GOLDEN GLOBES Big wins for Jennifer Lawrence, Matt Damon, Kate Winslet, Lady Gaga and Sam Smith metroLIFE Toronto Rosie on Rosie Westwood and Barton talk politics metroVIEWS Your essential daily news | MONDAY, JANUARY 11, 2016 High -5°C/Low -8°C Snow showers City strike threatens services GOLIATH, LABOUR UNREST and Wednesday. Contracts with MEET Union votes both unions expired Dec. 31. Maguire stressed that the in favour of union would rather get results DAVID at the bargaining table instead mandate ahead of the picket line. However, if of negotiations a strike occurs, a number of city services — from garbage pickup to homeless shelters Gilbert — could be affected. Ngabo According to a letter to Metro | Toronto members, CUPE Local 79 claims She was suspended the city is proposing contracts without pay from her Labour unrest could be on its that will leave workers “threat- way to Toronto, as the city’s ened with more cuts, all to job at Pearson after largest public sector union help pay for the city’s financial held a strike vote over the mismanagement.” her security weekend. Cuts to sick pay and benefits clearance was Members of the CUPE Local have deepened, and too many 79, which represents 20,000 workers are stuck in precar- revoked. Now inside workers, turned out in ious positions, Maguire said. big numbers Saturday to give “The city’s approach doesn’t she’s challenging leadership a strike mandate in respect those needs, and our the decision in the event negotiations with people want to be heard,” he the city go south. said. federal court. The results of the vote were unavailable Sunday, but Tim metroNEWS Maguire, president of Local 79, expected support to be high. People are “Our members are look- concerned about ing for more stability in their jobs,” he said. “The majority of the potential of them have lost their full-time an aggressive employment, and we think approach from Ayaan Farah says information that’s getting out of bounds.” about her may have been CUPE Local 416, which rep- the city at the obtained from carding. resents about 6,000 outside bargaining tables. ANDREW FRANCIS WALLACE/ employees, is also expected to hold a similar vote Tuesday Tim Maguire TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE GOSSIP 11 Your essential daily news Sean Penn faces criticism over interview with Mexican drug kingpin ‘El Chapo.’ World No cash in sight for workers denied pay LABOUR lect unpaid wages from Pun and Also no charges Lai, the ministry can also pros- ecute them — which could re- for restaurant sult in hefty fines or imprison- ment. Six-year-old Walla Shihab tries on a donated blazer with help owners handed When Go approached the from a volunteer in North York. MELISSA RENWICK/TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE order long ago Ministry of Labour about pur- suing prosecutions, she was SYRIAN CRISIS told the ministry was preparing Refugees greeted by A group of 68 restaurant work- documentation to seek pros- ers owed almost $700,000 in ecution but that the final deci- unpaid wages have yet to see sion rested with the attorney flood of donations a single penny of it — five general’s office, according to a months after the Ministry of September letter. Labour ordered their bosses Go said she has not received For Syrian refugee Sinjar Kurde, Wright-Howard. to pay up. a response to a subsequent there aren’t words to describe The group was founded in The ministry issued an order letter sent to deputy attorney his feelings. November by Toronto resident to pay in August to the employ- From left: Legal clinic director Avvy Go, legal worker Daniel general Patrick Monahan in Also awaiting 500 other new Laura-Jean Bernhardson and start- ers, who owned four now-closed Yau and staff lawyer Vince Wong are involved in the battle to November urging him to take arrivals — 100 of them literally ed with a simple Facebook page. Chinese restaurants in the GTA help dozens of restaurant workers who are owed $676,693 in action. fresh off the bus from Pearson and 15 other related businesses. back wages. CHRIS SO/TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE A spokesperson for the International Airport — the wel- But the ministry has so far been attorney general’s office re- come at the Toronto Plaza Hotel unable to collect the low-wage claims used to be Scarborough until ferred inquiries to the Ministry included a warm winter coat, a You’ve got to do workers’ money or prosecute capped at $10,000, 63% the end of 2013, is of Labour, whose spokesman, selection of clothing and a bag the simple stuff as bosses Ellen Pun and Patsy Lai. a limit removed by still owed $3,000 William Lin, said no decision of toys for each child. The landmark case was the the government last in wages and ter- has been made about prosecut- “Thank you is not enough, but a human being to culmination of an investiga- year. mination pay from ing Pun and Lai. He said all thank you. I wasn’t expecting this help. tion by the ministry that lasted Pun and Lai Percentage of Pun and Lai. Gu said measures were being taken to much of a welcome. It gives me more than a year and a half. It could not be Ministry of she was paid $8.90 recover the workers’ money, hope. I’m starting to feel that I Yousef Alsadi, volunteer Labour orders to found that workers at the Regal reached for com- pay that went an hour and often but that none of Pun and Lai’s can