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day. DJ Steve Penk said he
played the song at the
request of a commuter sit- Seven pedestrians killed
ting in traffic on a highway
shut down while police in GTA over the last week
tried to talk the woman
off the bridge.
Penk refused to While fewer people in hit by a GO train, and a fa-
apologize for the de- Toronto are dying behind ther walking with his wife
cision, saying he was the wheel of their cars, the and four-year-old son was
standing by his audience. city’s streets are becoming run over by a tow truck.
The 30-year-old woman more dangerous for pedes- During yesterday morning’s
eventually jumped, trians. rush hour, a
sustaining only minor in- That’s what Numbers 60-year-old
juries, shattering her heel recent traffic woman was
bones. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS stats show, (cid:129) Pedestrian fatalities in killed by a
highlighting Toronto as a percentage of TTC bus.
a grim trend total traffic fatalities: Toronto
News on the M ve amid a deadly 2009— 31 of 48 = 65% Const. Hugh
week for 2008 — 27 of 54 = 50% Smith said the
What’s this walkers in 2007 — 23 of 52 = 44% situation is
barcode for? the GTA. 2006 — 30 of 57 = 53% getting worse
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the top of pg 3 across the region in the last people aren’t using their
seven days, beginning last senses to protect them-
Tuesday, when a teenager in selves — blocking sound
VancouverGames
Vaughan, a young mother with earphones and limit-
in Etobicoke, and a senior ing their vision with hoods
Countdown citizen in the city’s west end and hats — and drivers are
to 2010 were all run down the same more distracted than ever.
day. “Everybody’s moving
Follow Metro as we Later in the week, a 24- quickly, pedestrians are
bring you daily Pop star Ke$ha appears on MuchOnDemand last night. The Tik Tok singer, who recently knocked year-old woman was killed moving blindly and no-
coverage leading up Susan Boyle off the top of the music charts, is in Toronto promoting her debut album Animal. by a Brampton transit bus, a body’s communicating.”
to the 2010 Winter man taking a shortcut was TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
Olympics in Vancouver.
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page 14 more prospective students the Ontario Universities’ compared to last year. There has been concern economy seek to go back to
have applied to enter On- Application Centre. That’s The Council of Ontario that Ontario’s Grade 12 stu- school.
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tember, new data shows. crease over last year. mean more than 45,000 petition for university and cent increase in the num-
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Board of Trade hosts First Nations Chief
Local
Assembly of First Nations National Chief Shawn Atleo, left, will address Toronto’s business
community today. The event marks Atleo’s first address in Toronto and the first time any
AFN national chief has spoken to the Toronto Board of Trade.
METRO NEWS SERVICES
Life for bomb plot mastermind
News in brief
SLAMMER A Toronto financial
adviser accused of operating a
multimillion-dollar Ponzi So-called Toronto 18 terrorist not eligible for parole until 2016
scheme had to spend another
night in jail yesterday
pending a resumption of his The mastermind behind a With one-tonne bombs at
bail hearing yesterday. “spine-chilling” terrorist “There is no dispute that what would have occurred was each location, the result
Weizhen Tang, 51, is charged plot that would have multiple deaths and injuries ... With one-tonne bombs at each would have been cata-
with fraud over $5,000, and ac- caused untold deaths and strophic,” Durno said.
location, the result would have been catastrophic.”
cused of defrauding about 100 destruction was handed a The life sentence does not
investors of about $30 million life sentence yesterday — Ontario Superior Court Justice Bruce Durno mean he will necessarily be
through his hedge fund, the the maximum sentence jailed for life, but if he re-
Oversea Chinese Fund Limited under Canada’s anti-terror- CSIS and Toronto Stock Ex- Justice Bruce Durno said juries,” he said. ceives parole he will be un-
Partnership. He returned to ism laws — though he’s change buildings in down- Amara’s “spine-chilling” As the three one-tonne der supervision for the rest
Canada from China last week able to apply for parole in town Toronto and at a mili- plot would have been “the ammonium nitrate bombs of his life.
