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Celery’s stalk
on the rise
PRODUCE Other “localized, short-term
T.O.’s new costly weather events” have also driv-
en up the prices of bell peppers
vegetable kicks and asparagus.
While the cauliflower crisis
caulifl ower off
had customers talking, Pugliese
the top shelf said the high cost of celery
hasn’t elicited the same reaction.
“If it was a tomato or a head
Luke of lettuce, people would notice,
Simcoe but celery is something people
Metro | Toronto can do without,” he said.
Nevertheless, it’s still selling.
Move over cauliflower — celery “A lot of our customers eat
is the new expensive vegetable really healthy and they’re not
du jour. going to switch to something
Bunches of celery are selling frozen or in a can,” a manager at
for $4.99 in Toronto, up from Loblaw’s on Queen’s Quay said.
the usual price of about $1.50. In addition to cel-
“In the 24 years I’ve been in ery, Pugliese said the
the industry, this is the most price of strawberries
expensive I’ve seen it,” said has also skyrock-
Mario Pugliese, produce buyer eted. In both cases,
at Rabba Fine Foods. he doesn’t expect the
Cauliflower sparked a na- sticker shock to sub-
tional conversation earlier this side anytime soon.
month when it jumped to as “Honestly, it won’t
much as $9 a head, prompt- be until the American
LIZ BEDDALL/METRO ing some Toronto restaurants dollar eases up,” he
to take it off the menu. While said. “That’s when it
Refugee kids make the most the sticker shock on cauliflower will happen.”
quickly cooled, the price of cel-
ery has been inching up right
WHAT’S NEXT
out of hotel life, while their across the country.
The low loonie has caused the
price of imported food to surge According to Statistics
parents plan for the future across the board, but Michael Canada, grapefruit is
von Massow at the University of positioned for a price
Guelph’s Food Institute said the surge. It was selling for
celery spike has more to do with nearly 25 per cent more
A STORY IN PICTURES metroNEWS weather than anything else. than the previous year in
A sudden bout of rain in Cali- the agency’s latest price
fornia — likely the result of El report.
Nino — has impacted supply.
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Call it the NBA’s “De Do Do
Do” to-do.
Sting was announced as half-
time headliner for next month’s
Toronto-set NBA All-Star Game,
instantly taking the breath away
from bemused fans who glee-
fully mocked the selection of
the 64-year-old soft-pop maes-
tro for the Feb. 14 basketball
pageant.
“Can’t wait to watch Sting
drop international party bang-
ers like Fields of Gold, St Agnes
and the Burning Train, and
Shape of my Heart,” quipped
ex-Grantland writer Jason Con-
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“Hope (Sting) brings out the A marketing slam-dunk
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star producer and frequent
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wrestler of the same name, one
of the more popular tropes as RAPTORS If social media is any indica- “Today’s athletes want what basketball operation. Patrick Patterson wears
Twitter users stretched for new Player-designed tion, the #SixBlackTO hat is the they’re involved in to mean “It’s great to have them get the #HatStraightFire hat,
ways to mock the choice. most popular by far. Designed something,” he said. “That’s how their creative juices flowing,” which he designed with
Even NBA players were hats selling by Pickering-born Cory Joseph we now have players with their she said. “Any time a player does Bismack Biyombo, Luis Scola
forced to weigh in on Sting along with DeMarre Carroll, Ter- own trademarks. They’re like something himself, it makes it and Luca Nogueira.
for double the
performing, though few did so rence Ross and Bruno Caboclo, mini-brands, like mini-empires.” feel more real to the fans.”
with much zeal. “Oh, is he? I regular price the black wool cap with a leather For the Raptors, innovation DeMar DeRozan rocking
didn’t know,” murmured Rap- visor features a maple leaf under in merchandising is working the #BlackoutRaps hat. Norm
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shootaround. “I don’t mind who Gilbert The player-designed hats are Earlier this week, the team joined him for the design.
