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Metropolitan Community Church (MCC) of Toronto is marking its 25th anniversary of its Christmas Eve Service and Celebration at Roy Thompson Hall.

“It’s exciting. It’s a chance to look back and remember the beginning,” said Rev. Dr. Brent Hawkes, the church’s senior pastor.

He went on to say the muchanticipated, music-filled event, which welcomes people of all faiths and backgrounds, wouldn’t exist without the generosity of two parishioners who lived in Vancouver when the celebration was launched 25 years ago but donated $22,000 to cover the cost of making it happen.

“That first year was a huge success,” said Hawkes, who came up with the idea for a

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large-scale Christmas Eve event with the goal that it would inspire and give hope to people.

“It’s now a special annual celebration people attend year after year.”

Hawkes credited the success of the Christmas Eve event to the “wonderful sense of community” it has created for people of all walks of life and faith groups during the holiday season.

He said some people even travel from as far away as P.E.I. and Boston to attend, while others enjoy inviting their parents and grandparents to the event.

Hawkes also said some people who don’t attend regular Sunday services never miss MCC Toronto’s Christmas Eve event.

In honour of the quartercentury anniversary of the

DOGGIE WISHES: Chrissy Belfour and her dog Gracie sit for a picture with Santa during the Santa Paws Christmas Beach Party event Saturday afternoon. See more pictures on page 3.

Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of lights, is set to be celebrated in the Beach on Saturday.

The festivities will get underway at 6 p.m. with the lighting of the menorah in Kew Gardens, near Queen Street East and Lee Avenue, at 6 p.m.

A Latkefest, featuring singing,

dancing and latkes, will follow at the Beach Hebrew Institute, 109 Kenilworth Ave., just south of Queen Street East.

All are welcome to attend the celebration.

Visit www.beachhebrewinstitutue.ca or call 416-694-7942 for more information.

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plays Cool Yule wTheCadence Concert Cool Yule Concert, with vocal

group Cadence, takes place Friday at 7:30 p.m. at Beach United Church, 140 Wineva Ave. Tickets cost $20 for adults and $10 for children under 10.

Proceeds will be used to support community development program at Beach United Church.

Call 416-691-8082 for more information. performs concert wAnLayla at The Naval Club evening of Christmas music

from around the world is set to take place Friday from 8 p.m. to midnight at The Naval Club of Toronto, 19190 Gerrard St. E. Local songstress Layla will perform. She will be accompanied

by Shelley Faulkner of KS Piano Studio at 1875 Gerrard St. E., while Lorie Ditchon and Edit Csoma will be providing the catering.

Admission is a suggested donation of $5 or canned goods for the Daily Bread Food Bank.

Email laylamusic.info@gmail. com to RSVP or visit www.laylamusic.net for more information.

McMahon hosts a free skate day Saturday from 10 a.m. to noon at the Te d Re e v e Arena, 175 Main St. Hot chocolate will be served.

Call McMahon’s office at 416392-1376 for more information. of the Season wTheSpirit holiday concert Sunday second annual Spirit of the

Season holiday concert is set to take place Sunday from 3 and 7:30 p.m. at St. Matthew’s Cathedral, 875 Queen St. E. This year’s event will feature a presentation of the one-act opera Amahl and The Night Visitors.

Presented by No Strings Theatre in association with the Toronto Onyx Lions Club, doors will be open from 2 to 9 p.m. for socializing. Tickets cost $20 for adults, $15 for seniors./students and children. A $50 package usable for two adults and two children is also available.

Visit www.nostringstheatre. com or call 416-551-2093.

hosts free Final weekend for wWardCouncillor w skate at Ted Reeve Christmas Market 32 Councillor Mary-Margaret Twenty-one days of Christmas

magic at the Distillery Historic District will be coming to an end this weekend.

The Toronto Christmas Market, which features more than 36 vendors and 240-plus free performances as well as nightly carolling, will be wrapping Sunday with the Mill Street Brewery World Caroling Challenge at 5 p.m.

Organizers are hoping to break the world record for the most carolers singing in one place.

