Metro Toronto - January 15, 2015

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Thursday, January 15, 2015
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estimated
Chair of Durham: $206,634
Mayor of Toronto: $177,499
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TORONTO MAYOR JOHN TORY IS COSTING EACH OF US
7 CENTS A YEAR. IS HE WORTH MORE? STORY, PAGE 4
Bad cyclists
create new laws
Transit. Study is using follow the rules of the road as
they walk, bike or drive.
rule-breaking bikers to
The results could help form
improve infrastructure the basis for future urban
planning and improving cyc-
ling infrastructure.
LUKE “There are definitely reck-
SIMCOE less cyclists out there, but I
[email protected] think they’re a small percent-
age,” Marshall said. “I suspect
Before you roll your eyes at a a lot of cyclists may not follow
Toronto cyclist rolling through the rules for reasons that are
a stop sign, Wes Marshall sug- really rational, whether it’s for
gests looking in the mirror. safety or other reasons.”
“I think everybody that For example, many cyclists
uses the transportation system will coast through stop signs
is a criminal,” the University to save energy, while others
of Colorado professor said. start pedalling before a light
“People who drive go a few turns green to avoid cycling
miles over the speed limit and too closely to vehicles.
pedestrians will jaywalk.” Cycle Toronto director Jared
But while we often turn a Kolb knows about those tricks.
blind eye to lead-footed driv- “I’ll often jump the green,
ers or impatient pedestrians, and it’s because you’re out
Marshall believes, society is front, you’re visible and driv-
less tolerant of scofflaw cyc- ers can see you,” Kolb said. “It
lists. All that rule-bending — feels safer.”
and breaking — could help Drivers irked by scofflaw RIDING TO CLASS ON ONE WHEEL
pave the way, however, toward cyclists would do well to sup-
tools that help cyclists navi- port plans for things such as
gate streets easier. additional bike lanes since
Marshall and his colleagues there’s a correlation between
Denton Liu, 17, wows his classmates with his unicycle skills outside Martingrove Collegiate in Toronto on Wednesday. Liu has become
have launched a poll at increased infrastructure and
scofflawbiking.org, which asks better-behaved cyclists, Kolb known for riding his unicycle to school, no matter the weather or challenge. See story, page 6. DAVID VAN DYKE/METRO
people how likely they are to and Marshall said.
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Thursday, January 15, 2015
Annoyed Aurora man mails
in his uncollected trash
Proof. Jeff Ketelaars In the spirit of playfulness
posts video of garbage acunsdt otmo emr askeer vaic ep,o ihnet asbpoenutt N
trucks sailing by online $63 mailing four boxes of his
trash.
Simanovskis says Aurora
shares a database with GFL
On a recent Saturday, Jeff and also investigates com- E
Ketelaars double-bagged plaints. About 20 per cent of
the gross parts of his trash, complaints are “not-picked-
along with the more pleasant up calls,” and “upon investi-
dry parts, and packed both gation it was either because
into sturdy cardboard boxes. they were late set-outs or W
Then he mailed his garbage because the material was
to the company responsible unacceptable for pickup,” he
for waste collection in Au- explains.
rora. He says GPS indicates the
“I just couldn’t leave this trucks came by the Kete-
alone. I didn’t want to be laars residence before 7:30
helpless. I came in and I told a.m. on the day in question.
my daughter, ‘I’m going to Simanovskis says Ketelaars S
mail my garbage,’ and she missed that early morning
looked at me like I had two pick-up, and the trucks that
heads,” he says. appear in the evening on the
The Town of Aurora says video footage are likely just
this is the first time someone driving through the area and
has mailed their trash in pro- would be discouraged from
test. making late-day pick-ups if
“It’s an unfortunate way they’d already been by.
to respond to the situation, When asked for com-
but if that’s how this resi- ment, GFL said it had noth-
dent chose to do it, that’s his ing to add to the town’s ex-
choice, I guess,” said Ilmar planation.
