Toronto Escorts In The News!

Atom Egoyan’s latest film, Chloe, turns Toronto into a dark and sexy city. A suspicious wife (Julianne Moore), a cad of a husband (Liam Neeson) and a sultry call girl (Amanda Seyfried) form the psychologically complex triangle at the centre of Egoyan’s latest film. Stacked with stars and moody shots of Toronto, it’s requisite viewing for the city’s cinephiles. Here, the director talks about the making of his racy new thriller.
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Julianne Moore’s character meets with the escort Chloe at a bar in Yorkville. What kind of research did you do to ensure those scenes were authentic? Ha! No comment. I had to make sure that, in the age of the Internet, call girls still lurk in hotels, but I couldn’t do that in Toronto because people recognize me.
Unless you want to see “Atom Egoyan caught soliciting a prostitute in Yorkville” in The Star. Exactly.

See the full article from “Toronto Life”

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CBC News – Manitoba – Native gangs spreading across Canada
Native gangs spreading across Canada Last Updated: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 | 12:04 PM CT The Canadian Press
Aboriginal gangs are proliferating across Canada as criminal organizations exploit the intense poverty and squalid conditions of First Nations communities, says a top officer with the RCMP’s aboriginal police division.
The gangs’ stock-in-trade includes drug distribution, prostitution and theft, and they’re only growing more sophisticated, said the RCMP.
“The gangs are brought on by poverty,” said RCMP Sgt. Merle Carpenter, who holds the aboriginal gangs file with the National Aboriginal Policing Services.
“They intimidate by violence and these aboriginal youth are just wanting to belong to somebody.”
‘They are certainly increasing in numbers and becoming more sophisticated in how they do business.’—RCMP Sgt. Merle Carpenter

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Published on Wednesday, February 24, 2010
TORONTO—Feb 24, 2010–SpectrumHD Inc. (TORONTO, ON) launched the Adam&EveTV.ca website (www.adamevetv.ca). Adam&Eve (www.adameve.com/news) is the World Leader in Adult Content and Products. AdamEveTV will set the same standard in Broadcasting with Exclusive Content including Adult Reality Shows, Feature Films, Made for TV Short Films, Adult Entertainment News and Adult Poker Shows all in HD!
AdamEveTV will launch with OnDemand and HD subscription services in 2010 available on Canadian Cable Networks and US Satellite Service providers.

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… One theatre in the city needs to be able to produce large scale art that is creatively challenging and decidedly part of the 21st century,” Jocelyn said. “Part of what we’re doing, audiences have not been able to see hitherto in Toronto. I’m sure we will be able to create an audience.”
Here are some other season highlights:
• Canadian Stage will collaborate with Theatre Passe Muraille for the first time to present The Middle Place, a touching examination of youth living in a shelter at the Berkeley Street Theatres from Feb. 14 to March 12, 2011.
• Order of Canada inductee Peter Hinton will direct Michel Tremblay’s Saint Carmen of the Main in February. In it, Carmen, a country singer, returns from Nashville to the Main, which is the red light district in Montreal (”I’ve never been,” Hinton quipped at the press conference yesterday). Saint Carmen is at the Bluma from Feb. 7 to March 5, 2011.

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The winners will be announced at an awards ceremony in Toronto on May 14.
The list of Canwest nominees is:
- Beat reporting â Jodie Sinnema, Edmonton Journal, for health coverage.
- Politics â Paula Simons of the Edmonton Journal for columns about the Alberta government’s anti-gay amendments to the Human Rights Act.
- Short features â Tom Blackwell of the National Post for a story on the information gleaned from autopsies on slain Canadian soldiers and how that information protects those still fighting the Afghan war.
- Presentation â Genevieve Biloski, National Post.
- Special project â Vancouver Province for Operation Phoenix, a community initiative looking for solutions and hope for the notorious Downtown Eastside; and Windsor Star for “Fallen Angels”, a series that linked a Windsor charity in Haiti to the worldwide phenomenon of sex tourism.

