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HILARY CATON bsrm@insidetoronto.com Just six months shy of its 10th anniversary in May, The Hangman Art Gallery is closing its doors.

“It would be really nice to hang on until then,” said Russell Brohier, the executive director of The Hangman Art Gallery at 756 Queen St. E. “It’s sad to see it go.”

Brohier helped open and co-found The Hangman Art Gallery nine and a half years ago, and he once participated in group and solo art show as a photographer there, which makes Sunday’s closure extra difficult for him, he said.

The gallery is shutting down due to an increase in rent.

“The landlord has not once raised our rent in the nine and half years we’ve been there,” Brohier said.

“But taxes have gone up in the area and in order to continue to cover his costs, rent had to go up and unfortunately we couldn’t stick around after the increase.”

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Riverside murals, the old and new REBECCA FIELD bsrm@insidetoronto.com A mural can capture a certain time in history, says mural artist Michelle Luk. Those taking a stroll past Jilly’s on Queen Street East will see a 20-year-old mural representing the Queen and Broadview BIA. Head in the other direction, and a new mural on the side of Ruby Eats one block over at Queen Street East and Grant Street represents the Riverside BIA of today, which was revealed Oct. 26.

“I like the element of having the old sign still there. It’s a relic of being one of the oldest BIAs and oldest established neighbourhoods in Toronto,” said Luk, who brought the idea of having a new mural to the Riverside BIA. The mural was originally going to replace the old sign on the side of Jilly’s, but Ruby Eats was chosen in the end.

“Now when you enter Riverside on the flipside, you see this new modern mural.

That’s exciting to me.”

The Riverside BIA commissioned Luk to put up a mural version of artwork done by local artist Jessie Durham.

Luk took the design, which Durham completed six months prior and features the bridge leading into Riverside from downtown, as well as a streetcar, and projected it onto wood panels before painting and attaching them to the side of Ruby Eats. It also displays the Riverside logo.

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The new mural on the side of Ruby Eats represents the Riverside BIA of today.

“We’re trying to look at what are the landmarks that really represent the neighbourhood,” said Durham, whose original design was initially displayed in a TTC shelter on the corner of Queen Street and Broadview Avenue, welcoming people to the neighbourhood.

Community members invited kids to contribute to painting the mural during Riverside’s Eats and Beats festival in June.

“People in the area were invited to paint what Riverside means to them,” Luk said.

“From far away, you can’t see that element at all, but when you look close up, you see scribbles coming out of the flat colour.”

“It’s really important that where the mural is being put up that people are being involved,” Luk said.

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Remembering the fallen at Kew Gardens cenotaph REBECCA FIELD bsrm@insidetoronto.com A cold rain fell on bystanders at a Remembrance Day ceremony held at Kew Gardens Monday, but even veterans wrapped in warm blankets stuck around to pay their respects to those who fought.

Hosted by the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 1, people showed up with poppies over their hearts and stayed despite the weather to pay respects to Canada’s war veterans.

“Someone has offered me an umbrella, but I kindly refused because even when it rained, our soldiers did not stop fighting,” said Margaret Foley from the legion.

The service began with a pipe band parade across Queen Street, finishing with the Ulster Accordion Band and a number of veterans.

At 11 a.m. the service paused for a moment of silence to remember those who died in the war.

“We don’t have as big a parade as we used to because the veterans are dying off and there are others that are confined inside,” said Foley, who organized the event.

Foley joined the legion in honour of her husband, father, father-inlaw, sister-in law and other family members who fought in both world wars.

“The main purpose when you join the legions is to help your vet-

erans out,” Foley said. “I think we owe them, for ourselves, because they had to put up with some hardships.”

Foley noted her father served in France, but was pulled out on compassionate leave when his mother was dying. “That saved his life because none of those fellas came back,” Foley said.

Most of her knowledge of her husband Frank’s experience in the war came in bits and pieces from talking to other family members and friends of his.

“You’ll find that most veterans will not talk about it – there are other ones who will,” Foley said. Frank lied about his age in order to serve in the Second World War and was with two other soldiers when one of them stepped on a land mine.

“He was a little younger than he should have been when he joined,” said Foley who wasn’t sure if he was 16 or 18 when he was sent off to war.

“He was badly injured. He thought he was going to get a metal plate in his head,” Foley said. “He learned to talk all over again.”

