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Power slow to return for many Despite two days of round-theclock work to get Toronto back on its feet after a crippling ice storm, half-a-million people are still without power and it seems all but inevitable thousands will spend Christmas Day in darkness.

“We can’t work any faster,” Mayor Rob Ford said at a press conference Monday afternoon, flanked by the officials in charge of essential city services.

More than 100,000 Toronto Hydro customers had their electricity turned back on Monday, Ford said.

But that comes as cold comfort to the 195,000 customers still without power in the city Monday night, and the 80,000 Hydro One customers outside the GTHA. Each customer represents about two-and-a-half people, according to Toronto Hydro.

The mayor has not declared a state of emergency, saying Monday morning that the city was “not even close” to an

Carbon monoxide kills 2

• Police in Durham Region say two Newcastle residents are dead after carbon monoxide seeped into their home from a gas generator running in the garage on Monday.

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Outage. The prospect of a Christmas without electricity appears imminent for thousands of residents

• A 52-year-old man and his 72-year-old mother were rushed to Lakeridge Health Bowmanville but did not survive. Their names have not been released. THE CANADIAN PRESS

emergency situation.

“Things are improving,” Ford said. “We believe the worst weather is now over.”

The question of whether Toronto should declare a state of emergency has become a source of tension behind the scenes, as doing so would transfer all authority to Deputy Mayor Norm Kelly.

Kelly told CP24 on Monday “there is a considerable feeling” a state of emergency should be declared.

Residents have been urged to seek shelter in warming centres around the city.

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Firefighters investigate an uprooted tree and a downed live wire in the Midland and Sheppard area in Scarborough on Monday. VINCE TALOTTA/TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE

Cancer visits family for a second Christmas

Mars, 7, makes “ninja stars” out of Popsicle sticks at Sick Kids hospital.

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All Mars wants for Christmas is some new Popsicle sticks.

The rambunctious sevenyear-old boy can’t get enough of them. He uses them to make little “ninja stars” for the epic hospital-room battles with his mom.

Positioned in attack mode on his hospital bed, bright-eyed Mars steadies his aim.

“Activate shields!” shouts mom Leaf Worsley, lifting her

black cardigan over her head just in time to deflect an explosion of little wooden sticks.

“Oh, goody, goody!” Mars yells between peals of giggles.

This is how the mother and son have passed the time at Sick Kids hospital since Mars was diagnosed with leukemia in April. With Christmas just days away, they expect they’ll be here for the holiday.

“I don’t think very much

about the future,” says Worsley, 38, in a quiet moment after playtime. “We don’t have any plans for Christmas, but I’m just OK with that right now.”

It is the second year in a row the family from Bancroft, Ont., is spending Christmas with cancer. Last year, Worsley, a high school math and science teacher, was undergoing intense chemotherapy in Oshawa for a HER2 strain of breast can-

cer, one of the most aggressive types.

While some might see the family’s double dose of cancer as the worst of luck, Worsley has found the silver lining.

“We felt lucky that we had done this before. I understood exactly what he was going through,” she said. “I knew what he could expect, and that was good.”

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Storm: Scarborough one of the hardest hit areas in the GTA Clean up, repairs may take days. Spotty cell reception, downed wires, dark traffic lights, power outages, cracked branches strewn everywhere ...

Lina Sanfrancesco and her asthmatic 4-year-old son Noah have no heat or electricity in their home due to the ice storm and took advantage of the warming centre in Malvern Community centre in Scarborough on Monday.

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When the lights started flickering and the tree branches started falling, Lina Sanfrancesco knew it was time to leave but didn’t know where to go.

On Sunday evening she started calling hotels. They were booked. She phoned her mom, who had also lost power.

She looked at her asthmatic 4-year-old son Noah, who had been hospitalized with breathing problems just last week.

With nowhere to turn and the temperature dropping inside

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“I’ve never seen anything like this before.

I’ve never, ever had to be in this position, ever.”

Lina Sanfrancesco

their home near Port Union Road and Lawrence Avenue East, Sanfrancesco headed to Rouge Valley Centenary hospital where there would be heat and doctors — just in case.

“It was our only solution to be warm,” she said. “His asthma gets worse in the cold.

Sanfrancesco is just one of thousands of Scarborough residents praying for the power to return as temperatures are expected to fall by Tuesday morning.

Scarborough was one of the worst-hit areas of the GTA, with spotty cellular recep-

tion, downed wires, dark traffic lights, power outages and frozen cracked tree branches strewn across icy lawns and roads. Clean up and repairs are expected to take days.

“I’m just so worried about Christmas, because they’re saying it could be Friday now (before power returns).”

At 5 a.m. Monday, Sanfrancesco heard about the cityoperated warming facility at Malvern Community Centre.

She and her children, including 13-year-old Piera and 15-yearold Nathaniel headed there in a taxi to sleep in their clothes on green cots under Red Crossissued fleece blankets.

Ten warming centres are operating 24-7 as long as necessary, according to Red Cross officials, and volunteers expected Malvern to fill up overnight. Toronto police have also opened warming centres at several detachments. torstar news service

How about a free dinner while you wait for a generator?

Canadian Tire store manager Brian Rattray in his store’s warehouse at Lake Shore and Leslie with pre-sold generators waiting to be picked up by customers. Chris So/torstar news service

As power outages from Saturday night’s ice storm dragged into Sunday afternoon, crowds descended on Canadian Tire looking for generators. Some were disappointed — at first.

The store at Leslie and Lake Shore managed to find 55 at a Brampton warehouse and arrange a special delivery to the store, where customers bought them up before they even arrived.

But by closing time at 7 p.m.

Sunday, the generators still hadn’t showed up and about 50

people were still waiting.

The store stayed open until about 7:30 p.m., said Canadian Tire spokesperson Sarah Van Lange.

Then it closed up — and took the waiting customers out for dinner.

“We let the customers wait in the store for a certain period of time, and then we made a decision to make it a little more comfortable for them,” said general manager Brian Rattray.

About 50 people crossed

the parking lot to Boston Pizza where Canadian Tire treated them to food and non-alcoholic drinks while they waited.

The generator delivery arrived at about 11 p.m.

“It’s really nice that, not only were we able to get the generators, but at the same time, staff were more than willing to wait to help unload the truck and to help the customers,” said Rattray.

“The whole thing was a very feel-good situation.”

200,000 still powerless

Demand for generators was high and growing on Monday, Rattray said, as Toronto Hydro was warning that some of the 200,000 homes still without electricity might remain in the dark until the weekend. Temperatures are expected to fall to -15 C in coming days.

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Toronto faithful worship at altar of Yeezus Bound 2 B spectacular.

Kanye West sells out 2 Toronto shows Sunday

“I’m just gonna get crazier. I’m just gonna get scarier.”

Two consecutive sold-out nights at the Air Canada Centre are just further confirmation to Kanye West — as decreed by Yeezus himself at the conclusion of a combative 15-minute tirade dropped between the third and fourth acts (and, yes,

there were definitely “acts”) of Toronto’s first look at the spectacularly mad Yeezus road show on Sunday night — that Kanye West should keep on doing what Kanye West is doing, no matter who it alienates.

Who, one might ask, is he really alienating? The scorchingly antisocial Yeezus, West’s sixth solo album, is emerging through aggregate critical consensus as the best-reviewed album of 2013.

Sunday’s ACC horde seemed as utterly fine with submitting to the acid-industrial electro-

punk battery of openers On Sight, New Slaves and Send It Up, anyway, as it eventually would to the old-skool-Kanye familiarity of Stronger, Diamonds from Sierra Leone and Jesus Walks to come during the more than two hours of hubristic, but thoroughly entertaining, hip-hop performance art to follow.

The show’s only real derailment came during the aforementioned rant, when West betrayed the gnawing insecurity that keeps his messiah complex fascinating by over-

defending himself for far too long — abetted by AutoTune, no less — against the media “haters” and corporate-recordlabel overlords who would never, you know, permit a guy like Kanye West to make one of the bravest and most acclaimed mainstream records of the year and then mount a ridiculously self-indulgent, million-dollar tour in support of it.

Dude, you’re not a victim.

You’re doing it. You’re actually changing the game. Relax. Just keep doing it.

Kanye West and nude-suited “apostles” during the Yeezus tour stop at the ACC for the first of two sold-out shows Sunday night. Ben Rayner/Torstar news service

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Ont. headed to another minority government: Poll

NDP Leader Andrea Horwath with Finance Minister Charles Sousa.

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Ontario appears headed toward another minority government with an election expected as early as this spring, a new poll suggests.

The final province-wide Forum Research survey of the year found the Progressive Conservatives at 38 per cent, the governing Liberals at 31 per cent, the New Democrats at 24 per cent, and the Greens at 5 per cent.

But Forum president Lorne Bozinoff said the results actually indicate another Liberal

minority government because the Conservatives over-perform in rural ridings and fare poorly in and around Toronto.

Bozinoff said the data suggests if an election were held now the Liberals would win 51 seats to the Tories’ 43 and 13 for the NDP. Currently, the Liberals have 49 seats, including Speaker Dave Levac, the Tories 36, and the NDP 20 with two vacancies in the 107-member legislature.

“I know it looks like a

strange result to have the Tories seven points ahead but get fewer seats (than the Liberals), but there are so many seats that the Liberals … (would) win by one or two percentage points,” said Bozinoff.

“The Liberal vote is amazingly efficient. Whatever they need that’s what they have to win these ridings and keep their minority. There’s no waste to it. The Tories just pile it on in rural areas,” he said.

Because of that and the quirks of the first-past-the-

How it would happen

If NDP Leader Andrea Horwath sides with the Tories to defeat Finance Minister Charles Sousa’s spring spending plan, an election would be triggered.

post electoral system, Bozinoff said the Conservatives likely need to be at 41 or 42 per cent to win outright. torstar news service

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After the storm. Clearing up trees destroyed by ice next big task in the 905 While power has been restored in most of the 905, the cleanup of thousands of felled trees might not go as smoothly.

“If trees have fallen and are affecting access to homes or if there’s public safety issues, then call the fire department or Enersource. Otherwise we can’t do anything right now,” said Mississauga Mayor Hazel McCallion at lunchtime Monday.

McCallion and a group of senior city staff were huddled in an emergency meeting at City Hall, but she took a break to address one of the big problems emerging after the weekend ice storm.

Fewer than 500 Mississauga Enersource hydro customers remained without power as of Monday afternoon after about 20,000 had lost power Sunday, and McCallion warned that if the weather turned bad outages could cascade through the city again. But the biggest concern, now, said McCallion is public uncertainty about the thousands of

downed branches and trees across Mississauga.

“The tree loss is huge.

Whole streets have lost trees that are mature. And that’s not including parks. People should not expect this to be cleaned up right away. It’s too large.”

In nearby Oakville it was a similar story: Only 250 homes were without power Monday afternoon, down from 25,000, so attention was on the cleanup effort.

Neighbourhoods hardest hit can put out tree debris with their regular garbage pickup until the end of January.

PowerStream — hydro provider for Markham/ Unionville, Richmond Hill and Vaughan in York Region — said it had restored power to 75,000 customers in those municipalities since Sunday afternoon. If power was not restored for the remaining 14,100 households by 8 p.m. Monday night, the utility warned that they “may have to be prepared for an extended outage into Christmas.” torstar news service

An arborist cuts a tree branch dangling from a power line in Brampton on Monday. J.P. Moczulski/The Canadian Press

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Delectable eats for Santa on Christmas Dinner splurge.

