Decision needed now on Toronto casino: OLG's Godfrey

By Don Peat, Toronto Sun — Toronto councillors wanting to hold a 2014 referendum on a casino will be too late for the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation.
OLG chairman Paul Godfrey says the provincial gaming corporation won’t wait if councillors decide to put the question of a Toronto casino to a referendum during the next municipal election.
“We’ll build it in Mississauga or somewhere else first,” Godfrey told the Toronto Sun’s editorial board Thursday. More...

Also: Holyday wants council ban on casino lobbyists

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Nightingale Award 2012: Mobile nurse provides first-aid to Toronto’s marginalized youth

Toronto Star – Administering medical care to young people living on city streets is a far cry from tending to scrapes and homesick children at summer camp. In fact, they are “opposite ends of the spectrum,” says registered nurse Lori McAuley, before adding. “But I love them both.”
In 2009, McAuley, who spends her summers working at Muskoka Woods, a summer camp in Rosseau, Ont., began volunteering with Light Patrol, a charity outreach program that responds to the needs of Toronto’s homeless and street-involved young people. More...

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Katelynn’s death is an outrage

Editorial ,Toronto Sun - Something is rotten in Ontario’s child welfare system and it’s killing children.
Seven-year-old Katelynn Angel Sampson is the latest victim.
Randal Dooley and Jeffrey Baldwin were just two of the previous ones.
The horrors have been revealed over and over at murder trials and inquests.
As reported by the Sun’s Michele Mandel last week, Katelynn died on Aug. 3, 2008, assaulted, battered and bruised, forced to write out 62 times before her death at the hands of her court-appointed guardians, “I am A awful girl that’s why no one wants me.”
While this was going on, the children’s aid system missed warning after warning that Katelynn was in mortal danger. More....

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— The view was definitely exotic: A giant, rust-bitten ship, tinted with the yellow and purple light of a sunrise, its deck filling up with workers, visible from where my boyfriend and I were sitting, enjoying the view of the docks.
It was 2005. I was wearing a shiny, backless top and a pink handkerchief for a skirt. We had just tumbled out of a club still high on a pill with a dolphin stamped out in it. Our heads buzzed from hours of violent techno and dancing. It was 8 a.m., an hour foreign to me unless I stayed up so late that I got to see it from this end. Eventually, we walked along the water, and as the sky turned from purple to blue, we started seeing the overeager morning folk: joggers, a lone student on bicycle and moms pushing strollers. How adorable! More...

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Gizmodo.com -- You've never heard of scopolamine. It's synthesized from plants, like cocaine. It even looks exactly like cocaine. But unlike coke, it'll turn you into an insane zombie and probably kill you. There's a reason they call it "the Devil's Breath." More...

Family's plea on drug-driving laws

(UKPA) – The family of a teenager killed by a cannabis user have called for a "zero tolerance" approach to enforcing new laws on drug-driving.
Lillian Groves was 14 years old when she was knocked down in 2010 outside her home in New Addington, Croydon, south London. The driver, who was sentenced in July last year, went on to serve just four months in jail.
Her mother Natasha said there should be "no exceptions" in applying new measures announced by the Government to tackle drug-driving, adding: "Make it zero tolerance and that way everybody knows where they stand." More...

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Crackdown on 'No. 1 drug'
Ontario gets strict with OxyContin prescriptions

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Toronto Sun - Tired of the deaths, crime, duplicity and misery, the ministry of health will soon install strict new guidelines in how the "highly addictive" painkiller OxyContin is both prescribed and dispensed, the Sun has learned.
With a new multi-layered strategy which includes modern Internet watchdog technology, the Ontario government is about to declare war on those behind one of this province's dirtiest little secrets.
"There will be some significant changes taking place," says Helen Stevenson, assistant deputy minister and executive officer on Ontario's Public Drug Program.
"The letters from families who lost a child are heartbreaking. We have done a thorough look and this is, most definitely, an increasing and substantial public safety problem."
Who is hooked on this prescription drug?
Addiction counsellor Mark Elliot, who runs Intervention Toronto and hosts People Helping People on Newstalk 1010, says look around you.
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