Metro Toronto - January 21, 2010

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10 boys, cise regu-
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the sauce yesterday morn- bad for “After four
ing, apparently in school. your hours of sit-
The boys complained of health. ting, the body
feeling sick and eight were And it starts to send
taken to hospital. doesn’t harmful sig-
The Red Cross said that matter nals,” said
on the Scoville scale, where the Elin Ekblom-
which measures the sitting Bak of the
hotness of sauce, the sauce takes place Swedish
measured 535,000 — com- — at the School of
pared to 2,500 for normal office, at Sport and
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before a explained
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is preliminary, but several
A Haitian boy pours water on himself yesterday at a broken water line in Port-au-Prince. Aid has started trickling out to Haitians studies suggest people who
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devastated by last week’s earthquake that ravaged the country, though many fear not enough will reach desperate citizens in time spend most of their days
to prevent humanitarian catastrophe. More coverage, pages 8, 14. sitting are more likely to
Countdown be fat, have a heart attack
to 2010 Deadly combo or even die.
In an editorial published
Follow Metro as we this week in the British
bring you daily Journal of Sports Medicine,
coverage leading up Elin Ekblom-Bak of the
to the 2010 Win- Swedish School of Sport
ter Olympics and Health Sciences sug-
in Vancouver. gested authorities rethink
• Today — Un- how they define physical
like Cypress activity to highlight the
Mountain on Pedestrians, drivers both to blame for deaths: Cops dangers of sitting.
Vancouver’s THE ASSOCIATED
North Shore, PRESS
Whistler’s A rash of pedestrian fatali- ing onto the street against
Olympic venues ties in the GTA had experts 10th fatality in eight days a light, and aggressive driv-
are ready, page 24 sounding the alarm yester- ers speeding, unaware of
day about the deadly com- (cid:129)Yesterday morning, another Area. The latest death hap- their surroundings.
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Link to exclusive ans competing for space pedestrian fatality in eight cut across a road when she false sense of security as
Raptors game report on crowded city streets. days in the Greater Toronto was hit by a minivan. they whip around on the
“They’re blinded with roads. “We have aggres-
and highlights. See
their hoods. They’ve got players instead of traffic laid-back behaviour of sive drivers, but we also
the top of page 22. their earphones on. signals. many motorists who play have aggressive pedestri-
They’ve blocked out any But drivers weren’t off loud music, eat in their ans. We have pedestrians
On the web awareness,” Toronto police the hook either. cars and think they can who will not wait for a
Const. Hugh Smith said “We’ve made it our sec- multi-task while driving. fresh light,” he said.
Visit metronews.ca about pedestrians, who are ondary comfort zone,” said Police said accidents can THE CANADIAN PRESS
for news updates often tuned into their MP3 Smith, as he described the be caused by people scurry- MORE COVERAGE, PAGE 7
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Local
The next time a flight attendant tells her to sit down, Colleen Walsh says she will listen.
The former Toronto broadcaster apologized yesterday after she was fined $2,400 for
assaulting a fellow passenger and breaching the federal Aeronautics Act during an outburst
she partly blamed on menopausal exhaustion. THE CANADIAN PRESS
Activists
ProtestGet back to work Mr. Prime Minister
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Canada Pg 8
World Pg 14
Comment Pg 18
Business Pg 20 Canada’s convalescing Harper has defended the
Sports Pg 22 economy may have decision to prorogue until
Vancouver Games Pg 24 topped Prime Minister March 3, saying the extra
Metro Homes Pg 25 Stephen Harper’s agenda time was needed to adjust
Style Pg 32 yesterday, but anti-proro- the government’s policies
Entertainment Pg 35 gation anger ended up hi- now that the economy has
Celebrity Buzz Pg 42 jacking his Toronto road moved from recession into
show. the recovery phase.
Tomorrow’s Metro It’s just a taste of what’s But polls suggest opposi-
to come Saturday, when tion parties have largely About 35 protesters demonstrating against the prorogation of the Canadian Parliament gather
Comment thousands are expected to succeeded in portraying the yesterday outside the CD Howe Institute in Toronto where Prime Minister Harper attended a
John Sewell writes gather at rallies across move as an attempt by the roundtable meeting. Canadians Against Proroguing Parliament say hundreds of thousands of
about local issues Canada to protest the Harper government people have joined the movement to make MPs go back to work.
facing the GTA in shutdown of Parlia- to evade scrutiny
Urban Compass. ment, said Walied over its handling of
Khogali, who helped the Afghan detainee Detractors wary of Samsung deal
organize the demon- torture allegations.
stration. Media were not
Harper visited the permitted in the To- GREEN TECH Critics of a $7- success with wind power
institute for a round- ry caucus meeting, billion green energy agree- “This idea there’s have been supported by
table discussion Stephen but Harper’s staff ment between the Ontario going to be 50,000 electricity rates that are
WHAT’S ONLINE TODAY about the economy Harper provided a transcript government and South Ko- subsidized by its European
green jobs … is just
with high-powered of his opening ad- rean giant Samsung said Union neighbours.
