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Fireworks, parties in the park on tap for Canada Day It’s Canada Day tomorrow and there’s lots of ways to celebrate our country’s 149th birthday on July 1 in the Beach and Riverdale.

Along with daytime parties in local parks, there’s also the

traditional Canada Day fireworks set for Friday night at Ashbridges Bay. Some of the planned celebrations include radio station Q107’s annual Canada Day Picnic at Woodbine Park

1. The day-long event, which will include music, food and fun, starts at noon.

There’s also an Olympic Team Beach Party, presented

by Hilton, in celebration of the Rio 2016 Team Canada Athletes.

It gets underway at 4 p.m. at Boardwalk Place, at the foot of Woodbine Avenue at Lake Shore Boulevard. The event will feature musical performances, autograph signings by Olympic >>>ASHBRIDGES, page 6

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Toronto police officers from 54 and 55 Divisions have recently launched a project aimed at maintaining safety along Danforth Avenue.

Dubbed Project Annapolis, the initiative is an extension of Project Borderline, which wrapped up in December 2015.

The project will include enforcement to the bars to ensure compliance with various legislations, mostly the Liquor License Act to address the crime and disorder that accompanies overserving, permitting drunkenness, and serving minors among other things.

Issues have occurred both in and out of local bars.

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Work begins again in East Lynn Park with input from residents JOANNA LAVOIE jlavoie@insidetoronto.com Work is now underway to construct a new accessible pathway and ramp, a new section of sidewalk around the shed, and install some new benches and bike racks at East Lynn Park.

The work, which began on Monday of this week is set to run until Monday, July 11, weather permitting.

About a month ago, a construction crew descended on the local green space, which is near Woodbine and Danforth avenues, and without notice starting doing excavation work.

Area residents were surprised and shocked to see portions of the well-used park off-limits during the warmest two months of the year.

Many wondered how the many events already scheduled for East Lynn would move forward.

Ward 32 Beaches-East York C o u n c i l l o r M a r y- M a r g a r e t McMahon was just as surprised as the neighbours were to learn about workers at the park. Within minutes of finding out about it via social media, her staff was in touch with the Parks, Forestry and Recreation Department to see what was going

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Construction work started in East Lynn Park earlier this month surprised and alarmed residents who were not aware it had been planned or what work was going to be done. The work resumed this week after consultations with residents.

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A short time later, the work was put on hold so more feedback from the community could be garnered.

“We are putting (the project) on pause right now. It will remain an active construction site but we want the kids to be able to play,” McMahon said the afternoon of June 6.

McMahon said she agrees with neighbours who feel that the timing for the work isn’t ideal with so many

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community events planned for the local park this summer, notably the popular farmers’ market every Thursday evening.

Later on that day, she invited area residents to make their way to the June 9 edition of the East Lynn Farmers’ Market to check out the plans and share their thoughts.

Feedback from that informal info session (along with calls to McMahon’s office and emails) was taken into account and together

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with the city a better timeline for the project was established.

Residents chose Option #2, McMahon explained in a June 23 note to her constituents.

“This involves installing an accessible pathway from West Lynn to the sandbox area in the playground. We will not be installing the second shed but will be fixing up the surface around the existing shed. New benches and bike racks will also be installed,” she wrote, adding this work should take about a week to complete followed by a week needed for the sod to set.

“We are extremely mindful of all the great summertime events taking place in the park in addition to regular usage so are taking that into consideration with the scheduling of the work. City staff and I have worked hard to ensure the contractor maintains full access to the playground for the duration of the project.”

Areas that were excavated weeks ago will be filled in with topsoil and resodded. The second shed considered for the park will be installed in another green space.

McMahon thanked the Danforth East Community Association for its leadership in helping find a resolu-

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tion.

She specifically credited area resident Alison McMurray, whom she called a “die-hard Crusader who led the charge back in the day to transform East Lynn Park into the gem it is today.”

