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Area residents are advised to keep a close eye on their pets after a dog and a cat in the Upper Beach area were recently struck with bullets from a BB gun. The incidents occurred near Swanwick Avenue and Enderby Road, which is west of Main Street and south of Gerrard Street East.

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GETTING READY FOR RIDING: Instructor Sydney, right, helps Danny Assimakopoulos, 10, mount a bicycle wheel during Bowmore Road Junior and Senior Public School’s Make It! Fair on Saturday morning.

Easter parade takes over Queen Street East For the 49th consecutive year, the Easter Bunny will be making its way to the Beach for the Toronto Beaches Lions

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The popular annual event – one of the largest Easter parades in North America –

will be held Sunday, starting at 2 p.m. sharp.

Founded in 1967 in honour of Canada’s centennial year, the

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Both animals are reportedly doing fine. A dog named Muneca, who was enclosed in the backyard of a home when hit Saturday, March 28, was struck in the back, but has received medical treatment and is recovering.

About three weeks ago, an orange cat across the street was also shot in the back and is doing OK. Anyone with info can contact police at 416-808-5500, Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-222-TIPS (8477), online at www.222tips.co, or text TOR and your message to CRIMES (274637). Tips can also be left on facebook at www.facebook. com/TorontoPolice.

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Meet-and-greet with Odysseo’s horses JOANNA LAVOIE jlavoie@insidetoronto.com The equine stars of Cavalia’s touring show Odysseo have arrived in Toronto after a twoweek vacation in Georgetown, Kentucky.

Members of the media were recently invited to meet the 70 horses set to grace Odysseo’s skating rink-sized stage starting Wednesday in the port lands.

Journalists were also offered an exclusive behindthe-scenes tour of the space, which covers the equivalent of a dozen professional basketball courts.

Darren Charles, Odysseo’s resident art director and choreographer, served as the tour guide. The first stop was the stage area, which has an 18-ton carousel that can be raised or lowered.

The sides of the stage, which are designed to look like a forest, also feature room for the animals and 45 human cast members to enter and exit during performances.

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Elise Verdoncq introduces a few of the 70 horses in the stable for Cavalia’s travelling show Odysseo. For more photos of the horses, visit http://goo.gl/vFl9Up

then invited to take a walk on the stage area, which is home to a three-storey “mountain”.

Charles also pointed to the high-definition IMAX screen that runs across the sides and back of the stage area as well as the composition of the sand on the stage, which is course and grainy and produces little to no dust.

He also made mention of the 300,000 litres of water that floods the stage at the end of the $30-million show.

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tacular shows in the world and it’s one of the biggest,” Charles said, before ushering journalists to a training ring backstage.

Trainer/performer Elise Verdoncq then gave a short demonstration of the art of liberty training (used to bond) with four white Arabian horses. The event concluded with a visit to the spacious stable tent, which is connected to the Big White Top.

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walking by candlelight Friends walk for Earth Hour: Right, Chloe Chalmers shows off her Earth Hour lantern during the Friends of Monarch Park walk on Saturday. Far right, participants follow the route of the group’s Earth Hour walk toward the steps of Monarch Park Collegiate.

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Leslieville community hopes Back of House finds recipe for success JOANNA LAVOIE jlavoie@insidetoronto.com The generosity of residents from Leslieville and beyond is helping keep food on the table of local eatery, Back of House.

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by Oakville native Charles (Charlie) Crothall, the chefrun restaurant at 1818A Carlaw Ave., just north of Queen Street East, has faced a litany of challenges since it first opened a year ago.

From faulty equipment to expensive operating costs, Crothall has struggled to keep his dream alive and the doors of his 20-seat restaurant open consistently.

“Everything I have has gone into this place,” said Crothall during a recent interview, adding he realizes the first year of running a restaurant is the hardest.

“The biggest challenge is my inexperience of running a business. You learn as you go and you have to learn quickly.”

Despite the many obstacles he’s faced, including the lack of a liquor license, Crothall said he’s looking forward to a “good summer” and said his chef-run concept is something he continues to

believe in.

“It’s not just a restaurant, it’s the idea behind it,” he said.