Planning on eating out on Christmas Day? Metro looks at some of the options in Toronto

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If Santa’s in a rush, he can also order a Christmas-Dinner-to-go to share with Mrs. Claus and his elves.

• The Fairmont Royal York Hotel’s executive chef Collin Thornton is offering a deluxe home-cooked Christmas feast for four or eight people for $195 and $320 respectively, ready for pick up on Dec. 24 and 25.

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After a whirlwind trip around the world delivering presents on Christmas Eve, Santa will need a very special dinner as a reward for all his hard work.

With many restaurants closed on Christmas Day, we’ve compiled a shortlist of some of the city’s top restaurants that are not only open, but serving up special holiday menus, in case Santa needs to refuel in Toronto before heading back to the North Pole.

1. AUBERGE DU POMMIER In case Santa decides to take Mrs. Claus out for a nice romantic dinner here in Toronto, this upscale Oliver & Bonacini French restaurant, is offering up an indulgent a-la-carte Celebration Menu this month.

With six different courses to choose from, including a lobe of foie gras served tableside for $60, some mouth-watering 5 oz.

A5 Japanese Kobe beef for $175, or some fine Ossetra caviar served on ice for $250, Santa can get a taste of some of the dreamiest dishes the city has to offer this Christmas. If the mood

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many more to choose from, Santa can fill his belly for $95, plus $50 for wine pairings.

Auberge du Pommier Manager Eoin Cullin carves a whole lobe of foie gras tableside and dresses it with salt and pepper. The menu item is featured on the restaurant’s Celebration Menu running through the end of December.

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strikes, Santa can also splurge on an $800 champagne to celebrate another job well done.

2. CAFE BOULUD Santa can also get a taste of some of Michelin-starred chef Daniel Boulud’s offering’s here in Toronto for $85 a person. Boulud’s Christmas menu includes a Nova Scotia lobster salad, paté en croûte, seared foie gras to choose from for

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starters, and sunchoke risotto, Nova Scotia halibut or turkey for the main course.

3. TOCA AT THE RITZCARLTON For a “humble, farm-totable” experience of Canadian cuisine, TOCA’s Christmas menu will bring together some of the finest ingredients from local farmers and producers. With a turkey roulade, stripe sea bass, octopus carpaccio and

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4. EPIC RESTAURANT AT THE FAIRMONT ROYAL YORK EPIC, another restaurant in the city that focuses on sustainable local food, is promising guests a five-course festive dinner along with a visit from Santa on Christmas Day. The hearty selection, which includes a winterspiced roasted red pepper soup, a seasonal root vegetable composition, a trusty Canadian prime beef striploin, slow-roasted Ontario turkey with apple and turkey sausage stuffing and much more, for $99.

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Pussy Riot is free, but say it’s not a victory ‘This is a hoax and a PR move.’ Band members say their release is a ‘cosmetic measure,’ call for ban on Olympics

Chadian forces wound at least two in drive-by Young men react after their friend was badly injured by passing Chadian troops during a protest outside M’Poko Airport in Bangui, Central African Republic, on Monday. Hundreds of demonstrators gathered to protest Chadian forces and express support for French troops and other regional African forces. At least two people were wounded as pickups of Chadian soldiers sped through the crowd firing off several rounds. Rebecca Blackwell/The associated Press

Reputed Montreal mob boss Rizzuto is dead 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, which was crippled by his 2006 extradition to the United States.

Rizzuto was arrested by Canadian authorities in 2004 and extradited two years later to the U.S., where he was convicted for his role in the 1981 murder of three Bonanno crime-family members in New York City.

He was sentenced to 10 years in prison, minus time served while awaiting extradition.

He returned to Canada following his October 2012 release. THE CANADIAN PRESS

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

“I’m calling for a boycott of the Olympic Games,” Tolokonnikova said. “What is happening today — releasing people just a few months before their term expires — is a cosmetic measure.”

Another member of the band, Yekaterina Samutsevich, was previously released on a suspended sentence. All three were found guilty of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred and sentenced to two years in prison for a guerrilla performance at Moscow’s main cathedral in March 2012.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, the third member of Russian punk bank Pussy Riot to be released from custody following an amnesty law passed by parliament, leaves prison in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, on Monday. Tatyana Vishnevskaya/The Associated Press

The band members said their protest was meant to highlight their concern about increasingly close ties between the state and the church.

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Regina. Generous cops donate $415 plus toys to a family hit by thieves Police in Regina saved the day for a family whose presents were stolen in a break-in.

Thieves broke into the home of a family with three children last week, taking all the family’s Christmas presents and a little girl’s piggy bank to boot.

Police were called and one of the men in blue, Const.

Brandon Boon, saw what happened and decided to do something.

So he passed the hat among his colleagues, and pulled together $415 in cash, a snow globe, and more than eight kilograms of chocolate.

The Regina Police Association, the officers’ union, donated some children’s toys as well.

On Saturday, the officers presented the gifts to the family.

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Compassion in blue

“They do see a lot of rough things ... It helps make them feel better to do a little good.�

Regina police spokesman Les Parker

ker says it’s just one of many good deeds officers have done over the year. “I spoke to just two of our members and they gave me a huge list of anecdotes of the type of stuff that happens at Christmas, and year-round,� he said.

Parker listed off just a few, including giving gift baskets to seniors, adopting families and manning the Salvation Army’s kettles. the canadian press

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Woman says Tom peeped under bathroom stall Police have charged a man, 47, with voyeurism in Edmonton. It’s alleged a man followed a woman into a bathroom of the Lois Hole Library in Callingwood. The woman said the man was on the floor of an adjacent stall, looking up at her. the canadian press

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Jailed in United Arab Emirates for comedy Satirical video. Eight people, including an American, sentenced to up to a year for ‘defaming the image’ of U.A.E. society A court in the United Arab Emirates sentenced eight people including an American to up to a year in prison Monday after being convicted in connection with a satirical video about youth culture in Dubai.

The video they produced and uploaded to the Internet was a spoof documentary of would-be “gangsta� youth in the Gulf Arab nation. The state-owned daily The National said they were accused of “defaming the image of United Arab Emirates society abroad.� Supporters reported that they were charged under a 2012 cyber-crimes law.

Shezanne Cassim, a 29-year-old U.S. citizen from Woodbury, Minn., became the public face of the defendants after his family launched an effort to publicize his monthslong incarceration following his arrest in April.

Cassim, who was born in Sri Lanka and moved to Dubai for work after graduating from the University of Min-

Shezanne Cassim of Minn., sentenced to jail Monday for humour crime. Courtesy Shervon Cassim/the associated press

nesota in 2006, was sentenced Monday to a year in prison followed by deportation and received a $2,725 fine.

Two Indians received similar sentences, while two Emirati brothers were sentenced to eight months. A third brother was pardoned.

Three others, a Canadian, Briton and an American, were convicted and sentenced in absentia to the penalties given to the other foreigners. They have never been detained and so are unlikely to serve their sentences. the associated press

Not so funny?

The case has drawn attention from celebrity comedians in the U.S. The comedy video website Funny or Die, cofounded by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay, posted a video earlier this month to raise awareness about Cassim’s situation. • Gulf Arab states have been cracking down on social media use over the past

two years, with dozens of people arrested for Twitter posts deemed offensive to leaders or for social media campaigns urging openness. • “Basically Dubai, if you want to be viewed as an international place ... don’t put people in jail for making silly videos,â€? said Adam McKay.

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Smartphones. Apple inks Mikhail Kalashnikov. Designer of deal with China Mobile as world’s most popular firearm dies at 94 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.

But even with China Mobile Ltd.’s vast state-owned network, marketing power

and more than 750 million mobile accounts, the iPhone has enormous challenges to overcome in the world’s most populous nation.

Apple’s smartphone is already available in China through two smaller carriers, and although it is popular with well-heeled Chinese customers, the iPhone is losing market share to lower-priced smartphones from Samsung and local brands.

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Mikhail Kalashnikov said he slept well as the designer of the AK-47 assault rifle. the associated press file

Mikhail Kalashnikov started out wanting to make farm equipment, but the harvest he reaped was one of blood as the designer of the AK-47 assault rifle, the world’s most popular firearm.

It was the carnage of the Second World War, when Nazi Germany overran much of the Soviet Union, which altered his

course and made his name as well-known for bloodshed as Smith, Wesson and Colt. The distinctive shape of the gun, often called “a Kalashnikov,” appeared on revolutionary flags and adorns memorabilia.

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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.

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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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The worst of film in 2013

Forgettable fare.

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

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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.

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.

The Host Romeo and Juliet There’s a certain amount of satisfaction to be taken in Julian Fellowes’ take on watching Twilight guru Ste- Shakespeare’s classic teens phenie Meyer’s attempt at at least gave audiences a a follow-up franchise crash new appreciation for Baz LuTrim: 10” hrmann. and burn, but it’s a shame

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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••••• 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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This girl was on fire in 2013 Entertainer of the year. Jennifer Lawrence is lady of the year for media types The battle for AP entertainer of the year came down to the Girl on Fire and the Queen of Twerk.

Jennifer Lawrence edged out Miley Cyrus by one vote in The Associated Press’ annual survey of its newspaper and broadcast members and subscribers for Entertainer of the Year.

There were 70 ballots submitted by U.S. editors and news directors. Voters were asked to consider who had the most influence on entertainment and culture in 2013.

Lawrence won 15 votes.

Cyrus had 14. Netflix was a close third, earning 13 votes for altering the TV landscape with its on-demand format and hit original series.

But Lawrence — who started the year with an Academy Award for best actress, fueled a box-office franchise as The Hunger Games heroine Katniss Everdeen, and wrapped 2013 with a critically acclaimed performance in American Hustle that just earned Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations — charmed fans everywhere with her

candid sincerity.

She was also a fashion darling — a muse for Dior — who made headlines with her pixie haircut. (“That was the weirdest thing that ever happened to me,” she recently told Jon Stewart.)

Lawrence declined comment for this story.

The 23-year-old actress “is not only talented and beautiful, but comes off as incredibly intelligent, genuine, funny and well-spoken in her public appearances and interviews,” writes Kristi Runyan of The Derrick and The News-Herald Newspapers in Oil City, Pa. “It’s refreshing to see a young woman not squandering her talent and success by succumbing to the temptations many do in Hollywood and who actively speaks about the ridiculous behaviour of some of her peers.”

Speaking of ridiculous behaviour, Cyrus raised eyebrows throughout 2013 with her embrace of twerking, nudity and public pot smoking. The 21-year-old Wrecking Ball singer also made news with her pixie chop, but her breakup with fiancé Liam Hemsworth and highly sexualized (and scrutinized) performances made her water-cooler chatter all year.

“She made the biggest splash, without comment on whether I thought it was a good thing,” said Jim

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“It’s refreshing to see a young woman not squandering her talent and success by succumbing to the temptations many do in Hollywood.”

Kristi Runyan of The Derrick and The News-Herald Newspapers in Oil City, Pa. on Jennifer Lawrence

Turpin of KMPH-TV in Fresno, Calif.

Women have dominated the Entertainer of the Year contest.