Canadian soprano Measha Brueggergosman will close the festivities at 6:30 p.m. with a special performance.

Visit www.torontochristmasmarket.com for more information.

Blue Christmas service wMetropolitan at MCC

Community Church (MCC) of Toronto, 115 Simpson Ave., h o s t s a Bl u e Christmas service Sunday at 7 p.m.

The Riverdalearea church will also be holding a Spanish-language Christmas mass Sunday at 1:30 p.m.

Visit www.mcctoronto.com/

for more details. of Animation wTheCollege moving to danforth Max the Mutt College of

Animation, Art and Design is moving to Danforth Avenue next year.

The college, which was founded in 1996, will re-open at its new location at 2944 Danforth Ave. on Jan. 12.

The official school opening takes place Saturday, Feb. 7 with tours, coffee and snacks, a panel discussion and cartooning workshop runs from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Visit http://maxthemutt.com Beach calendars now wA limited available number of 2015 Beach

calendars are available for purchase at Community Centre 55, 97 Main St. Members of the Beach Photo Club shot the images in the calendars, which cost $18 each.

Call Nancy at 416-691-1113, ext. 224 for more information.

Winterfolk back on wToronto’s Danforth Feb. 13 to 15 Winterfolk roots music

festival will be back on the west Danforth Feb. 13 to 15.

The 13th annual festival will

set up shop on five stages in four venues – Black Swan Tavern, Dora Keogh Irish Pub, Terri O’s and Globe Bistro – located between Broadview and Chester subway stops.

Apart from a couple of headline shows with nominal admission fees, most of the entertainment is traditionally free.

Visit www.winterfolk.com hosts weekly wSt.Mission breakfast program John the Compassionate

Mission, 155 Broadview Ave., hosts a weekday breakfast program, which runs from 5:30 to 8:30 a.m. Monday to Friday until Friday, Feb. 27.

All are welcome.

For more information, email stjohnsmission@sympatico.ca or call 416-466-1357. support for those wOntario affected by drinking South Al-Anon/Alateen

(AAA), an organization providing support to anyone affected by a friend or relative’s drinking, wants to Toronto residents to know their services are available this holiday season.

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Santa visits the Beach: Below from left, Susan Cook and her dog River get a treat from Santa during the Santa Paws Christmas Beach Party event Saturday afternoon. Sunny, a one-year-old lab, plays with a frisbee on the beach Saturday afternoon. Right top, dog owners and their pets gather for a photo with Santa. Right bottom, Jackie Black and Devin Cecchetto welcome visitors to the Toronto Beach Rotary club’s Santa at the Cottage event Saturday.

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Volunteers, donations needed to help those in need JOANNA LAVOIE jlavoie@insidetoronto.com With delivery day set for Monday, the team at Community Centre 55 (CC55) is working at a frenetic pace and reaching out to the community for help to give 775 less fortunate people a Christmas.

“Food, food, food – the big push is for food,” said Debbie Visconti, CC55’s executive director, earlier this week.

“We have more families than ever this year. People have been responding to our requests for food, but we still need more.”

Some of the most needed nonperishable items include cereal, pancake mix and syrup, pasta/rice, mac and cheese, pasta sauce, soups/ stews, peanut butter/jam, canned fish/meat, canned fruits and vegetables, large cans of juice, baked beans, baby food and pet food.

Gifts for teens, especially gift cards, are also needed.

“Every little bit helps. The final countdown is on this week,” Visconti said.

“We want to help everybody (who applies) and we will. Fortunately we haven’t had to turn anyone away.”

Aside from providing food and gift hampers, Community Centre 55 will also be providing toys and gifts to an additional 400 to 500 families across the city through its emergency distribution clinic Dec. 23.

The organization will also be providing food to the nearby Calvary Baptist Church for its annual Christmas dinner as well as a few extra families and individuals referred to the program by 55 Division.

The biggest yearly initiative, the 33rd annual Share-A-Christmas program officially kicked off Sunday, Nov. 23 with Hamper’s Santa Claus Parade.

A number of events were held in recent weeks to raise funds for the annual program.

