Metro Toronto - January 13, 2010

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Infant
Toronto zoo
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California-based In
Defense of Animals put Mother hit and killed
Toronto’s zoo second after
San Antonio’s. Others
include city zoos in Hous- crossing intersection
ton, the Bronx, and Toledo,
Ohio. The group, which
based its conclusions on One second, Chris lost her life,” said Const.
Toronto contacts and me- Stanfield saw a woman Hugh Smith of Toronto Traf-
dia reports, says the zoo’s crossing the intersection, fic Services. “It’s a bad situa-
enclosure lacks the space, pushing a stroller. The tion all around.”
natural conditions and es- next moment, she was Smith said pedestrians
pecially the climate pinned under had waited for
elephants need. a car and a “What I say is the walk sign
Pachyderms are dying at 12-week-old before cross-
the hero here is
an “unprecedented infant was ing the road.
rate,” the group said knocked to the woman, the Early re-
in a release yester- the ground. pedestrian, who ports suggest-
day, noting the “I didn’t see ed the young
zoo has lost it happen but stopped right after mother tried
four eleph- heard the im- the collision to to push the
ants “pre- pact (of the stroller out of
pick up the child.”
mature- collision),” harm’s way,
ly” in Stanfield said. Const. Hugh Smith but Smith said
four A quick-think- it’s not clear if
years ing pedestrian picked up that happened.
— the baby boy and handed “What I say is the hero
two him to Stanfield, who had here is the woman, the
just been waiting for the traffic pedestrian, who stopped
last lights to turn green at Eglin- right after the collision to
year. TORSTAR ton Avenue and Martin pick up the child,” he said.
NEWS SERVICE Grove Road. He took the in- “The baby could have gone
fant to his SUV to keep him into shock on the cold
News on the M ve warm. ground at that age.”
But the boy’s 28-year-old The baby boy was taken
What’s this mother wasn’t so lucky — to the Hospital for Sick Chil-
barcode for? she died within 15 minutes dren with minor injuries.
Learn how to scan of the collision yesterday. As of last night, Childrens’
tthhee i bnastrrcuocdteio wnsit aht Police said the woman Aid workers were still try-
the top of pg 3 was crossing Eglinton Av- ing to locate a relative who
enue from the southwest could care for the child,
side at about 12:45 p.m., Smith said.
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woman driving northbound the green Toyota Camry
Countdown ran a red light and slammed could be charged with care-
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Carroll opts out of mayoralty race
Local
The field is narrowing in the race to be Toronto’s next mayor after budget chief Shel-
ley Carroll announced yesterday she would seek re-election as a councillor. Carroll
joined John Tory in staying out of the Oct. 25 mayoralty race, where the declared can-
didates already include George Smitherman, Rocco Rossi and Giorgio Mammoliti.
Deputy Mayor Joe Pantalone plans to file his papers today and Councillor Adam Gi-
ambrone is expected to decide by the end of the month. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
Teachers hold strike vote today
200,000 full-time college students could be out of class in February
Premier Dalton McGuinty shared interests in a bright
encouraged both sides Student reaction future.”
yesterday to work togeth- Key issues are workload,
er to avoid a strike at On- (cid:129)The possibility of a strike has which had more than 22,700 them their semester. The peti- academic freedom and
tario’s two dozen commu- students like Graeme Mc- members by mid-afternoon tion was presented to union management’s decision in
nity colleges that would Naughton, 21, worried. The yesterday. More than 4,100 of and college representatives November to impose its of-
end classes for at least Humber College journalism them had signed his online over the lunch hour, Mc- fer on the teachers without
200,000 full-time students. student started a Facebook petition, calling on colleges Naughton said. Students want a vote, said Montgomery.
About 9,000 college in- group called Ontario College and the union to avert a strike both sides to resume bargain- Workload was also the top
structors will vote today on Students Against A Strike, that students fear could cost ing, he said. issue when college teach-
whether to give their ers went on strike for
Scan this barcode for more Local union a strike mandate af- bers, said in an interview effects any job action could cated workforce,” McGuin- three weeks back in 2006,
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INDEX Ted Montgomery, chair- for at least a month. economy, this is a not just learning on hold, you’re Both sides indicated a
man of the Ontario Public The premier said he had about the interests of the not just compromising the willingness to resume
Canada Pg 5 Service Employees Union’s faith in both sides to up- students, it’s about our col- interests of the students talks although none are
Comment Pg 8 bargaining team, which hold the interests of stu- lective interests in having and families affected, scheduled.
