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This will be the second library, with the first opening in Parkdale on March 24. The eastend location, at 1803 Danforth Ave., will lend out more than $30,000 worth of equipment to members.

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Ninety per cent of equipment has been donated by community members.

A launch event was held at Sarah’s Café and Bar Wednesday, June 26 in order to sell memberships and celebrate the new location.

“You can’t work every weekend, on all of your tools,” said Ryan Dyment, an east-end resident and executive director of the Institute for a ResourceBased Economy (IRBE), a nonprofit that runs the tool library as part of their mandate to foster a more sustainable economy.

“Nobody wants to spend $150 on a chop saw,” Dyment said.

Memberships, alternatively, are $50.

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Raz Irfan and his green-winged macaw, Inam, join the party during Canada Day festivities Monday at Ashbridges Bay Park. For more photos, see Page 8.

Graffiti clean-up and mural program begins Monday Rebecca Field rfield@insidetoronto.com The neighbourhoods around Community Centre 55 may be getting a squeaky-clean look as CC55’s Graffiti Removal Information Program (GRIP)

starts its work Monday.

The program runs until Aug. 23 and works to both eliminate graffiti tags as well as educate people about the impact vandals have on a community.

“It’s a great program,” said coordinator Sarah Buckner.

“You have more of a connection to the community.”

GRIP hires four students to help clean walls, benches, signs and other vandalized public and private property. They also use convicted vandals and graffiti artists, who are perform-

ing court-ordered community service hours through Extra Judicial Sanctioning, which are smaller punishments for those deemed not to deserve a criminal record.

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Baking and breaking bread at St. John’s Bakery Rebecca Field rfield@insidetoronto.com In a small storefront at 153 Broadview Ave., north of Queen Street, Jennifer Wilson places aromatic, freshly baked banana bread in plastic packaging and onto shelves.

She’s been working at St. John’s Bakery for almost a year now as the only female breadmaker, but sometimes helps the other women in the baked goods department when they need it.

“I love to bake,” said Wilson, who takes transits from Parkdale five days a week. “I help out because I know how to do both positions.”

Wilson is currently working at the bakery full time, paid through Ontario Works after losing her job at a nursing home after working there for six years.

Wilson had baking experience before volunteering at the bakery and then moving on to a full-time position there.

“I was getting bored and restless and my friend suggested, ‘Well you like baking, find a bakery’,” said Wilson who applied to the bakery while unemployed. “I typed a bakery in this area and this came up, so I came for orientation and was lucky enough to get in. I love coming here, I love the atmosphere, I love the people I work with. I’ve found my niche I guess you could say.”

The not-for-profit bakery offers about two dozen positions – for

which there is a waiting list – providing work experience and apprenticeships for those who are unemployed, new to the country, or those dealing with addiction, among other social issues.

The program began in 1988 when Joe Link lost his bakery and ended up working at St. John the Compassionate Mission, formerly on Blake Street, with Father Roberto Ubertino to bake five to 10 loaves a day from the building’s basement.

Vulnerable people The mission opened in 1987 as a drop-in centre providing meals, programs and community services to vulnerable individuals such as Link.

“He went through some hard times and ended up living in a car in front of our mission,” said Ubertino, who invited Link to first bake for meals at the mission, before selling them to the community.

“We connected with some bakers from France who came over and taught us artisanal French baking,” said Ubertino, who said it takes 48 hours to make a loaf of the handmade bread, which uses 200-yearold recipes. “We started small and we grew as the customers grew.”

The bakery now bakes up to 2,000 loaves in a single night at their Broadview location, which opened in 1998 first at the mission, later moving next door.

St. John’s Bakery sells their baked goods at 12 markets across the city, as well as to more than 45 wholesale customers.

“We want people to buy our bread because it’s good bread, not because they feel sorry for us,” said Ubertino, who noted their bread has been consistently voted No. 1 in the city by various publications.

As a not-for-profit, the bakery received an $80,000 oven from United Way, which can cook up to 75 loaves at a time.

Due to the popularity of the breads, the bakery became the only self-sufficient non-profit social enterprise in Canada in January 2012, requiring no subsidies to run.

The bakery is now getting ready to renovate space as well as launch a new brand, courtesy of an advertising company looking to support their cause.

