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Santa returns for parade

The holiday season officially kicks off in the Upper Beach on Sunday with the 10th annual edition of Hamper’s Santa Claus Parade on Kingston Road.

The event gets underway at 1 p.m. at Kingston Road and Victoria Park Avenue. The parade will proceed westward toward Walter Street then north to Swanwick Avenue, north to Lyall Avenue, west to Kimberley Avenue and north to Swanwick Avenue before coming to an end at Community Centre 55 (CC55) at 97 Main St. The parade is set to feature colourful floats, marching bands and costumed characters.

Beach resident Penny Oleksiak, a four-time Rio Olympic medalist, will serve as the Grand Marshall.

Children can bring along their letters to Santa Claus, which will be collected for direct delivery to the North Police.

Those in attendance are asked to bring a toonie in support of CC55’s Share-A-Christmas campaign, which collects food for those in need.

There will be a post-parade gathering at Community Centre 55. Call 416-691-1113 for more information.

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A Special Report on Child Poverty Hundreds of thousands of Canadian children are growing up in poverty.

In Ontario, more than 370,000 children (or 13.8 per cent) lived in a low-income household in 2013, only slightly better than the national average of 14.3 per cent.

Poverty often means food insecurity, an inability to fully participate at school and difficulty accessing services. See our story on page 3 to find out how Toronto’s young citizens are faring.

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Sarah Shaikh, 13, (right) and Helen Liu, 12, make their meal selections during the July summerlunch+ program in East York.

With school lunch initiatives closed for the summer break, summerlunch+ aimed to fill the nutrition gap for local area children. cities, indicated a 2014 report, Colour of Poverty, by Children’s Aid Society of Toronto, Social Planning Toronto and Family Service Toronto.

There is “stark inequality” in children’s lives across Toronto neighbourhoods, stated a 2014 Social Planning Toronto report, The Hidden Epidemic: A Report on Child and Family Poverty in Toronto.

Low-income rates among children ranged from five per cent in Lawrence Park North and South, Leaside-Bennington and Kingsway South, to 10 times higher - more than 50 per cent in Regent Park, Moss Park, Thorncliffe Park and Oakridge.

The report findings echoed others that found poverty varies greatly in Toronto by race and ethnicity, with people of African and Middle Eastern backgrounds three times more

likely to live on low incomes than those of European backgrounds.

In April 2014, Toronto City Council voted unanimously to develop a poverty reduction strategy. Its target: to end child poverty within a generation by 2035.

Toronto’s strategy contains 17 recommendations and 71 actions to respond to the immediate needs of low-income Torontonians, to create pathways out of poverty, and to address the systemic causes of equality, the city stated.

The Toronto Poverty Reduction Strategy focuses on housing stability; service equity; transit equity; food access; quality jobs and livable wages, and systemic change.

This month, a new children’s charity launched with a mandate to be a strong, independent

voice for Canada’s children.

Children First Canada stated while Canada is the fifth mostprosperous nation in the world, the country is falling behind in its protection and care of its children.

“There is a big disconnect between what we perceive to be the case when it comes to the wellbeing of kids in Canada and what’s actually going on,” the charity’s founder Sara Austin, an international children’s rights advocate and former leader with World Vision Canada, said in a statement.

“While we assume Canadian children are well cared and provided for, child poverty and suffering has reached epidemic levels in cities and towns across the country.”

The charity is calling on Ottawa to appoint an independent children’s commissioner

to advocate for children, and to publish an annual children’s budget to track federal funding.

The Liberals promised a children’s commissioner during the 2015 election campaign, Austin noted in a speech Nov. 16 to a Toronto meeting of the Empire Club of Canada.

The government is “still studying the idea,” said a spokesperson for Jean-Yves, Duclos, minister of families, children and social development, last week when asked about the pledge.

The charity also wants Canadians to volunteer with children’s organizations, talk about the issue of child poverty with friends, neighbours and family, and donate to children’s charities.

With files from Tamara Shephard and Torstar News Service.

