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Staff photo/BENJAMIN PRIEBEStudents of Greenwood College School protest over the recommended closure of their building. The school houses two programs, one for recent immigrants which would be moved to Danforth Collegiate, and another being an alternative school for Grades 10 through to 12 which would transfer to Monarch Park Collegiate.
Students protest plan to close Greenwood schoolTARA HATHERLY [email protected]
More than 100 Greenwood Secondary School students walked out during class, filed to the front lawn of the school and held hands, forming a human chain and chanting.
“Don’t move Greenwood, don’t move Greenwood,” they yelled in unison, their chants ringing out over the cold winds blowing last Friday morning
They were protesting a rec-ommendation to close their school at 24 Mountjoy Ave. and relocate its program to
nearby Danforth Collegiate and Technical Institute at 800 Greenwood Ave. The recom-mendation is the result of a government-mandated pupil accommodation review com-mittee (PARC) process to close a school building in the Toronto-Danforth area to address low
enrollment and share resources more effectively.
The Greenwood students came prepared. Along with several chants, they had several signs imploring the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) to keep their current building.
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Transit townhall meetingset for Mondayat Hope UnitedBeaches-East York MPP Arthur Potts, along with Ontario’s Minister of Transportation Steven Del Duca, hosts a transit town hall this coming Monday evening.
The event runs from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at Hope United Church, 2550 Danforth Av e. a t M a i n Street.
Both Potts and Del Duca will be discussing and taking questions about a range of transit issues including fare integration, rail electrification and the expan-sion of Danforth GO, among other things.
Everyone is welcome to attend to ask questions and share their ideas for transit in east-end Toronto.
For more information on this meeting, please visit www.arthurpotts.onmpp.ca
w Community Clean-up at coxwell/gerrard
A community clean-up event in the Beach Hill/Smalls Creek/Williamson Park Ravine area has been organized for Sunday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Anyone interested in taking part should meet at the north side of Gerrard Street East at the entrance of the Williamson Park Ravine just east of Coxwell Avenue.
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Young Toronto residents were honoured by the Royal Canadian Legion last Saturday as the Remembrance Day poster, literary and public speaking contest awards were presented at Branch 11 on Dawes Road.
Each year, students from across Canada enter black and white and colour posters, essays and poems, along with presenting their speeches in public speaking events as part of the Legion’s Remembrance Day contests.
Participants enter through their local schools which then forward the students’ works to their neighbourhood Legion branches.
This year, Toronto Legions saw three of the entries from their local youngsters named among the best in Canada. And all three of those entries came from Scarborough stu-dents.
Scarborough’s Ivy Leung Arts Studio student Juliana Jiang’s colour poster won first place in Dominion (best in Canada) in the intermediate division.
F r a n c i s L i b e r m a n n Catholic High School student Maria Singson was second in Dominion for her black and white poster in the senior division.
S i r O l i v e r M o w a t Collegiate’s Kate Shackleton’s essay was first in Dominion in the intermediate category.
Singson’s poster was made in honour of her grandfather the late Arthur Blomfield, who had served in the Royal Air Force in the Second World War and had been a longtime Legion member.
Provincial winners
Along with the Dominion awards, Legion members from District D, which basi-cally covers Toronto, hon-oured winners at the city and provincial level.
Special guests at the presentation ceremony included a number of veter-ans, Beaches-East York MPP Arthur Potts and Beaches-East York Councillor Janet Davis.
Provincial winners hon-oured at the event were:
Eliza Yip, second in junior colour poster; Nora Li, second
in senior colour poster; Maeesha Biswas, second in senior essay; and Rachel Yan, third in black and white junior poster.
ToronTo winners
District D winners were as follows:
FIRST PLACE - Yolanda Sun, primary colour poster; Mia Elliott, primary black and white poster; Ashley Nichols, intermediate black and white poster; Justin Lair, junior poem; Shree Joyee Dey, intermediate poem; Kimberly Torio, senior poem; Lara Chehime, junior essay; Maeesha Biswas, senior essay.
SECOND PLACE - Rushaida Zahid, primary colour poster; Aliza Shoaib, junior colour poster; Nicole Outkine, inter-mediate colour poster; Olivia Dubuc, primary black and white poster; Sophia Edus, junior black and white poster; Rudana Zahid, intermedi-ate black and white poster; Saher Haq, senior black and white poster; Pavinaya Thayanathakumar, junior poem; Lauren Catanus, inter-mediate poem; Sally O’Keefe, senior poem; Persephene Ocol, junior essay; Talia Levitt, intermediate essay; Zara Ahmad, senior essay.
