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Tuesday, January 11, 2011
www.metronews.ca
News worth sharing.
Slash
Show. Renewed
and burn
delayed
Ford’s first budget puts expected spending cuts
on the back burner Mayor says he’s ‘not happy’
about a possible 10-cent TTC fare hike in February
The man who rose to power in Toronto ing, whether they like it or not.
by running a nearly single-message cam- “Their managers and their boards of
paign of spending cuts delivered a budg- directors decided their interests were
et yesterday that left programs and more important than the taxpayers’ in-
services largely intact — for now. terests,” Ford said.
Mayor Rob Ford’s inaugural budget “I will assure you as part of our
contained no major service cuts and no upcoming department-review process
property tax hikes, though it also came we will focus on those agencies first and
with a strong indication that his expect- foremost. If they are unable to manage
ed slash and burn is yet to come. effectively in the best interests of the
While the proposed 2011 budg- taxpayers, then we will have to find
et is largely a stay-the-course new managers that can.”
affair, the mayor, who took office Beginning in March outside experts
last month, warned that the 2012 will conduct detailed departmental re-
budget will bring “more views “with a fine-tooth comb” to find
significant changes to savings, Ford said.
the way we spend our “They will leave no stone
money.” unturned.”
Most departments The 2011 budget even
and agencies met amounts to a marginal
cost-cutting tar- spending increase — a
gets, Ford $9.4-billion gross op-
said. The ones erating budget this
that didn’t year, compared to
were told in $9.3 billion last
no uncertain year.
terms that THE CANADIAN PRESS/
cuts are com- MORE COVERAGE, PAGE 3
Actress Shay Mitchell speaks at Disney ABC Television Group’s Winter Press Tour
yesterday in Pasadena, Calif.
Accused shooter Next fall’s
Hooray for Shay and her PreFtREDtERIyCK M. BRcOWNa/GETTsY IMAtGES
appears in court newest courses
Mitchell, a Toronto native, plays Emily Fields on the ABC Family series Pretty
Little Liars. The network announced yesterday it was renewing the show for U.S. congresswoman Learning Curve looks at
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Fare or not, TTC
1
may boost prices
Increase would cost riders $60 a RICHARD LAUTENS/TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE news
year Drivers save same amount
on vehicle tax eliminated by mayor
Mayor Rob Fordis not hap- with 483 million rides
py, TTC chair Karen Stintz forecast this year.
isn’t happy and it’s a safe Although cash fares
bet that the one million would remain unchanged,
people who take the TTC token prices would in-
every day won’t be happy crease 10 cents to $2.60
with the threat of a 10-cent and a regular Metropass
fare hike that would would cost $126, $5
take effect Feb. 1. more per month.
While the mayor “We’ve had News on the move
said the city and record high rider-
transit commission ship and as we have
will continue to increased ridership 1 Download the free
look for efficiencies metronews.ca/toronto we have increased ScanLife
to eliminate the in- costs,” said Stintz, application with
crease, “at this point the who underlined that no your smartphone
staff recommended budget one will be losing their bus at 2dscan.com
includes the 10 cents,” said routes.
Stintz. The TTC board will The proposed budget 2 Use the ScanLife
hold a special public meet- gives the TTC $1.4 billion application on
ing tomorrow to discuss — $66 million more than your smartphone
the details of the budget. last year. About $1 million to scan 2D
The increase would of that will go toward mak- barcodes in Metro
bring the TTC about $24 ing the system cleaner,
million in revenue at a said TTC chief general 3 The codes will
time when record rider- manager Gary Webster. direct your mobile
ship continues to grow TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE browser to
relevant
content at
Service changes would expand to meet m.metronews.ca
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been the case, she said. On the web at
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Effective March 27, the
TTC is shifting more buses
to rush hour and midday
and reducing operation
and hours of those that
serve no more than 12 rid-
ers per hour, a move
expected to save $7
million this year.
TTC chair Karen Stintz, 48 routeswill take a hit to
above, said that when the late night, weekend and Allan Small
TTC expanded bus service off-peak service. questions why
hours in 2008 to match the Every ridecosts $3 but on-
subways, there was an as- ly nine per cent of riders A 10-cent fare increase expected for Feb. 1 won’t affect cash fares. stock markets
sumption that ridership pay that in cash fares. aren’t keeping
up with the good
economic news.
thought to be life-threat-
More snow on the way More at
ening injuries but were
News in brief later determined to be metronews.ca/
non-life-threatening. investing
RICHARD LAUTENS/TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE Airbag injures THE CANADIAN PRESS
The city is expected to re- –6C The normal
ceive at least two centime- high for this boy in minivan Man arrested
tres of snow by tomorrow time of year is –2 C. Follow us on
morning, Environment Tor ont o’s daytime high ACCIDENT. An 11-year-old in cold case Twitter
Canada says. Toronto com- this week is expected boy was hurt yesterday @metrotoronto
muters should prepare for to be about –6 C thanks when a minivan hit the ASSAULT. Police have
rush-hour snowfall this to persistent winds back of a TTC bus on Vic- made an arrest in cases
evening. from the north. toria Park Avenue near dating back to between
A storm moving up Lawrence Avenue East 1975 and 1982 when two
from Oklahoma will bring expected this weekend, he and the airbag deployed young girls allegedly
steady snowfall to the GTA said. The city typically re- in the front passenger were sexually assaulted.
