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Tory made the comments outside Monday’s Public Works and Infrastructure Committee meeting as councillors there were preparing to deal with a walked-on item by chair Robinson, asking for a thirdparty review of the pros and cons of contracting out garbage collection currently being done by unionized city workers.

Tory had promised in last year’s election to contract out garbage east of Yonge Street.

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FUNDRAISER: Athletes start the New Year’s Day ‘Hair of the Dog’ run along the boardwalk Thursday morning at the Balmy Beach Canoe Club.

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The goal of the new association is to be a social event coordinator, to improve streetscaping in the area – especially along Main and Gerrard streets – and to ensure that development in the area is done with the residents’ views in mind.

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Warm up your weekend at Kew Fire Place Volunteers are needed to host twohour sessions at the Kew Fire Place this winter.

People interested in doing their part to “warm up the community” on a Friday evening, Saturday or Sunday afternoon or for a special event are invited to email friendsofthebeachparks@gmail.com The Kew Fire Place, which is at the south end of Kew Gardens Park near the Beach Boardwalk, is offered

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Tour of the flags Residents were able to look at the variety of flags that made up the DailyFlag for DailyBread Tour of Flags Saturday. The Advent calendarinspired community art installation raises funds and collects non-perishable food for the Daily Bread Food Bank. Left, artist Benedict Hilliard describes the flag that he created in partnership with Michelynn Laflèche.

to the community for free by the Friends of the Beach Parks group and the City of Toronto.

St. E. Call McMahon’s office at 416392-1376 or Potts’ office at 416-6901032 for details.

POtts host New John’s running contest Year’s Levee to raise awareness wMcmahon, wSt. Ward 32 Councillor Mary-Margaret McMahon and Beaches-East York MPP Arthur Potts invite the community to their New Year’s Levee Saturday from 2 to 4 p.m. at The Naval Club of Toronto, 1910 Gerrard

St. John the Compassionate Mission launched the Hope Is On The Rise contest to help raise awareness about the work it does. Visit www. facebook.com/stjcm and www. facebook.com/stjbakery

Get a free front yard tree with city’s project Residents of The Pocket neighbourhood near Danforth and Jones avenues are encouraged to do their part to help the local tree canopy.

The Pocket Tree Project, which supports neighbours in re-greening the neighbourhood, is inviting residents to sign up for a free front yard tree from the City of Toronto, which is offering this program as part of its goal to double the city’s tree canopy by 2050.

Anyone with enough space in their front yard can get a free tree.

Depending on when you sign up, trees will be planted either in the spring or fall.

Homeowners can also select what type of tree they’d like to receive. Some of the best species for urban settings include the tulip tree, red maple, ironwood, locusts and oaks.

The Pocket Tree Project is also inviting area residents who’d like a bigger tree to take part in a bulk purchase program. These trees cost anywhere from $500 to $1,200 and are 20-feet tall.

Those interested in obtaining a native tree or shrub for their backyard can do so at a reduced rate thanks to a partnership between The Pocket Tree Project and LEAF,

a non-profit group dedicated to improving Toronto’s urban forest.

These cost $150 to $250 and include planting, soil and mulching.

Visit www.yourleaf.org to sign up for a consultation with a LEAF expert.

The Pocket Tree Project is also in need of volunteers. Duties include everything from postering to leafleting, to knocking on doors to inform Pocket residents about the project.

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Buy a toque; keep two people warm this winter JOANNA LAVOIE jlavoie@insidetoronto.com A heartfelt project is helping keep hundreds of streetinvolved and marginalized individuals warm this winter.

From November 1 to March 29, Leslieville resident/independent fashion retailer Nathalie-Roze Fisher is donating one of her handmade, fleece-lined sweater toques to charity for every one purchased.

“Every time I sell a toque, I donate a toque,” she said during a recent interview.

Fisher, who used to have a boutique in Leslieville on Queen Street East at Pape Avenue, is now selling her wares online at www.etsy. com/ca/shop/NathalieRoze as well as at a number of shows and events including The Leslieville Flea on Sunday, Jan. 18. Her hats can also be found at several shops throughout Canada.

This make-and-donate initiative is the first of a series of “deliberate acts of kindness” Fisher is doing as part of The Lennie Project, which

is inspired by her much-loved and much-missed Uncle Lennie, who died of cancer last year.

