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Like a scene out of a movie, several frontline workers at Toronto East General Hospital (TEGH) recently donned bright yellow protective suits and face shields to simulate what would happen if a patient suspected of having the deadly Ebola virus came to the local hospital’s emergency department.

The protective gear demonstration was part of an Ebola preparedness workshop, which 40 or so TEGH staff members attended late last week.

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community receives money wYWCA A recent article about four east-end agencies receiving close to $200,000 in funding from the provincial government incorrectly indicated the YMCA of Greater Toronto was one of the recipients.

The article should have read The YWCA of Greater Toronto.

The Mirror regrets the error. of Hope at Woodbine Park wWalk

The Walk of Hope, a 2.5kilometre walk/5-kilometre fun run for Ovarian Cancer Canada, will be held Sunday at Woodbine Park.

Registration begins at 9:30 a.m.

Visit www.ovariancancerwalkofhope.ca of the Vine Wine Tasting wFruit

Chabad House, at 2 2 7 3 Q u e e n St . E . , of h o s t s a Fr u i t the Vine Wine Tasting Sunday.

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Toronto-Danforth MP Craig Scott is inviting photographers to submit images for his 2015 calendar, themed TorontoDanforth: Ours to Discover, which will be distributed to households.

The deadline is Monday, Sept. 22.

A committee will then select nine photographs, which will be printed in black and white.

Email craig.scott@parl. gc.ca for details and to submit your photos. city lookinG for bikes wabandoned

To free up bicycle parking, the City of Toronto is asking for people to identify abandoned bikes for removal over the next few weeks.

The Ontario Legislature will be home to a series of paintings commemorating the start of the First World War. The Lest We Forget exhibit is accompanied by a booklet of essays titled What We Have Learned from War, penned by former prime minister Jean Chretien, Lt.-Gen. Romeo Dallaire and others.

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Jane Werniuk raises funds for Weekend to End Women’s Cancers JOANNA LAVOIE jlavoie@insidetoronto.com For the ninth time, 20-year Beach resident Jane Werniuk will be walking 60 kilometres over two days through the streets of Toronto for a cause close to her heart.

Werniuk, a breast cancer survivor, is taking part in the 12th annual Weekend to End Women’s Cancers, which has raised more than $141 million for research, clinical enhancements and survivorship programs for all women’s cancers at the Campbell Family Cancer Research Institute at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre.

She’s one of 13 members of Team Women In Mining (WIM), which this year is aiming to raise $250,000.

This ambitious yet attainable goal will likely be reached thanks to Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd., the mining company Werniuk works for, which has pledged to donate $1 for every $2 raised by Team WIM. With just a few days until the big event, Werniuk, a geologist by trade, has personally raised more than $41,000 for

the cause.

“My mom had breast cancer and I had it and I don’t want (my daughter Margaret) to get it,” shared Werniuk, whose involvement with the Weekend to End Women’s Cancers began when the fundraiser was launched in September 2003.

“I had heard about it on the radio and I was very interested,” said Werniuk, who volunteered that first year, while she was undergoing chemotherapy, with her now-24-year-old daughter Margaret.

“It was very inspiring, very exciting and very moving. I was glad to do what I could,” she said.

Three years later in 2006, Werniuk signed up and successfully completed the challenging two-day, 60-kilometre walk as a member of The Wonderbra Walkers alongside her friend and mentor Cathy Fletcher, who also battled breast cancer a year and a half before her diagnosis.

Both women returned for a second time in 2007 as a part of the newly formed Team Women in Mining and haven’t

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looked back since.

“That first year we became the largest fundraising team in the walk,” Werniuk said, adding in 2007 Team WIM surpassed its goal of raising $200,000 for breast and gynecologic cancer research, treatment and services.

Fletcher, whose background is in marketing,

came up with the idea to raise $250,000 this time around.

This ambitious fundraising goal coincides with the 45th anniversary of the Women In Mining Toronto Networking Branch, an organization that serves more than 700 women in the mining industry.

In preparation for this weekend’s event, Werniuk

has had monthly meetings with her teammates as well as ongoing training sessions, which often begin and end near her home in the Beach.

Werniuk learned she had cancer just over 11 years ago.

In April 2003 at the height of the SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) epidemic, she discovered a lump in her left breast and promptly booked an appointment with her family physician, Dr. Bill Van Zyl, who ordered an ultrasound and recommended the lump be surgically removed for further testing.

