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Niklas Chandrabalan is the administrator at Extendicare Bayview, one of many aging long-term care homes in Toronto in need of renovation.

‘Time ticking’ on long-term care homes MIKE ADLER madler@insidetoronto.com From the road, Extendicare Bayview looks a lot like a motel.

A single-story square around an open courtyard on North York’s Cummer Avenue, the home was built more than 40 years ago, a time when some

seniors moving into long-term care could still drive.

Now, they’re much older, frailer, and sicker than they were then, but the architecture of Extendicare Bayview remains much as it was.

The long-term home near Bayview Avenue – like many other aging facilities similar to it in Toronto – is patiently waiting

its turn to be rebuilt.

“Every space in this home is being used for something,” said Niklas Chandrabalan, the facility’s administrator for the past four years.

“Things are challenging right now because we are a home that’s designed for code 30 years ago.”

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brought a spark of hope to the long-term sector last month by announcing it will renovate 300 homes in the province over the next nine years.

But the announcement named just six homes, and only one of those, Bloomington Cove Care Community in WhitchurchStouffville – visited on that day >>>homes, page 3

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Police in 55 Division have released details about a recent spate of commercial break-ins along Danforth Avenue.

Last week, several businesses along the strip had windows smashed and property stolen one night over a three-hour period.

Police were called and canvassed for video surveillance from surrounding businesses.

The footage they obtained showed images of some of the entries and in one instance even showed a burglar wind up like a major league baseball pitcher before throwing a rock at a window. Other videos caught the perpetrator walking to and from the scene of the crime.

Investigators then used this footage to identify a suspect.

One person has been arrested and charged with a number of related offences.

As a result, police are urging business owners to consider using video cameras for security purposes.

Anyone with information should contact 416-808-5500, Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-222-TIPS (8477), online at www.222tips.com, or text TOR and your message to CRIMES (274637).

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comes to the Distillery District wArtfest The annual Artfest Toronto outdoor arts and crafts show is coming to the Distillery Historic District Saturday to Monday.

Artfest Toronto, which features a range of one-of-a-kind and world-class artwork, runs from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily.

Admission is free.

Artfest Toronto will also be held on the Labour Day weekend from Sept. 2 to 5 also at the Distillery Historic District, between Cherry and Parliament streets, south of Mill Street.

Visit www.artfestontario.com/ toronto for more information. trees to homeowners wmatching

The Toronto Parks and Trees Foundation, an organization that has been helping Toronto re-imagine and improve its parks, green spaces and urban forest since 2002, is looking to match homeowners with the right tree for their property.

The official funding partner of the City of Toronto’s Parks, Forestry and Recreation division, the foundation is offering people a local tree grown from tree seeds collected in Toronto.

Trees can be picked up

Saturday, May 28 at Riverdale Park East, near Gerrard Street East and Broadview Avenue, V isit www.torontoparksandtrees.ca to sign up for Tree for Me.

the spaces we reside in, is being showcased until May 30 Email daniela@riverdalehub. ca for details.

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The May edition of East End Comedy Revue, a monthly comedy show for charity, is set for Sunday.

The evening of laughs will be held at The Duke Live, 1225 Queen St. E. at Leslie Street. Doors open at 7:30 p.m.

This time around, Canadian stand-up legend Mike MacDonald will be the headliner with special guests Matt O’Brien, Julia Hladkowiczl, Evan Carter, and special guests Nigel Grinstead and Courtney Gilmour.

A portion of the proceeds from this month’s show will be directed to Applegrove Community Complex.

Tickets can be purchased online at www.ticketscene.ca and at The Duke Live.

The Beach Garden Society is holding a plant sale Saturday from 9 to 11:30 a.m. at Adam Beck Community Centre, 79 Lawlor Ave. Hundreds of beautiful, organically grown perennials will be available for purchasing.

Personal shoppers will also be on hand.

Call 416-699-4353, email marilyn_walsh@rogers.com or visit the Beach Garden Society’s Facebook page for more details. showcased at Riverdale Hub Gallery wTopophilia

Topophilia, a group exhibition that explores the themes of location, displacement and aesthetic relationships to space, is now on display at the Riverdale Hub Gallery, 1326 Gerrard St. E., between Coxwell and Greenwood avenues.

