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… I love American films, particularly their fantasy films like Lord of the Rings or Schindler’s List,” the character began, part of an amusing but sometimes tired catalogue of Hollywood jokes (Mel Gibson is head of Wadiya’s Holocaust Denial Institute). At one stage, Aladeen said that he doesn’t rely on CGI effects, but he seemed to be stumbling — as an African dictator might — over the acronym. I heard a question mark after CGI.
“Yes, CGI,” I said helpfully. “I don’t need you to say yes, thank you,” Admiral General Aladeen told me
At the end of his answer, I found myself still standing at the microphone, grinning uselessly.
“You are going to stand there all day?,” said Aladeen. “Go.”
Baron Cohen answered questions for half an hour, flirting with the more attractive female journalists and insulting an Israeli who tried to sneak in a second question (“This is why people don’t like the Israelis.”) Then he left, giving a shout-out to our short but fruitful interaction.
“You may enjoy the prostitutes we brought in,” he told the journalists. “Or the boys if you like, if you are from Canada.”

See the full article from “Canada.com (blog)”

Consider the depth of character and background revealed in this passage about Iseult Wilkins, Joe O’Brien’s future wife: “When Iseult was twenty, her beloved father — a scholar by temperament, a mill owner by inheritance, a New England gentleman of the old school — had killed himself.
“He’d never had to struggle with anything other than his own disposition and native sorrow, but it had been too much for him all the same.”
We learn more of Iseult in these terse lines: “Iseult had never been good at developing sustaining friendships with other young women.
“At boarding school in New York City, most of her classmates were from large Catholic families and accustomed to layered networks of relationships, easy habits of intimacy. As the only child of older parents, she was not.”
Behrens brilliant description is often accomplished with a single phrase.
When Iseult accompanies a nun on her weekly mission to comfort the poor, the nun speaks to a German prostitute, Flossie, who is jailed after stabbing a man the night before.

See the full article from “Fenceviewer”

… Recruiters for gangs, their full-time job is to go out and recruit people â young adults and vulnerable individuals and whoever they can find â to do their dirty business. They are targeting youth. Theyâre flashing clothes, flashing money [to attract them],â Gill said.
In February, Gill introduced Bill C-394, the Criminal Organization Recruitment Act into parliament which if enacted would make it a crime â punishable by up to five years in jail â to recruit, solicit or encourage anyone to join a gang. This week Justice Minister Rob Nicholson announced that the Conservative government would back the bill. The bill had a second reading on Tuesday.
The legislation could deter gangs from recruiting, but educational programs for children are just as important, said Const. Ian MacDonald of the Abbotsford Police, which led a successful anti-gang poster campaign directed at elementary and high school age students. The posters featured such images as a hearse and casket with the caption, âœYou canât pimp this ride.â

See the full article from “Vancouver Sun”

… When you listen to a record that I made, it’s like being plugged into my brain,” says McGrath, via a friend’s cellphone, on the streets of Toronto. “Except for drums, I play everything on it and do all of the overdubs. The record is literally my mind.”
What’s on this young Canadian’s mind? Booze, the pain of love, “what makes Canadian music what it is,” and how songs and sporting events can link fans from coast to coast. For starters.
“Teardrop on the Sun”, a lonely acoustic number, was written while McGrath “was drunk as hell in Amsterdam’s Red Light district.” “Signals,” a shuddery rocker, is a Canadian version of The Replacements’ ode to radio, “Left of the Dial”, while the equally anthemic title track was inspired by the men’s gold-medal hockey win at the Vancouver Olympics.

