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by Beach-based photographer Johan Hallberg-Campbell are set to grace the busy intersection of King and John streets during Toronto’s Nuit Blanche, which is set to run from 6:53 p.m.

Saturday to sunrise Sunday.

The powerful landscapes and portraits, printed on 8x 8 feet vinyl banners, aim to share the strength and spirit of the residents and vast scenery of Moose Cree and Attawapiskat First Nation communities in Northern Ontario.

During the all-night celebration of contemporary art, Hallberg-Campbell’s Wisdom of the North photo essay will be located at eye level on one of Toronto’s busiest corners.

“It’s bringing the North to one of the most urbanized parts of the country,” said Hallberg-Campbell, a full-time freelance photographer who has lived near Kingston Road and Woodbine Avenue for more than four years.

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SOCCER ACTION: Kristiahn Hockett of Malvern Collegiate, left, keeps the ball in bounds as Caglar Yigit of Marc Garneau challenges during a senior boys Tier 1 soccer match Monday afternoon. Malvern won 3-0.

Pan Am Athletes’ Village nearly complete JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com With the Toronto 2015 Pan Am/ Parapan Am Games less than a

year away, the Athletes’ Village for the international event is fast nearing completion.

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community Photo Club meeting wBeach This month’s Beach Photo Club meeting will take a closer look at connecting your camera with Wi-Fi. The event, featuring photographer Michael Beckley, takes place Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at Beach United Church, 140 Wineva Ave. Photographers and photo buffs of all levels are welcome.

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Beach United Church is kicking off another season of its popular Jazz and Reflection series Saturday from 4:30 to 5:15 p.m.

The featured artists are Joe Sealy, Paul Novotny and Barbra Lica performing songs based on the theme, Just the Way You Are. Freewill offering.

Beach United Church is at 140 Wineva Ave. Don Mount Court reunion A reunion party for the residents of the former Don Mount Court housing complex, near Queen Street East and Broadview Avenue, is Saturday.

The potluck-style event takes place at the Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 73, 2 Robinson Ave. from 7 p.m. to 1 a.m.

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The Beach Group, a group of local volunteers that host charitable events, is hosting Epic Event 2014 Saturday.

The event, which takes place at the Balmy Beach Club, at the foot of Beech Avenue, from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m., includes prizes, raffles, draws, a live and a silent auction, distinguished guests as well as entertainment by 3Sheets2TheWind and DJ Kurt Rose. Funds raised go to the SickKids Foundation Brain Tumour Research Fund.

Tickets cost $20.

Visit www.thebeachgroup.ca for details or to purchase tickets. unveiling at fall fete wMural

The Beach Hill Neighbourhood Association’s Fall Fête takes place Saturday at the Naval Club of Toronto, 1910 Gerrard St. E. The festivities, which includes the community’s first local food potluck contest, will also include the official unveiling of the new Woodbine Rail Underpass Mural by graffiti artist Evond Blake, AKA Mediah, and accompanying short documentary by area resident Nathaniel FoxPappas.

Visit www.beachhill. org or email bhnacontact@gmail.com for more details. blessing in Riverdale wpet

include animal-themed songs, photos with the clergy and your pets and animal treats.

Special seating will be reserved for those with cats and more anxious dogs.

MCC Toronto is at 115 Simpson Ave. Visit www. mcctoronto.com or call 416-406-MCCT (6228) for more information.

32 debate Tuesday wWard

Another all-candidates meeting in Ward 32 (Beaches-East York) is set to take place Tuesday from 7 to 9 p.m. at St. John the Baptist Norway Anglican Church, 470 Woodbine Ave. East-end resident a n d j o u r n a l i s t Ro b Granatstein will serve as the evening’s moderator.

Call 416-691-1113, ext.

224 or 416-698-1164 for more information.

Park improvements wStephenson

Stephenson Park, just south of Danforth Avenue and west of Main Street, is undergoing some significant improvements.

In recent weeks, crews have installed a new slide/play structure and sandbox, a multi-purpose play pad, a new walkway and new hydro service to the storage building.

Forty new trees are also set to be planted.

The work is expected to be complete in a few weeks. Area residents are advised to keep out of the fenced-in work area. Call 311 for details. location for art show wWrong

Metropolitan Community Church (MCC) Toronto in Riverdale is holding its annual Blessing of Animals on Sunday at 3 p.m.

Pre-service activities are scheduled to begin at 2:30 p.m.

The Blessing of Animals is an opportunity to celebrate and bless your pets, whether they can attend or not.

The service will also

A recent article about Bill Perry taking part in an art show featuring his pre-web work incorrectly indicated the name of the location where the event took place.

