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Here we go again...
Subway vs. LRT
A subway would add only
7.6 km of transit, compared
with 9.9 km for light rail,
according to the TTC report.
OneCity throwback. missed the idea of revisiting the proof that Mayor Rob Ford’s and TTC signed off on late last the pair for failing to consult (cid:580)(cid:3) (cid:39)(cid:302)(cid:3)(cid:315)(cid:279)(cid:305)(cid:268)(cid:225)(cid:3)(cid:292)(cid:305)(cid:274)(cid:3)(cid:296)(cid:268)(cid:255)(cid:251)(cid:254)(cid:302)(cid:268)(cid:317)(cid:3)
TTC report threatens to transit plan for Scarborough, plan to build a subway on Shep- year. That’s the same amount before floating a $30-billion (cid:238)(cid:209)(cid:296)(cid:302)(cid:229)(cid:292)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:254)(cid:209)(cid:274)(cid:3)(cid:268)(cid:255)(cid:251)(cid:254)(cid:302)(cid:3)(cid:292)(cid:209)(cid:255)(cid:268)(cid:3)(cid:209)(cid:274)(cid:225)(cid:3)
but that didn’t discourage one pard “is a stupid idea.” of money the city has just ap- transit plan of their own. (cid:315)(cid:279)(cid:305)(cid:268)(cid:225)(cid:3)(cid:254)(cid:209)(cid:314)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:254)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:221)(cid:209)(cid:289)(cid:209)(cid:221)(cid:255)(cid:302)(cid:317)(cid:3)
reopen subway debate
city councillor on the Toronto But more important, he proved for repairing the Gar- “I’m thrilled” by the TTC (cid:302)(cid:279)(cid:3)(cid:221)(cid:209)(cid:292)(cid:292)(cid:317)(cid:3)(cid:630)(cid:633)(cid:3)(cid:273)(cid:255)(cid:268)(cid:268)(cid:255)(cid:279)(cid:274)(cid:3)
Transit Commission. said, it suggests that the city diner Expressway. report, said DeBaeremaeker. “I (cid:289)(cid:229)(cid:279)(cid:289)(cid:268)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:209)(cid:3)(cid:317)(cid:229)(cid:209)(cid:292)(cid:550)(cid:3)(cid:632)(cid:3)(cid:273)(cid:255)(cid:268)(cid:268)(cid:255)(cid:279)(cid:274)(cid:3)
Glenn DeBaeremaeker can afford to build a subway in Extending the Danforth sub- am 100 per cent certain Scar- (cid:273)(cid:279)(cid:292)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:254)(cid:209)(cid:274)(cid:3)(cid:50)(cid:74)(cid:83)(cid:553)(cid:3)
Just when commuters thought (Ward 38, Scarborough Centre) Scarborough by extending the way was a cornerstone of the borough is going to get a sub-
the Scarborough subway-ver- said the latest TTC report gives Danforth line from Kennedy OneCity transit scheme that way — the intelligent subway, (cid:580)(cid:3) (cid:83)(cid:254)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:50)(cid:74)(cid:83)(cid:3)(cid:315)(cid:279)(cid:305)(cid:268)(cid:225)(cid:550)(cid:3)(cid:254)(cid:279)(cid:315)(cid:229)(cid:314)(cid:229)(cid:292)(cid:550)(cid:3)
sus-LRT debate was settled, the him new confidence that there to Sheppard Ave. E. It would DeBaeremaeker and TTC chair the one that actually carries a (cid:289)(cid:305)(cid:302)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:315)(cid:255)(cid:221)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:209)(cid:296)(cid:3)(cid:273)(cid:209)(cid:274)(cid:317)(cid:3)(cid:292)(cid:255)(cid:225)(cid:229)(cid:292)(cid:296)(cid:3)
issue that bitterly divided city will be a subway underway in cost about $500 million more Karen Stintz floated last year. lot of people, the one that costs (cid:315)(cid:255)(cid:302)(cid:254)(cid:255)(cid:274)(cid:3)(cid:315)(cid:209)(cid:268)(cid:266)(cid:255)(cid:274)(cid:251)(cid:3)(cid:225)(cid:255)(cid:296)(cid:302)(cid:209)(cid:274)(cid:221)(cid:229)(cid:3)
council last year has resurfaced. Scarborough within a decade. than converting the SRT to It was rejected by a majority of the least amount of money.” (cid:279)(cid:238)(cid:3)(cid:209)(cid:3)(cid:296)(cid:302)(cid:209)(cid:302)(cid:255)(cid:279)(cid:274)(cid:553)
Metrolinx immediately dis- He called the report fresh LRT, the Metrolinx plan the city city councillors, who chastised TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
Arsonist keeps
bra-burning
spirit alive
An inmate wants to sell her
sketches of prison life so
she can hire a human-rights
lawyer to challenge the re-
quirement that women wear
bras in jail. One lawyer thinks
she’s got a good point PAGE 4
Jurors view
dead teen’s
jail cell
Evidence about what guards
could see of Ashley Smith’s
cell interior is expected to
play a role at the inquest into
her death PAGE 8
FISTFUL OF CONFIDENCE Reyes was
icing on the
cake for Jays
GM Alex Anthopoulos says he
Leafs captain Dion Phaneuf prepares to give a fan a greeting as he heads to the ice for an open training session at the Air Canada Centre on Thursday. After their poor showing last season, the Leafs, didn’t go to Miami looking for
preparing for their opening game against Montreal on Saturday, have nowhere to go but up. See Metro’s NHL preview on pages 28-33 for more. IMAGE ILLUSTRATION BY METRO; PHOTO BY CHRIS YOUNG/THE CANADIAN PRESS a shortstop PAGE 27
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WEEKEND, January 18-20, 2013
He’s no quitter
School board. Deputy Marriage of convenience.
