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Explore the history of Ashbridges Bay - Toronto’s lost coast A free history walk exploring Toronto’s lost coast: the original shoreline of Ashbridges Bay, is set for Saturday.

Those interested in taking part in the tour, which will be led by Joanne Doucette and pre-

sented by Leslieville Historical Society and the Toronto Field Naturalists, should meet at the southwest corner of Queen Street East and Broadview Avenue for 10 a.m.

Participants will travel along

Broadview to Eastern Avenue over to Logan Avenue, down to the Martin Goodman Trail and over to Northern Dancer Boulevard in the Beach. Along the way, they’ll explore the plants, birds and animals as

well as learn more about the history of Ashbridges Bay. Don’t forget your binoculars, water and snacks.

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The 22-acre Toronto Film Studios site on Eastern Avenue will be redeveloped with the film studio intact, along with offices, retail and a nine-storey hotel, if Toronto Council goes along with recommendations from the Toronto and East York Community Council.

Community council approved the plans by SmartCentres to redevelop the site through a development proposal significantly different from SmartCentre’s last attempts to redevelop the site in 2007.

Then, the Leslieville community north of the studio raised objections to the massive retail development that was to have included a Walmart — finally prevailing at the Ontario Municipal Board.

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The goal is to open the herb garden in early 2016, Otto said, adding the PCA is considering a possible herb garden build day during the community’s annual park cleanup in the spring.

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Teens and police unite in Project Picasso Mural project aims to beautify East Toronto Chinatown JOANNA LAVOIE jlavoie@insidetoronto.com The efforts of 55 Division police, the local business community, residents and students from Riverdale Collegiate Institute (RCI) are helping beautify East Toronto Chinatown.

Called Project Picasso, the policeinitiated and community-supported beautification effort has resulted in the removal of spray paint vandalism from local laneways as well as the creation of a large-scale mural on the brick wall at the back of the Green P parking lot on Gerrard Street East, just west of Broadview Avenue.

In mid-September, Const. Kent Vuong of 55 Division’s community response unit got in touch with RCI’s principal Kenn Harvey to invite his students to volunteer their time to help paint over graffiti in East Toronto Chinatown. A small but efficient group of teens signed up for the cleanup, which took place at the end of September. Members of 55 Division’s Youth in Policing Initiative also took part in the event.

Students from Riverdale were also asked to submit Asian-inspired designs for the mural, which was painted by muralist Mike Kennedy and his crew of artists. The students

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Unwanted graffiti on a wall near Gerrard Street and Broadview Avenue is being covered by an Asian-inspired mural, thanks to the efforts of Riverdale Collegiate students, residents, and police from 55 Division.

whose designs were selected for the project are Kristy Chung, Alex Li, Rebecca Liu, Kelly Luu, Abdul Rehman, Emma Barnes, and Owen Marshall Young.

“The kids really put a lot of effort into (Project Picasso). It’s been a great experience for them to get involved in bettering their community,” Harvey said. “(Project Picasso) has been a great way for our kids to interact with the community and the police, and the mural is really something for our students to feel proud of.”

Valerie Mah, a retired school prin-

cipal and community leader, said the mural is already creating quite a positive buzz in the neighbourhood.

“Everybody who is walking by is talking about it,” said Mah, who also serves as the vice-president of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce (East Toronto).

Judy Ouk, the business organization’s president, agreed.

“Everybody is so proud. Everybody is so happy,” she said.

Police will monitor the area for the next six months and will be working with ProAction Cops and Kids, which provides funding support for

community programs run by the Toronto Police Service’s Community Policing Unit on behalf of kids at risk, to remove any new vandalism on a weekly basis. The organization contributed $14,000 toward Project Picasso.

Illegal tagging in alleyways as well as storefronts along Gerrard near Broadview has been a major issue for a number of years, Ouk said.

After discussions with the Chinese Chamber of Commerce (East Toronto), Vuong and his colleagues came up with Project Picasso.

Initially, the plan was to get young people involved in helping erase graffiti in the laneways and along Gerrard, but discussions with the owners of Spring Roll Corporation, located adjacent to the Green P lot, led to the creation of the large mural.

Previously, the brick wall had artwork with a four seasons theme but over the years it was tagged and eventually painted over.

Project Picasso was made possible through numerous donations.

Some of the initiative’s key supporters include the Toronto Parking Authority; Blair Sissor of Horizon Restoration, who prepped the wall for the new mural; the Home Depot, which donated $80 worth of painting supplies; Mike Wijayasunder of Cooper Equipment Rentals, who loaned a sky lift; as well as Dennis Lam of the City Depot, who arranged a donation of free recycled paint for cleaning up graffiti in the laneways.