Foley noted the legion works to get younger generations involve and inform them of the changes to the world that they live in today that were made by Canada’s soldiers during the war.

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Above, the Ulster Accordion Band performs during the Remembrance Day ceremony held Monday at the Kew Gardens Cenotaph. Left, Royal Canadian Air Force veteran Joe Davis, right, attends the ceremony.

tions and handing out programs.

“We’re trying to put in their heads that they wouldn’t have all we have today if it wasn’t for these men.”

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Veterans remember the Italian campaign and sacrifices made by participants REBECCA FIELD brsm@insidetoronto.com “The key was to stay healthy – stay alive,” recalled Joseph Gagne, a member of the Royal Canadian Engineers, Third Division. He sat with his son, Paul, and a handful of other veterans at the Legion Branch 11 at 9 Dawes Rd. Veterans gathered for beef sandwiches and speeches after a Remembrance Day parade and service Sunday.

The event commemorated troops stationed in Italy on the 60th anniversary of their deployment in the Second World War – known by the

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when you think about the term D-Day Dodgers and how that was derogatory, when these poor fellows were out there dying and in probably very awful conditions,” said Jay Burford, District D Commander for the legion.

The Ulster Accordion Band led the tribute at the legion after the Remembrance Day Parade that started at the Shoppers World Danforth and continued down Danforth Avenue.

“When we were serving, we went over there, we were just another soldier, another number. And when we came home, we were just another soldier coming home,” said Joseph

Gagne, 89, who was 19 when he joined the Royal Canadian Engineers in 1943. “It’s not until now that they’re starting to pay attention to the people (who) are left. There are not too many left now – I counted about four today,” Gagne said.

“You did what they told you, you went where they sent you, you ate what they gave you,” Gagne said.

“If they’d have taken England, we’d have lost the war – just imagine if Hitler would be running this country now.”

Lauraine Austin, one of the first female chefs in the Royal Canadian Air Force in the Second World War, was also in attendance.

“My mother was so upset when I joined the airforce,” said Austin. “(The men) didn’t like it at first, but when they found out I could really cook, they were on my side.”

Austin was stationed in an army base in Saint-Hubert, Quebec from 1940 to 1945 where she fed sick soldiers, jazz and swing musician Benny Goodman and actress Shirley Temple. Austin said she still hasn’t been officially discharged.

“They still have my name there if they need somebody. I could cook, so they wouldn’t let me go.”

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n today’s Beach Mirror and on our website at www. beachmirror.com, you’ll find the start of a multiweek feature all about youth suicide.

It’s unusual we devote such space to a social problem. The fact is, this is a critical social issue and a problem that deserves public attention.

The series is appearing in Metroland newspapers throughout Ontario and is the result of the work of a variety of reporters across the province, aided by the thoughts of experts on the subject, who helped shape the stories and the focus of our efforts.

We think if you are a parent you should take the time to read the feature.

Far too often, parents are surprised by a suicide. We hope that by providing this information, we will have provided an opportunity to reverse our view that possibility for young people in our community.

Our aim is to In this series, we hope to give you an idea just how large a problem have fewer youth suicide is, help identify trends a youth’s life to watch for that can families left in lead to suicidal thoughts, provide a list of resources where one can behind find help or more information and – most of all – to help our community’s parents and youth understand there is hope.

There is a bright future for all youth. And it sometimes takes a community to help youth understand what the future holds.

We sincerely hope one legacy of this project is to inform parents and give them the power and support needed to identify and help a youth in trouble. There’s a legacy for the media, too, here. Reporting on individual suicide has always been an informal taboo.

But as those involved with the project thought about it, we all realized we’ve been touched by suicide in our personal lives. Suicide is more prevalent than sometimes we’d like to believe. And that makes it an issue worth bringing front-of-mind as a necessity for community discussion.

Nov. 23 is International Survivors of Suicide Day – a day to recognize the families left behind. This feature series envelops that day and we hope we’re able to present a toolbox of opportunity, so ultimately there are fewer families left behind, and more youth leading wonderful, adventurous and unexpectedly full lives.

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Minnan-Wong must consider risks of running for mayor Denzil Minnan-Wong has been around the block. I know this because he got his start on North York council shortly after I got my start covering city politics, in the early 1990s.

He wasn’t elected, initially; North York Council appointed him to fill the seat left vacant with the passing of former councillor Barry Burton.

