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Sports Pg 12 Leafs can’t stop Florida TORONTO • WEDNESDAY JANUARY 7 2009 metronews.ca Council mulls Gaza Strip Soldier Murder charges subway line ceasefire TO M conditions H A NSO proposed N TRANSITToronto city coun- /TH cil is expected to endorse a E CA N plan this month to extend A France and Egypt an- D the TTC’s Yonge subway IAN nounced an initiative to lYionrek b Rye 6g.i8o nk.i lTohmee TtrTeCs ainntdo PRESS slatotep y etshtee rdfiagyh, thinoug rsi na ftGera zIsa- executive committee have raeli mortar shells exploded agreed to build the near a UN school sheltering Metrolinx-backed project hundreds of people dis- subject to conditions, placed by including a major the on- School makeover of the Bloor- slaught on Yonge station, which Hamas mil- (cid:129) Israel’s mili- could double the $2.4-bil- itants. At tary said its lion projected cost to near- least 30 shelling at the ly $5 billion. Palestini- school — the Some conditions the city ans died. deadliest sin- has set for participating in French gle episode the project include: Foreign since Israeli (cid:129)The venture must not Minister ground forces lead to additional capital Bernard invaded Gaza or net operating costs for Kouchner on Saturday af- the city; released no ter a week of (cid:129)The TTC must manage, details of air bombard- deliver, operate, maintain the cease- ment — was a and largely own the proj- fire plan, response to ect; Capt. Robert Semrau, left, arrives yesterday under military police custody for his hearing at Canadian Forces Base Petawawa. Sem- saying at mortar fire (cid:129)Funds must be provid- rau is charged with second-degree murder in the death of a presumed enemy fighter in Afghanistan. More coverage, page 6. the UN Se- from within ed for extra storage yards curity the school and for TTC trains, and Council the said Hamas expanded capacity at presidents militants were City shovels more Bloor-Yonge. of his coun- using civilians TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE try and as cover. Egypt were awaiting a response from Is- Metro Drive pg 15 rael. Israeli officials in into snow budget BMW makes Jerusalem declined immedi- ate comment on the an- room for nouncement, which came amid diplomatic efforts by more fun the United States and other countries to resolve a con- New contract, bigger storms boost spending to $80M flict between Israel and the Travel pg 17 Islamic militants of Hamas that has seen 600 people Toronto’s snow-clearing ed across the city every killed in 11 days. budget is ballooning to “The public expectation is very high ... It’s time it snows, as snowfalls U.S. president-elect $80 million this year, in the side streets — a lot of residents want can be heavier in certain Barack Obama broke his si- part because contract areas. Salters alone may lence on the crisis yesterday, snow cleared as soon as possible, almost costs are rising and do the job in some places. saying “the loss of civilian bigger storms are antici- to bare pavement.” “After amalgamation, it life in Gaza and in Israel is a pated. was all about equal serv- source of deep concern for Gary Welsh, GM of transportation Last year, the city bud- ice,” Welsh said. But by be- me.” He declined to go fur- geted only $63 million but ing more selective after a ther, reiterating his stance spent more than $85 mil- he said. “It’s the side year, the city is starting a storm, “we can save a cou- that the United States has Spas are top lion because of a near- streets — a lot of residents new seven-year contract. ple hundred thousand dol- only one president at a time. record snowfall, said Gary want snow cleared as soon Costs also increase when lars.” THE ASSOCIATED PRESS destination Welsh, general manager of as possible, almost to bare a lot of snow needs to be A bid by Coun. Glenn De MORE COVERAGE, PG 6, 8 transportation. pavement.” removed, and not just Baeremaeker to require all “The public expectation The city’s costs for con- plowed, because of heavy able homeowners in the Watch an interview with is very high. We get limit- tractors were lower last storms and less melting. city to shovel their side- Tony Blair and an eyewitness ShareYourViews ed complaints about main year because it was at the Officials are assessing walks was defeated 4-1. account from Gaza at metronews.ca/world [email protected] roads and expressways,” end of a five-year deal. This whether plowing is need- TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE Free Daily News Group Inc., operating as Metro Toronto 1 Concorde Gate, Suite 703, Toronto, Ontario M3C 3N6. Publisher: Bill McDonald EAXOT FTCFHERLESSUE A LVSOAICILVAATBEILOELNYS: HOT HOLIDAY AJAX 85 Kingston Rd., Unit 7 905-428-6800 AURORA 15483 Yonge St., Unit 2B 905-726-1050 BOLTON 15 12612 Highway 50 905-857-1204 BRAMPTON DEALS! 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All other brand names and logos are trademarks of their respective owners. © 2008 Rogers Wireless. metronews.ca metro Wednesday, January 7, 2009 Serial rapist released 3 A serial rapist kept behind bars for 13 years for a string of sexual assaults in Toronto in 1992 was released yesterday after finishing his full sentence. Orville Dwayne Thompson, 37, will live with family in Ajax under strict conditions, Durham police say. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE Stabbing at Mississauga school Local A 17-year-old student is under arrest after another 17-year-old was stabbed with a pair of scissors at a Mississauga high school yesterday. Peel police responded to the stabbing call just before 1 p.m. at Rick Hansen Secondary School, on Dream Crest Road, in the Mavis Road and Eglinton Avenue West area, after an altercation broke out between two boys inside the school, said Peel Police Const. J.P. Valade. The victim, who was stabbed four times, is being treated in hospital. 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Appeal is giving Richard yesterday agreed to an ex- drive-thru crackdown at She was sleeping when Brant a second chance to tension. Lawyers for Brant, metronews.ca/canada Alfaro Mendez, a regular prove he didn’t kill his 36, have until Friday to file VideoJim Flaherty on Toronto’s nightclub cir- two-month-old baby, con- documents formally set- previews budget cuit, and three cousins trary to highly damaging ting the appeal process in measures to headed downtown. findings made by dis- motion boost the econo- On Sunday evening, Al- graced pathologist Dr. Crown counsel Alison my at faro Mendez visited her Charles Smith. Wheeler has said they will metronews.ca boyfriend of four or five Brant’s deadline for ap- not object to the delayed /canada months, who lives in the Family members of murdered 34-year-old Evelyn Alfaro Mendez pealing his 1995 convic- start to the process. Don Mills area, after drop- cradle a photo of the victim in their Mississauga home yesterday. tion expired more than 13 TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE ping off her passengers in Toronto, relatives said yes- parently after a resident re- Police detectives — who Lotteries terday. She was supposed ported the idling vehicle. still do not have a suspect, News in brief Ontario Pick 3:6 7 0; Ontario Pick 4: 3 2 1 2. to meet friends at a night- Other residents said they a murder weapon or a mo- Encore:8308739 club near Wilson Avenue. heard multiple gunshots tive in the slaying — are CUPE A proposal by the presi- Semitic yesterday and called an Daily Keno: 9, 12, 15, 16, 17, 19, 24, 27, 29, 39, and Jane Street, but never around 9:30 p.m. and some scouring her personal life dent of the CUPE, the largest affront to civil liberties by 40, 42, 45, 52, 58, 59, 62, 63, 65 & 66. arrived. had noticed another vehi- for leads. Alfaro Mendez union in Ontario, to boycott Is- prominent members of Cana- These results are not official. Police found her body cle pull up, at some point, did not have a criminal raeli academics at Ontario uni- da’s Jewish community. just before midnight — ap- beside the silver SUV. record. 