end.

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The Euro-inspired, North America-built Buick Regal represents a significant shift in thinking for General Motors’ entry-premium division.

Since its 2012-model-yeararrival, the Regal has dared to challenge similar BMW, Mercedes-Benz and Audi offerings. It has also become a viable alternative for mid-size entryluxury buyers, regardless of national origin. Along with the subsequent introduction of the smaller Verano sedan and even smaller Encore wagon, Buick has likely left the dwindling knot of traditional Buick buyers wondering what has become of their cherished brand.

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Gemini

May 22 - June 21 You will have to take on new responsibilities over the next few days, including some of a financial nature. Show the world you have what it takes to handle difficult situations.

Cancer

June 22 - July 23 Although the sun in Capricorn brings partnership problems to the fore, Mercury in your opposite sign will make it easier for you to see things from the other person’s point of view.

Leo

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Scorpio

Oct. 24 - Nov. 22 You will get the chance to move up in the world in some way over the next few days and even though your mind may be on other things you must grab the opportunity.

Sagittarius

Nov. 23 - Dec. 21 Money matters must come first today and with Mercury joining the sun in the main financial area of your chart you will get the chance to balance the books.

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Dec. 22 - Jan. 20 Decide what is the most important thing you should be doing right now and do it to the exclusion of all else.

Your efforts will not be wasted.

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Remembering Quanto.

Reporter learns constables and canines share a special bond LEAH GERMAIN Metro reporter

Adam Segin is at a crossroads.

As a constable with the Edmonton police canine unit, Segin and his partner Storm have worked as a team for almost seven years — a year shy of retirement.

Unlike other jobs, retirement for a handler and police dog is a definite.

I first met Segin and his jet-black German shepherd while I was researching a followup article on Quanto, an Edmonton police dog killed on duty in 2013.

I was inspired by Quanto’s story and the partnership between handler and

Edmonton Police Service dog Quanto died after being stabbed on Oct. 7 during an attempted arrest. THE CANADIAN PRESS

service dog. It was a special bond — one that can only be formed with a creature that loves unconditionally.

For Segin, it’s a bond he’s been developing since Storm was seven weeks old.

A bond he not only bets his job on, but his life. And as their bond grows stronger Storm grows older.

“That’s the hardest part for me right now,” Segin said. “He is eight years old

and the last year has been kind of challenging. “(The job) is so much wear and tear on their joints, hips, knees and back.”

Segin’s boss, Staff Sgt.

Troy Carriere, said members of the canine unit have spent a good chunk of their career training to be a handler, which can make it especially hard for them to leave and retire their dog.

“The really difficult part is when you drive away for the first time and go to your new job,” Carriere said, remembering his own experience. “Your partner is really a part of you and you are leaving him or her at home.”

As a supervisor to Segin and Const. Matt Williamson, Quanto’s handler, Carriere said whether a dog retires or is killed, handlers have to grieve.

“What happened to Matt was terrible,” Carriere said.

“But in some ways it’s easier than having to go to (the vet) and put your friend down.”

MP Costas Menegakis has sponsored a private member’s bill, called Quanto’s Law to legislate protections for animals that serve with police.

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From abandoned building to paint ball paradise

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A fully-funded arena deal was finally approved this spring. Then-mayor Stephen Mandel applauded the Katz Group and city council for finally resolving a long running issue. “We will have a new arena with the Oilers, which is one of the most valuable assets in this city, staying in the city for the next 35 years,” he said. METRO

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A snowstorm to remember Massive spring snowstorm.

Witnessing highway pileup south of Leduc caused by storm was unforgettable STEPHANIE DUBOIS Metro reporter

Images of the highway impact of last spring’s snowstorm, March 2013. stephanie dubois/metro

A mother and her son holding hands while pulling luggage past the countless parked cars on QE II south were barely visible through the snowstorm, as my car crawled along in traffic flowing the opposite direction on March 21.

It was a snowstorm that would leave hundreds injured and trapped on the highway as a result of a pileup just south of Leduc.

Portions of the highway were shut down until the next day as emergency crews worked with the approximately 100 injured people.

As a reporter for the Leduc Rep newspaper at the time, I was able to witness first-hand how the storm affected the area, with many of the emergency service crews in the region asked to lend a helping hand.

The City of Leduc sent four paramedics in two ambulances but they were limited as to sending further resources as the city’s fire department was battling a condo fire and dealing with several local accidents.

Seeing everyone in action in a crisis like this was reassuring.

However, there were obvious cracks in the lines of T:10” communication.

Aftermath

City of Leduc fire chief Ernie Polsom said subsequent to the crash, surrounding municipalities were debriefed and agreed more communication was needed.

• Practice. “The one thing we all committed to doing was phoning the provincial government’s Emergency Management Agency because they really are the coordination group and they can make sure we’re all aware of what’s going on in the inter-municipal perspective,” he said, adding the city will be hosting a large regional exercise this spring.

Decisions

Lines of communication were re-confirmed provincially following the storm, according to Alberta Transportation officials, after Edmonton Police tried to shut down parts of the Anthony Henday Drive during the massive snowstorm.

• Closures. “Official road closures can only be done by the minister of transportation or his/her designates. It was just providing clarity around those services,” said Nancy Beasley Hosker, spokesperson for Alberta Transportation.

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Parents save school music program After a summer of hard work, Parent volunteers saved the string portion of a decades-old public school extracurricular music program that was silenced because of budget cuts in the spring.

The Music Enrichment Program, which was founded and administered by the Edmonton Public School Board, provided affordable after-school stringed music and orchestral lessons to children ages eight to 18.

In May, Metro was first to report that the school board would stop funding the program for the 20132014 school year.

However, the program is continuing to operate out of the schools it previously did and has even expanded to St. Albert.

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Late in the election my election pool ... that’s how the numbers broke down for me typical day began with a few covering Edmonton’s 2013 emails before I was out the door (including a few civic election. before I was even But the numConversation dressed) and it bers don’t come ended around 10 close to telling p.m. when I filed the whole story of People wanted a what for me was conversation about from the location of that night’s the most memor- where Edmonton ward forum. able story of 2013.

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The race to replace Mayor listening.

Despite the landslide on Stephen Mandel was always going to be a major event. Man- election night, Don Iveson’s del’s nine years as the city’s victory was not, in my opinion, mayor and the strong rela- a lock until well into the camtionship he built with council paign. And I think ultimately it meant the city had moved in was the conversation his camthe direction he wanted it to paign had with Edmontonians, move in and the lure of taking the conversation they clearly over the wheel was going to be wanted, that pushed him into victory. strong.

The campaign was exhaustMy colleagues and I at Metro started working out a strategy ing and tipped my work-life balin the spring to cover this race. ance very firmly one way, but it The idea was simple: give vot- was great to be able to hear this ers the information they need city and what it wants, and I to feel comfortable marking a would do it again tomorrow if asked. ballot.

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Bottle cap story goes viral but takes toll on the family

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Offensive blunder

Vitamin Water commits big business gaffe CANDICE WARD

Metro freelancer

Don Iveson celebrates after winning the election in October. Metro file

While Blake Loates — who discovered the now-infamous “You Retard” bottle cap on the top of a bottle of Vitamin Water (a Coca-Cola product) back in September in Edmonton — has been satisfied with the outcome

of the ordeal and has moved on, the story still seems to be making headlines as one of the worst Canadian business blunders of 2013.

As a journalist it was exciting to see a story I helped to uncover go viral and facilitate positive change within a major corporation, but it was also difficult to watch the toll the story was taking on the family.

Like Loates, I was unprepared for the story to go international so quickly, with major news outlets from around the world picking it up. When stories like this one become viral,

people tend to take to the web with their opinions — some of support for the cause, and others not so supportive.

