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found the $24 million the fare increase transit commissioner who suggested that
would have raised. Stintz said city staff there’s “no appetite among councillors to
found a further $16 million that will be engage in a public free-for-all pitting tran-
added to the TTC budget, and the TTC sit riders against drivers in our city.”
found $8 million. She couldn’t say where “Budgetary losses (resulting in part from
the money is coming from, referring ques- the recently abolished $60 Vehicle
tions to city manager Joe Pennachetti and Registration Tax) should not be found from
TTC staff. another tax hike at the expense of transit
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Mayor Rob Ford who was present at the an- TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 2011
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Pedestrians flagged down police on bicycles who sped after the streetcar to alert the
On the web at
driver About a half-dozen people had been on the vehicle Busy stretch of street closed metronews.ca
A middle-aged man was “He may very well have pened, proceeded down The busy stretch of were unable to retrieve
dragged to his death for at fallen,” Sgt. Glen George Queen Street,” said George. shops, services and restau- them.
least 600 metres along said of the man, des cribed “The driver is doing not rants was closed for several The body, covered in a
Queen Street West by a as in his 40s or 50s. too bad. He’s shook up. It’s hours. Motorists who tarp, remained trapped un-
streetcar yesterday morn- The man had crossed a sad day for everyone.” parked their cars on Queen der the streetcar wheels
ing as people frantically Queen mid-block half a The man was pro noun - until 12:42 p.m. after fire-
“It looked like just
tried to alert the driver. block east of Bathurst ced dead at the scene, fighters managed to hoist
Police on bicycles riding Street at 10:22 a.m., said which was sealed from a pile of clothing the back of the eight-tonne
alongside the two-car George. The streetcar fin al- Bathurst to Claremont to (the streetcar dri- car about one-third of a
streetcar finally got the ly stopped just east of the vehicles and pedestrians. metre into the air. As it turns 10
ver) ran over, and
driver to stop at Claremont junction with Clarem ont “There’s stuff up there Police are urging years old,
Street, at least six blocks Street in front of the Sanko you don’t want to see,” a then I saw an arm.” anyone who witnessed the
Wiki pedia sets
from where the man fell Japanese food shop. police officer had warned WALLACE MAITLAND, WHO SAW A incident to contact them at
under the back wheels or “The streetcar driver, pedestrians as the scene MAN TRYING TO PUSH FREE AS THE 416-808-1900. sights on India,
was hit. not knowing what hap - was cordoned off. STREETCAR KEPT MOVING TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE founder Jimmy
Wales tells
Metro. Visit
Pocket caller, what’s Suspicious Boy, 16, stabbed metronews.ca/
world
suitcases
your emergency? near high school
shut street Both sides of
the divide are
Emergency call-takers in emergencies.
Toronto are asking people THE CANADIAN PRESS A 16-year-old boy was considered non-life-threat - culpable for
to take 911 off their cell- Two suitcases scrutinized rushed to hospital after he ening. America’s toxic
phone speed dials. by Toronto’s bomb squad was stabbed near a high Const. Wayne Patterson political culture.
The city’s 911 operators after they were left unat- school in Brampton. said police believe the boy
More at
say they receive about 300 tended in front of CSIS of- Peel regional police say was stabbed around 11:20
calls a day after pre-pro- In brief fices contained little more three suspects are in cus- a.m. on the outskirts of the metronews.ca/
grammed buttons are acci- than clothes and travel ne- tody, but it wasn’t known high school property, near spindoctor
dentally pushed in Correction cessities. The black cases how old they are or if they an entrance to a nearby
peop le’s pockets or purses. triggered the shutdown of or the victim are students plaza.
Officials say the false U.S. con gresswoman a section of Front Street. at Turner Fenton Second- Patterson said the three
alarms eat up valuable Gabrielle Giffords is a A black sedan with On- ary School. suspects fled through the Follow us on
time and resources. Democrat. Incorrect in- tario licence plates was The teenage victim was plaza but all three were ar- Twitter
Call-takers have to de- formation appeared in parked in front of the cas- taken to Sunnybrook Hos- rested and are likely facing @metrotoronto
termine whether the 911 Tuesday’s Metro. es. pital in serious condition, charges.
calls are mistakes or real THE CANADIAN PRESS though his injuries are THE CANADIAN PRESS
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 2011
BERNARD WEIL/TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE Watermelon
near Yonge-Dundas
Square ended without in-
News in brief cident yesterday morning gives mom
after a man in a car sus-
pected of having a gun
surrender ed, police said.
