Metro Toronto - January 25, 2016

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Metro talks money
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White Privilege II
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Toronto
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Your essential daily news | MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 2016 High 2°C/Low 1°C Cloudy
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police Chief Mark Saunders as
the status quo. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
brewing
DUPONT-OSSINGTON said, since beer is relatively low in
Beer creators alcohol compared to wine or spirits.
“You can easily sample beer from
band together 10 breweries in an afternoon and
still be able to walk a reasonably
to rebrand
straight line,” said Himel.
neighbourhood Ward 18 Coun. Ana Bailão said
the designation could bring a lot
of financial benefit by creating jobs
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(cid:47)(cid:72)(cid:66)(cid:67)(cid:80) A brewery district would be a tour-
Metro | Toronto ist attraction for both locals and
visitors, adding to the city’s already
Hear that? It’s the sound of 13 beer vibrant culinary scene, she said.
mugs clinking together in cheers. “We have all sorts of great prod-
A baker’s dozen of craft brew- ucts here. Let’s be proud of them,”
ers near Dupont and Ossington are she said.
teaming up to help brand the neigh- The final date hasn’t been con-
bourhood as Toronto’s official Brew- firmed, but Himel is hoping to have
ery District. the first annual Brewery District
“Breweries are like indie bands,” Festival on July 31 at Henderson
said Steve Himel, manager of Hen- Brewing’s headquarters at 128A
derson Brewing. “We’re not neces- Sterling Road.
sarily driven by competition. We
know that together we are stronger.”
13 BREWERS
The original idea was to replicate
the success of wine country in Niag-
ara. There are already many brew- The 13 craft brewers pushing
eries in Toronto’s west end, and it to brand the Ossington and
‘IT’S HAPPENING’ made sense to brand the area and Dupont area as the Brewery
attract more customers, said Himel. District are: Bandit Brewery,
If the pitch is approved, Himel Bellwoods Brewery, Blood
expects the district to be buzzing Brothers Brewing, Burdock
with events allowing beer fans to Brewing, Duggan’s Brewery,
sample the variety of Toronto’s taps. Folly Brewpub, Halo Brewery,
Major reforms are coming to Toronto police.
“We’re basically rolling out the Henderson Brewing, Indie
welcome mat to customers,” he Alehouse Brewing, Junction
Whether they are ready or not said. “If you don’t like beer at X, Craft Brewing, Lansdowne
just turn around and try beer at Y.” Brewery, Rainhard Brewing and
metroNEWS And it’s not as if too much sam- Station Cold Brew.
pling can cause any problem, he
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GOSSIP 11
Trump: “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters, OK?” World
DANFORTH Advocates call for
Good Weeds Lounge
owners charged
bike-lane network
Jessica charged with simple possession.
The investigation was sparked by
Smith Cross
“community complaints,” Const.
Metro | Toronto
Caroline de Kloet told Metro. The
raid happened Thursday.
Toronto police have raided a ma- On Jan. 12, VICE published an INFRASTRUCTURE
rijuana dispensary on the Dan- interview in which Chris Good- Group says
forth, a little more than a week win said Good Weeds is different
after its owners were featured than other dispensaries that have grid needed for
in a media interview that touted popped up because it doesn’t re-
traffic flow and
their business as “totally illegal.” quire customers to have a med-
Chris Goodwin and Erin Good- ical marijuana license. cyclist safety
win, owners of Good Weeds The reporter also asks Good-
Lounge, are charged with two win if he’s afraid of being shut
Luke
counts possession for the pur- down. “I have been doing this a
pose of trafficking, relating to long time and I have complete Simcoe
marijuana and cannabis resin, confidence in what we’re doing. Metro | Toronto
plus possession of the proceeds I’ve thought this through end-
of crime. Erin Goodwin is also lessly,” he said. As Toronto city council debates
the 2016 budget, cycling ad-
vocates in the city are urging
TORONTO local leaders to get rolling on
Weekend stained by building a “minimum grid” of
protected bike lanes.
“If cycling is deemed a pri-
multiple shootings ority, then it’s something we
could do rapidly,” said Cycle To-
ronto director Jared Kolb, citing
One man is dead and several were riddled with bullet holes a recent staff report showing
We need to stop building
people are injured after at least and drivers and pedestrians were the city could complete the cyc-
three separate shootings across narrowly missed by gunfire. A ling grid by 2018 for between bike lanes to nowhere.