Loates was never out for media attention (as I had approached her for the story), 15 minutes of fame or financial gain. She merely sought awareness to the pain the word could cause — even if it was intended to be in its French context.

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Graphic images brought GuZoo under fire again Animal rights activists demanded the Alberta government reopen its investigation into the controversial roadside GuZoo after new footage and photos sur-

faced in early July depicting what it claimed were poor living standards and safety hazards for exotic animals housed on site.

The nearly 10-minute video showed what appeared to be filth in birdcages and fridges, maggots in a bowl of food set next to a baby lynx and

other domestic cats, and at least four animal carcasses outdoors among other garbage.

The Council of Concerned Albertans for Animal Welfare and Public Safety said it was sent the photos — 200 of them in total — and video from a whistleblower. Metro

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#omg! Readers all a-Twitter over TEMP Canadian author Douglas Coupland, best-known for his groundbreaking novel Generation X, visited Metro’s head office just before the launch of TEMP. The 20part fiction series was published in Metro throughout November. Here’s how Metro readers responded on Twitter: @jason_michael: A sincere heartfelt Thank You to @DouglasCoupland for TEMP. I am a temp working for the government and your words continue to inspire! @Teyemtenot: yet another reason why Metro is my favourite thing to read in the morning! @hurricanediana: thanks for keeping me entertained for 20 a.m. commutes. Funny, surprisingly thought-provoking and relevant. @KaT4_2012: read TEMP every day! #youguysnailedit #precariousworkiseverywhere Douglas Coupland is brilliant @morgancadenhead: The collaboration between @DouglasCoupland and @MetroNewsCanada is fascinating. A truly unique way to approach fiction. @SuzanneMaryse: i am loving this! ... Coupland nails the post-modern condition once again @ctmwyn: The best part about @DouglasCoupland #Temp is the high concentration of #CliffHangers #Serialization metro

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A life-changing story

Stranger than fiction takara small

Metro web editor

Flowers sit on the Dublin grave of Lt. Thomas Leslie Bourke following a request from his great nephew on the other side of the world. elmoslats/imgur

Restoring faith in humanity Warm and fuzzies.

Stories of kindness aren’t as rare as we might think andrew FIFIELD

Metro web editor

Internet chatter is often maligned as a squalid cesspool of anonymous viciousness.

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We see what you write. You monsters.

The maligners are also wrong. The web is populated by millions, and the loudest voices aren’t always the most accurate representation.

According to a traffic study of the New York Times website, readers are much more likely to share and comment

on stories thick with warm and fuzzies.

This year, our experience with a Halifax man and a transAtlantic solid, done anonymously, fits snugly among those findings.

Last March, Andrew Bourke took to Reddit (speaking of maligned) with a moonshot request: For somebody who lives in Dublin to swill a St. Patrick’s Day pint at the grave of his great uncle, who died more than 50 years before Bourke was born.

A short time later, a user named elmoslats replied with a simple “It was a bitch to find.

Bought some flowers,” linking to photos of the grave, newly festooned with flowers.

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So, perhaps instead of clutching to a seemingly slippery faith in humanity that wavers based on Twitter’s daily mood, everybody should just keep up the good work in 2014.

We’ve done OK so far.

Approximately 10 months ago my life changed.

A small, and what I imagined to be unimportant, story about the weathered Bible on my grandmother’s nightstand brought me back in touch with a family member I had long assumed would be lost forever.

The book was and still is a treasured item. My grandmother cherished it during her early years in Canada. More importantly, however, it’s a testament to the life she built in this country.

I was asked to write a story about my grandmother’s Bible for a feature during Black History Month. I never thought an off-the-cuff story about a Bible my grandmother held onto as a young woman would connect me with a long lost relative from my childhood.

I had lost contact with my aunt on my father’s side of the family after my parents separated and I moved away from my childhood neighbourhood. The story (and picture) that appeared in the newspaper caught the eye of my aunt during her morning reading, who later contacted Torstar News Service.

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Couch to 42K. How a fairweather runner became a marathoner hannah zitner

Metro web editor

While I’ve always been a fairweather runner, I never wanted to run a marathon. Running 42.2 km just seemed like too much running. But when managing editor Fernando Carneiro came around shouting, like a newsy selling papers, “Who wants to run a marathon?” something changed. Maybe it was the competitive teenager in me coming out, or maybe I just felt bad for the over-ambitious guy, but I agreed.

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Batman Throughout the 18 weeks of training, I had the honour of running with Dark Knight Runner, aka JP Hernandez — a dedicated athlete who ran the Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon dressed as Batman to raise money for Sick Kids hospital.

Being the best at exercise Co-runner/writer Liz Brown caused a wee stir after writing a blog post saying runners were just “trying to be the best at exercise” because “anyone can do it.” People (well, running people) weren’t happy.

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metronews.ca Thursday, December 26, 2013

Which animal is top dog?

Metro digital reporter

On the Metro digital desk, we’re well aware that funny stories are more likely to be shared by our online readers; it’s an insight we share with the Victoria Police Department.

Last year, when a naive Reddit user posted about buying marijuana at the University of Victoria, VicPD Const. Mike Russell was there.

Using the “VicPDCanada” handle, Russell announced himself with a simple “cough,” reminding users that the long arm of the law extends online.

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“Being silly sometimes helps humanize our officers and make them more approachable. It’s also just a lot of fun.”

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Top stories by views

Metro web editor

The Victoria Police Department has spammed Twitter followers with pictures of cats wearing hats, among other humorous tactics.

Animals. They’re cute, they’re cuddly, and they have a furry iron grip on the Internet. From the continuing antics of the Ikea monkey to the Toronto Zoo’s pandas, it’s been quite a year for Canadian fauna, but which four-legged friend is top dog at metronews.ca?

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“Don’t forget to label it ‘not drugs’ so we don’t inadvertently look inside,” he said.

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Rob Ford, Senate scandal, Toilet Squirrel: 2013 was a big year. Here are the stories that inspired us, made us laugh or impacted our lives in other ways.

Readers’ + Metro’s choice

Readers’ online selections

Sex parties? ‘Pork-chop’ bullying? What is this, you ask? Well, it’s what you told us — via our Metropolitan Panel — were your favourite Metro online national news stories of the year

Teen-trafficking case lacked outrage JESSICA SMITH CROSS Metro reporter

Canadian bullying video goes viral T.O. man’s call for stem-cell donations

UFO sightings double in Canada Ufology Research issued its Canadian UFO survey in May and the stats revealed reported sightings doubled in 2012.

“Polls have shown that one in 10 Canadians believe they have seen a UFO. That’s three to four million people with UFO experiences,” said Chris Rutgowski of Ufology. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE

In July, Chris Taylor of Toronto called on healthy 17- to 35-year-olds to become stem-cell donors. “I need one, it turns out, to save my life,” he told Metro. “More importantly, it’s for everyone who needs one.”

OneMatch is a program run

by Canadian Blood Services which matches potential stem-cell donors to unrelated patients. METRO

Shane Koyczan hit a nerve in the public psyche in February with his video on bullying. In two days, more than one million people watched the sevenminute video. The poem, with a tumbling series of animated sketches, chronicles the namecalling and humiliation Koyczan and other kids in school endured. It opens: “When I was a kid, I used to think that pork chops and karate chops were the same thing.”

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New rules for Canuck drivers In early 2012, this came in from the department of red tape you didn’t know existed: Canadians were required by law to have an international driving permit in addition to their regular licences when driving in Florida. The new law applied to any non-resident, but has since been unanimously repealed by legislators.

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Three girls ran away from a group home last year, lured away by a prostitution ring and put to work in Toronto.

The girls were in the care of the province when they were trafficked. When the story broke, strangely, there was no public outrage.