“There’s the stresses of running a bakery, the business part of it, and also because we’re a social enterprise there’s also the stress that comes from people who have difficulties and a lot of challenges, and might not always be completely ready to work,” Ubertino said.

Among the more successful stories is a man who lived on the streets for 20 years with a severe drug addiction and, for the last eight years, has baked every morning.

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Bakers at St. John’s Bakery prepare dough for their famous artisanal bread, using a 200-year-old recipe.

East-end residents premiere second season of comedy series Rebecca Field rfield@insidetoronto.com Those looking for responsible guidance counsellors won’t find any at Pine Ridge High — the setting of Bite TV’s comedy Guidance, which premiered its second season on Bite.ca Monday.

Starring Adam Cawley, Rob Baker, Pat Smith, all from Toronto’s east end, the comedy centres around three guidance counsellors who end up causing more problems for their students than solving them.

“From Day 1, when you talk to someone about the show and they’re like ‘What’s it about,’ (and) you say ‘It’s about three s---ty guidance counsellors.’ They get it right away,” said Pat Smith who is from the Beach.

Smith plays Bruce Templeton, an overly optimistic, yet naive counsellor who is unaware his students are mocking his enthusiasm.

The show was inspired by a Grade

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Rob Baker, left, Pat Smith and Adam Cawley appear as three terrible guidance counsellors at Pine Ridge High School on the web series Guidance.

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“She would start to play messages that he had left her to the class and she was like ‘What do you guys think

this means?’” Cawley said.

“We were 15 and I was like ‘This is just so inappropriate,’” said Cawley who plays 25-year-old Davey Racine, a counsellor who can’t seem to let go of his high school years and tries

to fit in with the cool kids.

Cawley used his experience with his English teacher as inspiration for other terrible teachers to include in the web series, eventually deciding on guidance counsellors.

“The people who are supposed to be guiding you through your life, or at least helping you get started, are guidance counsellors,” Cawley said.

“They’re supposed to be the most grounded influences, and so to have three versions of these guys who are s---ty would be great.”

He brought the idea to Smith and Leslieville’s Rob Baker, who plays the third counsellor named Steve Barnes, a tough-love person who bullies his students and boasts about his sexual escapades.

The trio perform at Second City together and are constantly pursuing outside projects, which is how the creation of Guidance came about.

Initially wanting to create a movie script, they eventually decided on a

web series with director Jared Sales, which later aired on television.

After finishing the last season with high viewership numbers, BiteTV invited the comedians to write a treatment for a second season, eventually getting them a longer and overall higher budget production.

The comedians ended up meeting on a weekly basis at the Only Café on Danforth Avenue to write the show, which has been nominated in the Canadian Comedy Awards for best web series, while Baker is nominated for best actor in a web series or TV show for the series’ first season and Sales is also nominated for best director.

Baker, Sales and the rest of the Guidance cast will find out who won in their categories in October.

Voting for the awards is at canadiancomedy.ca

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ata released last week from Statistics Canada confirmed what most commuters in the Greater Toronto Area already know – we have the longest commute times in the country.

Our average travel time of 32.8 minutes to work (one way) is the longest in Canada’s urban regions, according to the data. That makes us more than seven minutes longer than the national average.

Something else to think about while sitting on the bus, train or in your cars: our commuting time is now among the longest in North America – topped only by New York City with 34.7 minutes and Washington D.C. with 33.8 minutes, according to Statistics Canada. The data came from the National Household Survey conducted in 2011 by StatsCan. The reality, though, is that the commute is much longer for many Greater Toronto Area residents.

This is not something we should be proud of. It’s a conour view demnation of past governments and their poor planning. We can’t StatsCan wait much longer for better road numbers paint systems, better development and improved public transit systems. sombre picture The StatsCan numbers are consistent with the Toronto Region Board of Trade’s stats on Toronto’s average twoway commute time of 66 minutes.

The cost of the time we’re spending travelling is not only impacting businesses and their productivity; it’s taking a huge toll on the commuters themselves.

According to the TRBOT’s A Green Light To Moving the Toronto Region: Paying for Public Transportation Expansion, congestion is costing the Toronto region $6 billion in lost productivity annually.