The aim of the initiative is to make life a little sweeter for Toronto’s most vulnerable – as Fisher’s Uncle Lennie did through his own generosity.

“My Uncle Lennie died last year of cancer and he was a very, very generous, bighearted person,” she said.

“I wanted to do something (in his honour) that was concrete; that would help people in a tangible way.”

Fisher said her Uncle Lennie – whose last name she declined to give for privacy reasons – was someone who was “a real champion for the underdog and did a lot of things for charities.”

Instead of just making a financial donation to one of the many causes he believed in and supported, she said she decided to use her skills and pool her resources to make a concrete difference.

“This time I thought I’d bump it up a bit and connect it to what I was doing,” Fisher said.

“This is something mean-

One of the Lennie Project sweater toques, which Leslieville resident NathalieRoze Fisher donates to charity.

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ingful I can do to help.”

So far, more than 400 toques have been donated to local shelters and homeless programs.

“Unfortunately, it doesn’t matter how many hats we make, there’s never enough,” she said.

The initiative has also garnered lots of interest from several of Fisher’s friends, former employees/co-op students, crafty people and family members.

Dozens of people have

also come forward to donate sweaters.

Locally, donations are accepted at Lady Marmalade, 898 Queen St. E at Logan Avenue, and at Pippins’s Tea Co. Inc, 2098 Queen St. E. at Wineva Avenue. A sweaterdrive is also set to take place during Fisher’s upcoming Winter Uber-SWAP event.

Stay tuned for date/venue details.

Scores of others have come forward to transform old sweaters into toques.

In January and February, Fisher will be hosting two sewing parties where volunteers can come together to craft sweater toques for the less fortunate. The dates, times and locations for the group crafting sessions have yet to be determined.

Volunteers are also needed to help with collecting and transporting donated sweaters.

“People have been very supportive,” said Fisher, who with her team of generous crafters, has also produced and donated more than 100 neck warmers and mittens. More than 300 pairs of socks as well as carloads of toiletries have also been collected/donated this holiday season.

Fisher, who enjoys incorporating charitable components into her business and the various events she produces, regularly collects and donates socks, underwear, toiletries and funds for marginalized individuals.

The Lennie Project is her latest effort.

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Email info@nathalie-roze. com for more details or to get involved.

#REALgiving helping the homeless Members of the city’s boutique real estate industry have come together to do their part to stop homeless people from freezing to death on Toronto’s streets.

L a t e Tu e s d a y a f t e rnoon, Sage Real Estate, BuzzBuzzHome and Spring Realty launched The #REALgiving Project.

The goal is to collect a ton of warm clothes, coats, socks, and cash by midnight on Friday, Jan. 9.

Donations can be dropped off at BuzzBuzzHome, 331333 Adelaide St. W., Ste. 600; Spring Realty Inc., 63 Colgate Ave. (near Queen Street East and Carlaw Avenue); and Sage Real Estate, 777 Richmond St. W., 2nd Floor and 1820 Bayview Ave., Mezzanine Level.

Monetary donations can be made online by visiting http://goo.gl/az4G1P People are encouraged to let the social media world know about the initiative by using the hashtag #REALgiving

Jenny Young stars in Waiting Room JOANNA LAVOIE jlavoie@insidetoronto.com East-end actor Jenny Young was bit by the acting bug at a very early age.

With a father who’s passionate about community theatre, Young spent countless hours of her childhood in community theatres in her hometown of Vernon, British Columbia.

“I used to go see my dad’s shows and watch his rehearsals when I was just four years old,” said Young, who has lived near Dundas Street East and Logan Avenue since 2008. “By the time I was six or seven, I was performing in the shows at the community theatre.”

Young’s brothers Jonathan, who is also an actor, and Chris, who now works as a chef, also took to the stage growing up.

“We were all interested and exposed to the theatre from an early age,” she said.

“Obviously the creative bug runs through my family.”

Young, who also took private acting lessons during elementary and high school, went on to attend Studio 58 professional theatre training program at Vancouver, B.C.’s Langara College. She’s been working as a full-time professional actor since 2000.

“I’ve managed to have a pretty steady career,” said Young, who has mostly done theatre roles, but has also landed TV and film gigs over the years.