Because of the SARS outbreak, Werniuk’s doctor had a difficult time locating a surgeon willing to potentially risk his or her life to operate on her.

After a three-week search, Dr. Ken Wong from

Scarborough General Hospital agreed to do the procedure.

The lump, as well as nodes under Werniuk’s arm, tested positive for cancer and in early June of 2013 she underwent a second surgery.

On both occasions, Wer niuk, then 49, was required to go into quarantine for possible SARS exposure.

Fortunately, she didn’t contract the serious viral respiratory disease.

“It was quite the scary and worrisome time,” she shared during a recent interview.

Following the successful surgery, Werniuk underwent six months of chemotherapy followed by six weeks of radiation at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. She’s been cancer-free since March 2004.

“I have a clean bill of health,” said Werniuk, who meets with her surgeon and oncologist annually.

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Quite KURIOS: Cast members from Cirque Du Soleil’s latest production, KURIOS, perform a dress rehearsal Aug. 27 under the troupe’s Commissioners Street Big Top.

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ometimes, the NIMBY (not-in-my-backyard) argument just doesn’t work.

While it’s our democratic right to speak up when we’ve got something to say and we’re proud that resident and business groups do so in Toronto, make sure your issue is bigger than just you.

Do your homework. Ensure you’ve got strong arguments and consider the bigger picture – is this change needed for the greater good?

A group of Scarborough residents lost their NIMBY battle last week and were told to ‘suck it up’ after city council approved a controversial TTC bus garage in their neighbourhood.

Despite arguing the location was inappropriate, the matter went through because the land was zoned heavy industrial (thus, buyer beware when you moved in, they were told), finding a new site would delay the project and drive up costs. TTC our view staff maintained there weren’t any other locations available anyway.

Have something So residents were asked to ‘shoulder the load’ for the good of the to say before city. you speak out In that case, the project was needed and the location made sense, regardless the lack of alternative sites.

Buyer beware can also be applied to homes that exist under flight paths.

In Etobicoke, a residential group from Markland Wood is still pushing to change an increase in night flights from Pearson airport that fly over their homes, even though Transport Canada approved the changes last summer. City council recently agreed to have its city manager review the issue, though the local councillor reminded residents, ‘the airport is also a business.’

And just last week, Parkdale-High Park MPP Peggy Nash sent a letter to the Canadian International Air Show on behalf of her constituents to suggest the annual air show be relocated. Citing the ‘deafening’ and ‘frightening’ noise, she said it’s a major disturbance for many Toronto residents.

It’s also a six-decade tradition that draws thousands of spectators and whose planes comply to noise regulations set out by Transport Canada. Plus, it’s over in three days. Chances the complaints will yield any change are slim.

Take serious stock of your chances before pitching a NIMBY battle, because most are not worth the time.

But if you’ve got the numbers, the facts and the political will, kudos to you for trying.

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olitics is a gamble.

Voters place their bet on election day when they put their tax dollars on one candidate or another who they think will best represent their interest over the next four years.

Candidates and their campaign teams place multiple bets throughout the campaign. Some of those bets are small – and some of them are huge.

Olivia Chow put all her money on the table Tuesday morning – with a financing plan that would raise a lot of money for transit and school breakfast programs, and for better or worse raise the profile of a campaign that over the summer seems to have stalled in the middle ground.

Chow’s plan – to raise the land transfer tax on homes selling for more than $2 million by one per cent, for an estimated $20 million a year – is a big step away from that middle ground. Until now, Chow’s campaign has

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been one of deathly moderation.

She would keep taxes low, but not freeze them; kill the costly Scarborough subway plan and return to a fully funded light rail plan to replace the Scarborough RT; add some buses; and do complicated things having to do with housing and small business and youth to provide marginal improvements. And in her person, she would provide the only sure-fire way to make sure Rob Ford wouldn’t be mayor.

All of that combined seems to have mainly inspired the voters who supported her strongly in early 2014 to look elsewhere in the summer.

Chow’s new fiscal policy might well drive off even more support. She is proposing a tax increase after

all – an increase to a tax upon which even former mayor David Miller (whose council imposed the thing) didn’t dare campaign.

The only candidate charting in polls at all who’s talking about the necessity for tax increases is David Soknacki, and he’s stuck in single digits.

The only candidate proposing specific tax increases is criminal lawyer Ari Goldkind, and he’s not charting at all.