Leslieville’s Chris Mitchell heard about the east-end restaurant’s plight after stopping by for a bite to eat recently. He learned more about Back of House’s precarious situation on social media and decided to do something about it by starting the Neighbors Helping Neighbors: Back of House Edition Indiegogo crowdsourcing fund Monday, March 23. The fundraising target is $7,000. Those who contribute more than $18 get a free meal.

“This is a chance to do something before the doors close at Back of House,” said Mitchell, who has a background in running corporate restaurants.

“I almost didn’t get a chance to eat his food.”

Mitchell, who has lived near Queen Street East and Jones Avenue for just more than a year, said he also felt compelled to help Back of House after watching several local businesses struggle to survive and close after months of ongoing construction and road closures due to the construction of the nearby Leslie Barns light rail vehicle storage

COOKING IN THE KITCHEN: at left, Back of House chef/ owner Charles (Charlie) Crothall, left, and Rob Bright prepare lunch. A chalkboard thanks the Leslieville community for their support. Above, the all-day breakfast at Back of House restaurant.

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and maintenance facility.

As of Tuesday afternoon, donors have contributed more than $4,100 to the campaign, which is set to wrap up Wednesday, April 8.

Scores of others have stopped by the restaurant,

which features locally sourced comfort food favourites cooked with modern techniques, to donate funds directly, while some have come forward to offer their services, including a heating contractor who heard about

the problems with Back of House radiant heating and wanted to offer his expertise.

Enloe Wilson and his colleague Kara Witter recently dropped in for lunch to show their support for the local

eatery. “It’s a fantastic little spot. It’s a great business,” Wilson said.

“We heard about the business and are sympathetic to the cause so we thought we’d come in and show them some support.”

Scores of others felt the same way as lunch service has been busy since word got out last week about Back of Houses’ challenges to remain open.

Michael Manni, a friend of Mitchell who has a background in hospitality management, is also offering his skills as a business advisor.

“We’re currently in the process of re-launching the restaurant to offer a simpler menu that appeals to what Leslieville wants,” said Manni, who recently moved to the city’s west end after living in Riverdale for three years.

“The focus will still be on local, high-quality food, but we’re really going to try to make this all about Leslieville and what people in the neighbourhood are looking for.”

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esterday marked the start of the 100-day countdown to this summer’s Toronto 2015 Pan Am/ Parapan Am Games. Part of the celebrations held to mark the occasion at the Athletes’ Village in the West Don Lands included a citizenship court for 100 new Canadians, including North York boxer Arthur Biyarslanov who will be taking part in the Games.

The past month has seen enthusiasm for the Games begin to build across not only the Greater Toronto Area, but the province and country as well.

The March announcement of the Pan Am Games Torch Relay, which starts May 30, will see the Games’ torch visit communities across Canada before settling in to tour Toronto’s neighbourhoods just prior to the opening of the Games on July 10.

A number of high-profile athletic events in the city are also helping raise excitement.

The Swim Canada trials to select the members of the Canadian our view team that will take part in the Pan Am Games are taking place Approach at Scarborough’s CIBC Pan Am/ Parapan Am Aquatics Centre and generates Field House through Saturday. excitement This meet will feature Canada’s top swimmers. Last week, the Scarborough pool hosted the Can-Am ParaSwimming Championships, which helped select the members of the Canadian team to take part in August’s Parapan Am Games. Both these events are examples of the many legacies the Games will leave Toronto.

As well last week, residents could take in some of the world’s top wheelchair basketball teams at the Americas Challenge at the Mattamy Centre. That tourney saw the Canadian men’s team, the defending Olympic gold medal champs, in action at the court they will compete on in the Parapan Am Games. The Mattamy Centre will also host the Pan Am Games basketball, which should see a very strong Canadian men’s team including some top young NBA players from our country.

There’s lots to get excited about as the Games approach.

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Mayor John Tory’s fortunes lie in hands of city’s provincial and federal cousins It may well be that when all the accounts are in, the success or failure of Mayor John Tory’s debut term as mayor will be decided by factors entirely beyond his control.

To a degree this is so with most political leaders.

A moribund federal government can be buoyed by a robust economy; a competent provincial government, sunk by a collapse in the markets.

And a mayor, particularly in a city like Toronto, really succeeds or fails based on the actions of both of those levels of government.

