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ASSESSING THE A PTE MATH OP A KILLER HURRICANE. C2 CANADA INSIDE Chorizo infection, C3 Halloween brews, C5 Comics, C7 BREAKING NEWS AT WINDSORSTAR.COM WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2012 THE WINDSOR to weaken STAR ern Ontario and Quebec and promised a high amount of precipitation for the Mari-times. By Tuesday afternoon, the storm had lost its post-tropical characteristics. At its height, Sandy left 150,000 customers without power in Ontario, 50,000 in the dark in Quebec and 14,000 in Nova Scotia. High winds continued to whip southern Ontario, particularly around Sarnia, and Quebec City, and warnings for gusts of up to 100 kmh remain in place for those regions.

The Bluewater Bridge border crossing in Sarnia saw closures for truck traffic Tuesday A woman was killed in Toronto after she was hit by a falling store sign. The strongest wind gust reported in Toronto was 91 kmh reported at the city's downtown island airport, according to preliminary data from the Canadian Hurricane Centre. The strongest gust in the province was 106 kmh on Western Island in Georgian Bay, according to the centre. In Quebec, gusts reached 87 kmh in Laval and Orleans. On Tuesday night, northeastern Ontario was bracing for Sandy, which was to hit the area with snow mixed with ice pellets, and patchy freezing rain driven by gusts of up to 60 kmh.

Ontario Provincial Police were advising residents in the path of the storm to keep their cellphones charged and have a three-day emergency kit ready The most precipitation from Sandy came in the Charlevoix region of Quebec, where 55 millimetres of rain fell. The Maritimes could see more than 50 millimetres of rain through Wednesday as Sandy moves east, but most of its precipitation will be from an unrelated system on Sandy's fringes, according to Environment Canada. Warning preparedness meteorologist Geoff Coulson said the worst may appear to have passed for most of the central and eastern provinces, but the clouds aren't parting just yet. "It's going to continue to linger because of the slow-moving nature of the storm at this point," he said. "We're still going to be dealing with on-and-off shower activity through much of southern Ontario and southern Quebec during the course of the next few days." The storm which was centred over western Pennsylva Sandy still bringing more rain, wind ALLISON JONES The Canadian Press TORONTO A superstorm that hammered parts of Central and Eastern Canada with high winds and heavy rain started petering out Tuesday, though its effects will still be felt for days.

Post-tropical storm Sandy began to weaken as it churned further inland after lashing the U.S. East Coast, leaving more than 45 people there dead and millions without power and transit. In Canada, the storm brought strong winds and rain to south nia late Tuesday morning is expected to drift north then east, fading away over the St. Lawrence Valley on Thursday, Coulson said. Sandy began its path of destruction in the Caribbean, where 69 people were killed.

New York was among the hardest hit in the U.S., with its financial heart closed for a second day and sea water cascading into the still-gaping construction pit at the World Trade Center. The storm caused the worst damage in the 108-year history of New York's subway system, and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said it could be four or five days before the transit system was running again. In New Jersey, Seaside rail lines were washed away and parts of the coast were still under water. Train ofCFL glory The Grey Cup 100 Train pulled into Windsor Tuesday and close to 800 people hopped aboard to take a tour. Visitors wandered through train cars displaying Canadian Football League memorabilia and the Cup itself, during the train's daylong stop in Windsor.

The Walkerville collegiate choir and the Herman secondary school jazz band entertained visitors waiting in line inside the new Via Rail station, including Ryan and Margaret Siverens and their three sons, Kaine, 14, Austin, 12 and Mat-teo, 6. "I'm excited to see the cup," said Kaine, who has just begun his own football career at Essex high school. Also in attendance was former CFL player scout Jim Copeland of Windsor. The Grey Cup 100 Train is on a journey across the country and will ultimately arrive in Toronto in late November for the 100th Grey Cup game. Star Staff AARON LYNETTPostmedia News National Hockey League Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly will speak to the Senate.

NHL joins opposition to single-game bets LEE BERTHIAUME Postmedia News OTTAWA It ain't over 'til it's over. The National Hockey League has become the latest professional sports league to voice last-minute opposition to' a bill that would legalize betting on individual games. That has prompted parliamentarians spearheading the proposed legislation to question the sports leagues' motives, setting up a fight that could have dramatic ramifications for the country's gambling scene. The Criminal Code only allows legal betting on three or more sports games at a time. Bill C-290 would change that so provinces could set up regulations for single-game betting.

