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A one-time chairman of Nova Sco-tia’s Liberal caucus was involved ina “scheme” where he falsified hislegislature expense claims over sev-eral years, the Crown said yesterdayafter Dave Wilson pleaded guiltyfor his role in the province’s spend-ing scandal.

Wilson, 55, sat silently in courtand without expression after plead-ing guilty to charges of fraud, utter-ing forged documents and breachof trust. He is the first to be con-victed in a scandal that crossed par-ty lines and shook the foundationsof Nova Scotia’s political estab-lishment.

He also didn’t speak outsidecourt, but his lawyer said Wilsonwill make a statement when he issentenced on Jan. 25.

Wilson was charged earlier thisyear after a nine-month RCMP

investigation into the constituencyallowance spending of four provin-cial politicians.

He was charged with 31 countsof uttering forged documents andone count each of fraud and breachof trust. The Crown and defenceagreed yesterday to consolidate Wil-

son’s 31 counts of uttering forgeddocuments into a single charge.

“We’re alleging this was an ongo-ing scheme,” Crown lawyerAndrew Macdonald said outsideprovincial court.

“The scheme related to expenseclaims filed by Mr. Wilson whichwere false ... expenses he allegedwere incurred as a member of thelegislative assembly.”

Macdonald said an agreed state-ment of facts to be presented atWilson’s sentencing hearing willshed more light on the nature andextent of his crimes. The prosecu-tor wouldn’t comment on whetherhe will be seeking jail time or finan-cial restitution, but said suchoffences are particularly seriouswhen they’re committed by peo-ple who commit to public life.THE CANADIAN PRESS

Former Liberalchairman pleadsguilty to fraud

Charges stem from spending scandal that erupted last year Crown lawyer says crimes spanned five years, beginning June 2005

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Kevin Dennis as Henry takes measurements of Frankenstein’s

monster, played by Stephen Gartner, during a media call rehearsal

for Frankenstein at the Neptune Theatre yesterday. Frankenstein

opens the Neptune’s 49th season. More coverage, page 6.

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Nova Scotia is still headingfor a deficit, but it’s a slight-ly smaller deficit than pre-dicted in April.

Finance Minister Gra-ham Steele revealed an up-dated budget forecastyesterday afternoon, with aprojected deficit of $319.2 million. That’s aswing of $70.4 million to-ward black ink from the De-partment of Finance’sspring budget.

“I’m happy to say thatdue in part to our ongoingtight control of spending,we are running slightlymore than $70 millionahead of where we expect-ed to be,” Steele told re-porters at One GovernmentPlace.

But the majority of thevariance has to do with pre-payments to two universi-ties. Acadia University andthe Nova Scotia College ofArt and Design received a

combined $39.6 million ear-lier this year, but before thefiscal year-end. That costshows up on the 2010-2011books, and as an “under-spend” on this year’s ledger.

Departmental spendingis down, largely as a resultof those savings. Overall de-partmental spending isdown $24.8 million overApril’s prediction, despitefour departments coming inover budget.

Revenue predictions havedecreased $11.1 million. Ac-cording to the Departmentof Finance, this is related toa change in accounting prac-tices and will not affect theprovince’s bottom line.

Deficit outlook a tad better

Finance Minister Graham Steele answers questions from the media during his September

budget update at One Government Place yesterday.

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Dog-attack fine to be reviewed Coun. Gloria McCluskeybarked her way into get-ting full support from Hali-fax regional council toreview the animal bylawyesterday evening.

McCluskey wants the

fine for a dog that attacksto be raised to a minimumof $1,000, or jail time if theowner doesn’t pay.

She also wants to re-strict the length of dogleashes to two metres andban retractable leashes.

At one point, council’seyes were directed to the

television screens to watcha slideshow of babies withdogs “to show how lovingdogs are,” said McCluskey.

“In most instances, it’sthe owner that is the prob-lem, not the dog.

“It’s the way they trainthe dogs,” she added,clutching her fists. “We

need to get tough, and thisis the way to get there.”

Right now, the standardticket is $340.21 — thatcovers everything from anunlicensed dog or a dogthat attacks.

Coun. Lorelei Nicoll saidthis is an issue that hitsclose to home.

“Having been bitten bya dog myself, I knowthere’s not a whole lotthere to protect people.”

Coun. Darren Fisherthanked the council’s “res-ident pit bull” for bringingthe motion forward,adding it was long over-due.

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NewPage impact

Steele refused to speculateon the NewPage situationyesterday, saying there istoo much uncertaintyaround the mill to accurate-ly predict the effect its clo-sure will have on theprovince’s bottom line.

Four departments over budget, but spending down overall Steelewarns of risks such as U.S. economy

ALY THOMSON HALIFAX@METRONEWS.CA

An Ontario couple has turnedto the courts for help in

investigating thehealth effects of the wind

turbines that may soon be intheir backyard. Scan

code for the story.

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Haligonians will soon beable to bike and walk fromBedford to Burnside byway of an active trans-portation corridor.

Halifax regional councilvoted to commit the entireactive transportation capi-tal budget for 2013-14 —$1 million — to the proj-ect. The corridor will lieparallel to the BurnsideDrive extension.

“Not having this optionfor numerous residents isactually stunning, and Idid not realize that,” saidCoun. Jennifer Watts.“This is a unique opportu-nity for our residents.”

But Coun. Russell Walk-

er, who representsFairview-Clayton Park, wasconcerned about publicworks in his district thatwill be put off for yet an-other year.

In particular, he noted

the Joseph Howe Driveturning-lanes project thathad been scheduled forthis fall.

The province will pro-vide the space for the Bed-ford-Burnside corridor andcover the engineering andconstruction costs. In ex-change, the municipalitywill pay the Department ofTransportation and Infra-structure Renewal for thecost of earthwork and sub-grade preparation.

The municipality is alsoresponsible for long-termmaintenance and opera-tions, the cost of which isnot yet known.

ALY THOMPSON

A Canadian soldier whowas in Afghanistan when amember of his section wasfatally shot at Kandahar Air-field in 2007 says everyonein the group had been giv-en extensive weapons safe-ty training.

Sgt. Nathan Crosby wason the stand yesterday atthe court martial of formerreservist Matthew Wilcox,who is charged in the deathof Cpl. Kevin Megeney.

Crosby, who was a mas-ter corporal at the time ofthe incident, said everyonein the section of 10 soldierswas thoroughly briefed onweapons handling beforeleaving Canada and againon arrival in theatre in De-cember 2006.

“Everyone was aware oforders regarding unloadingof weapons at the end ofthe day,” Crosby said.

He testified that verbaldirectives and standing or-ders made it clear that their9-mm pistols and C7 rifleswere to be unloaded andstored in lockers when theywere in personal quarters.

