Metro Toronto - January 4, 2016

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HOROSCOPES
ARE THE STARS ON SEAMUS O’REGAN
Liberal MP enters
YOUR SIDE FOR 2016?
rehab for ‘alcohol-free
lifestyle’
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Toronto
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HOMELESS
City centres respond to
extreme cold weather
alert by opening 24-7
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This week’s frigid temperatures will be the first
test of the city’s expanded 24-hour shelter service.
Toronto’s chief medical health officer issued
the first extreme cold weather alert of the season
over the weekend, as Environment Canada fore-
casted temperatures to plunge to below -15 C on
Sunday and Monday.
As a result, the city is required to open addi-
tional shelters and warming centres.
Two drop-in centres — Margaret’s Toronto East
and St. Felix Centre — will be open 24-7 for the
entire months of January
and February. City council
2
approved the additional
services in November,
offering the city’s home-
less population a place to
shelter themselves from The city’s public
LIZ BEDDALL/METRO winter weather. health system
came under
64 At Margaret’s, 50 beds intense scrutiny
Deadliest year on Toronto are available for anyone last winter when
seeking refuge from the two men died
cold. The centre has been outside during a
roads in more than a decade home to about 25 people cold spell.
since New Year’s, but exec-
spurs pedestrian advocates utive director Diane Walter expects demand will
go up as temperatures go down.
One homeless man at the drop-in, who identified
to call for safer streets himself only as “Al,” was adamant the city needs
to do more for residents with no fixed address.
metroNEWS “Last year they opened after two or three ex-
KILLED IN 2015 treme cold weather alerts — it was pretty bad,”
he said, as he and a handful of others waited for
the afternoon cleaning to end so they could enter
the drop-in at Dundas and Sherbourne streets.
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GOSSIP 11
Your essential daily news Judge rules Bill Cosby’s wife, Camille, must testify in civil case against him.
Education initiative invites content
TECHNOLOGY Tariq Fancy. “I think it’s excit-
Local project ing, and volunteering online
will only increase in the next
gives solar several years.”
Fancy, born to Kenyan immi-
tablets to
grants of South Asian heritage,
youth in need said he’s always been passion-
ate about helping those in the
developing world. So much so
Sanam
that the 37-year-old gave up a
Islam lucrative career as an invest-
Metro | Toronto
ment banker on Wall Street
to return to Toronto and start
When it comes to helping others Rumie two years ago.
around the world, most people In addition to putting his
open up their wallets. savings into the initiative, his
But a local non-profit called degree in international develop-
The Rumie Initiative is offering ment also came in handy when
a way to help vulnerable chil- developing a strategy.
dren simply by donating time. “Underprivileged children
Rumie provides free digital are underperforming because
educational content to under- there are barriers to education,”
privileged children in 11 coun- Fancy said. “By using tablets,
tries through preloaded, solar- we’re providing education in
powered tablets. way that’s cheaper, faster and
But in October, after facing a more efficient.”
shortage of content for its new It also appears to be more
Syria campaign, the non-prof- effective.
it opened up an online cloud “We’ve heard from our part-
platform that allows anyone to ners that kids are far more en-
submit high-quality educational gaged than with paper alterna-
content that can be used by the tives. They’re excited to use
millions of Syrian refugees liv- technology they’ve often never
ing in camps. seen,” Fancy says.
The information is then load- Each tablet costs $50 to pro-
ed on Rumie tablets and distrib- duce, and, to date, Rumie has
uted to those in need. distributed thousands of them
“The fact that we’re able to all over the world, Fancy said.
say you can give your money, He says he hopes to expand
but you can also give your the program to more places, Syrian refugees and children in South Africa have used Rumie’s solar-powered tablets. CONTRIBUTED
time, is something that’s kind such as Jordan and Turkey, in
of novel,” said Rumie founder the near future.
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By using tablets, we’re
For details on getting
providing education in a
involved with the Rumie
way that’s cheaper, faster Initiative’s cloud project,
and more efficient. visit rumie.org.
Tariq Fancy
4 Monday, January 4, 2016 Toronto
SYRIA
Activist honoured for
human rights work
When Ghuna Bdiwi recently defend the rights of political
received the International Cen- detainees and activists. Many
tre for Human Rights award, it of the cases they dealt with
almost didn’t feel right. involved torture and abuse.