Simanovskis, Aurora’s direc- Jeff Ketelaars at his home on Tuesday, with the video he made on his laptop. Ketelaars says he put his garbage out as Ketelaars disputes the
tor of infrastructure and en- usual for pickup, but the GFL trucks failed to pick it up. He even went so far as to make a video over the failed pickup town’s version of events. He
vironment services. when he got little positive response from the fi rm. RICK MADONIK/TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE says he reviewed his secur-
Green For Life (GFL) En- ity footage from 5:55 a.m.
vironmental Corp. takes snowy day, his garbage and — wait a minute, I’ve got a he made a tongue-in-cheek onward: “No GFL trucks
care of waste collection in recycling weren’t picked up, camera and I bet it’s on the video about the intrigue. drove by at all. One private
Ketelaars’ Aurora neigh- so he called to ask why. He camera,” he says. He said he would have snowplow drove by a couple
bourhood. The trucks come says he was told the bags Clips from his motion- understood if GFL had told times, a white van drove by
every Thursday, and in his weren’t at the curb. activated security camera, him things were complicated and a pickup truck drove
experience, later in the day, “It hit me halfway which he has posted online, by the snow. by. Other than that, it was
he says. On Dec. 11, a very through the conversation show the trash and recycling “All I wanted was some just me taking my trash out
going out at 9:38 a.m. and a acknowledgement that they and heading off to work,” he
garbage truck driving by at missed it, some assurance wrote in an email.
Quoted
6:38 p.m., driving the oppos- that next week I wouldn’t He also doesn’t under-
ite direction at 6:58 p.m., fol- have twice as much garbage stand why garbage trucks
“It hit me halfway through the conversation —
lowed by a recycling truck at and they weren’t going to would be driving through his
wait a minute, I’ve got a camera and I bet it’s on 8:20 p.m. and 8:29 p.m. take it.... Instead I was told area on their way to some-
the camera.” Frustrated by seeing the my garbage wasn’t by the where else, as he lives on a
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Thursday, January 15, 2015
Tory takes the plunge from
CEO’s salary to mayor’s pay
Seven cents per that anyone who has aspira- How other cities stack up
Torontonian. Our tions of political office is able
to consider it from a financial What other
mayor’s compensation
point of view,” she said. “Keep tion: $160,977
is at the bottom of the in the mind the whole idea of Canadian — Mayor compensation per
democracy of opportunity. citizen: $0.09
per-capita pay scale
“The wage should be some- mayors
thing that can support some- City of Mississauga
one to do that work well.” get paid (Region of Peel)
JESSICA People who seek public of- — Operating
SMITH CROSS fice are “privately wealthy” and budget:
[email protected] by earning a high salary may A selection of pay for mayors $370 million
want to “make a donation to a across Canada. Statistics were — Population:
Toronto’s mayor will get a pay cause,” said Beresford, whose taken from a 2014 report to 743,000
bump later this month — push- Vancouver-based organization Toronto city council. Total — Total mayor
ing John Tory’s compensa- is dedicated to building inclu- compensation was reported compensation:
tion from $177,499 to about sive, sustainable communities. by the cities and includes Bonnie $191,272
$180,000, but leaving him in Canada’s top-earning may- base salary, the value of Crombie — Mayor
the middle of the pack for big- or, Naheed Nenshi in Calgary, tax exemptions, payment compensation
city mayors. is taking that approach. With for sitting on city boards or per citizen: $0.26
If you were to break down a raise approved this week committees, bonuses, per
the salaries of other Canadian bringing his pay to $216,000, diems and perks, such as Halifax Regional
mayors, they are paid, on aver- Nenshi posted on his blog that use of a car service. It does Municipality
age, 34 cents per citizen annual- he’ll donate more than usual to not include office expenses, — Operating budget:
ly. Tory will be paid seven cents charity. work-related travel expenses $823 million