The story should have read InterAccess, not Inter / Access or Inter / Access Electronic Media Arts Centre, which is actually the logo/wordmark and descriptor of the facility. The Mirror regrets the error.

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Cute kids: Left, Owen Hughes shows off his freshly painted face during the Duke of Connaught Junior and Senior School Fun Fair Saturday afternoon. Below, William Abbothsford carefully removes a stick without disturbing the balls. Right, Pauline Kleuber gets soaked at the sponge toss.

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Raising suicide awareness with show JOANNA LAVOIE jlavoie@insidetoronto.com Leslieville-based actor/writer/ comedienne Shelley Marshall isn’t afraid to raise an eyebrow to raise awareness.

In her latest show, Hold Mommy’s Cigarette: One woman’s story of an unfiltered life... the eight-year eastend resident invites the audience to join her on a journey through the trials and tribulations of her tumultuous life starting when her father took his life on his birthday when she was just seven years old to her own suicide attempt 16 years ago to her present-day reality as a unabashed funny woman who has managed to rise above and turn her sadness into tremendous success.

“Suicide is a real thing. It can happen to anyone,” said Marshall, who despite her personal struggles with post-traumatic stress disorder, as well as anxiety and panic attacks, is eager to share her story and give hope to others caught up in the stigma of being silenced.

From Oct. 1 to 28, she will be

staging her solo show in her new boutique theatre space in Leslieville, The Full Bawdy Loft.

“I know the show’s going to be a huge success,” Marshall said, noting the run is especially relevant as Oct. 5 to 11 is Mental Illness Awareness Week.

During a recent interview, Marshall said she decided to do a 28-show run because it represents the number of days she spent in hospital after attempting suicide.

She’ll be directing a portion of the funds raised to the Red Door Family Shelter, which is facing an uncertain future as the property that houses its longtime home at 875 Queen St. E., at Logan Avenue in Leslieville, is currently in receivership following a complicated real estate deal with a private company.

A Red Door supporter, Marshall said her childhood would have been much different if the Red Door Family Shelter existed when she lost her father.

“A space like that would have been life-changing,” she shared, adding the east-end organization was happy

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Shelley Marshall performs her onewoman show, Hold Mommy’s Cigarette, for 28 evenings in October to help raise awareness about mental health issues as well as funds for The Red Door Shelter.

to partner with her.

“They said this is exactly what they’re about.”

Hold Mommy’s Cigarette, a 70-minute show Marshall created

just more than a year ago, was first presented at The Alumni Theatre on Berkeley Street for a two-week run.

She then brought the awardwinning show to her hometown of Hamilton, ON, for a soldout run this spring.

The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health has also recognized Hold Mommy’s Cigarette and selected it as the fundraiser for World Suicide Awareness Day, which was held this year on Sept. 10.

Marshall presented a soldout show for this cause in Barrie earlier this month.

In 2013, Hold Mommy’s Cigarette was awarded gold for Best Theatre Production at the Canadian Comedy Awards.

It was also nominated for Best One Person Show at this year’s event.

Directed by Linda Kash, will take place Oct. 1 to 28 at 8 p.m. at The Full Bawdy Loft, at 290 Carlaw Ave.

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Tickets to the show are $20. Visit www.holdmommyscigarette.com or call 416-821-1754.

Suicide Prevention Tips According to the The Canadian Association for Suicide Prevention (suicideprevention. ca), suicide prevention depends on our ability to recognize people who are in distress and may be at risk. “The American Association of Suicidology developed a simple tool that we can all use to remember the warning signs of suicide. This tool is called ‘IS PATH WARM’ and outlines the key points to remember:” I – Ideation (suicidal thoughts) S – Substance Abuse P – Purposelessness A – Anxiety T – Trapped H – Hopelessness/Helplessness W – Withdrawal A – Anger R – Recklessness M – Mood changes Visit suicideprevention.ca for more information.

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he power of social media is too often taken for granted. It allows an easy avenue for people to cast judgment in a way they can’t in person. It takes no effort and yet, the consequences of that cast stone can be devastating.

Last week a woman wrote a post on her facebook page complaining about a rude transit rider on a TTC bus who wouldn’t move his bag to let her sit down.

He swore at her, made an obscene gesture and allegedly stomped on her foot. She also posted a photo of the man she took with her phone.

The post went viral and was viewed thousands of times in only a few hours. People were outraged.

As happens when things go viral, the media picked it up and our view once the story broke, another transit rider came forward with Everyone a video of the interaction. It was posted to YouTube and some said makes they’d try to find the man dubbed the ‘transit leprechaun’ because mistakes of the bowler hat and green shirt he was wearing.