“I’m nothing compared to “There was a lot of viola-
rights activists who are living tion of rights, lots of crimes
inside Syria,” said the PhD against humanity,” she said.
candidate at York University’s “What started as a revolution
Osgoode Hall Law School. was quickly becoming an ac-
“They are risking their lives tual war.”
everyday to uphold human That’s when she realized
rights in a hos- it was too dan-
tile environment. gerous to stay.
They deserve it In 2012, she
better than me.” What started as moved to To-
The annual ronto, where
a revolution was
award recognizes she’s con-
activists fighting quickly becoming tinued to ad-
for freedom and an actual war. vocate for the
the rule of law in rights of civil-
Middle Eastern Ghuna Bdiwi ians inside
countries. Syria.
Born and raised in Syria, She remains optimistic
Bdiwi was working as a com- about the “return of a Syria
Stephanie Warren, the mother who abandoned “Baby Angelica” in Toronto in 2008, was stabbed to death on New Year’s Eve. mercial lawyer in her native that’s a free, secular and civil-
TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE country when the uprising ized society.”
started in 2011. But the rap- Bdiwi dedicated her award
Baby Angelica’s mom id deterioration of people’s to the civil rights activists still
basic civil rights spurred her working inside Syria.
into action. “I just pray for them to stay
She co-founded a consor- safe and alive,” she said.
tium of Syrian lawyers to help TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
murdered in Jamaica
STEPHANIE WARREN With the clock hands ap- It was around that time
BACKGROUND
Husband held proaching midnight and a New Thursday night that Stephan-
Year on the horizon, 39-year-old ie Warren was stabbed with a
in custody for Stephanie Warren of Toronto, The Warrens were knife, according to a Jamaica
mother to “Baby Angelica,” was charged with child aban- Constabulary Force (JCF) press
questioning
stabbed to death — allegedly by donment after “Baby An- release. She was later pro-
in her death her Jamaican husband, Alphon- gelica” was found in a gar- nounced dead at a hospital.
so Warren, according to the age stairwell. Their other Alphonso Warren remains in
Jamaica Constabulary Force. children were taken into custody for questioning.
The mother of “Baby Angelica,” The couple is infamous for custody and Angelica was The police investigation is
the infant found abandoned having repeatedly faced allega- later adopted. ongoing. York PhD candidate Ghuna Bdiwi has been recognized for her
in a Toronto parking garage tions of mistreating their chil- A JCF communications of- work in defending civil rights in Syria. CONTRIBUTED
stairwell in 2008, has been dren in Canada and abroad. ficial confirmed to the Star
killed in Jamaica. Her husband, The mummified remains of Jamaica, home. on Sunday that the couple
who was criminally convicted a later child of the couple, a Jamaican police were called are the same Warrens who THE COMFORT ZONE
of abandoning the baby, is in two-year-old known as “Baby to the couple’s apartment were arrested in Jan. 15, 2012, Club suing police
custody, a seemingly violent Joshua,” were found in 2012, around 11:20 p.m. this New after the decomposing body of
conclusion to a parenting saga zipped inside a suitcase in the Year’s Eve to investigate a do- “Baby Joshua” was found in
from hell. Warrens’ inner-city Kingston, mestic dispute. their home. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE for ‘abuse of power’
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6 Monday, January 4, 2016 Toronto
Humans of Toronto by K. Omar
Pedestrians and cars move through the intersection of Bathurst Street and Eglinton Avenue,
where a 22-year-old woman was struck and killed in November. The year 2015 was the worst one
for traffic fatalities in Toronto in more than a decade. LIZ BEDDALL/METRO
Getting serious
about road safety
Less is more. I truly believe that you just feel freer with less
stuff. You have more space. Keep it simple. It also helps to TRAFFIC left other road users behind.