Wilcox, of Glace Bay, haspleaded not guilty to crimi-nal negligence causingdeath and negligent per-formance of a military dutyin Megeney’s death.

Wilcox was sentenced tofour years in prison andkicked out of the militaryafter he was found guilty ofthe two charges in 2009.The verdict was set asidelast year by the Court Mar-tial Appeal Court of Canadaand a new trial ordered af-

ter his lawyers argued themakeup of a military jurywas unfair.

Megeney, 25, of Stellar-ton, died in a military hos-pital on March 6, 2007,after being shot in a tent heshared with Wilcox.THE CANADIAN PRESS

Troops trained ingun safety: Soldier

Everyone also taught ‘instinctive’ shooting, targetrecognition, court martial of Matthew Wilcox hears

Matthew Wilcox is escorted from a courtroom

during his first court martial in 2009. His guilty verdict

was set aside and he is being retried for the shooting of his

tent mate, Cpl. Kevin Megeney, in what prosecutors

allege was a game of “quick draw.”

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Stadiumstudy to go aheadHalifax regional councilwas quick to point out theflaws of a motion of reces-sion yesterday that tried toget the municipality toslow down in its quest tobuild a multi-use stadium.

Aimed at revoking a pro-posal on the stadium thatcouncil passed on Aug. 9,Coun. Reg Rankin’s motionprovoked heated discussionamong council membersand, in the end, was defeat-

ed by a landslide. Council previously

authorized a feasibilitystudy on the stadium, and acontract was awarded to aconsultant on Monday. So ifthe process were to bestopped, some of the mon-ey committed for the studycould be lost, said RichardButts, the city’s chiefadministrative officer.

ALY THOMPSON

$1 million earmarkedfor Burnside pathway

“It’s great to say,‘Don’t worry, behappy, it willhappen next year.’Well, for some ofmy projects, nextyear never comes.”COUN. RUSSELL WALKER, REACTINGTO COUNCIL’S DECISION ON THEBEDFORD-BURNSIDE PEDESTRIANAND BIKE PATH

$275KThe price tag for thestadium feasibilitystudy.

Weaponsfound inhome raidGuns, knives, swords, am-munition and a crossbowwere among the weaponsseized yesterday in ahouse in West Arichat inCape Breton. RCMP with asearch warrant retrievedthe weapons from thehouse and arrested twomen. A 20-year-old and a53-year-old are facingcharges of unsafe storageof a firearm and illegalpossession of firearms.

METRO

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Halifax regional councilhas taken the first step to-ward increasing a fee paidby builders in HRM thatwill ultimately add to thecost of new homes.

Council approved a mo-tion yesterday seeking theprovince’s permission toamend the HRM’s charterto give it the right to collectcapital cost contributionsfrom developers, sincewhen a new subdivision orapartment building goesup, the municipality needsto provide more services tothat area.

The city’s finance com-mittee recommendedcharging builders for theincreased cost of provid-ing fire services, librariesand recreational facilities.

If the amendment is ap-proved, the city could startcharging an additional$2,000 for every new sin-gle-detached home and$1,600 for every newapartment building, thestaff report said. But be-

fore that happens, citystaff will have to draft anew bylaw.

Coun. Dawn Sloanesaid, “We talk all the timeabout how we can raisemoney for this municipali-ty, and this is how we doit.”

While Coun. DebbieHum was not opposed toapproving the request, shedid express concerns.

“We still have the ca-pacity for significantgrowth,” said Hum, refer-ring to the Rockingham-Wentworth area. “We’retalking acres and acres ...so I’d like to know howthis whole scenario fits inwith that.”

Halifax council membersdecided overwhelmingly tokeep the HRM name yester-day, calling a proposedname change a “brandingand marketing exercise.”

Multiple councillors not-ed the costs — potentiallymillions — involved inchanging things like sig-nage and letterheads.

Coun. Jim Smith saidcouncil is “borderline in-sane” in continuing to re-

turn to the issue.Coun. Gloria McCluskey

said she achieved what shewanted by putting forth themotion.

“There was never any in-tent in this motion to spend

any money. The main pur-pose ... was to bring it to thetable,” she said.

At a meeting in February,councillors put off discus-sion of a name change untilthe results of the next dis-trict boundary review. TheUtility and Review Boardruled in July that the mu-nicipality must redraw theboundaries to include 16districts, down from thecurrent 23. ALY THOMSON

HRM name to stay the same

RYAN TAPLIN/METRO

Rock ’n’ Roll is the Only Way Out

Bachman. Turner

Legendary Canadian rockers Randy Bachman and Fred Turner open last night’s show at

the Metro Centre with their 1974 hit Roll on Down the Highway. Bachman and Turner

play in St. John’s on Friday night before heading out on a Western Canadian tour.

Alta. company toexplore onshore OIL & GAS. An Alberta-basedoil and gas company hasbeen awarded theexploration rights to about335,500 hectares of land inNova Scotia.

The Nova Scotia govern-

ment says St. Brendan’sExploration was thesuccessful bidder for theonshore blocks inMalagash, Truemanvilleand Scotsburn.

The government saysthe lease agreements havea combined value of $10.4million in explorationspending over three years.

There are also twooptions for renewal for apotential total of nineyears. THE CANADIAN PRESS

Trio face drug charges TRAFFICKING. RCMPofficers searched an apart-ment building in Enfieldon Monday and seized ahalf-pound of marijuanaand a small amount of co-caine. Two men, aged 21and 22, as well as a 20-year-old woman werearrested and charged withdrug trafficking. METRO

News in brief

“I thinkthis hasbeen along timecoming.”

COUN. GLORIA MCCLUSKEY

Current fee is $1,000 per new home Increase couldgenerate about $3.5M per year in capital funds: Report

“It’s beendiscussed and now we can finallyput it to rest.” COUN. GLORIA MCCLUSKEY

ALYTHOMSONHALIFAX@METRONEWS.CA

Council aims to hikecharge to builders

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“I curse the day I gave youlife!”

Harsh words comingfrom your father, even ifyou’re Frankenstein’screature.

Frankenstein, the hor-ror classic, is NeptuneTheatre’s opening produc-tion in its 49th season.

But don’t expectStephen Gartner, whoplays The Creature, towalk around like a robotand grunt. There aren’teven bolts in his neck.

Since this adaptationsticks close to the MaryShelley book, The Crea-ture actually speaks infull sentences.

“He has plenty to sayand it isn’t quite typical ofwhat people would ex-pect,” Gartner said.

But there are twitchesin his speech and mobili-ty issues because, afterall, he is an experiment

made up of body partssewn together.

