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Director Aaron Willis has kept all the period appropriate references to VCRs, Quentin Tarantino’s breakout films, and the release of the Tommy Lee & Pamela Anderson sex tape intact. He and sound designer Lindsay Taft have also done a plum job of giving the piece an authentic late ’90s soundtrack—Radiohead, Green Day, etc.—that thankfully never overwhelms the actor’s dialogue. RENT really is discussed, in a withering appraisal by Petra, who’s developed a tenuous friendship with a lonely patron (Mike McPhaden, in a nicely nuanced turn) at the strip club where she’s secretly taken up dancing again. Loneliness is a disease that creeps up on all the characters in Shinn’s play, though it’s more obvious with some; Stephen’s, for instance, is outright and desperate, and exaggerated by Mark’s repression and new lifestyle choices (which drive Lewis’ still-pining character to distraction).

See the full article from “A.V. Club”

Nikota Martin, 26, of Brampton, Ont., was arrested Friday evening by Peel Region police officers at a Mississauga apartment building.
Martin faces multiple charges, including being an accessory after the fact, failing to stop for police, dangerous operation of a vehicle, driving while suspended, improper storage of a firearm, occupying a vehicle with a firearm and possession of a firearm.
London police issued a warrant for Martins arrest after a Jan. 11 shooting outside a suspected Hells Angels clubhouse in London.
Diamond Ialenti, a full-patch Hells Angel, was shot along with a woman.
Ialenti was in serious condition in hospital following the shooting. The woman was treated at hospital and released.
A London man and two Brampton men were arrested shortly after the shooting following a high-speed chase.
The shooting came after several suspected arsons at London businesses, including a tattoo shop, two massage parlours and a strip club.

See the full article from “CANOE”

Martin faces multiple charges, including accessory to attempt murder, failing to stop for police, dangerous operation of a vehicle, driving while suspended, improper storage of a firearm, occupying a vehicle with a firearm and possession of a firearm.
London police issued a warrant for Martin’s arrest after a Jan. 11 shooting outside a suspected Hells Angels clubhouse on Grey St. in London.
Diamond Ialenti, a full-patch Hells Angel, was shot along with a woman.
Ialenti was in serious condition in hospital following the shooting. The woman was treated at hospital and released.
Three men, including a London man and two Brampton men, were arrested shortly after the shooting following a high-speed chase.
The shooting came after several arsons at London adult businesses, including a tattoo shop, two massage parlours and a strip club.
A massage parlour in St. Thomas, Ont., was also torched.

See the full article from “Winnipeg Sun”

… The activities that take place at these clubs have to be brought under control,” he insisted. “Right now, there’s no laws that governs these clubs or the swingers inside.”
The association has written to city councillors and licensing officials to take action.
City of Toronto spokesman Bruce Hawkins said there are no plans to start licensing the clubs, adding they are governed by the Criminal Code.
He noted “services” are not provided by owners of the clubs.
“The activity is carried out by the patrons,” he said in an e-mail.
The owners of Wicked, meanwhile, said they’re abiding by all city bylaws and guidelines.
“We are operating under the rule of law,” said co-owner Aurora Benzion. “We are providing a venue for people to meet.”
Benzion said her club is different from a strip club or massage parlour, since her patrons “have a very different lifestyle.”

See the full article from “London Free Press”

… She was on methadone and hardline abstinence pushers were telling her to get off of it,” he said. Ferentzy calls this an unrealistic and cruel standard to impose upon any addict and blames this line of thinking for the dramatic relapse, overdose, and death of his friend. “Unfortunately, many people consider dependence of any kind or degree to be a problem. But that is a very moralistic conception of what a human being ought to be.”
That moralistic conception lies at the heart of what is wrong with North American notions of addiction, he argues in his book. There is a “punishing attitude,” taken for granted among addiction specialists and user support groups, that an addict must suffer the full pains of withdrawal before they can begin to recover.
For example, he argues, going hand-in-hand with the “abstinence only” view of drug addiction is the assumption that addicts must hit their “rock bottom” before they can summon the conviction to get clean.
But imagine a drug addicted prostitute who is not yet ready to kick her habit, he says.