Toronto early Sunday. victim in his 20s was later found $50 million to $150 million. Jared Kolb
Police said people were gath- near Bathurst and Dupont Streets That may seem like a lot of
ered at a beauty parlour in a and was rushed to hospital in money — the city’s current cyc-
plaza near McCowan and Elles- serious condition with a gunshot ling budget is a mere $14 mil-
mere Roads when shots were wound to his back. Nine people lion — but Kolb said the price A cyclist pedals along the Sherbourne bike lane Sunday. A staff report says the city could add
fired around 4:20 a.m. Paramed- have been arrested in relation to tag pales in comparison to other 200 kilometres of new cycle lanes and paths by 2018 for as little as $50 million. LIZ BEDDALL/METRO
ics found a man with gunshot the shooting. infrastructure projects, includ-
wounds to the chest at the scene. Emergency crews were also ing the estimated $1 billion to metres of protected bike lanes an adequate network of east- plan would arrive at something
He was later pronounced dead. called to a home in the O’Connor prop up the eastern portion of on major roads and another west, north-south routes that “resembling” a minimum grid,
Earlier, police and paramed- Drive and Victoria Park Avenue the Gardiner Expressway. 100 kilometres of contra-flow extend into the suburbs. Kolb said, but he and Coun.
ics received calls about shots area after a man was shot mul- “For a fraction of that cost, lanes — like the ones installed “We need to stop building Mike Layton want that time-
fired at a house party on Niag- tiple times outside a residence. we can build a city-wide, pro- on Shaw Street — along resi- bike lanes to nowhere,” he said. table sped up.
ara St. west of Bathurst St. The Police said the man’s injuries are tected bike lane network that dential corridors. “We need a fully connected, “The increase in commut-
calls, which started around 2:30 not life-threatening. will impact all Torontonians,” Cycle Toronto has declined protected grid that would en- er bicycle traffic in the city is
a.m., reported shots both inside Meanwhile, Peel police are in- he said. to name specific streets — save able people to use the bicycle enormous,” Layton said. “And
and outside the property. Two vestigating a shooting and double Kolb said completing the for Bloor Street West — where as a form of everyday trans- if we can give people a safe op-
people were taken to hospital stabbing that happened Saturday. minimum grid would require bike lanes should be installed, portation.” tion to get out of their cars, it’s
in serious condition. Nearby cars TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE building an additional 100 kilo- but Kolb says there needs to be The city’s 10-year cycling worthwhile.”
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Toronto Monday, January 25, 2016 3
Designing
A historical tour of Philosopher’s Walk
a new star
W.
B l o o r S t .
attraction
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO operations.
Philosopher’s The main piece of the project
will see the old McLaughlin Plan-
Walk part of etarium turned into a new Centre
for Civilizations and Cultures,
planetarium
housing, among other things,
revamp a performance hall for U of T’s
music department, the history 2 14 trees were planted along
department and the department the path in 1990 in memory of the
Jessica of near and Middle Eastern civil- 14 women who were killed because
Smith Cross izations. of their gender in the 1989 École
Metro | Toronto Architects from two star firms 1 The Queen Alexandra Polytechnique massacre.
have been hired to make it hap- Gateway was erected at
The University of Toronto wants pen: Toronto’s Architects Alli- the corner of Bloor Street
to make it easier for people to ance and Diller Scofidio + Ren- and Avenue Road in 1901
uncover a somewhat hidden gem fro. Based in New York, Diller to commemorate the visit
of the city’s urban landscape. Scofidio + Renfro is renowned of the Duke and Duchess of
As part of its plan to overhaul for its work on transforming Cornwall and York. It was
the former planetarium at 90 outdoor spaces, particularly the moved to the Bloor Street
Queen’s Park Cres., the university city’s High Line linear park. entrance of Philosopher’s
is promising better connections “We believe that with the Walk in 1962.
to Philosopher’s Walk — a scenic architects we selected that it
footpath that winds through the will be a spectacularly well-de-
St. George campus connecting signed and functioning addition
sites like the ROM, the Royal to that part of the university,”
Ontario Conservatory of Music Mabury said. “We talk about it
and Trinity College. as an iconic location because it
People can access the path off frankly is.”
Bloor Street West to the north U of T bought the planetarium
and Hoskin Avenue on the south, — shuttered in 1995 — from the
but it can be tough to find. adjacent ROM in 2009. Since
“It’s certainly not straight- then, the university has leased
forward,” said Scott Mabury, it back to the museum for offices
vice-president of university and storage.