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metro metronews.ca Wednesday, January 7, 2009 4 local Halton cop arrested for assault A Halton police officer is facing assault charges related to a November altercation with two citizens outside a Burlington bar. The officer, who was on duty at the time of the confrontation, was arrested yesterday after an investigation was sparked by a complaint.TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE 4,000 call for T.O. sewer ‘failed’ Patient sues Toronto quick end to hospital over bacteria York strike City, fearing collapse, looks at solutions UNIONSWhen York Univer- MEDICAL A former patient is Epidemiology. 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Crescent, just north of ARD L at the Toronto millions of the plaintiff, The un - Coxwell Avenue and RICH General Hos- dollars was admitted Strike ion rep ar- O’Connor Drive, is cracked pital found Ronald Sherman and his to Toronto rived early; and chipping. the location wife are asking for in dam- General in (cid:129) The strike by York sent But Lou Di Gironimo, and design of ages from Toronto General November the union be- no one to general manager of Toron- sinks in the Hospital and the University 2005, with gan on Nov. 6, receive the to Water, says the big ques- ICU led to the Health Network. severe pneu- and if it con- petition. tion remains unanswered. spread of monia, tinues much “They “When will it collapse? Pseudomonas which wors- longer threat- know Nobody can answer that aeruginosa in the ward. ened, according to the ens to extend where our question,” Di Gironimo The details of their discov- claim, when he became in- the school office is,” told the city’s public works ery were outlined in this fected with pseudomonas year. said York committee yesterday. month’s Journal of Infec- at TGH. spokesper- The cracks may be many tion Control and Hospital TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE son Alex Bi- years old. The only way to lyk. A university official inspect the sewer is City politics a scary business later fetched a copy. through robots with video In York’s administration and sonar instruments, he building, 20 students and said. POLITICS Intimidation, accu- compiles data to learn striking teaching assistants “None of that can give us sations of dishonesty, and which candidates get the remain camped outside any structural integrity in- notices of slander and most corporate contribu- the university president’s formation ... No one can defamation aren’t normal- tions. He’s published 10 office, hoping Mamdouh guarantee me how long ly encountered in acade- papers on the subject. Shoukri will meet with it’ll last. It could last mia. He expects more threats them to host a forum decades. We don’t know” But dealing with these after Toronto’s executive about the strike. It will take 18 months pressures is all in a day’s committee agreed to draft Talks were expected to and up to $30 million to This small stream drains from apartment buildings near the cor- work for Robert MacDer- a bylaw banning corporate continue today between build 600 metres of sewer ner of Don Mills and Overlea and could become a river of efflu- mid, a York University po- and union campaign dona- the university and the to bypass the cracked part. ence if problems persist. litical science professor tions — a bylaw MacDer- union representing 3,340 The good news is there’s who’s made a name for mid argued would bring teaching assistants, con- no sign yet the big sewer is the volume of the Don Riv- the city to the Ashbridge’s himself challenging corpo- more transparency and tract faculty and graduate leaking sewage outward, er in dry weather — is Bay sewage treatment rate donations to candi- hold candidates account- assistants. or collapsing inward. unimpeded, carrying the plant. dates in municipal election able to voters. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE Its flow — three times waste from one-third of TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE campaigns. MacDermid TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE Crown calls Livent defence (cid:36)(cid:79)(cid:78)(cid:7)(cid:84)(cid:0)(cid:82)(cid:85)(cid:83)(cid:72)(cid:0)(cid:0) preposterous (cid:79)(cid:78)(cid:0)(cid:83)(cid:84)(cid:65)(cid:73)(cid:82)(cid:83)(cid:0)(cid:65)(cid:78)(cid:68)(cid:0)(cid:0) THEATREIt is preposterous for Livent co-founders (cid:69)(cid:83)(cid:67)(cid:65)(cid:76)(cid:65)(cid:84)(cid:79)(cid:82)(cid:83)(cid:14)(cid:0) Garth Drabinsky and My- ron Gottlieb to allege a (cid:52)(cid:72)(cid:69)(cid:0)(cid:78)(cid:69)(cid:88)(cid:84)(cid:0)(cid:0) wide-ranging conspiracy to frame them when the (cid:84)(cid:82)(cid:65)(cid:73)(cid:78)(cid:0)(cid:87)(cid:73)(cid:76)(cid:76)(cid:0)(cid:66)(cid:69)(cid:0) most logical explanation is they are fraudsters, prose- (cid:65)(cid:76)(cid:79)(cid:78)(cid:71)(cid:0)(cid:73)(cid:78)(cid:0)(cid:65)(cid:0)(cid:70)(cid:69)(cid:87)(cid:0) cutors say. The defence claims that (cid:77)(cid:73)(cid:78)(cid:85)(cid:84)(cid:69)(cid:83)(cid:14) former Livent staff, the Defence company’s incoming (cid:129) The (cid:47)(cid:86)(cid:69)(cid:82)(cid:0)(cid:24)(cid:21)(cid:5)(cid:0)(cid:79)(cid:70)(cid:0)(cid:82)(cid:69)(cid:80)(cid:79)(cid:82)(cid:84)(cid:69)(cid:68)(cid:0)(cid:0) U.S. owners, defence will (cid:83)(cid:85)(cid:66)(cid:87)(cid:65)(cid:89)(cid:0)(cid:83)(cid:84)(cid:65)(cid:84)(cid:73)(cid:79)(cid:78)(cid:0)(cid:67)(cid:85)(cid:83)(cid:84)(cid:79)(cid:77)(cid:69)(cid:82)(cid:0)(cid:0) several start final lawyers and arguments (cid:73)(cid:78)(cid:74)(cid:85)(cid:82)(cid:73)(cid:69)(cid:83)(cid:0)(cid:65)(cid:82)(cid:69)(cid:0)(cid:67)(cid:65)(cid:85)(cid:83)(cid:69)(cid:68)(cid:0)(cid:66)(cid:89)(cid:0)(cid:0) outside ac- today. (cid:83)(cid:76)(cid:73)(cid:80)(cid:83)(cid:12)(cid:0)(cid:84)(cid:82)(cid:73)(cid:80)(cid:83)(cid:0)(cid:65)(cid:78)(cid:68)(cid:0)(cid:70)(cid:65)(cid:76)(cid:76)(cid:83)(cid:14) countants colluded to pin the multimillion-dollar fraud on the