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Local Reporting: Scott Tracey, Rob O’Flanagan and Nicole O’Reilly of the Guelph Mercury for an investigation of the local gravel industry; Rob Tripp and Paul Schliesmann of the Kingston Whig-Standard for stories of the mysterious death of four Montreal women in an alleged honour killing; Elliot Ferguson and Bruce Urquhart of the Woodstock Sentinel-Review for the coverage of the abduction and murder of schoolgirl Tori Stafford.
Presentation: Genevieve Biloski, National Post; Jason Chiu and David Pratt, the Globe and Mail; David Woodside, the Globe and Mail
Special Project: The Hamilton Spectator for a project on The Way We Spend which spoke directly to the needs of readers in a frightening economy; Vancouver Province for Operation Phoenix, a community project in search of solutions and hope for the notorious downtown eastside; Windsor Star for Fallen Angels, a series that linked a Windsor charity in Haiti to the worldwide phenomenon of sex tourism.

See the full article from “The Canadian Press”

TORONTO – An angry gunman who fatally shot an innocent man testified he fired his weapon only to frighten the burly bouncer who tossed him out of the Yonge St. strip club.
“I thought, ‘I’m going to shoot a round in the air and scare him,’ ” testified Edward Paredes, as he recalled the tragic slaying of John O’Keefe, 42, outside the Brass Rail tavern on Jan. 12, 2008.
O’Keefe was walking home along Yonge from a pub when he was struck by the bullet fired by Paredes and died instantly.
Paredes, 24, and his friend Awet Zekarias, 25, have pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder.
“I blame myself for Mr. O’Keefe’s death. If I didn’t bring the firearm and if I didn’t shoot it … I blame myself,” Paredes testified on Tuesday.
Paredes said he was seeking revenge on bouncer Shane Knox after Paredes and Zekarias were ejected from the strip club.

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Testifying in his defence at the Brass Rail murder trial, Mr. Paredes said he only fired a shot to scare the bouncer who ejected him from the Yonge Street strip club on Jan. 12, 2008.
“I blame myself … I did it myself, I did it,” Mr. Paredes said.
A department-store salesman who lives in Scarborough, he said he carried a pistol in downtown Toronto after he was mugged at gunpoint and lost his iPod near the Eaton Centre the previous summer.
Mr. Paredes, 24, and his best friend, Awet Zekarias, 25, had gone to the Brass Rail to celebrate Mr. Zekarias’s birthday.
They were charged with second-degree murder after Mr. Paredes fired his handgun outside the club and killed a passerby, John O’Keefe.
Crown attorney Hank Goody portrayed Mr. Paredes as a brash, careless man who got a thrill out from sneaking a gun into the strip club.

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The man who fatally shot a passerby on Yonge Street two years ago says he was aiming to “scare” the head bouncer at a local strip club, and not to kill anyone.
But the gunfire strayed and instead pierced the brain of John O’Keefe, a 42-year-old father who was walking up Yonge in the early morning hours of Jan. 12, 2008.
“I blame myself,” Edward Paredes admitted under questioning by defence lawyer Robert Tomovski.
“If I was looking where I shot–I blame myself.”
Mr. Paredes, 24, and his friend Awet Zekarias, 25, are on trial for second-degree murder in Mr. O’Keefe’s death. The Crown has suggested Mr. Paredes fired the gun at the repeated urging of a furious Mr. Zekarias, who allegedly told his friend to “pull the gat” and “smoke these fools.”
Mr. Zekarias has denied making any such demands, saying the responsibility for Mr. O’Keefe’s death was split evenly between Mr. Paredes and staff at the Brass Rail strip club.

See the full article from “National Post”

Brass Rail gunman says he wanted to scare bouncer Last Updated: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 | 9:58 PM ET CBC News
Edward Paredes testified Tuesday he carried the handgun for protection after being robbed at gunpoint at the Eaton Centre in the summer of 2007. (Alex Tavshunsky/CBC)
The man who fired the bullet that killed John O’Keefe outside Toronto’s Brass Rail strip club two years ago says if he’d been more careful with his gun an innocent bystander would still be alive today.
O’Keefe, 42, was shot and killed outside the Yonge Street club, just south of Bloor Street, in the early hours of Jan. 12, 2008, as he headed home from a downtown pub.
Edward Paredes, 24, admitted in court Tuesday that carrying a loaded gun was wrong, but he said he had no intention of killing anyone.

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