T H I R D P L A C E - Christopher Bar, primary colour poster; Samia Islam, junior colour poster; Afiyah Islam, intermediate colour poster; Jose Clement, primary
black and white poster; Kyla Marie Supat, junior black and white poster; Angela Chen, intermediate black and white poster; Natalie Garcia, junior poem; Ella Brenton, intermediate poem; Ayesha Ahmed, senior poem; Tasha Mackenzie, junior essay; Mark Karlov, intermediate essay.
The winners in District D public speaking were also presented at Saturday’s event. Provincial finals for the Legion’s public speak-ing contest are still to take place in Owen Sound later this month.
Public sPeaking
Top three finishers in public speaking for District D were:
PRIMARY - Safia Panekh, first; Jessica Iafrate, first; Safia Panekh, second; Terryn-Anne Trudeau, third.
JUNIOR - Sam Iafrate, first; Matthew Wayland, second; Ronald You, third.
INTERMEDIATE - Michael Carino, f irst ; Ashleigh Lindayen, second; Sean Pourgoutzidis, third.
S E N I O R - S a h a r a n Shafaque, first; Saher Haq, second.
For more information on the Royal Canadian Legion’s Remembrance Day con-test, please contact Sheila Harris, the Youth Education Chairperson for Toronto’s Legions, at [email protected] or visit www.legion.ca/youth/contests
Legion honours Remembrance Day contest award winners
Staff photo/ALAN SHACKLETON
Juliana Jiang, left, Kate Shackleton and Maria Singson were honoured for being tops in Canada and winning Dominion poster and literary awards for the Royal Canadian Legion’s Remembrance Day contest. The presentation took place at the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 11 on Dawes Road.
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Students Tolin Abuaziza and Zahra Afshar organized the pro-test. “We need to keep Greenwood here, because it’s a special school for newcomers,” said Tolin, who recently moved here from Palestine. She is one of more than 200 stu-dents currently at Greenwood, which offers a unique program for Toronto immigrants and refugees who don’t speak English.
After spending a semester or more learning English at Greenwood, stu-dents transition to a high school in their respective neighbourhoods.
They share their current build-ing with approximately 150 TDSB students from the School of Life Experience (SOLE), an alternative school for Grades 10 through 12. The small population helps foster a sense of community among Greenwood students, while unique features of the building offer non-verbal
ways for students speaking differ-ent languages to connect. There is a greenhouse, bowling alley and meeting area to help students bond at their current building, attributes they don’t want to lose.
“We feel safe here, and we’re all like a family, and if you move us to Danforth, then I don’t think that we will have all of those feelings that we have here right now in Greenwood,” said Zahra, who recently moved here from Afghanistan. “That’s why we want to stay here.”
Tolin and Zahra participated in the PARC process, but feel their voices weren’t taken as seriously as those from other schools. They worry an inability of their parents to speak enough English or take time off work to participate in the process put them at a disadvantage.
School superintendant Mike Gallagher said Tolin and Zahra represented their school well. He
noted the two young women had community representatives with them and were also provided TDSB representatives when Greenwood parents could not attend PARC meet-ings. He said the committee heard and considered all students, parents and community representatives from all involved schools, and he met privately with Tolin and Zahra three times to talk about their concerns. Recommending the closure of a school building is not an easy task, he added, and the PARC committee made its decision reluctantly.
“The recommendation actually says that we said reluctantly,” he said. “I do think that it’s a challenging situation, and it was a very difficult set of recommendations for the com-mittee to come up with.”
Greenwood students will have their own area in the basement of Danforth CTI, which will be reno-vated for them. The TDSB is con-
sulting with the students about the design of the Danforth space.
Greenwood student Mashroor Jamil Neel said their current, separate building is an important part of their program. “It’s a good place to start (school in Canada), because from every place you’ll get support.”
The province required the PARC to consider all area schools operating at less than 65 per cent capacity, and Greenwood is well above that.
“We always include other schools in the neighbourhood,” explained Gallagher. “Because the schools in this area are so closely proximate to each other, back in March (2015) when the board approved this PARC, it was approved with 10 schools.”
