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’Winter swimming totally changed my perspective. I love it.’

TAMARA SHEPHARD tshephard@insidetoronto.com A polar bear and spirituality club is how they describe themselves.

Every Sunday throughout the winter, the Toronto Winter Swimming Club dips into Lake Ontario’s icy depths at Humber Bay Park West in Etobicoke.

Yaro Polowianiuk, 53, is a decade-long club member after taking part in an annual charitable New Year’s Day polar bear dip at Oakville’s Coronation Park.

"I like the way I feel after swimming. I feel energetic," Polowianiuk said, clearly passionate about cold water. "I’m much healthier than I used to be."

The club is world-renowned.

Member Alla Kibzoun brought home a bronze medal from the 2012 Winter Swimming World Championship.

Watching a video of a 2015 club swim on its web-

site, www.winterswim.ca, brings chills. The sky and the lake are a cold bluegrey.

"There’s a very steady, nasty wind from the lake.

It’s a very cold feeling," Polowianiuk said. "You go completely red, almost like a lobster. The first time I jump in, it’s very short; in and out. I go back to the shore and do 20 to 25 pushups. Then I’m ready for another shot when I stay in longer."

People’s tolerance of cold-water swimming varies widely. Still, none of them wear wetsuits.

"Some people go in only once, in and out. Other people go in and stay. One guy, a former firefighter, he can stay there for a long time.

It’s very individual," Polowianiuk said.

Getting undressed down to swimsuits is the greatest challenge, Polowianiuk said.

"Your mind is screaming, ’It’s so cold. Don’t do

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Members of the Toronto Winter Swim Club brave the freezing temperatures of Lake Ontario on Sunday, Dec. 18, off the shore of Humber Bay Park west. The group meets every Sunday throughout the year. it,’" he said. "But when you rush into the water, it comes with deep rewards. You don’t feel the cold. You feel adrenaline. You feel good."

Polowianiuk said the frigid dips aid his work as a massage therapist.

"I noticed those aches and pains I had in my

wrists, joints and back from my job all disappeared when I started swimming," he said.

When massage clients come in with a cold or flu, he doesn’t get it, he added.

Dr. Greg Wells is a University of Toronto assistant professor of kinesiology

and physical fitness who works as a faculty member at the university’s human physiology lab.

The scientific jury is out, Wells said, on whether coldwater exposure correlates to disease resistance.

One of Wells’ grad students specifically studied

the effect of cold-water immersion on inflammation.

"We found at the right temperature, for the right duration, cold water reduces inflammation," Wells said. "In an acute case, like a sprained ankle, you put ice on it and it can relieve pain.

But inflammation is necessary for healing. It’s a fine balance.

"Whether we know it’s beneficial or not, it’s dangerous," Wells added. "With the potential benefits come extreme risks. You need to take that into account when deciding whether or not to try it."

A 2004 Finnish study published in the International Journal of Circumpolar Health concluded winter swimming improves general well-being.

Tension, fatigue, memory and negative mood states in cold-water swimmers "significantly decreased" with the duration of the swimming period, the study reported.

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Putting the spotlight on stories that matter to our readers

David Nickle

Andrew Palamarchuk

In addition to covering local news and events across our communities in the city, reporters at Metroland Media Toronto now also carry beats on specific topics that we’re hoping will be of interest to readers. Some have been ongoing, but many are new.

Keep an eye to your local newspaper and www.insidetoronto.com for coverage of these beats and get in touch if you’ve got story ideas.

Reporter Fannie Sunshine is interested in all the ways we’re different from one another and how that defines our city. She’s covering race relations, women’s issues, the city’s indigenous and minority populations, and the LGBTQ community. Reach her on 416-774-2368 or at fsunshine@insidetoronto.com.

First Responder

David Nickle is a veteran of Toronto municipal politics, covering Toronto City Hall since amalgamation in 1998. That covers a lot of territory: everything from how garbage gets collected and where it goes, to how much property tax gets collected from you and what it pays for. Toronto has a close and sometimes fraught relationship with Queen’s Park, so he watches and writes about that too. He can be reached at dnickle@insidetoronto.com and followed on Twitter @davidnickle.

Breaking news, viral trends and all things ofthe-moment - that’s reporter Tara Hatherly’s area of expertise online at insidetoronto.com. She welcomes tips or leads on great viral media or anything you think Torontonians would find cool. Reach her at thatherly@insidetoronto.com or 416-774-2355, or on Twitter @Tara_Hatherly.