performs. It could have been Ngabo one of the ways the Raptors — was named the NBA Eastern The four hats designed by
anybody.” Metro | Toronto and other sports teams — are Conference’s retailer of the year Raptors players are selling Jonas Valanciunas wears
It wasn’t a diversifying to keep merchan- for the 2014-15 season. Sales for $80 to $100. Fifty per the #RetroGoldSwag hat,
choice made They’re known for their on-court dise fresh and help drive sales, jumped 86 per cent, thanks cent of the sales from which he co-designed with
regionally. A style. Now, the Toronto Raptors said sports marketing expert largely to items produced for player-designed hats go Delon Wright, Anthony
representative are offering fans a glimpse of Vijay Setlur, an instructor at the team’s 20th anniversary, to MLSE Foundation, and Bennett and Kyle Lowry.
for MLSE con- their street style. York University. its #WeTheNorth campaign and the rest goes
firmed the half- Players are putting their in- “We are in a totally new era the collaboration with Drake’s to a charity Cory Joseph rocks one
time entertain- dividual tastes out on the open of athlete marketing,” he said. OVO collections. of the of the #SixBlackTO hats.
ment decision market — challenged by team Today’s fans are demanding There’s both a business and designers’ He designed it with the
was driven by execs to design and create the authentic, one-of-a-kind items, player-development side to the choice. help of DeMarre Carroll,
Sting the NBA. TORSTAR sleek, style-forward hats show- Setlur said. Plus, it markets ath- team’s new hat project, said Bruno Caboclo and
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Four officers face EL MOCAMBO
Iconic sign getting makeover
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Luke
Simcoe
Metro | Toronto
At one of Toronto’s most storied
2014 DRUG BUST by the force’s professional stan- The officers said Tran had music venues, there’s a light
Police chief dards unit and the Crown At- a pile of loose heroin powder that will never go out.
torney’s office, “to see if there on the dashboard of his Toyota Crews removed the iconic El
says their prior is any other cause of concern.” Camry, which led to a search of Mocambo sign at College and
Const. Jeffrey Tout, Det.-Con- the car and the discovery of 11 Spadina this week. But don’t
cases will also
st. Fraser Douglas, Det.-Const. grams of heroin. Morgan ruled worry: it’s coming back.
be reviewed Benjamin Elliott and Const. that the heroin on the console The sign has been moved
Michael Taylor are scheduled was put there by police. temporarily to Pride Sign’s fa-
to appear in court on March TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE cility in Cambridge, where it
Last fall, the conduct of a group 11. All are from downtown will be refurbished ahead of
of Toronto police officers was Toronto police divisions, and the club’s re-opening.
CHARGED
described by an Ontario judge range in experience from nine “The love that Torontonians
as “egregiously wrongful.” to 17 years with Toronto police. hold in their hearts for this
On Thursday, their alleged The officers were arrested Const. Jeffrey Tout, 41. Spadina landmark was very
behaviour was put in criminal at 7 a.m. Thursday and have Years with force: 17. apparent during the removal,”
terms: perjury and obstruction since been released. All are 2014 salary: $101,856. said Pride Signs’ Matt Auclair.
of justice. suspended with pay. “Passersby were reassured that
Four officers — two of them The charges come after Su- Det.-Const. Benjamin their beloved sign will be back
experienced major-crimes in- perior Court Justice Edward George Elliot, 32 to light up the city once again
vestigators — are facing a total Morgan’s ruling last Septem- Years with force: 9. after a much needed make-
of 17 charges stemming from ber that the officers planted 2014 salary: $112,965. over.”
a 2014 drug bust, after which heroin in a man’s car to justify The plan is to restore the
a judge ruled police had “fab- a search and then “colluded” Const. Michael Kenneth sign to its “original brilliance”
ricated” a story that involved in their testimony in court. Taylor, 34. with new neon and LED lights, Never fear, the El Mocambo sign you know and love will soon
“planting” heroin in a car to Tout, Douglas, Elliott and Years with force: 11. Auclair said. be back with even more brilliance. CONTRIBUTED
justify a search. Taylor all presented varying 2014 salary: $107,787.81. The El Mocambo — or “El
Soberly announcing the versions of the events during Mo” to its regulars — was a the Rolling Stones famously Wekerle stepped in to save it.