‘Visually arresting’ mural unveiled in West Don Lands jOANNA LAVOIE jlavoie@insidetoronto.com The pedestrian and cycling underpass along the Lower Don River Trail at the Bala Rail Line in the West Don Lands is now a much more welcoming place thanks to the creativity of Aboriginal artist Rolande Souliere.

The large-scale mural, which uses the colour symbolism of the Four Directions – red, white, black and yellow – and aims to evoke the culture and spirituality of First Peoples’ beadwork and the visual language of barricades, urban roadways and boundaries, was officially unveiled last Friday.

The event, which included a ribbon cutting, featured two dance performances: a contemporary number titled Thunderbirds Transformation

by Brian Solomon, a dancer of MétisAnishnaabe descent who’s been nominated for Dora and Gemini awards, as well as a house music piece performed by West Coast funk dancer Tristan ‘Blackbird’ Martell,

also known as ‘Bboy Tanmantiou’, and Stephanie Caldeira of the allfemale dance crew, Rebels de la soul.

Martell is Cree from Waterhen Lake First Nation, Saskatchewan.

The mural is part of the four-yearold StreetARToronto (StART) program, an innovative, public-private partnership designed to develop, support, promote and increase awareness of street art and its ability to beautify the city’s visual landscape. Two years ago, StART established the Start Up Street Underpass Project.

“We’re trying to beautify orphan spaces and encourage pedestrians and cyclists to explore spaces safely,” said Lilie Zendel, StreetARToronto’s manager.

“This is the first pedestrian underpass we’ve done.”

For this project, she said only Aboriginal artists were invited to submit their designs as an honour to the indigenous history of the community.

“We thought (Souliere’s) was the best researched,” Zendel said, adding

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Aboriginal dancer Brian Solomon performs a contemporary dance piece titled, ‘Thunderbirds Transformation’, during the unveiling of a new mural at the Bala Underpass Friday afternoon.

a plaque with information about the “visually arresting” mural will be

installed next to the underpass.

Souliere, who is Anishinaabe and of the Michipicoten First Nation, took a few moments at the launch to thank those who helped her make this project a reality.

She briefly explained the inspiration and various elements of her piece; its pulsating patterns represent the original footpaths of First Nations Peoples who lived and worked along the banks of the Don River.

At the unveiling, Ward 28 Councillor Pam McConnell acknowledged the rich indigenous history of the Mississaugas of the New Credit First Nation lands where the new artwork is located.

“The Aboriginal history in our community is very long, over 10,000 years...These lands are now also part of the fabric of our urban reality,” McConnell said of the site just west of the Don River, which is now home to a highly engineered yet naturalized landform designed to protect the downtown core from the effects of the Don River flooding.

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A white-eyed vireo, a rare sight in Toronto, has been banded at the Tommy Thompson Park Bird Research Station.

Rare sighting of songbird in Tommy Thompson Park For the first time in more than a decade, staff members and volunteers at the Tommy Thompson Park Bird Research Station have banded a whiteeyed vireo.

Vireo griseus, as it’s officially known, is easily recognized by its olive green plumage, white throat and the yellow-green spectacles around its unique white eyes.

The migratory songbird, which has a short stout bill ideal for catching and eating insects and a distinctive call, is rarely found in these parts as the majority of the breeding population for this species, which prefers brushy habitats generally located near a water source, is located in the United States.

White-eyed vireos are both predators and prey.

They also serve as seed dispersants within the ecosystems they inhabit.

Tommy Thompson Park, which is home to a range of habitats along the Toronto waterfront, is a popular stopover point for scores of bird species as they travel to Central America.

Long-term trends analyzed from the data collected by the research station help guide bird conservation efforts at local, provincial, national and even international levels.

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Expand museum plan for Old City Hall Toronto’s story is big enough to take up plenty of space

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ven in grumpy, contrary, old Toronto, occasionally an obviously good idea emerges that pretty much everyone agrees on. So it is this week, with a multilateral desire to install a City of Toronto Museum in Old City Hall.

No one – not even our grumpiest, most contrary representative, Ward 2’s Rob Ford – spoke any way other than glowingly about the idea of putting a museum inside the grand old building at Bay and Queen streets.

It will have to wait until the provincial government moves its court operation out of there once and for all.

But then, the city will be

david nickle the city free to do with the 160,000 square feet of usable space inside as it sees fit.

The only catch?

Proponents of the museum have done a tally of the material available in the city’s archives and estimate the museum doesn’t really need much more than 30,000 square feet.

Which gives the city the option of looking for other uses for the remaining 130,000 square feet… which of course is exactly what’s happening.

City staff has obtained a report indicating that the remaining space would do well as a sort of shopping mall, leased to a property manager who would fill the place up with rent-paying shops.

