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FOR SPACE DAVID NICKLE dnickle@insidetoronto.com When Mark Garner first visited Yonge Street south of Bloor, it was the late 1970s and like many young people of the era, he came from a distance – in his case, all the way in from Scarborough – for the famous street’s sometimes seedy but ir res i st ib le ch a r m s : in those days, rows of video arcades and record stores, movie theatres, music venues, bookstores, and the then-fresh glass cavern of the Eaton Centre. If he were born a few years later, it might have been the early and evolving annual Pride parades that drew him downtown, or BuskerFest, or So much has changed in North By Northeast. downtown Toronto since the But these days, 1970s. Today, redevelopment is Garner – who is now executive director of taking place more rapidly than the Downtown Yonge ever, putting pressure on the Business Improvement few open public spaces in the Area (BIA) – is watching downtown core. the exploding redevelopment of Yonge Street As part of a series of ongoing major developments near Yonge and Gerrard streets, and other avenues in the the buildings behind Mark Garner, executive director of the Downtown Yonge BIA, downtown core, with will soon be replaced with several large condo properties. more than a faint worry Benjamin Priebe/METROLAND that without significant

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change, those kinds of memories might be confined to an era.

“These streets are the same streets I walked on as a kid from Scarborough,” he says.

“They have not gotten any wider at all. They’ve poured new concrete, but this is the same street.”

The street is the same but the buildings around soon will not be. The 80-storey Aura condominium tower at Yonge and Gerrard streets is currently the tallest condominium in the country. In a few years, it will be just the eighth tallest in Toronto, as new towers at Elm Street, Yonge and Gerrard, and Yonge and Bloor take form.

And other buildings will occupy what has been useful open space in the neighbourhoods surrounding Yonge Street: the surface parking lots on Bay Street and, more crucially, Church Street to the east. When those go, so goes concert and marshalling spaces for the annual Pride Parade, and smaller festivals like Busker Fest and North >>>RAPIDLY, page 3

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Parade to honour local Olympians on Sunday The hard work and achievements of Beach swimming star Penny Oleksiak and all Rio Olympians who live and/ or train in Toronto’s east end will be fêted with a community celebration and parade this Sunday.

The festivities will get underway at 11 a.m. at East Lynn Park, 1949 Danforth Ave., just west of Woodbine Avenue.

A parade will then take place southbound on Woodbine Avenue and eastward along Queen Street.

The red-and-white-themed celebration will continue at Kew Gardens, 2075 Queen St. E. at Lee Avenue, from noon to 2 p.m.

The celebration is a joint effort by a number of community groups including the Beach Village Business Improvement Area and the Danforth East Community Association with the support of Ward 32 Councillor MaryMargaret McMahon.

All well-wishers are welcome.

The idea for the event came from a recent flurry of social media posts by area residents eager to celebrate four-time Olympic medal-winning swimmer Penny Oleksiak, who also >>>ATHLETES, page 14

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DID YOU KNOW? Toron to’s dow n tow n i s growing at a phenomenal rate: In 2011, downtown Toronto had a population of 199,495.

In 2015, city planners estimate that more than 240,000 live here.

In 2025, that’s expected to double. Much of that development will come to live in new residential developments.

In June 2015, 31,554 housing units had been submitted to the city in the form of planning applications.

Another 28,812 had applied for or received building permits, and 16,321 were under construction.

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When you add people coming in for employment, downtown Toronto swells during the day to more than 830,000 people.

A view from the Bathurst Street bridge, illustrating the future location of Toronto’s proposed Rail Deck Park.

Rapidly redeveloping a city’s character >>>from page 1

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“With this type of intensification, with parking lots disappearing for programming, how do we build a quality neighbourhood?” says Garner. “This was always the high street, the retail street. It’s been a music Mecca not just for retail but also performance.

And we’re about to redevelop the street.

What’s the character of the street to be? We all had a rite of passage on Yonge Street. The street we need to build now is for the future generations.”

Toronto planners are seized of this question, not just for Yonge Street but for all of the downtown. With a huge growth in population, and unprecedented redevelopment of scarce downtown land, how does the city provide the public spaces that have in the past existed temporarily or in an ad hoc way?