charges against his officers a traffic stop in January 2014, Const. Fraser Gordon fixture of Toronto’s live music took over the venue for two Wekerle reportedly paid a
Thursday, Toronto police Chief when Nguyen Son Tran was Douglas, 37. scene for decades after open- nights in 1977. cool $3.78 million for the club,
Mark Saunders said there pulled over for allegedly run- Years with force: 14. ing in 1948. Up and coming The venue was slated to close and plans to re-open it as a live
would be a review of the four ning a red light near Gerrard 2014 salary: $108,951.01. acts like Elvis Costello and U2 in 2014, but Bay Street investor venue in the near future.
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Toronto Weekend, January 29-31, 2016 5
Housing wait tough on refugees
Inside the Toronto Plaza hotel, kids play soccer in the halls as parents plan for a future in Canada.
The hotel near highways 400 and 401 is a temporary home for about 600 government-sponsored Syrian
refugees. It’s one of five Toronto hotels where refugees have been waiting for weeks as they’re matched
with housing. Asked about their hopes, the parents talked about their kids’ futures. Asked about their
fears, they said their top concern is finding housing they can afford.
Jessica
Smith Cross
Metro | Toronto
Smiling
Hamza, 12, left, and Abdulrahman,
14, third from left, gathered their Grateful
friends around the camera, each try-
ing to outdo one another with their Everyone speaks about being grateful
poses. Many of their parents say that to be in Canada — and say any com-
they came here for their children, plaints they have about the hotel are
and they’re concerned about delaying secondary to that. Some say they’re
their enrolment in school any longer. particularly thankful for Prime Minis-
ter Justin Trudeau who, one man said,
Working
is known for his words and gestures
concerning the Syrian refugees.
COSTI Immigrant Services is the or-
ganization responsible for caring for Waiting
the refugee families and setting them
up with housing accommodations. Waiting is the hardest part. There’s
They have a temporary office inside very little to occupy people’s time.
the hotel, but many families have Since most don’t speak English or
complaints, including bad food and have access to private transporta-
cramped living conditions. COSTI’s tion, it’s hard or them to get out of
leadership says it’s doing the best it the immediate area around the hotel.
can to keep up with their concerns.
Proud Playing Saving
Mohammed Al Tebawi Soccer is the kids’ game of choice when they have energy to Ahmed Al Kafri and his
arrived in Canada with his burn. Cooped up in a hotel, they play in corridors and in an wife, Baraa Abdul Karim,
wife, Reem, and three kids empty ballroom. It’s all wonderful — even when a ball goes arrived at the hotel on
on Dec. 27, three and a half flying down the hall — just missing a mirror on the wall. Dec. 28 with their three
years after they fled their children. They’re saving
home in southern Syria. money to pay first and
Mohammed’s frustration last month’s rent, but
is rising as he waits and their children won’t
worries about being able eat the food provided
to find an apartment he at the hotel — so they
can afford on a government have to spend a little ex-
subsidy. He is, however, tra money to stock their
incredibly grateful to be room with olives, pita
in Canada, which makes and other treats similar
him feel pride he describes to the ones they were
as “a crown on (his) head.” used to eating at home. ALL PHOTOS: LIZ BEDDALL/METRO
6 Weekend, January 29-31, 2016 Canada
Legal pot could Tory selfie
The nation’s former PM, who’s
dropped off the political map following
his electoral defeat, was spotted in the
reap $5B a year Calgary airport Wednesday. He took a
minute to snap a selfie with a passerby
who recognized him. Patrick Simms
posted the photo to Facebook, saying
he knocked (Harper’s) phone out of
his hand when going to shake it.”
