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Anne Babcock takes the reigns at WoodGreen WoodGreen (WG) Community Services didn’t have to search far to find its next president and CEO. Anne Babcock, who worked closely with the east-end social service organization’s outgoing leader, Brian Smith, for nearly four decades, has been selected as his successor.

WoodGreen’s board of directors made the announcement Monday, Dec. 15.

“A n n e i s d e d i c a t e d t o the vision and mission of WoodGreen and her strong track record of developing and delivering excellent solutions for our clients makes her the ideal leader to take WoodGreen into the future,” Jasmine Tehara, the organization’s chair of the board, wrote in a release.

“Having worked her way through the organization

from the front line to Chief Operating Officer, and now to President, she has unique perspective and incredible insight.”

A WoodGreen employee for 36 years, Babcock has been instrumental in helping build the organization from a single location with 40 staff members to a $47 million organization with 34 locations, 650 staff and 1,000 volunteers serving 37,000

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55 Division: Supt. Peter Yuen looks ahead top cop to more community building in 2015

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Already a year into his role at the helm of 55 Division, Supt. Peter Yuen said it’s been a busy, but good year and he’s looking forward to continuing on that note.

“We’re building a lot of positive relationships and that’s something I can build on,” he said during a recent interview.

“We have a lot of good initiatives to address community concerns.”

Always focused on doing better and providing top-notch customer service, Yuen said 55 Division’s first priority going into 2015 is getting traffic moving in the community.

“You’re going to see lots of enforcement in the east end this year,” he assured, pointing to the importance of keeping the thousands of motorists who drive along major arteries in the city’s east end, notably Kingston Road, Queen Street East, Dundas Street and Gerrard Street East, to go to and from downtown every day moving.

Scores of other drivers also use local roadways to reach the Gardiner Expressway, Don Valley Parkway as well as Hwy. 401, he noted.

“We’ve just got to get the traffic moving and community members should understand that we’re not targeting them,” said Yuen, who has worked at 55 Division on four different occasions during his 30-year career in policing and is responsible for the creation of 55 Division’s Youth Scholarship Program, which is marking its 12th anniversary in 2015.

Another focus going into the New Year in 55 Division is keeping crime rates down.

In the past year, the number of break-ins and assaults in the division, which is bounded by Victoria Park Avenue in the east to the Don Valley Parkway in the west and Danforth Avenue in the north to Lake Ontario in the south, was less than the previous year and Yuen said

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Commanding officer of 55 Division, Toronto police Supt. Peter Yuen, who previously served as staff inspector at 54 Division before taking the helm at 55 Division earlier this year.

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his team would continue working to bring those rates down.

“I’d like to continue that trend and build on what we’ve started,” said Yuen, To accomplish this objective, he said his officers will continue building strong relationships in the community and will work to better leverage technologies, including social media, to make reporting crime even easier.

Yuen also wants to use social media to better disseminate information about crimes that have occurred as well as crime prevention.

“Any time something happens we want to let the community know as soon as possible,” he said, adding he’s also pushing for stronger conversations between police and the community.

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We’re finding a lot of dialogue is one-way, but we’d like to be more twoway...We’re doing well, but we can do better.

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“We’re finding a lot of dialogue is one-way, but we’d like it to be more two-way.”

Yuen’s third priority for 2015 is to continue providing excellent customer service.

“We’re doing well, but we can do better,” he said. “We need input from the community. Please tell us how we’re doing.”

Yuen invited people to email him directly at peter.yuen@torontopolice.on.ca to provide feedback and suggestions about how 55 Division can better serve the community.

“I always want and welcome good or bad feedback. I can assure that anyone who emails me will get a personal response,” he said. “I want the community to participate more.”

In 2015, Yuen said he’d also work on making 55 Division more representative of the community and city it serves.

One way he’s fulfilling this mandate is by bringing in more female as well as ethnically, culturally and racially diverse recruits.

“This neighbourhood is changing and I want to have 55 Division more reflective of the city we serve,” he said.

Born in Hong Kong, Yuen is the first Toronto Police Service’s superintendent of Chinese heritage. His family immigrated to Canada in 1975 when he was 11 years old settling in East York. Yuen went on to attend Scarborough’s Blessed Cardinal Newman Catholic Secondary School and initially pursued a degree in chemical engineering at McMaster University in Hamilton before leaving after two years to become a police officer. He is the first person in his family to work in policing.