Unlike other candidates for the appointment, Minnan-Wong would not promise to stay out of the next election. Why should he? he argued. If he did a good job in the remaining months of the term, he’d like to be re-elected.

It was refreshing candor.

North York council was at that time filled with councillors who’d lied about their intentions after taking appointments and become fixtures.

Minnan-Wong, a young and committed Progressive Conservative operative, at least wore his ambition on his sleeve. I had to

david nickle the city hand it to him.

A couple decades later, a somewhat more cautious Minnan-Wong edges toward committing to a mayoralty run.

Face-off A longtime member of Mayor Rob Ford’s cabinetlike executive committee, he started this week at loggerheads with the mayor over his crack-smoking, hard-drinking lifestyle.

Between the time I write this and the time you read this, the two will have faced off on the floor of Toronto council.

But Tuesday, MinnanWong made it clear he is seriously considering a more serious face-off: namely, taking on Ford and others in the 2014 election for the mayoralty.

It’s a serious consideration. In early polls,

Minnan-Wong’s not been much of a factor. The fantasy-football mayor’s race has been dominated by Olivia Chow, Ford, Karen Stintz and John Tory.

With ex-Scarborough councillor David Soknacki already having declared his interest along with Ford and Stintz, the rightof-centre ballot is already crowded.

If Tory decides to run, it’ll be a crowded pack, running against what so far seems to be a more disciplined ticket on the left, supporting Chow.

If Minnan-Wong runs and loses, it will mean at least a pause in a long political career, and possibly the end of it.

And it could mean having contributed to a left-of-centre Chow mayoralty – a continuation of the Miller administration that Minnan-Wong so consistently opposed.

On the other hand, the timing has never been better for Minnan-Wong.

Stintz has made bigger headlines chairing the TTC, but Minnan-Wong has been working hard on the city’s public works and infrastructure committee on smaller issues.

He’s killed bike lanes – on Jarvis and in Scarborough – and pioneered others including the new separated lanes on Sherbourne.

He’s on record as at least trying to get ahead of the problems with the Gardiner Expressway.

And while he’s been a loyal soldier for the mayor for most of three years, he’s taken his step away at a time that even many of Ford’s supporters would see as appropriate.

All that gives MinnanWong a shot at being mayor.

The question he’s got to ask is whether that shot is worth putting at risk pretty much everything else.

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Canadians for Children at Health Risk Charity Art Auction WHEN: 2 to 5 p.m. WHERE: Balmy Beach Club, foot of Beech Avenue Art auction and live entertainment at the Balmy Beach Club, hosted by auctioneer is Beaches-East York MPP Michael Prue. Admission is pay what you can. Door prizes and light refreshments. Visit www. childrenathealthrisk.com ’Tis the Season Show and Sale WHEN: 2 to 6 p.m. WHERE: Bain Coop Community Centre, 100 Bain Ave. CONTACT: 416-419-3590 The Bain Co-op Community Centre hosts its sale with a selection of gifts and personal services such as jewelry, healing crystals, ceremonial rattles and more.

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Baking cupcakes to help find a cure for breast cancer REBECCA FIELD rfield@insidetoronto.com It was last January when Jacky Arminen’s sister, Tracey Kane, broke the news to her about her breast cancer. About two months later, Jacky’s best friend Shelley Babcock broke the same news.

Both women are only four weeks apart in their treatments, on the tail end of radiation therapy, and moving onto close monitoring for the rest of their lives.

Arminen wanted to do all she can to raise awareness of the disease and help her friend and sister.

She held Cupcakes for the Cure last weekend – selling almost 800 cupcakes for the cause.

“You just kind of go, ‘What can I do?’, ‘How can I help?’” Arminen said. “I don’t think they want a big deal made out of it, but it is for them. It’s for everybody that’s suffered from this.”

The money raised from Cupcakes for the Cure will go toward KitchenAid Cook for the Cure, a culinary cook-off with five chefs taking place at the Royal York Hotel Dec. 7.

Entrants who raise $2,500 are able to participate in the event,

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Jacky Arminen and her daughter Charlotte, friend Shelley Babcock and sister Tracey Kane.

but the Top 50 fundraisers get put onto one of five teams for a cooking showdown. So far, Arminen has received more than $4,000 in donations and has an end goal of $6,000.