build a future again,” said restaurants chain were denied ment. The workers’ uncollected in worked up to 50 businesses were found to have Kurde, through a translator. He The outpouring of donations money in a multitude of ways, lawyer, Avvy Go, of 2014 hours a week. any assets. arrived in Canada on Dec. 28 soon became a flood. The space including bounced cheques, the Metro Toronto S p e a k i n g Pun and Lai both filed for with his wife and children after volunteered by Clay & Paper The- being misclassified as liquor Chinese & South- through a transla- personal bankruptcy in 2014. languishing for years in Jordan. atre quickly became too full. The servers (who are not entitled east Asian Legal Clinic, said tor, she said the long wait for Records show Pun had debts The event, organized by a vol- business owners of a soon-to-be- to full minimum wage in On- her clients were losing hope her money is having a huge of $11.3 million, and Lai, unteer group called The Clothing demolished retail strip offered tario), or simply being denied of ever seeing the money they financial impact on her family $5.4 million. Their sole asset Drive, was yet another example first one property and then an pay for months on end. are entitled to. of three. was an Aurora house worth of how Canadians have opened adjacent one. In total, Pun and Lai were “Honestly, I think many of “When I was working, I paid $4.2 million, according to legal their hearts to the new arrivals. “We had to put out an an- found to owe workers $676,693. them have given up,” she said. taxes,” she said. “But when I documents from that time. “The generosity of the people nouncement on Facebook that However, the ministry ordered Jian E. Gu, who worked as had difficulties, I couldn’t get That home has since been sold in the GTA has been overwhelm- we can’t accept any more be- Pun and Lai to pay out only a waitress at Regal Chinese protection.” through power of sale. ing, absolutely overwhelming,” cause we had too much,” Wright- $457,443 of that sum. Workers’ Restaurant & Banquet Hall in In addition to trying to col- TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE said group spokeswoman Anne Howard said. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE Creativity is subjective. The truth isn’t. Truth in Advertising Matters. Toronto Monday, January 11, 2016 3 Growing up with Stalin: Letters give glimpse into daughter’s life HISTORY “She seemed to feel a bond Collection will with Mary from the start and she told her quite a bit about be available her personal life and what it was like growing up with her to public at father,” Dondertman said. U of T library Dondertman told Metro she was particularly touched by Alliluyeva’s account of trying Luke to get out from under the shad- Simcoe ow of Stalin — even after her defection to the United States Metro | Toronto in 1967. “She had a lot to deal with A new collection arriving at the in her life and she never really University of Toronto library re- found peace,” she said. “But veals what it was like to grow up she tried very hard to still — quite literally — under one have a life, and that’s what of the 20th century’s makes it mov- most famous ing.” dictators. The corres- T h e pondence was Thomas Fish- put up for auc- er Rare Book tion after Burk- Library has ett’s death, and just acquired secured by a collection of author Rose- letters written mary Sullivan, by Svetlana Al- whose recent liluyeva, the book, Stalin’s only daugh- Daughter, is ter of former a vivid and Soviet leader intensely Josef Stalin. researched “Can you im- account of agine having Alliluyeva’s Stalin as your life. father?” said the A former library’s director, U of T professor, Anne Donder- some of Sullivan’s literary notes Above: The library has just acquired a collection of letters sent by Josef Stalin’s daughter to British artist Mary Burkett. Inset: In her tman. “She had an amazing are also part of the library’s later correspondence, Svetlana Alliluyeva often refers to Burkett as her “dearest warrior.” COURTESY THOMAS FISHER RARE BOOK LIBRARY; INSET: and difficult life. Her mother special collections. LIZ BEDDALL/METRO committed suicide when she Alliluyeva’s letters are still was young, members of her being processed, but will soon THOMAS FISHER RARE BOOK LIBRARY family were disappeared, her be available at the library for first lover was sent to Siberia, students, researchers and the It makes it real and the list just goes on.” general public. The Thomas Fisher Rare Book else you can find there: manuscripts from Charles Written towards the end of “There’s an immediate re- when you can see Library is home to nearly (cid:154) Margaret Atwood’s literary Darwin. Alliluyeva’s life, the letters were lationship with history when 11,000 metres-worth of ar- papers, including drafts and (cid:154) Letters from Gen. James her handwriting. sent to British artist Mary Burk- you can touch something real,” chival material, said director page proofs of the celebrated Wolfe, who led the British ett. The two women initially Dondertman said. “These are Anne Dondertman Anne Dondertman. Here are author’s book and poetry. forces during the Battle of the discussed art, but quickly de- letters that she wrote with her just a few examples of what (cid:154) Correspondence and Plains of Abraham in 1759. veloped a deeper friendship. own hands.” 