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Beach fire IT’S COLD OUT THERE services could be cut in budget JOANNA LAVOIE jlavoie@insidetoronto.com Fire trucks aren’t gravy. That’s the message Ward 30 Councillor Paula Fletcher (Toronto-Danforth) underlined while discussing a proposal in the upcoming city budget to eliminate an aerial fire truck from the Riverdale Fire Station at 840 Gerrard St. E. at Carlaw Avenue. Fletcher said she feels the reduction of services at the fire hall in her ward would have significant negative impacts, especially on the waterfront and downtown east. “By 2015, we’ll have 11,000 people in the West Don Lands, and Queens Quay keeps growing,” she said, noting there are currently no plans to build a new fire station in the West Don Lands and East Bayfront communities. “I’m concerned. The impact on fire services in these new communities is pretty serious. I don’t believe removing fire services is a wise thing to do.” Two letters, recently penned by Fletcher and neighbouring Councillor Pam McConnell ( Ward 28, Toronto CentreRosedale) to Toronto Fire Chief Jim Sales and Jennifer >>>MORE, page 10

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Leslie Barns construction continues for another eight weeks Construction work required for the new Leslie Barns facility will continue to impact the vicinity of Lake Shore Boulevard East and Leslie Street for at least eight more weeks. Starting this past Monday, traffic and parking will be affected in several ways for utility chamber work. During construction, Leslie northbound will be restricted

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curb lane on Queen Street East will be restricted for about 20 metres west and 10 metres east of Leslie Street. A flag person will be on hand to assist and guide traffic as needed. Pedestrians and cyclists crossing on the north side of Leslie and Queen will be rerouted. The south crossing will remain open to east/west travel. Street parking, streetcar service

as well as access to local businesses are not expected to be impacted during this work. Access to the Avondale underground parking garage and the laneway behind Gio Rana’s from Queen Street East will also be maintained. Visit www.lesliebarns.ttc.ca, email lesliebarns@ttc.ca or call 416-981-7360 for more information.

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correction wBridgepoint A Jan. 16 article in The Beach Mirror titled ‘Bridgepoint Health takes over Don Jail’ incorrectly referred to the new Toronto South Detention Centre as the Mimico Correctional Centre. This facility was actually demolished several years ago to allow for the construction of the new ‘superjail’. The Mirror regrets the error. Family wCelebrate Literacy Day Celebrate Family Literacy Day, Monday, at east-end Toronto libraries. Events include: • on Friday, Literacy Day Fun Friday at Pape/ Danforth branch; • on Saturday, Scaredy Squirrel Maps at Jones branch and Kamishibai Stories at the Queen/ Saulter branch; • on Monday, Family Literacy Day stories, games and more at the Gerrard/ Ashdale branch; 15 Mi n u t e s o f Fun story time at the Beaches branch; and Library Bingo at the Main Street branch, 137 Main St. Visit www.torontopubliclibrary.com for details. for Nashville tour wfundraiser

The Toronto Beaches Children’s Chorus hosts For the Love of Music to raise funds for its upcoming Nashville tour. The concert takes place Saturday at 2 p.m. at Kingston Road United Church, 975 Kingston Rd. at Scarborough Road. Tickets cost $20 for adults, $15 for students and seniors, or $10 for children under 12. Visit www.torontobeacheschildrenchorus. com clothing event wUber-Swap

Leslieville’s Nathalie-Roze & Co. is hosting its UberSwap event Saturday. Trade and receive

gently used and vintage clothing and accessories without breaking the bank from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Queen Street East Presbyterian Church, 947 Queen St. E. Tickets cost $7 in advance or $10 at the door with a bag of at least 10 winter-appropriate items. Visit http://on.fb. me/1bQvrnA for details about the event and criteria to join. Break info night Jan. 29 wSpring

A Spring Break information sharing night Wednesday, Jan. 29. The evening takes place from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Lazy Daisy’s Café, 1515 Gerrard St. E. at Coxwell Avenue and aims to bring parents together to help each other find good camps and activities for their kids during the upcoming spring break. about elder care wLearn

A free seminar about care for the elderly takes place in the Beach Wednesday, Jan. 29. Elder Care: Longevity with Dignity takes place from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Beach Business Hub, 2181 Queen St. E., Ste. 301. Email James. Cockfield@nbpcd.com to reserve. society meeting wHistorical