One of her most notable roles is her portrayal of Sgt. Patricia “Coach” Kinsella on CBC Radio’s weekly drama program, Afghanada, which wrapped up in December 2011 after six seasons.

Young has also performed in Tarragon’s The Shape Of A Girl; Stratford Festival’s Christina, The Girl King and Alice Through The Looking Glass; Shaw Festival’s A Moon For The Misbegotten and Age of Arousal; and The Penelopiad, a world premiere with the National Arts Centre

in association with the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Her latest role is portraying a neuro-oncologist in Tarragon Theatre’s powerful new medical drama, Waiting Room, by acclaimed playwright Diane Flacks.

“It’s just a really beautifully written play. It’s a very moving play,” said Young, whose next major role is becoming a second-time mom this May. “My character is torn between the worlds of ethics and medicine. She’s dealing with a baby with brain cancer and another character with Alzheimer’s disease.”

Waiting Room, the story of a doctor who embarks on a ground-breaking medical experiment despite the objections of his colleagues, also stars east-end residents Michelle Monteith and Ari Cohen.

In the play, Monteith plays a mother struggling with lifeand-death choices concerning her baby, while Cohen plays the central doctor

character.

Award-winning actor Monteith, who calls The Beach home, has performed in Tarragon’s Little One, The Valley and The Little Years; Soulpepper’s Of Human Bondage and Angels in America; Modern Times’ The Lesson; as well as Stratford Festival’s Romeo and Juliet, Love’s Labour Lost, and Caesar and Cleopatra.

Leslieville resident Cohen, also an acclaimed actor, has appeared in Tarragon’s This is War, The Little Years and Generous; Soulpepper’s Tue West, Awake and Sing, Death of a Salesman; CanStage’s Sunday Father and Frost/ Nixon; and Vancouver Playhouse’s Noises Off. He was also in David Cronenberg’s film Maps to the Stars.

Waiting Room opens Wednesday, Jan. 14 and runs until Feb. 15.

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East-end actor Jenny Young stars in Waiting Room by playwright Diane Flacks at Tarragon Theatre.

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hings are beginning to happen in this city to relieve traffic congestion. Short term, the TTC has a host of projects on the way to assist in that (see our list online at bit.ly/1vZ2zyN). A longterm strategy is just as critical, but also important is getting everyone in this city to do their own part.

Businesses in this city fuel the very need for commuting. Deliveries need to be made. People run errands, grab coffees and many use their cars to do so. But where these efforts plug up our roadways, people need to think differently about how they or their business impacts traffic. How can they change what they’re doing and be a part of the solution, rather than the problem?

On Monday, Toronto police and the city’s parking enforcement began their blitz on illegally parked in the city’s core. Any vehicle our view cars caught causing congestion because they were stopped in a Look for live lane was ticketed or towed. the law isn’t new, Mayor solutions for Though John Tory made the rigorous enforcement part of his six-point gridlock plan to reduce traffic congestion in early 2015.

Commercial delivery and courier companies are a necessity for businesses downtown. But unless they want to foot expensive towing bills, they’re going to have to find new ways to operate to avoid jamming up the streets during rush hour.

The strength of our economy is directly impacted by traffic in the city, so business leaders have a vested interest in getting people and goods moving. The loss of $6 billion in productivity each year is projected to grow to $15 billion by 2031. Businesses need to think outside the box to change their impact: perhaps consider flex time, satellite offices or allow staff to work from home.

Tory’s suggested fewer events be hosted downtown and making sure marathons and charity walks aren’t monopolizing major roadways.

Residents should ask how they can change their own commuter routines so they are more considerate of other drivers.

And the city should measure the outcome of this enforcement campaign and apply that success to other commercial neighbourhoods in need of relief.

A sustainable, long-term transit strategy may be driven by the city but cannot happen without everyone making their own contributions to the cause.

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y, did Toronto councillors and the mayor get off to a running start this week.

Mayor John Tory and councillors looked at all sorts of ways to speed cars and trucks on their way with traffic management as police got busy towing illegally stopped vehicles during rush hour.

The Public Works and Infrastructure Committee wasted no time putting staff to work studying whether or not to contract out garbage collection.

Tory was so excited to get going that he nearly fell over on an icy Toronto sidewalk.

And that was just by Tuesday.

