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A dult
sentences
sought
for young
of fe nders
Pickering robbery
among brutal crimes
requiring punishment,
judge told
By Jeff Mitchell
Staff Writer
DURHAM — Sending two youths
to federal prison for a string of bru-
tal robberies will achieve the goals
of denouncing criminal activity
and protecting the public, a pros-
ecutor said in summing up his case
We dnesday.
The Durham Crown’s office is
taking the extraordinary measure
of applying to have the teens sen-
tenced as adults because of the
shocking nature of their crimes,
which capped criminal careers that
began before their teenaged years,
Mike Newell told Superior Court
Justice David Salmers.
“These two from a young age
have behaved very, very badly,” Mr.
Newell said in describing the ex-
ploits of the young men, now 18.
They were both 16 when they
committed a string of extremely
violent robberies in Durham and
To ronto. The young men, who can’t
be named under provisions of the
Yo uth Criminal Justice Act, have
pleaded guilty to charges associ-
ated with six robberies.
During those robberies lone
OPG decides against
restart of Pickering
Units 2 and 3
By Keith Gilligan
Staff Writer
PICKERING — A pair of laid-up
reactors at the Pickering nuclear
station are going to be mothballed.
Ontario Power Generation an-
nounced it wasn’t financially viable
to restart Units 2 and 3. Company
executives said on Friday it would
cost $2 billion and the two reactors
would only run seven to 10 years.
“We’ve done our assessments of
the two units and we could not
see an acceptable business case.
This was a decision based solely on
economic factors and the decision
was made by the Ontario Power
Generation’s board of directors on
a recommendation from manage-
ment,” said Jim Hankinson, OPG’s
president and chief executive of-
ficer, during a press conference.
The two units were put in a laid-
up state in December 1997. Over
the next two years, the fuel and
heavy water will be removed and
the units will be put into a long-
term layup state.
The decision not to restart the
reactors surprised nuclear oppo-
nent David Martin of Greenpeace
Canada.
“It’s a historic decision. It’s the
first large-scale shutdown of a
commercial reactor,” Mr. Martin
said. “It’s the beginning of the end
of nuclear power in Canada.”
He was surprised by the an-
nouncement. “There’s been a
huge amount of pressure coming
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PICKERING — The Pickering Lawn Bowling Club played a match
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clerks working at night were accosted
by masked men who beat, stabbed and
slashed them, or menaced them with an
imitation handgun. The trio were caught
by Durham Regional Police in the com-
mission of a robbery in Pickering in May
of 2003, as they pursued a terrified clerk
who’d run out the door of his shop to
escape the gang.
The Crown is applying under a section
of the Youth Criminal Justice Act (YCJA)
to have the two young men sentenced
as adults. The YCJA replaced the Young
Offenders Act in April of 2003. The new
legislation seeks alternative measures
to jail time for youthful, non-violent of-
fenders, but also contains provisions al-
lowing for harsher treatment for repeat
and violent offenders.
According to the legislation, one of
the circumstances under which harsher
sentences can be meted out is when
youths are found guilty of crimes for
which an adult would be sentenced
to penitentiary time of more than two
years in custody.
Last November Christopher Junior
Brown, an adult, was sentenced to nine
years for participating in three of the
robberies in which the two young men
were involved; Mr. Newell said he’d seek
15-year terms for the youths.
Carlos Ripell, the lawyer for one of
the young men, said sending them to a
penitentiary would violate the spirit of
the YCJA, which stresses rehabilitation
over punitive measures such as incar-
ceration.
“Rehabilitation is a key factor in
the new act,” he told the judge.
Mr. Ripell and another defence lawyer,
Sam Scratch, have called a number of
expert witnesses who have testified that
the young men, both of whom have
been diagnosed as having conduct dis-
order, would benefit far more from time
spent in a youth facility, with education
and counselling.
Conduct disorder is characterized
as a pattern of behaviour in which in-
dividuals display little or no regard for
the rights of others, or societal norms
and standards. The disorder is often
manifested in anti-social and criminal
behaviour such as that on the records of
the two young men now facing sentenc-
ing, Justice Salmers has heard.
We dnesday Mr. Newell said the two
young men must be held accountable.
“Conduct disorder is not a sickness,”
he said. “These two don’t suffer from
anything. It’s not like cancer.”
The ruling is expected Oct. 6.