Past titleholders include Adele, Lady Gaga, Tina Fey, Betty White and Taylor Swift. Stephen Colbert is the lone male winner in seven years of voting.

Netflix commanded votes for changing viewing habits (binge-watch Breaking Bad, anyone?) and challenging the traditional TV-release concept with its original series.

The outlet eschewed typical TV pilots and released a season’s worth of episodes at once of its acclaimed series House of Cards and Orange Is

the New Black.

“In a divided entertainment landscape that includes the fans of pop princesses like Miley as well as high-minded devotees of cutting-edge filmmaking, Netflix is the one common denominator,” said Sean Stangland of Paddock Publications in suburban Chicago.

The beloved, Emmy-winning series Breaking Bad was in fourth place with 10 votes. Justin Timberlake, whose year included a pair of albums and top-selling tours, seven Grammy nominations and two film roles, claimed fifth place.

The Associated Press

Recently returned from a long tour, Canadian rapper Shad kicked back and posted an innocuous message to his Facebook page linking to three recent “amazing” Kanye West interviews.

Then he sat back and watched as the vitriolic comments poured in, a dynamic range of rage targeting the provocative Chicago hip-hop hero. Shad responded personally, tossing off hundreds and hundreds of words in defence of West — at the expense of rest.

“I think his interviews the last couple months have been probably the best thing in hip hop this whole year — just super candid, messy conversations about things much bigger than music....

What I’ve been confronting on my Facebook timeline for the past few hours, it really is disappointing to me. Would you rather just see an endless parade of people promoting rom-coms?”

So West remains a divisive figure for fans. Not for critics, however.

The serrated, strippedraw Yeezus stood as perhaps the year’s most agreed-upon artistic triumph, and as 2013 wraps to a close is rightfully being treated to podium finishes in nearly every music publication, with Time, Spin and Entertainment Weekly among the magazines to hail West’s prickly puzzle as the year’s best record.

But when Shad — last name Kabongo — says that West’s blunt and scattered interviews have stood as hip hop’s high point for the year, he’s making no minor statement. Because 2013 was a special year for the rap genre, with Yeezus standing only as

Rapper Shad Kabongo. the canadian press

the lofty lightning conductor in a rap landscape increasingly dotted with skyscrapers.

Scan any of those aforementioned best-of lists and you’re likely to see a cluster of the same rap records appearing again and again from such names as Chance the Rapper, Toronto’s Drake, Danny Brown, Earl Sweatshirt and Pusha T. Can what feels like a collective creative renaissance be attributed to mere coincidence, or are other motivating factors lifting the genre to unfamiliar heights?

Theories range, but few would deny that something extraordinary is going on.

“Artists right now are making some of my favourite music in hip hop that’s ever been made,” said Pittsburgh rapper Mac Miller, who released the well-received Watching Movies With the Sound Off in June.

“I think that in many years this year will be looked back on as a very special time and there hasn’t been anything that as a movement has been as big as this since the quoteunquote Golden Age.” The canadian Press

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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

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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.”

The Associated Press

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?”

But, OK, I don’t hate this.

Miley Cyrus is a next-level entertainer and whoever is handling her PR right now deserves a big, fat holiday bonus. MyCy (I’m still totally going with this, and don’t understand why nobody else has picked this up) was the most-googled person of the year, which is pretty damn impressive considering where she started.

Also, I’m sure there’s an opportunity for a think piece on female empowerment and sexual freedom, etc, etc here.

I’m not going to write it, I’m just saying there’s a window here. metro

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

It also is so toxic that it causes flesh to rot off the user’s bones, and the average abuser dies two to three years after beginning to use.

LOW: Energy drinks may kill you Need a jolt of caffeine?

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Half off

Half off: Can health take a holiday?

Three months ago we introduced Metro Winnipeg editor Elisha Dacey who has teamed up with fitness professional Jordan Cieciwa and registered nutritionist Theresa Albert. Dacey wants to lose half of her body weight and has been writing about it in her online blog, Half Off. “My rule during special occasions, especially Christmas dinner, has always been to take a plateful of everything I want and to eat dessert too,” says Dacey. “So basically, I’m not giving up or letting up but I am enjoying myself on Christmas day.

“You’re allowed to enjoy the tradition and not feel deprived... and that’s just as important to your health as anything else.”

Good thinking, says Cieciwa.

“We need to understand that health, fitness and eating well, is not a punishment. There are a lot of great choices, and that’s what you need to do 80 per cent of the time. Once in a while, go crazy, eat delicious food, treat yourself.

Just don’t do it every day and every meal.”

He recommends focusing on more activity during festive times too.

“Enjoy the holidays with the family by playing games and moving. That will take you away from situations

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“If you need a break and have been doing well, then go with the ‘take a wee break’ thinking.”

But there are also lots of ways to balance the holidays with activities, healthy choices, and mindful downtime, too. For Albert’s guide to managing through the holidays, check out metronews.ca/voices/half-off/ It’s important to be gentle with yourself during

this busy and sometimes stressful time, she says.

“What you don’t want to do is stress-eat on top of party-eat on top of drinkmore. The idea is to get to January without doing more damage to your motivation and spirit as well as waistline.”

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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.

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 plastic 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

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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.

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The holidays are a time to burn your candles at both ends, but you have to be careful to not flame out. The pressure created by a combination of social events, family get-togethers, shopping and financial stress can easily weaken or overwhelm your immune system.

Eating Make sure you neither eat too much, nor too little. Overindulging will not only put on a few extra holiday pounds, but makes you more likely to develop esophageal reflux from a distended stomach at bedtime.

This overnight trickle of stomach acid bubbling up into the back of your throat while lying flat in bed can not only cause heartburn but may also lead to a sore throat or dry cough.

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tually increase your odds of getting a sinus infection or bronchitis by decreasing your resistance. Eating too little may make you more likely to get intoxicated, as the alcohol in a glass of holiday cheer is absorbed much more quickly from an empty stomach.

Drinking With so many social obligations and reasons to celebrate, there is ample opportunity to drink alcohol on a daily basis — and lots of it. Try to drink a glass of water with each alcoholic beverage (one for one).

Don’t drink and drive, and

don’t let your friends drink and drive.

Being healthy The 2013-14 influenza season has officially arrived in North America and there are any variety of cold viruses around that have been making people miserable with sore throats, nasal congestion and coughs. Shaking hands, kissing under the mistletoe and travelling on a plane can all spread illness rapidly. Get a flu shot, wash your hands frequently, keep your hands away from your face and blow kisses where you can. Metro

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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

Quoted

“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 multi-million dollar company ZinePak. Like many people who have a gem of an idea, Kaupe didn’t have a business background or any startup 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.”

2. Partner with someone who has the strengths you lack “My business partner and I fit together perfectly because one of us has the strengths that the other person doesn’t.

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

3. Tell everyone your idea “There’s this common misconception that when you come up with a great idea, you have to keep it to yourself because someone will steal it. It’s really the opposite. If you have an

idea, tell everyone you can. You never know who that person might know. Or, they could have a way for you to improve your idea that you haven’t thought of. We changed our entire product based on a suggestion a random customer emailed us. It pays to listen — literally.”

4. If you’re not an expert, find people who are “Neither my partner nor I had a background in business. Going to meet-ups was essential for growing our business. There are meet-ups for everything: small business owner meetups, tech meet-ups, entrepreneur meet-ups... When I first started out, I thought I was the only person in the world who faced certain problems. But chances are, most other entrepreneurs that you talk to have wanted to throw their Quickbooks out the window too and might have a great suggestion that can help you. Whatever you need to learn how to do that you can’t Google, there’s someone out there who can help you.”

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cold calling, saying ‘Let us make this awesome product for you.’ The less supplies you have to buy, the more money you’ll make. Think, do you really need a ware-

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I strummed all the way to school Educators take note.

Through mariachi music, students find path to college By the end of a recent weekend, the big achievement among Ramon Rivera’s high school mariachi band wasn’t that they had logged more than a thousand kilometres in a bus packed with musical instruments or that they had played two shows in front of large audiences.

It was that eight of them, all sons and daughters of Latino farm workers from the agricultural city of Wenatchee, had been accepted into Washington State University — the first in their families to gain admission to college.

“They could be the next lawyers, senators, doctors, and the next president of the United States,” Rivera told a cheering theatre crowd that weekend during one of their shows.

The news was one of the success stories from the Wenatchee High School, where officials created a mariachi program to connect children of farm workers in the heart of Washington state’s apple country with their heritage.

School officials say the class has helped students centre themselves and has even helped graduation rates.

It’s not just for farm

Give this band a hand

The melody made me do it

“Mariachi is a leadership class for our students because it teaches them self-discipline, teaches them to work hard, teaches them how to be on time, teaches them to speak in front of an audience.

• Rivera’s efforts have been lauded by the University of Washington, giving his program a certificate of recognition last year.

The eight students accepted at Washington State University were given certificates in a ceremony in November.

• Since then, another student has been accepted into college this school year.

Ramon Rivera Head of the Mariachi Huenachi program

workers’ kids, however.

Everyone’s invited and some non-Latino kids have joined.

“Mariachi is a leadership class for our students because it teaches them selfdiscipline, teaches them to work hard, teaches them how to be on time, teaches them to speak in front of an audience,” Rivera said.

“These are skills that can’t be put down on a test,” said Rivera, who moved to Wenatchee from the Los Angeles area in 2006 to take over the program, and reinforced the program’s focus on higher education.

Wenatchee, located in north central Washington state, is built on agriculture, sending millions of apples, cherries and pears worldwide. Many of the fruits are picked by immigrant farm workers from Mexico and Central America. Some of their children work summers in the fields.

To connect with them,

Members of Wenatchee High School’s Mariachi Huenachi program perform outside CenturyLink Field prior to a Seattle Sounders MLS soccer game in Seattle. Ted S. Warren / the associated press

the school district created the program using Mexico’s mariachi music in 1997. The program is dubbed Mariachi Huenachi for the Spanish phonetic spelling of Wenatchee.

Now more than 300 students in the high school and middle school learn the soulful ballads.

Over 45 per cent of students at the Wenatchee school district are Latino; 20 per cent are migrant students. Nearly 60 per cent

of students are on free or reduced meal programs, an indicator of poverty, according to state figures.

Rivera is fully aware of those economic realities. “I think the best key to get out of poverty is to get your education. The best way to help your family is to get your education,” he said.

To reach his students, Rivera approaches his task from various angles. First, he requires a 3.0 GPA to play.

To perform with the trav-

elling group, students must try out. Students in the top group are well versed in playing the violin, guitar, trumpet and the “guitarron,” a large six-string guitar used by mariachis. Some students also must sing.

He keeps his students busy, filling in many weekends with performances across the state. One weekend it’s a gig at the Sounders game in Seattle. Another weekend is a show at a Tacoma theatre or at the state

capital for Gov. Jay Inslee.

The students also play at senior centres around their town.

They log their activities, and use them to pad their college, scholarship and job applications.

But for the 25-member travelling class, which is the varsity group of the whole program and usually for juniors and seniors, those trips are important beyond the chance to sing in front different audiences.

Along with shows, Rivera tries to schedule visits to universities and community colleges, a way for students whose families don’t have the means to go on college tours and get to visit a campus.

At the colleges, counsellors meet with the students to inform them about scholarships and loans.