The 10 schools share eight build-ings. The PARC committee recom-mended the creation of a transition committee, made up of students and staff, to help facilitate Greenwood’s move.
“We absolutely recognize, and the students have told us, that they’re frustrated, and that change is dif-ficult,” said Gallagher. “We absolutely acknowledge their concern and frustration and commend them for exercising their ability to advocate for themselves.”
The students, who are also wor-ried some of their teachers will lose their jobs if their program is moved, hope their protest helps. If the recommendation to close Greenwood is approved, Tolin said the students may take their concerns to the Province and file a human rights complaint.
In June, TDSB trustees will con-sider the PARC recommendation and make the final decision on what building to close. If Greenwood’s current location closes, SOLE stu-dents will relocate to Monarch Park Collegiate. The moves would happen in 2017.
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Beach Triangle resident and mother of two Zilla Parker wants to prevent other families from going through the pain hers has endured in the last three years.
On Sept. 14, 2013, Parker’s 45-year-old husband Domenic, who worked as a firefighter in Markham, was off-duty when he was stabbed to death at the former Rotana Café at 1530 Danforth Ave.
Nabil Huruy, who has a mental health disorder, was initially charged with first-degree murder in connec-tion with the unprovoked, random killing. Late last year, Superior Court Justice Ian Nordheimer found Huruy, who was known to police, not criminally responsible for Parker’s death.
At the time of the ruling, Parker posted a statement on social media indicating this case highlights the need for more understanding of mental health issues and more resources.
“We need more funding in our health-care system, more funding for research, more education and
awareness,” she wrote. “There is obviously a huge need for improve-ment on our current system. This is the conversation I believe we should be having. Maybe we can prevent this tragedy from happening to another family.”
Parker, who is seeking a coroner’s inquest, has recently launched an online petition at change.org calling on Ontario’s Chief Coroner Dr. Dirk Huyer to identify what changes can
be made to improve the health-care system so that those with mental illness can be better diagnosed and receive the treatment they need in the early stages.
“During the trial, I learned about a lot more details in relation to what happened,” she said earlier this week.
“I learned that the man who killed my husband clearly had mental health issues and had several inter-
actions with the police.” Just days before Parker’s husband
was killed she also learned Huruy had been behaving abnormally.
The court heard he was found on the roof of a school with bags of clothing he had taken from a mosque. Huruy reportedly told police he had been on the roof play-ing soccer. Police gave him a trespass notice. That same day, he was found standing on an overpass above Hwy. 401 with a large ring around his neck. Huruy told police the ring was part of him, wrote Nordheimer in his Dec. 10 ruling.
Nordheimer also wrote Huruy had previously made statements about people and the government being after him.
“Mr. Huruy was paranoid, had armed himself with two knives and was the subject of delusions, includ-ing hearing voices,” he wrote.
“He believed there were people, apparently on behalf of the govern-ment, who were intent on causing him harm, if not death.”
In the case of Huruy, Parker said she feels Bill 68, which is also known as Brian’s Law, should have been invoked. This law, which was named
after Brian Smith who, in 1995, was fatally shot by a person suffering from paranoid schizophrenia, allows for a community treatment order by an attending physician. This order is intended to provide comprehensive treatment outside of a psychiatric facility.
“If they had held him for 72 hours, my husband would still be alive,” Parker said. “What happened to Domenic is not an isolated incident. More early intervention is key to protecting the public and individu-als with mental health issues.”
So far, upward of 2,500 people have signed the petition, which can be viewed/signed by visiting www.mentalhealthletsact.com
Parker said her goal is for 100,000 people to show their support and down the line for improvement in Canada’s national mental health care strategy. Parker said she also intends to approach various levels of government to discuss improving the health-care system for those with mental illnesses and in turn prevent future tragedies like the one her family has endured.
-with files from Torstar News Service
Petition calls for coroner’s inquest into murder of Domenic Parker
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Beach Triangle resident Zilla Parker, second from right, has started a peti-tion to improve Canada’s health-care system for those with mental ill-nesses. Parker’s husband Domenic was stabbed to death in a random attack by a man suffering from mental illness on Sept. 14, 2013.
Greenwood students consider it a ‘special school for newcomers’
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A new pilot project that allows library patrons to borrow a musical instrument simply with their library card is a big step in the right direction.