McMurray, who has lived in the neighbourhood for 19 years, was one of a number of local parents who started a petition 15 years ago to improve the local green space.

Eight years later, shovels went into the ground and new playground equipment, a better sandbox, and more trees were installed at East Lynn Park.

The second phase of the project was centered on improving accessibility by providing a path from the sidewalk to the playground but a timeline was never determined.

And because the plans for this phase were drawn up a decade ago, there were a number of factors that had changed in the design to comply with laws pertaining to accessibility and trees.

McMurray said she’s glad the work was halted so that the community can have a voice in the plans.

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Downtown lanes a ‘game changer’ as Toronto’s bicycle network expands

weLIKE toBIKE DAVID NICKLE dnickle@insidetoronto.com In 1991, 15-year-old Yvonne Bambrick rode the streets of Toronto with brash confidence – making the considerable daily commute from her family home at Victoria Park in East York to Jarvis Collegiate by bicycle, along busy downtown streets that made scant accommodation for bikes.

“Back when I was a naive teenager, I didn’t think twice about it,” recalls Bambrick 25 years later, sitting on a sunny patio in Kensington Market, steps from one of the city’s massive on-street bike racks and just over a block from the busy College Street bike lanes.

“The concept of bike lanes wasn’t on my brain at all. I did know it wasn’t safe – I got

g the di n i sta go 15.1 km – cycle tracks 209 km – white bicycle lanes 6.1 km – Yellow ‘contra-flow’ bicycle lanes 26.2 km – lanes with shared lane pavement markings 302 km – signed routes (no pavement markings) – courtesy City of Toronto

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there are 558.4 total lane kilometres of on-street cycling infrastructure. here is the breakdown:

doored on the Danforth and had a wipeout on bad road conditions. Otherwise I was just a teenager on her bicycle, happy to be free getting where she’s going. It meant I could have all the ice cream I wanted.”

In 2016, the Toronto that Bambrick bikes around is a much safer place. Toronto has a total of 558.4 kilometres of on-street bike lanes, including white bicycle lanes, contra-flow lanes that run against the flow of traffic, so-called “sharrows”, signed routes without pavement markings, and even a few kilometres of cycle tracks that are fully separated from traffic.

A lot of people use those lanes.

According to the 2006 Census, Torontonians bike to and from work like nobody else in the Greater To r o n t o a n d Hamilton Area, with 19,780 commuting by bike compared to 14,925 in 2001.

In 2015, Bambrick published a book for those cyclists: The Urban Cycling Survival Guide: Need To Know Skills and Strategies

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Cyclists make their way in traffic along the Sherbourne Street bike lane at Carlton Street on a recent Thursday afternoon.

for Biking in the City. It was a book culled from her work advocating for cyclists as the head of the Toronto Cyclist’s Union – now Cycle Toronto – and her years riding Toronto’s sometimes tricky streets.

There’s a lot to know: how to make a safe left turn (there’s more than one way); how to suit up for cycling in bad weather; dealing with potentially hostile interactions; and how to navigate all those different styles of bike road infrastructure.

Currently, most of those routes are in neighbourhoods surrounding the downtown core – including the relatively new cycle tracks on Sherbourne, Adelaide and Richmond streets.

“Richmond-Adelaide were a game changer,” says Bambrick. “I was having to ride there all the time (before), and I’m a confident rider but even for me it was tough. This is amazing.

Transformative.”

Bambrick and other cycling advocates are hoping for more change like that, on roads that extend beyond the downtown.

This summer, the city will be embarking on a pilot project to try a cycle track along Bloor Street through the Annex neighbourhood – a test, to see whether a city-spanning

track could be installed the length of Bloor Street and Danforth Avenue.

