VITAMIN D LINKED WITH REDUCED SYMPTOMS IN MS PATIENTS

Associations between vitamin D and brain tissues in multiple sclerosis (MS)
patients have not been investigated previously. But a new study has found that
vitamin D metabolites (the products of vitamin D metabolism) have a protective
effect against the degree of both disability and brain atrophy in MS patients.
For 193 MS patients, researchers determined brain tissue injury using MRI scans;
assessed degree of clinical disability using the Expanded Disability Status
Scale (EDSS) and the MS Severity Scale (MSSS); and measured blood levels of
vitamin D metabolites. (The metabolites measured were 25-hydroxyvitamin D3;
25-hydroxyvitamin D2; 1, 25-dihydroxyvitamin D3; and 24(R), 25-dihydroxyvitamin
D3.) The study team concluded that higher levels of vitamin D metabolites in the
blood provide protection against brain atrophy and disability in MS patients.
(In particular, the study found strongest protection with the metabolite 24,
25(OH)2VD3.) Although further study is needed, the outcome suggests that higher
vitamin D intake reduces MS symptoms and progression. This study was released
November 3, 2010 by the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry with
Practical Neurology, but it will not be published until a future issue of the
journal. It is available online at http://bit.ly/9hdQR0 with subscription or fee
payment.

http://www.vitalitymagazine.com/dec10_newsbriefs

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[California Women Prisoner News]
Sara Kruzan's sentence commuted to 25 years to life

From: freesarakruzan@...
Date: January 2, 2011 7:49:44 PM EST

DEAR SUPPORTERS:

Please allow me to share the great news.  Arnold Schwarzenegger commuted Sara's
sentence to 25 years to life.  Please read below.
Kim Deanne

Commutation statement from Schwarzenegger

SARA JESSIMY KRUZAN, W-59700

"If at the end of court procedures there is claimed to persist a miscarriage of
justice, despite all the precautions of the law to the contrary, the ultimate
remedy rests in an appeal to the Governor . . . ." (In re Horowitz (1949) 33
Cal.2d 534, 546.)

On March 10, 1994, 16-year-old Sara Kruzan shot and killed her former pimp,
37-year-old George Howard. In response to threats by James Earl Hampton, Ms..
Kruzan went to a movie with Mr. Howard. After the movie, the pair went to a
hotel. As they prepared to have sexual intercourse, she shot Mr. Howard to
death. Ms. Kruzan was convicted of special circumstances first-degree murder
(while lying in wait and during a robbery) with a firearm. She was sentenced to
life in prison without the possibility of parole, plus four consecutive years
for the use of a firearm. Ms. Kruzan appealed her conviction, but her sentence
was upheld. Mr. Howard's death is tragic, and I do not discount the gravity of
the offense. But given Ms. Kruzan's age at the time of the murder, and
considering the significant abuse she suffered at his hands, I believe

Ms. Kruzan's sentence is excessive. Accordingly, I commute Ms. Kruzan's murder
sentence to 25 years to life in prison with the possibility of parole.1

NOW, THEREFORE, I, ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER, Governor of the State of California,
in accordance with the authority vested in me by the Constitution and statutes
of the State of California, hereby commute Sara Kruzan's murder sentence to 25
years to life in prison with the possibility of parole.


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of the
State of California to be affixed this 31st Day of December, 2010.
_______________________________
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER


From the Free Sara Kruzan  committee:

WHILE WE ALL HOPED AND PRAYED THAT SARA'S SENTENCE WOULD BE COMPLETELY VACATED
THE COMMUTE IS A HUGE STEP. WE CAN NOW MOVE FORWARD WITH THE KNOWLEDGE THAT SARA
WILL BE FREE.
THIS COMMUTE DOES NOT MEAN THAT SARA CANNOT GO BACK TO COURT SEEKING OTHER
REMEDIES TO HER SENTENCE. I WILL CONTINUE TO KEEP EVERYONE UPDATED!!

WE THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR SUPPORT!!

TOGETHER WE STAND TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE!!!!!!!!!!

Happy New Year!!!

KIM DEANNE

  email: kimdeanne@...

website: http/www.freesarakruzan.org

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Scene  Dish
So...are they married or not?

METRO WORLD NEWS
Published: January 03, 2011 3:26 p.m.

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie reportedly closed out 2010 by tying the knot, but
it was all for show, according to In Touch.

Sources say the couple held a mock wedding ceremony in Morocco for the benefit
of their six children.

"Because the kids are getting older, Brad and Angelina decided now was the time
to show them how much they loved each other and wanted to be unified as a
family," a source says.

http://www.metronews.ca/vancouver/scene/article/733275--so-are-they-married-or-n\
ot

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Scene  Movies  Movie Reviews
DVD Review: Catfish

Catfish
Genre: Documentary
Directors: Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman
Stars: Yaniv Schulman, Megan Faccio, Ariel Schulman
****

The intriguingly named Catfish makes the persuasive case that Internet naïveté
still exists, even for guys who might normally heed P.T. Barnum's caution about
suckers. Meet Nev Schulman, a 24-year-old New York photographer. Schulman is the
subject, and possible co-conspirator, of a film that was presented as a
documentary at its Sundance debut, but which is now being billed as a "reality
thriller." Not much can be said about the film, to avoid spoilers. It begins
with a Facebook posting, then gets considerably more involved and weird.

http://www.metronews.ca/calgary/scene/article/733311--dvd-review-catfish

Catfish (Documentary) DVD - 2011
http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/B003Q6D1YW/internatio088-20

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24 hours news
toronto
january 6, 2011

ywca

living conditions at a ywca riverdale residence for abused women
are slowly improving - but some tenants say not quickly enough.
one woman said she's appalled it took the ywca more than a year
to clean up its act when it's the organization's responsibility
to provide a safe haven for women and children, especially after
fleeing abuse and she's been waiting to get out since 2008.

qmi agency

[google search
Tenants still complaining about YWCA housing ...
http://www.torontosun.com/news/columnists/thane.../13499681.html

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January 9, 2011

Omar Ha-Redeye

LexLocom Feature in the Star

The debate over legal outsourcing is going mainstream, with a special report in
yesterday's Toronto Star (print copy only; Legal temps fill holes, cut costs).

The article focuses on Toronto-based LexLocom, a joint venture between Warren
Bongard of legal recruiter ZSA and Scott Ewart. The services offered range from
senior counsel with specialized expertise for specific projects, to low-end
document review and due diligence work, and do it for about a third less than
traditional firms.

Sue-Lynn Noel of Livingston International explains in the article why she used
LexLocom's services, when the boss of her in-house legal department suddenly
left. LexLocom was more cost-effective than it was to either hire a new lawyer
or outsource the additional legal work to a mainstream law firm.

The LexLocom website states,

There is no question the legal services industry is undergoing large and lasting
change worldwide. In Canada, as in other countries, recent economic uncertainty
has added new momentum to existing evolutionary changes that were already in
motion. These changes take various shapes and forms depending on the sector of
legal services industry and geography. Taken as a whole, the impacts will be
significant.

They also speak an impressive list of languages: Arabic, Cantonese, Farsi,
French, Greek, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Portuguese, Spanish,
and Urdu.

Changes are not just related to in-house counsel. Both small and large firms
experience surges and slow-downs in business, and outsourcing work might help
create more efficient work-flows.

You can read more about LexLocom in the Fall 2010 edition of Canadian Corporate
Counsel Association.

http://www.slaw.ca/2011/01/09/lexlocm-feature-in-the-star/

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drinking habits

how much is too much?

red wine is packed with immune-boosting antioxidants like resveratrol,
but overdoing it can have the opposite effect.  new research shows
drinking too much can weaken your immune system and slow your body's
healing process.  what's the magic number? canada's drug strategy
recommends no more than one drink a day (12 ounces of beer; 5 ounces
of wine; 1.5 ounces of spirits).  more than four, and you put your
health at risk.

brain saver

a new study in the american journal of neurology suggests vitamin b12
may protect against memory loss and alzheimer's.  boost your intake
with fish, chicken, eggs, milk and yoghurt.

http://www.chatelaine.com
february 2011
printed

Fake cops invade Toronto-area home
Postmedia News
January 20, 2011
AJAX, Ont. —

Three men are being sought for committing a home invasion near Toronto while
dressed as police officers.


Durham Regional Police said the incident started at about 12:30 a.m. on Tuesday
at a home in Ajax, Ont. The suspects showed up in a car with a red flashing
light and siren, and told occupants that they had a search warrant.


Once inside, the suspects are said to have locked all six people who were in the
house in the basement with their hands bound with plastic ties. The home was
then ransacked as the fake officers searched for money, police said. The victims
freed themselves after the suspects had left the home, and no injuries were
reported.


This home invasion is not believed to have been a random act.


Police are looking for three men with black hair, eastern European accents and
standing between five-foot-ten and six-feet tall.


Ajax is about 35 minutes east of Toronto.



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News Canada
Quebec cop charged with sexual assault
By QMI Agency

Last Updated: January 19, 2011 4:39pm


Veteran police officer Andre Simard is in custody. (Roger Gagnon/QMI Agency)

SAGUENAY, Que. — A veteran police officer who faces eight sexual assault charges
has been denied bail in a case that has rattled the city's tightly knit police
force.

Andre Simard, 38, was formally charged with 17 counts, including eight counts of
sexual assault, eight counts of drug trafficking and one count of breaching
conditions.

The victims were in their 20s and 30s and were allegedly assaulted over a period
of about 16 months ending in October, when Simard was arrested.

The constable was released from jail but was picked up a second time by
provincial police on Tuesday for allegedly breaching his conditions. He will
remain in custody until his next court appearance on Jan. 24.

Details about the alleged victims and the assaults are sketchy, though police
say more victims might come forward.

Simard is suspended without pay and the 217-member police force has been
tight-lipped about the alleged crimes. The head of the police union acknowledged
the seriousness of the charges in an interview with QMI Agency.

"This is an extremely rare case," said president Jean-François Imbault. "We were
all surprised. It's sad."

He said there hasn’t been a similar case on the Saguenay police force in at
least ten years. Saguenay is located north of Quebec City.

Simard is a 15-year veteran of the force.


http://www.calgarysun.com/news/canada/2011/01/19/16948501.html

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Re: [LawUnion] Fw: new legislation re citizen's arrest

Reply |bob kellermann to Hy, Paul, luo-members

I agree with the concerns (about violence and the possibility of solutions other
than arrests by citizens), that have been expressed by Hy, Paul and Paula.
   However, citizens already have the right to make arrests when the person being
arrested is found committing the offense. They also have the right to use
"resonable force" just like the police. Security guards have the same rights as
the ordinary citizen and no more.
  The Supreme Court of Canada in R v Asante-Mensah  dealt with the issue of the
right of a citizen to use "reasonable force" in making an arrest (that right to
arrest never being in question). In fact the police power to arrest was
preceeded (historically) by the right of the citizen. The only issue in the
recent case and the proposed legislation is the question of whether the right to
arrest should be extended to situations where the person is found committing the
offense but there are " reasonable grounds to believe" the offence has been
committed.
   It may be stupid and unnecessary to extend the situations in which citizens
can arrest but it is important to recognize the already existing powers of a
citizen to arrest.
bob kellermann

[law union news]

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UK ad regulator: Coca Cola's Vitaminwater has too much sugar to be considered
'nutritious'
Associated Press

Last update: January 19, 2011 - 6:15 AM

LONDON - Britain's ad regulator says Vitaminwater has too much sugar to be
accurately described as nutritious and has ordered owner Coca-Cola to stop
running advertisements carrying the claim.

The Advertising Standards Authority says Coca-Cola broke ad rules when it
described its popular line of flavored water products as "delicious and
nutritious," explaining that consumers wouldn't expect a drink marketed as
nutritious to have between four and five teaspoons of added sugar.

The Coca-Cola Co. won't face any further action as long as it doesn't run the ad
again. Coca-Cola said Wednesday that it was disappointed by the ruling.

The U.S. soft drinks maker bought Glaceau, Vitaminwater's maker, for $4.1
billion in 2007.


http://www.startribune.com/business/114196064.html?elr=KArks:DCiU1OiP:DiiUiacyKU\
zyaP37D_MDua_eyD5PcOiUr

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WORLD

Kennedy dynasty not dead

January 21, 2011 16:01:00
Mitch Potter
Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON—They don't hold public office anymore. And the once mighty electoral
machine that could make a winning politician of anyone with the name Kennedy is
long gone, too.

Yet just when it seemed safe to declare the Kennedys a spent force in American
politics, the mythic dynasty demonstrated its enduring clout just last week,
effectively pulling the plug, temporarily at least, on the U.S. broadcast of an
upcoming eight-part TV miniseries purported to show the men of the family at
their womanizing, pill-popping worst.

The backroom arm-twisting, by most accounts orchestrated by family matriarch
Caroline Kennedy and her California cousin, Maria Shriver, prompted the History
Channel to disavow its own Toronto-shot finished product.