4 Monday, January 11, 2016 Toronto Weeding out Humans of Toronto by K. Omar tacky strains MARIJUANA rijuana producer in Saskatch- Tweed’s communication man- Producers aim ewan. ager, Jordan Sinclair, who CanniMed’s catalogue noted many recreational to label pot in doesn’t contain reference names for marijuana strains to toking politicians or terms don’t exactly conjure up im- a professional, like haze. Instead, their prod- ages from the doctor’s office. helpful manner ucts are named for numbers Nathaniel Morris, a for- that denote the concentra- mer marijuana grower in tion of tetrahydrocannabinol California’s Humboldt Coun- Luke (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD) ty — what he referred to as Simcoe in each strain. “the Silicon Valley of weed” Metro | Toronto For example, their most — said new strains of mari- potent product is called 22-1. juana are typically named Bubbling quietly like each “If patients are going to for their lineage. toke from a water bong, utilize the material and doc- “If you take the Trainwreck there’s a new war brewing tors are going to prescribe it varietal and cross it with a in the world of pot. they have to know what’s in hash plant, you’d call it some- This one’s not about where it,” Zettl said. “Our goal is to thing like Hashwreck,” he you can buy it, who’s stand- demystify the components said. “But for the recreational ing behind the counter or so that people can use it as market, it’s all fun and games who’s doling out prescrip- a true medicine.” and it doesn’t matter if some- tion. It’s about what to call At Tweed, an Ontario-based one wants to call their stuff Coming out for me was intensely difficult. You never know the actual products lining marijuana producer, common Rob Ford Kush.” what, how, when or where. The only thing you’re very certain the shelves. names for different strains WITH FILES FROM ANGELA MULLINS AND For some producers, have been rebranded to GILBERT NGABO of is the reason why you want to come out, which is to be there’s no place in the in- fit the company’s fab- truly happy. The only advice I have for others is this: It will not dustry for names like Green ric-inspired image. be an easy journey, but there will always be sunshine after the rain. Crack, AK-47 or, for that mat- So, what might Everything happens for a reason and in the right moment. ter, Rob Ford Kush. be called AK-47 “We’re starting to see a on the street is delineation between the rec- dubbed Herring- reational use and medical use bone. Humans of Toronto is K. Omar’s social photography project aimed at of marijuana. And when we “We’re first and photographing and talking to people in the city. Selections from her work feature look at something we want to foremost a medical weekly in Metro. See more at Humans_of_Toronto on Instagram. use as a medicine, we expect marijuana there to be a certain amount producing Ontario marijuana producer of professionalism and company,” Tweed is rebranding strain ANIMALS discipline surround- s a i d names to make them more Teaching water safety gets nutty ing those drugs,” suitable for medical consump- said Brent tion. So, Super Silver Haze, Zettl, the CEO left, is now called Leonidas, of CanniMed, while Hindu Kush, above, has Liz a licensed been renamed Bakerstreet. Beddall medical ma- CONTRIBUTED Metro | Toronto He’s a jet-setter, a movie star, an athlete and an educator — and he can sit comfortably in the palm of your hand. Twiggy the waterskiing squir- rel is on deck in Toronto this week for the International Boat Show. He’ll be strutting his stuff on the water — and teaching kids about boat safety — every day at 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. The legacy of Twiggy began 37 years ago in Florida when Lou Ann Best’s husband Chuck bought their daughter a small remote control boat as a gift. Twiggy the world famous waterskiing squirrel rides the waves at On a whim, Chuck decided to the Toronto International Boat Show on Sunday. LIZ BEDDALL/METRO teach the family’s pet squirrel to waterski behind the little boat. gically while trying to save his that’s my purpose.” When the media caught wind stepfather from drowning, Best Having raised eight grey of the nutty narrative, there decided to weave the topic of squirrels, all orphans rescued was no turning back. water safety into their popular from situations such as storms “It was all really quick,” said presentation. and animal attacks, Best has Best, who has seen eight genera- “I always felt like the Lord some go-to advice for those tions of Twiggys build a resumé put this crazy idea into my hoping to train their own back- that includes competing on husband’s head,” she said. “He yard buddy. America’s Got Talent, appearing knew he would pass away and “I tell everybody it’s like on David Letterman and scor- he knew I would carry on and training a husband — you give ing a cameo in Anchorman: promote water safety. There’s them lots of love and affection The Legend of Ron Burgundy. somebody out there that we’re and tell him the same thing After Chuck passed away tra- supposed to reach. I believe over and over.” Toronto Monday, January 11, 2016 5 New Hope in the works IN BRIEF Corrections workers reach deal, can’t strike Ontario’s correctional for men who need shelter workers have given up their right to strike in the latest round of contract negotiations with the gov- ernment. The Ontario Public Ser- vice Employees Union and