Former budget
director to replace Spence Seven people in T.O. area
chief would take
the job back charged in alleged scheme
She’s well-respected, but not
well-known.
The day Donna Quan, Toronto
after an- trustees’ choice to lead Canada Border Services
nouncing Canada’s largest school board Agency has charged seven By the numbers
he was through — and out of — an people in the Toronto area $30-35K
quitting unprecedented crisis, is a vet- in connection with an inves-
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A four-year investigation revealed the
TORSTAR NEWS Coun. of her 30-year career, almost scheme.
marriages were done to let the in-name-only
GSErRaVnICdEe suggestedM hike ew Doeull d tphree dceocmespsloert eC ohpripso Sspiteen ocfe .her Donna Quan TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE cusTehd e acatgeedn cays sgaoy-sb etthwee eancs- sfepeo uosf e$s3 g0a,0in0 0e ntotr $y3 s5ta,0t0u0s iena cCha.nada — for a
take his job back if council But those who know her who arranged for Canadian
“unanimously” asked for say Quan, who has served as rebuild and rebrand after a citizens to marry and sponsor E
his return. deputy director of the Toron- litany of troubles — the most Chinese nationals. ling or aiding and abetting
In a lunchtime television to District School Board for recent, and explosive, being The seven people face persons to commit misrepre-
interview with CP24, Del the past two years, is up to Spence’s plagiarism scandal. several counts under federal sentation.
Grande was asked if he’d the task of helping the board TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE immigration law of counsel- THE CANADIAN PRESS
consider taking the job W
back.
U of T sex ed
Del Grande told CP24,
“If they had a vote and they
unanimously said come
back,” that would “send
bash — it’s on
me a different message, but
the probabilities of that are
next to none.” S
TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
‘Epic student sex club Did someone say ‘orgy’?
Also-ran talks politics
adventure.’ Organizers
Smitherman to say they’re hoping After media attention in-
creased, the Reddit user who
host town hall for a good turnout
posted “U of T is holding an
orgy and you’re invited,” clari-
Yes, George Smitherman
fi ed that the term “orgy” was
is hosting a town hall After a “slightly overwhelm-
used “loosely and somewhat
discussion on the subject ing” few days of publicity, the
jokingly .... It’s been said
of whether Toronto’s University of Toronto Sexual
that this buzzword is what’s
political leaders have “failed Education Centre (SEC) is going
shocking everyone and giv-
the city.” No, that doesn’t ahead with its “Sexy Social” at
ing the event negative atten-
mean he is thinking about Oasis Aqua Lounge, a club that
tion, but I think it’s really the
running for mayor in the bills itself as a water-themed concept of the event that’s
near future. He won’t. He adult playground. causing the reaction — not
promises. SEC is an affiliated levy that it was called an orgy.”
“Yes,” he said Thursday, group of the U of T student
“it’s possible that I could union. Monday’s event, organ-
return to active politics at ized for its sexual awareness Tower said access has been
some time. It’s definitely week, was dubbed an “epic limited because some “trolls”
not possible that I will run student sex club adventure” made some “uncomfortable
for mayor in a byelection or by organizers — and was also comments.” Otherwise, the re-
in the next general mayoral labelled as an orgy on a Reddit sponse has been good, and or-
election. I’ve certainly ruled post in a University of Waterloo ganizers are hoping for a solid
those things out.” forum. turnout on Monday.