Andrew Palamarchuk covers murder and other serious crime in the city along with major vehicular crashes and fires.

He interviews people affected by tragedy and looks at societal issues that could have contributed to them and searches for solutions that could solve them. He can be reached at apala-

Tamara Shephard

Health Tamara Shephard reports on the health and well-being of people, from children to adults and seniors. With a special focus on mental health issues, as well as people’s access to health care, she’s interested in the stories that impact people’s lives. Reach her at tshephard@insidetoronto.com.

History Cynthia Reason is interested in writing the stories of the people and places of

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the past that helped define the city we live in today, as well as heritage conservation issues and the tireless efforts of those working to preserve it. Reach her on 416-495-6640, creason@insidetoronto.com or on Twitter @icreason.

Money Matters Reporter Joanna Lavoie wants to help everyday Torontonians navigate their finances and learn how to keep their money safe.

She’s also going to dive into issues surrounding the cost of living and investigate what it takes to be able to afford calling Toronto home. Feel free to contact Joanna at jlavoie@insidetoronto.com, on Twitter @JoannaLavoie or 416-7742269.

The Other Toronto Away from the brighter lights and most of the city’s wealth, there’s another Toronto that needs our attention. Isolated, at times ignored, The Other Toronto’s neighbourhoods struggle but are home to new Canadians and working folk; they have successes too. Mike Adler seeks their stories and writes a column, Edges of Toronto.

Reach him at madler@insidetoronto.com or 416-7742264.

in Toronto. What issues do you face as a modern parent raising a child in the 21st Century? Reach him at dkurek@insidetoronto.com or follow him on Twitter @DominikKurek.

Schools From budgets and bullying to special needs and specialized programs, there’s plenty going on in Toronto’s school system.

Reporter Justin Skinner is on the school beat, keeping readers posted on key issues in education. Reach him on 416-774-2309 or at jskinner@insidetoronto.com.

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Technology Reporter Hilary Caton is fascinated by the different ways we use technology for education, entertainment and advancing society.

Smartphones, drones, virtual reality, gaming - where’s it all going and what effect does it have on us? Tech story ideas welcome. Send them to hcaton@insidetoronto.com or tweet to @HilaryCaton.

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Dominik Kurek is a married dad of two kids, a boy and a girl, who is interested in the struggles and successes of other parents

Rahul Gupta covers all manner of news relating to how we get around and the infrastructure upon which we do it. TTC, GO Transit, streets and highways, cycling, commuters, pedestrians and city planning are top priority in his beat.

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EDITORIAL | OPINION

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ABOUT US

Shining the spotlight on the stories that matter In a city as large, diverse and ever-moving as Toronto, covering the news can often feel like a drop in a bucket. There’s so much happening here, and it’s a city full of strong communities that often carry their own unique identity. In the Metroland Media Toronto newsroom, we do our best to represent the communities we serve online and in print. Admittedly, we can’t do it all or be everywhere we’d like to be.

That said, we’re still going to do our best to make an impact.

So beginning this year we’re renewing our focus continuing to report on local news and events, city hall, crime and transit issues but we’re also introducing several new beats.

We’re looking to find stories on topics that matter or are of interest to our audience. Topics that, in many cases, we really haven’t focused on before. Parenting, history, technology, health and schools were key selections we felt deserving of more attention.

Considering how many struggle with the cost of living in the city, we’ve also dedicated a reporter to a ’Money Matters’ beat to help break down financial issues. Debt loads can be crippling and it’s shocking how many people lack the financial literacy to be able to manage it. How secure is our money in this digital age? These are areas we hope to explore. ’The Diverse City’ will aim to give voice to minority groups, indigenous people and the LGBTQ community, and investigate issues relating to how we’re all different - our successes in embracing that and the challenges that exist where it fails. All timely subjects for discussion considering the malcontent kicked up south of the border after president-elect Donald Trump’s win. How this affects us as Canadians remains to be seen, but we’ll be watching.

Another area of the city we want to spotlight is what we’re calling ’The Other Toronto’. These are the pockets of population, much of it concentrated in the city’s suburbs, that are home to immigrant communities and working-class families. Often isolated and struggling with challenges like neighbourhood crime and poor education rates, these Torontonians deserve our attention. What stories of success, resilience and identity are happening in our backyards? What needs to happen to improve the lives of our neighbours?

Mike Adler’s column today explains more. We want to be there for these people and tell their stories on a regular basis in the hopes it may make a difference down the line.

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Going in search of The Other Toronto in 2017 There is more than one Toronto.