VideoHaitian-born Montre- business and banking exec- dress, in which he outlined yesterday it gives a foreign a crazy fantasy.” “The idea that we’re go-
al police officers return to utives, such as TD Bank three priorities heading in- consortium an unfair ad- Tom Adams, energy ing to repeat the Danish
their home country to join the president and CEO Ed Clark to the March budget. vantage over local wind and success by following the
relief effort at metronews.ca/ and Elyse Allan, head of GE “The first is to continue to solar producers and will be sector watchdog same model here assumes
canada Canada. deliver the stimulus, to a bad deal for taxpayers. that electricity consumers
BlogsAmong the criticism He also addressed his 11- complete that stimulus roll- The agreement, which step towards the Liberal gov- are prepared to put up with
of the world’s response to the member Greater Toronto out of those projects in the was to be signed today by ernment’s goal of creating this kind of (subsidy) crazi-
tragedy in Haiti, and central Ontario regional year to come,” he said. Premier Dalton McGuinty, 50,000 new jobs by trans- ness for the long term, and I
Spindoctor also caucus at a closed-door “But to think again, to would see Samsung build forming Ontario into an in- don’t see it,” Adams said in
sees plenty meeting at a Toronto hotel. think beyond that, to begin wind and solar farms across ternational hub for manufac- an interview.
that has been Members included newly to think about the deficit Ontario to generate 2,500 turing and exporting green “This idea there’s going to
done well. minted Sen. Linda Frum and and deficit reduction …” megawatts of renewable en- energy technologies. be 50,000 green jobs creat-
cabinet minister Lisa Raitt. The third priority is to ergy, a source close to the That’s unlikely to hap- ed by this is just a crazy fan-
The prime minister didn’t “do the things necessary to deal said yesterday. pen, said energy sector tasy that has no bearing
make himself available to build our economy and cre- The Samsung project is ex- watchdog Tom Adams. He whatsoever in reality.”
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Ontario’s top police officer no charged after the com- earlier this month until
has been served with a missioner allegedly sent an Feb. 3 after the Crown
summons over an email in asked the court in Cayuga
allegation he influenced 2007 telling for more time to review
or attempted to influence the mayor new evidence relating to
municipal officials. and council- the allegation. A charge of
Ontario Provincial Police lors in Cale- influencing or attempting
Commissioner Julian Fanti- donia not to to influence municipal offi-
no confirmed that he re- attend cials is a Criminal Code of-
300 000 ceived a summons yester- McHale’s fence that carries up to a
$ , day and said he intends to rallies. five-year prison term.
vigorously defend himself Julian Fantino McHale The attorney general’s
and the force against the has led a office has said a special
“vexatious allegation.” number of rallies in the prosecutor will be assigned
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said he has “absolute confi- Hamilton to protest what tions Unit, which was set
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metro metronews.ca Thursday, January 21, 2010
6 local Cops put brakes on Angels
Provincial police say a two-year investigation has cracked a cell of Hells Angels
and put a dent in the drug trade in eastern Ontario. THE CANADIAN PRESS
Grieving family faces
deportation hearing
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visits to her father’s grave
at Beechwood Cemetery.
Daniela’s father, Vlad -
imir Korostin, 40, was one
of the four immigrant,
non-union workers who
were killed on Christmas
Eve, when the scaffold
they were working upon at
a Kipling Avenue highrise
complex collapsed. Irina Cherniakova and daughter Daniela Korostin, 7, daughter
Daniela’s mother, Irina and ex-wife of scaffolding-accident victim Vladimir Korostin, face
Cherniakova, 36, worries a Feb. 23 deportation hearing.
that those graveside visits
by Daniela and her big sis- she has a hearing on Feb. doesn’t have legal counsel
ter Inna Korostin, 14, will 23. The letter made it clear and who speaks little Eng-
soon stop, if the family los- that her attendance was lish, the meaning is clear:
es a deportation hearing mandatory, to determine If things don’t go well in
next month in Toronto. whether she and her the Victoria Street hearing
On New Year’s Eve, Cher- daughters would be al- room, she and her two
niakova got a letter from lowed to stay in the coun- girls will be deported to Is-
the Immigration and try. rael.
