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Triple shooting was targeted: Cops
Richmond Hill. ‘Toronto-type crime’
Local resident describes
suspicious and violent
Richmond Hill Coun.
happenings in the area Carmine Perrelli said he
is holding a community
meeting on Jan. 22 so
residents can be briefed
A barrage of more than a doz- on the shooting and share
en gunshots shocked a co-op information.
housing community in Rich-
mond Hill on Wednesday in (cid:580)(cid:3) “Richmond Hill is one
an apparently targeted triple of the safest places in
shooting. the country,” he said.
Residents on the Centre “And when we have
Street crescent near Yonge Toronto-type crime in
and Major MacKenzie Drive little Richmond Hill, it’s a
awoke to sirens, police dogs concern.”
and yellow crime-scene tape
after a man and a woman (cid:580)(cid:3) According to crime statis-
were shot dead and another tics recorded by York
man was critically injured. police, there have been
The trio was found inside few reported incidents in
a car sitting in a parking lot. the immediate vicinity of
Several people who live near- the shooting since this
by said they heard a quick summer.
succession of shots around
midnight.
A resident who identified
Witness
herself as Vivian D. said she
and her daughter heard 15 to
“I was scared. I thought
20 shots around midnight.
“I was scared. I thought it it was either fi reworks
was either fireworks or gun- or gunshots.... And sure
shots,” she said. “And sure
enough, soon after I
enough, soon after I heard
the sirens.” York Regional Police gather evidence at the scene of a triple shooting that left two people dead and one wounded in a Richmond Hill heard the sirens.”
According to York Region- housing co-op parking lot Wednesday.JACQUES GALLANT/TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
Resident Vivian D.
al Police, the names of the
victims will likely be released
on Thursday. to have fled on foot from the After 10 a.m., police loaded a nearly six years and never she was out on her porch for ment has told her the area is
The woman was declared Centre Green complex. white car onto a tractor-trail- lets her two children play a cigarette late one night. She police patrolled due to “inci-
dead and the two men were “It does not appear to be a er to be towed away. outside. watched a car pull into the dents” in the area.
rushed to hospital, said Con- random act,” he said. Management for the Cen- “Normally it’s quiet, but parking lot and flash its high Around this time last year,
st. Andy Pattenden. One died A police forensic team tre Green co-op said they over the last two weeks I’ve beams before two men came someone was stabbed in the
after arrival and the other was at the scene, a mostly have “no information” about seen quite a bit of strange out to look at the car. neighbourhood, she said.
was still in critical condition. industrial block filled by auto whether the victims were cars driving around very “They were just checking Shortly after moving in,
Based on witness infor- shops, Wednesday morning. residents of the complex. slowly with lights off,” the out the car,” she said. “Which she called the police when
mation, Pattenden said in- Yellow police tape sealed off Another resident, who woman said. “It’s something seemed very strange at three an unknown person rang her
vestigators are looking for the west parking lot as inves- asked not to be named, said very unsettling.” in the morning.” doorbell holding a gun.
two male suspects believed tigators collected evidence. she has lived at the co-op for Over the Christmas break, She said building manage- TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
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metronews.ca NEWS 03
Thursday, January 9, 2014
Two females sought in couple’s murder in Florida
Rob Ford scandal
Project Traveller
Two mystery women are now scene, with databases of law- Flournoy said she was near
docs due Feb. 19 at the centre of the investiga- enforcement agencies else- the couple’s home “in and
tion into the double murder where in the U.S. and Canada. around the time we believe
The delay in publicly releas- of a pair of well-loved Toronto The DNA does not match any they were compromised.”
ing dozens more police snowbirds, killed in their Flor- family members, or anyone “We believe the identifica-
documents connected to a ida home one year ago. who would have been allowed tion of this female is critical
major guns and gangs oper- Hallandale Beach Police to enter the home, such as a and important to this case,”
ation that has been linked Chief Dwayne Flournoy re- maids or maintenance work- he said, adding that the couple
to Mayor Rob Ford will vealed Wednesday that police ers, Flournoy said. had no known enemies.
now stretch well into next have DNA profiles of “two fe- Police also distributed a “We have not been able
month. A ruling Wednesday males” suspected in the deaths sketch of a woman captured to pinpoint why” they were N
gives the Crown until Feb. of David “Donny” Pichosky, on surveillance video walk- killed, he said.
