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About 800 Grade 6 students from the West Region’s 10 family of schools flocked to the stadium Feb. 18 to 20 for a hands-on learning experience that explored space science and STEM (science, technology, engineering and math).

The days are organized by the Canadian Space Resource Centre, the TDSB’s space education hub headquartered at Marc Garneau Collegiate Institute in North York.

Director Steve Lang stressed the importance of STEM education and giving kids the opportunity to experience space education outside of the classroom.

“STEM is important because technology is a part of everything we do,” he said. “We need students to be knowledgeable in those areas so we want to get them interested at a younger age. It’s a fun and interesting way to introduce them to STEM.” Each day students visited and >>>STEM, page 9

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Pre-print errors wSeveral in paper stories in the Feb.

19 edition of the Beach Mirror included irregular symbols and letters throughout the copy.

The errors were due to a technical pre-print issue. The Mirror regrets the occurrence.

Applegrove cider wApplegrove social and dance Community

Complex, at 60 Woodfield Rd., is inviting the community to its Winter Cider Social and Family Dance on Saturday from 2 to 4 p.m.

Admission is a suggested donation of $2 per person. Babes in arms are free. Proceeds will support Applegrove services in Leslieville.

Volunteers are needed to help with this event from 12:30 to 4:30 p.m.

Contact Louise or May at 416-461-8143 to help out. for Glen wThedance Rhodes Food bank Neighbourhood

Dance Friday from 7 p.m. to midnight at the Baron Byng Royal Canadian Legion Branch 1/42, 243 Coxwell Ave., helps the Glen Rhodes Food bank.

Presented by Neighbourhood Unitarian Universalist Congregation the party includes games for all ages, dance lessons for all abilities from 7:30 to 8:15 p.m. and a live DJ. Admission is $5 per person or $10 per family.

Call 416-763-5635.

Black History at wWoodGreen woodgreen Community

Services is hosting its first community-hosted Black History Month event Friday from noon to 3 p.m. at Ralph Thornton Centre, 765 Queen St. E. The celebration includes food, performances and a discussion.

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at Beaches Presbyterian Church, 65 Glen Manor Dr., from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The event will feature artists Peter Owen Goodale, Tineka Jorritsma and Carolyn Showler-Lee. Call 416-699-5871 for more information.

Orpheus Choir at wBeach Beach United United Church

welcomes the 60-voice Orpheus Choir Sunday at 3 p.m. at 140 Wineva Ave. During the concert, Beach resident Edward Moroney will also play solo selections on the c h u rc h’s Gu i l b a u l t Thérien organ.

Tickets, which can be purchased at the door or in advance online at http://goo.gl/zKrSWc, cost $25 for adults, $10 for children under 10.

Visit http://beachunitedchurch.com/ beach-united-church/ orpheus-choir for more details.

Hill holds wT hBeach general meeting e Beach Hill

Neighbourhood Association (BNHA) hosts its fourth annual general meeting Tuesday from 7:30 to 9 p.m. at the Naval Club of Toronto, 1910 Gerrard St. E., The theme is ‘Five for Beach Hill’, where people are invited to bring their ideas/projects/initiatives to share.

Visit www.beachhill. org or email bhnacontact@gmail.com for more information. selling parent’s wSelling home session our Parents’

Homes, a free information session, takes place Tuesday at 7 p.m. at Community Centre 55, 97 Main St. Contact Desmond Brown at 416-568-1242 or email des@desmondbrown.ca to save your spot.

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of Toronto’s Planning Division are hosting public consultations on the Relief Line Project

Assessment: Tuesday, from 7 to 9 p.m. at Calvary Church, 746 Pape Ave.; Thursday, March 5 from 7 to 9 p.m. at Riverdale Collegiate, 1094 Gerrard St. E. E m a i l re l i e f l i n e @ toronto.ca. Visit www. reliefline.ca to view this study.

Paralia brings wToronto together artists artists from

around the world are invited to attend Stories Untold, where two experienced artists tell their stories and challenges and introduce their works Wednesday, March 4, at Children’s Peace Theatre, 305 Dawes Rd., from 3 to 5 p.m.

There is a maximum of 20 attendees.