“No surprise then, that irrespective of who’s measuring, or how, the results are consistent: the Toronto Region’s problems of gridlock are amongst the worst of any major urban centre in the world and getting worse by the day; a fact the region’s weary commuters know all too well as they try to navigate through our congested roads and packed transit systems,” said TRBOT President and CEO Carol Wilding in the Green Light report.

It can’t go on.

Hopefully, these latest numbers from StatsCan can be used to make politicians at the federal, provincial and municipal levels understand that transportation investment is critical to the economic and social success of Canada’s largest city. Those very politicians can expect it to be a key election issue, and one on which local voters will be looking for real answers and action.

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Interesting possibilities in municipal election Mayor Rob Ford isn’t the only one thinking about the next municipal election in 2014.

Radio host John Tory’s thinking about it, word is that TTC Chair Karen Stintz is building a team and New Democrat MP and former councillor Olivia Chow is aimed that way, too.

It’s all an invitation to start up a game of fantasy politics post-haste, scour the polls and start picking winners and losers.

That’s all good fun. But it puts aside a more vital question: just exactly what the next Mayor of Toronto will be left to work with once the ballots are cast and the winner’s chosen, and what that individual will be able to do with it?

Ford has repeatedly maintained it’s been his job to reduce the size and cost of government. He claims that he has so far saved taxpayers a billion dollars. The claim’s not entirely accurate – he’s included both the removal of the vehicle registration tax and the increase of user fees, but it is wrong to say the

david nickle the city mayor hasn’t done taxpayers a good turn, contracting out garbage collection and taming unions and cutting councillors’ budgets.

If he’s not re-elected for all that, however, he will also have done his successor a good turn.

For two years running now, the Ford administration has operated under a strict policy of sliding three-quarters of prior year surpluses into the city’s capital budget and holding back the rest for unanticipated liabilities.

This year, that surplus amounts in total to $248 million. So $186 million will be going to pay cash for the sorts of projects that in the past the city has funded through debt. Last year, the surplus was higher: $292 million.

This 75-25 policy is a child of the Ford administration but happily midwived by the city’s finance staff. Keeping debt levels low makes for

far more manageable books and more predictable revenue streams.

It also limits city council’s ability to make in-year operating changes, and allows Ford to continue the business of shrinking government in terms of the services it provides. What it does for a future mayor is another thing entirely. By sending surpluses to reduce debt, what the Ford administration has done is create borrowing room for an ambitious mayor to embark on a much more ambitious capital program going forward.

Shelley Carroll, the former budget chief under former mayor David Miller and a sometime-mayoral-hopeful herself, wonders what might be done with the Gardiner Expressway going forward.

Many things become possible for a city-building mayor riding in on the heels of a mayor whose major ambition was to put a hold on ambitious projects.

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Bring back five cent bag charge I was dismayed to read about Mayor Rob Ford’s rant against the five cent charge for plastic bags, which wind up in the ocean and killing creatures such as whales.

Such short sightedness by our leaders is inexcusable.

These bags are but a small part of the problem, but one of the easiest to solve. Try to get rid of what else we find in our grocery stores; bread, milk, fruits, all enclosed in plastic.

Not only should the five cent charge be obligatory, the complete banning of them, as was done earlier, should be reinstituted. A public campaign to encourage ‘bring your own bag’ would also be money well spent.

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TD Festival of South Asia WHEN: noon to 11 p.m. WHERE: Gerrard India Bazaar, 1426 Gerrard St. E. TD Festival of South Asia features entertainment, food and the South Asia’s Got Talent show for youth. Visit www.festivalofsouthasia RISE Up basketball tourney WHEN: 9 a.m. WHERE: 445 Coxwell Park/Courts CONTACT: Krissie, 647973-1304; www.facebook.com/communityriseup There will be live DJ performances, raffles and giveaways. Prices range from $20 to $50.

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Leslieville Farmers’ Market WHEN: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. WHERE: Jonathan Ashbridge Park, 20 Woodward Ave. CONTACT: www. leslievillemarket.com The Leslieville Farmers’ Market brings local farm fresh goodness to the community for the third year. Not only does it host a variety of delicious organic food, but is also a hub of activity with music, programs and events.

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Karma Yoga WHEN: 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. WHERE: Jimmie Simpson Recreation Centre, 870 Queen St. E. CONTACT: Beatrix Montanile, 416-466-8152, www. facebook.com/ParkYogaToronto Park Yoga, a free summer time outdoor yoga event, hosts a Karma Yoga weekend. Proceeds will go to support Nellie’s Shelter and programs for women and children.