4 The footpath passes a number
of important Toronto institutions
3 The midpoint of Philosopher’s
including the Royal Ontario
Walk boasts an amphitheatre,
Museum, the Royal Conservatory
designed to be an acoustically
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Right now, the St. George campus’s scenic footpath can be
difficult to find, school officials say. PHOTOS LIZ BEDDALL/METRO
4 Toronto
Humans of Toronto by K. Omar
I was just talking with my roommate and brother about how kids
have all this technology now, iPads and so on. What we literally
used to do when we were young was put water in Ziploc bags
and call them wishy-washies. It’s such a ridiculous memory, but we
would pull them around in wagons and they would be our toys.
Humans of Toronto is K. Omar’s social photography project aimed at
photographing and talking to people in the city. Selections from her work feature
weekly in Metro. See more at Humans_of_Toronto on Instagram.
Cancer researchers
cleared by courts
HEALTH hospital spokeswoman Gillian UHN internal investigations com-
Judge overturns Howard wrote in an email to mittee who found the presence of
Torstar. “But ... UHN never in- “manipulated and/or fabricated
falsification, terpreted the Investigation Com- data” in the form of several fig-
mittee’s report as including such ures used in the papers.
fabrication of
a finding.” In a joint statement forwarded
data decision Howard added the hospital’s to Torstar from their lawyer,
reconsideration of the sanction Asa and Ezzat said they were
will be completed in the next few “pleased” with the court’s ruling.
The Ontario Divisional Court has weeks. Meanwhile, an investiga- “Having dedicated years of
overturned a University Health tion into additional papers the our lives to research, allegations
Network decision that found researchers co-authored is still of falsification and fabrication
Toronto cancer researchers Dr. ongoing. of data strike at the very core
Sylvia Asa and Dr. Shereen Ezzat The Toronto clinicians — who of what we hold dear, and we
“falsified and fabricated images are married — are published feel vindicated that the court
in a number of research articles,” medical researchers in the early has exonerated us,” reads the
Torstar News Service has learned. detection, diagnosis and treat- statement.
In a decision released Friday, ment of hormone-producing tu- Both researchers also empha-
a panel of three judges did, how- mours. Before resigning from her sized that the scientific validity
ever, uphold a separate hospital leadership position last spring, of their work “was never an issue
conclusion that found the re- Asa had run Canada’s largest at any level of the proceedings.”
searchers had committed re- hospital diagnostic laboratory Documents filed in court
search misconduct in the form at UHN for 15 years. showed at least one of Asa and
of “material non-compliance” The researchers’ fall from Ezzat’s co-authors claimed re-
and in doing so, failed to comply grace became public last sum- sponsibility for modifying images
with the publication standards mer after three academic journal with Photoshop in two papers
of scientific journals. articles they co-authored were that were investigated and sub-
The court concluded by or- retracted and an editor’s note sequently redacted. The former
dering the sanction against both cautioning readers of possible lab employee noted that neither
doctors sent back to UHN for re- inaccuracies was placed on a Asa nor Ezzat were told the pub-
view and the hospital pay $20,000 fourth. The retractions were lished images had been altered.
to cover their legal costs. prompted by the findings of an TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
“We agree with the Court that
a finding of fabrication and falsi- We are grateful that our justice
fication specifically against Drs. system restored our integrity.
Asa and Ezzat — had it been
made — should be set aside,” Dr. Sylvia Asa, Dr. Shereen Ezzat in a statement
Toronto Monday, January 25, 2016 5
Mealworms and crickets
are not yet meal tickets
SUMMERHILL MARKET
TASTE TEST
Customers so
Natalie Boustead says pine
needles can make a tasty tea far willing to
full of vitamin C. CONTRIBUTED try but not buy
FORAGING crispy crawlies
Whole new
meaning to Gilbert
Ngabo
street food Metro | Toronto
They’re crunchy, packed with
protein and covered in choco-
Luke late.
Simcoe And if you can stomach eat-
LIZ BEDDALL/METRO
Metro | Toronto ing insects, the latest delicacies
on offer at Summerhill Market Intrepid Metro reporter
For Natalie Boustead, Toronto’s may just be delicious. Gilbert Ngabo ate a bug
green spaces are a veritable “Edible bugs are a trending so you wouldn’t have to
grocery store. thing now,” said grocery owner
A long-time Toronto resident Brad McMullen, showing off the I grew up eating grass-
who recently moved to Guelph, store’s selection of mealworms hoppers, which are con-
Boustead has published a guide and crickets. sidered a delicacy in
on how to forage for food in After reading that eating in- tropical African countries.
