Metro Toronto - January 13, 2012

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WEEKEND, JANUARY 13-15, 2012
Treatment ordered for accused in Ford threats
1
CARLOS OSORIO/TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
The man accused of threat- two counts of threatening ate attention. Outside
ening to kill Mayor Rob death and possession of court, Boutzouvis would
Ford appeared briefly in an heroin and cocaine. not elaborate.
Old City Hall courtroom When ordered not to MacIntyre was arrested
Thursday and was returned have contact with Ford or on Wednesday.
to custody for at least two any members of his imme- Police say a man alleged-
weeks. diate family, he shook his ly threatened to kill Rob
Scott MacIntyre, long- head and mumbled “Fine Ford and “any cop” who got
time common-law partner by me.” in his way, according to
of the mayor’s sister, Kathy An order for medical at- court documents.
Ford, stood in court with tention was issued after “You and your family are
his arms crossed and head MacIntyre’s lawyer, Sam going to get it,” he allegedly A police cruiser drives past Toronto Mayor Rob Ford’s
bowed. The 45-year-old is Boutzouvis, told the court said to Ford. Etobicoke home after an incident there on Wednesday.
news
charged with forcible entry, his client needed immedi- TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
One year. Memorial
A softer budget
Changes to proposed budget cuts
will be paid for using about $8.8M
in property-assessment growth
Mayor Rob Ford and his
A Harvard scholar reveals the allies voted Thursday to Budget change
secret ingredients of reject or soften several of
crteya atinvdit ay :d aa sphin ocfh d oisfh monenesdtayc.i- the most controversial The committee voted to:
Scan the code for the story. proposed budget cuts.
The changes by Ford’s Reject a $1.9 million cut to
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“We are close,” said community centres.
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Coun. Shelley Carroll, a
m.metronews.ca
Ford critic and former its previous form, though
budget chief. he had also said changes
On the web at The changes will be would be made.
metronews.ca paid for using about $8.8 On Thursday, he said
million in unanticipated all of the proposals had
property-assessment been made independent- Staff Sgt. Deborah Abbott adjusts a memorial to Toronto
growth. The committee ly by committee Police Sgt. Ryan Russell that she helped set up at 52 Division.
did not touch the $154 members, none by him or
million operating surplus his staff. But, with a dis- Officer killed on job rememCARLOS bOSORIOe/TORSrTAR eNEWS dSERVICE
left at the end of 2011, missive “come on,” he re-
which Ford argues should jected a reporter’s
not be used to balance suggestion that he had
the operating budget. “lost control” of his exec- It was a year ago Thursday that Sgt. Russell was killed in the line of duty trying
The King of Bain, Ford had strongly utive. to stop a man driving a stolen snow plow and wreaking havoc on city streets.
a film acquired endorsed the budget in TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE Russell was struck and killed.
by a group with
ties to Newt Gin- Screeners’ union gives warning ed Viva buses on the
busy 99 Yonge route, be-
grich, accuses
News in brief tween Bernard and Finch
Mitt Romney of station, to relieve crowd-
killing jobs in A union that represents se- promise Wayne Fraser, the steel- Bus service ing on the corridor,
curity screeners at Canadi- national workers’ Ontario and At- which is attracting riders
order to line his an airports warns that job security lantic director. gets boost from routes that aren’t
pockets. Watch at cuts at Toronto’s Pearson In- and pas- Earlier Thursday, anoth- in operation because of
ternational Airport could se- senger er union, the Canadian Air- YORK REGION STRIKE. York the labour dispute.
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video travellers or risk public safe- “Air- screeners are affected by ice on one of the routes ever, operate Viva-style
ty. port secu- the Pearson cuts, though that remains in service as service, which allows
The United Steelworkers rity Wayne Fraser the Montreal-based security a strike by most of its rear-door loading and
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WEEKEND, JANUARY 13-15, 2012
Councillor can’t tag this on Mercer
YOUTUBE
TV host defends rants in laneway
after Mississauga councillor says
its graffiti encourages vandalism
Rick Mercer is firing back “That’s not helping the
at a Mississauga city coun- cause across the country.”
cillor who says the comedi- In an interview with the
an’s famous rants along Star on Thursday, Mahoney
Toronto’s Graffiti Alley said she stands by her orig-
have hampered the sub- inal remarks, but empha-
urb’s anti-graffiti efforts. sized that they were
“My rants are shot in an “certainly no knock
artist-friendly laneway. against Rick Mercer at all.”