Officers earlier took a the evil eye
pass enger into custody.
THE CANADIAN PRESS
SIU clears
Manager ‘visibly recoiled’ when
Toronto officer
Rita Gopaul, aunt of Michelle Marie Gopaul, and lawyer shown orb, says shopper Grocery
PROBE. The Special Inves- Gary Batasar talk to media outside the College Park court
tigations Unit has cleared yesterday, following a brief appearance by the accused. store apologizes for ‘confusion’
Watchdog to ao fT worroonntgod pooinligc ein o tfhfiecer Accused seeking bail Carly Jones has gone “I was going to slice
probetransfers death of a man who fell through a torrent of emo- some watermelon
from a balcony in a in baby snatching case tion since she opened a for my daughter,
MEDICAL. Ontario’s watch- Kipling Avenue apart - package of sliced
when what we
dog is launching an in- ment building Nov. 9. watermelon to find a
vestigation into private Officers were trying to The lawyer for accused ba- Queens, has a student visa green iris staring back at thought was a seed
companies that transfer arrest a man in connect - by snatcher Michelle Marie and he believes he will be her Monday. slipped out from
hundreds of thousands of ion with a bail violation Gopaul says he is opti- able to get her out on bail. First there was horror
underneathone of
non-critical patients when 39-year-old Munir mistic his client will be re- Gopaul has been living and confusion. Then out-
every year. Isho fell five storeys. leased on bail next week. in Toronto legally to study rage and a need for ans - the waterm elon
Ombudsman Andre THE CANADIAN PRESS The New York City-area at a hair salon. wers. And finally, relief slices and revealed
Marin, above, said the ve- model, actress and aspir- Batasar refused to com- and embarrassment when itself as ... an
hicles aren’t ambulances Baby stolen ing singer was back in a ment on media reports the “eyeball” she almost
— even though they look Toronto courtroom yester- Gopaul had recently faked fed to her 14-month-old eyeball.’’
like them — and aren’t with van found day where a bail hearing a pregnancy and told daughter turned out not to CARLY JONES, IN AN EMAIL
regulated. date was set for Jan. 21. friends and relatives she be an eyeball at all.
THE CANADIAN PRESS SAFE. Police say a baby Gopaul, 24, is charged had given birth. Police took the way - Jones rushed back to
was found safe in a near- with a bizarre baby abduc- However, Gopaul ap- ward orb to hospital the grocery store to speak
Standoff ends by parking lot after a van tion at a bogus movie cast- peared heavier-set in court yesterday, where a doctor with the manager.
was stolen with the child ing call Dec. 30. than the publicity photo- declared it was not any “He visibly recoiled
peacefully inside on Bloor Street Her lawyer, Gary graphs posted on her web- body part, animal or when he saw it,” she said.
Monday night. Batasar, said outside court site and MySpace and human. The best working She declined an offer to
CLOSED. A police standoff THE CANADIAN PRESS that Gopaul, who is from Facebook pages. theory is that it’s a decom- replace the watermelon.
Hollis neighbourhood of THE CANADIAN PRESS posing blueberry. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
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Cholera epidemic has already killed thousands,
crippling a country in crisis Metro travelled to Haiti,
one year after the devastating earthquake
Haiti
MOA KÄRNSTRAND METRO WORLD NEWS IN PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI
one year later
It’s been one year to the “The need for care was at the emergency hospital them were destroyed in the
day when an earth- immense,” says Francisco of Bicentenaire, a shabby earthquake,” says Otero.