The exhibit, which interprets how space forms our identity and how we, in turn, come to define

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From 3 to 7 p.m., community members are invited to Fairmount Park, 1725 Gerrard St. E., just east of Coxwell Avenue, to learn about sustainable gardening products and resources.

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Artscape, in partnership with Rockport Group, is commissioning and producing a temporary public artwork in Leslieville.

Artists can submit original proposals that aesthetically or thematically reflect the Leslieville neighbourhood, or the life of its founder, George Leslie.

The piece, slated for installation in early August, will be reproduced on a 10’ by 16’ vinyl support and mounted on the eastern wall of Rockport’s George Condos sales office at 1258 Queen St. E., just east of Leslie Street.

Submissions should include a brief statement/description of the proposed project and how it relates to George Leslie and/or the Leslieville community; a sketch or mock-up of the proposed artwork in PDJ or jpeg form; a materials budget, a portfolio of five digital images of past work with an accompanying image list, and a brief artist biography and CV. Applications should be submitted to ckirchner@artiscape.ca by Friday, May 20 at 5 p.m.

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The show, which features images from the 2015 National Pictures of the Year awards competition, runs until Friday, May 27.

The National Pictures of the year awards competition was created by NPAC to recognize excellence in Canadian photojournalism.

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Funds sought to plant a tree for Marilyn Ullrich The Friends of Stephenson Park stewardship group has partnered with Community Centre 55 to raise funds to install a commemorative tree in the park in honour of Marilyn Ullrich, who died in a car crash.

Ullrich was killed Tuesday, May 3 when a vehicle crashed into the front window of the Bold Steps Dance Studio in the Beach.

She often volunteered at Stephenson Park, located near Danforth Avenue and Main Street.

A 30-year east-ender, Ullrich was also a member of the seniors group at Community Centre 55

bowmore helps out Students and teachers from Bowmore Road Junior and Senior Public School did their part to help those impacted by the wildfires in Fort McMurray, Alberta last Friday, when they did a support walk around the school. Each classroom was been given a Bristol board with a big bubble letter on it. These boards will were laid out on the back pavement at the school to spell #BowmoreBacksFortMac! After the walk, everyone gathered around the banner to have their picture snapped from the roof. Students also made a monetary contribution.

(CC55) and did volunteering there as well.

Those who are interested in Marilyn Ullrich making a donation can call CC55 at 416-691-1113. Tax receipts are available. The goal is to have enough funds raised to plant the tree this fall.

A memorial for Ullrich’s will take place at Community Centre 55, 97 Main St., Saturday, May 28, from 2 to 5 p.m.

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Homes waiting for redevelopment across the province >>>from page 1 by a local MPP and Dipika Damerla, Ontario’s associate minister of health and long-term care – is in Greater Toronto.

Which means the government still has to find a way to rebuild nearly half of its 626 licensed long-term care facilities.

Candace Chartier, CEO of the Ontario Long Term Care Association, said the situation is urgent.

“You’ve got these old buildings that are starting to fall apart,” Chartier said last month. “Time’s ticking, and all these licenses are expiring in nine years.”

Modernizing these older homes, many of them built to the design standards of the early 1970s, is long overdue, said Chartier, whose group represents facilities with 70 per cent, or some 54,000, of Ontario’s long-term care residents.

Most older homes still have some four-bed rooms, or have two-bed rooms with bathrooms shared by four residents.

Around 62 per cent of the residents have Alzheimer’s or other dementia, said Chartier, and they may be wandering, or calling out at night – and you can imagine the effect of this on someone just trying to get a good night’s sleep.

“People don’t want to put their loved one in an older

home,” she said.

Chandrabalan has no doubt renovating will increase quality of life for his residents.

Some of its 203 men and women and their families like Extendicare Bayview’s one-floor design, he said, but you don’t find many homes like it anymore, and the complexity of care for residents is growing.

The home, meanwhile, has bought some time by learning how to use spaces for multiple purposes – a dining room for physiotherapy and exercise, for example – but there are only four spaces in which to program activities for everyone.

Extendicare, which owns 34 long-term care (LTC) homes in Ontario and manages others, took over a long time ago.

Newer homes have only single and double rooms.