Earlier in August, Toronto Mayor John Tory announced a plan to spend what could be hundreds of millions of dollars to cover over rail lands south of Wellington Street, to turn it into a 21-acre “central park.”

The plan is informed by an ongoing city planning project, TOcore, looking at comprehensive ways to “finish off” Toronto’s

downtown redevelopment that allows the much larger downtown to retain the charms and amenities that made it such a desirable place in the first place.

“We’re finishing off the downtown and as we finish it off we need to make sure we don’t kill the golden goose by losing our open spaces and green spaces,” says Toronto’s Chief Planner Jennifer Keesmaat.

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With this type of intensification, with parking lots disappearing for programming, how do we build a quality neighbourhood?

– Mark Garner, downtown Yonge BIa executive director

That inevitably means investment – either in real estate, or in repurposing the public realm.

In the case of the rail-cover park plan, that means spending as much as $20 million an acre on decking and landscaping overtop of train tracks.

That might seem like a lot, but Keesmaat points out that purchasing land in the downtown core would cost the city between $50

and $60 million an acre.

There is no rail corridor to build over on Yonge Street. There is, however, the street itself. And it’s here that city planners, the Downtown Yonge BIA and local Toronto Centre-Rosedale Councillor Kristyn WongTam are looking for relief.

“The grand vision is to redesign and repurpose Yonge Street from Davenport to the waterfront, and rebuild the street so it’s much more dynamic… people friendly… pedestrian friendly,” says Wong-Tam. “If I gave you a street designed to be able to be turned over to festivals, with wayfinding and stages build into the street itself, would that not have value for a neighbourhood? Would that not have value with people?”

Earlier this year, Wong-Tam and the BIA launched an environmental assessment to look at the possibility of turning sections of Yonge Street – or possibly the whole stretch – over to pedestrian malls, or at least widening the sidewalks.

Garner admits that he has gotten flack from some in his organization who chaffe at the idea of shutting down a stretch of downtown roadways to cars. But he says his membership – and the data – bear this out.

The BIA have done traffic counts, and found that out of 42 million people travelling on the street, only a quarter do so by car, and just five per cent by bicycle. The rest are pedestrians.

Keesmaat says that studies on other downtown streets suggest that cars should have even less primacy. On King Street, cars take up 64 per cent of the space but move only 16 per cent of the people.

“Right now there’s a profound efficiency if we can shift infrastructure so that the infrastructure that moves the most people has the most allocation,” says Keesmaat.

Spadina-Fort York MP and former City Councillor Adam Vaughan says plans like the Yonge Street plan will be essential to making downtown communities work in the future.

“One of the things we realized is that we’re losing flat space to intensification and flat space is where people gather,” he says.

“I think we sell ourselves short when we think of Toronto as culturally deficient – it’s one of the most vibrant places in North America. But if you don’t pay attention to it – don’t think about new ways to use residual lands – you’ll lose that advantage very quickly.”

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here’s no question: condo and office construction in Toronto, particularly in downtown Toronto, is booming.

By 2025 the city core will have half a million people living in it, many of them in new and relatively new condominium towers. During workdays, the population swells to more than 830,000.

Population density like that is good in many ways: it makes it easier and more cost-effective to provide transit and other fundamental infrastructure, and it limits the environmental damage that sprawl inevitably brings about.

But can there be too much of that good thing?

In downtown Toronto – maybe. For every condominium tower that climbs high for new residents, the ad hoc ground-level space existing visitors and resiOur VieW for dents that’s existed for years gets TOcore to look buried.

Taking a look at those spaces – the at maintaining unsightly paid surface parking lots up and down Church public spaces Street, for example – it’s easy to say good riddance.

But as reported by Metroland Media Toronto’s David Nickle this week, saying good riddance to some surface parking could mean farewell to the vibrant festivals and activities that have come to define downtown living: the annual Pride festival on Church and Yonge streets, North By Northeast, BuskerFest all rely on space both on and off the road for parades and performances and gatherings.