to face the charge. 2016. tary base in Ontario, is the most horrific crime Canada were supposed to explode He is eligible to apply
THE CANADIAN PRESS Zakaria Amara, 24, whose first person to be given the has ever seen.” at the end of the morning for parole 10 years after
religious ideology fuelled maximum penalty for ter- “There is no dispute that rush hour, “the impact his arrest, which would be
plans to set off massive rorist offences. what would have occurred would have been magnified in just more than another
truck bombs outside the Ontario Superior Court was multiple deaths and in- as workers arrived for work. six years. THE CANADIAN PRESS
School celebrates Martin Luther King Jr. Study over for
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pages. pard Public School, with ous scheduling and route
whom they have shared a adjustments. But TTC staff
building since opening last are recommending against
fall. splitting the 24-kilometre
Before a sea of Africen- Queen 501 streetcar route
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look to cash in as the Man in the Mirror, fol- en Principles. Students celebrated Martin Luther King Jr. Day yesterday with an assembly. week shows splitting the
economic rebound lowed by Grade 4 and 5 route in half actually
continues in 2010 students from Sheppard stuff so we can live the He is one of 130 chil- There is a waiting list of increased the number of
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Four MPPs promoted, three demoted in shakeup
Premier Dalton McGuinty Those dropped from cabi- portation while former agri-
1100 is promoting four new net include former con- culture minister Leona
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grettable events of another tre had gone bankrupt. ing. to those in greatest need is a
Christine news story that was uncov- Then, with no warning, (cid:129) Lawrence Martin’s National Bill Wilkerson, the reasonable expectation, yet
ered by the Toronto Star a no plan and no place to go, Report will return next week. founder of Global Business contrary to the arrant disre-
Williams day after the quake, yet they were given $100, then and Economic Roundtable gard displayed at Clear
overshadowed by it. arbitrarily dumped on a bus in use the day after, over- on Mental Health, has de- Haven Center.
This story demonstrated like a load of refuse headed dosed and ended up brain clared depression among The people let go at Clear
the darker element of hu- to a convenient depot: Mon- dead. He had come a long Canada’s public servants as Haven could have been one
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manity. Here’s how it goes: treal’s international airport. way in only a month. For the country’s biggest public of our loved ones. How they
hen devas- 20 recovering addicts came Some were crying. No one the others, who knows. health crisis, while warning were treated highlights the
tation and to their early morning class knows how much money How these vulnerable hu- that it’s on the rise every- urgency for citizens to be-
incalculable at the private Clear Haven was lost by the clients and man beings were treated is where. come astute observers and
human suf- Center, just north of Mon- their families. unconscionable and cruel, Mental health profession- advocates for those close to
fering oc- treal. They were part of a Whatever progress they yet highlights the plight of als have stated that addic- us who are in need.
curs — like the horror in three-month cognitive ther- had made ended abruptly. inequity and injustice faced tions cut across all socio-
Haiti — the subsequent out- apy program costing more Two clients snorted cocaine by many in the greatest economic strata and takes a Christine Williams is the producer and host
pouring of support is a re- than $15,000. As they ar- on the bus and Elijah Peab- need of advocacy: Addicts, devastating toll on entire of the live current affairs daily talk show
On the Line at CTS TV in Burlington, Ont.
freshing reminder of hu- rived at Clear Haven, they bles, 26, relapsed into hero- mental health sufferers, the families.
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TVaiexwspayers may be on the hook once again ICHAEL DE ADDER
InBusiness It’s just that the mortgage realities with political agen- Xceed Mortgage Corp., a
lenders who happily ap- das. Embattled homeown- lender that was happy to
proved their loans last time ers are an equally sensitive ride the housing boom ear-
Charles around won’t renew. subject. How can politi- lier in the decade. Its assets
But these now reluctant cians stand idly by while rose 20-fold to $2.7 billion
Davies “non-traditional” mortgage Suzie and Sammy Home- in 2007 while profits went
lenders have a great sugges- maker are thrown into the from less than zero to a
tion. The mortgage re- street? peak of $22 million in 2006.
metronews.ca/inbusiness newals they won’t touch Well, here are a couple But Xceed was securitiz-
with a bargepole should be reasons. First, consider that ing its sub-prime mortgage
You could call it Canada’s underwritten by Canada’s home ownership is not a assets, packaging and re-
version of the sub-prime only inexhaustible source right, but an earned privi- selling them, and when the
mortgage crisis. of finance — us taxpayers. lege. The people now facing Asset Backed Commercial
According to a recent ac- A new lobby group for the foreclosure would never Paper crisis killed that mar-
count in the Globe and very lenders who are aban- have been approved by ket in mid-2007, the com-
Mail, as many as 30,000 doning the sub-prime set “traditional” or “prime” pany could no longer func-
homeowners face mort- wants Ottawa to back a $1- mortgage lenders like tion profitably.
