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PICKERING – Sisters Jenifer and Emily White look for birds at Rotary Frenchman's Bay West park recently. They
were there as part of the Frenchman's Bay Watershed Rehabilitation Project, volunteer environmental watch, where
citizens monitor the flora and fauna in the area.
Photo radar would be
a great deterrent
Pickering official says
By Danielle Milley
Staff Writer
PICKERING –Local councillors
want photo radar as a means to
deal with one of the most com-
mon complaints from con-
stituents - speeders.
Pickering Ward 1 Regional
Councillor Maurice Brenner said
he and other councillors get a lot
of calls on the issue of speeders
in the community and photo
radar is one way to deal with
those concerns.
"It's something that we believe
we need in Pickering," he said.
"While it doesn't have the impact
of a police officer writing a ticket
and there being demerit points,
it does have the impact of issuing
a cost to the owner of the vehi-
cle."
Premier Dalton McGuinty said
Wednesday his government is
open to the idea of bringing back
photo radar, if that's what On-
tario cities and towns want.
Photo radar is something
Pickering council has been in
favour of for quite some time. In
March 2003, Ward 2 Regional
Councillor Bill McLean (a retired
To ronto police sergeant) intro-
duced a motion asking the then
Conservative government to
allow the City to own and oper-
ate its own photo radar on mu-
nicipal streets. The motion
passed unanimously.
Coun. Brenner said the issue is
bound to come up again.
"There's going to be a lot of dis-
cussion on this once we recon-
vene, both at the City and at the
Region," he said.
Although there has never been
discussion at Ajax council about
photo radar, Ward 4 local Coun-
cillor Pat Brown thinks allowing
municipalities to use the tech-
nology is a wonderful idea.
"I know how it works, but I
don't know how affordable it is,"
she said. "If we can get some-
thing that we can move around
the town, there isn't a street in
Ajax that people aren't speeding
Restructuring act
aims to generate
production too
By Keith Gilligan
Staff Writer
DURHAM –Electricity prices
are going to rise, but Dwight
Duncan promises the increases
won't be harsh.
Speaking on Tuesday to a
legislative committee review-
ing Bill 100, the Electricity Re-
structuring Act, the Ontario
energy minister said unstable
world energy markets would
affect Ontarians. But, regula-
tions the provincial govern-
ment is proposing will soften
the blow.
In an interview following his
presentation, the minister de-
nied consumers shouldn't be
expecting higher prices.
"No. (The act) is designed to
generate more production and
a stable pricing regime," Mr.
Duncan stated, adding there's
"instability in the world price."
The bill is in committee dur-
ing the summer and he's hop-
ing it will be passed in the fall.
Included in the bill are the
creation of the Ontario Power
Authority, a conservation bu-
reau, and a chief conservation
officer.
"We're providing the institu-
tional framework in which our
Tool needed
to stop
speeders
Liberals strive for stability
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electricity market will function.
Part of what will come out of this
bill is time-of-use rate plans and
time-of-use meters," he said.
The smart meters could benefit
consumers as they would save
money by using electricity during
non-peak hours, such as early
morning or late at night. Current
meters only record the amount of
energy used.
Dave Martin of Greenpeace
Canada said Ontarians "don't have
the tools" to properly conserve, a
statement Mr. Duncan agreed
with. "He's absolutely right about
that and we're moving to address
that."
One move is to
c hange provin-
cial statutes to
make it more at-
tractive to con-
serve, Mr. Dun-
can stated.
John O'Toole,
the MPP for
Durham and the
Conservative en-
ergy critic, chal-
lenged Mr. Dun-
can's state-
ments, saying he
was "shocked" to
hear the minister's comments.
"The guiding principle behind all
of (the former Tory) government's
electricity reforms was to ensure
that Ontarians received a reliable
supply of electricity at a fair price.
Today we have discovered that the
L iberal agenda contains no such
plan for reliable energy supply and
is based on higher prices," Mr. O'-
Toole stated in a press release.
"These revelations are astound-
ing when you consider the future
need for electricity supply in our
province.
“The fact that the government is
pursing a plan that will virtually
g uarantee a shortage in electricity
supply and asking Ontario con-
sumers to pay higher rates in re-
turn is unconscionable."
Smart meters to be introduced
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JOHN O’TOOLE
Liberals have no
plan for ‘reliable
energy supply’.
By Mike Ruta
Staff Writer
DURHAM –The UOIT is plugged
into a computing system that
will soon become the most pow-
erful in Canada, allowing scien-
tific research to proceed at
breakneck speed.