Councillor Ford, an enthusiastic supporter of the museum, suggested

the city might want to lease the remaining space to an hotelier, who might also set up a fancy restaurant at the site.

Making money off the soon-to-be-untenanted site seems to be a common theme for now, and that may change: the government management committee voted to ask staff to spend the next two years refining plans and consulting with the public.

Here’s hoping that as the city refines the plans, it thinks more expansively about, well, expanding that museum plan.

There is no need to limit a museum that delves into Toronto’s history and its current state to simply a 30,000-square-foot singular display. Toronto’s story is bigger than that.

This summer, I found myself in Stockholm, Sweden, and while there found time to visit the Nordiska Museum – a museum of cultural his-

tory dedicated to telling the story of life in Sweden, from the 16th century to the present.

It fills a building not so different in size and architectural presence from Old City Hall, and it uses that space to talk about everything from textiles, children’s toys and Christmas traditions to the Swedish love affair with sugar.

It’s not difficult to imagine a large, expansive museum that talks about Toronto, the many peoples who have made this place their home and helped build it into what it is.

As Canada’s largest municipality, Toronto’s story is more and more Canada’s story, too.

Limiting such a museum to a 30,000-square-foot wing of such a striking building would be a shame, a squandering of a rare opportunity.

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his was supposed to be their time.

With their son off to university and successful careers behind them, Bruce Rhodes and his wife, Liz, both 58, had expected these would be the years to reap the rewards of a full life together.

Instead, they are battling a disease together, one they both, at times, believe is worse than death.

“Ohhh, I am an idiot!” said Liz as she hops up and down in their sunny Richmond Hill kitchen.

“My brain is broken,” she smacks her hands against her head, letting out a long, keening wail.

Bruce pays no mind to her bizarre behaviour, grateful she is no longer talking about hating herself and wanting to die.

“We were so perfectly matched,” said Bruce, a retired software developer. “We were intellectually compatible and I trusted her completely.”

Now, due to dementia, their world has shrunk, travel and social gatherings long past.

Bruce spends his time trying to

keep Liz safe, fed, bathed and properly medicated, struggling not to turn to booze or bash a hole in the wall in frustration.

Liz, who was an author and university professor before frontotemporal dementia began destroying her brain, now lives in her own private world of confusion, battling his efforts to care for her, struggling to escape.

He can’t leave her alone and they rarely leave home. Outings are challenging and at times embarrassing, said Bruce, with his beloved wife now behaving like an unruly five year old.

“Dementia is vicious, just vicious,” he said.

It can be a lonely existence for the caregiver who must bear the burden of day-to-day life and for the person with dementia whose increasing confusion can leave them housebound and isolated.

Research has shown connected people are healthy people, and yet the Alzheimer’s Society 2014 survey reports 40 per cent of people with dementia felt lonely and 34 per

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Bruce Rhodes talks with his wife Liz, formerly a respected economics professor, in their Richmond Hill home where she’s been descending into worsening dementia.

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Caregivers reported the same.

“It’s a family illness,” said occupational therapist Nira Rittenberg.

“It affects the person cognitively and emotionally. Caregiving time is intense.”

Rittenberg, co-author of the guidebook Dementia: A Caregiver’s Guide, oversees a psycho-educational support group. Families make the trek to Baycrest Health Sciences in Toronto seeking her help for a myriad of concerns – from what to do when

the patient doesn’t want to attend doctor appointments or asks the same question repeatedly, to issues stirred up between siblings caring for parents.

There is an emotional toll, “losing that personhood is hard for everyone to watch,” along with a physical and financial one, and it may be why 80 per cent of caregivers end up with their own disorders and issues, she said.

The person with dementia, meanwhile, finds himself increasingly isolated.

In a n A l z h e i m e r D i s e a s e International survey of more than 2,400 people from 54 countries, more than 75 per cent of respondents with dementia said they’ve noticed a negative stigma about the disease, most commonly being discounted or marginalized by others.

Chair Dr. Jacob Roy

Kuriakose is calling for urgent action and said the focus on late-stage dementia and a belief that nothing can be done to help leads to hopelessness and fear of negative reactions.

“People start fearing ‘viral dementia,’” Rittenberg said. “It’s not that they think they’ll ‘catch’ it, but they may hide from it because they can’t deal with it, especially if they’re of the same age cohort.”

Unlike those with physical challenges, there is no wheelchair or visible indication of a disability. As one patient puts it, “when something’s wrong with your mind, it feels like something is wrong with you.”

In the early stages, those with dementia may become withdrawn, aware they can’t keep up in social settings, but Maisie Jackson is determined not to let that happen.

