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Now that social justice has replaced neo-colonialism in Zimbabwe, the former Breadbasket of Africa is one of the worst basket cases on the planet, featuring racist oppression, fallow confiscated farms, starvation, and essentially worthless currency. The drawbacks of having a moonbat like Oxford-educated socialist Robert Mugabe in charge don't end there — the whole world could be affected, as Mugabe steps up to provide Iran with uranium for its nuclear weapons program:
Simbarashe Mumbengegwi, Zimbabwe's foreign minister, said the sanctions — which prohibit member states from providing Iran with raw materials that it could use to make a nuclear weapon — were unfair and hypocritical.
He said that Zimbabwe, which is also the subject of sanctions over human rights abuses perpetrated by President Robert Mugabe's supporters, would benefit economically from the agreement.
A leaked intelligence report suggests Iran will be awarded with exclusive access to Zimbabwe's uranium in return for providing the country with fuel.
Those sanctions work wonders, don't they? No wonder moonbats prefer them to the credible threat of force.
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On the list of over 20 suggestions was a call to immediately suspend the university's plans to expand fraternity and sorority life.
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Stacey Keare advocates for those in need of legal assistance in volunteer role with Legal Aid Society
It's a fact that's often overlooked — more people living in the Menlo Park area than one might expect need some kind of legal assistance or advocacy help. "People don't realize the extend of the situation or the issues that need addressing," said Stacey Keare, who was recently elected President of the Board of Directors of the Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County. Legal Aid's mission is to help disadvantaged and vulnerable persons improve their lives through equal access to justice. Since its founding in 1959, it has served over 175,000 clients throughout the community. Last year Legal Aid provided legal assistance to 84 families in Menlo Park, many of whom had more than one legal issue. The organization is the only provider of free legal services in the County to people who need help in the areas of access to health care, public benefits, elder abuse, special education and other issues. Stacey, who's been on the Board since 2009 and who describes herself as "a non-profit kind of person," has a number of goals set for her tenure. "The first is to work through the strategic plan we put together last year," she said. "The organization has been around over five decades, but this is the first time there's been a strategic plan. Our Executive Director Stacey Hawver is doing a good job of incorporating it." Her other goal is to broaden the support that attorneys provide the organization. "Law firms are steady donors, but I'd like to see increased giving from individual attorneys," she said. Stacey has served as a pro bono attorney at the Pro Bono Project, General Assistance Advocacy Project and San Francisco Neighborhood Legal Assistance Foundation. She has also been a board member of Summit Prep Charter High School and Summit Public Schools. She is on the Silicon Valley Leadership Board of the Global Fund for Children and the Kennedy School's Women's Leadership Board Not all the people who approach the local Legal Aid Society are defined strictly as needing legal services, according to Stacey. "By helping people get their proper health benefits and to escape from abusive problems, we're ultimately helping people with their lives, not just their legal issues." Photo by Scott R. Kline
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"No emancipation for the Smith kids," Smith stated on The Ellen DeGeneres Show Wednesday.
Smith had laughingly claimed his son wanted emancipation due to wanting a house. Smith's original statements indicate that he wouldn't allow this at this point.
"On the other side, if kids just want to have command of their lives, I understand," Smith said. The Smith parents are famous for trying to empower their kids to make their own decisions, such as when their daughter Willow wanted to cut her hair.
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Nationals release Luis Ayala
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The Nationals have released veteran reliever Luis Ayala after signing him to a minor-league contract in early February.
Ayala has actually been remarkably effective over the past three seasons, posting a 2.58 ERA in 164 total innings despite being in his mid-30s and looking more or less washed up previously.
However, his raw stuff has long since ceased being impressive and the Nationals' bullpen is a tough one to crack considering both the depth and quality of relievers, so Ayala ultimately might be better off latching on somewhere else.
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Unless they took pictures, no one would believe they ever caught him in the first place.
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Bad news for Ayala. Hopefully he'll sign elsewhere, he has been one of the most effective closers in winter baseball in the past 4-5 years and even more considering he can be a long reliever and spot starter (pretty much like Aceves who had a wonderful pair of games for México helping them to win a back-to-back championship in the Caribbean Series this past february).