Why? External education and out- “We have had an over-
“Um…” reach co-ordinator Dylan Tower whelmingly positive response
Eight seconds of silence. told Torstar News Service on from many organizations with- This talk is way over my head
Then this: “I guess more Monday that the party was in the GTA and around Canada.
than anything else, I not an orgy — just a safe intro- Most of the negative responses
decided that in my life, I duction to Toronto’s sex club we have received have been Isaiah Bacombe, 12, looks around as Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfi eld
would not — I’m not inter- scene. “It’s very much, come on a personal level, and mostly talks about his guitar on the monitor in front of him on Thursday.
ested in subjecting myself and enjoy the space, there’s no drawn from misconceptions Students at Chris Hadfi eld Elementary School in Milton talked live via
to one more minute in the prodding or pushing in that dir- which we have been working a NASA link to Hadfi eld from space. The 800 students (some wearing
presence of Rob Ford.” ection,” he said. round the clock to clear up,” he homemade space suits) took part in the 20-minute question-and-
TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE The Facebook page for the wrote in an email to Torstar. answer session. Go to metronews.ca for full story. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
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Female inmate hopes to sell
jailhouse art to fund legal costs
Prison life. bra. order in her name to the Van- nessed a woman leaving the
The Ministry of Commun- ier Centre for Women, she scene of the gallery fire carry-
Jeannette Tossounian
ity Safety and Correctional Ser- said. ing a gas container, and police
determined to challenge vices would not comment on Tossounian was convicted arrested Tossounian a short
rule forcing women Tossounian’s allegations but of arson last year after she distance away, according to
confirmed that female inmates defended herself in a Niagara Niagara This Week. The news-
to wear bras in jail are required to wear bras. court, according to reporting paper also reported on her
Tossounian believes the by Niagara This Week. background, saying the Niag-
famous and much-debated The newspaper wrote that ara Parks Commission had re-
case of Gwen Jacobs will be a Tossounian, who had a previ- cently asked her to complete
JESSICA
precedent that works in her ous conviction for arson, was one of several sculptures to
SMITH
[email protected] favour. sentenced to two years less a be placed near the Horseshoe
“In the late ’90s in the case day for burning down her own Falls. She was politically active,
A female inmate is hoping to of Gwen Jacobs, the great top- art gallery while there was one running unsuccessfully for Ni-
sell her sketches of prison life less case from Guelph mak- tenant inside, who escaped. agara Falls council in 2010 and
in order to raise enough money ing it legal for women to go Niagara Regional Police as an independent in the Octo-
to hire a human rights lawyer topless, the ruling was that said an “alert citizen” wit- ber 2011 provincial election.
to challenge the requirement a woman’s chest can not be
that women wear bras in jail. treated as a sexual object and ‘Human rights grounds’ Top: Artist and convicted arsonist Jeanette Tossounian sent this drawing and
Jeannette Tossounian wrote must be treated equally to letter to Metro in January. Bottom: Tossounian sent an earlier set to Metro in
to Metro last November to a man’s chest in the eyes of Legal November, detailing her objections to having to wear a bra in prison.
complain about her treatment the law,” Tossounian wrote sons why an inmate would CONTRIBUTED
behind bars, which included to Metro in a letter dated Jan. opinion object to wearing a bra — for
being put into segregation or, 12. “Since Vanier (Centre for example, if they are a trans
as she put it, “thrown in the Women) is a provincial insti- man in a woman’s prison
hole,” for refusing to wear a tution and this is a provincial Being forced to wear a bra or if they have a disability
law, it was illegal for Vanier to could be a human rights vio- that makes a bra uncomfort-
punish me for not wearing a lation, said Leslie Robertson, able — a woman wouldn’t
Quoted bra.” a lawyer with feminist legal need a reason other than
Tossounian said she is still practice Galldin Robertson. personal preference to object,
“I hate
refusing to wear a bra. “(It is) differential treat- said Robertson. “It’s treating
soliciting Using pencils, charcoal and ment based on sex — because women differently than men,
money, but a sketch pad she bought from I assume male inmates aren’t and I don’t see a justifiable
the canteen, she has sketched made to wear bras,” she said. reason,” she said. “Women
it seems
jail-issue items, including the “It sounds ridiculous, and should definitely have the
like I can’t toothbrushes inmates use — I think she’d be quite suc- right to choose what type of
get fair justice without tiny, so they can’t be turned cessful challenging that on a underwear they’re wearing
into a shank. human rights grounds.” or whether or not to wear a
it — which isn’t fair.”
Anyone wishing to pur- While there are many rea- bra.”
Jeannette Tossounian chase her art can send a money
Benefits of mentoring kids varies by gender: Study
A new study released Tuesday peer-pressure-related anxiety.
found that mentoring benefits (cid:114)(cid:248)Mentored boys are also
children in different ways, all two times less likely to develop
based on their gender. negative behaviour like bully-
The five-year study by Big ing, fighting, lying, cheating,
Brothers Big Sisters of Canada losing their temper or express-
(BBBSC) and Centre for Addi- ing anger.
tion and Mental Health (CAMH) The findings, released this
found that mentoring for girls week to mark BBBSC’s 100th
could mean less negative be- anniversary, are just the first
haviour and improved social part of the study. President of
skills; for boys, it could help re- BBBSC Bruce MacDonald said ‘Littles’ pose with Police Chief Bill Blair at a launch on Thursday. Toronto’s
duce emotional problems, said researchers across Canada BBBSC is looking for 100 teams to sign up for the annual ‘Bowl for Kids Sake’
CAMH’s senior research scien- will be looking at the data to event on Feb. 9 as part of its 100-year anniversary. SUBMITTED
tist Dr. David DeWit. figure out the best mentoring
“I think the big finding so approaches and eventually use ‘Bowl for Kids Sake’
far has been the gender differ- the information to tailor pro-
ence,” he said. “These are just grams to individual needs.