Malvern Collegiate has organized a “hockey hoopla” fundraiser at Ted Reeve Arena, 175 Main St., at 1 p.m.

Thursday. Tickets cost $5.

“We’re incredibly grateful to the neighbourhood for helping us this year and every year,” Visconti said.

Volunteers still needed Starting Thursday evening, volunteers will be making their way to CC55 to help sort and pack the food and gift hampers. Registration is not required.

Packing and sorting of non-perishables will take place Thursday and Friday from 6 to 8 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. to noon.

Toys will be sorted and packed Sunday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. No children please.

On Monday, a tractor trailer filled with 10,180 pounds of meat (turkeys and hams), 13,536 pounds of fresh fruit and veggies, 4,000 litres

of milk, 20,000 pounds of nonperishable items, and hundreds of loaves of bread will pull up in front of Community Centre 55.

Perishable food items will be packed and sorted Monday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. with delivery set to begin at 2 p.m. Last year’s delivery day coincided with the start of the ice storm. Regardless, volunteers were out in full force to help distribute the hampers.

“This year we’re hoping for better weather,” Visconti said.

Anyone able to donate can drop

by Community Centre 55, at 97 Main St. Non-perishable food is also being collected for the program at the Beaches Recreation Centre at 6 Williamson Rd., the FreshCo locations at Gerrard Street East and Victoria Park Avenue and Leslie Street and Lake Shore Boulevard East, as well as at local CIBC branches.

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Let’s all make volunteering our resolution L

et’s make next year a banner year in Toronto for volunteering in the community.

With 2015 almost upon us, it seems like a good time to issue this call. There’s still a little bit left in 2014 to ponder goals and expectations for the coming year – and perhaps include some time to give to a cause or organization of importance to you.

Also, 2015 is a big year in Toronto. The Pan Am/ Parapan Am Games are coming to the city in July. It’s Canada’s largest multi-sport event. There are opportunities both before and during the Games, which will rely on some 23,000 volunteers to ensure things run smoothly. Visit the Pan Am Games website for more information.

And Toronto is a city known for its diverse offerings of festivals and events.

The city’s special events office our view regularly lists volunteer opporand is a good place to What can you tunities start for those who can commit do to help your their time to a specific event – as opposed to a more regular community? volunteer experience.

But volunteering is not just about what’s good for a cause, an organization or the city. It’s about what’s good for us, too.

When it comes to the positive developments that arise from volunteering, it is not merely a ‘one-way’ street. Volunteer opportunities represent more than just a chance to get involved in your community and help out. In many cases, volunteers acquire new skills and contacts during the course of their work.

Volunteers acquire intangible benefits, too: a richer experience of life in the city and the satisfaction of knowing your efforts are helping your community.

When we think about what kind of environment we want to live in, what improvements we want in our neighbourhoods and what connections we want to forge in our community, volunteering helps in all of those areas.

William Osler Health Centre recently honoured seven of its volunteers who had compiled a staggering 50 years each of volunteering with its hospitals, including Etobicoke General.

Let’s see what we can do in one year. Calls for volunteering – the ultimate commitment to our community – are all around us.

Let’s answer the call – in greater numbers than ever.

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Will library saga continue with budget submission?

It’s too soon to be able to map out where all the political fights will be in the coming winter’s city hall budget process.

But the Toronto Public Library Board has thrown down the gauntlet for the first big one.

This shouldn’t be a surprise.

There is something about our library system in this city that attracts duelling city councillors like nothing else.

Last term, former budget chief Mike Del Grande instigated a minor skirmish when he wondered why so many DVDs and books were circulated in languages other than English.

The same term, former budget committee vicechair Doug Ford made headlines by inventing the term lie-berry and disrespecting author Margaret Atwood, as he suggested closing a library in his ward to save some money.

That was a Potemkin moment for bibliophiles

david nickle the city across the city to rise up and support their libraries.

This time, the membership of the library board (most of whom were appointed under the Ford administration) is setting up for a fight that lands somewhere in between.

Reduce security In their 2015 budget submission, they’ve elected to include a 40 per cent reduction in security service in branches across the city.