Something’s got to give, and lucky thing: city planners, downtown businesses and the area’s political leadership seem to know it. Toronto’s Planning Department has embarked on TOcore, a project to look at ways to maintain public space amid the high-rise development. And the Downtown Yonge Business Improvement Area along with local councillor Krystin Wong-Tam has been promoting a more specific solution to Yonge Street: giving some portion of the roadway over to pedestrians and cyclists. An environmental assessment of the plan is underway. We’ll see what fruit it bears.

A few years ago, kicking the cars off Yonge Street would have been a kind of municipal sacrilege.

Now, it’s just an example of the kind of forward thinking needed, to make sure that downtown Toronto stays special.

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Federal funding for TTC is the exception, not the norm If you’re one of the unfortunate souls who’s been regularly riding Line 2 of the subway through the heat of this summer, you’ve learned some tricks.

Before you get onto a subway car, put your hand through the door and see if it ignites. If it does, the air conditioning is off and you might be better trying the next car. If that one’s overheated too, you make your way to one end of the car or another, and conserve your strength until it reaches the next station, and try and move to a third car before the doors close again… and then repeat this until you find a car with air conditioning, or get to the last or first car on the train – which usually has air conditioning.

In any case, it’s wise to hydrate. Because even if you eventually get in the right car, on weekends and off-peak you might find yourself waiting in the tomb-like heat of a station or during rush-hour, staring through suffocating

david nickle the city crowds as over-stuffed trains – many more of which are not air conditioned – pass by.

Hot subways and crowded platforms aren’t the only problems that the Toronto Transit Commission is facing, but they are symptoms of the same problem: chronic under-funding, dating back decades, which has required commission staff to juggle priorities and in so doing deliver a service that at times barely approximates the reasonable expectations of its customers.

And so it is that subway air conditioning during heat waves is managed rather than repaired, as the TTC’s backlog of repairs grows.There was a bit of kismet this week when the August heatwave broke for a couple of days, and the federal government came

to Toronto to announce the “down payment” of $840 million in funding for public transit infrastructure in Toronto. The down payment is substantial – $500 million, ear-marked for among other things subway repairs and bus repairs – which hopefully will include some of those AC units – but many other projects too: bike parking at TTC stations, new buses, escalator overhauls and more.

The challenge will be to ensure that it keeps going, and that will be a trick. This federal money is atypical for more than its magnitude: it is not, as TTC Chair Josh Colle remarked, the kind of funding that visiting federal officials like to announce.

No one wants to cut a ribbon on a repair job, after all, and that’s what these things entail. Really, a well-financed transit system shouldn’t need $500 million in one-time funding to bring its aging but not ancient infrastructure up to

scratch; there should be a consistent and sustainable funding source that allows ongoing maintenance and at least modest expansion.

It doesn’t seem as though such a source is on the horizon. This fall and next year, the TTC will be responding to instructions from Mayor John Tory to cut $15.9 million or 2.6 per cent from its operating budget. That will be an annual reduction, and it is dramatic enough that TTC CEO Andy Byford reported earlier this summer that if implemented he would have no choice but to recommend service cuts.

Given that long-term reality, one wonders how much longer it will be before another federal government has to open up the treasury to bring the system back to where it should have been all along. Better hang on to those water bottles.

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Park Yoga WHEN: 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. WHERE: Jonathan Ashbridge Park, 20 Woodward Ave. CONTACT: Beatrix Montanile, 647-993-YOGI (9644), info@ thefliyngyogi.ca COST: donation Class that is open to the community at the corner of Woodward Avenue and Queen Street East. A portion of all proceeds go to support Nellies Shelter.

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featured Beach Celtic Festival WHEN: 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. WHERE: Kew Gardens Park, 2075 Queen St. E. CONTACT: www.thecelticfestival. com COST: Free The 13th annual Celtic celebration offers a weekend filled with pipes and drums, Highland and Irish dancers, the Bold Step Dancers will be performing as will the The Gilchrist-Canavan School of Irish Dance. Listen to the music of Old Man Flanagan’s Ghost and The Métis Fiddler Trio. Special guest John McDermott.