Canada’s largest city. sects was going to be big in As kids, we were told they
“I lived in Toronto for eight 2016, McMullen went looking fall from heaven. That
years and I learned what kinds for a supplier. A quick search made them taste even
of wild edibles are available in landed him in Peterborough, more delicious.
the city’s streets and ravines,” where a dedicated bug farmer Heading to the Sum-
the 31-year-old said. was eager to help. merhill Market to check
Entitled A Wild Year, Bous- The insects come already out the edible bugs, my
tead’s guide shows what sorts fried, and customers can get Above: Care for some crickets on your cake? Summerhill Market owner Brad McMullen has you memory went right back
of wild edibles are in season them as flavoured snacks or covered. Below: Some of the creeping and crawling delicacies on offer. LIZ BEDDALL/METRO to my childhood. But
every month, from white pine have them baked into differ- crickets and mealworms
needles in January to mulber- ent desserts. “I heard there are some are much smaller than
ries in August. She’s hoping The store also stocks meal- places where you can’t even grasshoppers, and I had
to turn it into a calendar for worm flour, organic cricket get bugs because people have never seen anyone take a
next year. flour, chocolate-mint cricket eaten them all,” he said, cit- bite of them.
“Often there’s only a small pies and peanut-butter meal- ing one of his workers from At the insistence of my
window where you can get worm balls. Thailand. colleague, I tried a choco-
these plants, so it’s really im- But while the bugs are small, It’s only been a week since late-covered sample. The
portant to know your seasons,” the prices certainly aren’t. A McMullen introduced the novel- chocolate is definitely the
she said. bag of 113 grams of meal- ty to his store, and the response first flavour you notice,
While potential entrees like worms, for example, goes for has been mixed. While some re- but then there’s a crispy
wild squash and fiddleheads $17.99. fuse to even think about chow- reminder that you’ve just
can be found in Toronto parks, Insects such as mealworms ing down on a cricket, about 70 eaten a bug. The taste
Boustead said most of what she and crickets are rich in pro- per cent of customers will give was fine, but I couldn’t
forages for is “supplemental.” tein and more environmentally it a try “with a little coaxing.” shake the sensation of
For example, she likes making friendly to grow than other “At this point we’re doing scurrying legs inside my
teas with pine needles or add- sources of protein, McMullen more sampling than actually throat for a few hours.
ing local berries to her baking. said. selling,” McMullen said.
6 Monday, January 25, 2016 Toronto
Police enter ’16 amid distrust
LAW ENFORCEMENT that money put toward more The controversial proposals
Mayor and policing. — fewer uniformed officers
Yet there is optimism. and closing divisions, for in-
chief agree: Robert Chrismas, a staff stance — received the most
sergeant with the Winnipeg attention.
‘Significant’
police, believes the future for But the consultants also sin-
reform needed policing success lies in a more gled out some recent initia-
holistic approach. He is the au- tives as “great opportunities”
thor of the peer-reviewed 2013 for Toronto police to build on.
The vows of public officials book Canadian They includ-
to change the way Toronto is Policing in the ed the multi-
policed follow an unparalleled 21st Century. $1.02 B agency partner-
period of turmoil for the thin “Just arrest- ship “hub” in
blue line in this city. ing gang mem- Rexdale and the
Criticism over carding and bers, throw- Emergency Task
racial profiling, lingering re- ing them in The police service’s 2016 Force’s joint in-
net operating budget
sentment over heavy-handed jail, oftentimes itiative with so-
request. This is a $36.1M
tactics during the G20 Sum- they come out or 3.69% increase over the cial workers.
mit, and a series of violent worse,” Chris- 2015 approved budget. The “hub”
police interactions with vul- mas told Torstar model is a con-
nerable people have fuelled News Service. cept that start-
public distrust. “If we’re just reacting and ed in Prince Albert, Sask., and is
The civilian oversight not reducing victimization and gaining traction across Canada.
board’s pick for chief, Mark crime, then what are we doing? Scott McKean, the city’s com-
Saunders, remains controver- Toronto police Chief Mark Saunders remains a controversial figure. STEVE RUSSELL/TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE We’re spinning our wheels. We munity development manager,
sial. Critics label him the status need to be proactive and get calls the Rexdale hub a “game
quo choice over reformer Peter summits addressing the ris- set to overhaul the Police Servi- Anthony Morgan, a lawyer with at the root causes and bring changer.” It allows police and
Sloly, the deputy chief in the ing and unsustainable cost of ces Act, which could represent the African Canadian Legal in the other service sectors.” a cross-section of social service
news recently for his blunt policing, even as crime rates “the biggest transformation Clinic. A KPMG report that includes providers to work together to
talk about policing. have fallen. of policing in 25 years,” Yasir More than half of Ontarians sweeping recommendations to prevent “situations leading to
And while Toronto Po- Big changes appear to lie Naqvi, minister of Community surveyed in a poll last Novem- modernize the Toronto Police criminal behaviour.”