It was public shaming the only way social media can deliver it: fast, brutal and with little to no consequence of its impact. Thousands of angry people with their finger pointed at one man.

We’re not writing in defence of this transit rider.

Rather, we hope to caution people before they cast judgment in such a public sphere. Things have a way of sticking online. Everything is public. Don’t trust your privacy settings.

Consider the TTC driver who lost her job this summer after a video was posted showing her bus running a red light and nearly hitting a pedestrian.

Before anyone knew anything about her, she was publicly shamed in a similar manner. After it was discovered she was a single mom of two and that she lost her job over the incident, the man who posted the video said if he had known that would have been the consequence, he never would have made it public.

Whatever this man’s done, his punishment has surely been dealt. We may not know him, but certainly his friends, family and employer have recognized him by now. Perhaps he deserved this, perhaps he just made a mistake.

It’s not for us to say – but when it’s said online, it speaks deafening volumes.

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Imagining what a Doug Ford mayoralty would be like John Tory is to be the next mayor of Toronto.

All the polls point to this as the likely outcome and have for some time. So why, then, don’t we all just relax, enjoy the fall season of new television and wait for an affable and uneventful four years?

Well, for one thing, there are still three and a half weeks to go until election day, and anything could happen.

And for another, based on the polls, the secondmost likely thing to happen is that Doug Ford somehow wrestles the lead away from Tory and is elected the fourth mayor of amalgamated Toronto.

It is not such a remote possibility; those same polls that show Tory so far ahead show the label-making councillor for Ward 2 in second place. And most of them were taken when Ford was behaving – how shall we put this? – like a bit of a jerk.

If Ford puts on his candi-

david nickle the city date pants, keeps it civil and plays it right, a Ford mayoralty is a possibility.

How would we cope with such an eventuality? Well, we can look back at his brother’s victory four years ago – where many of us simply stared slack-jawed as Don Cherry kicked off the inaugural council meeting and Rob Ford announced the end of light rail transit.

Some happy few of us simply hoped for the best.

No doubt they slept better, dreaming of stalled gravy trains and tax cuts and shining subways.

In that spirit, I thought today we might, as a (positive) thought experiment, imagine what the very best possible scenario is for a Doug Ford mayoralty.

So, looking on the bright, half-full-not-half-empty side of life, we might hope for a few things:

• We’ll likely see longer press availabilities and more of them. Unlike his younger brother, Doug Ford has not been shy about talking, and sometimes hollering, in front of cameras.

There will never be a question of asking Mayor Doug Ford the wrong question. All the questions will be wrong, and he will tell us why.

• The Ferris wheel will be back. Well, maybe not the Ferris wheel, but expect something similarly big on the waterfront to the idea that Councillor Doug Ford floated in 2011. Maybe a Colossus of Rhodes, bestriding the mouth of the Humber? No, let it be a surprise.

• Toronto will have a new music festival, and it will be just like the ones Doug Ford saw when he visited Austin, Texas and came back with Lone Stars in his eyes. Ford was pretty clear about this at the debate on the arts Monday. We might even get a new city motto out

of it: ‘Keep Toronto Weird’, anyone?

• We will all learn to love Sigma Six – or at least figure out what it is.

• The entertaining trench warfare that has come to characterize Toronto City Council meetings will continue, with a small reshuffling that will keep all of us guessing.

While Doug Ford’s election is a long-shot, Rob Ford’s election in Ward 2 is nearly a certainty. The brothers Ford will still be manning the turret in the bunker that the mayor’s office has become. Council will still be fed up with them both. It will be fun, in the way that we’ve come to define fun over the past four years.

So there you have it. Keep happy, Toronto, sleep well.

If the pollsters are as wrong as they sometimes can be... you can always learn to stop worrying and love the Ford.

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Toronto Fire holds week worth of events to educate residents about fire safety Working smoke alarms save lives.

That’s not only the theme of National Fire Prevention Week 2014 – which is being recognized from Oct. 4 to 9 – but it’s also a crucial message Toronto Fire Services is hoping to impart upon residents during this year’s annual awareness event.

“Smoke alarms are, dollar for dollar, the best life-saving safety device ever invented.

You can pick up a great smoke alarm with all the features for under $10, and as long as they’re maintained and well located, they do save lives,” said Peter Derrington, district chief of public education for Toronto Fire.

“It’s clear and it’s documented, and we can’t emphasize enough how important it is to have working, maintained smoke alarms.”