If goodwill flows from above, it will also rise from the electorate. Of course, a smart mayor can make lemonade with a stack of lemons from unfriendly governments.

But Mayor Tory has through both the city’s circumstance and his own

david nickle the city declarations tied his own hands.

Firstly, Toronto has great and immediate needs for moneys beyond its means.

The Spadina subway extension is need of $150 million more in order to be finished, and neither the province nor the federal government has shown any indication of willingness to assist with the overrun.

On Monday, Tory affirmed his election promise to deal with the repair backlog at Toronto Community Housing, spending $864 million over the next decade to fix the housing stock and calling on other levels of government to join in.

And that’s just this week. Toronto will need

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Tory really does need the federal and provincial government to listen. His fate is in their hands.

billions of dollars from the provincial and federal governments if it is to move ahead with Tory’s SmartTrack plan. Toronto really did need some $86 million this year, to balance its budget, and didn’t get it.

Tory is putting everything – literally everything – on his ability to work with Liberals provincially, and nominally Conservatives federally, and do so well enough to cause them to let these billions of dollars flow.

Tory believes it’s a good bet. Since before he even joined the race for mayor, Tory’s biggest selling point has been his ability to sell

the city to a blue-chip Rolodex of government and business contacts.

But if in a year or so nobody’s buying, Tory may have to do things that violate his other election-year brand: that of a fiscally conservative business leader who is unwilling to burden taxpayers with more taxes and fees.

If he does those things – which is to say, looks at additional revenue sources like tolls or a sales tax – then he might be able to fulfill at least a portion of his agenda. But for people who voted for Tory in 2014, will the shift be acceptable enough to come back and support him for a second term? Tory really does need the federal and provincial governments to listen. His fate is in their hands.

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Photo club meeting wBeach The Beach Photo Club will be hosting a presentation on curating a photo exhibition today (Thursday).

The group, which meets on the first and third Thursday of the month, will gather at Beach United Church, 140 Wineva Ave. at 7:15 p.m.

Photographers of all levels are welcome to attend.

Visit www.beachphotoclub. com for more details.

Toronto’s Jammer Classic The seventh annual Jamieson Kuhlmann Memorial Field Lacrosse Tournament (Jammer Classic) takes place April 3 to 5 at Cherry Beach Sports Fields, 115 Unwin Ave. The official kick-off event for Ontario Minor Field Lacrosse, it features high school competition on ‘Varsity Day’ Friday with youth clubs taking over on Saturday and Sunday.

The tournament is a celebration of the life of Beach teenager Jamieson Kuhlmann, who died at 15 in a lacrosse accident.

The tournament also raises money for the Children’s Wish

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Foundation of Canada.

Visit www.thejammerclassic. com Applegrove drop-in program Applegrove Connection Family Resource Program and Rebellion Gallery and Art Academy have formed a new partnership.

On Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons from noon to 3 p.m., children up to six and their caregivers are invited to take part in a drop-in program at the Little India-area art space at 1495 Gerrard St. E. For more information, call Louise at 416-459-0231 or 416461-8143.

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Dogs must now be leashed while walking along the Kew-Balmy and Woodbine beaches.

As of Tuesday, March 31, the temporary offleash zone south of the snow fence is officially done for the season.

Leashing your dog is a City of Toronto bylaw except for in

designated areas. Those who disobey this bylaw could be subject to a fine.

Dogs will be able to roam free below the snow fence Nov. 1.

Cancer Society needs volunteers The Canadian Cancer Society is looking for volunteers to help sell daffodils and daffodil pins during its annual month-long Daffodil Campaign.

Volunteers are needed at the Loblaws Victoria Park Market, 50 Musgrave St. and the Beach Valu-Mart at 2266 Queen St. E. Visit myccsschedule.ca

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Pedestrian Days in the beach Ward 32 Councillor MaryMargaret McMahon invites Beach residents interested in developing ‘pedestrian days’ on Queen Street East, creating “parklettes”, to speak with your neighbours, form a group and get in touch with her office.

Email councillor_mcmahon@toronto.ca or call 416392-1376.

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area residents opportunities to connect with their loved ones through an old-fashioned letterwriting experience.