This land transfer tax idea is definitely an all-ornothing kind of thing. But one can see how Chow and her advisors think it might have some appeal.

To begin with, it deals with a hole in Chow’s transit platform – specifically, for her to increase bus service by 10 per cent would require more buses than the TTC has on the road. A land transfer tax increase covers that tidily. And it’s difficult to argue compassionately against funding more

school breakfast programs.

As well, it is likely only a handful of Torontonians even remotely likely to vote Chow would be impacted by a land transfer tax increase on $2 million homes, and a thimble-full would be impacted enough to complain about it: hardships endured by such a tax grab are surely the first among first-world problems.

Of course, that scarcely matters in the daily pileons that occur in a Toronto mayoralty race, and in coming out with this policy the Chow campaign has painted a target on their candidate for Tory and Ford certainly and perhaps Soknacki as well.

But the calculation has obviously been made: better to be talked about as a tax-and-spend progressive, than not talked about at all.

David Nickle is The Mirror’s city hall reporter. His column appears Thursdays. Follow him on Twitter: @DavidNickle

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Park Yoga in Jonathan Ashbridge Park WHEN: 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. WHERE: Jonathan Ashbridge Park, 20 Woodward Ave. CONTACT: Trixie, 416-4668152 COST: donation Fees are donation based with a portion of all proceeds going to support Nellie’s Shelter. Classes are weather permitting and the plan is to continue until the fall equinox Sept. 21st. For updates, “LIKE” Park Yoga Toronto on facebook.

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Beach Garden Society WHEN: 7:15 to 9 p.m. WHERE: Adam Beck Community Centre, 79 Lawlor Ave. CONTACT: Marcha Armstrong, 416-698-8298, www. beachgs.ca COST: Free You are invited to a meeting and flower show.

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Shawn Micallef Author Reading WHEN: 6 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Jones Library, 118 Jones Ave. CONTACT: Cathy, 416-393-7715, cmoran@ torontopubliclibrary.ca COST: Free Toronto author Shawn Micallef will read from his new book “The Trouble with Brunch” and answer questions from participants.

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Smiling Blue Skies Walk to End Canine Cancer WHEN: 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. WHERE: Kew Gardens, 2075 Queen St. E. CONTACT: Kelly Manis, 416-606-9255, www. facebook.com/endcaninecancer COST: Free One in three dogs will be diagnosed with cancer, the same odds we face.

This walk was inspired by heartache and hope. It’s about you, us and our beloved companions. Let’s walk the Walk to fight the fight together. Join our Facebook community for more details and updates. Silent auction and prizes for the top earners. There is no minimum donation entry fee. Pay what your can.

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Art in the Beach WHEN: 6 to 9 p.m. WHERE: Beaches United Church, 140 Wineva Ave CONTACT: info@BeachGuildofFineArt.com COST: Free The Beach Guild of Fine Art’s 20th annual Fall Show and Sale has moved inland and is now called Art in The Beach. The show features paintings by more than 40 of the guild artists. Free admission, lucky draw and gift boutique. Opening reception Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Visit www.

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Applicious: The Core of the Community WHEN: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. WHERE: Jonathan Ashbridge Park, 20 Woodward Ave. CONTACT: Susan Fletcher, 416-461-8143, www.Applicious.ca COST: Free The festival will offer something for everyone with apple-themed games, face-painting, bouncy castles, contests, entertainment, refreshments, local information and more. In addition, Applicious will

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Wheelchair Relay Challenge WHEN: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. WHERE: Monarch Park Stadium, behind Monarch Park Collegiate, 1 Hanson St. Spinal Cord Injury Ontario challenges you to participate in the Wheelchair Relay Challenge! Your team to race around the track. Not into racing?

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Sandra Bussin is back DAVID NICKLE dnickle@insidetoronto.com

In 2010, voters in Ward 32 (BeachesEast York) sent their long-serving councillor Sandra Bussin home in favour of community organizer Mary-Margaret McMahon.

On Sept. 2, Bussin came to Toronto City Hall to file nomination papers.

“This is where I live, it’s where I raised my family – that’s where I work and I think I could do a good job,” Bussin told reporters at the city’s election office Tuesday morning. “I’ve been elected a number of times there and I’m going to give it another shot.”

Bussin had represented the Beach neighbourhood on Toronto council since amalgamation in 1997.

Then, she defeated incumbents Paul Christie and Steve Ellis to join Toronto council veteran Tom Jakobek as one of two councillors in the ward.

