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ONLINE at insidetoronto.com Allisha Ali, developer at Hubba, teaches coding during a Ladies Learning Code at Nellie’s Shelter. The shelter has partnered with Ladies Learning Code and Hubba to give marginalized women a foot in the tech world by going beyond basic computer skills to offer coding.

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And it’s not on a whim.

There are more than 400,000 people employed in the tech sector in the city and it is still growing. Because of that, the City of Toronto is putting more emphasis on nurturing its tech talent. According to Scarborough Southwest councillor Michelle Holland, the city’s first appointed official as advocate for the innovation economy, it starts by tackling the sector’s branding issue.

"Toronto really punches above its weight when it comes to being a tech city.

It’s the number 1 city for startups and a great place for people to start and grow a business," Holland said.

"But the problem is our own Canadian-ness, we don’t beat the drum enough. These guys are top talent at the forefront of thought leadership and innovation and we need to show that. The tech talent in Toronto is doing phenomenal and we just need to get the word out and not be so shy about it. We need to get over that."

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"We’re trying to retain talent and talent stays because they have opportunities to build their business.

It’s not about the cuisine or the diversity, as amazing as that is. In this ecosystem to retain talent and

draw it from other countries you need opportunities, and we’re always looking at how to do that," Holland explained.

In the last few years, Toronto has continued to push and create these opportunities for startups by offering incubators, accelerators and access to the tech community and it’s beginning to pay off. Toronto has a growing startup ecosystem containing between 2,500 and 4,100 active tech startups, according to a 2016 report released by TechToronto. It also states Toronto is the strongest startup ecosystem in Canada.

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"There are over 60 incubators and accelerators from idea-stage programs like The Founder Institute to early-stage incubators like the DMZ, and bigger organizations

Just the way people are thinking about startups in Toronto will push it to become one of the top leaders for tech," Brigden told Metroland Media.

He launched Rover Parking about two years ago and for eight years, until 2010, he worked in Silicon Valley for the company OpenWaves, which was later sold. He admits that when he decided to try and get funding for the company in the city, it was different from Silicon Valley, Toronto was "super frustrating".

"When we started there wasn’t much help. The problem Toronto had, if I had to simplify it, was they were confused between scale up and startup," he explained.

"When we went looking for money, they asked for things like metrics that startups don’t have yet.

Those numbers come at the stage of a scale up."

But Toronto has improved, he said, mainly due to the rush of companies like Facebook, Autodeck and Slack taking notice of Toronto’s potential.

"We’re starting to see a lot of organizations starting to realize they need to set up in Toronto because the next wave of entrepreneurs and startups will be a lot bigger in Toronto than the wave before that," Brigden said.

Rickett agrees: "The tech landscape in Toronto has kind of blown up. That global recognition of talent and innovative thinking is happening.

We’re just starting to scratch the surface on what Toronto’s tech communities can do."

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Blue bins aren’t as simple as many might think DAVID NICKLE dnickle@insidetoronto.com Plastic seems like a simple enough concept.

But if you’re deciding whether to throw it into the blue bin or toss it in the trash, the ubiquitous petroleum product is anything but.

For instance: dry cleaning bags are fine, as are sandwich bags and milk bags. Plastic bubble wrap on the other hand is out, as is laminated plastic film like chip bags. Biodegradable bags and plastic containers are out. As are coffee pods - even the ones that say they’re compostable.

And don’t even think about putting any plastic that’s black coloured. That stuff’s recycling poison.

Homeowners east of the Humber River - and soon those west of it - may find themselves reminded of the complexity of plastic, as well as the subtlety of cardboard and the hygienic requirements of jars and cans, as the city embarks on a pilot project this year to bring the city up to speed on its increasingly complicated responsibilities when it comes to solid waste diversion.

"What we’re doing in the next six months is we have staff going in front of the trucks, going bin by bin and inspecting what the contents are," said Jim McKay, Toronto’s General Manager of Solid Waste Management. "If they see there are problem materials, they’ll leave a little door hanger. It’s really an educational tool that we’re trying to use."

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Recycling bins line Empress Avenue on Friday, May. 19, in North York. clable material being contaminated by items that the city lacks the capacity to recycle.

Currently, Toronto’s contamination rate sits at 26 per cent of everything collected. That’s high for a couple of reasons, said

McKay: first, because Toronto adopted a singlestream recycling system where paper is mingled with glass and plastic.

"Some of our neighbouring municipalities have a two-stream blue box system, and that’s a cleaner

system than we’ve got ... they’re at four to six per cent," said McKay. "In a two-stream system, cans and bottles go in one bin and paper fibres in another and so immediately if you have any liquid or soil or food still left in a container

it doesn’t get mixed in with paper fibre."

In the single-stream system, Toronto can collect more recycling per day. But that leads to the second problem. Over the years, packaging companies have found more and more different kinds of materials to use. And it’s been impossible to keep up.