The Niagara Falls resident said >>>BOBCAYGEON, page 7

GLOBAL VISION Across the globe, innovations and dementia-friendly management programs are helping to eradicate stigma and ensure people with dementia continue to enjoy a high quality of life after diagnosis: THE NETHERLANDS When visitors first tour Hogewey, in the Netherlands, they see what appears to be a typical village with residents roaming laneways and houses, parks, supermarket, theatre and restaurants.

In fact, this village is actually a cutting-edge facility for those with

advanced dementia. Cameras monitor residents, caregivers wear street clothes and operate “businesses” and the entire community – the size of 10 football fields – is securely enclosed.

The theory is that in most cases, as the disease progresses, those with dementia leave the “real” world; problems occur when we try to drag them back into reality.

SOUTH KOREA In South Korea, recognized as the fastest-aging country in the world, a dementia management law man-

dates that citizens older than 65 be checked for dementia symptoms and in each of the city’s 25 urban districts, a dementia centre offers activities and social connections.

LONDON, UK The Community Care Model for Dementia is an innovative practice in northeast London.

A rapid-response support team made up of nurses, support workers and psychiatrists acts as a safety net to help those with dementia stay out of hospital. The team provides crisis support in the patient’s home

and has been able to reduce the rate of hospital admissions and length of hospital stays.

GERMANY Germany’s Alzheimer Society hosts a website called ‘Alzheimer and You’ aimed at people aged 14 to 21. It’s part of a national program to help youth understand dementia and includes tips, memory tests, contests and project ideas for schools.

SCOTLAND The concept of dementia dogs is being explored in Scotland to help those with mild cognitive impairment maintain their waking, sleeping and eating routine, remind them to take medication and stay active in the community. The project was the brainchild of a student from the Glasgow School of Art. what’s happening closer to + Learn home; read our story online at www.insidetoronto.com/dementia

>>>from page 6 she was devastated to learn she had dementia two years ago.

“I thought the end had come, my life was over. I didn’t tell anyone.”

She worried she would waste away like her mother, aunt and older sister before her, alone in a rocking chair, clutching a baby doll.

Instead, she clutches a thick daybook jam-packed with appointments, conferences and meetings at the local Alzheimer’s society.

“The society gave me my life back,” said the former director of sales at Niagara’s Pillar and Post Inn. Her days are busy mentoring others, attending board meetings and giving presentations across the province. She no longer hides her diagnosis.

“If I’m having trouble, I just say ‘Give me a moment please, I have dementia.’”

Communicating with others about the disease has given her life new purpose, she said.

Jackson has learned life does not end when the diagnosis begins. A slew of promising new programs bolsters that view – from as far away as the Netherlands, where an entire enclosed village was created for dementia residents, to the Kawartha town of Bobcaygeon, where Blue Umbrella logos open doors, and minds, for those experiencing cognitive decline.

During the summer months, Bobcaygeon is bustling with tourists, cottagers and retirees.

It’s also speckled with little Blue Umbrella decals that let those with dementia know they

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The Blue Umbrella is a unique project garnering interest across Canada.

Designed to combat stigma and promote awareness, the program provides umbrella pins to those with dementia.

Window decals are given to businesses trained to help with challenges such as bank machines, crowded spaces and communicating with staff.

Nearly 50 of an estimated 200 Bobcaygeon residents with dementia have registered to wear the pins since it was launched last April, said Pat Finkle, the local Alzheimer Society’s former client support co-ordinator.

About 70 businesses have joined so far.

“We’ve done phenomenally well,” Finkle said.

“People are talking about it more and the person with dementia is being talked with more, too, and engaged in the community. The more people who are out wearing that blue umbrella, the more we are changing the perception of what dementia is.”

Buoyed by the Bobcaygeon success, the Alzheimer Society of Ontario has decided to expand the program to five more communities across the province and is seeking funding to help make it grow.

A similar program, Dementia Friends, was launched in June through the Alzheimer Society of Canada.

The society received $1.8 million in federal funding to launch the program and hopes to encourage a million Canadians to sign on at www.DementiaFriends.ca by 2017.

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Alzheimer’s Disease

Frontotemporal Dementia

Vascular Dementia

Dementia with Lewy Bodies

This is the most common cause of dementia. It accounts for 60 to 80 per cent of cases. During the course of the disease, the chemistry and structure of the brain changes, leading to the death of brain cells.

FTD is caused by progressive nerve cell loss in the brain’s frontal lobes. Personality and behaviour are initially more affected than memory. People with FTD generally develop symptoms at a younger age (about age 60).

If the oxygen supply to the brain fails, brain cells may die. The symptoms of vascular dementia can occur either suddenly, following a stroke, or over time, through a series of small strokes.

This form of dementia gets its name from tiny spherical structures that develop inside nerve cells. Their presence in the brain leads to the degeneration of brain tissue.

