Metro Toronto - January 11, 2012

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Wednesday, January 11, 2012
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News worth sharing.
Hydro cutting
hundreds of jobs
Contractors are the first to get bad news as company begins its
downsizing process Aging equipment now half a century old
Toronto Hydro has axed contrac- their jobs.
tors employing between 700 and “We’ve started the process
1,000 workers after receiving a of right-sizing, or downsizing,
stinging rebuke from the Ontario the company to meet the
Energy Board. approved amount,” Peberdy said
And the company says that hun- in an interview.
dreds of permanent staffers — as Contractors already have the
much as 20 per cent of its work- bad news, he said. But it won’t stop
force of 1,700 — will be told soon there.
that their jobs, too, will disappear. “The impacts will start to hit
The dramatic cuts come after Toronto Hydro’s own workforce
the energy board signalled that it shortly,” he added.
won’t give Toronto Hydro any- No final decisions have been
thing close to the $500 million a “The impacts will start made on the staffing cuts required,
year in extra revenue it says it to hit Toronto Hydro’s he said, but “it could be up to a 20
needs for each of the next three own workforce per cent reduction.”
years to mend its aging system. That would be 340 layoffs of If Mayor Rob Ford and Coun. Doug Ford
A spokesperson for a group rep- shortly.” hydro staff. One source said lay- have their way, their waistlines will join the
resenting electrical contractors BLAIR PEBERDY, VICE-PRESIDENT OF off announcements could come city government in shrinking in 2012.
and unions said the cutbacks will TORONTO HYDRO as early as Thursday. Next week, the brothers will launch
have a direct effect on reliable All the jobs being lost are on a public effort to lose weight,
power service. employees will be let go in the projects that Toronto Hydro Doug Ford said Tuesday.
“It won’t be long before we face near term by contractors working has on its books to renew They plan to encourage
power outages, longer and more on projects to upgrade the city’s aging equipment. The com- city residents to join them.
frequent,” said Giselle Matin, aging power grid. pany says it needs to spend heav-
spokesperson for the group called Blair Peberdy, vice-president of ily in coming years because its TARA WALTON/TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
Keep the Lights On. Toronto Hydro, estimated that 700 equipment isn’t as reliable as it Fords pledge fitness kickoff
Martin said that 850 to 1,000 to 900 contract workers will lose should be. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 2012
Airport rents to hit sky
1
Improvements to facilities have TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
been made while taxes, utility costs
have gone up: Porter Airlines CEO
Porter Airlines has hiked “We’re just doing
the rent for occupants of its our best to work
hangars and office space in with each and every
Billy Bishop Toronto City
tenant to try and
Airport, leaving some ten-
news
ants scrambling to meet find a solution.”
the higher costs and forcing PORTER AIRLINES CEO
small business operations ROBERT DELUCE
to consider moving.
Porter owns some facili- They say the amount could
ties on the government- jeopardize business and
owned land and rents out force them out of the air-
hangars and office space to port.
private citizens as well as Robert Deluce, president
aircraft businesses and fly- and CEO of Porter Airlines,
ing schools. said Tuesday that Porter
Between 25 and 30 of needed to put rental rates
these tenants were in- in line with those at compa-
formed in December that rable airports and that the
rent was being increased, airline is aiming to mini-
Hatchet Job of the Year awards
effective as early as Feb. 1. mize the effect on tenants. honour the fine art of the mer-
No monetary figures While criticism has been ciless book review. Scan the
were provided by Porter, centred around the increas- code for the story.
but several tenants contact- es being two or three times
To scan 2D barcodes in
ed by the Toronto Star — all the original amount,
Metro, download the
of whom did not want to be Deluce said some tenants
free ScanLife app at
identified in case the hike were not paying much to
could be renegotiated — begin with, including some Porter Airlines has told tenants of its hangars and office space in Billy Bishop 2dscan.com.
said the increase ranged who were paying nothing. Toronto City Airport that their rents will be increased effective as early as Feb. 1.