lice Service and other forces ahead. Toronto Mayor John Safety and Correctional Servi- ber said they wanted their tax Service concluded the force “What we’re trying to do is
across the province once got Tory has acknowledged the ces, has said. dollars to go toward social ser- needs to adopt “new, innova- get in front of situations,” McK-
their budget requests rubber- need for “significant” reform “Whether or not folks in vices, including initiatives to tive ways of delivering services ean said last week, adding that
stamped, today there are re- and said Saunders agrees. the policing establishment are tackle poverty. Less than one- and business to the citizens of “silo approaches don’t work.”
ports, expert panels and even In Ontario, the province is ready, it’s happening,” says quarter of respondents wanted the city.” TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
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8 Monday, January 25, 2016 Canada
‘We must stop and listen’ SASKATCHEWAN
Premier
seeks aid
from U.S.
LA LOCHE
Leaders need
to be heard to Saskatchewan Premier Brad
Wall says his province is in
stop violence:
touch with officials in the
Victim’s family United States for help re-
building after a school shoot-
ing.
The family of a teacher who Wall said the U.S. Ambas-
was among four people killed sador to Canada, Bruce Hey-
in shootings in northern Sas- man, called him Friday after
katchewan says the country four people were killed at the
must listen to the community school and in a nearby home
for the kind of change that is in La Loche.
needed to prevent similar tra- He noted that, “quite tra-
gedies from happening again. gically, the United States has
The family of Adam Woods Adam Woods CONTRIBUTED Marie Janvier CONTRIBUTED Dayne Fontaine CONTRIBUTED Drayden Fontaine CONTRIBUTED more experience.”
said what happened in this “He offered that perhaps
tiny community gives the we must stop and listen to Archbishop Murray Chat- can’t be named under the those communities where
THE VICTIMS
country an “opportunity to the voices of La Loche. The lain met with the family Sat- Youth Criminal Justice Act, these types of events have
examine ourselves and hope- leaders and members of the urday night of a 17-year-old is charged with four counts occurred in the past in his
fully, come out better and community know what types boy charged in the shootings of first-degree murder, seven Adam Woods, 35, who country ... they might be
stronger as a community and of support and changes are to offer support in this “night- counts of attempted murder began teaching at the able to provide some coun-
a nation. We feel sadness and needed. Our responsibility mare experience that they’re and unauthorized possession school in September, sel, some support, some ideas
remorse but rarely do we use as a nation is to listen and going through and trying to of a firearm. He is scheduled and teacher’s aide Marie around approaches for the
that to fuel change.” respond to create lasting sys- offer them the support of the to make his first appearance Janvier, 21, died after days ahead.”
In a statement, the family temic change.” community.” Monday in Meadow Lake prov- they were shot at the Wall said he has asked his
says the leaders of the village The archbishop of Keewa- “We’re not blaming them. incial court. school. deputy minister to “canvass
need to be heard to prevent tin-Le Pas also made an appeal ... It’s just, this has happened Saskatchewan RCMP say Brothers Drayden Fon- that option with our Amer-
similar losses in the future. Sunday for the community to and now how do we bring that during an eight-minute taine, 13, and Dayne Fon- ican friends to find out per-
“Rather than looking for find hope for its young people healing and support and try period in the La Loche Com- taine, 17, were discovered haps what has worked bet-
someone to blame, or coming at a service that he estimated to find ways for our young munity school on Friday after- by the RCMP in a home not ter maybe than some other
up with outsider opinions of 250 attended at the Church people to have more hope.” noon, nine people were shot. far away. things.”
reasons why this occurred, of Our Lady of the Visitation. The 17-year-old boy, who THE CANADIAN PRESS THE CANADIAN PRESS
IN BRIEF
HISTORY
A century since women’s suffrage
Dog, man injured in fight Police seek armed suspect
A man and his dog both have Toronto police are looking
minor injuries after a fight on for a man who allegedly
the Kay Gardner Beltline Trail pointed a gun at three It was the kind of savvy pol- changes — first in Western eos didn’t exist, of course,
on Sunday morning. Toronto people in car after they itical strategy that politicians Canada and finally at the fed- but in 1914 the women cre-
police and paramedics refused to give him a ride. and lobbyists attempt to craft eral level in 1919. Indigenous ated major buzz with a pro-
were called to a portion of According to police, today: Stitch together a coali- people, it should be noted, vocative play at the Walker
trail near Forest Hill Road the man left the scene in tion of supporters from diverse did not get the vote federally Theatre in Winnipeg. Their
around 9:20 a.m. According a taxi and was last seen at communities, secure financial until 1960. mock Parliament parodied
to police, two men who Bathurst St. and Atkinson backers, mount a successful Members of the Political the intransigence of Mani-
knew each other got into a Ave. in Thornhill. ad campaign, and earn some Equality League helped re- toba Premier Rodmond Roblin,
fight, during which one was Police have identified positive media coverage. cruit and rally those disparate and imagined a parallel world
punched in the face. The the suspect as 33-year-old A group of women in Mani- voices with speeches, meet- where women were in power.
