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JOANNA LAVOIE jlavoie@insidetoronto.com A grassroots effort aimed at celebrating diversity has come to Toronto’s east end.

The Solidarity Ribbons campaign, which earlier this year saw Roncesvalles residents tie white ribbons with the message "All Faiths Welcome" around utility poles and trees, is now underway.

Nikki Gouzopoulos, who had lived near Danforth and Donlands avenues for about five years, is spearheading the east Toronto initiative.

"I thought: ’How amazing is that!’ It was simple and easy and it made a positive impact," said Gouzopoulos, who first learned about the concept through a TV news report where her old high school friend Jessica Oliver was involved in tying solidarity ribbons along l See THE GOAL page 10

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Toronto Youth Cabinet led push for financial literacy learning across Ontario JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com When it comes to providing a quality education, those who stand to benefit most - youth - are often left without a voice at the table.

With financial literacy set to earn increased attention in Ontario classrooms, however, students across the province may want to give thanks to the Toronto Youth Cabinet (TYC).

First established 1998 by Toronto City Council, the TYC started out as a way of getting youth involved in municipal decisions. Nearly two decades later, the group has lent a youth voice to issues ranging from housing to transit to employment to education.

With the provincial government’s late March announcement that financial literacy would be one of the major planks of a career studies pilot program, one of the TYC’s main objectives have been achieved.

Students will now get a firmer footing in terms of earning and saving, budgeting and money management.

The TYC’s focus on boosting financial literacy education started in 2016, when Prakash Amarasooriya joined the team and took on the role of school boards lead. He noted that in talking to youth about shortcomings in the education system, the lack of financial literacy education was a common refrain.

"We did research to see how financial literacy was taught in schools - we looked into the Ontario curriculum - and there were mentions of it but it wasn’t really directly addressed," said Amarasoori-

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Toronto Youth Cabinet members Edwin White Chacon (left), Prakash Amarasooriya, Bri Gardner, Riley Peterson and Tom Gleason were instrumental in making financial literacy a bigger part of the Ontario curriculum. ya. "It was dispersed throughout other courses, but it wasn’t a focus. It felt more like an afterthought."

There had been repeated calls for mandatory money skills to be taught in high school from various groups and politicians.

The TYC also approached the Ministry of Education last summer to raise the issue, but felt their initial overtures were rebuffed.

"What we got from them was that they thought they were doing a good enough job with financial literacy," Amarasooriya said.

Not content with that response, the TYC created a five-phase plan to increase the pressure on the

government to devote more class time to financial literacy. They started with a petition and followed it up with a press release, and the attention those steps garnered was enough that the final phases of their plan - taking the matter to the legislature, conducting workshops and airing videos from youth talking about the importance of financial literacy education - were not necessary.

"Fortunately, the attention we got in the media was enough that we started to see the slight differences in the minister’s statements over the next two to three weeks," said TYC ex-

ecutive director Tom Gleason. "It went from ’We’re confident things are working well’ to ’Changes are coming.’"

Gleason added that the TYC’s actions received nearly unanimous consent from people from across the political spectrum.

Amarasooriya noted financial literacy education will better prepare students for life outside the classroom in ways many core courses may not.

"It will help students take a look at their goals, values and (financial) decision-making and help them understand what their needs are and what their wants are," he said.

"They’ll also get familiar with things like mortgages, financing and leases, or TFSAs and RRSPs. Those things can be confusing or daunting when you don’t really know about them, and this will help students understand them better."

That knowledge will better enable young people to take control of their financial futures, giving them the tools they need to make smarter decisions.

Making the careers course and its associated financial literacy education mandatory will be another big win for students across the province.

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taged neighbourhoods will get as much in-school learning about financial literacy as people from affluent neighbourhoods," Amarasooriya said. "And where putting a useful topic in another course was shown to be ineffective, this will make it way more useful to students."

