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A staple in the city’s east end for 25 years, the double lot that houses the BCCC and playground will soon be redeveloped into a ‘boutique’ condominium. Construction is set to begin this fall.

More than seven years ago, Streetcar Developments purchased the prime ravine property with the intention of redeveloping it.

At the time of purchase, the lease expiration was March 2011, said Les Mallins, Streetcar Developments’ founder and president in an email to The Mirror.

“To exercise full transparency with our fellow members of the community, we sat down with the property’s tenants, Beaches Child Care Centre Inc., to share plans for redevelopment,” he wrote.

Mallins said at that time, they offered to help BCCC with >>>BEACHES, page 10

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CLOSE-UP: Betsy, a two-year-old French bulldog, takes a dip at the cooling station on a sweltering Sunday afternoon at the Toronto Humane Society’s PAWS in the Park fundraiser held at Woodbine Park. See more photos on page 16.

Gala raises money for VETS Animal Charity Upper Beach-based VETS Animal Charity, which aims to help animals in need of emergency medical assistance or care by providing the needed financial assistance for veterinarian costs, is just a few weeks away from hosting its annual

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Const. Small remembered with teddy bears in his honour Const. Barry Small, a four-decade Toronto police officer, will be forever remembered for his big heart exemplified by the thousands of teddy bears he collected and donated to children and seniors.

Small, who worked for the majority of his career at 55 Division in the Beach, died of lymphoma Monday, Aug. 3. He was 67.

Members of 55 Division and the Toronto Police Association, along with his partner Susan MacCartney and his daughter Danielle, gathered Wednesday, Aug. 12 – which would have marked his 40th anniversary with the Toronto Police Service – at the Hospital for Sick Children to honour Small’s memory by donating about 150 teddy bears on his behalf.

Members of Toronto Police Services were asked to bring a stuffed animal to his visitation and funeral service.

Barbara Irwin, an administrative coordinator at 55 Division, along with Const. Christian Emond, who had worked with Small, helped coor-

dinate the teddy bear collection.

During a recent interview, Irwin said she felt a special connection to Small as he unknowingly was the officer who dropped off a teddy bear to her daughter when she had to spend Christmas in the hospital a number of years ago.

“As a parent, I was feeling helpless and upset, but then a police officer walked in with a teddy bear for my daughter,” Irwin said.

“It’s something we’ll never forget.”

Years later after she started working at 55 Division, Irwin found out that nice policeman was Const.

Barry Small.

Upon his death, she said she felt compelled to help organize the teddy bear drive in his memory.

“This was really my way to honour a member with something that meant so much to him,” said Irwin, who remembered Small as a dedicated and passionate person who loved movies, his cottage and his country.

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everything he could into it. He was a 100 per cent all-in type of person.”

Emond called the teddy bear collection “a family’s way of honouring their friend.”

“Barry is viewed as a pillar of 55 Division and there’s no better way to honour our friend and family member,” he said.

“He was a real presence at 55 Division and it was a big shock to staff when we heard the news he had passed.”

Supt. Barbara McLean, 55 Division’s recently appointed commander in chief, had known and worked with Small some years ago when she was a detective at the

division. “(Barry) was just a fantastic guy.

The bears are really an indication of how much he cared about other people,” she said, calling Small “a fixture” at 55 Division.

“Everybody knew him and he made everyone laugh. He’ll be missed by all at 55 Division.”

In 1987, Small started collecting and donating teddy bears to children and seniors in hospital during the holidays.

He did so for the next 17 or so years until toy companies and other organizations started doing their own toy drives. Regardless, he continued to be affectionately known as the “Teddy Bear police officer,” his daughter Danielle said Tuesday.

“My dad would spend the entire Christmas season handing out teddy bears,” she said.

In her Dad’s memory, Danielle has recently started up the Barry’s Bears Foundation, where she will donate teddy bears to SickKids and another hospital. It can be reached at barrysbears@outlook.com

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Small led a holiday season toy drive to benefit SickKids Hospital for almost 30 years.

