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A shipping container market offering fresh fruits and vegetables recently opened in Moss Park, giving food-insecure residents in the area an option for healthy food.

The Victim Support Unit at 55 Division has been recognized for its outstanding work with victims of crime.

The VSU – the only unit of its kind in the Toronto Police Service (TPS) – received the 2016 Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police (OACP) Victims Assistance Committee Award during a ceremony June 28.

Sponsored by the Ministry of the Attorney General, this award recognizes contributions by Ontario police services, alone or in partnership with private or public community agencies, for improving the level of service provided to victims of crime,

tragic events, or other unfortunate circumstance.

The VSU, which was established in March 2014 and launched at 55 Division, received this honour for the work it does to ensure victims have access to exceptional support and assistance to help them deal with the consequences and impact of crime.

The unit’s mandate is to provide vital support, referrals, and information to victims of crime, witnesses and their families.

The Victim Support Unit, which also works with victims to provide safety planning when necessary to improve their confidence and feeling of security, has a broad definition of the >>>uniT’s, page 11

Vulnerable residents work together to fight food insecurity in Toronto Afrofest slated for this JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com

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hile solving the problem of food insecurity will require a concerted effort from all levels of government, there is a great deal being done at a more grassroots level to help make sure Torontonians can put food on their plates.

Organizations such as

Community Food Centres Canada (CFC), FoodShare, Building Roots and the Toronto Youth Food Policy Council (TYFPC) are engaging vulnerable Torontonians through a variety of programs and initiatives, providing not only food but opportunity.

CFC Chief Operating Officer Kathryn Scharf (www. cfccanada.ca) said awareness of food security issues is growing, as is action to

combat them. Her organization originated out of The Stop Community Food Centre on Davenport Road, and now there are three such organizations in Toronto and eight across Canada.

“With almost one in 10 households experiencing food insecurity, we don’t have a hard time finding communities that could use a Community Food Centre,” >>>BETTER, page 3

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Better wages, improved access are the keys to fighting food insecurity >>>from page 1 she said, adding that finding local partners willing to help deliver services is a key part of what her organization does.

Scharf noted that while teaching healthy food skills, offering cooking groups and classes, providing afterschool programs where kids can have healthy snacks and creating community gardens are all great ways to combat food insecurity, the key is in making sure more Canadians can earn a living wage.

However, that’s something that will only come about when governments mandate it, said Scharf.

“The key is to fight poverty, fight for housing, increase wages and social assistance rates,” she said. “We can push for those things at a grassroots level, but we can’t make them happen.”

Darcy Higgins of Building Roots (www.pushfoodforward.com/buildingroots) agreed that a wage policy, along with better social support, is the best permanent solution, adding his organization is doing its best in the meantime to bring food access to where people need it most.

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We’re trying to bring fresh food at affordable prices to where people need it most.

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“We’re trying to bring fresh food at affordable prices to where people need it most,” he said.

“We have a Moss Park Market that just opened in a shipping container on Toronto Community Housing property, and that’s a model we’re hoping to replicate in other communities.

We’re exploring and looking for partners across the city, especially in the suburbs.”

He said those battling food insecurity can also benefit from connecting with community agencies that can help teach them to cut costs and stretch their food budgets further, by joining

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The Toronto Food Council’s Food by Ward report looks at food security issues across the city on a wardby-ward basis.

Food needs vary by neighbourhoods JOANNA LAVOIE jlavoie@insidetoronto.com

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Michelle Porteous (right) and Jesenia Auceda make sandwiches at Sodexo Canada’s Feeding our Future Initiative at the Campbell Company of Canada in Etobicoke this week. The program helps provide lunches for kids in need over the summer.

cooking programs run by not-for-profits, or by growing their own food, perhaps in community gardens near where they live.

The Ashbridge Estate near Queen and Greenwood is a prime example of using available space to bolster food security. A new community garden has been planted there by Syrian refugees to complement an existing community garden at the site.

“There are so many communities – especially lowerincome communities – where there aren’t stores for people to buy fresh food,” Higgins said. “It tends to be more convenience stores (instead of affordable grocery stores with more healthy options) in those communities, so you have to look at other solutions.”

Toronto Youth Food Policy Council (www.tyfpc.ca) cochair Melana Roberts said projects to boost food security can range from relatively

small in scale, such as new pop-up food markets being launched at TTC subway stations at Downsview, Kipling and Victoria Park stations, to Malvern Eats – a community lunch that hosts as many as 300 guests – to the CEED (community eco economic development), which could see hydro corridors turned into community gardens.

“We’re working with Toronto Public Health and looking at four different sites where (CEED) could work,” she said, noting those sites include Rexdale, northeast Scarborough, Flemingdon Park and the Danforth and Victoria Park area. “They’re in neighbourhoods characterized as priority neighbourhoods with a really diverse mix of residents in terms of age, socioeconomic background and ethnicity.”