starting at about 6 p.m., ceives storms from the seat where the boy was Jon James Maillard, 70,
Environment Canada me- American southwest this sitting, Traffic Services of Toronto, is charged
teorologist Geoff Coulson time of year, he added. Sgt. Tim Burrows said. with two counts of inde-
said. Temperatures are colder The child was cent act on a female and
The rest of the work than normal for this time transported to hospital one count of sexual Acclaimed Korean director of
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Gay rights By all means,
Tunisia. Unrest
breastfeed in public
trump
A woman who was told to play area meant for kids.
quit breastfeeding her in- Employees at the Orches-
faith: Court
fant daughter in a secluded tra store told Smith she
part of a children’s clothing wasn’t allowed to breast-
store has received an apolo- feed there.
gy from the company’s Jean-Claude Yana, presi-
Decision says proposed law would president. dent of Les Vetements Or-
Shannon Smith was chestra Canada Inc., wrote
be unconstitutional, and amount to shopping at a Montreal bou- Smith last Friday apologiz-
tique last Wednesday when ing for the incident, which
anti-gay discrimination
her five-month-old daugh- he blamed on a new em-
ter got hungry, so she began ployee who was not proper-
Saskatchewan’s top court to nurse her in a secluded ly trained.THE CANADIAN PRESS
Charter invoked
has said marriage commis-
sioners cannot use religion
to say no to nuptials for The court was asked to con- RCMP
same-sex couples. sider two options: allowing
Mandate
The Appeal Court had all marriage commission-
inquiry
been asked by the govern- ers the right to refuse
ment to rule on a proposed same-sex couples or includ- The fatality inquiry, which
begins
provincial law that would ing a “grandfathering op- had been delayed until
have allowed commission- tion” that would allow now while other court pro-
ers to cite religious grounds those appointed before ceedings were ongoing,
in refusing to marry gays. November 2004 to say no. A demonstrator holds a stone in Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia, The mother of one of four can’t assign blame in the
The head of the Gay and yesterday as police officers are seen in the background. Alberta Mounties shot dead killings but is intended to
Lesbian Community of The court said both would by a gunman sought reas- make recommendations to
Regina welcomed yester- be out of line with the Char- Schools close amid rTHEi ASoSOCIAtTEDs PRESS surance from the coroner prevent future tragedies.
day’s decision. ter of Rights and Freedoms on the first day of an in-
“I guess it was a sigh of because they would violate quiry that her son didn’t
relief,” said president Cory the equality rights of gays suffer. Bannach replied that her
Oxelgren. “I’m not sur- and lesbians. Tunisia yesterday temporarily shut down all its high “How soon before he son, Const. Leo Johnston,
prised. I wasn’t surprised at The federal government schools and universities as it tried to stop deadly ri- would have died?” Grace would have been clinically
the ruling. I was sort of sur- passed legislation in 2005 ots over joblessness and poor prospects for youths. Johnston, tears catching dead “10 to 15 seconds” af-
prised that it was unani- allowing same-sex At least 14 people were killed in unrest this her voice for long pauses, ter being shot four times.
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Shooting suspect
31 Acapulco
News in brief deaths in 4 days
JACK PLUNKETT/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE Police say a man has been appears in court
slain on a main highway
leading into Acapulco,
Mexico, bringing the
number of people killed
in the city over four days
to 31. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is in a
The suspect
N.S. man jailed medically induced coma Her condition is stable: Doctor
for hate crime CHRIS CARLSON/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Jared Loughner, the 22-
One of two Nova Scotia year-old loner accused of
brothers convicted of a trying to assassinate a U.S.
Tom DeLay hate crime for burning a congresswoman and
cross in front of the home killing six others, ap-
3 years in jail of an interracial couple is peared in court yesterday
facing two months in jail with his head shaved, a cut Jared L. Loughner
for former U.S. after receiving a six- above the right temple and
month sentence yester - his hands cuffed. According to a federal com-
congressman
day. THE CANADIAN PRESS A federal judge, a con- plaint, investigators found
gressional aide and a young an envelope in a safe at
A judge has ordered for- Pay your pet girl were among the six Loughner's home. “I
mer U.S. House Majority people killed. Republican planned ahead,” “my assas-
Leader Tom DeLay to tax, or else Gabrielle Giffords and 13 Mourners leave a note at a memorial at Mesa Verde sination” and “Giffords” was
serve three years in others were injured in the Elementary in Tucson, Ariz., yesterday for student Christina written on the envelope.
prison for his role in a The Swiss village bursts of gunfire outside a Green who was killed in the shooting.