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Angela grew up poor and was determined to make a better life for herself. She owned a construction business with her husband, but in 2009, after he beat her during a night of drinking, she left with her three children.

Angela, who agreed to speak to us anonymously, said she never expected to wind up with “three kids on the street, basically looking for the kindness of strangers to help me out.”

The local women’s shelter would not admit boys older than 12 and Angela’s oldest was 15. That night in the emergency room, a nurse offered her a basement apartment.

Since then, Angela and her three children, who live in Owen Sound, have come face-toface with poverty and learned first-hand how it undermines opportunities to rebuild.

In addition to lacking money for a car, telephone or food, Angela worries about her children’s mental and physical health. Stress, anger, anxiety and a sense of isolation, coupled with the poor-quality, processed, high-carbohydrate diet provided by food banks have led to asthma, stomach problems and poor immunity.

“I couldn’t figure out why they were sick all the time,” she said, adding she would be called away from work frequently to tend to ill children, which made it hard to hold down a job.

Angela’s three children struggled with school and missed out on school trips and extracurricular activities because even $5 for pizza day was out of reach.

Housing was also a problem and the family has moved frequently.

In one instance, Angela asked her landlord if he could supply her with a letter of residence so that she could apply for social assistance - instead he gave her an eviction notice because he didn’t want “that type of people living there.”

While 13.9 per cent of children across Ontario live in poverty, a staggering 25 per cent of those living in Toronto are below Statistics Canada’s Low Income Measure, as are 19 per cent of adults, the City of Toronto reported.

Toronto also has the highest rates of poverty and child poverty among Canada’s 20 largest

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Time to break the cycle of child poverty

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his is where it starts: sometime this month – or maybe next – a mid-size company in the Greater Toronto Area is pushed to outsource a department to stay viable. A person loses a job.

At first, he finds freelance work, then temporary manual labour gigs. Then, nothing.

A single parent, he looks at starting his own business, but that would require an infusion of cash. Or retraining, but that, too, would cost money, and leave the household without an income for an extended period of time.

The first things to go are the luxuries – TV packages, smartphones, music lessons. The SUV is traded in for a used compact car. Next come some harder choices – running the washing machine less often to save on hydro and water, fewer trips to the grocery store supplemented with items from the local food bank.

One day – and then the next– both kids go to school without breakfast. These are the faces of child poverty in our communities.

In a Metroland special investigative series, reporters from community papers across southern Ontario examine the issue of child poverty, which may at first blush not be visible some areas of Toronto. One of the stories is online and in print today, the rest can be found at insidetoronto.com They present research that says more than 370,000 Ontario children (or 13.8 per cent) lived in a lowincome household in 2013, only slightly better than the national average of 14.3 per cent. They also found that more than 800,000 students take part in more than 4,000 school meal programs across the province.

Certainly, initiatives such as the recent changes to the Child Tax Benefit program will help address the problem. As well, accurate, detailed information garnered through the recently restored long-form Census will aid in creating a focused poverty plan. But it could be years before such strategies bear fruit.

Other avenues that need to be explored include economic development initiatives that focus on maintaining – and creating – local jobs, investments in training and seeking out ways to help Ontario Works clients secure meaningful employment without worrying about clawbacks to benefits. Most of all, students need to learn life skills and strategies that will help put them on a path to a successful future.

Make no mistake: child poverty is family poverty, and it is a cycle we need to break.

We all have a part to play. Let’s get to it.

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Dreaming the impossible dream of breaking up Toronto I have met the Don Quixote of Toronto’s suburbs.

He’s out there, mostly on weekends, trying to free Scarborough from the clutches of Toronto by gathering signatures door to door.

About 400,000 should do it. Then Kathleen Wynne must listen. Ontario’s premier will hold a vote, and return Scarborough, after two decades of abuse, back to its fiscally-responsible people.

“It’s been an abysmal failure, amalgamation,” says Robert McDermott, leader of the Free Scarborough Campaign.

“It was undemocratic, forcefully and arrogantly put through.”

McDermott is a realtor who tried running for council in Scarborough, and led a Toronto-wide slate of candidates against

MIKE ADLER Edges of Toronto our municipal land transfer tax.

