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A nation in ruins
Canadian link
(cid:129) Canada has one of the
world’s largest Haitian dias-
poras. Some facts about the
Haitian-Canadian communi-
ty:
(cid:129)102,430 people in Canada
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Haitians, with 2,150 living in rubble-strewn streets yes- stunned expressions frozen
the metropolitan Toronto terday, crying for loved on their faces, men hidden
area, according to the 2006 ones, and rescuers beneath plastic tarps and
census. searched collapsed build- cotton sheets.
(cid:129)Prominent Haitian-Canadi- ings as officials feared the Haiti’s leaders struggled
ans include: Gov. Gen. death toll to compre-
Michaëlle Jean; former from Haiti’s Catastrophe hend the ex-
world champion boxer devastating tent of the ca-
Joachim Alcine; current earthquake (cid:129) The international Red tastrophe —
world light-heavyweight could reach Cross said one-third of the the worst
boxing champion Jean Pas- into the tens country’s nine million peo- earthquake to
cal; Olympic gold-medal of thousands. ple may need emergency hit the coun-
sprinter Bruny Surin; hockey The first aid, a burden that would test try in 200
player Georges Laraque; cargo planes any nation and a crushing years.
NBA basketball player with food, catastrophe for impover- “It’s incred-
Samuel Dalembert; Canada’s water, med- ished Haiti. ible,” Preval
first elected black mayor ical supplies, told CNN. “A
Firmin Monestime of Mat- shelter and sniffer dogs lot of houses destroyed,
tawa, Ont.; Jean Alfred, who headed to the Western hospitals, schools, personal
was the first black member Hemisphere’s poorest na- homes. A lot of people in
of Quebec’s national assem- tion a day after the magni- the street dead ... I’m still
bly; award-winning author tude-7 quake flattened looking to understand the
Dany Laferriere. much of the capital of two magnitude of the event and
THE CANADIAN PRESS million people. how to manage.”
Tuesday’s earthquake Preval said thousands of
brought down buildings people were probably
News on the M ve great and small — from killed. Leading Sen. Youri
shacks in shantytowns to Latortue told The Associat-
What’s this President Rene Preval’s ed Press that 500,000 could
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At a triage centre impro- said.
VancouverGames vised in a hotel parking lot, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
people with cuts, broken
bones and crushed ribs On the web
Countdown moaned under tent-like
to 2010 covers fashioned from (cid:129)Visit metronews.ca
An injured child sits on a sidewalk yesterday in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Tuesday’s magnitude-7 earth- bloody sheets. for the latest developments
Follow Metro as we quake flattened much of the Haitian capital of two million people and led some to say that tens of “This is much worse than on the earthquake in Haiti.
bring you daily thousands could be dead. More coverage, pages 3, 8, 11, 35. a hurricane,” said doctors’
coverage leading up
to the 2010 Winter
Olympics in Vancouver. How you can help: Ways to assist earthquake victims
• Today — Hudec’s
Olympic
dream is on The following is a list of Canadian Red Cross: manitariancoalition.ca. Fund.” World Vision Canada:
the line this reputable aid organiza- www.redcross.ca/helpnow, Plan Canada: www.plan- Doctors Without Bor- www.worldvision.ca/give-a-
weekend, tions currently seeking call toll free 1-800-418- canada.ca/ ders: www.msf.ca gift/Pages/Earthquakein-
page 22 cash donations for relief ef- 1111, or visit any Red Salvation Army: Unicef Canada: Haiti.aspx
forts in earthquake-rav- Cross office. www.salvationarmy.ca, or www.unicef.ca/portal/Smart The Department of For-
aged Haiti. Humanitarian Coalition call 1-800-725-2769. Dona- Default.aspx eign Affairs and Interna-
On the web Donations can be made (consists of CARE Canada, tions can also be dropped United Jewish Appeal of tional Trade has also com-
at the web pages or by call- Oxfam Canada, Oxfam- off at local Salvation Army Greater Toronto: piled a guide at www.inter-
Visit metronews.ca ing the appropriate phone Quebec and Save the Chil- units. Specify “Haiti Earth- www.ujadonations.com/ national.gc.ca.