accused, Crown prosecutor Amanda Rubaszek said in her clos- ing arguments yesterday. (cid:34)(cid:69)(cid:0)(cid:83)(cid:65)(cid:70)(cid:69)(cid:14)(cid:0)(cid:34)(cid:69)(cid:0)(cid:67)(cid:79)(cid:78)(cid:83)(cid:73)(cid:68)(cid:69)(cid:82)(cid:65)(cid:84)(cid:69)(cid:14)(cid:0) “There is a far more logi- cal explanation and that is (cid:55)(cid:69)(cid:7)(cid:82)(cid:69)(cid:0)(cid:83)(cid:69)(cid:82)(cid:73)(cid:79)(cid:85)(cid:83)(cid:0)(cid:65)(cid:66)(cid:79)(cid:85)(cid:84)(cid:0)(cid:89)(cid:79)(cid:85)(cid:82)(cid:0)(cid:83)(cid:65)(cid:70)(cid:69)(cid:84)(cid:89)(cid:14) that the accused did it. They knew,” Rubaszek said. Drabinsky and Gottlieb (cid:35)(cid:79)(cid:78)(cid:67)(cid:69)(cid:80)(cid:84)(cid:0)(cid:65)(cid:78)(cid:68)(cid:0)(cid:68)(cid:69)(cid:83)(cid:73)(cid:71)(cid:78)(cid:0)(cid:154)(cid:0)(cid:45)(cid:69)(cid:84)(cid:82)(cid:79)(cid:80)(cid:79)(cid:76)(cid:73)(cid:84)(cid:65)(cid:78)(cid:0)(cid:52)(cid:82)(cid:65)(cid:78)(cid:83)(cid:80)(cid:79)(cid:82)(cid:84)(cid:65)(cid:84)(cid:73)(cid:79)(cid:78)(cid:0)(cid:33)(cid:85)(cid:84)(cid:72)(cid:79)(cid:82)(cid:73)(cid:84)(cid:89)(cid:12)(cid:0)(cid:46)(cid:69)(cid:87)(cid:0)(cid:57)(cid:79)(cid:82)(cid:75)(cid:14) have pleaded not guilty to fraud and forgery that al- legedly occurred at the live theatre company from 1989-98.TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE Monthly cost of home phone service [including long distance, voicemail and one feature]* MONEY’S TOO IMPORTANT Bell Rogers TO THROW AWAY . $5479 $4131 Switch to Rogers Home Phone and save with our everyday price. rogers.com/compare Visit to see the difference. Pay less. 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THE CANADIAN PRESS Faceoff over ethics rules Canada Lawyers for Brian Mulroney and Karlheinz Schreiber are squaring off today for their first real tussle at a public inquiry into the business dealings between the former prime minister and the German-Canadian arms dealer. At issue is the legal yardstick by which Mulroney’s conduct should be meas- ured — and, by implication, the question of whether he strayed beyond the bounds expected of a senior public official. THE CANADIAN PRESS Soldier at hearing Canadians In court Accused of faking death missed chance G A Army captain charged with murder RY KEA to leave Gaza N/TH MIDEASTThirty-nine Cana- E CA dians, still stranded in war- A witness reported see- custody until he stands N wracked Gaza yesterday, A D ing Capt. Robert Semrau Controversy trial. Military Judge Lt.- IA could have safely departed N fuinrea ramt ae ds eTvaelirbealyn ifnigjuhrteedr, (cid:129) The charge has provoked Cseorlv. edL ohuisis deVciinsicoenn tu nrteil- PRESS tifh oen tleyr rCitaonrayd liaasnt dFripidloaym —ats after an ambush in Octo- controversy because it was today. had known it. Early last Fri- ber, a military hearing laid more than two months The prosecution be- day, more than 200 foreign was told yesterday at after the death of the Taliban lieves Semrau killed the nationals fled Gaza via the CFB Petawawa. fighter in Afghanistan’s Hel- wounded insurgent with- Erez border crossing. Had A synopsis of events in- mand province on Oct. 19. out lawful justification. the Canadians shown up at troduced at the hearing This is the first time a the border on Friday, they and agreed upon by the Canadian Armed Forces criminal charge has been likely would have been per- military prosecution and officer being charged with laid against a Canadian mitted to cross, said Maj. defence lawyers provided second-degree murder. solider in Afghanistan in- Peter Lerner, spokesperson the first detailed glimpse It was read at a hearing volving the death of an al- for the Israeli agency that of the circumstances that into whether Semrau leged enemy fighter. handles the country’s activ- led to the 35-year-old should be released from TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE ities in the territory. But it was only on Friday that Canadian diplomats first News in brief provided the Israelis with a list of names of Canadians CREDITA new working group ness, Finance Minister Jim Fla- to on Monday. The new group who wanted to leave the of bank and government herty said. It was Flaherty’s first will be composed of represen- Bruce Leyte heads to provincial court in Corner Brook , N.L., territory, and no attempt officials is being asked to imme- comment on a meeting he and tatives from the big banks, the yesterday on a charge of faking his own death. Leyte, 57, was was made to contact them diately begin looking at ways to Bank of Canada Governor Mark finance department and the arrested in November in St. John’s more than two years after that day, to tell them to get make loans more accessible to Carney held behind closed Bank of Canada, an aide to Fla- he disappeared in Corner Brook. to the border. Canadian consumers and busi- doors with bank CEOs in Toron- herty said. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE Ranked #1 outside the U.S. by November 2008 INFORMATION SESSION Meet with the Program Director and Admissions Staff. 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PC helm, party president fided a veteran Conservative Observers reading the Ken Zeise said: “I don’t MPP, who is loyal to the leader. tea leaves at Queen’s Park know.” Tory, who has been with- say they expect Tory to re- “I’m hoping he stays, out a seat in the legislature main with the party. yes, and I’m hoping that since losing Don Valley West TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE St. John’s turns Plane crash Daring rescue heat on drive-thrus N PRESS MTiOmT IHOoNrTtohnes u dbriiqvue-itthourus is A DI brewing a controversy in A N HE CA NLaebwrafoduonr’dsl caanpdi taanl dcity. City OT/T councillors in St. John’s are N OISSI cracking down on the QUES B edsrtiavbe-ltihshrum reenstt aouf rnaenwts and JAC coffee shops amid concerns that traffic congestion is risking safety. They passed a motion Monday that re- Rescuers arrive on a snowmobile from a remote area where a quires businesses to prove plane crashed in Bukland, Que., yesterday. 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State police say the boy suffered only minor injuries and authorities drove him to school after he was evaluated at a local hospital. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Pelosi re-elected as U.S. Speaker World The woman who made history two years ago by becoming the first female Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives has been re-elected to that post. House colleagues yesterday chose Nancy Pelosi to continue as Speaker. Her fellow Democ- rats, with an expanded majority, elected her over Republican John Boehner on the first day of the 111th Congress. Pelosi received 255 votes to Boehner’s 174. The an- nouncement was met with a standing ovation. 