“It’s a horror, but

there’s a lot of surprisingdepth there,” Gartnersaid. “And, surprisingly, alot of humour.”

Seann Gallagher, whoplays scientist VictorFrankenstein, said Shelley’s book from 1818is still incredibly relevantwhen it comes to ethicaldebates on stem-cell re-search, for example.

“Everyone’s afraid ofdeath and he’s trying toconquer death. Whowouldn’t want to bringsomeone back to life orkeep themselves alive?”Gallagher said. “It’s theeternal question.”

The sets are intenselyvisual. What directorGeorge Pothitos calls “thegismo” is a mad scientist’scontraption made up ofballs of light loweredfrom the ceiling.

“The sets actually helpme as an actor because I have things to do, and if I flick a switch, some-thing happens," Gallaghersaid.

Monstercomes to lifein Halifaxplayhouse

Frankenstein premieres Friday and runs until Oct. 9at Neptune Theatre Three Halifax actors in the cast

Seann Gallagher, as Victor Frankenstein, rehearses a scene yesterday

at the Neptune Theatre. The play opens this Friday.

RYAN TAPLIN/METRO

Eastern Front Theatre’sThe Passion of Adèle Hugois a musical rom-edy.

It’s a love story/tragedyabout Victor Hugo’sdaughter and her affairwith a British soldier.

The theatre companydescribes its 19th seasonopener — which was an-nounced yesterday — asan epic true story of obses-

sion that drives Hugo topursue her love halfwayaround the world.

“Adèle’s monumentalpursuit of the object of

her desire would be re-markable at any time inhistory. But for an unchap-eroned aristocrat to crossthe Atlantic and take onan assumed identity in thegarrison town of Halifaxin the 1860s, really criesout for dramatization,”artistic producer ScottBurke said in a release.

METRO

Opener has a lot of PassionArrests madein robberies DARTMOUTH. Police madearrests in relation to tworobberies in Dartmouthyesterday.

A man with his facecovered walked into theNova Scotia Liquor Corpo-

ration on OchterloneyDrive at about 3:15 p.m.He said he had a weaponbut no weapon was seen.

When the clerk would-n’t hand over cash, theman grabbed some liquorbottles and left the store.

Then, about 15 minuteslater, a similar robberyhappened at the QuickWay on Crystal Drive.

Four males were laterarrested.

METRO

Man nabbedafter fightALTERCATION. One manwas arrested yesterdayfollowing a fight on Bar-rington Street.

A man pulled out aknife and another manreceived a minor cut tohis arm.

The suspect was arrest-ed a short distance fromthe scene. METRO

News in brief

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Curtain rises

The full lineup for

the 2011-12 season:

FOUNTAIN HALL

Frankenstein, Friday toOct. 9Lost - A Memoir, Oct. 18 toNov. 6The Jungle Book, Nov. 22to Jan. 8Mrs. Parliament’s NightOut, Jan. 24 to Feb. 19Intimate Apparel, Feb. 28to March 25La Cage aux Folles, April10 to May 27

STUDIO SERIES

Another Home Invasion,Oct. 11 to 23Communion, Feb. 7 to 19Tempting Providence, April24 to May 6

When & where

The Passion of Adèle Hugoruns from Nov. 6 to 20 atNeptune Studio Theatre.

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Driver makes fatal miscalculation A bus driver gambled and tried to rush across railroad tracks yesterday despite abarrier, bells and flashing lights, setting off a chain-reaction collision with twotrains that killed 11 people and injured hundreds in Buenos Aires. The collisionhappened at 6:15 a.m. during the busy rush hour in the Flores neighbourhood.

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Iran’s president predictedyesterday that two Ameri-cans arrested in July 2009while hiking along theIraq-Iran border and sen-tenced to eight years in jailon espionage-relatedcharges could be freed “ina couple of days” after acourt set bail of $500,000US each.

The events appearedtimed to boost the imageof President Mahmoud Ah-madinejad coinciding withhis visit to New York nextweek for the UN GeneralAssembly session. Lastyear, a third American wasreleased on bail aroundthe same time.

In Washington, Secre-tary of State Hillary Rod-

ham Clinton said the U.S.was “encouraged” by Ah-madinejad’s comments.

Lawyer Masoud Shafieisaid the court would beginthe process to free ShaneBauer and Josh Fattal afterpayment of the bail, whichmust be arranged through

third parties because ofU.S. economic sanctionson Iran. The timing of thecourt’s decision is similarto last year’s bail deal me-diated by the Gulf state ofOman that freed a thirdAmerican, Sarah Shourd.

“They accepted to setbail to release,” Shafieitold The Associated Pressafter leaving court. “Theamount is the same forSarah.”

Ahmadinejad, in an in-terview aired on NBC’s To-day show, described thebail offer as a “humanitari-an gesture” and repeatedcomplaints about atten-tion for Iranians held inU.S. prisons. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Hikers could be freed in days

Families are ‘overjoyed’ Accused denied charges,saying they might have mistakenly crossed Iraq border

U.S. hikers Shane Bauer,

left, and Josh Fattal at

trial in Iran in February.

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Utah ‘angels’ savecrash victim’s life

Group of strangers disregard own safety to save motorcyclist trapped under burning wreckage Footage of heroic rescue goes viral

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The bystanders had to actquickly. A motorcyclisthad just collided with a carand was pinned beneaththe flaming wreckage.

Disregarding their ownsafety, they lined up onone side of the car. Andslowly, they managed tolift the roughly 4,000-pound car just highenough for one rescuer topull Brandon Wright tosafety.

They are being called“heroes” and “angels” —their few minutes of hero-ics were captured on videoand has gone viral on theInternet.

“I’m just very thankfulfor everyone that helpedme out,” Wright told TheAssociated Press by tele-phone from his hospitalbed. “They saved my life.”

Most of those whohelped then scattered.

“Every one of those peo-ple put their lives in dan-ger,” assistant police ChiefJeff Curtis said, adding that“you can only speculate

what the outcome wouldhave been if they hadn’tlifted that car.”

At a hospital news con-ference yesterday,Wright’s uncle, Tyler Rig-gs, recounted what Wrighttold his family about Mon-day’s accident.

The crash happenednear Utah State Universityin Logan, north of SaltLake City. Wright washeaded to study at a com-puter lab, Riggs said. TheBMW was pulling out of aparking lot.

Tire and skid marks onthe highway showed thatWright laid the bike downand slid along the road be-fore colliding with the car,Curtis said.

Riggs said Wright triedto protect himself by lay-ing his bike down.

The bike hit the car'shood and bounced to theground, while Wright,who was not wearing hel-met, slid under the car andthen both vehicles burstinto flames, Curtis said.