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’Round the world wisdom

Use the holidays to disconnect so you can focus LESSONS FROM THE DESERT Stéfan Danis life@metronews.ca

The severe market crash in October 2008 changed my life. I started running to regain my health, both emotional and physical. Shortly after I took my first steps, I ran the Gobi March in China in June ’09, followed by the Atacama Crossing in Chile in ’10 and the Sahara Race in Egypt in ’11. In this post, I share a lesson about life, learned from the desert.

We are all aware of the big challenges facing us, but frequently our mind’s time is focused on all the other smaller distractions around us. As we all have a set amount of energy we can summon to deal with adversity; the question is: are we keeping the required amount to deal with the big issues?

I have found that email is possibly the most omnipresent and intrusive of all distractions.

One of the gifts the desert offered was to get completely unplugged; the race was designed as unaided, meaning phones, email, text, or video were prohibited.

Devoid of distractions, the outcome for all racers was the opportunity to focus on the task at hand and be at one with the difficult environ-

ment, without interference.

Despite being completely depleted by the physical and emotional stress of the race, there was a heightened sense of lucidity from being present and in the moment.

In retrospect, I believe the race required 100 per cent of my focus in order to be completed.

The holiday period, away from the office, may be a special time of the year to redefine our relationship to the invasive email noise that we all carry everywhere with us.

Being present is a gift we rarely afford ourselves nowadays. Overcoming obstacles requires undivided attention.

To do so, consider getting unplugged.

StÉfan Danis is the CEO of NEXCareer and Mandrake, and the author of GOBI RUNNER

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A bon voyage in your own backyard Student staycation.

If you’re not travelling during this break, there are ways to beat the holiday blues

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It’s December, and a definite chill is in the air. An exotic vacation is a good cure for the wintertime blues, but it’s a luxury that many can’t afford. If a vacation isn’t in your budget, don’t worry!

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Enjoy the great outdoors It might be tempting to stay indoors all break, but try to enjoy the great outdoors at least once. Get fit and boost your health with seasonal activities.

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Cross-country skiing is a great activity to build endurance and core muscles, while skating builds balance. Physical activity is also a natural mood-booster and a great way to fight the wintertime blues.

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Enjoy the great indoors Do you wish the cold weather would let up already?

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Keep yourself in an active mindset by choosing learning-based activities.

Instead of watching the History Channel, visit a local museum or art gallery. Forgo the Food Network and attend a cooking class. Instead of watching National Geographic Channel, immerse yourself in a new culture by visiting a cultural heritage centre.

Consider visiting lesserknown attractions to learn something unique to and enjoy low entry fees. While large cities are filled with indoor attractions, even small towns have options.

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’Melo banged up but Knicks hold on for rare win Carmelo Anthony had 19 points before leaving the game with a sprained left ankle in the third quarter, but the New York Knicks were able to stave off a fierce charge to preserve a 103-98 victory over the Orlando Magic on Monday night.

New York led by as many as 25 points before having its lead cut all the way to a basket in the fourth quarter. Beno Udrih hit six straight free throws in the final 26 seconds to help preserve the win.

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World juniors

Maple Leafs go into Christmas break cold

Leafs goalie Jonathan Bernier prepares for a shot from Rangers forward Rick Nash on Monday night at Madison Square Garden. FRANK FRANKLIN II/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NHL. Bernier gives his best, but Buds fall to Rangers in shootout Mats Zuccarello and Derek Stepan scored shootout goals, and backup goalie Cam Talbot earned his second win in two nights as the New York Rangers shook off a late tying tally to beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 2-1 Monday night.

Zuccarello and Stepan scored in the first two rounds,

ceptional for Toronto, making 42 saves through overtime and allowing only J.T. Miller’s goal 7:04 into the third period. The Maple Leafs played their third straight shootout and lost for the second consecutive time. They are 2-5-2 Rangers Maple Leafs in their last nine.

It looked as though Miller’s goal would stand up as and Talbot stopped Nazem the winner, but Kadri changed Kadri in the third to end it. that. David Clarkson took two Kadri scored a disputed goal whacks at the puck at the left with 1:24 left in regulation to post, and Talbot appeared to force overtime.

T:10”cover it, but Kadri poked it in Jonathan Bernier was ex- under Talbot’s glove.

On Monday

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The play went to video review and the goal was ruled good just 10 seconds after the Rangers killed a penalty.

Talbot, starting over slumping No. 1 netminder Henrik Lundqvist for the second straight game, bounced back from the late goal and improved to 8-2 in his first NHL season. He made 24 saves Sunday in a 4-1 win over Minnesota and helped New York finish its teamrecord nine-game homestand 3-4-2.

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 tuneup 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.

Yannick Rathgeb replied for Switzerland while Melvin Nyffeler made 29 saves.

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Salmons going swimmingly in T.O. NBA. Veteran has made a big impact since joining Raptors in trade for Gay Whether it’s with aggressive defence against an opponent’s best player or serving an additional offensive facilitator late in close games, John Salmons is giving the Raptors something they’ve longed for for years: A savvy, cool, experienced hand who has been through the skirmishes and who knows how to play.

Acting as some kind of standard for a young team to emulate — and willing to take as much responsibility that he can get, the 34-year-old Salmons is turning into the best short-term acquisition the Raptors got in the franchisealtering trade of Rudy Gay. “He’s played in the playoffs, he’s been a leader a long time,

The Raptors’ John Salmons defends Kevin Durant of the Thunder on Sunday. The Associated Press

played with a lot of great guys,” DeMar DeRozan said of Salmons. “He knows how to play the game. He knows what to do when he’s out there with the ball in his hands, like (Sunday) he took control of it and that’s big to have a vet like that.”

Salmons’ contribution to To-

ronto’s surprising 104-98 win over the Oklahoma City Thunder cannot be understated. He had nine of his 14 points in the fourth quarter and was part of a swarming defence that held the Thunder to 14 points and 5-for-25 shooting in the final 12 minutes.

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For the result of Monday’s Raptors-Spurs game, go to metronews.ca.

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Boston Tampa Bay Montreal Detroit Toronto Ottawa Florida Buffalo

Chicago St. Louis Colorado Minnesota Dallas Winnipeg Nashville

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Monday’s results NY Rangers 2 Toronto 1 (SO) Ottawa 5 Pittsburgh 0 NY Islanders 3 Detroit 0 Tampa Bay 6 Florida 1 Anaheim 3 Washington 2 Columbus 4 Carolina 3 Buffalo 2 Phoenix 1 (OT) Philadelphia 4 Minnesota 1 New Jersey at Chicago Boston at Nashville St. Louis at Calgary Winnipeg at Edmonton Dallas at Los Angeles Colorado at San Jose Sunday’s results NY Rangers 4 Minnesota 1 Vancouver 2 Winnipeg 1 Friday’s games Ottawa at Boston, 7 p.m.

Buffalo at Toronto, 7 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Carolina, 7 p.m.

Columbus at New Jersey, 7 p.m.

NY Rangers at Washington, 7 p.m.

Colorado at Chicago, 8 p.m.

Minnesota at Winnipeg, 8 p.m.

Nashville at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.

Edmonton at Calgary, 9 p.m.

San Jose at Phoenix, 9 p.m.

GP W L OL GF GA Pt 38 25 7 6 140 105 56 35 24 7 4 125 81 52 35 23 10 2 102 83 48 39 20 14 5 88 96 45 35 17 12 6 101 105 40 38 16 17 5 101 110 37 36 16 16 4 83 103 36

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Saturday’s games Detroit at Florida, 7 p.m.

Boston at Ottawa, 7 p.m.

Montreal at Tampa Bay, 7 p.m.

New Jersey at NY Islanders, 7 p.m.

Los Angeles at Nashville, 8 p.m.

Chicago at St. Louis, 8 p.m.

Phoenix at Anaheim, 8 p.m.

Philadelphia at Edmonton, 10 p.m.

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WEEK 16 Monday’s result Atlanta at San Francisco Sunday’s results Cincinnati 42 Minnesota 14 N.Y. Jets 24 Cleveland 13 Denver 37 Houston 13 Indianapolis 23 Kansas City 7 St. Louis 23 Tampa Bay 13 Buffalo 19 Miami 0 Tennessee 20 Jacksonville 16 Dallas 24 Washington 23 Carolina 17 New Orleans 13 N.Y. Giants 23 Detroit 20 (OT) Arizona 17 Seattle 10 Pittsburgh 38 Green Bay 31 New England 41 Baltimore 7 San Diego 26 Oakland 13 Philadelphia 54 Chicago 11

NBA Monday’s results Charlotte 111 Milwaukee 110 (OT) New York 103 Orlando 98 Detroit 115 Cleveland 92 Indiana 103 Brooklyn 86 Memphis 104 Utah 94 Dallas 111 Houston 104 Miami 122 Atlanta 121 (OT) Toronto at San Antonio Golden State at Denver L.A. Lakers at Phoenix New Orleans at Sacramento Sunday’s results Indiana 106 Boston 79 Toronto 104 Oklahoma City 98 L.A. Clippers 120 Minnesota 116 (OT) Wednesday’s games Chicago at Brooklyn, noon Oklahoma City at New York, 2:30 p.m.

Miami at L.A. Lakers, 5 p.m.

Houston at San Antonio, 8 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Golden State, 10:30 p.m.

Thursday’s games Atlanta at Cleveland, 7 p.m.

Memphis at Houston, 8 p.m.

San Antonio at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Portland, 10:30 p.m.

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Buick Regal could rule the roads 2014 Buick Regal. One step closer to being first choice over a Euro sedan instead of an alternative wheelbasemedia.com

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 entry-luxury 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.

Inside, the reshaped dashboard has a 4.2-inch (10.7 centimetre) display screen between the dual gauge pods that shows basic vehicle info.

In addition, a new eight-inch (20-centimetre) touch screen for the climate, navigation, communications and infotainment systems can also be operated through steeringwheel controls.

Under the hood has been simplified. Previously, you could pick between the base turbo-charged 2.0-litre fourcylinder engine with 220 horsepower and 258-poundfeet of torque, and a version that made 270 horsepower and 270 pound-feet of torque (the GS model).

Newly optional for turbo models is an all-wheel-drive system that in normal driving splits the torque equally

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•Engines (hp). 2.0-litre DOHC I4, turbocharged (259); 2.4-litre DOHC I4 (182)

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between the front and rear tires, but can deploy up to 90 per cent to the rears when the front wheels start to lose traction. AWD is not offered for the optional (and nonturbocharged) 2.4-litre fourcylinder engine that combines with a 15-horsepower electric motor and lithium-

ion battery pack to make 182 horsepower and 172 poundfeet of torque.

The partial-hybrid system, called eAssist, controls the car’s stop-start function to conserve fuel at stoplights and in stop-and-go traffic. The eAssist also kicks in when the Regal is accelerating, but

Fuel economy

For 2014, it’s down to a single turbo engine pegged at 259 horsepower and a stout 295 pound-feet. It’s rated at 10.1 l/100 km in the city and 6.6 on the highway with the six-speed automatic transmission, and 10.2/6.3 with the sixspeed manual (available only with the GS).

unlike a “full hybrid” powertrain, the electric motor never operates independently of the gas engine. A six-speed automatic is the sole eAssist transmission choice.

