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“I immediately fell in love with the neighbourhood so I wondered how the neighbourhood had been marketing itself,” said Sherbin, whose been in the area for three and a half years. He said he is pleased the push was successful and thinks it can only be a positive for the area. “It’s giving us the opportunity to have a structure formalized to really address the marketing and branding of the neighbourhood to get >>LESLIEVILLE, page 10
Street named for Jack Layton DANIELLE MILLEY bsrm@insidetoronto.com More than 300 people gathered on the site of the former Don Jail Sunday for the chance to be the first to walk along Jack Layton Way. The unveiling of the renamed roadway on the soonto-reopen Bridgepoint Health campus took place Feb. 24, a day before the street officially opened to traffic. Before the crowd took a stroll from the new Bridgepoint to Broadview Avenue, many spoke about the former city councillor
and leader of the federal NDP party, Layton including his widow, Trinity-Spadina MP Olivia Chow. “We thank city council and ( Toronto-Danforth Councillor) Paula Fletcher for naming this street Jack Layton Way. “It is very fitting that what was here was a menacing jail that’s been transformed into a place where there is healing and lots of love. That is so much the Jack Layton way,” she said. The event was coined as an opportunity for people to >>>STREET, page 3
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YEAR OF THE SNAKE: Top left, children receive good luck envelopes at the East Toronto Chinatown Lunar New Year Celebration Saturday at Gerrard Square. Far left, MPP Peter Tabuns dots the eye of the lion, while children, left, laugh with excitement. Above, a member of the Apex Martial Arts Academy performs during Year of the Snake celebrations. Do you have an event you would like the Mirror to know about? Email bsrm@insidetoronto.com with your suggestions.
Street community’s tribute to Layton >>>from page 1 remember the principles and values Layton believed in and championed. People wore buttons in support of equality, health care, education, child care, arts, transit and the environment. In the summer, council also decided to name the Toronto Ferry Terminal after Layton, who died in August 2011, but Fletcher said renaming the street after the former NDP leader was a way for Riverdale to honour him. “This is our community’s tribute to Jack,” she said. Fletcher said the location was the right place for a combination of reasons – Layton was instrumental in seeing the Don Jail refurbished into the new Bridgepoint Health; he was one of the first to champion cleaning the Don River; it’s in the heart of Riverdale; and it’s at the entry into East Chinatown. “You put all that together and it just felt like Jack,” Fletcher said. Chow and Fletcher were joined by councillors Mary Fragedakis, Janet Davis, and Pam McConnell; MPPs Rosario Marchese (Trinity-Spadina)
‘It is very fitting that what was here was a menacing jail that’s been transformed into a place where there is healing and lots of love.’ ~ MP Olivia Chow and MPP Peter Tabuns (TorontoDanforth); Layton’s successor MP Craig Scott; Beaches-East York MPP Michael Prue and MP Matthew Kellway; MP Peggy Nash; and former MPP Marilyn Churley. Layton’s children, Councillor Mike Layton and Sarah Campbell, as well as his two granddaughters were on hand for the celebration. Plenty of Toronto residents also turned out. Beverley Thorpe doesn’t live in
Layton’s former riding, but she knew she wanted to be at the event as soon as she heard about it. “Normally I wouldn’t do this on a Sunday, but I thought it was important,” she said. Keep vision alive “It’s important that we recognize Jack with at least a minimum of a street named after him, and keep his vision alive.” Thorpe, in particular, liked Layton for his environmental policies so she thought the site near the Don River was fitting. “I love the fact that we are high up and next to the Don Valley,” she said. “It’s a good location.” Though Beach resident Karen Pierce was a Layton supporter it wasn’t her idea to stand outside for an hour on a snowy Sunday; her daughter Heather wanted to attend. “I missed the funeral so I wanted to come,” the 23 year old said. She liked Layton’s charisma. “He seemed more real than other leaders.”