She held onto the seat until 2010, the end of a term in which she served as one of three deputy mayors to mayor David Miller and also as speaker at Toronto City Council.

Bussin lost that election to McMahon, with 5,998 votes to McMahon’s 15,159 votes.

Among other things, Bussin then had to face controversy over a contract extension to Tuggs Inc. to continue operating the Beaches Boardwalk Pub. Bu s s i n a c k n ow l e d g e d t h e Boardwalk Pub issue was a factor, but also noted it was not the only sole-sourced contract the city issued for restaurants, and that her successor did nothing to undo the arrangement following the election.

“There’s always been sole-sourcing,” Bussin said. “There always will be. You look at the Works Department, there are thousands of contracts going out that are solesourced. The new councillor had an opportunity to make major changes there and it didn’t happen.”

Bussin attributed much of her defeat to her close association with Miller.

“It was a political thing when Mayor Miller left,” she said. “I was the most senior member of his administration, the focus was all on me.”

Now Bussin said she’s running as “Joe Citizen”, and bringing with her four years of experience working as a real estate agent.

“I have a new understanding of property and property issues,” Bussin said. “I have been concerned that the development in the ward (became) what I thought would happen. There hasn’t been a seasoned voice to really represent the citizens and it has been open

season. It’s my community and I care about it.”

Bussin said she was also dismayed at the city’s response to the holiday ice storm.

“When we had the ice storm most of us felt totally abandoned, me included,” Bussin said. “I didn’t have power for six days. I had neighbours knocking on the door saying ‘how do we get help?’ There’s been a major reduction in service levels.”

Bussin pointed to some of her past accomplishments in the ward, including a skateboard park and the refurbished library in the Beach.

“Very little has happened in the last four years,” said Bussin.

In addition to Bussin and McMahon, Jim Brookman, Alan Burke, Michael Connor, Sean Dawson, Maria Garcia, Brian Graff, James Sears, Carmel Suttor and Eric de Boer have registered.

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Tory, Chow and Soknacki lock horns, Ford campaigns elsewhere DAVID NICKLE dnickle@insidetoronto.com Three mayoral candidates came to Kimbourne Park United Church at Coxwell and Danforth avenues Tuesday to talk transit, safety and their vision for Toronto.

Rob Ford was absent because his brother and campaign manager Doug Ford said the mayor’s time was better spent campaigning than talking to 20 or 50 partisans in a basement.

“We’re going to be hitting probably 1,000 homes versus 50 people in a basement getting him tied up,” Doug Ford said. “What the people want to see is the mayor at their front door. They don’t want to see him in a basement somewhere with 20 people playing party politics.”

By the time candidates John Tory, Olivia Chow and David Soknacki arrived just before 7 p.m., the main floor church hall was filled with nearly 300 people, many from the neighbourhoods encompassed by the organiz-

ing Greenwood Community Association.

The debate was billed by organizers as a forum, initially to let candidates expound on their platform in three areas: transit, policing and safety, and their overall vision for the city.

But the discussion often strayed to the absent mayor.

“Transit is issue No. 1,” said Soknacki as he kicked things off. “Issue No. 2 is anybody but Ford.”

Soknacki went on to underline his own commitment to light rail in Scarborough rather than the councilapproved subway extension, and also dismissed Tory’s Smart Track plan, which combines the downtown relief line route with new stops in Scarborough and Etobicoke.

Soknacki said the city needs a “prime directive” for engineered and funded plans.

“Changing plans, doing them on the fly, is very expensive and worse, impacts

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Mayoral candidates Oliva Chow, David Soknacki and John Tory attend the Greenwood Community Association’s Mayoral Forum held Tuesday at Kimbourne Park United Church.

people’s lives over the long term.”

Tory, whose transit plan rests on a surface rail system dubbed Smart Track, had a different view.

“On transit, to me, the mayor must arrive in office determined to substantially improve the existing system,” he said.

“I will move ahead with Smart Track, I will also move ahead with the Scarborough subway,” he added. “The last thing I want to do is go down to city hall and reopen that debate again.”

Chow talked about her

plan to improve bus service and build the downtown relief subway line, using in part a high-end premium increase on the land transfer tax.

“We can pay for the downtown relief line,” Chow said.

“If people are buying a house worth more than $2 million, they can pay one per cent more on the land transfer tax.”

Chow also criticized Tory’s plan, which relies on the electrification of GO Transit lines.