quake with a magni- Otero y Villar, one of the former dental clinic located I take a ride in a well-
tude of 7.0 struck Haiti, mission co-ordinators for in the slums of Port-au- worn 4x4 vehicle on nearly
killing some 230,000 peo- MSP in Haiti. Prince, where violence, impassable roads to Tapis
ple and leaving more than “We don’t have people gang fights and rape have Rouge, a squatter commu-
1.5 million homeless. Just injured from the earth- become part of everyday nity that emerged on the
hours after the quake hit, quake any longer. Now peo- life. southern hills of Port-au-
the international medical ple need help with diseases “Patients cannot go to Prince following the quake. With no access to clean water and sanitation,
aid group Doctors Without that come as an effect of public hospitals, as there Today, more than 14,000 coupled with cramped living conditions, the
Borders (MSP) arrived in the quake,” says Otero. are almost none left in the people live in the settle- Refugee Mega IV camp is ideal for spreading diseases.
Haiti. The chief medic works city. About 60 per cent of ment. The sanitary condi-
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ÅKE ERICSON/METRO
tions are among the worst then turns to violence.”
out of the city’s camps. Dis- The latest turmoil to hit By the
eases transmit through Port-au-Prince was the dis-
every possible means as puted presidential election numbers
people share what little in December when there
squalid space they have were accusations of vote 180K
with goats, rotting rubbish rigging. Riots led to the
and sewage. shutdown of the airport
About 90 per cent of the and cut the route for receiv-
people in Tapis Rouge need ing aid into the country. homes were left damaged
humanitarian aid to have a Haitians’ confidence in the or destroyed in the
chance of surviving. The authorities lessens with aftermath of the Haitian
first case of cholera in the every passing day that earthquake.
camp was reported in early shows no improvements. 19M
December and the num- Both locals and relief work-
bers of infected people ers testify to this.
have increased since. “When the authorities
“In the camp almost get the aid they sell it,” says cubic metres of rubble and
everyone is ill in some a woman in the camp who debris in Port-au-Prince —
way,” says Joseph wanted to remain anony- enough to fill a line of ship-
Dessalines, a Haitian doctor mous. ping containers stretching
at MSF’s mobile hospital in “So many journalists end to end from London to
Tapis Rouge. Skin and pul- have been here, but still Beirut.
monary diseases caused by there are no changes to be 5.8B
cramped and unsanitary seen,” she adds.
conditions are most com- “We need a house. I
mon, he says. want to build a new house,
“When it rains heavily but we have no money,” US dollars was pledged by
on this rugged terrain — it says Jacqueline, a middle- donors to support Haiti’s re-
has already happened three aged woman who sits out- construction until Septem-
times since the earthquake side her tent eating. ber 2011, with less than half
— the ground of the camp Otero arrived here of that having been
fills up with water and straight after the earth- disbursed.
mud. People then panic as quake and is critical of how 450
their makeshift homes be- the world has handled the
gin to collapse,” Dessalines catastrophe that emerged.
says as he surveys the “Thousands of Haitians
campsite. today live under the exact agencies and charities are
“People have been here circumstances as just registered by Haiti officials
for almost a year now and weeks after the earth- out of a colossal 10,000.
they have not seen any quake. What will happen
changes. Their frustration to them?”
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 2011
MOA KÄRNSTRAND/METRO Post-quake trauma
Workers from Doctors Without Borders have been searching camps
since a week after the Haitian earthquake looking for people in need
Even after Haiti’s quake a worker Roudy Metelus, a going to see a psychologist. his team found a girl with a
year ago, many locals still Port-au-Prince native who Many are badly affected by large wound in her arm.
suffer from post-traumatic works in the Tapis Rouge the living conditions here. They found out she was an
stress, but few understand camp. Many children lost their orphan living with her aunt
that the earthquake is the “We are trying to explain parents in the earthquake whose husband beat both
Social worker Roudy Metelus helps those with trauma. reason behind their dis- to people that they do not and still suffer from that.” his wife and the girl.
tress, according to social have to feel ashamed about Last week, Metelus and MOA KÄRNSTRAND
Haitian aid via foreign
agencies slow to come
We promise to make
JOE RAEDLE/GETTY IMAGES
According to Haiti Prime
Minister Jean-Max Bellerive,
only 20 per cent of the aid
your experience comfortable. pledged to the country has
been received so far.