Bassoon band Das Fagott Mannschaft performs at BuskerFest ALI RAZA bsrm@insidetoronto.com It’s around 130 centimetres long, Germans call it a “fagott”, and the girls who play with it say it’s “unlike anything you’ve seen before.”

It’s the bassoon, a woodwind instrument, and it’s heavily utilized by five-member band Das Fagott Mannschaft (DFM) who will perform at the 16th annual Toronto International BuskerFest for Epilepsy, which runs from Thursday to Sunday.

The band includes east-end residents, bassoonist Susan Durnin and percussionist Laura Savage.

The women explained to The Mirror why, instead of guitars and drums, they chose the nontraditional route for their music and why the band name raises a few eyebrows.

“The name sounds inappropriate in English, but it translates to slightly grammatically incorrect German to

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Graham Martin, left, Susan Durnin, Neil Bishop, Laura Savage and Catherine Magowan make up the musical group Das Fagott Mannschaft which will play at BuskerFest this week. Durnin and Savage are Beach residents.

‘The Bassoon Team,’” said Durnin, who lives near Woodbine Avenue and Gerrard Street East in the Beach Hill neighbourhood. “We’re four

bassoon players and Laura is our drummer, we got tired of playing orchestra so we decided to start covering pop songs.”

Das Fagott Mannschaft has played together for three years in what began as a group of bassoonists meeting over a bottle of wine and playing quartets together.

But with bassoon covers of popular songs like ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’

by Nirvana and ‘Africa’ by Toto, the band offers a unique blend of classical and pop songs from the ‘80s and ‘90s.

Savage, who originally began playing drums for the band, switched to playing the Peruvian percussion instrument the Cajón, to better mesh with the bassoon’s sound.

“I don’t play it any kind of traditional way,” said Savage, a Beach resident. “I play it like a drumset, but I’ll switch around. It’s a new challenge.”

The local musicians have years of experience between them; Durnin has played the bassoon for 17 years while Savage has played drums for 22 years.

The full band consists of Neil

Bishop, Durnin, Catherine Magowan, Graham Martin – all bassoonists – and Savage.

Those planning on attending BuskerFest can see DFM perform Friday night and Saturday.

“We’re fun to hear,” Durnin said.

“You’ll walk by and say ‘huh?’ We offer unique versions of songs you know and promise you an interesting show.”

BuskerFest has partnered with Epilepsy Toronto and the Downtown Yonge BIA to raise funds for Epilepsy Toronto programs.

In addition to music performances, spectators can see daredevil stunts, fire manipulations, acrobatics, aerial acts, magic, comedy, dance and more. Guests are asked to donate at the gate to Epilepsy Toronto. Last year Buskerfest raised $250,000 and Epilepsy Toronto hopes to exceed that amount this year.

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The case never closes on children who go missing T

hirty years ago this summer, Toronto lost its innocence when an eight-year-old girl named Nicole was abducted from her Etobicoke apartment building. Children didn’t walk to school alone anymore. Parents looked to strangers with suspicion and filled their kids’ heads with dire consequences if they dared roam carefree.

The first Nicole’s Run took place last week to mark the anniversary of Nicole Morin’s long-unsolved missing child case. Though a tragic story itself, the event focused on the positive, offering an opportunity to fundraise for the Canadian Centre for Child Protection (CCCP) and a chance to keep Nicole’s case – and those of other missing children – top of mind in the hopes of generating new leads.

After 30 years, police insist hope still exists for answers. Shaun Narine, superof Toronto Police 22 our view intendent Division, told Metroland Media Toronto: “As with any missing Be proactive child, you never stop looking.”

The case remains open and in protecting police have been working nonstop since, trying to find some your child evidence that would help them solve the mystery. Tips are always welcome, no matter how seemingly insignificant or – perhaps by now, after all these years – fuzzy on detail they may be.

