Metro Toronto - January 21, 2016

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Refugees to
T.O. stalled
ESCAPE
GOVERNMENT SPONSORED pected to arrive in the next three
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Cassandra Diamond urging feds to racks outside the city if hotel
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open arms to give people homes.
Now she’s praising “We don’t have a bottleneck.
Luke We’ve got an apartment with no
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helping others Metro | Toronto chair of refugee support at Rose-
dale United Church, which has
find a way out. Private groups looking to spon- 15 private sponsor groups.
sor Syrian refugees are calling Immigration Minister John
metroNEWS on the Canadian government McCallum said Wednesday he’s
to let them help as settlement open to moving some govern-
organizations scramble to find ment-sponsored refugees into the
housing for newcomers. private stream. He also pledged
Toronto hit the pause button to help resettlement agencies,
on accepting new government- like COSTI, hire more staff.
sponsored refugees Wednesday. WITH FILES FROM TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
Mario Calla, executive director
of COSTI, an immigrant servi-
ces group, asked for five days SINCE DEC. 10
without new arrivals to sort
out a bottleneck that has more 2,185: Syrian refugees
Diamond speaks at than 1,000 refugees living in arriving in Toronto.
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‘It’s pretty nasty under the Gardiner’
DEVELOPMENT
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Jessica
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Metro | Toronto
Kids play joyfully next to six
lanes of traffic and friends sit
together eating gelato under
the rustling overpass.
It will be a glorious future
under the eastern Gardiner Ex-
pressway, according to the con-
ceptual drawings released by the
City of Toronto on Wednesday.
When city council voted to
keep the eastern section of the
expressway as an elevated high-
way last June, the plan includ-
ed a budget for improvements
to the pedestrian space under-
neath the Gardiner, alongside
Lakeshore Boulevard.
The conceptual drawings re-
leased Wednesday depict what
that could look like.
“The drawings of people
hanging out under the high-
way as if it were a park are
a little unrealistic,” said Julie
Beddoes, who is part of the
project’s citizen consultation Before and after: how a section of the eastern Gardiner might be changed, according to the City of Toronto’s drawings. CONTRIBUTED
process. “I don’t intend to bring
my lunch and eat it under the Beddoes had supported tear- “If it just deteriorates into a “It’s pretty nasty under the he said.
expressway. ing down that section of the weedy garbage-filled strip, we Gardiner, but there’s a lot of ter- The drawings are different
“But if we can gild the lily Gardiner, but since council won’t be better off,” she said. ritory so is there a way of put- than the Under Gardiner Pro-
let’s gild it.” voted that option down she Chris Glaisek, vice-president It should be a crime ting it to actual use that people ject, which received $25 million
What the drawings show wants to make it the safest of planning and design with that something so can enjoy?” he said. of private funds to improve the
would be an improvement to and most welcoming part for Waterfront Toronto, said the The drawings are based on space under the western section
ugly should exist
what’s there now, she said, add- pedestrians. That will include drawings are initial sketches, real projects that have been of the Gardiner from Strachan
ing: “It should be a crime that budgeting the money to keep not firm plans, but do reflect in our city. done, such as Underpass Park, Avenue to Spadina Avenue. That
something so ugly should exist the area looking as clean as it the range of things that could which has basketball parks section has different opportun-
Julie Beddoes
in our city.” does in the drawings. be done in the space. and children’s play equipment, ities and constraints.
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City rejecting
street murals
COMMUNITY port — requested by Coun.
Staff claim Cesar Palacio — from city
staff Thursday.
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would add too
a watered-down version of
many burdens the idea. Rather than allow
community groups to paint
murals in their neighbour-
Luke hoods, he’s suggesting the city
Simcoe approve two road murals as
Metro | Toronto part of a pilot project in 2016.
Meslin called the staff re-
A proposal to add more art port an example of Toronto’s
murals to Toronto roads is “risk-averse” bureaucracy.
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Crash course in danger
PUBLIC SAFETY
LESSONS IN DANGEROUS DRIVING
Parents put
children at risk School boards report everything from parents pulling up on
sidewalks to blocking wheelchair zones. Police report that
of being hit
pedestrian collisions are up for children aged 4 to 12.