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WHEN: 2 to 3 p.m. WHERE: Jones Library, 118 Jones Ave. CONTACT: Cathy, 416-393-7715, cmoran@ torontopubliclibrary.ca COST: Free Come to the library to build a giant plasticine jungle landscape.

MILF Life Crisis WHEN: 8 to 9:20 p.m. WHERE: Red Sandcastle Theatre, 922 Queen St. E. CONTACT: Anne Marie Scheffler, 416-904-1562, www.milflifecrisis. com COST: $20 What happens when you’re divorced with kids? You go dating every other weekend. A comedy show about dating again written and performed by comedian Anne Marie Scheffler.

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Toronto International BuskerFest WHEN: today to Sunday; various times WHERE: Woodbine Park, 1695 Queen St. E.CONTACT: www.torontobuskerfest.com COST: admission by donation An eclectic lineup of street performers from around the globe entertain the crowds at Woodbine Park.

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Wednesday Afternoon At The Movies WHEN: 2 to 4 p.m. WHERE: Beaches Library, 2161 Queen St. E. CONTACT: 416-393-7703 COST: Free A series of cinematic classics, new releases, foreign films and documentaries. Aug. 31: Alfie (1966).

Flow in the Park WHEN: 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

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Ballet 101 WHEN: 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. WHERE: Jones Branch Public Library, 118 Jones Ave. CONTACT: Cathy, 416393-7715 COST: Free

Learn about using ballet for storytelling with Canada’s Ballet Jorgen. Costumes and pointe shoes to explore.

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Toronto Seed Library WHEN: 11 a.m. to noon WHERE: Jones Branch Public Library, 118 Jones Ave. CONTACT: Teresa, 416393-7715 COST: Free Join us for a presentation from the Toronto Seed Library on the importance of preserving and exchanging seeds. The Toronto Seed Library will provide free seeds, planting and growing tips.

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Celebrating a punk rock icon KELSEY CHENG kcheng@insidetoronto.com It’s not only an event to remember punk rock legend Joe Strummer, but also an opportunity to create empowerment through music.

Organized by the Joe Strummer Foundation in the U.K., StrummerJam is a global fundraising project that aims to celebrate Joe Strummer, at the same time hoping to give aspiring musicians an opportunity to showcase their talents and to raise funds for music-related charities. This is the first year of StrummerJam and over 32 events across six countries are being held in August to celebrate his legacy and to raise funds.

“We’ve been overwhelmed by the support and positivity from bands, venues and promoters,” media coordinator of the foundation Steve Mullen said. “As Joe once said, ‘Without people, you’re nothing.’ – how true is

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John Graham Mellor, known by his stage name Joe Strummer, was the lead vocalist of punk rock band The Clash, which was one of the most prominent bands in the wave of British punk music during the late 1970s and 1980s. The Clash’s hard-hitting political lyrics, paired with Strummer’s rasping voice, resonated with fans across the U.K., and had a profound effect on the alternative rock scene.

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Strummer died of a congenital heart defect in December 2002 at the age of 50. The Joe Strummer Foundation was set up by his friends and family in 2003, and has been active in promoting art and music education in different countries, including establishing a recording studio for local musicians in Free Town, Sierra Leone and building a music room in Tilinanu Orphanage in Malawi.

This year’s StrummerJam in Toronto will begin on Saturday, Aug. 27 at 7 p.m. at the Linsmore Tavern.

The music event will feature local singer-songwriter T.C. Folkpunk, Toronto-based band Bad Raven Lucy, Guelph-based punk cover band C.I.D. and indie punk group Copper Crown. For more information visit http:// www.strummerfest.ca

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Submitted photo These rare moccassins were donated to the Huron-Wendat Museum in Quebec by Leslieville vintage store owner Debbie Facey.

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Leslieville vintage shop owner Debbie Facey never imagined a pair of children’s moccasins she found in a paper bag inside an old trunk would have such a rich history.

“I knew they were old,” said Facey, who said she initially planned on donating the wellworn leather booties to the Bata Shoe Museum.