Alzheimers.net and + Sources: the Alzheimer’s Association

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s a young volunteer and recreation therapist working in long-term care homes, Ashley Kwong saw the worst of the worst.

“I saw it all, from cockroach-laden plates, food all pureed together, to residents who’d strip down because they had no AC and then get yelled at by staff,” she recalls. “I felt powerless; who could I call?”

She decided to tackle the problem herself, returning to university to study gerontology, then establishing her own service for those with dementia – one that is getting noticed worldwide.

Memory & Company doesn’t look like a daycare for people with dementia and it doesn’t bill itself as such, either.

Instead, it’s referred to as Canada’s first Alzheimer’s health club.

Tucked inside an industrial park in Markham, the 11,000-square-foot facility is custom-designed to meet the needs of those with dementia with a “club-like, non-institutional

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Frank Flanagan of Thornhill participates in an exercise class at Memory & Company.

feel.”

Unlike most daycare programs, this centre features multiple, brightly lit activity rooms connected in a circular layout, allowing clients to wander securely (without agitating doors and dead-ends) and choose

activities that interest them.

One library-like room is filled with coffee table books, records and magazines, another music room has iPads downloaded with favourite songs, photos and videos, old-fashioned turntables, cassette decks and musical instruments. A dress-up room offers a vintage makeup table with jewelry, purses and a camera for fun photo shoots, another resembles an office with maps, puzzles and older office equipment clients might recognize from their working days.

“We have to get people to change their mindset for what day programs can be,” Kwong said.

Society is increasingly focused on aging in place, but few options for meaningful activity or relationships are available for those with dementia at home except occasional respite and the TV, she said.

“People want to enjoy their day no matter who they are,” Kwong said.

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ONLINE >> TACKLING STIGMA AMONG ETHNIC CULTURES: Maniben Patel, left, and Gursaran Kaur Singh lead participants in a dance, as part of the South Asian adult day program in Unionville. Dementia is a challenge for all family members, but among some ethnic communities, the shame associated with it can be devastating.

Reporter Kim Zarzour writes about a son who quit his job to move in with his South Asian parents when caring for his father became too much for his mother; the difficulty people have moving into long-term care because of the culture shock and guilt that goes along with it; and the trouble of communicating across language barriers. Read the full story online at www.insidetoronto.com/dementia

YOUR THOUGHTS Have you had personal experience with dementia or are you a caregiver for someone living with the disease? Do you have thoughts on our series and what needs to be done to get our population and

health care system ready for the future? Let us know your opinion in an email to press@insidetoronto. com, or mail to 175 Gordon Baker Rd., Toronto, ON, M2H 0A2.

SEE THE WHOLE SERIES online, including our features, resources and videos. Visit www.insidetoronto.com/dementia Series lead editor: GRACE PEACOCK Design: JULIE CASPERSEN

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Beaches-East York is bounded by Lake Ontario to the south, Sunrise Avenue and the Don River East Branch to the north, Victoria Park Avenue to the east, and Coxwell Avenue/Coxwell Boulevard to the west. Running to represent the riding is Liberal candidate Nathaniel Erskine-Smith, Randall Sach (Greens) and Bill Burrows (Conservatives). The riding’s incumbent, Matthew Kellway (NDP), is also running for re-election. Roger Carter is running for the Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada, while James Sears and Peter Surjanac are running as independents.

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With humanitarian crises continuing across the globe, what role should Canada play in assisting those people find their better future?

■ I’ve lived in the riding for 18 years. I have a young family and have been involved in my community. As a former President of the Kew Beach DayCare, Kew Beach Neighbourhood Association, and on the Board of the Flemingdon Health Centre, I’ve fought for infrastructure renewal, responsible development, childcare and healthcare issues. I believe that if you hold public office, you need to be open and accessible to ALL your constituents. Help me turn Beaches-East York blue, and I will be there for you!

■ My first priority for Toronto is long-term predictable funding from the federal government.

A Liberal government will invest in infrastructure, by quadrupling public transit investment and building more affordable housing, seniors’ facilities, and childcare spaces. We will also invest in people, by strengthening benefits for seniors, creating 120,000 youth jobs, and bringing 315,000 children out of poverty. Finally, we will invest in knowledge, by restoring the long-form census so that cities can make smart decisions.

■ A Liberal government will immediately resettle 25,000 Syrian refugees. We will then reassess how we can help further. Doing it quickly doesn’t mean we have to take shortcuts, and according to Rick Hillier (former chief of the defence staff), we have the resources to screen applicants for security. We will also recommit our country to its peacekeeping tradition, by making our troops and capabilities available to the UN in peace operations around the world.