The Riverdale Historical Society (RHS) hosts author Jane Fairburn Jan. 28. Fa i r b u r n , a u t h o r of Along the Shore, speaks 6 p.m. at St. Matthew’s Clubhouse, 450 Broadview Ave. Admission is free for RHS members. Non-members pay $5. Memberships will be available for sale at the event. Visit www.riverdalehistoricalsociety.com for more information. comes to the port lands wKURIOS

Cirque du Soleil’s yellow

and blue big top tent will once again be pitched in the port lands. The Montreal-based touring company’s 35th new production, KURIOS – Cabinet of curiosities, will come to Toronto starting Aug. 28. A tale of a fantasy world where everything is possible, KURIOS will make its debut in Montreal this spring. Advance tickets will be available for purchasing online starting April 7 at www.cirquedusoleil. com/kurios throw hat in the ring wCandidates

Broadcast journalist Liz West is once again running to represent Ward 30 at city hall. West lost to longtime Toronto-Danforth incumbent Paula Fletcher by 259 votes in the 2010 municipal election. Fletcher’s office confirmed she does intend to run again but has yet to formally register her candidacy. Mark Borden and Daniel Trayes are also in the running. O v e r i n Wa rd 3 2 (Beaches-East York), incumbent Mar yMargaret McMahon has registered to run for a second time. Challenging her so far are Michael C o n n o r a n d Ja m e s Sears. chapter of running club wbeach

The Achilles Running Club, which provides people with disabilities the opportunity to run, has a Beach chapter. In the winter, runners are invited to meet at Monarch Park Stadium at Greenwood and Coxwell avenues Saturdays at 8:30 a.m. In the spring, runners meet in the parking lot at Woodbine Beach, 1681 Lake Shore Blvd. E. also at 8:30 a.m. For more information about the Beach chapter, call Duff McLaren at 416519-1345 or visit www. achillescanada.ca

From SmartCentres to StudioCentre on Eastern Avenue

After OMB defeat, new mixed-used hub for interactive digital media uses is in the works

JOANNA LAVOIE jlavoie@insidetoronto.com With ideas to build a 700,000square-foot big box shopping complex firmly rejected by the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB), SmartCentres is now looking to construct an “urban employment campus” on the 18.4-acre site that once housed the Toronto Film Studios. “We listened to the community and what they wanted,” said Sandra Kaiser, vice-president of corporate affairs for SmartCentres, noting recent plans to build an auto mall on the disused portion of the Eastern Avenue site have now been shelved. “We’re thinking about today, tomorrow and the next day. We’re patient. We listened to what the community told us and we put on our thinking caps.” What SmartCentres is looking to do is develop the remainder of 629, 633 and 675 Eastern Ave. into StudioCentre, a 1.22-million square foot mixed-used hub for interactive digital media uses. The plan is to maintain and refurbish the current Revival 629 (formerly Toronto Film Studios) film studio, office and production spaces on the property and construct 800,000 square feet of new office/flex space, 150,000 square feet of retail/service space and 80,000 square feet of hotel space on the vacant eastern portion of the site. Public amenity areas as well as pedestrian and cycling links to Lake Shore Boulevard East and the Martin Goodman Trail are also proposed as

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are extensions of Winnifred, Caroline and Larchmount avenues. The majority of the nearly 900 proposed parking spaces will be located above-grade in parking garages inside various office buildings on the property, which served as a temporary detention centre for those arrested during the 2010 G20 Summit. SmartCentres estimates this new hub will lead to the creation of 4,000 permanent jobs in the creative and knowledge-based industries as well as 400 new positions in the retail/

service/hotel sector. A zoning bylaw amendment is needed for this site to allow for the proposed office and hotel uses as well as expanded retail/service commercial uses. This application was submitted to the city in June. Extensive engineering work will be required to raise the eastern side of the site by about four feet as it falls within the Don River flood plain, said Ornella Richichi, SmartCentres’ executive vice-president of land development, during a recent interview at a Leslieville café. Shovels won’t likely go into the ground before 2016, she said. “I think the community will be very glad to have something of this quality here,” Richichi said. “We think it’s time for this property to develop with this calibre of development. ... We want to make sure we got it right this time.” For eight years now, Ward 30

