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People who use food banks are the same as you and me.” – Gail Nyberg, executive director of the Daily Bread Food Bank

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the food bank myth LISA RAINFORD lrainford@insidetoronto.com There exists a myth that those who rely on food banks are lazy or have made bad choices. This is absolutely not the case, stress leaders in the fight against hunger, not only in Toronto, but across the country. “People who use food banks are the same as you and me. They’re people who have experienced job loss, sickness, or mental breakdown. It can happen to any of us,” said Gail Nyberg, executive director of the Daily Bread Food Bank, the largest provider of food relief in the Greater Toronto Area. “We’re here to give them a hand while they’re down and get them back on their feet.” The Etobicoke-based distribution centre that provides food and resources to as many as 200 food programs across Toronto distributes 600,000

hampers a month to its member agencies – one third of those in need are children, Nyberg said. The registered charity’s latest ‘Who’s Hungry’ report that looks at the past year will be released in September. “We know we’re starting to see a dramatic increase (in food bank use). This replicates what we’re seeing in the economy: precarious jobs, part-time and contract; retail outlets closing and plants shutting down,” Nyberg said. People who have lost their jobs typically don’t fall into dire straights immediately, particularly if they qualify for Employment Insurance. Food banks are accessible once a week to receive two to three days’ worth of food for each member of the family. “We’re in our lean time now, too. We don’t get a lot of donations,” Nyberg said. >>>straining, page 3

Sept. 11 memorial service planned The 15th annual September 11 Memorial gathering at the Millennium Garden in Woodbine Park is set for this Sunday. Hosted Community Centre 55, the event, which will feature prayers, speeches, and the laying flowers in honour of the victims the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attack, will get underway

at 1 p.m. Light refreshments will be served at the event. All are welcome. The Millennium Garden is located in the Beach at the southeast corner of Coxwell and Eastern avenues. For more info, contact Nancy Culver at nancy@centre55.com or 415-691-1113.

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Ryan Noble is the executive director of the North York Harvest Food Bank. Right now, there is an increasing demand for food bank services in the city.

Celtic Festival set for Kew Gardens The 13th annual Beach Celtic Festival, Toronto’s only live open air ceilidh, is coming to Kew Gardens Park this weekend. The festivities will take place Saturday, September 10 and Sunday, Sept. 11 from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily. As always, admission is free.

This year’s featured musical acts include Old Man Flanaghan’s Ghost, Alex Fisher, the Don Graham Band, Gary Richardson, Caledon Country, a n d Mi d l a n d P i p e s a n d Drums. The festival will also include vendors, historical displays, food and drink as well as

dance performances by Bold Step Dance Studio and ButlerFearon-O’Connor School of Irish Dance. Rory Sinclair is this year’s Beach Celt of the Year. Don’t forget your dancing shoes, Pat Beaven will be on hand to lead people in a round >>>CELtiC, page 8

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Swim star Oleksiak back to class at Monarch Park JOANNE LAVOIE jlavoie@insidetoronto.com Like any other Grade 11 student, Beach resident Penny Oleksiak reported to school for her first day of classes Tuesday at Monarch Park Collegiate, near Danforth and Coxwell avenues. The 16-year-old swimmer, who earned a Canadian record four Olympic medals in Rio, said she’s happy to get back to her regular routine. This term, she’ll be taking one online course and three regular classes at the semestered, east-end secondary school. “I’m pretty excited to be back. I’m just excited to hang out with my friends and get back to class,” Oleksiak said outside the school on the first day back from the summer break. “It’ll be a fun year, I hope.” Oleksiak, who is set to resume her rigorous swim training schedule in a couple weeks’ time, said she also

Collegiate is a place where Oleksiak can feel at home and at ease like any normal kid. “To me, she’s Penny the student, who also happens to be a really good swimmer,” she smiled, noting there has been some talk of recognizing Oleksiak during the school’s welcome-back assembly but first she said she needs to check with Oleksiak if she’s up for that. Proud

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Penny Oleksiak, right, winner of four medals in swimming at the Rio Olympics, speaks with the media on Tuesday during her first day back at class as Monarch Park Collegiate principal Cynthia Abernethy looks on.

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“We’re just really proud of her accomplishments,” Abernethy said, pointing to a bulletin board in the school’s front lobby celebrating Oleksiak’s incredible summer. Bryan McAlpine, who teaches physical education at Monarch Park Collegiate and also coaches the boys’ volleyball team, said despite Oleksiak’s unforgettable summer, she is still the same humble, smart, and amazing student he knows. McAlpine also said every-

one at the east-end high school is immensely proud of her. “We all feel like we’re walking taller because of (Penny). It’s a real point of pride at Monarch Park Collegiate,” he said. Last school year, Oleksiak took McAlpine’s Grade 12 personal fitness course while she was heavily training for this summer’s Olympics. “She would train all morning then she’d come as a Grade 10 student and train with my Grade 12 students,” said McAlpine, who is also the school’s assistant curriculum leader for athletics. “Her capacity to take on a workload is like no other I’ve ever seen.” Classmate and friend Jackson West said he’s proud of Oleksiak for her many achievements. “I’m pretty impressed,” shared the Grade 12 student. “Penny is definitely going places. She definitely has a long career ahead of her.”