COMPARISON
embrace the little luxuries like candles. I have one in every Officials vow “The safety of vulnerable road
users should always be priori-
room and I use them regularly. Even in the kitchen when I’m cooking action after tized,” said Walk Toronto’s Mi- Toronto’s streets still
and listening to music. Especially as the evening darkens earlier. chael Black. “Unfortunately, our safe, officials say
deadliest year
current and previous mayors Despite the high number
Humans of Toronto is K. Omar’s social photography project aimed at since 2004 have tended to pursue a reverse of traffic-related fatalities in
course, skewing the balance in 2015, Stephen Buckley, the
photographing and talking to people in the city. Selections from her work feature favour of relieving vehicular city’s general manager of
weekly in Metro. See more at Humans_of_Toronto on Instagram. Luke congestion on Toronto’s streets.” transportation, insisted To-
Simcoe As an example, lawyer Albert ronto’s streets are still safe.
Koehl noted the majority of fatal The 64 deaths on Toron-
Metro | Toronto
pedestrian collisions occur on to’s roads last year equate
major arterial roads designed with about 2.4 fatalities per
Smokers Switch to Vaping In the wake of the deadliest year for cars, where crosswalks are 100,000 residents, Buckley
on local roads in more than a few and far between and speed said, a stat he called “off-
decade, pedestrian advocates limits are high. the-chart low.” In New York
say it’s time for the city to ac- “We need to be willing to in 2010, the rate was 3.3
cept that human lives are worth trade off high motor speeds for deaths per 100,000 resi-
for New Year’s Resolution
more than convenient car com- human lives,” said Koehl, who’s dents. “Toronto is still one
mutes. pushed the city to lower speed of the safest cities in terms
A total of 64 people — driv- limits. of traffic in North America,”
ers, passengers, pedestrians and In a statement to Metro, May- Buckley said.
cyclists — died on Toronto’s or John Tory called last year’s
streets last year, the highest road deaths “tragic and un-
number of traffic-related fatal- acceptable,” and promised a said, staff are poring over data,
ities since 2004. Most of those revised road safety plan for 2016. identifying problem intersec-
killed were pedestrians, includ- “We all have to take respon- tions and figuring out which
ing a 63-year-old man struck in sibility for making sure these interventions or education pro-
a hit-and-run on the Danforth numbers drop dramatically next grams will get results.
on New Year’s Eve. year,” the mayor said. “We want to take a step back,
A host of pedestrian propon- There’s no “silver bullet” for de-politicize what we’re doing
ents in Toronto believe the num- road safety, said Stephen Buck- and craft what we think is the
bers show that the government’s ley, the city’s general manager best strategy going forward,”
Toronto retailer of For many first time vapers Expert staff will be available to focus on fighting gridlock has of transportation. Instead, he Buckley said.
e-cigarettes and vape picking the right device and answer questions and to
sifting through the hundreds of demonstrate how to best use EMPLOYMENT
products hosts special options available on the market the devices. Visit 180 Smoke Homeless get help to get hired
‘New Year's Resolution’ is a daunting task. Specifically today and try the various
e-juice flavours and strengths
event to assist smokers for this event 180 Smoke has
to find a perfect match. There’s
created all inclusive starter kits,
making the transition no better time to switch. Gilbert main cause of homelessness, McMillan said one of many
discounted up to 30%. These Both nicotine and non-nicotine Ngabo said Lesley McMillan, HireUp’s challenges homeless youth —
to vaping. (Jan 2-16) bundles include everything a options are available. Metro | Toronto program manager. aged 16 to 24 — face while seek-
A larger number of smokers beginner needs to make the Visit 180 Smoke today and neaHrilrye 2U0p y ohuatsh poargrtanneizraetdio wnsi ttho icnagti oenm apnlody emxpenerti eisn lcaec.k “ Ao fl oetd ouf-
transition, a month worth of make 2016 a smoke free
are looking to switch to A new initiative is helping youth help homeless youth find work. them haven’t even completed
vaping in 2016. This coincides e-juice, extra coils, batteries and year. in Toronto go from homeless In Toronto, the company col- high school,” she said.
the optimal beginner devices. to hired. laborates with Covenant House And even if they have the
with a Aug 2015 British study
HireUp launched late last Toronto and Eva’s Initiatives. skills, she said, homeless youth
by Public Health England Where? www.180smoke.ca or 6 GTA Locations: year as a portal connecting Companies such as Home also struggle with the stigma of
concluding that the current employers across the country Depot, Nordstrom and NEI In- having no fixed address.
best estimate is that 696 DANFORTH AVE BRAMALEA CITY CENTRE CENTERPOINT MALL with youth who’ve experienced vestments have signed up to of- In addition to helping home-
e-cigarettes are around 95% DANFORTH / PAPE 25 PEEL CENTRE, BRAMPTON YONGE / STEELES homelessness. fer entry-level jobs to homeless less youth find a job, McMillan
Steady employment is one youth. Jobs could range from said HireUp also provides train-
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Toronto Monday, January 4, 2016 7
Tried-and-true tiki tradition
BEGINNER’S GUIDE
Tiki totems
Shameful Tiki Room features
two hand-carved tiki totems.