And the outcome of that could determine the implementation of parts of the city’s next big plan for cycling expansion: the Cycling Network 10 Year Plan. Under that plan, Toronto’s bikeway and bike trail network would be extended to the ends of the city: north along Yonge Street to Steeles Avenue; on Kingston Road in Scarborough from Eglinton Avenue to the Highland Creek Trail; Kipling Avenue from Bloor Street to the Waterfront Trail; and Midland Avenue, from Steeles to Lawrence avenues.

Toronto’s Chief Planner Jennifer Keesmaat said to provide an effective cycling alternative, the network needs to expand in the same way that transit networks expand – in a continuum.

Do that, she says, and it becomes viable to commute, at least to downtown, from nearly anywhere in the city.

“With cycling, distance isn’t that much of a problem,” says Keesmaat.

“The city is really not that big, and 10 kilometres, 20 kilometres isn’t really a big deal.

And from the centre of the city you can get pretty much anywhere on a 10 kilometre

65% of people who ride a bicycle to work are male, and 35% are female 58% of people who ride a bicycle to work are between the ages of 25 to 44

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bikeway. If you’re cycling from Scarborough to Etobicoke, that’s a big trip. But from the centre of the city you can get anywhere – all you need is safe infrastructure.”

The other thing that a cyclist needs, of course, is the will, and a bit of know-how.

Bambrick is an evangelist for the former and a resource for the latter. When asked what it takes to get on a bike, after dutifully recommending a careful read of her book, she suggests a step-by-step approach. Borrow a bikeshare bike; go riding with a friend on a quiet street. If it’s been awhile, take a BikeShare course.

And remember: roads were originally for bikes.

“We paved our roads because wheelmen’s clubs advocated to get the roads paved. The bicycling movement has been around for a long time,” says Bambrick.

“It’s never gone away.”

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n Friday, July 1, we Canadians pause to celebrate another year as just that: Canadians.

We have been able to do that for 149 years now, and let’s be honest: it feels good.

We’re a good country, after all.

We look after each other, and try to extend that compassion abroad.

We have bad days – who doesn’t? – but on balance we’ve lived our 149 years well, and we look pretty good for our age.

The same can’t be said for the rest of our family of nations, and it’s tempting to feel smug about that.

Our VieW The United Kingdom, to whose Queen we still swear Be proud, not allegiance, is not doing well at all. smug, about In an ill-managed referentogetherness dum, its people have voted to take it from the European Union (EU), in the process throwing its economy, and the world’s economy, into turmoil.

The vote to leave was decisive but not universally so, and now the U.K. is on the verge of fragmentation, with Scotland poised to hold another independence referendum, not two years after it narrowly voted to remain in the U.K. This time, with EU membership in the balance, polls indicate the Scots might well succeed.

We in Canada have flirted with this sort of thing in the past, through two nail-biting referendums in Quebec, each of which might have put us in a similar place: a country split at the seam, where nativism and nationalist intransigence make dissolution seem inevitable.

Good for us that we didn’t take the plunge. We’re still here, in one piece, with the capacity to engage ourselves and the world as proud Canadians.

Let’s be proud, then: proud, but not smug.

It is unlikely-to-impossible that separatists in Quebec could marshal support for another referendum any time soon – the Parti Quebecois has yet to find a leader, and in any case will not be in a position to govern until the fall of 2018, when the next provincial election is scheduled.

But it is a point for sober reflection this Canada Day, just how precious is our unity and civility, and how easy it is for a nation – any nation, even our own – to allow that to slip away.

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Mayor Tory’s op-ed column stirs controversy You can get into a lot of trouble, writing a column for a newspaper.

Even if you’re a professional, it can be hazardous: sticky fingers for other people’s ideas and phrases will (or should) sink you; you can get facts wrong, or get caught making it up, which should and does sink you.

Or, like this columnist, you can realize a couple of days after you tried to link Brexit with spurious transit plans and bad public finance, that you may have just overreached – in which case you’ll get called on it, often on Twitter. And that stuff never goes away.