These are fabulous, vi- “My concern is that this
brant, constantly-changing showing of Graffiti Alley ...
works of art,” Mercer wrote doesn’t help in our efforts
in an email to the Toronto to combat illegal graffiti,”
Star. “I would wager many she said.
of those artists will be re- TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
membered long after the
good councillor, who’s (sic)
Graffiti Alley
name escapes me.”
At a Mississauga city
council meeting Wednes- Mahoney added that she
day, Councillor Katie Ma- wasn’t aware until after
honey suggested the she made her comments
graffiti backdrop of Mer- that Graffiti Alley, located
cer’s “Rant,” a popular seg- near Queen St. W., and
ment on his long-running Spadina Ave., is exempt
CBC Television program, from any graffiti bylaw and
Rick Mercer Report, glori- sanctioned as an area of
fies vandalism. “municipal significance”
“Rick Mercer needs to by Toronto city hall.
know that he’s not doing
anybody any good with his For his part, Mercer said
rants down the graffiti- he doesn’t condone Rick Mercer is seen in a screen grab delivering one of his famous TV rants filmed in a graffiti-tagged alley.
tagged alley,” she said. vandalism or tagging.
‘My mom meant the world to me’: Daughter
COURTESY CTV
She was remembered as a world to me,” said 10-year- arms after a bad day at
Leaside murder
caring daughter, sister and old Paige Donaldson, school, me and my mom
friend, a pioneer of dwarfed by the pulpit of St. couldn’t have been closer,”
women’s hockey in the Lea- Anselm Catholic Church as Paige said. Lisa Lebitka’s live-in
side community she loved, she delivered her mother’s She would remember boyfriend, 46-year-old
and a talented business eulogy. that “mommy smell,” and Paul Hindle, has been
woman who started her Lebitka’s ex-husband, expressed sadness over her charged with second-
own interior design compa- Mike Donaldson, and mother missing her future. degree murder.
ny. Paige’s younger siblings “Everything has Lebitka’s death is Toronto’s
But at a solemn funeral Holly and Charley stood in changed,” she said. third homicide of the year.
that drew 500 mourners support nearby, next to a Lebitka was found dead A trust has been set up
Thursday, 45-year-old Lisa covered casket adorned in her Leaside home on for the children at the
Lebitka was, above all, re- with a single pink rose. New Year’s Day, after police Bank of Nova Scotia at
membered as a devoted “Whether it was ‘Thanks arrived to investigate a 1547 Bayview Ave.
mother of three. for taking me to Disney Paul Hindle and Lisa Lebitka are seen in this undated photo. missing-person report. Hindle will appear in
“My mom meant the World’ or crying in her TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE court Jan. 17.
Air ambulance spent $600K on empty hangar T.O. man charged in
London robbery spree
ORNGE air ambulance is spending health-care dol- done,” ORNGE chief operat- ORNGE spokesman Gannon
paying $50,000 a month for lars wisely. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE ing officer Tom Lepine said Loftus. At roughly $50,000 a
a Hamilton hangar that sits “Yes, there in an interview Thursday. month, the publicly-funded A 42-year-old Toronto Andrew Hayes also is
empty and unused. has been a ORNGE has decided to ORNGE has wasted an esti- man is facing multiple being investigated for rob-
It’s the latest blunder at significant move its Toronto air-ambu- mated $600,000 for space charges for Wednesday’s beries in two other juris-
the provincial service delay in get- lance base to Hamilton, and that, until the last few two-hour spree of rob- dictions, police said
tasked with transporting ting (hangar Tom leased the hangar in De- weeks, has sat idle. beries at London, Ont., Thursday.