19 to hand over the docu- 71, and Rochelle Wise, 66. ing behind the couple’s home The crime has baffled in-
ments. Those copies will be Flanked by the couple’s on the morning of Jan. 9, the vestigators and devastated
available solely to media family and friends, Flournoy day before their bodies were the couple’s large network of
lawyers at first, so they can told a press conference the found. First released in Febru- family and friends, who re-
prepare arguments for what profile is “very unique.” ary, the video shows a heavy- newed their pleas on Wednes- E
parts should be uncensored Donny Pichosky and Rochelle Wise Investigators have not yet set blond woman carrying day for those with information
and released. There is no on their wedding day in Toronto in been able to match the DNA, an unidentified object in her to come forward.
timeline set on when they 2009. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE collected from the crime hands. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
might be available to the
public. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE Councillor objects to W
Disaster relief wanted
Ice storm cost
skyrockets Central Tech fi eld dome
Toronto’s city manager is S
recommending city council
ask the provincial and fed-
eral governments for finan- At issue. Vibrant were part of a (city) study,”
cial assistance to help pay says Vaughan. “And putting
football program
for damage caused by two up a huge 16-metre bubble,
storms in 2013. A report to or neighbourhood even if it’s there for five or six
Toronto council on Wed- months of the year, it creates
green space
nesday says last month’s issues.”
ice storm and flooding in Vaughan, councillor for
July 2013 will cost the city Ward 20, said he also objects
in excess of $171 million. A Toronto councillor is oppos- to privatizing a public asset.
It suggests council request ing a $6-million restoration of “That green field, in a
that the municipal affairs Central Tech’s contaminated neighbourhood like Harbord
minister declare Toronto a 1960s-era playing field, includ- Village where there are no
“disaster area” in an effort ing the installation of a sea- parks, where you learn to ride
to get relief due to the sonal dome that would allow a bike and where you kick a
estimated $106 million in students to use the outside ball with your kids, it’s non-
costs from last month’s ice space year-round. programmed recreational
storm. THE CANADIAN PRESS The temporary dome space for families in the neigh- Central Tech principal Sheryl Freeman is seen on the west side of the school, where
would cover the massive field, bourhood.” a proposal to put a dome over the sports playing fi eld will be the subject of a com-
which fronts the school along Officials with the TDSB, munity meeting Thursday in Central Tech’s auditorium at 7 p.m. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
Bathurst St. north of Harbord who brokered the deal to build
St., each year from November the dome with Toronto-based These kids need football; want above provincial standards.
until April. Razor Management and at no football,” she says. Carla Kisko, assistant direc-
Coun. Adam Vaughan says cost to the board, are baffled. Principal Sheryl Freeman tor of finance and operations
he fears the proposed dome “The dome is temporary. says the dome would allow for the TDSB, says the field is
will block views of the herit- It’s a seasonal dome,” says Central Tech to expand its not unsafe, but the board will
age school and wreck the char- board spokesperson Sherri popular sports programs. have to address the contam-
Tree split during the ice storm.
acter of the street. Schwartz Maltz. “Central Tech The board closed the field ination issue now that the soil
TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE “There’s an aesthetic issue. is an inner-city school with in November after the testing has been disturbed.