Arminen’s daughter Charlotte, 7, cut her hair during Cupcakes for the Cure and is donating 10 inches to children with cancer, along with another braid of hair donated by

one of her friends.

“I don’t run and I’m not that sturdy on my bike – this (baking) is right up my alley,” Arminen said.

“I thought, ‘this is fun.’ It’s fun for me and it brings people together and it makes people aware.”

Babcock had been diagnosed with Stage 1 breast cancer after discovering a lump while in the shower. Her doctor didn’t think

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it was anything, but sent her for an ultrasound, which lead to her diagnosis.

Arminen encouraged best friend to visit a doctor after her sister was diagnosed.

Babcock recently lost 45 pounds, which is when she noticed a lump on her left breast that was visible under the surface of her skin.

“I was admiring my new body after losing the weight, and I thought ‘That doesn’t belong there’”, Babcock said. “Was it hiding under all that fat that was there before? How long was it there? I don’t know. It was about the size of a grape.”

Babcock’s doctor diagnosed her with the same type of breast cancer as Kane, only a few months later.

“Every breast cancer situation is unique to each person,” Babcock said.

Arminen’s sister, Kane, said she feels the money raised by KitchenAid Cook for the Cure and Cupcakes for the Cure should go into more awareness about the disease, as well as support for patients with financial needs.

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Shop local at The Beach Village REBECCA FIELD bsrm@insidetoronto.com The Beach BIA is giving Torontonians another reason to visit the Beach with the launch of The Beach Village, a rebranding campaign set to draw people not only to the neighbourhood, but into the shops as well.

The neighbourhood, which runs along Queen Street East from Lockwood Avenue to the R.C. Harris Waterworks, boasts more than 350 shops over 23 blocks, is the longest shopping district in the city, said BIA Chair Rick Gabriele.

“Go re-explore Queen Street, we’ve got a lot of good shops,” Gabriele said.

According to him, the campaign’s slogan is Walk it. Shop it. Live it, with the emphasis on the shopping.

“We want to remind people that you shop it as well as live it and walk around,” said Gabriele, who lives in the area.

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the Beach, they think of the boardwalk, they think of the beach, the water, people love going for strolls – the BIA represents the businesses all across Queen (Street),” said Gabriele.

“There’s a lot to offer here.

I believe in the strip.”

Top Drawer Creative, an ad agency and member of the BIA, led the campaign, doing six months of research.

The money they made from the campaign was donated to Community Centre 55’s Sharea-Christmas program.

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BIA members and Beach residents in order to create a unique business identity.

Community members will be able to see a new map of the strip on TTC shelters and banners, as well as hangers that will be delivered to neighbourhood doors. This will remind people who live in the neighbourhood to shop local, Gabriele said.

In “this day and age of competition, we want to remind people that shopping local is a good thing and we have lots to offer,” Gabriele said.

The Beach Village BIA plans on continuing the campaign until 2014, after a soft launch in early November. Gabriele said, so far, the response has been positive by BIA and community members.

“They understand that we’re trying to create a unique business identity,” Gabriele said. “A healthy Queen Street is a healthy neighbourhood.”

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it a community studio, but no plan has been finalized yet.

The organization also helps put together the Riverdale Art Walk, Art Walk North and conducts various educational seminars, all of which will continue on after the Hangman Art Gallery closes, Brohier said.

Brohier said The Artists’ Network knew it was closing its doors in September, but already had exhibitions planned well into the 2014 season. In order to accommodate

those artists, the Artists’ Network is looking into pop-up galleries.

“We could get greater exposure throughout the city by using different venues,” Brohier said.

“So it’s not limited. It could be a very positive thing for the overall increase in membership for the organization.”

The organization currently has about 200 members, Brohier said, all of whom have been told of the closing of The Hangman Art Gallery.

“They’re obviously sad to see it go,” Brohier said. “But most of them (artists) are understanding and are willing to work with the organization to maintain our focus, our mandate and what we do.”

Until Sunday, the gallery showcases In the Open Air art exhibit, the Ontario Plein Air Society’s annual show, which features 26 artists.

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The Greater Beach Neighbourhood Association (GBNA) awaits a decision by the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) regarding a development proposal for a six-storey midrise condo for the northeast corner of Queen Street East and Woodbine Avenue.

The results of the OMB hearing, which took place Oct. 21, will come out in the next four to six weeks.