There are no narrow hallways crowded with equipment, and no cafeteria-type spaces, but instead smaller and more intimate dining areas.

Extendicare Bayview’s largest dining room serves close to 90 residents, and close to 80 go to the next dining room across a hall.

There are no locked units. Memory boards, at the entrance to each room, display images from long ago, something residents can relate to their past, not short-term memory.

The washrooms are meant for people who can walk, not for the wheelchairs used by 60 per cent of residents, who need one or two staff to assist them.

Their tubs, Chandrabalan said, have been unused for 20 years, but the cost of removal would be too much.

The home has only one three-bed room, but 64 other double rooms share one bathroom through sliding doors.

These basic rooms don’t have a lot of space.

Chandrabalan said.

“At the end of the day it comes down to care, and the best we can do with it.”

Needs are great Toronto, divided by the province into local health integration networks, or LHINs, has some areas where the need for bed renovation is greater.

The Central LHIN, which includes North York and York Region, has the shortest long-term bed supply of all LHINs. Most of its beds to be redeveloped are in North York – 1,620 of them.

But the Central East LHIN, which includes Scarborough and Durham, has the largest number of beds scheduled for redevelopment, including 2,149 (slightly more than half) of 4,234 beds in Scarborough alone, where 12 of 22 of long-

term homes could be on the list.

Since 2003, the ministry has created just more than 10,000 new nursing home beds, and 13,500 have been redeveloped, but more than 30,000 in those 300 older homes remain.

Chartier thinks there will be a need for the province to build new beds, too, given Ontario’s aging population and a 83-day average wait time for an LTC bed.

She said the renovation program – giving homes a construction subsidy of $16.65 per bed per day over 25 years – is enough, if it could work for everybody.

Right now, the program works for some members of her association, she said, but not all. A 60-bed home in a rural area can’t afford redevelopment, and with land prices so high in downtown Toronto, homes there may have to look at building elsewhere, she said. Some older homes won’t want to rebuild; the ministry may take a couple of years to count who does or doesn’t, Chartier said.

In an interview last week, Ontario New Democratic Party Leader Andrea Horwath argued the province’s longterm care system “has been pretty much ignored” over the past 13 years of Liberal government, which Horwath said “has a lot of catching up to do.

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long weekend is just about here, and many of us will hit the road for this Victoria Day holiday.

No matter when or where you go – be it in the city or on a longer road trip to a cottage or to pitch a tent – your main focus should be arriving at your destination alive.

The excitement of having a few days off from the everyday sometimes causes people to throw common sense out the window (along with some litter – don’t do that by the way). While you and other drivers snake through slow traffic, you can expect the Ontario Provincial Police to be keeping a close eye on how you drive.

Last year, 27 motorcyclists and four passengers died, with 17 of those motorcycle drivers reported as driving properly at the time of the crash, the OPP reports.

While speed and loss of control our view also played a role in the deaths, the OPP is cautioning both Share the motorcyclists and other drivers road and be to do a better job of sharing the road. firework safe These weekends away from our routine don’t have to be reckless.

Speeding, careless lane changes and unnecessary risk-taking can cause more than a rush – it can end your life or someone else’s.

If you follow the rules of the road, and the person driving next to you does the same, along with the vehicle ahead of you and the other trailing a safe distance behind, there’s no reason this shouldn’t be a holiday to remember – for all the right reasons.

And if you want to celebrate the birthday of the late Queen Victoria with fireworks, be safe about it.

The Canada Safety Council believes it’s best to enjoy fireworks at a show put on by professionals such as the City of Toronto set for Monday night at Ashbridges Bay Park.

But if you’re going to be your own pyrotechnic protege, follow these tips: • Read the instructions, cautions and warnings on each firework item.

• Set up outdoors in a clear, open space. Light fireworks on a hard, flat and level surface to ensure stability.

• Spectators should be at a safe distance.

• Only adults (18 years or over) should handle the fireworks.

• If you are impaired, do not handle fireworks.

Visit www.canadasafetycouncil.org for more safety tips.

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Council needs to make Toronto sustainable If recent history has taught us nothing else, let us remember this: that left to their own devices, Toronto’s political leadership is about as good with a budget as a pack of 12 year olds with their parents’ credit cards.