See the full article from “TheTyee.ca (blog)”

… The activities that take place at these clubs have to be brought under control,” he insisted. “Right now, there’s no laws that governs these clubs or the swingers inside.”
The association has written to city councillors and licensing officials to take action.
City of Toronto spokesman Bruce Hawkins said there are no plans to start licensing the clubs, adding they are governed by the Criminal Code.
He noted “services” are not provided by owners of the clubs.
“The activity is carried out by the patrons,” he said in an e-mail.
The owners of Wicked, meanwhile, said they’re abiding by all city bylaws and guidelines.
“We are operating under the rule of law,” said co-owner Aurora Benzion. “We are providing a venue for people to meet.”
Benzion said her club is different from a strip club or massage parlour, since her patrons “have a very different lifestyle.”

See the full article from “Toronto Sun”

The first person to be convicted of human trafficking in York Region was given a stiff sentence on Friday.
Jason Reid, 28, of Richmond Hill was sentenced to four years in jail.
Court heard that Reid forced a 21-year-old woman to exchange sex for money at a Toronto-area massage parlour.
The woman said Reid kept her at his Richmond Hill Home without access to her credit cards and identification.
Court also heard that she was also not allowed to speak with other men, unless it was negotiating money, and that she was forced to hand over all of her earnings to Reid.
Reid’s sentence includes three years for human trafficking and an additional year for possession of a handgun while under a weapons ban.
Reid, who was arrested on Sept. 29, was also given a lifetime ban on owning a weapon and must provide a DNA sample.

See the full article from “CTV.ca”

Friends and family of a 23-year-old woman slain in Toronto late last year have built a memorial near where her body was discovered so she isn’t forgotten. Robin Brideau, 32, of Toronto, said building a giant stone memorial for his slain friend, Leanne Freeman, has been a labour of love.
The memorial is close to where Freeman’s injured body was found in November 2011, after she was shot in the head. Brideau said he wants others to remember Freeman, who moved to Toronto shortly before her death and also had ties to Winnipeg and Thunder Bay.
“Somebody needed to get it done,” said Brideau.
The memorial is located on a roadside near the waterfront east of downtown. It’s about one metre tall and two metres long.
The value of the granite memorial is more than $30,000, thanks to hand-engraving, which was donated.
Brideau said he was angered by reports his friend was involved in prostitution, something he said is inaccurate.

See the full article from “Winnipeg Free Press”

Federal Court Judge Michel Shore threw out the appeal last month and ordered the deportation to take effect “as soon as it is realistically feasible to do so.”
Court heard Es-Sayyid was jailed for using a knife and sawed-off shotgun for the June 2007 robbery of an escort and her girlfriend in their apartment. He got away with $1,910, the victim’s purse, cell phones and identification cards.
Es-Sayyid was convicted of using a shotgun in July 2007 to rob a private club and patrons of $3,000 in cash and $1,500 in personal goods.
And, on July 26, 2007, Es-Sayyid armed with another gun, and an accomplice, robbed a third sex worker in her hotel room of her purse containing $505 in cash, two credit cards, two cell phones, identification cards and personal effects.

See the full article from “Toronto Sun”

MorningFile: Little girl’s cellphone holds sexy secret, Ford administration wrangles with unions
Welcome to Saturday. Supposedly it’s relatively warm outside, but why bother with fresh air when you can have news?
The absolute best story to come out of the GTA yesterday evening is this one, about an 11-year-old Oshawa girl who got a new cell phone for Christmas (aww!) only to have Bell assign her a number that used to belong to an escort service (eww…), with predictable results. It seems to have been an honest mistake.
City Manager Joe Pennachetti wants to offer buyout packages to workers the City is about to lay off, partly as a way of avoiding the lengthy process of finding them other jobs as required by their collective agreement. The Sun headline is pretty much just as petulant as you’d think it would be.

See the full article from “Open File (blog)”