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• Meaghan Benfeito of Montreal and Roseline Filion of Laval, Que., won a synchronized diving bronze medal in London. Now they’ll go at it alone as the 10-metre platform competition gets underway at 2 p.m. on OLN • All-American girls: No matter what, the women’s beach volleyball gold medal will go to the U.S. Find out what else you can’t miss today page 32
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Coalition wants to halt diesel train plans Concerns. Residents along air-rail link claim Pan Am deadline took priority over health
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At left, Derek Drouin of Corunna, Ont., leaps to a bronze medal for Canada in the men’s high-jump final at the Olympic Stadium in London on Tuesday. At right, Jessica Zelinka of London, Ont., competes in one of the fastest women’s 100-metre hurdles finals of all time. She came within 0.20 seconds of the podium. More Olympic coverage, pages 32, 34 & 35. both photos: sean Kilpatrick/the canadian press
Mystery comes The danger at All eyes on our beaches paragliders with anxiety Dîner en Blanc organizers are facing a lot of questions from Torontonians who signed up for the ‘secret’ dinner page 3
Underwater currents capable of pulling swimmers 200 metres offshore may have helped kill two Toronto men page 4
Questions are raised about new methods of launching terror attacks and the intention of two men arrested in Spain page 6
A franchise re-Bourne Jeremy Renner takes over the lead from Matt Damon in The Bourne Legacy, but it’s not the character’s first big change page 14
Toronto’s Clean Train Coalition is taking Metrolinx to court to prevent it from running diesel trains on its new Union Stationto-Pearson rail link. It’s the latest salvo from the coalition, a group of residents living along the Georgetown GO line who have been fighting the diesel expansion on that stretch of track for more than three years. Its application with the Ontario Superior Court of Justice says Metrolinx’s decision to open the air-rail link using diesel trains was based on the province’s Pan American Games deadline in 2015, rather than Metrolinx’s legislated mandate to consider the long-term needs of the Toronto region. Metrolinx has already
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“The vehicles we’re purchasing for the (air-rail link) are fully convertible to electric.” Metrolinx spokeswoman Vanessa Thomas. But the company would not comment directly on the court application
agreed to pay $53 million for trains from Sumitomo Corp. in the U.S. to furnish the airport train service. The trains, called diesel-electric multiple units, incorporate the engines into the coaches, unlike a GO train, where a locomotive pulls the coaches. The Clean Train Coalition court application claims that purchase was made without a proper comparison of the environmental and service impacts. It also alleges that Metrolinx underplayed the negative health impacts of diesel emissions along the corridor — where 300,000 residents live within 450 metres of the track. torstar news service