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Register for Moorelands summer camp CONTACT: www.moorelands.ca, 416-466-9987 COST: fees based on family size and income Moorelands Community Services offers a subsidized wilderness camp for City of Toronto kids eight to 14 (six camps, each eight days) near Dorset, ON (Lake Kawagama). Visit website or call for details on how to apply.

looking ahead w Wednesday, July 17 Stress & Sleep free health talk WHEN: 7 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Main Street Library, 137 Main St. CONTACT: Kate Whimster, 416-393-7700 Free health talk on four seasons of wellness. Call the library at 416-3937700 to reserve.

Check out our complete online community calendar by visiting www.beachmirror.com. Read weeks of listings from your neighbourhood as well as events from across Toronto.

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.

We meet monthly and welcome your involvement and support. Visit www. etcag.org St. John’s Catholic Church Choir St. John’s Catholic Church Choir welcomes new members. The group practises

Thursdays from 7:30 to 9 p.m. and performs Sundays at 11 a.m. at 794 Kingston Rd. Call Paul Williams at 416-699-2518.

Breakfast meeting Rotary Club of Toronto Beach holds a breakfast meeting Tuesdays at 7 a.m. at the Balmy Beach Club. Visit www. torontobeachrotary.org or call Roger Cecchetto 416-415-5000 ext. 6078.

Senior Lunch Bunch Senior Lunch Bunch meets at St. Aidan’s Memorial Hall, 70 Silver Birch 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.

The Joy of Writing The Joy of Writing, a weekly workshop where writers gather Tuesdays from 7 to 9 p.m., at the QueenSaulter Library, 765 Queen St. E. Call Lucille Barker at 416-392-6810.

Beach Photo Club meeting Beach Photo Club meetings are held every first and third Thursday of the month from September to June at St. Aidan’s, 70 Silver Birch Ave. at 7:30 p.m. The only requisite is an interest in learning about the photographic arts.

Walking group Walking Group at East End Community Health Centre, 1619 Queen St. E., meets Tuesdays from 10 to 11 a.m. Visit www.eastendchc.on.ca Lactation help La Leche League Canada, Riverdale chapter, meets 7 p.m. every third Wednesday, 715B Danforth Ave. Call Diane at 416-463-4502.

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RAHUL GUPTA rgupta@insidetoronto.com A Downtown Relief Line subway project for Toronto could be approved by the Metrolinx board as early as next year, the transit planning agency’s CEO said last Thursday.

Though it will likely take 15 years to approve, design and fully build the Downtown Relief Line to ease congestion on the subway system, Metrolinx CEO Bruce McCuaig said he was confident the $7.4 billion undertaking, which will require funding through dedicated taxes and user fees, will receive Metrolinx’s stamp of

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“We’re going to try to keep all the timelines we set out,” said McCuaig after a board meeting Thursday.

“People want to see a schedule, and that we’re meeting that schedule, so our objective is to hit the timelines we set for ourself.”

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Coinciding with studies already underway by the TTC and the city, the Metrolinx work will expand the focus beyond Toronto and look at how the line might potentially be integrated regionally with GO Transit. McCuaig said Metrolinx would collaborate on the study with the city and TTC. “We need to get all that work done collaboratively and

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On June 26, work crews for the Union Station renovations were met by thousands of honey bees, which had descended to the construction site on Front Street from a hive colony located on the roof of the Fairmont Royal York Hotel.

The sudden appearance of the bees, which are kept on the hotel’s roof as part of conservation efforts to sustain local populations, may have been triggered by the desire by a queen honeybee to relocate some of her colony and engage in mating.

While unexpected, Metrolinx Spokesperson Anne Marie Aikins said the work disruption was brief.

“A beekeeper retrieved them, no one was harmed and work resumed fairly quickly I understand,” she wrote in an email.

Union Station renovations are expected to be completed in time for the 2015 Pan American Games.

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Each TTC bus will exhibit one poem on its overhead advertising space. Organized by advertising company Pattison Onestop and the League of Canadian Poets, the exhibition is a continuation of similar showcases such as the Poetry on the Way series, which ran from 1998 to 2011.

