The Canadian Parvasi - Issue 19

The International News Weekly REGIONAL
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November 03, 2017 | Toronto
3 die in multi-vehicle pileup
on Highway 400 near Toronto
Continued from page 01
"There are cars everywhere,
twisted transport
trucks, destroyed vehicles,
metal that is unrecognizable
as to whether or not
it is a vehicle at all or not."
Police said in a tweet
that the southbound lanes
of the highway opened at
about midnight Thursday,
but the northbound lanes
remained closed.
The crash took place
in the northbound lanes
of Highway 400 south of
Barrie, Ont., late Tuesday
night, when police said a
transport truck crashed
into slowing traffic, triggering
a pileup that involved
at least four transport
trucks and two fuel
tankers that spilled thousands
of litres of fuel on the
road. The impact caused a
fireball.
"The temperatures that
were achieved in this fire
are apocalyptic," Schmidt
said. "It is unbelievable to
see that kind of damage
and destruction from a motor
vehicle collision."
Police said the northbound
lanes of the highway
— between Country
Road 88 and Highway 89
— may need to be repaired
before traffic can resume.
The names of those
killed have not been released.
Police also said several
people were injured in
the crash but have since
been released from hospital.
On Wednesday morning,
the area around the
crash was littered with
twisted metal, pieces of
what looked like molten
debris, and the shells of
burned out vehicles. The
highway itself was covered
in soot in areas and
Schmidt said molten aluminium
from the wreckage
was draining down the
road.
OPP commissioner
Vince Hawkes, who just
days earlier had sounded
the alarm about fatal collisions
caused by distracted
truck drivers, said the latest
crash could have killed
many more people.
"It's a miracle that we
don't have 25 bodies down
there," Hawkes said, adding
that he's putting the
trucking industry on notice.
Luba Zariczny, 25, said
she felt the heat from the
towering flames from the
other side of the highway
as she drove past the crash
on her way home to Mississauga,
Ont.
"I felt a lot of heat coming
off it and just a lot of
cars burnt up and people
just off to the side. It looked
like some people tried to reverse
back and then there
was other cars that I could
see emergency lights on so
they just literally left their
cars and ran," she said.
"I automatically assumed
that there was definitely
casualties in there,
like fatalities. Just seeing
how on a big scale it was, it
gets you a little bit."
Officials said the fatal
accident had come less
than hour after a threevehicle
collision that
happened a few hundred
metres further north on
Highway 400.
Kevin Gallant, fire
chief for the neighbouring
town of Bradford-West
Gwillimbury, said heavy
traffic from that collision
likely set the scene for the
pileup.
Gallant said he was on
the scene of the first collision
when the second one
happened just before 11:30
p.m.
"When I looked to the
south from the accident I
was already on, all I saw
was a big ball of fire," Gallant
said.
Doctor who stroked, kissed female patient loses licence, fined $40K
The Canadian Press
TORONTO: A Toronto
doctor has been stripped
of his licence and ordered
to pay tens of thousands
of dollars after Ontario's
medical watchdog found he
made sexual remarks and
inappropriately touched
a female patient during
psychotherapy sessions
over several years.The discipline
committee for the
College of Physicians and
Surgeons ruled in August
2016 that William (Art)
Beairsto behaved inappropriately
toward the patient,
who alleged he had stroked
her buttocks while restricting
her movement, rolled
up her shirt and looked at
her breasts when she had
bronchitis, and kissed her
on both cheeks after each
visit.
In a penalty decision released
earlier this month,
the committee ordered that
Beairsto's licence to practice
medicine be revoked,
that he reimburse the college
$16,060 in funding for
therapy and counselling for
the patient, and that he pay
the college $24,420.
"The committee is persuaded
that revocation of
Dr. Beairsto's certificate of
registration is required to
address public safety," the
decision reads.
The punishment is
significantly stricter than
what Beairsto had requested.
His lawyer had requested
that he only be barred
from practising for three
additional months — he
hasn't practised since November
2016 — that he continue
an educational program
on boundaries and
that he be supervised by
another doctor for twelve
months.
According to the penalty
decision, dozens of
patients sent letters in
Beairsto's support, and 16
testified on his behalf in
person.
The committee also
heard from two expert witnesses
who testified they
had spent time with Beairsto
since the discipline
committee released its
decision, and they found
that his understanding of
boundary issues had improved.
But the committee said
the punishment for Beairsto's
actions was needed to
maintain the public's confidence
in the standards
to which doctors are held.
It also noted that Beairsto
had previously been
brought before another college
committee for similar
but unrelated allegations,
and was required to take
training courses on boundaries.
According to the penalty
decision, "Beairsto did
not change his practice despite
the boundary training
he had taken."
The decision also said
it gave "little weight" to the
character evidence provided
by other patients, "given
that these patients lacked
knowledge of the incidents
being considered, and that
the sexual abuse and other
elements of professional
misconduct, which Dr.
Beairsto was found to have
engaged in, occurred in private."
In a victim impact statement,
the woman at the centre
of the case said Beairsto's
comments made her
feel "violated" and "dirty".
She said she wondered if
she'll ever be able to trust
a doctor again, particularly
a male doctor, should she
decide to go back into counselling.
The committee is part
of a regulatory body and its
decisions don't require the
same level of scrutiny as a
criminal court.
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