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Bar ack Oba ma’s va cant Illi- ised to fight waste public projects. rope’s largest Jewish and nois Senate seat. and to make tough A new website Muslim communities and in Stockholm. In Britain, the Communi- Roland Burris, the man budgetary decisions, will allow taxpayers a history of anti-Semitic vi- In Denmark, a 27-year- ty Security Trust, a Jewish appointed to Obama’s seat however, Obama Barack Obama to track where mon- olence flaring when ten- old Dane born in Lebanon defence group, said it had by disgraced Gov. Rod warned the nation ey is being spent sions in the Middle East to Palestinian parents is al- seen a rise in anti-Semitic Blagojevich, staged a dra- could face trillion- while also showing are high. leged to have injured two incidents since the start of matic bit of political dollar deficits for years to the administration’s esti- A Jewish congregation in young Israelis last week in Israel’s offensive against theatre at the Capitol come. Eight years ago, the mate of how the money is Helsingborg, in southern a shooting. Belgium or- Gaza. The group said it Building just before the federal budget ran a sur- affecting individual com- Sweden, was attacked dered police in Antwerp recorded 20-25 incidents opening of Congress. The plus, and the deficit on munities and the economy Monday night and on Sun- and Brussels to be on “in- across the country in the 71-year-old knew he’d be Sept. 30 was about $455 overall. day slogans, including creased state of alert” yes- past week — a sizable in- turned away. But he show - billion. Obama’s inauguration “murderers ... You broke terday after recent pro- crease from two to three ed up anyway, effectively Two weeks before taking date is Jan. 20. the ceasefire,” were Palestinian protests ended incidents usually reported. stealing the spotlight. office, Obama said Ameri- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS daubed on Israel’s embassy in violence and arrests. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Now! 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Change the World. www.givegirlsachance.org metro metronews.ca Wednesday, January 7, 2009 10 LOCAL NATIONAL Assoc MngingEditor, Tarin Elbert Art Director, Laila Hakim Associate Publisher, Irene Patterson Retail Sales Director, Tracy Day Group Publisher, Bill McDonald Assoc Night MngingEditor, Jim Reyno National Sales Director, Susan Courtney Managing Editor, Glen Miller Prod/Distribution Director, Gerry Moher Editor-in-Chief, Dianne Rinehart Enter/Lifestyle Editor, Dean Lisk Interactive/Mrktng Director, Jodi Brown Comment & Views Comment Give banks some credit M ICH A EL D E A D D ER Despite war of words, stats show loans are still flowing Money sustained throughout the Matters Even the Bank of Canada admitted in its crisis.” December financial system review that Banks could be forgiven if they were a whole lot Charles “credit growth ... has generally been tighter. Ironically, Ottawa’s Davies sustained throughout the crisis.” bank regulator, the Office of Superintendent of Fi- nancial Institutions, has Veteran Business Writer governor Mark Carney, the Bank of Canada’s own sta- been signalling that it may A banks are shutting off the tistics, Toronto Dominion raise regulatory capital re- s a onetime in- lending taps just when we Bank argued recently that quirements this year, a mate of the Cana- need credit most. The loans have kept flowing good reason to hoard cash. dian banking sys- banks are charged with through the crisis. From Besides, in a weak econo- tem, I can tell sopping up the liquidity September to November, my, banks normally be- you from first- that Ottawa and the Bank household credit was up come more scrupulous hand experience that of Canada has provided to more than 12 per cent year lenders and boost reserves bankers are prone to ex- stimulate lending and us- to year while business because there’s a greater cesses and lapses in judge- ing it to strengthen their credit rose 13.4 per cent likelihood of loan defaults. ment. The bank I worked own balance sheets. A war hardly suggesting a credit That’s only prudent, given for — one of the Big Five — of words has been waged squeeze. It’s also been not- that the banks’ first re- has long had an eerie profi- between the two sides ed that Canadian banks sponsibility is to assure vi- ciency at messing up, find- since early December, and made up some of the dif- able operations in order to ing itself covered in goo af- this week Flaherty and Car- ference as foreign banks protect depositors’ funds. ter the bursting of every fi- ney called top bankers in and auto financing arms Staying healthy also helps nancial bubble in recent for a meeting to apply di- fled the market. preserve shareholder value decades. Banks are also the rect pressure. Even the Bank of which affects a majority of institutions we love to On the evi- Canada ad- Canadians who, directly or Letters hate. We may need them, dence, Fla- mitted in indirectly, own bank stock. but there’s always that herty and its Decem- What’s good for them is at sense that, like the unre- Carney ber finan- least partly what’s good for Lives cut short in Gaza about dropping bombs and constructed Scrooge, they don’t cial sys- most of us. missiles on these innocent are gouging us. have tem re- The Israelis have been people, especially the chil- But are they turning us much of view Charles Davies is a veteran business writer bombing the Gaza Strip con- dren? away in our hour of eco- a that and editor who has worked for news organi- tinuously and at such a rap- These children still zations and publications including Business nomic crisis? If you believe case. “credit Week, Canadian Business, Report On Business id rate that everyone is just haven’t had a chance to see Finance Minister Jim Fla- Using growth ... has magazine, Reuters, and Financial Post. in utter shock. anything in the world. herty and Bank of Canada the generally been How can they even think EMAN KADRI, CALGARY Word on the street: What’s your New Year’s resolution — and have you already broken it? Christine Chris Saul Michelle Thomas Jen Zach Melodie Rick Armstrong Redcliffe McFarland Richardson Ly Galligan Pipes Cardin Park age 25, Toronto age 71, age 37, Toronto age 36, Ajax age 35, Toronto age 43, Calgary age 19, Calgary age 23, Ottawa age 27, Halifax Scarborough A: Honestly, I A: I’m 37 and I’ve A: To save a heck A: Winning the A: Mine is to A: I didn’t really A: I haven’t, but I A: I’m going to never follow A: Going back in- never made a of a lot more 6/49! I bought hopefully drop make any this expect to soon. run a marathon. through, so I just to swimming. I resolution. Peo- than I have in the my ticket, so I’ve 20 pounds. So far year. I never My New Year’s Today, I’m going don’t make them already got my ple should set past. I started done my part. I’m stickin’ to it. went along with resolution was to to the gym with anymore. membership their goals on a over the holi- I’ve got my That’s one reso- it for the last two wash the dishes my friends — it’s back in October, daily basis. days, putting a fingers crossed. lution I can say I years I made right away after I my fourth day at so I hope I can limit on each didn’t break. them... so what's eat. So far so the gym. keep it. gift. I’ve stuck to the point? good. that. It’s your turn to tell others what you think. E-mail your thoughts and opinions to: [email protected] Letters must include sender’s full name, address and phone number –street name and phone numbers will NOT be published. 