World Pg 9 represents faculty mem- dents and spoke about the a highly skilled and edu- you’re compromising our THE CANADIAN PRESS
Sports Pg 12
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Travel Pg 22 Let the registrations begin Minister quits cabinet
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year-olds. Watson con- is demon-
An official in Premier Dal- firmed yester- is demonstrating his strating his
WHAT’S ONLINE TODAY ton McGuinty’s office said day he’s quit- belief in public belief in pub-
after yesterday’s announce- ting cabinet, lic service
Blogs It’s Called Football ment, which named the al- and will re- service.” and commit-
welcomes Sean Keay of mls- most-600 schools in the first sign as a Dalton McGuinty ment to im-
draft.ca to break down the phase, that individual Education Minister Kathleen Wynne made an important member of proving the
draft, and SpinDoctor details boards must decide what to announcement at David Hornell Junior School in Etobicoke the Ontario legislature, to lives of families in my
how the digital age tripped do if demand exceeds spots. about full-day learning coming to 101 Toronto schools. run for mayor of Ottawa. hometown of Ottawa,”
up Stephen Kindergarten registration The premier has up to McGuinty said in a release
Harper’s revs up this month and lies living in-district will be lem, said superintendent six months after a resigna- yesterday.
proroga- next, and lotteries might be eligible for the full-day pro- Lisa Millar. tion to call a byelection THE CANADIAN PRESS
tion an answer. gram at 25 schools, said Karen Grose, a system su-
plans. “We can’t afford to fund spokesperson Ross Virgo. perintendent with the News in brief
all of this instantly,” At the Durham District Toronto District School
McGuinty said at an ele- School Board, in the rare Board, said lotteries are pos- LIFTED A ban on publishing the quested and was granted a
mentary school in case a school can’t accom- sible but “the first challenge name of an Oshawa man and complete ban on the names of
Chatham. “We’d ask those modate local children, the is to measure the demand the toddler he is accused of 26-year-old Michael Harvey
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metro metronews.ca Wednesday, January 13, 2010
4 local Assault suspect surrenders
Police say a second suspect wanted in a sexual assault investigation has surrendered. Jacob Samuel Videki, 19, of Toronto, has been charged
with sexual assault. Nicholas Vozgenikov, 20, was charged Monday with sexual assault and assault causing bodily harm. THE CANADIAN PRESS
Baking a McGuinty
FundingRevamping the Bat Cave
backs Fantino
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Premier
Canada Bread Co. says it where it will build the new Dalton
plans to open the facility. McGuinty Julian Fantino
country’s biggest bakery Ontario municipalities downplayed
somewhere in southwest- aggressively compete to at- the allegations, calling
ern Ontario, an area that tract the food sector, recog- them “private information
has been hard-hit by the nized as an economic driv- Infrastructure Minister John Baird, from left, executive director of ROM governors Marie Bountro- ... put forward by a private
recent economic er in a province that has gianni and ROM chair Salvatore Badali admire an Atruscan female head from 500 B.C. yesterday. citizen” — and said he’ll let
downturn and a longer- been hurt by the downturn Baird was on hand to promise $2.75 million for two permanent galleries of Roman and Byzantine the case work its way
term loss of manu- in the North Ameri- artifacts in addition to the revamping of the Royal Ontario Museum’s Bat Cave, in which Roman through the courts.
facturing jobs. Products can auto sector and and Byzantine artifacts are displayed. When pressed on
The new 300-job other manufactur- whether Fantino should
bakery announced (cid:129) Canada ing industries. take a leave from his
yesterday comes as Bread Co. Brantford, Ont., duties, McGuinty said he
Toronto 18 aimed to kill, informant says
Canada’s largest makes bread, has a “food cluster didn’t think such a step
breadmaker lays out buns, rolls, task force” that has was required.
plans to shutter the bagels and solicited invest- TESTIMONYCourt is hearing targets around Ontario in delhaleem thought a small THE CANADIAN PRESS
operations of three other baked ments from 21 food that an accused Toronto 18 2006. amount of deaths would be
smaller Toronto products un- manufacturers in- member said it would be An informant is testify- good as it would show peo- News in brief
bakeries that the der the Demp- cluding Maidstone “good” if people were ing in a Brampton court- ple they were serious.