It's called the Shared Hierar-
chical Academic Research Com-
puting Network, SHARCNET
for short. And thanks to $50 mil-
lion in new funding, SHARC-
NET is poised to become one of
the most powerful high perfor-
mance computing (HPC) cen-
tres in the world.
The University of Ontario In-
stitute of Technology (UOIT) in
Oshawa recently joined 10 other
SHARCNET academic institu-
tions in southern Ontario.
"The really innovative idea is
that the institutions, the re-
searchers collaborate together,"
says William Smith, UOIT's
dean of science. "This is the glue
that holds them together."
He explains that in the past,
computer resources had to be lo-
cated where the scientists were
working, at great cost. With
SHARCNET, a researcher can
take advantage of the entire sys-
tem's resources, accelerating the
pace of research hundreds of
thousands of times faster than
on a regular desktop computer.
A scientist can solve problems
that require great computation-
al power, quickly accessing or
processing huge amounts of
data or interactivity across a
network not centred in one geo-
graphic location.
Mr. Smith says the new fund-
ing, from The Canada Founda-
tion for Innovation (CFI), the
Ontario government and SHAR-
CNET partners, means eight to
16 state-of-the-art processors
will be installed at UOIT.
UOIT researchers will make
good use of SHARCNET. Mr.
Smith's work involves predicting
the properties of substances at
the molecular level. Anatoli
Chkrebtii, an associate professor
in the school of science, will use
SHARCNET to simulate the ef-
fects of radiation on populations
and environments. Research re-
sults that in the past would have
taken a year or more on a PC can
now be produced in one day.
"We can solve problems now
that we couldn't have even tack-
led before," says Mr. Smith. "It'll
just advance science on a broad
front."
A former faculty member at
the University of Guelph, a
SHARCNET partner, when he
came to UOIT Mr. Smith was
"very anxious for us to join the
consortium."
By Jeff Mitchell
Staff Writer
PICKERING –A 23-year-old man
was terrorized and beaten in the
second Pickering home invasion
investigated by Durham Regional
Police in a week.
Police converged on Creekview
Circle, a residential street south-
east of the intersection of Whites
Road and Bayly Street, around 3
p.m. Thursday. A man told offi-
cers he'd escaped his house after
being threatened with a gun and
roughed up by two assailants who
burst through his front door, de-
manding money.
Police spokesman Sergeant
Paul Malik said the man told in-
vestigators he'd answered a
knock at his front door around
1:45 and was confronted by two
white men, one of whom bran-
dished a handgun.
"The handgun was pointed at
him as they demanded money,"
Sgt. Malik said.
The thugs pulled the clip from
the gun to show him it was real.
The victim was roughed up and
confined to his bedroom for
about 20 minutes while his house
was ransacked, Sgt. Malik said.
The man, who suffered cuts to his
face and head, told investigators
he managed to get out of the
house and run to a neighbour's
residence, where he called police.
Police arrived on scene and set
up around the house on the as-
sumption the assailants might
still be inside. But when police
checked the interior they found
no one there, Sgt. Malik said.
Police are looking for two white
men in their mid to late 20s. One
of them has a shaved head.
The robbery came after a simi-
lar invasion just two days earlier
in Pickering. In that incident, a
15-year-old boy was tied up while
four men, one of them armed with
a handgun, searched the house
on Brookshire Square Tuesday.
The suspects in that incident
are described as four black men,
aged 18 to 24.
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No charges laid
in Thursday
incident
PICKERING –A small
amount of marijuana was
seized and no charges were
laid when police pulled
over a car while investigat-
ing what was reported as a
shooting in the Bay Ridges
area Thursday afternoon.
No g un was found and
police have not confirmed
that a shooting was the
cause of a broken window
reported by a trucker, said
Sergeant Paul Malik of
Durham Regional Police.
Police responded around
12:30 after receiving a call
that a vehicle had been
shot at. The Peterborough
trucker told police he was
on Sandy Beach Road near
Willowside Court when a
window was broken. As-
suming he'd been shot at,
the trucker told police he'd
seen a Chrysler Neon be-
side him when the damage
occurred.
A short time later police
pulled over a Neon similar
to the one the trucker had
described, Sgt. Malik said.
A search of the car re-
vealed no gun, but did
yield a small amount - less
than a gram - of pot.
The marijuana was
seized, but no charges were
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Tuesday part
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PICKERING –School can be
bad for your child's health -
or at least carrying the text-
books that go along with
school.
