Metro Toronto - January 2, 2014

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Thursday, January 2, 2014
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OUR HOLIDAY
Toronto MP New Year’s Tenderloin,
HEROES HEAD
walking free mirth meets cheddar, some
HOME AT LAST
in Sri Lanka joy of birth grapefruit and
MEET THE MANITOBA ... sprinkles? NWEOWRST H
HYDRO WORKERS WHO Tamil MP says she was not As the clock struck 12, four SHARING.
GAVE UP CHRISTMAS WITH placed under house arrest, babies arrived in Toronto —
THEIR FAMILIES TO HELP as was reported, but did face including one whose twin See what dish one writer put
BRING POWER BACK AFTER ‘political intimidation’ over was born just minutes earlier together ahead of Chopped
THE ICE STORM PAGES 10 & 11 human-rights crusade PAGE 8 but a whole year apart PAGE 4 Canada’s big premiere PAGE 16
Prostitution
charges have
plummeted
Ninety per cent drop tution.
“The government kept as-
in Toronto. Legal fi ght
serting that when the laws
may have kept police were invalidated, there would
be some sort of chaos,” said
on defensive: Lawyer
Alan Young, the lawyer who
argued the case. “And my
position was, we’re char-
The number of charges for ging so little, the community
prostitution-related offences wouldn’t notice much.”
in Toronto courts has dropped Young said there are sev-
by 90 per cent over a five- eral possible explanations,
year period, as the challenge pointing to 2010 and 2012 rul-
against Canada’s prostitution ings that kept the laws in flux.
laws wound its way to the “It puts the police in a very
country’s highest court. awkward position.... It seems
Statistics published by the somewhat anomalous to pro-
Ministry of the Attorney Gen- ceed with a prosecution for an
eral shows Toronto courts re- offence that’s in limbo.”
ceived 1,088 charges related to Chanelle Gallant, spokes- VICTORY UNDER THE OPEN SKY
prostitution in 2006. In 2011, person for Maggie’s: The To-
they received just 110. ronto Sex Workers Action
Last month, the Supreme Project, said a drop in charges
Court of Canada struck down isn’t reflected in what she
Leafs goaltender Jonathan Bernier plays the puck behind the net in the fi rst period against the Detroit Red Wings during the 2014
laws that made it illegal to hears from sex workers on the
communicate for the purpose street, who she says still face Bridgestone NHL Winter Classic on Wednesday at Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor. The Leafs claimed a 3-2 victory in front of a frozen crowd
of prostitution, run a brothel profiling and harassment from of 105,491. Story, page 21. JAMIE SABAU/GETTY IMAGES
or live off the avails of prosti- police. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE

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Mayor Rob Ford holds the annual Mayor’s New Year’s Levee at city hall Wednesday. The levee was scheduled to end at 4 p.m., but Ford planned to stay to meet the 50 people who were still waiting in line.
KEITH BEATY/TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
Contrasting mayors
S
usher in the new year
Levees. McCallion Quoted
preparing to say
“(The year) had ele-
goodbye, while Ford
ments to it that I don’t
fi ghts to stay on think one could have
scripted and therefore
predicted.”
For one mayor, it was the bitter-
sweet beginning of her final Toronto Deputy Mayor Norm Kelly
year in office. For another, it
was the cautious start of cam-
paigning after a scandal-filled The mayor may be old, but
year past. the city isn’t,” said the feisty Mississauga Mayor Hazel McCallion
New Year’s levees were held 92-year-old, drawing laughs holds the annual Mayor’s New
in Mississauga and Toronto on from the crowd. Year’s Levee at Mississauga City
Wednesday, marking very dif- Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, Hall. KEITH BEATY/TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
ferent milestones for the cities’ who shook hands and took
chief magistrates. photos with hundreds of sup- in which the city faced two
Hazel McCallion, who has porters in the city hall rotunda, crises — the scandal that sur-
been mayor of Mississauga for walked silently past a throng of rounded Ford and led to coun-
35 years, has said this is her last reporters waiting for him after cil reducing his powers, and
term. In an energetic speech to the event. the massive ice storm that cut
supporters packed into council His chief of staff, Dan Jacobs, power to hundreds of thou-
chambers, she lauded the city’s confirmed Ford will register as sands of homes.