I called up critics of both opposition parties and neither knew much. The Ministry of Child and Youth Services simply said after the criminal trial that safety would be “enhanced.” I talked to a woman who was prostituted from her group home at age 12 and is now calling on the provincial government to acquire “a deep understanding” of how the sex trade involves girls in the child welfare system. I agree.

I’d also like to see that it will never happen again.

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Metro story helps man secure himself a new home Moving on up

Kate Webb

New digs, old issues

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‘Hundred times better’

When asked to update a story that impacted me over the last year, I immediately thought of Stephen Chalmers. I interviewed him again last month.

The walkway up to his new trailer sparkles with red and blue Christmas lights, and on clear nights moonlight spills through tall pine trees onto the quiet campground where he has lived for nearly two months now.

The 54-year-old is still getting used to his new surroundings after moving out of a dilapidated trailer at the run-down Beladean Trailer Park in Surrey, B.C., which lost power in September due to an improperly supervised motel demolition.

“I’m 100 times better. I feel better, I sleep better,” says Chalmers, who suffers from multiple mental illnesses and lives on a meagre disability income.

After Metro ran stories on the outage, and the fact that he couldn’t find a new park willing to take his old, leaky trailer, an online campaign raised enough to buy him a newer, 1999 fifth-wheel.

But the complex problems of a man who has overcome crack addiction and alcoholism and still struggles daily with depression and post-traumatic stress disorder cannot be neatly resolved with four walls of aluminum and vinyl.

Some days he feels up, some days he feels down, he says.

The weather, getting used to his new neighbours, and the stress of living low-income — all of these have an effect on his moods.

But Chalmers says he seeks help when he needs it, from the mental-health care system, from friends, and from a local food bank.

“I feel more positive about myself,” Chalmers tells Metro. “I’m more sure of myself.

I feel more personable towards myself…

I think of myself as someone who actually deserves to be respected, which — that’s kind of foreign territory to me.”

Stephen Chalmers, who says he is proud that by sharing his story publicly he has become someone people approach for advice about how to seek help.

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Chris Hadfield. Starman blows our minds Henrietta Walmark

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Lululemon is stretching its customers’ patience MELISSA DUNNE

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Bent over, hands touching toes, I swivelled to get a good look in the changing-room mirror.

This is not the kind of bending and stretching I usually do in my $98 Lululemon pants.

The Luxtreme tights (not part of the recall last March) were almost as thin as pantyhose, my underwear clearly visible.

The clothing behemoth had cattily suggested the sheerness was caused by women squeezing their fat butts into too-small pants. So I went up a size, then another size. The bottoms were now loose and baggy … and still

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Trudging through floodwater

see-through.

I told a store “educator” about this, only to be snottily informed that “It’s the nature of the fabric.”

It seems it’s in the nature of the athletic-clothing empire to stretch its customers’ patience. From the top on down, the response to the sheer-pants recall has been sheer madness.

Acting like a snobby, reedthin, peroxide-blond yogi has been a core part of Lululemon’s practice for too long.

It’s time for the new leadership to be the one twisting and bending for its devoted customer base. If not, this Lulu addict will have to find a store that accepts a woman with (gasp) thighs that sometimes rub together.

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International An eagle’s eye for trends

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Selebrating selfies Two weeks after the Oxford Dictionary declared “selfie” to be the word of the year, an Australian eagle with a flair for the topical put the icing on the proverbial cake by stealing a video camera, recording its 110-kilometre journey and, oh yeah, snapping a selfie along the way.

As the selfie has become ubiquitous, app developers have capitalized — principally by offering photo-editing technology to capture a best look — while bloggers have borne witness to the form’s avant garde (hint: the duck face, the sparrow and the “squinch”). But as far as I’m concerned, the eagle’s is so far the best, most transcendent, least-filtered selfie. Its beak seems to poke the camera’s lens, to pierce the scrim between parody and coincidence, and I can’t help but laugh at what we’ve become.

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From strange to serious — the world was a fascinating and sometimes heartbreaking place in 2013.

‘The People’s Pope.’ Will Francis be a paragon of progressive papacy? mike palma

Metro copy editor

Not long after Pope Benedict XVI became the first Holy Father in centuries to quit his job, his successor, Francis, has captured headlines and hearts with his progressive approach to the papacy. I grew up Catholic, and his humility, his focus on the poor, and his expressed tolerance of gays and non-believers has landed him in my good books as well.

But is Francis really a progressive symbol of an evolving church? Time hailed him as “The People’s Pope” in its Person of the Year cover story and suggested he’s “poised to transform” the Vatican. He’s unquestionably been great PR compared to the previous pope, who struck me as being harsher and more conservative than John Paul II before him. But how much power does Francis actually have to change things for good?

Royally inundated The arrival of Prince George of Cambridge was the most anticipated birth in the history Metro copy editor of modern media. At least, that’s the assumption you could make when looking back at the relentless press coverage of the royal pregnancy. Some readers were likely sick of hearing about Will and Kate’s spawn long before he popped out of the womb, but that heady mix of wealth, privilege and youth is catnip for the masses, journalists included. If there’s one thing we can take away from the baby bombardment it’s that the British monarchy is in no danger of being dethroned, not with the press at its side.

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Even if Francis makes the poor and downtrodden the focus of his entire papal career, his church remains strictly against homosexuality, divorce,

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Nothing hard-hitting here: Metro online readers gravitated towards a giant toilet clog and a lion-like dog on the loose as their favourite international stories of 2013, as picked through our Metropolitan Panel

Having same name apparently not the secret to a successful marriage

Search for Germany’s giant golden cookie

‘Fatberg’ discovered in suburban sewer

It took a simple Facebook message from one Kelly Hildebrandt to another Kelly Hildebrandt to get the wheels of love turning.

But it seems the two are no longer Facebook friends. The young couple filed for divorce in July. “How do they term it at the courthouse? Irreconcilable differences, that is what I would say,” the male Hildebrandt told a newstation. “We gave it our best shot.” Torstar News Service

Sure, it may have looked like an iceberg, but there was nothing cool about it. Utility company Thames Water said in August it has discovered what it calls the biggest “fatberg” ever recorded in Britain – a 15-ton blob of congealed fat and baby wipes lodged in a sewer drain. That’s enough “wrongly flushed festering food fat mixed with wet wipes” to fill a double-decker bus such as the famous London Routemaster, the company said. THe associated press

Dog shaved like lion prompts 911 call A dog that has been shaved to look like a lion set off a panic in Norfolk, Va. in January. Three 911 calls came in on the same day reporting a lion wandering the streets. It’s “roaming loose in the neighbourhood a few blocks from the zoo,” one caller reported to the 911 dispatcher at 10:19 a.m.

After the 911 calls, Norfolk police called the Virginia Zoo to make sure its lions were all accounted for. Torstar News Service

MSN messenger goes the way of ICQ Microsoft’s venerable Messenger program was moved to the great big recycling bin in the sky this year.

Users had until March 15 to migrate their accounts over to Skype, which the software company acquired in 2011.

At its peak, Messenger boasted 300 million users in more than 60 countries.

Microsoft will continue Messenger in China, due to the peculiar nature of the Chinese Market. Metro

Found missing at the beginning of this year: One golden cookie, weighing around 20 kg.

The rectangular gilded bronze sculpture was part of a statue gracing the facade of German cookie baker Bahlsen’s Hannover office. A police statement said a newspaper received a picture showing someone in an outfit similar to Sesame Street’s Cookie Monster holding a golden cookie.

The sender wrote to demand cookies be delivered to children at a city hospital. Police were not sure at the time if it was the same cookie, or a real claim of responsibility. The associated press

Egypt

‘An uncertain reality’

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Calls to relatives in Egypt are reminders that while the deteriorating state of affairs — of people’s spirits and dreams and savings — is frustrating to behold from here, it’s an uncertain reality, a nightmare, over there.