Email info@eastendarts.ca for details or to register. fair wTheNewcomers March 7 Newcomers Canada

Fair is set for Saturday, March 7 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 222 Bremner Blvd., from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Admission is $10 at the door or free with online registration. Visit www. newcomerscanada.ca for annual wTheTime Bowmore Fair organizers of the

second annual Bowmore “Make It!” fair have put a call out for all craft geeks and DIY makers to take part in their Saturday, March 28 event at Bowmore Road Junior and Senior Public School, 80 Bowmore Rd., from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Email bowmoremakeitfair@gmail.com for details. vacancies at wcentre ralph thornton

The Ralph Thornton Centre (RTC) is seeks to fill two vacancies on its board of management.

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Cold west-end adventure for east-end pooch JOANNA LAVOIE jlavoie@insidetoronto.com Bear, a rescue dog from Mexico who now calls the Beach home, won’t soon forget her first winter in Canada.

The honey-coloured pooch had quite the adventure recently after bolting from the door of her “grandparents’” central Etobicoke home Saturday, Feb. 14 around 7 p.m.

Bear was staying with Kathy Soderlind’s parents, who live near Royal York Road and Eglinton Avenue, for the long weekend while the family was out of town on a ski trip.

“My grandparents looked for hours, but they couldn’t find Bear,” said 15-year-old Svea Soderlind, a Grade 9 student at Malvern Collegiate Institute.

“It was devastating.”

After hearing about their missing dog, the family – which has lived near Kingston Road and Woodbine Avenue for 12 years – cut their trip short to search for their lost family member.

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Left, Kathy Soderlind gives her dog, Bear, a hug. Bear, the “meximutt”, was a long way from his Beach home after bolting from Soderlind’s parents’ house in Etobicoke. He spent seven days in the cold.

Determined to do their part to help find the pooch, Whitby residents Christa and Kim Jefferson along with Tricia Cooper set up a “Help find Bear” facebook page.

The Soderlinds have two adopted dogs from Mexico: Della, who was fostered by the Jeffersons, and

Bear.

Cooper, who lives in Mexico, volunteered at the shelter both Della and Bear, “the meximutts”, were from.

Within a week, nearly 900 people joined the group to help find Bear.

Dozens of others came out to help with the search and put up posters.

“It was remarkable how many people came and just wanted to help out. People came from all over Toronto and the GTA to search for Bear,” said Svea, who volunteers for a few animal rescue groups.

For seven days, Bear explored the wilds of Etobicoke in sub-zero temps.

On Friday, Feb. 20, an area resident called in to report a sighting of a dirty and very cold-looking dog at Alex Marchetti Park near Royal York and Dixon roads. The park is about two kilometres west of where Bear escaped.

Kathy Soderlind rushed over to the park and quietly waited for Bear to emerge from the brush.

Like a scene out of a movie, the exhausted and emaciated dog hobbled toward her owner, laid her head on her chest and started whimpering and giving her kisses.

“It’s amazing how she survived,” Svea said Monday evening.

After reuniting with her family,

Bear was assessed at a vet and had blood work and X-rays done.

Both came back normal. The fourlegged adventurer wasn’t even dehydrated.

Bear did lose about eight pounds as a result of the ordeal.

The skin on her paws is also quite damaged as a result of frostbit and she has a few spots on her face that are frostbitten.

“Otherwise she’s in great shape,” Svea said.

“I can’t believe Bear survived seven days in the cold.”

The Soderlinds posted a message on the Help find Bear facebook page expressing their gratitude to all who helped locate their beloved pet.

“Thanks to everyone one for all you did. If it wasn’t for all of you we would NOT have gotten our sweet Bear home. It’s truly a miracle and she is a true survivor,” the family wrote.

“Thank you all so, so much for your support and love.”

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Still progress to be made on gender equity W

ith International Women’s Day on March 8, we’re looking at what it means to be female, the relationships between men and women in the workplace and Canadian society and some of the challenges women are facing and how they differ from a century ago.

The history of International Women’s Day goes back to New York City in 1908 when women marched for shorter working hours, better pay and the right to vote.

While it may seem hard to believe today, there was a time in both the United States and Canada when the right to vote did not extend to women. It wasn’t until 1919 in Canada that women were given that right. In the United States it was 1920, though some states had allowed women to vote going as far back as the late 1800s.