TAXES $5 billion from legalization, interview. Harper is no stranger to selfies.
Economist’s but only if all the underground The experience of Colorado While not as savvy as the current
sales are effectively curtailed,” and Washington states, where PM, he’s still made the rounds on
estimate based writes Shenfeld. pot sales were legalized and social media. In this shot from Jan.
“That’s on the order of 0.25 taxed, suggests no dramatic 30, Harper is pictured with Canada’s
on curtailing
per cent of GDP, no barnburn- increase in marijuana usage women’s water polo team.
illegal sales er.” but a potential for pot tourism. PATRICK SIMMS VIA FACEBOOK
The Liberal government has “The desirability of increased
promised to legalize, tax and marijuana tourism inflows will
Call it Prime Minister Justin regulate marijuana and has be questioned, no doubt, but
Trudeau’s secret stash. made MP Bill Blair, the former they would generate additional
A new report from CIBC Toronto police chief, the lead fiscal revenues for government
World Markets says Canada’s on investigating a new regula- on their other tourist spend-
federal and provincial govern- tory model. ing,” Shenfeld writes.
ments could reap as much as Trudeau maintains that The report uses Colorado
$5 billion annually in tax rev- legalized pot will not be a sales figures to estimate a Can-
enues from the sale of legal cash cow, and that all revenues adian pot market worth about
marijuana.
CIBC economist Avery Shen- It was never about a money-
feld crunched the numbers
maker, it was always about public
using current estimates of Can-
adian recreational pot con- health. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
sumption, the revenue experi-
ence in U.S. states that have will be used to address mental $10 billion annually, then looks
legalized, and other factors health and addictions issues. at net profit margins from On-
— such as prevailing “sin tax” “It was never about a money- tario’s government booze mon-
rates on alcohol and tobacco. maker, it was always about opoly and other associated in-
“The bottom line is that fed- public health, public safety,” come and payroll taxes to come
eral (and) provincial govern- the prime minister said in up with the revenue total.
ments might reap as much as December during a year-end THE CANADIAN PRESS KATRINA MONTON VIA TWITTER
WESTJET
Cellist ‘outraged’ by airline
so cavalier. They’re just so out
Thandi of step with the whole airline
Fletcher industry.”
Metro | Vancouver Earlier this month, Juilliard
School cellist Nathan Chan at-
A renowned American cellist tempted to bring his cello onto a
says he is “outraged” after hear- flight from Vancouver to Toronto
ing that WestJet refused to allow but was refused. The 22-year-old
a musician’s cello in the cabin bought his ticket through Amer-
during a flight from Vancouver, ican Airlines, which allows pas-
even though he bought an ex- sengers to buy an extra seat for a
tra seat for it. Four years ago, cello. When he arrived, however,
Paul Katz says he got the same the flight that was operated by
treatment. Calgary-based WestJet forced
“I get angry,” he told Metro. him to leave the instrument be-
“I just think WestJet is so in- hind with family and forfeit his
defensible, and their attitude is $250 US ticket for the extra seat. Cellist Paul Katz CONTRIBUTED
IN BRIEF
PRIVACY
Spy agency broke law
Refugees to be accepted
remains open question
Thousands of Canadians
Canada’s electronic spy agency email address — but not the are trying to raise money to
broke privacy laws by sharing message itself. sponsor Syrian refugees but
information about Canadians The CSE uses highly advanced it remains an open question
with foreign partners, says a technology to intercept, sort how many privately spon-
federal watchdog. and analyze foreign communi- sored refugees Canada will
The Communications Security cations for information of intel- accept. The program aims
Establishment passed along the ligence interest to the federal to bring 25,000 Syrians by
information — known as meta- government. the end of next month, with
data — to counterparts in the In his annual report for 2014- about 10,000 to be privately
U.S., Britain, Australia and New 15, completed last year but made sponsored. But new data
Zealand, said Jean-Pierre Plouffe, public only Thursday, Plouffe shows that by the middle of
who keeps an eye on the highly said certain CSE metadata ac- last December, the govern-
secretive agency. tivities raised legal questions. ment didn’t even have that
Metadata is information as- In a statement, Plouffe said he many applications in hand.