A long-time east-end Toronto resident, Facey soon learned from her friend and local historian Joanne Doucette that the machinestitched moccasins in her shop are from Wendake, Quebec, a former Huron village located just outside Quebec City. They were likely produced in the 1940s or 1950s.

“I recognized right away that they were a special artifact. They must have made thousands of these moccasins but there are very few of them left,” said Doucette, who lives just up the street from Facey’s shop, Vintage Hunter at 1390 Gerrard St. E. at Woodfield Rd. “(Debbie) offered to give them to me right away. It’s a

very special find, an important piece of Canada’s history.”

Doucette, who is of Acadian Mikmaq and English descent and identifies as Métis, said she wanted to make an effort to return the little boots to their rightful owner: the people of the Huron-Wendat nation.

On Aug. 6, she emailed the Huron-Wendat Museum, which is located just outside Quebec City, to tell them about her find and to offer to send the moccasins their way.

Like Facey, Doucette was prepared to donate the moccasins to the Bata Shoe Museum, if the HuronWendat Museum didn’t want them.

During a recent interview, Michel Savard, the museum’s curator, said he was happy to accept them. “It’s an interesting artifact, part of our heritage,” he said of the booties, which have imprints of a young child’s toes on the inside. I can imagine the child that wore them. We’re so happy to welcome these pieces back to Wendake.”

Savard said the museum, which opened in 2008, has a

few pairs of adult moccasins from that era but none for children. He said he plans on incorporating them into a temporary exhibit down the line.

Savard also noted that moccasin-making is an important part of the HuronWendat culture, which has been producing the leather footwear for 10,000 years.

He also invited anyone with Huron-Wendat artifacts to reach out any time and to come to the museum to learn about the nation first-hand.

Doucette, who received a letter of thanks from the Huron-Wendat Museum on Monday, has shared the heartwarming story on social media.

“This is just a story that touches everybody,” she said.

Facey said donating the moccasins is the least she could do to show respect to Canada’s Indigenous people.

“I’m happy to return the moccasins. They’re going home and that thrills me to no end,” she said. “I feel very touched and honoured to be able to repatriate a small piece of Aboriginal culture.”

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Eastern Commerce eyed as site of new French-language high school JOANNA LAVOIE jlavoie@insidetoronto.com Three Toronto-Danforth politicians are strongly urging the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) to consider selling the former home of Eastern Commerce Collegiate Institute to the French-language public school board for centralsouthwestern Ontario so it can open a much-needed east-end Toronto high school.

The former public high school at 16 Phin Ave., which is near Danforth and Donlands avenues, closed its doors at the end of June 2015 due to low enrollment.

The 85-year-old building, which is still home to the Subway Academy I alternative high school, The Creative Preschool as well as the TDSB’s museum and archives, has yet to be officially declared surplus.

Back in June 2015, the school board passed a recommendation to open a new school for Aboriginal education at the site of the former Eastern Commerce and decided to seek funding from both the federal and provincial governments.

The plan was to open the school this fall, however, back in July, the TDSB submitted business plans to the provincial government for an Indigenous Centre of Excellence for students in kindergarten to Grade 12 at a number of locations, including at Cherry and Mill streets in the West Don Lands. That emerging downtown east neighbourhood is in closer proximity to a number of First

Nations services and may be deemed more suitable.

“If this is the case we strongly urge the TDSB to consider transferring the building to the Conseil Scolaire Viamonde to be used as a francophone secondary school. As you know, for a long while we have been working with the local francophone community in the east end where there is a growing demand for secondary education in French,” stated the July 22 letter, which is signed by Toronto-Danforth MPP Peter Tabuns along with Ward 29 Councillor Mary Fragedakis and Ward 30 Councillor Paula Fletcher.

“The transfer or sale of Eastern Commerce to Viamonde would retain the building for educational purposes and would meet that growing need.”

In an email to Metroland Media Toronto, Ward 15 (Toronto-Danforth) Trustee Jennifer Story said the TDSB “could” decide to sell 16 Phin Ave. if a decision is made to open the Indigenous Centre of Excellence elsewhere. But, that could take some time.