That didn’t work, and neither will this. Mike Harris didn’t listen in 1997, when people in each of Toronto’s former cities voted not to merge.

A generation has passed since Scarborough’s city hall became the half-empty, mostly irrelevant relic of 1970s architecture it is today.

Independent Scarborough is gone. Its residents have as much chance of

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these were mostly about leaf collection and parking.

Those former cities are older now, and poorer.

An independent Scarborough in 2018 would have responsibilities its leaders couldn’t fathom as its subdivisions were built.

I don’t know what you call your neighbourhood, or why. Does North York still exist for you? Does East York?

That’s part of this column, finding out.

McDermott still dreams the impossible dream.

We’re stuck with each other.

Mike Adler is a reporter for Metroland Media Toronto. Edges of Toronto is a column about how people see life in Toronto differently, depending on where they live. Reach Mike Adler at madler@insidetoronto.com

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escaping Toronto as people in Leaside, Forest Hill or Long Branch.

But an ache remains, not just in Scarborough but everywhere away from the Megacity’s core. At its heart is one conviction: our money flows downtown, and doesn’t return.

“We can only remember how happy we were,” says Giorgio Mammoliti, a North York councillor.

“All we get are scraps to appease us in the suburbs.”

Downtown’s Rail Deck Park, perhaps to cost billions, is far away. In neighbourhoods called Rustic and Oakridge, the city asks residents to show up, vote and then, just maybe, it will put lights in the park or replace cracked sidewalk planters.

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Holiday fun comes to Riverside neighbourhood

Riverdale Share readies for its 24th annual edition

Families benefit from fundraiser Joanna Lavoie jlavoie@insidetoronto.com The final touches are now underway for Riverdale Share's 24th annual edition.

The popular, familyfriendly concert and variety show, which raises funds for nonprofit organizations in east-end Toronto, is set to take place Sunday, Dec. 4 at 3 p.m. at the Danforth Music Hall, 147 Danforth Ave., just east of Broadview Avenue.

This year's event will feature a diverse lineup of both local and more well-known entertainers including Tabby Johnson, Danny Marks, Jen Schaffer and the Shiners, Julian Taylor, and Dala to name a few. Santa Claus is also

expected to make a special appearance.

Mike Tanner will serve as the 90-minute production's host, while Steve Briggs is back as the band leader. He'll be joined by music director Tom Leighton.

"Riverdale Share is a holiday tradition. It kicks off the holiday season for a lot of people," said Susan Baker, the show's longtime executive director, artistic director, and producer during a recent interview.

"Generations of area residents come year after year. It's going to be a great show."

Riverdale Share is made possible through the generous contributions of a number of supporters, notably this year's title sponsor, The Big Carrot.

Because of this support, 100 per cent of the event's proceeds will be directed to

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The 24th annual Riverdale Share holiday concert on Dec. 4 at The Danforth Music Hall includes Danny Marks among its featured acts.

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In these uncertain times, few things are inevitable. One notable exception, is the 2017 contracting out of curbside garbage collection.

On Monday, Mayor John Tory made that very clear. Without even a staff report recommending the move - indeed, with a notvery-old report from former city staff, arguing that private garbage collection city-wide is a bad idea Tory rose with the sun for a dawn news conference saying he intends to put out calls to private-sector haulers early in the new year, to see what kind of garbage collection the city can get for its buck.

“I think there will be savings. It’s difficult for me to quantify them,” said Tory.

Those savings may well be quantified in a new staff report by the new staff - mixing in some new factors, such as a recent

DAVID NICKLE The City review of the state of the city’s fleet of garbage trucks and the reality of a new collective agreement with CUPE Local 416 that makes it easier to get out of the business.

That is, of course, uncertain. But what’s certain is Tory’s - and therefore a likely voting majority of Toronto Council’s resolve. Many councillors have wanted to pull the plug on city-run garbage collection for decades. Tory noted that he promised to contract out garbage during the election.