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Uh, Braves pitchers keep dropping like flies… might wanna have his agent give them a ring…
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Men who gang raped journalist at deserted Mumbai factory jailed for life for doing the same to another woman weeks earlier
- Three of the four jailed will be sentenced for a second rape on Monday
- Prosecutor says he may seek death for the men involved in both crimes
- They had lured both women to abandoned buildings before raping them
Three of the four men who gang-raped a photojournalist in an abandoned textile mill last year have been jailed for life for the rape of a call-centre worker at the same spot weeks before.
Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam said the Mumbai court delivered the maximum punishment to the trio and another man after finding them guilty of rape, unnatural sex and abduction.
The court delayed until Monday the sentencing of three of the defendants and a fourth person in the rape of the photojournalist several weeks later at Shakti Mills in Lower Parel.
Jailed for life: One of the men today sentenced for the gang rape of a call-centre worker at an abandoned mill in Mumbai. Three of the four will face another hearing on Monday to be sentenced for raping a woman
Another of the men sentenced today: Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam said the Mumbai court delivered the maximum punishment to the men after finding them guilty of rape, unnatural sex and abduction
Another of the men is escorted by police to his sentencing hearing: All four men sentenced today after a fast-track trial are expected to appeal the verdict in a higher court
Special Public Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam speaks to the media outside court: He said he may ask for the death sentence for the three men who have been found guilty to both rapes
Mr Nikam said he might ask for the three defendants involved in both rape cases to be sentenced to death. However, all four men sentenced today are expected to appeal the verdict.
The two rapes at Shakti Mills took place last summer in the Lower Parel district of Mumbai, where luxury malls and condominiums stand alongside sprawling slums.
In the case of the photojournalist, she was on assignment when a gang of five men lured her and a colleague inside an abandoned factory which she had been asked to photograph.
After initially offering to help her get permission to shoot inside the building, they became aggressive and accused the male colleague of being involved in a local crime.
When he denied any involvement they tied his hands with a belt and took the woman to another part of the building compound where they took turns raping her, said Mumbai's Police Commissioner Satyapal Singh at the time.
Scene of the crime: Shakti Mills in the Lower Parel district of Mumbai, which is an area of great inequality where luxury malls and condominiums stand alongside sprawling slums
After the attack, the gang took the pair straight to a train station to stop them reporting the crime. But the 22-year-old went on to a hospital where medics were able to preserve vital evidence.
then went on to stun India after her attack when she told local media
that 'rape is not the end of life' - a groundbreaking statement in a
country were rape victims are often shunned.
Her decision to come forward paved the way for today's sentencing, when the victim of that attack decided that it was worth her reporting her ordeal to police as well.
Neither victim can be named under Indian law.
A policeman stands guard at the scene in a file photo taken at the time: Police Commissioner Satyapal Singh told reporters that the men tied the victim's colleague's hands with a belt while she was gang-raped
CSI Mumbai: Investigators comb the area after the rape of the woman was reported
Both trials were completed in seven months by a fast-track court. Rape cases are being handled more rapidly since December 2012, when a 23-year-old medical student was brutally gang-raped on a moving bus in New Delhi.
So savage were the injuries inflicted by her rapists that she later died in hospital.
Rape, rarely talked about in India's deeply conservative society, became front-page news, with demands that police do more to protect women.
Pledging to crack down, the federal government created fast-track courts for rape cases, doubled prison terms for rape, and criminalized voyeurism and stalking.
Four men have been sentenced to death in the New Delhi gang rape case.
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Sure, he won the first season of Project Runway, but that doesn't mean Jay McCarroll has had it easy. As one of the first reality TV winners to be catapulted to fame, McCarroll's faced a lot of criticism about why he hasn't done more. He was a subject of a story about Bravo's struggling reality stars back in 2007, a cautionary tale about the price of sudden stardom.
A couple of years ago, Jay's post-show plight was the subject of a Bravo special, and now those same filmmakers have turned his story into a feature-length documentary, Eleven Minutes. The film is set to hit theaters Feb. 20 and traces Jay's journey to create a collection, show it at New York Fashion Week, and market it to stores.