On the web at
from 30 to 300 per cent. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
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Nunziata faces disciplinary action The study, released military official
Tuesday and prepared by
explains why he
News in brief Hill Strategies Research
COLIN MCCONNELL/TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE Inc. in partnership with ended a press
The body that regulates On- charged in October 2008, five Canadian municipali-
T.O. dead last conference with
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disciplinary proceedings charges against Milthorpe. in arts funding investment level at $19 a failed suicide
against John Nunziata, ac- In a notice released on per capita. attempt. More at
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Toronto mayoral candidate Upper Canada alleges that ranks Toronto at the bot- al with $55 per capita, fol-
of lying under oath. during a “pre-enquete” tom in municipal arts in- lowed by Vancouver ($47), video
It’s the latest develop- John Nunziata hearing on Nov. 6, 2008, vestment, one day after Calgary ($42) and Ottawa
ment in a story that dates Nunziata admitted to the Nunziata testified he did the city’s budget commit- ($28).
back to 2008, when Nunzia- assault at a trial in May not kick Milthorpe — an tee approved an operating Toronto’s per-capita in-
ta, 57, kicked his ex-wife’s 2010 and was sentenced to act he later admitted under budget that would see 10 vestment has increased Follow us on
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 2012
Hospital to probe baby’s death
YOUTUBE VIDEO other and switching
around in a domino-like
Joy of effect, it’s a cute message
Books an aebnojouyti nthge a t abcotoilke. joy of LUCAS OLENIUK/TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE City’s first birth of 2012 died Jan. 5
Shot in a stop-motion
online hit format, each small
movement of the books Scarborough General Hos-
had to be moved by pital will conduct an inter- City’s average
Toronto’s Type Books is hand. nal review of the death of
making a splash on the The production clear- Greater Toronto’s first baby Toronto averages six deaths
web with its fun stop- ly took some time, and of 2012, the hospital said per 1,000 births each year,
motion video titled The the YouTube posting Tuesday. totalling 180 deaths of ba-
Joy of Books. thanks several Ming Shui Lei was born bies under 12 months old.
A clever and beautiful- volunteers who all 40 seconds after midnight About 150 are neonatal
ly shot short piece, the helped make the cool vi- on Jan. 1 and discharged deaths of newborns
video imagines what sual effects in the video. from the hospital with his between 0 and 27 days,
happens after the book- To watch, visit mother, Li Zhang, the next mostly due to conditions re-
store closes. With books typebooks.ca day. The family immigrated lated to pregnancy and pre-
dancing, reading each TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE here from China last year. mature births, with others
The baby died Jan. 5, re- involving congenital abnor-
portedly due to bowel prob- malities.
Durham gets Cyclist badly
lems after the family
power to injured after missed two post-partum as- into Ming Shui’s death.
sessment appointments. Over the years, postpar-
elect chair hitting dog The discharge was con- tum hospital stays have de-
sistent with Canadian Pae- clined dramatically from
diatric Society four to five days in the
Durham region has been A cyclist suffered serious recommendations, and hos- 1970s to the current norm
given the right to elect its head injuries after colliding pital spokesperson Dave of one to two days, a result
regional chairperson by the with a dog and falling Bourne had told the Toron- of new mothers’ wishes to
province after Municipal while riding in Uxbridge, to Star the baby “appeared return home sooner and of
Affairs Minister Kathleen northeast of Toronto.The Li Zhang gave birth to six-pound, 14-ounce baby boy, to be in good health at the hospital cutbacks, accord-
Wynne signed a regulation man, 48, was not wearing a Ming Shui Lei, 40 seconds after midnight at Scarborough time of the discharge.” ing to the Public Health
Tuesday. helmet, Durham police say. General Hospital on Jan. 1. The coroner’s office is Agency of Canada.