"It’s not just Toronto that’s dealing with this - it’s a problem we all have to face," said Emily Alfred, a solid waste specialist with the Toronto Environmental Alliance. "Materials and packaging are getting more and more clever but we don’t have the technology to recycle all of that. The city is doing what it can. I do agree that there could be more education. Right now it’s education in posters and calendars that go out, but more regular communication is really effective."

The pilot project will go on for six months, and eventually move west to Etobicoke as well.

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Weathered flags should be grounded With Canada Day celebrations, marking the 150th year in our nation’s history, rapidly approaching, flags will be flying from coast to coast.

In many cases, bright, pristine Canadian flags will be front and centre at legions, government offices, businesses, and private residences. They’ll be prominent at countless special events and even attached to cars and trucks. And, unfortunately, there might be a few cases where our cherished symbol looks less than pristine, maybe even a bit ragged and threadbare.

It might surprise some to realize that there are some pretty It might surprise specific rules regardsome to realize ing the display of our emblem, the that there are some nation Maple Leaf.

Policies are in place pretty specific rules to govern how the flag regarding the is flown from everything from attaching it display of our to a vehicle or building, to suspending it nation emblem, above a street, or using the Maple Leaf. it on a flagpole.

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If you want to hang a flag flat against a surface, here’s the rule you’ll need to follow: "If hung horizontally, the upper part of the leaf (the points of the leaf) should be up and the stem down. If hung vertically, the flag should be placed so that the upper part of the leaf points to the left and the stem to the right from the point of view of the observer facing the flag."

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Bringing stories of Toronto’s suburbs downtown I remember being disappointed two years ago when the Toronto Public Library released the Toronto Poetry Map. It’s a great idea: dots on the map, each linked to a snippet of verse describing that place, or this intersection in the city.

Except, some downtown places had overlapping dots, swollen with multiple mentions. All of Scarborough had just four dots.

The Toronto Zoo, Scarborough Bluffs, and the Hav-A-Nap Motel got mentioned, but not much else.

For our other suburbs, things weren’t much better.

Etobicoke, on that map, was a poetry desert. Ditto, East York.

Where were the words describing them? How can this be a city whose stories

MIKE ADLER Edges of Toronto are all set south of Lawrence, east of the Humber River, or west of Victoria Park?

Catherine Hernandez, the author of Scarborough, a novel published this month, is one of the first to take this challenge head on.

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men going to East Point Park for sex, the Scarborough East Pow Wow, a school literacy centre, a Caribbean restaurant, fights at a dollar store, fantasies of orangutans escaping the zoo.

The best-known Toronto novels and poetry are about the old Toronto, partly because many are set in Toronto of the past.

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This is the second year the group has received stories and poems inspired by these four former suburban cities. Once again, Kent says, the contest jury was "floored" by their quality.

You’ll be able to see this year’s winners reading their work this fall.

Now that the city’s major art groups and festivals are finally discovering the suburbs, the literary scene is making it out there too.

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VOCA Chorus in concert Saturday VOCA Chorus of Toronto will be featuring Carl Orff’s masterwork Carmina Burana during an upcoming concert on The Danforth.

The presentation, which will be held on Saturday, May 27 at 7:30 p.m. at Eastminster United Church, 310 Danforth Ave., will feature the TorQ Percussion Quartet, soprano Elizabeth Polese, baritone Michael Nyby, tenor Christopher Mayell, and pianist Shawn Grenke alongside

several vocal music students from North York’s Claude Watson School for the Arts.

The May 27 concert will also include the world première of a two marimba setting by TorQ’s Daniel Morphy of the choral work The Spheres by Ola Gjeilo, as well as an Ontario première of My Symphony by Ottawa composer Elise Letourneau.

TorQ will also perform an electrifying solo set and Ola Gjeilo’s work The

Ground, which will feature a percussion arrangement of the string parts by Richard Burrows. The percussion quartet will also perform a lively Kenyan water song titled Kawouno Wan Gi Pi by Vivian Aluoch and Vivian Anyang. Vancouver composer Brian Tate arranged this piece.

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Lakeshore East Rail Corridor Expansion (Don River to Scarborough GO Station) – Transit Project Assessment Process To keep up with our growing region, Metrolinx, an agency of the Province of Ontario, is transforming the way the region moves by delivering the largest transit infrastructure program in Canadian history to keep the region moving today and tomorrow. The Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA) is now home to nearly 7 million people and heading towards 9 million by 2041. To address the urgent transit needs of the GTHA, the Province of Ontario committed to implement more GO service and make other infrastructure improvements to the GO system to help create new transit connections and faster service across the region. By 2025, electric trains will be running every 15 minutes or, all day and in both directions, within the most heavily travelled sections of the GO network.

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Notice of Commencement and Public Meeting #2

The Project Metrolinx is completing a Transit Project Assessment Process (TPAP) under Ontario Regulation 231/08 made under the Environmental Assessment Act, to evaluate expanding and improving the Lakeshore East GO rail corridor between Don River and Scarborough GO Station in the City of Toronto.