Jay's always been better at the art side of fashion than at the business aspects (or at sucking up to people, for that matter), and so I'm curious to see how he navigates the high-end fashion world. Even if he's not your favorite Runway winner, would you check out this movie about "the constant balancing of commerce with art, fame with talent and reality TV with actual reality"? To watch the trailer, just read more.
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"I realize that localizing a game this size can cost a lot, so if it'll help in even the slightest, I'll gladly offer to let Nintendo use my text translation files for any use at all, completely for free," Mandelin wrote. "I'll even edit the files to fit whatever new standards are necessary (content, formatting, memory size, etc.), completely for free. I'll even retranslate everything from scratch if need be. Just whatever it takes to get an official release out."
Mandelin, along with a team of devout Mother 3 fans, launched a patch for the game in 2008 that translates the entire Earthbound sequel to English. Mother 3 was originally developed by Brownie Brown, a Nintendo subsidiary now known as 1-Up Studio.
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The Pennington County resident age 90-99 had influenza B and was hospitalized.
South Dakota year to date has reported 156 laboratory-confirmed cases of flu and 28 flu-related hospitalizations.
State Epidemiologist Dr. Lon Kightlinger says the death is a reminder that flu can be a very serious illness, particularly for elderly individuals. He says annual vaccination is the single best way to protect against the flu, and annual vaccination is recommended particularly for people over 50.
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Gulfport police have made an arrest in a shooting that killed Xavier Monroe near the Eclipse Lounge early Sunday morning.
The Sun Herald reports the man was taken into custody Monday and was being questioned at the police station late in the afternoon, but police declined to release his name.
The 25-year-old Monroe was shot while he and his girlfriend were leaving the club about 5:25 a.m. Sunday.
Monroe's girlfriend, Brittani Ridgeway, said they were leaving the lounge when he was struck by a stray bullet fired by someone she didn't know.
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We can't divulge whom Grangier chose to go out with, but he says his decision wasn't based on firm abs or a bubble butt. "We had great conversations, and that's what's really important to me," he says. "Living in multiple cities is taxing -- I need a man who understands that's just a part of who I am."
But is it even possible to make a love connection when a television crew is trailing you? As a high-level publicist, Grangier is used to being around cameras, but he says he bristles at being the center of attention: "I've taken the Myers-Briggs test five times -- I'm an introvert." Eventually, though, he learned to ignore the cameras.
Stanger is a third-generation matchmaker with more than a decade of experience, but she admits working with a gay man required thinking outside the box.
"I tried to approach it the same way I do all my clients, but I realized that gay men especially want to get the sex out of the way quickly and often whip out their pickle before they even share a drink," the bosomy yenta says with her trademark candor. "Getting them into courtship versus tasting the candy was the hardest thing to curb."
Grangier says he had to school Stanger a bit as well. "Patti put me in a box, like most straights do, about how we spend our time and what we're about," he says. "I had to spend some time helping her recognize that some gay men are fems, some are clubbers, and some are homebodies. We're not monolithic. "
She may be a novice to same-sex love, but Stanger's heart is surely in the right place. "I believe, gay or straight, everyone deserves love," the veteran cupid says. "I was horrified of Prop. 8 passing in California and wanted to take a stand, as I believe in gay marriage and gay love."
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U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx today administered the oath of office to former U.S. Congresswoman Betty Sutton who becomes the tenth Administrator of the U.S. Department of Transportation's Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation (SLSDC).
"We are pleased to welcome Betty Sutton to the Department as the new Administrator of the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation," said SLSDC Deputy Administrator Craig H. Middlebrook. "She brings a wealth of experience from her years of service at the city, county, state and federal levels of government. She is well versed in the issues of maritime commerce and will be an innovative leader of the SLSDC."
Administrator Sutton represented Ohio's 13th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2007–2012. Among her Congressional accomplishments, she spearheaded the successful "Cash for Clunkers" program that created or saved over 60,000 auto industry jobs. Ms. Sutton was a member of the Energy and Commerce Committee and was co-chair of the Congressional Jobs Task Force.
