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Schools Durham helps
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feel welcome
MELISSA MANCINI
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DURHAM -- The winding halls of a high
school can be intimidating for Grade 9 stu-
dents who don’t know their way around and
are afraid to ask older students for directions.
For Nikita Lekhi, the first day of Grade 9 pre-
sented even more challenges. She had just
moved to Ajax from India. She didn’t know
anyone. And she was experiencing a major
culture shock moving from conservative India
to a much more liberal society, she said.
To top it all off, some of her classmates
didn’t always know what she was saying.
“Though my English was good, because
of my accent some people found it hard to
understand me,” she said.
Now, the Pickering High School student
is taking part in a new local program to help
people in the same situation she was in two
years ago. She’s a peer helper for Newcomer
Orientation Week (NOW). This week she’s
participating in daily activities with other peer
helpers and new students to the region to aid
those starting at a Canadian school for the
first time next week feel more comfortable.
RYAN PFEIFFER / METROLAND
AJAX -- Newcomer parents Amir and Dionne Gafoor, with their children Almira and
Dominick, spoke at Notre Dame Catholic Secondary School Aug. 31 for the launch of
the Settlement Workers in Schools program. The government of Canada launched the
new program to help newcomer youth in Durham Region schools.
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POLICE 2
Toronto
tragedy
Police knew of
Pickering man’s
mental issues: family
FIRE 4
It’s under
investigation
Dumpster ablaze
at Pickering mall
SPORTS 17
Lacrosse
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Th ursday, September 2, 2010
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Cops knew he
was mentally ill:
statement
BY JEFF MITCHELL
jmitchell@durhamregion.com
TORONTO -- Police were aware
of a Pickering man’s mental health
issues before a confrontation that
left him fatally shot on a Toronto
street, according to the dead man’s
family.
In a statement released through
their lawyer, Reyal Jensen Jardine-
Douglas’s family said they had
been seeking help for the troubled
young man in the days leading up
to his death. Mr. Jardine-Douglas,
25, was shot to death by Toronto
police near a city bus Sunday after-
noon in east Toronto. Police said
he was armed with a knife.
The shooting was “tragic and
unnecessary,” lawyer Glenn Stuart
said in releasing the statement.
The young man’s family said they
had called police for assistance as
they tried to take him to hospital
for treatment of his mental health
issues.
“In the early afternoon of Sun-
day ... Reyal’s family called 911
from the intersection of Law-
rence Avenue East and Vic-
toria Park Avenue, seek-
ing assistance in getting
Reyal to a hospital to
address mental health
problems he was expe-
riencing, including
paranoia,” the statement
said.
“He was not exhibiting any
violent behaviours at the time.”
Mr. Jardine-Douglas, who had
not been cooperative with efforts
to get him treatment, boarded a
city bus heading south on Victo-
ria Park Avenue. The family told
a Toronto police dispatcher the
young man was on the bus and
stressed his troubled state, accord-
ing to the statement. Responding
officers were also told about Mr.
Jardine-Douglas’s condition, the
family said.
“The family was continuing to
try to have Reyal obtain appropri-
ate medical treatment on Sunday
... which led them to follow him to
the intersection and their call to
911,” the statement said.
Shortly after the call was
made Toronto police
stopped the bus. Mr.
Jardine-Douglas was
shot when he emerged
from the bus. Mr. Jar-
dine-Douglas’s family,
who waited a few blocks
away, was informed of the
shooting by officers.
The Province’s Special Investiga-
tions Unit, which probes incidents
of death or injury involving police,
is examining the actions of police.
Monica Hudon, spokeswoman
for the SIU, said a Toronto police
officer is being investigated in the
shooting. His name is not being
released.
Mr. Stuart wouldn’t comment
on whether the family’s statement
conflicts with the version of events
released by police, who said they
responded to a reported incident
on the bus.
“I’m not in a position to comment
on that,” he said. He also would not
comment on how long Mr. Jardine-
Douglas had been experiencing
mental health problems.
The family had tried desperate-
ly to find help for the young man,
according to the statement.
“Reyal had been taken by the fam-
ily to a physician on 27th August.
On the following day, he was taken
to a hospital, but they were referred
to a second one, when the first one
informed the family that it did not
have the resources at that time to
assist,” they said. “Reyal was non-
cooperative with the medical per-
sonnel on both of these attempts at
intervention.”
The family has refused requests
for comment from the media.
“As you can imagine, they’re
grieving their loss,” Mr. Stuart said.