All of which should remind our view us that the issue of women’s rights is still a part of recent Despite gains, history and ongoing news.

Locally, in today’s papers women’s rights we talk with Toronto District remain an issue School Board student equity advisor and body image consultant Jill Andrew on the issues women and girls face when it comes to self-esteem and equity.

Andrews said an event such as International Women’s Day is a good time to remember that women need to not simply be satisfied that they are at the table when it comes to making decisions in politics, business and their personal lives. “We need to be the people forming the table and finding people to push our ideas forward.”

Lorna Marsden, a former president and vicechancellor of York University, agrees there is still work to be done even in a society that appears equitable and tolerant such as ours. “We have made tremendous gains, but we don’t have equal pay, we are still lacking in representation of women in decision-making positions such as business and cultural,” she pointed out.

We hope the stories in today’s paper of local, inspiring women serve to get both women and men thinking more about the issue of gender equality and what needs to be done next.

Those looking for more information on International Women’s Day events in Toronto, wishing to see our stories with local women of influence, or to add to the conversation with their comments, are invited to visit us online at www.insidetoronto.com

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Last-minute budget cuts creating nasty little mess The budget committee had been doing so well under the circumstances.

It s n e w c h a i r, G a r y Crawford, had run pleasant and accommodating meetings, absent any of the chiding nastiness and bladder-challenging standoffs with deputations.

There had been some trouble with the provincial government, and some really less-than-ideal contortions by the city’s finance department.

But it had been going so well, until the very last moments of its deliberations last week.

That was when budget committee member Michelle Berardinetti brought up some lastminute, and on the face of it perplexing, amendments.

Berardinetti moved to cut some planned staffing enhancements – from two of the city’s accountability offices, the ombudsman and the integrity commissioner, and also from the complement of planning

david nickle the city staff whose duties included helping the city deal with its backlog of heritage conservation districts.

The motions were a surprise to everyone watching and at least one of the committee members – Shelley Carroll.

She called the planning cuts in particular “a disaster.”

The eight additional planners no longer in the budget would have let the city work on a more aggressive schedule of assessing and establishing heritage conservation districts.

Maybe that didn’t seem like such a disaster on Friday when the motion passed. But on Tuesday, heritage advocates begged to differ.

Currently the city has a backlog of 16 neighbourhoods that are candidates for preservation of their

heritage elements, and there are likely more that haven’t been flagged.

If the city doesn’t get going on that, then buildings and elements that reflect Toronto’s history will continue to erode – and eventually, vanish.

As Richard Longley, president of Architectural Conservancy Ontario, told the planning and growth management committee: “I see that proposal at budget committee as a kind of suicide note. I was astonished that heritage preservation, which contributes so much to so many of the values that make Toronto a city, would be cut.”

Advocates for the ombudsman and integrity commissioner have not yet had an opportunity to speak publicly – so let me take a crack at it.

Both of those offices represent crucially important checks against bureaucratic and political incompetence and malfeasance.

They were established in

legislation in response to political and administrative corruption unearthed in the Bellamy inquiry more than a decade ago.

Both offices investigated and shed light on improprieties at the last council and at a staff level that offered real consequences and remedies.

Some of those investigations had serious consequences indeed: Giorgio Mammoliti was suspended without pay for taking improper donations; former mayor Rob Ford was nearly tossed from office.

Though those cuts were in the interest of “fiscal responsibility,” the method of their delivery indicates something not quite so pure.

It is indeed a nasty little mess the city’s executive committee and council will either have to wear, or clean up.

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Riverdale photographer focuses on urban waterways JOANNA LAVOIE jlavoie@insidetoronto.com Longtime Riverdale resident Philip Jessup is successfully marrying his passion for the environment with his love for photography.

Images from his latest exhibit, LAND, which features a series of 10 contrasting photographs of waterways in Toronto’s ravines, Beijing’s canals and London’s Lea River, are currently on display at Dylan Ellis Gallery, 1840 Danforth Ave. until Sunday, March 1.

Jessup started working on his waterways project in 2003 when he did a survey of the City of Toronto’s ravines. At that time, he was working as the executive director of the Toronto Atmospheric Fund.

A World Bank consultant who holds a master’s degree in international politics and economics from the John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Jessup added to the project when he had the opportunity to travel to London, U.K. A previous job also brought him to China’s Bahe River Canal.