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One of the camps for kids will include a two-day crash course on how to make a 3D printer out of another 3D printer that was made by a board member Adam Edwards.

“Once you have one made, you can make as many as you want,” said Edwards, who demonstrated the machine by creating a business card at the event.

Joe Regan from Willow Avenue signed up as a founding member of the library for $500. With it, he will have a six-month membership to the Maker Space, as well as his name on a plaque on the wall and some other goodies given out at the event.

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Community members watch a 3D printer demonstration at Sarah’s Cafe and Bar for the launch of the East End Tool Library June 26.

Regan, who donated a wood lathe to the library. “My workshop has become overcrowded and I need to thin it out, but I love everything in it so I didn’t know how to get rid

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‘Pizza and refreshments’ “We get pizza and refreshments for the volunteers,” Dyment said.

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“We’re educating and teaching teamwork and skills and encouraging their creative abilities in a more positive setting.”

The program is funded by streetARToronto (stART), a City of Toronto program that promotes murals for beautification.

The crew will paint a mural on the Neighbourhood Link building at Danforth and Victoria Park avenues as part of the program.

McGran said murals tend to deter further tagging of a wall.

“They (vandals) seem to have a respect for other people’s art and don’t want to damage that,” McGran said.

Mural painting with GRIP started in 2009.

“We saw them (murals) and we liked them as a crew,” said Buckner, who has been working with GRIP for six years.

“We weren’t artists so we weren’t sure if we could do it, and then we got into it and realized we’re not too bad at it actually.”

Volunteers Needed for Community Advisory Council & Patient Experience Panels Toronto East General Hospital (TEGH) recognizes that input from our diverse community helps us deliver high-quality care. We are seeking volunteers who live or work in our community to join one of the following: Community Advisory Council The Council is a valuable communication link between the hospital and the communities we serve. Members educate TEGH about their communities and will review programs and services to ensure they meet the population’s needs.

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A night of entertainment, food and games at the Royal Canadian Legion in Scarborough. Tickets are $10 and proceeds from the event will support the Cancer Centre Fund at SickKids. The event opens at 5 p.m. and features a buffet dinner, live band, DJ, karaoke, door prizes and a silent auction. For more information or to purchase tickets, please contact terrimiddleton@msn.com

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The 19th annual Heatwave Toronto Volleyball and Tournament is serving up great times and competitive matches in support of cancer research at SickKids and the new Peter Gilgan Centre for Research and Learning. The two-day tournament at Ashbridge’s Bay features co-ed beach volleyball (competitive and recreational) and great food, drinks, and prizes. For more information or to register, visit www.heatwaveevents.com

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June Rowlands Park in Toronto will be a hub of entertainment on Tuesday, July 16 as local musicians, including SickKids patient Carley Allison, take the stage at the Apple Tree Market at Mt. Pleasant and Davisville to support SickKids. The event will take place from 3 to 7 p.m. Admission is free.

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Corktown Common, at the foot of Bayview Avenue in the West Don Lands, opened its gates last Friday and while the weather on opening day was uncooperative the weekend itself provided park-goers plenty of opportunities to enjoy the large green space.

With rolling hills and walkways leading to a rest area, splash pad and playground, the park offers an oasis in the rapidly developing Canary District area.

“We’ve opened what we call the dry side of the park and the wet side is still under construction,” said James Roche, Waterfront Toronto director of parks, design and construction.

“The dry side’s been done for the past year or so but it’s just been growing since then and the wet side should be done by the end of the year.”

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ning water – is open, there are a few elements that have yet to be implemented.

When completed, the park will include a kitchenette and barbecue table as well as an external fireplace for winter programming.

“Right now, with what we have there, we’ve gotten positive feedback and we think that will grow once the whole park is up and running,” Roche said.

Having a wet side and a dry side fits well with the existing use of land on the site.

Corktown Common was built atop a flood protection landform that protects the area

east of the park from flooding during major storms.

The park offers grassy hills, paths leading over and around a naturalized marsh area and a selection of native plants.

It boasts more than 700 trees and thousands of shrubs, ensuring it is secluded from the downtown core.

It will encompass River Square across the street, which will serve as prime event space for public gatherings.

Corktown Common will remain open until September when it will be closed to finish the wet portion of the park.

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last week’s answers

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