The jury was sequestered inside the courtroom for about two-and-a-half hours after receiving its charge earlier today, but did not release recommendations on how to prevent future incidents.

Deliberations are expected to resume early Friday.

Earlier today, the jury heard testimony from Dr. John Mowatt, a critical care doctor at the Saint John Regional Hospital, who was on duty when Wang arrived at the emergency department.

Mowatt told the jury Wang was send for a CAT scan which showed no neck injuries, but severe brain damage which led to Wang’s death.

Wang died in September 2011 of injuries sustained during a public swim session at the Canada Games Aquatic Centre.

Jurors sided with the real estate mogul-turned-TV showman in a weeklong civil trial focused on Jacqueline Goldberg’s claim that Trump cheated her in a condo bait-and-switch scheme.

The federal jury in Chicago returned with a finding in Trump’s favour. Goldberg, of Evanston, had sought various damages totalling around $6 million.

Goldberg herself showed little emotion but her attorney, Shelly Kulwin, slumped over and buried his head on a courtroom table. Trump’s attorney Stephen Novack smiled and nodded his head in gratitude at the jury.

The case pitted the suburban Chicago woman against a New Yorker who revels in his image as a big talker with big ideas. Many know him best for his catchphrase on his “Apprentice” TV show: “You’re fired!”

In sarcasm-filled closings, Kulwin described Trump in stark, extreme terms — as villainous and greedy. Trump wasn’t in court, but Kulwin displayed a giant photograph of Trump.

“The thought of my grandma being in the same room with that guy. Yuck!” Kulwin boomed.

The dispute centred on the glitzy Trump International Hotel & Tower in Chicago, one of several showcase towers Trump has named after himself elsewhere, including New York, Las Vegas and Hawaii.

Goldberg accused Trump of wooing her into buying two condos at $1 million apiece in the mid-2000s by dangling a promise of share in building profits — then reneging on the promise after she committed to buying.

At trial, Novack grappled with the portrayal of Goldberg as a former waitress and hat-check girl who learned her values living through the Depression and working her way through college.

He told jurors in his closing he also loved grandmothers, saying, “I happen to be married to one.”

But, he added, Goldberg was also a sophisticated, detail-oriented investor who signed a contract stipulating Trump could do what he did: cancel the profit-sharing plan anytime he saw fit.

An often-scowling Trump spent two days testifying himself, bragging about the quality of his developments, verbally sparring with an opposing attorney and drawing rebukes from the judge.

On the stand, Trump denied he ever cheated anyone. Off it, he blasted the woman who brought him there, telling reporters he was the victim, not her. He declared, “She’s trying to rip me off.”

Goldberg isn’t the first to complain about a Trump development.

Dozens of investors in the Las Vegas’ five-year-old Trump International Hotel & Tower sued Trump, alleging he manufactured “a purchasing frenzy” to get them to buy in before the property market collapsed.

An arbiter, though, sided with Trump in 2011, and U.S. District Judge Gloria M. Navarro in Las Vegas later refused the disgruntled investors’ request to nullify the arbitration finding.

When Goldberg took the stand herself after Trump, she told jurors she initially had qualms about suing such an influential figure. But she added, “Somebody had to stand up to him.”

Goldberg told jurors it was Trump’s very star power that initially drew her toward investing with him. But it was the profit-sharing proposal that, for her, sealed the deal, she said.

During his testimony, Trump kept talking over Kulwin while Kulwin kept rolling his eyes at Trump’s answers, prompting Judge Amy St. Eve to order both men to “stop boxing each other” and behave.

Trump’s testimony offered a rare inside look at the business style of the 66-year-old who scrutinizes the competence of contestants carrying out management tasks on his TV show.

He told jurors that he signed every business check in his organization. He also said he couldn’t remember when key business decisions were made because he and his top executives aren’t in the habit of taking notes.

City pride also intervened at one point in closings when Kulwin made an unfavourable reference to executives in New York.