Education Minister Mitzie Hunter said she was happy to hear from the TYC when it approached her with its call for increased financial literacy in schools. Having taken her role in the ministry last June, she was quick to see the importance of such instruction.

"They came to me to talk about ’How do we bring this into schools?’ and I was really pleased to let them know that I was very supportive of this and wanted to see it happen," she said.

Hunter added that she was impressed with the TYC’s commitment and preparation in bringing about change, noting that having engaged youth makes the education system work better not only for the students but for the province as a whole.

"It’s very important to me that I hear (from) students and connect with them on their learning and on their education," she said. "Listening to students and allowing them to share their ideas and their perspectives around their learning is extremely important."

With the TYC and other engaged youth organizations taking on leadership roles, there will surely be no shortage of ideas and perspectives coming the minister’s way.

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"It’s what I know," smiled Tvinnereim, who studied home economics at

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Presented by the Gerrard India Bazaar Business Improvement Area in partnership with AJ Media Entertainment, the Baisakhi Festival 2017 will feature bhangra and Bollywood dancing, live music, activities for the kids, tasty eats and a fashion show among other things. The festivities will run from 4 to 10 p.m. at Gerrard Street East and Ashdale Avenue.

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Anna Tvinnereim holds Swedish cinnamon buns with cardamom and pearl sugar, and Semla buns, at the Beaches Bake Shop & Cafe, one of Toronto’s very few Swedish/Scandanavian Bakeries

The Toronto Beach Chorale (TBC) is presenting a Good Friday concert featuring W.A. Mozart’s Requiem.

Featuring soprano Jocelyn Fralick, mezzo soprano Lillian Brooks, tenor Ryan Harper and baritone Matthew Cassils, the concert will take place at Kingston Road United Church, 975 Kingston Rd., just west of Victoria Park Avenue, starting at 7:30 p.m. This show, which is the final concert of the TBC’s season, will also feature readings from the play Amadeus.

Tickets are $25 for adults. Youth age seven to 18 pay $12, while children six and under get in free.

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Lent is one of the busiest times of the year for Anna Tvinnereim, the owner of the Beaches Bake Shop and Café.

At this time of the year, orders pour in for the bakery’s famous semla buns, which she described as a sweet yeast dough bun with cardamom that is filled with homemade almond paste and whipped cream.

"We’ve probably made thousands of semla buns since Christmas, for sure," she smiled.

"People love them."

The Beaches Bake Shop and Café, which is located on Kingston Road just a few blocks west of Victoria Park Avenue, is one of a handful of Scandinavian bakeries in Toronto.

"We are kind of a little bit of a Scandinavian hub in Toronto," said Tvinnereim, who is originally from Sweden.

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Toronto’s embarrassment of riches spells trouble Toronto has always been a city bursting at the seams.

We don’t have enough road capacity for all our cars and trucks, and our public transit system is underdeveloped and overcrowded.

We are just getting a handle on our aging sewer infrastructure, which has been neglected for decades and has shown it after heavy rains.

Mitigating poverty and homelessness has been a constant struggle, and our stock of subsidized public housing cannot keep up.

Now we can add another pressure to the list of forces bedevilling Toronto: Wealth - in the form of the city’s obscenely overvalued stock of housing that is decidedly not subsidized.

According to the Toronto Real Estate Board, the price of a house in the Toronto area has risen by 33.2 per cent over the past year, and now sits at $900,000 on average.

That is good news for people who’ve bought their home in the past decade. It augurs badly for young families or anyone else hoping to put down roots in our communities through the traditional and powerful route of home ownership.

The choices for those of more limited means are unappetizing. Even those earning high-five-figure salary will have a hard time gathering a down payment and paying a mortgage on a $1-million property, but attempting to do so is one option.

Rental housing is another possibility - but hyperinflated real estate costs have had the effect of hyperinflating the rental market, too. A third option - simply seeking housing elsewhere - is the perhaps the most viable for house-hunters, but disastrous for a city.