gage foreclosure over the billion fund to refinance its banks or trust companies. In the end, it’s a sad busi-
next three years. We’re not now vulnerable clients. The current crisis has ness, but the rest of us
talking about ne’er-do-wells Government bailouts are been brewing for more shouldn’t pay for it.
who skip payments or laid- problematic because they than two years. That’s
off workers. These are hard- distort the market’s when our “non-traditional” Charles Davies is a veteran business writer
working folks who have process of natural selec- sub-prime lenders started who has worked for Canadian and
international news organizations.
made all their payments. tion, muddying economic heading for the exits. Take
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6 Diabetes rates high among young aboriginal women: Study
A 25-year study shows rates of diabetes among aboriginals have been rising at an alarming rate, especially for women of child-bearing age. The University of
Saskatchewan study found the incidence of diabetes is more than four times higher in First Nations women compared to non-First Nations women. THE CANADIAN PRESS
Green jobs key: U.S. ambassador
Canada
President Barack Obama’s man in Ottawa says “green jobs” are the key to
long-term economic recovery in both the United States and Canada. U.S.
Ambassador David Jacobson, left, offered that assessment in an exclusive
and wide-ranging interview with The Canadian Press. Jacobson says one of
the reasons Obama is so concerned with climate change is that he sees it as
an economic issue as much as an environmental one. THE CANADIAN PRESS
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TorchOn the clifftops
hard to come by: Poll
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soldiers departing for Haiti By the numbers tasked with ensuring the yesterday found that 90
over the next week are fac- “humanitarian corridor” per cent of those surveyed
ing an increasingly volatile (cid:129) A look at some of the lat- remains open, he said. believed they would have
security situation as anger est official Canadian and in- Prime Minister Stephen enough income to cover
and desperation grow in ternational numbers emer- Harper spoke with Haitian necessities when they re-
the wake of last Tuesday’s gi ng from the Canadian re- President Andre Preval yes- tire. But only a quarter of
killer earthquake. lief effort in Haiti: terday. Preval was in the respondents felt they
Foreign Affairs Minister (cid:129) Canadians missing: 859 Dominican Republic at- would have enough to
Lawrence Cannon says se- (cid:129) Canadians confirmed tending an international “fulfil their retirement
curity has been fingered as dead: 11 conference on Haiti. dreams.” THE CANADIAN PRESS
one of the key challenges (cid:129) Canadians located: 1,433 Harper conveyed the
facing relief and recon- (cid:129) Canadians believed to be “deep support and unwa-
struction efforts as aid in Haiti: More than 6,000 vering commitment of the
slowly ramps up and the Canadian government and
death toll continues to pacity to deliver aid and the Canadian people for
mount. our capacity to stabilize Haiti,” said a release from
“Although the concern Haiti,” Cannon said yester- the Prime Minister’s Office. Torchbearer Wendy Lumby, right, passes on the Olympic flame
over an increase in civilian day. Harper also outlined to Michael Strikes-with-a-Gun on top of the cliffs at Head-
violence is shared by sever- Some of the infantry Canada’s funding commit- Smashed-In Buffalo Jump, Alta., yesterday. Follow the Olympic FoTuhres quusea roef pGuPtS s obcyi aalp npes tswuochrk ainsg
al countries involved, it coming out of the Royal ments and relief efforts. torch’s journey with an interactive map at metronews.ca/sports. back on privacy commissioner’s radar.