It’s worse when you’re not a professional. Worse still, when you’re not a professional who has skin in the game.

And so we come to Mayor John Tory, who tried his hand writing a column for a newspaper, The Toronto Star, on Tuesday: a column about his besieged $3 billion Scarborough subway plan, on the eve

david nickle the city of its debut on the floor of Tuesday’s Executive Committee.

It was a substantial piece in the Toronto Star, just a hair over 800 words long, and for most of those words it chugs along well, noting that he ran in 2014 promising to build a subway in Scarborough, that we are behind on transit construction, that there’s political consensus between the three levels of government that the subway’s the way to go, and that city staff have said the Scarborough subway could help boost ridership in a part of the city where it’s currently low.

So far, Tory has penned a good and boring op-ed.

It gets troublesome when he goes for what some of us professionals might call “the dig”: that part where you try and nail down just what’s wrong with the thing

we’re critiquing.

Writes Tory (at about the 600 word mark): “But many of the subway’s loudest critics do not live or work in Scarborough, where more than half the population is born outside of Canada. When they say this is too much to spend on a subway, the inference seems to be that it’s too much to spend on this part of the city.”

Oh dear. It’s hard, indeed impossible, to not parse that down to a particularly ugly accusation – that those who fancy a light rail network in Scarborough and not a subway are antiScarborough nativists.

Indeed, at least one of Tory’s colleagues on council, the subway-opposing, lightrail-loving Josh Matlow, parsed things exactly that way.

“Sad, desperate and shameful. I had hoped for much more from a mayor who preached civility,” tweeted Matlow.

This is the kind of trouble

that isn’t really very much trouble at all for professionals. We’re used to people crossing the street to avoid us after a particularly vigorous application of fair comment on their dealings. It goes with the territory.

For a mayor, who’s built his brand on civility and team-work as Tory has?

Both Tory and his office tried to make it clear that the column wasn’t intended to be divisive, but to point out that Scarborough’s poorly served by transit. They weren’t out of line: Josh Matlow was out of line.

It was too late by then.

It is one thing that those of us writing columns for the newspapers learn early: there are no take-backs when you write something, however unintentionally it may have been, that makes you look a bit of a jerk.

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Love & Friendship WHEN: 9:15 p.m. WHERE: Ashbridges Bay Park & Woodbine Beach Park, 1561 Lake Shore Blvd. E CONTACT: 311 COST: Free

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Ashbridges Bay Fireworks WHEN: 10 p.m. WHERE: Fox Theatre, 2236 Queen St. E. CONTACT: 416-691-7335 COST: $11 to $8 Starring: Kate Beckinsale, Chloe Sevigny, Stephen Fry. Director: Whit Stillman. Tickets go on sale 30 minutes before the movie at the box-office.

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Elephant and Piggy Ice Cream Party WHEN: 2 to 3 p.m. WHERE: Jones Library, 118 Jones Ave. CONTACT: Cathy, 416-393-7715, cmoran@ torontopubliclibrary.ca COST: Free Join us to make ice cream and a puppet show.

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Flow in the Park WHEN: 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.

WHERE: Kew Gardens, 2075 Queen St. E. CONTACT: Elizabeth, 647-7484569, www.afterglowstudio.ca, liz@afterglowstudio.

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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 at least 12 volunteers for 7 evening performances (Aug. 1 to 7) and for 2 matinée performances (Aug. 4 and 7). We also require 5 volunteers for dress rehearsal on July 31. Plus, on-call volunteers are needed for rain dates.

CHECK oUT oUr complete online community calendar by visiting www. insidetoronto.com where you can read listings from your Beach-riverdale neighbourhoods as well as events from across Toronto. ca COST: Free Yoga all summer long in the heart of the Beaches at Kew Gardens Park.

Classes are suitable for students of all levels. Drop in. Donations to Friends of the Beach Parks welcome.

Civil Wray WHEN: 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.