company says are ster’s brand. Bakeries, which killed in a terror bomb room that Abdelhaleem The informant says Ab- CRIME A person charged with
aging and unable to produces Tim Hor- plot. was against the plot delhaleem floated a num- manslaughter in the shooting
expand. ton’s products, and Shareef Abdelhaleem, leader’s plan to put metal ber of other ideas about death of 15-year-old Jane Creba
A spokeswoman for the North American facili- 34, has pleaded not guilty chips in the bombs as that ways to inflict casualties in- on Boxing Day 2005 has been
Canada Bread said the ty for Ferrero Group, an to participating in a terror would increase the num- cluding at a football game, acquitted. The 20-year-old is
Toronto-based company Italian food company. The group and intending to ber of deaths. poisoning food at a factory known only as G.C. because he
will begin negotiations sector accounts for about cause an explosion. But the informant, who or targeting Square One was underage at the time of
with several municipalities 2,000 jobs in the region. He and 17 others were was paid more than $4 mil- mall in Mississauga. the gunfight on Yonge Street.
this week to determine THE CANADIAN PRESS charged in a plot to bomb lion by the RCMP, says Ab- THE CANADIAN PRESS THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Fisheries minister promotes seal products in Chinese 5
Canada’s fisheries minister is trying to drum up new trade opportunities for seal products in China as the European market shuts its doors to the maligned
goods. Gail Shea says she has met with a seal marketing group and importers of Canadian seal products over the last couple of days. THE CANADIAN PRESS
Union to file bargaining complaint
Canada
The United Steelworkers union says it will file a bad-faith bargaining complaint
against Vale Inco. The union says it plans to file the complaint at the Ontario
Labour Relations Board in Toronto today, as its strike against Vale Inco
operations in Sudbury, Ont., and two other Canadian sites enters its seventh
month. THE CANADIAN PRESS
Terror plot a Ignatieff blasts PM’s proroguing explanations
News in brief
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project” for followup Federal officials also pro- In an interview broadcast eral years.
attempts by extremists, vided new details yesterday earlier this week, Prime COURT An American steel com-
says Canada’s public safety about plans to more closely Minister Stephen Harper pany argued in Federal Court
minister. observe people at airports claimed proroguing Parlia- yesterday that legislation gov-
But Peter Van Loan of- to ferret out threats. ment allows him to avoid erning foreign investment in
fered no evidence to back The Canadian Air Trans- instability as his minority Canada is “essentially flawed”
up his theory yesterday, say- port Security Authority has government prepares a new because it doesn’t define how
ing it’s best not to discuss issued a tender for its economic agenda. an investor can justify failure to
specifics. planned airport behaviour Harper said parliamen- meet promises made to the
“We’ve seen that these observation program based tary hijinks, such as votes of A stop sign controls traffic near the Parliament buildings in government.
terrorist groups tend to go on “risk-based security prin- confidence and rampant Ottawa yesterday. Parliament will return to work following the THE CANADIAN PRESS
in series, or in sequence ciples to screen passengers election speculation, were Olympics, which begin Feb. 12.
events, so that’s what we're and identify those with po- interpreted negatively by fi-
worried about here,” he tential malicious intent.” nancial markets. er’s latest explanation out et conditional on seeing its
said. It solicits bids to design This was a marked depar- of hand yesterday, saying, proposals included in the fi-
“We were dealing with the program, recruit and ture from the government’s “The idea that democracy nal draft.
kind of a new approach train staff, and develop previous justifications, creates instability is ridicu- “We will not put absolute
with the technology that learning materials in order which centred on the need lous.” conditions on our support,”
was used on Christmas Day. to have the system in place to draw up a new recovery Ignatieff also stressed his he said. “These are positive wInh ay ndaot mioann iyn Adfirgeh naene md eodf dstoucdtoenrst,s
That may very well have by the end of May. plan for the economy. party won’t be making its suggestions.” say they will never practice?
been, if you will, a kind of THE CANADIAN PRESS Ignatieff dismissed Harp- support of the federal budg- THE CANADIAN PRESS Scan this code for the story.
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6 canada Power battle between Newfoundland and Quebec heats up
Newfoundland and Labrador’s latest offensive against Hydro-Quebec begins next week as the province asks Que-
bec’s energy board to reduce the costs to plug power from Lower Churchill to Quebec’s grid. THE CANADIAN PRESS
Charest, Harper play nice Oilsands not solely to blame
for emissions, think-tank says
PM, Quebec Premier agree to disagree over climate issue REPORT Alberta’s oilsands times what was produced
shouldn’t be singled out as that year by the oilsands
the reason for the coun- which, by comparison, ac-
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The prime minister and sive targets to reduce gas emissions in 2007. play as well.