According to estimates from Fire Prevention Canada, in fact, nearly 66 per cent of home fire deaths occur in

homes without a working smoke alarm.

In order for smoke alarms to be most effective, Derrington said, at minimum, at least one should be installed on each level of the home – especially outside sleeping areas.

“The most dangerous time, the time when you and your family are most atrisk, is when you’re asleep, so you want to make sure you install smoke alarms outside all sleeping areas – and that they’re audible within those sleeping areas,” he said.

“We would also recommend putting one in every bedroom, especially when people sleep with their bedroom doors closed, because that can buffer the sound.”

As far as smoke alarm maintenance goes, Toronto Fire Services and Derrington recommends that residents test their alarms every week, change their batteries twice a year (Derrington recommends residents do so during

Daylight Savings Time, as a handy reminder), and fully replace smoke alarms at least once every 10 years.

“And if have a vacuum with an upholstery brush, give your smoke alarms a quick vacuum once a month, to help keep out the cobwebs and dust and anything else that could infiltrate the device itself,” Derrington suggested.

In addition to promoting smoke alarms, Toronto firefighters will also be promoting fire prevention and educating fire escape methods during this year’s Fire Prevention Week open house events.

“Our mantra is ‘prevention, detection and escape,’” Derrington said, noting while smoke alarms take care of the ‘detection’ part of that fire safety trifecta, prevention and escape are equally important.

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Two local Nahom Berhane remembered for helping community Police arrest a 23-year-old man in connection with fatal stabbing council candidates oppose to Line 9 MARK A. CADIZ mcadiz@insidetoronto.com A group of Toronto residents rallying behind the name “Stop Line 9” have organized a municipal campaign to have Toronto City Council to ban tar sands oil from passing through Toronto neighbourhoods.

Concerned about the heavier grade oil – bitumen – the group has launched their Protect Our City Pledge initiative approaching city councillors and non-incumbents to sign their petition to prevent the transport of tar sands oil through Enbridge’s Line 9 oil pipeline.

To date, six incumbent councillors and six candidates for council seats have signed the petition including Councillor Janet Davis, Ward 31 Beaches-East York and Councillor Mary Fragedakis, Ward 29 TorontoDanforth.

The goal of the campaign is to create a bylaw that will prevent “dangerous” products from being shipped via pipeline or rail through the city.

“We have been working on this for two years to build support from the wards,” said Gerry Dunn, a member of Stop Line 9.

“The city of Toronto has the jurisdiction to prevent oil from passing through the city, so we are asking incumbents to support the motion.”

Others who have signed the petition include: Candidate Raymond Desilets, Ward 5 EtobicokeLakeshore; Councillor Sarah Doucette, Ward 13 Parkdale-High Park; Candidate Alejandra Bravo, Ward 17 Davenport; Councillor Mike Layton, Ward 19 Trinity-Spadina; Candidate Joe Cressy, Ward 20 Trinity-Spadina; Councillor Joe Mihevc, Ward 21 St. Paul’s; Candidate Dan Fox, Ward 24 Willowdale; Candidate Michael Galea, Ward 24 Willowdale; Candidate Paul Bocking, Ward 35 Scarborough Southwest; and Councillor Ron Moeser, Ward 44 Scarborough East.

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Nahom Berhane was murdered in the very area he served as a community leader, youth mentor and “local superhero.”

The father of two was stabbed out front of 1220 Danforth Ave., early Saturday, Sept. 27.

He died of his injuries in hospital.

Berhane, 34, was a community developer at Access Alliance, the lead agency at AccessPoint on Danforth community hub in the Victoria Park and Danforth avenues area.

“He was a guy who saw everybody’s potential and helped them reach it,” said

Access Alliance Executive Director Axelle Janczur.

“He reached out to people and to communities and brought them in and worked with them to develop activities and services and programming.”

Community involvement

Berhane wore many different hats: he was heavily involved in his children’s school community, the city’s Eritrean community and the local music scene.

“The guy never stopped, but was always upbeat,” Janczur said. “He worked with old and young, but

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He (Nahom Berhane) was a true friend to everybody and a very, very authentic guy.

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in particular he was a big mentor for youth.”

There were also no boundaries between Berhane’s personal and professional life.

Janczur recalled Berhane would bring his mother to Access Alliance community events where she’d make Eritrean coffee.

“He was a true friend to

everybody and a very, very authentic guy,” Janczur added.

Police said Berhane was walking with friends when he got into an “altercation” with a man.

He was stabbed during the fight.

Police arrested a man at a Queen Street address on Sunday.

Osama Abdulaziz Filli, 23, of Toronto is charged with second-degree murder.