When Yuen joined the force in 1987, he was only the fifth Chinese officer to join the Toronto Police Service.

Yuen said the key to making all of his hopes and dreams for 55 Division a reality is by building a strong team and a great work environment for his officers.

“This is not a job, it should be a place they enjoy coming to work,” he said. “The most important thing is that my officers enjoy coming to work and serving the community.”

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or most people looking for work, going up against a four- or five-person hiring committee is nerve-wracking enough.

Candidates for the top policing job in the city will have it a little tougher.

“It’s a citywide interview process,” said Michael Thompson, former Toronto Police Services Board vice-chair.

Thompson and Chair Alok Mukherjee developed the system for hiring the replacement for Toronto police Chief William Blair.

“It’s an open, transparent, fully accessible process that everyone’s involved with,” Thompson said. “The system and process we put in place allowed for internal/ external discussion to come up with the criterion we want.”

The first part of that process, stakeholder consultations, have already taken place.

The consultations looked to find answers to four questions: what are the top challenges faced by the new chief; what competencies will the chief need; what would those competencies mean from different perspectives; and what would they look like on an everyday basis. common themes In a report to the police services board Dec. 5, the consultants noted some common themes.

The chief needs to be visible and build relationship among stakeholder populations. Communityoriented policing is essential. The chief must recognize diversity.

Stakeholders also wanted a chief to bring innovative ideas, at the same time as he or she listened to community needs.

The Police Services Board will then use that information to come up with a short list.

Thompson said final applicants will face not only the hiring committee, but the general public.

“It’s a full engagement process and the public will be able to hear from them,” Thompson said. “It’s never happened before in the city. We felt that we wanted to see something open and transparent. I think that’s interesting and cool.”

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ith a new mayor already in office and a new police chief to be named in the spring, 2015 is guaranteed to be a year of change for Toronto.

Among the challenges for Mayor John Tory, who officially took office at the beginning of December, the hiring of a new chief to replace Bill Blair will be among the most critical.

The relationship between the Toronto Police Services Board and police officers is not a good one at the moment, with the police union upset at board chair Alok Mukherjee for his recent Facebook post regarding the number of blacks shot by police in the United States. Also, Blair is unhappy with the board for its position regarding a report on “carding” of community members in North York’s 31 Division.

Tory has made a good move toward repairing these relationships by taking a seat on the police board himself, something former mayor our view Rob Ford did not do.

Hopefully, trust can be rebuilt between police officers, board 2015 to see a members and, most importantly, new chief at the residents they serve and protect. the helm Key to that will be the selection of a new chief.

In today’s edition, we look at the selection process that will be used to hire Toronto’s next police chief.

It’s a much more public process than ever before, and more information can be found in our feature on page 3.

Also in today’s edition we spoke with 55 Division Supt. Peter Yuen, previously with 54 Division, to see what his priorities are for the coming year.

Reducing street crime and working with youth were among the main goals identified by many of the divisions. A visible police presence on the streets helps keep street crime at bay, and gets officers out in their community interacting with those who live and work there – especially youth.

It’s a good goal, but sometimes with community contact comes criticism.

The carding report in 31 Division raised concerns that young black members of the community were being unfairly singled out for negative attention by police.

There’s a fine line between having officers on the streets to deter crime and increase the sense of community safety while at the same time not appearing to target one group for undue attention. It will be an early and crucial test for Toronto’s new police chief to find that balance.

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De Baeremaeker’s Scarborough subway musings could re-open ongoing debate Glenn De Baeremaeker only had one thing to do.

When Mayor John Tory asked the Scarborough Centre councillor to be a deputy mayor, he spelled it out as clear as day: Keep the Scarborough subway plan on track. Make sure the thing gets built.

Don’t let it get mired down in bureaucratic malaise, or Metrolinx monkey business.

And if anyone on council gets any idea to bring the costly project back to council for another possible derailment...

Well, Glenn, you know what to do.

Those were De Baeremaeker’s marching orders. But as revealed in an interview with Metroland Media Toronto’s Mike Adler, De Baeremaeker has different ideas.

The three-stop subway extension, he said, needs a fourth stop. And he’s going

david nickle the city to make sure it gets one, right at Danforth Road and Eglinton Avenue.

De Baeremaeker says he’ll be circulating a letter to local politicians at all three levels of government requesting the additional stop, for their signature.

Then, it will be off to the TTC and Toronto Council, to get the approval to add at least $100-$150 million to the $3.56 billion project.