In all this hustle-andbustle, it was good to be reminded that not everything in Toronto is an around-the-clock project, and there are still some parts of the city where people know how to slow

david nickle the city down and smell the roses.

And where better to do that than in Nathan Phillips Square.

On Monday, the city’s Government Management Committee kicked off the term hearing from the team that’s managing the nineyear, $60-million project to spruce up the square outside Toronto City Hall.

The project got its start under the David Miller administration in 2007, with a design by PLANT Architect and a budget of $40 million.

The cost of that project has ballooned to about $60 million, with elements added and removed through the years as political whims shifted.

This week staff recommended adding back many of the elements of that revitalization that had been

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Council can hurry up as much as it wants now.

Before too long, we will all get down to the regular business – of waiting.

removed – which would add $11 million to the project.

If everything is added back – which is up to council – the $70 million project to improve Toronto’s civic square will be finished in 2016.

If a concurrent repair of the ceremonial ramp going to the roof of city hall is included, that will be 2019.

If the city can find a restaurateur with $4 million to spend on building a restaurant there, we’ll have one of those too.

Although after the failure of city hall’s own Café on the Square restaurant,

it’s unlikely they’ll find anyone.

Until then, Nathan Phillips Square will be some flavour of the way it is now: partially open, dotted with hoardings, kind of arid: all for a project that in the end was intended to – let’s be honest – marginally improve the political and cultural centre of our city.

It’s this example – along with the decades-long rehabilitation of the Gardiner Expressway and the continuing mirage of subways in Scarborough – that reveals Toronto’s true political cult heritage, and against which the new hurry-up culture of the Tory administration finds itself.

Council can hurry up as much as it wants now.

Before too long, we will all get down to the regular business – of waiting.

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Complimentary Beach Balance Class for Seniors WHEN: 9:15 to 10:15 a.m. WHERE: Beach United Church, 140 Wineva Ave. CONTACT: Eric Daw, 416450-0892 COST: First workout is complimentary Complimentary balance classes for seniors focussing on balance, coordination, strength, flexibility and posture. Facilitated by an experienced instructor.

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Quilting Club WHEN: 6 p.m. WHERE: Jones Library, 118 Jones Ave. CONTACT: Cathy, 416-393-7715 COST: Free Jones Library’s Quilting Club meets every Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. Work on quilts together to donate to

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Jill’s Living Room WHEN: 8 to 10 p.m. WHERE: Red Sandcastle Theatre, 922 Queen St. E. CONTACT: Jill Leger, 416-588-7262, singoutlouise@rogers.com COST: $10 Monthly musical-theatre open mic with live piano accompaniment. All levels welcome! Bring sheet music for at least two songs. Cost, $10 at the door. The last Monday of every month.

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Family Literacy Day WHEN: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. WHERE: Jones Library, 118 Jones Ave. CONTACT: Cathy, 416-393-7715 COST: Free Join the library today or tomorrow for a celebration of games. Play games with the family or take part in the Scaredy Squirrel Scavenger Hunt. Drop-in.

New Neighbourhood Association WHEN: 7 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Community Centre 55, 97 Main St. CONTACT: www.east-toronto.ca, jasonbalgopal@outlook.com COST: Free For those between Glenmount Park Road (West) and Malvern Ave (East) and between the railway tracks (North) and Kingston Road (South).

Learn about how to improve the neighbourhood, and what is happening for Family Day.

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Foot Clinics WHEN: 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

WHERE: Community Centre 55, 97 Main St. CONTACT: Evonne, 416691-1113, ext. 222 COST: $20 per person, pay the nurse directly.

Foot care, exam of foot, able to reduce corns, calluses and in-grown nails. Bring your own towel.

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Book Club WHEN: 6 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Jones Library, 118 Jones Ave. CONTACT: Teresa, 416-393-7715 COST: Free Meet with the Jones Book Club Third Thursday of every month. Call to register at 416-393-7715. Suitable for adults or seniors.

Baby Time!

WHEN: 10 to 11 a.m. WHERE:

Jones Library, 118 Jones Ave. CONTACT: Liza, 416-393-7715 COST: Free Program for moms and babies features songs, stories and bounces.

Monday mornings at 10:30 a.m.

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LEGO Club WHEN: 4 to 5 p.m. WHERE: Jones Library, 118 Jones Ave. CONTACT: Teresa, 416-393-7715 COST: Free Bring the whole family. The library provides the LEGO.