Councillor Paula Fletcher supported Leslieville residents in their fight to stop big box retail from coming to the community. At this point, the TorontoDanforth representative said she’s “cautiously optimistic” about the new plans for the Eastern Avenue site. “These are early days. ... After you’ve had a standoff for so long how, do you bring everybody together and re-establish that trust?” said Fletcher, adding maintaining this property for employment uses, including office space, is of utmost importance. “People do want to see the site improved. (SmartCentres) had to step back and come back with something that would work.” With retail uses included in the plans for the site, Fletcher said she’d work on behalf of her constituents to ensure SmartCentres’ plan moves forward exactly as presented, while

ensuring film studio and industry uses are at the forefront. “These are pretty big goals,” she said, adding the idea of creating a digital/film campus is intriguing. “Those are the types of jobs we envisioned for this area.” Further, Fletcher said she’d work to ensure the plans for the SmartCentres site fit in well with the city’s overall vision for south of Eastern Avenue as well as the master transportation plan for the port lands. SmartCentres is holding an open house Monday, Jan. 27 from 5 to 7 p.m. at Revival 629, 629 Eastern Ave., 2nd Floor. The City of Toronto will hold a community consultation that same night, also at Revival 629, from 7 to 9 p.m.

Visit www.studiocentre.com or email info@studiocentre.com for details.

Celebrate poet Robbie Burns – and haggis – with McGugan’s Scottish Pub REBECCA FIELD bsrm@insidetoronto.com Pudding made of heart, liver, lungs, oatmeal, spices and stock encased in a sheep’s stomach is a hearty enough meal to send a bagpiper across foggy Scottish moors, according to celebrated poet Robbie Burns. For some Torontonians, it may be enough to send them in the opposite direction – that is, away from the traditional, yet misunderstood national dish of Scotland: haggis. “Naysayers will tell you that the only way they can get haggis down is if they can have scotch on the side, which is of course crap,” said Mary McGugan, owner of McGugan’s Scottish Pub at Jones Avenue and Gerrard Street. “Haggis is lovely,

especially with HP sauce – and you can quote me on that!” McGugan’s is hosting upcoming Robbie Burns nights Friday and Saturday before Burns’ actual birthday Jan. 25. The night is held at Scottish pubs across the globe to celebrate the poet’s birthday. “He’s a poet. He was also a drunkard and a philanderer,” said McGugan, who opened the pub in honour of her Scottish father who died when she was 16. “(Burns) fell into a depression several times. He was born a poor farmer and then gained acclaim as a poet.” “It makes me love the Scottish people that they loved someone so flawed,” McGugan said. Burns was most notable for

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Mary McGugan, left, and Bryan Burke are owners of McGugan’s pub.

authoring Auld Lang Syne in 1788. It wouldn’t be a Robbie Burns night without a reading of his “Address to a Haggis” before a

Scotsman takes out his “wee knife”, traditionally carried around in his sock, and plunges it into the dish, McGugan said. “It’s an absolutely cumbersome poem to read,” McGugan said. “I’m always trying to get anybody to do this thing. It’s a bugger to read, it’s long, but you know what, you gotta do it.” The poem is 42 lines long and is read only after the haggis is brought in by bagpipe procession. McGugan’s will be serving other traditional dishes at the dinner including a “Wee Scotch Egg” and Cock a Leekie soup. Scotch will be served with all four courses of the dinner, which costs $49. “There aren’t a lot of Scottish pubs (in Toronto), there are a lot

of Irish pubs,” McGugan said. “I think we’re just a community that likes to celebrate all of the heritages, and this is a major event for Scottish people.” McGugan said many people who don’t want to pay for the four-course dinner will be able to come in for a pint and some Scottish tasters at the bar. “There’s a lot of people that want to come and want a tasting of Burns, but they don’t want the full meal,” McGugan said. “They might come and celebrate, listen to the piper, have a pint, have a scotch and maybe have some deep-fried haggis balls to say that they’ve tried haggis.”