The Chiropractic Centre
in Pickering is holding
backpack safety week from
Aug. 16 to 20. The centre is
holding spinal checks up at
no charge to see if your
backpacks are weighing
children down.
It is also holding a back-
pack safety workshop Tues-
day, Aug. 17 at 6:30 p.m. to
teach children about the
importance of lifting, load-
ing and carrying backpacks
correctly. Children need to
bring their backpacks.
Space is limited. For
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The centre is located at
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School textbooks
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"I get so many calls re-
garding speeding. I think it
would be a blessing for the
Town."
Coun. Brenner said
Pickering has already tried
education campaigns and
laser signs to make people
aware of speeding and to
get them to stop.
"We've tried a number of
initiatives and unfortu-
nately the problem contin-
ues," he said. "Education is
important,
it is a great
tool but you
need anoth-
er level of
enforce-
ment and
we'll never
have
enough po-
lice officers
to do that."
Coun.
Brown agreed.
"Photo radar just might
be the answer for people
slowing down on local
roads," she said.
Pickering Mayor Dave
Ryan said photo radar is a
solution talked about
around the council table
but he is cautious about
comments made by Mr.
McGuinty regarding it
being a way to raise money.
"I'm very concerned that
photo radar will be used
and viewed as a cash cow...
That's most inappropri-
ate," he said. "The only rea-
son for implementing
photo radar is for the safe-
ty of our streets."
Sy stem a ‘wonderful’ idea
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MAURICE
BRENNER
‘The problem
continues.’
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Be wary
of options
Mail-in, Internet voting
can bring problems
The Pickering clerk's department is doing its homework
right now, examining voting options in preparation for
the Nov. 8 byelection for the Ward 2 City councillor's po-
sition.
They have a noble goal, to come up with a system that will en-
courage a higher turnout of voters. It's needed if you reflect on
the ever-dropping turnout percentage shown in past years,
both locally and across the province in municipal elections.
In Pickering, voter turnout last November was a mere 28 per
cent, down from three years prior when 30 per cent came to the
polls. So, the problem is clear, but the solution is not.
We look forward to seeing the alternatives the clerk's depart-
ment presents to council for this byelection, but we'd like to
point out that two of the options discussed have flaws.
Mail-in voting, although successful in increasing turnout, has
proven to have drawbacks. In Clarington in 2000, there were ac-
cusations of extra ballots being handed out and in Scugog,
there were cases where people were still receiving ballots, long
after moving away from the township.
Yes, voter turnout has been increased in those two areas and
in Uxbridge as well, where it was implemented. But ultimately,
how can we be sure who is marking those ballots before they are
returned?
Then there's Internet voting. This one has us a lot more wor-
ried. There are many computer wizards out there who can get
around Internet safeguards on Web sites and cause havoc.
Some companies spend millions each year to prevent hackers.
Let's look at it from another angle. Does democracy require
governments to entice the population to vote in elections? The
answer is no. It's up to citizens to be involved in the process of
selecting who governs them.
Under our system of democracy, governments must do every-
thing in their power to inform citizens that an election is taking
place and let them know how to get involved and how to vote.
But, after that it's up to those individuals to act upon that
knowledge. It's a sad state of affairs when democracy doesn't
work. And less than one-third of the population taking the time
to vote and choose our elected officials is just that, sad.
Still, until we pass laws requiring all eligible voters to vote, we
have to accept the system as it is.
Plaza will bring
further traffic
headaches
To the editor:
For 14 years I have been living at
Whites Road and Granite Court and in
later years have experienced the traffic
congestion. It is not getting better and
will get worse, especially if the proposal
for a commercial plaza is approved.
I attended the July 26 council meeting
and was not satisfied with the result and
reasons given by members of council.
Have councillors and the mayor at least
stood at this location between 5 to 7
weeknights, especially on summer long
weekends?
Have they personally exited at Whites
Road and Hwy. 401 west, either going
north or south of Whites?
Every member of the council voted in
favour of the proposal and the only justi-
fication I could gather, was the econom-
ic benefit it will bring the city. Because it
is going to be a food store, more money
(taxes) will be generated, compared to
other types of businesses. Please consid-
er the negative impact to each individ-
ual, especially the residents of the area.
Remedies were recommended during
the meeting to mitigate the problem,
but I want council to be there when their
approval and recommendations are
complete, to see the actual situation.
Anyone who gave his approval should be
held accountable for all that will go
wrong.
Again, for the benefit of all, please do
not consider this plan to open a grocery
store at Whites and Granite.