A facebook page called Remembering Nahom pays tribute to the man.

“Nahom had a big place in our hearts and healing from his loss will be hard,”

the site said.

“He was a brother, friend, mentor, local superhero, pe ac em a ker, c om mu nity builder and so much more.” information needed

A funeral is being planned for Saturday afternoon.

Berhane is the city’s 39th murder victim of the year.

Anyone with information is asked to call the homicide squad at 416-808-7400 or Crime Stoppers at 416-222TIPS (8477).

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Complimentary Beach Balance Class for Seniors WHEN: 9:45 to 10:45 a.m. WHERE: Beach United Church, 140 Wineva Ave. CONTACT: Eric Daw, 416-4500892, daweric@gmail.com COST: First workout is complimentary Complimentary balance classes for seniors focussing on balance, coordination, strength, flexibility and posture. Facilitated by an experienced instructor.

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One-day Yoga and Art Experience WHEN: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. WHERE: Rebellion Gallery, 914 Eastern Ave. CONTACT: Grethe Jensen, http:// grethejensen.com COST: $135 Yoga and art together. Vegetarian lunch and snacks included. All art materials (artist quality paint and canvas) included. Presented by Grethe Jensen, artist/instructor and Beth Rutty, yoga instructor.

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Thanksgiving Feast WHEN: 4:30 to 7 p.m. WHERE: Bain Co-op Community Centre, 100 Bain Ave. CONTACT: Ashton D’Silva Marcon, 416271-4022, ashton.dsilva.marcon@gmail.com COST: $10 per person or pay what you can. Kids under six eat free Our family believes in bringing the community together. Join them for a feast of good food and entertainment. of SickKids Foundation Brain Tumour Research Fund.

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Tommy Thompson Park Sunday Morning Bird Walks WHEN: 8 to 11 a.m. WHERE: Tommy Thompson Park, 3 Leslie St. CONTACT: 416-661-6600, ext.

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Community Matters . . . A neighbourhood for everyone WHEN: 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. WHERE: Eastview Neighbourhood Community Centre, 86 Blake St. CONTACT: Maria Moutsatsos, 416-392-6810, ext. 225 COST: Free Talk about changes you see in the

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Crafting the Short Story WHEN: 2 to 3:30 p.m. WHERE: S. Walter Stewart Library, 170 Memorial Park Dr. CONTACT: 416-3963975 to register COST: Free Join writer, editor and East End Writers’ Group founder Sharon A. Crawford for a hands-on introductory workshop on short story writing.

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TEGH raises $2.5 million at gala To r o n t o E a s t G e n e r a l Hospital’s (TEGH) second annual Laughter is the Best Medicine event was no joke!

The annual gala fundraiser raised $2.5 million and marked the conclusion of TEGH’s $60-million private sector capital campaign.

“The $2.5 million raised at this gala was significant; it helped us close out the ambitious $60-million private sector campaign we started five years ago,” said Michael Burns, chair of the hospital’s foundation board, in a Sept.

28 release.

Described as one of the most fun and funniest evenings of the year, the Laughter is the Best Medicine II comedy gala featured a performance by multi-Emmy and Grammy award wining comedian Chris Rock.

This show was his first performance at a private event.

“It’s a great cause. The hospital does a lot of amazing work. And I just wanted to be with the right people; and this just seemed like the right

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Will Arnett served as the master of ceremonies.

“I have family members who received care here, at Toronto East General, and my mom and dad are connected.

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Village close to transit lines and will link to King streetcar >>>from page 1 Brown College and the Cooper Koo Family YMCA. Work on the area is roughly 95 per cent complete, with a special bricklaying ceremony having taken place Tuesday to mark the fact that work is almost done.

The site is being developed in collaboration between Dundee Developments and the Kilmer Group.

Ken Tanenbaum, Kilmer Group vice-chair, said the deadline imposed by the Pan Am/Parapan Am Games made meeting strict timelines a must.

“Delay was not an option; we had to deliver on time for the athletes when they’re here next summer,” he said.

The village will house some 10,000 athletes and officials, and roughly 700 construction workers are working on the site, with building costs reaching $1 million per day.

Throughout the Games, the site will also be home to a temporary hospital for athletes, and there will be green space on site which has been earmarked for further condominium development.

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Nestled between the 18-acre Corktown Common park and the Distiller y District, the Canary District aims to be more than a set of condos near Toronto’s waterfront.

Jane jacobs “There will be a very wide linear park along Front Street,” Tanenbaum said. “It really was a nod to the late, great urbanist Jane Jacobs.”