I was there this summer, in the lead-up to the anniversary of then-president Mohamed Morsi’s inauguration. I tried to understand the arguments: why Egyptians must protest; call for legal processes; stay home and give him a fair chance.

I tried to capture that atmosphere for Metro, on TV and for Huffington Post, all garnering strong reactions. As protests intensified, so did people’s rhetoric. A prevalent “You’re with us or with the terrorists” approach took root, serving to justify military crackdowns and delegitimizing nuanced opinions that didn’t conform neatly to pro-military or pro-Muslim Brotherhood.

An Egyptian woman reacts in Tahrir Square the day after former Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi, the country’s first democratically elected president, was ousted from power on July 4, 2013 in Cairo.

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The 2011 revolution was one of the most dramatic scenes Egyptians witnessed in at least three decades.

There was uncertainty and disagreement and plenty of anger. I believe 2013 really changed Egyptians. Mistrust, contempt, revenge, hatred: these sentiments

are relatively new, and they are frightening.

As repression, imprisonment and censorship have seemingly increased alongside an ever-declining economy, Egyptians now must too fear their neighbours. And divided, they say, is how they fall.

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Year in review

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Three Metro columnists look back on their 2013 columns and respond to their readers’ comments, the good, the bad and the ugly.

This is rare. Three Metro columnists are asked to write about their most memorable work this year. Turns out it can’t be done without your feedback.

2013 is over and I’m left MY ONE holding the (mail)bag LONG YEAR

JUST SAYIN'

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Even though asking me to choose a favourite column is like asking me to proclaim a public preference for my goldfish over my hamster, I have dutifully reviewed Just Sayin’ for the past year, and it turns out I have a lot to say, which might surprise a few people.

But I’ve managed to narrow it down.

Generally, I try to communicate my total bemusement with contemporary life.

It’s the best of times. It’s the worst of times. It’s the weird-

est of times, right?

That makes for lots of material, such as: Multi-billionaire Amazon’s Jeff Bezos was in the news this year for buying the fabled Washington Post of Woodward and Bernstein fame for the equivalent of billionaire pocket lint: $250 million.

That’s less, by the way, than what the Qatar Royal family paid for Impressionist painter Paul Cézanne’s The Card Players — $259 million. contributed (Big deal. I paid $2.59 for The Card Players at the neighbourhood garage sale. I really love the look on the bulldog’s face.)

Then there are those columns that are memorable for some really great bits, such as the one about the one-way expedition to Mars that was signing up potential colonists earlier this year: “Therefore Mars One is looking for a special kind of person. Someone who is nuts enough to spend the rest of his or her life stuck in a climate-controlled hut the size of a portable toilet but well adjusted enough not to try to eat his or her fellow castaways.” istock images What writing!

Of course, you can’t write a column these days without having your own online anvil chorus, and I managed to hit a sour note writing about people who don’t wear enough clothes on the beach. My protest went along aesthetic lines, not skin care, and the mob that formed outside my virtual door was not happy.

Here’s just a taste: “Holy crap this is arguably the most ignorant thing I’ve ever read in my life.”

You can’t please all of the people all of the time, but if you try really hard, you can annoy all of the people all of the time.

Fortunately, I did manage to get an online standing O for a column I wrote about a movement to ban tipping that’s just getting off the ground in New York and Chicago. One reader, named Crystal, gave me some unordinary positive feedback: “I Reader writes don’t usually write in to comment on articles of any sort, “After reading your brief but after reading your brief article I had to say, very article I had to say, very well written, entertaining, all the well written, while thought-provoking. Exentertaining, all the cellent!”

Thanks, Crystal, I needed while thoughtthat.

As you can tell, it’s been a provoking.” Crystal long year.

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John Mazerolle readers@metronews.ca

I’ve been told to pick one favourite 2013 column and reminisce, but my columns are like my children and once they’re out in the world I will deny they are mine.

Instead, let’s open the mailbag. After a year of columnastic genius I feel it’s important for readers to provide a fresh perspective on how wonderful I am. For instance, one fan recently sent me a Facebook message that said my Mail moment

“Stupid yellow journalism at it’s finest!!!” Online Fan

columns are “desperately TRYING to be funny.

Alas, they just come off juvenile.” To hear my work is desperately funny, yet childlike, is wonderful. I clicked on her page to thank her and learned she’s graduated from “I didn’t finish (2008),” which signals a level of brash independence and attention to detail I think we can all emulate. Under professional skills it said, “cracksmoking,” which means she

will soon be a writer (if she’s joking) or the mayor of a large city (if she’s not).

Another reader let me know my column is “pure dribble.” I briefly assumed it was an insult and he had misspelled ‘drivel.’ Then I realized it was a basketball-related compliment, and that he considers me the Michael Jordan of Metro columnists. Pure, unadulterated dribble. Swish.

Some other actual mail-

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bag highlights: * “Hypocrit much?” (More than you. I add an ‘e.’) * “Do your research.”

(No.) * “Stupid yellow journalism at it’s finest!!!” (There are numerous problems here, but they are amply overcome by the use of three exclamation points. Bravo.) And that’s the 2013 mailbag. See you next year, readers — older, but not wiser!!!

I swear, and I am a girl From the inbox

SHE SAYS

Jessica Napier @MetroSheSays

As 2013 comes to a close, it’s fun to look back at some of the memorable columns I’ve written over the course of the year.

Back in June, I wrote a piece about swearing in public. I described how my boyfriend and I had been reprimanded by an

“I am saddened when I hear a young person, especially a young girl, making a public reference to parts of their body and their knowledge of sexual activity with obscenities.”

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overbearing parent at a neighbouring table after dropping a few expletives during a Sunday brunch.

I was hardly advocating for an uncivilized society full of foul-mouthed brutes, but the column definitely struck a nerve among our readers.

I received a few letters from

people who identified swearing in public as a generational problem. One gentleman wrote an email stating, “I am saddened when I hear a young person, especially a young girl, making a public reference to parts of their body and their knowledge of sexual activity with obscenities.”

I understand the importance of good manners, but I take offence to this notion that I should suppress

any behaviour that is deemed ‘unladylike’ according to a 1950s standard.

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The film reel of 2013: The good, the bad and the ugly Year in review. The beginning of a new year, like the opening of a new film, holds so much promise...

It’s time for Metro to screen 2013’s crop NED EHRBAR

Metro World News in Hollywood

It’s time to bid farewell to 2013 with a look at the most disappointing films of the year.

Pacific Rim Giant robots! Fighting giant sea monsters! Directed by Guillermo del Toro! This could’ve been so good, and obviously we thought it would be, but the results were just… not so much.

Only God Forgives Maybe Nicholas Winding Refn was punishing people for liking his fantastic “Drive” too much, but this art-house meditation on masculinity, violence and retribution — we think? — was just a slog.

Star Trek Into Darkness We might have been less disappointed in this longawaited sequel if J.J. Abrams had just come out and said from the get-go that Benedict Cumberbatch was playing Khan. If only that were the only problem with it, though.

Jack the Giant Killer Maybe it was foolish to expect Bryan Singer to do something cool and interesting with the old Jack and the Beanstalk fairy tale, but this one just fell flat.

Oldboy Spike Lee’s plodding, uninspired remake of Park Chan-wook’s 2003 cult classic at least makes a strong case for renting the original.

Some things don’t translate well, apparently.

Lovelace A lot of foreplay that led to not very much of anything else, this exploration of the woman behind Deep Throat held too much back.

Director Guillermo del Toro really dropped the ball on Pacific Rim — a movie that promised so much and delivered so little. CONTRIBUTED Metro’s picks1Gravity

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American Hustle

Gravity Blue Jasmine

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Hunger Games

Dallas Buyers Club

The Fifth Estate Maybe it was too soon to explore the rise and fall of WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange, but it seemed perfectly reasonable that Bill Condon and Benedict Cumberbatch were up to the task.