The video, shot by uni-versity staffer Chris Garffwho had seen the smoke,shows a crowd gatheringaround the burning wreck-age as flames shoot intothe air.

Some of the rescuers arewearing construction hel-mets and safety vests, oth-ers sport school backpacksand at least one police offi-cer is in the crowd. Theyquickly place their handson the car and start to rockit until it tilts up.

Once the car is on itswheels, a constructionworker in a hardhat and alime green T-shirt can beseen dragging a spread-ea-gled Wright from underthe car.

Two officers then movein with a fire extinguisher.

A few minutes pass beforeparamedics start to pro-vide Wright with medicalcare. It’s unclear whetherthey had just arrived orwhether they were waitingfor the scene to be de-clared safe.

Riggs said Wright re-membered details fromthe crash and told his fam-ily that he felt scared andcould see and feel theflames.

“He remembers beingunder the car, spitting upblood and not being ableto talk,” Riggs said.

Riggs said Wright hasnot seen the video of therescue.

Despite not wearing ahelmet, Riggs said, Wrighthad suffered no head trau-ma.

However, Wright doeshave two broken legs, abroken pelvis, road rash,burns on his left foot andabrasions to his forehead.The hospital said Wrightwas in satisfactory condi-tion. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

“They risked theirlives doing it. Itrestores your faithin humanity.” TYLER RIGGS, VICTIM’S UNCLE, ATPRESS CONFERENCE

Accused nabbedin B.C. boy’s kidnappingKienan Hebert’s father saysthe arrest of the sole sus-pect in his son’s disappear-ance is a relief for his familyand will calm nerves in theBritish Columbia communi-ty.

Convicted sex offenderRandall Hopley, 46, was ar-rested yesterday morning,nearly a week after three-year-old Kienan vanishedfrom his family home inSparwood, RCMP said. A

worker at a rock quarry insouthwestern Alberta, notfar from the B.C. boundary,said Hopley was arrestednearby.

Police offered few detailsof the arrest, which cametwo days after Kienan wasmysteriously returned tohis home in the middle ofthe night.

Hopley has numerousconvictions spanning twodecades. THE CANADIAN PRESS

VOLUME CONTROL

Get rid ofloud TVads: CRTCCanada’s broadcastershave a year to turn downthe volume on their TV

advertisements.The Canadian Radio-

television and Telecom-municationsCommission has ruledthat television commer-cials are indeed annoy-ingly loud. The agencywill give broadcastersuntil next September todo something about it.THE CANADIAN PRESS

In this image taken from video, a group of people tilt a burning BMW up to free Brandon Wright, on his back on the

ground, who was pinned underneath after he collided with the car while riding his motorcycle on U.S. 89 in Logan, Utah.

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The largest U.S. banks willbe required to show regu-lators how they wouldbreak up and sell off theirassets if they are in dangerof failing.

The Federal Deposit In-surance Corp. voted 3-0yesterday to approve therules, which were mandat-ed under the financialoverhaul passed byCongress last year. Theyare designed to reduce thechances of anothergovernment bailout ofWall Street banks in theevent of another financialcrisis.

The rules require bankswith $50 billion US ormore in assets to submitso-called living wills to theFDIC, the Federal Reserveand the Financial StabilityOversight Council andsend revised plans annual-ly.

Among the banksaffected are Bank of Amer-ica Corp., Citigroup Inc.,Goldman Sachs Group Inc.and JPMorgan Chase & Co.

The biggest banks ofthe group would have tostart filing their plans nextJuly. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Making up for lost timeThe Japanese video-game maker is readying anarray of video games for the holidays in an ag-gressive attempt at making up for lost timefrom the sales delay of the 3DS portablemachine last year.

Nintendo. Holidays

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conference at a convention center in Tokyo yesterday.

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The ranks of America’spoor swelled to almostone in six people last year,reaching a new high aslong-term unemploymentleft millions of Americansstruggling and out ofwork. The number ofuninsured edged up to49.9 million, the biggestin more than two decades.

The Census Bureau’sannual report releasedyesterday offers asnapshot of the economicwell-being of U.S.households for 2010,when joblessness hoveredabove nine per cent for asecond year. It comes at apolitically sensitive timefor President Barack Oba-ma, who hasacknowledged in themidst of a re-election fightthat the unemploymentrate could persist at highlevels through next year.

The overall poverty rateclimbed to 15.1 per cent,or 46.2 million, up from14.3 per cent in 2009. Theofficial poverty level is anannual income of $22,314US for a family of four.

Reflecting the lingeringimpact of the recession,the U.S. poverty rate from2007-2010 has now risenfaster than any three-yearperiod since the early1980s, when a cripplingenergy crisis amid govern-ment cutbacks

contributed to inflation,spiralling interest ratesand unemployment.

Measured by total num-bers, the 46 million nowliving in poverty is thelargest on record datingback to when the censusbegan tracking poverty in1959. Based on percent -ages, it tied the povertylevel in 1993 and was thehighest since 1983.

The median householdincome was $49,445,down 2.3 per cent from2009.

The latest numbers,which cover Obama’s sec-ond year in office, offerpolitical fodder for bothparties as Obama seeks topush a new $447-billionUS plan for creating jobsand stimulating the econ-omy. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Other findings

Poverty rose among allrace and ethnic groups ex-cept Asians.The number of Hispanicsin poverty increased to26.6 per cent from 25.3per cent.For blacks, it increased to27.4 per cent from 25.8per cent.The number of whites inpoverty rose to 9.9 percent from 9.4 per cent.

Disgraced impresariosGarth Drabinsky and My-ron Gottlieb, whose com-pany Livent Inc. was oncethe toast of the Canadiantheatre scene, remainguilty of fraud but willserve shorter prisonterms, Ontario’s highestcourt has ruled.

The Ontario Court ofAppeal upheld the fraudconvictions handed downby a lower court in 2009,but trimmed their jailtime by two years each —Drabinsky must now servefive years behind bars, andGottlieb four years.

The two were convictedafter Ontario Judge MaryLou Benotto found thatduring a nine-year spanthey manipulated the in-come reported by Livent,once the driving force be-hind Canadian and Broad-way theatre hits like ThePhantom of the Opera andShowboat.

At the time of their tri-al, Benotto imposed a sen-tence that took intoaccount the magnitude ofthe company’s collapse —it was estimated at thetime that investors lostsome $500 million whenthe company went bank-rupt in 1998.THE CANADIAN PRESS

Fraudconvictionsupheld inLivent case

Livent co-founder

Garth Drabinsky

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U.S. poverty ratesoars to 1 in 6

50-million Americans go withouthealth coverage, report reveals

A homeless man plays his guitar while panhandling

on the street in New York City in June.