“Judge, he’s mocking New York,” Trump’s attorney said, standing to object.

“I can’t mock New York?” Kulwin shot back. “I thought it was every Chicagoans right to do that.”

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A total of 15 productions from seven countries are on tap from the city’s first and only full-time performing arts theatre for kids and their families.

“Bob Marley’s Three Little Birds” is based on a story by Marley’s daughter, Cedella, and features music by the legendary reggae artist. It will begin in February at the theatre’s home on Broadway.

The Fiasco Theater, known for its stripped-down takes on such shows as “Into the Woods” and “Cymbeline,” will present their interpretation of “Measure for Measure.” There’s also a fresh take on Neverland that comes courtesy of the renowned Belvoir theatre company of Sydney.

The New Victory will also present the American premiere of Circus Der Sinne’s “Mother Africa” in December, featuring stilt walkers from Tanzania and a renowned contortionist from Kenya.

Other highlights include a “Sleeping Beauty” performed by marionettes from Italy’s Carlo Colla & Sons Marionette Company, the genre-hopping Minnesota-based Rhythmic Circus’ “Feet Don’t Fail Me Now” and the return of the comic daredevil Bello Nock.

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City officials say the advisory will be in effect until after 9:30 p.m., to allow for the completion of tests. An update will be issued later.

They say results won’t be known beforehand because of a mandatory 24-hour incubation period until water samples can be tested.

It’s still not clear what caused the day-old advisory, but it has locals irate. A number are lamenting the quality of the governance in their scandal-plagued city.

One newspaper column, lamenting the state of affairs, concluded with a joke about one silver lining for the city: at least the mayor isn’t accused of smoking crack.

The Atwater filtration station, the second-largest in Canada, was shut down around 6:30 a.m. yesterday after levels dropped, causing sediments to enter the city supply.

The boil advisory is a preventive measure, officials say. They say Montrealers can drink the water after it’s been boiled for a minute.

“We have no indication that any citizens were affected by drinking the water that circulated,” said Christian Dubois, the municipal public-safety director.

“But we’re not taking any risks.”

And for the debonair Irish actor — a father of five, including four sons — exploring that emotional canyon between father and son was both appealing and challenging.

“I have an 11-year-old, a 15-year-old, a 28-year-old and a 39-year-old man who’s as tender as the 11-year-old is. I call him an 11-teen-year-old,” Brosnan said last September as he whisked through the Toronto International Film Festival.

“So I have sons. And the complexity of bringing them up and trying to guide them — as a man and somebody who was fatherless to some extent in his own life — that comes with a lot of baggage and a lot of understanding and a lot of heartache. But also, an appreciation of life. So I understood something about this young man’s ambiguity.”

Transporting though it is, his breezy romantic drama doesn’t seem bogged down by any baggage, even as it acknowledges heavier themes than escapist love stories typically would.

Upon arriving for the wedding festivities, Brosnan’s dour Philip is initially unmoved by his beautiful surroundings until he meets Trine Dyrholm’s mother-of-the-bride, an ebullient woman resolved to positivity despite an ongoing struggle with cancer and the dissolution of her marriage to an unfaithful boor.

Their romance unfurls slowly as the wedding that brought everyone together begins to seem in doubt.

That the film could address death, disease and sexuality yet remain mostly as light as a panna cotta is something Brosnan credits to director Susanne Bier, who helmed 2010′s Oscar-winning “In a Better World.”

“I think that’s the gift and the talent of Susanne Bier,” said Brosnan, looking typically dapper in a blue suit. “She really goes deep into these areas and … she seems to have a courage and humanity to her and also a complexity of storytelling which … really just brings this level of filmmaking like you haven’t seen before.

“And that’s why I said yes to it. Because of these films that she had done. And it came to me under the title of ‘The Bald-Headed Hairdresser,’ which I thought was rather fascinating. And as I turned each page, I got more and more pulled in by the humour and the tenderness of it, and the frailty of these people.”

And Bier said handling heavy themes with a light tough was pretty much “the premise of the whole film.”