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WEEKEND, JANUARY 13-15, 2012
Mom furious after photos RCMP spied on
Rae: Documents
removed from Facebook
SEAN KILPATRICK/THE CANADIAN PRESS
The RCMP spied on Bob
Rae during his student ac-
tivist days and likely
Site considers the breastfeeding photos a violation of its policy on nudity,
amassed a personal dossier
according to B.C. mother Facebook page created in support of the mom on the future Liberal
leader, newly declassified
PETER MCCABE/TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE documents reveal.
Mountie security
agents, wary of late-1960s Interim Liberal Leader
campus turmoil, kept a Bob Rae with his wife,
close eye on the University Arlene Perly-Rae.
of Toronto student council
— apparently relying on a “The only thing
secret informant to glean sinister, frankly, in
information about Rae and all of this is how
other council members.
much of it was
The RCMP Security
Service conducted wide- being recorded and
spread surveillance of uni- reported and
versities, unions, peace
presumably being
groups and a myriad of
other organizations during put in a file
the Cold War in an effort somewhere.”
to identify left-wing sub- BOB RAE
versives.
A surprised Rae says he threat to the established
had no idea the RCMP was order certainly would have
watching him. come as news to all of us,”
“The notion that any of he said in an interview.
this posed a kind of a THE CANADIAN PRESS
MISTAKEN MASTECTOMY MacFarlane says the law-
suit has been settled but
Woman could not disclose any of
the details.
settles suit
She says Johnston is
Emma Kwasnica, a breastfeeding advocate and founder of the online breast milk sharing network Human Milk 4 glad the situation has
Human Babies, feeds her 23-month-old daughter, Chloe, as Sophie, left, and Anna watch TV last September. over breast been resolved and looks
forward to moving on
removal
with her life.
A Vancouver woman is fu- ally explicit content. “So are American ed Facebook’s rules on MacFarlane says the
rious at Facebook after the “This is a child’s right to women allowed to pornographic content. case has prompted posi-
company removed breast- eat, a mother’s right to post breastfeeding Eventually, Facebook re- A woman whose healthy tive legislative changes
feeding photos she posted nurse her child,” Kwasnica versed its decision on the breast was removed in and more awareness,
photos and
on the social networking said in a telephone inter- photo in question and the mistaken belief it which she hopes will
site. view from her Vancouver Canadian women apologized, saying the pho- was cancerous has set- lead to better public
Emma Kwasnica, 33, home. aren’t?” to was removed “in error.” tled her lawsuit against safety.
said since she joined Face- “There’s nothing sexual- “So are American the hospital and doctors Johnston’s lawsuit had
EMMA KWASNICA
book in 2008, nearly 30 of ly explicit in breastfeeding women allowed to post who operated on her. named her surgeon, Dr.
her breastfeeding photos photos, nothing at all.” Television station WC- breastfeeding photos and Laurie Johnston, of Barbara Heartwell,
have been taken down and Kwasnica said she has NC of Charlotte, N.C., re- Canadian women aren’t?” Leamington, Ont., was pathologist Dr. Olive
her account has been tem- sent emails to Facebook, ported on its website last Kwasnica said. seeking $2.2 million in Williams, Hotel-Dieu
porarily frozen in four sep- but has yet to receive an month that Facebook apol- “It’s very confusing. It’s damages amid several in- Grace Hospital in Wind-
arate incidents. apology or any kind of re- ogized to Heather Stultz af- very vague. And the only vestigations into how she sor, where the surgery
The latest incident oc- sponse. ter it removed a acceptable policy at this and at least one other took place, and the
curred this past Saturday She said it has left her breastfeeding photo she point is to leave all breast- woman became surgical Leamington District Me-
when she tried to log on, feeling confused about posted on her breastfeed- feeding images alone.” victims. morial Hospital.