The move would save $660,000 from the budget, bringing its submission down to a two per cent increase over last year.

It would mean that in some branches, there would no longer be a security guard present.

Library board chair Mike Foderick maintains those

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But it’s hard to imagine very many who send their children to libraries to study or their elderly parents there to read and socialize will be at all comfortable taking a chance on safety.

branches don’t need a security guard, given their historic low level of incidents over the past number of years.

For instance, at the Centennial Library branch, the security guard worked 27 hours a week in 2013, and over that year dealt with only a single incident.

Perhaps there will be some library patrons comforted by that statistic.

But it’s hard to imagine very many who send their children to libraries to study or their elderly parents there to read and

socialize will be at all comfortable taking a chance on safety.

The union representing library workers (which doesn’t, incidentally, represent the security guards) has already taken a stand on the issue, as a matter of workplace safety.

If I were a betting columnist, I’d say that by the time this works its way through the budget process at city hall – and long before the budget actually makes it to the floor of council – there won’t be any change in the library system’s security complement.

One doesn’t know why the library board didn’t save councillors the trouble and just leave matters be.

For a service that a majority of Torontonians seem to regard as untouchable, it’s astounding politicians of certain stripes can’t seem to keep their hands off it.

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Riverside’s Antler Breakfast WHEN: 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. WHERE: An Sibin Pub, 709 Queen St. E. CONTACT: Tokunbo Awe, 416-4668167, community@riverside-to.com COST: $20 Join Chef Scott Savoie and The Riverside BIA at An Sibin Pub for a traditional Irish fry-up breakfast.

Championed by Joan King of the Safety First Program, Rivertowne Community Association and the Ralph Thornton Centre, the Rivertowne Community Breakfast initiative provides children and youth who live in the neighbourhood with free warm breakfast each week.

Complimentary Beach Balance Class for Seniors WHEN: 9:45 to 10:45 a.m. WHERE: Beach United Church, 140 Wineva Ave. CONTACT: Eric Daw, 416-4500892, daweric@gmail.com COST: First workout is complimentary Complimentary balance classes for seniors focussing on balance, coordination, strength, flexibility and posture. Facilitated by an experienced instructor.

Cadence ‘Cool Yule Concert’ WHEN: 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. WHERE: Beach United Church, 140 Wineva

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Hair of the Dog Fun Run WHEN: 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. WHERE: Balmy Beach Club, foot of Beech Avenue CONTACT: Bev Plante, 416-698-0214, www. balmybeachcanoe.com COST: adults $30 (early bird $25); children $10 (under 19) Lace up your running shoes and come on down to the Balmy Beach Club at the foot of Beech Avenue for the 35th annual Hair of the Dog ninekilometre run and three-km walk. Proceeds from this event go to support young athletes and their programs.

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0 COST: $20 adults ($10 children) An hypnotic Christmas evening with Canada’s premiere vocal group.

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Hannukiah Lighting & Latkefest WHEN: 6 to 9 p.m. WHERE: Beach Hebrew Institute, 109 Kenilworth Ave. CONTACT: Kim Van Rooy, 416694-7942, kvanrooy@sympatico.ca COST: Free Celebrate the lighting of the Hannukiah in Kew Gardens at 6 p.m. followed by Latkefest at the Beach Hebrew Institute. There will be singing, dancing and of course, latkes!

All are welcome.

Prayer Tree WHEN: 10 a.m. to noon WHERE: St. Aidan’s Anglican Church, 70 Silver Birch Ave. CONTACT: 416691-2222

St. Aidan’s Anglican Church is inviting the community to write a prayer on a card and hang it on a “prayer tree”. All of the cards will be brought inside the church the following day and will be offered at the Sunday morning service.

