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The International News Weekly REGIONAL/CANADA 06 October 06, 2017 | Toronto Seal meat at indigenous restaurant in Toronto ignites debate Agencies TORONTO: There are many dishes on the menu at Kukum Kitchen that reflect chef Joseph Shawana's upbringing on the Wiikwemkoong Unceded Reserve on Manitoulin Island, but one in particular has attracted a great deal of controversy: seal tartare. An online petition launched last week called for the Toronto restaurant to remove seal meat from its menu, stating that "seal slaughters are very violent, horrific, traumatizing and unnecessary." The petition has attracted over 4,500 digital signatures from around the world and prompted a slew of one-star reviews for the restaurant on Facebook and Yelp. Toronto-based Anishinaabe artist Aylan Couchie launched a counter-petition in response, which has been shared by musician Tanya Tagaq and has nearly matched the support of the original campaign. Lenore Newman, the Canada Research Chair for Food Security and Environment and author of "Speaking in Tongues: A Canadian Culinary Journey," considers some of the practices in raising chicken and pork for consumption to be far more cruel — and far more common — than the seal hunt. "Even if (the original petition) is well-intentioned, there are literally thousands of restaurants in Toronto that serve meat that is produced in much worse ways," says Newman, adding that seal meat is an easy target for criticism because its roots are Inuit. "I do think there is some underlying racism in our culture around other people's food. In Canada we have this huge history of oppressing Indigenous cuisine, and telling Indigenous people how they should be eating. "Controlling people's food is about controlling them." The practice of hunting seal, whether for meat or fur, has been controversial for years. High-profile animal rights advocates including Pamela Anderson, Paul McCartney and Morrissey have criticized Canada's seal hunt and imports of seal products are banned in the United States and the European Union. Defenders of the seal hunt cite its economic and cultural significance, particularly in Inuit communities. The author of the original petition, whose name is no longer attached but who has been identified elsewhere as "Jennifer," said she was not singling out any specific cultural practice. "Although this is an Indigenous restaurant, the seal meat comes from a commercial company called SeaDNA therefore has nothing to do with the Indigenous hunt," she wrote online. In her counter-petition, Couchie wrote that she disagreed with that assessment. Sex for fame: I said 'no' to powerful men, says Toronto's famous singer Liona Boyd Agencies TORONTO: Toronto-based famous singer and classical guitarist Liona Boyd says the mounting allegations of sexual harassment against Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein have stirred up painful memories. The five-time Juno Award winner says she encountered powerful entertainment leaders in the 1970s and 1980s who pressured her to trade sex for a chance at fame. "I was in that position too many times," Boyd recalled Wednesday after writing a social media post in support of the women who have spoken up against Weinstein. "Thank goodness I was strong enough to say no, but I did lose all kinds of opportunities." She said she likely missed out on a chance to appear on the TV series "The Love Boat" and perform at the White House with Frank Sinatra because she wouldn't have sex with a man involved in both projects. A role alongside actress Nastassja Kinski was also dangled as bait by a screenwriter who wanted to see her audition in his hotel suite, Boyd recalled. She decided to return to Toronto instead of forging a career in Los Angeles because "the price became too evident." "I felt angry sometimes, I felt used. I felt disappointed," Boyd said. "I was furious at the time. They were taking advantage of my naivety." The Toronto-based singer first wrote about Hollywood's "casting couch mentality" in her 1999 memoir "In My Own Key: My Life in Love and Music." But the four stories of sexual harassment she shared were mostly ignored, as attention centred on details about her eightyear romance with former prime minister Pierre Trudeau. "Nobody asked me about it at all," she said. "(The book) got reviews but nobody mentioned that, all they wanted to know was about Pierre Trudeau." One of her memories outlined in the book involves a French film director who invited her to a business breakfast and then changed plans at the last minute, telling her to meet him at his hotel room instead. Boyd quickly realized it was a mistake. "A heavily perfumed monsieur, making what he had calculated to be a dramatic and irresistible impression in a black silk robe, lunged towards me in greeting while his lecherous hands slid below my waist," she wrote in her memoir. "Angrily extricating myself I told him I was expecting a business meeting. He laughed sardonically, 'Cherie, you look so sexy when you are angry. Let me tame you, my gorgeous lioness.'" Boyd said she felt deceived and stormed out, went back to her own room and reprimanded herself for "being so naive in regard to men." "Times were really different, I guess," the musician said in reflection. "I never thought of reporting it. I told my parents, I told my girlfriend ... but there was no question about seeing a lawyer or reporting any of these men." Boyd hopes her stories will serve as a warning to industry newcomers. Toronto District School Board to remove 'chief' from job titles The Canadian Press TORONTO: Canada's largest school board is phasing out the word "chief" from senior staff job titles, saying the move is being made out of respect for Indigenous peoples. The Toronto District School Board's decision raised eyebrows in some quarters, but a spokesman said the action was taken "in the spirit" of recommendations made by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. However, Ryan Bird said that to his knowledge no Indigenous people had reached out to ask the board to remove the phrase from its job titles. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission spent years documenting the long-standing impacts of Canada's residential school system and made many recommendations to further reconciliation with Indigenous people. For the TDSB, tackling the word "chief" was a proactive move, Bird said, explaining that the term has come under fire in certain contexts in recent years. "It may not have originated as an Indigenous word, but the fact is that it is used as a slur in some cases, or in a negative way to describe Indigenous people," he said in an interview Wednesday. "With that in mind, as it has become a slur in some cases, that's the decision the administration has made to be proactive on that." The board's effort has been underway for a few years and is close to completion, Bird said. From here on out, the word is being replaced with terms like "manager" and "executive officer" within the school board. For instance, Bird said, the person once called the chief of social work is now the manager of social work. Word of the TDSB's efforts drew questions from observers online who wondered if the board may have gone too far. Some questioned the need for the move while others pointed out that the word "chief" is widespread in job titles across the world. Mark Morton, who works at the University of Waterloo's Centre for Teaching Excellence and studies the origin of words, said the root of the word "chief" is believed to predate Latin, and also spawned words such as "captain." The word "chief" in its modern sense was first used to describe leaders of Irish and Scottish clans in the 1570s, and it wasn't until the 18th century that it was applied to the leaders of First Nations, he said. Ontario's 24 colleges to go on strike on Monday IMMIGRATION TO CANADA WITHIN 6-12 MONTHS WE HAVE CONFIRMED JOB OFFERS FROM CANADIAN EMPLOYERS FOR CONFIRMED EMPLOYMENT WORK PERMITS PROVINCIAL NOMINATIONS PROGRAMS WE IMMEDIATELY REQUIRES: Truck Drivers Cooks Diesel Mechanics Auto Mechanics Dairy Farm Worker Construction Workers Air Condition Technician, Restaurant Supervisor & Lots of other positions SUBHASH PUNIA Immigration Counsel Agencies TORONTO: The union representing faculty at Ontario's 24 public colleges has set a strike deadline of 12:01 a.m. on Oct. 16. The Ontario Public Service Employees Union said in a news release late Tuesday that the date was set after the College Employer Council walked away from the bargaining table. J.P. Hornick, the chair of the OPSEU bargaining team, says the employer again refused to consider key issues in the ongoing dispute. 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The International News Weekly CANADA 07 October 06, 2017 | Toronto Acquittal of teacher who secretly filmed female students' breasts upheld Agencies TORONTO: A high school teacher who used a camera pen to secretly video female students' chest areas did so for sexual purposes, but his acquittal on voyeurism charges will nevertheless stand, Ontario's top court ruled in a split decision on Thursday. In dismissing a prosecution challenge to a lower court verdict, the Court of Appeal found the students had no reasonable expectation of privacy — a key element of the offence of voyeurism. Police in London, Ont., charged the English teacher, Ryan Jarvis, over secret recordings he made in 2010 and 2011 of the students while he was chatting with them. The images, captured in various places in and around the school and lasting from seconds to a few minutes, involved 27 female students aged 14 to 18. Another teacher spotted what was happening and alerted the principal, who observed the same conduct and called in the police. Key to the voyeurism charge was that several of the videos, admitted as evidence at trial, focused on the teens' chest areas. In November 2015, Superior Court Justice Andrew Goodman found Jarvis not guilty, despite deciding his behaviour had been "morally repugnant and professionally objectionable." While Goodman ruled the students had a reasonable expectation of privacy, he found the videos were not sexually motivated. Among other things, Goodman said, Jarvis had no other pornographic material, sometimes filmed faces, and none of the images showed nudity or sexual activity. The judge also noted that the images showed what could be "readily seen" by anyone. "While a conclusion that the accused was photographing the students' cleavage for a sexual purpose is most likely," Goodman found, "there may be other inferences to be drawn." The Crown appealed, arguing it should have been a no-brainer that Jarvis, who did not testify, had been sexually motivated: The subjects were females, and the camera was deliberately pointed downward at their breasts. In coming to opposite conclusions than Goodman did — but still upholding the acquittal — the majority of the Appeal Court panel that heard the case rejected his analysis of the sexual aspect, which leaned on parallels to child pornography. Goodman was wrong, the higher court ruled, to consider the lack of nudity as negating the sexual purposes Jarvis had. The judge also failed to identify what other purposes the teacher might have had, the higher court said. "This was an overwhelming case of videos focused on young women's breasts and cleavage," Justice Kathryn Feldman wrote on behalf of herself and Justice David Watt. However, in looking at the second element of the offence, Feldman and Watt disagreed with Goodman that the teens had a reasonable expectation of privacy at school even though they could be recorded, for example, by security cameras. In coming to that conclusion, the majority noted that we live in an open society "where visual interaction is part of everyday life and is valued" and that while school should be a protected and safe environment, students know they can be observed in places where they gather. "If a person is in a public place, fully clothed and not engaged in toileting or sexual activity, they will normally not be in circumstances that give rise to a reasonable expectation of privacy," the court ruled. Wishing You all a very Happy Diwali Easy Prep… Authentic Taste Toronto police detonate suspicious package outside headquarters Agencies TORONTO: A suspect is in custody after a suspicious package was left in front of Toronto police headquarters on Thursday afternoon. The building was placed under a hold and secure after police discovered the package shortly before 2 p.m. Security camera footage showed a man in dark clothes with a knapsack walk up to the entrance and leave a grey and red container on a concrete planter. Police used a robot to probe the package and later confirmed that one detonation was made. 15-year-old boy charged in 10 Toronto bank robberies Continued from page 01 They say a person wearing sunglasses and a hoodie entered a bank, approached the teller and presented a note saying that he had a gun and demanding cash. They say the person got the cash, and escaped in a getaway car driven by the second suspect. Investigators say the 15-year-old boy has been charged with 10 counts of robbery and 10 counts of disguise with intent. The 30-year-old has been charged with 10 counts of robbery and 10 counts of dangerous driving. The pair appeared in court Sunday. www.kfisauces.com @kfisocial /katariafood Available @ Loblaw’s, No Frills, Longo’s, Food Basics, Metro and Ethnic stores.
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