initial findings, because its a He said the study confirms (cid:580)(cid:3) (cid:16)(cid:255)(cid:251)(cid:3)(cid:16)(cid:292)(cid:279)(cid:302)(cid:254)(cid:229)(cid:292)(cid:296)(cid:3)(cid:16)(cid:255)(cid:251)(cid:3)(cid:78)(cid:255)(cid:296)(cid:302)(cid:229)(cid:292)(cid:296)(cid:3)(cid:279)(cid:238)(cid:3) (cid:289)(cid:209)(cid:317)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:292)(cid:255)(cid:220)(cid:305)(cid:302)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:279)(cid:3)(cid:289)(cid:209)(cid:296)(cid:302)(cid:3)(cid:209)(cid:274)(cid:225)(cid:3)
very large complex study ... but what they already knew: that (cid:17)(cid:209)(cid:274)(cid:209)(cid:225)(cid:209)(cid:3)(cid:255)(cid:296)(cid:3)(cid:305)(cid:274)(cid:225)(cid:229)(cid:292)(cid:302)(cid:209)(cid:266)(cid:255)(cid:274)(cid:251)(cid:3)(cid:209)(cid:3) (cid:289)(cid:292)(cid:229)(cid:296)(cid:229)(cid:274)(cid:302)(cid:3)(cid:16)(cid:255)(cid:251)(cid:3)(cid:16)(cid:292)(cid:279)(cid:302)(cid:254)(cid:229)(cid:292)(cid:3)(cid:209)(cid:274)(cid:225)(cid:3)
what we found initially is that mentoring could help change (cid:317)(cid:229)(cid:209)(cid:292)(cid:575)(cid:268)(cid:279)(cid:274)(cid:251)(cid:3)(cid:289)(cid:305)(cid:220)(cid:268)(cid:255)(cid:221)(cid:3)(cid:229)(cid:225)(cid:305)(cid:221)(cid:209)(cid:575) (cid:16)(cid:255)(cid:251)(cid:3)(cid:78)(cid:255)(cid:296)(cid:302)(cid:229)(cid:292)(cid:3)(cid:314)(cid:279)(cid:268)(cid:305)(cid:274)(cid:302)(cid:229)(cid:229)(cid:292)(cid:296)(cid:553)
whether or not children bene- a child’s life. The problem is, (cid:302)(cid:255)(cid:279)(cid:274)(cid:3)(cid:221)(cid:209)(cid:273)(cid:289)(cid:209)(cid:255)(cid:251)(cid:274)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:279)(cid:3)(cid:254)(cid:229)(cid:268)(cid:289)(cid:3)
fited from mentoring in BBBSC there aren’t enough volunteers (cid:17)(cid:209)(cid:274)(cid:209)(cid:225)(cid:255)(cid:209)(cid:274)(cid:296)(cid:3)(cid:305)(cid:274)(cid:225)(cid:229)(cid:292)(cid:296)(cid:302)(cid:209)(cid:274)(cid:225)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:254)(cid:229)(cid:3) (cid:580)(cid:3) (cid:17)(cid:229)(cid:268)(cid:229)(cid:220)(cid:292)(cid:209)(cid:302)(cid:255)(cid:279)(cid:274)(cid:296)(cid:3)(cid:315)(cid:255)(cid:268)(cid:268)(cid:3)(cid:229)(cid:316)(cid:302)(cid:229)(cid:274)(cid:225)(cid:3)
programs depended largely on to fill the need, MacDonald (cid:255)(cid:273)(cid:289)(cid:279)(cid:292)(cid:302)(cid:209)(cid:274)(cid:221)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:209)(cid:274)(cid:225)(cid:3)(cid:255)(cid:273)(cid:289)(cid:209)(cid:221)(cid:302)(cid:3)(cid:279)(cid:238)(cid:3) (cid:279)(cid:274)(cid:268)(cid:255)(cid:274)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:254)(cid:292)(cid:279)(cid:305)(cid:251)(cid:254)(cid:3)(cid:296)(cid:279)(cid:221)(cid:255)(cid:209)(cid:268)(cid:3)
their gender.” said. (cid:317)(cid:279)(cid:305)(cid:302)(cid:254)(cid:3)(cid:273)(cid:229)(cid:274)(cid:302)(cid:279)(cid:292)(cid:255)(cid:274)(cid:251)(cid:553) (cid:273)(cid:229)(cid:225)(cid:255)(cid:209)(cid:553)(cid:3)(cid:71)(cid:229)(cid:279)(cid:289)(cid:268)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:221)(cid:209)(cid:274)(cid:3)(cid:251)(cid:255)(cid:314)(cid:229)(cid:3)
Key findings from the first “We always have thousands (cid:209)(cid:3)(cid:557)(cid:220)(cid:255)(cid:251)(cid:3)(cid:296)(cid:254)(cid:279)(cid:305)(cid:302)(cid:575)(cid:279)(cid:305)(cid:302)(cid:561)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:279)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:254)(cid:229)(cid:3)
part of the study, which con- of kids who are on waiting lists (cid:580)(cid:3) (cid:78)(cid:289)(cid:229)(cid:221)(cid:255)(cid:209)(cid:268)(cid:3)(cid:229)(cid:314)(cid:229)(cid:274)(cid:302)(cid:296)(cid:3)(cid:315)(cid:255)(cid:268)(cid:268)(cid:3)(cid:220)(cid:229)(cid:3) (cid:273)(cid:229)(cid:274)(cid:302)(cid:279)(cid:292)(cid:296)(cid:3)(cid:255)(cid:274)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:254)(cid:229)(cid:255)(cid:292)(cid:3)(cid:268)(cid:255)(cid:314)(cid:229)(cid:296)(cid:3)(cid:279)(cid:274)(cid:3)