“I think in a way, in North America, there are two types of romantic comedies at the moment,” she said last September. “One is more quirky — and they have a hard time being romantic. They’re often very comical and less romantic. And I think there’s a cynicism where you don’t dare be truly romantic. And then I think there’s a kind where everybody’s great looking, where there’s no issues, and I find those ones slightly disengaging. I don’t really care. I have to be invested in the characters, and they have to have some real things that make me feel for them.”

In addition to the extensive experience as a father that he shares with his character, Brosnan, like Philip, also experienced the loss of a spouse. The actor’s first wife, Cassandra Harris, died of ovarian cancer in December 1991.

And Bier acknowledged that Brosnan’s real-life experiences contributed to his being the right fit for the role.

“Having lost a wife to cancer … definitely it was part of me wanting (him) to do it,” she said. “But also, I think he wanted to do that because it was light. Because it wasn’t self-indulgent, swimming around in the pain.”

In fact, it was an uncommonly joyous experience onset for actor and director alike. Shooting in Italy with mostly Danish cast and crew, Brosnan nonetheless fit right in and was lavished with attention by his collaborators — or so says Biers.

“He was surrounded by any number of beautiful, blond actresses who didn’t want anything but (to be) near him,” she said with a smile. “So I think he had a pretty good time.”

One scene finds the cast dancing and partying in advance of the nuptials — and the boozy, loose sequence more or less captured the genuinely jovial atmosphere around the shoot.

“We all kept stealing champagne,” Brosnan recalled. “A little gin and tonic here and there. No acting required…. I just had the time of my life. It will be forever cherished. Films like this don’t come around that often.”

Even if “Love Is All You Need” was atypically pleasant, Brosnan — who has roles in the upcoming comedies “Love Punch” and “A Long Way Down” — says he usually does find a way to enjoy himself, whatever the film he’s working on.

Really, the 60-year-old — who’s forthright but gives the impression he wouldn’t suffer fools for long — insists upon it.

“Every job is stressful and you want to be good, but I just always have a great time,” he said. “And if there’s toxic people on it, then you just win ‘em over with love. You win ‘em over, you let them just do their thing. And they get found out one way or another, if they’re stupid and silly and misbehaving.

“You just pull them aside and give ‘em a dig in the jaw,” he adds with a chuckle. “I’ve never done that. Only once did I ever feel like throttling someone.”

“Love Is All You Need” opens Friday in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver. It’s expected to expand to more cities in the coming months.

KRQE-TV reports (http://bit.ly/10pHzTh ) that Lillie Smith was recently indicted by a Bernalillo County grand jury for trafficking, conspiracy to commit trafficking, tampering with evidence and possession.

Court documents show the charges stem from a warrant served at her apartment in 2011.

Deputies suspected that the woman’s son, Nathan Jones, was running a small drug operation out of her home. But the sheriff’s office said deputies found cocaine and marijuana on Smith, and she tried to stash the drugs during the investigation.

“It’s definitely not something you see every day,” said Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Aaron Williamson. “When detectives were on scene she did try to take the narcotics that were on her person out and stash them.”

During the search, investigators found scales, money, narcotics and other items believed to be connected to trafficking, Williamson said.

Jones was arrested in 2011 but Smith was not because of a medical condition.

The district attorney’s office later filed charges and a grand jury returned the indictment earlier this year. She was arrested in April but bonded out of jail. It was not clear if Smith or Jones has a lawyer.

According to online court records, Smith pleaded guilty to drug trafficking in the 1990s. Her next court appearance is scheduled in July.

In a release, the government says having a full-time energy public intervener will replace the system of the attorney general appointing private-practice lawyers to represent the public interest in energy-related proceedings before the board.

Instead, a permanent public intervener position will be created within the Office of the Attorney General.

The EUB is composed of two full-time and eight part-time members appointed by the provincial government.

Under the new structure, the board will have five full-time members.