If the idea goes through and the engineering checks out, the additional station will certainly serve Scarborough commuters better.

But one can’t imagine Mayor Tory is pleased at the idea of opening a discussion now about how that line might serve Scarborough

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But one can’t imagine Mayor Tory is pleased at the idea of opening a discussion...

commuters better.

That might lead some councillors to hold up the $3.66 billion (minimum) four-stop Scarborough subway paid for in part by 30 years of property tax increases, against the $1.3 billion seven-stop light rail plan paid for entirely by the provincial government.

And that might lead to the one thing Tory asked De Baeremaeker to prevent: a re-opening of the Scarborough subway debate in the first year of his mandate.

For the sake of the city, that might be a healthy debate to have. When coun-

cil approved the subway extension in 2013, it was doing so amid unprecedented municipal turmoil thanks to the Ford drama, and when the matter came up in the mayor’s race, it was before an electorate seized of a need for stability above all else.

Now that the election is in the past and the city has emerged relatively stable, it might be prudent to reconsider the massive yet inadequate infrastructure project with its pocketbook-denting price tag.

But if you’re John Tory, it’s got to be embarrassing: to have that debate kicked off by the freelance tinkering of one’s trusted deputy mayor who’s trying to increase public spending on an already-too-rich deal that was supposed to be done.

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East-end brewery set to open in New Year JOANNA LAVOIE jlavoie@insidetoronto.com It won’t be long before craft beer’s a brewin’ in Leslieville.

After months of preparation and renovations, Left Field Brewery (LFB) is gearing up to produce its very first (test) batch of suds in the New Year.

The new baseball-themed craft brewery housed in a 100-year-old former brick factory at 36 Wagstaff Dr. will also include a retail store and a tap room where people can taste the different types of beer LFB produces.

Six-year Danforth East residents Mark and Mandie Murphy have been working non-stop for close to a year to transform a 6,000-squarefoot space into a their state-of-the art beer-making facility.

T h e e x t e n s i ve re n ova t i o n involved removing several walls, sandblasting the entire interior of the building to reveal the original red brick walls, wood ceiling and steel beams, upgrading and repouring the concrete floors and installing proper drains among other things.

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It’s been quite an adventure. We’re very fortunate the residents of Ivy Street are so accommodating...

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The cavernous space really started to look like a brew house after a shipment of beer-making equipment including three fermenters, a mash mixer, launter tun and a kettle/whirlpool arrived from Abbotsford, British Columbia in early November.

The three-vessel brewery also includes a 300-square-foot walk-in cooler as well as an area for canning, kegging and bottling.

“It’s great to see everything in place and connected,” Mandie said during a recent tour of the space.

“It’s been quite an adventure.

We’re very fortunate the residents of Ivy Street are so accommodating with lots of trucks and equipment in the laneway.”

Mark, who graduated from the very first class of Niagara College’s

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Mark and Mandie Murphy at the soon-to-open Left Field Brewery. The pair hope to complete construction and brew their first (test) batch of beer early in the New Year.

brew master program, is thrilled to see his hard work come to fruition.

“Now, it’s here. It’s crazy. … Our dream is finally coming true.” he smiled.

“There’s nothing like this in the east end. We’re looking forward

to working and playing close to home.”

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INTERVIEW: Mayor Tory an ‘impatient agent of change’ DAVID NICKLE dnickle@insidetoronto.com It’s been a little over two weeks since John Tory became mayor as he sits down for his year-end interview, and he’s impatient.

Not in a bad way, or so he insists. Having spent the past 11 years in a not-alwaysreciprocated courtship with Toronto voters, the 60-yearold Tory says he’s hoping to make impatience into a primary virtue of his mayoralty over the next four years.

“I see myself as an impatient agent of change, who isn’t bound by the fact that it’s always taken six months to get something done around here,” Tory said.

“I just accept the fact that it doesn’t necessarily have to be the case. I think that, yes, it will really help to have someone who has come in from outside.”

Tory is capping off what seems like a running start as amalgamated Toronto’s fourth mayor. Since taking office, he’s done the usual

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things a mayor does: setting up an executive committee on council and staffing his office, and getting on with his agenda and convincing council to get behind SmartTrack, one of the most prominent pieces of his campaign, at the same time announcing an ambitious plan to ease gridlock in the downtown core.

But it is not only his own campaign promises he is trying to enact.