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ilar argument to the one that Tory made about his continued support of the Scarborough subway in the face of growing evidence that building it was a bad use of scarce funds. Promises made, promises kept.

City planning staff had to do some backflips to come up with a working plan for the subway, and so they will to come up with a safe way to contract out. A good start would be to make sure that the contractor taking care of the city’s west end and the one looking after the east aren’t the same outfit - and making sure that it stays that way.

And a larger exit strategy, that lets the city do the job itself if the price for the private sector gets too high, wouldn’t hurt either.

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Move fast on contracting out garbage, says Mayor John Tory DAVID NICKLE dnickle@insidetoronto.com Toronto should put out feelers to the private sector as soon as a new report on garbage privatization east of Yonge Street drops in January says Mayor John Tory.

“I think there will be savings. It’s difficult for me to quantify them,” said Tory Nov. 21, at an early-morning meeting in Scarborough prior to the November Public Works and Infrastructure Committee meeting where the committee asked for a further report looking at how contracting out stacks up against keeping garbage collection in-house.

Tory said the only way to determine whether privately-provided garbage collection is viable across the city is to ask the private sector what they’d charge.

“One of the things we’re going to do, just like average people, we’ll go out and get estimates,” he said. “So we will say in the manner our staff advises anyone who wants to bid, tell us how much you’ll do this work for and what is the quality of work you will provide. And then we’ll have a look at what’s out there.”

In reports submitted thus far, city staff have cautioned against private garbage collection across the whole city, suggesting in a report earlier this year that mirroring the private-sector service provided west of Yonge Street wouldn’t provide savings.

However the Public Works and Infrastructure Committee has asked for another report, based on new metrics that staff say they have discovered for measuring efficiency in garbage collection.

Tory said that one of the changes in circumstances was the culmination of collective bargaining with CUPE Local 416, which removes obligations to find work for employees displaced by contracting out work.

“One of the reasons we’re moving ahead now after the small delay is so that we can get this done,” said Tory. “I campaigned for this office on a commitment to contract out garbage collection east of Yonge Street and at least one other candidate did.”

CUPE Local 416 Executive Vice President Matt Figliano said that the city should heed its staff.

“He’s got it wrong - he claimed there would be a cost saving,” said Figliano. “In 2015 there was a report saying there would be no cost savings .... They should keep solid waste in house.”

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St. John’s Christmas Craft and Bake Sale WHEN: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. WHERE: St. John Elementary School, 780 Kingston Rd. CONTACT: Peggy, 416-690-1460, COST: Free Thirty-plus vendors from the greater Beach community offering affordable gift ideas plus raffles, silent auction & white elephant table. It’s on Hamper’s Santa Claus Parade route so drop in before or after for hot beverages, sandwiches or baked goods! Accessible entrance to all.

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Tree Trimming Party WHEN: 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. WHERE: Jones Branch Public Library, 118 Jones Ave. CONTACT: 416-3937715, COST: Free Come help trim the holiday tree and make some fun crafts to take home.

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Welcome Yule WHEN: 7:30 p.m. WHERE: St. Matthew’s Anglican Church, 135 First Avenue CONTACT: info@ seventeenvoyces.ca COST: from $15 Christmas concert with Seventeen Voyces, Ottawa’s superb chamber choir directed by the choir’s founder and director Kevin Reeves. Features Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s Messe de Minuit and Christmas music through the ages, directed by Kevin Reeves.

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sit commission at a point sit commission at a point when it’s finally sit commission at starting a point when it’s finally starting to see it’s some gainsstarting followwhen finally to see some gains following years of underfunding, to see some gains following years of underfunding, particularly he’s been ing years of since underfunding, particularly since he’s been quick to takesince credit forbeen the particularly he’s quick to take credit for the service quick toimprovements. take credit for the service improvements.

Let’s be clear here: a fare service improvements.

Let’s be clear here: a fare hike forbe the sixth straight Let’s clear here: a fare hike for the sixth straight year to be proud hike is fornothing the sixth straight year is nothing to be proud of.