injured man’s dog was also Pavlo Sosnitskiy, who is toba used it to win the right ings and articles in the papers. Roblin’s government fell
punched during the fight. described as a white male to vote a century ago. They had paid organizers, and the following year amid scan- Fiona Bak views documents
The man and dog’s injuries with brown hair standing The province was the first launched a major publicity dal, and the new Liberal gov- related to the passing of
are both believed to be 5 foot 11 and weighing 170 place in Canada to bring in blitz at the Winnipeg Stam- ernment finally extended a 1916 amendment to the
minor. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE lbs. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE women’s suffrage, on Jan. 28, pede in 1913. the vote to women in 1916. Manitoba Elections Act.
1916. That triggered a wave of Social media and viral vid- THE CANADIAN PRESS JOHN WOODS/THE CANADIAN PRESS
GOVERNMENT
Join
our Feds to repeal section of Bill C-59
team!
the bargaining table, one union and launched a court challenge.
Michael head says. The Liberals had committed
Woods “This government remains to bargaining in good faith with
Sobeys Urban Fresh Queens Quay location is Metro | Ottawa committed to bargaining in good public sector unions, but had
now hiring for all part time and full time positions. faith with Canada’s federal pub- not specifically committed to
Repealing anti-union legisla- lic sector,” Carl Trottier, an asso- repealing Section 20.
tion brought in by the former ciate assistant deputy minister at The government has also
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Conservative government will Treasury Board, said in a Jan. 21 said it won’t exercise the pow-
Purina Paws Way, 245 Queens Quay West be one of the Liberal govern- email to public service unions. ers in the legislation before
January 25th, 9 am To 7 pm ment’s “first orders of business,” Section 20 of the law, which repealing it.
If you are not able to attend, apply via Sobeys Career Website www.sobeyscareers.ca according to a senior Treasury the then-Conservative govern- “It’s a step in a positive
Board official. ment enacted last June, gives the direction,” said Debi Daviau,
The commitment to repeal federal government the power president of the Professional
Sobeys is committed to accommodating the section of Bill C-59 is a sign to bypass collective bargaining Institute of Public Servants
applicants with disabilities throughout the hiring of improved labour relations be- and unilaterally impose a new of Canada. “We see a posi-
process and will work with applicants requesting tween the federal government disability and sick leave regime. tive change in our ability to
accommodation at any stage of this process. and public sector unions with Public sector unions decried do labour relations with this
both sides soon returning to the move as unconstitutional government.
World Monday, January 25, 2016 9
Blizzard breaks
snowfall records
UNITED STATES the coast gradually re- urday, however, was
Single-day stored normal service. 107 the city’s record for a
The air travel pic- single day. At Wash-
highs set across ture remained com- ington’s National
plicated after 7,000 Zoo, 56.9 centimetres
east coast amid
weekend flights were The heaviest fell, beating the 53.3
hurricane winds cancelled: United Air- reported centimetres that fell
lines said limited ser- snowfall was 107 on Jan. 28, 1922.
centimetres in
vice might begin later The storm dropped
Glengary, West
Millions of Americans began dig- Sunday in New York Virginia. snow from the Gulf
ging out Sunday from a mam- City, but airports in Coast to the north-
moth blizzard that set a new the Washington D.C. eastern New England
single-day snowfall record in area were likely to remain closed states, with areas of Washington
Washington and New York City. Sunday, and other airlines began surpassing 75 centimetres. The
The hurricane-force winds and cutting Monday service. heaviest official report was 107
whiteout conditions gave way to The massive snowstorm centimetres, in Glengary, W. Va.
blinding sunshine and temper- brought both Washington, Travel conditions were
atures slightly above freezing, D.C., and New York to a stop, improving from the danger-
promising a gentle thawing-out. dumping as much as 90 centi- ously snowy, icy roads that led
The timing could not have metres of snow and stranding to crashes that killed several
been better for East Coast states: tens of thousands of travellers. people Friday and Saturday.
