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Turn To page 2 “m aghnieh ” Turn To page 4 “s cience ” Turn To page 9 “Z ombie ” Volume Viii i ssue V www .T he media plex .com ocTober 23, 2012 e h T CONVERGED CITIZEN Who says Local riders take part in War of 1812 documentary there are no jobs in Windsor? Alice Hewitt Citizen Staff Reporter More than 500 people came searching for jobs at the New Canadians’ Centre of Excellence annual Windsor- Essex job day Oct. 17. The event, funded by Employment Ontario, show - cased over 100 booths and is designed to provide employ - ment opportunities and training to those looking for a job or an opportunity to switch careers. Melissa Basarac is the employment services manager with the centre. She said that 50 to 80 employers have attended in the past which cre - Photo by Hailey Trealout ates a number of choices for Anthony Grani (left) explains a scene to Scott Paterson (right) and cast of The Desert Between Us and Them documentary in prospective employees with Maidstone, Ont Oct. 13. positions ranging from the automotive to financial fields. Hailey Trealout war of 1812, it’s sort of the was the overall experience anything else. “Last year we had about 600 Citizen Staff Reporter perfect opportunity,” said 29- with the project has been “Having the horses in the people come through the door,” year-old documentary produc - great. shots made things difficult said Basarac. “I think it’s very A documentary portraying er Yvonne Drebertand. “You “Everything here is really because you have to work beneficial because then it aspects of the war of 1812 was around their schedules and it see a lot of media around like accurate,” said Paterson. shows that there are employers filmed in Maidstone Oct. 13 takes a long time to do things. Queenston Heights, the big “Yvonne and the team have in Windsor and Essex that are But for me, it’s a gift to be with 17 local horses and rid - battles and the burning of York been studying this for a long hiring and that’s what is impor - around this many horses,” said ers. but here in the central part of time and they did a lot of com - tant. Some people will say Grani. “We also shot some The Desert Between Us and Southern Ontario, we were munity projects through the there are no jobs. There are stuff with a small group of Them is a non-profit project sort of left out. We have sto - county systems where they’ve jobs. We just put it together so crazy riders in the woods riding that started in 2009. It is a ries here too and so we were learned a lot about Canadian that people can see that there really fast and jumping things. three-part series titled really interested in what life history as they went along. are jobs here in Windsor.” That was my favourite and my Traitors, Raiders and was like for people who were They’ve picked up on some One of the people at the fair least favourite at the same time Refugees . The weekend of here and how they experi - really good kit and some real - looking for work was Andrew because as a film maker it Oct. 13 focused on Duncan enced the war.” ly good people.” Lawrence. Previously a senior looked amazing and I was so McArthur’s raid where 700 Most of the 17 participants Like Paterson, some of the scientist in reactive chemistry excited, but as a horse lover I mounted Kentucky infantry in the film were volunteers actors had no experience with in England, he is now looking was just terrified that some - men burned and pillaged a while others were re-enactors horses making the shots a little for a different field in Canada. body was going to get hurt.” path from Detroit all the way with no acting experience. more difficult for some of the It may also be possible for him The Desert Between Us and to what is now Brantford, Ont. Gen. Duncan McArthur was riders. Anthony Grani, 38, was to write qualifying exams to Them will be sent to schools, “We have a history of pro - played by Scott Paterson, 50, the re-enactment director practice his profession in museums, historic sites and ducing historical documen - who has been doing re-enact - whose job was to help keep Canada. libraries across Southern taries and we’ve been doing it ments for 32 years and is a everything simple for the ama - “I’m looking for an occupa - Ontario free of charge after since 2000. So it’s sort of construction manager in teur actors. He said this seg - tion and I’m hoping to find being shown in premiers from something that we’re into and Toronto. He said despite how ment of the project has been some sort of idea of what I with the bicentennial of the terrifying his first time riding more about the horses than Windsor to Burlington, Ont. next spring. Turn To page 5 “J obs ” CONVERGED CITIZEN ocTober 23, 2012 NEWS page 2 .. Maghnieh receives 90-day pay suspension Tom Morrison Maghnieh will lose about the matter and for him to con - Citizen Staff Reporter $29,000, including nearly tinue would be “self-regulat - $7,200 from the 90-day sus - ing.” Before he was asked to By a vote of 6-2, Windsor pension and $22,000 from the stop, Maghnieh said his City Council and Mayor Eddie money he would make by actions were not justifiable. Francis have voted to suspend being on committees for the “Obviously this has been a Coun. Al Maghnieh’s pay for next two years. A councillor’s nightmare for everyone in this 90 days and keep him off any yearly salary is also approxi - room and I don’t think there’s city committees for the rest of mately $29,000. Marra said he any words that can describe his term. opposed this motion because the level of remorse that I have The Oct. 15 decision comes ignoring the recommendations to my constituents and col - almost six months after the of the integrity commissioner leagues, particularly the peo - public learned Maghnieh used might open up future chal - ple who put their faith in me his Windsor Public Library lenges and prevent council on (election day) 2010,” credit card for as much as from putting this matter Maghnieh said. $13,756 in personal expenses. Photo by Tom Morrison behind them. Dilkens and Hatfield refer - Although some of those Ward 10 Councillor Al Maghnieh speaks at the delegation table Before a decision was enced Maghnieh’s comments charges were professional in council chambers Oct. 15. reached, council heard from in a recent Windsor Star col - expenses the Ward 10 council - five Windsor residents who umn, in which he said “screw lor incurred as chair of the punishment council can give. Committee of Council called for Maghnieh to be them” to colleagues who want library board, he paid the total Gignac said the punishment removed Maghnieh from all punished. Ward 2 resident Les him to resign. Dilkens said bill after the scandal broke in sends a clear message to agencies, boards and commit - Chaif said the councillor’s Maghnieh is making his job April. The exact amount of Windsorites. tees on April 30 but did not set actions are “an absolute harder for himself when he personal charges is not known, “It’s not acceptable to under - a time limit. shame” and asked for him to makes comments like these. but according to a report from take behaviours that erode the Council’s decision is con - resign. “I think the residents of Integrity Commissioner Bruce confidence of the community trary to the integrity commis - “Why was that man never Ward 10 are trying to get Elman, it exceeds $8,400. in the elected body that is clos - sioner’s recommendation to charged? Who stopped him things done. Is this a represen - Francis and councillors est to them,” Gignac said. “It’s give Maghnieh a 45-day pay from being charged? If that tative that’s going to deliver Drew Dilkens, Ron Jones, unfortunate what’s happened, suspension, plus a repayment was me or anybody else in when he’s trying to alienate Fulvio Valentinis, Jo-Anne but I think the decision of of the $3,331 he received for council chambers that it hap - his own colleagues instead of Gignac and Percy Hatfield council will clearly display his positions on boards and pened to, we would be arrest - trying to engage them,” said voted in favour of this punish - that we’ve taken it very seri - agencies for the first quarter of ed,” Chaif said. “If you had Dilkens. “The only person that ment, while Hilary Payne and ously and the correct measures 2012 and allow him to be done that, we wouldn’t be here stood in the way of Al Bill Marra opposed it. have been taken to address it.” reappointed to committees in tonight.” Maghnieh being successful in Councillors Alan Halberstadt Payne said he was in favour January 2013. The commis - Maghnieh was asked by the past was Al Maghnieh and and Ed Sleiman were absent of the 90-day pay suspension, sioner stated in the report that Hatfield to sit at the delegation ... I would say that the only and Maghnieh declared a con - but thought council should be Maghnieh’s actions show he table to answer questions, but person that’s going to stand in flict of interest.

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