pro hockey career financed by cash-strapped fam- ily back home in Russia, Artem Gav- rilov’s options had run out. Deeply in debt to the Shelburne Red Wings Junior A team where he plays and unable to legally work and earn money in Canada, the 19-year-old was on the cusp of returning to Russia to play in Siberia. Then, a lucky break. On Tuesday, three days after the Star published a story about Gavrilov and his 18 Russian teammates on the Shel- burne Red Wings, an Ontario lawyer who wishes to remain anonymous committed to wiping out Gavri- lov’s $3,500 debt to the Red Wings. Dozens more people from across southern Ontario and as far away as Chicago have also come forward in the past week to pledge their financial sup- port to Gavrilov and other Russian boys struggling to plant the seeds of a hockey life in Canada. The Detroit Red Wings Alumni Asso- ciation has contacted the hockey club asking how they can help. One of Rus- sia’s biggest television networks is planning a trip to Shelburne later this month to report on the story. “It has solved my problems,” Gavrilov said with a smile in his adopted lan- guage. “I want to stay in Canada.” Shelburne’s mayor said Thursday he is calling for a public meeting with Hockey Canada next month to ac- count for rigid rules that outlaw the Red Wings and the league they play in —the Greater Metro Hockey League — for having foreign players. Getting away with silence FULL INDEX PAGE A2 Store and Box Saturday price $2.50 including tax (higher outside the GTA) CLOUDY. HIGH 2C (WEATHER MAP ON S10) H thestar.com H SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2010 STAR EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH JUSTINBIEBER THE TRUTH BEHIND HIS LOVABLE LOOKS, LOCKS AND LOVES, E1 Much needs to be said before John Cooper has surgery to remove a portion of his liver. He and wife Deb say it all with their hands. BERNARD WEIL/TORONTO STAR Why I gave my liver to a stranger The extraordinary story of one man’s selfless gift, and the unique team of Toronto doctors who made it happen. Megan Ogilvie’s exclusive report begins on page IN1. UNCOMMON GIFT VANCOUVER—Generous Canadian spirit has re- vived an Afghan schoolgirl’s dying dream. Roya Shams, 16, had her heart set on continuing her education over an Internet link from Kanda- har, in insurgency-wracked southern Afghani- stan, to Canada. But funding ran out after she completed a course in civics and passed the exam. She had sailed over the first hurdle on the rough road to a career in politics, only to stumble be- cause she couldn’t find $500 for tuition and books. When the Toronto Star’sInsight section reported last month that Roya’s hopes were fading fast, dozens of readers rallied to help her stay in school. Almost 100 donors gave more than $7,000 to the Canadian International Learning Foundation, which supports Roya and hundreds more Afghan students, said agency president Ryan Aldred. PAUL WATSON STAFF REPORTER ROYA continued on A32 Afghan girl receives funding to continue studying civics HAITI’S TORMENT CONTINUES AS ELECTION RIOTS TURN DEADLY, A35 When he is finally allowed up off the ground after being stomped and pum- meled by cops, Adam Nobody appears to have suffered no significant facial injuries — at least none that show. There isn’t any blood, nary evidence of wounds, and the nose — which Nobody suspects was snapped during that pile-on melee — is exactly where it’s supposed to be. The outward evidence is fairly clear on a piece of footage given to the Star this week. Those images — a handcuffed No- body being led out of camera range by uniformed officers, in the process of being arrested last June 26, not a drop of blood on him — support the 27- year-old’s formal complaint that he was immediately afterwards sub- jected to another vicious beating by a couple of plainclothes detectives behind two parked police vans. After this second purported assault, Nobody’s face was left bloodied, he says, his cheekbone shattered. Within a week, he would undergo surgery to repair the damage. Over the 31hours that Nobody spent in custody — including about 13 hours when officers accompanied him to Toronto East General Hospital, where he underwent a CAT scan while still bound at the wrists and ankles — he was never out of police sight. He was their responsibility. ANSWER. THE. QUESTIONS. ROSIE DIMANNO STAR COLUMNIST DIMANNO continued on A2 G20 undercover officers should be held accountable Pill bugs. They get their name from the way they roll into a ball when bothered. The little creatures lurk under flowerpots and when you poke at them, they curl up to protect their soft vulnerable underside. Pill bugs is the most flattering analogy I can come up with for the Belleville police, the OPP and the province who are consistently blocking Star inquiries into the mistakes the police made as they searched for Jessica Lloyd even as Russell Williams was keeping her prisoner. The polite phrasing is usually “the police are circling the wagons.” But I can’t be polite. I lie awake at night and think of Lloyd’s duct-taped corpse lying in the cold silent white woods where Williams dumped it, and I think of the debt of honesty we owe to that good brave woman whose foremost thought was of her family’s distress. HEATHER MALLICK STAR COLUMNIST MALLICK continued on A18 THIN BLUE LINE STAR GETS ACTION ON0ON0V2 ROBERT CRIBB SPORTS REPORTER Saved from Siberia Your generosity fuels their dreams Russian hockey player can still compete in Canada HOCKEY continued on A32 Artem Gavrilov Tonight’s Jackpot $7,000,000 $7,000,000 estimated
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