The heaviest snow began falling At least 18 deaths were blamed An Ohio teenager sledding
Friday evening, and tapered off on the weather, resulting from behind an all-terrain vehicle was
just before midnight Saturday. car crashes, shovelling snow and hit by a truck and killed, and
People dig out their cars in Alexandria, Va., on Sunday. Millions of Millions heeded calls to stay hypothermia. two people died of hypother-
Americans were preparing to dig themselves out Sunday after a mammoth home, enabling road crews to In New York, the storm mia in southwest Virginia. In
blizzard with hurricane-force winds and record-setting snowfall brought much clear snow and ice. dropped 68.1 centimetres in North Carolina, a man whose
of the East Coast to an icy standstill. CLIFF OWEN/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS New York and Baltimore Central Park, the second-most car had veered off an icy-covered
Children slide in the snow in Central Park on Sunday in began lifting travel restrictions recorded since 1869 and just road was arrested on charges of
New York. FRANCOIS XAVIER MARIT/AFP/GETTY IMAGES and hearty souls ventured out on short of the record 68.3 centi- killing one of three men who
Charlie Katshir, 15, sleds in Siebert Park in Camp Hill, Pa., on snow-choked streets, while mass metres set in February 2006. The stopped to help.
Saturday. MARK PYNES/PENNLIVE.COM/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS transit systems up and down 67.6 centimetres that fell on Sat- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
EGYPT
POLITICS
Trump welcomes senator, bashes Beck’s support of Cruz
Eight face hearing after
botched repair on Tut mask
Donald Trump is so confident voters, OK?” Trump told an en- behind Cruz. Beck praised the entirely focused on the billionaire King Tut has been dead
about the loyalty of his support- thusiastic audience at a Christian Texas senator’s commitment in his Ankeny event, as he pro- for thousands of years, but
ers that he predicted Saturday school, Dordt College. “It’s like to principles of the right and fessed core conservative values his power remains. After a
they would stick with him even incredible.” repeatedly jabbed Trump from and drew a sharp contrast with botched repair of his burial
if he shot someone. Beck campaigned for Ted afar. The same headliners were Trump on issue after issue, with- mask, prosecutors ordered
The Republican presidential Cruz and held little back in go- to appear at an evening rally in out using his name. eight workers to court for
front-runner bashed conserva- ing after Trump. “The time for eastern Iowa. But Cruz shrugged off Trump’s “gross negligence.”
tive commentator Glenn Beck’s silliness and reality show tactics At his Sioux Center event, shooting comment when asked. The 3,300-year old
support of rival Ted Cruz and has passed,” Beck charged at a Trump called Beck a “loser” “I will let Donald speak for him- mask, whose beard was
welcomed a figure from the GOP Cruz rally. and “sad sack.” Beck was one self. I can say I have no intention accidentally knocked
establishment, Sen. Chuck Grass- Days after Trump was en- of nearly two dozen conservative of shooting anybody in this cam- off and hastily glued on
ley of Iowa, in rallies nine days dorsed by tea-party favourite thinkers who penned anti-Trump paign,” he told reporters, adding with epoxy in 2014, was
before the Iowa caucuses open Sarah Palin, Cruz flashed his Donald Trump GETTY IMAGES essays for National Review maga- that he would keep his criticism scratched and damaged
voting in the 2016 campaign. own conservative muscle dur- zine — a hit Trump referred to focused on issues. during the repair work,
“I could stand in the middle ing a rally in Ankeny, Iowa. Rep. Iowa social conservative lead- repeatedly at the rally. “I don’t intend to go into the prosecutors said Sunday.
of Fifth Avenue and shoot some- Steve King, an Iowa Republican er Bob Vander Plaats encour- Cruz, running close with gutter,” Cruz said. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
body, and I wouldn’t lose any and conservative firebrand, and aged local Republicans to unite Trump in Iowa polls, was almost THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
10 Monday, January 25, 2016 Business
ENERGY Low loonie pinch
Oil, pump price gap grows
not same for all
Prices at the gas pump fell PUMP PRICES | THE COMPONENTS
four per cent in December,
but crude prices fell by more
than three times that amount The wholesale price: bottom lines. To offset that,
during that time. In Ontario the price they charge more to refine
Gasoline prices in Canada tends to move alongside the crude into fuel for cars. Manufacturing, tourism sectors benefit
averaged $1.02 per litre last that set on the New York
month, when crude averaged Mercantile Exchange. In the The loonie: Oil and
$37 US a barrel. But in Febru- U.S., where there is more wholesale gasoline are Michael a 13-year low last week. Such Canadian economy, different
ary 2009, when oil sold for $39, competition, the NYMEX priced in U.S. dollars, and a low loonie has economists regions of the country will be
Woods
the average price for gas was price is seen as a ceiling for with the loonie being worth sounding the alarm about de- impacted differently.