Councillor Mary-Margaret McMahon said it would be “a complete slap in the face” if the guidelines weren’t respected.

She was referr ing to the Beach Urban Design Guidelines, which was passed unanimously by council following a visioning study commissioned by the city in January 2012.

The councillor noted the visioning study, which took place over six months, engaged business owners and homeowners.

Throughout the study there were three community consultations and three community stakeholder committee meetings, all of which a representative from the developer, Queen EMPC Six Limited, was present.

A representative of the development did not want to comment on their stance of the hearing’s proceedings until a decision is made.

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“The caveat in January when I commissioned (the study), was that any future development applications be put on hold until our study was completed and the guidelines adopted,” said McMahon, who noted the development application came in September, so their guidelines should be honoured.

“Furthermore, the developer for this location came to all the visioning study meetings and was on the stakeholder advisory committee so they knew full well what was coming down the pipe,” McMahon said.

“We gave it our heart and soul and we expect that to be respected.”

Two primary problems were addressed at the hearing, according to a consultant hired by the group, architect Michael Spaziani of Michael Spaziani Architect Inc. The first was that, with the current design, the view of the historical clock tower

that sits as a landmark to the entrance to the Beach would be obstructed.

The second is that the overall design of the building does not reflect the aesthetics of the Beach properly.

Fit with neighbourhood “No one is suggesting that no development happens,” Spaziani said. “We, in fact, proposed a five-and-a-half, six-story building as an alternative to what the developer had proposed so we think that there is the potential for a building of a certain height that would fit.”

Spaziani’s firm proposed a design that includes staggered levels so the front of the building doesn’t show all six stories from street level and so the clock tower remains in sight at the entrance to the Beach retail area. Spaziani said cases similar to this are popping up all over the city.

He said he thinks development can be done better with a more sensitive approach, but that development is happening faster than policies are being put into place.

“I think it’s really important that communities, not just the Beach, but all communities, come up with what they really cherish about their community. I think the Beach has done that.”

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The first instalment of our series sheds light on the serious issue of youth suicide and its prevalence, in the hope that awareness can aid suicide prevention

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renda Markus waited for her s o n ’s b o d y temperature to drop before she was able to leave him. “ ( Pe o p l e ) t r i e d getting me out of the room, and I wouldn’t leave until he went cold. As soon as I took my hand off his chest, I said ‘OK, he’s cold.’ I lifted my hand and said ‘I accept.’

That was it. You can’t do anything more about death.”

Her son was Alex Clarke, an 18-year-old who loved the outdoors, who committed suicide June 11 leaving behind his mom, sister, a girlfriend, many relatives, lots of friends and a job.

The death of a child is a parent’s worst nightmare.

Kari and Ken Smith can understand the devastation suicide can

cause.

When their 17-yearold son, Cody, failed to show up at the breakfast table one February morning, the couple realized something was amiss and went upstairs to investigate.

“My husband went up fi rst and I heard him screaming ‘no, no, no’ and then I remember screaming so loud and for so long,” Kari said.

The reason why still torments the Smiths.

“He was very strong willed. We thought he had a great future. He talked about this future. I had no idea he couldn’t help himself. Why couldn’t he come to us?

“He was our everything!”

These parents are not alone in their anguish.

Each week, three Ontario teens end their lives, Children’s Mental Health Ontario (CMHO) reports.

CMHO has represented and supported the providers of child and youth mental health treatment services throughout Ontario since 1972.

Its core membership consists of more than 80 community-based children’s mental health centres that serve some 150,000 children and their families annually.

Nationwide, there are 10 teens who kill themselves weekly and, for each one, there may be another 200 who attempt suicide, according to University of Ottawa research.

In 2012, Kids’ Help Phone reported six per cent of the 5,000 calls received each week – which amounts to 300 calls – were related to suicide.

Those considering suicide, youth affected by a suicide in their school or community, and those worried

about a friend, for example, would afflict many youth who commit be included in these statistics. suicide.

In 2009 – the most recent year for “Although life is full of possibiliwhich Statistics Canada has data ties in your teen years, it’s also full on suicide – 474 people between of difficult choices and transitions,” ages 15 and 24 died Floyd explained. by suicide.

“It can be troubleAnd those numNATIONWIDE, there some.