The AWD option allows the Regal to keep up with the changing times and the competition, as does the

availability of camera-based blind-spot warning and crosstraffic alerts, the latter of which points out traffic that’s crossing into your backup path. There’s also forwardcollision warning that lets you know when you’re too close to traffic in front.

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The 2014 Chevrolet Camaro Z/28 Dream Car Put together from existing parts, it’s a true hotrod Camaro built for the speed lovers MALCOLM GUNN wheelbasemedia.com

You would think that the most expensive street-legal Camaro coupe ever made would at least include air conditioning, a fancy stereo, power-adjustable seats and possibly a competition-beating supercharged engine.

But that’s not the case with the Z/28, a designation that conjures up images of high-winding, race-bred Camaros dating back to 1967.

However, you likely won’t hear any price complaints from eager buyers who are expected to gobble up the first year’s production run of 1,500 vehicles as fast as they depart the factory floor beginning in early 2014.

Although more than capable on the street, the “Z” was really created (or recreated, since the Z/28 label along with the previousgeneration Camaro were retired after the 2002 model year) to perform in stellar fashion in competition. For drivers who would rather put in some fast laps around the racetrack than putt their way around a golf course on weekends, this is the Camaro of their dreams.

For such a low-volume model, Chevy’s engineers invested considerable time and effort to ensure the Z/28 will live up to its past glory and lay a beating on high-priced competitors. Part of that process included pruning some weight, including the deletion of the power-seat adjusters, eliminating the rear-seat frame and trunk pass-through structure, installing thinner rear window glass and transferring the air conditioning unit over to the options list.

Additionally, Chevrolet has reduced the wheel diameter to 19 inches from the 20-inch units used on the Camaro SS 1LE track car and ZL1 models, thus eliminating 18.6 kilograms in unsprung weight while lowering the car’s centre of gravity.

Overall, the Z/28 weighs about 135 kilograms less than the ZL1 model — the heaviest Camaro, by the way — that runs with a supercharged 6.2-litre V8 rated at 580 horsepower and 556 pound-feet of torque.

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The Z/28 omits some standard creature comforts in the interest of saving weight, such as air conditioning, which is optional.

about the same as a base V8 Camaro.

To do this, the car instead borrows the 2013 Chevrolet Corvette Z06’s high-revving 7.0-litre non-supercharged V8 engine that makes 505 horsepower and 481 poundfeet of torque. Without a supercharger, the 7.0 weighs 29 kilograms less than the 6.2 engine found in the Camaro ZL1.

As with the Z06, the Z/28 uses a dry-sump oil system (a 10-litre remote tank instead of the usual oil pan) to ensure a continuous oil stream

to all vital components during high-speed manoeuvres.

As well, engine and transmission/differential oil coolers reduce heat build-up and aid reliability when these components are pushed to the max. This is also good insurance since the Z/28’s powertrain warranty also covers extracurricular track use.

What the Z/28 does share with its ZL1 counterpart is a close-ratio six-speed manual transmission that, like the car’s extra-stiff suspension and unique shock dampers,

The Z/28’s engine is the 505-horsepower LS7 7.0-litre (427-cubic-inch)

has been beefed up for the rigours of track duty.

Numerically, the Z/28 falls short of the ZL1 in terms of raw horsepower and torque, but the Z/28 is likely much quicker around a racetrack, simply because it’s built more for that purpose.

Along with its reduced heft over the ZL1, the Z/28 features plenty of racebred tricks up its sleeves.

Aerodynamic upgrades include a lower chin spoiler (called a splitter), front and rear fender flares, rocker

panel moldings and a hood vent for ducting otherwise trapped air from the engine compartment. As well, an aggressively shaped rear spoiler improves high-speed stability and cornering speed, aided by a set of sticky Pirelli PZero Trofeo R-compound tires mounted to 11-inch-wide alloy wheels in front and 11.5-inchers in back. The tires — more than a foot wide — are the same on all four corners.

Chevrolet claims that the Z/28 produces 1.05 g’s in cornering grip and an

equal amount of braking force, thanks to the fadefree Brembo-brand carbonceramic brakes that weigh considerably less than comparable iron rotors.

The Z/28’s interior is just as go-fast-focused as the rest of the car. There’s a flatbottomed steering wheel and Recaro racing-style seats with grippy suede-covered bottoms and cutouts for installation of an aftermarket five-point racing harness.

Clearly, this extra-special Camaro isn’t your average grocery getter or stoplight poseur. It’s built for drivers who can afford to drop an estimated $70,000 for a car with everything an enthusiast needs to exercise his or her need for speed.

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Kia’s Sedona minivan delivered plenty of safety, convenience and affordability — as well as a high ‘volume per dollar’ ratio that challenged competitors like the Honda Odyssey, Nissan Quest, Toyota Sienna and the segment’s sales superstar, the Dodge Grand Caravan.

Features included cruise control, steering-wheel mounted audio controls, Bluetooth and more. Projector lights and a windshield wiper defroster helped with all-season visibility.

A backup camera, power sliding doors, a power tailgate and power adjustable pedals were available.

Common issues

In light of reports of alternator problems and issues with battery charging, a check of the Sedona’s electrical system by a Kia-trained mechanic should be made ahead of your purchase.

The out-of-warranty cost of parts and labour to replace an alternator on a Sedona are relatively high.

Drivability issues like sporadic acceleration, hard starting, stalling, reduced power output or ‘lumpy’ power delivery could be the result of a bad engine sensor.

A scan of the engine con-

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Hard shifting, slipping or failure to shift from the transmission may be the result of faulty sensors which control this driveline component.

If you note any strange or unwelcome behavior from the transmission during your testdrive, be sure to have it investigated before agreeing to purchase.

Note that some owners have

reported oil leaks on the 2011 and newer Sedona from the oil filter housing or oil pressure switch. These are relatively easy to fix.

On the electrical front, check for proper operation of the headlights too — as numerous owners report having to change burned-out bulbs frequently.

Listen to the power windows, one at a time, to ensure they make no grinding or scraping sounds during operation. If they do, a bad window regulator is the likely culprit.

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The kids have spoken, Comet and Blitzen rule Maritz Research survey.

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How can you even contact 1.2 billion children worldwide without hearing about it on the major news organizations, like TMZ Live or eTalk Daily hosted by Ben Mulroney and Tanya Kim? But we will give Maritz the benefit of doubt today because it’s super timely with Christmas coming tomorrow, and I don’t have time to dig deeper into the methodology (the

sends us lots of good information about the Canadian automotive scene through the company’s many automotive-based consumer surveys and focus groups.

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Before getting into the meat of the survey, Travel did have to clarify a couple of items ... “We did not include Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer, because of course Rudolph did not come along until 1939 when he was created by Robert L. May for the Montgomery Ward Catalogue.

“Nor did we include Chet the crazy reindeer from the 2002 Santa Clause II movie with Tim Allen … Chet was so far out there it would have skewed our data.”

So the kids were asked to comment only on the original eight reindeer, and give their personal opinion on how each would measure up for Santa on three important criteria.

On the first measure — reliability and dependability — Comet led all contenders with a 37 per cent approval score.

Maritz’s automotive surveys usually ask about interior comfort, but for this study they substituted exterior comfort. Blizten was top reindeer in this category.

Fun to drive is a very important criteria, noted Travel, “because that’s the kind of guy that Santa is…” Comet topped the charts here, with a whopping 67 per cent score.

For the last criteria, fit and finish, Blitzen scored another overall win.

Frankly, I was surprised Vixen didn’t do better in this category.

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“Based on their extensive deliberations, they decided, after many hours, that Blitzen is the reindeer, to lead Santa’s sleigh,” noted Travel.

He then thanked the “1.2 billion children who participated in our survey” and wished everyone the very best for the holiday season.

I’ll do the same.

The breakdown

• Reindeer Customer Satisfaction Survey • The categories: 1) Reliability & Dependability 2) Fit & Finish 3) Exterior Comfort 4) Fun to Drive • Blitzen: 1) 25.5% … 2) 37.0% … 3) 67.5% … 4) 20.5% • Comet: … 37% … 25.5% …

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0.5% … 1.0% • Dancer: … 3.5% … 5.5% …