And while the series will air anyway — in Canada and 30 other countries in
March, and soon thereafter on a different U.S. broadcaster, its makers insists —
the fact that the Kennedys were able to bend the airwaves to their will
surprised many in Washington.

"There may be no Kennedys left in public office, but clearly the clout is still
there. Not visible, very much behind the scenes, but still getting the results
the family desires," said Vincent Bzdek, author of The Kennedy Legacy: Jack,
Bobby and Ted and a Family Dream Fulfilled.

"To me, the most interesting thing about the Kennedy legacy is that right now,
it doesn't matter that no Kennedys hold office because so many of the levers of
power in Washington are in the hands of people inspired by the Kennedy ideal."

That was especially apparent Thursday night at — where else? — the Kennedy
Center, Washington's premier arts venue, where President Barack Obama led a
grand gala tribute to John F. Kennedy on the 50th anniversary of his inaugural
address.

With 90 members of the Kennedy clan in the audience, Obama more than hinted at
parallels between his presidency and that of JFK, drawing laughter and applause
with the line, "I can only imagine how he must have felt entering the Oval
Office in turbulent times."

The night featured, among many others, performances by cellist Yo-Yo Ma and a
69-year-old Paul Simon, who sang The Sounds of Silence, written only months
after Kennedy's November, 1963, assassination. "Hello darkness, my old friend .
. . ."

A few years ago much was made of the Obama/Kennedy continuum, from the family's
high-profile endorsement of Obama over then-rival Hillary Clinton all the way to
the selection of Bo, the White House dog — a gift from the ailing Ted Kennedy.
An era of resurgence liberalism, a new Camelot, even, was the hope of many in
those breathless first days of the Obama administration.

Two years later, with the political winds blowing hard the other way, many see
that Kennedyesque moment as largely over. And there is even an argument to be
made that Obama's problems today stem largely from what was effectively a
deathbed promise to Ted Kennedy.

"The Kennedy endorsement was critical for Obama. And the price Ted extracted was
that Obama make the push for health care reform his top priority," said Bzdek.

"It had the import of a dying wish. Obama lived up to his part of the bargain.
And in some ways you can attribute all of Obama's problems stemming from that
promise, because that's when the country seemed to pivot away from resurgent
liberalism. Health care was the flashpoint.

"But looking at it another way, you have to count this moment as another huge
part of the Kennedy legacy and enduring power today. This is a hugely
significant piece of social legislation, maybe the most important in 25 years.
And the Kennedy imprint is all over it."

Norm Ornstein, a resident scholar with the American Enterprise Institute, is not
ready to declare the Kennedys a spent force. But he suggests that most coverage
of the family — coverage of the TV miniseries dispute, in particular — tends to
wildly exaggerate Kennedy power.

"It's not like there is a Kennedy police force out there. And it is not like the
Kennedys have managed to stop much of anything else, considering the number of
books and websites that focus on uncomfortable elements of the family history
and the gossip that surrounds it," said Ornstein.

"That said, there is a fierce — and I would also argue, understandable —
protectiveness about the Kennedy legacy. This family is intensely sensitive to
things written and, especially, things televised that they see as unfairly
slurring the family."

The Montreal-based production company behind the miniseries, Muse Entertainment,
is refusing comment on the controversy in order not to disrupt negotiations to
find another U.S. broadcaster.

"There have been stories claiming there were inaccuracies and we have not been
able to really defend ourselves and we would certainly like to, to set the
record straight," a company spokesperson told the Toronto Star.

The trade paper the Hollywood Reporter, meanwhile, this week obtained and viewed
the first episode of the eight-part series and declared it, "Less
sensationalistic and controversial, less concerned with the embarrassing aspects
of the Kennedy lifestyle and more focused on moving along a compelling
narrative."

Stephen Hess, a presidential scholar with Washington's Brookings Institution,
notes that the Kennedys have a long history of seeking to influence the
historical record and has little doubt a similar pressure was brought to bear on
the TV miniseries.

"The Kennedys are voracious in protecting their reputations and sense of
nobility. It is a fact not in dispute," Hess told the Star.

"But at the same time, I can't help but wonder whether these filmmakers set
themselves up for trouble by claiming they would attain a degree of historical
accuracy that film almost never achieves."

But the film flap seems more controversial today, coming in an era of
particularly fierce partisanship, he said.

"And the other dimension is that a great deal of the academic history profession
does tilt liberal," said Hess. "I'm not saying presidential historians are
playing by a double-standard. Yet I somehow doubt they would be quite so
ferocious if this was a project based on the story of Richard Nixon."

What would a young Kennedy make of it all? For now, none are saying. And none
among the dozens of next-generation offspring now coming of age appear inclined
to raise their profile to offer themselves as the next Kennedy for public
office.

"There are actually several generations out there — all of them quiet,
politically. For now," said Ornstein.

"Will any of them come around? I have to think some, eventually, are going to be
inspired by the family's legacy of public service. There is unquestionably still
power in the Kennedy name. My guess is we haven't seen the last of them in
office."


http://www.thestar.com/mobile/world/article/926332

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Cops crack down on pimps in strip clubs
By TOM GODFREY, QMI Agency

Strip clubs help target pimps


TORONTO - Exotic dancers and other adult club workers in Peel Region will keep
their eyes peeled for pimps trying to lure strippers into a life of
prostitution.

Peel Regional Police have circulated mugshots of 30 of their most notorious
pimps in nine strip clubs.

"We are letting the clubs police themselves," said Det. David Van Allen, of the
force's drugs and vice unit. "We have given them suggestions and ideas as part
of a liability reduction strategy."

Van Allen said officers met with club owners on Jan. 14 to look at ways of
keeping their clubs and dancers safe and trouble free.

The owners were issued a 30-page handout containing the names and photographs of
pimps. One woman was featured on the list, although police did not reveal her
criminal record.

"We are giving them (clubs) a heads up of the known pimps who frequent our
area," Van Allen said. "We hope the clubs live up to what is expected of them."


In a related issue, he also alleged sex is taking place in the private VIP rooms
at some clubs.

"We gave them (owners) a list of women who propositioned our undercover officers
at some clubs," Van Allen said on Monday. "We told them of certain activities
that are taking place on their premises and suggested ways to stop it."

He said the clubs have until March 1 to deal with problems or officers can
return and lay charges.

Tim Lambrinos, of the Adult Entertainment Association of Canada, said any dancer
or staff who recognizes a pimp can contact the association and a report will be
filed with police. He said owners can also call police or turf a patron if
they're causing trouble.

"The potential is there that someone may try to lure one of our dancers," he
said. "Police are saying known pimps may try to get them into prostitution."

He said the list of suspects will be posted in an accessible place at all
southern Ontario clubs. Dancers will be trained on what to do when they spot a
pimp.

"This will help open (the) line of communication with the police," Lambrinos
said. "We are very happy that police have given us the proper tools to make the
clubs safer."

He is unsure the money-making VIP rooms can be lit any brighter as a way to
deter sex acts from taking place.

"You can't have a strip club with bright lights all lit up like a football
game," Lambrinos said. "Our customers want some confidentiality and privacy."

He said the strippers who were accused of propositioning police were let go.

Some dancers at one Dundas St. club said on Tuesday they weren't too keen on
calling the police for fear of being branded "an informant."

"I am not sure about this," one stripper added. "I don't want to be the one
calling police."

The association is working to clean up the industry and has launched a campaign
to discourage club owners from hiring dancers who are in Canada illegally or are
victims of trafficking rings, as alleged by Public Safety Minister Vic Toews,
who has ordered the RCMP to investigate.

Strip club owners blame the operators of massage parlours for not checking the
status of their workers.

Police said a majority of the women being trafficked are Canadians.


http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Crime/2011/01/25/17031781.html?cid=rssnewslast24hour\
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Entertainment
Celebrities
Lawsuit over Hilton sex tape
By WENN.COM

Paris Hilton (WENN.COM file photo) Paris Hilton's infamous sex tape is at the
centre of a new lawsuit as porn bosses battle to keep the film away from illegal
downloaders.

The socialite hit headlines back in 2004 when a porn video called 1 Night in
Paris surfaced on the internet.

The film, which features Hilton with her former boyfriend Rick Salomon, became a
best-seller and now executives at the company which owns the copyright to the
tape are suing online users who have been downloading the footage without
paying.

Bosses at XPays Inc., who obtained the copyright from Salomon's brother Jim,
have filed suit in Los Angeles County Superior Court, targeting 843 users who
are alleged to have illegally obtained the film between 2010 and 2011, according
to TMZ.com.


http://www.torontosun.com/entertainment/celebrities/2011/01/24/17010976-wenn-sto\
ry.html

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celebrity tweets

janefonda(@janefonda)

There's been commentary says my right *nipple* was showing at the
Golden Globes...That was my recent cancer scar. So There!

http://www.celebritytweet.com/janefonda/

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Barney's Version Leads the 31st Annual Genie Awards
with 11 Nominations including Best Motion Picture


TORONTO, February 2, 2011 — The nominations for the 31st Annual Genie Awards
were announced today by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television at press
conferences in Toronto and Montreal. Leading the pack with 11 nominations is
Barney's Version, including nods for Best Motion Picture and Performance by an
Actor in a Leading Role (Paul Giamatti). Following closely behind is Incendies
with ten nominations including Best Motion Picture and Achievement in Direction
(Denis Villeneuve).

The 2011 Special Awards were also announced. This year's Golden Reel Award goes
to Resident Evil: Afterlife, which grossed $7,026,559 in 2010. Surpassing $280
million worldwide this past November, the film is now the most successful
production in Canadian feature film history. Jephté Bastien (Sortie 67) will be
honoured with the Claude Jutra Award, recognizing outstanding achievement by a
first-time feature filmmaker.

"By all accounts, this has been a fantastic year for Canadian cinema," said Sara
Morton, CEO of the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television. "We look forward to
welcoming all of this year's Genie nominees to the nation's capital for a
well-deserved celebration of their work."

The 31st Annual Genie Awards will be broadcast live from the National Arts
Centre in Ottawa on Thursday, March 10, 2011 on CBC.

And the nominees are...

BEST MOTION PICTURE / MEILLEUR FILM
10 1/2 - Pierre Gendron
LES AMOURS IMAGINAIRES / HEARTBEATS - Xavier Dolan, Carole Mondello, Daniel
Morin
BARNEY'S VERSION - Robert Lantos
INCENDIES - Luc Déry, Kim McCraw
SPLICE - Steven Hoban

ACHIEVEMENT IN ART DIRECTION / PRODUCTION DESIGN / MEILLEURE DIRECTION
ARTISTIQUE
GILLES AIRD - 10 ½
ANDRÉ LINE BEAUPARLANT - Incendies
ARV GREYWAL - Resident Evil: Afterlife
MYRON HYRAK - FUBAR II
CLAUDE PARÉ, ÉLISE DE BLOIS - Barney's Version

ACHIEVEMENT IN CINEMATOGRAPHY / MEILLEURES IMAGES
BERNARD COUTURE - 10 ½
RONALD PLANTE - Piché: entre ciel et terre / Piché: The Landing of a Man
CLAUDINE SAUVÉ - The Wild Hunt
ANDRÉ TURPIN - Incendies
STÉPHANIE WEBER-BIRON - Les amours imaginaires / Heartbeats

ACHIEVEMENT IN COSTUME DESIGN / MEILLEURS COSTUMES
DENISE CRONENBERG - Resident Evil: Afterlife
MARIO DAVIGNON - The Trotsky
NICOLETTA MASSONE - Barney's Version
PATRICIA MCNEIL - The Wild Hunt
BEVERLEY WOWCHUK - Gunless

ACHIEVEMENT IN DIRECTION / MEILLEURE RÉALISATION
XAVIER DOLAN - Les amours imaginaires / Heartbeats
RICHARD J. LEWIS - Barney's Version
VINCENZO NATALI - Splice
PODZ - 10 1/2
DENIS VILLENEUVE - Incendies

ACHIEVEMENT IN EDITING / MEILLEUR MONTAGE
MICHELE CONROY - Splice
MONIQUE DARTONNE - Incendies
MATTHEW HANNAM - Trigger
VALÉRIE HÉROUX - 10 1/2
YVANN THIBAUDEAU - Piché: entre ciel et terre / Piché: The Landing of a Man

ACHIEVEMENT IN MAKE-UP / MEILLEURS MAQUILLAGES
KATRYN CASAULT - Incendies
PAUL JONES, LESLIE SEBERT, VINCENT SULLIVAN - Resident Evil: Afterlife
ADRIEN MOROT, MICHELINE TRÉPANIER - Barney's Version
HÉLÈNE-MANON POUDRETTE - The Wild Hunt
MARLÈNE ROULEAU, CJ GOLDMAN - Les sept jours du Talion / 7 Days

ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSIC - ORIGINAL SCORE / MEILLEURE MUSIQUE ORIGINALE
BRENDAN CANNING - Trigger
PASQUALE CATALANO - Barney's Version
JONATHAN GOLDSMITH - High Life
KEEGAN JESSAMY, BRYCE MITCHELL - At Home, By Myself... With You
SOOK-YIN LEE, BUCK 65, ADAM LITOVITZ - Year of the Carnivore

ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSIC - ORIGINAL SONG / MEILLEURE CHANSON ORIGINALE
BUCK 65 - Year of the Carnivore - What's Wrong With That?
MARY MILNE - The Trotsky - Already Gone
CHERIE PYNE - Crackie - Tender Steps
MARK SASSO, CASEY LAFORET, STEPHEN PITKIN - Grown Up Movie Star - West End Sky
PAUL J. SPENCE - FUBAR II - There's No Place Like Christmas

PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE / INTERPRÉTATION MASCULINE DANS UN
PREMIER RÔLE
JAY BARUCHEL - The Trotsky
PAUL GIAMATTI - Barney's Version
ROBERT NAYLOR - 10 1/2
TIMOTHY OLYPHANT - High Life
FRANÇOIS PAPINEAU - Route 132

PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE / INTERPRÉTATION MASCULINE DANS UN
RÔLE DE SOUTIEN
MARTIN DUBREUIL - 10 1/2
DUSTIN HOFFMAN - Barney's Version
ALEXIS MARTIN - Route 132
CALLUM KEITH RENNIE - Gunless
ROSSIF SUTHERLAND - High Life

PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE / INTERPRÉTATION FÉMININE DANS UN
PREMIER RÔLE
LUBNA AZABAL - Incendies
TATIANA MASLANY - Grown Up Movie Star
MOLLY PARKER - Trigger
ROSAMUND PIKE - Barney's Version
TRACY WRIGHT - Trigger

PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE / INTERPRÉTATION FÉMININE DANS UN
RÔLE DE SOUTIEN
SONJA BENNETT - Cole
ANNE-ELIZABETH BOSSÉ - Les amours imaginaires / Heartbeats
MINNIE DRIVER - Barney's Version
TERRA HAZELTON - FUBAR II
MARY WALSH - Crackie

ACHIEVEMENT IN OVERALL SOUND / MEILLEUR SON D'ENSEMBLE
CHRISTIAN COOKE, STEVE MOORE - Defendor
LEON JOHNSON, STEPHAN CARRIER, KIRK LYNDS - High Life
MICHEL LECOUFLE, DANIEL BISSON, LUC BOUDRIAS, JEAN-CHARLES DESJARDINS - Les sept
jours du Talion / 7 Days
JOHN THOMSON, ANDREW STIRK, ANDREW TAY, MARK ZSIFKOVITS - Resident Evil:
Afterlife
JEAN UMANSKY, JEAN-PIERRE LAFORCE - Incendies

ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND EDITING / MEILLEUR MONTAGE SONORE
PIERRE-JULES AUDET, MICHELLE CLOUTIER, NATALIE FLEURANT, NICOLAS GAGNON - Les
sept jours du Talion / 7 Days
STEPHEN BARDEN, STEVE BAINE, KEVIN BANKS, ALEX BULLICK, JILL PURDY - Resident
Evil: Afterlife
SYLVAIN BELLEMARE, SIMON MEILLEUR, CLAIRE POCHON - Incendies
MARK GINGRAS, TOM BJELIC, KATRIJN HALLIDAY, DALE LENNON, JOHN SMITH - Defendor
DAVE ROSE, DAVID MCCALLUM - Splice

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY / MEILLEURE ADAPTATION
MICHAEL KONYVES - Barney's Version
LEE MACDOUGALL - High Life
VIC SARIN, DENNIS FOON, CATHERINE SPEAR - A Shine of Rainbows
PATRICK SENÉCAL - Les sept jours du Talion / 7 Days
DENIS VILLENEUVE - Incendies

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY / MEILLEUR SCÉNARIO
LOUIS BÉLANGER, ALEXIS MARTIN - Route 132
CLAUDE LALONDE - 10 1/2
ADRIANA MAGGS - Grown Up Movie Star
PETER STEBBINGS - Defendor
JACOB TIERNEY - The Trotsky

BEST DOCUMENTARY / MEILLEUR DOCUMENTAIRE
LA BELLE VISITE / JOURNEY'S END - Jean-François Caissy
IN THE NAME OF THE FAMILY - Shelley Saywell, Deborah Parks
LAST TRAIN HOME - Lixin Fan, Mila Aung-Thwin, Daniel Cross
LEAVE THEM LAUGHING - John Zaritsky, Montana Berg
YOU DON'T LIKE THE TRUTH, 4 DAYS INSIDE GUANTÁNAMO - Luc Côté, Patricio
Henriquez

BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT DRAMA / MEILLEUR COURT MÉTRAGE DRAMATIQUE
FILE UNDER MISCELLANEOUS - Jeff Barnaby, John Christou
MARIUS BORODINE - Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais, Vincent Hoss-Desmarais
OUT IN THAT DEEP BLUE SEA - Kazik Radwanski, Dan Montgomery
SAVAGE - Lisa Jackson, Lauren Grant, Lori Lozinski
VAPOR - Kaveh Nabatian, Stéphane Tanguay, Cédric Bourdeau

BEST ANIMATED SHORT / MEILLEUR COURT MÉTRAGE D'ANIMATION
LIPSETT DIARIES / LES JOURNAUX DE LIPSETT - Theodore Ushev, Marc Bertrand
LA TRANCHÉE / THE TRENCHES - Claude Cloutier, Marc Bertrand

CLAUDE JUTRA AWARD / PRIX CLAUDE-JUTRA
JEPHTÉ BASTIEN - Sortie 67

Honourable mention / Mention d'honneur - PETER STEBBINGS - Defendor

GOLDEN REEL AWARD / PRIX BOBINE D'OR
RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE
Producers / Producteurs : Don Carmody, Jeremy Bolt, Robert Kulzer,
Distributor / Distributeur : Alliance Films
Total Canadian box office in 2010 / Recettes totales au guichet canadien en 2010
- $7,026,559

For more information, including additional information about this year's awards
show,
visit www.genieawards.ca.

Sponsors / Commanditaires:
Best Motion Picture / Meilleur film - TELEFILM CANADA
Achievement in Cinematography / Meilleures images - Kodak Entertainment Imaging
Achievement in Direction / Meilleure Réalisation - Tribute.ca
Achievement in Make-up / Meilleurs maquillages - M∙A∙C Cosmetics
Achievement in Music - Original Score / Meilleure Musique Originale - HMV Canada
Achievement in Overall Sound / Meilleur son d'ensemble - Deluxe® Toronto &
Vancouver
Original Screenplay / Meilleur scénario - Astral's Harold Greenberg Fund
Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role / Interprétation masculine dans un
premier rôle - Tribute.ca
Best Documentary / Meilleur documentaire - Hot Docs
Golden Reel Award / Prix Bobine d'or - Zip.ca

About the ACCT:
Established in 1979, the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television is a national,
non-profit, professional association dedicated to the promotion, recognition,
and celebration of exceptional achievements in Canadian film and television.
Unifying professionals across Canada, the ACCT is a vital and integral force,
representing all areas of the film and television industries.


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The Kennedys' miniseries to air on Reelz Channel

– Wed Feb 2, 6:04 am ET


NEW YORK – "The Kennedys" miniseries has found a home on cable's ReelzChannel.
The network announced Tuesday that the multimillion-dollar production will begin
its run on April 3.

The ambitious 8-part miniseries, a portrait of the Kennedy family told in a
multigenerational manner, was produced by the History Channel. But it was
abruptly yanked from the upcoming lineup last month.

That network said the project, which stars Greg Kinnear and Katie Holmes as John
and Jackie Kennedy, did not fit the "History brand."

The real-life Kennedy family and associates were said to be unhappy about the
series, claiming its scripts were inaccurate and overly critical.

Showtime subsequently passed on the film.

ReelzChannel is available in 60 million homes.

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ReelzChannel is owned by the Hubbard Media Group.

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http://www.reelzchannel.com

Help for low income seniors likely coming
Wednesday, 02 February 2011

OTTAWA - The federal government is open to expanding income support programs for
low-income seniors but isn't ready to get into details, Finance Minister Jim
Flaherty said Tuesday.
"We do have regrettably, particularly some single older Canadians, who are not
entitled to Canada Pension Plan because in their day they worked at home raising
children, and did not work outside the home, who have income issues," said
Flaherty. "That's something that all Canadians I'm sure would like us to
address."

Flaherty refused to go into further detail on what kinds of measures the
government could take to help those seniors, saying only that the government
would consider targeted measures.

The NDP has proposed a specific plan that would see the guaranteed income
supplement, or GIS, raised. The GIS is available to low-income seniors, but the
NDP says it is still too low, especially for those living in Canada's major
cities where the cost of living is higher.

NDP Leader Jack Layton said he was happy to hear Flaherty was speaking about
ways to help.

"We could lift every senior out of poverty in this country for a fraction of
what is being talked about in terms of, for example, corporate tax cuts. The
question of priorities is what we really are dealing with here for this budget,"
said Layton.

The NDP proposal on the GIS would cost $700 million per year.

The party has also called for a doubling of Canada Pension Plan benefits over
the next seven years, but Flaherty said that isn't in the cards, at least not
now.

"It's not my place, nor does the Government of Canada have the authority, to
amend the Canada Pension Plan without the consensus of the provincial
ministers," said Flaherty. "That consensus does not exist."

There are ongoing discussions between the federal and provincial governments
about how to change the system to better serve Canadians.

An aide to Flaherty said the minister has not shut the door on any proposals.

In December Flaherty announced that the government would go ahead with what are
called pooled registered pension plans, which the government says will allow
more small businesses, the self-employed and others not covered by the CPP to
buy the same kind of pension coverage offered by large employers.

Edmonton Sun, Tues Feb 1 2011
Byline: Brian Lilley

http://pension.afl.org/index.php/In-the-news/help-for-low-income-seniors-likely-\
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Ontario court ruling backs private-label generic drugs
February 4, 2011
Rob Ferguson
QUEEN'S PARK BUREAU

The Ontario government's push for cheaper prices on generic drugs hit a snag
Friday when a court struck down a rule forbidding retailers like Shoppers Drug
Mart from selling their own private-label generic prescriptions.

Industry sources said the ruling is "a big deal" because it's a win for Shoppers
— known for its Life brand products — and rival Rexall chain owner Katz Group.
Both challenged the private label ban.

The court challenge came after their profit margins were trimmed by Ontario
reforms last year that capped the price of generic drugs at 25 per cent of the
equivalent brand name medicines, a 50 per cent cut, and banned professional
allowances paid to pharmacists by generic drug companies.

Those drug reforms by Ontario Health Minister Deb Matthews were aimed at saving
money for consumers, taxpayer-funded drug plans and employer drug plans because
the province had some of the highest generic drug prices in the world.

"While we are encouraged by this decision, we assume that all parties are
reviewing the ruling and considering their options and next steps," Shoppers
spokeswoman Lisa Gibson said following Friday's court decision.

"Accordingly, we do not wish to discuss the matter further at this time."

Investors reacted positively to the 23-page ruling by a three-judge panel of the
Ontario Superior Court of Justice, with Shoppers shares rising $1.62, or 4.4 per
cent, to close at $38.72 on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

The judges ruled the regulation was "beyond the scope" of Ontario's drug laws.

"It interferes with the right to trade and commercial freedom without any
specific authority to do so."

One highly placed source said the decision clears the way for drug chains to ask
manufacturers in the highly competitive generic drug industry to bid on making
private-label medicines for them, take the lowest offer and pocket the
difference between that price and the one they were paying other suppliers as a
"private label fee."

But the government wants any such price breaks to go to consumers and taxpayers.

Health Minister Deb Matthews — whose controversial generic drug price cuts last
spring infuriated pharmacists and drug chains — said her department's lawyers
are reviewing the ruling.

"The government's drug reforms are about one very simple goal: we want fair drug
prices for Ontarians because that's what they expect and rightly deserve. We
won't ever back down from this."

Generic drug makers are also reviewing the ruling, said Jeff Connell of the
Canadian Generic Pharmaceutical Association.

Shoppers Drug Mart announced last spring that it planned to introduce a line of
generic drugs but later dropped the idea.

Industry sources said another reason for the ban on private-label generics was
that they could create a conflict of interest for pharmacists, who would have to
choose between drugs made for their own store versus similar medicines made by
other companies.

With files from Robert Benzie and Dana Flavelle

http://www.healthzone.ca/health/newsfeatures/article/933850--ontario-court-rulin\
g-backs-private-label-generic-drugs

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TV Show: The Good Wife
Margulies pleased with 'Good Wife'
By BILL HARRIS, QMI Agency

Julianna Margulies in "The Good Wife."