The Sun Life Financial Musical Instrument Lending Library officially launched this past week at the Parkdale library, now giving the opportunity for aspiring musicians to sign out instruments ranging from violins and guitars to a full-size keyboard and a banjo.
It’s a step in the right direction in making music more accessible to the community especially for the youth as well as those who can’t afford to buy good-quality instruments.
Just as several organizations have seen the value in youth playing sports by subsidizing expensive equip-
ment, this program shines a light on the value of youth play-ing music to enrich their lives.
It’s also a step in the right direction in making Toronto a music city by cultivating home-grown talent.
It was fitting that in atten-dance at the launch event were
two successful Canadian musicians – Juno Award-winning artist Chantal Kreviazuk and her husband, Our Lady Peace frontman Raine Maida.
Maida told Metroland Media Toronto that he didn’t have access to musical instruments until his brother bought one when he was 12 years old.
To ensure more kids have that opportunity to play music, Maida and Kreviazuk donated a guitar and keyboard of their own to add to the 100 instruments already in the collection.
The community can support this initiative, too. Residents can donate their own gently used or new musical instruments to this pilot program, which runs until the end of 2017, and help it grow and expand to libraries across the city.
INsTRumENT DONaTION DRIVE
There’s a Musical Instrument Donation Drive, which continues until May 7, and things are off to a great start.
Calls have already come in from people wanting to donate such instruments as bongo drums, French horns, flutes, erhu (Chinese fiddle) and midi control-lers.
Library staff noted more diverse instruments from different cultures are welcome.
Call 416-393-7686 for details or to donate.
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NDP crisis has been a long time in the makingLast weekend, the New Democratic Party member-ship did what is unthinkable among mainstream Canadian party politics and ousted their leader Tom Mulcair. The shockwaves carried across the land: the NDP, stalwart voice of Canadian progressive thinking, is in crisis!
Of course, the NDP has been in crisis for years and particularly for those of us watching from Toronto.
Although you certainly can’t blame the late Jack Layton, it’s easy to mark the beginning of that crisis with the former federal NDP leader’s electoral success and then his death, both in 2011. The NDP was briefly the Official Opposition in Ottawa. As Stephen Harper’s Conservatives used their majority govern-ment to alienate much of the country, the NDP became a de-facto govern-ment in waiting.
But it wasn’t just that collection of newly elected MPs that walked away with expectations raised. Layton
himself offered inspiration from his death bed. Love, he told the country, is better than anger. Hope is better than fear and opti-mism, better than despair.
New Democrats at least politically, cherry-picked: Optimism and hope, that the party that had tradi-tionally been a third-party left-of-centre conscience, might persuade voters to allow them to lead; and also fear, that if they led too much with their left-of-centre conscience then they’d never win.
It was a bad and self-destructive lesson. The Ontario NDP forced a costly provincial election in 2014, rejecting in conscience the most left-of-centre provincial budget that a Liberal government had ever put forward. Leader Andrea Horwath made some gains for the party,
but in Toronto lost some of the party’s most histori-cally secure seats. The same year, Olivia Chow turned a commanding lead in the polls to a third-place finish in the Toronto mayoralty race, with a campaign that did tack more to the left, but was timid and unambi-tious. And last year, Mulcair did much the same thing federally, when he led the party to a place somewhat to the right of the Liberals, and predictably, collapsed. It was enough to wipe the slate clean for New Democrats in Toronto. Now there seems to be strong interest in the grassroots of the party in turning back to its progressive roots, embracing as many mem-bers have, the so-called Leap Manifesto, which urges the party to return to its environmentalist, socially- and economically-inclusive roots.
But don’t count out the lure of power to eclipse conscience. Alberta New Democrat Premier Rachel
Notley is still providing a lone successful example of the pragmatism that has proved so toxic to the party. At the convention, she provided a reminder the only way to make that stick for more than one term is to lighten up on the pipeline opposition. You’d like to think that in this age of surging U.S. presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders and “Sunny Ways” Justin Trudeau, the original Canadian party of hope and social justice and change would be in an unambigu-ous position to capitalize on the mood, and maybe use that to take their shot at forming a serious progres-sive government one day.
Instead, the NDP is tan-gled in its own ambitions. Disentanglement will take time, and when it’s over, who’s to say what will be standing in its place?
