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BREAKING NEWS AT0nAWACITIZEN.COM THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 2009 MAINLY SUNNY, HIGH 23 Ottawa, gjitu. MZ5MMMM KNOCKOUT Local founder of Prairie Oyster twists the throttle, talks music ARTS, El Ex-boxer Buster Douglas co-writes barbecue book FOOD LIFE, Fl 7M Trrr7riir ssl i iSSlI D'V'SION CANWEST PUBLlf jf 1 urn ill! urtii i-MiwwBiiiBiirinirriiiii -7aiiaitittitfiiaMMiiMiiii w' 0 lii iiinri A I OUCM Randy Hillier: Rural rebel to Conservative kingmaker Tax breaks key to Canadian retirement plans: poll jiff iWWBWPBawiBllliBBPWiWBWWmg! i 'Era of greater personal responsibility' has arrived BY SHANNON PROUDFOOT Almost half of Canadians think the best way the government can support aging people planning for their retirement is to give them tax breaks and to allow them to look after themselves. HSBC Insurance, the company behind the Future of Retirement report released Wednesday, declares that an "era of greater personal responsibility" has arrived. "They realize there's nobody around offering a hand," says Susan Eng, vice-president of advocacy for CARP, a group representing older Canadians. "Some people are going to throw themselves in front of a streetcar, but most people in our generation are saying, 'OK, we're going to have to do something about that'." The survey included 15,000 respondents aged 30 to 70 from 15 countries, including Canada, the U.S., Britain, France and China.

Forty-eight per cent of Canadians said the best way for the government to support financing an aging population is to encourage more private savings through tax relief on savings. That was significantly higher than the 31 per cent of international respondents who endorsed the idea. Financial experts say possibly the only silver lining to the recession is that it's spooked people into paying attention to their non-existent retirement plans, building up savings and watching credit. See RETIREMENT on A10 DAVH KAWAI, THE OTTAWA CITIZEN MPP Randy Hillier, shown above at Wednesday night's PC leadership debate at the University of Ottawa, was once dismissed as a radical by some members of his own party. Now he's a man whose support is being sought by opponents Christine Elliott, Frank Klees and Tim Hudak.

'Randy's saying a lot of things people like to hear' BY LEE GREENBERG Hillier's demand to abolish the province's Human Rights Commission. That pledge has become a defining issue of the campaign, after centrist candidate Christine Elliott, the spouse of federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, compared it to the party's doomed promise to fund religious schools. See HILLIER on PAGE A6 DEBATE: Progressive Conservative candidates square off in Ottawa, A6 Hillier was dismissed as a libertarian radical and quietly jeered by some members of his own party when he captured the Tory nomination in Lanark-Frontenac-Lennox and Addington in 2007. Now in the race to succeed John Tory, he is a man whose support is being courted by all three of his opponents. Hillier's influence was on full display at a leadership debate in London, where he was showered with attention by each of his three opponents.

"I side absolutely with my colleague Randy Hillier on this one," beamed MPP Frank Klees, in one variation of a repeated endorsement. The focus on Hillier, which the candidate laughs off as unaccustomed flattery, has at times been more subtle. Tim Hudak, the early frontrunner in the campaign (endorsed by half his 24 caucus colleagues and backed by former premier Mike Harris) adopted TORONTO An unlikely kingmaker has emerged in the race for the leadership of Ontario's Progressive Conservative party. Randy Hillier, an Ottawa-born electrician who, in 2003, tapped into a reservoir of rural resentment when he formed the Lanark (later Ontario) Landowners Association, was until recently considered the ultimate political outsider. SPORTS Developers fuming as city council limits urban expansion in narrow vote Hey, science fans, there's a new element in town No.

112 is, for now, the Metal with No Name BY JAKE RUPERT BY TOM SPEARS cur; in the face of a heavy lobbying by the development community, a limited expansion was deemed a success. "That's a victory," said a beaming Bay Councillor Alex Cullen. "I think we did a good job today," Hume said after the vote. "We were trying to strike a good balance." Orleans Councillor Bob Monette, like 10 others, wanted a larger expansion for several reasons. He predicted the city will now face a flurry of legal action by developers at the Ontario Municipal Board, which can overturn city planning decisions.

See EXPANSION on PAGE A2 222 hectares connecting Kanata and Stittsville for new construction This motion was put forward by Councillor Peter Hume, chairman of city council's planning committee, and it came after an attempt by Somerset Councillor Diane Holmes to freeze the suburban boundary failed by a vote of 10-13. Capital Councillor Clive Doucet and Hume turned to each other after the 12 to 11 vote, grinning, and shook hands. They had been working hard to secure a full freezing of the suburban boundary, outside which major development is not supposed to oc Several members of the development community left City Hall angry and threatening lawsuits Wednesday after council rejected their bids to have Ottawa's suburban boundary expanded to lands they want to build subdivisions on. City staff had recommended an 842-hectare expansion of the suburbs onto rural land, a 2.4-per-cent increase in the size of the built-up city, and the developers were pushing for more than 2,000 hectares to be approved for suburban expansion. However, by a vote of 12-u, city council approved only covered it to propose a name.

There's a temporary label ununbium, or Uub for short and an atomic weight of 277, the heaviest of any known element in the universe. That's about 277 times heavier than hydrogen, the lightest element. Elements are materials that can exist as single atoms oxygen, carbon, iron, gold, and so on. Element 112 is created by mashing together the nuclei of two other metals that are heavy to start with, so that they fuse together briefly. See METAL on PAGE A10 Wffiillini HIT II B1IT011 10 1 111' Warning to anyone writing a chemistry exam this month: The Periodic Table just got a new element.

For now, element 112 is the Metal with No Name, probably grey or silver, but not a material that you'll find in cars or iPods anytime soon. It's too unstable to leave the lab, with atoms that fall apart in just a few minutes. Still, it exists officially: The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry said so Wednesday, asking the team in Germany who dis There's no turning back for Heatley 'We've already walked that player's agent says of the possibility his differences with the Senators can be solved, Bl INDEX TODAY'S WEATHER Mainly sunny. High 23, low 15. Sunrise: 5:14 a.m.

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