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s commuting woes continue across the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA), it’s time for everyone who has a stake in moving people around to come together and start talking about solutions beyond spending billions of dollars to build new rapid transit lines in the coming decades. We need to start thinking of alternatives, ones that can be quickly implemented and will see an immediate impact on not only the ways in which we move people around the GTHA, but also the cost of doing it. In the case of the TTC, it can be as simple as altering the times we use the system for our daily commute. Former TTC chair Adam Giambrone said a huge amount of costs the TTC incurs for rush-hour service could be our view saved if riders could spread out the times they commute. Take time to The TTC is in “a perpetual budget crisis” in which it is share your essentially penalized by higher costs linked to its increases in commute ideas ridership during rush hours. Shifting commute times by as little as 30 minutes could alleviate some of those costs, and it’s a solution many businesses seem willing to offer their employees. Also, some foresight into future planning can lessen demands on the public transit system and also help lower operating costs. Toronto’s Chief Planner Jennifer Keesmaat is championing plans for greater intensification of the city’s major streets, with more multi-use buildings of six to seven storeys, which would feature residential, retail and office units all within the same structures. It seems like such a simple concept, get people living closer to where they work so they can avoid longer commutes. But we have to build it before they will come, and right now that’s the opposite of the way land development and planning works in the GTHA. Our roads and transit are full of people riding packed buses or driving long distances to industrial areas far from residential communities. The same goes for downtown congestion as thousands rush in and out of the core each weekday, jamming an already congested subway system and major roads. We need to come up with some new and better ideas. Our feature in today’s paper, Intelligent Transit, looks at some of these proposals, and we hope it encourages readers to come up with some of their own ideas. What are your smart commute ideas? Email ideas to letters@insidetoronto.com newsroom
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What can a mother do when her daughter decides to meet with her Internet love 1,800 kilometres away from home? She follows her daughter who leads her to a hotel room where the daughter insists on staying even though she doesn’t have money. And since she suffers from a mental disorder, the results would be disastrious. In desperation, the mother called 911. Two police officers arrived and had a serious talk with the daughter. The point of writing is to say how patient and compassionate these two officers were in dealing with my daughter. They did not take away her dignity, but brought her to the reality of things. One of the officers even gave her a hug and his card so she could let him know what she decied. The citizens of Toronto should be proud of their city’s police force. Annette Madden
Council’s frailties more obvious than ever In case anyone had any doubt, Mayor Rob Ford is as good as invulnerable. On Monday, the mayor, his brother and his lawyer went to the city’s compliance audit committee and asked they not be made to face prosecution, over a compliance audit report that showed he’d overspent his campaign allowance by $40,000. When the committee agreed, the mayor escaped the second of two legal problems that could have seen him barred from office. Add to that his victory in the libel lawsuit levelled against him by the owner of the Boardwalk Cafe, and the mayor is three for three. It’s a remarkable feat, although it’s one that has been entirely consistent with Ford’s ability to deal with issues that would wipe out most politicians. Then again, most politi-
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cians would find themselves rejuvinated – their mandate and influence effectively renewed. I wouldn’t bet on that in the case of Ford and the council that has long ago ceased to recognize his leadership. Council in particular seems to have descended into a lame-duck morass, not so very different from the final year of mayor David Miller’s mandate, when he made it clear he wouldn’t run again: a forum that too easily descends into posturing, positioning and vendetta-voting. The February council meeting illustrated this all
too well. Council spent its first day whether to debate a walk-on item about the shelter system and tried to put one of Mayor Ford’s harshest critics onto the mayor’s executive. They went on to browbeat two of the city’s accountability officers, debate whether to let newcomers here illegally use services the city offers regardless of citizenship (and then claim victory on that basis) and put off deciding what to do with an Etobicoke hockey arena. Finally, after extending the meeting to a punishingly long evening session, they made a token sensible decision, and voted to shut down a plan by Councillor Mark Grimes to offer developers incentives to build condominiums on the waterfront. That, added to a quick motion by Councillor Paula Fletcher to formalize grace periods for
parking-permit holders in the downtown neighbourhoods, represented the bulk of the collective wisdom of council this month. But generally, the leaderless crew ran the meeting with all the grace of a sugared-up day care full of three-year-olds trying to drive a minivan. There is no obvious mechanism for this to change. The mayor returns a survivor, but no more a bridge-builder than he ever was. Council remains an unorganized agglomeration of ambition. The city government as a whole continues to be unworthy of the fine city that it’s charged with. To put it another way: Mayor Ford may be strong as he’s ever been. But the real frailties of Toronto’s municipal government have never been more apparent.
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Coyote snatches dog from ravine The dog had just been let out when he was grabbed by a coyote. The pet owner gave chase and was able to recover his pet, which was later euthanized by a veterinarian. The City of Toronto, through its animal services department, has advice on dealing with wildlife in an urban setting, coyotes in particular. Basically, advice on their website says to never feed coyotes or even inadvertently leave out food.
A coyote in an east-end Toronto ravine has snatched and killed a pet dog from an adjacent backyard. Chris Peters, whose house backs onto the ravine that nestles onto Neville Park Boulevard, located off Queen Street East just west of Victoria Park Avenue, witnessed the incident that occurred Wednesday, Feb. 20 at about 11 p.m.