The project involves: • Addition of a 4th track between the Don River Bridge and the Scarborough GO Station • Widening of three (3) bridges: Woodbine Avenue, Warden Avenue and Danforth Avenue • Modifying Underneath the Birchmount Road Bridge • Modifications at Danforth GO Station to improve access • Retaining walls • Three (3) culvert extensions: east of Coxwell Avenue, east of Kennedy Road and Scarborough Junction The Process The TPAP is a proponent-driven, self-assessment process that provides a defined framework to follow in order to complete the accelerated assessment of the potential environmental effects and decision-making within a 120-day regulated assessment timeline. Following this period, the regulation provides an additional 30-day public and agency review, and a further 35-day Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change (MOECC) review. Prior to the commencement of the TPAP, introductory pre-planning activities take place. These activities include the study of existing environmental conditions and potential environmental effects of the Project across the natural environment, socio-economic environment, cultural environment, and traffic and transportation, as well as public and stakeholder consultation. As part of the TPAP, an Environmental Project Report (EPR) is being prepared.

Consultation – Your Opportunity to Comment and Provide Information We thank everyone for their feedback to date. As we formally commence the TPAP and continue to build on the first round of public meetings held in November 2016, we invite you to attend one of three public meetings happening in June. At these meetings Metrolinx will present the findings of the EPR and the proposed Don River to Scarborough GO Station Project. Members of the public, government agencies, Indigenous communities and other interested parties are encouraged to participate in the TPAP by attending one of the public meetings or visiting www.metrolinx.com/donriverscarborough.

Date: Thursday, June 15, 2017 Date: Thursday, June 8, 2017 Date: Tuesday, June 6, 2017 Time: 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.

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Location: Hope United Church Location: Riverdale Collegiate Institute Location: John A. Leslie Public School 2550 Danforth Ave., Toronto, ON M4C 1L2 1094 Gerrard St E., Toronto, ON M4M 2A1 459 Midland Ave., Scarborough, ON M1N 4A7 If you have any project-related questions, would like to be added to the Project’s mailing list or would like to provide input at any time, please contact: c/o Georgina Collymore Senior Advisor, Environmental Assessment Communications & Community Relations Metrolinx 20 Bay Street, Suite 600, Toronto, ON M5J 2W3 tel: 416-202-4921 e-mail: donriverscarborough@metrolinx.com website: www.metrolinx.com/donriverscarborough All personal information included in a submission – such as name, address, telephone number and property location – is collected, maintained and disclosed by the Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change for the purpose of transparency and consultation. The information is collected under the authority of the Environmental Assessment Act or is collected and maintained for the purpose of creating a record that is available to the general public as described in s. 37 of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. Personal information you submit will become part of a public record that is available to the general public unless you request that your personal information remain confidential. For more information, please contact Georgina Collymore (contact information above) or the Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change Freedom of Information and Privacy Coordinator at 416-327-1434.

This Notice first published on May 18, 2017.

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Metrolinx is working to provide residents and businesses in the GTHA with a transportation system that is modern, efficient and integrated.

Find out more about Metrolinx’s Regional Transportation Plan for the GTHA, as well as GO Transit, PRESTO and Union Pearson Express at www.metrolinx.com.

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"We’re helping them put viable skills on their resume. We wanted to do what was important for the world today and the future and that goes beyond Word and Excel. Web coding is the new literacy," said Stephanie Little, the lead coordinator for the program from Hubba. The program, which consists of threehour classes once a week, is the brainchild of Little, who launched it with the blessing of Hubba’s CEO Ben Zifkin last month. Little said creating the program was always a personal interest of hers and is happy to see the nine women, who wouldn’t be able to enrol in a program like this, be more web literate.

"I think women in the shelter systems and other

programs are looking for a fresh start and a lot of them have been through quite a bit and I think what helps with a fresh start is confidence and that’s what we’re helping with, by providing this program."

Nellie’s Shelter was approached by Hubba, a network where retail buyers can find, post and discover information on different products, to offer the free course. Its program manager Marlene Bell, immediately agreed since she knew how badly the women who use the shelter wanted to learn more advanced computer skills but didn’t have the means to do so.

"We can’t always find computer classes that are free of charge in the city, so clients may have to decide between food and courses," Bell said.

"And if you have to make that decision, the basic needs come first."

The program’s curricu-

lum was created by the team at Ladies Learning Code, an organization that helps women and girls develop coding skills from as young as eight years old across the country.

Hubba approached them to develop the curriculum for the program and they were excited to help.

"Our work is about engaging women and youth, but especially for the most under-represented group," explained Melissa Sariffodeen, the CEO of Ladies Learning Code.

"So we love giving women the chance to be in a tech community and be surrounded by the tech culture and see what their skills can be applied to."

Participants are given a laptop to use.

"I hope through this program women are able to acquire more marketable skills they can use out in the community. We’re really excited about it," said Bell.

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