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Standard 10 airbags, ABS, traction control and StabiliTrak®. ®Bluetooth is a registered trademark of Bluetooth SIG Inc. ♠Comparison based on 2013 Polk segmentation: Compact SUV and latest competitive data available and based on the maximum legroom available. Excludes other GM brands. ∆2014 Silverado 1500 with the available 5.3L EcoTec3 V8 engine equipped with a 6-speed automatic transmission has a fuel consumption rating of 13.0L/100 km city, 8.7L/100 km highway and 11.0L/100 km combined 2WD and 13.3L/100 km city, 9.0L/100 km highway and 11.4L/100/km combined 4WD. Ford F-150 with the 3.5L EcoBoost V6 engine has a fuel consumption rating of 12.9L/100 km city, 9.0L/100 km highway and 11.1L/100 km combined 2WD and 14.1L/100 km city, 9.6L/100 km highway and 12.1L/100 km combined 4WD. Fuel consumption based on GM Testing in accordance with approved Transport Canada test methods. Your actual fuel consumption may vary. Comparison based on wardsauto.com 2013 Large Pickup segment and latest competitive data available. Excludes other GM vehicles. ♣When equipped with available 6.2L EcoTec3 V8 engine (available to order fall 2013). Class is Light-Duty Full-Size Pickups. ∞Requires 2WD Double or Crew Cab with available 6.2L EcoTec3 V8 engine and Max Trailering Package. Maximum trailer weight ratios are calculated assuming a base vehicle, except for any option(s) necessary to achieve the rating, plus driver. The weight of other optional equipment, passengers and cargo will reduce the maximum trailer weight your vehicle can tow. Comparison based on wardsauto.com 2013 Light-Duty Large Pickup segment and latest competitive data available. Excludes other GM vehicles. Class is Light-Duty Full-Size Pickups. ◊U.S. government 5-Star Safety Ratings are part of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA’s) New Car Assessment Program (safercar.gov). ††2014 Cruze LTZ, MSRP with freight, PDI & levies $28,489. 2014 Trax LTZ FWD, MSRP with freight, PDI & levies $30,089. 2014 Equinox LTZ FWD, MSRP with freight, PDI & levies $37,539. 2014 Traverse LTZ FWD, MSRP with freight, PDI & levies $48,289. 2014 Silverado 1500 LTZ Crew Cab 4WD, MSRP $51,379. Dealers are free to set individual prices. †Offer valid only to eligible retail lessees in Canada who have obtained credit approval by GM Financial, have entered into a lease agreement with GM Financial, and who accept delivery from October 1, 2013 through January 2, 2014 of a new eligible 2014 model. General Motors of Canada will pay the first month’s lease payment (inclusive of taxes and any applicable pro-rata amount normally due at lease delivery as defined on the lease agreement). After the first month, lessee will be required to make all remaining scheduled payments over the remaining term of the lease agreement. This offer may not be redeemed for cash and may not be combined with certain other consumer incentives available on GM vehicles. General Motors of Canada Limited reserves the right to amend or terminate this offer, in whole or in part, at any time without prior notice. Void where prohibited by law. Additional conditions and limitations apply. See dealer for details. **The 2-Year Scheduled Lube-Oil-Filter Maintenance Program provides eligible customers in Canada, who have purchased, leased or financed a new eligible 2014 MY Chevrolet, Buick, or GMC vehicle (excluding Spark EV), with an ACDelco oil and filter change, in accordance with the oil life monitoring system and the Owner’s Manual, for 2 years or 40,000 kms, whichever occurs first, with a limit of four (4) Lube-Oil-Filter services in total, performed at participating GM Dealers. Fluid top offs, inspections, tire rotations, wheel alignments and balancing, etc. are not covered. This offer may not be redeemed for cash and may not be combined with certain other consumer incentives available on GM vehicles. General Motors of Canada Limited reserves the right to amend or terminate this offer, in whole or in part, at any time without prior notice. Additional conditions and limitations apply. See dealer for details. ¥Offer only valid from December 10, 2013 to January 2, 2014 (the “Program Period”) to retail customers resident in Canada who own or are currently leasing a Chevrolet Aveo, Cobalt, Caprice, Cavalier, Cruze, Epica, Impala, Lumina, Malibu, Metro, Monte Carlo, Optra Sonic, Spark, Volt, Saturn Ion, Aura, Astra, L-Series, S-Series, Sky, that has been registered and insured in Canada in the customer’s name for the previous consecutive six months, will receive a $1,000 Holiday Owner Bonus credit towards the lease, purchase or finance of an eligible new 2014 Chevrolet Sonic, Cruze, Malibu or Impala delivered during the Program Period. Eligible retail customers resident in Canada who own or are currently leasing a Chevrolet HHR, Equinox, Tracker, Uplander, Venture, Astro, Lumina APV, Blazer, Traverse, Trailblazer; Saturn Vue, Relay, Outlook; Pontiac Montana/SV6, Transport, Torrent, Aztek, Sunrunner; Buick Rendezvous, Terraza, Enclave, Rainier; Oldsmobile Silhouette, Bravada; GMC Safari, Jimmy, Terrain, Acadia or Envoy, that has been registered and insured in Canada in the customer’s name for the previous consecutive six months, will receive a $1,000 Holiday Bonus Owner credit towards the lease, purchase or finance of an eligible new 2014 Chevrolet Trax, Equinox or Traverse delivered during the program period. Only one (1) credit may be applied per eligible vehicle sale. Offer is transferable to a family member living in the same household (proof of address required). This offer may not be redeemed for cash and may not be combined with certain other consumer incentives available on GM vehicles. The $1,000 credit includes HST/GST/QST/PST as applicable by province. As part of the transaction, dealer will request current vehicle registration and/or insurance to prove ownership for the previous consecutive six months. GMCL reserves the right to amend or terminate this offer, in whole or in part, at any time without prior notice. Void where prohibited by law. Additional conditions and limitations apply. See your GM dealer for details. ¥¥Offer only valid from December 10, 2013 – January 2, 2013 (the “Program Period”) to retail customers resident in Canada who own or are currently leasing (during the Program Period) a GM or competitor pickup truck to receive a $1,000 credit towards the purchase, finance or lease of an eligible new 2014 Model Year Chevrolet Silverado Light Duty, Silverado Heavy Duty, Sierra Light Duty, Sierra Heavy Duty, or Avalanche. Only one (1) credit may be applied per eligible vehicle sale. 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Outdoor protection The inventors of CarCapsule now make a similar model for outdoor use. This extra durable version’s 12-volt high-pressure fan with its washable filter keeps the CarCapsule inflated and the “Evaporative Storage System” changes the inside air three to four times per hour to eliminate moisture from condensing on the vehicle. The 18 by 6.5 by 5.7-foot (5.5 by 2.0- by 1.7-metre) sells for $679 US. Order at carcapsule.com.

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Washing and waxing the family bus can be a pain with all that bending and stooping for the bucket. The Bucket Taxi is designed to keep the soapy contents of your bucket close at hand and it’s on wheels so you can move it exactly where it’s needed without lifting. Pick up the Bucket Taxi for $60 US at buckettaxi.com.

A company with the offbeat name of Calm The Ham has created a unique 24 by 36inch poster entitled Filmography of Cars.

Among its 71 illustrations it features the 1958 Plymouth Fury from the movie Christine and the 1932 Ford hot rod from American Graffiti. Filmography of Cars sells for $44 US at calmtheham.com.

Trucks from the past Toy-maker Smith-Miller has a fascinating story and the company’s 1/16th scale line of transport trucks and trailers are some of the most unique anywhere.

Each one is a limited-edition model and some are made using new-old-stock pieces that date back to the 1950s. On the other hand, some are brand new creations. All are hand-assembled in the U.S. The price of toy-truck nostalgia ranges from $700-$1,100 US. Find them at smittytoytrucks.com.

Tuesday, December 24, 2013

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Horoscopes

Aries

Taurus

April 21 - May 21 You will handle everything life throws at you with grace and style. The planets endow you with limitless self-confidence and the kind of faith that moves mountains.

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

July 24 - Aug. 23 Matters of a routine nature will take up a lot of time but once you have completed your tasks you can move on to something more interesting.

Whatever else you do today, don’t cut corners.

Virgo

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Crossword: Canada Across and Down

March 21 - April 20 Something you have been working on for a long time will bear fruit today. Others may say you’ve been lucky but the fact is you have laboured long and hard to get this far.

Libra

Sept. 24 - Oct. 23 Partners and colleagues will demand more of your time and attention today and if you are smart you will give it to them.

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.

Capricorn

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.

Aquarius

Jan. 21 - Feb. 19 What happens today will convince you that life is good and about to get even better.

The only reason that your thoughts have been so negative of late is because you have allowed your emotions to blot out common sense. Time to rebalance.

Pisces

Aug. 24 - Sept. 23 This should be a productive day for you — you will get a lot done in a short space of time. Make the most of it because as you move into the New Year not everything will come quite so easily.

Feb. 20 - March 20 Try not to get too emotionally involved in other people’s problems. Life is full of ups and downs, and so a more light-hearted approach from you today will be an example for them to follow.

Across 1. “Hush! I __ __ the phone!”

5. Gentle 9. “__ Old St. Nicholas” 14. Artist’s work 16. Grow like _ __ 17. Saint-Jean-sur-__, Quebec 18. Distributes 19. Pitcher’s stat.

20. _ __ mode 21. Pancake dish of Russia 23. Mailing enclosures, commonly 25. Nero’s 651 27. Poinsettia part 30. Texter’s “incidentally” 32. Jump 34. __-Cone 35. Overseas MTV honour (acronym) 37. Alum 39. Barbera’s cartooning partner 41. The Huron Carol bit: “That mighty __ __ / Sent angel choirs instead.”

44. Via ship: 2 wds.

45. Singer/songwriter Marvin 46. Prefix to “light” 47. Appropriate 48. Thailand currency 50. Premium car 52. French for “here and there”: Ici __ __ 54. Ancient portico 56. Distressed cries

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60. Saskatchewan village between Regina and Saskatoon 62. American airer since ’71 64. Furrow-maker 65. Helicopter part 67. Ontario community east of London 70. Satire

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71. Where Canada is trying to lay territorial claim, as in recent headlines: 2 wds.

72. Holiday hue 73. Fellows 74. Belonging to an undercover agent Down 1. __-ski

2. Ballerina/actress Ms. Shearer of The Red Shoes (1948) 3. Killer whales 4. To the __ power 5. Richard of Night Court 6. Ancient tale 7. Prevarication 8. __ Canada (Book publisher)

9. Actress Ms. Gertz 10. Buck of Hee Haw 11. “Oh, the weather outside is frightful...”

Christmas carol: 3 wds.

12. Jeans brand 13. Li’l length units 15. Spread 22. Irish coronation stone, __ Fail

Sudoku

How to play Fill in the grid, so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1-9. There is no math involved.

Yesterday’s Sudoku

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24. Online retail discount 26. Mott’s beverage 28. Boredom 29. Bygone bird 31. Early 1920s President [monogram] 33. __ Beta Kappa 35. The Prince of __ (1998) 36. Festive foliage 38. Position in hockey: 2 wds.

40. When management might return from lunch, __ __ 42. Music legend Mr. Calloway 43. Bird bill 44. UK defence contractor, _ _ _ Systems 49. Mount __ (Volcano of Japan) 51. Frankincense and __ 53. Solo 55. Furious 57. __ it up (Celebrate) 58. Candy-on-a-stick 59. Monica of tennis 61. Welsh opera singer Mr. Terfel 63. Furry friends 65. Semi 66. Hockey Hall of Famer 68. __ _ Turn (Road sign) 69. Madonna’s first hubby ... his initialssharers

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TORONTO NEWS WORTH SHARING.

YEAR IN REVIEW

Metro presents the best, the worst, the wisdom and the foolishness of 2013 Un-Ford-gettable year at city hall PAGE 6

Going undercover to get the story PAGE 3

Tinseltownâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s top tabloid shockers PAGE 31

2013: World-class wreck PHOTO ILLUSTRATION: DAVID VAN DYKE; PHOTOS: THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Crazy things happen every year in this city — though we can’t help but feel 2013 was the year Toronto went world-class weird.

Lying to find the truth Metro reporter

As part of my job as a Metro reporter, I work undercover.

I’ve been asked if it’s scary and what it’s like to pretend to be someone I’m not. For me, it’s a thrill. I love being on the trail of a good story.

Metro sends me undercover to do stories when someone doesn’t want it told and a little deception is required to find the truth. Two come to mind:

I am unemployed, with no skills, in need of a fixer Earlier this year, a reader emailed Metro to complain that a family member had been duped by a company called You Find Work. It’s a career-counselling company that gives people who are desperate for jobs a hard sell and then charges them thousands of dollars for services they can get elsewhere for free, right when they can least afford it.

I needed to see how it works — and prove it was a scam.

I created a fake resumé and posed as a job seeker.

When the manager of You Find Work wanted my fiancé to come to a second meeting, I brought a

colleague — one of Metro’s web editors. Afterwards, we revealed ourselves as reporters and interviewed him.

Then I wrote a story based on what I learned and the stories of several former clients. Months later, I still get emails from people who read it and decided to steer clear of You Find Work.

I am lovestruck, lonely, in need of psychic assistance Another investigation came from a reader who said he was conned out of $14,000 by a psychic who kept promising to make his love come back to him, with no result. That would be fraud, but I needed to prove it.

I walked into a messy apartment while my editor — serving as my “muscle” — waited outside, phone in hand, ready to call the police. I told the psychic that I too was looking for a boyfriend who left me.

After a palm and tarot-card reading, he gave me different price points for returning my fake boyfriend to me: for $1,500 he’d love me forever, for $1,200 he’d come back to stay for four years and for $900 he’d stay only two.

When I told them I was a journalist — over the phone, from the safety of my office — the assistant

At Metro, our disguises are a little more convincing than this, but you have to admit that the trench coat is pretty evocative. DAVID VAN DYKE/METRO

gave me a lot of denials. He knew nothing, about anything.

By going to the psychic myself, I was able to help

prove that the sad story the reader told me was true.

After the story was published, he found the courage to go to the police.

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It’s the role of a lifetime — a rich, layered character with humour and pathos — and he’s perfect for it.

The local actor who posed as Mayor Rob Ford’s body double for our front cover has made a small side-career portraying the mayor — sometimes just his body and sometimes the whole man.

He’d love to play him in a movie one day.