for news updates numbers. dren Canada):www.thehu- quake Disaster Relief haiti or call 416-631-5705. THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Residents rattled over rail appeal
Local
Residents near the West Toronto Diamond rail construction area say their newfound peace will be
shattered if GO Transit persuades a federal court to overrule new restrictions on pile-driving in the
Dundas Street West and Keele Street neighbourhood. Last month, the Canadian Transportation
Agency ordered GO to limit the hours and improve the techniques it was using to build the grade
separation at that rail crossing. If the federal court of appeal stays the CTA decision, residents say
their last recourse in railway disputes will be eliminated. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
Elmira nurse killed in quake
An Ontario nurse who support in several northern by this loss, and wish to ex- ment, but a posting on the
Haiti
died in the earthquake in communities. press our sincere sympathy website said the church
Haiti was on her fourth “It is with a heavy heart Crisis to her family,” the group’s would be open for people
medical mission to the is- that I share with you the president Phil Delsaut said to come and pray for Mar-
land country, her church death of our dear sister, fourth time.” in the statement. tin and for Haiti.
said yesterday. Yvonne Martin,” read a The Evangelical Church “We also extend our sym- “Please continue to pray
Yvonne Martin of Elmira, statement posted by the of Canada, the group be- pathy to the families of oth- for her family, especially
Ont., was one of seven peo- Waterloo Mennonite hind the missionary work, er foreign relief workers in- her husband Ron,” the post-
ple who had arrived in Brethren Church. said the workers had just jured or missing and to the ing reads.
Haiti’s capital Port-au- “Yvonne passed away as settled into a guest house people of Haiti affected by “In unity with them we
Prince Tuesday afternoon a result of the earthquake when the ground began to this disaster.” are consoled to know that
when the earthquake hit. in Haiti, where she had tremble and the shelter col- A woman who answered she died doing exactly what
The group was planning to just arrived to do medical lapsed. the phone at the Waterloo she loved to do.”
provide medical care and mission work for the “We are deeply saddened church declined to com- THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Urban Compass McGuinty says he feels a donor fatigue for Haiti; peo-
April Lindgren “sense of responsibility” to ple are a little desensitized
brings Metro help Haitians, who form about the misfortunes that
readers the part of Ontario’s diverse hit that country,” said den-
issues that population. tist Eric Pierre, honorary
are affecting Tuesday’s magnitude-7 consul general for
Torontonians quake in Haiti was the Toronto’s 15,000 Haitians
strongest to hit the poor and founder of the
Caribbean country in more Pierspective humanitarian
than 200 years. aid agency.
The quake crushed thou- Tonia Dyer began to cry.
sands of buildings, from At 76, she has been co-ordi-
WHAT’S ONLINE TODAY schools and shacks to the nating relief here in Toron-
National Palace and the to for her homeland for 30
BlogsBackbeat takes a final United Nations peacekeep- years, after hurricanes, af-
look at the influential artists ing headquarters. Matt Capobianco, left, and Sean D’Souza, of Global Medics, load up supplies that will be going for ter floods, after a school
who left us this past decade THE CANADIAN PRESS the relief effort in Haiti. collapsed with no warning
VideoGov. Gen. Michaëlle at all, and now the worst
Jean’s emotional disaster of all.
message to her News in brief Like so many Haitians
Haitian “broth- around the world, Dyer
ers and sisters” COMMUNICATION The Internet went dead. But the sad reality being posted under the #haiti huge impact in establishing the woke early yesterday,
at metronews. proved to be the best link be- is few in the impover-ished hashtag — relatively few origi- initial lines of communication unable to sleep, haunted by
ca/canada tween people in Haiti and the country had the means to go nated from inside the country. with aid workers already on the nightmares and compelled
outside world in the hours af- online. While Twitter was be- According to the most recent ground in Haiti, reported both to start calling relatives
ter Tuesday’s devastating earth- ing barraged with messages estimates from the World Red Cross Canada and Oxfam again for news.
quake, with blog posts, tweets about the quake yesterday — Bank, just more than 10 per Canada, which used Skype “I don’t know if we’re go-
and video conferencing getting in the afternoon several cent of Haitians have access to video conferencing in lieu of ing to get any good news.”
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SOLD children at an Oshawa school in 2008, a witness testified yesterday. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
Seniors must know when
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McGuinty’s comments Avenue and Martin Grove Road reportedly pushed her baby’s
W ! came a day after a mother stroller out of harm’s way just before impact.
N E was killed when she and
her baby were hit while part of government.”