by each Torontonian this year, Then again, there is at or health benefits. — Population: 390,096
which puts him at the very bot- least one argument for paying — Total mayor compensa-
tom of the per-capita list, ac- less, said Scott Hennig, vice- City of Edmonton tion: $162,907
cording to a Metro calculation. president of the Canadian Tax- — Operat- — Mayor compensation per
But don’t worry: Tory can af- payers Federation. ing budget: citizen: $0.42
ford to be mayor because he’s a “The theory of pay them $2,082,000,000
millionaire. Turns out, Rob Ford a ton is pretty clear: you can — Population: City of Vancouver
is, too. poach them from industries Mayor John Tory at a rally in support of the victims of the Paris terror attacks 817,498 — Operating
It raises the question: do you that are paying them a ton al- at Nathan Phillips Square on Jan. 11. Tory’s compensation leaves him in the — Total mayor budget:
have to be a millionaire to take ready,” he said. “With the pay- middle of the pack for big-city mayors. CARLOS OSORIO/TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE compensation: $1.2 billion
the pay cut that comes with them-nothing argument, you Don Iveson $205,842 — Population:
running Canada’s largest city? will get people who are truly poration,” Hennig said. “Other level CEOs.” — Mayor com- 640,900
It’s an important factor to interested in public service.” places, like most U.S. states, pay So, how should we decide pensation per citizen: $0.25 — Total mayor
consider when looking at pol- Different societies have dif- their politicians little to noth- what our leaders earn? compensation:
iticians’ pay here — and every- ferent approaches. ing.” Hennig puts a variety of ap- City of Montreal Gregor $154,347
where else for that matter, said “If you look at Singapore, Canadian salaries are, in proaches on the table. — Operating budget: Robertson — Mayor
Columbia Institute director they pay their politicians tons general, high enough to attract “We think all politicians’ $4.9 billion compensation
Charley Beresford. of money; they treat them like a wide range of candidates but salaries should be set by ran- — Population: 1,698,062 per citizen: $0.24
“It’s very, very important they’re the CEOs of a major cor- not so steep that politicians dom people,” he said. “You may — Total mayor compensa-
are only in it for the money, he think I’m joking, but I’m not.”
noted. He suggests picking random
No small potatoes “You did just attract a CEO people from the voters list, put- tion has occasionally “kicked lead to “extremes.”
in Toronto; you attracted a guy ting them in a room and asking around” another unusual idea: “You could end up getting a
“It seems odd, at first blush: why is Calgary No. 1
who certainly isn’t doing it for them for a dollar amount. pay politicians the average of retired hockey player like Phil
when it’s not the biggest city? But it is the third- the money,” Hennig said. “I That number could then be their private-sector salary for Kessel running for the mayor
largest; it’s not like it’s Moose Jaw.” don’t think your current sys- indexed to inflation and put to the three years before they took of Toronto and end up having
tem is working poorly when a public vote. office. to pay him $7 million a year or
Scott Hennig, vice-president of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, on mayoral pay in Canada you’re attracting John Tory- The taxpayers federa- But, Hennig said, that could something.”
Council strikes committee to focus on climate change
Toronto city council is get- the city, said Coun. Mike fects, Layton said, ranging “It gets down to reducing
Climate change committee
ting more serious about Layton, who led the charge from last year’s ice storm our consumption of green-
tackling climate change. on forming the committee. and polar vortex to more house-gas emissions,” he
Council’s parks and en- “It’s about ensuring that The new city council com- rain in the spring, summer said.
vironment committee has there’s enough time on the mittee will be chaired by and fall, Layton said. “Fortunately, many of
given the go-ahead to cre- council’s schedule to talk Coun. Gord Perks. People can individually those lifestyle choices save
ate a subcommittee tasked about climate change con- take the responsibility of us money, too.”
