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24VAN_p001_0510 5/9/07 7:31 PM Page 1 VANCOUVER THURSDAY MAY 10 2007 VOL. 3 N˚27 TODAY 15˚ ➤ PEOPLE ➤ SPORTS Cruz in control Decision time Penelope A fully Cruz is clothed apparently B-Mac has a going Lenny look at what Kravitz’s the Canucks way these need to days. succeed. 24hrs.ca P. 2 P. 20 MLA pay shocker Report altered while panel member out of the country: Story, P. 3 Proprietor and Publisher: Sun Media Corporation and The Jim Pattison Group 1070 SE Marine Drive, Vancouver, BC, V5X 2V4 24VAN_p002_0510 5/9/07 5:47 PM Page 2 2 MAY 10, 2007 • 24 HOURS people in the news GOOD Bloom’s secret MORNING! love search Orlando Bloom is looking for love on the Internet. The handsome actor is worried most women are only interested in his fame and fortune, so to test their intentions he is using a friend’s name and photograph to set up a profile on networking service Face- book.com. Orlando is reported as say- ing: “It’s difficult sometimes to know whether girls like me, or the guy they see in Pirates of the Caribbean. This way I can get to know them from behind a disguise.” The 30-year-old actor plans to get to know prospec- tive dates by chatting online, before arranging to meet them in person. Orlando recently revealed he is des- perate to find his perfect woman and Answer on the bottom start a family. The actor, who ended a of the Crossword Page. four-year relationship with Superman Returns star Kate Bosworth, is on the look out for ‘Miss Right’”. He said: “I’d like to live a proper family life – with a GIMME partner and kids. That’s what it’s all about, isn’t it? I’ve had a crazy life, in FIVE many ways, and I realise now I want someone to share it with.” - 24 hours news services PENELOPE CRUZ FACTS Spears’ Monroe duet Cruz dating Kravitz? 1. DOB: April 28, Britney Spears is set to sing a duet with the late Marilyn 1974 Penelope Cruz is dating rocker Lenny Kravitz, it has been Monroe, reports Bang Media. The troubled star plans to reported. The Volver beauty – who has been romantically boost her ailing career by performing with the movie icon 2. POB: Madrid, Spain linked to Orlando Bloom and Josh Hartnett this year – – who died more than four decades ago – on a previ- celebrated her 33rd birthday on April 28 with Kravitz at New ously unreleased Marilyn song called “Down Boy.” 3. Birth Name: York’s Beatrice Inn. She then continued to party at the rocker’s Lance Bass, 28, a former member of Britney’s ex-lover Justin Timberlake’s band Penélope Cruz Sánchez TriBeCa apartment, reports Bang Media. A source told the *NSYNC, has reportedly secured the rights to the song and thinks it would be New York Post newspaper: “Penelope is due in Europe to do a perfect for Britney. A source told Britain’s Daily Star newspaper: “Lance wants 4. Nicknames: fashion shoot for Mango clothing but she keeps postponing it to Britney to sing with Marilyn on the track, like Natalie Cole did on “Unforgettable” Madonna of Madrid, join Lenny on his tour. They’ve been friends for a long time.” A with her dad Nat King Cole.” Plans are already in place for Brit to don a platinum Pen representative for Cruz said: “I don’t comment on my client’s Marilyn-esque wig and dress like the glamour icon, when they shoot the video. personal life.” - 24 hours news services 5. Height: 5’ 5 1/2” - 24 hours news services Bachelor ONLINE Anderson’s baby wish spoiler POLL Pamela Anderson wants to have another alert! Who do you think baby, reports Bang Media. The 39-year- is/was more talented old actress, who recently visited a Russian If you don’t want to know who wins orphanage, has revealed she is ready to this season of The Bachelor, stop Britney Spears or extend her family now that she is dating right now. Naval officer Andy Bald- Marilyn Monroe? San Diego Chargers American footballer win has narrowed the field of David Binn. And Pammie – who has two women down to three lucky ladies, Spears sons, Dylan and Brandon, from her failed but one contestant, Tessa, 26, a Monroe marriage to rocker Tommy Lee – hasn’t ruled social worker from San Francisco, out adoption. She told Britain’s OK! had a few drinks the other night magazine: “Would I be ready to adopt a and spilled the beans to a Page WEDNESDAY’S QUESTION child? I’m not saying it’s impossible. I have Six spy. Tessa admitted she has Do you think my two boys and it would just be so won the competition and Baldwin’s K-Fed should amazing to make one more kid happy in heart, reports Page