WHERE: Castro’s Lounge, 2116 Queen St. E. CONTACT: Andrea de Boer, , , andreadeboer@yahoo. com COST: Free Civil Wray is the latest project by Andrea de Boer formerly of blueVenus. As Civil Wray, she continues to

1681 Lakeshore Blvd. E. CONTACT: 416-469-5336, www.afrofest.ca/ COST: Free Celebrating African music and culture.

leslievilleflea.com, leslievilleflea@ gmail.com COST: Free A curated monthly market with more than 60 vendors selling vintage, salvaged, furniture, antiques and more.

Roast of PJ Phil 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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explore new sounds that highlight her memorable vocals.

Face Painting Party WHEN: 2 to 3 p.m.

WHERE: Jones Library, 118 Jones Ave. CONTACT: Cathy, 416393-7715 COST: Free Join us for face painting.

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w Thursday, July 14

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,

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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The Leslieville Flea WHEN: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. WHERE: Ashbridges Estate, 1444 Queen St. E. CONTACT: 647-267-8538, www.

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

WHERE: Jones Library, 118 Jones Ave. COST: Free Stories, songs, rhymes and activities for children aged 5 and under.

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Ashbridges Bay Park hosts annual Canada Day fireworks >>>from page 1 athletes, including Neil McNeil Catholic High School’s own Javier Acevedo (who will be competing in swimming in Rio) a beer garden, and giveaways.

Also, the Chinese Chamber of Commerce (East Toronto) host its 23rd annual celebration at Riverdale Park East, north of Gerrard Street East and west of Broadview Avenue, from noon to 6 p.m., with fun for the whole family.

The Naval Club of Toronto, 1910 Gerrard St. E., hosts a barbecue and open house starting at 11 a.m.

StephenSon park The Friends of Stephenson Park hosts its third annual Canada Day Celebration at 3:30 p.m. The festivities include live music, and be held at Stephenson Park, 61 Stephenson Ave. Beach historian Gene Domagala

will be giving a historical tour of the community starting at 1 p.m.

Participants should meet at Kew Gardens Park, near Queen Street and Lee Avenue by the Beaches Library.

And, of course, to wrap it all up there’s fireworks at Ashbridges Bay Park.

The display begins shortly after 9:30 p.m., at the park at the foot of Coxwell Avenue at Lake Shore Boulevard.

Eglinton Crosstown Update: Station Open House The Eglinton Crosstown Project is building the future Eglinton line, a 19-kilometre light rail transit (LRT) line that will run along Eglinton Avenue through the heart of Toronto, with a 10-kilometre underground tunnel in its central section. When complete, the line will connect Mount Dennis in the west to Kennedy Road in the east, and will move passengers up to 60 per cent faster than bus service along Eglinton Avenue today.

Join us at our upcoming open house and learn about the future station on the future Eglinton line in your neighbourhood.

Starting in summer 2016, the next phase of construction begins at Science Centre Station, and many other Crosstown stations will be under construction before the end of 2016.

Join Metrolinx and its constructor, Crosslinx Transit Solutions (CTS), at the open house to find out: • what construction is happening in your neighbourhood • why it needs to happen • how it may impact you • who to contact if you have questions/concerns • when construction is happening

Science Centre Station Open House Monday, July 11, 2016 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

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HAPPY CANADA DAY! Canada celebrates its 149th birthday on July 1.

It was back in 1867 Canada became a new federation with its own constitution by the signing of the Constitution Act – formerly known as the British North America Act. Canada Day is a national statutory holiday celebrated in all provinces and territories.

On Jan. 1 this year, the country kicked off more than a new year – it began a 366-day countdown to a year-long celebration of its 150th birthday and anniversary of Confederation.

To find out more, visit canadaday.gc.ca Residents of Toronto can take in festivities on Canada Day at Nathan Phillips Square, which includes an evening of live music and dance performances, family activities and a fireworks show choreographed to music.

