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Robbie Burns dinner Saturday Fallingbrook Presbyterian Church hosts a Robbie Burns Dinner and Ceilidh Saturday.

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New members and guests are welcome to attend. There will be light refreshments.

The meeting will take place at Adam Beck Community Centre, 79 Lawlor Ave., from 7:15 to 9 p.m. Email beachgs.ca@gmail.com or visit www.beachgs.ca

Flea market is moving from its east-end home to the Distillery District.

The market features more than 70 vendors selling arts and crafts, antiques, furniture, vintage goods and more.

Starting Sunday, the monthly market will move to the Distillery District and stay there through April. It runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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Free nutrition consultations at CC55 monday East-end nutritionist Sheila Ream will be holding free private consultations on healthy eating Monday.

Ream will offer half-hour appointments at Community Centre 55, 97 Main St., from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Call 416-691-1113 to reserve your space.

Health Centre, 1619 Queen St. E., is offering a program called Healthy Family, Healthy Life for parents and children.

The program will help families learn how to plan and cook nutritious meals, shop smarter for groceries and get fit.

It is free to families with limited income, with children ages eight to 18, who live in the East End Community Health Centre catchment area. The program runs Wednesdays from Jan. 22 to March 26 from 5 to 7:30 p.m.

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Journalists document how coyote divides community ‘Neville in my Backyard’ documentary shows support for defending and killing coyotes REBECCA FIELD bsrm@insidetoronto.com The man who cried coyote has made a Beach neighbourhood into the subject of a documentary that is currently featured on BellLocal TV. Neville in my Backyard – a play on Not In My Backyard or NIMBYism – was produced by Sarah Hunter and Sean Liliani, two Toronto-based journalists. The short film takes a look at Neville Park’s coyote and the tension he’s caused neighbours.

The film interviews neighbours who view “Neville” the coyote as part of their life. On the other side of the spectrum, the documentary takes a look at one man, Chris Peters, who lost his dog Cujo to a coyote and his determination to get rid of Neville.

“People feel really strongly about the animal,” said Hunter, who has been following the story since 2006 when a coyote ran off with a resident’s chihuahua.

“There are a lot of people in Neville Park who want to make sure that he’s (Neville) safely protected and that he’s allowed to live out his days in their backyard,” Hunter said. “And then there are a lot of people who feel very threatened by him. That’s the tension I guess that attracted us to this story.”

The film is a shorter version of a final feature film Hunter hopes to complete and enter into Toronto’s

Hot Docs Festival in 2015.

Hunter and Liliani were able to get lots of footage of the coyote roaming around over the years, and ended up having to omit footage of a hunter from Newmarket who was recruited to come into town and get rid of the wild animal.

“It seems like a crazy story. Things just evolved very quickly,” said Hunter. “A hunter was brought in and he was told to take a hike.”

Hunter cited some incidents where the city was asked to come in and set up traps, which ended up being interfered with by residents of the neighbourhood.

There were also some stories of First Nations groups who came into the area and requested to trap the animal and bring it back to their reserve.

She also cited work

by Peters to get rid of the coyote on his own terms after the death of his dog.

“It was a profound loss for his family because it was the only dog they’d ever had,” Hunter said.

“He was very aggressive in trying to get rid of the coyote after that.

He was really passionate when his dog died about getting

this animal out of the ravine.”

Peters blocked off some of the dens in one of his neighbour’s backyards at their request, but said it did little to keep the coyotes out of the neighbourhood.

Peters said he is disappointed the coyote remains in the neighbourhood.

“I have to say I’m very disappointed with the results (of his lobbying) because there hasn’t been a n y a c t i o n by animal services and Councillor Mary-Margaret McMahon has not accepted the premise that the animal is a danger to public safety,” said Peters, who noted there are now four coyotes that have been spotted by residents of the neighbourhood – a male, a female and their two pups.

“They need to be removed before someone is bitten,” Peters said.

A coyote took his Maltese dog named Cujo when he let him out in the backyard

during an evening last February. He chased the coyote and later found an injured Cujo who later had to be euthanized.

“I’m disappointed because the city’s response was to promote coexistence,” said Peters, who noted some of the residents are feeding the coyotes, which the city discourages. “(The coyotes) are running around jumping over fences – it’s ridiculous.”

Some of his neighbours, however, are still interested in having the coyotes stay, Hunter said.