The area will feature wide sidewalks to allow for easy pedestrian access, with street level retail up and down the street.

While the site is relatively close to current transit lines, a streetcar will loop up and down Cherry Street, linking to the King streetcar.

While there will be roads interspersed between the buildings, there will also be vibrant laneways for pedestrians.

“We’ve made the building blocks porous,” Tanenbaum said, adding the laneway system “follows the heritage rail lines that were here a generation ago.”

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feature a level of underground parking, five change rooms, a large gymnasium with a running track overlooking it, and two pools, one of which will have an adjustable floor.

“The water level stays the same, but we can change the floor elevation so (the pool’s) depth can be deeper or less deep,” said construction manager Tim Dittmar.

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The housing will go through two iterations, with units set up to house athletes throughout the Pan Am/Parapan Am Games and then altered for permanent residents thereafter.

Temporary dividing walls will be removed and new flooring and kitchen spaces will be installed following the Games, converting the units from dormitory-style residences to conventional condos.

“We had to go through two permitting stages (with the City of Toronto) – we got permitted for the Games use and then permitted for the legacy buildings,” Dittmar said.

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The buildings are all being built to meet LEED Gold specifications, with green roofs, low-flow fixtures, energysaving appliances and other features.

With work finishing on – and in some cases ahead of – schedule, the developers are set to hand the area over to Pan Am/Parapan Am Games organizers by next

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YellowCard campaign hopes to delist the ‘R’-word JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com Many Special Olympic athletes know all too well that words can pack a punch.

Now, working in tandem with the Special Olympics, not-for-profit organization motionball is looking to take some of the sting out of things. The organization has launched the YellowCard campaign in hopes of putting a stop to the use of the R-word - “Retard”.

Paul Etherington, who cofounded motionball with his brothers Mark and Sean and who now serves as the organization’s chair, said the lesson is one that must be shared with motionball’s target audience, young professionals.

“To me, (use of the R-word) is just a kind of ignorance,” he said. “I talked to so many people while we were starting the (YellowCard) campaign who just didn’t put two and two together. They didn’t stop to think ‘Hey, this is negative,

this is a derogatory word.’”

The YellowCard campaign, which officially launched Wednesday, stemmed from a push by Special Olympics International to stop the use of the word.

Given that the original push did not gain much traction in Canada, the Etheringtons decided to start a campaign of their own to raise both awareness and funds.

The campaign requires very little commitment from those who get involved. It aims to draw attention to the fact that the word in question is a slur by getting people to sign a pledge simply stating they will no longer use the word.

“We also have corporate sponsors and private donors who have pledged to donate $1 to motionball for every person who takes the pledge on YellowCard Day,” Etherington said.

He added the goal is to have 36,000 people take the YellowCard pledge in the first year, roughly one person per

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Etherington said he hopes the campaign gains traction on Twitter using the hashtags #YellowCard and #nogoodway.

He would also like to see people film short videos of themselves writing the offending word out and then tearing it up to show their commitment to phasing it out of their vocabulary.

“It’s hard for some people even to write it out, but it’s a strong way to make the pledge,” he said.

Those who take the pledge become YellowCard ambassadors. In addition to no longer using the word themselves, the ambassadors are encouraged to step in and speak out

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For Special Olympic athlete Matthew Fields, the campaign is certainly welcome. He noted the word is pervasive in everyday conversation and even in popular music.

Like Etherington, he believes many people use the word carelessly as opposed to maliciously.

“People don’t think about what they’re going to say before they actually say it,” he said. “They have to understand, that word is frightening to some people, and it’s offensive.”

While the YellowCard campaign launched Oct. 1, it is a year-round initiative.

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Doug Ford joins Tory and Chow at mayoral debate on the arts DAVID NICKLE dnickle@insidetoronto.com Doug Ford kept the gloves on in the TIFF Bell Lightbox Monday afternoon during his second debating appearance since entering the mayoral race earlier this month.

Last week, the city councillor and brother to ailing Mayor Rob Ford played rough in front of a friendly and boisterous crowd in the former

City of York — then bowed out of other debates during that week, prompting candidate John Tory to call him “a chicken.”

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29 debate clearly prepared to talk about the arts, boasting about his and his brother’s support of the arts over the past term and promising to bring an Austin-style music festival to Toronto.

Before he even spoke,

however, Morgan Baskin — who is running for mayor to represent youth issues – used part of her speaking time to throw down a guantlet.