Real-life lawyers just have to get used to TV's 42-minute rule. And Julianna
Margulies includes her husband in that group.

"Well, it's only a 42-minute show, and my husband is a lawyer," said Margulies,
star of The Good Wife. "He wasn't a big television watcher, but of course, he
has to watch it now.

"When he saw the first episode, he was like, 'Well, that would have taken
months, that case.' And I said, 'You're absolutely right. And then again, we
have 42 minutes.' Sadly, we don't have the luxury of time."

The truth is, most real-life legal proceedings could do without "the luxury of
time." So maybe The Good Wife is on to something there.

Regardless, The Good Wife -- which is in its second season and airs Tuesdays on
CBS and Global -- does enough with its weekly allotment of 42 minutes to attract
significant ratings on both sides of the border.

Of course, audiences for The Good Wife tend to skew a bit older than the
traditional group that advertisers covet. But mathematically and anecdotally,
Margulies doesn't see what the problem is.


"Honestly, I'm just so happy to be working on a good show, so it never really
has crossed my mind," she said. "I live in New York City and the people who
watch the show, who approach me on the streets, aren't that old, to be honest.
I've had a lot of kids -- 13, 14, 15 -- who watch the show with their parents.

"I know it's all demographics and numbers, but from my perspective, it seems to
be reaching a much wider audience this year. To me, as long as the content is
something I'm proud of and the work is satisfying, whoever wants to watch it,
God bless, and whoever doesn't, that's their prerogative.

"It doesn't affect me, but I'm not paying the bills that CBS is, so I don't
know."

Well, new hits of any description are hard to come by on TV these days, so we're
sure CBS and Global will take what they can get.

The Good Wife is a legal drama starring Margulies as Alicia Florrick, a wife and
mother who sets aside her humiliation and re-enters the workforce after her
husband's very public sex and political-corruption scandal.

Margulies -- previously known primarily for her work on ER as Nurse Carol
Hathaway -- said that even though she believed The Good Wife was a quality
project from the beginning, she has been taken aback by the show's success.

"I think I've been doing this long enough never to assume anything, and then
you'll be pleasantly surprised," said Margulies, 44.

"When I saw the pilot, I really knew it was something special. But I truly
didn't have an inkling of whether people would gravitate to it."

Well, they have. Even Margulies' lawyer husband.

"That's our artistic licence as story-tellers on television," Margulies said of
the afore-mentioned 42-minute rule. "But for the most part, once you get used to
that, you allow for it.

"Now it doesn't bother him any more."

bill.harris@...

http://jam.canoe.ca/Television/TV_Shows/G/The_Good_Wife/2011/01/28/17068776.html

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Layton's wish list
Global News: Tuesday, March 22, 2011

NDP leader Jack Layton met with PM Stephen Harper recently to discuss the
upcoming budget.
Photo Credit: Blair Gable, Reuters

The Liberals and the Bloc Quebecois have made budget demands – elimination of
corporate tax cuts and $2.2-billion in compensation for Quebec, respectively --
that are certain not to be met so they will vote against the Harper government's
budget.

That means the NDP is in a position to determine the government's fate.

If the NDP votes against the budget, and the government fails, Canadians will be
going to the polls in the next few months, so much attention is being paid to
the position of NDP leader Jack Layton.

He met with Prime Minister Stephen Harper recently to express his demands.
Here's a look at them:


A boost to the Canada Pension Plan and Guaranteed Income Supplement payments for
seniors

Layton wants the GIS to be raised, claiming it will cost about $700 million. He
also wants Ottawa to increase contributions to the CPP. In a television ad he
says, "It's time to roll up our sleeves, put the partisan games aside, and start
getting results, like increasing assistance for seniors in need and giving a
little help for those who are caring for a parent at home."

Jim Flaherty, the federal finance minister, has already ruled out CPP increases,
pointing out that such a move couldn't be done without the support of two-thirds
of the provinces representing two-thirds of the population.

However, Flaherty might meet some of Layton's demands on the GIS. "There are
lots of things we can do in a budget," he said. "As I've said before, if you
look at people who actually need help in Canada, there are a group of older
people in Canada, who are not entitled to Canada Pension Plan benefits, who
could use some support from government. That's something we're looking at."

An end to federal taxes on home heating fuel

Layton wants the Harper government to exempt home fuel costs from sales tax.

Flaherty also made it clear that exemption is not possible. He said the measure
would be "extraordinarily expensive." He also pointed out that five provinces
have harmonized their sales tax with the federal government and stipulated their
exemptions up to five per cent of revenues.

"We have five provinces that are harmonized and if we make a change with respect
to the HST it affects all those provinces and their revenues as well," he said.

However, the Harper government is expected to make some concessions to Layton
regarding homeowners. Flaherty is expected to announce that the government will
replenish funding for the ecoEnergy home retrofit program that gave grants of up
to $5,000 to homeowners who want to carry out energy-saving improvements.

Increased funding to get more doctors and nurses into family medicine

Layton wants Ottawa to hire 1,200 doctors and 7,000 nurses so that "five million
Canadians without family medicine" can be looked after.

Flaherty has played his cards close to his chest on this matter but political
observers expect to see money in the budget to help Canadians help Canadians get
access doctors and nurses.


© Copyright (c) CW Media Inc.


http://www.globalnews.ca/story.html?id=4478927

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PM's judgment questioned in light of Carson affair - Saturday Star. by Roseth @
Saturday, Mar. 19, 2011 – 21:21:10

Though I could conceivably be classified as a small "c" conservative, I have not
been a fan of Stephen Harper or his government. However, until fairly recently,
I must admit that his rather autocratic rule had been remarkably free of major
scandals. Well, that roof just caved in. Secrecy about prison and jetfighter
costs are one thing, out and out deceit is another. If Minister Bev. Oda is not
lying she is totally incompetent. Either way, she does not qualify to be a
minister, to be defended by her leader. However, there might be another scenario
here: Oda was telling the truth the first time, and that she didn't know who put
the `not' in the document –someone in the PMO did, on the PM's behalf, and Oda
became the sacrificial lamb for unwittingly approving the money against Harper's
wishes. However, if so, she should have stood her ground and outed the
scoundrels.

If the Oda affair is bad, Bruce Carson is pure poison. This guy had a record of
criminal conviction for theft and misappropriation of client funds, and is a
disbarred lawyer. His judgment in affairs of the heart is not much better. Yet,
he was a "top adviser to Prime Minister Harper." I can see only two possible
answers to this conundrum: either the Prime Minister lacks any semblance of
judgement; or there is something seriously wrong with his staff's vetting of his
inner circles. Either way, it stinks.

Yet, the NDP's Jack Lyton is still musing about having to see what's in the
Budget. In other words, he will overlook venality and scam if there is enough
goodies in the budget for which he can scoop some credit. Go figure.


http://roseth.blog.ca/2011/03/20/pm-s-judgment-questioned-in-light-of-arson-affa\
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Deficit-ridden Ontario government to merge or axe 13 more agencies

TORONTO Thirteen Ontario agencies will either be merged or axed under an
austerity program aimed at reducing the province's massive deficit, the
governing Liberals announced Tuesday.

Stadium Corporation of Ontario will be combined into the planned merger of
Infrastructure Ontario and the Ontario Realty Corporation, which was announced
in January.

Stadium Corp., which was created in 1984 for the construction of Toronto's
SkyDome, has $4.2 million in the bank which will be used to pay down Ontario's
debt, said Andrew Chornenky, a spokesperson for Finance Minister Dwight Duncan.

The province will also sell a parking lot near the stadium which the government
owns due to its early involvement with the construction of the SkyDome — later
renamed the Rogers Centre.

The new measures — part of Duncan's promise to get rid of a dozen of Ontario's
259 agencies — will also see the Ontario Mortgage Corporation merged with the
Ontario Mortgage and Housing Corporation.

Eleven other agencies will disappear completely, including the Social Assistance
Review Board, the Toronto Area Transit Operating Agency and the Ontario, Eastern
Ontario and Northern Ontario Development Corporation. The move is expected to
save the government about $200,000 a year.

"We've gone beyond the goal we set to reduce the number of provincial classified
agencies by 5 per cent," Duncan said. "We will continue to meet and exceed
targets, get value out of every dollar and focus funds on the priorities of
Ontario families."

Some of the agencies have functions that could be performed within government or
cease to exist, while others have overlapping responsibilities and could be
amalgamated, the government said.

The Opposition Conservatives say it's just window-dressing for a spendthrift
government that's facing an election in the fall

The Liberals' efforts to rein in spending — including last year's promise to
freeze public sector wages — have been "a complete failure," said Tory finance
critic Norm Miller.

"It's just about optics, as much as anything else," he said. "The savings that
will be realized from this will be used up in less than a day of their excess
spending."

The government is also axing agencies that they boasted about just a few years
ago, said NDP economic development critic Howard Hampton.

Liberal cabinet ministers "almost bruised their shoulders patting themselves on
the back" when they created the Northern Ontario Grow Bonds Corp. in their 2004
budget.

"Now seven years later, after northern Ontario's lost thousands of good jobs,
they're admitting it was a failure," Hampton said from Kenora, Ont. "I think the
real story here is this is a government that has failed the northern economy,
and today is just an admission of that."

Other agencies to disappear include:

Biopharmaceutical Investment Program Marketing Advisory Committee; Commodity
Futures Advisory Board, Crown Timber Board of Examiners, Healing Arts Radiation
Protection Commission, North Pickering Development Corporation, Ontario Network
of Excellence Advisory Committee, ORtech Corporation (formerly the Ontario
Research Foundation).

Hampton predicts there will be more cuts as Premier Dalton McGuinty's government
struggles to rebalance the books.

"I think there will be many more casualties, but those won't come until after
the election," he said. "They'd be very unpopular. You're talking about major
surgery."

Duncan plans to table the next provincial budget March 29, just a week after the
federal Conservatives reveal their spending plan.

The Canadian Press

http://www.thespec.com/news/canada/article/502225--deficit-ridden-ontario-govern\
ment-to-merge-or-axe-13-more-agencies

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Tenants fear housing privatization

The TCHC houses 164,000 tenants and owns $6 billion worth of housing stock.
TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE

Published: March 07, 2011 9:11 p.m.

  A group of TCHC tenants concerned about Mayor Rob Ford's interest in
privatizing public housing has urged city council not to go down that road.

"Privatization is not a cure but an illness," said Munira Abukar, who lives in a
five-bedroom Toronto Community Housing unit with her family in Etobicoke.

Abukar, 18, who had her first two years of studies at Ryerson University paid
for through a scholarship she obtained through Toronto Community Housing, said
that without the scholarship her family might not have found the funds to send
her to postsecondary studies.

She fears initiatives like her scholarship would disappear if privatization was
brought in.

http://www.metronews.ca/toronto/local/article/795791--tenants-fear-housing-privi\
tization

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Top court rejects age discrimination case, saves federal treasury $2.6 billion

OTTAWA The Supreme Court of Canada has dismissed the appeal of two widows in an
age discrimination case that could have cost the federal treasury more than $2.6
billion.

Hazel Withler and Jean Fitzsimonds challenged federal government policy that
gradually reduces death benefits for surviving spouses of public servants and
military members, based on the age of the deceased.

The high court was unanimous in its rejection and said that public servants are
on average better equipped than most Canadians to meet the financial challenges
of old age.

The justices ruled it wasn't a case of discrimination.

"This benefit is akin to life insurance," wrote Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin
and Madam Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella. "This benefit is not intended to be
a long-term benefit income stream for the spouses of older plan members."

The decision upholds two lower-court rulings, which rejected the claim.

Lawyers for the two women, both from Vancouver Island, argued before the Supreme
Court last year that the policy violates the equality guarantees in the Charter
of Rights to reduce lump-sum benefits for survivors of older spouses.

Withler and Fitzsimonds were the lead plaintiffs in two class-action lawsuits,
one representing federal public servants, the other ex-members of the military.

The ruling affects roughly 5,000 survivors. The federal government pays out
approximately $138 million annually in survivor death benefits.

The benefit is paid over and above a survivors' pension. It is intended to help
spouses through immediate financial hard times following the death of a loved
one.

The Public Service Superannuation Act reduces the payout by 10 per cent for each
year the participant lives after age 65. The Canadian Forces Superannuation Act
starts reducing benefits after 60.

Federal lawyers argued that younger survivors need more money because they are
less likely to receive a full survivors' pension.

The Women's Legal Education and Action Fund intervened on behalf of the two
women and argued the reductions constituted discrimination because most of the
affected spouses were elderly women, who are "less economically secure" and who
have throughout their lifetime "experienced systemic labour market
discrimination, including pay inequity."

Lawyer Daphne Gilbert argued that women "at all ages" require transitional
funding.

But the High Court noted that survivors had pensions and benefits.