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Straining the food bank system >>>from page 1 Campaigns, such as Hunger Awareness Week, which takes place Sept. 19 to 23, help bring attention to the issue of hunger in Canada, and sees food banks across the country hosting events to highlight the work they do and the experiences of Canadians who are assisted by them. Yet, hunger, pointed out Nyberg, is not just a week in September, it’s here all year. She encourages everyone to make a food donation by dropping off items at the nearest fire hall or grocery store. Daily Bread also benefits from companies like Loblaws that have strict rules regarding expiry dates. Food that gets turned away from chain stores can go to food banks, Nyberg said. The North York Harvest Food Bank is the primary food bank for northern Toronto. Last year, it distributed more than 2.3 million pounds of through 77 community programs. Since the recession in 2008, food bank use in the inner suburbs has increased by 45 per cent, according to executive director Ryan Noble. He points to the high cost of real estate coupled with stagnant wages and fewer employment opportunities as some of the reasons for the increase. “People find themselves in food insecurity because of job insecurity. We live in a very rich city in terms of financial and food,” he said. “It’s when housing systems and job systems break down that there’s a problem.” Food bank users are getting a small supply of food so that their money can stretch further, Noble said. For the average user, once rent and utilities are paid for, all that’s left is $4.51 a day, he said. Through its partner agencies, North York Harvest Food Bank also provides clients with further support, such as job skills, settlement services, and housing. The food bank, Noble said, “gives us a captive audience to understand what the root causes (of poverty) are.”

The food that is needed at food banks is the same that families want to serve at their dinner table. It’s healthy, low sodium, low sugar, and protein-packed. “There’s a lot of food insecurity awareness around fall and Christmas,” Noble said. That’s why September’s Hunger Awareness Week is timely and important. “It helps raise awareness before we enter our busy season,” Noble said. Pam Jolliffe, interim executive director of Food Banks Canada, a national charitable organization that supports a network of provincial associations, affiliate food banks, and food agencies working at the community level to relieve hunger, said hunger is a symptom of people living in poverty. “It’s a persistent problem – unacceptable in a country like Canada,” Jolliffe said. “Most food banks started 30 years ago as a short-term solution. Unfortunately, they’re still here many years later.” Overall, food bank use has increased by 26 per cent since 2008. Alberta is suffering economic difficulty because of the sputtering oil and gas industry. So many Albertans are out of work, Jolliffe said. The government has been taking steps to help families out of poverty, she said, citing the new child tax credit, and changes in support to seniors, as well as the ‘Canadian Poverty Reduction’ strategy; however, more steps can be made. “We need Canadians to speak up, to press the government for better policies,” Jolliffe said. For further information or to make a food or financial donation, visit www.dailybread.ca, www.foodbankscanada.ca, or www.northyorkharvest.com

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Food donations are sorted in the warehouse at the North York Harvest Food Bank on Industry Street.

High demand items at food banks: Canned vegetables; canned fruit Pasta and pasta sauce Canned meat in water; canned fish Rice; flour Peanut butter Dried and canned beans High fibre/low sugar cereal; oatmeal Baby food, baby cereal, baby formula Source: Daily Bread Food Bank

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he week of Sept. 19 to 23 has been designated as Hunger Awareness Week in Canada, and it’s a time for all residents to think about and take steps to help deal with what is a growing need across our country, and especially in Toronto. In our feature story in today’s editions, we look at the challenges facing food banks in our city as they deal with an increasing number of clients. Gail Nyberg, executive director of the Daily Bread Food Bank, rightly points out, though, that hunger is not just a week in September. It’s a reality for a lot of families in our city, and the users of food banks come from a wide range of our population. “We know we’re starting to see a dramatic increase (in food bank use),” Nyberg told Metroland Media Toronto. “This replicates what we’re seeing in the economy; precarious jobs, part-time and contract, retail outlets closing and plants Our VieW shutting down.” Ryan Noble, executive director Food security of the North York Harvest Food Bank, said his organization disan issue across tributed more than 2.3 million pounds of food last year through our country 77 community organizations it partners with. He pointed out that Toronto’s booming real estate market coupled with stagnant wages is one of the reasons for such need. Basically, the cost of keeping a home in this city is becoming so high for some people that they are forced to turn to food banks when the money has run out for the month. That’s a scary scenario that should be a warning for all Torontonians as it highlights a growing gap between those who can and cannot afford to live in this city. That being said, it’s clearly more than just a “Toronto problem” as food bank use across Canada has grown by 26 per cent since 2008, according to Pam Jolliffe, interim executive director of Food Banks Canada. What’s sad about this is that when food banks first began to pop up in Canada 30 or so years ago to help deal with the recession of the early 1980s, they were seen as temporary and would not be needed once the economy rebounded. Sadly, that’s not the case and we need a hard national look at what poverty and food insecurity means in Canada and how we are going to address it.