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Canada’s Olympic swimming trials wrapped up in Toronto Sunday with 27 swimmers punching their tickets to Rio.
Included in that number are six Toronto athletes: Brittany MacLean, Martha McCabe, Penny Oleksiak, Michelle Williams, Kennedy Goss and Javier Acevedo.
Two are Olympic veterans: MacLean from Etobicoke and McCabe from East York, who both competed in the 2012 London Olympics.
And two are fast-rising junior stars who are still attending high school in Toronto, including:
• Oleksiak, a 15-year-old Toronto Beach resident in Grade 10 at Monarch Park Collegiate;
• and Acevedo, an 18-year-old Scarborough resident in his final year at Scarborough’s Neil McNeil High School and slated to head to the University of Georgia after the Olympics.
Acevedo, in the Wednesday night finals, became Canada’s first male swimmer to qualify for Rio when he won the 100-metre backstroke.
“It’s been an up-and-down season, but this is one of the biggest highs of my life. When you are a little kid starting off you don’t think you’re going to be the first (man) to qualify. Now I am. It’s unbe-lievable.”
Oleksiak – the youngest member of the Canadian contingent to Rio at 15 – was arguably the breakout swim-mer of the six-day meet.
She won both of her events (the 100-metre butterfly and the 100-metre freestyle) in Canadian record times (with her 100-metre freestyle time also setting a new junior world record).
In between those two events she finished second
in the 200m freestyle – behind Etobicoke’s MacLean, a long-time member of the Etobicoke Swim Club.
“It’s been my dream since I started swimming and the fact that I can go this year makes it so much better than I could ever dream,” she said in the media scrum following her opening night win which qualified her for Rio.
MacLean, the 22-year-old Olympic vet, won all three freestyle events she entered (200-, 400- and 800-metre), setting new Canadian records in the 200- and 400-metre events.
She now holds just about all of Canada’s freestyle records, including at 200-, 400-, 800- and 1,500-metres.
While her meet-conclud-ing 800-metre win (in eight minutes, 21.40 seconds) may have been her only one not to break a record, it was still impressive – the third-fastest time posted in the world this year and more than 12 seconds under the Olympic qualifying standard.
“I wanted to post a really fast time,” said MacLean after the race.
“I’m happy with that right now. I know there are a few things I will go back to my coach and I need to work on. For now, it’s a good starting point.”
McCabe punched her ticket
to Rio when she finished second in the 200m back stroke Saturday night.
McCabe grew up in East York’s Bennington Heights neighbourhood, attending Bennington Heights Public School, Cosburn Middle School and then on to Leaside High School.
The top result for Williams, a North York resident who attended Vaughan Road Academy and is a longtime member of the North York Aquatic Club, was a second-place finish in Saturday night’s 50m freestyle race.
And the top result for Goss, former student at midtown’s Northern Secondary, was third place finishes in both 400m free on Tuesday’s opening night and 400m backstroke Sunday night. She’ll likely be used in the relays.
Held at the at the Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre at the University of Toronto Scarborough campus, the event attracted 762 swimmers from 187 clubs cross Canada, the United States and other parts of the world.
Canada’s Paralympic trials were also included – but no Toronto swimmers were nominated for the Rio Olympics.
Complete results of the Swim Canada national trials meet are available at www.swimming.ca
East York’s McCabe securesspot on Olympic swim team
Staff file photo/DAN PEARCE
East York’s Martha McCabe, shown here at last summer’s Pan Am Games, will be representing Canada in the pool at this summer’s Rio Olympics.
Keep Hydro Public campaign launchesThe Beaches-East York launch for the Keep Hydro Public campaign is set to launch Saturday.
Supporters are invited to
help distribute leaflets in the community starting at 10 a.m. at the Baron Byng Royal Canadian Legion Beaches Branch 1/42 at 243 Coxwell
Ave., just south of Gerrard Street East. Visit www.keephy-dropublic.ca or call Minerva Hui at 647-466-0112 for more details.