To read Address to the Haggis and other Robbie Burns works, visit http://bit.ly/KGm0fs

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e know that the privilege of hosting large international events – such as the Olympics, a World Expo or the Pan-American Games – comes with incredible opportunities for the host city. But the lure of those opportunities must be carefully measured. In Toronto, the 2015 Pan/Parapan American Games are a little more than a year away. More than 10,000 athletes and officials – and more than 250,000 tourists – are expected to visit the city. As an accompaniment, these Games bring significant worldwide exposure as well as infrastructure improvements throughout Toronto. The potential for a significant, lasting positive impact on the city is enormous. But in that vein, this week’s decision by Toronto’s Economic Development Committee to defer pursuing a bid for the 2024 Olympic our view Games is hardly surprising. There appeared to be little enthusiasm to pursue an opportunity that Volunteers was costly (estimates suggest a help build our bid alone would cost between $50 million and $60 million), and city unlikely to be successful, given the likelihood of the United States gearing up a bid for those same games. And with the impending Pan Ams, as Deputy Mayor Norm Kelly pointed out, it is unwise to pursue anything that would “take our eye off the ball.” The decision is prudent, but we believe the experience of hosting the Pan Ams will be helpful to the city for future bids for international events. While an Olympic bid has been deferred, the committee did leave debate about a potential bid for the 2025 World Expo up to Toronto City Council. While we must, when prudent, seize the opportunities provided by these once-in-a-lifetime events, these aren’t the only opportunities out there to improve our neighbourhoods. City-building has never been restricted to bricks and mortar projects. The actions of our volunteers matter. For example, last weekend, some 200 volunteers showed up at The Bargains Group on Caledonia Road to help pack 3,000 survival kits for the homeless. These kinds of local community projects may not be as glamorous. They may cost less. But it’s hard to argue with the ongoing value they provide in enriching the community.

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Toronto heeds call for Olympic caution It used to be that all it took was a whiff of Olympic gold in the air for a certain segment of the Toronto political and business class to slick down their hair, don their Sunday best, grab a bunch of flowers (and a stack of plane tickets) and go a-courting. That crazy, hungry optimism is in short supply in 2014. Now our political leadership responds to the possibility of launching an Olympic bid with a big tub of ice cream, a comfortable set of pajamas and a binge on ’50s weepies on Netflix. On Monday, Toronto was so medal-shy that not a single proponent of a 2024 Olympic bid showed up to pitch it to Toronto’s Economic Development Committee. It didn’t help that a report from Ernst and Young indicating Toronto’s prospects of successfully bidding for and then running the games on budget

david nickle the city were slim. The committee agreed, and shelved the proposal indefinitely. But heeding calls for caution is a new thing for Toronto’s would-be Olympians. It doesn’t look bad on them. Toronto squandered a lot of resources and goodwill when it lost the 2008 Olympics to Beijing. The mayor Mel Lastman embarrassed himself and the city, making a joke about being boiled by cannibals on the eve of a goodwill visit to Africa. And because the city’s waterfront development was so closely tied to successfully hosting the Olympics, one might argue that Toronto’s failure set the crucial city-building initiative back rather than forward. Deputy Mayor Norm

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...We, as a city, need to look at our own fundamentals – and recognize the things that make life richer and healthier for Torontonians are also the things that will attract visitors and investment.

Kelly rose this time to make the point that Toronto has other crucial city-building priorities than prettying up for the Olympics. Toronto needs to bring the federal and provincial governments on board to deal with our transportation issues, our housing difficulties and the basics of our city’s finances. And to take his point a step farther, we as a city need to look at our own fundamentals – and

recognize that the things that make life richer and healthier for Torontonians are also the things that will attract visitors and investment. Toronto has a fading reputation as a cultural hub for both Ontario and the American states along the border. It wasn’t so long ago that we were a hub for Broadway-style live theatre in Canada and the northeastern U.S., and we could call ourselves Hollywood North and Broadway North both. Now, we’re best known as the butt of late-night jokes about crack smoking and drunken stupors. But we need to get past both dwelling on our glory days in the limelight and our more recent hours in the gutter – and when we finally do step out, learn to keep that hungry look out of our eyes.

David Nickle is The Mirror’s city hall reporter. His column runs every Thursday.

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Evonne, 416-691-1113, ext. 222 Community Centre 55 hosts a two-day senior trip to Niagara-onthe-Lake April 10 to 11. Registration and money is due Feb. 5. The trip costs $200.

looking ahead Yogathon for Applegrove Community Complex WHEN: 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. WHERE: Applegrove Community Complex, 60 Woodfield Rd. CONTACT: Applegrove Enjoy an afternoon of yoga as professional instructors guide you through Salutations to the Sun. Do as few or as many as you’d like, at your own pace, all the while knowing you’re supporting services for young children and families. Pay what you can ($20 suggested) or you can get pledges.