Central Tech and Bathurst St. a vibrant football program. revealed cinder and ash levels TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
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04 NEWS metronews.ca
Thursday, January 9, 2014
Ford, Kelly clash over
property-tax increase
The city budget committee The budget committee
Quoted
voted Wednesday in favour sided with Kelly, backing
of a motion to reduce the a 2.25 per cent increase
“If we contract some
proposed property-tax hike and rejecting Ford’s call to
by about a quarter per cent, stuff out, you may see cut the land-transfer tax
even though city staff were that as a service cut. I charged on real-estate sales,
recommending a two per which yielded $356 million
don’t see that as a ser-
cent property-tax hike as in 2013.
part of the 2014 operating vice cut.” Mayor Rob Ford After appearing at
budget. budget committee meeting
When a 0.5 per cent levy Wednesday, Ford told re-
to fund the Bloor-Danforth 0.5 per cent to help pay for porters that he will submit
subway line extension is the Scarborough subway. ideas to save $50 million
added, the total property If Ford prevails, munici- when council meets Jan.
The Toronto Zoo says its polar-bear cub, seen in this screen grab from video released by the zoo, is now “quite active” tax hike in 2014 will be pal taxes on a typical home 29 and 30 to approve the
and has begun biting objects like his blanket as his teeth come in. METRO 2.25 per cent, if council as a assessed at $498,000 would budget.
whole votes in favour of the come to $2,569.50. If Kel- Ford said money could be
Polar-bear cub
proposed budget at the end ly’s position wins, the bill saved in “many areas,” cit-
of the month. would be $2,582.50, or $13 ing as examples contracting
During the often raucous more. out more garbage pickup to
meeting, Toronto’s mayor Tension over finalizing the private sector and also
and deputy mayor were at the proposed $9.6-billion hiring companies to plant
learning to walk odds over the amount of the operating budget is height- trees.
2014 property-tax increase. ened this year because coun- “I see that as better ser-
Mayor Rob Ford wants cil stripped Ford of many vices, if the private sector is
taxes to go up 1.75 per cent of his mayoral powers and delivering them instead of
and Deputy Mayor Norm transferred them to Kelly the government delivering
on wobbly legs Kelly is pushing for 2.25 per in the wake of the mayor’s them,” he said.
cent. Both figures include crack-video scandal. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE/METRO
Provincial politics
elected in a provincial bye-
lection last summer.
Doug Ford would
“If he does come here,
Toronto Zoo. Senior Quoted just growing in and he’s de- have to behave I’ll certainly be speaking
veloping a thicker coat. with him on how I think
veterinarian says staff himself as an MPP,
The cub, born to mother things work here (and)
“We hope that he will
are ‘very happy with Aurora, was the only sur- says Holyday what I think he needs to
grow up to become vivor in the litter of three, do to help us.
his progress so far’
another ambassador for but has a brother, Hudson, “As a matter of fact,
living in Winnipeg. Because Coun. Doug Ford will if he ever wants to seek
his species, highlighting
of Aurora’s history of re- have to learn to “play by the nomination I’ll try to
The Toronto Zoo’s polar- threats to the arctic jecting and attacking her the rules” if he jumps to explain that to him before
bear cub is just beginning environment.” litter of three, the wildlife provincial politics from Doug Holyday TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE he gets into that arena.
to take its first steps on all centre has taken up the re- city hall, advises one of his Because there’s no sense in
four legs. Dr. Graham Crawshaw, sponsibility of caring for staunchest allies. “He could be a good anybody coming here and
senior veterinarian, Toronto Zoo
The cub, born in early the cub. Progressive Conserva- MPP. He’s got a good head thinking that they’re not
November and weighing in Polar-bear cubs often tive MPP Doug Holyday on his shoulders. He does going to play by the rules.
at 4.4 kg, is also teething on He can now open his don’t survive the first three (Etobicoke Lakeshore) know how to save a dollar “It’s entirely different
objects such as his blanket eyes fully and focus on his months after birth, but the said Wednesday he hoped and how to operate ef- than it was at city hall. If
as his molars and incisors surroundings, and he has wildlife team, which has Mayor Rob Ford’s brother ficiently. Certainly that’s he really wants to come
grow in, drinking milk six been out of the incubator been “working around the runs for the party in Etobi- needed in this place,” here he’s going to have to
times a day and learning to for a month now, becoming clock” to care for him, says coke North in an election said Holyday, the former play by the rules.”