Refugee Board, telling her For Cherniakova, who TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
Terrorist pleads guilty, to walk free
TORONTO 18A terrorist just
two months away from the Credit for time served
start of his trial pleaded
guilty yesterday to helping (cid:129)Amin Durrani, 23, was hand- has spent in prison since his ar-
train and indoctrinate ed a 7.5-year sentence, but with rest Durrani was sentenced to
young recruits and was set the standard two-for-one credit serve one more day. He will also
to walk free given the time for the more than 3.5 years he be on probation for three years.
he’s already served behind
bars. guilty at trial. an agreed statement of facts
Amin Durrani’s surprise It was not clear when ex- was entered containing
guilty plea of participating actly Durrani would be re- everything Durrani admits
in a terrorist group marks leased from custody at to, including participating
the fifth guilty plea and the Maplehurst Detention Cen- in a discussion about plans
sixth conviction in the so- tre in Milton, Ont., west of to storm Parliament Hill
called Toronto 18 case, as a Toronto. and behead the prime min-
youth was earlier found As part of the guilty plea ister. THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Porter boss honoured local 7
The CEO Award of Excellence in Public Relations was awarded yesterday to Robert Deluce, president
and CEO of Porter Airlines, by the Canadian Public Relations Society. METRO NEWS SERVICES
Talking crosswalk timers
ElectionMetro at the polls
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indicating how much long - be converted this year. pedestrians will walk 1.2 ment. Giving pedestri-
er it will be before the metres per second to get ans more time to cross
light turns. The Toronto QHow long is the inter- to the other side. That’s means longer wait times
Star asked Bruce Zvaniga, val between numbers? 4.3 km/h. If you include for traffic — and pedestri-
manager of the city’s AOne second. If the the seven-second period ans wanting to cross in
urban traffic control sys- countdown starts at with the white light, the other direction. That
tems, about the signals. 10, you have 10 seconds to pedestrians must walk can induce impatient
QHow many pedestrian cross. about one metre per sec- pedestrians to cross
signals are there in ond, or 3.6 km/h, to cross against the lights. It can
the city? QHow long does the in time at an average also hold up transit vehi-
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that haven’t yet been AThe distance across can traffic engineers. It’s AStatistical information
converted need special the street. also contained in the On- is still being gathered.
handling — such as lights tario Traffic Manual, pub- TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
Metro columnist Enza Anderson stands outside City Hall,
$7B energy deal Lives ‘ripped apart’ by accident, court hears
where she filed her election registration papers yesterday
expected today morning. The 45-year-old, who is running for a council seat in
CRASH A Thanksgiving their wives, who are Machado, 29, has yet to Ward 27, says she wants to improve TTC service, add more bike
POWERAn oversupply of so- weekend crash that killed buried side by side, have stand trial for his alleged lanes and build a bridge to the island airport. Anderson (email:
lar technology fore - two women also forever affected their families. role in the seven-car noon [email protected]) isn’t the only Metro candidate
shadows a cloudy 2010 for ripped apart the lives of The tragedy even hour pile-up that ripped in Ward 27 — interactive content manager Chris Tindal (inset)
manufacturers, but a their family members and touched Dalsass’ apart Dougherty’s registered Tuesday. Tindal, a former federal candidate,
brighter outlook for more close friends, court heard neighbour’s dog, a Sentence 1995 Grand-Am. highlighted city finances, transit, and smart development as
widespread adoption of the yesterday. Jack Russell terrier Loved ones de- three areas in need of special focus. His website is
technology, analysts say. Best friends, driver Cyn- named Miller, who (cid:129) Justice Bruce scribed how christindal.ca. The municipal election is Oct. 25.
Ontario is expected to an- thia Dougherty, 49, of Bee- still waits by the Durno will Thanksgiving has
nounce a new green energy ton, and passenger Mari- backyard gate for hear sentenc- become a day of
deal with Samsung Group arosa (Mar) Dalsass, 44, of “Mar” to come ing submis- sorrow instead of
worth up to $7 billion Palgrave, died instantly in home. sions Feb. 24. celebration, and News in brief
today. The plan is said to in- the multi-car crash on Steven Machado, how neither
clude the development of Highway 50 in Caledon on 25, of Mississauga, woman will cele- WANTED Durham region po- Michael McGee, 28, after a
an additional 600 mega- Oct. 6, 2007. pleaded guilty on July 28 brate future weddings, go lice are on the hunt for a third witness in a criminal court
watts of wind and solar The women’s husbands, to two counts of criminal on holidays or attend joy- Toronto man accused of case was abducted on his way
farms and stimulate jobs in fighting back tears, each negligence causing their ful family and friend func- abducting a witness outside into the King Street West
the industry. explained to a Brampton deaths. tions. an Oshawa courthouse. A war- courthouse on Jan. 4.