Metro | Ottawa
about 15 per cent cheaper at prices at the pumps, gas just 70.67 cents US on clining business and consumer Here, we take a look at
85 cents a litre. analyst Dan McTeague says, Friday, it costs a lot more confidence. some of the effects of the low
The Bank of Canada noted, while Canadian companies to fill up. Oil at $30 US a The Canadian dollar is hov- While the effects of the low loonie on cities from coast-to
in its Monetary Policy Report use it as a floor. barrel amounts to $42.36 ering around 70 cents against dollar are complex and affect- coast in different economic
last week, a growing gap be- Canadian. McTeague says the U.S. dollar after reaching ing many different parts of the sectors.
tween oil prices and pump The refiners: The if the loonie was at par,
PRICE OF FOOD
prices in the second half of refining margin, or “crack Canadians could be saving
2015, when crude fell sharply. spread,” is the difference another 14 cents a litre. Canadians are already feeling the effects of the faltering loonie at the
Oil prices have fallen by 75 per between the price of grocery store. According to researchers at the University of Guelph,
cent since mid-2014. crude and the wholesale The taxes: The federal the sudden currency drop in 2015 led to fruits, vegetables and nuts
The companies who refine price. Big oil companies government collects about increasing in price by up to 10 per cent. This year, those prices could
crude into gasoline are taking have an “upstream” 10 cents a litre, while the increase by another 4.5 per cent. (For example, cauliflower prices
a bigger piece of the pie, said side — exploration and provinces collect anywhere had recently tripled, with a head at one point selling for about $8 in
Robyn Allan, an independent production — as well as from six to 16 cents per some Toronto grocery stores.) That means the average household will
economist in Vancouver. a “downstream” side — litre. In the U.S., consumers spend $345 more this year than last year for the exact same food, the
Between 2000 and 2014, re- refining and marketing. The pay an average of 12 to 18 researchers say. “For every cent the dollar drops, foods that are imported
fining and marketing margins price for oil is now so low cents a litre in taxes. likely increase one per cent or more,” Sylvain Charlebois, lead author of
averaged 17.7 cents a litre. But that it’s eating into their TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE the sixth annual Food Price Report from the university’s Food Institute.
in 2015, the average margins
grew to 28.9 cents per litre,
MANUFACTURERS AND EXPORTERS
she found. That average refin- consumers and businesses at what they are losing in produc-
ery margin grew to 32.3 cents the expense of the Canadian tion profit, which increases Conventional wisdom is that a lower Canadian dollar is better for
per litre in the first few weeks economy,” she said. prices at the pump, said Roger companies that export a lot of their products to the U.S. In Ontario,
of this year, as oil prices fell Oil companies are keeping McKnight, chief petroleum ana- where manufacturing was particularly hard-hit during the recession,
rapidly, she noted. more profits to refine the oil lyst for En-Pro International. manufacturing sales are up by 21 per cent over that period, excluding
“Big Oil is benefitting from into gasoline in order to offset TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE petroleum refining. B.C.’s forestry sector, whose exports have
gradually grown in the last few years, could be due for an even bigger
jump. The province exported $4.3 billion in wood products to the U.S.
BUSINESS in 2014, up from $2.4 billion in 2009. For every one cent decline in the
Canadian dollar, the B.C. provincial government estimates it gets an
extra $25 to $50 million in its coffers.
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Discover a rewarding career in business. In certain areas, the low dollar helps employment. Cities with
strong film and television industries, such as Montreal, Toronto
and Vancouver, are disproportionately benefitting compared
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is less prominent. Provinces with a strong agriculture sector,
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exports south of the border and low commodity prices. But
other sectors, such as manufacturing, are slower to react.
Canada’s unemployment rate sits at 7.1 per cent, slightly higher
than a year ago and lower than the 5 per cent rate in the U.S.
TOURISM
The low dollar may have some Canadians
reconsidering that trip to Florida. But it’s good news
for popular Canadian tourism destinations. American
tourists enticed at the possibility of a cheap vacation
have more reason to travel north of the border.
Whistler, B.C. had its busiest November ever in terms
of nights booked, up 10 per cent from a year ago, said
Tourism Whistler spokeswoman Patricia Westerholm.
The pace of booking heading into the holiday period
outperformed the last two years.
SPORTS TEAMS
The falling loonie is not good news for Canadian pro
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