This sluggish response is
a result of delays in money
being channelled via 4,000
non-governmental organi-
zations (NGO) operating in
the country before it can
reach the government. Prime Minister
“Let’s be clear. I have Jean-Max Bellerive
nothing against NGOs —
we need them. What I need “We as a
is to have control over what government have
they do in my country,” Bel- not received the
lerive told the BBC last
money, but we are
month.
The prime minister has the ones accused
been critical of internation- of corruption with
al donors for failing to work
money that we
with Haitians to help them
rebuild their beleaguered haven’t received.”
country. The donors, how- BELLERIVE
ever, claim that giving aid
directly to local authorities outstanding rebuilding ef-
is simply an incentive for al- forts.
ready widespread corrup- A number of relief work-
tion. ers Metro met also believe
Some members from the the donors await the out-
U.S. government have even come of the recent presi-
proposed that non-humani- dential election in Haiti,
tarian aid should be marred by fraud, violence
stopped until Haiti’s politi- and voter intimidation, be-
cians have shown their own fore committing recovery
initiative in tackling the funds. MOA KÄRNSTRAND
Now you’ve Feds rejected request to
got it in writing at
extend mission: Official
gotransit.com
The Canadian government 2,000
turned down a plea to ex-
tend its military relief effort
in Haiti after last year’s
earthquake, says a top Unit- International Co-oper-
ed Nations official in Port- ation Minister Bev
au-Prince. Oda noted that some
Canada was widely members of Canada’s
praised for rushing to pro- military, which
vide emergency help, in- dispatched 2,000
cluding clean water, troops to Haiti in the
security and medical care, quake’s aftermath, are
following the devastating still on the ground.
temblor last Jan. 12.
Wayne, Bus Driver Armed with heavy equip- the engineers in Haiti be-
ment, Canadian military yond the end of Canada’s
engineers also cleared rub- relief mandate, the military
ble and helped Haitians re- packed up and left.
open their roads, “Many felt that they
416 869 3200 particularly in the hard-hit wished they had stayed be-
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Pour plus de renseignements, veuillez visiter le site But despite attempts by the UN’s head of humani-
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the UN and local authorities tarian aid in Haiti.
to persuade Ottawa to keep THE CANADIAN PRESS

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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 2011
Shooting has lawmakers Muslims Lawyer
defend veil yet to rest
reaching for revolvers wearers O.J.’s case
Muslim leaders in Albania Evidence of O.J Simpson’s
Group drafts bill requiring Arizona to arm elected officials and their say they are against govern- innocence was held back
ment plans to ban the use in the 1995 trial in which
staff ‘I don’t think that’s a good idea’: U.S. Senate’s sergeant-in-arms
of veils in schools. he was acquitted of dou-
MARK WILSON/GETTY IMAGES They issued a statement ble murder, one of his for-
The attempted assassina- fetz of Utah and Heath Second Amendment invari- defending the use of the mer lawyers says in a new
tion of a U.S. congress- Shuler, a North Carolina ably meet with vehement veil, which is not document.
woman has put the hot Democrat — are pledging opposition. widespread in the small THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
button issue of gun control to carry firearms to guard Jared Lee Loughner, the Balkan country despite it
back in the spotlight, but against potential copycats. man accused in the at- having a majority Muslim
even after a bullet to the Welcome to the United tempted assassination of population.
brain left their colleague States of America, one of Giffords and the murders of The government says it
fighting for her life, legisla- the most heavily armed na- six others, wasn’t breaking plans to ban the use of the
tors are shying away from tions on Earth — a place any laws when he pur- veil at elementary and high
significantly toughening up where the right to bear chased a powerful handgun schools, in line with
gun laws. arms is considered sacro- and an extra-long ammuni- suggestions from the Euro-
In fact, two House of sanct despite gun-related tion magazine at a ports pean Union, which Albania
Representatives lawmakers mass killings, and attempts store in November. is hoping to join one day. Scan the code for the rest
— Republican Jason Chaf- to revisit the constitution’s THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Heath Shuler THE ASSOCIATED PRESS of the story.
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