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harmed despite being Bradley. When drivers turn surfaced in 2000, when a
knocked out of his stroller. 80, they must pass a writ- Toronto woman died after
The driver was an 83- ten test and attend a class being dragged for almost a
year-old woman. with other drivers. If the kilometre under a car driven
McGuinty said he’s will- driver has any demerit by 84-year-old Pilar Hicks.
ing to listen to any advice points, they must pass a
his transport minister may road test, he said. re-test. Any medical prob-
offer, but doesn’t believe Drivers over the age of lems must also be reported
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Toronto’s Barrick Gold Corp. has launched a lawsuit in an attempt to stop New
Gold Inc. from selling 70 per cent of a project in Chile.THE CANADIAN PRESS
First for the church
Nguyen ordained as bishop, makes Roman Catholic history
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Nguyen, 43, was named
an auxiliary bishop in the
Archdiocese of Toronto
with responsibility for the
areas of Scarborough and
Durham just 12 years after
becoming a priest.
Several members of his
family arrived from Saigon
on Monday night so they
could be on hand for the
ceremony — the first full Auxiliary Bishop Vincent Nguyen, right, was ordained yesterday
family reunion in 30 years. at St. Michael’s Cathedral.
Also present was a for-
mer Toronto high school with 19 family members in thinking about the day I’d
teacher who once taught 1983. be ordained bishop,” he
Nguyen English. “I don’t think at any told CTV.
Nguyen fled Vietnam point in my life I was THE CANADIAN PRESS
McGuinty defends comments Third arrest made
about allegations against Fantino after deadly attack
CRIMEToronto police have
ALLEGATIONS Premier Dal- arrested a third person in
ton McGuinty is rejecting What he said the death of a man who
suggestions he was trying was attacked at a shopping
to downplay the criminal al- (cid:129) On Tuesday, McGuinty plaza last July.
legations against Ontario’s said there was no need for Annushath Indrakan -
top cop. Fantino to step aside until than, 19, was attacked by
Provincial police Com- the charge is dealt with be- as many as five men last Ju-
missioner Julian Fantino is cause it’s a “private infor- ly 20 and died on the way
facing one count of influ- mation being put forward to hospital after being hit
encing or attempting to in- by a private citizen.” on the head with a
fluence municipal officials hammer and stabbed.
— an allegation he has before the courts, and said Police say Theepan
vowed to fight. he wasn’t trying to trivialize Thivviyananthan, 19, of
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8 Canadian who runs Haitian orphanage prepares for more children
A Calgary-area man who runs an orphanage in Haiti says he’s expecting to care for more children than ever following a devastating earthquake
that has killed thousands. Jerry Epp, president of God’s Littlest Angels Canada, says all 160 children in his agency’s care are OK. THE CANADIAN PRESS
Give more money to Haiti: Ignatieff
Canada
Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff says the Canadian government should be
contributing more money to help earthquake victims in Haiti. Ignatieff says the $5
million in aid that Ottawa announced yesterday is a good start but Canada should
give more. Speaking to University of Toronto students this morning, the Liberal
leader said Canadians should stand together to help Haitians, who are dealing
with horrific scenes of devastation. THE CANADIAN PRESS
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helicopters, ships and a cated more aid could flow through a long, fraught donor aid.
disaster-response team to following the assessment of evening, getting urgent but “I don’t know what’s
help Haitians left without a Canadian military recon- sporadic reports at Rideau happened,” said Robert Is-
food, water, shelter and naissance team. Hall with U.S. ambassador mael, host of a Montreal
medical services after Oda said Canada has mos- David Jacobson. Haitian radio station. “I
Tuesday’s devastating quito nets, basic household And she kept her compo- Governor General Michaëlle Jean addresses dignitaries gathered don’t know if I have family
earthquake. goods, tents and sanitation sure during a highly unusu- for a briefing on the situation in Haiti at the department of For- who have died or not.”
Cabinet ministers out- packages that are ready to al inside-the-war-room pho- eign Affairs in Ottawa yesterday. THE CANADIAN PRESS
lined the government’s ef- go as soon as it’s clear what to-op with Prime Minister
forts yesterday and said at precisely is needed. Despite Stephen Harper and his cri- of the Canadian Embassy She concluded her state-
least one Canadian suffered the situation’s urgency, she sis-management team yes- staff in Port-au-Prince. ment with a Creole mes-
minor injuries in the quake, said it’s important to take terday. “Now more than ever, it sage directly to her Haitian
while another was trapped time to co-ordinate relief ef- But during a sombre is time for us to show our homeland.