Apparently not.

Anchorman 2 Following up an iconic comedy is tough, but we’re still not sure what Adam McKay and Will Ferrell were thinking with most of the choices here. Lesson learned: A little bit of Steve Carell’s Brick Tamland goes a long way.

Also, the film’s jokes about racism and sexism actually just play as racist and sexist.

Maybe next time, guys?

We asked and you let us know that Gravity was your top movie pick for 2013. CONTRIBUTED

American Hustle’s story of flim flam men and women, the FBI and a real life sting known as Abscam has emerged as my favourite movie of 2013. It’s an entertainingly audacious

movie that will doubtless be compared to The Wolf of Wall Street because of the similarity in tone and themes, but this time around director David O. Russell has almost outScorsese’d Martin Scorsese.

Add to that unexpected and compelling performances from the a-list ensemble cast—Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence — and it adds up to the most fun I had at the movies this year.

Reader’s pick Metro pick

What do you think? We recently polled Metro readers to see what film they considered to be the best of 2013. Gravity was the winner, hands down.

Enough Said James Gandolfini’s last leading film role, Julia LouisDreyfus’ return to movies, another chance for Nicole Holofcener to examine adult relationships? This one had so much going for it. Too bad the end result is flat, uninspired and far too pleased with itself.

Dallas Buyers Club Dallas Buyers Club was the movie of 2013 for me.

But it wasn’t the power of its plot or its commentary on HIV ignorance in the 1980s that moved my soul.

No. It was witnessing the transformation of Matthew McConaughey into an Oscar-worthy actor. To the role of Ron Woodroof – an

HIV-positive Texan rodeo rider searching for treatment – he wound up burning anger and desperation into a disturbingly emaciated frame. Watch. Then remind yourself this is the guy who brought us Dazed and Confused’s Wooderson and the oft quoted line about high school girls: “I get older, they stay the same age.” Lucky for us that Mr. McConaughey has matured into a fine thespian.

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Who won the battle of the baby names?

Traditional vs plain old weird. Some of the most popular monikers of the year came, not surprisingly, from celebrities It’s all relative

Kathy Buckworth Kathybuckworth.com

Every year, the most popular baby names list is announced, and I think most parents prefer not to see their child’s name turn up there.

It might be because they want to “own” that name and be individual, or they are thinking about confusion in the classroom in later years. I personally know about 117 Jennifers, clearly a No. 1 name in the ’70s.

While I didn’t name my kids to stand out, I didn’t specifically choose names I hoped would be super popu-

lar either.

I’m a Kathy; growing up in the ’60s and ’70s there were always more than a few of us, even if some of them spelled it incorrectly with a “C.” As for my husband, I think every second guy my age that I know has his name (Steve), including my own brother.

Steve has also been the name of choice for a monkey in both the movie Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, as well as in the Spot the Dog books, and even the titular hedge in the movie Over the Hedge.

My kids giggle at the thought of a newborn baby named Steve. “This is my new baby, STEVE.” (Come on, that’s funny.)

The top names in Canada for 2013 this year are Emma and Carter, according to Canadian Living Magazine.

Parents who have chosen these names will be well advised to order labels with their last initial tacked on, speaking from experience.

I don’t see any real sur-

prises in the list (see fact box). While we run across the occasional unusual name, Canadians are fairly traditionalist.

Celebrities are scorned when they use unusual names (Apple, Blue Ivy, and Moon Unit) and lauded when they go with traditional names.

Two of the most famous babies born this year were William and Catherine’s Prince George (which makes Canadians giggle, particularly those in northern B.C.), and Kim and Kanye’s new reality production, North.

I wish others had followed the pseudo-metaphor of the name and phrase North West.

Halle Berry couldn’t have gone with either Straw or Blue?

It would have killed Toni Braxton to go with Hicks?

(Only new moms will appreciate that one.)

For the record, my kids are Victoria, Alexander, Bridget and Nicholas. Not that Penny Buckworth wouldn’t have been fun.

Top names of 2013

According to Canadian Living magazine, these were the top names for boys and girls this year.

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HBO’s Game belongs only on the Throne Final eight episodes

TV. Whether you binge watched or faithfully tuned in, there were a number of great shows this year. Metro weighs in on what was tube-worthy in 2013 Alexandra Cavallo, our TV correspondent from south of the border, gives us her picks for the best shows on TV, however you may watch TV. Game of Thrones Game of Thrones had the best season ever. What other show has the balls to ruthlessly — and awesomely, creatively and bloodily — kill off multiple main characters like it ain’t no thing? Game of Thrones reigns supreme. See what I did there?

House of Cards Other than HBO (and FX and A&E and — well, damn, seems like television is killing it lately, huh?) Netflix is putting out some of the most exciting and gamechanging programs. House of Cards — to put it simply Metro’s picks

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The shocking Red Wedding episode of Game of Thrones made Metro’s list of the best of 2013. handout

Finally, a healthy binge You could say I’m always a little late to the party. Up until six months ago, I didn’t have Netflix, I never watched TV online and I never thought I was missing out. That was until I was introduced to Breaking Bad. I now fully indulge in what is being called binge-tv watching. I have devoured entire series (Family Guy, The Boondocks, American Dad, Episodes, The Walking Dead, to name a few. Yes, a few), and have spent an unacceptable amount of time on my couch. And though I’m nostalgic for the days of looking forward to my favourite show every week, and being left hanging for an entire summer before my shows return, I embrace this new way of enjoying television, even if I’m a little late. miriam osborne/ metro

Netflix series House of Cards becomes the first web TV show to receive major Primetime Emmy Award nominations, and goes on to win in three categories.

— is utterly captivating, and this comes from a person, who, I admit it, doesn’t even vote. Politics is not my thing. But this show has it all: intrigue, sex, violence, scandal and Kevin Spacey.

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In mid 2013 the final eight episodes of the ultra-popular and critically acclaimed series Breaking Bad went on air. As usual Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul turned in stellar performances and creator Vince Gilligan ensured the climactic episodes did not disappoint. We join the second half of the final season with Hank finally realizing that Walt is the infamous meth kingpin for lowbrow reality crap.

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Metro’s picks for top five songs • 1. Get Lucky, by Daft Punk • 2. Reflektor and Afterlife,

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• 3. Black Skinhead, by Kanye West

Talk about a song with universal appeal! What began as a track marketed to the alternative set has become the biggest cross-format hit in years.

• 4. Royals, by Lorde • 5. Thrift Shop, by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis

This is largely due to what was left out of Royals. It would have been so easy (and tempting!) to mess up the song by over-producing it. Instead, there’s an elegant simplicity to everything: an understated rhythm track and the barest hint of a bass line. Lorde’s vocals do the rest. The song doesn’t even contain a bridge. This is brilliant songwriting, an excellent performance and perfect production, all wrapped in one great song.

No lines blurred in this selection As a shameless Jay Z super fan, I want to say 2013’s top song was Holy Grail featuring Justin Timberlake. But even I can’t deny this year belonged to Blurred Lines by Robin Thicke featuring Pharrell Williams and T.I. A simplistic hook and its blend of R&B and pop helped the infectious Blurred Lines hold top spot on charts around the world. It also created its share of controversy (think music video with prancing topless supermodels and Thicke preemptively suing Marvin Gaye’s family). Love it or hate it, at some point (maybe in a drunken stupor if you’re a certain mayor) you likely caught yourself singing, “OK, now he was close, tried to domesticate ya…” Izabela Szydlo, metro Crossover appeal lands Lorde at the top of Alan Cross’s list. handout

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The 2013 cyber heights of cyberspace Metro’s picks

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Chris Hadfield’s out-ofthis-world version of Space Oddity inspired many.