More than a decade ago, the city, United Way, and the province saw poverty deepening around the edges of our freshly-amalgamated home.

University of Toronto Professor David Hulchanski, in his The Three Cities Within Toronto, makes plain how fast the city has divided since the 1970s into an ever-wealthier centre and waterfront, and other places where incomes consistently dropped.

The city chose nine "’hot spots’ of high need and low infrastructure" in 2005, then bumped that up to 13 "priority neighbourhoods".

It pledged people in these neighbourhoods would get money, community hubs and help organizing themselves.

MIKE ADLER Edges of Toronto A few years ago, the city changed the "priority" label.

Recalculating, it started calling its highest-needs districts Neighbourhood Improvement Areas because that sounded better, and today 31, out of 140 census neighbourhoods, are NIAs. Nearly all are in Toronto’s old suburban belt, and attached to other NIAs: northwest North York meets North Etobicoke’s Rexdale

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and Jamestown, and to the south a string of other NIAs through what was once the City of York.

Go east, and Thorncliffe Park meets Flemingdon Park and Victoria Village in another corner of North York; below that, the former East York’s Crescent Town touches Oakridge across Victoria Park Avenue in Scarborough, where seven other NIAs clump together south of Highway 401.

This happened to those neighbourhoods because industries left and a new wave of development never came.

The apartments got older, the traffic crawled, people in the houses aged, subways weren’t built and MoneyMarts thrived.

They became part of The Other Toronto.

Most often, most of us see

that second Toronto through a car window or on the news, in buildings glimpsed after a shooting, or roads after a pedestrian dies running for a bus.

But what happens in The Other Toronto should interest us as much as what happens on Queen Street or in Rosedale. It’s in this Toronto’s neighbourhoods where people on modest incomes can still afford to live.

We need to hear from people in these neighbourhoods, and in 2017, I’m going to do my best to talk to them about the city they live in.

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

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Golshan Abdmoulaie, the communications and outreach manager for Davenport MP Julie Dzerowicz, told The Bloor West Villager the council is made up of about 15 members. The deadline to apply to the council was November, but Adbmoulaie said they are open to taking more youth on.

"The reaction was quite positive, and we got a good

enough turnout to make a selection from," she said. "I think a lot of community members want to be involved, and they want to understand how their country is run. "The meetings will begin in early 2017 at Dzerowicz’s constituency office at 1202 Bloor St. W., with the first meeting set to be based around introductions and the role of the council. "Basically we’ll just set the ground rules for the youth council and how people will conduct themselves with one another," she said. "Then from there, we’ll set an agenda moving forward.

"CYCs around the country will be made up of approximately 10 to 20 young people between the ages of 16 and 24 years old. Davenport’s council will work with Dzerowicz throughout the year to discuss

their priorities while learning about government. Abdmoulaie said Dzerowicz and her staff want to approach council from a "youth-led perspective".

"It’s going to be around issues of governance and politics and what’s going on in the overall spectrum of politics in Canada, but we’re definitely going to do some exercises that are going to get youth to come up with ideas and topics they want to discuss."Abdmoulaie added the role the youth council will play will not only have an impact on Canadian politics, but on local issues in Davenport.

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DAVID NICKLE The City tests and dance contests and a Toronto Newcomer Day. And Canada Day will morph into a four-day party

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"We were the best of friends - we could tell each other almost anything," Rose Capocci, the acting chair of the BIA, told The Villager. "He was the kindest and most giving person.

I don’t know anybody as giving as Don." Don came to Canada from Macedonia when he was three years old. While here, he had four children and worked as a meat wholesaler in the early 1970s.

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Since Don’s passing, the BIA and Ward 17 Davenport Coun. Cesar Palacio have introduced a request to change the name of the parkette after Don. Chris said he hopes his father will be remembered as a, "very kind and caring man."

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JoAnne Gludish SALES REPRESENTATIVE 3031 bloor street west | toronto, on | m8x 1c5

royal lepage real estate services lts., brokerage *top 1% in canada for royal lepage by sales volume, 2007- 2015

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WITH 2016 BEHIND US, I’D LIKE TO TAKE A MOMENT TO REFLECT BACK ON SOME NUMBERS THAT MARKED THIS MEMORABLE YEAR FOR ME… 78,706,935,734: Dollars worth of Real Estate traded in Toronto last year (until Nov end) 22.89: Percent year-over-year increase in single family detached homes in the GTA (Nov 2015-Nov 2016) 3: Offers received one hour after a listing of mine appeared on the market 4: Hours spent convincing my children to get their stuff out from our garage 2.5: Additional hours spent convincing them to get their stuff out from our basement!