Other firework displays taking place on July 1 include: • Mel Lastman Square, 5100 Yonge St., at 10:15 p.m.

• Amesbury Park, 1507 Lawrence Ave. W., at 9:45 p.m.

• Milliken Park, at Steeles and McCowan roads, 4325 McCowan Rd., Scarborough, at dusk: 10 p.m. Call 416-396-7757 for details.

• Ashbridges Bay Park, Lake Shore Boulevard East at the foot of Coxwell Avenue – view from the beach – 1675 Lake Shore Blvd E. • Centennial Park, Etobicoke, as part of Ribfest, at 10 p.m.

Art in Phin Park drop-in returns for the summer Art in Phin Park, a fun, free summertime community art program in The Pocket neighbourhood, is back for the season starting on Monday, July 4.

Featuring artist-in-residence Jerry Silverberg, the drop-in program for kids, teens, caregivers, and adults will feature a number disciplines including collage, puppet making, printmaking, book making, and mural painting to name a few.

Presented by The Pocket Community Association with the support of the Toronto Arts Council, Art in Phin Park will run Monday to Thursday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. until Aug. 31. The program will also include workshops (music, stories, origami, and drum circle) on Wednesday evenings in August featuring special guest artists.

All are welcome and supplies are provided. Phin Park is at 115 Condor Ave. Visit www.thepocket.ca/events/ art-in-phin-park for more. scrEEnEd aT BEach moViE nighT wETVillagE

The Beach Village Business Improvement Area will kick off its annual Movies Nights in the Park series on Wednesday, July 6, at Kew Gardens Park, 2075 Queen St . E. at

Lee Avenue.

The first film to be screened is ET. All movies, which will run Wednesday evenings until Aug. 31, start at dusk.

Admission is free.

Screening will rotate between Kew Gardens Park and Ivan Forrest Gardens, 131 Glen Manor Rd. at Queen Street East.

For more information, visit www. thebeachvillage.com/event/movienights-in-the-park-3/ or call 416 693 2242. cElEBraTion in EasT lynn Park wPridE

The Danforth East Community Association (DECA) is inviting the community to celebrate Pride today.

The event, which will include crafts for the kids, courtesy of Silly Goose Kids, among other things, will take place during the East Lynn Farmers’ Market at East Lynn Park, 1949 Danforth Ave., just west of Woodbine Avenue, from 3 to 7 p.m.

All are welcome.

Anyone interested in joining the email list for the east-end community association’s new LGBTQ group, DECA Pride, should email pride@deca.to

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All NAtioNs Pow wow At First NAtioNs school Left, Michael Healy performs a grass dance during the opening ceremonies of the First Nations School of Toronto’s seventh annual All Nations Pow Wow last Friday.

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The Beaches Salsa Festival will feature both local and international acts playing salsa, merengue, cumbia and bachata music. This weekend’s headlining acts include Panamanian icon Lucho and award-winning accordion player Juan Diego of Lucho de Sedas on Saturday along with 14-piece orchestra La Gran Colombia and Toronto’s

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Bike Share adds 120 new stations New GO stations for east Toronto Bike Share Toronto has begun a promised expansion of its operations, adding 120 new stations and 1,000 more bikes.

The agency first announced in April it was purchasing the new infrastructure from Montreal-based PBSC Solutions, which ran the bike share originally called Bixi. This boost to its offerings effectively doubles the amount of bikes available for short-term rentals.

The purchase comes from a near $5-million funding arrangement with Metrolinx announced in 2015.

The new rides are expected to be available by July 11.

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SMaRTTRaCK fRIENDS SaY TIf WIll WORK A group cheerleading for the SmartTrack transit project has now released a report claiming the city can raise billions towards its cost.

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“That day I was carrying lots of stuff. I normally don’t do that, so it was not good,” she shared during a recent interview.

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since 1990

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