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Amahl and the Night Visitors, presented by No Strings Theatre and the Toronto Onyx Lions Club WHEN: 3 p.m. WHERE: St. Matthew’s Cathedral, 875 Queen St. E. CONTACT: 416-551-2093, www. nostringstheatre.com COST: Adults $20; seniors, students, children $15 This beautiful and beloved holiday classic, a one-act opera in concert, tells the story of a poor widow and her spirited son, Amahl, who are visited one night by three Kings in need of shelter as they follow a star across the desert. When Amahl

A Child’s Christmas in Wales reading WHEN: 2 p.m. WHERE: Rebellion Gallery and Art Academy, 1495 Gerrard St. E. CONTACT: 416-469-1777 Renowned east end-based artists/ actors Aron and Emily Tager will be presenting a reading of A Child’s Christmas in Wales.

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‘It’s All About Christmas Time’ for Beach resident Jamillah Ross JOANNA LAVOIE jlavoie@insidetoronto.com Beach resident Jamillah Ross recently launched an original Christmas single called It’s All About Christmas Time.

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Ross, who is presently starring in the upcoming CBC show Fool Canada, has performed in several films, television shows and productions including Popcultured, Mayday, Scare Tactics, Orphan Black, Picture Day, Seussical, A Freudian Slip of the Jung and the Show Stopping Number: The Improvised Musical.

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Celebrate the holidays with Lexus Downtown, where the staff are always willing to go the extra mile. Like the cars themselves, the luxuries the dealership is known for, such as complimentary car washes and concierge services, are of the highest quality. Under the leadership of general manager Christopher Lina, the dealership is approaching its third anniversary on Dec. 19. Lina has been with the Lexus brand since its inception into Canada in 1991, and personally ensures that the dealership exceeds every expectation.

You are invited to come and help celebrate their three-year anniversary in style. Starting on Dec. 19, the dealership will be hosting an anniversary/boxing week event until Dec. 31.

The qualified and friendly staff at Lexus Downtown understand that buying a vehicle is one of the most important decisions you will ever make

and they strive to provide a world-class experience.

Starting with the showroom, the modern three-floor facility showcases the latest Lexus vehicles. With 14 stunning 2015 cars, the main showroom features the compact size Lexus NX 200t SUV, the all-new baby brother to the Lexus RX 350, which continues to be a class leader in the luxury crossover segment. The third floor Hybrid Showroom is a one-ofa-kind experience, unmatched by any dealership in Canada.

The experienced staff are there to help guests with any of the 18 hybrids on display.

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Lexusownerscanattestto the exceptionally professional, attentive, courteous service they receive from Lexus Downtown. Aside from the best quality build vehicles, the dealership also provides complimentary loaners cars, and your first and second oil and filter change free of charge. As winter tires are necessary in Canadian winters, tire storage is available, a feature unique to Lexus.

Guests can also attest to the superior service they receive in the service area. All Lexus Downtown technicians are factory-trained with all of the necessary Lexus factory credentials needed to provide the highest level of service to each and every guest. With 14 service bays, and seven technicians on hand, no appoint-

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am security underway; apply now wpan Contemporar y Secur ity Canada (CSC), the organization in charge of providing that staff, said it’s well on its way to hiring the 5,000 screeners, security guards and security supervisors it needs to ensure people are safe.

Those staff members will work at 61 venues throughout the GTA during the Pan Am Games.

With some 2,000 people already hired, many of whom are going through complimentary training to obtain the necessary security guard certification, CSC is on track to meet the staffing demand.

The CSC will also work under the auspices of the integrated security unit and the OPP. Visit www.securethegames.ca to apply the Region Moving wKeeping

Ontario’s Keeping the Region Moving plan details how the province plans to manage the transportation needs of an estimated 1.4 million games attendees, 7,500 athletes, 23,000 volunteers and 4,000 members of the media – in

On Dec. 6, TTC riders got a chance to meet world-class athletes on the 501 Queen streetcar. Here, back row, Lorraine Stubbs, left, Melissa Humana-Paredes, Samantha Sendel, Crispin Duenas, Sarah Wells, Perdita Felicien, and Rosie Cossar. Front row: Max Bouchard, left, and Curt Harnett.

addition to regular commuters during the Games.

The temporary Games Route Network spans around 1,500 kilometres in the form of temporary High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lanes on major roadways for vehicles with at least three or more people.

Use of the lanes will last from 5 a.m. to midnight every day from June 29 to Aug. 18.