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Sports Pg 12 Leafs can’t stop Florida TORONTO • WEDNESDAY JANUARY 7 2009 metronews.ca Council mulls Gaza Strip Soldier Murder charges subway line ceasefire TO M conditions H A NSO proposed N TRANSITToronto city coun- /TH cil is expected to endorse a E CA N plan this month to extend A France and Egypt an- D the TTC’s Yonge subway IAN nounced an initiative to lYionrek b Rye 6g.i8o nk.i lTohmee TtrTeCs ainntdo PRESS slatotep y etshtee rdfiagyh, thinoug rsi na ftGera zIsa- executive committee have raeli mortar shells exploded agreed to build the near a UN school sheltering Metrolinx-backed project hundreds of people dis- subject to conditions, placed by including a major the on- School makeover of the Bloor- slaught on Yonge station, which Hamas mil- (cid:129) Israel’s mili- could double the $2.4-bil- itants. At tary said its lion projected cost to near- least 30 shelling at the ly $5 billion. Palestini- school — the Some conditions the city ans died. deadliest sin- has set for participating in French gle episode the project include: Foreign since Israeli (cid:129)The venture must not Minister ground forces lead to additional capital Bernard invaded Gaza or net operating costs for Kouchner on Saturday af- the city; released no ter a week of (cid:129)The TTC must manage, details of air bombard- deliver, operate, maintain the cease- ment — was a and largely own the proj- fire plan, response to ect; Capt. Robert Semrau, left, arrives yesterday under military police custody for his hearing at Canadian Forces Base Petawawa. Sem- saying at mortar fire (cid:129)Funds must be provid- rau is charged with second-degree murder in the death of a presumed enemy fighter in Afghanistan. More coverage, page 6. the UN Se- from within ed for extra storage yards curity the school and for TTC trains, and Council the said Hamas expanded capacity at presidents militants were City shovels more Bloor-Yonge. of his coun- using civilians TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE try and as cover. Egypt were awaiting a response from Is- Metro Drive pg 15 rael. Israeli officials in into snow budget BMW makes Jerusalem declined immedi- ate comment on the an- room for nouncement, which came amid diplomatic efforts by more fun the United States and other countries to resolve a con- New contract, bigger storms boost spending to $80M flict between Israel and the Travel pg 17 Islamic militants of Hamas that has seen 600 people Toronto’s snow-clearing ed across the city every killed in 11 days. budget is ballooning to “The public expectation is very high ... It’s time it snows, as snowfalls U.S. president-elect $80 million this year, in the side streets — a lot of residents want can be heavier in certain Barack Obama broke his si- part because contract areas. Salters alone may lence on the crisis yesterday, snow cleared as soon as possible, almost costs are rising and do the job in some places. saying “the loss of civilian bigger storms are antici- to bare pavement.” “After amalgamation, it life in Gaza and in Israel is a pated. was all about equal serv- source of deep concern for Gary Welsh, GM of transportation Last year, the city bud- ice,” Welsh said. But by be- me.” He declined to go fur- geted only $63 million but ing more selective after a ther, reiterating his stance spent more than $85 mil- he said. “It’s the side year, the city is starting a storm, “we can save a cou- that the United States has Spas are top lion because of a near- streets — a lot of residents new seven-year contract. ple hundred thousand dol- only one president at a time. record snowfall, said Gary want snow cleared as soon Costs also increase when lars.” THE ASSOCIATED PRESS destination Welsh, general manager of as possible, almost to bare a lot of snow needs to be A bid by Coun. Glenn De MORE COVERAGE, PG 6, 8 transportation. pavement.” removed, and not just Baeremaeker to require all “The public expectation The city’s costs for con- plowed, because of heavy able homeowners in the Watch an interview with is very high. We get limit- tractors were lower last storms and less melting. city to shovel their side- Tony Blair and an eyewitness ShareYourViews ed complaints about main year because it was at the Officials are assessing walks was defeated 4-1. account from Gaza at metronews.ca/world [email protected] roads and expressways,” end of a five-year deal. This whether plowing is need- TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE Free Daily News Group Inc., operating as Metro Toronto 1 Concorde Gate, Suite 703, Toronto, Ontario M3C 3N6. Publisher: Bill McDonald EAXOT FTCFHERLESSUE A LVSOAICILVAATBEILOELNYS: HOT HOLIDAY AJAX 85 Kingston Rd., Unit 7 905-428-6800 AURORA 15483 Yonge St., Unit 2B 905-726-1050 BOLTON 15 12612 Highway 50 905-857-1204 BRAMPTON DEALS! 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All other brand names and logos are trademarks of their respective owners. © 2008 Rogers Wireless. metronews.ca metro Wednesday, January 7, 2009 Serial rapist released 3 A serial rapist kept behind bars for 13 years for a string of sexual assaults in Toronto in 1992 was released yesterday after finishing his full sentence. Orville Dwayne Thompson, 37, will live with family in Ajax under strict conditions, Durham police say. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE Stabbing at Mississauga school Local A 17-year-old student is under arrest after another 17-year-old was stabbed with a pair of scissors at a Mississauga high school yesterday. Peel police responded to the stabbing call just before 1 p.m. at Rick Hansen Secondary School, on Dream Crest Road, in the Mavis Road and Eglinton Avenue West area, after an altercation broke out between two boys inside the school, said Peel Police Const. J.P. Valade. The victim, who was stabbed four times, is being treated in hospital. 