tains interviews and surveys for volunteer mentors to come (cid:254)(cid:279)(cid:296)(cid:302)(cid:229)(cid:225)(cid:3)(cid:209)(cid:221)(cid:292)(cid:279)(cid:296)(cid:296)(cid:3)(cid:17)(cid:209)(cid:274)(cid:209)(cid:225)(cid:209)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:279)(cid:3) (cid:302)(cid:254)(cid:229)(cid:220)(cid:255)(cid:251)(cid:296)(cid:254)(cid:279)(cid:305)(cid:302)(cid:279)(cid:305)(cid:302)(cid:553)(cid:221)(cid:209)(cid:553)
tracking almost 1,000 children forward,” he said. “We particu-
and teens, include: larly have more boys on wait-
(cid:114)(cid:248)Girls in the study were ing lists than we do girls.” MacDonald. He’s hoping more volun-
four times less likely to bully, One of the reasons is that “That’s not the role at all, so teers will come forth and be-
fight, lie or express anger than younger men often worry there’s a mis-perception that’s come role models and a posi-
Big Brothers and Big Sisters go through a rigorous screening process and girls without a mentor. they’ll become a surrogate fath- built up over the years that tive influence for children on
are partnered up with their ‘Littles’ with aligning interests to ensure a good (cid:114)(cid:248)Boys with a mentor were er when they engage in these we’re working to dispel,” he the long waiting list.
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his week saw news working in all weather con-
WHY
of the arrests and ditions to maintain, operate
dismissal of eight and control our network.
TTC Transit Enforcement A good example of this
Officers. While I can’t devotion to duty was New
comment on the specifics of Year’s Eve, one of our IS 32 AN
the cases, I will say that the busiest days of the year. In
internal investigation that addition to staff already
ANDY uncovered the offences, and booked to work, many other
BYFORD the concurrent involvement employees gave up their IMPORTANT NUMBER?
of the Toronto Police time to help on the system
CEO
Service, demonstrates that with crowd control and cus-
TORONTO we are serious about driving tomer information. I was at
TRANSIT up standards at the TTC — Queen Station that night and
COMMISSION and that unprofessional (or I was hugely impressed by
worse) behaviour will not be the turnout from staff mem-
tolerated. bers who were passionate Here’s a question for commuters: What would you do with 32? That’s 32 minutes extra in
That said, I want to about the need to provide your day. Shop? Snooze? Share some extra time with your family and friends, perhaps?
declare my support for, and good service and to get The Greater Toronto CivicAction Alliance’s Regional Transportation campaign
belief in, TTC staff who do Torontonians safely to and landed in Toronto’s transit system this week. The station and vehicle posters are
an excellent job, day in, day from celebrations. encouraging commuters to share their ideas on what they would do with the 32 minutes.
out, to move 1.7 million So while this week was a The campaign’s goal is to prompt residents across the Greater Toronto and Hamilton
daily customers on North setback in our vision to run a Area (GTHA) to think about the impact of traffic gridlock on their quality of life, and to
America’s third busiest transit system that makes share what a better transportation system would mean to them. CivicAction aims to build
transit system. Toronto proud, I take great public and decision-maker appreciation for the value of a better system, and the need for
I see evidence of this heart from the fact that the sustainable ways to pay for it.
good work every day, from vast majority of our employ- “Transportation is at an all-time high as the top local issue that concerns people in the
those Transit Enforcement ees do a great job, which is GTHA, and they have come to the conclusion that major action is in fact necessary to
Officers who do a difficult borne out by statistics that improve the quality of their own lives,” says CivicAction Chair John Tory.
job diligently and profes- show we receive an increas- According to Metrolinx, 32 minutes is the difference between the average commute
sionally to the frontline staff ing number of compliments time if The Big Move is funded and built over the next 25 years (77 minutes), and if no
out there serving you, to about the sterling efforts of comprehensive system is put in place (109 minutes).
those behind the scenes TTC employees. Visit your32.com to learn more, and share what you would do with 32.