sociated with a communication has since concluded laws were THE CANADIAN PRESS
— such as a phone number or broken. THE CANADIAN PRESS
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— especially with Barbies. turer to better reflect diversity and Inclusion, said he’s excited
Canadians for “It always made me a bit among females. at the prospect of giving a doll
uncomfortable because as The new additions to the to his biracial niece who can
curvy, tall and
a woman and as a parent I Barbie Fashionista doll range “see herself in it.”
petite dolls thought: ‘What is this teach- include seven skin tones, 22 Akram Sharkawy, brand
ing my daughter?’ eye colours and 24 hairstyles. communications marketing
With Mattel’s announce- The shift comes after years manager at Mattel, said the
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R OSEMARY
METRO CALL TO ACTION
Rainbow-coloured #PrideTape
WESTWOOD
Somewhere over the rainbow, there will be progress in hockey. What if an inspiring metroview
show of inclusiveness by one NHL team became a national movement towards greater
acceptance of LGBTQ people participating in team sports? Let’s make it happen. Anger alone can’t fix
Sticking it to prejudice A movement is made make 10,000 rolls of the Hometown pride
Last week, the Edmonton Pride Tape is an initia- rainbow-coloured tape. The Toronto Maple Leafs were what ails La Loche.
Oilers rainbow-taped their tive of the Institute for The Oilers Commun- unaware of the tape when
hockey sticks for their an- Sexual Minority Stud- ity Foundation made an contacted by Metro, but it But it would help.
nual skills competition, to ies and Services at the $8,000 donation to the “sounds like a unique way to
show support for LGBTQ University of Alberta, campaign and players raise awareness and support,”
yfrooumth a. nTohteh eidre Ea dcmamonet on- wcahmicpha higans uan Kdicekrwstaayr tteor aSlusnod haayd. it on their sticks said Steve Keogh, director Not worth the money. experience,” she said.
ian — Kris Wells — who’s of media relations. The club That’s how Cindy Black- That may be true, but
created Pride Tape in an supports efforts that promote stock described the Canadian it’s never a bad time to put
effort to make Canada’s inclusion, he said, noting the government’s attitude toward a spotlight on systemic
beloved sport a safer Leafs’ involvement with Pride indigenous children. suffering, especially when
space for all who love the Toronto and the You Can Play As the director of the First it’s of such a magnitude that
game. project, which advocates for Nations Child and Family Car- Blackstock can credibly dub
Wells, a professor at LGBTQ athletes. ing Society, she’s been at the it “our Mississippi ... the same
the University of Alberta, centre of a nine-year battle racial discrimination that
We think all of
notes there are still no out that culminated Tuesday with we saw in the United States
players in the NHL, and Canada’s pro and the Canadian Human Rights against African-Americans.” In
that for inclusiveness to amateur hockey Tribunal’s ruling that the fed- fact, she added, it’s worse.
sweep through hockey, teams should get eral government discriminates And I’d agree, in one way:
the message has to come on board with against indigenous children. While the U.S. has and con-
from the top. The tribunal found reserves tinues to obsess over its
“Change is going to Pride Tape. If you receive 22 per cent to 34 racism, we are not getting
take captains, coaches agree, share this per cent less child welfare nearly angry enough.
and community members
story online and funding than everyone else. Take Flint, Michigan. Amer-
stepping forward,” Wells
said. “Pride Tape says, post on social It slammed the government icans have been consumed by
Oilers defenceman Andrew Ference and his team showed over the high proportion of the story of the majority-black
without having to say the media: #PrideTape
words, that ‘I’m an ally.’” their support for Pride Tape on Sunday. RYAN TUMILTY/METRO indigenous children in fos- city’s lead-poisoned water. No
ter care (nearly half of those doubt some Hollywood direc-
What reconciliation
under 14 years old, according tor already smells Oscar bait.