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Offering flexible commutes could also reduce riders’ stress, improve productivity of employees RAHUL GUPTA rgupta@insidetoronto.com
proving more attractive to professional women with families, who must juggle As traffic gridlock worsens, their children’s needs with the commuters are facing the demands of their profession, stark choice of paying more said Samatas. to realize the completion of “Women are looking for new transit systems or watch flexibility, but they also want commute times in the GTHA to be challenged by their job,” (Greater Toronto Hamilton said Samatas. “It’s hard to drop Area) continue to balloon to off your kid at day care or unimaginable levels. school when you have to be at Throughout February, resia meeting by nine o’clock.” dents have had the chance to She said the company participate in roundtables, has achieved higher rate of consultations and discussions, retention for its employees to evaluate transit plans that who are keen to stay in a posipromise to reverse the tide tion, which affords them the of congestion and usher in flexibility in how they work. Courtesy photo a new future for transportaThe challenge, she said, is tion options – one that for more businesses to Former TTC board chair Adam Giambrone estimated if one to two per cent of those peak-time riders could alter their comwon’t come cheap. offer flexible work times mute times by just 30 minutes, it would save the TTC approximately $10 million in new service costs. Even if they are without sacrificing proa funded, such massive ductivity. closer infrastructure under“I think we have crisis,” said Giambrone, who could be offering “incentives” look takings will cost tens of is now a media commentator. for travelling outside of peak come a long way, but Inside billions of dollars and it’s one thing to have a “And one thing in the mix of periods so riders who choose Toronto policy and another to things to consider is shifting to do so could receive some will take decades to complete. Meanwhile live and breathe it every the burden from the peak form of fare discount. residents, no matter their day,” Samatas said. hours.” “Your goal here is to encourRAHUL GUPTA and region’s transit systems, Offering a flexible commute He estimates it costs the age very specific travel,” said which, presently, is dealing choice of transportation, rgupta@insidetoronto.com remain stuck in traffic patterns would not only improve an TTC around $6 million for with overcrowding and trafGiambrone. promised only to worsen. employee’s productivity but it every one per cent growth in A senior Toronto architect fic congestion. Chris Upfold, TTC chief of With new transit for Toronto would also benefit the cashcustomer service, acknowlapplauds Chief Planner Keesmaat has frequently ridership. and area far off into the future strapped TTC, said the former In 2012 the TTC reported edged some benefits in a camstated her support of a lowJennifer Keesmaat’s call and existing transportation chair of the transit agency 514 million annual rides and paign to encourage shifting for mid-level development rise future for Toronto that networks straining to deal with recently. is anticipating around 528 milcommute times to off-peak projects with strong links to could handle the growing record ridership, new ideas on The TTC’s continuing lion by the end of 2013. periods. public transit. city’s needs without raising how to deal with situation are dilemma, according to Adam Giambrone estimated if But David Butterworth the ire of local communities But he balked at the prosemerging. Giambrone, is it is attracting one to two per cent of those pect of getting the TTC to said he wants to see concerned about condoBusinesses, especially, are record ridership numbers, but peak-time riders could alter approach employers. Keesmaat and the city planminium towers changing looking to find ways for a much of that travel is coming their commute times by just 30 “I think we can do somening department settle varithe landscape of the neighduring the peak hours. thing to help our customers ous planning “ambiguities” bourhood. smarter commute for their minutes, it would save the TTC employees. Or in some cases, understand what their options regarding the building of At a recent speech at the they are eliminating the comare, and where it might be six-to eight-storey buildToronto Board of Trade, mute completely by granting ings along major avenues Keesmaat encouraged shiftbusier. But aiming a camWhat we find is people are more productive when paign at employers is not a in the city. ing focus from single-family employees more flexibility in they don’t have a long commute and are not deciding when – and where – TTC issue,” said Upfold. residences to higher den“If Jennifer is really sugexhausted. We don’t want our employees getting they work. Instead, he said the TTC gesting this then she’s got sity mixed-growth housing, up at 5 a.m. so they can spend three hours on a Local staffing and recruiting would likely focus on benefits to allow some flexibility particularly outside of the to customers, who could then downtown core. firm Poly Placements allows its and freedom within the nail-biting commute. inform their employers about mid-rise guidelines,” said “We have a tremendous workforce of around 50 people – Sarah Samatas, Poly Placements flexible start and leave times, the benefits of altering their Butterworth, a senior amount of capacity within head of human resources as well as the ability to telecommute times. the City of Toronto to designer for firm Kirkor commute for one or two days “We could show that if you Architects and Planners. redevelop our avenues as per work week, said the place“Peak times are the most approximately $10 million in get on a bus or subway at a Speaking this month, very livable urban places,” ment agency’s head of human difficult time to add service,” new service costs. certain time you’re going to Butterworth said the type Keesmaat said. resources. Sarah Samatas He suggested the TTC get a seat, for example.” said of European-style developButterworth said develhe said. “You have to potentially buy ment Keesmaat envisions opers might be interested in said the company realized should consider a “twoUpfold. giving employees options on new vehicles and hire more “Customers can then go for Toronto could create new building mid-level buildings pronged” awareness camwhen they come into work people just for those times. paign to educate riders and back to their employers and creative opportunities for in areas near major tranat its location near the busy If you could get those people employers and called on the say: ‘Gosh wouldn’t it be great designers. sit connections, but only intersection of Yonge Street to adjust their commutes, you city and province to review if I can make these changes.’ He said such planning if they can make it work and Eglinton Avenue made would have capacity to handle their current policies on comBut we don’t have plans in would facilitate the transfinancially. for a more productive and less service load without adding mutes. respect to influencing employformation of certain sub“Why is anyone going to distracted workforce. any service.” Giambrone said when ers.” urban neighbourhoods knock down a two- or three“What we find is people are Giambrone believes the While an advertising caminto local “satellite cores,” storey building just to build he headed the TTC board more productive when they TTC could save on the need between 2006 and 2010, the paign is possible in the future, walkable urban areas with six?” he said. “You really don’t have a long commute for providing more peak or TTC had planned to run an Upfold said the TTC has no opportunities for office and need to make it affordable and are not exhausted,” said rush hour service if riders were advertising campaign encourcurrent plans for one. retail space and connected to purchase the land and able to shift their commute aging flexible commute times. Samatas, however, encourvia public transit to the ensure there a reasonable Samatas. “We don’t want our employees getting up a 5 a.m. times by as small an amount The campaign, however, never aged both the TTC and GO downtown core. Building return on it.” so they can spend three hours as either 30 minutes earlier ended up launching. Transit to educate ridership with transit in mind would, on a nail-biting commute.” or later. He said another way to about the benefits of shifting according to Butterworth, -with files from Flexible commutes are “We’re in a perpetual budget encourage smarter commuting ease pressure on the Toronto transit commutes. David Nickle
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Creative Works Studio’s Art Show WHEN: 5:30 to 8 p.m. WHERE: 793 Gerrard St. E. You’re invited to Creative Works Studio’s opening reception of its annual art show Artists, Icons and Everyday People. The Creative Works Studio is an artsbased occupational therapy community program that helps individuals living with mental health challenges and addictions heal and cope through the power of artistic expression.
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Fifty-plus Active Living and Information Fair WHEN: 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. WHERE: Applegrove Community Complex, 60 Woodfied Rd. CONTACT: 416-461-, seniors@applegrovecc.ca COST: Free, free lunch and more The information fair includes workshops, exhibitors, lunch and more.
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Stretching the Mile for Operation Smile yogathon WHEN: 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. WHERE: YOGAthletix, 911 Queen St. E. Suite 201 Miss Universe Canada 2013 contestant Claudia Scali hosts the Stretching the Mile for Operation Smile yogathon in support of Operation Smile children’s charity. Visit www.claudiascali.com
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Paws Canada fundraiser WHEN: 7 p.m. WHERE: Arts Market, 1114 Queen St. E. The Arts Market is hosting a Paws Canada fundraiser with music, literature, trivia, a silent auction, food and drinks.
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Riverdale Historical Society WHEN: 6 p.m. WHERE: Riverdale library, 370 Broadview Ave. CONTACT: www.riverdalehistoricalsociety.com Riverdale Historical Society presents A Stinking Industry - 19th Century Rendering in Riverdale. Cost, free for members and $5 for non-members.
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It was recent changes that allowed for a successful vote this time, he said. Of the 279 ballots distributed to owners in the area, 122 were returned to the city by the November deadline and of those 77 per cent were in favour of designating Leslieville as a BIA. While there’s been no formal business association, there have been several business organizations over the years and the kinds of events that are organized by BIAs have been taking place in Leslieville. just without a budget for promotion. “ The neighbourhood already has events and what this does is it provides stable funding and it gives us the money to promote those events across the city,” Marsh said. One of those events is Wanderlust, which marked its seventh year in December. Nathalie-Roze Fischer of Nathalie-Roze & Co. is one of the business owners behind that event. She said a lot has happened without a BIA, but thinks it will be positive for the neighbourhood. “It will be a lot more productive and we’ll have a lot more doors open,” she said.
It will make those events easier to plan, Fischer said, especially since the city is involved with all the BIAs in Toronto. Businesses in a designated business improvement area pay a fee or a tax to the BIA on top of their property taxes, this fee is matched by the city. It is this fee that some business owners objected too, but Sherbin said for the size of the average business in the area the fee isn’t onerous and many people overcame that objection to eventually vote in favour of the BIA. The money is used to pay for things like streetscaping in the form of flower baskets along a street stretch or promotion of an event. It is also used to hire a full- or part-time staff person to take care of promotion, permit applications and other event details. No one is sure yet what exactly the change will mean – Fischer thinks some of the established events could get better, while Sherbin is excited to see what the first board can do. “We’re just getting started,” he said. “I can’t wait to see what happens.”
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