Renato Dimatulac
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We all thought it was a little
reprieve from work in the
midst of a hot August af-
ternoon.
The smokers bee-lined it outside.
Some grabbed pop from the fridge.
Most of us stood around chatting
and laughing.
Here at the newspaper, as the
minutes went by, one of the sports
guys turned on a little battery-pow-
ered radio. That's when we realized
that the blue-grey darkness in our
warehouse office extended far be-
yond south Oshawa. The power was
out across most of southern On-
tario and the northeastern U.S.
The adrenaline immediately
started pumping. In a somewhat
disturbing way, mass emergencies
throw journalists into a complete
frenzy. An animal-like instinct kicks
in to be there and get the story, as
we are the recorders of history.
While editors set about assigning
stories and waiting to see if the
power was going to come back in
time to ship the paper, I dashed
home to feed my dog, all the while
trying - like thousands of others - to
check in with family on useless cell-
phones.
My husband and I cooked eggs
on the barbecue and ate Chef Bo-
yardee. As he settled down to spend
the balmy night outdoors listening
to the radio, I was antsy to get out
and see what was happening on
Durham's streets.
I saw dozens of people walking
their dogs and children, civilians di-
recting traffic (some in vain). Mass
lineups at gas stations. Countless
people eating ice cream, some
straight out of the carton. The po-
lice had flares under Hwy. 401 over-
passes.
It was surreal to be driving in
such darkness. And the quiet; I
kept thinking, this is what the eye of
a hurricane must be like.
At regional headquarters, the
lights and air conditioning were on
as the Region's top guns worked to
make sure residents were safe.
Back at the office, we took turns
frantically typing by candlelight on
one lone laptop. Our fax line was
working as a phone, and we guard-
ed it like vultures. We laughed and
shared junk food.
I'll never forget the next morning
sitting outside on a picnic table, a
computer hooked up to a converter,
which was hooked up to an idling
grey car as I filed my story. We
ended up putting together an
award-winning edition that day.
Durham's police chief joked re-
cently he wants to have regular
blackouts because people behaved
so well. What a great idea: a re-
minder that life goes on despite the
lights going out.
Carly Foster's column appears
every third Sunday. E-mail cfos-
ter@durhamregion.com.
The blackout through a reporter’s eyes
Editorials &Opinions
SUNDAY, AUGUST 15, 2004 ✦ News Advertiser ✦ DAVID STELL, NEWS EDITOR, 905-683-5110 EXT. 249
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such as shoes.
Sam Beninato of Plumbing Mart says that a
home renovation project should be a well thought
out decisions. It could cost thousand of dollars and
will affect your family for many years so enlisting
the help of an expert is key.
The first step is information gathering. Visit
showrooms, websites and publications to learn what
products are available on the market. Get an
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ly want.
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as a bond of trust”
HIRE A SPECIALIST
General contractors usually have the skill to
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cific parts of it.
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there is no learning curve and they are dedicated to
the work at hand.
Sam says that consumers should look for spe-
cialists such as those at Plumbing Mart, who can
give them exact start dates, progress time and a sub-
stantive completion date.
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lines,” he said. “If you’re told that a contractor can
start work in July, does that mean at the beginning of
July or a the end of the month? Your life could be
turned upside down for a whole month.”
Consumers should also ask how long a con-
tractor has been in business. A contractor that just
started his business may have great intentions, but
may not be able to respond appropriately if an
unforeseen problem is encountered.
“Plumbing Mart has been in business for
more than 40 years. If there is a problem we can
make five phone calls and come up with five differ-
ent solutions.”
An established specialist will also have expe-
rienced several home renovating trends throughout
the years and come with its own innovations.
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Wa r ranty is a key point. Always ask if it cov-
ers the product, service, labour, or all three. If a
bathtub comes with a manufacturer’s warranty only,
will your contractor remove it at no cost so that you
can claim your warranty from the manufacturer? Is
the cost of labour going to be charged to you? Only
a specialist that stands behind all facets of its work
can give consumers the peace of mind that they
deserve.
IT’S YOUR DREAM
When telling your chosen renovator about
your dream room, will that person follow your agen-
da or his? A good renovator should be able to think
outside the box and have the resources to deliver
what you want. Once you have agreed on an idea,
that renovator should shop for all parts needed to
complete the job.
Ensure that your renovator also commits to
disposing of garage and to leaving your home clean
so that your family can start to enjoy the newly ren-
ovated kitchen or bathroom right away.
To know more, visit www.plumbingmart.ca
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How To Choose The Right Renovator
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