“If the Indigenous school doesn’t end up at Eastern then there would need to be a board vote to declare (the building) surplus to the board’s needs before it could be sold to another board,” she said.

“Other boards would first be offered the site. If that happens, I certainly hope that Viamonde would purchase the school, to meet the long-standing needs of French language families in east end Toronto, and to keep

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Story said if 16 Phin Ave. is sold she’d work to ensure the childcare centre there remains intact.

In an interview, Tabuns said elected officials from the area are long-time supporters of opening a French-language high school in the city’s east end and have been working to come up with some viable options.

“There’s a growing Frenchlanguage community in the east end. Parents have been approaching local politicians about (opening a Frenchlanguage high school,)” said Tabuns, who learned earlier this summer that the TDSB may be looking into other options for the future home of the First Nations School of Toronto.

Fragedakis said there is a great need for a Frenchlanguage secondary school in Toronto’s east end.

“We already have three local elementary Frenchlanguage schools and École élémentaire La Mosaïque reached capacity just three years after it was built,” she wrote in an email to Metroland Media Toronto.

Conseil Viamonde Trustee and Chair Jean-Francois L’Heureux was also pleasantly surprised to learn about the joint letter and said the French-language public school board has been working for some time to open a new high school east of Yonge Street. “Obviously the support from local politicians is always a good thing for us.”

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A little over a week ago, 30-year area resident Nick Shcherban received a call from Tory assuring him he’s aware of his concerns and promising to pay a visit to the site once filming calms down a bit to ensure there’s the right balance between the needs of residents and the city’s desire to promote and grow its film industry.

“He’s committed to help us as much as he can,” said Shcherban, who said he feels the Mayor has responded to his concerns and is willing to help find solutions that work for everyone.

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“When productions choose our city, our industry here has the opportunity to create jobs, attract talent and contribute to our economy. However, we need to make sure this happens in a way that is respectful of our neighbourhoods and residents,” she wrote in an email to Metroland Media Toronto. “It was within the context of achieving that important balance that the Mayor reached out to all involved in the past weeks.

This is a continuous learning experience, and while we are thrilled to have such a big film production in Toronto, we will be looking at ways to improve handling big and lengthier productions going forward.”

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Councillor Paula Fletcher and the Toronto Film, Television and Digital Media Office, said since the start of 2016 there have been 10 film and TV shoots at that site and it’s really starting to negatively impact his family and the neighbourhood. An adaptation of Stephen King’s book ‘It’ is currently being filmed at the vacant, three-storey mansion. “The noise is driving me crazy,” said Shcherban, pointing to the HVAC system at the site as well as the dozens of workers there all hours of the day and night.

He is one of a number of area residents who have concerns about the volume and scale of productions being shot at that site.

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Danforth East Laneway Crawl from Woodbine to Woodmount The Laneway Project, an innovative new initiative that aims to fundamentally change Toronto’s relationship with its laneways, is coming to the city’s east end this Sunday.

The inaugural Danforth East Laneway Crawl, which is one of such five pop-up festivals taking place this summer across Toronto, is slated to run from 1 to 5 p.m. in the east-west laneway just north of Danforth Avenue from Woodbine to Woodmount avenues.

Some of the day’s activities will include the painting of garage door murals by various artists, a laneway improvement mock up, an art sale, Zumba and line dancing, not to mention music, food, and games.

Those who own buildings or homes that back onto this laneway are invited to contribute to the local event by cleaning up the rear side of your property, opening your

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Movies under the stars on saturday A free movie night, which was originally set to take place Saturday, Aug. 13 in Leslieville but had to be postponed due to inclement weather, has been rescheduled for Saturday, Aug. 27.

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All are welcome to come out to a screening of the film Toy Story. The free event will run from 8:30 to 11 p.m.

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The suds will be flowing this Saturday in the city’s east end at the inaugural Leslieville Beer Fest and block party.