"I want to thank President Obama for appointing me to this critical position at the Department of Transportation," said Administrator Sutton. "I look forward to continuing my role in public service as the Administrator of the SLSDC. Coming from the Great Lakes region, I fully appreciate the importance of the Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway System not only to international commerce and to our national transportation system, but to the economic vitality of the Great Lakes area."
From 2001-2006, she worked as an Attorney at Faulkner, Muskovitz, & Phillips LLP. Ms. Sutton was a Representative in the Ohio State House of Representatives from 1993-2000. From 1991-1993, she was a member and then Vice President of the Summit County Council. Ms. Sutton served as a member of the Barberton City Council from 1990-1991. She received a B.A. from Kent State University and a J.D. from the University of Akron School of Law.
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Palestine wins historic upgrade at the UN
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Sixty-five years to the day after the UN voted for the partition of mandatory
Palestine – a move the Jews accepted and the Arabs rejected – the same body
overwhelmingly voted on Thursday to grant the Palestinian delegation the
upgraded status of non-member observer state.The vote was 138 in favor,
nine against and 41 abstaining."The moment has arrived for the world to
say clearly: Enough of aggression, settlements and occupation," Palestinian
Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said to the packed UN General
Assembly."We did not come here seeking to delegitimize a state
established years ago, and that is Israel; rather we came to affirm the
legitimacy of the state that must now achieve its independence, and that is
Palestine," he said."We did not come here to add further complications
to the peace process, which Israel's policies have thrown into the intensive
care unit; rather we came to launch a final serious attempt to achieve peace,"
Abbas continued."Our endeavor is not aimed at terminating what remains
of the negotiations process, which has lost its objectivity and credibility, but
rather aimed at trying to breathe new life into the negotiations and at setting
a solid foundation for it based on the terms of reference of the relevant
international resolutions in order for the negotiations to
succeed."Abbas said that the Palestinians will accept no less than "the
independence of the state of Palestine, with east Jerusalem as its capital, on
all the Palestinian territory occupied in 1967, to live in peace and security
alongside the State of Israel, and a solution for the refugee issue on the basis
of Resolution 194."Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu condemned Abbas's
strong critique of Israel as "hostile and poisonous," and full of "false
propaganda.""These are not the words of a man who wants peace," he said
in a statement.The PA president said nothing about immediately resuming
talks with Israel without preconditions, though he did pledge to "act
responsibly and positively in our next steps, and... to work to strengthen
cooperation with the countries and peoples of the world for the sake of a just
peace."The countries opposing the move were the US, Israel, Canada, the
Czech Republic, Palau, Micronesia, Nauru, Panama and the Marshall
Islands.Abbas, who called the resolution a "birth certificate of the
reality of the state of Palestine," used the recent fighting in Gaza to frame
his request for the statehood upgrade and painted both Israel and its birth in
demonic colors."Palestine comes today to the United Nations General
Assembly at a time when it is still tending to its wounds and still burying its
beloved martyrs of children, women and men who have fallen victim to the latest
Israeli aggression, still searching for remnants of life amid the ruins of homes
destroyed by Israeli bombs on the Gaza Strip, wiping out entire families, their
men, women and children murdered along with their dreams, their hopes, their
future and their longing to live an ordinary life and to live in freedom and
peace," he said."The Israeli aggression against our people in the Gaza Strip has confirmed once
again the urgent and pressing need to end the Israeli occupation and for our
people to gain their freedom and independence," Abbas continued, pointedly
avoiding the mention of the rocket and missile bombardment of Israeli cities
from Gaza."This aggression also confirms the Israeli government's
adherence to the policy of occupation, brute force and war, which in turn
obliges the international community to shoulder its responsibilities toward the
Palestinian people and toward peace."The Palestinian people, Abbas said,
"miraculously recovered from the ashes of the nakba [the Arabic term meaning
"catastrophe" that refers to Israel's victory in the War of Independence] of
1948, which was intended to extinguish their being and to expel them in order to
uproot and erase their presence, which was rooted in the depths of their land
and depths of history."In Abbas's telling of history, "hundreds of
thousands of Palestinians were torn from their homes and displaced within and
outside of their homeland, thrown from their beautiful, embracing, prosperous
country to refugee camps in one of the most dreadful campaigns of ethnic
cleansing and dispossession in modern history."Israeli Ambassador to the
UN Ron Prosor dismissed the move as empty symbolic posturing that will change
nothing tangible on the ground, but push the chances of securing a peace accord
between Israel and the Palestinians into the distant future.Prosor said
that he has never heard Abbas say the phrase "two states for two peoples"
because the Palestinians have never accepted that Israel is the nation-state of
the Jewish people."They have never been willing to accept what this very
body recognized 65 years ago – Israel is the Jewish state."Prosor said
that the Palestinians were asking for recognition of a Palestinian state without
themselves being willing to recognize the Jewish state. Beyond that,
Prosor said, Abbas is trying to erase Jewish history by earlier in the year
trying to wipe out a Jewish connection to Jerusalem."You said that Jews
were trying to alter the historic character of Jerusalem, Prosor said.