Anyone with a valid Games ticket can use the TTC and GO for no extra charge.

The plan also promises the creation of a special trip planning app.

Lake Shore Boulevard will provide the backdrop for planned road competitions during next summer’s Pan American and Parapan Am Games.

TO2015, The Toronto Pan Am organizing committee, has posted course maps for the Games’ marathon, cycling, race walk, triathlon and Parapan Am cycling race, all of which begin and end on Lake Shore Boulevard.

With an anticipated audience of 1.4 million expected to watch the Pan Ams in person, organizers say Lake Shore will have to close at times to all traffic during the Games, which take place July 10 to 26 followed by the Parapan Am Games Aug. 7 to 15, in order to allow for the safety of athletes and spectators.

“The majority of these closures will take place in off-peak travel hours or on weekends to minimize disruptions to traffic, business and residents in the race area,” a statement posted on the Games’ official website www.toronto2015. org reads.

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tions. The Games’ committee is also planning to hold a public meeting in the new year to discuss the impact on local traffic. The Lake Shore is a central artery in the province’s plan to manage traffic during the Games, part of a 1,500-kilometre network of high-occupancy vehicle

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Toronto group aiming to make Pan Am Games inclusive PrideHouse Toronto will do its part to welcome LGBTQ athletes, families and supporters JUSTIN SKINNER

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When the Toronto 2015 Pan Am/ Parapan Am Games descend on the city, the 519 Community Centre and Church Street will do their part to welcome Lesbian Gay Bi Transgender Queer (LGBTQ) athletes, families and supporters.

PrideHouse Toronto (PHTO) will see live sporting sites up and down Church, shows, beer gardens and patios peppered throughout the Church-Wellesley Village.

Following the success of a similar initiative during the Vancouver Olympics, organizers were bound and determined to make sure the Toronto 2015 Games are the most inclusive ever.

“We wanted to do something just as great or better (than the Vancouver Games PrideHouse),” said PHTO spokesperson Ryan Tollofson. “We wanted a safe space where people could come and celebrate LGBTQ inclusiveness and celebrate the athletes.”

PHTO will include a pavilion at the 519 where people can gather to

watch the games, art installations, and casual sports games breaking out at intersections in the area.

“We’ll also have pavilions at Nathan Phillips Square and the CNE, plus 16 ambassadors across the province – mostly in the GTA – to do outreach,” Tollofson said.

With funding from the City of Toronto, the province of Ontario and CIBC, PHTO aims to provide something for fans of every stripe.

Pan Am Games CEO Saad Raffi said the inclusion of PHTO would help ensure the event is as inclusive as possible.

“Inclusion and diversity in sports is something Canadians have shown leadership in and we want that to continue,” he said. “It’s important to get the message (of inclusiveness) across to people coming from across the Americas to this region.”

Raffi added that, in this way, the Toronto 2015 Games can be more than a celebrated sporting event.

“We hope to use sport as a catalyst for social inclusion,” he said.

“Through sports, arts and culture, we want to help people understand that we may have differences, but

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Former Olympian Kristan Burley attended the launch of Pride House TO last month. The City of Toronto, 519 Community Centre and Church Street are working together to make the Pan Am games inclusive.

we’re all struggling with the same issues.

“While the Games themselves are vitally important, they’re also

a catalyst for discussions we have to have.”

Former Olympic gymnast Kristan Burley, who represented Canada at the 1996 Atlanta Games, welcomed the opening of the new space at a launch event late last month.

He noted that sports are not known for being inclusive, and he himself did not come out as a queer athlete until he retired from the sport.

“At that time, LGBTQ issues weren’t something you openly talked about,” he said. “It’s a North American concept that guys who do gymnastics are gay because we wear tight uniforms, do something artistic and can do the splits. Everywhere else in the world, that concept isn’t there.”

He said he – like many athletes across the sporting spectrum – was not comfortable sharing his sexual orientation for a variety of reasons.

Among them is the fact that many judges in gymnastics hail from countries where LGBTQ rights are virtually nonexistent.