It had always been so, at least within the lifespan of amalgamated Toronto.

In 1997, Mel Lastman was elected the city’s first mayor on a promise of a three-year property tax freeze – delivered at the same time as the city was reconstituting itself into the largest municipality in the country at the behest, but without the support of, the provincial government.

Lastman’s first term set a tone that subsequent councils have maintained: namely, that marginal property tax increases are the most injurious thing a government might inflict upon homeowners – about an equivalent evil to reducing services upon which those homeowners had come to rely and limiting promises of improved service to come.

david nickle the city And so over the years, council has approved projects, maintained services, and kept property tax increases slim to none.

This week, Toronto’s city manager Peter Wallace brought out another in what is developing into a series of despatches, delineating what to many has been obvious for years.

Toronto has been able to maintain the fiction of a growing city and a low property tax environment thanks to factors that are either entirely beyond its control (a booming real estate market that pours in revenue through the municipal land transfer tax) or measures of which council should frankly be ashamed (approving capital projects for future years with no means of financing).

At some point, very soon, the boom’s going to end and the projects will have to

be built.

Wallace first pointed this out to councillors in the fall shortly after he took the job. That early report gave Mayor John Tory a small amount of political cover, to propose that the city maintain a 0.5 per cent levy on the property tax bill currently in place to help finance the Scarborough subway, to finance more transit infrastructure.

This report, coming to next week’s Executive Committee, provides an imperative for more of the same: a debate on what other ways we might find to support ourselves in the style to which we’ve become accustomed. To whit: revenue tools.

These conversations haven’t gone well in the past. In the last term of council, politicians balked at supporting any revenue tools, even as they voted to go forward on subway expansion in Scarborough.

Former mayor David Miller was able to get a couple of major revenue

tools through council, but the battle over the land transfer tax and vehicle registration tax nearly broke council.

Will it be any different now? It’s not encouraging.

Toronto council this term has shown just as little appetite for long-term financial planning as ever.

Under the leadership of Tory, council approved a billion-dollar rebuild of the Gardiner Expressway’s elevated lanes, against expert advice.

The Scarborough subway, absent all but one stop, remains on the books.

And this week, Tory made it clear himself that one thing he won’t support is any significant increase to Toronto’s bargain-basement property tax rates.

There’s no doubt about it: the arrested 12 year olds on Toronto council have a lot of growing up to do.

David Nickle is Metroland Media Toronto’s city hall reporter. His column runs every Thursday. Reach him on Twitter: @DavidNickle

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Cyclist Cindy also hoped to pick up a few things at the store but was stunned to learn it’s now closed.

“This is going to be a nightmare. Lots of people who live around here don’t have vehicles,” she said. “I always drop by on my way home. Now I’m going to have slim pickings for dinner.”

Resident Coreen Barton also said she’s not too sure where she’ll go for her grocery shopping.

“As a neighbour, I’ve been here for 12 years and I got no notice. I saw the manager the other day and nobody said a word,” she said. “This is where I go to shop. Where am I going to go to shop now? There’s nowhere nearby to go.”

A cashier from the nowshuttered store stopped by to pick up a few items she’d left behind Friday afternoon.

The part-time employee, who asked not to give her name, said she found out about the store closing from a co-worker.

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“I was shocked to find out but management told me they would try to help me find a job at another location,” she said, adding she was also promised a position at the new store once it reopens.

She said she was told the store would be closed for eight to 10 months.

In an email to The Beach Mirror, Kevin Groh, Loblaws Companies Ltd.’s vice-president of corporate affairs and communication, said the Coxwell Avenue No Frills would only be closed temporarily, and the store’s employees are being taken care of.

“What I can tell you is that the owner of Rocca’s No Frills and the No Frills team are doing everything possible to identify employment opportunities at other No Frills locations during the closure. In the interim, employees will be provided financial support in excess of employment standards,” he said, adding all employees will be welcomed back when the store reopens.

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East-end residents are still reeling from the sudden, unannounced closure of the Rocca’s No Frills grocery store at 269 Coxwell Ave., just north of Gerrard Street East.

Last Wednesday morning, the supermarket posted a note on the front and back doors of the store indicating it had closed its doors for renovations for an undetermined, albeit extended, period of time.