progress. a candidate for the mayoral Kelly refused to say whether
“It’s the 40th anniversary of election at 8:30 a.m. Thursday. he would support the mayor’s
this great city — just a young Deputy Mayor Norm Kelly re-election bid. Rosanna Brazil gets a selfi e with Mayor Rob Ford at the annual Mayor’s
city, folks. We’re not old at all. called 2013 a “unique year” TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE New Year’s Levee Wednesday at city hall. KEITH BEATY/TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
On your mark: Election race begins now
Toronto residents’ gruelling election, it’s unlikely many of That’s why rumoured transit commission to run once
Election day
299-day slog to the ballot box the major contenders will jump Oct. 27 mayoral hopefuls such as Olivia the 2014 budget is finalized in
has officially begun. in on Day 1. Chow, John Tory and Denzil January or February.
As of Jan. 2, candidates run- So far, Mayor Rob Ford is the Minnan-Wong are likely to Former councillor David
ning for mayor and council only one who has promised to hang back for a few months be- Soknacki, a conservative, has
can register with the city clerk. register first thing Thursday The day when Toronto’s next mayor will fore officially declaring. also committed to running
Nominations close Sept. 12. morning. be decided in 2014. TTC chair Karen Stintz, for mayor. An official with his
After their declaration is ap- Federal and provincial cam- who is so far the only major campaign said Soknacki will
proved, candidates are able to paigns typically last about a contender to confirm her can- formally enter his name in
raise and spend money. month, but in Toronto, candi- 10 drawn-out and expensive didacy, has said she will step early January.
As to Toronto’s mayoral dates could be on the trail for months. down from her position on the TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
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Special deliveries
It was a different type of countdown for four mothers across the GTA who
rang in the new year to the cry of a newborn. Two babies were born at
the stroke of midnight at North York General and Rouge Valley Centenary
hospitals. A third was delivered by caesarean section at Sunnybrook
Hospital and another was born 38 seconds into 2014 at Credit Valley
Hospital. Her twin sister was born minutes before — in 2013.
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James
In Scarborough, a weary Pradeepa John
Kennady cradled her 12-hour-old son,
James, as father John Kennady Fernando
looked on.
“At 12 o’clock, me, the nurses, every-
body was happy for the New Year-born
baby,” Fernando, 36, said.
James arrived nearly two weeks early,
and Fernando is hoping the midnight
Jenna RENE JOHNSTON/TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE birth will prove auspicious. At six pounds
and six ounces, James dozed in a Team
Canada T-shirt, and Fernando said his son
Jenna Grace Cheaib opened her eyes might just grow up to be a cricket star, or
Grin and Bear it, pal, it’s for a good cause for the first time in front of television soccer prodigy.
cameras on Wednesday. Weighing seven “After coming to Canada, I like hock-
Tara Walton, left and her friend Leevie Hart, centre, participate in the Courage Polar Bear Dip for World Vision pounds, 11 ounces, and wearing a pink ey, too,” said Fernando, who emigrated
during sub-freezing temperatures in Lake Ontario in Oakville on Wednesday. The event raised $137,000 to knit cap, the tiny bundle rested quietly in from Sri Lanka in 2004.
provide fresh water for Gashora and Rugarama in Rwanda. MARK BLINCH/THE CANADIAN PRESS the arms of her mother, Stefany Wilkins,
at North York General.
“Everybody was looking at the clock”
during the delivery, said Wilkins, 24,
whose original due date was Dec. 31.
“Is she going to do it? Is she going to
come by midnight or before, after?”
The Bowmanville couple met while
working at the OLG Slots at Ajax Downs.
While they don’t normally gamble them-
selves, they were taking bets on whether
Jenna would be born in 2013 or 2014,
said fiancé Mohammed Cheaib, 31.