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Norwegian comedy group Ylves’ video for What Does the Fox Say? was YouTube’s top video of the year, and has even spawned an illustrated book.

Chris Hadfield won the Internet this year with a viral hit that was anything but accidental. He evoked the beauty of our world by sharing how difficult it was to leave its orbital view. These are complex emotions that he somehow captured with an iPad recording of himself singing David Bowie’s Space Oddity. His Space Station video lessons and tweeted photos revealed a master communicator who understands the web better than anyone. Through him we have an extraordinary connection to space exploration, but also an example of how a cynical web culture can embrace values that are sophisticated and sincere.

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Amanda Bynes’ 2013 tweets left many of us scratching out heads — and just shocked.

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Felix Baumgartner’s freefall from the edge of space.

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Making memes from Patrick Stewart’s many starring movie roles is nothing new for those who lurk the intertubes. But when his fiancé posted a video of an allegedly stoned Stewart giving her acting lessons on the art of the quadruple take, the Internet’s collective head caught a contact high. The powerful hit lasted throughout the year as Reddit and its kind obsessed over all things Stewart. From the serious (Stewart speaking about his own experiences with domestic violence) to the silly (him climbing into a bathtub dressed as a lobster), the former captain of the Star Trek Enterprise was sailing nothing but the good ship Awesome in 2013. METRO

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Top headlines of Hollywood’s 2013 They did what? It was a shock-and-awe year in celeb gossip, and Metro’s editors never hesitated to chime in on the tabloid chatter

Amanda on our minds

Reading between the Bynes While it seems 2013 was the year of the squeaky-cleansongtress-turned-train-wreck-tabloid-queen, there was arguably no one who was featured as consisently on Metro’s Dish page as former WB sweetheart Amanda Bynes.

Multiple brushes with the law, airborn bongs, driveway fires, neon wigs and one trainwreck of a Twitter feed meant that Bynes all too often became our feature focus.

Having recently received treatment for mental illness, we hope 2014 brings Amanda some peace, health and much-needed time away from the tabloids.

Pop culture gets a bad rap, according to Metro’s gossip editor, Dorothy Robinson. Sure, it’s lowbrow (especially when Miley Cyrus decides to take her clothes off with no deference to taste or talent) and it births fame-hungry monsters (Kimye, you are a creation even Walter Winchell couldn’t dream up).

Yet, the hijinks and disasters of people who fly so very high take us away from the humdrum of everyday life.

Keeping up with Miley is a nice distraction from the fact that the cable bill is due. Watching Beyonce at the Super Bowl is a reminder of what is humanly possible if you have drive, talent and a whole lot of luck. And witnessing the untimely deaths of two stars reminds us that even our little lives are ones worth living. In fact, maybe we’re the lucky ones, blessed to be outside looking in — instead of the other way around.

Here is what some of our editors had to say about the year in gossip: “I didn’t put the Royal Baby on my list because I thought that fell under news. Come on: Kate Middleton should NEVER be

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Metro’s picks

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Miley Cyrus ditches her clean-cut image by twerking at the MTV awards, smoking a joint on air at the MTV Europe Awards, and working with photographer Terry Richards — and those are just some of her antics.

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on the same list as Miley or Kim Kardashian. And although Avril Lavigne marrying Chad Kroeger wasn’t earth-shaking, it was so delightfully weird that I thought it

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Amanda Bynes — see Liz Beddall’s story to your right.

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Kanye West and Kim Kardashian brought forth a baby and decided it would be

deserved a mention.”

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“I, for one, definitely had Beyonce winning the Super Bowl on my list. Nothing can stop

fun to name her North.

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Justin Beiber wreaked havoc in his neighbourhood with his driving, peed in a bucket, lost his monkey, and then had a drama-filled South American tour before heading to Australia for more of the same.

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Angelina Jolie surprised the world by announcing she underwent a double mastectomy.

her, not even a blackout. I don’t even remember who actually played. All I remember is the Destiny’s Child reunion and Beyonce’s black lace body suit.

She wins.” Emily Laurence

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Dorothy Robinson’s picks

“I can’t find any evidence supporting the theory that Kanye has a sense of humor; I fear he is gravely serious. We mere mortals just do not understand him.” T. Michelle Murphy I guess unlike other calculated ‘Look at me! I’m no longer a Disney pop princess! I’m now a woman!’ coming-out moments (see: Britney in the red pleather body suit; Christina’s suggestive Genie in a Bottle), Miley’s coming out seems raw and unpolished.

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LIFE

The five worst fitness trends of 2013 we hope don’t return Year-end review.

Workouts can get boring from time to time but these ideas on how to switch things up missed the mark this year.

VAWN HIMMELSBACH life@metronews.ca

It’s not a bad idea to switch up your workout routine every now and then to challenge your muscles and stay motivated.

But in the quest for new ways to do old exercises, some trends might be a tad questionable.

There is nothing wrong with weightlifting. But weightlifting in the heat doesn’t make sense.

Backwards is just backwards.

Backwards running Sure, running can get monotonous, but is running backwards the answer? There’s a reason why people are doing it: According to a study by the U.S. National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health, running backwards uses 30 per cent more energy than moving forward at the same speed.

And, supposedly, it’s easier on your knees. But let’s face it; running backwards is an accident waiting to happen since — if it’s not obvious — you can’t see where you’re going. Not to mention it looks ridiculous.

Boutique/hybrid yoga If you’re into yoga, there are a variety of styles to suit your personality, from ashtanga to moksha to yin. But now, you can mix those warrior poses with … hula-hoops, trampolines and martial-arts kicks. Or do yoga on a paddleboard, to disco music or even with your dog (doga). But yoga isn’t about total body sculpting or getting a cardio workout — it’s about quieting your mind. And it’s hard to quiet your mind while doing disco moves in tree posture.

Extreme HIIT … for average Joes High-intensity interval training (or HIIT) has many benefits: Bursts of vigorous exercise (think squats and burpees) followed by brief rest periods can burn calories — fast. That’s why we’ve seen the rise of workouts like CrossFit, and the Insanity and P90X DVD series. But along with the increase in popularity of these types of workouts has come an increase in injury, from slipped disks to torn rotator cuffs. According to a recent study published by The Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, 16 per cent of CrossFit participants quit the program due to overuse or injury. At least it’s good news for orthopedic surgeons.

Themed runs (that involve barbed wire) Working out should be fun, and hey, who wouldn’t be motivated to run faster when being chased by zombies?

While themed workouts from Tough Mudder to colour runs (running through clouds of coloured cornstarch) can be motivating or push you

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to challenge your endurance, any athletic endeavor that involves wading through ice water under barbed wire or being zapped by live wires is questionable.

Perhaps next we’ll start seeing live wires attached to treadmills so you’ll get zapped if you’re not running fast enough.

Hot weightlifting Traditional weightlifting remains one of the best ways to build muscle. But one of the latest fads takes weightlifting to a new level — pumping iron in the heat. The concept behind Bikram yoga (where the temperature in the room is cranked to 40.6 C with a humidity of 40 per cent) is now being applied to everything from barre to spinning and weightlifting classes. But according to a recent study by the American Council on Exercise, turning up the heat doesn’t actually burn extra calories. You just think you are, all the while risking dehydration and even heat stroke. If you like the heat, best to stick to Bikram.

Run from this trend.

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Styles with staying power This year saw plenty of questionable clothing choices sashay down the streets, but among them were a few wardrobe wins that we guarantee won’t be disappearing once the winter flurries die down. liz beddall Metro World News

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I’ll take a cold cerveza with that

Mexican has gone beyond the smothered-in-cheese dishes. istock

Year of Mexican food.

You’ve been fooled long enough with cheesy dishes and store-bought salsa. Authentic Mexican is taking over — olé!