Those in favour of the bill say the change would create jobs, generate revenue for government, and help fight illegal offshore gambling. But Toronto Blue Jays president Paul Beeston and a lawyer from Major League Baseball threw a wrench in the works last week when they appeared before a Senate committee to strongly oppose the bill NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly has added his voice to the debate, saying in an emailed statement to Postmedia News: "We too oppose the proposed legislation and we hope to have the opportunity to voice our concerns to the Canadian Senate." Daly is now scheduled to appear before the Senate committee on Nov. 8. National Basketball Association commissioner David Stern has also taken a disapproving view of the legislation. ft II JlJl; The Grey Cup 100 Train pulled into Windsor on Tuesday About 800 hopped on board the train to take DAN JANISSEThe Windsor Star to a large crowd of Canadian Football league fans.

a tour and check out the displays inside. Taxpayers still footing summit bills Montreal mayor knew about financing: Aide Businesses making claims LEE BERTHIAUME Postmedia News i. I I the most compensation of any company at more than $145,000, likely for the impact the G20 summit had on its flights to the Toronto Island airport. Next was $95,000 for broadcaster Astral Media, whose Astral Media Outdoor subsidiary has a 20-year contract to supply the city of Toronto with its outdoor furniture. Hundreds of benches, garbage cans and other items were removed by the company for the duration of the G20 Summit to keep them from being used as weapons.

After Porter and Astral Media were real estate company Oxford Properties Group at Sears Canada received nearly the Toronto Downtown Jazz Society got more than and Mountain Equipment Co-op was given $44,000. On the other end of the spectrum were the Strathcona Hotel, which received $611; handicraft emporium Timbuktu Trading, which was given $777; and Taste of Toronto, which received a cheque for $546. And then there was Zanzibar Tavern, a landmark strip club Canadian Press files A police car burns after G20 summit protesters set fire to it in downtown Toronto on June 26, 2010. The government is still paying businesses for losses sustained during the summit. MONTREAL The mayor of Montreal has been personally implicated in testimony at Quebec's public inquiry, with a witness suggesting he was not only aware of illegal financing within his political party but was demonstrably indifferent to it The testimony's timing was politically devastating.

While the inquiry was hearing claims of cost overruns, corruption and criminal threats in the awarding of public contracts, Mayor Gerald Tremblay was busy presenting a municipal budget Tuesday that slapped homeowners with a 3.3 per cent increase in property taxes. The latest allegations intensified pressure on the mayor to resign. A former organizer for Trem-blay's party told the inquiry that when the subject of illegal financing came up, the mayor wanted no part of the conversation. The witness recalled talking about spending irregularities during a meeting with the mayor and another party executive before an important byelection. He said the other executive then pulled out two sets of books one with the party's "official" budget for the byelection, and one with the "unofficial" budget.

The secret budget had the party spending $90,000 on the campaign almost double the legal limit. At that point, according to witness Martin Dumont, the mayor excused himself from the meeting. "I don't want to know that," Dumont quoted Tremblay as saying. Pressed by an inquiry lawyer whether Tremblay knew about illegal party financing, Dumont said, "Yes." An angry Tremblay was quizzed by reporters about the allegation before tabling the city budget Tuesday He denied the allegations, calling them "completely false." A lawyer for the mayor's party said later in the day that Tremblay and a pair of senior officials at the party and at city hall wanted to be questioned as soon as possible by inquiry lawyers, so that they could offer their version of the facts. The Canadian Press i OTTAWA More than two years after they caused major disruptions in Toronto and Muskoka, the 2010 G8 and G20 summits continue to cost Canadian taxpayers money From a strip club to a national airline, dozens of businesses in the two locales received a combined $1.6 million in compensation in the last fiscal year for losses incurred because of the summits, according to figures tabled in the House of Commons on Tuesday, While this is over and above the more than $800,000 handed out in 2010-11, the total is expected to be only the tip of the Iceberg; the federal government received more than $11 million in claims.

When it came to payouts, large companies generally made out better than smaller ones. Porter Airlines received 1 v. zone on June 26, 2010, when protesters clashing with police set fire to cruisers and smashed windows and store signs all along the road, including that of Steve's Music Store. Steve's Music Store applied for $80,000 in compensation but ended up receiving $23,000, which vice-president Mike Herman said barely covered the damage caused by the protesters, and did nothing to make up for lost business. on Yonge Street in Toronto that received nearly $6,000 in compensation.

Altogether, 144 companies received compensation in fiscal year 2011-12, which was in addition to the 38 that were paid in 2010-11. While the cash will help cover some of the costs borne by companies because of the summits, not everyone is happy with what they got. Parts of Toronto's Queen Street West looked like a war i.