In Polynesian tradition, tiki
means “first man,” and the
carvings are depictions of the
first human made by the gods.
“Having actual tikis on hand
is a big part of having proper
tiki-bar décor,” Moore said. “I
like carving, and these two are
ones I made. I like the idea of
having that sort of personal
connection.”
Tiki mugs
Early tiki bars, like Don the
Beachcomber in California,
used to serve drinks in tiki
mugs and let customers keep
them. “Mugs are a huge part
of the culture. Most tiki people
collect mugs, and all good tiki
establishments are expected
to have a house mug for sale,
which we do, and a display of
classic mugs from other spots
through the years,” Moore
said.
Shameful Tiki Room owner Rod Moore went to great lengths to ensure his Parkdale tiki bar was “authentic,” even importing Zombie cocktail
some décor from the Polynesian nation of Tonga. LIZ BEDDALL/METRO “One of Don the Beach-
comber’s first creations, this
CULTURE is a painstakingly detailed hom- popular imagination. recipe dates back to 1934 and
Theme based age to tiki pioneers like Don the “It was all half-naked women, CURIOUS? helped put him on the map
Beachcomber and Trader Vic. warm water and palm trees,” as the father of exotic cock-
on ‘fakeness’
“It’s not a joke. We’re not put- Moore says. Rod Moore says tiki cul- tails and the tiki-bar ideology.
but is no joke ting sand on the floor,” he said. While it had little to do with ture has a rich history. If Most places don’t like the idea
“I wanted to bring the whole actual Hawaiian culture, tiki you want to learn more of such a strong drink made
to bar owner thing back exactly like it was became its own phenomenon about the phenomenon, with 11 ingredients. Takes too
back in the day.” centred on the restaurant indus- he recommends reading long to make and the cost is
The walls at Shameful Tiki try. Bars like California-based The Book of Tiki by Sven too high,” Moore said. “No
Luke are covered in hand-split bam- Trader Vic’s capitalized on the Kirsten. one else in Toronto makes this
Simcoe boo, the puffer fish hanging subculture by serving intricately “He’s widely acknow- drink as per the way it was
Metro | Toronto from the ceiling are real, 1950s garnished Mai Tais alongside ledged as the writer of all supposed to be made … ex-
surf rock sounds from the speak- pseudo-Polynesian dishes like things tiki,” Moore said. cept us!”
Rod Moore takes his tiki ser- ers and the simplest cocktail on crab Rangoon.
iously. the menu has six ingredients. “It’s based on fakeness but Postcards from Hawaii
The Vancouver native opened It’s enough to please a “snob- it’s become its own thing,” — including a weekly go-go “This is a visual touch we start-
a branch of his Shameful Tiki by tiki enthusiast from southern Moore says. dancing night — to Toronto. ed in Vancouver,” Moore said.
Room in Toronto in Novem- California,” Moore boasts. Shameful’s Parkdale location “I’m reaching into a big bag “The cards are all relevant
ber. And, unlike other tropical- Tiki culture dates back to (1378 Queen St. W.) is already of history and saying, ‘Wow, I décor-wise but they also make
themed watering holes, which 1930s California, when a fas- doing a brisk business, Moore can’t believe they used to do a great conversation piece.”
he describes as “not authentic cination for Hawaii and Poly- said, and he’s looking forward that; let’s do something similar LIZ BEDDALL/METRO
in the least,” his rum-soaked bar nesia seeped into the American to bringing more tiki culture here,’” he said.