scheme to illegally funnel Reconvilier has found a Tucson supermarket.
corporate money to Texas drastic way to compel dog Loughnerwas represent-
candidates in 2002. holders to pay their pet’s ed by Judy Clarke, who had killing federal Judge John at a lectern in his beige
He was once one of annual tax. earlier defended “Un- Roll, one of the six who prison jumpsuit. A U.S.
the most powerful men A local official said a abomber” Ted Kaczynski. died in the shooting ram- marshal stood guard near-
in U.S. politics, ascending law from 1904 allows the The judge asked Lough n- page at Giffords’ meeting by.
to the No. 2 job in the village to kill dogs if its er if he understood that he with constituents on Satur- The judge ordered
House of Representatives. owner does not pay the could get life in prison — or day in Tucson, Ariz. Loughner held without bail.
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Electric car ‘represents the soul’
Household
er areas. That’s a prob - of the new GM, says a top official
debt level lem for the economy,
since about 60 per cent 350
of demand comes from The 2011 Chevrolet Volt
alarms BoC
household spending. got another marketing jolt
It’s not just Canadians yesterday, when it received
Bank of Canada deputy taking out mortgages to the North American Car of
governor Agathe Cote buy homes, she said. A the Year award. GM sold between 250
said yesterday that big part of the rising in- The car that runs on and 350 Chevy Volts in
restraining household debtedness is home- electricity for 65 kilome- December and Nissan’s
debt is a key to the eco- own ers using their tres before a backup gas sales totalled less than
nomic recovery. house collateral to bor- engine kicks in beat out 10 Leaf sedans in the
The fear is that if a row for other purposes, the Nissan Leaf, another past two weeks.
shock occurs or interest including renovations, electric, and Hyundai Production for both is
rates rise, Canadians consumer goods pur - Sonata in the annual cere- slowly ramping up.
saddled with high debt chases and paying off mony on the first day of
payments will need to other kinds of debt. media previews for the De- Auto Show in November
curtail spending on oth- THE CANADIAN PRESS troit Auto Show. and Motor Trend and Auto-
The Ford Explorer won mobile Magazine named
the truck of the year, the the Volt the 2011 car of the
OSC looking at changes third year in a row the au- year the same month.
tomaker nabbed the hon- It will be well into 2012
our. Truck finalists were before both the Volt and
The Ontario Securities by March 31 on whether it the Dodge Durango, the Leaf, which costs $32,780,
Commission says it is should make changes on Explorer and Jeep Grand are available countrywide.
pushing ahead with a re- three issues — enforcing Cherokee. Early demand is strong:
view of protection for shareholder votes on nomi- Forty-nine auto journal- About 50,000 people al-
shareholders’ rights and is nees to boards of directors; ists from the U.S. and ready are on waiting lists.
considering regulatory man datory advisory votes Canada made the picks. The Volts are being as-
changes such as a manda- on executive compensa- The vehicles are judged on sembled in Detroit. GM
tory “say-on-pay” policy. tion; and the proxy voting innovation, design, safety, predicts it will sell 10,000
It is asking for feedback system.THE CANADIAN PRESS handling, driver satisfac- of them in 2011 and be-
tion and value. tween 35,000 and 45,000
It’s the latest in a string in 2012. By way of compar-
of accolades for the Volt, ison, Chevrolet sold
Thomas G. Stephens, GM vice-chairman global which went on sale in lim- 187,250 Malibu sedans in
product operations, holds the trophy yesterday for the ited markets in December the first 11 months of 2010
North American Car of the Year, awarded to the 2011 and costs $40,280. It was with sticker prices that
Chevrolet Volt at The North American International Auto named the Green Car of start at $21,975.
Show in Detroit. the Year at the Los Angeles THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MATT SAYLES/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE
The Bloodmobile in your neighbourhood: Hefner takes Playboy private
SHAAREI SHOMAYIM CONGREGATION
WEDNESDAY JANUARY 12 The publisher of Playboy A group led by Pent- from the web, losing read-
470 GLENCAIRN AVE. (NORTH YORK) magazine said yesterday it house magazine has also ers and advertisers.
has agreed to a sweetened made an offer for Playboy Playboy’s management
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offer by founder Hugh Enterprises Inc. valued at has been trying to trans-
CHURCH OF CHRIST Hefner to take the compa- $210 million. But Hefner is form the company from a
SATURDAY JANUARY 15 ny private. Playboy’s largest share- publishing and TV busi-
310 BURNHAMTHORPE ROAD (ETOBICOKE) The price of $6.15 a holder with about 70 per ness into a “brand manage-
share is an 18 per cent pre- cent of the company’s vot- ment” company, leaning
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1 888 2 DONATE (1-888-236-6283) price and values the com- of the nonvoting stock. censing out the Playboy
pany at $207 million. The The company’s name- name and bunny ears for a
Hugh Hefner bid tops Hefner’s offer of sake magazine has strug- range of products.
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