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The TTC carried an all-time record of Station. Expect minor delays due to ongoing construction Rees, and Bremner, from 7 a.m. Jan. 19 to 6 a.m. Jan. 22,
514,007,000 riders in 2012, an increase at the station. due to the construction of a city water main.
of 13,788,000 customers over its previous
record total of 500,219,000 in 2011. JAN. 19 & 20: · 72A Pape buses diverting via Church, Wellington,
· Monster Jam at Rogers Centre: Subway to St Andrew York, King, Church, and The Esplanade, servicing stops
Station, five-minute walk to Rogers Centre. outside King and St Andrew Stations due to work related
to the Union Station Second Platform and Concourse
JAN. 20: Improvements Project.
· Toronto Raptors at Air Canada Centre: Subway to
RECYCLE Union Station. Expect minor delays due to ongoing con- · 5 09 Harbourfront streetcars replaced by buses until
struction at the station. Spring. Eastbound diverting via Lake Shore Boulevard,
westbound via Queens Quay.
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metronews.ca NEWS 07
WEEKEND, January 18-20, 2013
Welfare changes proposed
Tim Hudak. Tories them to find a job, Progressive fits, Hudak added. they’re calling an outdated and
propose to reward Conservative Leader Tim Hu- “We want to make sure (to) inefficient system.
dak said Thursday. reinforce in Ontario the dignity Other ideas include merging
welfare recipients who But the government should of a job,” he said. Ontario Works and Ontario Dis-
work, clawback on also reward welfare recipients Hudak was mum on how ability Support Program, and
who are working by allowing long people would have to be introducing a debit card that
those who don’t them to keep more of their in- on welfare before their bene- could only be used to buy food.
come each month, the Oppos- fits would start to decline, or The Tories also suggested the
ition leader said. how big a reduction they would province should encourage
Each person on social assist- face, saying he would seek ad- employers to hire people with
Ontario should claw back wel- ance should have a personal- vice from caseworkers, welfare disabilities by providing tax
fare for able-bodied people ized plan that sets out certain recipients and others. deductions for buying special
who’ve been collecting bene- activities they need to perform It’s among 12 proposals the equipment or technology. Ontario PC leader Tim Hudak says everyone on social assistance should have
fits for a long time to motivate in order to receive their bene- Tories are floating to fix what THE CANADIAN PRESS a personalized plan. THE CANADIAN PRESS FILE
Five-year high. Homeless
deaths total hits 34
Toronto’s homeless deaths last Hatlem, a street pastor with
year were the highest since Sanctuary Ministries of To-
2007 and activists warn the ronto who tracks homeless
number is likely to climb even deaths, added 13 names to the
higher in 2013. memorial following the re-
Some 34 deaths of people lease of shelter death records
without homes were recorded from the city’s Hostel Services
in 2012, eight more than the department.
previous year. The city recorded a total of
The number of names on 18 deaths in 2012 — all male —
The Toronto Homeless Me- to add to 16 other deaths that
morial outside the downtown were previously recorded by
Church of the Holy Trinity the informal group that tracks
next to the Eaton Centre, now names for the memorial.
stands at 697. Activists fear there will be
The memorial records the even more homeless deaths in
names of homeless people 2013 because of a 2.9 per cent
known to have died in the city cut to emergency shelter beds
since 1985. in the city budget.
This week, Doug Johnson- TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
A homeless person braves extreme cold in Toronto. THE CANADIAN PRESS FILE
Missing evidence Home-invasion probe
Man who claims Five face
cop peed on him kidnapping,
won’t get video robbery charges
The provincial privacy Four men and a teenage
commissioner’s office has boy face a spate of kidnap-
upheld an earlier deci- ping and robbery charges
sion, saying that the video following an alleged home
a disabled man claims invasion north of Toronto
would show a Toronto that ended with a dra-
police officer “shaking” matic police takedown.
urine on him in a holding Police arrested three of
cell no longer exists. the suspects in a guns-
Joseph Bhikram al- drawn takedown Wed-
leged last year, in a small- nesday, moments after
claims lawsuit against the investigators say a home
Information and Privacy in Vaughan was invaded
Commission of Ontario, and a 34-year-old man
that an officer used the inside abducted. They say
toilet in his cell to urin- the man was assaulted and
ate before he “shook tied up before being forced
the remaining urine” on into the back of a vehicle
Bhikram’s neck and face. that took off with police in
TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE pursuit. THE CANADIAN PRESS
08 NEWS metronews.ca
WEEKEND, January 18-20, 2013
Jurors view Ashley’s cell
School staffer’s claim
Boy, 13, accused
of sex attack
A 13-year-old boy is facing
What could guards charges after Peterbor-
ough police allege a
see? Food slot and
female staff member at an
viewing window may area school was choked
be main focus of and sexually assaulted.