THE CANADIAN PRESS THE CANADIAN PRESS not ruling out an inquest TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
Maple trees face twin threat, says official
JIM WILKES/TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
The iconic maple tree is at and heading north” from want to live in?” Miller said Natural Resources Minis-
risk in Ontario unless the New York state could start after delivering a report ter Michael Gravelle did
province does more to pro- chewing through maples critical of the provincial not share Miller’s dim view
tect the species from the here within 10 years, government for not having of the future for maples.
twin threats of long- Miller warned Tuesday. a strategy to protect biodi- “I don’t think that’s the
horned beetles and climate Global warming could versity — everything from case. I think that we can,
change, says Environmen- also make it too hot and trees, to fish and wildlife. hopefully, find our way
tal Commissioner Gord dry for new maples to grow Bugs and disease have through this,” Gravelle
Miller. “in a few decades,’ Miller taken their toll on other said, pointing to his gov-
While the beetles have added. tree species, showing the ernment’s biodiversity ef-
already been found in sev- Such a future would latest challenges are “real, forts that include
eral areas of the GTA and have repercussions for practical problems” faced protecting a greenbelt
quarantine zones have tourism, forestry and the by the province, Miller around Toronto from de-
been set up for the destruc- $15-million annual maple- Howard Stanley of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency added, noting black spruce velopment and a new law
tion of any infested broad- syrup industry. shows off an Asian Long-Horned Beetle. also face a threat from cli- protecting endangered
leafed trees, beetles “loose “Is that the Ontario we mate change. species. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 2012
Churches targeted
Smiling. Faces
for cellphone towers
Bell Mobility has approached several Mississauga
churches in bid to ensure better phone signals
Has Bell Mobility found had proposed a cellphone
religion? tower at a Lutheran Residents
Some Mississauga resi- church, but withdrew the
dents are wondering, as proposal after local oppo- Some residents near the
the company looks over a sition. existing tower say the
number of church proper- The churches are said rules weren’t enough to
ties in the city to locate to be offered about give the community a full
cellphone towers. $13,000 a year in rent, al- understanding of what
The company has al- though no one would con- was going on.
ready found its calling in firm the figure.
one location: Kingdom Asked whether church- One said only nine homes,
Glory Church on North es are being targeted, Bell right near the tower,
Sheridan Way, where the responded in an email: received formal notice.
phone tower doubles as a “Our priority when select- Neighbours worry that Cassie Steele, left, Joe Dinicol and
soaring cross. ing a site is ensuring the having a communications Benjamin Charles Watson, cast members from
Now, Bell Mobility has location meets our net- tower in a residential The L.A. Complex, drop by MuchMusic to talk
proposed a 31-metre tow- work coverage require- neighbourhood — about the show’s series premier, which aired on
er at nearby Clarkson ments. especially one disguised as Tuesday.
Road Presbyterian “While some of our a cross — could set a
Church. sites are located on precedent for cross-
The company had pre- church property, others marketing other enterpris- The L.A. Complex cast visit MuchMCOURTESY OF MuUCHMUSICsic
viously sounded out are on property owned by es with phone towers. Bell
a United Church congre- private citizens, business- says the Clarkson Road
gation in the neighbour- es or government.” Presbyterian site is still in The L.A. Complex follows the fictional lives of a group of people in Los Angeles
hood, and a year ago TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE its early stages. living in the same apartment complex as they try to make it big in Hollywood.
Jack Layton’s successor ‘daunted and honoured’
MATTHEW SHERWOOD/THE CANADIAN PRESS
A day after winning the place Layton, who led the “go-forward” energy and honour as well. People ask
NDP nomination in Jack NDP in its historic 2011 atmosphere that was big- what it’s like to aspire to
Layton’s Toronto-Danforth campaign. But, if elected, ger than the nomination replace him and the first
riding, human-rights he hopes to follow Lay- itself. thing I say is that nobody
lawyer Craig Scott said he ton’s example as a com- can replace him — ab-
was both “tired and exhila- mitted local Did you know Jack? solutely not. I think of it as
rated, daunted and hon- representative with broad- No, I didn’t have the privi- following in his footsteps,
oured.” er national interests. lege of knowing Jack. I was not walking in his shoes.