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Residents invited to attend meeting on Jan. 13 at CC55 >>>from page 1 group, is working with a seven-member steering committee to form the new neighbourhood association.

“What we’re trying to do is

get a neighbourhood association built up on both sides of Main Street,” Balgopal said during a recent interview.

“It’s for the recognition of Main Street as a focal point

of the community.”

The team has met informally on several occasions since September.

Recently, they consulted with Kate Tennier, the founder

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of the successful Beach Hill Neighbourhood Association for advice and ideas.

Aaron Bradley, of the neighbouring Kingston Road Village Residents Association, was also invited to share his thoughts and insights at a meeting.

“We’re in the very early stages of seeing what people would like,” said Balgopal, who also serves as the chair of the board at Community Centre 55.

“I think it’s going to be quite exciting.”

Balgopal said the new neighbourhood group, which he said would probably hold a naming contest in the near future, covers an area that doesn’t have many residents groups and is a chance for all in the community to work together on making it better.

On Tuesday, Jan. 13, community members, including residents, retailers, charitable organizations and service providers, are invited to attend the inau-

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gural meeting of the new East Toronto Neighbourhood Association.

The gathering will take place from 7 to 8 p.m. at Community Centre 55, 97 Main St. at Swanwick Avenue.

Aside from learning more about what the new association is all about, those in attendance can also find

out more about the activities the new group is planning for Family Day on Monday, Feb. 16 as well as an upcoming meet-n-greet set for this spring.

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A laneway in Glasgow, Scotland that’s used as a commerical space. Cresswell Lane is an example of the possibilities for Toronto laneways.

Grant targets two laneway projects HILARY CATON hcaton@insidetoronto.com Toronto’s laneways will finally get some love in 2015 with the help of the Ontario Trillium Foundation.

The Toronto laneway project is the recipient of a $26,700 grant that will allow The Laneway Project to undertake two pilot projects in the city.

“Our focus and our goal is to get two very different laneway projects that are representative of what can be done in laneway spaces,” said Mackenzie Keast, the co-founder of The Laneway Project.

“We want one that’s very commercial, so we’re talking to different BIAs to figure out what’s the best one that represents that and then we’re looking at one that’s more residential, a little bit quieter, a more passive laneway improvement.”

The Laneway Project is a Toronto-based non-profit organization which aims to help the city’s neighbourhoods transform laneways into more useable spaces for the community, whether it’s for commercial, residential or recreational purposes.

There is about 250 kilometres of untapped public space in the city in the form of laneways, which range in size from three to six metres in width.

Toronto’s laneways currently serve multiple purposes for residents and businesses alike. It is used as mid-block connections between streets

for pedestrians and cyclists, or as garbage pick up locations, street art canvases, or as spillover from temporary workshops in garages.

The Laneway Project hopes to convert these laneways to reach their full potential.

“The idea is we’re identifying where there’s an active community who wants to see their laneway spaces transformed,” Keast said.

“Our role will be to come in and help support the development of a plan for their laneways and roll out an implementation strategy, so in the future we can help execute that plan.”

The Laneway Project held a summit in November with various presentations surrounding what laneways could be used for from programmable spaces for festivals to housing to a mini green space.

Since the summit, Keast said they’ve had a lot of interest from neighbourhoods looking to convert their laneways, but are unsure of how to go about doing so. From those interested parties, The Laneway Project will be shortlisting the most intriguing laneway ideas and choosing the two for the pilot projects.

However, the projects that don’t get selected won’t be forgotten, said Keast.

“There’s so many other groups that have such a passion for their laneways and we do want to help them,” he said.

“But with the Trillium funding it’s too specific of a type of project, so we’re trying to identify those ones (that fit

with the funding) specifically.

The other projects we’ll still be helping them do something independently from this grant.”

According to Keast, one portion of this grant will allow them to run co-design workshops with the two communities to develop a vision for the laneway that is fully supported by the entire community. He added the consultation process will involve multiple community meetings to ensure the final design is what the community wants.

Although the funding doesn’t seem like much, Keast said, the money will go a long way because of The Laneway Project’s diverse skill set of the co-founders: Keast is an urban designer, Ariana Cancelli is an urban planner and Michelle Senayah is a landscape architect.

