A 76-year-old Sault Ste. Marie man repeatedly denied Tuesday that he had sexually assaulted his daughter and a young sister-in-law decades ago when the complainants were children.

Next month, Dave Bidini - the prolific musician, author and general man-about-Toronto - will be trudging door to door delivering his most recent creation: a 20-page broadsheet newspaper called the West End Phoenix. It will be a community rag, served without advertisements once a month with a focus on a few west-end neighbourhoods.