Nicole’s Run also serves as a reminder that children shouldn’t be afraid, but instead should be taught to be vigilant about their own safety. Society is a much different place, it’s true, but as long as children and parents are educated, innocence need not be sacrificed.

CCCP’s website www.missingkids.ca offers tips on child safety and points out that the traditional advice “don’t talk to strangers” is outdated and ineffective in reducing a child’s risk of abduction and victimization.

It’s only in the rarest cases that children are abducted by strangers, and more often, child abductions are committed by people who are known to the child.

Visit the site to learn more, including how to protect your child against offenders lurking on the internet.

Teaching your children these safety tips in a fun way can make the difference between a child who fears the world, and one who stands confidently before it. Practice “what-if” scenarios and get your child’s friends involved.

In honour of Nicole, her family and those families that continue to grieve the loss of their missing children, be proactive in protecting yours.

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Reflecting on big strong jets at Billy Bishop Airport and its impact on city

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fter having flown Porter Airlines for the first time this past weekend, there’s no doubt in my mind: Robert Deluce’s little airline flying out of the Billy Bishop Airport would benefit from a jet-sized runway.

My trip to Boston and back ran late on both ends: going out, because the little turboprop Dash 8 that I was to leave on was laid up with mechanical problems at another airport, and Porter couldn’t wrangle another aircraft in time.

And then I bumped again – voluntarily, having missed my connection – because the plane needed to shed some passengers for the wet runway. Weather made for another delay on the way back.

Big strong jets in Porter’s fleet would be a benefit – at least a benefit to travellers

david nickle the city like me, trying desperately to keep their blood pressure in check as they miss connections and arrive home past bedtime. The question of what benefits – or more to the point impacts – jet aircraft will have on the city and its waterfront remain open. In 2014, Toronto council decided to keep those questions open, resisting pressure from Porter and PortsToronto (the new name for the Toronto Port Authority) to give a preliminary OK to start work on extending runways and removing the ban on jet aircraft. Council sent the supplicants back to the drawing board, asking for clarity on some details and demanding informa-

tion in new areas before continuing the conversation any further. The conversation will be coming up again this year and next – and is getting ready to start, as a pair of reports from Waterfront Toronto and PortsToronto offer a checklist of measures to apply to public consultation, public health and the environmental assessment of the jet aircraft option.

It is quite a list – a litany really, which points to the flaws in the fast-and-loose process so far. It will be very interesting to see what council makes of the plan when it finally comes forward later this year.

When that happens, it will more than likely come forward without the guidance of our mayor, who has a conflict of interest on the matter owing to his son’s employment at

the airport. That will leave a similarly-constituted council enjoying a similar level of autonomy to their predecessors in 2014, when former mayor Rob Ford was effectively out of the debate for different reasons.

Assuming the proponents of the expansion take the time to get their ducks in a row, things could very easily tilt the other way.

But late on Sunday night, riding the brand-new people mover back from the island through that justopened pedestrian tunnel, I couldn’t help but think that another solution to the Porter dilemma is much simpler, at least on a personal level: next time I fly to Boston, take a TTC bus to Pearson. There are plenty of jets to choose from there.

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Register now for Heritage Toronto West Don Lands tour WHEN: 1:20 to 3 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 30 WHERE: details after registration CONTACT: http://bit. ly/1LAdOLD COST: Free West Don Lands: From Manufacturing to Medals tour takes a closer look at how the area surrounding the mouth of the Don River has undergone several transformations since the days when Aboriginal people fished and hunted in the nearby marshes.

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Shout Sister Choir Toronto South East WHEN: 7 to 9 p.m. WHERE: Kingston Road United Church, 975 Kingston Rd. CONTACT: Oriole Claxton, members@shoutsisterchoir.ca COST: Free Shout Sister! takes an unorthodox approach to choral singing. They do not audition and they sing a fun variety of music from pop and Motown, to folk, to a touch of country and blues. Visit www.shoutsisterchoir.ca

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WHEN: 2 to 5 p.m. WHERE: Duke of Connaught Public School, 70 Woodfield Rd. CONTACT: Meighan Ferris-Miles, meighan@noahfoundation.ca COST: Free; suggested minimum fundraising of $100 Bike, scooter or skateboard around a closed course. Participants are requested to raise funds for The Noah John Winston Miles Foundation, whose goal is to support anti-bullying initiatives in the community such as Roots of Empathy.