More findings from the study “Dangerous student cars
Rushed parents’ litany of driving drop-off behaviours and children pedestrian motor-vehicle
don’ts — from stopping in the collisions”:
middle of the road to let their
children out or even on the op- 70 per cent of schools:
posite side of the street, forcing Parents seen dropping off their kids on the opposite side
them to jaywalk amid busy traf- of the road, and kids jaywalking to get to the schoolyard.
fic — puts young pedestrians at
an increased risk of being hit by 62 per cent of schools
a car, a study by York University Parents stopped their cars, blocking the view of other
and the Hospital for Sick Chil- drivers as well as pedestrians.
dren has found.
Researchers observed danger- 46 per cent of schools
ous driving during the morning Parents double parked — basically stopping in the middle
rush at 88 per cent of the Toronto of the road — to drop off their kids.
public elementary schools they
monitored.
The study looked at collisions, Each additional drop-off dan- congestion, and city officials say
injury rates as well as parents’ ger noted was associated with a traffic calming measures like
driving habits during a typical 45 per cent increase in collision speed bumps can help, as do
day. rates, the study found. fluorescent school zone signs.
Over a 12-year period, some Researchers also found that The Toronto Catholic District
411 children in the areas stud- children pedestrians who live School Board and city are doing
ied were hit by a car within in less affluent areas were more a pilot project with safe drop-off
200 metres of the school, and likely to be exposed to the unsafe areas away from schools, cutting
of those, 45 were during peak driving. Experts say encouraging down on traffic jams and en-
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Court views training video SAMMY YATIM
Evidence
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JAMES FORCILLO TRIAL
Police vigilance PROTECT, SERVE
While jurors were in their win-
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footage shown Training to Succeed — most importantly the videos
features an interview — played repeatedly on court-
by defence with retired Lt. Col. Dave room screens showing the con-
Grossman, who runs the frontation from different angles.
Killology research group, What was not with them was
Jessica a U.S. police training the content of many hearings
Smith Cross consultant. In the video, he held outside their presence be-
Metro | Toronto talks about his “sheepdog fore and during the three-month
philosophy,” which divides trial, including the defence
A police training video shown at people into three groups: theory that Sammy Yatim com-
the James Forcillo trial teaches normal citizens who are mitted suicide-by-cop.
officers to adopt a “warrior mind- gentle and naïve sheep, Less than a week into the trial,
set” that even the law-enforce- criminals who are violent Justice Edward Then denied an
ment group that made the video wolves and police officers initial request by the defence to
calls “unhealthy.” who are sheepdogs and put a suicide-by-cop theory before
Forcillo’s lawyers introduced must protect the sheep. the jury, saying Yatim’s state of
Training to Succeed, created Grossman urges officers mind is irrelevant.
in 2010 by the Ontario Police Police Const. James Forcillo is trailed by media as he arrives at court in Toronto on Wednesday. not to leave home without During a pre-trial hearing,
Training Video Association, as Forcillo is charged with second-degree murder and attempted murder in the death of guns. Peter Brauti told the court that
evidence during his two-month 18-year-old Sammy Yatim. CHRIS YOUNG/THE CANADIAN PRESS following the Crown’s case, he
trial in the shooting death of might seek to introduce evidence
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The video is an account of leads to the overuse of lethal question being considered by the of police fatalities. view the world from a threat- that Yatim had been previously
two police officers stabbed in force. jury at his murder trial. Jurors The Ontario Police Training based assessment,” he said. “You warned by police not to carry
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considers everyone a potential How Forcillo was trained and Stoughton said. on things like work-life balance now and over the last couple of were not permitted to testify
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A tender farewell to a faithful friend
JURAVINSKI HOSPITAL Luna stayed close, quietly beast’s nose and giving her hard to give that up,” she said. Stephanie McManus
Beloved horse gazing at McManus. treats. “She’s an animal that brings and Luna GARY YOKOYAMA/
visits palliative It all happened when Luna McManus had been wheeled joy to people’s lives.” TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
was brought to Juravinski from down from her palliative-care The visit was arranged by
care patient Milton for a visit with Mc- room to see Luna, who was hospital officials and Zachary’s
Manus early Wednesday mor- driven in to the city from Ash- Paws in less than a day, thrill-
ning. The two were reunited blue Equestrian stables by the ing McManus to no end.