to the 2013 National House- Meanwhile, our own unsafe-
hold Survey). drinking-water scandal threat-
The ruling addresses a frac- ens to become an overlooked
looks like in real life tion of the scandal that is in- independent documentary.
digenous people’s living con- Prime Minister Justin Tru-
ditions. There’s a lack of clean deau is right to travel to La
water and quality housing; in- Loche today, because outrage
digenous youth suicide rates over the deadliest school
are at least five times higher shooting in our history and its
than the national average. causes could easily fade to a
of Oklahoma began working Why aren’t we doing it in are on truly equal footing. All these issues have sur- whimper. As he does, Black-
Genna with the Cherokee to address every indigenous commun- And when the majority of faced in the media in the stock will be pushing for an
Buck this issue, and the National In- ity in Canada? I asked my the researchers are not part wake of the La Loche shoot- estimated $200,000 yearly
Metro | Toronto stitute of Health helped out to friend Rebecca Benson, who is of the community, the thorny ing, prompting concerns over investment in on-the-ground
the tune of $1.5 million. Haudenosaunee and a young issue of consent becomes all negative, one-sided depic- change for indigenous kids.
The Truth and Reconciliation Cherokee people them- professional with a deep that much more important. tions of remote communities. It’s an old story, this racism,
Commission calls on the fed- selves will be monitoring can- understanding of the social That’s what Benson em- La Loche’s former mayor and as old as this country. So is
eral government to close gaps cer cases and their outcomes problems in indigenous com- phasized most: the need for current MP Georgina Jolibois America’s, where the outrage
in education, employment and from the nation’s in-house munities. indigenous groups to give said the town’s social ills are burns far hotter.
health outcomes between in- health-research office. She was positive about their consent for research in not to blame for the shooting. Anger can’t solve problems
digenous and non-indigenous The general ideas are to research-based problem-solv- their communities and on “Unfortunately it had to hap- on its own. But nothing will
Canadians. find interventions to reduce ing, but she had a word of cau- their lands. Not cursory, one- pen here, but it is a Canadian change without it.
I’ve been thinking about cancer and help the office de- tion. We don’t have a single time consent, but continuous
how those gaps can be identi- velop research capacity, but indigenous community with consent, with the option to
PHILOSOPHER CAT
fied and closed. How to im- nothing is being decided by anywhere near the population withdraw if they decide the re-
by Jason Logan
prove, concretely, the lives of the university and dictated to and clout of the Cherokee Na- search isn’t benefiting them.
indigenous people, with those the tribe, said Paul Spicer, an tion’s 300,000 people. Many, There is participatory re- Your essential daily news
communities’ full participa- anthropologist and the lead re- though not all, Canadian re- search going on in indigenous
tion, and with respect for their searcher on the project. A joint serves are in a chronic state of communities in Canada, but STAJRo MhEnD ICA rGuROicUkPs PhRaESnIDkE NT
heritage, knowledge and right committee — half Cherokee, crisis, she said. An ambitious as reconciliation efforts begin VICE PRESIDE NT & EDITOR
to self-government. half from the university — is collaborative science project in earnest and we try to close Cathrin Bradbury
To get an idea of how this setting the research agenda. isn’t realistic when hunger is those gaps, there needs to be VICE PRESIDENT & GROUP PUBLISHER
can be done, in a way that is This is extremely exciting. rampant and there’s just been more. Because if we base poli- METRO EASTERN CANADA
Greg Lutes
guided by scientific evidence, It’s ground-up, but still science- a cluster of youth suicides. cies on evidence, they have a
look at Oklahoma. based. I can imagine a similar It seems to me that there shot of working. MANAAGnINgGe ElaD IMTOuR lTlOinRsONTO
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