"Any reduction in the supplementary death benefit paid to the spouses of older
employees is therefore offset to some degree by the surviving spouse's
survivor's pension," the court ruled.

"When the supplementary death benefit is considered in the context of the other
pensions and benefits, to which the surviving spouses are entitled, therefore,
it is clear that its purpose corresponds (albeit sometimes imperfectly) to
claimants' needs."

The Canadian Press

http://www.thespec.com/news/canada/article/496756--top-court-rejects-age-discrim\
ination-case-saves-federal-treasury-2-6-billion

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No rehab scuffle charges for Lohan
Wednesday March 30 2011

Lindsay Lohan has one less legal worry after prosecutors announced they would
not pursue any charges against her over a December scuffle with a rehab worker.

Riverside County District Attorney's spokesman John Hall said prosecutors
determined there was insufficient evidence to pursue a misdemeanour battery case
against the actress.

Police were called to a Betty Ford Centre facility in Palm Desert around 1am on
December 12 after a worker accused Lohan of hurting her during an altercation.

The worker, Dawn Holland, later spoke about the incident on camera with TMZ and
was fired by Betty Ford for violating patient confidentiality
rules.***********************************************

Lohan was nearing the end of her three-month court-ordered treatment at the
centre after violating her probation on a 2007 drunken driving case.

Prosecutors had sought further investigation from police agencies that responded
to the call, but ultimately found there was not enough evidence to file charges.

The Mean Girls star faces a far more serious case in Los Angeles, where she is
accused of felony grand theft after a jewellery store claimed she took a 2,500
dollar necklace without permission.

Lohan has pleaded not guilty and her lawyer has said she is innocent. The
actress last week rejected a plea deal that included guaranteed time in jail and
is due in court on April 22 for a preliminary hearing during which prosecutors
will lay out some of their evidence against the starlet.

If she is ordered to stand trial, a judge could send Lohan to jail for violating
her probation.

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Money launderer linked to Bruce Carson
Published On Fri Apr 8 2011
Joanna Smith
Ottawa Bureau

OTTAWA—

A disgraced former adviser to Stephen Harper bought a home with an ex-prostitute
— and convicted money launderer — before meeting the young former escort whose
water sanitation company is at the centre of illegal lobbying allegations.

Bruce Carson, 65, bought a condo in downtown Ottawa with Barbara Lynn Khan, 43,
who served time for money laundering and running a prostitution ring with her
estranged husband in North Carolina before being deported back to Canada, public
records show.

Harper asked the RCMP to investigate his friend and former adviser last month
ahead of a report by the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network alleging Carson
was peddling his political influence to help a fledgling Ottawa-based company
sell water filtration equipment to aboriginal communities. The television
network then reported Carson was engaged to a 22-year-old former escort named
Michele McPherson, who was a principal in the company and at one point stood to
gain 20 per cent of sales.

There were already questions about how someone who had been disbarred, was twice
convicted of fraud, had once filed for bankruptcy and was still in heavy debt
got a job working for the prime minister. But then The Canadian Press reported
earlier this week that Carson actually had a total of five convictions for fraud
and had received court-ordered psychiatric treatment.

Newly discovered court records show Khan — who according to previously reported
property records bought and shared a $400,000 condo with Carson in November 2009
— was one of seven people operating a prostitution ring in five different states
that would advertise in pornographic magazines.

Neither Carson nor his lawyer responded to requests for comment Friday and Khan
could not be reached.

"Fear and intimidation were used with customers who failed to pay or were deemed
to have been too rough with the prostitutes," Quebec Superior Court Judge
Jean-Pierre Plouffe wrote in October 2004 while refusing bail to the husband,
Saleemudeem Khan, who was later extradited to the U.S.

APTN reported Friday that Khan was romantically involved with Carson throughout
his time working for Harper from 2006 to 2008 and then followed him to Calgary
when he became the executive director of the Canadian School of Energy and
Environment.

According to the report, Khan and Carson were still engaged to be married when
he asked for the hand of McPherson, a former escort who he bought a home with
near Kemptville, Ont., south of Ottawa last December.

Carson also bought a $484,000 home in Manotick, Ont. with his estranged wife,
Janet Treasure, in 2008.


The Canadian Press reported Thursday that Carson was cleared by a low or
mid-level bureaucrat without any involvement by senior security officials,
Harper or his inner circle. The Privy Council Office is now reviewing its
screening procedures.


http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/972017--money-launderer-link\
ed-to-bruce-carson

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  Legislation: Regulation of Psychotherapists in Ontario
CAPT has been active during the recent and ongoing process of regulating
psychotherapy in the province, submitting briefs and giving oral presentations
at the public consultations.
CAPT and some of its institutional members have been instrumental in achieving
firm recognition by the Health Professions Regulatory Advisory Council (HPRAC)
that psychotherapy is an independent profession and that training specifically
to practice psychotherapy is essential. Recently, CAPT was recognized by the
Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care as one of three stakeholders (with the
Alliance of Psychotherapy Training Institutes (APTI) and the Ontario Coalition
of Mental Health Professionals) invited to an information session, on October
31, 2007, on the formation of the Transitional Council and, eventually, the
formation of the new College of Psychotherapists and Registered Mental Health
Therapists of Ontario.

Over the next year and beyond, CAPT will continue its effort to articulate the
forms of regulation that best suit our psychodynamic modality. This will mean
ongoing communication with the Transitional Council and the Ministry of Health
and Long-Term Care.

Download these documents for more information on the Process of Regulation and
CAPT's involvement in the process.


The Transitional Council of the College of Registered Psychotherapists and
Registered Mental Health Therapists has released the Drafts of the Professional
Misconduct and Registration Regulation in anticipation of Stakeholder Meetings
to be conducted in late March and early April. See more about the laws which
will govern our profession:
http://www.collegeofpsychotherapists.on.ca/pages/Home/Public_Consultations

The Canadian Association for Psychodynamic Therapy (CAPT) Comments on
Grandparenting Under the Psychotherapy Act, 2007 (October, 2010). See PDF

The Canadian Association for Psychodynamic Therapy (CAPT) Comments on Protected
Titles Under the Psychotherapy Act, 2007. See PDF

CAPT Response to The Standing Committee on Social Policy Concerning Bill179,
Regulated Health Professions Statute Law Amendment Act, 2009 (September 2009).
See Response

CAPT Response to the Minister of Health and Long-Term Care Concerning HPRAC's
Critical Links (February 2009). See Response

CAPT Response to the Minister of Health and Long-Term Care Concerning HPRAC's
Two Interim Reports in March and September 2008 on Interprofessional
Collaboration (January 2009). See Response

CAPT's Response to the Health Professionals Regulatory Advisory Council's
Discussion Guide on Issues Related to Interprofessional Collaboration among
Health Colleges and Professionals, May 2008. See CAPT's Response to HPRAC about
Interprofessional Collaboration

Report on the Status of the Regulation Process, Given by Philip McKenna at the
CAPT AGM, November 2, 2007. See AGM Report on Regulation


Summary of CAPT Brief to Social Policy Committee, April 2007. See Summary of
CAPT Brief to SPC

CAPT Brief to Social Policy Committee, April 2007. See CAPT Brief to SPC

Psychotherapy Act, 2007. (see Link
http://www.e-laws.gov.on.ca/html/statutes/english/elaws_statutes_07p10_e.htm)

CAPT Responses to HPRAC's Recommendations in New Directions (2006) Concerning
Psychotherapy. See Responses

CAPT Brief to Health Professions Regulatory Advisory Council (HPRAC), October
2005.
See CAPT Brief to HPRAC

HPRAC Report to the Minister of Health and Long-Term Care, Regulation of Health
Professions in Ontario: New Directions, 2006. See HPRAC New Directions

CAPT Presentation To The HPRAC Public Consultation (2005). See Presentation


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Book Review: Vaccine Epidemic
Written on March 14th, 2011
Vaccine Epidemic is the latest book on vaccine damaged Americans crying out for
help.

Authored by eminent lawyers, health care professionals, philosophers, medical
science historians, human rights advocates, vaccine affected patients and their
closest relatives, it portrays a grim picture of modern medicine and the justice
system.  It may as well be a cry to God for delivering their fate to corporate
greed in complicity with their own government.

Not surprisingly, the cry is not without proof. For instance, the most
compelling argument against the uselessness of measles vaccine is made from a
notoriously high death rate of this disease at nearly four percent in 1900 to
virtually zero by 1948, fifteen years before measles vaccine was introduced in
1963.  A similar observation applied to the not so deadly infectious diseases
including scarlet fever, typhoid, whooping cough and diphtheria. The death rate
due to Rubella, Mumps and Chicken Pox was so minute that it did not even make it
to the epidemiological list.

Why then, is the ongoing push for more and more vaccines and boosters especially
since their application is increasingly being associated with a concomitant
increase in childhood illnesses, including autism, diabetes and various other
autoimmune conditions?  It is a legitimate question.  It is one that should be
answered by politicians of all stripes, the medical profession and the justice
system to serve the public interest.

A must read book.

http://VaccineEpidemic.com/

http://shivchopra.com/

http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/1616082720/internatio088-20

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Greyhound, RCMP sued in bus beheading
Last Updated: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 | 3:46 PM CST CBC News

Vince Li, a Chinese immigrant who became a Canadian citizen in 2007, was
declared not criminally responsible for the killing of Tim McLean on a Greyhound
bus in 2008. (John Woods/Canadian Press)Two passengers aboard a Greyhound bus
when Vince Li killed Tim McLean are suing the bus line, the Canadian government,
RCMP and Li.

Both Li and McLean were passengers on Greyhound bus No. 1170 near Portage la
Prairie, Man., on July 30, 2008, when Li pulled a knife and killed McLean, 22.

Li pleaded not guilty to a charge of second-degree murder. Psychiatric evidence
at his trial suggested he is schizophrenic and suffered a major psychotic
episode when he fatally stabbed McLean and cut off his head.

He was found not criminally responsible and sent to a psychiatric institution in
Selkirk, Man., where he remains.

On Wednesday, two other passengers on the bus, Debra Tucker of Port Colborne,
Ont., and Kayli Shaw of London, Ont., each filed separate claims in Manitoba's
Court of Queen's Bench. Both women are seeking $3 million for a range of alleged
ailments, including severe anxiety, nervous shock, and severe depression.

They claim they are now being medicated due to the incident, are unable to work
and suffered loss of income.

Shaw said she can't work or study, and her marriage and other personal
relationships have failed.

"I have a hard time hearing ambulance sounds, police cars, I freak out," Shaw
told CBC News. "I have to literally go through so much anxiety just to go out
and do things."

Greyhound is liable, the two say, for failing to provide safe passage for
passengers, failing to train staff appropriately and failing to have adequate
security at bus terminals and passenger points. They claim the federal
government is liable for failing "to assure national transportation security"
and requirements under the Canada Transportation Act. And the RCMP is liable for
failing to remove Li from the bus in a timely fashion following a standoff the
two claim.

Li failed to appreciate the brutality of his act would cause the female
passengers psychological harm, the claims allege. Li also failed, they said, to
get medical or psychiatric help "when he knew or ought to have known that he
sustained a medical condition in need of care and treatment."

No trial date has been set for the case and no statement of defence has been
filed. The claims have not been tested in court.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/story/2011/02/16/mb-greyhound-li-passenge\
rs-lawsuit.html

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[articles of interest]

Autistic licence
Those who know her point to her intellect and unrelenting pursuit of the truth.
Meet Michelle Dawson. She says it's only luck that's kept her from being
institutionalized, and yet is making important - and controversial -
contributions to our understanding of autism
by Kim Pittaway

http://www.more.ca/magazine
april 2011 issue

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canadian international documentary festival
presented by the national film board of canada
Focus On Alan Zweig
Screenings
Fri, Apr 29 11:15 AM
Isabel Bader Theatre
89 minutes | Canada  | Language: English  | Rating: 18A

Genie Award winner and Hot Docs Top Ten favourite, A Hard Name follows seven
ex-convicts as they struggle to transition from life in prison to life on the
outside. In jail, they lived by the prison code—don't borrow, don't eyeball,
don't rat, don't be an asshole—but out in society they have fewer directives and
restrictions. After years of incarceration, most find life outside prison more
uncomfortable, uncontrollable and terrifying than inside. Without the structure,
routine and daily fear imposed by guards, bars and fellow inmates, the ex-cons
are forced to let their hardness slip and reclaim their identities as something
other than, and more than, that of criminal. Raw interviews reveal the
vulnerability and profound hurt behind the tough façades these people have put
up in self-defence and self-preservation. A powerful reminder of society's role
in the creation of the criminal. Angie Driscoll

http://www.hotdocs.ca/film/title/hard_name_a/8569

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Lovable
Focus On Alan Zweig
Screenings
Sun, May 1 7:00 PM
Innis Town Hall
94 minutes | Canada  | Language: English

How long have you been alone? Why can't you find love? Is being solo merely
taboo, or is it proof that you're unlovable? With signature candour and humour,
Zweig reflects on why, if he longs for a wife and children, he's still single at
mid-life. A diverse group of smart and sexy single women provide him with a
sounding board and bravely volunteer their own romantic hopes, dreams and fears.
Is a person a lesser human being because she's not someone's
partner/lover/mother? What if she prefers to be alone? Lovable creates a safe
space to challenge the stigma of the single girl, and to deflate romantic myths
and expectations while imagining new ones. Divorcées, never-marrieds and
quirky-alones discuss the weight placed on having a family and finding love. A
bold exploration of the last frontier of shame—being romantically unattached—and
the couple as status symbol and measuring stick. Angie Driscoll

Subjects : Love & Relationships


http://www.hotdocs.ca//film/title/lovable

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Catherine Zeta-Jones Bipolar Disorder: Her Private Struggle
By Sara Hammel and KC Baker

Update Thursday April 14, 2011 10:55 AM EDT
Originally posted Thursday April 14, 2011 08:30 AM EDT

Catherine Zeta-Jones

Kevin Mazur/WireImage
FacebookTweetWalking the red carpet at New York City's Museum of Modern Art this
week, Michael Douglas was feeling grateful for all the well wishes he'd received
from friends and fans as he battled cancer.