“We have served this community for decades. We hope to serve the community for decades more,” it read.

“To do that, we need to modernize the store. This will include improvements to the building and renovations that will make your shopping experience even better.”

To assist those who rely on No Frills for their groceries, parent company Loblaws said it would be looking into providing a shuttle bus to the Dave and Charlotte’s No Frills store at 449 Carlaw Ave., north

more about it.

“I think the shuttle is a nice gesture but they should have forewarned us also (about the closure). They should have done a better job preparing the community,” she said.

Carrie, who doesn’t drive and expects she’ll have to make a number of trips if she has to buy big or heavy items, admitted she’s skeptical about how long the shuttle will be offered.

Therese Cowie also dropped by the east-end No Frills to buy some items for dinner and was surprised to find it closed.

“I’m just inconvenienced,” said Cowie, who opted to try out the free shuttle bus.

Like many, 20-year east-end resident Janet dropped by the Coxwell Avenue No Frills to pick up a few items and was surprised to see the windows papered over.

“I would have bought more yesterday (when I was here), if I had known. This is disgusting,” she said, adding the supermarket is relied upon by a lot of lower income and older

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The City of Toronto hosts Victoria Day fireworks at 9:45 p.m. Monday at Ashbridges Bay Park at Lake Shore Boulevard East and Coxwell Avenue. Thousands of people are expected to take in the 14-minute show to unofficially kick off summer. People are encouraged to keep the car at home as parking is limited. Bus service will be increased between Queen Street East and the Bloor-Danforth subway line. The event goes rain or shine. Visit www.toronto.ca

FRANKIE VALLI AND THE FOUR SEASONS

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The original Jersey boy himself, Frankie Valli is a true American pop icon. His incredible career with the Four Seasons, as well as his solo success, has spawned countless hit singles. The concert takes place Saturday at 8 p.m. at the Sony Centre For The Performing Arts, 1 Front St. E. Tickets range in price from $95.39 to $168.39.

It’s Victoria Day weekend, the first long weekend and the unofficial kick-off to summer. If you are planning to stay in the city, there are plenty of things to do. Visit www.insidetoronto.com/ toronto-events for more.

THE ULTIMUTTS STUNT DOG SHOW

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The Ultimutts Stunt Dog Show is a circus-style show jampacked with non-stop tricks to wow the audience and keep them on the edge of their seats. Comprised of rescued animals, these dogs love to work and perform, the show runs at 1, 2:30 and 4 p.m. at PawsWay, 245 Queens Quay W. Visit www.pawsway.ca/victoria-day-ultimutts-2016

WORLD FIDDLE DAY TORONTO BEASLEY BEAR’S TEDDY BEAR PICNIC

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Beasley Bear’s Teddy Bear Picnic is a free event at Centreville on Centre Island that combines outdoor fun with physical education to teach school-aged children about the importance of living a healthy lifestyle. Lots of fun activities and free hugs from Beasley Bear. Must purchase Ride Passes. Visit www.centreisland.ca/centreville/rides-attraction

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Join workshops, listen to a concert with Dan MacDonald (Cape Breton Fiddle), Mark Marcyk of Lemon Bucket Orchestra (Hutsul Fiddling from Ukraine), Rosalyn Dennett (Appalachian Fiddle), Yosvai Castaneda (Latin Violin) and a community “Around-the-World Jam”. The event takes place Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Fort York National Historic Site, 250 Fort York Blvd. Free.

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This year’s HarbourKIDS: Circus Festival has been re-imagined. Organizers have teamed up with circus artists and curators to offer circus acts that will have you gasping in awe, doubling over with laughter and even joining in. The event takes place Saturday to Monday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 235 Queens Quay W.

OUTSIDERS: AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHY AND FILM

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Documenting American life in all its startling complexity and diversity, the photographers and filmmakers featured in the AGO’s latest exhibition, Outsiders: American Photography and Film, 1950s – 1980s, present compelling images of individuals and communities on the perceived margins of society. The show runs until May 29 at the Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas St. W. Various prices and hours.