“They’re trying bers, said CMHO are 10 teens who kill to find their way or President Gordon Floyd, aren’t accuthemselves weekly, place in their social rate. and strucand for each one, there circles “There’s a fair bit tures, and navigate may be another 200 what can be difficult of cleaning up of the data before it’s who attempt suicide, waters.

“The whole prore p o r t e d ,” Fl oyd according to University cess turns out well explained.

“It’s because of the of Ottawa research. for most of us, but shame (of suicide). it’s still a very diffiFor young people, cult one and causes apart from car accidents, suicide a huge amount of anxiety and that is the leading cause of death.” can cross the line to depression and CMHO research shows one in 10 feelings of hopelessness.” students in Grades 7 to 12 reported Feelings of being underprivihaving seriously considered suileged or inadequate in some way cide. can also lead to these deaths.

Just weeks ago, Avery Parker “Often depression and suicide lost a peer, a popular student, who occur in circumstances many killed herself. times should be considered happy.

Now a youth facilitator at New Very often the onset of those kids’ Path Youth and Family Services in mental health problems happens Orillia, Parker said she hopes to because the individual involved help others like the student, who feels they’re not experiencing the struggled with depression. kind of happiness or excitement Mental issues and depression >>>page 15

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Bullying can take a toll on kids who lack confidence >>>from page 14 others are,” Floyd said.

“It’s a sense of falling behind and feeling excluded from the hopefulness others seem to feel.”

Bullying can shake those who have a low self image more profoundly, triggering an attempt to end their lives.

“One-in-four kids in Ontario has been bullied in the past year.

Most kids are able to deal with it and move on, but some kids are vulnerable because they don’t have the confidence and skills to take it in stride or bounce back,” Floyd said.

There is hope. The key for parents is to raise a resilient child, who can cope with the bumps and bruises along the way, and grow into a resilient adult who can deal with the stresses of working in uncertain times, he said.

Many mental health issues emerge before age 20.

Ontario acknowledged this two years ago with a $257-million mental health strategy for children, which aims to address the long waiting lists by bolstering not only community supports but linking mental health nurses with schools.

The earlier an individual can get help, the better chances he will acquire the tools he needs to be resilient enough to cope with his struggles.

“Suicide is the end point for people whose mental health needs were not appropriately addressed,” Floyd said. “We have to get over the squeamishness about raising the possibility there’s a mental health issue at play and have the very focused deliberate outreach to the person who is struggling, to give them an opportunity to talk and give us the opportunity to connect them with the help they need.”

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Understanding the triggers of suicidal thoughts among teens is important for parents. We’ll look at many of the catalysts of suicidal thought among teens.

A journey towards hope Mother and daughter thankful for the anger-filled moment that finally forced them to hear one another

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other and daughter ribs were poking out. exchanged loving looks Then she cut herself and told her as they spoke of a journey mother – and planned her death. they’ve made together.

It was the day after Mother’s There have been tears, and relaDay. tionships dismantled and rebuilt.

For her mother, it was the culToday, there’s a sparkle in 15-yearmination of what she describes as old Maddie Johnson’s eyes, but it painful, hurtful, hellish months of momentarily disappears as she questioning herself as a mother and pauses, before tellwondering where ing a story she agreed she went wrong. to share.

She dropped everyIt takes courage, thing and drove to the gashes are only school to pick up her six months old. daughter. They cried “My mom was together in the truck for two hours. texting me and I If you’ve got a story to It was then Maddie d o n’t re m e m b e r what she said but it said she knew her share or have an opinion really p---ed me off parents loved her. on our series, please tell us: and I told her I cut “It was a good letters@insidetoronto.com myself, and if I didn’t trigger in a sense get help that night I’d because it made her kill myself,” she said. angry enough to say “I was planning on going home that this is what I did and I need help,” night and taking my pocket knife I her mother said. had and stabbing myself.”

If her mom hadn’t sent the text Maddie (not her real name) said that made her so angry, she said she lost herself in Grade 8, when she’d probably be dead now. Instead, the boys teased her about being she agreed to see a counsellor that fat and looking weird. It climaxed evening, and together they began in January of Grade 9 when a friend the journey back to life. turned on her and vicious rumours It was a difficult path as her began circulating through social brother and father struggled to media when she broke up with her understand her emotions and boyfriend. why she planned to take her life, She would lock herself in her while her mother constantly worroom when she came home from ried about how far she could trust school, and barely ate. She became Maddie and whether she could leave anemic and started fainting. In five her alone. months, she lost 15 pounds and her “Always having the doubt in

your mind, will she do it again?” her mother said. “Did I say the right words? I didn’t want to set her off again.”