she said. Facebook’s rules, pointing ing support page called Re- A Facebook page was set Her lawyer Barbara THE CANADIAN PRESS
Kwasnica said Facebook to a recent case in which spect the Breast. up earlier this week in sup-
removed her photos be- Facebook issued a public Just as in Kwasnica’s port of Kwasnica that has
Skier still
cause of what it says is a vi- apology to another woman case, WCNC reported that already attracted about lifted from Park City, Utah,
olation of its policies on in North Carolina who was Stultz’s photo was initially 3,500 supporters. to Salt Lake City after an
in critical
obscenity, nudity and sexu- in the same situation. removed because it violat- THE CANADIAN PRESS accident during training
on a half-pipe Tuesday.
condition
Burke was placed into
HANDOUT Pan Am Games on time an induced coma to relieve
stress on her brain and un-
$1.4B
The Canadian freestyle skier derwent surgery Wednes-
and on budget: Grits
minister Sarah Burke remained in day afternoon.
responsible for the critical condition Thursday Burke tore a vertebral
Games, Charles Sousa, after a successful opera- artery, which are located
Ontario’s governing Liber- despite warnings that the said the massive $1.4- tion to repair a tear to an in the neck and supply
als insist preparations for cash-strapped province is billion project will artery that caused bleeding blood to the brainstem —
the 2015 Pan American plunging into a money proceed even though between her skull and the back part of the brain
Charles Sousa Games are moving ahead pit. the province is trying brain. that controls conscious-
on time and on budget, THE CANADIAN PRESS to tighten its belt. The 29-year-old was air- ness.THE CANADIAN PRESS

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WEEKEND, JANUARY 13-15, 2012
Feds criticized
PABLO MARTINEZ MONSIVAIS/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
5,000
over same-sex
NDP MP Olivia Chow
divorce issue
said that Canada used
to be a “beacon of
hope” for gay and les-
bian couples wanting
to get married but
PM says he won’t reopen debate now it is a “a
laughing stock.” Chow
after doubt cast on gay marriages
said if federal lawyers
win their argument,
The Harper government is “I think it’s the then as many 5,000
being accused of taking U.S. journalist Dan Savage, right, with his husband Terry Miller, at the LGBT Pride non-residents who
away same-sex rights by radical right by Month event at the White House in Washington last June. Savage said his husband came to Canada to
“stealth” in light of a sur- stealth.” reacted to the news they may not be legally married with “nothing you can print.” wed are not legally
prise government stand BOB RAE, INTERIM LIBERAL LEADER married.
that thousands of the non-
resident gay and lesbian Thursday. ‘We’re going to fight’: U.S. writer Dan Savage
couples who came to Cana- Thousands of same-sex
da to exchange vows aren’t marriages since 2004 in-
legally married after all. volving couples from out- JOE LOFARO in an interview from Seat- in the fetal position on the Miller in Vancouver in
“The narrow interpreta- side Canada are in limbo as IN OTTAWA tle. floor, we’re getting up and 2005. “So if we’re not mar-
tion of the law shows that a result of a new position Outspoken American au- The couple was react- we’re going to fight,” he ried in Canada, we’re not
the Harper government is taken by the Conservative thor and journalist Dan ing to news reports ac- said. “But we’re pissed.” domestic partners here.”
trying to take away same- government. Savage told his husband cording to which the Savage said that the Savage said the news
sex rights by stealth, and In a nutshell, govern- Thursday morning their Conservative government controversy has left mar- was “personally distress-
Canadians need to know ment lawyers are arguing in marriage was no longer argued non-resident same- riages like his in “legal ing” and “a big step back-
that the advances we court that if same-sex cou- valid. sex couples who married limbo.” wards for Canada.”
thought were secure are ples could not be legally What did husband Ter- in Canada are not legally “In Washington state, He and his husband
now under threat from the married in their home ry Miller have to say about wed if same-sex marriages my husband and I are do- will continue to fight to
Harper neo-conservatives,” country, then their Canadi- that? are unlawful in their mestic partners because ensure the issue is debat-
Interim Liberal Leader Bob an wedding is not valid. “Nothing you can home jurisdictions. we’re married in Canada,” ed until equality is grant-
Rae told the Toronto Star TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE print,” Savage told Metro “We’re not crawled up said Savage, who married ed to all same-sex couples.