Layton, the beloved in rooms with him and in- This riding has come to ex-
NDP leader who died of Can you describe what you spired by him, but I didn’t pect exceptional represen-
cancer on Aug. 22, had were feeling Monday night? have that privilege. tation, so expectations
held the riding since 2004 I think the most exciting have to be high, but no-
and garnered more than part was the energy in the How does it feel to be taking body can reach his level;
60 per cent of the vote in room. There were some- Craig Scott, centre, celebrates with MP Olivia Chow over the nomination in his he had become a very spe-
the 2011 election. Scott where around 800 people and MPP Peter Tabuns after winning the nomination old riding? cial Canadian.
said he has no plans to re- and there was a kind of to run for the NDP in Toronto-Danforth on Monday. It’s daunting and it’s an TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 2012
Mother says she Teen pleads
Enbridge. Hearing
guilty to
killing
had never heard
9-year-old
of honour killings
A Missouri teenager who
told authorities she wanted
to know what it felt like to
kill pleaded guilty Tuesday
to murder, telling a judge
Has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder charges
that she strangled a nine-
year-old neighbour with
LARS HAGBERG/THE CANADIAN PRESS
A woman accused of mur- tom of a canal in Kingston her hands, stabbed her in
dering her three daugh- on June 30, 2009, when the chest and cut her
ters and her husband’s the Montreal family was throat with a knife. Alyssa
other wife in a so-called heading home after a trip Bustamante pleaded guilty
honour killing had never to Niagara Falls, Ont. to second-degree murder
even heard of the “shame- The Crown alleges the and armed criminal action
ful” concept until after she girls were killed because Matthew Mask, a local plumber dressed in a Super in the Oct. 21, 2009, killing
was arrested, she testified they were dating and oth- Mario costume, holds a sign in support of the Enbridge of Elizabeth Olten in St.
Tuesday. erwise misbehaving, Northern Gateway Project outside hearings for the Martins, a rural town just
Never in her life, in- shaming the family hon- project in Kitimaat Village, B.C., on Tuesday. west of Jefferson City.
cluding the 21 years she our. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
lived in Afghanistan, had Yahya said it’s an entire- DARRYL DYCK/THE CANADIAN PRESS
she ever heard of a “stupid Tooba Yahya ly new idea to her. Piping up about pipelines 2Prosecutors said
father or a stupid mother “This is something Bustamante had
(doing) anything like this,” which I never heard,” she plotted Elizabeth’s
Tooba Yahya told court. ters and Shafia’s first wife testified. “Honour killing, Thousands of people have registered to speak at death, even digging
Yahya, 42, her husband in a polygamous marriage. I heard that this time the hearings regarding the proposed $5.5-billion two holes to be used
Mohammad Shafia, 58, Zainab, 19, Sahar, 17, which they put that name project to pipe Alberta oil 1,200-kilometres across as graves, then attend-
and their son Hamed, 21, Geeti, 13, and Rona Amir to our case which is really Alberta and British Columbia to the northwest coast ing school for about a
are accused of killing Mohammad, 52, were shameful for us.” community of Kitimat, where the oil will be week while waiting for
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 2012
Four dead in Winnipeg
Keystone Air accident
One man injured in deadly northern Ontario crash
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Peter Hildebrand, region- Air Service, said details
al operations manager for were sketchy. It was too
the Transportation Safety caught fire after crashing. soon to know whether the
Board of Canada, confirmed A person reached at the crash was caused by me-
three passengers and the pi- Thunder Bay Aboriginal chanical failure, he said.
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10 news
Vacant
city
without
pity
Chinese newspapers love
making fun of Ordos’ low-
ly status as a “ghost city.”
Most of them mention
the desperate attempts
from real estate
promoters to escape the
coal billionaires who are
asking for their money
back.
Local media reports
say many debtors deliber-
ately drive past police
stations while drunk.
They do this to spend
a few days behind bars
hiding away from their
creditors.
Others have already
left the country or Ordos housing complexes ready for living ... but sitting empty on the edge of the Gobi Desert.
committed suicide. Ordos symbolizes China’s goal to move millions of people from rural areas to big cities to create a middle class.
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