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Canada’s rich-poor gapwidening faster than peers’Canada is rapidly catchingup to the United States as acountry divided betweenhaves and have-nots, ac-cording to a study issuedyesterday by the Confer-ence Board.

The Conference Boardsays income inequality hasbeen rising more in Canadathan in the United Statessince the mid-1990s, and

faster than in many peercountries.

In fact, the think-tanksays Canada had the fourth-largest increase in incomedisparity among a samplegroup of 17 advancedeconomies in the period be-tween the mid-1990s andthe late 2000s.

“Even though the U.S.currently has the largest

rich-poor income gapamong these countries, thegap in Canada has been ris-ing at a faster rate,” saidAnne Golden, the board’schief executive.

Overall, income inequali-ty rose in 10 of the coun-tries sampled, rising fastestin Sweden, Finland andDenmark. THE CANADIAN PRESS

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of Public Employees saidyesterday that after a 10-day vote, employees vot-ed 98 per cent to back astrike.

Unless a last-minutedeal is reached, 6,800flight attendants couldwalk off the job Sept. 21.

The key areas ofdispute are wages, pen-sions and crew rest,working conditions andwork rules, said Jeff Tay-lor, head of the flight at-tendants’ union.THE CANADIAN PRESS

Loonie inchesback upwardREBOUND. The Canadiandollar found lift againstits U.S. counterpart yes-terday, as a rebound incommodity prices over-shadowed sometroubling economicsigns.

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What’s killing us? Fordecades, global healthleaders have focused ondiseases that can spread— AIDS, tuberculosis,new flu bugs. Theypushed for vaccines, bet-ter treatments and otherways to control germsthat were only a planeride away from seedingoutbreaks anywhere inthe world.

Now they are turningto a new set of culpritscausing what United Na-tions Secretary-GeneralBan Ki-moon calls “a pub-lic-health emergency inslow motion.” This time,germs aren’t the target:We are, along with ourbad habits like smoking,overeating and gettingtoo little exercise.

Next week, the UNGeneral Assembly willhold its first summit onchronic diseases — can-cer, diabetes, and heartand lung disease. Thoseaccount for nearly two-thirds of deathsworldwide, or about 36million. In the UnitedStates, they kill nearlynine out of 10 people.

“The common beliefthat cancer is a problemof rich countries is a mis-conception,” said Dr. Ed-uardo Cazap, president ofthe Union ForInternational CancerControl.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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A 290-poundman goes toWhite CastleA man is suing the White Castlechain, claiming the booths in one ofits hamburger restaurants are toosmall.

Martin Kessman says in the feder-al lawsuit filed last week that hewas embarrassed in 2009 when hetried squeezing his six-foot, 290-pound frame into the seating at aWhite Castle in New York state.

He says he slammed his knee into

a metal post under thetable and was in pain.

The lawsuitclaims therestaurantcould not ac-commodate acustomer ofKessman’sstature, in vio-

lation of theAmericans With Disabilities Act.

The suit seeks an unspecifiedfinancial judgment.

Spokesman Jamie Richardson atWhite Castle headquarters inColumbus, Ohio, says the restaurantis being replaced and that the newone will have roomier seating.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

100 ACRES OFINFIDELITY

Quick quiz: Who is the mostadmired person on Earth, liv-ing or dead? If your list startswith Martin Luther King Jr.,you get the kewpie doll. Forexample, in a recent survey of2,000 U.S. high school

students, Dr. King was No. 1 aboveBenjamin Franklin and even Oprah, theonly living admirable person who madethe list. On survey after survey he’s rightup there with Gandhi, Nelson Mandelaand Winnie the Pooh (even though he is abear of very little brain, OK?).

If your list started with Jackie Kennedy Onassis, you’reeligible for therapy. She was probably the most famouswoman of her generation, but hardly the most admired.True, as U.S. first lady, she put up with serial adultererJohn Kennedy until he was assassinated. But when shemarried Aristotle Onassis, the creepy Greek shipping mag-

nate, she became an objectof cynical disdain, especiallywhen, once widowed, shelaunched a two-year legalbattle to extract $26 millionout of Christina Onassis,Ari’s daughter and sole heir.

Here’s an ironic historicalfootnote. Recently releasedinterview tapes reveal thatwhen she was first lady,Jackie thought King was“tricky” and “phoney”because the FBI caught himwith a woman in his hotelroom.

This was before itbecame apparent that “JohnKennedy Slept Here” was awhole different story than“George Washington SleptHere.”

It’s not really fair to judgeJackie with the benefit ofhindsight, but that trickyphoney has his own nation-al holiday, Martin LutherKing boulevards in every

U.S. ‘burg and more than 10,000 (and who knows the de-gree to which his fame extends to hamlets) public schools,community centres and libraries.

Jackie has the reservoir in Central Park, although onceagain I’m being unfair. She is also memorialized in awhite gazebo in Middleburg, Va., where she often partici-pated in the bizarre practice of inducing hounds to chaseand tear apart a fox.

I’m not sure why Jackie O. was oblivious to greatness,though I harbour graceless suspicions. Give her the bene-fit of the doubt and take the “tricky phoney” talk at facevalue. After all, if he was discovered in a hotel room withanother woman in 2011, King would make an entirely dif-ferent list, along with Arnold Schwarzenegger, EliotSpitzer and the much-admired Anthony Weiner, not tomention Jackie’s husband JFK, who brought a whole newmeaning to “affairs of state.”

The times, they are a changin’. And through it all, Win-nie the Pooh remains devoted to Christopher Robin.

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Sarah JessicaParker isbest knownas CarrieBradshaw,the sharp-

tongued figurehead of Sexand the City, the long-run-ning ode to post feminismand stylish clothes. But be-fore Mr. Big and theLouboutins she was amovie star with some clas-sics — like Footloose —and some stinkers — likeDudley Do-Right — to her

credit.This weekend she’s

back on the big screen forthe first time in a non-Sexand the City movie sincethe 2009 flop Did YouHear about the Morgans?In I Don’t Know How SheDoes It she plays a versionof Carrie all grown upwith kids and a job in thefinancial sector.

It’s a far cry from herfirst big movie, Footloose.

She played Rusty, a roleParker has called the “bestfriend of the pretty girl.”

The movie and its fancyfootwork earned her aBest Young Supporting Ac-tress in a Motion Picture

Musical, Comedy, Adven-ture or Drama nomina-tion at the Sixth AnnualYouth in Film Awards.

A few forgettable filmsfollowed like Firstborn —described as a “heavy-handed suburbansitcom”— Girls Just Wantto Have Fun — called “atotal wannabe in therealm of ‘80s teenflicks”— and Flight of theNavigator, which featuresthe voice of Pee Wee Her-man as a robot.