Tough choices have year is nothing to will be proud of. Tough choices will have to be made by too of. Tough choices willmany have to be made by too many Torontonians as whether to to be made by too many Torontonians as whether to purchase transit fares or Torontonians as whether to purchase transit fares or spend it on a more essenpurchase transit fares or spend it on a more essential need, food.essenOne spend it onlike a more tial need, like food.

One million fewer will tial need, like riders food. One million fewer riders will take the fewer TTC inriders 2017. And million will take the TTC in 2017.

And in the a longtake theabsence TTC in of 2017.

And in the absencestrategy of a longterm or in thefunding absence of a longterm funding strategy or manna from a higher level term funding strategy or manna from a higher level of government, more tough manna from a higher level of government, more tough decisions will have to be of government, more tough decisions will have toyear be made at this time nextto decisions will have be made at this time next year on how keep trains, made at to this timethe next year on how to keep buses the trains, streetcars runon how to and keep the trains, streetcars and buses running. streetcars and buses running.

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TTC board approves 10 cent fare hike for 2017 Presto integration, Spadina subway extension present major financial pressures, says Josh Colle

Rahul Gupta rgupta@insidetoronto.com Another fare increase will come as a disappointment to riders, the chair of the TTC

concedes. But Josh Colle insists it’s necessary to fund major transformative changes to the transit commission next year.

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The TTC board has approved a 10-cent fare hike for 2017.

ers voted Monday for a 10-cent increase in 2017. To soften the blow, the board also endorsed a freeze for 2018, with the rationale of keeping transit prices at the rate of inflation. A modest increase, the sixth consecutive year one has been imposed, was necessary to provide a balance between offering more service and dealing with economic realities, he said.

“We’re doing our best to find that sweet spot in challenging economic times to continue to deliver better service without letting fares rise too much,” said Colle following Monday’s marathon meeting at city hall which saw dozens of public debutantes plead unsuccessfully with the transit commission’s board to not impose another TTC fare hike. “With some of the immense pressures that are unique to 2017, we just have to be upfront about that source of revenue.”

Next year will be a pivotal one for the TTC, with the PRESTO fare card system set to be fully integrated, plus the opening of

the Spadina Subway extension.

Hundreds of millions in federal funding is also set to flow for badly needed repair projects that don’t receive the fanfare of a ribbon cutting but are no less important in making the TTC more reliable, said Colle.

But that comes as small

relief to transit riders who at the start of January will see ticket/token prices jump up to an even $3, monthly Metropasses go up by nearly $5, as well as reduced discounts on student and seniors fares. Adult cash fares are exempt from the fare hike and will stay at $3.25.

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Bring items you no longer need to the YouthLink Office - 747 Warden Ave. by 5:00pm on November 30th and we will take them off your hands!

The items that you donate will be sold in our 3-Day Garage Sale on December 1st, 2nd and 3rd to raise funds for the United Way.

Three Day Garage Sale Located at:‘YouthLink’ - 747 Warden Ave. Scarborough Thursday, December 1st & Friday, December 2nd 9:00am – 6:00pm Saturday, December 3rd 10:00am - 4:00pm

Come and Check it Out and Support the United Way

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Monday to Friday 8:30am to 5pm • Toll Free Phone 1-800-263-6480 • Toll Free Fax 1-866-299-1499 Email classifieds@metroland.com • For delivery questions, please contact 1-855-853-5613

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Firewood

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Vehicles Wanted/Wrecking

Firewood

DRY SEASONED FIREWOOD

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Publishing every week in December Space Booking Deadline: 12 noon 3 days prior to publication For details, please call: Phone: 1-800-263-6480 | Email: classifieds@metroland.com

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For household articles priced at $100 or less

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Flooring & Carpeting

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Call for Free Estimate! Reasonable rates.

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Shows & Bazaars

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Amazing Candy Cane Tea & Bazaar Saturday, Nov. 26 11 am - 3 pm Holiday shopping, handmade crafts, baked goods & famous tea room.

Shop till you drop.

Lunch with family & friends.

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Contractors Framing Metro LIC# T85-4420956 Residential/ Commercial.

Complete Restoration. Finished Basements.

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