The other portion of the funding will be dedicated to marketing and community outreach. Over the next year they plan to do an online series where they go out into different communities that are doing their own laneway projects and showcase their work.

For The Laneway Project, receiving this funding is a great stepping stone toward getting more people on board with looking at laneways differently across the city.

“This grant is hugely important. Not only does it allow us to launch these projects, but it shows that there’s faith in what we’re doing and that people see that it’s something important for Toronto,” Keast said.

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New TEGH Kidney clinic provides range of services

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Reginald Ratnasingham used to have to take an hour-long bus ride out to Scarborough General Hospital to receive tips and advice on living with advanced stage kidney disease.

“My file was at East General, but I had to go to Scarborough General for the (kidney care) clinic,” said Ratnasingham, who was diagnosed with chronic kidney disease in March 2012.

Ratnasingham, who lives near St. Clair and Victoria Park avenues, said he appreciates the useful information – especially learning more about the close link between diet and kidney health – he received from the healthcare professionals at Scarborough general’s kidney care clinic.

He just wishes it was closer to home.

That all changed recently with the opening of a new kidney care clinic at Toronto E a s t G e n e ra l Ho s p i t a l (TEGH).

“For me, it was a very happy day,” Ratnasingham said of TEGH’s Kidney Clinic, which opened its doors on Sept. 15 and served 80 patients in its first month alone.

“Any time I have a question or concern I can just drop in and get information and advice.”

Ratnasingham, who has stopped by TEGH’s Kidney Care Clinic a handful of times since it opened this fall, can’t say enough about the “above and beyond” care and assistance he’s received.

“The dedication from the staff gives you the confidence to feel you’re not fighting the battle alone,” he shared.

“The reassurance that I’m receiving good care is part of the treatment.”

Located in a bright and welcoming second-floor space near the hospital’s main lobby area, TEGH’s new Kidney Care Clinic is designed to be a one-stop place where those living with advanced stage kidney disease (pre-dialysis) can go for

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The dedication from the staff gives you the confidence to feel you’re not fighting the battle alone.

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information and support.

Open Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., TEGH’s Kidney Clinic is staffed by a diverse team of healthcare professionals (primarily from the nephrology department) including doctors, nurse practitioners, social workers, dieticians and pharmacists.

“Patients can drop in any time to see one of our interprofessional members,” explained Vlad Padure, an advance practice clinician at TEGH’s Kidney Care Clinic, during a recent tour of the space. “Someone is always on site to assist patients with any type of need. We’re happy to deliver these services in our own community.”

Padure said the education

provided by the clinic helps patients mitigate further health issues and assists them in their transition into dialysis and/or kidney transplantation.

Dr. Anita Dunn, one of three nephrologists at TEGH, said the new clinic is a great tool for those battling kidney disease.

“I think patients are getting much better wholistic care (because of the kidney care clinic),” she said, noting the clinic isn’t just about answering patients’ medical questions.

“It gives patients a chance to discuss all aspects of their disease. We have a valuable set of skills to add to (patients’) care.”

Further, Padure said the new kidney care clinic is also beneficial for patients as it’s more accessible and requires less travel time for patients especially those whose primary care physicians and other healthcare providers are often based at Toronto East General Hospital or in the community.

Patients of Toronto East General Hospital‘s (TEGH) Endocrinology Diabetes Clinic can take a walk with their doc.

Dr. Rebecca Fine, an endocrinologist, is behind the innovative and unconventional program, which gives patients with Type II diabetes a chance to take a stroll every three months with a team of health-care professionals for their regular checkup appointment.

The monthly Diabetes Walking Clinic at TEGH came to be in March 2012.

“We weren’t sure in the beginning how patients would feel about it,” said Fine, who came up with the unique idea while out for a stroll with a friend.

“One day I was out walking and I told my friend how it would be nice to do appoint-

ments like this. ...I think this is the only place this is happening anywhere as far as we know,” she said “It’s very difficult to talk about exercise (with patients) when you’re sitting behind a desk.”

Fine said the concept has been so well received some of her colleagues have asked about how they’d go about implementing it in their practice.

TEGH’s Diabetes Walking Clinic, which is open to a maximum of six patients per stroll, is also a way for health-care professionals to monitor their patients’ colour, gait and even mental and emotional states as depression is often associated with diabetes.