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Newly elected Liberal MP and cohol free lifestyle,” O’Regan
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World Monday, January 4, 2016 9
Armed protesters
IEUdROPeE a of no
borders
call out for militias
crumbles
Since it opened in 2000, the Ores-
und bridge between Sweden and OREGON is located. eral government over the use
Denmark has been a towering Standoff is over Bundy and other militia of public lands. Critics of the
symbol of European integra- members came to Burns last push for more local control
local control
tion and hassle-free travel across month, a small town 450 kilo- have said the federal govern-
borders. of public land metres southeast of Portland, ment should administer the
On Monday, new travel restric- Ore. They were upset over the public lands for the widest
tions imposed by Sweden to stem looming prison sentences for possible uses, including en-
a record flow of migrants are The remote high desert of east- local ranchers Dwight and Ste- vironmental and recreation.
transforming the bridge into a ern Oregon became the latest ven Hammond. They went to In an interview posted on
striking example of how national flashpoint for anti-government the wildlife refuge Saturday Facebook, Bundy said he and
boundaries are re-emerging. A sentiment as armed protesters following a rally to support others are occupying a build-
year of clampdowns on migra- occupied a national wildlife the ranchers. ing at the refuge because “the
tion and terrorism has all but refuge to object to a prison Dwight Hammond, 73, and people have been abused long
killed the idea of a borderless sentence for local ranchers for Steven Hammond, 46, said they enough.” He said the group
Europe where you could drive or burning federal land. lit the fires on federal land in planned to stay indefinitely.
train-hop from Spain to Norway Ammon Bundy — the son 2001 and 2006 to reduce the Dwight Hammond has said
without showing your passport. of Nevada rancher Cliven growth of invasive plants and he and his son plan to report
“We’re turning back the Bundy, who was involved in protect their property from to prison Monday as ordered.
clock,” said Andreas Onnerfors, a 2014 standoff with the gov- wildfires. The two were con- Harney County Sheriff Dave
an associate professor in intel- ernment over grazing rights — victed of the arsons three years Ward said the armed protest-
lectual history. “We’re going was among the people at the ago and served time — the ers came under false pretenses.
back to a time when the bridge headquarters of the Malheur father three months, the son “These men came to Harney
didn’t exist,” he said, referring National Wildlife Refuge. It was one year. But a federal judge County claiming to be part
to new ID checkpoints. unclear how many people were ruled in October that their of militia groups supporting
The move is meant to stop taking part in the protests. terms were too short under local ranchers, when in real-
undocumented migrants from Ammon Bundy posted a U.S. minimum-sentencing law ity these men had alternative
reaching Sweden, which re- video on his Facebook page and ordered them back to pris- motives to attempt to over-
versed its open-door policy after asking for militia members to on for about four years each. throw the county and federal
receiving more than 160,000 come help him. He said “this is The decision generated government in hopes to spark Protesters march in support of an Oregon ranching family fa-
asylum-seekers last year, mainly not a time to stand down. It’s a controversy and is part of a a movement across the United cing jail for arson. Family members have served time but a judge
from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. time to stand up and come to decades-long dispute between States,” he said in a statement. ruled the terms were too short and ordered them back to prison
It follows the reintroduction Harney County,” where Burns some Westerners and the fed- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS for about four years each. LES ZAITZ/THE OREGONIAN/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
of border checks in Germany,
Austria, France, Belgium and
other countries in what’s sup- HUDSON'S BAY OPTICAL
posed to be a passport-free travel
zone spanning 26 nations.
The moves are supposedly
temporary, but are likely to be
extended if Europe’s migrant
crisis continues in 2016.
“It’s basically every coun-
try for itself now,” said Mark
Rhinard, an expert on the Euro-
pean Union.
It’s a significant development
that strikes at the heart of the EU
project — the free movement of Iranians protest against the execution of Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr,
goods and people across borders. a Shiite cleric in Saudi Arabia. VAHID SALEMI/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Greece’s coast guard says 217
migrants have been rescued by SDIPLaOMAuCY di Arabia cuts
authorities since the start of 2016
in four separate incidents. The
first casualty of the year, a boy, its ties with Iran
died on Saturday when an inflat-
able dinghy carrying 40 people
was thrown into rocks off the End of Year
Greek island of Agathonisi. The Saudi Arabia announced Sun- gest in three and a half dec-
others were rescued, including day it was severing diplomatic ades — laid bare the sectarian Clearance Event
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10 Monday, January 4, 2016 Business
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