The 20-year-old from Toronto is one of 18 players summoned by interim coach Colin Miller for a May 28 friendly against Costa Rica at Edmonton’s Commonwealth Stadium.

The game, the first for the Canadian men in Edmonton since 2008, will feature Edmonton natives Tosaint Ricketts and Randy Edwini-Bonsu.

Other Toronto FC players called up are defenders Doneil Henry and Ashtone Morgan and midfielder Kyle Bekker. The Vancouver Whitecaps provide goalie Simon Thomas.

The squad also includes veteran midfielder Julian de Guzman.

“We can expect more of something. I don’t know exactly what it will be,” Hurwitz said Thursday in a conference call with international journalists.

“(But) there is more story to be told. There are all sorts of obstacles to making that a reality but my sense is that everybody is game. I certainly am.”

Joined on the line by co-stars Jeffrey Tambor and Jessica Walter, Hurwitz made no bones about his desire to keep his adored cast tied to their dysfunctional alter egos, a once-wealthy family struggling to maintain tenuous bonds despite criminal investigations, botched magic tricks, mistaken identities and the odd seal attack.

All key performers return for more ludicrous hijinks in this Sunday’s rebirth, when the online streaming service will release 15 new episodes all at once.

Tambor marvelled at the devotion of fans who helped spur the return of the shortlived Fox comedy. He noted that a recent publicity appearance in London, England with fellow cast members drew crowds despite cold weather.

“I think who’s ever operating the controls here would be missing a huge business opportunity were they not to keep going,” said Tambor.

Hurwitz has said the episodes are intended to serve as a set-up for a still-hoped-for feature-length movie.

But they are also a bold experiment in non-linear storytelling since intertwined episodes will feature subtle gags that require multiple viewings to sink in.

Each new episode traces the adventures of a particular Bluth over the last several years, with other characters popping in and out in their own parallel storyline.

That was largely because it was so difficult to reunite the sprawling cast after so much time had passed and Hurwitz admitted Thursday that caused some issues during shooting.

“Because we didn’t necessarily work as an ensemble every week, there was no way that anybody could really know what anybody else’s story is, other than just sort of anecdotally hearing about it or I would walk them through quickly,” he said.

“Maybe you’d work something out and I’d have to say, ‘Oh no, no, no, that’s not the case because in another show we did X and you’re playing Y.’ I don’t know that it’s the best way to work but it did push everybody to kind of invent on the spot. Myself included. I was constantly re-writing to accommodate story changes … once I saw how the actors played things.”

Walter said her eyes watered when the cast gathered for the first time in the penthouse home of her manipulative matriarch character, Lucille.

“We’re not a sentimental group but I tell you, it brought tears to my eyes,” Walter said of seeing everyone together after years.

“It was a very emotional moment for me because it was a fantasy come true. We had hoped for seven years this could happen, there were rumours — it’s not going to happen, it’ll never be, maybe it will be — and it was just the culmination of all those longings and hope.”

Hurwitz said he’s grateful to be able to bring the little-seen show back, and to do so in an unconventional way.

“In television, it’s very easy to get into a rut and keep doing the same thing over and over again. I think what makes it challenging and fun for me is finding a new way to tell stories,” said Hurwitz.

“When something like Netflix comes along and they’re interested I can’t help but try to find a way in which we could use their platform in a way that we wouldn’t be able to use any other platform. And I think it makes it very challenging and it means stepping into an abyss to a certain extent…. It was a little scary at times. Is this folly? Is this a big mistake? But even if it is, I think there’s just great benefits from taking risks like that.”

“Arrested Development” returns Sunday on Netflix.

In a wide-ranging national security speech, Obama says the Yemen transfers will now be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. The U.S. does not transfer detainees to another country without receiving security assurances, including that those who remain a threat must not be released.

Obama halted all transfers to Yemen after the failed Dec. 25, 2009 bombing attempt of an airliner over Detroit. The convicted bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, trained in Yemen.

Of the 166 detainees currently at Guantanamo, about 90 are Yemeni.