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in the Ruff presents Macbeth wShakespeare Shakespeare in the Ruff presents Macbeth: Walking Shadows, a tale of murder, ambition and the supernatural blown open with puppetry at 7:30 p.m. until Sunday at Withrow Park, 725 Logan Ave. People should gather south of the clubhouse between the two big trees. In the event of rain, shows will be presented at Eastminster United Church, 310 Danforth Ave. (Aug. 27 to 30 only).

Admission is pay-what-you-can with a recommended donation of $15.

There is a post-show bonfire talkbacks Friday and a closing night party Sunday Visit http://shakespeareintheruff.com Beach Hill residents are invited to a ‘weed night’ Beach Hill area residents are invited to take part in a neighbourhood ‘weed night’ Thursday.

Volunteers are needed to spend a half an hour weeding tree wells along Gerrard Street East near Woodbine Avenue. Afterwards, participants will gather at a local pub for a libation.

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St. John’s hosts barbecue St. John the Compassionate Mission hosts its end-of-summer barbecue Saturday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at 155 Broadview Ave. Call 416-466-1357 for more information.

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The Toronto Zombie Walk has been cancelled due to lack of funding, but organizers are hosting a funeral, which takes place at noon at The Royal Theatre, 608 College St., followed by a wake at the CNE Saturday. Visit http:// torontozombiewalk.ca parkour at Jimmie Simpson centre wLearn

Parkour enthusiasts, or those interested in learning more about the high-energy discipline using movements developed from mil-

itary obstacle course training, are invited to make their way to Leslieville Sunday for Toronto Parkour Community Day, which goes from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Jimmie Simpson Recreation Centre, 870 Queen St. E. Training and workshops, including women-only session, will be offered.

Call 416-392-0751 for details or to register.

5 to 7:30 p.m. for all parents and families in the community.

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Applegrove Connection Family Resource Program will be moving to a new home at the Toronto Formosan Presbyterian Church, 31 Eastwood Rd., in September.

The new location is expected to open Tuesday, Sept. 8 and will be open every Tuesday and Wednesday from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. for programming.

Call Louise at 416-459-0231 or 416-461-8143.

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The Green P parking lot at 268 Rhodes Ave. has been temporarily closed for the development of a new community hub. It is expected to open in mid-October.

The lot, which is just south of Gerrard Street East and west of Coxwell Avenue, closed Monday, Aug. 17.

In the meantime, motorists can make use of nearby Green P lots at 151 Hiawatha Rd. and 1141 and 1167 Eastern Ave. Visit http://parking.greenp. com/ for more information.

The Ralph Thornton Centre has partnered with the Queen/Saulter Library and the South Riverdale Child and Parent Centre to host a workshop and open house about how to best meet the needs of children in the area Thursday, Sept. 3.

An initial session for agency representatives takes place from 3 to 5 p.m., followed by an open house showcasing the range of children’s services in the area from

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On Friday, Aug. 14, Jackson returned an Asterix comic book with a page he’d accidentally ripped. Inside the tome, he left a hand-written apology note, which was found by 26-year library staffer Aron Johns.

It read: “I am sorry that a page ripped when it fell out of my bunk when I fell asleep reading it. It won’t happen again. I’m sorry – from Jackson.”

The next day, the TPL posted the following message on Twitter and Facebook: “Found in the book drop @ Main Street branch :) Here’s to many more nights falling asleep with a good book, Jackson!” along with a photo Jackson’s note.

The social media posts went viral.

The TPL, which only keeps track of the last borrower for 24 hours after an item is returned, sought Jackson.