“I want to note that Doug Ford as he answers this question has voted against TIFF, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Canadian Opera Company, the National Ballet of Canada, the Toronto Symphony, Caribana, Pride,” she said before being cut off by moderator Damian

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Ford seemed momentarily flustered, but eventually was able to list some things he and his brother supported, including a Mayor’s Arts Ball that raises $1 million for the arts in Toronto and a property tax exemption for the TIFF Bell Lightbox.

“I just want to point out that TIFF has thrived,” he said.

The debate, which in addition to Ford included current front-runner Tory, Olivia Chow, and less well-known candidates Baskin and lawyer Ari Goldkind, was a relatively sedate affair.

All the candidates agreed on the premise that Toronto’s arts and culture industries were important not only for the city’s economic well-being but for its ability to bring the city together.

“That’s the thing about arts: it offers us the best hope to bring the city together,” said Tory.

Similarly, candidates agreed the city must meet and exceed its goal of spending $25 per capita on arts funding by

2017, and agreed that hiring a Creative Director for Toronto was a good idea.

But candidates had differing passions.

Ford was so excited about his experience last year in Austin, Texas.

“We have a great music festival here but until you come down to Austin and see Austin City Limits...” said Ford, trailing off.

Goldkind, who challenged all the other candidates to simply acknowledge that improving funding to the arts needed to be a high priority and would require the levying of additional taxes, said the city needed to reach out to promote and encourage the arts.

To that end, he drew several rebukes from moderator Abraham for going off topic to talk about transit issues.

“I think the mayor has to step up and make sure everyone has the same access, from Rosedale to Rexdale,” he said.

Tory and Chow pointed out that there are many existing

arts programs in communities around the city — but Chow noted that some of them might “need a bit of help from city hall.”

Chow stepped more dramatically off-topic at the end of the debate, when she used her closing statement to unveil an “art project” she had done Sunday evening, while thinking about this debate: a crude drawing of John Tory’s SmartTrack transit plan on the back of two napkins.

After the debate, Tory called the move “a stunt.”

“I guess if you have to pull these kinds of stunts you can do what you wish,” said Tory.

Chow came out after the debate to show reporters her drawing up close, and said it was no stunt.

“It’s important that people help him figure out how the train is going to make a 90 degree turn without removing buildings,” Chow said.

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OLIVIA CHOW PROFILE: touting realistic and immediate solutions EDITOR’S NOTE: This is one in a series of profiles on the leading contenders to be Toronto’s next mayor MIKE ADLER madler@insidetoronto.com Olivia Chow is talking about Rob Ford and tapping her foot on stones around the murky koi pond in her small backyard garden, encouraging the fish to come up.

The former New Democratic Party MP has said most Torontonians share her “progressive values.” But if that’s true, she’s asked, why did so many vote for the “gravy train”-fighting Ford in 2010?

There was an “obsession” in the city then about the Ford campaign’s “slick one-liners” and the kinds of cuts to city government that could be made, she conceded.

“There’s a lot of buyer remorse, right? People who say, ‘Wow, he sold us a good line, and he totally disappointed us.’”

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SmartTrack rail plan, is no different, said Chow, 57, who, at home during an unexpected lull in the campaign, seemed freer to smile and laugh than she does at debates.

Like Ford before him, Tory is “selling something that’s not realistic, not designed by experts, and between Ford and Tory’s policies they will leave a whole lot of people behind.”

The ailing Ford expanded past pledges to build subways before he dropped out of the mayor’s race and was replaced as candidate by his brother and former campaign manager Doug Ford.

“Nothing they say is about now, how your life can be improved now. How bus services can be improved now.”

But while Tory declares his transit plan to be “bold,” Chow’s – build approved and funded light-rail lines, pay to plan a downtown relief subway line, add more buses – was described by one of her political allies, Joe Mihevc, as reasonable and “modest.”

Chow objected that the relief line, “a game-changer for the city” and long overdue, is not modest, but as for Tory, “he copied the provincial plan (for electrification of GO rail lines), and just put a slogan on it. How’s that bold?”

Tory’s “faith-based transit scheme,” she said, asks Toronto’s voters to “park your rationality” as they did with a subway-promising Ford four years ago. “We’re still paying for it. We should not do it again.”

Tory and the Fords also support extending BloorDanforth Subway further into Scarborough. That extension would take years longer, have fewer stops, and cost taxpayers $1 billion more than the fully-funded and approved light-rail line Chow would build instead.

But the subway, also the choice of provincial politicians, is undeniably popular in Scarborough, where Chow has been running a distant third. Has her position cost her crucial votes?

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the truth; that’s who I am,” she responded, looking a bit less comfortable. “I also have the courage to say no to an investment that doesn’t make sense.”