It wasn’t until sheteamed with Steve Martinin L.A. Story that thingsstarted looking up.

In this surreal look at

life and love in Los Ange-les Parker plays SanDeE, aditzy blonde who aspiresto be a superstarspokesmodel.

“Um, it’s just a modelwho speaks,” she explains.“You know, and she pointsat things like merchan-dise, you know, like a caror washer and dryer.

Sometimes it’s some-thing really small, youknow, like, like a book orfine art print.”

The movie broke herout of the teen moviemode and displayed herdeft comic timing, whichwas put to great use inHoneymoon in Vegas op-

posite Nic Cage. A few flops later she ap-

peared in the critically ac-claimed Ed Wood withJohnny Depp.

Playing the much put-upon girlfriend of theworld’s worst director, shecalls the actors and crewof his film Bride of theMonster “the usual cast ofmisfits and dope addicts.”

Her most spectacularpre-Sex and the City role,however, is in Mars At-tacks.

In it she plays a flightytalk show host, who liter-ally becomes a talkinghead when she is behead-ed by aliens.

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SARAH’S FLIP FLOPPING MOVIE CAREER

The year 1971 was a water-shed time for new cinema.Films like A Clockwork Or-ange, Dirty Harry andStraw Dogs pushed theboundaries of what was ac-ceptable on the silverscreen. None are passivefilms.

Each brims with the ob-sessions of their makers,and for that each was thesubject of controversy andcensorship.

Eventually they becameaccepted by the main-

stream. A Clockwork Or-ange has become a cultur-al touchstone, witheveryone from Lady Gagato David Bowie to KylieMinogue, who dressed in ablack bowler hat and awhite jumpsuit on tour in2002, paying tribute.

It was even played atthe Cannes Film Festivaland released on Blu Ray tomark its 40th anniversary.Dirty Harry is on constantrotation on television andRod Lurie’s remake of theSam Peckinpah film StrawDogs hits screens thisweekend.

The movie stars James

Marsden and KateBosworth as David andAmy Sumner, a big citycouple who move back toher hometown on the Mis-sissippi Gulf Coast.

Tensions with some ofthe locals (including TrueBlood’s Alexander Skars-

gård) bubble to the surfaceand soon boil over into vio-lence.

“If you look at a movielike Straw Dogs, whichwas heavily influenced bya book called The Territori-al Imperative,” says Lurie,“Peckinpah seems to besaying that violence is inthe genetics of all men andtherefore we must beaware of it so we can con-trol it. It was extremelyfascist thinking but that al-so seems to be the thingwith Dirty Harry.

“A Clockwork Orange isa much more clinical lookat that but I think artists

were trying to provide theanswers top what societywas asking then. It was avery, very violent era.

“This was an era inwhich people were search-ing for answers to themadness that was going onaround them,” Lurie con-tinues, “and filmmakerswere trying to providesome of the answers. Youhad everything from theassassinations of Kennedyand King to Vietnam to theWhitman murders to MyLai. I think all of societywas trying to understandhow human beings coulddo such things.”

The man behind remake of Straw Dogs, Rod Lurie, speaks to Metro about its significance

Dog days of summer“This was an era inwhich people weresearching foranswers to themadness that wasgoing on aroundthem.”ROD LURIE

Drew Powell as Bic, James Marsden as David Sumner and Billy Lush as Chris star in Straw Dogs.

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Prosecutors appeal dismissal ofconspiracy counts in Anna Nicole

Smith drug case

Michelle Williamstells Vogue maga-zine in theirupcoming issuethat although lifehas settled sincethe death of herformer fiance, ac-tor Heath Ledger,it’s affected allfacets of her life. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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FALL2011

Showing hisfanboys somegeek-chic love

Morgan Spurlock went to aconvention in San Diegotwo years ago and foundhis people — geeks andfanboys, just like he is.

The director of SuperSize Me found Comic-Consuch a mecca for fans ofcomic books, superheroesand other aspects of geekculture that he felt com-pelled to make a movieabout the place.

Comic-Con Episode IV:A Fan's Hope, playing at anumber of film festivals, isa love song to the fans whojourney every year to mixwith their kind — andthose continually tellingthemselves that next year,they'll make it there them-selves.

Spurlock, who grew upreading comics and idoliz-ing Marvel Comics master-mind Stan Lee, first went

to the four-day conventionin summer 2009 to recruitfans of The Simpsons for a20th anniversary specialhe was making about theanimated TV series.

“I’m there watching thisgoing, ‘This is the greatestthing I’ve ever seen. This isamazing. This is a movie,’”Spurlock said in an inter-view over the weekend af-ter the Toronto festivalpremiere of Comic-Con.

”Later on that night iswhen I met Stan Lee at aparty and kind of justgushed to Stan, telling himhow much he changed mylife as a kid. And he said,‘We should make a movietogether. We should makea documentary about Com-ic-Con.’”

The rest, as they say, ishistory. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Super Size Me creator Spurlockembraces fans with Comic-Con doc

Morgan Spurlock speaks at The Pirates!

Band Of Misfits Panel during Comic-Con 2011.

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Susan Lucci

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Soap star lashes out at ABC Erica Kane wouldn’t leavequietly if she felt she’dbeen wronged. Neither isSusan Lucci as All My Chil-dren nears its end on ABC.

Lucci has portrayed Kaneon the drama, which airs

its last episode on ABC onSept. 23, and it’s unclearwhether she will be a partof an attempt to migratethe series online.

In a newly published epi-logue to her memoir, Lucci

Susan Lucci upset with network as TV version of All My Children comes to an endsharply criticized her ABCbosses for axing All MyChildren, which has beenon the air since 1970.

She said the decision tocancel the show was moti-vated by greed and said

the head of ABC’s daytimeunit, Brian Frons, has“that fatal combination ofignorance and arrogance.”

Frons, in cancelling AllMy Children and One Lifeto Live in April, said the

soap operas were a victimof declining interest.

He said trying to propup shows in severe declinewas like “trying to catch afalling knife.”THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Producers behind the reali-ty singing competition TheVoice have no plans toditch judge Christina Aguil-era, despite rumours thatthe singer isn’t going to bepart of the show’s second

season. “There is absolutelyno truth to the rumour,”NBC’s Paul Telegdy says inan official statement. Aguil-era is still under contractfor season two, which pre-mieres in February. METRO

Jennifer Aniston’s mom,Nancy Dow, was reported-ly hospitalized recentlyafter suffering a stroke,according to the DailyMail.

“She’s in the hospital.She’s fabulous, a very nicelady. She’s also very pri-vate,” a source says ofDow, who is said to be un-able to speak and in seri-ous condition.