Tory has had a notable beginning, picking elements of his opponents’ campaigns that make sense. Early on, he announced he would be trying to improve Toronto Transit Commission bus service – and just two days after the interview, he has made it clear that he wants private construction to minimize road closures. Both ideas are very near to his opponent Olivia Chow’s platform – which he criticized at the time – and Tory hasn’t been shy about acknowledging that.

“I would like it to be the

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Mayor John Tory sits in his office in late December.

hallmark of how I operate,” Tory said. “The fact is I’ve said all the way along and I really want to stick to this: you try to make decisions based on the facts and the evidence.”

Tory said he was struck, following his briefing with TTC Chair Andy Byford, that the reduction in loading standards from the 2011 budget had led to intolerable crowding, particularly for transit users in the farther-flung parts of Toronto.

Those neighbourhoods, not coincidentally Tory believes, were also where former councillor Doug Ford maintained dramatic support: the stalwarts of Ford Nation.

Tory said he’s hoping to achieve results in the next few years that will woo those constituents who’ve voted for the Fords’ red-meat politics away from what he believes to be an alienation borne of isolation.

As he met with councillors during the transition of power, Tory asked the same question again and again: what can be done to bring Toronto together?

“It’s not about politics, it’s not about the Fords, it’s about what causes people to feel alienated about the city,” he said.

As to what needs to be delivered through 2015, the impatient mayor lays out the following: “I’d like to say most of all that people will have noticed that the environment here is a more professional, practical, and stable environment,” he said.

“It is infinitely more likely that you’ll get some results because you’re actually operating a stable productive professional environment with a mayor who’s a professional leader.

“I’d like them to see not that traffic has disappeared in the city, but a lot of things that are described as common sense are getting done,” Tory said.

“I’d like to say that people will

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And he said he wants councillors, many of whom have spent four years getting the cold shoulder from the previous mayor, to be a part of it.

“A lot of (councillors) when they come in here it’s for the first time or the second time, even if they’ve been here a while,” Tory said.

“Well I’m going to change that. They’re not going to say that after they’ve been here the eighth time. I’m not a Pollyanna about this – I know there are going to be difficult days, and days that I’m not getting done what I want to get done easily. But you know, you can make it way better than what it was.”

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Fifty-five division police have apprehended a man wanted in connection with a number of recent thefts of parcels from the front porches of homes in the city’s east end.

Robert Fitzgerald, 67, was arrested the evening of Wednesday, Dec. 24, after a neighbour, who is aware of the recent mail-theft situation, approached a man who allegedly went on a porch and took a package.

Police were called and Fitzgerald was arrested a short time later near Victoria Park Avenue and Gerrard Street.

As a result, the accused is now prohibited from being in the Beach area.

Police from 55 Division believe there may be more suspects and the investigation is ongoing.

In recent weeks, officers from 55 Division have been investigating several incidents involving the removal of packages left on porches by couriers.

Investigators believe the suspects may follow the courier trucks and in some cases may even dress like a delivery person.

Anyone with information is asked to contact police at 416-808-7400, Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-222-TIPS (8477), online at www.222tips. co, or text TOR and your message to CRIMES (274637). Tips can also be left on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/ TorontoPolice. There’s also a free Crime Stoppers Mobile App on iTunes, Google Play or Blackberry App World.

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The Downtown Toronto Hells Angels Motorcycle Club on Eastern Avenue will not be returning to the hands of the infamous biker gang.

In late November, the Supreme Court of Canada rejected an appeal by Old Navy Property Corporation, which owns the building, to

retain 498 Eastern Ave., just east of Logan Avenue.

Seized by the Crown in April 2007 following a series of mass arrests, the converted and fortified former house was raided in connection with an 18-month-long undercover operation that focused on the organization’s former sergeant-at-arms, David Atwell. Also known as Shakey Dave, Atwell is now in a witness protection program as he had served as a police informant.

In 2012, the Crown was successful in its application to obtain a forfeiture order for the property.

The Ontario Superior Court of Justice based its decision on the determination that the clubhouse “facilitated the networking and discussions necessary for committing certain trafficking offenses under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act.”

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Celebrating our community in photos, from events throughout the year.

1. Roy Glazer, 7, centre, takes a

tumble during a potato sack race during 60th anniversary celebration events at Ted Reeve Arena in October.

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Photo/JOSEPH HOWARTH

2. Olivia Gissing is all made

up for the 5K event during ‘A Midsummer Night’s Run’ in the Port Lands in August.

The run was held to benefit the Hospital for Sick Children.