“Hearing the comments from a

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gymnast from Greece who came out after dominating at the ’96 Games, the international persecution was horrible,” Burley said. “It’s a judged sport and that ruined his reputation.

He never had anywhere near the same success again.”

Burley, who lives downtown, said it can be draining for athletes to feel forced to hide a huge part of who they are. That, in turn, detracts focus from their training, their sport and their team.

“To be on any Olympic team takes every ounce of your focus and your ability,” he said. “To be your best, you have to be able to be yourself.

Things are better now, but sports always seem to be behind in these things.”

He hopes PHTO helps change that atmosphere for athletes and supporters at the Toronto 2015 Games.

“It’s important because it shows the LGBTQ part of the greater community indulges in sport and are among the best,” he said.

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Paramedics to educate people on when to call 911 CYNTHIA REASON creason@insidetoronto.com Having chest pains, trouble breathing, uncontrollable bleeding or suffering a traumatic injury? Don’t hesitate – call 911 immediately.

But if simply suffering flu or cold symptoms, fevers, cuts, sprains or any other relatively minor ailment, you may wish to heed the advice of a public information campaign launched by Toronto Paramedic Services, asking residents to stop, consider their options, and, most importantly, “make the right call.”

Health alternatives Running until the end of December, the Make the Right Call campaign is one Toronto Paramedic Services Chief Paul Raftis said is designed to educate the public about the health-care alternatives available to them in non-emergency situations – whether that be seeking medical advice from the registered nurses on-call around the clock at Telehealth Ontario’s 24/7 telephone line; visiting any one of the 2,720 walk-in clinics in Toronto; or simply booking an appointment with a

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Toronto Paramedic Services have launched a campaign hoping to educate people on considering their health care options before calling 911.

family physician.

Raftis said Toronto’s highly trained paramedics respond to more than 250,000 emergency calls a year (or about 685 calls a day).

“Since 2005 we’ve seen a really big spike with the aging population – we’ve actually transported about 60,000 new patients every year since then – so it’s a very, very high call volume.”

Many of those callers, however, are simply not aware they have options other than calling 911 for non-medical emergency situations, Raftis said.

While calling 911 for an ambulance essentially means callers receive a mobile emergency room staffed by highly trained paramedics at their doorstep, that kind of service is not always necessary for minor medical problems – and doing so can often needlessly divert paramedic resources from responding more quickly to real medical emergencies.

“It takes some ambulances out of service, when they’re servicing calls that maybe we don’t need to,” Raftis said. “We’re not suggesting that half of our call volume is this

way, because that’s not the case. It’s probably a few thousand calls a year, but those few thousand calls, if we were able to, we’d be able to service emergency calls more quickly if we weren’t tied up responding to those (non-emergency situations).”

That said, the Make the Right Call campaign – which has been translated into 10 languages and is being advertised over social media, radio, TV and newspaper ads – isn’t about telling people not to call 911 when they need to, but simply urging them to educate themselves about their health-care options, Raftis said.

“It’s important to us that people know, if you have a serious medical emergency, don’t feel bad about calling 911. Call us, and we’ll have highly trained, highly skilled paramedics come and take care of you.

We really want to focus on folks calling us when they have a serious emergency – and if they’re ever in doubt, they should always feel comfortable calling us,” he assured.

“But if they just take that second to ask themselves, you know, ‘could this be dealt with better at a walk-in clinic or another route?’, that could be helpful to us.”

Health-care options for non-emergencies

1. Call Telehealth Ontario at 1-866797-0000 for a free, confidential telephone service offering up health advice and/or general health information from a registered nurse. Visit www.health.gov.on.ca/ en/public/programs/telehealth/ 2. Visit your family physician. For those residents who don’t have a family doctor, the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-term Care offers up an online Health Care Connect Program at www.health. gov.on.ca/en/ms/healthcareconnect/public/overview.aspx to help connect them with a local doctor taking new patients.

3. Walk-in clinics are also excellent options for those looking to avoid a trip to the emergency room, but can’t wait for an appointment with their doctor. Walk-in clinics are a good option for when a family member has a cut, sprain or another relatively minor ailment.

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