Chow was a Toronto councillor from 1991 to 2005.

Her husband and council colleague Jack Layton had his own mayoral run – an unsuccessful one – before becoming a New Democrat MP. Chow was elected an MP herself in Trinity-Spadina in 2006, five years before Layton, by then federal NDP leader, won the party unprecedented Official Opposition status in 2011 but died of cancer a few months later.

Chow, who resigned to run for mayor in March, is regularly attacked on Twitter by right-wingers opposing her “far-left socialism.” She seemed more upset that Tory, who formerly led Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives, has been keen to attach the NDP label to her during debates.

“He knows full well that the municipal government

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Mayoral candidate Olivia Chow speaks with Metroland Media Toronto in the backyard of her home recently.

doesn’t have parties. You work across the aisle. And I’ve done that for 14 years (on council),” she said, charging Tory was “scaremongering” – trying to paint her as a tax-andspend politician, when her record during Mel Lastman’s six years as mayor is of sup-

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“No different than what Rob Ford did in the last couple of years,” she added.

“I was a New Democrat, Mel Lastman is a Conservative. I was appointed to the budget committee, police board and as children and youth advocate,” Chow said.

“So people work together.

It’s only people like Mr. Tory who comes in and doesn’t have (municipal) experience and tries to say party politics matter. They don’t.”

She also ruled out any chance of a Doug Ford victory.

“His brother (Rob) is a very colourful person, right? But if you think carefully about Rob Ford’s policies, they’re terrible,” said Chow, adding – though he hadn’t appeared yet in debates and his campaign website had not opened – that Doug Ford’s positions seem identical to the mayor’s.

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Photographer gravitates to storytelling with pictures >>>from page 1 communities.”

Wisdom of the North, curated

by Harbourfront Centre’s Director of Visual Arts Patrick Macaulay, is Hallberg-Campbell’s first time showcasing his work in Nuit Blanche.

Participants are invited to share the images and responses on social media with the hashtag #RedCrossNuit “We look forward to sharing (Hallberg-Campbell’s) work during this important celebration of arts in Toronto, and at the same time, raising awareness about our collaboration with First Nations to build capacity through education, training and a true partnership,” Louise Geoffrio, Ontario’s director of disaster management for the Canadian Red Cross, said in a release.

Hallberg-Campbell snapped photos after completing an assignment for the Canadian Red Cross (CRC) of the work being done in those isolated communities.

“I was asked to document what was happening and what the CRC was doing to support the residents but I couldn’t help but capture what interested me after my official duties were done,” said Hallberg-Campbell,

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Photographer Johan Hallberg-Campbell, right, shot this picture of a boy in traditional dress at Moose Cree First Nation in 2012. Hallberg-Campbell’s photography will be at Nuit Blanche this weekend.

who has been involved with the Red Cross as a volunteer and freelance photographer since 2009.

In December 2011, he made his first trip to the Attawapiskat First Nation, a remote First Nation at the mouth of the Attawapiskat River at James Bay. At that time, it was in the midst of a serious housing crisis.

“I didn’t know what to expect. I

was really struck by the living conditions,” he said.

In 2012 and 2013, HallbergCampbell returned to Northern Ontario to the aboriginal community of Moose Cree. He’s since visited several Aboriginal communities throughout Canada.

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so in touch with the land,” said Hallberg-Campbell.

“I’ve made some amazing connections. It’s really beautiful.”

Hallberg-Campbell, who started taking photographs when he was 15 years old, has travelled around the globe as a freelance photographer, shooting mostly editorials for magazines.

“I’ve always gravitated towards telling stories. I like illustrating stories through photographs,” he said.

In the last two years, HallbergCampbell has travelled to Nunavut, northern British Columbia, Uganda, the United Kingdom and Iceland for work.

“Photography for me is an excuse to travel,” said Hallberg-Campbell.

His next adventure will be to travel to Haiti in three week’s time.

A native of Scotland, who graduated from the Glasgow School of Art, Hallberg-Campbell has officially called Canada home since 2007.

On Nov. 21 from 7 to 10 p.m., he’ll be showcasing his images from a recent trip to Uganda at the CONTACT Gallery’s new space at 310-80 Spadina Ave., just north of King Street.

Funds raised from this event will be directed to helping pay for the education for the children in Africa.

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WOODCHUCK FLOORING

HARDWOOD FLOORS SALES & SERVICE A family ow wned d business b i s fo for overr 40 years!

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Frontenac Oak

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• AC3 Wear Layer • Uniclic® Joint • Registered Embossed Finish • Environmentally Friendly E1 Core • Matching Mouldings

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