Ruth Nadeau celebrates 100 years By Amanda Gibb
Volume 50 No. 12
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September 7, 2021
EAST TORONTO resident Ruth Nadeau turned 100 on Saturday, Aug. 28, and celebrated her birthday with staff from The Neighbourhood Group the day before in her residence in the Cecelia Murphy Building on Coatsworth Crescent. “I just feel the way I feel, and I feel pretty good for 100. I never believed I would live this long, but here I am,” said Ruth in
an interview with Beach Metro News recently. Ruth said that her birthday party on Friday, Aug. 27 at her residence was so great that she couldn’t stop smiling. “It was just swell. The staff that works here in my building came dancing in singing Happy Birthday…with two great big balloons saying ‘Happy 100th birthday.’ How great is that, no wonder I was smiling,” she said. Ruth was born and raised in
the west end of Toronto in 1921 and has since seen the world change through major events such as the Great Depression, the Second World War, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Ruth looks fondly back on a major event of her childhood, when she sang in a double trio in her public school years and even performed at Toronto’s Massey Hall. “We were called the invinciContinued on Page 25
Candidates set for local ridings in federal election THE FINAL lists of candidates has been finalized by Elections Canada for the federal ridings of BeachesEast York, Scarborough Southwest and Toronto-Danforth. Here are the candidates who will be running in those ridings in the federal election slated to take place on Monday, Sept. 20. BEACHES-EAST YORK In Beaches-East York, Liberal incumbent Nathaniel Erskine-Smith is seeking to be elected as the riding’s representative for the third time. He was first elected in 2015 and then re-elected in 2019. Running for the NDP in BeachesEast York will be Alejandra Ruiz Vargas. The Green Party candidate in Beaches-East York is Reuben DeBoer. The Conservative Party candidate for Beaches-East York is Lisa Robinson. The candidate for the People’s Party of Canada in Beaches-East York is Radu Rautescu. The Communist Party of Canada candidate in Beaches-East York is Jennifer Moxon. The Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada candidate is Phillip Fernandez. Running as an independent candidate in Beaches-East York is Karen Lee Wilde.
SCARBOROUGH SOUTHWEST In the riding of Scarborough Southwest, Liberal incumbent Bill Blair is seeking to be elected for the third time. Running in Scarborough Southwest for the NDP is Guled Arale.
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In the riding of Toronto-Danforth, Liberal incumbent Julie Dabrusin will seeking to be elected for the third time. The NDP candidate for TorontoDanforth is Clare Hacksel. The Conservative Party candidate for Toronto-Danforth is Michael Carey. The Green Party candidate for Toronto-Danforth is Maryem Tollar. The People’s Party of Canada candidate for Toronto-Danforth is Wayne Simmons. The Communist Party of Canada candidate for Toronto-Danforth is Elizabeth Rowley. She is the leader of the Communist Party of Canada. The Animal Protection Party of Canada candidate for TorontoDanforth is Liz White. She is the leader of the Animal Protection Party of Canada. Also running in Toronto-Danforth is independent candidate Habiba Desai.
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From left, Sapphira Charles, Lisa Rochon and Ginetta Peters at the Leuty Boathouse. A mural arts project for the inside walls of the boathouse featuring works by Chief Lady Bird and Jacquie Comrie begins this week.
Art reinvention planned for walls of the Leuty Boathouse this week By Amanda Gibb
THE LEUTY Boathouse in the Beach is slated for an art reinvention this month when BIPOC artists Jacquie Comrie and Chief Lady Bird start painting and spray painting epic murals on the boathouse’s interior walls. The Leuty Boathouse mural project’s inception was driven by a jury of three women: local architect and founder of the Beachers for Black Lives Movement, Sapphira Charles; Ginetta Peters, a landscape designer who also works with the David Suzuki Foundation; and Lisa Rochon, an urban designer and author who has juried many Winter Stations’ competitions, and collaborated with Indigenous womxn artists and designers to create the Red Embers installation. All members of the jury are
long-time friends and collaborators with Friends of the Beach Parks, a group of local residents dedicated to enhancing and animating parks in the area. Rochon, who spoke on behalf of the other two jury members, said that the process of getting the Leuty Boathouse project off the ground started after they met last summer to discuss and research the boathouse and its 100-year history. “We were all aligned from the beginning, so the process has been very seamless, it seems. It’s certainly required a lot of work but it was quite delightful in the beginning stages,” said Rochon. The three reviewed mural artists’ portfolios with the help of STEPS, and the jury unanimously agreed to select Chief Lady Bird and Comrie for the project. The team applied for funding
from Street Art Toronto, (StART) a suite of programs that aim to make city streets beautiful by showcasing local artists, mentor emerging talent, and reduce vandalism and replace it with “vibrant, colourful, community-engaged street art.” “There was a great alignment from the beginning between Sapphira, Ginetta, and I, and an amazing sense of collaboration between Jacquie and Chief Lady Bird. They were highly enthusiastic…Every person and agency has been absolutely fully endorsing and enthusiastic about the mural project, including the City of Toronto and Parks and Rec, even at a local level,” said Rochon. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the Beach neighbourhood saw an increase in foot traffic as Toronto residents sought out naContinued on Page 3
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