“Other people who live down in the valley had been living with it for years now and they had grown really attached to it and felt that his behaviour was really non-aggressive,” said Hunter, who has tried to remain neutral on the topic throughout her time filming.

“People ask whenever Sean and I are talking to people about doing this story, inevitably we get asked ‘whose side are you on?’” said Hunter, who emphasized this is not the only example she’s seen of a wild animal living in an urban setting due to human encroachment on their natural habitat. “It’s something we’ll see more in cities and it’s a real issue,” said Hunter, who hopes the film will shed light on both sides of the story.

“People have more of a sense of what the other side was feeling hopefully.”

Coyote safety tips Lots of food, good den locations and no predators means coyotes are here to stay, said Toronto and Region Conservation (TRCA).

The following tips are from the TRCA: • Don’t feed coyotes. They will lose their fear of humans.

• Protect and restore natural areas.

• Install motion-sensitive lighting, keep meat products out of compost bins, keep pet and human food inside and store garbage in secure containers.

• Avoid areas coyotes frequent particularly at dawn and dusk.

• If you encounter a coyote, stay calm and let him move on.

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• Carry a personal alarm, flashlight and umbrella you can open and close to frighten off a coyote if one does approach.

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East ender spinning at Harbourfront’s DJ Skate Nights REBECCA FIELD bsrm@insidetoronto.com It’s like a Canadian version of Roller Boogie happening down at Toronto’s Harbourfront Centre this winter. One east end DJ and his crew are helping warm up the rink with their beats.

Footprints on Ice will be DJing their Funk, Soul and Jazzy beats as part of DJ Skate Nights at Harbourfront Centre’s Natrel Rink on Saturday.

The event runs for 12 consecutive Saturdays on the rink through to March 1 and features some of Toronto’s top DJ’s.

“It will be my first time skating since high school probably,” said Stuart Li who started Footprints with DJ Jason Palma 11 years ago – they were later joined by Jason Sanders (DJ General Eclectic).

Footprints is a DJ event that takes place at the Rivoli on Queen Street West and showcases a fusion new

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DJs Stuart Li, left, Jason Palma, DJ General Eclectic (aka Jason Sanders), are the creative trio behind Footprints, a DJ event that takes place at the Rivoli. They will be spinning tunes this Saturday at Habourfront Centre.

and old funk, soul, jazz, hip hop, R&B, Reggae, and Brazilian beats.

“It will be great because it will probably give the night and the

music exposure outside of its normal type of audience as well,” said Li who started Footprints as a way to seek out a warmer, more inviting atmosphere for his music than at a club. He said he hopes DJ Skate Nights will give the same type of vibe.

“It’s for the community – for people to get together and to expose people to different talent in the city, whether it be DJs, musicians and other kinds of art. It’s important and it’s fun,” said Li who lives near Greenwood Avenue and Gerrard Street.

This is an annual event for DJs held by the Harbourfront Centre, but this is the first year that event programmer Sergio Elmir is booking pre-produced Toronto-based events such as Footprints on Ice. “Footprints is one of Toronto’s longest-running parties,” Elmir said. Other events include Yes Yes

Valentines, Soca on Ice as well as Pop! Goes the World – a Korean pop dance party themed night to celebrate the Lunar New Year.

“It’s always a good time,” Elmir said. “It reminds you that there’s still a spirit, still a vibe in the city even though we’re all sort of bunkered down and want to just stay in our homes under a blanket.”

Up to 500 people attend the weekly event, according to Elmir.

The centre also provides hot chocolate, skate rentals, a fire pit and a warming centre along with the music.

“Skating is obviously a long running tradition and we’re trying to bring it into the new era,” Elmir said.

“We’re trying to give you a reason to get out of your house and show winter who’s boss.”

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he ice storm that hit Toronto at the end of last month imposed severe hardship, physically, emotionally and financially, upon hundreds of thousands of residents.

Which makes the behaviour of councillors and the mayor at the special meeting held last Friday and this Monday to approve a call to seek financial help from the provincial and federal governments to help cover ice storm costs so disappointing.

There are many issues surrounding the storm’s impact, costs associated with it and how the city’s leadership dealt with the crisis. The meeting was held to deal with those important items, yet it turned into a forum for petty politics and blatant electioneering.