FoodShare (www.foodshare.net), meanwhile, helps various organizations bring food to communities by combining their buying

power. Rather than having each organization make connections and buy goods, they can pool their resources and make bulk purchases from the Ontario Food Terminal, stretching those dollars further.

“There’s $29 million spent a year by non-profit agencies in the community food sector (each year in Toronto,)” said Shawn Conway of FoodShare. “That’s a lot of buying power.”

“We started out with an emphasis on fresh produce, but now we have a dairy line and a bread line as well.”

Many other organizations across the city are helping to keep vulnerable Torontonians fed, but they all acknowledge their work is simply addressing the symptoms of the type of poverty that leads to food insecurity.

They say it’s ultimately up to government to determine if and when a permanent solution to the issue will be presented.

Food is an essential pillar of city building.

That’s the premise behind a recently released report titled Food by Ward: Food Assets and Opportunities in Toronto.

The report, which took about a year to put together, was initially launched by the Toronto Food Policy Council (TFPC) as a way to engage with municipal candidates during the 2014 election on the topic of food security.

Now that the election is over, the TFPC is continuing to work with elected officials as well as community organizations and individuals to advocate for more food security programs and initiatives.

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by Ward provides a snapshot of food assets across Toronto’s 44 municipal wards, said Rachel Gray, chair of the Toronto Food Policy Council, during a recent interview.

Gray, who is the executive director of The Stop Community Food Centre in the Annex, said the findings of Food by Ward can and should be used to help identify food priorities and come up with viable ways to improve the availability of affordable, healthy food across the city.

She said the areas that tend to be lacking the most are the suburban, and often lower-income, parts of the city where people usually need a vehicle to go to the grocery store. The outer portions of the city are also often where marginalized individuals live, including those on fixed incomes, and newcomers.

Gray also said a lot of the findings in Food by Ward mirror those of the groundbreaking 2010 Three Cities Within Toronto report by David Hulchanski of the University of Toronto, which looked at income polarization in the city from 1970 to 2005.

The good news is that food insecurity problems can be improved when people and organizations come together, Gray said, pointing to simple things that can make a huge difference like community gardens and community food programs. And fortunately, a lot of people are interested in getting involved, she added. At Food by Ward’s launch event recently at Toronto City Hall, more than 100 community food champions as well as more than a third of Toronto city councillors same out to show their support. n Visit www.tfpc.to/food-by-ward to view the report.

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staged sit-in protest by the Toronto chapter of Black Lives Matter last Sunday at the Pride Parade certainly has people talking.

But are they talking for the right reasons?

Given the status as an Honoured Group for the parade, Black Lives Matter effectively halted the parade for half an hour as they issued a list of nine demands.

The annual parade that capped off Pride Month only began to move again once Pride Toronto executive director Mathieu Chantelois signed the document, seemingly agreeing to those demands, which included reinstating and committing to increase community stages as well as the removal of police floats in Pride marches and Our VieW parades.

The latter, not surprisingly, has been getting a lot of attention Continue with Toronto Police Association dialogue of president Mike McCormack conPride Toronto for signinclusiveness demning ing the paper and accusing Black Lives Matter of “hijacking” the grand event Sunday.

People on Twitter had plenty to say about it too, many siding with police and recognizing their contributions over the years to support the growing Pride movement.

It seems counterproductive and counterintuitive to exclude police from a parade celebrating inclusivity, especially as some in the LGBT community also work in the police force.

While the protest brought both public and media attention to Black Lives Matter, the reasons for the protest were overshadowed by the tactics. People are talking about whether it was appropriate or justified to do what they did during the parade, rather than how events like Pride can be even more inclusive and welcoming to other marginalized communities.

Perhaps continuing the dialogue at the upcoming community meetings on anti-racism that the provincial government is hosting this summer is a good place to start.

The first meeting is scheduled to take place in Toronto on July 14 with another in Scarborough on Sept. 13.

For effective change to occur, Black Lives Matter must first gain the public’s empathy and support for their cause.

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Black Lives Matter disruption of Pride Parade what you’d expect It’s hard to know what to make of the Black Lives Matter – Toronto (BLMTO)/ Pride Toronto dust-up.

That, of course, won’t stop me from weighing in on the spectacle – even if it wasn’t really much of one.

To recap: Black Lives Matter – Toronto, a group that has seen great success staging discomfiting public protests, accepted an invitation from Pride Toronto (another group that has in the past seen great success staging discomfiting public protests) to be an “honoured guest” at this year’s Pride Parade.

And things went exactly as you’d expect: a discomfiting public protest, in the form of a disruption to the Pride Parade that was only able to resume once Pride Toronto had “agreed” to a list of demands from BLMTO. Among those demands?