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Amalgamated Toronto was born in austerity Every so often it sneaks up on you and smacks you in the ear: Toronto, at least the amalgamated one we live in now, was founded on a myth of nothing grander than austerity. The provincial government forced the amalgamation of the five cities and a borough with old Metro Council with the promise to save tax dollars. Mel Lastman, the first mayor, got elected with the promise to freeze property taxes. Toronto’s newly elected council argued for a while whether it made sense to move from Metro Hall into Toronto City Hall, then once they moved spent considerable time arguing about selling Metro Hall. Twice-weekly garbage collection in North York became a distant memory. Free recreation programs in the old City of Toronto became unaffordable and the city started charging for them. And, as we were

david nickle the city reminded Tuesday morning at the September Government Management Committee, the old City of Toronto’s gift shop closed its tiny doors. I was there at the time and barely recall the decision. Pam McConnell, who was among the 56 councillors who made up the first amalgamated Toronto Council and prior to that had sat on the old Toronto Council, said that it was cut by then-budget chief Tom Jakobek, as an unaffordable frivolity. The gift shop was another casualty of the dour mindset into which young Toronto was born. Well, frivolity has come back into vogue under Toronto’s fourth mayor, John Tory – and on Tuesday, the committee voted to see what it would take to open another shop for tourists at City Hall.

It’s fair to say they supported Councillor Mary Margaret McMahon’s idea with a fair bit of enthusiasm. Why shouldn’t they? Toronto’s wildly overbudget renovation of Nathan Phillips Square has proven to be a hit with the tourists – aided by the considerably less-costly giant glowing TORONTO sign that landed on the north side of the skating rink / reflecting pond thanks to the 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Games. And our weird old City Hall itself is both a civic and a science fiction icon; the now 50-year-old Star Trek television series used postcard images of the two curving towers and saucer-shaped council chamber as backdrops in more than one episode. A gift shop is the least that City Hall should have, and maybe it will have a bit more. Just under a year ago, Toronto councillors approved a plan to look into building a modestly

scaled municipal museum at the eventually liberated Old City Hall just across the road. A bit further afield, councillors will soon be setting the wheels in motion to build a fantastically expensive park near King and Spadina, and another one on Richmond Street. Austerity, at least for the moment, seems a thing of the distant past. It won’t, of course, stay that way for long, as the city gets back to the quotidian business of budget-setting. Mayor Tory is asking for big cuts to spending across the board – 2.6 per cent – in service of an old-fashioned inflationary property tax increase. And that means that however weary we might be, of a city limited by austerity – that is the place we will be heading again, before we know it.

David Nickle is Metroland Media Toronto’s city hall reporter. His column runs every Thursday. Reach him on Twitter: @DavidNickle

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Photo book celebrates Leslieville JOANNA LAVOIE jlavoie@insidetoronto.com After nearly five months of hard work, long-time Leslieville resident Diane Walton is excited to celebrate the launch of a new photography book that pays homage to her neighbourhood. Walton, who has lived near Queen Street and Greenwood Avenue for 13 years, spent most of 2015 taking photos of everyday life in Leslieville thanks to her Great Pyrenees, Sunshine, who prefers roaming the streets to hanging out in doggie parks. A realtor by trade, she rekindled her love of photography shortly before Sunshine came in the picture. Many of the book’s photographs were snapped during their morning walks as part of Walton’s life-changing, year-long photography project, A Day in the Life of Leslieville. Dozens of those candid images are now featured in Walton’s 180-page, selfpublished book of the same name, A Day in the Life of

Leslieville. The coffee table book’s opening photograph – an image of a man and his dog that is looking back at Sunshine as they walked along Queen Street East in Leslieville – was snapped on the very first day she started taking photos for her yearlong project. Walton, who wrote and/ or selected all of the book’s captions, credited Leslieville resident Naomi Eaton for her invaluable help designing A Day in the Life of Leslieville and choosing what photographs worked best. The book, which is organized by seasons with some themed sections, was also printed in Toronto’s eastend at Supply and Demand o n C a r l a w Av e n u e i n Leslieville. On Thursday, Sept. 15 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., community members and supporters are invited attend the book launch for A Day in the Life of Leslieville at The VandenBerg House, 1400 Queen St. E., just east of Greenwood Avenue.

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Bid information is now being accepted for: Bundle drop drivers for the Georgina Advocate, Bradford Topic, King Connection, East Gwillumbury Express, The Era, The Banner Applicants must have suitable Van/Truck to deliver the following to our carrier force: • Pre-inserted flyer packages and loose flyers • Papers and sections/Catalogues and other products Deliveries for the per-inserted packages and loose flyers are to start on Tuesday’s each week and MUST be completed by 3 p.m. on Wednesday to you dedicated route list. Papers and sections are available to be picked up Thursday a.m. and MUST be delivered to your dedicated route list by 3p.m. • Some heavy lifting involved • Flexible hours as long as the deadlines are meet • Bid packages are available for pick up at 250 Industrial Pkwy N Aurora

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