We deserve better from our officials. And they need to our view elected know most voters can see through what they were up to at the meetWarning: ing, and it will only reflect badly on themselves. After unanimously Voters are approving Monday morning what watching was a no-brainer of a decision to ask for federal and provincial disaster relief funding to cover two-thirds of the estimated $171-million cost to the city for the ice storm and the flooding in July, the silliness started.

Councillor Karen Stintz, who has said she intends to run for mayor in this year’s election, said Mayor Rob Ford should have handed over authority to Deputy Mayor Norm Kelly during the ice storm instead of taking the limelight for himself.

Ford fired back at her and then went on to take shots at Kelly; accusing him of not being a leader during the crisis. Kelly accurately said the meeting was “degenerating into an embarrassing melee.”

To wrap it up, Councillor Doug Ford, Mayor Ford’s brother, called Councillor John Parker “pathetic”.

That came about after Parker made a remark about Mayor Ford thanking city staff for their work during the ice storm.

Pathetic is what we would call the entire meeting.

The request for funding could have been quickly dealt with Friday. Of course it was going to be a unanimous vote. The only reason the meeting continued was because too many councillors were using it for selfish motives. With this being a municipal election year, voters in this city need to take a hard look at our representatives. The behaviour of many of them on Monday and Friday should not have improved their re-election chances.

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Rob Ford shows he’s in fighting form Anybody still thinking Rob Ford won’t be a formidable force in the 2014 mayor’s race need look no farther than this week’s special ice storm council meeting to disabuse themselves of the idea.

It’s not that the mayor suddenly revealed himself to be suddenly improved at the job he still nominally holds.

He’s still just as scandalridden in 2014 as he was at the end of 2013. And he’s not making any more friends on council.

But for all that, Ford showed the world this week what a political pit-fighter can do in a forum where all his opponents still feel they ought to constrain themselves by civility.

Ford properly entered Monday’s forum, the second day of the two-day meeting, after council had dispensed with the crucial non-question of whether the city should ask for provincial and federal aid

david nickle the city to deal with the cost of the December ice storm. After a speech in which he praised city and Hydro staff and chided his colleagues for not doing so themselves, the fight was on.

The marquee match came when TTC Chair and mayoral hopeful Karen Stintz rose to take on Ford.

Through a series of carefully-laid-out prosecutorial questions, she attempted to establish that Ford’s decision not to declare a state of emergency during the ice storm flowed from his unwillingness to surrender power to his Deputy Mayor Norm Kelly and that doing so harmed the cleanup.

She didn’t stand a chance.

It was like watching a Marquis-of-Kingsbury boxer take on one of the droogs from A Clockwork Orange.

When Stintz tried to set things up and ask the mayor if he agreed the city would have been better served by having one mayor in charge, Ford shot back that he was in charge and did just fine, and went on to assert that Stintz herself had done nothing to help get the TTC up and running.

By the time Stintz was able to counter that attack and push her core argument to the fore, she was reduced to trying to shout over the mayor, who wondered, “What are you so angry for?”

If Stintz goes ahead and files her papers for the mayor’s race, that’s what she’ll be facing, debate after debate: a taunting, confident incumbent who in spite of any evidence you might care to throw at him won’t back down.

Stintz wasn’t the only one to buckle in the face of Ford’s bulldozing style.

When Councillor Joe

Mihevc went after Ford’s voting record, Ford turned it around and went after Mihevc’s travel record.

When Kelly tried to correct Ford’s mischaracterization of his own work ethic, Ford went on the attack.

Scarborough-Rouge River Councillor Raymond Cho’s almost plaintive questioning of the mayor’s aggressive tactics was met with more mockery, as the mayor bobbed and weaved and laughed off attacks from all corners.

In the end, it wasn’t so much that Ford left the room looking particularly good, as that he’d left everyone around him looking foolish and flustered.

As this election year progresses, any candidate hoping to deny Ford a second term is going to have to find a way to fortify their inner calm.

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Beach Garden Society WHEN: 7:15 to 9 p.m. WHERE: Adam Beck Community Centre, 79 Lawlor Ave. CONTACT: Marcha Armstrong, 416-698-8298, marchabgs@ gmail.com COST: first visit free, then join society Presentation: “What You Absolutely Need to Grow in 2014!”Come early and enjoy informal discussions with members or check out the library.