No coppers please, at future Pride parades.

The pearl-clutching began. The Toronto Police Association demanded

Pride Toronto apologize for signing off on the deal.

Mayor John Tory, through his office, joined voices on Toronto council including local councillor and longtime Pride supporter Kristyn Wong-Tam to make it clear that police should be welcomed at the parade for if nothing else than the purpose of keeping open lines of communication between the LGBTQ2S community and the police.

And finally Pride Toronto’s executive director Mathieu Chantelois made it clear himself that signing a deal with BLMTO, while he was trying to simply get the parade moving, wasn’t going to be binding, and ultimately, Pride and the community would make the final decision. It would be an excellent bet that police will be back in the parade next year.

It’s tempting to look at all this from the outside and dismiss it as silliness, or an “inside-baseball” dispute… tempting to see this as a bit of a nadir for Black Lives

david nickle the city Matter, pulling a disruptive stunt at what was otherwise a healing event for a community still processing the massacre in Orlando – all to extract promises that won’t be kept, and for the most part are over internal Pride matters that might have been dealt with as well using nothing more than a few stern emails.

That is, however, missing the point of successful protest movements like Black Lives Matter, which are combatting not only very small issues, but very, very large ones.

A few days earlier, Metropolitan Community Church pastor and gay rights activist Brent Hawkes stood with Police Chief Mark Saunders for what had been billed an historic apology by police for the bath house raids in the early 1980s that destroyed the lives of closeted gay

men, and ruined businesses.

An apology was a big thing, but also a small thing – and Hawkes spoke that day of how he had contacted the chief, and negotiated an apology, and that sometimes, negotiation was necessary.

The only trouble? At the end of all that negotiation, Saunders did not in fact apologize; he very deliberately expressed “regrets” for police actions, and promised to do better — and really, with that, closed the matter as far as police were concerned.

It’s comforting to think that change can happen with comfortable negotiation. But the reality is that genuine change requires an irritant to motivate it. Black Lives Matters understands that, and so of course they showed up in full, irritating glory on Sunday.

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Sounds of Leslieville and Riverside WHEN: today to Sunday: 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. WHERE: Jimmie Simpson Park, 870 Queen St. E. CONTACT: , 416-698-2152, , infobeachesjazz@ rogers.com COST: Free Beaches Jazz Festival outdoor music series with Exodus and KC Roberts and The Live Revolution.

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Annual Rugby Football Tournament WHEN: 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. WHERE: Balmy Beach Club, 360 Lake Front, Foot of Beech Avenue CONTACT: 416-691-9962, info@balmybeachclub.com COST: Free This is the largest fundraiser for our senior rugby players and has been a club tradition for more than 45 years.

AfroFest 2016 WHEN: today and tomorrow; various times WHERE: Woodbine Park, 1681 Lakeshore Blvd. E. CONTACT: 416-469-5336, www.afrofest. ca/ COST: Free Celebrating African music and culture.

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The Leslieville Flea WHEN: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. WHERE: Ashbridges Estate, 1444 Queen St. E. CONTACT: 647-267-8538, www. leslievilleflea.com, leslievilleflea@ gmail.com COST: Free A curated monthly market with more than 60 vendors selling vintage, salvaged, furniture, antiques and more.

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Beaches Jazz Run WHEN: 7:30 a.m. WHERE: Leslie Street Spit, 1 Leslie St. CONTACT: www. beachesjazzrun.com/ COST: See web site for info Toronto Beaches Runners Club presents a 5k run at 8:15 a.m.; 10k at 8 a.m. Half marathon at 7:30 a.m. Chip timed. Flat and fast route. Refreshments after the race. Chance to win prizes.

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WHEN: 8 to 9:30 p.m. WHERE: Underground Cafe, 670 Queen St. E. CONTACT: Derryck Birch, 416-4509125, derryckbirch@gmail.com COST: $20 Hosted by Big Norm.

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Face Painting Party WHEN: 2 to 3 p.m. WHERE: Jones Library, 118 Jones Ave. CONTACT: Cathy, 416-3937715 COST: Free Join us for face painting.

w Thursday, July 14 Pyjama Time WHEN: 6:30 to 7 p.m.

WHERE: Jones Library, 118 Jones Ave. CONTACT: COST: Free Bedtime stories, songs, rhymes and activities for children age 5 and under with their parents and caregivers.

Bring your teddy bear.

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Festival of South Asia WHEN: today and tomorrow: Noon to 11 p.m. WHERE: Gerrard India Bazaar, 1426 Gerrard St. E. CONTACT: www.festivalofsouthasia.com COST: Free Programs representing Indian, Afghani, Pakistani, Bengali and Sri Lankan cultures. Activities include: Rangoli floor art, folk tale storytime

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Make your own Wild Lego Movie WHEN: 2 to 3 p.m. WHERE: Jones Library, 118 Jones Ave. CONTACT: Cathy, 416-393-7715, cmoran@ torontopubliclibrary.ca COST: Free Make a Lego movie. Bring your own device. App required before the program. Call to register.