Juice and Java, at 2102 Queen St. E. at Wineva Avenue, recently launched a new program called Unplug to Connect.

People are invited to drop by the café, select a stamped postcard, fill it out and place it in their mailbox.

There’s a suggested donation of $2. Letters are mailed out twice a week. Call 416-698-9090 for more information.

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Prom wear for young men and women in sizes 10 to 22 as well as new makeup and nail polish, and new toiletries are especially needed.

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She’ll be serving as the chair of the Premier’s Community Hub Framework Advisory Group.

The group’s members have yet to be announced.

“I want to thank Karen Pitre for taking on this important responsibility,” Wynne said in a March 20 release.

“The work of the advisory group will do so much to inform our government’s approach to establishing community hubs. We want Ontario to be the best place to work, live and raise a family, and community hubs are a part of that vision.”

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“I look forward to working with the advisory group to support the considerable work already underway to move forward on this complex and important issue.”

To avoid any conflicts of interest, Pitre resigned as the chair of the Toronto Sports Council, which she founded in 2004. She’ll continue to serve as the president of her consulting film, The Lonsdale Group.

Just a week in, Pitre said she’s getting her bearings and has already heard from several individuals and groups

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days to Pan Am wOn100 Games April 1, TO2015, CIBC and

the Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration hosted a citizenship ceremony and reception at the CIBC Pan Am/Parapan Am Athletes’ Village.

To celebrate 100 days until the Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games approximately 100 people were sworn in as Canadian citizens, serving as a reminder that in 100 days, Toronto will play host to 41 countries.

The event was hosted

by Olympic gold-medallist Catriona Le May Doan.

Pan Am boxer Arthur Biyarslanov and his mother from the Chechen Republic spoke about the importance sport played in their integration into Canadian society.

Biyarslanov lives in Toronto and trains at a boxing facility in North York.

Am Path wPanPan discussion Am Path board member Glenn Parkinson will discuss the creation of the Pan Am Path April 21 at 7 p.m. at North York Central Library.

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michele mclean pan am/parapan am The multi-use path connects more than 80 kilometres of trails across Toronto.

Along the route, it supports communities with art and culture, programming and improved public spaces.

Wheelchair wCanada basketball tourney concluded the 2015

Americas wheelchair basketball challenge with a 3-2 record.

The host Canadian men’s wheelchair basketball team held a friendly tournament, which offered a sneak peek at some of the top teams set to compete at the 2015 Parapan American Games in August.

The tournament ended with a 67-54 loss to the United States on March 26 at the Mattamy Athletic Centre in Toronto.

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On board were Chelsey Gotell, retired Paralympic swimmer and gold medallist; Katie Harnock, Paralympic wheelchair basketball player; Jamey Jewells, Paralympic wheelchair basketball player; Andrew Haley, retired Paralympic swimmer and gold medallist; and Papito Wilson, Paralympic rower.

The athletes wore their medals and posed for photos to promote ticket sales for the Parapan Am Games to be held Aug. 7 to 15.

Auditions for wAuditions opening and closing for the Parapan

Am and Pan Am ceremonies were held Sunday.

The media was also invited to audition to choreographed movement to music at the event.

Performers were needed for the Parapan Am opening and closing ceremony and the Pan Am closing ceremony.

Parapan athletes wParapan ride the TTC i Am athletes mingled with TTC riders last Saturday when they rode the accessible

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No direct terror threat has been made toward the Pan Am/Parapan Am Games, though police said they are continuously assessing the threat level.

“We’re well aware of what’s going on in the world, and that’s why we do have a joint intelligence group,” Toronto police Staff Sgt. Devin Kealey said. “They meet on a regular basis to determine if there’s any direct threat towards the games, and I can tell you right now there’s not, but that situation could change.”

Toronto police is one of

eight municipal forces with Pan Am/Parapan Am venues within their jurisdictions.

Those police services work with the OPP-led integrated security unit, which is in charge of security for the Games.

In Toronto, the OPP will help Toronto police with conducting sweeps to ensure all venues are secure before athletes play in them and with enforcing the Games route network, a series of highoccupancy lanes reserved for athletes, games officials, media and vehicles with three or more occupants.