TRAGEDY IN TORONTO
Pickering man’s family called police before deadly shooting
OSHAWA -- A Durham-based
charity aimed at eradicating
drinking and driving is hosting a
fundraiser and website launch on
Sept. 11.
Safe and Sober Canada was start-
ed by the family and friends of Mel-
anie Carter, who died three years
ago at age 21 when she got behind
the wheel after drinking.
Her father, Blair Carter, said the
charity’s mandate includes educat-
ing the public -- especially young
people -- about dangerous driving
related to alcohol, drugs and cell-
phone use.
The launch of the new website
means organizers are looking for
people to contribute blog posts and
articles and share personal stories
related to dangerous driving.
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AJAX -- Ajax Mayor Steve Parish recently
asked the federal government for a little bit
of extra time in completing federal infra-
structure projects, but got a non-committal
response.
On Aug. 25, Minister of State for Dem-
ocratic Reform Steven Fletcher visited
Pickering Village for a photo opportunity
and to give a speech on federally funded
infrastructure projects. He was speaking on
behalf of Gary Goodyear, Minister of State
for FedDev Ontario.
Mr. Fletcher visited Old Kingston Road,
which is set for a $2.27 million revamp, with
the feds chipping in up to $1.27 million.
“Here in the Town of Ajax, our govern-
ment has invested more than $3 million
through the Community Adjustment Fund
for the revitalization of Old Kingston Road,
the improvements to road realignment in
Ajax and the development of a strategic
plan to intensify economic development
opportunities,” he said. The road realign-
ment refers to Fairall Street improvements
which will see the road connected to Sta-
tion Street after the demolition of the for-
mer Avery Dennison building.
“These projects will help residents of Ajax
enjoy safer roads for years to come and pro-
mote economic development and diversifi-
cation in the community,” said the minister.
Federal funding for local infrastructure proj-
ects was part of the government’s stimulus
package and one of the conditions was that
the work be completed by March 31, 2011.
However, Mayor Parish said Ajax is looking
for some flexibility as some of the projects,
including Old Kingston Road, phase two of
the Fairall Street work and the replacement
of the Memorial Outdoor Pool, may take
longer.
“We’ll be substantially complete on these
projects before the winter (construction)
shutdown.”
Mayor Parish said if the government cuts
off funding on March 31, the municipalities
will be on the hook.
“That wouldn’t be fair to local taxpayers,”
he said.
Mr. Fletcher said all municipalities knew
about the deadlines, but if they’re not com-
plete the federal government will have to
assess the situation.
“I think we’ll be using common sense as
we move forward,” said Mr. Fletcher.
Mr. Fletcher also took questions regarding
his portfolio. Currently the federal govern-
ment is looking at increasing the number of
members of parliament in the fast-growing
provinces of Ontario, Alberta and British
Columbia.
His plan calls for 18 more seats in Ontar-
io and he expects there will be an impact in
Ajax.
“The population growth in Ontario has
happened primarily in the southern parts
of the province and one would anticipate
that’s where the seats would be,” he said.
If the legislation passes, an independent
commission would determine the riding
boundaries.
Mayor Parish supported the idea.
“They’re going to go where there’s been
very dynamic growth and that means plac-
es like Ajax,” he said.
INFRASTRUCTURE
Ajax mayor asks feds for more time on projects
RYAN PFEIFFER / METROLAND
AJAX -- The Town of Ajax held an official ceremony to celebrate three local econom-
ic development projects, including a facelift of Old Kingston Road. Steven Fletcher,
Minister of Democratic Reform, left, and Mayor Steve Parish were among those to
speak during the ceremony on Aug. 25.
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PICKERING -- With billowing black smoke,
a dumpster fire at the Pickering Town Cen-
tre looked worse than it was on Tuesday
afternoon.
The Pickering Fire Service got the call at
12:14 p.m. and about five trucks respond-
ed, said fire inspector Steve Fowlds.
“On arrival there was heavy smoke on the
exterior of the building of Sport Chek,” he
said. “The fire was in a dumpster beside
Sport Chek and Sport Chek was evacuated
as a precaution.”
Firefighters got the fire under control
quickly, however, before many people in
Pickering saw the black smoke billowing
from the mall.
There was some minor smoke damage
to the outside of the building and no dam-
age to the inside. Mr. Fowlds said the fire
isn’t considered suspicious, though it’s still
under investigation.
“The dumpster’s full of what looks like
renovation debris, lots of wood and plas-
tic and renovation garbage, so there was an
awful lot of black smoke ... it really wasn’t
that bad at all in terms of propery damage,”
he said. “It looked worse than it was.”