“It could be an epic movie or a movie of a week, a whole series — comedy, dramatic, all of it,” he says.

But, for now, he doesn’t want his name used or associated with the political storm that surrounds Ford. He’s worried about jeopardizing his commercial work.

“He’s become a weird global phenomenon, and I think it goes back to seeing a fat man being silly,” he says.

“Our society’s primed to think the fat man’s funny, and, my god, he’s not breaking down that barrier on any level.”

He started playing the mayor in a comedy sketch, and soon afterwards was recruited to be a go-go-dancing Ford at a Peaches concert.

He was also Ford’s body on the cover of Now Magazine — no, not the nearly naked cover, the recent one where the mayor is giving two middle fingers.

Playing Ford is not particularly lucrative, but it is pleasurable work.

“Until he leaves the scene, I will profit from his foolishness,” he said.

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Rob Ford, life of the party, dominated stories about city hall in 2013 at the expense of stories about things that actually might make life in this city better. All photos: TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE FILE

Mayoral mad-libs: Covering city hall in the Rob Ford era documents, or the frenzied speculation that These days, whenever I tell anyone that I make comes with every delayed mayoral press confermy living writing about Toronto City Hall and ence. our famous mayor, I tend to get the same reBut it’s also been tiring. There have been sponse. times — especially lately — where a major Ford “Oh,” they say, with a knowing smile, “you scandal breaks and I groan. It means another must be having fun.” week where stories about other city hall issues And, yeah, I get it. With Mayor Rob Ford, fall to the wayside. crazy stuff happens. The city hall beat used to More than anything else, I think a lot of be dominated by stories about whether propmedia members have experienced a major case erty taxes should go up by one per cent or a half of Ford fatigue. He creates piles of news, but of one per cent, or whether the city should lithere isn’t much variety to it. cense backyard chickens. But now it’s like an URBAN COMPASS In my role as a columnist and blogger, someHBO drama. Drug use! Police investigations! times it feels like I could almost take a fill-inLawsuits! Inadvertent football tackles on the Matt Elliott the-blanks approach to writing about the maycouncil floor! toronto@metronews.ca or. It’s mayoral mad-libs: Mayor Rob Ford did It’s definitely not boring. [something scandalous] today. It was wrong for [reasons]. The But I wouldn’t say that it’s necessarily fun. Covering Ford mayor must do [something that won’t matter, because all this over the last year has been challenging. There are moments will just happen again]. where it’s a total adrenaline rush. It’s hard to forget those times But to ignore the mayor would be to ignore the important I spent counting down the minutes until the release of police

job he still has, and in a sense it’d be letting him off the hook.

To just let the mayor do outrageous things or say things that aren’t true without calling him on it would be a failure on my part.

But I also feel like I’ve failed when I let the Ford frenzy distract me from other city hall stories. And there are so many important stories. Stories about underfunded student-nutrition programs, miles-long waitlists for affordable childcare, our ongoing housing crisis, the need for electoral reform, and a hundred others.

There’s a necessary balance there — one I’m still trying to find — between stories about Rob Ford and stories about things that actually might make life in this city better.

That separation shouldn’t exist. Stories about the mayor should be stories about issues that matter. That they so often aren’t at Rob Ford’s city Read more of Matt’s hall is the thing that takes blog, Ford for Toronto, the fun out of it — the thing at metronews.ca that makes this hard.

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Where was outrage for teenage girls forced into prostitution?

Group homes.

Runaways, at the tender age of 14 and 15, were failed by the system jessica smith cross Metro reporter

Three girls ran away from a group home last year. Two, then aged 14 and 15, were made to be prostitutes and the third, aged 16, was charged with human trafficking alongside a group of older men.

That story, more than any I’ve covered, left a lasting impact on me.

The girls were minors in the care of the province when they were trafficked. They were in a place that was supposed to be secure. Its purpose is to help adolescent girls who have already experienced trauma. It

was supposed to help them grow up safely, but they ended up in the care of pimps.

I don’t know what went wrong at that group home because no one has ever answered that question. For a year, all I could get from the Ministry of Child and Youth Services was that they were waiting for the police investigation to be over.

I called up the appropriate critics of both opposition parties ready to give them a platform to say that the government failed these kids and someone must be held responsible. Neither jumped at the opportunity. Neither knew much about the situation or offered anything but general concern.

I reported on every development in that story. All the major news outlets covered the press conference the Toronto Police Service held to announce the arrests. But to me, something has always been missing. Where was the

The government needs to do more to help girls and young women preyed on by pimps who “find a vulnerable situation and exploit it.” Dita Alangkara/the associated press file

outrage?

In October, the case ended.

Two of the men pleaded guilty to prostitution charges and the other charges, included the charges against the 16-year-old girl, were dropped.

The ministry finally told me they were “enhancing safety measures, improving staff

training and reducing the number of youth residents under the (group home’s) licence to improve the overall quality and security in the home.”

Is that it?

In the meantime, I learned that recruiting girls from group homes for prostitution isn’t new.

There a was a successful criminal case against a pimp who targeted girls from an Ontario group home in 2009.

The victim testified her pimp convinced her to run away and work for him by telling her that other girls in her group home had done it too.

The investigator of the re-

cent case, Det. Mark Benallick, said at that press conference that group homes are concerning for police because there are so many of them and they’re home to vulnerable people.

“They (human traffickers) prey on vulnerable people,” he said. “It’s very much a predator relationship — they find a vulnerable situation and they exploit it.”

I talked to Bridget Perrier, who was prostituted from her group home at age 12, 25 years ago. Then, it was common, she said. And she doesn’t know if anything has changed. She is calling on the provincial government to acquire “a deep understanding” of human trafficking and prostitution and how the sex trade involves vulnerable girls in the child welfare system.

I agree. I’d also like to see a little outrage and hear some promises about how it will never be allowed to happen.

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The disappearance and murder of Tim Bosma was for me a reminder that we’re all susceptible to becoming front-page stories. The 32-year-old Ancaster, Ont., man vanished after taking two men for a test drive in a truck he was selling.

The news that typically makes it to Metro’s pages can often be devastating enough to elicit our sympathy, but rarely our empathy. As hard as we try, it’s not easy to imagine ourselves in wartorn cities.

Anyone who has had to trust a stranger can relate to Bosma’s situation.

This was a heartbreaking loss for a young family, and my hope is that it forces people to view these stories not just as news, but as personal experiences.

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The lighter side of the law. A dash of humour helps humanize VicPD

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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.

Since then, he and his partner Bowen Osoko have been working to build the force’s social media cred.

And despite the serious nature of police work, the pair hasn’t shied away from the absurdist humour endemic to Internet culture.

When cops busted drug Cats with hats

“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

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?

The answer may give you paws for thought. There have been 539 stories on metronews.ca tagged “animals” in 2013. Here are the top 5 animals (by number of stories).

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

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dealers hiding cocaine in fake “Durasell” batteries in January, Russell penned a hilarious press release and offered tips to others looking to secure their stash.

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

When handed the reins of the force’s Twitter account in March, Osoko opted to spam followers with pictures of cats wearing hats.

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

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Some readers have complained about my work as Metro’s fashion and beauty blogger for Trends Report, labelling it sexist and shallow.

Granted, writing about “sparrow face selfies” and “bitchy resting face” doesn’t suggest hard journalism, but the beauty indusdogs try is what it is.

In fact, if it hadn’t been for an assignment reviewing beauty boxes, I would have

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As a blogger, I care about my readers and their feedback.

I tracked the founder of Glymm using LinkedIn and badgered his secretary for information over the phone. I also used my ties as a beauty blogger to get reaction from other beauty-box businesses.

After all, there were tons of irked Glymm subscribers in an industry that is still working to establish itself.

The week of April 25 the Glymm story generated more than 10,000 website views and 20,000-plus views on my Storify. It even prompted a company, Nail Polish Canada, to link to my story and provide free gifts to customers bilked

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Calls to my 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 leadup to the anniversary of then-president Mohammed 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 the 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

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 in Cairo.

Ed Giles/Getty Images FILE

took root, serving to justify military crackdowns and delegitimize nuanced opinions that didn’t conform neatly to “pro-military” or “proMuslim Brotherhood.”

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. But I believe it is 2013

that 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 fear their neighbours, too. And divided, they say, is how they fall.

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#omg! Readers all a-Twitter over TEMP

Nothing hard-hitting here: Metro online readers gravitated toward the sublime and the ridiculous.

Here are their five favourite international stories of 2013.

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!

Man fired after wrestling sharks A 62-year-old British man who became an Internet sensation after wrestling with a shark on an Australian beach said in March that he was fired after his employer discovered he’d been abroad while on sick leave. Paul Marshallsea was filmed yanking a six-foot-long shark away from waders at Caloundra beach in January. But his intervention also caught the eye of his employer.

Marshallsea had been on leave since last April and said his doctor advised him to go on vacation. The Associated Press

Having same name apparently not the secret to a successful marriage 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 news station. “We gave it our best shot.” Torstar News Service

Dog shaved like lion prompts 911 call

MSN Messenger goes the way of ICQ

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

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

@Teyemtenot: yet another reason why Metro is my favourite thing to read in the morning!

Dog with human-like face gets hundreds of adoption offers

@hurricanediana: thanks for keeping me entertained for 20 a.m. commutes. Funny, surprisingly thought-provoking and relevant.

Tonik the dog became an international sensation when a photo of him was picked up by media around the globe. “His pictures have been up on the adoption site since September 2011,” said Jen Schwartz, the founder and owner of the Homeward Bound animal shelter. “For some reason, someone decided this week that he looks like a human and it’s been overwhelming since,” said Schwartz at the time of the buzz.

@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

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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'

Paul Sullivan metronews.ca

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.

HE SAYS

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.”

Anonymous reader

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 good, the bad and the ugly 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.

Director Guillermo del Toro really dropped the ball on Pacific Rim — a movie that promised so much and delivered so little. CONTRIBUTED Metro’s favourites1Gravity

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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

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 woman behind Deep Throat held too much back.

The Fifth Estate Maybe it was too soon to explore the rise and fall of WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange, but it seemed

compared to The Wolf of Wall Street because of the similarity in tone and themes. The difference is that this time around director David O. Russell has almost out-Scorsese’d Martin Scorsese. Add to that some unexpected and compelling performances from the a-list ensemble cast that included 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. perfectly reasonable that Bill Condon and Benedict Cumberbatch were up to the task. Apparently not.

Anchorman 2 Following up an iconic

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Enough Said James Gandolfini’s last leading film role, Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ 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.

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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

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Song of the Year: Royals

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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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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.

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

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 — 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.

Enough said.

Project Runway Here’s my shout-out to reality TV. I love reality it.

I watch it all. Housewives, teen moms, geriatric moms, people who have sex with inanimate objects — I’ll watch them all, as long as it’s “real.” But Project Runway (technically a reality competition show, which makes it higher brow) is legitimately a quality show. The contestants (for the most part) are actually astoundingly talented, the challenges are fresh and exciting, and there’s still enough cat fighting and drama to sate my appetite for lowbrow reality crap.

Girls How did nobody else even mention this show? I don’t care what anybody says, Lena Dunham is a genius and remarkably likeable despite airing her flaws — both emotional and physical — for the whole world to

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.

gawk at. Sure, the second season didn’t quite meet the very high bar that the debut season set — it was a little too dark, and sometimes depressing — but as a 20-something girl myself (29 still counts) I can totally relate to almost everything that is said and done on this show. Don’t judge me.