She pointed out Metrolinx has indicated such a plan will be a decade in the making.

“Mr. Tory has said no to

immediate bus services, no to the LRT, no to investing immediately on the downtown relief line,” she said.

“It’s not fair to leave people behind.”

In the question-andanswer phase of the debate, Mayor Ford’s name came up again, as one resident asked bluntly how candidates would bring the 20 to 30 per cent of voters who belong to the so-called “Ford Nation.”

‘Fomented division’ Tory said Ford’s modus operandi has been to foist division on the city.

“Ford has actively fomented division in the city,” he said.

“But when people think carefully...they’ll also understand that everybody in this room isn’t just a taxpayer, they’re a citizen.”

Soknacki said he’s tried to stay away from Ford’s wellpublicized personal issues.

“What I’ve said is he hasn’t been a particularly good mayor,” he said, agreeing Ford has created divisions

between suburban and urban Toronto.

“The big challenge of this election is to sew us back together as a city,” he said.

Chow identified the division as more one of income and class.

“I spoke to quite a few people who are Ford Nation,” she said. “Some of them feel left behind – they’re barely making ends meet. They feel no one cares for them and along comes Rob Ford, he’s answering their phone calls.”

Chow said Ford Nation needs to be told: “Do not believe that Mr. Ford has done much for you. TTC fares have gone up, but we are packed more like sardines every day.

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Ebola workshop’s aim is to keep staff, community safe >>>from page1 Committee, which includes practitioners in the emergency department, infection control, occupational health and members of the hospital’s security team, was recently formed in light of a recent Ebola scare in Brampton.

“What we’re trying to do here is talk about Ebola and what we’re doing here at Toronto East General Ho s p i t a l ,” s a i d Ba r l e y Chironda, a registered practical nurse who serves as a senior infection prevention and control practitioner at TEGH, during the workshop.

“There’s no cure (for Ebola).

Most of the stuff we’re dealing with is prevention,” he said.

“Ebola is one of those things that is moving really fast; we don’t know where it is going next.”

Chironda urged frontline workers to slow down when they suspect a possible Ebola patient is presenting him or herself at the emergency department.

“I really want you guys to take a moment and take this in because this is a reality,” he said.

Cheryl Nelson-Singh, a registered nurse who works as a nursing practice leader at TEGH’s emergency department, spoke about how staff can know if a patient is at risk of having Ebola and the protocols frontline workers should follow.

She said TEGH will be

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practicing a “stop, identify and isolate” process for any patient with possible Ebola symptoms, noting the goal is to be as efficient as possible as more tests done equal more risk of exposing the deadly virus to even more people.

Nelson-Singh also spoke about the stringent procedures for transporting tests for at-risk patients to the lab.

C h i ro n d a , a l o n g s i d e Jennifer Sampson, a registered nurse who works as the emergency health services supervisor at TEGH, then spoke about the personal protective equipment workers are to don and how to properly suit up.

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attendees with various possible scenarios and how to determine if a patient is high or low risk for Ebola infection and how they should proceed.

Dr. Paul Hannam, the eastend hospital’s emergency department chief and medical director, said the hospital’s emergency department prides itself on being prepared for anything and everything that comes through the door. “(Ebola) is a very serious illness, although we feel the risk to our community, to our patients is extremely low based on the information we have at this time.”

Regardless, Hannam said it only makes sense to give frontline staff the tools they

need to make good decisions, if a patient with symptoms of Ebola comes to the emergency room.

“I think this type of workshop is one of the many things we’ll be doing to make people more comfortable with the assessment of a person with risk factors,” he said. “We’re trying to be proactive.”

Hannam said with the Ebola virus there are lots of unknowns.

“Our goal is to make staff and the community feel more comfortable, to keep everyone safe.”

the epidemic in West Africa is contained.

To date, 1,500 people have died from the virus, which has no specific cure aside from keeping a patient constantly hydrated. Ebola patients remain contagious even after death.

The illness, which has survived for the last 38 years due to its ability to be carried and mutated in the bodies of “reservoir” animals without killing them, can be contained with basic but vigilant infection control practices.

This latest outbreak is believed to have come from fruit bats that transmitted Ebola when they were consumed by humans or primates.

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Ebola facts T h e Wo r l d H e a l t h Organization estimates 20,000 people could become infected with Ebola before

the Montreal area. All turned out negative. A fourth person who recently returned from West Africa was placed in isolation in a St. Catharines hospital with Ebola-like symptoms Tuesday.