"I feel great!" the actor, 66, told PEOPLE at Tuesday night's event to celebrate
Carnegie Hall's 120th anniversary. "I feel a tremendous amount of support from
so many people."

Absent from the event was his biggest supporter: wife Catherine Zeta-Jones.
Hours later, it was revealed that she has quietly sought healing of her own. Her
rep says the actress recently checked into a facility for a few days to treat
her bipolar II disorder.

The revelation was surpsing to many, not least because the Oscar-winning actress
and mom-of-two stayed steadfastly positive in public while sticking by Douglas's
side through a grueling six-month battle with cancer.

But behind the scenes, those close to the actress say she felt the strain. Her
rep acknowledged the timing of Zeta-Jones, 41, seeking treatment was in part
connected to "the stress of the past year."

Adds a friend, "Catherine has had to deal with Michael's illness, and that's
been hard."


RELATED: Catherine Zeta-Jones Treated for Bipolar Disorder

A Famous Example
In sharing her experience, the actress put a very public face on a mental
illness experienced by millions. The key indicator of bipolar II, experts say,
is a cycle of high and low moods, often with episodes of depression.

Zeta-Jones herself has described her bouts with melancholy, telling The Sunday
Times in the U.K. that "I'm lucky. ... But that's not to say I don't get down on
myself. I try and stay positive, being negative isn't good for my personality. I
don't just bring myself down, I bring everyone around me down. It's like a dark
cloud, 'Uh oh, here we go', and I have to snap out of it."

Dr. David Miklowitz, professor of psychiatry at UCLA School of Medicine, says
stress "definitely can play a role" in triggering depression or what doctors
call hypomania, short periods of mild manias.

"Certain life events, changes, particularly those that affect the sleep cycle,
can trigger symptoms," says Miklowitz. "An event like a loss experience or
family conflict can be a cause or a trigger of bipolar episodes."




RELATED: Catherine Zeta-Jones, Michael Douglas Involved in Paparazzi Scuffle:
Report

Carrie Fisher
Another celebrity knows the feeling. Carrie Fisher, who has laid bare own
battles with weight, drugs and alcohol, and also revealed that several years ago
she was diagnosed with bipolar II, has described the challenges of the mood
swings that come with it.

"A manic phase is not predictable," Fisher has said, according to USA Today.
"The last time, I hacked off my hair, got a tattoo, and wanted to convert to
Judaism."

Perhaps most important, though, is that sufferers can – and many do – manage the
disorder effectively, many times with various medications.

Now that she's checked out of treatment, Zeta-Jones can get back to her everyday
life – being an actress.

She has two new movies coming up, including Playing the Field, currently in
production in Louisiana with Gerard Butler and Jessica Biel, and Lay the
Favorite.

Adds the friend, Zeta-Jones's decision to seek treatment was a positive step
that will allow her to perform at the best of her ability.

"She went in for a few days because she's about to start working, and to make
sure she's in top form," says the friend, "which she is."

• Additional reporting by SHARON COTLIAR

http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20481698,00.html

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The Royal Wedding of Prince William & Catherine Middleton

April 29, 2011 at 06:00am EDT  -  The Royal Channel

The Royal WeddingOfficial site about the wedding of Prince William and Miss
Catherine Middleton. Includes background and news and videos about the service,
procession, ...
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Royal Wedding of Prince William Kate Middleton 2011The Royal Wedding of HRH
Prince William and Kate Middleton all the latest news, gossip,trivia and buy
online official china,merchandise,souvenirs,memorabilia ...
http://www.theroyalweddingwilliamkate.com/ -

The Royal Wedding - The Globe and MailCovering the engagement and wedding of
Prince William and Kate Middleton.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/europe/the-royal-wedding/Royal

Wedding - Telegraph
The latest news on the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton that
takes place on April 29th, 2011.
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Royal Wedding: Kate Middleton and Prince William : People.com28 Apr 2011 ...
It's official! The betrothed couple will marry on April 29 in the biggest royal
wedding since Charles and Di.
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Want to watch the royal wedding? Get up early - thestar.com5 Jan 2011 ... The
ceremony will begin at 11 a.m. (6 a.m. ET) at Westminster Abbey, then the
newlyweds will travel by carriage along a processional route ...
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Where delusional does not equal criminal
Posted on May 2, 2011 in Child & Family Delivery System

Source: Toronto Star — Authors: Bill Taylor

TheStar.com – healthzone.ca/health/mindmood/mentalhealth
April 29, 2011.   Bill Taylor, Special To The Star

The man is articulate, pausing sometimes to choose his words.

“I’ve been hospitalized numerous times,” he says. “But basically I regarded
myself as being abducted. I think people were paid thousands of dollars to
abduct me, maybe.”

Dr. Michael Colleton asks him why.

“To steal my liver,” the man says matter-of-factly.

He’s not stupid, but he is clearly delusional. That’s why he and Colleton are
sitting in a room next to mental health court in the Old City Hall basement.

There’s more than one way to dispense justice. The best, for some offenders with
psychiatric disorders, is to keep them out of the courtroom altogether.

Mental health court is already very different in its approach, with Crown
attorneys, defence lawyers and judges working together to try to keep low-risk
offenders out of the criminal justice system.

Rather than punishment, the court seeks to offer them the support they need to
get their lives back on track.

Colleton is the first part of that process.

A psychiatrist with CAMH’s Law and Mental Health Program, he does preliminary
assessments. Depending on his recommendation, the person may never even stand
before the judge.

“The question is whether special consideration should be given because of their
mental state,” he says. “Broadly speaking, it’s intended for people with serious
mental illness but relatively minor charges who are out of custody.”

The man he’s talking to is in his late 30s and charged with breaking and
entering and weapons offences after he was accused of pulling a knife on the
owner of a junkyard. The man had slept in a car there.

He was arrested, he says, “by real police or maybe they were fake police, I
don’t know. I want to charge them with kidnapping. They tried to steal my liver
seven or eight times, maybe.”

“Let’s back up a little,” Colleton says.

He walks the man through his past. Education? Grade 11. Where does he live? In a
hostel. Married? No. Children?

“Er … yeah … a lot, maybe.”

He sees them every day, he says.

“They live in Canada?” Colleton asks.

“No,” the man says.

He’s held various jobs, he says, from bartending to working in a fast-food
joint.

He used hard drugs “a long, long time ago,” and enjoys marijuana and beer
“socially.”

Colleton asks if anyone in his family had a drinking or drug problem. The man
chuckles.

“Other than them not being able to get enough? No.”

He rambles off track, talking about his fear of the dogs that he says constantly
attack him, the abductions, the dangers that haunt him.

He peppers his speech with “basically” this and “basically” that. Of his arrest,
he says, “they kidnapped or abducted me and took me to what you call prison or
jail, whereby which I am now at court.”

He hasn’t been hospitalized lately, he says, “except I went with a rotten tooth.
They weren’t inclined to extract it, whereby which I left.”

Colleton asks about the liver-stealing.

“They thought they’d make money off it … When I’m in a jail cell, I can tell
when someone’s sucking half my liver out.”

Colleton is usually at mental health court twice a week.

“I get a referral, either from the Crown or duty counsel or court support
workers, saying here’s a potential candidate,” he says. “What I’m looking for is
evidence of serious mental illness — some connection between illness and
charges.

“An easy example would be someone with a known history of schizophrenia who goes
off medication, becomes psychotic and threatens someone with violence. They
might have been hospitalized after the arrest, treated and gone back to their
normal self. If there’s no significant risk factor, that would be a clear case
for diversion.

“It’s not generally that easy. There are other reasons for criminal acts. It
might be substance-related or a drunk in a bar fight … that doesn’t cut it from
my perspective.

“They may steal simply because they want money and it’s not connected with their
condition. My job is to find the reasons.”

Under a diversion program, the person is supervised and given help with housing
and any necessary medical, psychiatric, substance-abuse, financial or
anger-management counselling.

If everything goes well, the charges can be withdrawn.

The Crown doesn’t have to accept Colleton’s assessment. But this, he says, can
go both ways.

“There are times I’ll say, ‘This isn’t a good candidate’ and the Crown will say,
‘We’ll try it, anyway.’“

After a 45-minute interview, Colleton says the man is a reasonable candidate for
intervention and the “concrete benefits” it could bring.

“I’m not a criminal,” the man insisted. “I would love to be able to work and
live like a normal human … food in the fridge, clean clothing, not to be
harassed.”


http://www.healthzone.ca/health/mindmood/mentalhealth/article/983230-where-delus\
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NDP leader defends himself in campaign's final hours

TORONTO -


The Ontario Provincial Police are launching a criminal breach of trust
investigation into how Toronto Police notes were leaked, following a QMI Agency
story involving NDP Leader Jack Layton.


Toronto Police confirm it made the request after the information involving
Layton, who was found in a massage parlour allegedly connected with the sex
trade in 1996, was attributed to notes from an unnamed former police officer.


"Today, I made a formal request of the Ontario Provincial Police to conduct a
criminal breach of trust investigation into this matter to determine if any
offence has been committed," Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair said Saturday.


"They have assigned a detective inspector from their criminal investigative
branch to head up their investigation. We will, of course, co-operate in every
way."


The investigation launches following a complaint from Toronto human rights
lawyer Selwyn Pieters to Blair and Toronto Police Services Board chairman Alok
Mukherjee alleging the ex-cop's notes were used to blackmail the leader of a
political party.


"I was appalled and distressed at the partisanship or the perception thereof of
the Toronto Police Service entering the realm of the political sphere by
releasing information quoted directly from a police officer's memo book in the
Toronto Sun that appears in the nature of attempting to blackmail a leader of a
political party," Pieters wrote in a letter.


He included sections of the Police Service Act that states police can disclose
personal information about an individual if the person has been convicted or
found guilty of a crime and if the individual poses a threat to others.


He added memo books are the property of the police and should be given back when
no longer in use.


"Disclosing personal information about a person who was not charged with a
prostitution related offence challenges the presumption of innocence and
stigmatizes the person in a way that is totally unacceptable in a society where
the rule of the law prevails," Pieters said. "The conduct in question appears,
in my view to be unlawful."


Blair responded that while the former cop is no longer with the force, the issue
remains important.


"We do, in fact, ensure compliance by those over whom we retain jurisdiction
under the act," he said.


jenny.yuen@...


http://www.ottawasun.com/2011/04/30/ontario-police-probe-leak-after-layton-massa\
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Prisoners look inward to discover personal freedom
Canada News & Views May 7th, 2011
By//thestar.com/

A few weeks back, while Stephen Harper was on the hustings selling a
tough-on-crime agenda, Sister Elaine MacInnes was in a Brampton prison hugging
convicted criminals.
photo: http://freemarksteyn.com

"I hugged them all," the 87-year-old Catholic nun and Zen master says warmly,
recalling her visit with about 50 inmates at the Ontario Correctional Institute,
where she conducted a meditation class.

Sister Elaine — as she's widely known — is the founding director of Freeing the
Human Spirit (http://www.freeingspirit.com), a registered charity that provides
yoga and meditation programs to inmates in provincial and federal correctional
institutions in Southern Ontario. A Zen master of the Sanbo Kyodan, based in
Kamakura, Japan, she spent 32 years in the East, studying the ancient spiritual
practices of meditation and yoga.

She began working with prisoners in the Philippines in the early 1980s after she
was contacted by a political prisoner who wanted to learn techniques to deal
with the stress of imprisonment. Then followed a decade in England, as executive
director of the Prison Phoenix Trust, a charity that offers medication and yoga
at more than half the prisons in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland.
In 2001, she became an Officer of the Order of Canada for her work abroad.