“It just happened my hotel was right on the canal,” he said. “The three-city comparison made a lot of

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A melt pool on Pond Inlet in northern Baffin Island.

sense and it also got me interested in looking at how different cities treat their waterways. … Waterways are in a way a mirror of local cultures, values and the economy.”

When discussing similarities, Jessup said both Toronto and Beijing use engineered grading to

control waterflow by gravity, while both Toronto and London have straightened their rivers.

Jessup said the most notable difference between the three cities is the kind of engineering materials used to control flooding.

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“In Toronto, we do it the cheapest way, but in London they put a lot more value on waterways. It reflects the values and the culture,” he said.

Jessup said Beijing is an entirely different scenario as China spent billions refurbishing its urban waterway for the Olympics.

Regardless of our approach to our waterways, Jessup said Toronto is “extremely fortunate” to have five watersheds and must commit to making them accessible for all.

Jessup is working on a second ongoing photography project surveying and recording the impacts of global warming on wilderness landscapes.

More than two dozen photographs from his “Endangered Landscape” project will be showcased during the upcoming CONTACT Photography.

The exhibit opens May 14 at Dylan Ellis Gallery. Visit www. jessup.ca

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JOANNA LAVOIE jlavoie@insidetoronto.com Six years of hard work have come to fruition for Beach resident Trevor Martin.

Martin is the co-adaptor of Trey Parker’s Cannibal!

The Musical, which is being staged until March 8 at the Panasonic Theatre. He’s also acting in the show portraying the role of Shannon Bell, one of the miners who follows lead character Alferd Packer into the Colorado mountains to find gold.

“They get lost and things escalate from there,” Martin said.

Trey Parker’s Cannibal! The Musical follows five miners from Utah who embark on a treacherous journey to stake their claim on land in the Colorado Territory. Led by their reluctant guide Packer, the group loses their way in the Rocky Mountains. When they’re found days later Packer is arrested for cannibalism.

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“It’s actually a very tragic story we made into a musical and also a comedy,” said Martin, who got into acting when he moved to California’s Napa Valley area with his family when he was 18 and started doing Shakespeare festivals and taking acting classes. Around 2000, Martin returned to Canada studied drama at the University of Waterloo.

He moved to Toronto the following year and has been acting – and recently writing

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Martin, who had a supporting role in Evil Dead, The Musical, connected with that show’s writer and director Christopher Bond when they both worked on Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding.

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The original show was staged for a number of years and eventually evolved into a large-scale production by executive producer Jason McHugh, who has been working closely with Martin and Bond on their recent re-adaptation. “He’s been involved in the process to make sure we’re sticking to the true vision,”

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The sophisticated and down-to-earth bistro turns 7 this year and Melanie and her team want to turn up by celebrating the best way they know how. Food and wine!

Spring Fling is the 7-day event at Melanie’s Bistro and will be an event that, you guessed it, has 7 specially chosen dinners on their price fixed menu. Each day will feature a hidden menu item that will bring back old favourites.

“We want to thank the community for being such a great support for this local business,”

Melanie said. “And to celebrate our birthday.”

Along with the celebratory dinners and hidden menu items, the bistro will be offering up a draw at the end of each night that will give customers a chance to win gift cards to other favourite local businesses that they and the neighbourhood are very fond of.

The event starts on Sat., Feb. 28 and will run through to Sat., March 7 and the dinners start at 5. For more information on Melanie’s Bistro go to www.melaniesbistro.ca or call 416-422-1870. Prix fixe 3 course dinner Tues., Wed., Thurs., and Sun., for $28 and Fri. and Sat., for $34.

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Michael Prue Appreciation Night WHEN: 6 to 9 p.m. WHERE: Palace Restaurant, 722 Pape Ave. COST: Free Former councilllor, mayor, and MPP for East York, Michael Prue, will be honoured for his 25 years of service to the community at 7:30 p.m. Organizers ask residents to contribute to the Michael Prue Art Award to establish a fund to

purchase art from local artists to add to the East York Foundation’s collection.

Cheques should be made out to the East York Foundation and can be dropped off the night of the event, or mailed to 50 Merritt Rd. East York, M4B 3K6. Income tax receipts will be issued.