It’s also a great trust builder between patients and health-care professionals, said Eileen Shields, a registered nurse and certified diabetes educator at TEGH.

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Protect yourself, your pets from electrical shock during winter walks CYNTHIA REASON creason@insidetoronto.com Dog walkers beware: the wet and icy sidewalks of winter could pose more than the risk of slick and slippery conditions, but, mingled with salt, could also present serious shock hazards for your four-legged friends.

Although rare, incidents of contact voltage – stray electricity that may be present on the surface of outdoor structures such as streetlighting equipment, street signs and other energized fixtures – are especially dangerous for pets, and especially during the winter, said Toronto Hydro spokesperson Tanya Bruckmueller.

“It’s more animals that are affected because they’re barefoot, and also because we just have two feet and they have four...Electricity looks for a path, and with pets, they always have two feet on the ground while walking, which provides a path or an arc for electricity,” Bruckmueller said.

“What happens with electricity is it likes salty, wet, conductive conditions, so generally in the winter is when we see incidents of this, if we did. When it’s salty and wet and you

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Toronto Hydro warns people ane their pets about shock hazards in the city.

have metal equipment, it’s all very conductive.”

With that in mind as winter begins, Toronto Hydro is once again urging all pedestrians, but especially those out walking dogs, to exercise increased caution while manouevering the snow-covered sidewalks

around any and all electrical equipment, including streetlights, handwells (small metal or polymer plates covering underground wiring for streetlights), bus shelters, lighted signage, garage doors and even holiday lighting.

Such street equipment can sometimes become energized by stray voltage caused by aging and/ or corroded infrastructure, or by wires dislodged by the vibrations from heavy traffic at street level or the subway underground.

Anyone who comes into contact with any such energized equipment is strongly urged by Toronto Hydro to “Stop, Clear and Call!”

• Stop: if you come across an instance of contact voltage, your pet may freeze and collapse. Some animals have reportedly suffered from seizures and muscle contractions, while in more severe cases, other animals have experienced respiratory distress or failure. Toronto Hydro advises pet owners faced with such an occurrence to assess the situation for existing hazards before acting.

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pable of seeking help,” the electricity provider cautions in its online fact sheet, available at http://bit. ly/1zrqnxh • Clear: it is extremely important to move a safe distance away from areas of contact voltage and to ensure pedestrians stay clear of the area.

“If your pet is incapacitated, do not touch the animal directly as you may also receive an electric shock.

If you have a dry and non-conductive leash, remove your pet from the hazard by pulling the leash or use another non-conductive object,” the fact sheet also advises.

• Call: as with any emergency, Toronto Hydro urges anyone who comes in contact with contact voltage to call 911 for immediate assistance, as Toronto EMS is trained to deal with electric shock and will notify Toronto Hydro to remediate the problem.

Residents are also advised to call Toronto Hydro’s Contact Voltage Hotline at 416-222-3773 to report incidents on public or private property.

Since late 2007, when Toronto Hydro received some of its first reports of contact voltage on city

streets, Bruckmueller said the electric company has launched several initiatives under its Contact Voltage Remediation Program – including an extensive handwell replacement program, which was expected to see most of the city’s 12,000 metal handwell lids swapped out for new, non-conductive polymer concrete models by the end of 2014, and regular surveillance by a team of mobile testing vehicles and service crews equipped with state-of-the-art technology to identify energized electrical equipment.

Bruckmueller said they advise customers if they find contact voltage on their property, and then send in crews to make the area safe.

Even with all those safeguards in place, Bruckmueller said the risk is something Torontonians should always be aware of.

“I think it is very important that people continue to be aware of contact voltage, because even though we are doing everything we can to remediate it, it is intermittent and things do change... so it’s something that probably will never go away.”

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>>>from page 1 Mayor Rob Ford to contract out garbage collection for households west of Yonge Street – a move that saved taxpayers $11 million in 2013.

The report request appeared on the agenda at the 11th hour, which meant there was no opportunity to publicize the item for deputations.

Janet Davis, who represents Ward 31 (Beaches-East York), argued the last-minute move was anti-democratic.

“I think it’s skirting the democratic process,” said Davis, who opposes moves to contract out garbage collection. “I don’t believe that a mayor’s mandate becomes the automatic policy of the City of Toronto.”