lap milk from a dish. He is acclimatized to cooler tem- he is responding well. expected as early as spring. deputy mayor, who was TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
also playing. peratures. His whiskers are TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
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06 NEWS metronews.ca
Thursday, January 9, 2014
Hundreds of flights remain
cancelled at Pearson airport
Left in limbo. By ture gate. cancellations, and it would take
The backlog of passengers at least several more days to get
Wednesday afternoon,
comes after temperatures of things back on schedule.
almost a third of the –25C prompted the Greater By Wednesday afternoon,
Toronto Airports Authority to almost a third of scheduled
scheduled flights
stop all North American arriv- flights arriving at Pearson were
arriving were cancelled als from touching down on the cancelled, 243 in total. One
— 243 total Pearson runway early Tuesday quarter of departures — 188
morning. scheduled flights — were also
“When you have a ground cancelled.
stop because conditions have Frustrated travellers were
Thousands of travellers re- become so untenable, you’ve left in limbo, many resorting to
mained stranded at Pearson got a situation where you’re sleeping on seats or the floor of
International Airport Wednes- trying to pour water into a glass the terminal.
day as airlines continued to that is already full,” said West- Rajesh Sehgal, 47, said he
postpone and cancel flights Jet spokesman Robert Palmer. stood in line for nine hours
while grappling with a huge Palmer said 22,000 WestJet Tuesday to rebook his flight to
backlog of passengers. passengers were affected by the India, only to have it cancelled
Dorothy Gittens missed her again Wednesday. He said he’ll
brother’s funeral Wednesday be at least three days late get-
Quoted
morning. The 79-year-old flew ting home.
in from London, England, on “It’s very frustrating with Ezequiel Vega Morales arrived at Pearson airport expecting to take an early morning flight to Quebec City, which was
Monday, but her connecting “We did put in a lot of a family,” said Sehgal, who is cancelled. Would-be travellers at Pearson continue to face delays and cancellations in the wake of the frigid weather
flight to Montreal didn’t mater- cancellations for today travelling with his wife and two which has disrupted the travel plans of tens of thousands of travellers. KEITH BEATY/TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
ialize. and the idea behind young children.
“Pay all this money to come Nikki Stein, 19, has spent this morning, and we’ve been head University, where she’s the airport.
that is we put out a
here for the funeral and I’m the last two days either on a here ever since because there studying chemical engineering. “They put me up in a hotel
stuck in a bloomin’ airport,” schedule for our custom- plane or in an airport in a gruel- are no hotels.” Sara Newitt, 44, is trying to and I’m an able-bodied person,
said Gittens, sitting with her ers that we knew we ing journey from Sydney, Aus- Stein said Air Canada told get to Deer Lake, N.L. She has and they have a lady like that
baggage in Pearson’s Terminal tralia to Thunder Bay, Ont. her all the hotels were fully been waiting since Tuesday stay in the airport,” Newitt said.
could deliver. We didn’t
1. “I know the funeral must be “We got delayed in Sydney booked, and the closest one night, and said she was fortun- “It doesn’t make sense. I think
over by now,” she said as she want to over-promise.” for five hours. Delayed in Van- was an hour away. She said the ate to be put up in a hotel by Air they should be reimbursing her
was helped into a wheelchair couver for seven hours,” she delays have forced her to miss Canada — unlike 79-year-old for her entire trip.”