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it’s happeningw Thursday, April 14Leaside Garden Society April MeetingWHEN: 7:30 to 9:15 p.m. WHERE: Leaside Public Library, 165 McRae Dr. CONTACT: Donald Beard, [email protected] COST: FreeLorraine Flanigan will speak about the New York City High-Line. there will be a spring mini flower show.
w Friday, April 15Jump Into Spring! Kids’ ClubWHEN: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. WHERE: Leaside Presbyterian Church, 670 eglinton Ave. e. CONTACT: Phyllis Spence, 416-422-0510, www.leasi-idepresbyterianchurch.ca, [email protected] COST: $30 to $50open to children in Jk to Grade 7. Grade 8 students wekcome to help out. Cost is $30 per child or $50 per family. Call to register.
Entertainment at the LegionWHEN: 8 p.m. to midnight. WHERE: Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 10, 1083 Pape Ave. CONTACT: 416-425-3070 COST: Freeevery Friday.
w Saturday, April 16Family StorytimeWHEN: 10 to 11 a.m. WHERE:
Riverdale Library, 370 Broadview Ave. CONTACT: 416-393-7720 COST: FreeFor children from birth to age six and their caregivers. Registration not required.
w Sunday, April 17EuchreWHEN: 12:30 to 3 p.m. WHERE: Royal Canadian Legion Branch 22, 1240 Woodbine Ave. CONTACT: Jim Farrell, 416 425 1714, [email protected] COST: $6All welcome.
KaraokeWHEN: 5 to 9 p.m. WHERE: Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 22, 1240 Woodbine Ave. CONTACT: Jim Farrell, 416-425-1714, [email protected]
COST: FreeBring your singing voice or simply come out to listen.
w Monday, April 18After School Maker’s ClubWHEN: 4 to 5 p.m. WHERE: Riv-erdale Library, 370 Broadview Ave. CONTACT: 416-393-7720 COST: FreeFor children aged 9 to 12. Registra-tion required.
CRIBBAGEWHEN: 7:15 p.m. WHERE: Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 22, 1240 Woodbine Ave. CONTACT: Jim Farrell, 416-425-1714, [email protected] COST: $6Drop-in DartsWHEN: 7:30 to 10 p.m. WHERE:
Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 22, 1240 Woodbine Ave. CONTACT: Jim Farrell, 416-425-1714, [email protected] COST: $5
w Tuesday, April 19Foot Care at CNIB CentreWHEN: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. WHERE: Mosaic Home Care Services & Com-munity Resource Centre, CNIB, 1929 Bayview Ave., Suite 215H CONTACT: 416-322-7002, [email protected] COST: $40Clinics run every third tuesday of the month. A registered nurse can provide the following treatments: assess clients’ feet and document progress, cut and file toe nails, treat calluses, ingrown toe nails, corns, fungus, referrals to podiatrist, foot massage provided. Call to book an appointment.
w Wednesday, April 20Mixed Snooker LeagueWHEN: 6 p.m. WHERE: Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 10, 1083 Pape Ave. CONTACT: 416-425-3070 COST: FreeSpares welcome.
w Thursday, April 21Preschool Art PlayWHEN: 10 to 11 a.m. WHERE: Riverdale Library, 370 Broadview Ave. CONTACT: 416-393-7720 COST: Free
For children aged two to six and their caregivers. Come dressed to get messy. No registration required.
Presteign-Woodbine Heritage GroupWHEN: 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. WHERE: Presteign-Woodbine united Church, 2538 St. Clair Ave. e. CONTACT: 416-755-8352, www.presteignwood-bineuc.com, [email protected] COST: $7/presentationenjoy historical presentations about ontario, toronto and the surrounding areas – little known facts, the darker side of toronto the Good, cultural history and much more.
Canadian Federation of University WomenWHEN: 7:30 p.m. WHERE: Northlea united Church, 125 Brentcliffe Rd. CONTACT: Pat Price, 416-385-1055n COST: FreeVisitors and new members welcome.
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I have a new buddy who has just recently moved in with my wife and I, and he’s happily taken over the house and our lives.
This is Tiger, a well-aged orange 14 year old Tom cat who has one eye, a number of battle scars on his ears, and a big purr.
I first met Tiger on the pages of Facebook where his rakishly handsome face appeared along with a request for a foster home.
I took one look at him and said to myself ‘that’s my cat’ and proceed to make inqui-ries as to how to connect up with him.
I have to admit to being a hard-core cat person, and have had several cats over my lifetime.
It’s actually been a while since I have had a cat (two together actually) but recently I have been thinking it was time to take in a new furry companion.
Tiger was definitely a special cat, living at the Blue Cross Animal Hospital at the west end of the Danforth, he had an interesting history.