Nutri-bites

Theresa Albert DHN, RNCP myfriendinfood.com

Remember when Mexican food meant cookie cutter platters of oddly coloured white rice with a bunch of stuff covered in cheese?

You may have gotten a bowl of pre-fab corn chips and bottled salsa instead of bread as an appetizer.

Luckily, 2013 saw the rise of true Mexican food. It showed up everywhere, from the very hip food truck culture running away with the foodie heart to the top end of

just about every urban menu.

Some of the foods that we can’t get enough include pulled pork, fish tacos and burritos.

And you really haven’t lived unless you’ve found churros with the caramel-like dulce de leche sauce. (Don’t forget the side of tequila, which was the beverage of 2013.)

Real Mexican food is wholesome, and it varies across the country from fishbased seaside to tropical fruit interiors, but they all have three things in common: corn, chili peppers and beans.

The Europeans added pork, chicken and tomatoes and North Americans topped it all off with some flair.

Taco night is no longer spice from a box mixed with ground beef and corn shells, although, they are certainly retro-welcome. Think broader.

Chicken Toss a chicken in the slow cooker with one of the many creative jars of salsa on the

market and cook all day. Pull chicken from the bones and serve with tostadas, artisan corn and wheat tortillas plus toppings like frozen corn simply roasted on a cookie sheet in the oven.

Cole Slaw Think about a grated cole slaw mix instead of shredded lettuce. Top with cocoa nibs, any manner of chopped chilies and any combo of fresh herbs. Serve with fresh lime juice and soda water with muddled mint (go ahead add some tequila!)

Pulled Pork Pulled pork couldn’t be easier. The low and slow oven versions create the best melt in your mouth recipes. Sauce options run the gamut from barbecue sauce to the chocolate and chili based mole sauce. This one pot wonder is the best crowd pleaser to come out of this Mexican trend. Pork shoulder or arm

is an affordable (if fatty) cut that can’t be ruined as long as you keep the oven temperature below 300 and the time at least an hour per pound.

Churro Dip Since churros are hard to find, must be fresh and deep frying is a pain (not to mention crazy unhealthy!)

Why not go with the classic churro dip: dulce de leche and forgo the donut? This sweet milk caramel sauce can be now purchased jarred but the quickie cheater recipe using only sweetened, condensed milk is ridiculously easy. Use it to drizzle onto vanilla pudding, fresh fruit or chocolate cookies and you are right on the Mexican trend. Which will, by the way, continue for a few more years... Theresa Albert is a Food Communications Specialist and Toronto Personal Nutritionist. She is @theresaalbert on twitter and found daily at www.myfriendinfood.com

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Design darlings of 2013 Style gurus Steven Sabados and Chris Hyndman take a look back at the top home-decor trends of the past year, and find the standout themes included artful lighting, lived-in linen, warm gold and brass accents, and the rustic look of unfinished wood. For more chic decor ideas, watch Steven & Chris weekdays at 2 p.m. on CBC.

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Gold and brass This was the year many vintage favourites experienced a major comeback. Gold and brass, reminiscent of decades past, became a leading trend and surfaced anywhere from hardware finishes to decor accessories.

Gold flatware appeared on tabletops. Chrome no longer dominated kitchen and bathroom fixtures as gold and brass taps offered a warm metallic glow in the room. Brass and gold decor accents became increasingly sought after this year as the idea of mixing metallics grew in popularity.

You don’t need to discard your existing finishes to incorporate brass and gold into your home decor, and that’s a key factor in the success of this design trend.

Natural wood Natural wood was the material of choice for many this year.

Raw wood tables with no varnish or treatments went from being showroom darlings to standard household decor.

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The rustic look of natural unfinished wood has also been juxtaposed with cooler elements like chrome and glass in more formal areas of the home.

Lighting as art Lighting as a form of artwork became a popular concept this year. Form reigned over function for most of this year’s most desired light fixtures. In 2013, lighting made a statement in the room instead of just lighting it up. Over-scale light fixtures were also a big part of this trend. Chandeliers, pendants, sconces, table lamps and floor lamps have become key extensions of a room’s style and personality.

The lived-in look In 2013, comfort was king with a big focus on natural fibres such as linen. The relaxed lived-in look was seen in many upholstered decor pieces such as casual wingback chairs and slipcovered sofas. Even drapery has moved away from traditional silk textiles to the more casual elegance of linen.

The driving force of this trend is lifestyle and the move away from traditional formal choices to more liveable no-fuss options.

Natural wood was the material of choice for many this year, say Steven and Chris. Crate and Barrel’s Big Sur Natural collection, which includes dining tables, benches and a sideboard, has a polished wax finish and emphasizes the innate character of the wood. For more details, see crateandbarrel.com. Courtesy Crateandbarrel.com

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Edmonton sports fans continue to witness the Oilers failing to meet their potential, and an Eskimos squad in need of a rebuild.

The Oilers’ David Perron has been one of the bright spots on a disappointing team that will look to turn things around in the new year. DEREK LEUNG/GETTY IMAGES

Oilers keep drilling for playoff formula THE HOCKEY NEWS

Ryan Kennedy edmonton@metronews.ca

’Twas the year of the broken record for Edmonton, where the Oilers are once again swooning — and not because of the gifts under the tree.

As has been the trend the past couple of seasons, the Oilers are brimming with potential, but ultimately weighed down by an incomplete lineup marred by obvious holes.

That the Oilers are deadlast in the division is a bit of a surprise, but dead-last in the West is unforgivable.

Since it is the holiday season, however, let’s take a look at both the good and bad of Edmonton’s campaign so far.

Best Move: Bringing in

goaltender Ilya Bryzgalov.

That sentence hasn’t been uttered since the Russian netminder left Anaheim for Phoenix via waivers in late 2007, but the famously spacey Bryzgalov has looked good in spurts and has saved the Oilers from a steady diet of the embattled Devan Dubnyk.

Worst Move: Trading Ladislav Smid. A defensiveminded blue-liner with a lot of NHL experience, Smid was steady for Edmonton over the years and on a good team, would be

an excellent second-pairing D-man.

Instead of surrounding him with more talent, GM Craig MacTavish shipped Smid to rival Calgary for forward Roman Horak, with prospect goalies also being exchanged.

MacTavish claimed the trade freed up cap space in order to get Bryzgalov, but surely a forward could have been sacrificed instead.

The Oilers need more NHL defencemen, not less of them.

Best Player: David Perron.

Finding the bright side

“That the Oilers are dead-last in the division is a bit of a surprise, but dead-last in the West is unforgivable. Since it is the holiday season, however, let’s take a look at both the good and bad of Edmonton’s campaign so far.”

Runner-up for best move, too. Since coming to town for Magnus Paajarvi, Perron has not only been a professional, but he’s provided excellent offence as well.

If there was more at stake right now, he would be a vital voice to keep the train going. As it stands, he can at least assure the young stars that it gets better.

Worst Player: Denis Grebeshkov managed to play his way off one of the weakest defence corps in the NHL, so that’s something. But was he really an NHLer to begin with, or were he and Anton Belov merely KHLers who mesmerized Oilers management?

Dubnyk has been a disappointment, with some of the worst stats for a starter in the league. It is time to reassess his future on this team.

Most-searched teams

Leafs Nation rules the Google roost Not even the heartbreak of a Game 7 meltdown and a dispiriting 5-4 overtime loss during last season’s playoffs appears to have deterred Maple Leafs fans from keeping tabs on their team.

At least not according to Google Canada’s 2013 Zeitgeist report, which tracks trending search terms.

The Montreal Canadiens came in second, followed by the Ottawa Senators, the Edmonton Oilers and the Calgary Flames.

“We’re a hockey-obsessed nation and the data totally backs it up,” said Aaron Brindle of Google Canada.

