Extra, Extra: Toronto’s New Storm Updates, the Doctors Are Out, and Evan Solomon Is Employed Again

By Sarah Duong

Every weekday’s end, we collect just about everything you ought to care about or ought not to miss.

Photo by Nick K from the Torontoist Flickr Pool.

• Toronto will now begin issuing water quality updates when storms and wet weather affect our Great Lake, which sometimes sees sewage spills in heavy storms. The decision came from a two-year-long legal application made by Lake Ontario Waterkeeper founder and president Mark Mattson, who told the CBC, “We know where the beaches are, whether they’re open or closed, but the rest of the 55 kilometres of the waterfront, we have no idea what’s going on.” Lake Ontario Waterkeeper is a charity dedicated to the health of Lake Ontario.
• Two Toronto doctors are facing scrutiny after a University Health Network (UHN) investigations committee found duplicated images in a paper the duo co-authored. The paper by Dr. Sylvia Asa and Dr. Shereen Ezzat, published in The Journal of Clinical Investigation in 2002, was retracted after some of its images appeared in a second paper published in the 2003 edition of The American Journal of Pathology. In an investigation of nine papers co-authored by Asa and Ezzat, UHN investigators Dr. Charles Chan and Christopher Paige said, “Examples of fabrication, falsification and/or material non-compliance were evident in a majority of the papers.”
• Former CBC personality Evan Solomon, who was fired in June over allegations of brokering lucrative art sales with interview subjects, has landed a new job. Solomon will host SiriusXM Canada’s Everything Is Political: Campaign 2015 with Evan Solomon. The one-hour show airs Thursday at 6 p.m.