LESLIEVILLE NEED TO KNOW the government reached Salvation Army an agreement early Satur- day morning after a meet- seeks to create Welcome news for city, ing with a mediator. says councillor 80-bed facility As part of the nego- Ward 32 Coun. Mary- tiations, the union says in east end Margaret McMahon wel- corrections workers have comed news of the shel- been declared an “essen- ter, saying it responds tial service,” meaning they Gilbert to the growing need for will no longer have the such beds in the city. Ngabo right to strike, and future “Our community has a Metro | Toronto bargaining disputes will reputation of being ac- be determined by binding cepting and welcoming arbitration. Toronto’s Leslieville neighbour- to all,” she said as part THE CANADIAN PRESS hood could soon be home to of a lengthy statement the homeless. on Facebook. Stabbing hospitalizes man The Salvation Army an- McMahon said she Toronto police say a man nounced over the weekend that hopes residents will was taken to hospital after “after an extensive search” it treat the shelter as gen- being stabbed in the back is close to re-opening its Hope erously as they have in the city’s downtown men’s shelter at a new location treated newly arrived core Sunday afternoon. near Queen and Leslie streets. Syrian refugees. METRO Officers responded to The new shelter would the scene just before 1 p.m. replace the one the charity Learn more about new Police said the man was operated at College and Mc- shelter at open house in serious condition but Caul streets for 40 years. They This property at 29 Leslie St. still must be approved by council. LIZ BEDDALL/METRO An open house for more his life is not in danger. were forced to shutter that information on the shel- They say a person of in- shelter in April, after their But services are expected to has increased by nearly 11 per interim, the Salvation Army ter will be held Saturday, terest has been identified. lease ended. remain the same, with three cent in the last four years, and has hired an independent fa- Jan. 16 at the Toronto THE CANADIAN PRESS According to the charity’s meals a day, counseling, refer- many local shelters are operat- cilitator to consult with com- Fire and EMS Training announcement, the new shel- rals and housing placements. ing at above capacity. munity members. Centre from 1 p.m. to Pedestrian badly injured ter would be smaller, with a Should the Salvation Army A city report on the shel- “We want our shelter to con- 3 p.m. Peel Regional Police said proposed 80 beds for homeless secure the property, it would ter is expected on Jan. 27, be- tribute to the well-being of The training centre is an elderly woman was in men. The previous location certainly be timely. Nightly fore the matter is presented both our clients and the neigh- at 30 Knox Ave. life-threatening condi- had 124 beds. shelter occupancy in Toronto to council for approval. In the bourhood,” the charity said. tion after being struck by a vehicle in Mississauga early Saturday evening. LGBTQ youth transitional housing about to open The woman, believed to be in her 70s, was cross- ing the street at the inter- Toronto is set to open its first The Sprott House has been in the shelter system identify youth experience violence, section of Dixie Road and exclusively LGBTQ2SA youth serving as transitional hous- as LGBTQ2SA — more than homophobia and transphobia,” Rathburn Road East just transitional housing program. ing for youth in general, but twice the rate for all other age said The 519’s executive direc- after 5 p.m. when she was Next month, the YMCA advocates had been calling for groups. tor, Maura Lawless. “Many have struck, police said. Sprott House on Walmer Road an LGBTQ-specific program for About 2,000 youth are home- been beaten up, and many feel Peel paramedics said in the Annex will begin housing a long time, said the centre’s less on a given night in Toron- unsafe and often choose not to the woman suffered injur- 25 LGBTQ youth facing home- director, Kate Miller. to, and 76 per cent of them go to shelters as a result.” ies to her head and was lessness. During the one-year “LGBTQ youth experience report some form of victimiza- Having a dedicated centre transported to a Toronto stay, tenants aged 16 to 25 will homelessness at a higher tion, according to city research. will help create more safety trauma centre via ambu- have access to counselling to rate than any other group,” It can get even worse for the and eliminate barriers for lance. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE boost their self-esteem and pre- she said, noting a city report LGBTQ homeless youth. LGBTQ youth, she said. Maura Lawless, executive pare them for life on their own. showed 20 per cent of youth “The reality is that LGBTQ GILBERT NGABO/METRO director of The 519. CONTRIBUTED 6 Monday, January 11, 2016 Toronto ‘I’ve never committed a crime’ US AIRWAYS be — none are named — and not know who the subjects are, reliability and trustworthiness,” One police that she recalled no interaction the exact dates the incidents the decision states, concluding with police and the gang mem- occurred or where, or how the Farah may be induced to com- report led to ber identified only as Subject A. information was obtained. mit or help in an act that would suspension It was likely her father driving The police report states they impede civil aviation. the car to the