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Appeal is giving Richard yesterday agreed to an ex- drive-thru crackdown at She was sleeping when Brant a second chance to tension. Lawyers for Brant, metronews.ca/canada Alfaro Mendez, a regular prove he didn’t kill his 36, have until Friday to file VideoJim Flaherty on Toronto’s nightclub cir- two-month-old baby, con- documents formally set- previews budget cuit, and three cousins trary to highly damaging ting the appeal process in measures to headed downtown. findings made by dis- motion boost the econo- On Sunday evening, Al- graced pathologist Dr. Crown counsel Alison my at faro Mendez visited her Charles Smith. Wheeler has said they will metronews.ca boyfriend of four or five Brant’s deadline for ap- not object to the delayed /canada months, who lives in the Family members of murdered 34-year-old Evelyn Alfaro Mendez pealing his 1995 convic- start to the process. Don Mills area, after drop- cradle a photo of the victim in their Mississauga home yesterday. tion expired more than 13 TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE ping off her passengers in Toronto, relatives said yes- parently after a resident re- Police detectives — who Lotteries terday. She was supposed ported the idling vehicle. still do not have a suspect, News in brief Ontario Pick 3:6 7 0; Ontario Pick 4: 3 2 1 2. to meet friends at a night- Other residents said they a murder weapon or a mo- Encore:8308739 club near Wilson Avenue. heard multiple gunshots tive in the slaying — are CUPE A proposal by the presi- Semitic yesterday and called an Daily Keno: 9, 12, 15, 16, 17, 19, 24, 27, 29, 39, and Jane Street, but never around 9:30 p.m. and some scouring her personal life dent of the CUPE, the largest affront to civil liberties by 40, 42, 45, 52, 58, 59, 62, 63, 65 & 66. arrived. had noticed another vehi- for leads. Alfaro Mendez union in Ontario, to boycott Is- prominent members of Cana- These results are not official. Police found her body cle pull up, at some point, did not have a criminal raeli academics at Ontario uni- da’s Jewish community. just before midnight — ap- beside the silver SUV. record. 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metro metronews.ca Wednesday, January 7, 2009 4 local Halton cop arrested for assault A Halton police officer is facing assault charges related to a November altercation with two citizens outside a Burlington bar. The officer, who was on duty at the time of the confrontation, was arrested yesterday after an investigation was sparked by a complaint.TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE 4,000 call for T.O. sewer ‘failed’ Patient sues Toronto quick end to hospital over bacteria York strike City, fearing collapse, looks at solutions UNIONSWhen York Univer- MEDICAL A former patient is Epidemiology. 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Crescent, just north of ARD L at the Toronto millions of the plaintiff, The un - Coxwell Avenue and RICH General Hos- dollars was admitted Strike ion rep ar- O’Connor Drive, is cracked pital found Ronald Sherman and his to Toronto rived early; and chipping. the location wife are asking for in dam- General in (cid:129) The strike by York sent But Lou Di Gironimo, and design of ages from Toronto General November the union be- no one to general manager of Toron- sinks in the Hospital and the University 2005, with gan on Nov. 6, receive the to Water, says the big ques- ICU led to the Health Network. severe pneu- and if it con- petition. tion remains unanswered. spread of monia, tinues much “They “When will it collapse? Pseudomonas which wors- longer threat- know Nobody can answer that aeruginosa in the ward. ened, according to the ens to extend where our question,” Di Gironimo The details of their discov- claim, when he became in- the school office is,” told the city’s public works ery were outlined in this fected with pseudomonas year. said York committee yesterday. month’s Journal of Infec- at TGH. spokesper- The cracks may be many tion Control and Hospital TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE son Alex Bi- years old. The only way to lyk. A university official inspect the sewer is City politics a scary business later fetched a copy. through robots with video In York’s administration and sonar instruments, he building, 20 students and said. POLITICS Intimidation, accu- compiles data to learn striking teaching assistants “None of that can give us sations of dishonesty, and which candidates get the remain camped outside any structural integrity in- notices of slander and most corporate contribu- the university president’s formation ... No one can defamation aren’t normal- tions. He’s published 10 office, hoping Mamdouh guarantee me how long ly encountered in acade- papers on the subject. Shoukri will meet with it’ll last. It could last mia. He expects more threats them to host a forum decades. We don’t know” But dealing with these after Toronto’s executive about the strike. It will take 18 months pressures is all in a day’s committee agreed to draft Talks were expected to and up to $30 million to This small stream drains from apartment buildings near the cor- work for Robert MacDer- a bylaw banning corporate continue today between build 600 metres of sewer ner of Don Mills and Overlea and could become a river of efflu- mid, a York University po- and union campaign dona- the university and the to bypass the cracked part. ence if problems persist. litical science professor tions — a bylaw MacDer- union representing 3,340 The good news is there’s who’s made a name for mid argued would bring teaching assistants, con- no sign yet the big sewer is the volume of the Don Riv- the city to the Ashbridge’s himself challenging corpo- more transparency and tract faculty and graduate leaking sewage outward, er in dry weather — is Bay sewage treatment rate donations to candi- hold candidates account- assistants. or collapsing inward. unimpeded, carrying the plant. dates in municipal election able to voters. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE Its flow — three times waste from one-third of TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE campaigns. MacDermid TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE Crown calls Livent defence (cid:36)(cid:79)(cid:78)(cid:7)(cid:84)(cid:0)(cid:82)(cid:85)(cid:83)(cid:72)(cid:0)(cid:0) preposterous (cid:79)(cid:78)(cid:0)(cid:83)(cid:84)(cid:65)(cid:73)(cid:82)(cid:83)(cid:0)(cid:65)(cid:78)(cid:68)(cid:0)(cid:0) THEATREIt is preposterous for Livent co-founders (cid:69)(cid:83)(cid:67)(cid:65)(cid:76)(cid:65)(cid:84)(cid:79)(cid:82)(cid:83)(cid:14)(cid:0) Garth Drabinsky and My- ron Gottlieb to allege a (cid:52)(cid:72)(cid:69)(cid:0)(cid:78)(cid:69)(cid:88)(cid:84)(cid:0)(cid:0) wide-ranging conspiracy to frame them when the (cid:84)(cid:82)(cid:65)(cid:73)(cid:78)(cid:0)(cid:87)(cid:73)(cid:76)(cid:76)(cid:0)(cid:66)(cid:69)(cid:0) most logical explanation is they are fraudsters, prose- (cid:65)(cid:76)(cid:79)(cid:78)(cid:71)(cid:0)(cid:73)(cid:78)(cid:0)(cid:65)(cid:0)(cid:70)(cid:69)(cid:87)(cid:0) cutors say. The defence claims that (cid:77)(cid:73)(cid:78)(cid:85)(cid:84)(cid:69)(cid:83)(cid:14) former Livent staff, the Defence company’s incoming (cid:129) The (cid:47)(cid:86)(cid:69)(cid:82)(cid:0)(cid:24)(cid:21)(cid:5)(cid:0)(cid:79)(cid:70)(cid:0)(cid:82)(cid:69)(cid:80)(cid:79)(cid:82)(cid:84)(cid:69)(cid:68)(cid:0)(cid:0) U.S. owners, defence will (cid:83)(cid:85)(cid:66)(cid:87)(cid:65)(cid:89)(cid:0)(cid:83)(cid:84)(cid:65)(cid:84)(cid:73)(cid:79)(cid:78)(cid:0)(cid:67)(cid:85)(cid:83)(cid:84)(cid:79)(cid:77)(cid:69)(cid:82)(cid:0)(cid:0) several start final lawyers and arguments (cid:73)(cid:78)(cid:74)(cid:85)(cid:82)(cid:73)(cid:69)(cid:83)(cid:0)(cid:65)(cid:82)(cid:69)(cid:0)(cid:67)(cid:65)(cid:85)(cid:83)(cid:69)(cid:68)(cid:0)(cid:66)(cid:89)(cid:0)(cid:0) outside