See the full article from “The Province”

According to Fleury, James also recognized a vulnerability that would be easy to exploit. Fleury recounts with a frank, matter-of-fact delivery that he repeatedly fought off the man’s advances until he could no longer do so.
“All I ever wanted was somebody who was an adult to come and rescue me,” he says in the film.
All this is also detailed in his bestselling book, “Playing with Fire,” co-written by Kirstie McLellan Day, Larry Day’s wife.
She appears throughout the film to help outline Fleury’s meteoric rise to superstardom in 1989, the year he joined the Calgary Flames and the year they won the Stanley Cup.
But success brought out an increasingly self-destructive streak in Fleury. Flush with cash, he was able to indulge his proclivity to drink, take drugs, gamble and seek comfort in strippers. These vices dogged him when he joined the New York Rangers, and later, the Chicago Blackhawks.

See the full article from “MetroNews Canada”

… Recruiters for gangs, their full-time job is to go out and recruit people – young adults and vulnerable individuals and whoever they can find – to do their dirty business. They are targeting youth. They’re flashing clothes, flashing money [to attract them],” Gill said.
In February, Gill introduced Bill C-394, the Criminal Organization Recruitment Act, into Parliament which if enacted would make it a crime – punishable by up to five years in jail – to recruit, solicit or encourage anyone to join a gang. This week Justice Minister Rob Nicholson announced that the Conservative government would back the bill. The bill had a second reading on Tuesday.
The legislation could deter gangs from recruiting, but educational programs for children are just as important, said Const. Ian MacDonald of the Abbotsford police, which led a successful anti-gang poster campaign directed at elementary and high school age students. The posters featured such images as a hearse and casket with the caption, “You can’t pimp this ride.”

See the full article from “Vancouver Sun”

… When you listen to a record that I made, it’s like being plugged into my brain,” says McGrath, via a friend’s cellphone, on the streets of Toronto. “Except for drums, I play everything on it and do all of the overdubs. The record is literally my mind.”
What’s on this young Canadian’s mind? Booze, the pain of love, “what makes Canadian music what it is,” and how songs and sporting events can link fans from coast to coast. For starters.
“Teardrop on the Sun”, a lonely acoustic number, was written while McGrath “was drunk as hell in Amsterdam’s Red Light district.” “Signals,” a shuddery rocker, is a Canadian version of The Replacements’ ode to radio, “Left of the Dial”, while the equally anthemic title track was inspired by the men’s gold-medal hockey win at the Vancouver Olympics.

See the full article from “The Province”

Peel Det. Dan Johnstone, then with the homicide squad and in charge of the probe into Alevizos’ murder, said in a 2009 interview “it’s not a secret that (Bravo) was convicted of conspiracy to kill Big Gus.
“It’d be quite transparent to anyone in law enforcement … that (Bravo) would be a person of interest in the murder of Constantin Alevizos,” Johnstone said.
According to federal court documents, Bravo was born in Spain on Dec. 23, 1956, and moved to Canada when he was a young child.
His extensive criminal record begins in 1975 and ends with conspiracy to commit murder and to import a tonne of cocaine. Along the way, he was convicted of manslaughter in the death of his stripper girlfriend and of conspiring while in jail to import eight kilos of hash oil from Jamaica.

See the full article from “Toronto Sun”

According to the festival’s web site, the award “honors the strongest new international film or video.”  Shot in black and white, the film tells the stories of treasure hunters and Florentina, whose father wants to turn her into a prostitute. The jury described the film as “beautiful… sad… a portrait of bare life and suffering… it shows why cinema remains important.” Bayani San Diego Jr.

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Girl’s guardians plead guilty to 2nd-degree murder; get life in prison
1 May 2012, Canadian Press
TORONTO – The guardians of a Toronto girl have been sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 15 years after pleading guilty to second-degree murder in her death.
Seven-year-old Katelynn Sampson died in 2008 with 70 injuries found on her body, in a case that drew outrage.
Police say Warren Johnson, 50, and Donna Irving, 33, beat the girl for months until she went into septic shock.
It was later revealed a family court judge had granted custody of the child to Irving, despite her criminal convictions for prostitution, drugs and violence.
Advocates at the time argued that a number of points of protection had failed Katelynn.
The province has since made changes requiring guardians applying for custody who are not parents to provide a police background check as part of their application.

See the full article from “TheTyee.ca”