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Toronto Thursday, January 21, 2016 9
INFRASTRUCTURE
New plan for Scarborough transit on the way
A new proposal for transit in executive committee next week. get the best possible transit an- and I think it’s going to be way
Scarborough is being hailed as After the Scarborough sub- swer I can for Scarborough and better for Scarborough.”
defensible planning while brok- way extension became one of I think we’ve really made huge The plan acknowledges Scar-
ering a “peace treaty” at city the most polarizing issues at strides forward in that regard by borough residents needs rapid
council and with the province. council in recent memory — getting now both a subway to transit in place of the aging
A one-stop subway extension with former mayor Rob Ford the centre of Scarborough and SRT — not only to get down-
from the Bloor-Danforth line and Scarborough-area polit- the LRT, and to build enough town, but to get around Scar-
along McCowan Road to Scar- icians arguing residents “de- consensus to make sure it hap- borough. The new configura-
borough’s city centre and the serve” a subway over a seven- pens,” Mayor John Tory told Tor- tion was developed after chief
addition of a 17-stop LRT that stop, $1.48-billion LRT that was star News Service Wednesday. planner Jennifer Keesmaat ap-
will connect five underserved fully-funded by the province “It’s going to develop a much proached the mayor’s office in
priority neighbourhoods all — council members from both broader base of support, it’s go- October as criticism toward the
within the same $3.56-billion sides agree the new plan is a ing to be much better from a controversial three-stop subway
price tag will be officially an- vast improvement. transit perspective, it has the intensified.
nounced Thursday ahead of “My job here, I believe, is to support of the chief planner … TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
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investigated, but the building’s developers said sparks caused from alumni and faculty!
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A way out of
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the sex trade TANVEER HASSAM, MD ’14
Internal Medicine Resident
New York Methodist Hospital
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Campaign being trafficked.
A second educational cam-
aimed at need paign, which will be wrapped
into Covenant House’s existing PASSION FOR
for housing
work in schools, will focus on
and education 11- and 12-year-olds in a bid to
make sure they know how to
avoid becoming victims.
Jessica
In the past two years, police
Smith Cross COMPASSION
have investigated 319 cases of sex
Metro | Toronto trafficking, arrested more than
120 pimps and laid 828 charges,
Covenant House has launched Toronto police sex crimes inves-
a $10-million fundraising cam- tigator Joanna Beaven-Desjardins
paign to support young girls and said. There are still far more
women who have been trafficked cases that police don’t know
in Toronto’s sex trade. about, she noted.
The centerpiece of the plan Covenant House has helped
is Rogers Home, which provides trafficking victims through the
transitional housing and crisis shelter for years, executive dir-
beds for women who’ve been ector Bruce Rivers said. But, he
victims of sex trafficking. said, there’s a need for support-
It will also include an educa- ive housing, separate from the Meet alumni and hear their stories at
tional campaign targeting adults main shelter to help victims our Toronto Information Seminar
— such as taxi drivers and hotel recover.
Saturday, Jan. 23 at 10 a.m.
staff — who often unknowingly Cassandra Diamond, who was
trafficked in the sex trade, said
HOW TO HELP Covenant House offers the sup-
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port that young girls and women
need to reclaim their lives.
The Covenant House’s “I managed to leave my situa-
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10 Thursday, January 21, 2016 Toronto
Faces of
Goodwill employees were back at the charity’s office
Gilbert
Ngabo Wednesday to express their anger and frustration to
Goodwill Metro | Toronto
their former employer, while conveying their desperation
about their situation. They called for CEO Keiko Nakamura not only to pay
them for their work, but also to step down. Here are some faces.
James Nickle Kausar Ameud Raphelia Debique Shane Clarke
The chief steward of the workers’ union has Losing her job makes Ameud worry about her The grandmother of two has been sorting The 35-year-old resident of Scarborough
been a Goodwill truck driver for the past six daughter, who depends on her salary, and donations for the charity for nine years. She has worked for Goodwill for 16 years, most
years. “I’m pissed,” he said bluntly. He’s wor- also her own health and the loss of benefits. has six members of her family under the same recently as a truck driver. The father of a three-
ried about the well-being of his family — a wife She suffers from diabetes and knows she roof in Scarborough and is worried she may year-old son is especially mad that Goodwill
and two kids — as well as that of other workers. won’t be able to afford medication. not even get paid for hours already worked. management won’t speak to employees.
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