Six. “Appar- be sterilized? this life. David loves kids, he is very strong ently he proposes and she de- Yes: 86% and at the same time very tender and I clines, but they are still very much No: 14% just love it.” together.” A rep for the show didn’t - 24 hours news services return calls. www.24hrs.ca - 24 hours news services 24VAN_p003_0510 5/9/07 7:29 PM Page 3 up front 24 HOURS • MAY 10, 2007 3 MLA PAY AND PENSION local news Panel far from unanimous IN BRIEF ■ AT LARGE One of the members of the that [fellow commissioners] Sue had agreed to finalize their rec- Robinson went on to add, “I The three suspects of independent commission on MLA [Paish] and Joe [Wood] preferred,” ommendations before she left. was okay with us not being unan- an armed home inva- compensation “has quite a few” Robinson said. “I was looking to “We worked right up to that imous. And I had said [before sion in Richmond led disagreements with the panel’s keep it at 20 per cent of salary deadline. It was a bit of work – leaving for Europe], if we don’t police on a car chase now controversial pay-and-pen- per year on the employer side. ’cause we didn’t all see eye to go that route, I’ll write a dissent. through Coquitlam, sion plan recommendations. And And the plan they have is 34 per eye. But we negotiated out a set So there was ample opportunity Maple Ridge and Mis- she noted alterations were made cent currently. I also wanted there of recommendations and signed for us to have conflicting opin- sion before abandon- when she was out of the country. to be constraints on the amount of off on those,” Robinson said. ions. But, because we had reached ing the car and fleeing In an exclusive interview with the employer contribution … to “And, then, it was only after I agreement and I was convinced on foot just before mid- 24 hours, Sandra Robinson, a protect the taxpayers.” was in Europe that they changed that we were unanimous, I left night Tuesday. One respected UBC business professor Even more surprising, though, their minds and came up with a comfortably to Europe.” suspect swam into a said she was specifically con- is the fact the commission different set” of recommenda- Robinson said she was willing river and was caught cerned about the “type and actual appears to have changed its tions. “So, yeah, to be completely to write a dissenting report. on a small island, but size” of the pension plan being recommendations while she was left out – to have no influence on Robinson later attempted to the other two remain at recommended. out of country. the outcome – was certainly frus- retract her on-the-record state- large. “I would have been comfort- Robinson said she had a “long- trating.” ments, which were recorded in a able with a smaller employer ago committed” obligation to “I was just told – via e-mail – taped interview. ■ DOG BITE contribution [rather] than the one teach in Europe, and the panel they would be doing that.” - Sean Holman, 24 hours A six-year-old Surrey girl was sent to hospital BASI-VIRK TRIAL North Shore early Tuesday evening RCMP Cpl. after a Rottweiller bit Ross Genge her and severed her had a show- ear. The owner of the Judge scolds dog and family friend of and-tell after an investiga- the victim has agreed tion netted a to have the 13-year-old prosecution large amount dog put down. No of cash, credit charges are expected. An angry judge criticized missing evidence in card blanks, the B.C. Legislature raid case as the defence technology ■ RESCUED pressed the prosecution for additional documents to steal Three men were res- related to alleged B.C. Liberal Party media personal cued from Crawfish manipulation and dirty tricks. information, Lake on Nootka Island Justice Elizabeth Bennett interjected several various yesterday after their weapons and times as Special Prosecutor Andrea MacKay floatplane sustained drugs, among attempted to explain why several documents other items. damage during take-off and the flight was cut were neither disclosed to the defence nor - Rob Kruyt identified on a “not disclosed” list. short. The victims start- “The concern is that despite checks and ed a fire on the beach, balances, a number of documents have gone and were easily spot- missing in this case,” Bennett said. Card scam busted ted by 19 Wing Comox Kevin McCullough, lawyer for former provin- rescue crews. cial ministerial aide Bob Virk, argued that “media North Vancouver police have shut down a speedboat, all believed to have been monitoring” contracts between the B.C.