in a collapsed building. For- forts. THE CANADIAN PRESS press conference on the solidarity with the most “I was saying to the Hait-
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Police in Chatham, Ont., have filed charges against a retired Anglican minister over an alleged sexual assault dating back about 40 years. The suspect,
79-year-old Meurig Pari Lloyd, is charged with two counts each of rape, gross indecency, and intercourse with a female under the age of 14. THE CANADIAN PRESS
Is obesity a national crisis? Stelmach
reshuffles
his cabinet
Extensive s tudy shows two-thirds of adults are overweight or obese
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nearly two-thirds of adults clined dramatically in the the deficit in next month’s
are overweight or obese, last generation,” said Trem- budget.
and a quarter of children blay, who runs the Healthy Former Liberal Gene
share that boat with them. Activity Living and Obesity Zwozdesky has been
A prominent Canadian research unit at the Chil- named health minister, re-
obesity researcher said the dren’s Hospital of Eastern placing the feisty Ron
figures point to a country Ontario in Ottawa. Liepert, who is going from
in crisis: “Well, if you look Where some had argued one trouble spot to anoth-
at those numbers I’d be that the increasing size and er as the new energy min-
very surprised to see what weight of Canadians meant ister. THE CANADIAN PRESS
actually qualifies as a na- they were becoming more
tional crisis if this does muscle-bound, the study
not,” said Dr. Arya Sharma, shows that isn’t the case. News in brief
chair of obesity studies at Statistics Canada health measures specialist Jennifer Patry-Parisien, left, demonstrates a skinfold The survey, conducted by
the University of Alberta test (which measures body fat) on Josee Savoie, chief of content and analysis for the Canadian Statistics Canada, is based VALE INCO Premier Dalton
and scientific director of health measures survey, at a Statistics Canada mobile examination centre in Laval, Que., yesterday. on extensive health and fit- McGuinty says his government
the Canadian Obesity Net- ness data collected from is willing to help Vale Inco and
work. Carrying fat around the is absolutely astonishing,” prevalence or percentage 5,000 people aged six its striking workers come to a
Another researcher, who middle is much more dam- said Ian Janssen, an assis- that have abdominal obesi- through 79 across the coun- resolution in their sixth-
focuses on the distribution aging for one’s health than tant professor with the ty, it’s two-thirds … That’s try. The data were collected month-long labour dispute.
of fat on the body and its excess weight at the hips Centre for Obesity Re- unbelievable. That’s in- between March 2007 and The premier’s words came as
impact on health, was and buttocks. search and Education at creased from 26 per cent in February 2009. A second the union filed a bad-faith bar-
struck by the sharp in- “The information on the Queen’s University in women in 1981 and 23 per round of the survey is cur- gaining complaint against the
crease in rates of Canadians rates of abdominal obesity, Kingston, Ont. cent in men in 1981. So rently underway. company yesterday.
who are carrying belly fat. particularly in older adults, “When you look at the we’re seeing bigger increas- THE CANADIAN PRESS THE CANADIAN PRESS
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10 Three people dead in transport truck accident
Two Ontario men and a man from Montreal are dead following a head-on crash between two transport trucks on Highway 17 in northern Ontario.
The crash happened at about 6:10 a.m. outside of Dean Lake, Ont., about 125 kilometres east of Sault Ste. Marie. THE CANADIAN PRESS
Inuit take EU to court over seal ban
News in brief
POLICEWinnipeg’s police chief
says there would be fewer offi-
A coalition of Inuit welfare justification. “We’re hoping it will be sels, Belgium and deals tion, passed in Septem- cers on the streets if he caves to
groups is asking a “We’re don’t believe the overturned.” largely with complaints ber, contains an exemp- union demands for paid work-
European court to end regulation was based on The Canadian group has about EU regulations. The tion for aboriginal hunts, out time. The police union is
the European Union’s ban sound information,” said teamed up with Green- documents were filed Simon said Inuit will still calling for the city to give offi-
on importing seal Mary Simon, head of landic Inuit to contest the Monday, said lawyer Hen- be affected by it. A similar cers time during shifts to work
products, saying the Canada’s national Inuit regulation in the Euro- drik Viaene, who repre- ban in the 1980s de- out in the gym, something that
move was made without organization, Inuit Tapiri- pean General Court, sents the Inuit groups. pressed all seal fur prices. is done in Calgary and Victoria.
conservation or animal it Kanatami. which is based in Brus- Although the EU regula- THE CANADIAN PRESS THE CANADIAN PRESS
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