METRO – Toronto – 04.03.2008

Slide 1: Tuesday, March 4, 2008 metronews.ca Toronto ➤➤ your money p.13 Saving big with Smart Cookies ➤➤ sports p.12 Sundin has been a rock for Leafs ➤➤ mind & body p.18 Finding the ADRIAN WYLD/THE CANADIAN PRESS right spa for you ➤➤ celeb buzz p.26 Brit dumps paparazzo boyfriend Go directly to jail Conrad Black leaves his Palm Beach, Fla., mansion in a chauffeured SUV yesterday morning for the three- High -1° hour drive to the Coleman Federal Correctional Complex, near Orlando. Black began serving a six-and-a- Low -3° half-year prison sentence yesterday for fraud and obstruction of justice. Story, page 6. WEATHER P. 25 Health alert iors are more likely to have chronic health Report says Canadians problems and need more medications than lacking in health literacy the average adult Canadian, the panel said. Recent immigrants, people with low in- More than half of Canadian adults do not comes and low levels of education, and have the skills necessary to properly make people for whom English or French is not a daily decisions about their health, accord- first language are also most likely to strug- ing to a report released yesterday by the gle with health literacy, said Irving Root- Canadian Public Health Association. man, executive director of the Health and Its expert panel called the low levels of Learning Centre at the University of Victo- health literacy in Canada “critical” and says ria, and co-chair of the expert panel. NOW! a countrywide strategy is needed to solve the problem, especially since our health- Health literacy is defined as the ability to access, understand and use health infor- care system will become increasingly com- mation. Studies have shown low health lit- Tickets: 416.341.1234 or 1.888.OK.GO.JAY, bluejays.com, plex. eracy is linked to poor health. Research has Jays Box Office—Gate 9 at Rogers Centre, or visit select Rogers Video/Plus stores. Only one in eight seniors have adequate shown the prevalence of diabetes — a health literacy skills, which suggests they chronic condition that can be managed may not be able to cope with the health- with lifestyle changes — goes down as IT’S ALWAYS GAME TIME care system on their own, the panel found. health literacy goes up. This is particularly worrying since sen- TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE Free Daily News Group Inc., operating as Metro Toronto 1 Concorde Gate, Suite 703, Toronto, Ontario M3C 3N6. Publisher: Bill McDonald

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Slide 3: Metro • Tuesday, March 4, 2008 metronews.ca 3 toronto Roy McMurtry, left, a former politician, judge and diplo- mat, will take the ceremonial reins as chancellor of York University on May 23. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE inside workology City fleet Watchdog clears way art of cooking John Cordeaux is director of food and bev- goes green for TTC cameras erage opera- Fleet plan, which will boost tions at The Council backs the number of fuel-efficient Surveillance cameras make Fairmont new eco-friendly city vehicles, reduce their av- TTC riders feel safer and the Royal York. >> 15 initiatives erage size, and explore inno- plan to dramatically expand vative technology. their numbers is OK with entertainment Toronto politicians have “This will allow us to re- Ann Cavoukian, Ontario’s unanimously backed meas- main among the cities leading privacy commissioner. AARON HARRIS/TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE her night ures to make the world on Installing 11,000 cameras Sarah Polley the city fleet greening (its) on buses, streetcars, subway wins seven new models more environ- fleet,” Mayor cars and in stations complies Genie >> In the city’s 4,700-vehicle mentally fleet, 283 vehicles are now David Miller with privacy standards, awards for the film friendly and to low-emission. Some 80 ve- said yesterday Cavoukian said yesterday Away From make it easier hicles are to be replaced by during a three- when she released the results Her. for residents “green” models this year, hour council of her investigation. >> 20 and busi- 100 next year, 140 in 2010, discussion on But the TTC must make and 200 in 2011. nesses to use green issues. Det.-Sgt. Edward Dzingala, right, speaks yesterday as police some changes to ensure the renewable en- Also, a new show off some of the $5 million worth of counterfeit goods network of seeing eyes is celebritybuzz seized during a weekend raid. Lawyer Lorne Lipkus looks on. ergy like solar and wind bylaw passed yesterday will used only for legitimate pur- nip and tuck power. make it easier for homeown- poses and never for American Idol judge Simon Over four years, Toronto ers and businesses to install hopes to cut carbon-dioxide devices on their properties, Police put hooks into voyeurism, as has happened in other cities, she said. Cowell re- veals his “beauty se- emissions by 15,000 tonnes such as solar panels and wind and save $2 million through turbines. ‘big fish’ counterfeiter TTC chair Adam Gi- ambrone endorsed her find- crets.” the second phase of its Green TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE Toronto police believe they’ve seized. Police confiscated ings and said his staff will be >> 27 arrested “one of the big fish” in $804,930 in cash from the Don coming back with a plan for the city’s counterfeit goods Mills Road-Van Horne Avenue implementing them. in tomorrow’s Plant to recycle glass market. Investiga- area home. “I can tell TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE retail value Glass dumped in blue boxes sometimes ends up now. tors raided a you that this »news >> If sold at retail value, in- seizure is the through most of