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a gift for Margaret trudeau Margaret’s Housing & Community Support Services executive director Diane Walter, left, presents ‘What a Flower Means to Me’, an original painting by a Margaret’s client, to Margaret Trudeau during her recent visit to the Broadview Avenue women’s centre. Trudeau, mother of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the ex-wife of former prime minister Pierre Trudeau, has been named the honourary patron of Margaret’s Housing and Support Services, a Riverdale-based organization that assists women with mental illness rebuild and reclaim their lives. She toured the agency and heard stories from the women staying there. She also offered lessons learned from her own mental health struggles. In October, Trudeau delivered the keynote address at the agency’s gala, Mad about Margaret’s.

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Federal funding to help seniors and youth praised Be a c h e s - E a s t Yo rk M P Nathaniel Erskine-Smith recently announced funding for four programs for youth and seniors in the city’s east end.

Erskine-Smith made the announcement late last month on behalf of Québec MP JeanYves Duclos, the minister of families, children and social development.

“O u r g ov e r n m e n t i s dedicated to ensuring that Canadian seniors can get involved in community activities that meet their needs and interests, tap their collective resources and experiences, and promote their participation,” Erskine-Smith said in a release.

“We support New Horizons for Seniors Program projects like these so that seniors in Beaches-East York can lead and participate in local activities.”

E l i z a b e t h Fo r e s t e l l ,

Funding to our health care system will increase by over $1 billion this year.

New Horizons for Seniors The local groups set to benefit from the funding, which is part of the federal government’s New Horizons for Seniors and Skills Link programs, are: w Bangladesh Centre – Intergenerational Project to Integrate South Asian Seniors into Canadian Society and Culture, $24,056 w Mennonite New Life Centre of Toronto – From Garden to Table: Bridging Generations for a Sustainable Healthy Lifestyle, $24,850 w The Neighbourhood Centre – Seniors Arts and Brain Booster Club, $25,000 w The Neighbourhood Group – Skills Link, $408,598 executive director of The Neighbourhood Group, also expressed her appreciation for the funding.

“Neighbourhood Link Support Services, one of The Neighbourhood Group, is delighted to be awarded funding from the Ministry of Employment and Social Development for our Youth Works Program,” she said.

“This vital program provides at-risk youth ages 18 to 30 with pre-employment training and real workplace experience giving them the tools and confidence they need to succeed.

We truly value this important and long-standing funding partnership and look forward to many more years providing this valuable program.”

– Joanna Lavoie

Investing in new and better ways for all Ontarians to get the care they need means: • 700 new doctors and specialists • 35 hospitals currently being renewed, modernized or expanded • $250 million invested in home and community care • $345 million invested to improve wait times and access to care These investments ensure a strong health care system for both today and tomorrow.

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Nominations close Friday for CC55 Clean, Green and Beautiful Award Community Centre 55 is looking to recognize outstanding east-end Toronto residents who have helped make a difference through a community greening, cleaning, or beautification initiative

on an outdoor space.

People have until Friday, May 20 at 4:30 p.m. to submit nominations for the local community centre’s new Clean, Green and Beautiful Award.

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For details or a nomination form, visit www.centre55.com or call 416-691-1113.

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TPP Town Hall May 24th 6–7:30pm

St. John's Presbyterian, 415 Broadview Ave (at Simpson)

I want to hear your thoughts on the Trans-Pacific Partnership

Julie Dabrusin, MP for Toronto–Danforth | Julie.Dabrusin@parl.gc.ca | 416.405.8914 | 1180 Danforth Ave

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Rich Clune’s first playoff goal sends Marlies into AHL final four NORM NELSON nnelson@insidetoronto.com

Toronto Beach native Rich Clune picked an excellent time to score his first goal of the American Hockey League (AHL) playoffs on Monday.

His goal, with less than three minutes remaining in the third period, held up as the winner as the Toronto Marlies clinched the seventh and deciding game 4-3 at home at the Ricoh Coliseum against the visiting Albany Devils.

Clune was left with an easy tap-in after a shot from the point missed the net but hit the end boards and bounced right back in front of the net.

The 29-year-old veteran, who kicked off the sport in the Ted Reeve Hockey Association, was tabbed as the game’s first star for his efforts.

Clune has three points (one goal, two assists) in 10 playoff games.