Nathan For You Most people have probably never seen or even heard of this show. Get familiar, people, because Canadian comedian Nathan Fielder is one of the funniest dudes on the tube right now. This docu-reality comedy series basically features Fielder playing a deadpan, deadeyed version of himself, using his “business background” to help out failing companies and individuals.

Spoiler alert: He is not helpful.

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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 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

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.

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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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shaking, it was so delightfully weird that I thought it deserved a mention.”

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“I, for one, definitely had Beyonce winning the Super

fun to name her North.

Amanda Bynes

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Justin Bieber 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.

Bowl on my list. Nothing can stop 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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“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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The evolution of Kimye (and the birth of baby North West).

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Cory Monteith overdosing.

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She’s going more for shock value than sex appeal. Which, honestly, is slightly refreshing. Just put the tongue away, girlfriend.”

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The five fitness trends that we hope don’t return — ever 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.

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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

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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 trainRun from this trend. ing (or HIIT) has many benefits: Bursts of vigorous exercise (think squats and burpees) fol- But along with the increase lowed by brief rest periods can in popularity of these types of burn calories — fast. That’s workouts has come an increase why we’ve seen the rise of in injury, from slipped disks to workouts like CrossFit, and the torn rotator cuffs. According to recent study published by The Insanity and P90X DVD series.

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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 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.

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Gonna make you sweat. Waking up your workout keeps you motivated. But these fitness trends seriously miss the mark.

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.

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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

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

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 fish-based 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

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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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Leafs flame out in spectacular fashion; Jays do the same; Raptors are the Raptors. It was another trying year for our Toronto teams.

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Year shows Leafs not nearly ready to contend THE HOCKEY NEWS

Adam Proteau toronto@metronews.ca

The Toronto Maple Leafs began 2013 on a high note — hey, after the NHL lockout ended in mid-January, all the league’s teams did — but are closing out the calendar year hitting so many low notes, you may as well call them the boys in Blue & (Barry) White.

Now, let’s not get ahead of ourselves. When the league returned to action, the Leafs’ first “full” season under head coach Randy Carlyle had a lot of positives. Not only did Toronto make its first post-season appearance since 2004, it finished two wins and one overtime loss away from home-ice advantage. Young forwards Nazem Kadri and James van Riemsdyk proved valuable additions to a young roster that included alreadyvery-valuable star Phil Kessel.

The tandem of James Reimer and Ben Scrivens did stellar work in the 48-game regular Cody Franson and Phil Kessel have proven valuable assets but they’ll need considerably more help to make the Leafs contenders. JARED WICKERHAM/GETTY IMAGES season before Reimer took over for the Leafs’ first-round of consistency through the in his left ankle), they’ve been Toronto changed when the But something happened that series against Boston. lineup is troubling, but there’s in a free fall and head into the 2013-14 campaign began and pushed those positives to the From there, Buds fans still a significant amount of end of December closer to the far back of Toronto’s collective the Leafs — strengthened in experienced their first major talent here. goal by the acquisition of Jona- periphery of the playoffs than mind. Something called Game disaster of the year. Sure, As 2014 looms, that mixed the top of their division. than Bernier — jumped out Kessel asserted himself against 7. Something involving a 4-1 bag type of result is likely As has been noted in to a 10-4-0 record in the first Leafs lead with 11 minutes his former Bruins teammates to continue. The Leafs are a this space before, it’s almost month of the year. But since remaining in the third period, as never before; and, sure, franchise not near the end of a always a mistake to think the injury bug took a bite out and a collapse that will haunt Toronto pushed Boston as long-term rebuild and as 2013 the Leafs are as good or as of the roster (in particular, the dreams of their fans for hard as any team the eventual showed, the foundation still bad as they appear at any knocking out centre David years.

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NHL commissioner Gary Bettman apologized following the lockout. Getty IMages

Leafs collapse in epic fashion 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, only to see the Bruins score three times in quick succession in regulation and again in overtime to send the Maple Leafs packing.

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The past year produced lots of hometown highs and lows, but these five topped our list.

The end of the NHL lockout 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.

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A season of disappointment

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.

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

The Thornhill 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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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 native said.

Meanwhile, Vaughan’s Andrew Wiggins was Anthony Bennett is greeted by named the top high NBA commissioner David Stern school player in the U.S. upon being drafted. Getty IMages

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Answer to end Jays’ drought? It’s Pat! DAve Langford

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Rickey Henderson, left, and Joe Carter celebrate the Jays’ World Series win on Oct. 23, 1993. Getty images file

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

Gillick, after leading the Blue Jays to two World Series titles (1992, ’93) and five division titles (1985, ’89, ’91, ’92, ’93), left the team in 1994.

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 three years.

The Orioles then went on a streak of 14 losing seasons before making the playoffs 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 it in back-toback seasons.

He left the team in 2003.

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

His next stop was Philadelphia where, as GM, he led the Phillies to his third World Series championship.

The three teams Gillick left

behind have a total of one playoff appearance in 44 seasons.

And with the Jays currently promoting Flashback Fridays, they need to bring back the most important person in their 36-year history — Gillick.

God knows they’ve tried everything else.

The much-hyped 2013 was a disaster in every way. It started with Opening Day and never let up.

April 2 was the day a truly horrendous fielding catcher talked manager John Gibbons into letting him catch a Cy Young-winning knuckleball pitcher the Jays acquired in the

off-season.

Before a crowd of 48,847 at the Rogers Centre, catcher J.P. Arencibia had three passed balls — should have been four but a wonky scorer decision saved him — and the Blue Jays, with R.A. Dickey on the mound, lost 4-1 to Cleveland.

Arencibia never caught Dickey again and batted .194 on the season in which he was allowed to have 474 at bats.

Yes, there were pitching challenges and injuries all season long.

But the tedious season in which the Jays finished last in the AL East was essentially lost

The Jays’ leaders in 2013

Wins: R.A. Dickey, 14 Strikeouts: R.A. Dickey, 177 Saves: Casey Janssen, 34 Batting average: Adam Lind, .288 Homers: Edwin Encarnacion, 36 RBIs: Encarnacion, 104 Hits: Encarnacion, 144

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Horoscopes

Aries

March 21 - April 20 You are on the threshold of a spectacular breakthrough.

Which only goes to show that when you focus on a goal and follow up on it consistently, you can be a success. But don’t get too full of yourself.

Sept. 24 - Oct. 23 If you have been taking a loved one for granted, this could be a tricky day. Somehow you need to convince them that your feelings are still the same but it will take more than just words.

Scorpio

Taurus

April 21 - May 21 You need a change of direction and the planets will see that you get it. But don’t worry. You will like what the next few weeks bring your way very much indeed.

Oct. 24 - Nov. 22 Something important is about to happen and chances are you will enjoy it. Most likely it will have something to do with your social life, so get out into the world and smile big!

Sagittarius

Gemini

May 22 - June 21 You are who you are for a reason. If you stop wasting time fantasizing about who you would like to be and focus on doing a better job of who you are, you will soon be both successful and happy.

Nov. 23 - Dec. 21 You may come into money over the next few days but it would be wrong to count on it to get you out of trouble. The only way you are going to improve your financial situation is to cut back on your commitments.

Capricorn

Cancer

June 22 - July 23 Your problems are not as bad as you think, so quit worrying.

Cosmic activity in your opposite sign of Capricorn will bring relationship matters to a head over the weeks, but there is no need to panic. You’ll survive.

Dec. 22 - Jan. 20 As cosmic activity in your sign reaches a peak over the new year period, you’ll have to deal with situations that in the past you’ve tried to avoid. The good news is solutions can be found, but you’ve got to act now.

Aquarius

Leo

July 24 - Aug. 23 You may be tempted to change something that has worked for years, but is that a good idea?

There is every possibility that you will go too far and change things in a revolutionary rather than an evolutionary way.

Virgo

Libra

Jan. 21 - Feb. 19 If your present approach to a problem is not working then clearly you need to tackle it from a different angle. Some people say you’re too inflexible, too set in your ways to change.

Prove them wrong.

metronews.ca Thursday, December 26, 2013

Across 1. Pasta, e.g.

5. 17th Greek letters 9. Mother-of-pearl 14. __ code 15. Nobleman 16. Once more 17. December 26th significance: 2 wds.

19. Rene of movies 20. Be drifting alone at sea ...but suddenly become joyful!: 2 wds.

21. Slightly adjusts 22. Accompaniment 23. Musical fifth note, variantly 24. Exclaimed “That hurts!”, say 25. Shopping: Door__ special 30. George Michael’s ‘80s group!

33. Architect Mr. Saarinen 36. France’s longest river 37. Rush 38. Pilotless aircraft 40. Gift Tag: To and __ 41. Nimbi 43. Prince of Wales’ motto, Ich __ (I Serve) 44. Dick Tracy’s beloved, __ Trueheart 45. ‘50s TV series about a Quebec family, “La famille __” 47. Best, __-rated 49. Fee-fi-fo-__ 50. North or South, in The States

53. Neil Young song: 2 wds.

57. Subscriber’s extension 58. Wickerworker’s willow 59. Traditional pudding of Newfoundland: 2 wds.

Dec. 24th’s Crossword

Pisces

Aug. 24 - Sept. 23 Play to your strengths and don’t let what others are doing affect you in any way. There are some things you do better than most and those are the things you should be focusing on.

See today’s answers at metronews.ca/answers.

Crossword: Canada Across and Down

Feb. 20 - March 20 Pay attention to what loved ones tell you over the next 24 hours because they can see something that you missed. If you listen to what they say and act on their advice, it could save you trouble. SALLY BROMPTON

By Kelly Ann Buchanan

61. Billy Bob Thornton flick, “The Man Who __ There” (2001) 62. ‘Myth’ suffix 63. National Velvet author Ms. Bagnold 64. Tiffs 65. Foundation 66. Lines of travel, for

short Down 1. Taxi 2. Sprang up 3. T. __ (Some dinosaurs) 4. __-__, Quebec (Former PM Brian Mulro-

ney’s birthplace) 5. Viewed as 6. “In case you __ noticed...”

7. Toward the mouth 8. Slick 9. Arctic whale having a spiral tusk 10. Chill

Sudoku

How to play Fill in the grid, so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1-9. There is no math involved.

Dec. 24’s Sudoku

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11. House, in Havana 12. Board game 13. Biblical grandson 18. Sugar substitute, Sweet’_ __ 21. Maple Leafs, on scoreboards 23. Elegant biscuit 26. Ski slope surface sometimes: 2 wds.

27. Contract 28. God of love in Greek mythology 29. Sleep stages, commonly 30. Gift __ 31. Transport stuff 32. Prefix to ‘phobia’ (Fear of heights) 34. Canadian fashion designer Mr. Moralioglu 35. French queen’s mate 39. Mire 42. Attempts 46. Amusing 48. __-dokey 50. Manet painting contemporary 51. Razz 52. 1966 Michael Caine film 53. Awesomenesses!

54. Office request [acronym] 55. Marge’s daughter 56. Prince Michael of __ (Queen Elizabeth’s cousin) 57 Costa __ 59. Taradiddle 60. Hose-using rescue units, for short

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