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Winds gusting up to 80 kilometres per hour caused havoc for Vancouver commuters and left thousands of homes on the south coast of
B.C. and on Vancouver Island without power. More than 50,000 customers have been affected by power outages. THE CANADIAN PRESS
Tories win ad Man pleads guilty to fatally stabbing senior Yemeni minister
disputes al-Qaida
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But the opposition says having illegally exceeded Kitchener courtroom, as Alqirbi is in Ottawa
the court ruling won’t end its campaign spending lim- well as to assault on anoth- today meeting his Canadi-
the controversy. it by more than $1 million. er neighbourhood man two Trevor LaPierre is led into court yesterday in Kitchener. an counterpart, Lawrence
Federal Court Judge Luc Still, Martineau ques- days later. Cannon. Canada is consid-
Martineau yesterday reject- tioned the “legitimacy” of Brown’s widow de- way her husband died and route to a psychiatric ward. ering increased
ed claims by Elections the so-called “in and out” scribed the anguish she’s wonders why she wasn’t According to the agreed development spending in
Canada that advertising ex- ad scheme because of the suffered since seeing her killed instead. statement of facts read into Yemen to stop militants
penses attributed to Tory effect it could have on the husband’s lifeless body two LaPierre was arrested evidence, he did it to please from recruiting poor vul-
candidates should have fairness of electoral spend- years ago. She says she’s soon after the stabbing as Satan and “to save him- nerable people to its
been reported as expenses ing law. THE CANADIAN PRESS haunted by the “horrific” he and his father were en self.” THE CANADIAN PRESS ranks. THE CANADIAN PRESS
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8 Deadly flash floods hit Middle East
Heavy rains and flash floods left seven people dead in Egypt and Israel yesterday, including a
British tourist who was killed when a sailboat capsized on the Nile River. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Agca says he is ‘messenger from God’
World
The Turkish man who shot Pope John Paul II in 1981 was released from prison yesterday
after more than 29 years and said he was a messenger of God and that the world will
end in this century. Mehmet Ali Agca, 52, left the prison in a convoy of several vehicles.
Turkish authorities plan to monitor him because of questions about his mental health.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Aid flows, frustration persists Groups call for show of force
IRAN Iranian opposition attempts by Iranian offi-
groups flooded the web cials to cripple their web
Help not reaching all who need it, looting and violence spread yesterday with calls for a outreach.
massive show of force dur- It also suggested that the
ing next month’s anniver- Feb. 11 commemorations
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killed an estimated Prince as hundreds of continued ability of anti- atarin.com.
200,000 people and left young men and boys clam- government forces to har- “Victory is near.”
many still struggling to bered up broken walls to ness the Internet despite THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
find a cup of water or a break into shops and take
handful of food. whatever they could find.
European nations Especially prized was tooth- Schreiber goes on trial in Germany
pledged more than a half- paste, which people smear
billion dollars in emergency under their noses to fend TAX EVASION Businessman Schreiber of
and long-term aid, on top of off the stench of decaying Karlheinz Schreiber, who failing to de-
at least $100 million prom- bodies. At a collapsed and was extradited from Cana- clare millions
ised earlier by the U.S. The burning shop in the market da last August after losing a from kickbacks
president of the neighbour- area, youths used broken decade-long legal battle to he received.
ing Dominican Republic bottles, machetes and ra- stay in the country, went on While in
said it will cost far more to zors to battle for bottles of trial in Germany yesterday Canada, a pub-
finally rebuild the country: rum and police fired shots on charges of tax evasion. Schreiber lic inquiry head-
$10 billion. to break up the crowd. The charges stem from ed by Justice Jef-
Help was still not reach- “I am drinking as much his role in a financing scan- frey Oliphant examined the
ing many victims of last as I can. It gives courage,” dal dating back to the era of financial dealings between
Tuesday’s quake — choked said Jean-Pierre Junior, former German chancellor Schreiber and former
back by transportation bot- wielding a broken wooden Helmut Kohl. prime minister Brian Mul-
tlenecks, bureaucratic con- plank with nails to protect Prosecutors accuse roney. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
fusion, fear of attacks on aid his bottle of rum.
convoys, the collapse of lo- Even so, the U.S. Army's People take goods from a quake-collapsed store in Port-au-
cal authority and the sheer on-the-ground commander, Prince yesterday. News in brief
scale of the need. Lt. Gen. Ken Keen, said the
city is seeing less violence U.S. officials say some he wants 1,500 more UN po- PIRACY A shootout between
Read and comment on than before the earthquake. 2,200 Marines were arriving lice and 2,000 more troops rival Somali pirates gangs over
Twitter updates from the “Is there gang violence? Yes. to join 1,700 U.S. troops to join the existing 7,000 a $5.5 million US ransom thr -
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