Foot Care Clinic WHEN: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. WHERE: Community Centre 55, 97 Main St. Community Centre 55 hosts its Foot Care Clinic Jan 27 and March 17 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. by appointment only. Cost, $20. Call 416-6911113 to reserve.

Green Party of Beaches-East York. Business Tips for the New & Experienced Artist. WHEN: 7 to 9 p.m. WHERE: Beach Business Hub, 2181 Queen St. E., No. 301. CONTACT: Cindy Rozeboom, http://eastendarts.ca COST: Free A small panel of new and experienced artists will discuss their experiences with business development.

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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

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Community Centre 55 Niagara region trip WHEN: 1:30 to 9 p.m. WHERE: Community Centre 55, 97 Main St. CONTACT: Evonne, 416-691-1113

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Fundraising goal surpassed for Jeffrey Baldwin memorial jOANNA LAVOIE jlavoie@insidetoronto.com Jeffrey Baldwin would have been 17 on Monday.

But the east-end boy didn’t make it past his sixth birthday dying from severe neglect and abuse at the hands of his maternal grandparents Nov. 30, 2002.

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near the splash pool in Jeffrey’s honour, however that memorial has been vandalized twice, most recently just days after the anniversary of his death. Ward 30 Councillor Paula Fletcher and members of the park stewardship group Friends of Greenwood Park (FROG) worked quickly to repair and replace the damaged tree, but many, including Ottawa father of three Todd Boyce – whose eight-year-old son shared the same Jan. 20 birthday as Jeffrey – felt something more should be done to remember Jeffrey. That’s when a plan was hatched to erect a life-sized bronze statue of the boy dressed in a Superman costume in Greenwood Park. To raise funds for the project, Boyce created a crowd-funding campaign on indiegogo. com aiming to raise $25,000. After less than 60 days, the campaign, which wrapped up Jan. 21, surpassed its fundraising goal by nearly $10,000. “It’s been remarkable to see the level of compassion, especially from people outside of Canada,” Boyce said Tuesday afternoon, adding donations have come in from across Canada and the United States and even

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as far away as Spain, France, New Zealand and Australia. Boyce said several supporters have sent him touching emails about their desire to visit the monument and discuss with their children what it represents. “This story doesn’t know boundaries,” he said. Fletcher said the bronze statue memorial would be a great way to remember the responsibility everyone has to protect society’s most vulnerable and stop child abuse. Late last week, the Parks and Environment Committee passed Fletcher’s motion to request the deputy city manager assist in realizing the monument. The city has since directed Barb Sullivan, chief of protocol in the

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CC55 winter carnival Saturday Community Centre 55 is hosting a day of winter fun for the whole community Saturday. The community centre’s annual winter carnival takes place at Kimberley Junior Public School, 50 Swanwick Ave., from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. The day’s activities will include a bouncy castle and obstacle course as well as kids crafts and games in the school’s gym from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The carnival will also feature a Chinese New Year celebration. Outdoor activities includ-

ing cross-country ski, toboggan and snow shoe races as well as an ice hunt and penguin races are set to begin at noon in the school yard. A bake sale will be held in the school lobby along with refreshments. A pancake breakfast will also be held from 9 to 10 a.m. at the neighbouring Community Centre 55, 97 Main St., at Swanwick Avenue. Admission is $3 per person. All are welcome to attend. For more information, call 416-691-1113.

Learn to eat more wRegistration healthy with course is open until Friday for a five-week course on ways to eat healthier. Craving Change will run from Feb. 25 to March 25 from 2:15 to 4:15 p.m. at the East End Community Health Centre, 1619 Queen St. E. It will offer attendees strategies to change their relationship with food, understand what triggers food cravings and curb problematic eating behaviours. The course is free for those with limited incomes. Space is limited. For more information about criteria or to sign up, call Miriam at 416-778-5805, ext. 210.