■ I support the Canadian Medical Association’s call for a national seniors’ strategy. That includes a specific dementia care strategy of increased funding for research and caregiver support. It also means an emphasis on proper nutrition and physical activity, a national pharmacare program, and increased funding for long-term care facilities and home care. Implementing this national strategy will both improve seniors’ quality of care and save our healthcare system billions of dollars.

■ I’m an advocate. I practise law at a commercial litigation firm downtown, and have won public interest cases at the Divisional Court and Human Rights Tribunal. I studied politics and constitutional law at Queen’s and Oxford, where I played varsity baseball. I will be a strong voice for our community in Ottawa.

I grew up in the riding, attended local schools, and played baseball on local fields. I now live here with my wife, Amy.

CONSERVATIVE

■ In Budget 2015, our Conservative Government committed to contribute $42 million to the new Canadian Centre for Aging and Brain Health Innovation at Baycrest Health Science Centre. Moreover, we announced important initiatives such as renewing the mandate of the Mental Health Commission, and launching the National Dementia Research and Prevention Plan. The NDP make lavish spending promises they can’t afford to keep. Only our Conservative Government has a proven record of delivering for Canadians.

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With a $5 billion surplus so far this year we’re pursuing a low-tax, balanced budget plan to protect Canadian jobs and growth in the face of global uncertainty. Maintaining the economy will allow a Conservative Government to invest in other local priorities such as transit funding and infrastructure renewal.

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With humanitarian crises continuing across the globe, what role should Canada play in assisting those people find their better future?

Canada is soon expected to see a dramatic increase in dementia cases among our senior population.

Would you support a national strategy on dementia? What needs to happen to address the issue?

■ As Urban Affairs, Infrastructure and Deputy Transport Critic for my Caucus, I wrote our urban agenda. It focuses on the need for investment in infrastructure to ensure sustainability and a prosperity more equally shared. That includes a dedicated public transit fund of $1.3B annually, an additional $1.5B annual transfer of the federal gas tax to cities for infrastructure priorities (including public transit), investment in housing including the extension of long-term agreements to co-ops and social housing, childcare and a new governance infrastructure.

■ Through policy and conduct as the Official Opposition, we have positioned an NDP government to be an active force for peaceful resolution of conflict around the world. My work on the garment industry and the work of colleagues on conflict minerals and mining seeks to end exploitation of workers around the world. We will ensure Canada participates in multilateral efforts and shoulders its responsibility for the resolution of international issues including climate change, peacekeeping and humanitarian assistance, beginning with the Syrian crisis.

■ We have pledged to put in place a National Alzheimer’s and Dementia Strategy. We will invest $40 million to support research, screening, early diagnosis and treatment of these diseases.

I know from personal experience that dementia in all of its forms requires intensive support from families and/or special residential requirements.

Respite services and home healthcare are crucial components of that support. An NDP government will provide funding to allow for home health care for 41,000 seniors and work with provinces to create 5,000 additional LTC beds.

■ I was born in Hull, Quebec. I was adopted at an early age and raised in Kingston, Ontario.

I met my wife Donna when we were both students at the University of Glasgow. We were engaged in three months and now married 25 years. I have lived in this riding for almost 20 years. Donna and I have raised our three kids here. That makes this place – the sidewalks, the parks, the arenas – home for me. It is my foothold. It is deep in the heart of me.

■ I would like to contribute to making Toronto a more liveable city. This involves improving and expanding public transit and building more affordable housing, among other things. We need to combat income inequality by providing a Guaranteed Livable Income so no one needs to live in poverty, and free tuition so people can more easily train and re-train for the jobs of the future in the knowledge economy.

We need a city that works for all of the people, not just the privileged few.

■ While there are many humanitarian crises in the world today I will focus on the situation in the Middle East. The first thing Canada can do to alleviate the refugee crisis in the Middle East and Europe is to end our participation of the bombing of Iraq and Syria. It is one of the factors driving the mass migration out of Syria, has had a negligible impact on ISIS, and does nothing to stop Syrian President Bashar al-Assad from continuing his assault on his own people.

Canada should return to it’s traditional role as a peace-keeper.

■ My mother suffers from this debilitating condition, so I understand the impact first hand, and I would absolutely support a national strategy on dementia. With our aging population, government needs to plan for a large increase in dementia cases. This would involve increasing home care services and long-term care facility spaces. Beyond that, government should invest in more research about dementia, and the cause is not well understood and there is no cure (yet).

■ I have worked all my life to help to lift people out of poverty. The early part of my career was in social housing managing housing co-ops, and briefly two homeless shelters, in Toronto. For the last 25 years I worked in the field of international development for several non-governmental organizations, and later for the Government of Canada, in a variety of countries including Mexico, Mozambique, Philippines, Afghanistan and Vietnam. The projects I worked in were in sectors including housing, environment, education, and water and sanitation.