funeral, she said, had a “direct interaction” with At Monday’s hearing, Farah’s from work as he attends many funerals as a Farah and Subject A, who has lawyer Mitchell Worsoff says he leader in the Somali community. been convicted of several char- will argue that Farah’s Charter Farah’s clearance was placed ges, including drug trafficking right to “life, liberty and secur- Ayaan Farah has no criminal under review for nine months and is involved in firearms traf- ity” has been violated. record. For eight years, she was and then restored in full in Oc- ficking. The report notes the cur- “What is happening here is a a customer service agent for US tober 2014. It was revoked two rent status of their association is very dangerous thing,” Worsoff Airways at Pearson airport with months later. She has been sus- not known and the exact nature said in an interview. the highest security clearance, pended without pay since. of the association is never speci- Transport Canada could not undergoing background checks On Monday, Farah is fied. Transport Canada’s director- comment on the case as it is be- in 2006 and 2012. challenging the decision in Fed- general of aviation security found fore the courts, a spokesperson And then a brief and vague eral Court, arguing that she was it unlikely Farah would not recall said. Farah believes that the in- police report — possibly based not given a fair chance to de- an interaction with police and, formation given to Transport on information obtained through fend herself and that her Char- due to her “close association” Canada was obtained through carding — got her clearance ter rights were violated because with Subject A, “either knew carding. While she has no re- revoked. On Jan. 9, 2014, Trans- her associations were scrutinized or was wilfully blind to Subject collection of being carded, her port Canada received two pieces with no reasonable grounds. A’s activities.” father did give his name and of information from Toronto “I don’t have a criminal record, Farah’s association with three the car’s registration details police, via the RCMP: Farah, 31, I’ve never committed a crime,” individuals with criminal records to police once when leaving was seen once in 2011 with a Farah said in an interview. She (including the two found leav- a funeral, according to an af- Dixon Crew gang member who grew up in the Dixon Road area ing the gang member’s funeral) fidavit he filed with the court. “admitted at the time being a and Rexdale — both areas with raised “concerns about judgment, TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE very close associate to (Farah).” serious crime problems — and And in September 2012, a car volunteers as a community youth registered to her was seen leav- worker. “How do you know if How do you know if someone has ing the funeral of a gang mem- someone has a criminal record? a criminal record? . . . Can you ber. Farah was not in the car, ... Can you remember who you but two people with criminal said ‘hi’ to in 2011?” remember who you said ‘hi’ to rpeocrotr dCsa nwaedrea. tFhaarat hs htoel dd iTdr annost- infSohrme ahtaios nb eaebno udte tnhiee din fcuidrtehnetrs in 2011? 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Toronto Monday, January 11, 2016 7 Attack on refugees ‘isn’t who we are’ VANCOUVER Chief Adam Palmer said an un- drowned while fleeing civil PM, others identified male person riding strife in Syria — says the sup- by on a bicycle approached port Canadians have shown to slam pepper- the group and pepper-sprayed refugees is “unbelievable” and them. Fifteen people were treat- they shouldn’t be blamed for spraying of Flames from a wildfire near Oliver, B.C., in An air tanker drops fire retardant on a hillside ed for exposure to pepper spray. Friday night’s incident. August last year. in West Kelowna, B.C. in July. new arrivals “It’s a very troubling situ- “To be honest, Canadian JONATHAN HAYWARD/THE CANADIAN PRESS JONATHAN HAYWARD/THE CANADIAN PRESS ation and the actions of one people would not do this, the man have shed a majority of Matt negative light on a them,” Kurdi lot of the positive said. “They are Kieltyka Metro | Vancouver work that has been Canadian people big support- done to welcome ers to the refu- the Syrian refugees would not do this, gees.” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau into our commun- the majority of Canada’s was one of many Canadian pub- ities,” Palmer said, Immigration them. lic figures who denounced a adding that police Minister John pepper-spray attack on Syrian were looking for Tima Kurdi McCallum de- refugees in Vancouver at the the man. scribed it as an weekend. “I condemn the attack on “isolated incident” that won’t The police called it a “hate- Syrian refugees in Vancouver,” tarnish the country’s migrant- motivated crime,” and Can- Trudeau wrote on Twitter. friendly reputation. adians joined in condemning A high-profile member of “This isn’t who we are — and the attack. It happened as about Canada’s Syrian commun- doesn’t reflect the warm wel- 100 people — including several ity said the pepper spraying come Canadians have offered.” newly arrived refugees — con- was likely a one-off event and Vancouver Mayor Gregor gregated outside Vancouver’s doesn’t reflect how the major- Robertson said the incident A crew battles a blaze in the La Ronge area on northern Saskatchewan in July. Muslim Association of Canada ity of Canadians view the newly “was a disgusting display of CONTRIBUTED/THE CANADIAN PRESS Centre after a welcome cere- arrived migrants. hate — and Vancouver won’t mony on Friday night. Tima Kurdi — the aunt of stand for it.” PARKS Vancouver Police Department three-year-old Alan Kurdi, who WITH FILES FROM THE CANADIAN PRESS Wildfires drain reserves IN BRIEF Bipolar Depression Brain Imaging and Genetic Study Wildfires scorched a record $8 million a year to fight fires. 