ac- today. (cid:83)(cid:76)(cid:73)(cid:80)(cid:83)(cid:12)(cid:0)(cid:84)(cid:82)(cid:73)(cid:80)(cid:83)(cid:0)(cid:65)(cid:78)(cid:68)(cid:0)(cid:70)(cid:65)(cid:76)(cid:76)(cid:83)(cid:14) countants colluded to pin the multimillion-dollar fraud on the accused, Crown prosecutor Amanda Rubaszek said in her clos- ing arguments yesterday. (cid:34)(cid:69)(cid:0)(cid:83)(cid:65)(cid:70)(cid:69)(cid:14)(cid:0)(cid:34)(cid:69)(cid:0)(cid:67)(cid:79)(cid:78)(cid:83)(cid:73)(cid:68)(cid:69)(cid:82)(cid:65)(cid:84)(cid:69)(cid:14)(cid:0) “There is a far more logi- cal explanation and that is (cid:55)(cid:69)(cid:7)(cid:82)(cid:69)(cid:0)(cid:83)(cid:69)(cid:82)(cid:73)(cid:79)(cid:85)(cid:83)(cid:0)(cid:65)(cid:66)(cid:79)(cid:85)(cid:84)(cid:0)(cid:89)(cid:79)(cid:85)(cid:82)(cid:0)(cid:83)(cid:65)(cid:70)(cid:69)(cid:84)(cid:89)(cid:14) that the accused did it. They knew,” Rubaszek said. Drabinsky and Gottlieb (cid:35)(cid:79)(cid:78)(cid:67)(cid:69)(cid:80)(cid:84)(cid:0)(cid:65)(cid:78)(cid:68)(cid:0)(cid:68)(cid:69)(cid:83)(cid:73)(cid:71)(cid:78)(cid:0)(cid:154)(cid:0)(cid:45)(cid:69)(cid:84)(cid:82)(cid:79)(cid:80)(cid:79)(cid:76)(cid:73)(cid:84)(cid:65)(cid:78)(cid:0)(cid:52)(cid:82)(cid:65)(cid:78)(cid:83)(cid:80)(cid:79)(cid:82)(cid:84)(cid:65)(cid:84)(cid:73)(cid:79)(cid:78)(cid:0)(cid:33)(cid:85)(cid:84)(cid:72)(cid:79)(cid:82)(cid:73)(cid:84)(cid:89)(cid:12)(cid:0)(cid:46)(cid:69)(cid:87)(cid:0)(cid:57)(cid:79)(cid:82)(cid:75)(cid:14) have pleaded not guilty to fraud and forgery that al- legedly occurred at the live theatre company from 1989-98.TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE Monthly cost of home phone service [including long distance, voicemail and one feature]* MONEY’S TOO IMPORTANT Bell Rogers TO THROW AWAY . $5479 $4131 Switch to Rogers Home Phone and save with our everyday price. rogers.com/compare Visit to see the difference. Pay less. 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THE CANADIAN PRESS Faceoff over ethics rules Canada Lawyers for Brian Mulroney and Karlheinz Schreiber are squaring off today for their first real tussle at a public inquiry into the business dealings between the former prime minister and the German-Canadian arms dealer. At issue is the legal yardstick by which Mulroney’s conduct should be meas- ured — and, by implication, the question of whether he strayed beyond the bounds expected of a senior public official. THE CANADIAN PRESS Soldier at hearing Canadians In court Accused of faking death missed chance G A Army captain charged with murder RY KEA to leave Gaza N/TH MIDEASTThirty-nine Cana- E CA dians, still stranded in war- A witness reported see- custody until he stands N wracked Gaza yesterday, A D ing Capt. Robert Semrau Controversy trial. Military Judge Lt.- IA could have safely departed N fuinrea ramt ae ds eTvaelirbealyn ifnigjuhrteedr, (cid:129) The charge has provoked Cseorlv. edL ohuisis deVciinsicoenn tu nrteil- PRESS tifh oen tleyr rCitaonrayd liaasnt dFripidloaym —ats after an ambush in Octo- controversy because it was today. had known it. Early last Fri- ber, a military hearing laid more than two months The prosecution be- day, more than 200 foreign was told yesterday at after the death of the Taliban lieves Semrau killed the nationals fled Gaza via the CFB Petawawa. fighter in Afghanistan’s Hel- wounded insurgent with- Erez border crossing. Had A synopsis of events in- mand province on Oct. 19. out lawful justification. the Canadians shown up at troduced at the hearing This is the first time a the border on Friday, they and agreed upon by the Canadian Armed Forces criminal charge has been likely would have been per- military prosecution and officer being charged with laid against a Canadian mitted to cross, said Maj. defence lawyers provided second-degree murder. solider in Afghanistan in- Peter Lerner, spokesperson the first detailed glimpse It was read at a hearing volving the death of an al- for the Israeli agency that of the circumstances that into whether Semrau leged enemy fighter. handles the country’s activ- led to the 35-year-old should be released from TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE ities in the territory. But it was only on Friday that Canadian diplomats first News in brief provided the Israelis with a list of names of Canadians CREDITA new working group ness, Finance Minister Jim Fla- to on Monday. The new group who wanted to leave the of bank and government herty said. It was Flaherty’s first will be composed of represen- Bruce Leyte heads to provincial court in Corner Brook , N.L., territory, and no attempt officials is being asked to imme- comment on a meeting he and tatives from the big banks, the yesterday on a charge of faking his own death. Leyte, 57, was was made to contact them diately begin looking at ways to Bank of Canada Governor Mark finance department and the arrested in November in St. John’s more than two years after that day, to tell them to get make loans more accessible to Carney held behind closed Bank of Canada, an aide to Fla- he disappeared in Corner Brook. to the border. Canadian consumers and busi- doors with bank CEOs in Toron- herty said. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE Ranked #1 outside the U.S. by November 2008 INFORMATION SESSION Meet with the Program Director and Admissions Staff. 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PC helm, party president fided a veteran Conservative Observers reading the Ken Zeise said: “I don’t MPP, who is loyal to the leader. tea leaves at Queen’s Park know.” Tory, who has been with- say they expect Tory to re- “I’m hoping he stays, out a seat in the legislature main with the party. yes, and I’m hoping that since losing Don Valley West TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE St. John’s turns Plane crash Daring rescue heat on drive-thrus N PRESS MTiOmT IHOoNrTtohnes u dbriiqvue-itthourus is A DI brewing a controversy in A N HE CA NLaebwrafoduonr’dsl caanpdi taanl dcity. City OT/T councillors in St. John’s are N OISSI cracking down on the QUES B edsrtiavbe-ltihshrum reenstt aouf rnaenwts and JAC coffee shops amid concerns that traffic congestion is risking safety. They passed a motion Monday that re- Rescuers arrive on a snowmobile from a remote area where a quires businesses to prove plane crashed in Bukland, Que., yesterday. 