Premier Jean Charest were greenhouse-gas emissions. That’s more than three THE CANADIAN PRESS
attending a news confer- Charest told yesterday’s
ence in Riviere-du-Loup, Premier Jean Charest responds to media questions as Prime Min- news conference he will News in brief
Que., where they an- ister Stephen Harper looks on yesterday in Riviere-du-Loup, Que. continue to defend Que-
nounced financial contribu- bec’s interests but that it is EXOTIC ANIMALS Premier Dal- the keeping of exotic animals
tions to an environmental always agree but that does- jectives,” Harper told the still possible for both gov- ton McGuinty says the govern- like the tiger that killed its
project in nearby Cacouna. n’t mean we don’t work to- news conference. ernments to work togeth- ment will review its policies to owner near London.
“Our governments don’t gether when we share ob- “It doesn’t mean we’re er. THE CANADIAN PRESS see if Ontario should regulate THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Miep Gies – a story of courage
TheWestView Cowell is. He’s a one-man into obscurity, the memory diary. While she spent her life worse, wrote enthusiastic
media juggernaut. Miep of Miep Gies and her re- When Anne’s father, the bearing witness to the pro-Nazi columns. It’s a lot
Gies, on the other hand, markable story will endure. only surviving member of courage and humanity of easier to be craven than
Paul was a little old lady. Little, During the Second World the Frank family, returned Anne Frank, Gies underrat- brave.
as in barely five feet tall; War, Gies made a decision to Amsterdam after the war, ed her own courage. “I am But I like to think if a tiny
Sullivan old, as in 100. that gave history a little Gies gave him the diary; it not a hero,” she said many woman, an ordinary secre-
Cowell has become one of nudge, allowing a tiny voice has gone on to sell more times. If people see her as a tary, could stand tall and
the richest people in show of goodness to emerge from than 30 million copies in 67 heroine, she feared, they courageous in the face of
Bmetronews.ca/thewestview business by being rude to the immense evil of the languages. will doubt their own capaci- evil, so could I. Could you?
the poor schlumps who Holocaust. Gies and her Thanks to Miep Gies, the ty to do what she did. And As long as we take heart
uried under this lurch across the Idol stage, husband and several others millions who were mur- she did it, she said, because and remember Miep Gies
week’s news about pathetically hoping to be- were the non-Jews who de- dered by Hitler have a hu- it seemed necessary at the and her extraordinary story,
a monumental ego come a star. Gies lived quiet- cided to risk everything and man face. Today, as memo- time. there’s hope for both of us.
leaving American ly in a three-room apart- hide Anne Frank and her ries dim and die, good (bare- For most of my life I’ve Miep Gies died Monday
Idol was the pass- ment in an obscure town in family from the Nazi Final ly) manages to hold its own wondered what I would night. She was my hero.
ing of a monumental hu- Holland, but was famous in Solution. When Anne was in the daily struggle with consider “necessary” in the
man being. her own way. captured and transported to evil in the insidious form of same situation. I worry that, Paul Sullivan is a Vancouver-based journalist
You probably don’t need It is my fervent hope that the death camps, Gies re- Holocaust denial — thanks like millions, I would have and owner of Sullivan Media Consulting;
me to tell you who Simon long after Cowell has faded trieved and preserved her to Miep Gies. just kept my head down, or [email protected].
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Wthaotr da lotenr t yhoeu srt rsepeirti:t Iufa lilf/er eolnig piolaunse btes loieuftss?ide our solar system is confirmed, will ICHAEL DE ADDER
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A: No, I don’t think A: No, I don’t think A: No ... I’m an athe- A: It won’t change A: No, I don’t think A: No. I believe
it would alter my re- religion is only spe- ist. For me it would my religious or spir- it would. I’m pretty more spiritual than
ligious beliefs ... but cific to Earth. just prove science itual beliefs, but it firm in my belief religious, so I keep
I would be interest- Rather, it involves even more ... I just will change my po- and I don’t think it an open mind … if
ed to find out what the entire universe think that it would litical belief in that would change it at something like that
their (religious be- ... so whether further the atheist I’ll need to conquer all. It would be very happened, it
liefs) were ... If it there’s life on Mars argument that them as well. interesting if that wouldn’t surprise
made sense, why or not, it shouldn’t there is no God be- were true, but as of me.
not look into it fur- alter one’s beliefs. cause it would right now I don’t
ther. show that living think that would
things exist outside change it.
of Earth.