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Neighbourhood escaped
major damage as trees
come down in storm
By Danielle Milley
Staff Writer
PICKERING — A mighty wind blew
through Pickering Wednesday, knock-
ing down several trees, including one
that landed on a car.
Anne Ballyns lives on Meadowlane
Crescent, next door to the house where
the tree fell on the car. She said the tree
had partially been uprooted but the car
escaped with barely a scratch; there was
no other major damage on the street.
She was at home near Dixie Road,
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“I saw a violent storm, like what you’d
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she said, adding she saw branches and
leaves flying through the air. “I realized
the roar was the wind.
“It was absolutely wild.”
Richard Holborn, division head of
municipal property and engineering
with the City of Pickering, said the dam-
age from the afternoon thunderstorm
seemed to be isolated.
“In terms of damage we had to deal
with, there were four or five trees that
were down on Sideline Four,” he said,
adding some of them were completely
uprooted and were blocking the road.
There were also trees down near the
eastern end of the Fifth Concession
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Mr. Holborn said crews were quickly
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road and they went back on Thursday to
clean up the mess.
“We make sure we get the trees off the
road so cars can get through, that’s our
No. 1 priority,” he said.
None of the roads are high-traffic
areas and Mr. Holborn said the downed
trees did not cause traffic problems.
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The Metroland Durham Region Media Group,
in partnership with Ontario Power Genera-
tion, recently visited Nunavut to learn more
about Canada’s newest territory. Reporter
Mike Ruta and photographer Walter Pas-
sarella will retell the stories they’ve heard
and the things they’ve seen in this summer-
long series which will be published each
Sunday.
By Mike Ruta
Staff Writer
IQALUIT — Blood on the boot.
Saroomie Manik rushed into her Reso-
lute Bay home at around 11:30 p.m. one
night and urged her sons to take a look at
it. And then she went into the bedroom to
her husband, proudly lifting her boot for
him to see too. The blood meant that her
hunt, her first, solo polar bear hunt, had
been a success.
Ms. Manik had hunted polar bear be-
fore with her husband and son, but they
were working that day, so she decided to
face the challenge of going alone, setting
off on her snowmobile around 4:30 p.m.
“I saw the polar bear about 7:30,” she
recounts matter-of-factly. “I shot it and I
cut it up.”
It’s that simple in Nunavut, where
hunting is maybe the most integral part
of Inuit culture. The Inuit hunt, with
none of the controversy that comes with
the sport (murder, some would say) in
southern Ontario. But hunting wasn’t so
much recreation as survival for the Inuit
of old. Virtually everything they required
in order to live came from land and sea
creatures: Food ranging from seal and
Arctic char, salmon to caribou and rab-
bit; skins and fur for clothing to keep out
the cold and wet; tools and other imple-
ments from bone, sinew and antler; and
even light and heat in the form of marine
mammal oil burned in a bowl called a
qulliq.
To day, hunters from Europe and the
south come for some of the biggest game
in the world. Polar bear, the Earth’s larg-
est land carnivore at up to 544 kilograms.
Caribou and the massive muskox and
walrus. The quarry might also include
geese, rabbit and ptarmigan.
Matthew Alainga, 37, was born and
raised in Iqaluit. The shop teacher at In-
uksuk High School, he teaches students
Inuit craftsmanship, including the build-
ing of a qamatik, or sled. Pulled behind
a snowmobile, it’s essential for carrying
supplies, and the meat from your hunt.
“In my line of work, I can only go on
weekends,” he says.
He says caribou, which once migrated
close to Iqaluit, even through it, occa-
sionally, for the past three years have
been much farther away. As a result,
when he and a party go on a hunt, Mr.
Alainga says they try and get five or six.
The hunters track the animals, which
roam in herds, huge in some parts of the
north, until they locate them.
“We just drive up really slow so the
meat is still tender when we catch it,” he
explains. “When it’s been running too fast
the muscles are very tight (and it affects
the flavour).”
The hunt might last a day, but if not, a
sleepover out on the land is required. Mr.
Alainga says there are three options for
accommodations: a number of cabins are
strewn around the Iqaluit area, tents, or, if
it’s really windy, an igloo. Upon returning
to town after a successful hunt, it’s time
for a celebration with family and friends.
“Usually there’s quite a few people who
come over to my place for an evening
feast,” he says.
Asked how the Inuit eat caribou, Mr.