Aniston reportedly vis-

ited the hospital withJustin Theroux at her side.

Aniston and Dow wereon the outs for manyyears, with the actress noteven inviting her motherto her 2000 wedding toBrad Pitt, though they re-portedly reconciled in2008.

Aniston’s rep would on-ly say that it was a privatefamily matter.

METRO

Christina Aguilera

Aniston’s momsuffers a stroke

Star reportedly visiting hermother in hospital with boyfriendJustin Theroux Actress and hermom have had rocky relationship

Christina Aguilera will staywith The Voice for Season 2

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Megan Fox is up for beinga mom, but first she needsto pad out her bank ac-count.

“I want to have chil-dren. I’ve always wantedkids,” she tells Amicamagazine.

“I have a number in mymind of what amount ofmoney I want in the bankso that I can protect my

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Eva Longoria ad-mits it’s a littletoo soon af-ter her splitfrom TonyParker tothink aboutsettling downagain.

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Canadians less green whenthey’re travelling than at

home, says eco group.

Travel in brief

Authors will be takingto the water on Sept.25 for readings at theWord on the Streetbook and magazinefestival in Halifax.The deck of CSSAcadia, the 98-year-old scientific shipparked beside theMaritime Museum ofthe Atlantic, will bethe stationary settingfor readings by StevenLaffoley and JerryLockett from theirnew, nautical books.THE CANADIAN PRESS

French food, culture await inSt. Pierre & Miquelon

The islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon offer a taste ofFrance, just a short ferry ride off the coast of Newfoundland This tiny collection of is-lands, about 25 kilometresfrom Fortune, N.L., has a to-tal population of around7,000 people. It is all thatremains of colonial NewFrance.

A former strategic landbase for the once lucrativecod fishery, the French gov-ernment now pays about$65 million a year in subsi-dies to sustain the islands— its only toehold in NorthAmerica. St. Pierre andMiquelon were returned toFrance in 1815 after severalstints of British occupation.

Today, residents speakFrench, deal in Euros andrely heavily on governmentjobs, fishing and tourism.

The smallest of the is-lands, St. Pierre, is also themost populated, withcolourful clapboard homeson tidy, winding streetsthat are home to about6,000 people. Restaurantsand bakeries bustle withforeigners in summer.

History buffs won’t wantto miss the L’Arche muse-um in the centre of town,where a guillotine similarto one used in 1889 ishoused. The eerie killingmachine is on display nextto the museum’s mainstaircase. The only soul todie by guillotine in NorthAmerica was a fisherman

convicted of murdering afishing boat captain. Hewas beheaded in St. Pierreon Aug. 24, 1889. It is saidthat local people were sodisgusted the guillotinewas never used again.

On the lighter side, visi-tors can also soak up richtales of rum-running andgangsters, as St. Pierre be-came the ideal base forbooze shipments to a verythirsty North America dur-ing Prohibition in the1920s.

In Miquelon, with a per-manent population ofabout 700 people, thechurch L’Eglise deMiquelon tells local historyin its stained glass win-dows. “It’s worth a visit be-cause it’s so beautiful,”Madeline Fitzsimmons ofHuntsville, Ont., said dur-ing a trip last month to theislands. THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Touristsmay beflocking toDrumhellerto witnessthe wealthof ancient

dinosaur bones, but anoth-er rural Alberta archaeolog-ical site is raising eyebrowsthese days.

I was just a tad appre-hensive on my way out tothe middle of nowheresomewhere near Wain-right, Alta., I think, to visitthe even smaller and evenmore out-of-the-way tiny

hamlet of Bodo. The officialpopulation base is listed at“about 27 people.” Thisplace makes Moose Jawseem like a metropolis.

Not long after arriving inthe flat, almost desert-liketerrain, I was struck by thehistory, and the uniquehands-on experience of un-covering that history.

More and more touristsare flocking here to getthere hands dirty at an an-cient Native burial ground.

Just a five-minute drivefrom the town, if you wantto call it that, is the beauti-ful and unique Bodo Sand-hills. The mosquitos werepretty unbearable, but I for-got about my 900 or so biteswhen we actually had achance to dig at a large an-cient buffalo kill site.

This is the exact areawhere First Nations people

trapped and killed theirfood, hundreds of yearsago, and all around is theevidence. Just a few inchesunder the ground are thou-sands and thousands ofwell-preserved Bison bones.

What makes Bodo sogreat is that it allows thestunned layman to at leastpretend he’s a great explor-er and famous archaeolo-gist.

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Down and dirtyin Bodo, Alberta

Other things

to do

Tee off at the Wainright

Golf Club: A great 18-holegolf course with a firstclass club house for dining. Take a day tour from Can-

more: See the Rockies instyle or take in picturesqueLake Louise.

DARREN PARKMAN

Bodo Sandhills gives visitors the chance to uncover a piece of history.

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When I first heard aboutco-operative educationprograms offered at uni-versities, I immediatelyfigured that the work-study cycle would be anexcellent way to gain ex-posure to the professionalworld.

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20 sports metronews.caWEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Short-handed in Halifax

Eight is more than enoughfor the Halifax Moose-heads.

Fans won’t get to enjoyseeing the full roster —not even close, actually —when the Mooseheadshost the Bathurst Titan onFriday night for theirhome opener at the Hali-fax Metro Centre.

Upward of eight regu-lars could be missing —five of whom are away atNHL training camps andthree due to injuries.

The injured list includesstar sniper Martin Frk, whois still recovering fromwhat the team is termingonly as an upper-body in-jury. The injury kept himout of the Mooseheads’ twogames last weekend toopen the season.

“He’s really day to day,”Mooseheads general man-ager Cam Russell said yes-terday. “We are stillhoping he can (play) forthe weekend, but we arenot sure.”

Halifax was missing sev-en regulars last weekendto open the new seasonand earned a road split —a 6-5 shootout win againstthe Prince Edward IslandRocket on Friday and a 7-3setback to the Titan thefollowing day.

In that game againstBathurst, rookie forwardRyan Falkenham sufferedwhat the team is dubbinga lower-body injury and isquestionable for the week-end.

Halifax is also home tothe Moncton Wildcats onSaturday. Both games areset for 7 p.m.

“We could be looking atfour forward affiliates forthe game to give us 20players,” Russell said ofFriday’s home opener. “It’stough that we could belooking at being downthat many players, but wewant to make sure wecome out (on Friday) andplay a high-energy game— an exciting game forthe fans.”

Martin Frk, 17, led the Halifax Mooseheads in scoring last season.