Tabuns hosts meeting about long-term care services Toronto-Danforth MP Peter Tabuns is hosting a public meeting on long-term care services Thursday from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. The gathering, which will feature guest speaker Judith Walk, executive director of the Advocacy Centre

for the Elderly, takes place at the WoodGreen Health and Wellness Centre, 721 Broadview Ave. Some of the evening’s topics of discussion are health care consent and advance care planning, discharge from hospital to a long-term care

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Help decide the future of the Gardiner Expressway East We invite you to join us at the third public meeting where you can comment on the results of the evaluation of the alternative solutions for the future of the Gardiner Expressway East. The Study Waterfront Toronto and the City of Toronto are jointly carrying out the Gardiner Expressway/ Lake Shore Boulevard Reconfiguration Environmental Assessment (EA) and Integrated Urban Design Study. The EA will determine the future of the Gardiner Expressway East and Lake Shore Boulevard East, from approximately Jarvis Street to approximately Leslie Street. The study area for the EA is displayed on the map below. Four alternative solutions are being considered: • Maintain the elevated expressway; • Improve the urban fabric while maintaining the existing expressway; • Replace with a new above-or-below grade expressway; and, • Remove the elevated expressway and build a new boulevard. Get Involved Interested persons are invited to participate through a series of public meetings, live webcasts, workshops and online opportunities. If you can’t attend in person, you can participate and watch the meeting online at www.gardinereast.ca.

Gardiner Expressway East Public Meeting Thursday, February 6, 2014 6:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. at The Bram & Bluma Appel Salon, Toronto Reference Library 789 Yonge Street, Toronto (Bloor Street subway station) Open house begins at 6:30 p.m.; presentations at 7:00 p.m. Please register at: www.gardinereastpublicmeetingfeb6.eventbrite.ca For more information or to be added to the project mailing list, contact info@gardinereast.ca, or call (416) 479-0662. To learn about the project or contribute your insights and views please visit www.gardinereast.ca.

Kids Help Phone’s 25th anniversary gets $2.5-million boost from Bell ERIN HATFIELD ehatfield@insidetoronto.com There were times in her life when Stephanie Muskat, 24, could barely cope with the present, let alone imagine a future. But thanks in part to Kids Help Phone, Muskat said she was able to create a successful life for herself. Muskat shared her story of struggle and the support she received from the telephone and online counselling service at a celebration for the launch of the support group’s 25th anniversary year Jan. 15. When she was eight and while her family was on holidays, her mother was stabbed. Muskat developed Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Then, beginning in Grade 9 and throughout high school, she began to experience significant anxiety. “I was worried about my safety all the time, worried about being left alone or something happening to

my family and I had a lot of school-related anxiety around tests and exams,” Muskat explained. “These thoughts became relentless and for about a year I felt as if I was walking around in a cloud separated from reality.” Great help She started seeing a councillor, but said she also called the Kids Help Phone two or three times a day. By 20, she no longer needed to call and said that thanks to Kids Help Phone she was able to move on with her life. Today, Muskat works as a research analyst in the eating disorders program at Toronto General Hospital and is a mental health advocate. Muskat’s story is a success Kids Help Phone seeks to emulate. But as technology changes, so too must Kids Help Phone. Sharon Wood, president and CEO of Kids Help Phone, said it is vital that Kids Help

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC INFORMATION CENTRE ASHBRIDGES BAY EROSION AND SEDIMENT CONTROL PROJECT Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA), in partnership with the City of Toronto, is conducting a Conservation Ontario Class Environmental Assessment study to address erosion and sediment control issues at Ashbridges Bay. The study is being undertaken to identify solutions to address the existing navigation risk caused by sediment deposition at the harbour entrances of Coatsworth Cut and Ashbridges Bay Park, while considering approved projects and waterfront planning initiatives in the area. The study area is shown on the map below. Please join us at our second Public Information Centre to learn about the study, the evaluation of the alternatives, the preferred alternative, and the next steps in the study process. The Public Information Centre will be a drop-in open house that will provide an opportunity for you to view display boards, discuss the project with the TRCA, City of Toronto and consultant staff, and provide input into the planning process. Details are as follows: Date: Thursday February 6, 2014 Time: 6:30pm to 8:30pm Location: Toronto EMS and Fire Academy, 895 Eastern Avenue, Toronto, Main Auditorium If you have any questions or comments and/or would like to be placed on the study mailing list to receive further information, please contact:

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More people, less service means lives endangered: firefighters’ association change with development applications by SmartCentres at 629 Eastern Ave., as well as the Master Planning exercise at the First Gulf site on the former Lever Brothers property off the Don Roadway. Further, they pointed to the ongoing requirements of industry, most notably the film industry, the Ashbridges Bay Sewage Treatment Plant, the new Leslie Barns light rail