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Senior Lunch Bunch Senior Lunch Bunch meets at Beach United Church, 140 Wineva Ave., every other Wednesday for a program from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., lunch until 1:30 p.m. Cost, $5. Transport to lunches available for a small fee. Call Neighbourhood Link 416-691-7407.

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WHEN: 1:30 to 9 p.m. WHERE: Community Centre 55, 97 Main St. CONTACT: Evonne, 416-691-1113 Join Community Centre 55 for a trip to the Niagara region including stops at the Upper Canada Cheese Company, Betty’s Restaurant and the Festival of Lights Jan. 30 from 1:30 to 9 p.m. Cost, $55 and includes lunch.

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Conscious Living Book Club WHEN: 7:30 to 9 p.m. WHERE: The Remarkable Bean, 2242 Queen St. E. CONTACT: Bronwyn van Vugt, bronwyn@greenbeaches.ca COST: Free We choose books that inspire us to live our lives conscious of the planet and of those around us. Book suggestions and new members always welcome. Event hosted by the Green Party of Beaches-East York.

ongoing Climate Action Group East Toronto Climate Action Group are citizens who are concerned about smog, climate change and other environmental issues as they impact the city and particularly east Toronto.

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DailyFlag raises $15,000 to help the hungry JOANNA LAVOIE jlavoie@insidetoronto.com The third annual incarnation of a colourful, communitybased fundraising campaign in the Beach has raised close to $15,000 for the Daily Bread Food Bank.

DailyFlag for DailyBread (DFDB), a unique Advent calendar-inspired art installation along Leuty and Violet avenues, was created by Leuty Avenue residents Benedict Hilliard and his partner Michelynn Laflèche.

Inspired by a similar project the couple had done while living in the United kingdom, DFDB turns neighbours into flag makers with a new creation unveiled daily during the 25 days of Advent from Dec. 1 to 25.

People are then invited to bid on the flag they liked the most or make monetary donations online at http://dailyflagfordailybread.wordpress.com This year, bids, which officially closed Jan. 11 at 6 p.m., came in from as far away as the United Kingdom, Germany,

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Supporters could also dropoff non-perishable food donations at the fire hall near Queen Street East and Woodbine Avenue.

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Riverdale resident is U of T basketball’s all-time leading scorer NORM NELSON nnelson@insidetoronto.com A former star player for local basketball powerhouse Eastern Commerce Saints has become the University of Toronto Varsity Blue’s all-time leading scorer.

Alex Hill, who still lives in Riverdale where he grew up, set the mark Jan. 5 as he contributed 22 points in a 75-59 loss to cross town rival Ryerson Rams, the fourth top ranked team in the country.

Hill surpassed the former Varsity Blues’ record total of 1,269 points compiled by Dave West in a post-secondary career that ended nearly half a century ago in 1965.

“It’s an honour. It’s kind of overwhelming because I wasn’t really thinking about it and, now, as my dad put it to me, not only is it a 50-year record, but the school’s been around for 200 years or whatever,” he said in a phone interview.

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nity to play professionally over in Europe. That’s the goal right now,” he said “So after the season’s done, I’ll probably take a few weeks off and then see where my options are and start training again.” improving record

tops in Ontario University Athletics (OUA) and second best in the country after a dozen games. He’s improved his point total every year from 18.1 last season, 15.9 in 2011 and 14.9 in 2010. He kicked off his first year of university basketball in the United States.

“I think this summer I really focused a lot more on my diet and my training. I was in the gym probably six hours a day either lifting weights, conditioning or playing basketball,” he said.

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About the only downside to his final year of school ball, he has been his team’s struggle to put up wins of which the Varsity Blues only boasts two in their first 12 games.

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Hill led his Saints team in scoring in his senior year, averaging 14 points per game. The Saints earned a silver medal at the provincial high school championships, but when asked what his fondest highlight from high school was, he said: “I would say winning Toronto south (division) every year against Oakwood.”

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Don Valley cable cars could improve access to Brick Works Fixing city’s RAHUL GUPTA rgupta@insidetoronto.com Could cable cars one day become a dependable way of traveling into the city’s ravines? A Toronto-based company thinks so.

Bullwheel International Cable Car Corporation is floating a proposal to build a gondola network descending into the Don Valley from Danforth Avenue and connecting with the Evergreen Brick Works conservation centre.