Later in the afternoon, doors were open
for shoppers again.
“We’re up and running and everything is
back to normal,” said Lorna Murphy, mar-
keting director for Pickering Town Centre.
EMERGENCY SERVICES
Dumpster fire at Pickering mall
RYAN PFEIFFER / METROLAND
PICKERING -- A firefighter hosed down the inside of a dumpster at the Pickering
Town Centre after a fire in the bin Tuesday afternoon.
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arrested without incident
AJAX -- An Ajax man is facing Internet lur-
ing charges after a two-and-a-half month
investigation by Durham police.
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Sexual Assault
Unit’s Child
Exploitation Sec-
tion executed a
search warrant
at a residence on
Kingston Road
West in Ajax on
Aug. 26 and made
the arrest without
incident.
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was active on
Internet chat rooms seeking young girls
to engage in sexual conversations under
the screen names John_Rahal2003 and
Rahal73.
They also say the man exposed himself
online via webcam.
John Victor Rahal, 36, of Root Crescent
in Ajax is charged with seven counts each
of Internet luring of a child and invita-
tion to sexual touching.
He is also charged with five counts of
indecent exposure of genitals to a child
and possession of a controlled sub-
stance.
The accused was held for a bail hear-
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resident of Oshawa.
Anyone with informa-
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gation can contact
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Sexual Assault/
Internet Child
Exploitation Unit at 1-
888-579-1520 ext. 5363
or Det. Const. Brian Vickers of the same
unit at ext. 5349.
Anonymous tips can be made to Crime
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or online at www.durhamregional-
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of up to $2,000.
CRIME
Ajax man charged
with internet luring
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durhamregion.com ENERGY
Take yourself off the
grid if you oppose
nuclear power
To the editor:
Re: ‘Inexpensive nuclear power is pure
fantasy’ and ‘Editorial ignores research in
renewable energy’, letters to the editor, This
Week, Thursday, Aug. 26.
If Mr. Leahy of Uxbridge and Mr. Bennett
of the doom-and-gloom Sierra Club are so
opposed to the power that is generated in
this province by nuclear, I invite them to
remove themselves from the grid.
They can go ahead and erect themselves
a suitable wind turbine and then tell me
how much of a fantasy inexpensive nuclear
is. People like you take way too much for
granted. Give your head a shake.
Matt Burden
Oshawa
DISTRACTIONS
Scourge of cellphone
drivers continues
To the editor:
When will the public get serious about
the no cellphone use while operating a
motor vehicle?
Just take a look; motorists are talking on
phones while driving and I dare say just as
many as prior to the ban. I don’t own a
cellphone so I am not faced with the temp-
tation. I do wish to share an observation
from the corner of Rossland and Thornton
roads. I was driving on the inside lane and
stopped at the southbound red light. The
person in the car to my left (middle lane,
travelling south) was taking on her phone.
With windows down I simply said, “Do you
realize you are breaking the law?“
She responded with, “It’s OK to talk while
stopped at a red light.”
I believe the law says pull over, park and
then talk. I do believe that operating a car
with your foot on the brake is still consid-
ered driving.
Brian Healey
Oshawa
***
To the editor:
Re: Distracted drivers here flout new cell-
phone law.
I’d like to thank reporter Jeff Mitchell and
Sergeant Galipeau for keeping this new law
in the spotlight.
I can’t believe what I see out there on a
regular basis, including a mom sitting in
the middle of a busy intersection waiting
for the light to change with one hand on
the phone and a couple kids in the back.
If the Durham Regional Police want to
break that record of 20 tickets in a half-hour
then just sit outside the GO station around
4 or 5 p.m. -- the busiest time -- and see all
the people hurrying in their cars, risking
life and limb just to get on the phone.
Thanks again to the DRP. Happy hunt-
ing.
Ian Fleming
Whitby
SPORTS FEES
Soccer costs less
than hockey
To the editor:
Re: ‘Cost of hockey puts crunch on Dur-
ham families’, durhamregion.com.
The rising cost of hockey may be the one
thing that drives families away from the
game, which is too bad.
The $5,000 spent for five kids could have
alternatively provided all with a full year
of soccer (winter indoor league and out-
door summer rep soccer) or allowed 38
kids to play summer house league soccer
in Bowmanville.
That’s just one more reason soccer is
called “the beautiful game.”
Jim Anderson
Bowmanville
***
To the editor:
Re: ‘Cost of hockey puts crunch on Dur-
ham families’, Aug. 20.