with looking closely at the sistently,” he said. (cid:580)(cid:3) (cid:61)(cid:302)(cid:254)(cid:229)(cid:292)(cid:3)(cid:273)(cid:229)(cid:273)(cid:220)(cid:229)(cid:292)(cid:296)(cid:3)(cid:209)(cid:292)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:221)(cid:279)(cid:305)(cid:274)- adopting lifestyle habits The new subcommittee
issue and making appropri- It’s “not just talking (cid:221)(cid:255)(cid:268)(cid:268)(cid:279)(cid:292)(cid:296)(cid:3)(cid:55)(cid:255)(cid:266)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:50)(cid:209)(cid:317)(cid:302)(cid:279)(cid:274)(cid:550)(cid:3)(cid:78)(cid:209)(cid:292)(cid:209)(cid:254)(cid:3) that help fight climate is a replica of two others
ate recommendations. about flooding when it (cid:21)(cid:279)(cid:305)(cid:221)(cid:229)(cid:302)(cid:302)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:209)(cid:274)(cid:225)(cid:3)(cid:47)(cid:279)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:17)(cid:292)(cid:229)(cid:296)(cid:296)(cid:317)(cid:553) change; the city, on the created last term. Those,
It will be an opportunity floods, not just talking other hand, should con- chaired by Layton, exam-
to sit down with experts, about cold-weather warn- tinue to tackle planning ined the possible effects of
policy makers, scientists ings when it gets cold but and execution of specific opening a downtown casino Coun. Mike Layton led the charge on
and the public to talk about making sure we talk about Toronto has seen its fair policies tied to the issue, and the expansion of Billy forming Toronto’s climate-change
what needs to happen in those issues all year round.” share of climate-change ef- Layton said. Bishop Airport. committee. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE

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Thursday, January 15, 2015
Inspection blitz uncovers 8,000 youth safety violations
A Ministry of Labour inspec- August 2014, and involved over Health and safety health and safety. Collectively, failing … what we have now is
tion blitz has uncovered almost 2,500 workplace visits to ensure these represented 20 per cent too few inspectors being asked
8,000 youth safety violations in training and safety standards of all orders issued by the min- to do too much,” Langille said.
Ontario workplaces. for new and young employees Health and safety training is workplace, and are three times istry. Craig MacBride, a spokes-
Inspectors found almost were being met. mandatory for workers and more likely to be hurt in their Andrew Langille, a Toronto- person for Labour Minister
four violations per workplace In addition to issuing 7,941 supervisors across the province. first month on the job than based labour lawyer, said the Kevin Flynn, said workplace in-
on average, an increase on a compliance orders, which tell New and young employees are any other time in their career, inspection results “point to the juries in Ontario declined over-
previous blitz focused more employers they are breaking particularly vulnerable in the according to the ministry. problem that young workers all by 30 per cent between 2004
broadly on vulnerable workers. the law and give a deadline to are increasingly being exposed and 2011.
That round of investigations make changes, the ministry to vulnerabilities in the work- “This is great progress, but,
found around an average of 2.4 also handed out 156 “stop must be stopped immediately. not having a violence and ha- place and frankly unsafe work as the inspection blitz shows,
infractions per workplace. work” orders. These indicate The most common infrac- rassment policy, and failing to environments.” there’s always more to be done
The latest checkups were that a violation poses an im- tions were for failing to assess take “reasonable precautions” “My thought is that the cur- when it comes to worker safe-
conducted between May and minent danger to a worker and the risk of workplace violence, to protect young workers’ rent enforcement strategy is ty,” he said. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
Denton Liu has been riding his unicycle through the winter for the past five
years. DAVID VAN DYKE/METRO
Student takes
CAN WE
unicycling to
BUY YOU
new heights
Brave commuter. Teen isn’t too different from regular
unicycling,” he said. “Although
making statement
the paths I take are plowed
with one-wheel ride pretty well.”
Liu took up unicycling five
years ago, and has been riding
through the winter ever since.
LUKE There were some tumbles at
A DRINK? SIMCOE first, but he’s since got the hang
[email protected] of it.
“It’s actually a bit safer than
Neither rain nor snow nor lack biking because you don’t have
of a second wheel can keep Den- handlebars in front of you,” he
ton Liu from riding to school. told Metro. “If you fall off, you
Even earlier this week, land on your feet.”
when the mercury dipped to Even after years of single-
-19 C, the 17-year-old could be wheel commuting, Liu says his
seen riding his unicycle to and favourite thing about unicyc-
from Martingrove Collegiate in ling is the quizzical looks he
Etobicoke. gets from passersby.