As Canada’s largest city and the country’s major financial centre, Toronto has always been marked as a focal point for wealth, but that has never been the city’s sole identity, and certainly not its best identity. At our best, we live the city’s motto; Diversity Our Strength.

And diversity is sorely curtailed, in a city where the price of entry is on average $1 million.

It’s encouraging to see our political leadership at all three levels of government taking note, even if it is somewhat belated. Whether the actions that have so far been proposed - taxes on vacant units and offshore investor purchases to cool speculation, and changes to the Tenant Protection Act to mitigate gouging rent increases - will be enough, is another question.

There is another solution; a catastrophic market correction that will cost people their homes, but eventually set the ship right. Let us pray it doesn’t come to that.

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Prayers in the rain for troubled Jamestown The rain starts falling as they walk up Jamestown Crescent. Memories come back, every one of them painful.

"Beckles got shot at this door, right up there. We had a prayer rally up here," says Rev. Carmen Lewis.

Gordon Beckles, 46, died on his porch in March 2015.

Lecent Ross, 14, was killed as a handgun went off four months later. "Her mom is just up here. Oh, there’s just been so many of them," says Al Bowen, a local pastor.

Bowen points his borrowed pink umbrella at where Candice Rochelle Bobb, 35, was shot in a car last May. Her unborn son died three weeks later.

In front of Jamestown’s food bank, members of the Etobicoke Strategy begin

MIKE ADLER Edges of Toronto to pray.

They’re persistent visitors to this and other neighbourhoods, inspired by a Boston movement bringing faith leaders and police officers together on community walks.

Two women load groceries into a hatchback nearby.

Bowen asks God for more trust in Jamestown, "because when trust is in

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place, the wall of silence goes lower."

The rain and wind increase.

Andrew King, another pastor, asks God to guide police working in the community.

"Wash away the crime, the grime, Father," he says, asking God to remove the "negative element" here, to give hope to Jamestown’s children, food to its cupboards, jobs to people not working.

"They may not know it," he adds, "but we’re interceding for them, praying for them."

Vincent Crisanti, the local councillor, says the city and its Toronto Community Housing Corporation do their best. He points to new courtyard stone among the drab townhouses, more se-

curity cameras, better lighting.

Lewis greets a group of children standing outside, asks if they’re enjoying the rain.

Do the community walks work?

"You find that people are more willing to come out and talk, even with police around," says Const. Anthony Amantea, but notes there were two shootings in Jamestown this year.

"It’s hard to say whether it’s getting better."

As the group walks back to their cars, King says he lives in a safe community.

"Why can’t these people?"

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Gouzopoulos, who has two young children, said she felt it was only fitting to bring the initiative to east Toronto, also home to a number of mosques, notably the Madinah Masjid, which is just a block from her home. She said the campaign is especially relevant in east Toronto as late last year several racist posters were plastered throughout Stan Wadlow Park near O’Connor Drive and Woodbine Avenue.

About a month ago, Gouzopoulos enlisted her neighbours/friends/fellow moms Michelle Bernardo and Genevieve Metropolis, and together the women spent a couple of evenings preparing solidarity ribbon "kits", which contained pieces of white ribbon along with a note explaining what the campaign is all about and a link to a Facebook page for

more information. The info sheet also included a list of suggested messages people could write including: Peace, Love, Hope, Diversity is our strength, Love thy neighbour, We celebrate our diversity, All people welcome, and All faiths welcome.

The kits were then dropped in the mailboxes of about 150 homes in the Danforth-Donlands area.

"The response was great. Every day I’d come home and see ribbons going up," Gouzopoulos said, adding the initiative is also an opportunity for parents to discuss recent incidents of racism and Islamophobia, and help their children better understand why it’s important to celebrate diversity.

"The goal is to get people talking."

Gouzopoulos said the campaign has taught her that it doesn’t take much to make somebody feel good or to brighten somebody’s day.

"We have to take care of each other," she said.