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Senior support during the cold winter season Caring for loved ones can be harder in the winter months but there are steps to take to ensure they’re not left out in the cold The past winters have been particularly challenging with temperatures plunging well below normal ranges. With the “Polar Vortex” of 2013 and many extreme cold weather alerts already this season, winter can pose difficulties for even the most hardy of spirits. For the elderly, snow and ice can not only present a challenge, but can be life threatening, as a slip or fall for a senior can result in serious injuries, or worse.

During the winter season, it’s especially important to remember those who are vulnerable and require support with their day-to-day lives.

What may be considered simple tasks or errands for many of us can take on substantial effort for those who are elderly and physically challenged. For this reason, there are a number of things that should be done to assure that those in need receive the required support to get them through the cold winter months. The Toronto Central Community Care Access Cen-

tre (CCAC) offers a variety of supports and services for the elderly. Following are some simple suggestions from the CCAC on how you can help a senior friend, neighbor or loved one during the cold winter months.

1) Check-Up – The cold weather often brings on challenges that don’t occur during the summer.

From frozen pipes to icy walkways, winter can present considerable challenges for seniors. Make sure to check on elderly neighbours or family members regularly to assure that they’re okay.

2) Offer Assistance - Shoveling snow is a difficult task for many seniors, and it’s often recommended that the elderly refrain from this activity. For this reason, it’s helpful to offer assistance to seniors in need by clearing paths and driveways of ice, and salting immediately after a snowfall. This will limit the possibility of a slip or fall that could re-

sult in serious injuries for an older person.

3) Provide Transportation - If you’re able, provide transportation to a senior in need to and from appointments or errands wherever possible. What may seem like a short distance to many of us can be a considerable hurdle for an older person.

4) Lend a Helping Hand – Literally. Many seniors have difficulty walking and some may require the use of walkers or a cane. Where needed, offer your hand or shoulder to lean on to make their journey easier.

5) Be There – Sometimes a simple phone call or quick visit just to make sure that your friend, neighbor or loved one is okay can make a world of difference.

For more information about support for seniors, contact the Toronto Central Community Care Access Centre (CCAC) at (416) 506-9888 or visit www.healthcareathome.ca

WHEN: 2 to 4 p.m. WHERE: Applegrove Community Complex, 60 Woodfield Rd. CONTACT: 416-461-8143 COST: Free Admission is by donation ($2 per person suggested) with babies in arms free. DJs, dancing, treats and more, plus meet the Ice Queen and her Mountain Climbing Sister. Proceeds will support Applegrove’s programs for families with young children. Call Applegrove at 416-461-8143.

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Out All Night - Dance & Silent Action WHEN: 8 p.m. WHERE: Ted Reeve Arena, 175 Main St. CONTACT: stjohnschoolCSAC@gmail. com COST: Free Dance and silent auction fundraiser in support of St. John’s school. Tickets can be purchased by emailing stjohnschoolCSAC@ gmail.com. Many great silent auction items, including Leafs tickets.

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A Score for Women’s Voices WHEN: 6:30 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Gerrard/Ashdale Library, 1432 Gerrard St. E. CONTACT: 416393-7717, ashdale.events@ gmail.com COST: Free Between March and October of 2000, millions of women from 161 countries took to the streets to denounce poverty and violence against women. Director Sophie Bissonnette invited five filmmakers to film the marches as well as one innovative project. The result is a fast paced hour and half that feels a little like a roller coaster ride from around the world.

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Marketing Your Fiction Book WHEN: 7 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Beaches Library, 2161 Queen St. E. CONTACT: Sharon A. Crawford, words@samcraw.com COST: Free Join Sharon A. Crawford, author of the Beyond mystery series, and Shane Joseph from Blue Denim Press for a lively presentation about marketing your fiction book. Crawford will discuss how the synchronicity of series characters and plot affects book marketing, while Shane will outline recent publishing innovations.

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Digital Photography Basics Explained: Using your DSLR camera WHEN: 6:30 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Beaches Library, 2161 Queen St. E. CONTACT: 416-393-7703 COST: Free Professional photographer Michael G. O’Brien unravels the mysteries and simplifies the key concepts of digital photography helping those who have a DSLR camera to use it more effectively.

ongoing Book Club Meet with the Jones Book Club - Third Thursday of every month at Jones Library, 118 Jones Ave. Call Teresa at 416-393-7715 to reserve. Suitable for adults or seniors.