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Toronto-Danforth, represented in Ottawa by NDP MP Craig Scott since March 2012, is bounded by Lake Ontario to the south, Taylor Creek and the Don River East Branch to the north, Coxwell Avenue/Coxwell Boulevard to the east, and the Don River to the west. Running to represent the riding is Liberal candidate Julie Dabrusin, Benjamin Dichter (Conservatives) and Chris Tolley (Green Party). The riding’s incumbent, Craig Scott, is running for re-election. Dichter did not send in responses to our questions. Elizabeth Abbott is also running for the Animal Alliance Environment Voters Party of Canada, while John Richardson is the candidate for the Progressive Canadian Party.

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What are your priorities for Toronto in this campaign and how will you fight for the city’s needs, if elected?

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Julie Dabrusin | 647-285-2248

■ I have a track record of taking action on the issues facing our community in TorontoDanforth for nearly 20 years – however, there is a limit to how much we can do without a federal partner for cities. Locally, we need a strong advocate with integrity who is responsive to people. We need immediate investments to address packed subway cars, create new child care spaces and re-invest in affordable housing now. Our Liberal Plan will deliver.

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With humanitarian crises continuing across the globe, what role should Canada play in assisting those people find their better future?

■ Leading this country means bringing people together with hope for the future. We have a responsibility to significantly expand our refugee targets and give more victims of war a safe haven in Canada. It is time for action at the federal level. The government can, and must, do more to offer refuge to the Syrian men, women and children who so desperately need it. Canadians know that this is a time to work together.

Canada is expected to see a dramatic increase in dementia cases among our senior population in coming years. Would you support a national strategy on dementia? What needs to happen to address the issue?

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■ Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia put enormous emotional stress on millions of families and cost our health-care system billions of dollars every year. A Liberal government will provide leadership and deliver a pan-Canadian dementia strategy. We must repair the federal government’s relationships with provincial and territorial partners to tackle these and other critical health needs while investing in research and prevention.

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Tell us a bit about yourself.

■ I took a break from my career as a bilingual litigation lawyer to raise my family here in the Toronto-Danforth. I take action when I see things that need doing – like starting the Danforth Hunger Squad for Second Harvest, The Friends of Withrow Park and spearheading community action to save our local swimming pools – I am always guided by my commitment to social justice and a desire to inspire and contribute to concrete change.

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What are your priorities for Toronto in this campaign and how will you fight for the city’s needs, if elected?

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With humanitarian crises continuing across the globe, what role should Canada play in assisting those people find their better future?

Canada is expected to see a dramatic increase in dementia cases among our senior population in coming years. Would you support a national strategy on dementia? What needs to happen to address the issue?

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Craig Scott | 416-900-3725 craigscott.ndp.ca | @craigscottNDP

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Chris Tolley | 647-800-5020 www.greenparty.ca/en/riding/ 2013-35109

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Tell us a bit about yourself.

■ My priority is to close the income inequality gap in Toronto. The NDP has made ground-breaking commitments toward this goal: $15-per-day child care; funding for affordable housing; increasing the Guaranteed Income Supplement to lift seniors out of poverty; and a better transit plan to get Torontonians moving.

Protecting the environment is also a key priority. The NDP will enact our Climate Change Accountability Act to cut carbon pollution and build a cleaner, more sustainable Canada.

■ The Syrian refugee disaster is the largest humanitarian crisis on the globe right now and Canada has a moral obligation to meet the challenge. I have been personally involved going back over a year with Syrian refugee support activists and organizationsm to demand a more robust response to the crisis from the Harper government. The NDP’s five-part plan includes meeting the UN’s request that we take in 10,000 refugees before year’s end, and at least 35,000 more over the next four years.

■ Yes. New Democrats have committed to investing $40 million to create a National Alzheimer’s and Dementia Strategy. This announcement was built on the hard work of my NDP colleague Claude Gravelle, who led the way in pushing this issue in Parliament.

Our plan will support screening, early diagnosis and treatment to help slow progression of the conditions; improve resources for newly diagnosed patients and their families; and fund additional research.

■ As Official Opposition Critic for Democratic Reform, I championed proportional representation and led the fight against Harper’s Unfair Elections Act. I brought my background in international law to the NDP’s opposition to Bill C-51 – Harper’s spy-state-expansion bill.

Prior to politics, I taught human rights law (among other areas) at Osgoode Hall and the University of Toronto. I currently live in East York with my partner Aeh.

■ As a longtime resident of Toronto-Danforth, my priorities include a modern economy that promotes growth through fair international trade agreements and investment in green industries and innovation that will create thousands of jobs. Second, we must move to a proportional representation voting system, while in the meantime, the Green Party will never whip votes, leaving me free to represent my constituents.