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Toronto Food Truck Festival WHEN: Friday: 5 to 10 p.m.; Saturday: noon to 10 p.m.; Sunday: noon to 8 p.m. WHERE: Woodbine Park, 1695 Queen St. E. CONTACT: torontofoodtruckfestival.com/ COST: Free Eating challenges. Live music. Farm fresh food from more than 30 food trucks.

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Family Time WHEN: 10:30 a.m. to 11 a.m.

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TD Summer Reading Club WHEN: 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. WHERE: Jones Library, 118 Jones Ave. CONTACT: Cathy, 416-393-7715, , cmoran@ torontopubliclibrary.ca COST: Free Join us for button-making fun.

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Dusk Dances WHEN: Aug. 1 to 7 from 4:45 to 10:30 p.m. WHERE: Withrow Park, 725 Logan Ave. CONTACT: www. kindnessconnect.com/dusk-dances/ toronto-2016-withrow COST: Free Dusk Dances Withrow Park is looking for 12 volunteers for seven evening performances (Aug. 1 to 7) and for 2 matinée performances (Aug. 4 and 7). We also require five volunteers for dress rehearsal on July 31.

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Sounds of Leslieville, Riverside to be featured at Beaches jazz fest The Beaches Jazz Farmers Market Jazz Series, which kicked off July 6, at Fairmount Park Farmers Market, continues tonight at the East Lynn Park Farmers Market, 1949 Danforth Ave., with a performance by the Toronto All-Star Big Band from 2 to 6 p.m.

The band will return to the both markets the following week. The Fairmount Park Farmers Market, at 1725 Gerrard St. E., runs Wednesdays from 3 to 7 p.m..

Musicians from Discovery Through the Arts music school are slated to perform at the Leslieville Farmers Market, 20 Woodward Ave., on July 10 and July 17 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. both days.

The jazz festival runs until July 24. Visit www.beachesjazz for more info.

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In one case, one home in the area was broken into while the resident was there.

The alleged burglar fled the scene once he realized someone was home.

Police were notified and located the wanted man nearby.

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Earlier this year, Afrofest was almost reduced to a one-day event when the city cited excessive noise and time violations. In the end, a meeting with members of the Toronto Music Advisory Council, staff from the mayor’s office, staff from the Economic Development and Municipal Licensing and Standards departments as well as Music Africa saw its reinstatement as a two-day festival.

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CNE volunteers assist with various roles and duties including greeting guests,

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“Volunteers are at the heart of the Fair, and play an integral role in making the CNE a positive experience for all our guests,” Virginia Ludy, General Manager of the CNE, said in a press release.

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Numerous area residents are presenting shows in the 12-day festival which mostly features plays selected through a lottery system.

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The city’s east-end is well represented in the 2016 Toronto Fringe Festival, which runs until July 10.

Jamieson and Shelley Hobbs are both fortunate to have been selected to present plays in this summer’s edition.

A retired teacher, Jamieson has written and is staging a children’s show named

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Downtown Jay, which is described as a family musical about leaving your home and learning to build a new one.

Part of Fringe Kids, this show features a massive, colourful set, dancing, music, singing and crazy costumes.

Downtown Jay, which is directed by Ryan Kelley and stars Amy Swift, Dale Miller, Kristi Woods-Nogal, and Tanner Homonko, tells the story of a blue jay who moves to a big city and sets out to make his new home with the help of a wise police horse, a pair of tech-savvy squirrels, some dancing raccoons with a bistro and a house finch realtor.

Jamieson, who is originally from northern Ontario and has written several children’s plays, said the show perfectly lends itself to conversations about refugees and newcomers.

Hobbs, who is a lawyer by day, has written and is producing a play called A Good Death, which is part of Fringe Toronto’s 60-minute

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A play about family and choices, A Good Death takes a closer look at the stories of people, many of whom are from the LGBTQ community, who have drifted or been driven away from the family that raised them and forge new community from friends who become their chosen family.

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Downtown Jay is being presented at the George Ignatieff Theatre, 15 Devonshire Place, while A Good Death is being staged at the Tarragon Extra Space, 30 Bridgman Ave. Also, life-long Beach resident Alex Eddington is presenting a work in the festival.

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The solo show, which is part of a juried section of the Toronto Fringe, gets audience members involved in helping track down a rare white robin spotted around Seaton Village.

During a recent interview, Eddington said he created Life List in honour of his mother, who died of breast cancer a year and a half ago and kept a list of the birds she’s seen and where.

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