Not much is known about the idea, including how much it would cost and when it would be built, but cable-propelled transit (CPT) – which has been used for well more than 100 years across the world from mountainous regions to denser, urban areas such as New York City and London – would be ideal for the Don Valley, according to the company’s founder.

“There are many, many variables and obstacles, but given the success of this kind of technology in other locales, it only seems logical to see if this is worth pursuing,” said Steven Dale by email Tuesday.

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Getting to the Brick Works via transit isn’t easy. The centre had to scrap its shuttle bus from Broadview subway station following flooding damage and is using temporary

Toronto’s trees are looking broken these days, but Evergreen Brick Works has plans for the city’s green spaces this spring.

Evergreen’s Sue Arndt will be working on Toronto’s green canopy beginning Earth Day weekend with hundreds of planned plantings, stewardship and tree monitoring programs across the city.

“We definitely will be focusing on assessing damages (from the December ice storm) as well as encouraging homeowners to think about replacing any trees lost on their properties and assessing the right tree for the right place,” said Arndt, who said they’d have to wait until spring to really see what damages there are.

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One advantage according to Westenberg is the cable car network could be constructed without much upheaval to the local ecosystem since its environmental footprint is smaller than for road building and wouldn’t impact existing traffic. It could also operate in harsh winter conditions.

But he warned the project remains only an idea, and significant questions need answering before anything can be decided.

Toronto-Danforth Councillor Mary Fragedakis said more transportation is needed in the Don Valley.

She said 500,000 visitors came to the Brick Works last year and places such as the Todmorden museum are becoming more popular. The area will also be a hub in a city network planned for the 2015 Pan Am Games.

“Cable cars would be an innovative way to get down there, which would certainly put our community on the map and connect people from a busy area like Broadview and Danforth down into the valley,” Fragedakis said.

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“We’re really excited that we’re entering the last phase of completing the full landscape and campus plan. By fall, the site should be complete.”

Wo r k e r s f r o m P C L Constructors Inc. have since set up green construction hoarding around the circa 1958 building, which is also known as The Don Jail or simply The Don. In about two week’s time, asbestos assessment and abatement work will be among the steps undertaken in preparation for the building’s demolition. Crews will then begin removing windows, large equipment and other materials from the inside of the former jail.

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The last of the Don Jail inmates have been moved out and will eventually be housed in the new Mimico Correctional Centre. The Don was handed over to Bridgepoint Active Healthcare, with plans to have it demolished by April 30.

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Once leveled, a road named Blue Rodeo Way will be built on a sliver of land where the former Toronto Don Jail connected to the Old Don Jail, which was built in 1864 and has recently been repurposed to house administrative offices and the Bridgepoint Collaboratory for Research and Innovation.

The remainder of the Don Jail property, known as Block ‘D’, will be considered for future development, while another road – Bridgepoint Drive – which will lead to the front of the new hospital, is planned for just above this parcel of land.

A large parking lot just southwest of the Toronto Jail site will be home to a new City of Toronto-owned park.

Councillor Paula Fletcher, a proponent of the 10-acre hospital redevelopment project from its inception, called this latest step “a brand new day.”

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it’s finally happening,” said the Ward 30 representative of the closure of the often overburdened provincial jail for inmates awaiting trial.

“Real change can now happen and hopefully it can move pretty quickly.”

Fletcher said she’s also happy to see valuable land nearby earmarked for a new City of Toronto park. She’d even like to hold a contest to name the green space.

In an email to The Mirror, Brent Ross, spokesperson for the Ontario Ministry of Community Safety and Co r re c t i o n a l Se r v i c e s , explained the last of the inmates at the former Toronto Don Jail were transferred to other correctional facilities Nov. 27. They’ll gradually be moved to the new Mimico Correctional Centre in South Etobicoke when it opens Jan. 27.

The new ‘superjail’ for remanded and sentenced inmates will replace the Toronto Jail and the Toronto West Detention Centre in Etobicoke.

Landscaping to begin in April In related Bridgepoint Health construction news, by April, workers will start landscaping around the new 472-bed, $622-million Bridgepoint Hospital as well as working on a new central courtyard at the northwest end of the property.

This new entranceway is next to the former halfround building, which was previously used as the Bridgepoint Health hospital. It will also feature a “plaza” with a water feature, seating and plantings.

The aim is to complete the majority of the tree and shrub plantings on the site by the end of the summer with the landscaping done by the end of the fall.

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