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Toronto Community Housing hopes to sell properties in the Beach JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com Tempers flared recently at Toronto and East York Community Council over a preliminary report filed by the Toronto Community Housing Corporation (TCHC) asking to sever lots in the Beach as it gets set to sell off the properties there. The properties in question are at 2, 4 and 6 Wineva Ave. and 3, 5, 7 and 9 Hubbard Ave., and TCHC plans to use the money from their sale to help cover the costs of a massive backlog in maintenance and repairs on other TCHC properties. TCHC Development Director Laurie Payne noted as of 2012, TCHC’s capital repairs backlog stood at $751 million. She estimated that figure goes up by roughly $100 million a year. She acknowledged selling the properties was not a perfect solution. “In an ideal world, we would repair these homes and all the other homes we have,” she said. According to TCHC estimates, each of the seven properties that would be created through severing the land could bring in $1.4

umbrage at Perks’ comments toward those who supported the proposal. “Nobody wants to lose (public housing,)” he said. “I think comments that things weren’t thought through or we’re taking the easy way is not respectful.” Beaches-East York Councillor Janet Davis was among those who were fearful the decision could set a precedent. PrecEdent

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million. “That’s $10 million into our capital repair budget,” she said. As TCHC has already received approval to sell the properties, most of which are currently vacant, council voted narrowly in favour of severing the land. The proposed solution, however, angered many of the councillors. Parkdale-High Park Councillor Gord Perks was the most vocal opponent of the plan, calling it “the easy

answer” and saying those who supported the notion did not think it through. “It’s bad for the social health of Toronto,” he said. “I do think the easy answer was put in front of us.” The councillors all lamented the loss of social housing, and the properties in question had been approved for sale in 2011. With that in mind, St. Paul’s Councillor Josh Matlow took

In selling off public housing units without replacing them, she said she fears other developers might be able to look at the decision as an example that can be followed. She noted council would automatically shoot down a proposal from a for-profit developer that would see rental units sold off and not replaced. “TCHC is looking to sever the properties in order to relieve itself of the obligation to replace (the units,)” she said. “We’re setting the bar, the standard, differently for ourselves than we do for others.” To r o n t o Ce n t re - Ro s e d a l e Councillor Pam McConnell said it was deplorable the homes in ques-

tion and other TCHC properties were allowed to fall into such a state of disrepair, calling it “demolition by neglect.” She added not enough of an effort was made to replace the units. “A lot of these units could have been annexed into other housing cooperatives,” she said. “It’s very sad to me that our housing corporation always eyed these (properties) as a cash cow.” Beaches-East York Councillor Mary-Margaret McMahon, in whose ward the houses stand, said she was surprised a preliminary report stirred up such controversy. While she, like the others, was opposed to the sale of TCHC land, she wanted to be able to move forward to a community consultation phase regarding the properties and for TCHC to not be hamstrung. “We all believe in mixed neighbourhoods; that’s what makes this city great. Do we want homes sitting empty on the Beach or do we want people waiting on that extremely long wait list (for social housing) to move into homes?”

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An evening of hockey fun is set to take place Friday. The Balmy Beach Club’s second annual Winter Classic will get underway at 6 p.m. at the Kew Gardens rink with three matches by the local club’s house league. An after-party at the Balmy Beach Club, at the foot of Beach Avenue, will begin at 8 p.m. The festivities will also include a raffle draw for three signed Toronto Maple Leaf jerseys. Limo bus transportation is available to and from the rink to the Balmy Beach Club. The Winter Classic is held in memory of John ‘Jocko’ Thompson, a Beach resident who played hockey with the league but died from a heart attack about six years ago while playing hockey at Ted Reeve Arena.

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“It was what you’d find if you cut branches off a tree and threw them out. I thought, ‘We’re supposed to do something with this?,” he said. “It seemed disrespectful to saw it all up and make a shelf. So we decided we needed to keep the branches intact.” The designers donated their time to make the pieces, which will be sold or auctioned to raise funds for LEAF. Keller said he loves both the urban and natural worlds. An avid single-track mountain bike rider, Keller rides in the Don Valley. “When you’re in there, the city just goes away,” said Keller, who enjoys looking up through the tree branches to see the light trickling through. It is on those rides that he was inspired to create his exhibition piece, a lamp whose base is made of compressed leaves soaked in polyester resin. The branches stand upright in the polyester resin. “It’s very dramatic,” Keller said of the seven-foot tall lamp. “In the end, it was a really fun project, very challenging – like a chess game.”

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