He had been a member of the clinic’s staff, so to speak, for about a year due to some sad circumstances.
He had lived his entire life with an older man who lived alone, and unfortunately his companion had become ill and gone into the hospital.
Neighbours volunteered to feed and take care of Tiger while his companion was away, but unfortunately the length of time began to stretch out.
Finally a relative of Tiger’s companion took the cat to the Blue Cross Animal Hospital for boarding because he needed more care.
Sadly, while Tiger was at the clinic his companion passed away and more troubling, the man’s family were not able to take Tiger in with them.
So the clinic decided to adopt Tiger and let him have the run of the upstairs office area, which he promptly took over.
When I heard this story, it made me think; how many people with pets actually have a plan of action in case some-thing happens to them?
If you are a pet owner, do you have a document or instructions readily available with your companion’s his-tory and instructions on how you wish them to be taken care of?
Tiger was lucky because the clinic took him in, rather than sending him off to a shelter where, frankly, older animals are not popular for adoption.
Don’t just put it away where it will not be found, but make sure someone you trust has it so they can act on your instructions in the case of an emergency.
Our pets are our precious companions and should be well treated if you are no longer able to do so, rather than just leaving their future to an uncertain fate.
Joe Cooper is a long-time East York resident and community activist. His column appears
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The map posted by Sky View Suites finds, not sur-prisingly, units near down-town subway stations have the most expensive rents on average. For example, you could pay $1,800 for a one-bedroom condo near King station, but under $1,000 for the same kind of unit by Main Street station. One surprise is the relative affordability near Union Station where apparently a two-bedroom unit condo can be rented for no more than $2,500.
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wMORE BIKES COMING TO BIKE SHARE TORONTO
Toronto’s bike share program is about to get a lot larger.
The Toronto Parking Authority (TPA), which oversees Bike Share Toronto, announced it will purchase 1,000 new bikes and 120 new bike docks in 2016. That’s more than double the amount of bikes available for rental cur-rently.
Currently you can find bike share docks only in the downtown, but with the planned expansion there’s now a good opportunity to install the first stations north of Bloor Street.
wHAVE YOUR SAY ABOUT CAR SHARE SPOTS
Got something to say about parking or the availability of car share spots? The city wants to hear from you.
From now until the end of April, you can fill out a short online survey indi-cating your preference, or antipathy, for how streets make use of street curbs,
whether that’s adding or removing parking, restrict-ing lane use or adding more transit and bike stops. You can also report problem curb areas for city staff to investigate.
Also, on Tuesday, April 19, Transportation Services will host a presentation of its curbside management strategy at city hall begin-ning at 6:30 p.m.
wFILM FESTIVAL PROVES TUFF ENOUGH FOR TTC
The Toronto Urban Film Festival, also known as TUFF, will celebrate its 10th anni-versary this year.
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This week, however, the festival announced it will soon begin accepting sub-missions for 2016. TUFF 2016 runs from Sept. 10 to 18.
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Beaches-East York MPP Arthur Potts has presented a petition in the Legislature that calls for a ban on the practice of charging non-refundable waiting list fees to parents for daycare spaces in Ontario.
The Liberal MPP intro-duced the document in the House Monday.
“The whole idea of read-ing a petition is to get people thinking about it,” said Potts, who is also in the process of preparing a private member’s bill that calls for the addi-tion of a new regulation to Ontario’s Child Care Act on this issue. He said he hopes
the private member’s bill will be tabled by one of his fellow MPPs as he’s already presented one.
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Potts said he first heard about the problematic prac-tice after constituent Nadine Blum, who lives near Danforth and Woodbine avenues, and her friend/colleague Kelly Doctor came in to discuss it with him.
During their conversation, Potts said he was “shocked” to learn Blum, who has a two-year-old son, was repeatedly asked to pay non-refundable fees of $20 to $150 to put her child’s name on daycare wait
lists in 2015. “I recognized this was a
real hardship that wasn’t being looked after,” he said earlier this week.
“So I worked with (Doctor and Blum) on a process that we could try to get this issue forward and we do seem to be doing fairly well.”
Doctor, who lives in the city’s west end, but is support-ing Blum by helping her with the petition, said at least 200 people have signed it since it was launched just a few weeks ago.
“Until we see a change in the law, it won’t change the practice,” she said Tuesday.
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