"President Abbas, the truth is that Jerusalem had a Jewish character long before
most cities in the world had any character."Instead of revising history,
Prosor said, Abbas should start "making history by making peace with
Israel. This resolution will not advance peace," he said. Nor will it
change the fact that the Palestinian Authority has not control over Gaza, 40
percent of the territory they claim to represent."President Abbas, you
can't even visit nearly half the territory you claim to represent. That
territory is controlled by Hamas, an internationally recognized terrorist
organization that rains missiles on Israeli civilians."Prosor said the
resolution sends a message that the international community is willing to turn a
blind eye to peace agreements."For the people of Israel, it raises a
simple question: Why continue to make painful sacrifices for peace, in exchange
for pieces of paper that the other side will not honor? "There is only one route
to Palestinian statehood. And that route does not run through this
chamber in New York. That route runs through direct negotiations between
Jerusalem and Ramallah that will lead to a secure and lasting peace between
Israelis and Palestinians," he said. "There are no shortcuts. No quick fixes. No
instant solutions."The resolution was presented to the General Assembly
by the representative of Sudan, who called this a victory for the "values of
truth."Staunch European allies such as Germany and the Netherlands, who
opposed Palestinian admission into UNESCO last year as a state, were among those
who this time only abstained, while other friendly countries, such as Italy,
voted for the move.The vote took place on the annual "Observance of the
International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People."Senior
diplomatic officials voiced deep disappointment over the European votes. Up
until a few days ago, when France declared that it would support the move,
senior officials held out hope that the EU might abstain as a bloc, something
that would have deprived the Palestinian Authority of a moral
victory.One senior official said that the recent fighting in Gaza tipped
the scales in Europe, with the Europeans worrying that if Abbas would not gain
some kind of diplomatic victory, he would lose all stature and
authority."Had the vote taken place before the Gaza operation, the EU
would have voted differently," one official said.The Prime Minister's
Office has made clear in recent days that the vote would free Israel of its
obligations under the Oslo Accords, since Jerusalem views the move as a blatant
violation of the underlying principle of those agreements: that all outstanding
issues be resolved through negotiations, not through unilateral
actions.Israel's immediate reaction is expected to be the deduction from
tax transfers it makes to the PA each month of some NIS 800 million that the PA
owes to the Israel Electric Corporation.Further steps are expected if
the Palestinians use this new status and try to join other UN bodies or, as a
result of their enhanced status, attempt to haul Israel or its citizens before
the International Court of Justice or the International Criminal Court on war
crime charges.Hours before the vote, Netanyahu – realizing that Israel
was facing a stinging diplomatic defeat – said that regardless of how many
countries vote against Israel, "no force in the world will get me to compromise
on Israel's security."Netanyahu said that the decision will "not change
anything on the ground. It will not further the establishment of a Palestinian
state, but will make it more distant."Netanyahu's comments came while
touring an exhibit of recently declassified documents marking the upcoming 35th
anniversary of Anwar Sadat's visit to Jerusalem at the Begin Heritage Center in
Jerusalem."Israel's hand is always extended in peace, but a Palestinian
state will not be established without recognition of the State of Israel as the
state of the Jewish people, without an end-of-conflict declaration and without
true security arrangements that will protect Israel and its
citizens."The prime minister, who said that none of the conditions he
reiterated are even mentioned in the Palestinians' UN resolution, said that
peace is only achieved through negotiations and not by unilateral declarations
"which do not take into consideration Israel's vital security and national
interests." He recommended not being impressed by the applause that he expected
to be heard at the UN."I remember the international community's applause
that the government of Israel received when it decided to unilaterally withdraw
from Gaza," he said. "We got applause and then rocket fire. We left Gaza, and
Iran entered, exactly like what happened in Lebanon."Netanyahu said he
would not enable another Iranian base to be established, this time in Judea and
Samaria, a kilometer away from Jerusalem."It does not matter how many
will vote against us, there is no force in the world that will cause me to
compromise on Israeli security and there is no force in the world able to sever
the thousands-year-old connection between the people of Israel and the Land of
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Torched Malvern playground to be rebuilt thanks to $80,000 in donations
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The first-ever kindergarten playground at Scarborough's Mary Shadd Public School barely lasted a full school year.