What is the point of reporting the costs of
hockey for families? Other than the impact
of the HST this year, the story line could be
written every autumn. Is it really news?
Andrew Hastie
Whitby
WE THINK... email responses to newsroom@durhamregion.com
Welcoming young new Canadians to Durham schools, communities
Teens starting their first year of high
school next week do so with a range of
concerns: fear of the unknown, social
acceptance, academic success.
Teens new to Canada entering high
school for the first time have similar con-
cerns that are compounded by cultural
or language barriers, a desire to conform,
and a sense of being an outsider.
Just ask Nikita Lekhi, who entered Grade
9 two years ago, shortly after moving to
Durham Region from India. She endured
a period of adjustment when she entered
Pickering High School and found her own
way.
Her experience is typical of those new
both to Canada and Durham Region.
As a new school year looms, Nikita is
participating in a new local program to
help provide welcoming assistance and
support to new Canadians entering high
schools in Durham.
The Newcomer Orientation Week
(NOW) program is part of the newly
launched Settlement Workers in Schools
Durham, an initiative between the Com-
munity Development Council of Durham,
both local school boards and the federal
government.
This is precisely the sort of program
that is needed to expose new Canadians
to local customs and culture and assist
them in both becoming a part of and con-
tributing to their adopted home. It helps
local youth bond with newcomers, forge
important new relationships and foster a
sense of community among the students
and their families.
It takes courage and confidence -- with a
goodly measure of optimism -- to uproot
a family and move to a foreign nation.
Those of us already here in this vibrant,
diverse, wealthy and welcoming country
have an obligation to new Canadians to
ensure that their experience is positive.
And as we expose them to local culture,
we can learn from the historical customs
and mores new Canadians bring with
them.
Whether European, Asian or Arab,
immigrants beginning a new life in Can-
ada have rich and deep customs from
which we can learn.
Through them, our newest neighbours,
we can continue to find strength in our
national diversity.
Nikita Lekhi found her way, made new
friends and is well on her way to adult-
hood as a new Canadian in Durham
Region.
Her experience, her openness to learn-
ing and her sense of discovery led to the
creation of new opportunities.
People like Nikita reinforce the idea
behind the NOW program. It is a vital-
ly important tool that helps newcomers
become, like the rest of us, ordinary Cana-
dians.
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standard in reading, writing and math, compared to seven years ago.
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since 2002-03. English-language Grade 9 math scores have increased by
more than 16 percentage points in the same period.
Since 2003, the government has reduced class sizes in the primary grades,
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through the Good Places to Learn initiative. And, this September, up to
35,000 four- and fi ve-year-olds will be in full-day kindergarten at almost
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“I don’t want this to happen to the newcom-
ers that are coming after me,” she said.
Her goal is that this year no newcomer will
go to school without a friend on their first
day, she said, adding she hoped new stu-
dents would have a “super awesome” first
day at school.
Newcomer Orientation Week is just one
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The program places settlement workers
in Durham schools throughout the year. It
will connect new students and their families
with community resources and foster stu-
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It was officially launched at J. Clarke Rich-
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on Aug. 31. The education directors from
both school boards, Member of Parliament
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tives from the Region and the Community
Development Council Durham spoke at the
launch.
“Cultures of inclusion start with our young
people and today we are laying the ground-
work for future success,” said Dr. Hugh
Drouin, social services commissioner for the
Region and co-chairman of the Local Diver-
sity and Immigration Partnership Council.
Amir and Dionne Gafoor have seen first-
hand how helpful the organization can be,
even before its official launch. When the
couple and their two young children moved
to Ajax from Guyana in May they were job-
less and scared.
They met a worker from Settlement Work-
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daughter Almira’s kindergarten orientation
and he helped them lay a path and feel at
home in the community, Ms. Gafoor said.
Now both are working in their chosen
fields, Mr. Gafoor as a civil engineer and Ms.
Gafoor as a daycare worker. They feel more
at home in their new community. Mr. Gafoor
has even joined a cricket team. “I think we
are pretty lucky,” he said.
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Cops found that hydro and water services
had been bypassed to run the grow op.
Officers removed 875 plants they estimate
are worth $1 million on the street.
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4. Rinse for 10 seconds.
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towel to turn off the water tap and open the bathroom
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Kids with asthma need to take extra precautions and
make sure their asthma is under control. This will help
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hold, their lungs will be better at fi ghting it off.
The Ontario Lung Association offers free educa-
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Back to school means back to basics: First lesson is hand washing
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