From June 29, officers will be patrolling and enforcing

the Games route network, even though the Games don’t start until July 10.

“These are only temporary lanes...and they’ll be taken down after the Games,” said Kealey, who is among 40 Toronto officers on the planning team.

The temporary HOV lanes are planned for stretches of Hwys. 427, 404, and 401, the QEW, DVP, Gardiner Expressway, Lake Shore Boulevard and Jane and Jarvis streets. Costs for security are estimated at $239 million, which includes both policing and private security costs.

Kealey said Toronto officers will staff venues only within

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the city, meaning local police won’t be sent to venues outside Toronto. With the exception of OPP, no outside police service will be brought in.

“But that could always change depending on the circumstances,” Kealey said.

“Obviously we have to be flexible depending on what’s happening locally and around the world.”

Toronto officers from the integrated security

unit were sent to the 2014 Commonwealth Games in , Scotland, as well as to the 2011 Pan Am Games in Guadalajara, Mexico, to see how security was handled.

“We’re always trying to learn from what’s been done in the past and hopefully build and improve on it,” Kealey said.

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The highlight of the parade will be a visit from the guest of honour The Easter Bunny.

Attendees are once again asked to bring along some small change to donate to the Toonies for Lions campaign, which helps support the work done by the east-end social service organization.

Funds raised from the parade and other events will be used to help the club sponsor as many guide dogs as it can through the Lions Foundation of Canada Dog Guides.

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This year’s parade is set to feature dozens of colourful floats of all sizes and descriptions as well as fire trucks, a musical train and marching bands.

New this year, there will also be a fire breather in the parade, said Parade Chair Karoline Bourdeau.

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Help decide the future of the Gardiner Expressway East We invite you to join us at two upcoming public meetings where you can comment on the current phase of the Environmental Assessment on the future of the Gardiner Expressway East.

The Study Waterfront Toronto and the City of Toronto are jointly carrying out the Gardiner Expressway / Lake Shore Boulevard Reconfiguration Environmental Assessment (EA) and Integrated Urban Design Study.

The EA will determine the future of the Gardiner Expressway East and Lake Shore Boulevard East, from approximately Jarvis Street to approximately Leslie Street. The study area for the EA is displayed on the map below.

The four alternative solutions that have been considered to date are: • Maintain the elevated expressway; • Improve the urban fabric while maintaining the existing expressway;

• Replace with a new above-or-below grade expressway; and, • Remove the elevated expressway and build a new boulevard.

In the last phase of the EA, the evaluation of the alternative solutions concluded that the remove option best met the evaluation criteria. Following direction from the Public Works and Infrastructure Committee of Toronto City Council, the upcoming public meeting will share the results of the following work: 1.

Review the remove option under the EA process to mitigate concerns about traffic congestion.

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Prepare an additional hybrid option that combines the maintain and replace components to preserve expressway linkage and functionality between the Gardiner Expressway and the Don Valley Parkway, and evaluates it against the EA criteria and the following: • Transportation functionality; • Public transit components; •

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Get Involved Interested persons are invited to participate through two upcoming public meetings, one of which will be webcast, and online opportunities. If you can’t attend in person, you can participate and watch the meeting online – and at any time afterwards – at www.gardinereast.ca.

Gardiner Expressway East Public Meeting (Downtown) Wednesday, April 15, 2015 6:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. at the Bram & Bluma Appel Salon, Toronto Reference Library 789 Yonge Street, Toronto (Bloor Street subway station) Open house begins at 6:30 p.m.; presentations at 7:00 p.m.

Please register at: https://gardinereapublicmeetingdowntownapril15.eventbrite.ca

Gardiner Expressway East Public Meeting (Scarborough) Monday, April 20, 2015 6:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. at the Blessed Cardinal Newman H.S. Cafeteria 100 Brimley Rd S, Toronto Open house begins at 6:30 p.m.; presentations at 7:00 p.m. *PLEASE NOTE THIS MEETING WILL NOT BE WEBCAST* Please register at: https://gardinereapublicmeetingscarboroughapril20.eventbrite.ca

For more information or to be added to the project mailing list, contact info@gardinereast.ca, or call (416) 479-0662. To learn about the project or contribute your insights and views please visit www.gardinereast.ca.

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