There have been many tears within the family as the relationships begin to rebuild. Maddie is now laughing and talking with her brother instead of fighting with him, doing homework with her dad and hiking and doing photography with her mom.

The family has put a lot of effort into spending time together and keeping communication open.

“Listen to what your children are saying and always be there to support them,” Maddie’s mother said.

“Hang in there, there is light at the end of the tunnel and if you can get through it together things will turn out.”

Maddie has pruned her Facebook friends from more than 300 to 92, most of them relatives, and has changed her phone number. She changed schools in September, and once again loves waking up for classes. She is working to become a peer tutor at school, where one of the things she will be trained to do is help other students who are facing grief or suicidal thoughts.

“No one should ever be afraid to need help,” she said. “People may judge you, but once you get help you’ll be able to ignore judgment.

There is definitely life after.”

- By Jennifer Bowman

An ‘old soul’ gone much too soon The loved ones of Julie Robbins shared her story in the hopes that her lost life is never forgotten and can inspire the change needed to avoid further preventable deaths in Ontario.

her athletic hobbies – basketball, soccer, skiing, water skiing, hiking, swimming and team sports at school, among others.

But Julie also had a way with personal relationulie Robbins was conships. sidered a peacemaker “If there was a couple among her many other friends who were, friends. perhaps, having some “I always say she had a challenging times with way of helping people find Julie Robbins each other, Julie didn’t their light, but had trouble hesitate to try to mediate any finding her own,” said Julie’s mother, rifts and she’d mediate discussions Elaine. so everyone would be happy,” said The popular young woman was Elaine. “She was born old and wise. one of those rare students who had She was an old soul.” both a gift for good grades and a But the death of a friend in her passion for sports. final year of high school hit her Her mom shared a lengthy list of hard.

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Her mother said the trauma triggered Julie’s depression.

Shortly after she started university, her depression overcame her and she took her own life by overdosing on pills.

She was 21.

“There wasn’t a lot of anger. There wasn’t a lot of second guessing and ‘what ifs.’ We tried not to do that to ourselves. There was just a lot of deep sorrow,” said Elaine.

The pain of the loss remains with the family more than a decade later.

“Her death was attached to Thanksgiving weekend, which seems a bit of an oxymoron to us now,” said Elaine. “We’ll always miss her.”

– By Alison Brownlee

Resources for parents and teens CALL 911 if you are thinking of harming yourself or if someone you know is in imminent danger of harming themselves.

Ontario Association for Suicide Prevention >> ospn.ca Canadian Association for Suicide Prevention >> suicideprevention.ca Hope and Healing After Suicide: A practical guide for people who have lost someone to suicide in Ontario >> www.camh.ca Kids Help Phone >> 1-800-6686868 Lesbian gay bi transgender queer (LGBTQ) Youth Line >> 1-800-2689688 Mind your Mind >> mindyourmind.ca A website for youth created by youth offering resources and tools to help manage stress, crisis and mental health problems Mobilizing Minds >> www.mobilizingminds.ca A mental health project led by young adults, community organizations and health professionals River of Life Program >> www.riveroflifeprogram.ca Online training about Aboriginal youth suicide Teen Mental Health >> www.teenmentalhealth.org Information about adolescent mental health, and to improve their lives The Trevor Project >> www.thetrevorproject.org Information about suicide prevention for LGBTQ youth Your Life Counts >> www.yourlifecounts.org Website for youth to share thoughts and get help with their problems

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Rotary Arts and Crafts sale Saturday The Toronto East Rotary Club hosts its fourth annual Arts and Crafts Sale featuring a number of diverse artisans selling their creations Saturday, Nov. 16 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Eastminster United Church, 310 Danforth Ave. Refreshments will be available along with live music, face painting and a draw.

Proceeds raised will go to community projects including the Out of the Cold program

at Eastminster. Admission is free. Visit www.torontoeast rotary.com BHNA Bake-O-Rama set for Dec. 1 You’re invited to cheer on contestants in the Beach Hill Neighbourhood Association’s (BHNA) Bake-O-Rama.

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