Greater Toronto and Hamilton will be Recycling glass is a losing proposition: Toronto pays North home Thurs- York vestigators believe the merchandise would be largest seizure In Brief processed at a new Brampton $48.75 per tonne to take its day morning, worth between $5 million of counterfeit music notes >> HEALTH A migrant farm plant starting this summer, mixed glass to processors, seizing thou- and $7 million, although jewelry in worker who was stricken by Broken Social Scene gui- saving millions for local mu- which translates into almost sands of most items were likely Canadian his- cancer and fought to remain tarist sold for less than $20. in Ontario’s health-care Jason nicipalities. $1 million per year for the knock-off de- tory, to my system died last month at Collett The new plant, to be built city’s 20,000 tonnes of glass. signer hand- knowledge,” his home in Mexico. Alberto talks by Unical Inc., will turn Because Unical will be bags, wallets and jewelry. said Lorne Lipkus, whose law Garcia, 39, who passed away about Feb. 1, had claimed in 2006 mixed glass into bottles, fi- turning the glass into high- In total, 51,357 fakes, in- firm worked closely with po- that he would not survive if his new breglass insulation and tiles. value products such as new cluding Louis Vuitton lice. he was forced to return to project. his rural village of Cuijingo. That’s a big step up from glass and fibreglass, it will bracelets, Playboy bunny Fu-Ten Huang, 65, faces He lived for about a year using ground glass in charge the municipalities tongue rings, Tiffany earrings various charges. after leaving Canada. roadbeds, which is where it less. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE and Chanel purses, were TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE Make a change in your life and the lives of people living with diabetes. 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Slide 4: Metro • Tuesday, March 4, 2008 4 toronto The new novel from JODI PICOULT author of MY SISTER’S KEEPER and NINETEEN MINUTES Are tolls an answer? D espite strong opposi- ties such as health and edu- tion among drivers, cation. road tolls are now a What about making tran- serious possibility. The inde- sit riders pay for new lines Could you forgive pendent panel on Toronto’s finances recently recom- through higher fares? One major drawback: Substan- mended user fees for the tial price hikes will drive someone you hate to save city-owned Gardiner Ex- pressway and Don Valley IN TRANSIT “choice” commuters back onto the roads, and that someone you love? Parkway as well as other GTA highways. ED DRASS won’t help traffic condi- tions. t r a ns i t@e d d r as s . co m Although the Ontario Raising taxes for the gen- government rejects tolls on funds on top of that, and eral population may be an- provincially-owned roads, most of the existing rev- other alternative — but if the regional transportation enue streams are accounted you think tolls are politi- agency it created could end for. cally difficult, try getting up supporting such a plan. What’s more, even the elected on a tax-hike pledge. You can be pretty sure the projects already proposed Or perhaps our govern- municipal politicians who for the GTA may not be any- ments should just borrow sit on the Metrolinx board where near enough to make more, but eventually the do not relish the idea of up for past underfunding as principal and interest has to pushing tolls — many mo- well as the massive growth come from taxpayers. Alter- torists are set against paying in traffic expected in the nate financing? Get started more to drive and they will next decade. convincing Bay Street. make things hot for any of- Drivers often point out Those who dislike tolls ficial who proposes it. taxes are already embedded may even push the privati- To argue against “road in the cost of fuel, and this zation of transit as a way of pricing,” you have to believe form of user fee should be removing the tax burden, there are other sources of spent directly on highways. but experience elsewhere money for maintaining and In fact, both the federal gov- has shown that too often expanding our transport ernment and Queen’s Park government subsidy goes network. Infrastructure gob- have boosted their spending up — not down — when bles a lot of cash as subway on roads, bridges and tran- companies run subways and tunnels and highways age sit in recent years. Plus, buses. And once you start and need extensive repair. every dollar that gets talking about the private Brand new rail lines, buses switched to roads means sector buying transport in- or pavement need more less for other societal priori- frastructure, why shouldn’t highways be up for grabs, too? In that case, tolls are • National Sales Director nigh inevitable. Susan Courtney • Retail Sales Director Tracy Day Opposition to road-pric- • Marketing & Research Manager ing schemes may scare Metro Toronto Robyn Payne elected officials into post- 1 Concorde Gate, Suite 703 • Interactive Director poning their arrival, but if Toronto, ON M3C 3N6 Jodi Brown ON SALE main: 416-486-4900 crowding on roads and • Production Director fax: 416-482-8097 trains continues to grow — Gerry Moher TODAY sales: 416-486-4900 ext. 305 • Distribution Manager not to mention overall con- sales: adinfo@metronews.ca Scott Davis cern about the climate — editorial: newsdesk@metronews.ca Toronto’s #1 read free daily newspaper. website: www.metronews.ca then popular opinion will Source: NADbank 2006/07 Base: Toronto CMA distribution inquiries: inexorably shift toward toronto_distribution@metronews.ca charging for the use of pave- • Publisher Bill McDonald ment. 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