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Team Canada
2010 will be led
by Sidney Crosby.
So why won’t they
let him wear the ‘C’?
THE KID The Star’s Damien Cox
GROWS UP explains from Calgary. S1
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Olympics push army over edge
STAR EXCLUSIVE ALLAN WOODS
OTTAWA BUREAU
Guarding 2010 Games OTTAWA—Canada is considering
outsourcing military work in Af-
and G8 summit means ghanistan and pulling soldiers from
compromises elsewhere low-profile foreign missions to re-
lieve the pressure of fighting in
— even in Afghanistan, Kandahar, guarding the 2010
Olympics and protecting world
defence documents say leaders in Muskoka.
According to documents obtained
by the Toronto Star, more than
32,000 military personnel — about
COP STAR Craig Bromell, the controversial Toronto street cop who became
a controversial union boss, inspires police drama on the small screen
Former Toronto police union president Craig Bromell chats with actress Ona Grauer yesterday on the Queens Quay set of The Bridge. The CTV-CBS show,
set to air late this year or early next year, is loosely based on Bromell’s career as a cop. Bromell, who was once accused of beating up a homeless man, is
executive producer of the show, which is about police officers “serving justice,” sometimes through less than entirely legal means. See story on GT1
THE GREEN HEREAFTER
Jackson’s overdose death
Leaving no mark when your time comes a homicide, coroner rules
Eco-friendly burial ground in Cobourg lets deceased
rest in biodegradable boxes in unspoiled meadow
CAROLA VYHNAK planet after death.
URBAN AFFAIRS REPORTER That means putting nothing in the
COBOURG—A simple wooden box. A body or ground that isn’t harmless
grave dug by hand. Wildflowers to and biodegradable, doing nothing
mark the spot. after burial to disturb the ecosys-
When it comes time to leave this tem and doing everything possible
world, you can’t go any greener to save energy.
than that. “We’ll go that extra step of digging
Cobourg Union Cemetery has by hand if we can,” says superin-
opened what is believed to be On- tendent Michel Cabardos. “We’re
tario’s first truly eco-friendly burial as green as green can be.”
ground. Now people for whom en- Set in a quiet corner alongside a
vironmental consciousness is a way creek an hour east of Toronto, the
of life can do their part to save the site is a meadow of about half a
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half the entire Canadian Forces —
will be in training or set to deploy
on missions to Kandahar, the Van-
couver Olympics and next sum-
mer’s G8 meeting in Huntsville be-
tween now and July 2010.
That staffing burden makes it im-
possible to carry on current opera-
tions and still respond to the week-
ly requests for Canadian soldiers
from the Americans, NATO and the
United Nations, the military says.
The defence department has la-
hectare dotted with trees, where
machines, monuments and mani-
cured lawns are prohibited. Hand-
picking the “bad weeds” replaces
pesticides, but that’s it for mainte-
nance.
Other cemeteries offer green buri-
als, Cabardos says, “but where we
differ is what happens after.”
No markers, headstones or con-
crete vaults are permitted, but fam-
ily members may plant native wild-
flowers or a shrub at the grave.
A small commemorative plaque
may also be placed on one of several
fieldstones scattered around the
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belled the problem “Personnel
Crunch 2010.”
“We . . . are now at the point where
some requests that would seem to
be minor (e.g., for only a few per-
sonnel) are, in reality, difficult to
source initially and impossible to
sustain over the 2010 timeframe,”
says a March 17 memorandum to
chief of defence staff Gen. Walter
Natynczyk.
Already military officials are con-
sidering passing some signature
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THOMAS WATKINS
ASSOCIATED PRESS
LOS ANGELES—Michael Jackson’s
death has been ruled a homicide, a
law enforcement official says, a
finding that makes it more
likely criminal charges will
be filed against the doctor
who was with the pop star
when he died.
The Los Angeles County
coroner determined a fa-
tal combination of the
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work in Afghanistan, such as the
operation of a military college for
Afghan army officers, to civilian
contractors or retired soldiers.
Canadian soldiers in Kandahar
will also be ordered to train and
mentor additional Afghan army
battalions on the front lines with-
out more troops, say the docu-
ments, obtained under the Access
to Information Act.
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U.S. probes
‘inhumane’
CIA tactics
under Bush
MITCH POTTER
WASHINGTON BUREAU
WASHINGTON—After months of urg-
ing Americans to put the contro-
versial handling of terror suspects
behind them, President Barack
Obama signalled yesterday his gov-
ernment will investigate the abuse
of detainees under the Bush admin-
istration.
In a series of decisions coinciding
with the court-ordered release of
hundreds of pages of previously
classified details about the CIA’s
“unauthorized, improvised, inhu-
mane” interrogation techniques —
including threats to kill the chil-
dren of one detainee and implying
the mother of another would be
sexually assaulted — the White
House announced:
1 It will stand aside as the U.S. Jus-
tice Department launches a special
criminal investigation into whether
CIA interrogators went too far in
grilling top Al Qaeda suspects cap-
tured after the attacks of 9/11.
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder
appointed John Durham, a career
prosecutor who previously investi-
gated the destruction of CIA vid-
eotapes of interrogations, to review
whether CIA officials and the agen-
cy’s private contractors should be
prosecuted.
1 The administration will create an
elite multi-agency interrogation
team, answering not only to the
CIA but also the FBI, the National
Security Council and, ultimately,
the White House. The new High
Value Detainee Interrogation
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powerful anesthetic propofol and
at least two sedatives was given to
Jackson hours before he died June
25 in his Los Angeles mansion, ac-
cording to the official.
Dr. Conrad Murray, a Las
Vegas cardiologist who
became Jackson’s per-
sonal physician weeks
before his death, is the
target of a manslaughter
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