“Actually, we’d just thank

him for writing that note and tell him that we were able to repair the book, no problem,” said Daniel Colangelo, manager of the Upper Beach branch.

“I’d be curious to know if he knows all the attention he’s been getting, and what his reaction would be.”

Colangelo said he didn’t think the apology letter would resonate with so many people, but said it likely struck a chord with people because it looks like it was penned by a boy who is taking responsibility for his actions.

“The second reason is that it’s a nice feeling that kids are still reading in bed and still enjoy books,” he said.

Johns, who has discovered many a note left in returned

books over the years, said he hung onto this one because he found it “charming and amusing.”

“It was such a nice gesture to let us know the book is damaged and to apologize,” he said, adding he could relate because he also liked Asterix books as a kid and borrowed them from the Thorncliffe Library after moving to Toronto from Wales with his family in 1975.

Jackson was located just a few days later and paid a visit to the Upper Beach area branch Wednesday, Aug. 19 along with his mom, grandmother, two-year-old brother, Bobby, and seven-year-old sister, Charlie.

He said he came up with a plan to write the apology letter with his mother’s permission because he was concerned other children wouldn’t be able to read the book he’d damaged.

In the end, the note turned into an opportunity to teach Jackson and his siblings an important lesson, his mother, Allison said.

The plan is for Jackson’s note to be framed and hung on the wall of the 137 Main St. branch.

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Finding a new home for BCCC proved to be more difficult than anyone could have imagined, said Beach resident Shelley Zorzit, who for the past year and a half has served as the vice-president of the centre’s board of directors.

“Finding a site was really hard.

We had a 90-page document full of requirements,” said Zorzit, whose three daughters – Bella, 11; Ava, 9; and Nico, 5 – all attended the local daycare.

“It was really more than a fulltime job.”

Zorzit, a local elementary school teacher, said even with $250,000 in funds, the centre was unable to secure another suitable home in the community.

“We really tried. We applied for every grant, every bursary that was available, but even then it still wasn’t enough,” she said, pointing to at least two instances when they thought they’d found suitable sites in the area, but they fell through.

“We even hired a consultant to search on our behalf. We viewed

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This is the last day children will be at The Beaches Child Care Centre, which is closes its doors permanently this weekend.

dozens of properties.”

In late 2009, BCCC approached Streetcar to request an extension on the lease from March 2011 to August 2011, as well as a shorter period for termination notice. Both requests were accommodated.

“We then accommodated a further extension for a minimum of three years, until July 2014, and delayed plans for redevelopment

once again. At that time, we restated our commitment to helping BCCC secure a new location, and encouraged (the centre) to actively seek out a new location,” Mallins said.

“At the end of the third year of the last extension (July 2014), we finalized our redevelopment timeline, which was communicated to the BCCC. This was shortly after Streetcar purchased the Dip n’ Sip

site directly across the street.”

Mallins said they even sought the services of a local realtor to “help make securing a new facility a top priority and committed to provide financial assistance should it be needed.”

“Unfortunately, this pursuit proved unsuccessful,” he said, commending BCCC’s current board for its efforts to try to secure new location, as well as Ward 32 Councillor Mary-Margaret McMahon and other city staff for their assistance.

In early June, Zorzit and her fellow board members were forced to share the news no one wanted to hear: the Beaches Child Care Centre would be shutting down at the end of the summer. Families, supporters and staff members officially bid Beaches Child Care Centre adieu during its annual general meeting and barbecue June 25.

“We held out hope right to the very end. We tried everything to not have to make this decision,” she said, adding they made the announcement at this time so the centre’s 40 or so east-end families had ample time to find alternate child care arrangements, as well as its 10 staff members, many of whom had worked there for several years,

could look for new jobs.

“It’s devastating to have to close.

This Thursday (today) is our final day with the kids.”

Once the date of closure was confirmed, Mallins said Streetcar reached out to the board to see how they could assist with the process.

He also said they’ve communicated to the board that they’re willing to provide financial assistance to BCCC to help provide compensation to its long-term employees.