Police say the woman
hearing into troubled told them she was alone
teen’s last hours in a classroom Wednesday
with the boy when she
was attacked.
He was charged with
Inquest jurors paced the sexual assault and over-
beige-painted segregation cell coming resistance to com-
Thursday where a troubled mit an indictable offence.
teen choked to death five He cannot be identified.
years ago as security guards THE CANADIAN PRESS
stood watching her.
The tour of the Grand Val- Jail sentence
ley Institution in Kitchener,
one of five federal prisons for Top court to hear
women in Canada, aimed to
offer the jury better insight condom case?
into the place where Ash-
ley Smith, 19, spent the last A Nova Scotia man con-
weeks of her life. victed of sexual assault
“This was Ashley’s cell,” for poking holes in his
declared assistant warden girlfriend’s condoms to
Tony Simoes. get her pregnant is taking
A key difference between his appeal to the Supreme
how the cell was when Smith Dr. John Carlisle, presiding coroner at the Ashley Smith inquest, arrives at the institution where the troubled teen died. COLIN PERKEL/THE CANADIAN PRESS Court of Canada.
died in it and how it is now Craig Jaret Hutchinson
are the two large windows at about eye level and a “cuff quently covered the inter- Dr. John Carlisle, presid- “Just make observations,” received an 18-month
in the heavy grey door that port” or food slot closer to ior surveillance camera and ing coroner, urged jurors Carlisle advised the jurors. prison sentence in De-
would have given guards a knee level. viewing window with toilet to examine what would be Smith choked herself to cember 2011, and lost his
better view of the interior. Evidence about what paper. visible if guards could only death in her cell in October appeal with the provincial
The old-style doors, still on guards could see of the cell Bits of toilet paper are still look through the food slot — 2007, while guards, ordered Appeal Court.
the three adjacent cells, have interior is expected to play visible on some of the cam- about the size of a large mail not to intervene, looked on. THE CANADIAN PRESS
only a small viewing window a role given that Smith fre- eras. slot. THE CANADIAN PRESS
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metronews.ca NEWS 09
WEEKEND, January 18-20, 2013
Terror-case Canadian Six-week protest
Fracking fuss. Yoko Ono
Queen rejects
takes son Sean Lennon
gets 14-year jail term plea over Spence
on a protest over drilling
Queen Elizabeth has
rejected an appeal to
intervene in chief Theresa
He’s cleared of most work for the Mumbai attacks. Yoko Ono, Sean Lennon and the Marcellus Shale drilling Spence’s liquids-only pro-
The American-Pakistani actress Susan Sarandon spoke boom. test, but says she is taking
serious charge. Man testified against his school out against fracking — a They also visited with resi- note of concerns for the
with links to Toronto friend Rana to avoid the death drilling technique — during dents who say they have been chief’s health.
penalty and extradition. a tour of natural-gas drilling negatively impacted by drill- Spence is camped out
and Ottawa convicted
He is scheduled to be sen- sites in northeastern Pennsyl- ing. on Victoria Island, in the
of supporting group tenced in Chicago next week. vania on Thursday. Fracking involves the Ottawa River, and says
Headley spent five days on The celebrities said the high-pressure injection of she will protest until the
in Mumbai attacks
the witness stand — taking technique is a danger to air, millions of gallons of water, Governor General and the
up more than half the trial water and human health. along with sand and chemical prime minister meet with
— detailing how he allegedly Ono accused the gas indus- additives, deep underground all aboriginal chiefs.
A Canadian businessman was worked for both the Pakistani try of disregarding residents’ to break apart shale rock and THE CANADIAN PRESS
sentenced to 14 years in pris- intelligence agency known as welfare. “They care about free the gas trapped inside it.
on Thursday for providing the ISI and Lashkar. making money,” she said. The industry and many Student loans
material support to overseas Prosecutors also presented The celebs headed to rural federal and state officials
terrorism. Rana’s videotaped arrest Susquehanna County to see say fracking is safe when it’s
It was alleged Tahawwur Tahawwur Rana is shown in a 2011 statement to the FBI, during gas wells, compressor sta- done properly. Lawsuits planned
Rana supported a Pakistani courtroom sketch. which he said he knew Head- tions and other evidence of THE ASSOCIATED PRESS over missing info
group whose 2008 attacks TOM GIANNI/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ley had trained with Lashkar.
on Mumbai, India, left more They also played a September The federal government
than 160 people dead. The cartoons angered 2009 recorded phone conver- is being sued over the loss
The judge sentenced Rana many Muslims because pic- sation between the men. of a hard drive containing
in a Chicago court to the tures of the prophet are pro- Rana — who owned an information about half-a-
prison term followed by five hibited in Islam. immigration consulting firm million people who took
years of supervised release. But jurors cleared Rana of in Toronto and a home in out student loans.