That the small wooden playhouse, slide and climbing frame, painted brilliant blue and red, was built at all still amazes parent council co-chair Nathan Kathirkamanathan.
"I never thought we'd see it in my children's lifetimes," he said (his youngest is in Grade 4).
"The TDSB, their budget had no money. And everybody said, 'Aw, forget it.' Then we made it happen . . . the dream came true."
It took the whole community to fight for that patch of brightness at the Malvern-area school — five years of chocolate sales, pizza days, walk-a-thons and barbecues. Countless volunteer hours from parents and staff to raise the $20,000 to build it.
It took minutes for it to be deliberately burned to the ground.
And it took just under 48 hours for the school to receive almost $80,000 in donations to build a bigger and better playground for the kindergarten class and expand their main playground as well.
"It was the worst day," said school principal Annessa Ali. "But it was also the best day."
Only a few charred poles were left of the structure when firefighters put out the blaze at 9 p.m. Monday. Only ashes, a half-blackened tree and lingering burning smell remain.
Kathirkamanathan has lost count of the number of fundraisers it took to reach the $20,000 target needed to construct the playground which opened last September. For a time there was an event almost every month.
The former school superintendent managed to scrounge about $2,000 from her budget for the cause and the former principal allocated some money as well, Kathirkamanathan said.
But mostly, he said, it was the generous residents of this diverse, economically disadvantaged area with a high youth population, designated one of 13 "priority neighbourhoods" by the city.
"You know, this community is not a rich community," said Kathirkamanathan. "But they were so happy to see that playground."
"It was a labour of love," said Ali.
What they could not afford was a security camera to monitor the shiny new structure, something to avert just this kind of tragedy, said Arul Satch, the other co-chair of the parent council.
"Hopefully we can do it now with the funds to prevent anything from happening in the future," said Kathirkamanathan.
"This area, full of young parents who walk and cycle around in the evenings . . . they're scared now," he said, noting that there was a previous incident on Sunday evening where pylons were set on fire in a nearby park.
Toronto police are investigating the playground arson and will increase area patrols, said Det. Nick Ashley.
Police have received information that a group of people was seen near the play structure shortly before the fire, and are asking witnesses or people from that group to come forward, he said.
Meanwhile, construction of a new play area will start as soon as possible, says Ali. They have yet to tally the full amount of donations which continue to roll in from individuals across the city through the school's website, along with messages from former students, parents and people with no connection to the school at all.
Canadian Tire has contributed $22,000, while Kids in Sport Foundation threw in $20,000. TD Bank donated $10,000, CUPE 4400 (the education workers' union) $5,000. The local Canadian Tire store gave $2,000. Tom Mihalik of Kensington Market's Tom's Place pledged $1,800, after NEWSTALK 1010 staff and listeners pledged $20,000. Home Depot, Viana Roofing, Lowe's and McDonalds have also pledged their support.
"It is amazing to see all the support and empathy (the donors) have shown to our community. I can't thank you enough . . . for what you are doing for our children," Ali said before turning to the kindergarten class — the first to ever use the play area.
"You're getting a new playground," she yelled.
Sitting on the grass, 5-year-old Isis Banting let out one of the loudest cheers.
This time, Isis hopes, it will have swings.
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