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Toronto. The yearly average is and the Northwest Territories. global warming, Weir said. MICHAEL WOODS/METRO For more information, please call: 82, and, in 2014, the amount of Parks Canada reserves about THE CANADIAN PRESS (cid:15)(cid:27)(cid:24)(cid:29)(cid:16)(cid:3)(cid:28)(cid:26)(cid:28)(cid:20)(cid:31)(cid:28)(cid:23)(cid:24)(cid:3)(cid:44)(cid:95)(cid:91)(cid:21)(cid:3)(cid:26)(cid:27)(cid:26)(cid:32)(cid:32) 8 Monday, January 11, 2016 World Trump levels jabs at Cruz ISLAMIC RELATIONS GOP rally boots silent protester An advocacy group is seeking REPUBLICAN RACE as his gilded hotels. Both have at- an apology from Republican Contests rival tracted overflow crowds: Trump presidential candidate Donald on basis of his at halls and stadiums; Cruz in Trump after a Muslim woman coffee shops, convenience stores, standing in silent protest at Canadian birth churches and diners. one of his rallies was heckled Cruz, who has long main- and escorted out. tained there is no issue with The Council on American- Businessman Donald Trump his Canadian birth since his Islamic Relations issued the taunted fellow Republican mother was a U.S. citizen, re- call for an apology after Rose candidate, Texas Sen. Ted peated Saturday that “the laws Hamid was thrown out of the Cruz, over his eligibility to be and facts are quite straight- Trump rally at Winthrop Uni- president and professed baffle- forward.” The Constitution says versity in South Carolina in ment that he’s not beating him only a “natural born citizen” Charlotte, N.C., on Friday. in Iowa polls, as a delicate de- may be president. Hamid said she was stand- tente between the two became Legal scholars generally agree ing up in protest to a Trump ever more frayed. the description covers foreign- statement when members of The race is intensifying with born children of U.S. parents. the audience pointed her out just over three weeks remain- Cruz renounced his Canadian by chanting “Trump, Trump, ing before the Feb. 1 Iowa cau- citizenship in 2014. Trump.” cuses lead off the state-by-state “You can’t have a person run- CAIR’s national executive nominating contests. Trump ning for office, even though Ted director Nihad Awad, also leads Cruz by double digits in is very glib and he goes out and called on Trump to meet with national polls, but the Texas he says, ‘Oh, well, I’m a natur- American Muslim leaders. senator leads in some Iowa al born citizen.’ The point is, Hamid said Saturday after- polls, which could give him a you’re not,” Trump said dur- noon she hadn’t received any boost heading into the Feb. 9 ing a rally Saturday in Clear response. New Hampshire primary. Lake, Iowa. “I would like to hear what With Trump in Iowa for “I mean, you’ve got to get Trump has to say about it,” the first time in the new year, a declaratory judgment, you she said. “I’d like to hear be- Iowans were seeing a sharp con- have to have the courts come cause if they say that it was trast between the grinding Iowa up with a ruling or you have a because we were disrupting campaign of Cruz — whose five candidate who just cannot run things, then I would like him stops Saturday completed a six- because the other side will im- to show evidence of where day, 28-event bus tour — and the mediately bring suit and you’ve the disruption came, because splashy mega-rallies that have got that cloud on your head.” Donald Trump flashes thumbs up after an address to a group of supporters at a campaign stop the disruption didn’t come become as much Trump’s brand THE ASSOCIATED PRESS in Burlington, Vt., last week. CHARLES KRUPA/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS from me.” THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PARIS 2015 France honours attack victims France’s President Francois or Anne Hidalgo unveiled a 12 Hollande and other dignitaries plaque Sunday in memory of held a special ceremony Sun- victims targeted at satirical day to honour all those killed newspaper Charlie Hebdo, a in Islamic extremist violence kosher market, a rock concert, Number of people killed around Paris in 2015 — a year in attack on Charlie cafes, a stadium and elsewhere. when the European way of life Hebdo offices. The violence left some 150 vic- was targeted time and again tims dead, and several attack- with deadly consequences. ers were also killed. At least one attacker is at Paris was again jolted Thurs- The ceremony took place at large, and France’s top security day when a man wearing a fake Place de la Republique, a plaza official acknowledged Sunday explosives vest and wielding that has become a symbol of that authorities don’t know a butcher’s knife ran up to a Parisians’ solidarity since the his whereabouts. The coun- police station and was shot attacks, which began Jan. 7, try is under a state of emer- to death by officers standing 2015 with the Charlie Hebdo gency after attacks in Paris