Rana, a 52-year-old Pak- the third and most serious Ottawa — was accused of al- Merchant Law Group is
istani-born Canadian, faced a charge of involvement in the lowing Headley to open a filing class-action lawsuits
maximum 30 years in prison. three-day rampage in Mum- branch of his Chicago-based in Calgary and Winnipeg,
Jurors in 2011 convicted bai, India’s largest city, which immigration law business in and plans to file more in
him of providing support for has often been called India’s Mumbai as a cover story and other parts of the country.
the Pakistani group, Lashkar- 9-11. travel as a representative of Ottawa says the device
e-Taiba, and for supporting The government’s star wit- the company in Denmark. contained data on 583,000
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attack a Danish newspaper ted terrorist David Coleman showed how Rana booked Program borrowers.
that printed cartoons of the Headley, who had pleaded travel for Headley. Mother and son: Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon chat as they head to drilling THE CANADIAN PRESS
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WEEKEND, January 18-20, 2013
German lawyer claims up to 16 objects
were left inside patient after surgery
A lawyer in Germany claims According to Loyola Uni- Notable cases
surgeons left up to 16 objects versity in Chicago, citing
in her client’s body after an medical studies, some 1,500
operation for prostate cancer. patients in the United States (cid:580)(cid:3) (cid:39)(cid:274)(cid:3)(cid:55)(cid:209)(cid:292)(cid:221)(cid:254)(cid:3)(cid:629)(cid:627)(cid:627)(cid:636)(cid:550)(cid:3)a Kentucky (cid:580)(cid:3) (cid:39)(cid:274)(cid:3)(cid:34)(cid:229)(cid:220)(cid:553)(cid:3)(cid:629)(cid:627)(cid:628)(cid:627)(cid:550) doctors in
She is seeking over $100,000 have surgical objects acci- jury awarded a woman the Czech Republic dis-
US plus costs for the family dentally left inside them after $2.5 million after she covered a foot-long metal
of the patient, who has since surgery each year. Most of the needed surgery to remove tube had been left inside
died. objects are sponges used to a sponge left in her after a woman’s abdomen five
Surgical slips such as these control patient bleeding dur- a hysterectomy three months after surgery.
are rare, but with millions of ing long operations. They can years earlier. Part of her The clinic chief said four
operations performed world- lead to pain, infections and small intestine had to be staff members had been
wide each year mistakes do other medical complications. removed. punished.
sometimes occur. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Linebacker Manti Te’o. JAMES BROSHER, SOUTH BEND TRIBUNE/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE
Girlfriend
hoax might
be inside job
Manti Te’o. Linebacker letic director Jack Swarbrick
still spoke of his dead said on Wednesday that the
player was drawn into a vir-
online love even after tual romance with one “Lennay
he supposedly learned Kekua” and was fooled into be-
lieving she died of leukemia in
she never existed September. They said his only
contact with her was via the In-
ternet and telephone.
Not once but twice after he sup- Te’o also lost his grand-
posedly discovered his online mother — for real — the same
girlfriend of three years never day his girlfriend supposedly
even existed, Notre Dame All- died, and his role in leading
American linebacker Manti Notre Dame to its best season
Te’o perpetuated the heart- in decades put him at the cen-
breaking story about her death. tre of college football’s biggest
An Associated Press review feel-good story of the year.
of news coverage found that Relying on info provided by
the Heisman Trophy runner-up Te’o’s family, the South Bend
talked about his doomed love Tribune reported in October
in a web interview on Dec. 8 that Te’o and Kekua first met in
and again in a newspaper inter- person in 2009 and that the two
view published Dec. 11. He and had also got together in Hawaii,
the university said Wednesday where Te’o grew up.
that he learned on Dec. 6 that it Te’o never mentioned or
was all a hoax. denied a face-to-face meeting in
On Thursday, a day after comments reviewed by the As-
Te’o’s inspiring story was ex- sociated Press.
posed as a lie, Te’o and Notre Notre Dame said Te’o found
Dame faced questions about out that Kekua was not a real
whether he really was duped, person through a phone call
as he claimed, or whether he he received at an awards cere-
and the university were com- mony in Orlando, Fla., on Dec.
plicit and misled the public, 6. He told Notre Dame coaches
perhaps to improve his chances about the situation on Dec. 26.
of winning the Heisman. On Wednesday, Swarbrick
Te’o and Notre Dame ath- said Notre Dame did not go
public with its findings sooner
because it expected the Te’o
Questionable words
family to do so first. But Dead-
spin.com broke the story that
“I lost both my grand-
day.
parents and my girl- Chicago Tribune columnist
friend to cancer. So I’ve John Kass said the university’s
failure to go public sooner
really tried to go to
means “Notre Dame is com-
children’s hospitals.” plicit in the lie.”
“The school fell in love with
Manti Te’o during an interview for
WSBT.com on Dec. 8, two days after he said the ... myth,” he wrote.
he learned his girlfriend wasn’t real. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