After retiring from Phoenix, she returned to Canada and founded Freeing the
Human Spirit.

The organization found itself in the spotlight last month after provincial
Conservative leader Tim Hudak criticized Premier Dalton McGuinty's government
for spending funds on "perks" for prisoners. He described the yoga and
meditation program as a "warped priority."

The Liberals quickly countered that the charity receives no government funding,
relying on donations and the efforts of more than 100 volunteers.

One such volunteer is Peter Brother. He has worked with Freeing the Human Spirit
for the past six years teaching yoga to inmates at Kitchener's Grand Valley
Institution for women, a federal facility at which a fifth of the inmates are
serving life sentences, according to a government website.

He says the salutary effects of his teachings are evident among inmates who
attend the weekly classes: "They appear very, very relaxed when they leave our
sessions," says Brother, who has been practicing yoga and meditation for more
than 20 years. "A lot of them feel stressed out, and they don't know how to
relax so we try to teach them how." The prisoner students, he says, welcome the
program. "By and large, they really appreciate what were doing. We've had some
people who've come on a very regular basis and they try and recruit other
people."

Workers within the correctional system also regard Freeing the Human Spirit with
favour, crediting it with creating a more serene prison environment.

"Correctional staff say that inmates who participate in the program are more
relaxed and are able to deal with their stress and anxiety," says Greg Flood, a
spokesperson with the Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services.
"The program also provides inmates with techniques to control their behaviour in
a non-violent matter, which promotes the safety of inmates and ministry staff
working in these facilities."

Flood's assessment mirrors the experience of similar programs in the U.S. A 2008
study at Wake Correctional Center in Raleigh, N.C., followed 190 inmates who
attended yoga, meditation and philosophy classes, accompanied by a vegetarian
meal. Those who attended four or more classes had a reincarceration rate of 8.5
per cent compared to a statewide reincarceration rate as high as 41 per cent.

A 2003 study by the Addictive Behaviors Research Center at the University of
Washington found that drug use and self-reported levels of depression and
hostility were significantly lower among inmates who took a 10-day meditation
course.

Linda Myler, the volunteer chair of Freeing the Human Spirit, has been teaching
yoga and meditation at the Don Jail for five years. Most prisoners, she
observes, are deeply aware that one day they will face the challenges of
reintegrating into society.

"Unless you've committed some heinous crime and you're in for life, you're going
to be rejoining the community at some point," she says. "When people are
incarcerated, they have the opportunity to grow and change, to think about the
life they want when they rejoin the community."

Myler, who has been meditating for three decades and has been teaching yoga at a
downtown Toronto studio for the past seven years, says she believes the programs
offered by Freeing the Human Spirit can make a difference in the reintegration
effort — in part because the individuals who attend the courses are motivated to
change: "People that join our program are the ones who want something different.
They don't want to keep living the life that they had before."

http://news.maars.net/blog/2011/05/07/prisoners-look-inward-to-discover-personal\
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Affinity (DVD - British Cinema)
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Ont. stands firm on jail closings
By Antonella Artuso, Queen's Park Bureau Chief


Ontario is rejecting the latest push from correctional officers to reverse its
decision to close three jails.

The officers, who brought their `Save Our Jails' campaign to Queen's Park
Monday, argued the loss of those facilities only makes sense from a political
point of view.

Monte Vieselmeyer, a Toronto West Detention Centre correctional officer and
Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) spokesperson, said the closures
of the Owen Sound, Sarnia and Walkerton jails disproportionately impact
Progressive Conservative ridings.

The shutdown also sends the political message that the Dalton McGuinty
government is getting tough on its own deficit, while leaving older jails in
other Liberal ridings in place, he said.

Correctional Officer Dan Sidsworth, also an OPSEU spokesperson, said an
operational review would reveal the flaws in Ontario's plan to redirect inmates
to facilities hundreds of kilometres away.

"The minister of finance is the one that made the decision, not the minister of
correctional services," Sidsworth said.

Correctional Services Minister Jim Bradley said the decision to close jails was
based on good economics as the province stands to save $2 million even after
factoring in additional transportation expenses.

Previous PC and NDP governments were involved in similar plans to reduce the
high cost of keeping inmates in Ontario jails, he said.

Bradley denied the accusation that the move was politically motivated, noting
that the Walkerton jail is in Liberal Agriculture Minister Carol Mitchell's
riding of Huron-Bruce.

Asked about an operational review, Bradley said it was an ongoing practice at
the ministry to look at these types of issues.

"It's a very, very difficult situation to deal with but we're doing the best we
can with it," he said.

NDP MPP Peter Kormos said the government is determined to build a new super jail
in Windsor and is prepared to let the three jails go even if it hurts their
local communities.

"There's some political pork barrelling going on here because it's spreading
some of the green down Windsor way where Liberal candidates are going to be
desperate to hold their seats come the next provincial election," Kormos said.


http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Politics/2011/05/09/18125381.html

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Jude Law to star in tabloid spying lawsuit

British film star Jude Law will sue the News of the World over allegations of
phone hacking next year in a case to set guidelines over damages. The suit could
involve senior management at the tabloid.
Law was among a clutch of celebrities, politicians and sports stars allegedly
targeted by the tabloid, which listened in on voice mails to get its scoops. A
judge hearing the case selected Law and four others to act as lead cases in a
trial that will begin in January.

The lead cases will establish principles and eliminate the need for each to be
heard separately.

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Hollywood North ...the sequel

Actor Colin Farrell will star in the first blockbuster filmed in Toronto, Total
Recall.
By Bruce DeMara
Entertainment Reporter
May 20, 2011

At the moment, Toronto's hopes of regaining its status as the pinnacle of
Hollywood North are resting on the shoulders of an Irish actor and a Mexican
director.

All seven sound stages at the mammoth Pinewood Studios Toronto, 4.5 hectares on
the city's waterfront, will soon be fully occupied as production begins this
month on Total Recall, starring Irish actor Colin Farrell. That includes the
46,000-square-foot "mega" stage, the largest in North America.

The $200 million film clearly represents a milestone. It is both the largest
budget film in the city's history and the first "tent-pole" blockbuster ever
produced here.

Within days of its departure at the end of the summer, the Star has learned that
a second mega-budget feature will take its place: Pacific Rim, directed by
Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth, Hellboy II), a high-tech
sci-fi movie about an alien invasion of Earth.

Eight years after SARS temporarily branded Toronto a leper zone and sent the
industry into a tailspin, there is optimism that the dark days are past and the
city will reclaim its position as Canada's centre of film and TV production in
2011 over perennial rival Vancouver.

"We've got the chops to do it in Toronto and we're going to have a chance to
show our stuff this year. We'll be able to show the international world what
Toronto's capable of," said Edith Myers, managing director of Pinewood Studios
Toronto.

The film industry in Toronto was riding high in March 2003 when the musical
Chicago — produced here a year earlier, much to the chagrin of the real Chicago
— won Best Picture at the Oscars. At the same time, SARS (severe acute
respiratory syndrome) hit, spurring a four-month crisis that sent the
international film and TV community elsewhere.

"In 2003, for many genres, if you were going to go to Canada, we were it. And
what we saw with SARS was a shift. A lot of our business went to Vancouver and
some of that business just did not come back," said Toronto film commissioner
Peter Finestone.

In the same period, the competition for film and TV production grew increasingly
fierce on a North American and global scale. Canada had been able to grab a
piece of Hollywood's multi-billion dollar industry because of a cheap Canadian
dollar: as low as 63 cents (U.S.) in 2002. Suddenly it was going head to head
with U.S. states and overseas locales like Prague and Budapest, which were
anxious to attract "green" creative industry jobs with lucrative new tax
credits.

At present, 43 U.S. states offer some kind of tax credit program to attract
production. The bandwagon trend began in the mid-2000s and gained such steam
that it forced California, under former governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, to enact
its own tax incentives in 2009 to stem the hemorrhaging in its industry.

But in recent years, the tide has turned as many U.S. states, including New
Mexico and Michigan, had to slash spending to cope with massive budget
shortfalls. The timing could not be better for Toronto and the Canadian industry
at a time when the loonie is soaring above par against the U.S. dollar.

Despite New Mexico's recent success in capturing major film and TV production,
Governor Susana Martinez recently described tax credits as "a giveaway the state
can no longer afford" and the state adopted a $50 million annual cap on payouts.

Michigan, which has one of the most generous tax-credit programs in the U.S., is
poised to replace its credits with a $25 million culture fund if Governor Rick
Snyder, who assumed office in January, gets his way.

That's good news for Ontario, where the position of the McGuinty government has
been to go the other way. Two years ago, the province revised its tax-credit
program to match Quebec's on a 35 per cent rebate on labour costs for domestic
production. More importantly, it expanded its production service tax credit of
25 per cent, for foreign and domestic projects, to include all spending in
Ontario, including labour, material, studio space rental, etc.

The Ontario government has also signalled there will be no spending caps and no
end date for the program.

"The thing that Ontario has always had going for it in terms of tax credits is
the stability," said Karen Thorne-Stone, president and CEO of the Ontario Media
Development Corp., which oversees the tax-credit program. "So we don't have a
sunset date. In fact, the Ontario government made a conscious decision a couple
of years ago to remove sunset dates to give some real comfort to the industry
around the world, that they could count on Ontario.

"We don't have fine print. We don't have caps and there aren't special
conditions on the Ontario tax credit. We've also got the depth and breadth of
infrastructure to support an unlimited number of productions once they're here,"
she added.

Pinewood Studios also fills a significant gap in that infrastructure. Toronto
has long had medium-sized studio spaces like Cinespace and Showline, as well as
a number of smaller studios, many of them converted industrial or warehouse
space. The missing piece was a purpose-built studio large enough for big-budget
films, space that existed in both Vancouver and Montreal, built, unlike here,
with government support.

But when Filmport, now Pinewood, opened in 2008, the expected rush of business
did not follow. In fact, 2008 was one of the worst years for film and TV
production in the city, at about $600 million. Soon, Filmport needed financial
support from the City of Toronto, which took a 20 per cent equity stake, just to
stay afloat.

Riding to the rescue came Pinewood Studios, the venerable U.K. company in
business since 1934, best known for playing host to the James Bond series and
the Carry On movies. The studio had planned to locate in Toronto and seized the
chance to take over the flailing Filmport. For the city's film and TV industry,
the last piece of a complex puzzle fell into place.

"The association with Pinewood gives us some good contacts, gives us some good
economies of scale in terms of sales and marketing, and gives us some
credibility," Myers said.

Two mega-budget movies at Pinewood alone could give Toronto's and Ontario's
industry the boost it needs to eclipse its main Canadian rivals, Vancouver and
B.C., which have led in overall production in every year of the 2000s except for
one, some years by as much as $600 million.

In North America, the key to success remains landing a major Hollywood film or
TV series. Despite the loss of projects to other places, film and TV production
in California is still a $30 billion annual industry.

"In the world maybe outside of India, (Los Angeles and California) still is the
entertainment capital, we still have the majority of production," said
California Film Commission director Amy Lemisch.

Lemisch is well aware of the success that tax-credit programs, including
Ontario's, have had.

"Each year, we do continue to lose production.... It is a global competition.
It's not just a competition within North America. It's a global competition for
our film and television dollars," Lemisch added, noting the U.K., Australia and
many places in Eastern Europe aggressively compete for Hollywood dollars.

"Production has always been a very mobile industry. It's very easy to pick up
and move."

http://www.toronto.com/article/686202--hollywood-north-the-sequel

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Arnold would have to pay

If Maria Shriver decides to divorce Arnold Schwarzenegger after revelations of
his fathering a child with a former household employee triggered the couple's
separation, it could prove to be one of the costliest settlements in recent
history, trumping even Tiger Woods' $110 million payout, according to Page Six.
Given the former California governor's estimated worth, Shriver could walk away
with more than $200 million, despite a prenup sources believe the couple signed.
Neither Shriver nor Schwarzenegger have filed for divorce yet.


http://www.metro.us/newyork/entertainment/article/869044--talking-points-from-ar\
nold-schwarzenegger-to-ashton-kutcher

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Tuesday, May 24th, 2011 |
Posted by torstar news service

Police probe dating sites


A "new phase" of the investigation into the death of Sonia Varaschin will
include a probe of dating websites she frequented before her murder.

A source confirmed the 42-year-old nurse frequented various dating sites before
her death last August.

OPP Det. Insp. Andy Karski, who has recently taken over as the case manager,
said police will announce a "new phase" in the investigation tomorrow, along
with new details.

Part of that new phase will include reviewing Varaschin's past work associations
and personal relationships.

Sonia had a boyfriend, Ian Rushton, at the time of her murder. Police confirmed
they have cleared him as a person of interest in the case and the family says
they do not believe he had any connection with the murder.

The relationship with Rushton was off-and-on for a year or so, the source said.

It's not clear if she dated people she had met on the matchmaking websites.