1: Snowy drive to Ithaca to welcome my new granddaughter, Yana!

5: Days spent in Italy for the annual Chairman’s Club retreat for the Royal LePage Top 1% real estate agents in Canada 1: Blackberry ruined due to wet weather in Italy 7: Hours spent figuring out how to get drowned Blackberry replaced 3.5: Hours spent on hair & make-up for a new headshot 199,900: Dollars, the lowest price for a property I listed in 2016 2,500,000: Dollars, the highest price on a property I listed in 2016 6: Offers received on a property I listed on the very first day 9: Magnificent peonies given to me by a client and planted in my garden 80: Submissions received through my Realtor Sweep program for a coffee gift-card 10: Hours driving to Ithaca and returning to Toronto in one day 8: Offers placed on different homes by a client before a successful purchase 1: Team Mascot named and revealed - Mr. Wilson, my Beagle 4: Years of sponsoring the Dorothy Ley Hospice Bed Race 50: Dollar value for my Realtor Sweep program sponsored Home Sense gift card for the most creative Christmas/holiday decoration 12: Number of clients who persevered by making numerous offers on homes before they won the bid!

1: Early morning call from a seller for help with snow clearing in time for a buyer visit 55: Ecstatic sellers 40: Elated buyers 20: Content rental clients Many: Satisfied clients who followed my recommended home stager’s advice and received their asking price or more!

33: Years of my son, David, being in school and 3.5 more to go!

4: Consecutive late nights closing deals 8: Files chewed by Mr. Wilson, the Beagle. A temper tantrum because I was working late, again!

0: Dollars spent on speeding tickets last year! I’ve learned to behave.

8: Jammed staplers fixed by our star front-desk receptionist, except one which even she couldn’t fix 15: Clients nervous about moving into retirement residences 11: Years my daughter, Carolynn has been a paediatric nurse and unlimited years of continuing education ahead Numerous: Favourable comments received for my Realtor Sweep program

3: 1: 576: 350: 0: 60: 4: 40: 16: 20: 250: Innumerable: 58: 205: 150,000: 2016: 47: 11: 90: 14: 55: 520: 300: 1: 376: Another: 2: 1: 70: 155: 32: 24: 2016: 2017:

Families who resided in my home because their listing and buying closing dates didn’t match (no fault of mine)!

Failed getaway by Mr. Wilson, the Beagle, after stealing a baguette, holding it horizontally in his mouth and attempting to make a dash through the doggy door Donuts received by our lovely front desk team last year Times the front desk team has suggested JoAnne take a vacation Number of vacation days taken Tasty treats sent to clients Deals written under the light of a street lamp, while babies slept in strollers Number of purchasers helped with home renovation information Clients helped by Greg, my trusty go-to Handyman!

Letters of Opinion provided to clients for various reasons Days Gita, my reliable Client Care Manager, worked late to complete projects Times I’ve asked Gita for phone numbers not saved on my phone Frustrating hours spent dealing with computer-related issues!

Advertisements placed for listings in The Globe, The Star and The Guardian Copies of Marketwatch, my real estate newsletter, distributed by postal walk The year Natasza - The Wonder Woman, my daughter-in-law received her much awaited tenure at Cornel University!

Number of charities proudly supported Publications used for advertising listings as per my marketing plan Percentage of listings that used my recommended home stager Hours spent deliberating over replacement car Staging consults included as part of my listing program Hours spent keeping up-to-date on social media - Facebook, Twitter, Linked-In and my Blog Lunches eaten at our desks Coffee spilled on keyboard (it still works)!

Number of likes & reviews the new Team mascot, Mr. Wilson - the Beagle, received on social media Fantastic, Licenced Real Estate Agent, Kathrin Paek aboard the JoAnne Gludish Team!

Kathrin Paek is a proud mother of her 2nd baby boy!

Car broken into and contents stolen while on listing presentation.

I got the listing!

Clients impressed and positive feedback received on Comparative Market Analysis presented Complimentary comments received on my new photo and eyeglasses Quick drives to Ithaca to say hello to my lovely granddaughter Ula Times convincing Ula to eat her broccoli Was another Successful Year! A Heartfelt Thank You to All! Best Wishes for this New Year!

Thank you for making 2016 a successful and memorable year!

My Sincere Best Wishes for a Healthy and Happy New Year (and a Prosperous one too)!

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