Complimentary Beach Balance Class for Seniors Complimentary balance classes for seniors focussing on balance, coordination, strength, flexibility and posture. Facilitated by an experienced instructor. It

Eastview Community Centre celebrates Black History Month Music and dance: Above, guitarist Kunle performs at Eastview Neighbourhood Community Centre during Celebrating Unity. the 20th annual Black History Month celebration. Right, Faith Buchanan, left, and Aryanna Silvera perform a dance at the celebration.

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runs from 9:15 to 10:15 a.m. at Beach United Church, 140 Wineva Ave. Call Eric Daw at 416-450-0892. First workout is complimentary.

Joy of Writing Joy of Writing is a weekly meeting for folks who like to write and share what they write. All writers welcome to meet from 7 to 9 p.m. at Ralph Thornton Centre, 765 Queen St. E. Contact Jacob Allderdice at allderdice@ gmail.com Quilting Club Jones Library’s Quilting Club meets every Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. at 118 Jones Ave. Work on quilts together to donate to charities. Contact Cathy at 416393-7715.

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STEM subjects worth the effort, students learn >>>from page 1 participated in various activities involving astronomy and human exploration.

The activities began after a keynote from Elliot Coleshill, a professor at Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology with more than 15 years experience working in the space industry. Major points of his keynote were the launch of Orion, NASA’s Apollo-like capsule meant to send astronauts to Mars, and demonstrating to students exactly how a rocket launch happens.

“What I try to do with my presentation is to drive the enthusiasm,” Coleshill said.

“I want to get them interested and push them into a STEM career path.”

Research shows a decline of students going into STEMrelated fields, Coleshill said.

Activities for the day ranged from teaching children about planets to experiments demonstrating conditions in space.

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Students simulate working in outer space during Air and Space Days activities at Monarch Park Stadium Thursday.

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A l m o s t e ve r y a s p e c t involved in space science – robotics, human exploration and astronomy – were covered throughout the three-day event.

There are three more Air and Space Days scheduled for April this year; two at Monarch Park Stadium and one Lakeshore Collegiate Institute in Etobicoke.

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“Math and science require a bit more effort,” Lang said.

“We’re so used to instant gratification so we have to get our students to know that it’s worth the extra bit of effort to learn them.”

TDSB’s space days began 10 years ago when Lang first thought of the idea. It has grown from a one-day event to several days throughout the year. Lang said the STEM focus is critical to maintain Canada’s role in developing technologies like the Canadarm, a series of robotic arms attached to the International Space Station, designed and built

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Vanderherberg is the recipient of a Vital People grant from the Toronto Foundation.

Vanderherberg also heads up WoodGreen’s volunteer services unit overseeing 800 volunteers involved in more than 25 programs.

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Vanderherberg, who has helped reduce evictions and debt levels as well as increase financial stability for lowincome residents, will be using his grant to take courses as part of the Certificate of Entrepreneurship led by MaRS and U of T. H e’ l l a l s o t r a v e l t o London, England, to connect with two International Federation of Settlements and Neighbourhood Centres partner organizations to understand the operations of different social enterprise models and the impact of the Buy Social campaign.

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efore Scarborough native Jill Andrew became known for giving empowering speeches to young women about selfesteem and before she provoked deep conservations about female body image and female representation in the media, she was just Jill: a curvy woman with her own set of insecurities and hardships she had to overcome.

“As a child I was sexually abused. I was a victim and a survivor of that,” she said.

“One of the first things that I had to get over is that I had done nothing wrong. That’s a huge part of it. It doesn’t matter what poster you read or what PSA (public service announcement) comes on, you oftentimes sit with this feeling of what did I do? Was it the way I was dressed? What did I say to egg the person on or entice them?”

After years of therapy and support Andrew accepted that what happened wasn’t her fault.

“Your body is not to blame, your person is not to blame and that these are bigger issues than an individual thing. These are systems that we’re living with where men predominantly feel as though they have ownership Longtime Beach resident Lia Grimanis doesn’t take her successes for granted.

She left home as a teen, dropped out of high school and ended up homeless.