guard. attack. on Nov. 13. Hollande and Paris May- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS COMPASSION Walls of Kindness unify Iran As a brutal winter set in across media, helping to spread the Iran, anonymous philanthrop- initiative. ists throughout the country Dozens of walls have popped painted “Walls of Kindness” and up across Iran, and at least one installed rows of hooks, invit- philanthropist has taken things Creativity is subjective. The truth isn’t. ing passers-by to leave warm a step further, setting up a re- clothes if they could spare them frigerator outdoors and inviting or take clothes if they need people to leave or take food. them. “This signifies compassion to- The unique variation on the ward one another,” Mehrangiz take-a-penny, leave-a-penny jar Tavassoli said after hanging a provides winter clothes to the wool sweater on a wall in cen- Truth in Advertising Matters. homeless while sparing them tral Tehran. “In the past, I did the shame that can come from not know what to do with do- Youths check clothes hung having to beg for help. Pictures nations. Now, those who need next to a subway station en- of the brightly painted walls can take what they want.” trance in central Tehran. have been circulated on social THE ASSOCIATED PRESS VAHID SALEMI/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS World Monday, January 11, 2016 9 GERMANY Cologne attacks must be investigated: Minister German authorities need to sure on Chancellor Angela quickly determine whether Merkel’s government and its a string of New Year’s Eve open-door policy to asylum sexual assaults and robber- seekers. Nearly 1.1 million ies in Cologne blamed largely migrants arrived in Germany on foreigners may be linked in 2015 alone. to similar offences in other She announced a proposal cities, the justice minister Saturday that would make it said in comments published easier to deport migrants who Sunday. commit crimes, which still Authorities and witness- needs parliamentary approval. es say the attackers were Cologne police said Sunday among about 1,000 people, that 516 criminal complaints mostly men, gathered at Co- had now been filed with them logne’s central in connection to train station, the New Year’s some of whom attacks, about broke off into 40 per cent of Nobody can tell small groups which involve that groped and me that this was allegations of robbed women. not co-ordinated. sexual offences. “If such a They also an- horde gathers in Heiko Maas nounced that on order to commit Saturday night A woman reads La Jornada newspaper in Mexico City on Sunday which shows a picture of drug lord Joaquin Guzman, aka “El crimes, that appears in some they arrested a 19-year-old Chapo,” right, shaking hands with actor Sean Penn. Authorities hope to question Penn about his interview. AFP/GETTY IMAGES form to be planned,” Justice Moroccan man on allegations Minister Heiko Maas told the he stole a 23-year-old woman’s Penn interview left newspaper Bild. cellphone on New Year’s, and “Nobody can tell me that had identified 19 other sus- this was not co-ordinated or pects by name. Police said prepared.” the Moroccan, who they said The attacks are still being has been involved in various trail to drug lord investigated, but police have crimes since 2013, isn’t ac- said their focus is on suspects cused of a sexual offence but of primarily North African the investigation is ongoing. origin, which has put pres- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MEXICO Penn wrote of elaborate secur- Describing the capture, Attor- Authorities ity precautions, but also said that ney General Arely Gomez said CRITICISM as he flew to Mexico on Oct. 2 that investigators had been aided raided hideout for the meeting: “I see no spy- in locating Guzman by docu- Sean Penn’s days after chat ing eyes, but I assume they are mented contacts between his interview there.” He was apparently right. lawyers and “actors and produ- with Guz- A Mexican federal law enforce- cers” interested in making a film man has Mexican officials say Sean Penn’s ment official, speaking on condi- about him. Two months after that prompted contacts with drug lord Joaquin tion of anonymity, said the Penn close call, marines finally caught criticism (El Chapo) Guzman helped them interview led authorities to Guz- him in a residential neighbour- through- track the fugitive down — even man in the area of Tamazula, a hood of Los Mochis, where they’d out the U.S. GETTY IMAGES if he slipped away from an initial rural part of Durango state. been monitoring a suspected and led some raid on the hideout where the They raided Guzman’s remote safe house. social media satirists to actor met him. hideout a few days after the inter- Penn wrote that Guzman was wonder whether the actor Penn’s article on Guzman was view and narrowly missed captur- interested in having a movie will hold other interviews published late Saturday by Roll- ing Guzman, whose July escape filmed on his life and wanted with leaders of terror or- ing Stone magazine, a day after from Mexico’s top security prison Mexican actress Kate del Cas- ganizations, such as the Is- Mexican marines captured the — through a 1.5-kilometre tun- tillo, who had portrayed a drug lamic State of Iraq and the Police use pepper spray to control protesters of the New Year’s world’s most wanted kingpin in nel — had embarrassed President trafficker in a television series, Levant (ISIL) and al-Qaida. Eve sex attacks on Saturday in Cologne, Germany. a raid on the city of Los Mochis Enrique Pena Nieto and made involved in the project. METRO SASCHA SCHUERMANN/GETTY near the Gulf of California. his capture a national priority. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Healthy Participants Needed MIDDLE EAST Afghan forces thinned out by ‘ghost’ soldiers For a Research Study Afghan forces are struggling to Atal, head of Helmand’s provin- per cent of registered forces to comment on ghost security We are currently conducting a research study on the man the front lines against a re- cial council. “It’s because some don’t exist, and says the lack forces. Interior Ministry spokes- effects of a novel medication on levels of drug binding surgent Taliban, in part because people are getting paid a sal- of manpower has helped the man Sediq Sediqqi acknowledged sites in your brain. of untold numbers of “ghost” ary but not doing the Taliban seize 65 per the problem and said an inves- troops who are paid salaries but job because they are cent of the province tigation has been launched, the You will be required to take this medication and attend only exist on paper. related to someone 40% — Afghanistan’s lar- results of which should be made CAMH to undergo PET scans, an MRI and answer The nationwide problem has important, like a lo- gest — and threaten public in about a month. questionnaires at the College Street site. been particularly severe in the cal warlord.” the provincial capital, “No one knows the exact num- southern Helmand province, In some cases, the Lashkar Gah. Those bers of the Afghan National De- Are you 19 years of age or older? where the Taliban have seized “ghost” designation is It’s estimated men who do serve fence Forces,” an Afghan official that 40 per cent YOU MAY BE ELIGIBLE TO PARTICIPATE vast tracts of territory in the 12 more literal — dead face even greater said on condition of anonymity of registered months since the U.S. and NATO soldiers and police re- Afghani soldiers danger because of the because he was not authorized to If you are interested please call: formally ended their combat main on the books, don’t exist. no-shows. In the last brief media on the topic. He said 416-535-8501 ext. 31536 mission and switched to train- with senior police or three months alone, the best internal estimates put ing and support. army officials pock- some 700 police of- the number at around 120,000, for more information “At checkpoints where 20 sol- eting their salaries without re- ficers have been killed and 500 less than a third of what’s needed Financial Compensation provided. Must be available weekdays, with no current health problems and no psychoactive drug use during last month. ALL QUERIES ARE STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL. REB#064/2014. CAMH provides other treatment options for mental illness or addiction. diers should be present, there placing them, Atal said. wounded, he said. to secure the country. For more information about programs and services at CAMH please visit www.camh.ca or call 416-535-8501 (or 1-800-463-6273). CAMH is are only eight or 10,” said Karim He estimates that some 40 The Defence Ministry declined THE ASSOCIATED PRESS a Pan American Health Organization/ World Health Organization Collaborating Centre Affiliated with the University of Toronto. 10 Monday, January 11, 2016 Business Long hours don’t kill relationships STUDY shown that there is no link ing participants working in the researchers looked at the Instead of finding that work- PUBLISHED Dual-career with an unhappy relationship, academic professions such as hours participants worked, ing longer hours had a nega- and in fact even the opposite teaching or law or in manager- their satisfaction with their tive effect on a couple’s rela- couples make might be true. ial or technical positions such The study was published relationship, and their level tionship, the team found that A team of researchers stud- as IT consultant or engineer. by SAGE in the journal of self-disclosure in their re- couples actually made extra extra effort ied 285 couples in which both “Conventional wisdom and Human Relations in part- lationship, which measured effort with each other after after work partners were pursuing their research seem to suggest that nership with the Tavistock their ability to express a need, work to make up for time lost careers to look at a possible partners in dual-career couples Institute in the U.K. wish, or want to their partner. with their partners through negative effect of long working have to decide whether they Participants answered three working long hours, leading It’s a common belief that work- hours on their relationships. would rather risk their careers online questionnaires in total, the researchers to suggest that ing longer hours can only cause The majority of the partici- or their romantic relationship. longer hours is hazardous for answering two questionnaires longer working hours could in problems in your relationship. pants worked as academics at …Our research questions the all romantic relationship. ” to start and then the third six some cases even be beneficial However new research has a university, with the remain- assumption that working To answer their questions months later. for a relationship. 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