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It has since been expanded to recognize all of the athletes who either live or train in the city’s east end who competed in Rio. They include beach volley player Kristina Valjas and coach Steve Anderson; Aaron Brown, who earned a bronze medal in the men’s 4-by-100 metre sprint; swimmer Javier Acevedo, who just graduated Neil McNeil High School; as well as Balmy Beach Canoe Club paddlers KC Fraser, Genevieve Orton, Paralympian Erica Scarff, and coach Peter Martinek.

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“That was one thing he always taught us – that while we should always take time to spend with friends and with family, that our jobs are never done, and he certainly treated his entire life that way,” he said.

Hundreds of people came out to Riverdale Park West on Monday evening to mark five years since the passing of Jack Layton and to pay tribute to the late NDP leader’s legacy.

Following some live music, Layton’s widow Olivia Chow, son Mike Layton and other family members and former political colleagues shared memories and anecdotes about the late city-builder, activist and high-profile leader at the event, which served to celebrate the popular politician’s life more than mourn his death.

While many in the crowd were New Democrats, the evening was not highly political – fitting for a man whose work transcended party lines, from his efforts to start up the Toronto Atmospheric Fund to securing $500 million for green infrastructure to his efforts in launching the White

the deep end.”

“He taught me that you can take great risks and great things will happen,” she said.

Following speeches in the park, those in attendance marched en masse to Layton’s resting site in the Toronto Necropolis to lay stones on his grave.

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Chow noted that she has been touched in the five years since Layton died by hearing of all the ways in which he impacted Canadians. She added that her former spouse himself gave her strength even after his death.

“I found hope in recalling Jack’s generosity in spirit and

action,” she said, speaking about Layton’s “ability to listen, to see the good in each person, to be empathetic, to connect and believe life can be better if we support each other.”

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“The information confirms that TDSB school repairs have historically been underfunded by the province, requiring the board to focus primarily on emergency repairs,” reads a TDSB statement, released Monday, Aug. 22, announcing the data disclosure. “More recently, the province has provided multiple years of near-record investment levels for school repairs that may

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However, with the new funding guaranteeing 50 per cent of the total project cost, Upfold was hopeful the TTC can complete all of its upgrades well before the Accessibility for Ontarians Disability Act, or AODA, goes into effect province wide in 2025. “We’re doing three to four (station upgrades) a year and if we maintain that pace we will get there,” he said.

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KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES: • Load and unload delivery vehicles • Ensure all products are properly prepared for shipping according to the drivers’ run sheets • Perform physical material handling • Work in a secure and safety-conscious manner as outlined in the Company and department safety policies • Maintain good housekeeping practices in warehouse.

• To perform other general warehouse duties as assigned by the Warehouse Supervisor WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR: • Valid forklift license • Previous shipping/receiving experience • Physically capable of lifting and carrying material up to a maximum of 30-lbs • Must have an excellent command of the English language (reading/speaking/writing) • Must be able to work overnight shifts and work up to 32 hours per week • Ability to work in a fast-paced environment • Have excellent time-management skills • Ability to set priorities and multi-task • Ability to perform repetitive tasks accurately and thoroughly, with minimal errors • Demonstrated basic numeracy • Have their own transportation • Ability to work in a team environment with minimal supervision WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU: • Opportunity to be part of an exciting company at the cutting edge of the media industry • Work for a well-established and respected company that is connected to your communities • Be part of a company that is committed to providing a healthy and safe work environment • We’ve got your health in mind; you’ll receive a comprehensive benefits package including pension and health care If working for a highly energized, competitive team is your ideal environment, please email your resume to ntakhar@mississauga.net

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Metroland Media Toronto is accepting tenders to deliver our weekly newspapers and flyers to carrier drop locations within the Toronto area 3 times per week.

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All applicants must be a registered business, have a cargo van or cube truck and a valid HST number.

Bid packages available at the Reception desk of: Metroland Media Toronto 175 Gordon Baker Rd. Toronto, ON M2H 0A2 Bids will be received until 12:00 noon Monday, August 29th, 2016 ATT: Circulation Manager Contract commencing: September 12, 2016 Lowest or any bids will not necessarily be accepted. Only the successful Company will be contacted.

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