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Ward 30 Toronto-Danforth Councillor Paula Fletcher said construction liens placed on dozens of homes and properties in Leslieville is a “terribly upsetting” thing that “never should have happened.” Just more than a week ago, scores of east-end residents were both shocked and angered to learn a payment dispute between the TTC, its Leslie Barns contractor, Pomerleau Inc., and sub-contractor, Ozz Electric Inc., resulted in liens placed against their homes and properties.

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The news came to light after the lawyer for a condominium owner who is in the process of selling his unit learned there was a lien against his property. On March 3, Ozz Electric filed a claim for nearly $1.5 million in unpaid services and materials supplied to Pomerleau from Jan. 24, 2014 to Feb. 25, 2016 for the Leslie Barns light rail vehicle maintenance and storage facility at Lake Shore Boulevard East and Leslie Street. Dozens of Leslieville homes and properties were named in the 23-page claim. T h e To r o n t o Tr a n s i t Commission said it only “acci-

JAMMER CLASSIC: Malvern Collegiate defender Chris Mills, left, pressures Upper Canada College’s Dom Peters during Jammer Classic lacrosse action at the Cherry Beach Fields Friday. Upper Canada College went on to win the game 7-4.

Beaches-East York MPP Arthur Potts, along with Ontario’s Minister of Transportation Steven Del Duca, hosts a transit town hall Monday, April 18. The event runs from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at Hope United Church, 2550 Danforth Ave. at Main Street. Both Potts and Del Duca will be discussing and taking

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Petition calls for coroner’s inquest into murder of Domenic Parker JOANNA LAVOIE jlavoie@insidetoronto.com 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 connection 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

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Beach Triangel resident Zilla Parker, second from left, has started a petition to improve Canada’s health-care system for those with mental illnesses. Parker’s husband Domenic was stabbed to death in a random attack by a man suffering from mental illness on Sept. 14, 2013.

awareness,” she wrote. “There is obviously a huge need for improvement 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 playing 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, including hearing voices,” he wrote. “He believed there were people, apparently on behalf of the government, 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 individuals with mental health issues.” So far, upward of 2,500 people have signed the petition, which can be viewed/signed by visiting http:// 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

TTC turning down the streetcar chimes volume Petition to ban non-refundable waiting list fees for daycare RAHUL GUPTA rgupta@insidetoronto.com

The TTC is promising to replace volume controls on its new fleet of streetcars in an attempt to modulate the loudness of external stop notifications. No timetable was given, but the commission said it is working with vehicle manufacturer Bombardier to implement a fix to the loud alerts and door chimes that are waking Leslieville residents when the new streetcars pass by in the early mornings. “This control will soon be replaced with a dynamic automatic volume control (AVC) similar to that on the buses and the old streetcars,” said the TTC in the response forwarded by Brad Ross, the TTC’s executive director for corporate communications “Volume output would then

essentially respond to ambient noise level in this control scheme.” External noise alerts and stop notifications are mandated by provincial accessibility legislation and the TTC must have all of its vehicles equipped by the end of the year. The TTC developed loudness guidelines with the Advisory Committee on Accessible Transit, which consults with the TTC on improving transit accessibility. According to the transit commission, ACAT members wanted the stop notifications even louder so they are audible while standing on a sidewalk across from a busy lane of traffic. Martin Sherman, who lives near Queen Street East and Jones Avenue complained to The Mirror about the streetcar chimes earlier this month. Sherman was particularly confused why the noise was so much louder in the case of the new streetcar fleet, but markedly more quiet on the

buses and older streetcars. According to the TTC, buses are quieter because they have one speaker located at the front, as opposed to the streetcars which have alerts ringing from all doors. Reached this week, Sherman said there hasn’t been any change to the noise. “I haven’t had a solid seven hours of sleep since November,” said Sherman. TTC CEO Andy Byford said the province has set a end of 2016 to have every TTC bus and streetcar outfitted with the external stop alerts. “The imperative for me is to get the system on to the vehicles because we must meet that provincially mandated legislation. It’s laudable, but this isn’t something the TTC chose to do,” said Byford last week. “But at the end of the day, we have a deadline to meet which isn’t going to move.”

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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 goodquality instruments. Just as several organizations have seen the value in youth playing sports by subsidizing expensive equipment, this program shines a light on the value of youth playour view ing music to enrich their lives. It’s also a step in the right Pilot project direction in making Toronto a opens music to music city by cultivating homegrown talent. everyone It was fitting that in attendance at the launch event were two successful Canadian musicians – Juno Awardwinning 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 controllers. 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 making Last weekend, the New Democratic Party membership 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 government to alienate much of the country, the NDP became a de-facto government in waiting. But it wasn’t just that collection of newly elected MPs that walked away with expectations raised. Layton

david nickle the city himself offered inspiration from his death bed. Love, he told the country, is better than anger. Hope is better than fear and optimism, better than despair. New Democrats at least politically, cherry-picked: Optimism and hope, that the party that had traditionally 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 leftof-centre conscience then they’d never win. It was a bad and selfdestructive 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 historically 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 unambitious. 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 members have, the so-called Leap Manifesto, which urges the party to return to its environmentalist, socially- and economicallyinclusive 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 unambiguous position to capitalize on the mood, and maybe use that to take their shot at forming a serious progressive government one day. Instead, the NDP is tangled 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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Chartwell April Open House SPRING FORWARD TO THE NEXT CHAPTER IN YOUR LIFE. Since Aurel moved into his Chartwell residence, he and his daughter Maja have transitioned from worry and concern about household responsibilities to spending more quality time together, including lots of family time for children, grandchildren and a new great grandchild. If you want to learn more about the benefits of retirement living, our Open House can help answer your questions. CHARTWELL.COM

Tim Hortons to open at Woodbine Beach Double doubles and donuts will soon be coming to Woodbine Beach. A new Tim Hortons location is set to open up shop at Boardwalk Place, which is also home to Paralia seafood restaurant and Athens Pastries. What makes this news controversial is that back in June 2010, Tuggs Inc., which is run by the Foulidis family, signed a 20-year sole-sourced lease extension granting them exclusive rights to sell food, drinks and souvenirs at the what was then known as Boardwalk Café as well as at the Donald Summerville pool, the concessions at Kew Beach, and at Kew Gardens, Wo o d b i n e B e a c h a n d Ashbridges Bay. Supporters of this extension, which raised some ire and was also a major issue in Rob Ford’s 2010 mayoral campaign, believed an exemption from the city’s tendering process was to ensure a big chain couldn’t just step in and take over the family-run operation. – with files from Torstar News Service

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An evening of jazz benefiting Beaches Presbyterian Church’s refugee ministry is set for Saturday at 8 p.m. The Spring Thaw Jazz Concert will be held at Beaches Presbyterian Church at 65 Glen Manor Dr., and will feature Juno Award-nominated voice/trumpet

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