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Hundreds attend funeral for Biden’s mother 9
Hundreds of people, including U.S. President Barack Obama, gathered in Delaware
yesterday to pay their respects to Vice-President Joe Biden’s mother, Jean. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
World
Thousands feared
dead in Haiti quake
The largest earthquake to disaster and chaos, that
hit Haiti in more than 200 Ready to help there were clouds of dust
years rocked the Carib- surrounding Port-au-Prin-
bean nation yesterday, (cid:129) The Canadian ce,” Fajardo said.
collapsing a hospital government says it’s ready The earthquake had a
where people screamed to assist Haiti. Foreign preliminary magnitude of
for help and heavily dam- Affairs Minister Lawrence 7.0 and was centred about
aging other buildings. U.S. Cannon says about 6,000 15 kilometres west of Port-
officials reported bodies Canadians are believed to au-Prince, the U.S. Geologi-
lying in the streets. be in the country. Gov-Gen cal Survey said. It was the
Communications were Michaëlle Jean, who is of largest quake recorded in
widely disrupted, making it Haitian origin, says the nat- the area and the first major
impossible to get a clear ural disaster has hit “a one since a magnitude-6.7
picture of damage as pow- country with an extremely temblor in 1984, USGS ana-
erful aftershocks shook a fragile infrastructure, lyst Dale Grant said.
desperately poor country where many buildings are An Associated Press
where many buildings are already unstable.” videographer saw the
flimsy. Electricity was out wrecked hospital in Petion-
in some places. ice failed that “there must ville, a hillside Port-au-
Karel Zelenka, a Catholic be thousands of people Prince district. A U.S. gov-
Relief Services representa- dead,” according to a ernment official reported
tive in the capital of Port- spokeswoman for the aid seeing houses that had
au-Prince, told U.S. col- group, Sara Fajardo. “He re- tumbled into a ravine.
leagues before phone serv- ported that it was just total THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
GIL YOHANAN/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Israel’s Deputy Foreign Minister, Danny Ayalon, left, meets with Turkish ambassador to Israel
Ahmet Oguz Celikkol, right, in Jerusalem on Monday. Ayalon said the ambassador was pointedly
seated on a sofa lower than his own chair. He also noted there was no Turkish flag on display.
Snub exposes Israeli-Turkish rift
MIDDLE EAST Even in the fered a humiliating repri- Recep Tayyip Erdogan
tough world of Middle East mand of Ankara’s envoy — reignited tensions this week
diplomacy, it was a startling ostensibly over a TV show. when he accused Israel of
snub: The Turkish ambassa- His actions drew an angry being a threat to world
dor seated lower than his Is- response from Turkey yes- peace. A Turkish TV drama,
raeli host, denied not only a terday, exposing a deep rift “The Valley of the Wolves,”
handshake but a smile — all that has emerged over the which depicts Israeli securi-
for the benefit of Israeli TV past year between the Jew- ty forces as kidnapping chil-
crews. ish state and its closest dren and shooting old men,
Israel’s Deputy Foreign friend in the Muslim world. has added to the hostilities.
Minister Danny Ayalon of- Turkish Prime Minister THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
News in brief
IRAN A nuclear physics profes- outside his home. State media
sor who publicly backed Iran- identified the victim as
ian opposition leader Mir Hos- Masoud Ali Mohammadi, a
sein Mousavi in the disputed professor at Tehran University,
June presidential election was which has been at the centre of Recall of potentially toxic jewelry
killed yesterday when a bomb- recent protests by opposition sheds light on an open secret in
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The U.S. trade deficit jumped to the highest level in 10 months as an improving economy pushed up American
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house Coopers Canada has ac- the transaction announced annual sales. Pricewaterhouse- to trade deficit
quired the professional servic- yesterday, Pricewaterhouse - Coopers said the acquisition
es consulting group of MTS All- Coopers Canada will acquire will impact PwC offices in
stream and struck an alliance the majority of MTS All stream’s Toronto, Ottawa, Quebec, Ed-
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Canada was pulled back
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both a strong loonie and to $31.6 billion — the fifth
weaker demand for increase in six months — as
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