Alainga replies, “any way it comes I
guess.” When it’s raw, caribou and other
local delicacies, known as country food,
are eaten frozen, perhaps with a dip.
Meat can be used in a stir fry, ground up
for burgers, eaten as steaks and roasts
and other cuts. He says the Inuit have a
use for virtually everything on a caribou,
leaving very little unused.
Pauloosie Lucaussie is an Inuit guide
who takes hunters out on trips, including
for polar bear. Born and raised outside
of Iqaluit, he’s 58. Translating from the
Inuktitut, Mr. Alainga says hunters gener-
ally come to the north unprepared for the
conditions.
“The people that he takes out have no
experience,” he says. “I guess he’s got to
baby them. Some of them don’t bring the
appropriate clothing for the north so he
has to dress them.”
A polar bear hunt might mean a three-
or four-day trip. Mr. Lucaussie says there
are a lot, too many polar bears in the Iqa-
luit area. As a result, their main prey, the
ringed seal, is becoming scarce and the
bears have to travel farther to find them.
G enerally, he says, polar bears tend to
attack people and are the most feared
animal in the north. A hunter who gets
too close to one is in danger. Even a brief,
non-hunting trip on the land requires
precautions.
“Because there’s a high number of
polar bears, every time we go out on a
snowmobile ride, we have to bring a rifle,”
Mr. Lucaussie says.
Some bears even come right into Iqa-
luit, and hikers are warned not to go too
far outside of town unless they have a
rifle.
Mr. Lucaussie notes that real courage
was found in former days, when the Inuit
didn’t yet have rifles for hunting. Even
though he’s almost 60, Mr. Lucaussie says
that was before his time, but that his fa-
ther told him about old-time hunting.
“They used to catch caribou just with
harpoons, no rifles,” he says with a smile.
“So you’d have to be fearless to go after
polar bears.”
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Next week: THE INUIT PEOPLE,
good-natured, resourceful and proud
PHOTOS: Top, Saroomie Manik of Resolute
Bay poses with a polar bear skin. The bear
is similar to the one she killed herself while
out on the ice for 7 hours one day. She
came back home proud and exclaimed to
her family, ‘look...blood on the boots.’ Left,
hunting for ptarmigan.
Walter Passarella/This Week photos
Hunting
AN INTEGRAL PART OF INUIT CULTURE,
BUT EVEN A BRIEF, NON-HUNTING TRIP
ON THE LAND REQUIRES PRECAUTIONS
PART 6:
Walter Passarella/ News Advertiser photos
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EDITORIAL
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Help save a life
this summer
E very minute of every day, someone in Canada needs
blood.
That reminder is posted on the website of Canadian
Blood Services, which is currently teaming up with Lakeridge
Health in an effort to increase blood donations in the region.
Donations decline in summer months, when people are on
vacation and have their minds on the lazy, carefree days of
summer. But the demand for blood never takes a holiday.
Accidents happen. Hospitals need to be at the ready with
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According to Canadian Blood Services, the number of
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lion Canadians in 1981 to 69 per one million in 2000. Organ
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In Durham, Lakeridge Health and the Canadian Blood
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We need laws to protect the unborn
To the editor:
I have been deeply disturbed and saddened by the recent
murder of Liana White and her unborn child in Edmonton.
As Canadians, I believe this affects us all and I extend my
heartfelt condolences to her family and friends. What further
disturbs me in this case is that our present law only allows the
murderer to be charged with one murder as her unborn child
is not protected under law.
This is unthinkable. What has our nation come to that our
law does not even allow us to charge this murderer for killing
the baby as well as his or her mother? I call on Ajax-Pickering
MP Mark Holland and our national politicians to enact com-
passionate and common-sense legislation that will allow true
justice to be done.
Brendan Witton,
Pickering
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Culture of violence growing
in Ajax and Pickering, too
The explosion of gun violence that’s
rocked Toronto in the past few
weeks is our problem, too. There
are among us some -- typically younger,
bolder, and unencumbered by respect
for the law -- who accept outlandish
violence as a response to disputes and a
solution to problems.
A recent case in a Durham courtroom
illustrated this quite aptly. A 20-some-
thing Malvern kid -- his street name is
Scarlton -- was on trial in connection
with a disturbance at a youth dance in
the fall of 2003. Scarlton and another
man were accused of pulling their hand-
guns and firing several shots, hitting two
young men and sending hundreds of
kids running, panicked, outside.