The report asks city staff to look at various service delivery options, analyzing the cost per household of waste collection in all of the city, and an analysis of the city’s current fleet of trucks.

The review would also look at the rate of diversion of recyclables and organics across the city and also look at services in comparable jurisdictions. As well, an independent review would be conducted of all that analysis.

Robinson and her vice chair, Ward 32 (BeachesEast York) Councillor MaryMargaret McMahon, both dismissed Davis’ criticism.

“I think it’s a ridiculous comment,” said Robinson.

“It’s completely unfounded.

This is the process that we follow. We had a unanimous vote today from the Public Works and Infrastructure Committee.”

McMahon pointed out the report wasn’t making a definitive decision on whether to contract out garbage – simply seeking information.

“We’re asking for a report.

The sky is not falling,” said McMahon.

After the meeting, Robinson

said while her constituents favoured contracting out, it was entirely possible that council would decide not to do so.

“We may not, no. We may not,” said Robinson.

She said the report was necessary because there are different factors east of Yonge Street than west of Yonge that might impact collection – notably, housing in the downtown core and more late-night collections.

The union representing city garbage workers, meanwhile, was officially pleased that the report was going forward.

Acting President of CUPE Local 416 Dave Hewitt said he hoped for a fair report.

“We welcome the report, we look forward to seeing the report when it’s done,” said Hewitt. “We just feel it should be a true and accurate report. In the past there’s been reports put out that haven’t been accurate and we haven’t had a say in it.”

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Author examines important Riverdale author remembers gay role of Toronto’s Don Valley people killed by Nazis during war Mark A. Cadiz mcadiz@insidetoronto.com Often overlooked and frowned upon over the years, the Don Valley has played a pivotal role in Toronto’s urban development.

Jennifer L. Bonnell’s book, Reclaiming the Don: An Environmental History of Toronto’s Don Valley, helps to remember the importance of the river’s long history with the city.

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Jennifer L. Bonnell’s book helps people remember the importance of the Don Valley.

said. “Today it is completely different, now we value and protect the green space.”

Bonnell’s latest book documents 200 years around the Don Valley – covering its 19th century days to the 20th century and the integral part it played acting as an enabler for the city to expand.

The planning of the DVP was an opportunity planners sought after opening the road

to the development of the northeastern part of the city, facilitating growth.

Today the Don Valley’s transformation to a site harnessing the river and its valley as part of the effort to build a prosperous metropolis is fascinating, Bonnell said.

Nowadays, one would be hard-pressed to find people who do not treasure the ravines and green spaces the Don Valley offers.

Yet, Bonnell said many residents are unaware of the importance of the valley to the city.

“The vast majority of Torontonians experience the Don Valley through their windshield.

“There isn’t a lot of awareness of the historical role the Don Valley has had in the development of our city,” she said.

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Award-winning author and Riverdale resident Ken Setterington has gained international acclaim for his book Branded by the Pink Triangle.

The non-fiction book intended for young adults discusses the persecution and treatment of homosexuals by the Nazi regime during the Holocaust, a topic rarely discussed.

“We need to know our history and recognize what happened during the Holocaust so we can move forward,” Setterington said. “And there is still persecution of gays around the world today.”

Eleven million people were killed during the Holocaust, roughly five million were nonJewish including Jehovah’s Witnesses, Roma, the dis-

abled, mixed raced couples (African and German) and gay men. These groups are often under-reported, forgotten about when the history of the Holocaust is discussed, Setterington said.

Survivor stories

The book, which ties in first-person accounts and stories from survivors into the larger context of gay persecution, took roughly four years to complete as Setterington spent time researching in the Netherlands and Germany.

Setterington grew up learning about the Holocaust, but was unaware until later that gay men were imprisoned and marked with a pink triangle on their uniforms.

“When I became a teenager, I realized I was gay, then I discovered gay men were also victims in the Holocaust

and the pink triangle was the symbol they wore when they were sent to the concentration camps,” Setterington said.

The book, intended for children, has faced some debate about the book’s classification as readers expressed their concern about the graphic content and its appropriateness for children.

But Setterington said the book respects the reader’s ability to handle the subject matter giving credit to children ages 12 and up.

When asked about the timing of the book and the role it has played in its success, Setterington said if the book was written 15 or 20 years ago it wouldn’t have been released, which says a lot. “The time is right.”

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