“I went through various types of homelessness and I had to stop high school. It was tough to juggle school because I wanted to start working,” Grimanis said.

“I didn’t want to always be struggling and I wanted to show others I could succeed despite my circumstances.”

over women’s bodies,” she explained.

“Looking back over my years now, I started to realize I had to take ownership of me and that’s all I can take ownership for; not somebody else’s wrongdoings because that’s how we grow.”

It’s that same self-ownership Andrew lectures about in her keynote speeches at conferences on university campuses across Toronto.

Her acceptance of what happened to her and her own body image led her to become founder of the Body Confidence Canada Awards, the Curvy Catwalk Fashion Fundraiser and co-founder of FatinTheCity.com, a plus-size fashion “fatshion” blog. She also doubles as a body image consultant and works for the Toronto District School Board as a student equity program advisor.

There she helps plan conferences, events, workshops and opportunities for children to learn and connect with each other and also help shift their perception of gender roles, what women are capable of achieving and self-esteem.

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us push our ideas forward. A lot of the work that I try to do is around that,” Andrew told The Mirror.

During her speeches, Andrew focuses on the long-term negative effects on women and girls as they begin to police their bodies.

Self-policing, according to Andrew, happens more often than women think; it’s in the form of not going out past a certain time because you could get hurt or not wearing spaghetti straps because you don’t want to be labelled a slut.

This follows girls into adulthood, she said, explaining some women mute their opinions to avoid being called “bitch in the boardroom” by the boys club.

“It’s all of this self-policing

we do that doesn’t pay attention to the larger systemic issues going on that create the environment where women and girls feel like they have to censor themselves, with what they wear or their ideas,” Andrew said. “(If it continues) you start to chip away at your own selfesteem and your own worth and your own knowledge and it happens to women all the time.”

Andrew believes it’s time we look at how these images affect a woman financially as well as emotionally and physically.

“The body image conversation needs to go deeper, we need to encourage women and girls to think about how a negative self-concept or negative self-worth might

impact your salary. We know that women are missing statistically from board of directors, women are missing from politics,” she said.

However, the future isn’t bleak. Andrew said awareness is growing of manipulation tactics used when it comes to perceptions of feminine and masculine ideals. And with that awareness, younger people tend to be more vigilant and thus quicker to point out the manipulations online.

“I got to tell you they’re more receptive now. I feel like this generation is a frustrated generation. I feel they’re a generation that wants things to be better and are willing to do the work and have the conversations and are willing to do a little more than maybe I did.”

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Wi t h t h a t in mind, she started applying for jobs those with Masters of Business Administration degrees would qualify for.

In 1999, she landed a position in tech sales and started climbing the corporate ladder.

Throughout it all, Grimanis made it her mission to give back to other women in need.

“I always wanted to use my success to help other

women rebuild their lives,” said Grimanis, who in 2006 founded Up with Women, a non-profit organization dedicated to bridging the gap from homelessness and deep poverty to economic and social empowerment for women and girls in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area.

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“We help women who have experienced career breaks rebuild their lives,” said Grimanis, who two years ago left the corporate world to run her charitable organization full time.

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Home Renovations

Home Renovations

BUILDER/ GENERAL Contractors LIC# T85-4420956 Residential/ Commercial. Complete Restoration. Finished Basements. Painting.

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Flooring & Carpeting

Flooring & Carpeting

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Mortgages/Loans

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Carpet installation starting from $1.19/ sq.ft. Hardwood, laminate at low prices.

27 yrs experience. Free Estimates. Best Price!

647-400-8198

Building Equipment/ Materials

Building Equipment/ Materials

STEEL BUILDINGS/METAL BUILDINGS UP TO 60% OFF! 30x40, 40x60, 50x80, 60x100, 80x100 sell for balance owed!

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Plumbing

Plumbing

RAY PLUMBING Service Repair/ replacement, faucets, sinks, toilets, drains, main valve, leaky pipes, drain cleaning. Licensed and insured.

24/7. 416-880-4151

Electrical Want to get your business noticed?

MASTER ELECTRICIAN/ELECTRICAL contractor Fully licensed and insured. ECRA/ ESA #7008706. Knob & Tube replacement. Panel upgrades. All kind of job, big or small. Call George : 416-278-7057 or GABSTON RENO: 647-342-2872

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