Peter Fitzpatrick, Air Canada spokesman
to finally be taken to a depar- said. “Then we got here at 4:30 her first days of classes at Lake- Gittens, who spent the night at TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
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08 NEWS metronews.ca
Thursday, January 9, 2014
U.K. survey shows many men
have fallen asleep at the wheel
Driving tired carries similar ing. The figure for women was “Men are much more likely and biological” factors explain
risks to driving drunk, but, ac- 22 per cent. A further 14 per to take risks at the wheel, such why men take more risks.
cording to a new British survey, cent of male drivers have slept as setting off on journeys with- More than 90 per cent of those
sleeping at the wheel is com- for longer periods behind the out enough sleep, or trying convicted for dangerous driv-
mon, with men being by far the wheel, while just two per cent to push through if they feel ing in Britain are male, while
worst offenders. of women had done the same. drowsy,” Ellen Booth, senior a recent U.S. study found that
In the survey of 1,000 driv- An estimated one-in-six fatal campaigns officer at Brake, men caused 80 per cent of
ers, British road safety charity road crashes result from tired- told Metro. “We see this trend crashes. Researchers are con-
Brake found that 45 per cent ness. These typically involve across the board when it comes cerned that tiredness is add-
of men admitted “microsleeps” vehicles veering off the road or to road safety.” ing to the trend. KIERON MONKS/
of up to 30 seconds while driv- a driver failing to brake. Booth believes “cultural METRO WORLD NEWS IN LONDON
PM defends rail-safety record in
Derailed train cars burn in Plaster Rock, N.B., Wednesday. A CN freight train carrying
northwestern New Brunswick, leading to the evacuation of 150 people. It’s at least the
Lac-Mégantic, Que., that claimed 47 lives. Prime Minister Stephen Harper, speaking to
saying the government has “vastly” increased rail safety and rail inspections.
Fatal bird
located in
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America. Health
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that incident was
isolated, unrelated to
seasonal flu and risk to
public is small
Federal public health offi-
cials say a fatal human case
of H5N1 bird flu has been
reported in Canada, the first
such case in North America.
Health Minister Rona Am-
brose says the case, which
was located in Alberta, was Avian influenza A H5N1 viruses (seen in gold).
an isolated one and that the
risk to the general public is The H5N1 strain is un-
small. related to the seasonal flu
“The risk of getting H5N1 outbreak, Ambrose added.
is very low,” Ambrose told a Health officials say the
hastily assembled news con- victim had travelled to China
ference in Ottawa via confer- last month and was hospit-
ence call. alized after returning to Al-
“This case is not part of berta on Jan. 1, then died two
the seasonal flu, which circu- days later.
lates in Canada every year.” They say that while it
metronews.ca NEWS 09
Thursday, January 9, 2014
‘Political intimidation’? Changes implemented
she was warned by Sri However, the force
Sri Lanka claims ‘Mistake’ that let
Lankan officials during her isn’t saying just what
MP is trying to private visit that she could protesters get the mistake was or what
be arrested and deported. specifically was done to
embarrass them close to PM has
The Sri Lanka High prevent it from happen-
Commission said Wednes- been fixed: RCMP ing again.
Sri Lanka’s official repre- day that Sitsabaiesan was RCMP Cpl. Lucy
sentatives in Canada are ac- advised not to engage in ac- The RCMP says it has Shorey says in a state-
cusing an MP of attempting tivities that would amount identified and fixed the ment that the force
to embarrass the country’s to flouting Sri Lanka’s laws, “mistake” that allowed continues to review
government by claiming and Sitsabaiesan’s claim she two climate-change the incident, and it has
she faced political intimida- was subject to “political in- protesters to walk onto implemented changes to
tion during a visit there. timidation” is an attempt to a stage within touching ensure it doesn’t happen
Earlier this month, embarrass the government. distance of Prime Minis- again.
Rathika Sitsabaiesan said THE CANADIAN PRESS ter Stephen Harper. THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Alberta
berta’s chief medical officer
of health, said that family
members of the victim are
being monitored and treated
with medication, noting that
there’s nothing to indicate
they are sick.
“Public health has fol-
lowed up with all close con-
tacts of this individual and
offered Tamiflu as a pre-
caution,” Talbot said.
“None of them have
symptoms and the risk of
developing symptoms is ex-
tremely low. Precautions for
health-care staff were also
taken as part of this individ-
ual’s hospital treatment.”
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