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WEEKEND, JANUARY 13-15, 2012
Iranian newspaper
West. Bank
calls for retaliation
Asks why Iran did not avenge the chemistry expert,
killed in Wednesday’s bombing, by striking Israel
ATTA KENARE/GETTY IMAGES
A hard-line Iranian news- fourth targeted hit against
paper on Thursday called a member of Iran’s nuclear
for retaliation against Is- brain trust in two years —
rael, a day after the myste- has heightened tensions
rious killing of a nuclear even further.
scientist in Tehran with a Iran’s Supreme Leader
magnetic bomb attached Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
to his car. Iran’s top leader blamed both Israel and the
blamed Israel and the U.S. U.S. In a message read on
Provocative hints from Iranian state TV, he said
Israel reinforced the per- Ayatollah Ali Khamenei the killing was carried out
ception that the killing “with design or co-ordina-
was part of an organized tion of the CIA and the
and clandestine campaign ing in the weeks before Mossad,” Israel’s spy
to set back Iran’s nuclear the killing, with the U.S. agency. He pledged that A Jewish settler talks to an Israeli border
ambitions, which the U.S. tightening sanctions Iran would punish those policeman after the Israeli army demolished
and its allies suspect are against Tehran, and Iran- responsible. their illegal West Bank outpost on Thursday.
aimed at producing ian officials warning that Tehran quickly blamed
weapons. Iran says the pro- they would shut a water- Israeli-linked agents Israeli settlement demolishURIEL SINAI/GeETTY IMAGESd
gram is for peaceful pur- way vital to global oil ship- backed by the U.S. and
poses only. ping in response. Britain. Secretary of State
Iran’s nuclear con- The Wednesday assassi- Hillary Rodham Clinton
frontation with the West nation of Mostafa Ahmadi denied any U.S. role in the The unauthorized outpost has been flourishing in the past year, with 10 wooden
had already been escalat- Roshan — at least the slaying. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS structures housing nine families in the southern West Bank.
Judge declares Natalee Holloway dead, 6 years later
HANDOUT
An Alabama judge signed Dave Holloway told the Natalee Holloway disap- lawyer, Charlie De-
A homicide
an order Thursday declar- judge in September he be- peared in Aruba on May Bardeleben, said she sub-
ing Natalee Holloway lieved his daughter had 30, 2005. sequently changed her
dead, more than six years died and he wanted to The 18-year-old was last mind once she understood Authorities have long
after the American stop payments on her seen leaving a bar early her husband’s intentions. worked from the assump-
teenager vanished on the medical insurance and use that morning with van der Natalee Holloway’s par- tion that the young
Caribbean island of Aruba her $2,000 college fund to Sloot. ents were divorced in woman was dead in Aruba,
during a high school grad- help her younger brother. Her body was never 1993 and Beth Holloway where the case was
uation trip. Thursday’s hearing was found and the ensuing sat in the back row of the officially classified as a
Judge Alan King signed scheduled long before a searches for the young courtroom, mostly staring homicide investigation.
the order at the close of a suspect questioned in Hol- woman garnered intense at her hands in her lap
hearing in a Birmingham loway’s disappearance, media scrutiny and world- during the hearing Thurs- order declaring her
courtroom that was at- Dutchman Joran van der wide attention. Natalee Holloway day afternoon. daughter dead.
tended by the missing Sloot, pleaded guilty King acted on a petition She declined comment, “She’s ready to move
woman’s divorced par- Wednesday in Peru to the by the father to have the but her attorney signalled on from this,” De-
ents, Dave and Beth Hol- 2010 murder of a woman missing 18-year-old de- The teen’s mother orig- it was a tough moment for Bardeleben added.
loway. in Lima. clared dead. inally objected, but her her to see a judge sign an THE ASSOCIATED PRESS