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Bar ack Oba ma’s va cant Illi- ised to fight waste public projects. rope’s largest Jewish and nois Senate seat. and to make tough A new website Muslim communities and in Stockholm. In Britain, the Communi- Roland Burris, the man budgetary decisions, will allow taxpayers a history of anti-Semitic vi- In Denmark, a 27-year- ty Security Trust, a Jewish appointed to Obama’s seat however, Obama Barack Obama to track where mon- olence flaring when ten- old Dane born in Lebanon defence group, said it had by disgraced Gov. Rod warned the nation ey is being spent sions in the Middle East to Palestinian parents is al- seen a rise in anti-Semitic Blagojevich, staged a dra- could face trillion- while also showing are high. leged to have injured two incidents since the start of matic bit of political dollar deficits for years to the administration’s esti- A Jewish congregation in young Israelis last week in Israel’s offensive against theatre at the Capitol come. Eight years ago, the mate of how the money is Helsingborg, in southern a shooting. Belgium or- Gaza. The group said it Building just before the federal budget ran a sur- affecting individual com- Sweden, was attacked dered police in Antwerp recorded 20-25 incidents opening of Congress. The plus, and the deficit on munities and the economy Monday night and on Sun- and Brussels to be on “in- across the country in the 71-year-old knew he’d be Sept. 30 was about $455 overall. day slogans, including creased state of alert” yes- past week — a sizable in- turned away. But he show - billion. Obama’s inauguration “murderers ... You broke terday after recent pro- crease from two to three ed up anyway, effectively Two weeks before taking date is Jan. 20. the ceasefire,” were Palestinian protests ended incidents usually reported. stealing the spotlight. office, Obama said Ameri- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS daubed on Israel’s embassy in violence and arrests. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Now! 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Change the World. www.givegirlsachance.org metro metronews.ca Wednesday, January 7, 2009 10 LOCAL NATIONAL Assoc MngingEditor, Tarin Elbert Art Director, Laila Hakim Associate Publisher, Irene Patterson Retail Sales Director, Tracy Day Group Publisher, Bill McDonald Assoc Night MngingEditor, Jim Reyno National Sales Director, Susan Courtney Managing Editor, Glen Miller Prod/Distribution Director, Gerry Moher Editor-in-Chief, Dianne Rinehart Enter/Lifestyle Editor, Dean Lisk Interactive/Mrktng Director, Jodi Brown Comment & Views Comment Give banks some credit M ICH A EL D E A D D ER Despite war of words, stats show loans are still flowing Money sustained throughout the Matters Even the Bank of Canada admitted in its crisis.” December financial system review that Banks could be forgiven if they were a whole lot Charles “credit growth ... has generally been tighter. Ironically, Ottawa’s Davies sustained throughout the crisis.” bank regulator, the Office of Superintendent of Fi- nancial Institutions, has Veteran Business Writer governor Mark Carney, the Bank of Canada’s own sta- been signalling that it may A banks are shutting off the tistics, Toronto Dominion raise regulatory capital re- s a onetime in- lending taps just when we Bank argued recently that quirements this year, a mate of the Cana- need credit most. The loans have kept flowing good reason to hoard cash. dian banking sys- banks are charged with through the crisis. From Besides, in a weak econo- tem, I can tell sopping up the liquidity September to November, my, banks normally be- you from first- that Ottawa and the Bank household credit was up come more scrupulous hand experience that of Canada has provided to more than 12 per cent year lenders and boost reserves bankers are prone to ex- stimulate lending and us- to year while business because there’s a greater cesses and lapses in judge- ing it to strengthen their credit rose 13.4 per cent likelihood of loan defaults. ment. The bank I worked own balance sheets. A war hardly suggesting a credit That’s only prudent, given for — one of the Big Five — of words has been waged squeeze. It’s also been not- that the banks’ first re- has long had an eerie profi- between the two sides ed that Canadian banks sponsibility is to assure vi- ciency at messing up, find- since early December, and made up some of the dif- able operations in order to ing itself covered in goo af- this week Flaherty and Car- ference as foreign banks protect depositors’ funds. ter the bursting of every fi- ney called top bankers in and auto financing arms Staying healthy also helps nancial bubble in recent for a meeting to apply di- fled the market. preserve shareholder value decades. Banks are also the rect pressure. Even the Bank of which affects a majority of institutions we love to On the evi- Canada ad- Canadians who, directly or Letters hate. We may need them, dence, Fla- mitted in indirectly, own bank stock. but there’s always that herty and its Decem- What’s good for them is at sense that, like the unre- Carney ber finan- least partly what’s good for Lives cut short in Gaza about dropping bombs and constructed Scrooge, they don’t cial sys- most of us. missiles on these innocent are gouging us. have tem re- The Israelis have been people, especially the chil- But are they turning us much of view Charles Davies is a veteran business writer bombing the Gaza Strip con- dren? away in our hour of eco- a that and editor who has worked for news organi- tinuously and at such a rap- These children still zations and publications including Business nomic crisis? If you believe case. “credit Week, Canadian Business, Report On Business id rate that everyone is just haven’t had a chance to see Finance Minister Jim Fla- Using growth ... has magazine, Reuters, and Financial Post. in utter shock. anything in the world. herty and Bank of Canada the generally been How can they even think EMAN KADRI, CALGARY Word on the street: What’s your New Year’s resolution — and have you already broken it? Christine Chris Saul Michelle Thomas Jen Zach Melodie Rick Armstrong Redcliffe McFarland Richardson Ly Galligan Pipes Cardin Park age 25, Toronto age 71, age 37, Toronto age 36, Ajax age 35, Toronto age 43, Calgary age 19, Calgary age 23, Ottawa age 27, Halifax Scarborough A: Honestly, I A: I’m 37 and I’ve A: To save a heck A: Winning the A: Mine is to A: I didn’t really A: I haven’t, but I A: I’m going to never follow A: Going back in- never made a of a lot more 6/49! I bought hopefully drop make any this expect to soon. run a marathon. through, so I just to swimming. I resolution. Peo- than I have in the my ticket, so I’ve 20 pounds. So far year. I never My New Year’s Today, I’m going don’t make them already got my ple should set past. I started done my part. I’m stickin’ to it. went along with resolution was to to the gym with anymore. membership their goals on a over the holi- I’ve got my That’s one reso- it for the last two wash the dishes my friends — it’s back in October, daily basis. days, putting a fingers crossed. lution I can say I years I made right away after I my fourth day at so I hope I can limit on each didn’t break. them... so what's eat. So far so the gym. keep it. gift. I’ve stuck to the point? good. that. It’s your turn to tell others what you think. E-mail your thoughts and opinions to: [email protected] Letters must include sender’s full name, address and phone number –street name and phone numbers will NOT be published. 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