Scarlton, according to testimony,
didn’t like the way another kid was
dancing. When the kid’s friend stood up
for his buddy, bullets flew.
Durham cops picked up one suspect
that night. Detectives in Ajax worked
the case relentlessly to pursue the re-
maining shooter, whom several sources
reluctantly identified as Scarlton.
When he was put on trial this past
winter, however, the case against Scarl-
ton unravelled. Some witnesses were
visibly uncomfortable on the stand,
especially when Scarlton’s supporters
showed up to stare at them from the
courtroom benches. One kid fled to the
United States after police informed him
his life was in danger and encouraged
him to enter the witness protection pro-
gram.
Some of the young men called by the
Crown were so agitated they would not
look toward Scarlton, who sat shack-
led in the prisoner’s dock. Their shaky,
sometimes evasive testimony was
picked apart by an able defence lawyer.
When Scarlton was acquitted, he
looked over his shoulder at a detective
seated behind him. A slow smile spread
across his face and he reached up and
swept at his shoulder, like a man chas-
ing dandruff. He was brushing the cops
off his back.
But Scarlton didn’t walk out of the
Whitby courthouse a free man. He was
shuttled back to Toronto, where he was
being held on other charges. His co-ac-
cused pleaded guilty a few weeks later.
This culture of violence is building
here -- on the streets in Oshawa and
Whitby, on crowded dance floors in
Ajax and Pickering.
How long before innocent victims are
caught in the cross-fire?
Jeff Mitchell is a crime reporter for the
Durham Region Media Group. E-mail
jmitchell@durhamregion.com.
We’re all caught in the crossfire
Jeff
Mitchell
staff writer
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Ajax club going strong
as it celebrates 10 years
By Jason Chamberlain
Special to the News Advertiser
AJAX — The Ajax Comets Baton
Club has been “twirling” for 10 years
now, with no signs of slowing down.
“We have about 40 athletes, both rec-
reational and competitive,” said Andrea
Reid, co-director and head coach of the
club. “Most athletes practise weekly.
Our season begins in October and ends
in the middle of June. We finish with
our Ajax Comets Annual Recital.”
The group is comprised of adoles-
cent and teenage girls.
“Our athletes range from ages 4 to
18,” Reid said. “They’re split up based
on age and ability, so if there’s a 10-
year-old who’s a natural, she could be
working with the older girls.”
The club is also split up into recre-
ational and competitive groups.
“The recreational group is more
geared to fun, there’s nothing super
difficult. The competitive group is a
bit more focused. Because they go to
competitions, there’s the more serious
aspect. They’re expected to practice
more than once a week.”
The group’s hard work has paid off
with success.
“We won the title of junior ‘B’ Parade
Corps at the 2005 Ontario Baton Twirl-
ing Championships at Durham Col-
lege,” she said.
The club is well-known around the
community thanks to its numerous
performances. “Every year we perform
at Fairview Lodge and Ballycliffe. We
perform at the Santa Claus parades in
Ajax and Pickering, as well as at Ajax
Home Week and the Brooklin Spring
Fair.”
The recital caps the year off.
“All of our athletes perform, it’s a lot
of fun,” said Ms. Reid. “Every class gets
to do their routine, with their friends
and family watching.
The girls have fun, and every ath-
lete gets a trophy. Plus we give out
awards like perfect attendance, most
improved, and best new athlete.”
Ms. Reid encourages anyone who
thinks their children would enjoy baton
twirling to get them involved. “It’s a fun
atmosphere, and it provides kids with
an extra-curricular activity. It teach-
es different skills. It’s a great sport, a
combination of gymnastics, dance and
baton twirling.”
The club hosts its registration night
Thursday, Sept. 8, from 6 to 8 p.m., at
the Ajax Community Centre, 75 Cen-
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Comets keep twirling along
Ron Pietroniro/ News Advertiser photo
The Ajax Comets Baton Club is marking 10 years of offering fun and recreational baton
twirling. Each year caps off with a recital at the Ajax Community Centre. At this year’s
event, Sarah Boyd performed a solo for the crowd.
Making
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DURHAM — The Ajax
Cricket Club recently
hosted a friendly game
with the under-19 team
from Argentina. It was a
warm up for Argentina as it
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delivery, while Argentina’s
Hernan Williams waits in
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