Zorzit said more government support could have led to an entirely different fate for Beaches Child Care Centre, which started off as Tiny Tots Daycare before becoming the nonprofit Beaches Child Care Centre Inc. in 1994.

“I feel this conversation needs to be top of mind at all levels of government,” she said, adding all families have the right to affordable, responsible and reliable childcare.

“It’s sad it didn’t work out for us,” Zorzit said, adding she said she hopes the same outcome doesn’t occur for non-profit child care centres facing similar fates as the value of real estate skyrockets.

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Jessica Kim from Shelter Box Canada, the event’s benefactor, will serve as the event’s guest speaker. Kim, a response team member, was first deployed to Nepal in September 2013 to respond to severe flooding and landslides and in May to help those affected by twin earthquakes. The fundraiser will also include parent and child yoga class, as well as free suspension yoga from

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The centre, which started treating patients in May, is a first for Toronto, and just the second of its kind in Ontario.

The $7-million facility, funded partly through donations, combines a host of different medical services in one place, allowing residents to receive complete care close to home.

“We have created a centre of excellence at East General,” Downey said. “(It) brings together, under one roof, incredible expertise in respirology, thoracic surgery and the other specialties required to diagnose, treat and manage the many illnesses of the chest and lungs.”

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Collaborative care Along with the 500,000 people TEGH serves locally, the centre is also helping patients from outside Toronto, both physically and remotely.

Through telehealth services, its doctors offer assistance provincewide. The collaborative care offered by the clinic grew out of TEGH’s Time to Treat program, Fraser said.

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In addition to providing medical and surgical care, the centre offers educational programs to help people manage their conditions. A navigator guides patients through treatment, right from diagnosis, making medical journeys more manageable and comfortable for patients.

The hospital’s existing thoracic surgery and respirology departments were combined in the facility.

While improving quality and continuity of care, the centre’s emphasis on efficiency also cuts costs by helping patients avoid hospitalizations and emergency room visits. Thousands of people have already received care at the clinic, which operates 24/7.

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Funds raised at gala helps VETS Animal Charity >>>from page 1 auction, as well as the presentation of the annual Sweetie Pie Award, which this year will be presented to Nick Siskopoulos in honour of his partner, Kristy Hodgson, and their dog, Betty, who both died after being struck by the driver of a vehicle while walking along Dundas Street East at Carlaw Avenue in late April.

Siskopoulos and Hodgson’s best friend, Tori Woolner, will be accepting the award from its 2014 recipient, Dana Margolis, who along with her husband Eric founded The Eric S. Margolis Family Foundation, which works to save the lives of neglected and abandoned animals, both wild and domesticated, worldwide.

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VETS Animal Charity, which Dr. Morris Samson and Dr. Jonathan Mitelman (owners of the 24/7 Kingston Road Animal Hospital, a general practice and emergency veterinary clinic in the Upper Beach) founded in July 2014, aims to promote the moral and ethical development of Canadian communities by helping animals in need of emergency medical assistance or care, by providing the needed financial assistance for veterinarian costs to pet owners who cannot absorb such costs due to economic hardship.

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Wong-Tam is part of a working group looking into the feasibility of Toronto making a bid for the 2025 World’s Fair (or Expo), pointing out that doing so would both showcase the city and serve as a catalyst for more infrastructure development, much as the Pan Am Games made infrastructure upgrades necessary.

“It can be a catalytic event that would help us revitalize the waterfront,” said WongTam, who noted the port lands would be an ideal site to host Expo 2025.

“There’s no event bigger in the world than an Expo, and the anticipated audience in terms of Expo visitors here in Toronto is 40 million.”

She pointed out because Expo pavilions are increasingly modular, they could be moved from the port lands to other areas of the city and converted into new community centres, libraries, daycares and other muchneeded facilities.

Wong-Tam added there would be plenty of additional impacts beyond the tourism dollars and the boost to infrastructure.

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