As a precautionary measure, three Canadian scientists were evacuated from Sierra Leone this weekend and are now back home in Canada in isolation after three people working and/ or staying at the same West African hotel tested positive for Ebola. Two American healthcare workers contracted Ebola while treating patients in Liberia but returned to the United States and have recovered.

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Toronto Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) started a poster campaign in the fall of 2012, with local middle schools and high schools receiving copies of the posters.

The campaign features two posters, one with a group of teen boys with the caption “He’s gay and we’re cool with that” and another with a group of teen girls reading “She’s gay and we’re cool with that.”

The posters were aimed to stop students from using violence, slurs or other forms of bullying to marginalize their LGBTQ peers.

“We sent the posters out through the TDSB (Toronto District School Board) and said ‘if you want additional posters or you want us to come and speak at your school, give us

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Toronto Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) started a poster campaign in fall 2012, which has gone viral with requests for the posters coming from around the world.

a call,’” said Toronto PFLAG president Anne Creighton.

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While the posters were originally targeted at middle school and high school students, Creighton noted requests have come in for younger students, as well, with some elementary schools requesting the materials. Naturally, Toronto PFLAG was happy to help spread the message of inclusiveness to younger kids.

One message that hits home for younger students in particular is that LGBTQ students are just like any other.

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Toronto PFLAG’s poster campaign was inspired by a similar campaign run out of a private school in Ireland. It has become so popular, Creighton said, that one Toronto PFLAG parent has become what the organization calls its “postmistress.”

Of course, the posters are not free for Toronto PFLAG, who are responsible for the printing and delivery costs. A $20,000 donation from BMO has helped ensure those costs are covered.

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Danforth Lumber’s 3rd Annual Famous Sidewalk Sale!

September 12th to 15th

DECKING DEALS! All 2x6 Western Red Cedar Decking JUST $0.99 FT 5/4X6 Western Red Cedar Decking 8’-14’ Lengths ONLY $0.89 FT

COMPOSITE CORNER Clearance Composite $0.49-$0.99 FT Over 20 Different Clearance Profiles All Regular Stock Timbertech, Trex, Azek and Fiberon 15% OFF 5/4X6 IPE starting AT $2.99 FT 5/4X6 Exotic Abaco Decking ONLY $2.99 FT

COME CHECK OUT OUR NEW IPE DECK TILES!!

Baluster Blowout

JUST $19.95 PK

for Assorted Deckorator Balusters, Massive Selection!!

IPE Oil Regularly 119.95 Gallon NOW $59.95

GARDEN AND STONE YARD CLEAROUTS! All Natural stone 25% OFF All in stock Pavers and interlocking 20% OFF

50% OFF ALL POTS!

WINTER IS COMING TARPS 25% OFF

5pk of Yard Waste Bags $1.49 EA 20% OFF all Work Gloves Come see our new thermal winter selection

25 Dawes Rd

Our Flooring Centre is moving and we don’t want to move all this product ourselves, come take advantage of these deals!!

HARDWOOD SPECIALS ¾’’ Canadian Argile Oak JUST $1.99 SQ FT Gunstock Oak $1.69 SQ FT

Oak Sierra.$1.69 SQ FT • Natural Maple $1.69 SQ FT

Cherry Maple $1.69 SQ FT • Walnut Bamboo ONLY $2.49 SQ FT

10% OFF all regular priced Hardwoods

We have 1000s of sq ft hardwood clearout starting at $0.99 SQ FT

ENGINEERED SPECIALS 3/8x3 Maduro Brown Oak Reg 3.99SQ FT NOW $1.99 SQ FT 3/8x3 Distressed Ponderosa Maple Reg 4.99 SQ FT CLEARANCE $1.99 SQ FT

Drop Click Oak Butterscotch NOW $2.99 SQ FT 3/4’’ Oak Nutmeg Click $1.69 SQ FT

LAMINATE SPECIALS $0.99 SQ FT Cork Click ONLY $1.99 SQ FT

10mm CremaStone laminate

12mm 25yr Warranty Laminate All regular stock

REDUCED TO $1.29 SQ FT 12mm Tile Laminate $0.89 SQ FT Foam underpad 200 SQ FT $14.05 ROLL

Come down to our Flooring Centre to see the full extent of our Sales and Selection

416 699 9393 www.Danforthlumberhbc.com