The Marlies local flavour also includes Connor Brown,

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Beach native Rich Clune, right, is congratulated during Monday’s game for scoring the Toronto Marlies most important goal of the year – so far.

who grew up in Etobicoke and attended Michael Power/St. Joseph High School, with eight points (six goals, two assists), and Zach Hyman, 23, who grew up in Forest Hill, attending North York’s Community Hebrew Academy Toronto (CHAT), with five playoff points (3 goals, 2 assists).

The Marlies move on to the

AHL final four as they get set to open the Eastern Conference finals against the Hershey Bears, who are the Washington Capitals top affiliate.

The best-of-seven series starts with the first two games in Hershey, Pennsylvania Friday and Saturday with the next three in Toronto May 25, 27 and (if needed) 29.

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Public meetings on waterfront transit Two public meetings are coming up this month to discuss transit proposals for the waterfront.

Waterfront Toronto and city officials will present preliminary design and planning concepts for possible new, yet currently unfunded, transit routes that may include the East Bayfront LRT. Two meetings are scheduled for the study, with the first taking place Wednesday, May 25 at Brigantine Room inside Harbourfront Centre starting at 6 p.m.

Another meeting takes place in Mimico the next day at John English Junior Middle School at 95 Mimico Ave. at 6 p.m.

CHANCE TO TAKE wLAST IN TUNNEL VISION

The Tunnel Vision subway exhibit is down to its final month.

The installation inside St. Lawrence Market features photographs, maps, and other artifacts from

rahul gupta TO in TRANSIT nearly 100 years of transit planning, dating back well before the opening of the city’s first subway stations.

Organized by the Toronto Transportation Society, the exhibit, which opened in February, closes June 11.

OVER UBER, wMOVE HERE COMES APPLE

The legalization of Uber is well at hand, but could another tech giant one day enter the ride-hailing market?

It certainly seems like Apple is interested, with the company announcing last week it is investing $1 billion in a Chinese competitor of Uber, and acting as a “strategic” investor to the company, Didi Chuxing.

It’s certainly conceivable Apple will never operate a ride-hailing service on its own.

But the company’s deep pockets combined with the burgeoning growth of the industry could mean there’s a day when Apple-branded vehicles are providing private rides in this city, and rivalling Uber in popularity.

TTC HEAD OF PLANNING HAS RETIRED wLONGTIME

The TTC’s longtime head of planning has finally called it a day after a career spanning more than three decades.

For 21 years of his career with the city, Mitch Stambler was the commission’s chief planning official, having a hand in developing transit expansion projects and plans.

Stambler had a direct role creating the Transit City light rail network plan, and he was also part of planning for the Spadina subway extension.

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An Evening with Tanis Rideout WHEN: 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.

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Small Paintings for Small Places WHEN: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. WHERE: Gardener’s Cottage, Queen Street and Lee Avenue CONTACT: http://beachguildoffineart.com, info@ beachguildoffineart.com COST: Free The Beach Guild of Fine Art’s spring show and sale featuring paintings by more than 40 of the guild artists. Original small paintings; none over $350.

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

The Umbrella Thief WHEN: 11 to 11:30 a.m.

WHERE: Jones Public Library, 118 Jones Ave. CONTACT: Teresa, 416-393-7715 COST: Free A puppet show based on a Sri Lankan folktale that follows Kiri Mama as he tries to find the thief who keeps stealing his umbrellas.

Withrow Park Clubhouse, 725 Logan Ave. CONTACT: g.gregory@rogers.com COST: Free More than 20 local artists will be participating. The show continues on Sunday, May 29, from 1 to 5 p.m.

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At Home Alone: Five Easy Steps to Independence WHEN: 6 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Jones Branch, 118 Jones Ave. CONTACT: Cathy, 416-393-7715 COST: Free A workshop led by Toronto Public Health to help families prepare their 10 to 14 year old to be home alone safely. Call 416-393-7715 to register.

Lawn Bowling Open House WHEN: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

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Dundas Fun Fair WHEN: 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

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Make a Mural WHEN: 11 to 11:30 a.m.

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Stratford Festival HD Production Screenings: ‘King John’ WHEN: 2 p.m. WHERE: Beaches Library, 2161 Queen St. E. CONTACT: 416-393-7703 COST: Free

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