Here are the teams that rounded out the rest of the top 10 most searched: 1. Toronto Maple Leafs 2. Montreal Canadiens 3. Ottawa Senators 4. Edmonton Oilers 5. Calgary Flames 6. Vancouver Canucks 7. Winnipeg Jets 8. Saskatchewan Roughriders 9. Toronto Raptors 10. Hamilton Tiger-Cats TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE

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The past year has produced several highs and many lows for Canadian teams and athletes.

The following storylines grabbed our attention above all the others.

The Canadian Press

The end of the NHL lockout

A season of disappointment

Hockey fans rejoiced when the NHL and the NHL Players’ Association reached a tentative deal to end the lockout in the early hours of Jan. 6.

The agreement was ratified by the board of governors three days later.

Just over five months later, the Chicago Blackhawks won their second Stanley Cup in four years.

Then in November, the league signed a massive new NHL commissioner Gary Bettman apologized for the television deal with Rogers Communications worth $5.2 tardy start to the season.

Getty IMages billion over 12 years.

The Toronto Blue Jays came into 2013 as World Series favourites after a blockbuster off-season that included a 12-player megadeal with the Florida Marlins and the acquisition of reigning National League Cy Young winner R.A. Dickey.

But with the city buzzing at the thought of meaningful September baseball for the first time since the team’s championship years in 1992 and 1993, the campaign was bust from the start.

Raonic’s rise Tennis star Milos Raonic became the first Canadian to crack the ATP top-10 list.

The Thornhill, Ont., player made the Rogers Cup final in Montreal and was also instrumental in leading Canada to the Davis Cup semifinals.

Also making big gains on the court in 2013 were Vancouver’s Vasek Pospisil and Montreal’s Eugenie Bouchard, who both shot up the rankings.

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Calgary Stampeders running back Jon Cornish became the first Canadian in 35 years to win the CFL’s most outstanding player award.

Cornish, who was also named the league’s top Canadian for the second straight year, is the first Canuck to be named CFL MVP since Ottawa Rough Riders tight end Tony Gabriel in 1978.

Cornish finished the 2013 season with 1,813 yards rushing and 12 touchdowns.

Jon Cornish went on to win the 2013 Lou Marsh award as Canada’s top athlete. The Canadian Press

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Anthony Bennett is greeted by NBA commissioner David Stern upon being drafted. Getty IMages

Canadian hoops history

Anthony Bennett shocked many observers on June 27 when he became the first-ever Canadian to go No. 1 at the NBA draft, selected by the Cleveland Cavaliers.

“I’m just as surprised as everybody else,” the Brampton, Ont., native said Meanwhile, Vaughan, Ont.’s Andrew Wiggins was named the top high school player in the U.S.

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• The Toronto Maple Leafs made the playoffs for the first time since 2004 and looked set to advance to the second round when the wheels fell off in spectacular fashion.

Toronto led Boston 4-1 with just over 11 minutes to go in the third period of Game 7. The Bruins won 5-4 in OT. Daniel • Ottawa’s beloved Alfredsson captain Daniel Alfredsson Getty IMages bolted from the Senators after 17 seasons to sign with the Detroit Red Wings.

• The Vancouver Canucks’ goalie soap opera took an unexpected turn at the NHL draft when GM Mike Gillis traded Cory Schneider — not Roberto Luongo — to the New Jersey Devils.

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Green crush

The Saskatchewan Roughriders became the third straight Grey Cup host to win the trophy, defeating the Hamilton TigerThe Roughriders won the Grey Cup in Rider Cats 45-23 on Nation. Getty Images Nov. 24.

The Riders won the 101st edition of the CFL championship in front of their rabid fans at Mosaic Stadium in Regina, with Kory Sheets rushing for a Grey Cup-record 197 yards and two touchdowns to help his team to just its fourth title.

“The one thing that led us to a dominant performance was that the fans were unreal,” said Riders coach Corey Chamblin. “The whole (stadium) was green.”

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UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre successfully defended his title twice in 2013.

But after a bruising and controversial split-decision victory over Johny Hendricks on Nov. 16, the Montreal fighter hinted at retirement in a cryptic post-fight interview in the cage that included a reference to unexplained personal issues and his need to step away from the sport.

Then, on Dec. 13, St-Pierre vacated his title and announced an indefinite hiatus from the Octagon, citing the pressures of being champion.

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Answer to ending Jays’ drought? It’s Pat! DAve Langford Metro reporter

There is a wonderful piece of trivia surrounding legendary Blue Jays general manager Pat Gillick, and it goes like this.

After leading the Blue Jays to two World Series titles (1992, ’93) and five division titles (1985, ’89, ’91, ’92, ’93),

Gillick left the team in 1994.

And the Jays have not made the playoffs since.

In 1995, Gillick joined Baltimore as general manager and the Orioles made the playoffs in 1996 and ’97. He left the team after his threeyear contract ended.

The Orioles then went on a streak of 14 losing seasons before finally making the

playoffs once in 2012.

Next, Gillick took his genius to Seattle where the Mariners made the playoffs in 2000 and 2001, the only time in their history they made the post-season in back-toback seasons.

He left the team in 2003.

And, yes, the Mariners have not made the playoffs since.

His next stop was Phila-

currently priding themselves on promotions such as Flashback Fridays, they need to bring back the most important person in their 36-year history — Lawrence Patrick David Gillick.

God knows they’ve tried everything else.

The team has just come off the most anticipated season since it last made

delphia where, as general manager, he led the Phillies to his third World Series championship. Now retired as GM, he continues to work for the Phillies as a senior advisor.

Meanwhile, the three teams he left behind have a grand total of one playoff appearance in 44 seasons.

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The Blue Jays and starting pitcher R.A. Dickey crumbled under the World Series-sized expectations in Toronto in 2013.

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the playoffs — and won the World Series — 20 years ago.

But the much-hyped 2013 was a disaster in every way.

It started with Opening Day and never let up.

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CFL. Storied Blue Bombers, Eskimos could be on precipice of becoming irrelevant

The Eskimos hope their fortunes turn under new head coach Chris Jones. The Canadian Press

It’s renovation time for two of the CFL’s once-mighty franchises, and this time they better make it right.

Both the Edmonton Eskimos and Winnipeg Blue Bombers are in rebuilding mode, after a pair of ugly 2013 campaigns that left fans shaking their heads in both towns.

“What went wrong? I have no answer for that,” veteran Eskimos defensive back T. J. Hill said as his season ended.

The mood was as sombre in the Bombers locker-room

as players looked back on what might have been.

“It would be a sad thing if I left Winnipeg with this taste in my mouth,” said Terrence Edwards, leader of the Bombers’ receiving corps, who knows he has few seasons left.

Edmonton and Winnipeg have a lot in common.

Other CFL teams may struggle to fill seats, but not the Bombers or Eskimos.

They have loyal fans, although lately they haven’t had much to cheer about

Close to worst

In 2013, the Eskimos finished 4-14, their worst since the league went to 18 games, and the Bombers fell into the CFL cellar at 3-15, tying their worst ever 18-game season.

and there is always a chance their patience will finally run out.

Both are communityowned teams and both fin-

ished their 2013 seasons by sacking their coaches.

For the Bombers, it was two coaches in two years, with Paul LaPolice getting the hook mid-2012 when Tim Burke took over. Kavis Reed at least had three seasons in Edmonton.

Both teams also have had a bit of an off-field circus going in their management offices in recent years that have kept negative headlines before local fans.

But above all, perhaps, both teams also have a long

history of winning that makes it even tougher to swallow defeat.

The Eskimos can claim to be the most successful franchise of the modern era, with 13 Grey Cup wins starting in 1954 and five in a row between 1978 and 1982. Their most recent was in 2005.

The Bombers are no slouches, with a league-leading 24 appearances at the Grey Cup and 10 wins. But their last was in 1990, when they beat Edmonton.

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