"The more love we can spread, the better."

Metropolis agreed.

"I think it’s really important to counter hatred with positive messages. I like taking concrete actions and put positive energy out there," she said.

"There’s a large Muslim population in the area and I wanted to show my support."

Bernardo said she appreciates and values Toronto’s diversity and feels it’s important to do what she can to show solidarity.

"I think this is a great idea and a great way to start a conversation."

In the coming weeks, the three women will prepare and distribute another 150 kits in the DanforthDonlands area. And if all goes well, they’ll do a third round.

Email solidarityribbons@gmail.com or visit www.Facebook.com/solidarityribbons to for more information or to get involved.

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WHEN: 4 p.m. - 6 p.m. WHERE: Fox Theatre, 2236 Queen Street East, Toronto CONTACT: Toronto Silent Film Festival, torontosilentfilm@gmail.com, www.torontosilentfilmfestival.com COST: $15 $10 senior/student Toronto Silent Film Festival presents Little Annie Rooney.

l Sunday, April 23 Free Electronic Waste Recycling Event WHEN: 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. WHERE: Real Storage Toronto Beaches, 1 Woodfield Rd, Toronto CONTACT: 416-460-7479 COST: FREE opportunity to safely dispose of obsolete electronic equipment while donating to a good cause - Scouts Canada. TV, DVD, printers, computers, toner cartridges, batteries, cameras, networking equipment, PLUS any items not mentioned which have electronic components. Proceeds will support camp opportunities for scouting youth who otherwise would not be able to participate.

l Tuesday, April 25 SNYP Mobile Clinic WHEN: 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. WHERE: East End Community Health Centre, 1619 Queen Street East, Toronto CONTACT: Shirin, 416778-5805, https://www.facebook.com/East-End-CommunityHealth-Centre-124812637598628/ COST: Free or low- cost Toronto Animal Services’ SNYP (spay/neuter your pet) Mobile Clinic is reaching out to pet owners to provide spay and neuter services for dogs and cats at low or NO COST near the Centre. For people/ families with a household income less than $50,000. Not for dogs over 30lbs. Please call to apply and book an appointment.

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5 things to do this weekend l Tuesday, April 11 Boys are back in town WHEN: 7 p.m. - 11 p.m. WHERE: Rogers Centre, One Blue Jays Way, Toronto CONTACT: toronto.bluejays.mlb.com/ COST: Various prices After opening the season on the road, the Toronto Blue Jays are in the midst of their first home stand with games April 11 to 20. l Thursday, April 13 KAMP WHEN: 8 p.m. - 11 p.m. WHERE: Harbourfront Centre Theatre, 231 Queens Quay West, Toronto, ON, Toronto CONTACT: 416-9734000 COST: Regular $35 Students & Youth $15, advance tickets required Dutch theatre group Hotel Modern blends visual art, puppetry, music, film and performance in expressive theatre productions.

KAMP is a theatrical portrait of Auschwitz, April 13 to 16. l Friday, April 14 TIFF Kids International Film Festival WHEN: 10 a.m. - 11 p.m. WHERE: TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King

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Street West, Toronto CONTACT: 416-599-8433COST: $10-$14 TIFF’s second biggest film festival offers unique screening experiences for the youngest film-lovers.

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Easter EGGstravaganza at Centreville WHEN: 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. WHERE: Centreville Amusement Park, 21 Avenue Of The Islands (Toronto Islands), Toronto CONTACT: info@centreisland.ca COST: $15, free ferry ride with prepurchase

A fun filled day on Centre Island over Easter Weekend, April 14 to 16.

Tons of Money WHEN: 2 p.m. - 11 p.m. WHERE: Scarborough Village Theatre, 3600 Kingston Road, Toronto CONTACT: sp_publicity@theatrescarborough.co, www.theatrescarborough.com COST: Scarborough Players is in their 59th season of putting on high quality community theatre. Tons of Money runs April 7 to 22.

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