Are you a healthy, “We were doing over/unders on
midnight. Most of the calls were for past
midnight, but she came right on the dot.”
non-smoking male or female
She takes after her father, Cheaib said.
“I don’t think I’ve been late for any-
18 years of age or older?
thing in my life,” he said.
RENE JOHNSTON/TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
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Thursday, January 2, 2014
Palestinian ambassador to Czech
Republic killed by exploding safe
Booby-trapped? It also appeared that the 20 years or why and when the
door of the safe had been safe would have been booby-
Foreign minister says
booby-trapped, according to trapped.
no foul play suspected Zoulova. It was unclear how During the 1980s — before
al-Jamal tried to open it or what the fall of the Soviet Union -—
in apartment blast
type of safe it was. the PLO had close ties with the
The safe was recently moved Eastern Bloc countries. In re-
from the old embassy building, cent years, relations have been
The Palestinian ambassador but it had come from a building tense and the Czech govern-
to the Czech Republic died that used to house the Palestin- ment was seen as taking Israel’s
Wednesday in an explosion ian Liberation Organization’s side in the Mideast conflict, said
that occurred when he opened offices in the 1980s, Malki said. Nabil Shaath, a foreign affairs
an old safe that had been left “The ambassador decided to veteran and official in Pales-
untouched for more than 20 open it. After he opened it, ap- tinian President Mahmoud Ab-
years, officials said. parently something happened bas’s Fatah movement.
Ambassador Jamal al-Jamal, inside (the safe) and went off,” “The safe was sitting … in …
56, was at home with his family Malki told The Associated Press. the old embassy.... No one had
at the time of the explosion, ac- It was not immediately clear touched it for 20 to 25 years,”
cording to Palestinian Embassy how Malki knew the safe had Malki said.
spokesman Nabil El-Fahel. Al- been untouched for more than THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Jamal was seriously injured
and rushed to a hospital where
Untouched for more than 20 years
he died, according to police
spokeswoman Andrea Zoulova.
“He opened it and asked his wife to bring a paper and
Palestinian Foreign Minister
Riad Malki said no foul play was a pen to write down the contents of the safe. She left Firemen lay on the ground near the residence of Jamal al-Jamal, Palestinian ambassador to the Czech Republic, in Prague on
suspected, noting that the safe him to bring (the) pen and paper. During that time, Wednesday. The ambassador died in an explosion that occurred when he opened an office safe that officials say had been
had been left untouched for left untouched for more than 20 years. Inset: A recent photo of Jamal al-Jamal.
she heard … an explosion.”
more than 20 years. Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad Malki KATERINA SULOVA/CTK/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS; INSET: KRUMPHANZL MICHAL/CTK/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE
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What happens in Vegas Rewind
Capt. David O’Leary faced Baptist estimate they
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Daren Jay Ashba and Co- their movies to friends
after rocker’s stunt idea: Rent out
lombian actress Nathalia for years and thought
Henao. O’Leary instead VHS films they should just start
A Las Vegas police captain retired on Dec. 20. renting them.
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pull off an elaborate officer Ray Horsley, who movie buffs are reach- is called Videonomicon,
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arranging a flight on a being transferred out of collections in hopes of their favourites lost
department helicopter the Air Support Detail will reviving a staple of the forever.
has retired rather than no longer be allowed to last century — the VHS The store will also rent
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The agency confirms THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Jon Vaughn and Tyler THE CANADIAN PRESS
Manitoba Hydro workers return to Winnipeg after giving up their Christmas time with
Giving up
so others
Thank you. When the About 45 Manitoba Hydro
province was hit with employees gathered in the Per-
imeter Aviation hangar Tues-
a freak ice storm before day evening to greet family and
Christmas, Manitobans wish them a Merry Christmas
— a few days late.
were ready to lend a
“It was tough, but we knew
hand to restore power we were going there for a good
cause, to help other people
who weren’t having a good
Christmas,” said Rowan Andrel-
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turned home to Manitoba on Hydro who told Metro he had
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