Third, promote arts and culture as an essential element to our Canadian identity.

■ Canada must commit to climate action, as global warming and food insecurity hit the world’s vulnerable populations the hardest.

We must also build strong First Nations and indigenous communities here in Canada. Third, we must also realign our spending priorities to enhance our disaster relief capacity and reduce our commitment to ineffective military actions.

Lastly, we must do more to actively welcome refugees from humanitarian crises to Canada.

■ Canada must protect our public health-care system and implement a complementary national senior’s strategy. First, we must encourage spending on preventative medicine. Secondly, a key plank in the Green Party platform is a National Dementia Strategy, including more long-term care beds in neighbourhood facilities, improved pharmacare, creation and promotion of intergenerational programs, expansion of CPP and an overall priority for “aging in place.”

■ I have been a resident of Toronto-Danforth since 1999. I have always been very active in supporting my east-end community, from sponsoring local youth soccer teams to supporting the fight against the Toronto Island airport expansion. I am also an award-winning playwright and theatre director and am co-director and founder of EXPECT Theatre, which runs several community and educational programs for underprivileged Toronto youth. I live in Leslieville with my wife, Dharini, and our daughter, Olive.

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Presented by LEAF (Local Enhancement and Appreciation of Forests) and led by certified arborist Michael Marcucci, the event will be held at St. Matthew’s Clubhouse, 450 Broadview Ave., from 7 to 8:30 p.m.

The workshop will give those in attendance an opportunity to learn how to select the right trees for their property.

Registration is recommended. Visit www.yourleaf. org to save your spot. a walk in Riverside Saturday wTake

Riverside Walks, a series of sidewalk sales and local walking tours, will be wrapped up for the season on Saturday.

The day of activities will kick off with the October edition of the Toronto Flower Market at 659 Queen St. E. from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

People can also check out a free guided walk led

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Eateries and stores will be holding sales, promotions and tastings from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. along Queen Street East. Limited edition Riverside T-shirts will also be available for purchasing for $15.

Visit www.riverside-to. com Red and Black Day tomorrow wMalvern

Malvern Collegiate is hosting its annual Red and Black Day tomorrow.

The school, at 55 Malvern Ave., just north of Kingston Road, will host the event at Birchmount Stadium featurng cheerleaders, alumni, a marching band and a barbecue. Sports action includes: 11 a.m., girls field hockey; noon, sevens rugby; and 1:30 p.m., senior football.

Sewell speaks on changing Toronto wJohn

Former Toronto Mayor John Sewell will be giving a presentation titled How We Changed Toronto on Wednesday, Oct.

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Help keep batteries, oil and tires out of landfills.

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in the discussion with Beaches Reads wJoin

Residents are invited take part in the first of four free book discussions for Beaches Reads. The event will take place Tuesday at 7 p.m. at the Gerrard Ashdale Library, 1432 Gerrard St. E..

Presented by the Kingston Road Village Concert Series in conjunction with the Toronto Public Library, this year’s theme is Bohemians in Brooklyn. The featured book is Carson McCullers’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.

The series will culminate with an original cabaret on Sunday, Nov. 8 at 1:30 p.m. at Kingston Road United Church, 975 Kingston Rd. Visit www.kruc.ca/concerts or email timojo58@hotmail. com for more information.

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The former Toronto Film Studios site on Eastern Avenue has been approved for development including a hotel, retail shops, and a film studio by Toronto and East York Community Council.

Six new buildings in redevelopment plan >>>from page 1 worthy of filming when we went to the OMB when the member found that the larger scale big box retail would produce retail contagions throughout the area,” said Ward 30 Councillor Paula Fletcher, who supported the development proposal with some small amendments.

The proposal will retain studio uses on the site, with various other employment uses, in accordance with the city’s designation of the lands as an employment area.

Councillors acknowledged the importance of the site to the city’s $1-billion film and television industry.

“The film industry is a billiondollar industry in the Toronto economy and protecting it has been Job One for this application,” said Fletcher.

The proposal would see six

new buildings beside the existing film studio: two 10-storey office buildings, two four-storey office buildings with retail along Eastern Avenue, and a four-storey above grade parking structure with retail along with a nine-storey hotel with retail on the ground floor.

The Community Council heard from representatives of the film industry and surrounding businesses and residences, who were generally supportive of the plan but raised concerns about traffic management measures.

Those measures include a requirement to build a road through the site between Lake Shore Boulevard and Eastern Avenue, and new traffic control signals at Caroline Avenue and Eastern Avenue, and the intersection of 629 Eastern Ave. and Lake Shore Boulevard.

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Seminar on easing path for youth Malvern Collegiate’s Home and School Council is presenting the first in a series of parent/teacher and community engagement seminars on Wednesday, Oct. 14.

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