It's believed she was most active before she met her boyfriend.

Sonia's brother, Viv, 38, said he is aware his sister used online dating
services but said he was reluctant to comment because of the police
investigation.

He said Sonia and Rushton met through friends.

The source confirmed one of the websites Sonia used was the free matchmaking
service PlentyOfFish.com.

The family has expressed frustration with the pace of the investigation and what
they say is a lack of information from the police.


http://www.durhamcentral.com/police-probe-dating-sites/

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CBC News Arts & Entertainment
May 24, 2011 12:09 PM

Russell Brand, left, and Katy Perry are shown April 19 at the London premier of
Arthur. Brand was deported from Japan Sunday when he attempted to join Perry on
tour. (Paul Hackett/Reuters)


Actor Russell Brand was deported from Japan Saturday because of his criminal
history, according to a tweet from wife Katy Perry.

"So…my husband just got deported from Japan," the Teenage Dream star wrote on
her Twitter account Sunday. "I am so. sad. I brought him all this way to show
him my favourite place."

Brand was visiting the country to join Perry on her California Dreams tour, with
shows in Nagoya, Tokyo and Osaka.

Brand was deported soon after his arrival because of criminal convictions dating
back 10 years, Perry said in another tweet.

Despite "the daily aftershocks [and] husband kidnapping," Perry added "…I [love]
my Japanese fans & the show #MUSTGOON…"

The British comedian has been arrested many times, including for allegedly
attacking paparazzi at a Los Angeles airport in 2010. Brand is open about his
battle with drug and alcohol addiction, during which he had run-ins with the
law.

Brand also took to Twitter to joke about his trouble with Japanese authorities.

"Planning escape from Japanese custody. It's bloody hard to dig a tunnel with a
chopstick," the Arthur star said on the social networking website. He also
attached a photo of himself in a dull room accented with only a clock on the
wall.

He continued the Twitter binge with, "Stockholm syndrome kicking in. Just asked
my guard out for (vegetarian) sushi. He giggled."

Once the incident in Japan came to an end, Brand tweeted, "Alcatraz! Shawshank
Redemption! And now this! Ah, sweet blue bird of freedom!"

A spokeswoman for Brand could not be reached for comment.

With files from Reuters

http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/story/2011/05/24/brand-deported.html

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Lady Gaga so-called 'nip slip' blurred out during interview, sets Internet abuzz
(The Canadian Press) –

TORONTO — A backstage interview with Lady Gaga is causing a stir online after
the star flashed a little more skin than expected.

The megastar's right breast was blurred out through much of an hour-long
interview on CTV's eTalk, which premiered Saturday night and was to air twice
Sunday afternoon.

Posts on Twitter jokingly referred to the apparent exposure of a nipple as a
"nip-slip."

But host Ben Mulroney said he barely noticed the slip-up and that the blurring
was just a precaution.

Asked on Twitter whether the so-called "nip slip" was awkward, he replied:
"Really, it wasn't so bad. we're just being careful. :)"

He later tweeted: "To be honest, I didn't even notice the 'nip slip'".

Gaga wore a black halter bra, fishnet tights, over-the-knee boots and fingerless
gloves.

It wasn't her only wardrobe malfunction that night _ many reported a similar
blooper during her performance in a skit with Justin Timberlake on Saturday
Night Live.

The singer, who is one of the most followed people on Twitter, made no mention
of either incident on the social networking site.

Copyright © 2011 The Canadian Press. All rights reserved.

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Fonda paid $55G for her smile 0
WENN.COM

First posted: Monday, May 23, 2011 2:26:20 EDT PM
Jane Fonda (WENN.COM file photo)

Jane Fonda's perfect smile cost her a massive $55,000 and she forfeited a new
car to pay for the dental work.

The 73-year-old has spent a fortune on keeping herself looking good and admits
her new teeth were the same price as a luxury sports car.

She tells Britain's Daily Mail, "See these teeth? They cost $55,000. It was
teeth or a new car - and I opted for the teeth. That's what I mean by good genes
and money. It costs a lot to look the way I do, although the genes cost
nothing... I owe 30 per cent to my genes, 30 per cent good sex, 30 per cent are
because of sports and healthy lifestyle with proper nutrition and for the
remaining 10 per cent I've to thank my plastic surgeon."

http://www.torontosun.com/2011/05/23/fonda-paid-55g-for-her-smile

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PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release: May 26, 2011

Activists Get $50,000 for FBI & St. Paul Police Raid Prior to 2008 Republican
Convention
Preemptive, politically motivated raids are emblematic of police tactics used to
suppress dissent

St. Paul, MN -- Three activists and their attorneys won a $50,000 settlement
today in a lawsuit that challenged an August 30, 2008 police raid on a St. Paul
home in advance of that year's Republican National Convention (RNC). The
plaintiffs in the case -- Sarah Coffey, Erin Stalnaker and Kris Hermes -- are
giving most of the award to the Committee to Stop FBI Repression, the Institute
for Anarchist Studies, and the formation of a national legal defense fund for
political activists. The St. Paul house raid was one of several police actions
taken against protesters days before the RNC began, including the search and
seizure of a central political meeting space, which is also the subject of
pending litigation.

"The City of St. Paul and the federal government were forced to pay for their
politically-motivated attack on organizers," said Sarah Coffey, one of the
plaintiffs. "Rather than spend years in court fighting the government over its
political surveillance program, we decided to use settlement money to invest in
projects that oppose such repressive tactics." The lawsuit, which was filed in
August 2009 and accused the St. Paul Police Department and the Federal Bureau of
Investigation (FBI) of violating plaintiffs' First, Fourth and Fourteenth
amendment rights, is so far the largest settlement of its kind stemming from the
convention protests. "We hope this sends a message to law enforcement officials
who would enter homes illegally or suppress political dissent," said Coffey,
"there is a cost to their actions."

The raid garnered significant media attention at the time due to an hours-long
standoff between 10 activists and residents and a heavily armed police force
that had surrounded the duplex. Because the police attempted to raid the home
without a search warrant, those inside refused them entry. After allegedly
getting verbal authority from a local judge, the police used force to enter 949
Iglehart Avenue and detained everyone inside. The owner, several tenants and
activists, including members of the I-Witness Video collective were detained for
hours. No illegal items were found, no one was arrested and nothing was visibly
seized, although computers and camera equipment were searched.

The search warrant affidavit, which was under seal until a month after the raid
in a likely attempt to avoid media scrutiny, relied solely on a confidential
informant who made the claim that weapons were being shipped to 951 Iglehart
using the U.S. Postal Service. In a sensationalist move, the police also tried
to tie property owner Michael Whalen to a defunct 1970s political group, the
Symbionese Liberation Army, in order to bolster the warrant's outrageous claim
of arms shipments. However, once inside 951 Iglehart, police discovered that the
boxes contained only vegan literature. Unsatisfied, police broke through a
locked attic door to enter the neighboring but separate 949 Iglehart, which
plaintiffs claimed was the operation's true objective.

St. Paul Police Officer David Langfellow was in charge of the operation as a
cross-deputized FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) agent. Langfellow
testified during a deposition that although the FBI had been surveilling the
duplex for more than a week before the convention, the investigation was not
targeting Whalen, the main subject of the search warrant affidavit. Langfellow
either was not told or refused to reveal details about the underlying
investigation, which plaintiffs speculate had nothing to do with the shipment of
boxes.

Plaintiffs' attorneys also contributed a portion of the award to the Impact
Fund, which provides money to small law firms and nonprofits for lawsuits
involving issues of civil rights, environmental justice, and poverty.

Further information:
Settlement agreement:
http://protestarchive.org/files/RNC_Settlement_Agreement.pdf
Lawsuit complaint: http://protestarchive.org/files/RNC_Amended_Complaint2.pdf
Deposition of JTTF agent Langfellow:
http://protestarchive.org/files/Depo_Transcript_Langfellow.pdf
Search warrant affidavit:
http://protestarchive.org/files/949_Iglehart_Affidavit.pdf
AP photo of raid (Matt Rourke): http://protestarchive.org/files/Raid_Photo.jpg

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LUO

reduce your depression risk

"there are so many changes that occur in women's lives from 40 to 60,"
says Marianne Golts, a psychiatrist at Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital.
"the stress of work, menopausal symptoms, again parents, having kids
or kids leavig -- all these factors can contribute to your depression
risk".  according to Golts, stress is a key risk factor for depression.
the safeguard is maintenace. "it's so important for women to put their
needs first, get adequate sleep, exercise and have a life outside of
family and work -- all the normal things that usually get pushed aside
at this point in a women's life." but if you're already feeling low,
behaving unlike yourself plus you're extremely agitated by hot flashes
and night sweats, talk to your GP about depressive symptoms, which are
treatable.

chatelaine magazine

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naked rob ford update:

just when mayor rob ford thought it was safe to look at another
Now Magazine cover, we're challenging him again.  this time it's a
formal complaint filed with the city's integriy commissioner
monday, april 18, over the order from his office to remove Now's
March 31 edition with the infamous Naked Truth About Rob Ford cover
story from all city-owned buildings.

read the story and stay tuned for updates at http://www.nowtoronto.com/daily

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Mounties charged after women watched having sex
The Canadian Press

Date: Sat. May. 14 2011 10:12 AM ET

KAMLOOPS, B.C. — Breach of trust charges were laid Friday against three British
Columbia Mounties and one jail guard accused of watching two intoxicated female
inmates having sex in a jail cell last summer.

That brings to eight the number of B.C. RCMP officers charged in the past week.

Also Friday, an RCMP officer was charged in a shooting during a traffic stop on
Vancouver Island and a week ago, justice officials announced perjury charges
against the four officers involved in the October 2007 death of Robert
Dziekanski at Vancouver airport. The charges relate to their testimony at a
public inquiry.

B.C.'s criminal justice branch announced Friday that Cpl. Kenneth Peter Rick
Brown, Const. Evan Neil Larry Elgee, Const. Stephen Richard James Zaharia and
guard David John Tompkins are accused of watching two women having sex on a
closed-circuit video at the jail in Kamloops B.C. last August without
intervening.

They are scheduled to make their first court appearance July 18. The branch
declined any further comment, saying the matter is now before the court.

Both women were in custody for public intoxication, and police have said the
investigation looked at whether the women were too drunk to consent to sex.

The incident came to light when RCMP announced a code-of-conduct and criminal
investigation into a complaint that seven men had watched an act of consensual
sex between two women but one of the women told a local newspaper that she was
so drunk she didn't remember what happened.

The woman has filed a lawsuit in B.C. Supreme Court seeking damages. The action
names the provincial and federal governments, the City of Kamloops, seven John
Does and one Jane Doe.

The woman said she was arrested for being drunk following a party at a friend's
house where she had been drinking all day. There was a fight and police showed
up.

She was taken to the detachment, but released the next day without charges.

Five days later she said she was contacted by RCMP and told something was amiss,
and five more days after that she learned she might have been exposed to HIV,
she alleged.

"I was horrified and scared and mad," she told the Kamloops Daily News last
fall.

An internal code-of-conduct investigation was completed last December but the
results were not made public pending a review by a senior officer. The City of
Kamloops conducted its own review and cleared its workers of wrongdoing.

Earlier Friday, RCMP announced an aggravated assault charge against another one
of its officers for a 2009 shooting incident.

On Sept. 18, 2009, Const. David Pompeo and another officer stopped a vehicle
with two men in Chemainus, B.C., on Vancouver Island.

Police said Pompeo discharged his service gun once during the stop, hitting one
of the men inside the vehicle. The injured man was hospitalized at the time but
has recovered.

The four-year veteran is scheduled to appear in court next month to face the
charge. He is currently on administrative duties.

http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Canada/20110514/kamloops-mounties-charged-110514/

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24 Hours
Toronto -

Mogul beefs up security.
WENN.COM

24 HRS WEEKEND

Simon Cowell has reportedly increased security at his L.A. mansion after
receiving death threats. The music mogul and former American
Idol judge, currently on the panel for new series The X-Factor, said
he receives around 500 hate-filled missives a week, reports Britain's
daily star. "people want to kill me...one man wanted to stab me. it
sent a chill down me. but i'm used to it". -

http://www.wenn.com

http://eedition.toronto.24hrs.ca/epaper/viewer.aspx?

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In 1999, the United Nations condemned Ontario for publicly funding the education
system of one faith and no other.

http://www.educationfairness.ca/ads/PrintAd1.pdf


ULC Charter
http://blog.documents.angelfire.com/ULCharter.pdf

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Indecency Rules & Profanity News
http://www.congoo.com/news/related?channel_id=1&story_id=38929965

Canadian Broadcasting Standards Council
Statement of Principles and Practices
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/corp/CTVShows/20031023/corp-StatePP


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march 2011

women in prison - a fast growing population

http://www.realcostofprisons.org/materials/CPR_Newsletter_March_2011.pdf

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