Photo/EDUARDO LIMA

3. Zjolie Jalsevac, 10, left, and

Charlotte MacNeil, 13, scream as skeletons and monsters appear inside the haunted house at the Jimmie Simpson Recreation Centre during Riverside IGNITE 2015 Walkfest events.

Photo/NANCY PAIVA

3 4. Area residents gather in Glen Stewart park for the annual Carolling in the Park event.

Photo/WILLIAM MEIJER

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5. Toronto Royals’ Lucas Allen,

left, and Ted Reeve Thunder netminder Conall Helverson keep their eyes on the puck during Toronto Aces Tournament bantam ‘A’ hockey action at Canlan Ice Sports in September. The Thunder went on to win the game 4-2.

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1. Canada Day ends with a bang as fireworks light up the skies over Ashbridges Bay Park.

Photo/TOM HICKEN

2. Cooper makes his choice of the 1

free dog biscuits during Woofstock at Woodbine Park back in May.

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3. A youngster gets a closer look at

the new statue of Jeffery Baldwin during the work’s unveiling ceremony held in October at Greenwood Park.

Photo/JOSEPH HOWARTH

5. Yagnesh Brahmbhatt is covered 4

in coloured pigment during the celebration of the Hindu spring festival of Holi, the Festival of Colours, in April in Woodbine Beach Park.

Photo/TOM HICKEN

5. A young artist takes to the streets during ArtFest in July.

Staff photo/BRIAN B. BETTENCOURT

6. Cast members from Cirque Du

Soliel’s latest production, KURIOS, perform during a dress rehearsal A u g . 2 7 u n d e r t h e t r o u p e ’s Commissioners Street Big Top. Photos/TOM HICKEN

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Further, she also led WG in its role in the Don Valley/ Greenwood Health Link, the replication of Homeward Bound in other communities across Ontario and the organization’s successful integration with Community Care East York. Babcock also worked closely with the City of Toronto to lead the rehousing process for those who were evicted from Tent City in 2002. “Having worked with Anne for 36 years, I know her proven

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Babcock also serves as a volunteer board member with partnership with theInToronto Neighbourhood

Centres, the International Federation of Settlement and Neighbourhood Services and previously served on the board of the Ontario NonProfit Housing Association, Riverdale Community Development Corporation and Access Loan Fund. She was also the longtime chair of United Way of Greater Toronto’s Citizens Review Panel for Children and Youth.

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St. John’s also runs an organic, artisan bakery at 153 Broadview Av e. a n d a thrift shop at 2155 Danforth Ave. at Woodbine Avenue. Both of these enterpr ises provide work experience as well as dignity to homeless individuals or those on social assistance.

To take part in the contest, which runs until Friday, Jan. 16, visit the St. John’s Mission (www. facebook.com/stjcm) and

St. John’s Bakery (www. facebook.com/stjbakery) pages on facebook, click ‘like’ on the Hope is On The Rise contest post to indicate you’ve read the rules and regulations, and leave a positive comment on at least one page.

The prize draw is set to take place Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2015 at 10 a.m.

HAIR OF THE DOG THURSDAY ◗(RUN)

The 35th annual Hair of the Dog Run is set to take place Thursday at the Balmy Beach Club.

Those interested in taking part can still sign up in person at the Balmy Beach Club, at the foot of Beech Avenue.

Registration, which costs $30 for adults ($25 in advance), $10 for children and $60 for a family with two adults plus their children under 19, can also be done in person starting at 10:30 a.m. on the day of the event.

Participants will also receive a hot lunch and prizes.

The event, which starts at the Balmy Beach Club, begins at 11:30 a.m. for those taking part in the three-kilometre walk.

Those doing the ninekilometre run start at noon. Proceeds from the event benefit the club’s young athletes and programs for youth.

V isit www.balmybeachcanoe.com for more details.

BIG FAT XMAS GIVING BACK: Richard Fogerty, left, and Rod Turner enjoy the Big Fat Xmas Dinner hosted Saturday at the Royal Canadian Legion Baron Byng Beaches Branch 1/42.

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PROPAGANDA ◗SHAMELESS

A screening of the docum e n t a r y Sh a m e l e s s Propaganda by filmmaker Robert Lower is set to take place Tuesday, Jan. 6 at the Gerrard Ashdale Library, 1432 Gerrard St. E., just west of Coxwell Avenue.

Presented by the NFB Film Club, the film will be shown from 6:30 to 8 p.m.

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