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Thursday, January 15, 2015
Transit
and York Region Transit, let ister Steven Del Duca. (UPX) train fares that are our system. When they
Metrolinx friends- their employees ride for free. In a discussion with considered too expensive by are on the system they are
But the Metrolinx Metrolinx chair Robert many Toronto area residents. working.
ride-free policy policy, now being reviewed Prichard on Wednesday, Del The free-ride policy, “They’re expected to
under fire internally by the provincial Duca said, “There was a very which does not include UPX, assist if customers are ill,
agency, is unique in that it clear understanding for the allows employees to experi- there’s an emergency (or)
allows its 3,200 employees to need to review.” ence the system first-hand there’s a fatality. So they do
Free GO service for Metro- travel on GO with a guest. Provincial NDP transpor- and to introduce it to those that frequently,” she said.
linx employees and their It’s the plus-one part of tation critic Cheri DiNovo who may be unfamiliar with GO fares go up between
guests is drawing fire from Ontario Transportation Minister the policy that “deserves said the policy is part of a GO, said Metrolinx spokes- 10 cents and 50 cents per
government critics as the Steven Del Duca. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE particular scrutiny, so that’s “culture of secrecy and en- woman Anne Marie Aikins. ride next month, in part to
regional transit service exactly what they’re going titlement” at Metrolinx. “We want to encourage help pay for service expan-
prepares to hike its fares on Most transit agencies, in- to be taking a look at,” said “She likened it to Metro- our staff to use our system, sion, said Del Duca.
Feb. 1. cluding the TTC, Mississauga Ontario Transportation Min- linx’s Union Pearson Express to be the eyes and ears of TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
Family worries coyotes might
harm children after dog killed
Caledon. Father says At a glance
aggressive coyotes
could take down a (cid:580)(cid:3) With a spate of reports Ministry of Natural Resour-
on coyote attacks in the ces. “It might be the same
child after 50-pound
GTA this past fall on small animals that have learned
dog falls prey to pack dogs — as well as humans that small pets make a
— some residents worry reasonable food source.”
that animals are unafraid of
humans. (cid:580)(cid:3) Patterson said coyote popu-
A Caledon family is worried lations peaked in Southern
about possible coyote attacks (cid:580)(cid:3) “It may be there are just a Ontario in 2010 but have
on children, after a suspected few bad apples that are sort since been declining. A
pack of coyotes snatched their of ruining it for everyone,” person encountering one
50-pound terrier-Doberman said Brent Patterson, a should make noise, not turn
cross last weekend. research scientist with the back and retreat, he added.
Mark Rogers said he let his
12-year-old dog, Jessie, out in
their expansive backyard late ed area and ravine, a handful ing for the dog to return. At 7
Saturday night along with their of times in recent years. Last a.m., she went out for a walk
large, “scary looking” Rott- week, his wife saw five or six and returned in tears.
weiler, Sampson. Sampson re- coyotes travelling across their “She said, ‘I found the
turned. Jessie did not. backyard. blood, I found the blood,’ ” Rog-
After a sleepless night, her The suspected attack is not ers said.
owners found blood-soaked the first for Jessie, said Rogers. Rogers went outside and
patches of snow, a bloody collar Three or four years ago, found a patch of coyote tracks Jessie, a terrier/Doberman cross, with a family member. Jessie disappeared from the family’s home in Caledon on
and coyote tracks leading out of Rogers watched the dog sprint 20 feet in diameter. Ten feet Saturday. COURTESY OF MARK ROGERS
their backyard on Sunday mor- off in the dark toward a group away, he found snow soaked
ning. “There was no doubt, she of eight large canines. By the with blood. There were distinct Caledon’s public works wild animals. a six-year-old child who weighs
was ripped apart,” said Mark time he opened the door, “her “drag marks” and patches of department said it has no im- Rogers fears for his surviv- about the same — she’d have
Rogers, Jessie’s owner. hind end was all torn up and blood for another 40 feet, he mediate plans to stop the coy- ing dog, 120-pound Sampson, no chance,” he said, adding
Rogers said his family has bloody,” he said. said. otes, adding that the animal and worries coyotes could at- that his 15-year-old son doesn’t
spotted coyotes on their prop- On Saturday, Rogers’ wife, He found Jessie’s collar “cov- services department doesn’t tack small children in the area. like to go outside at night.
erty, which backs onto a wood- Naomi, stayed up all night wait- ered in blood” but no body. have the capacity to deal with “If they could take out Jessie, TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
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