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metro metronews.ca Thursday, January 21, 2010
8 Police say deaths were murder-suicide
An autopsy confirms the deaths of two people last weekend in Ottawa were a murder-suicide. Police have
identified the two as 33-year-old Andrew Ferguson and 24-year-old Ashley Boudreau. THE CANADIAN PRESS
No investigation into fight club
Canada
Winnipeg police say they are not getting involved in an alleged fight club
at the University of Manitoba. They say they aren’t investigating allega-
tions a fight-club altercation was staged late last year. The University of
Manitoba says it has disciplined several students and a staff member af-
ter discovering a Facebook page discussing fights on campus.
THE CANADIAN PRESS
Feds to speed up
CalgaryTorch takes a ride on Olympic chairlift
Haitian adoptions JEFF M
ImmHigairtaition restrictions rempraospiencti vteh paorenuts wgerhe to CINTOSH/THE CANADIAN PRESS
By the numbers be contacted by noon yes-
Crisis terday.
(cid:129) Canadians missing: 543 Once the Haitian govern-
Canada will speed some (cid:129) Canadians confirmed ment confirms the status of
adoptions of Haitian dead: 13 individual cases, Kenney
children following last (cid:129) Canadians located: 1,681 said he’s directed his offi-
week’s disastrous (cid:129) Canadians believed to be cials to issue temporary res-
earthquake, but it won’t in Haiti: More than 6,000 ident permits — “an ex- Torchbearer Stewart McDonough carries the Vancouver 2010 Olympic flame up a chairlift at Cana-
loosen immigration restric- (cid:129) Total death toll in Haiti: traordinary measure” — to da Olympic Park, site of events at the 1988 Calgary Olympics, in Calgary, yesterday. Follow the
tions to accommodate oth- Roughly 200,000, estimate allow qualified Haitian chil- Olympic torch’s journey with an interactive map at metronews.ca/sports.
ers escaping the chaos. by the European Union, dren to enter Canada as
Officials will expedite quoting Haitian officials. quickly as possible.
adoptions that were already Ottawa is sending addi-
underway and had received thorities for lists of Haitian tional staff to the Haitian Phone company waives call fees
preliminary approvals be- adoptions and it is consult- capital of Port-au-Prince to
fore the magnitude-7.3 ing Haitian authorities on help with adoption cases MONTREAL A Quebec tele - no other phone providers
quake struck Jan. 12, Immi- “fast-tracking” their for- and other immigration communications company in Canada have followed
gration Minister Jason Ken- eign-adoption approval files, and it has set up an of- has waived all long-dis- suit. Vidéotron will waive
ney said yesterday. process, Kenney said. fice in the neighbouring tance fees to those desper- all fees on calls made to While he’s got plenty of love for
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that some- was found the fact he had the fake
one could dead inside document when he arrived
the bag. from Pakistan.
do this to “It The government is try- Mohamed Harkat was all smiles after a court hearing last year.
a defence- makes me ing to deport Harkat under
less sick that a national security certifi- ties to Islamic extremists. Under questioning yes-
someone cate, a rarely employed im- The former gas-station terday, a CSIS officer said
animal.” could do migration provision. attendant and pizza deliv- Harkat’s use of a false pass-
Nancy this to a The Canadian Security ery man, who lives in Ot- port was a “contributing
defence- Intelligence Service alleges tawa with his wife, denies factor” in deciding he was
McCabe,
less ani- Harkat, arrested more involvement with terror- an extremist.
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Nancy Mc-
Cabe of the Ont a rio Society
New workers to fight suicide ‘epidemic’
for the Prevention of Cru-
elty to Animals. The cat
suffered four fractured ribs MENTAL HEALTH A struggling youth suicide “epidemic” James and Hudson Bay
while it was still alive. Children’s Aid Society in in the James Bay area. Family Services director
The suspects are de- northern Ontario will get The province’s Ministry Ernest Beck for the addi-
scribed as two white men Parliament may be closed, but Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff four new mental health of Children and Youth tional workers, at a price
in their early to mid-20s. was working hard yesterday. He delivered a pep talk to his workers to help it deal Services has granted a re- of about $400,000.
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