RYAN TAPLIN/METRO

Herd hope to know more todayabout Frk’s status for home opener

Won’t disclose specific injury

The Nova Scotia SeniorBaseball League playoffskick off tonight at theMainland Common fieldwith the Halifax PelhamMolson Canadians host-ing the Kentville Wild-cats.

The first pitch in Game1 of the best-of-five seriesis set for 7:30 p.m.

Halifax goes in as theseries favourite, finishingfive games ahead ofKentville for second place

in the five-team league.Each team won four timesin eight head-to-headmeetings this season.

The other best-of-five

series opens on Saturdaywith the first-place Dart-mouth Moosehead Drygoing up against theSydney Sooners in a dou-ble-header at BeazleyField.

Game 1 is set for 3p.m., with Game 2 to fol-low at 7 p.m.

In the season series,Dartmouth won all eightgames, outscoring Sydney85-16.

METRO

Canadians, Wildcatsset for playoff clash Titan battle

back for win in Moncton QMJHL. The AcadieBathurst Titan overturneda three-goal first-perioddeficit to beat theWildcats 4-3 in QuebecMajor Junior HockeyLeague action last night.The Titan scored three inthe second period andZach O’Brien scored thewinner in the third periodon a two man advantage.THE CANADIAN PRESS

Sanchez putsconcussiontalk to restNFL. Jets quarterbackMark Sanchez says he isfine after being tested fora concussion following aseason-opening win overthe Dallas Cowboys.

Sanchez acknowledgedthe tests yesterday onNew York’s 1050 ESPN Ra-dio, saying the team“checked my baselinetests and compared it tomy balance test and every-thing now.” He says hefeels good and was neverconcerned he had a con-cussion. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Sports in brief

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Missing in action

NHL training camps:

Brent Andrews (NashvillePredators)Alexandre Grenier(Vancouver Canucks)Gabriel Desjardins (TampaBay Lightning)Sawyer Hannay (Vancou-ver Canucks)Konrad Abeltschauser (SanJose Sharks)Injured:

Martin Frk (upper body)Ryan Falkenham (lowerbody)Andrew Ryan (broken ankle)

21Number of winsrecorded by the Hali-fax Pelham MolsonCanadians this seasonin 32 games.

Sports in brief

Former WorldSeries MVP MannyRamirez, whoretired this yearamid allegations ofbanned-substanceuse, is facing criminalprosecution oncharges he hit hiswife during anargument.Ramirez, 39, couldget up to a year injail if convicted ofmisdemeanour domestic-batterycharges. He was re-leased on $2,500 USbail yesterday afterspending the nightin the BrowardCounty Jail in FortLauderdale, Fla.

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Boston bats come upbig against Blue JaysTim Wakefield earned his200th win on his eighth try,Dustin Pedroia hit twohomers in Boston’s highest-scoring game of the seasonand the Red Sox ended afive-game losing streakwith an 18-6 rout of theToronto Blue Jays last night.

The Red Sox needed thevictory badly after their ALwild-card lead over TampaBay had dropped from ninegames to three over theprevious nine days. And the45-year-old knuckleballerwas eager to end the longwait — 0-3 in seven outingssince his last win July 24 —

to become the 108th pitch-er with 200 wins.

Wakefield (7-6) went sixinnings and overcame a

shaky outing to retire his fi-nal six batters. He left witha 6-5 lead after allowing sixhits and two walks. Hestruck out two.

The crowd at FenwayPark clapped and chanted“Wakefield! Wakefield!” asJunichi Tazawa pitched theninth for Boston, whichmoved four games in frontof the Rays. Tampa Bay lost4-2 at Baltimore.

The Red Sox added totheir cushion with fourruns in the sixth on a dou-ble by Carl Crawford, anRBI single by Jarrod Saltala-macchia, a single by Jacoby

Ellsbury and a three-runhomer by Pedroia, his 20thof the year.

Pedroia, who tied his ca-reer high with five RBIs, al-so was on the tail end ofconsecutive homers withEllsbury in the fourth.

Pedroia went 4-for-5with two homers, two dou-bles and a sacrifice fly aftergoing 3-for-31 on the roadtrip that ended Sundaywith Boston losing six ofseven games. Ellsbury alsohad four hits and Crawfordhad three as Boston fin-ished with 18.THE CANADIAN PRESS

Slumping Red Sox lay beating on Toronto Pad wild-card lead over Rays

Boston’s Dustin Pedroia rounds the bases after a home run off of Toronto starting pitcher Brandon Morrow last night.

WINSLOW TOWNSON/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Novak Djokovic is rankedNo. 1 and is 64-2 in 2011,and sees room for improve-ment.

He won three of fourGrand Slam titles this year— the Australian Open,Wimbledon and U.S. Open— and is talking aboutadding to his collection.

“There is a lot more toprove, a lot more tourna-ments to win,” Djokovictold reporters at the EmpireState Building yesterday, aday after he beat RafaelNadal in the U.S. Open final.

And that’s not all:Djokovic gained plenty ofattention for his spot-on im-personations of other play-ers (Nadal, Andy Roddickand Maria Sharapova,among others), and now hewants to pursue acting.

“Yeah. Why not? I mightdo something if I have timesoon. And I would like to. Ijust think show business is

something that attractsme,” he said.

He’s is doing pretty wellat his day job, putting to-gether what seven-time ma-jor champion JohnMcEnroe called “the great-est year in the history of oursport, there’s no doubtabout it.”

McEnroe, by the way,went 82-3 in 1984.

As impressive asDjokovic’s overall record is,what’s even more indicativeof exactly how well he’splaying is that he is 10-1against Nadal and RogerFederer this season.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Already atop theworld of tennis,Djokovic aims higher

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What’s now being served up is a 6.4-litre Hemithat produces 470 horsepower and 470 pound-feet of torque.

What’s more, a significant amount of thattorque kicks in below the 3,000-r.p.m. range tohelp enhance the car’s off-the-line scoot.

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Hustle and (gas) flowThe SRT’s development team will brag that thechunky 1,985-kilogram Charger can hustle to60 m.p.h. (96 km/h) from a dead stop in “thehigh four-second range” and is capable of a 280km/h top speed.

To try to keep the SRT8’s premium-gas habitwithin an acceptable range, the engine usesChrysler’s latest deactivation technology thatcuts out half the cylinders over a wider r.p.m.range for an estimated 25 per cent increase inhighway fuel economy (8.0 l/100 km, est.).

Brembo brakesPerhaps the most obvious SRT8 feature isits very distinctive 20-inch (and nine-inch-wide) polished aluminum wheelsthat really set this beast apart frommainstream Chargers.

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Ford TaurusSHOBase price: $49,800Ford’s twin-turbocharged V-6 is100-plus hp short, butgood fuel economy.

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