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MIKE ADLER madler@insidetoronto.com There’s joy in the Parenting and Family Literacy Centre in Oakridge Junior Public School as parent worker Alex Koroneos leads a dozen toddlers in twirling squares of cloth to music.

Ninety per cent of parents coming to this room, four days a week, are newcomers to Canada, learning skills they can take home, says Koroneos.

"It demystifies the whole Canadian school system for them."

The Byng Avenue school, and Samuel Hearne Middle School next door, function as community resource centres, not just for children but their parents too. They need whatever help they can get.

Raising the Village, a new City of Toronto initiative, ranks Oakridge - a pocket in Scarborough of modest houses, apartment towers and auto-related businesses north of Danforth Avenue - at the top of its list for neighbourhoods with the most "inequities" when it comes to raising children.

Oakridge’s family poverty rate is nearly 55 per cent.

In Etobicoke’s very affluent Kingsway South neighbourhood, at the other end of the rankings, it’s just above five per cent.

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Donnybrook Park in Etobicoke, pictured last week, in the neighbourhood (Kingsway South) with the best ’inequities’ score. neighbourhoods will do the most to improve futures for children under 12.

"It’s a mammoth program that’s going to take years to fine tune," James Pasternak, a North York councillor, said last month.

"I think this mayor and this administration is prepared to develop it and invest in it," Pasternak said, but adding those resources to build a more child-friendly city won’t be cheap.

The two Oakridge schools, with 1,200 students between them, already get extra funding to cover costs of field trips, free eyeglasses, pediatric clinic referrals, hearing and dental screenings.

They have a settlement worker, teaching and

On the front: Samuel Hearne Middle School Principal Sohail Shaikh and Oakridge Junior Public School Principal Heather Groves stand in front of a new artificial playing field between the schools. Photo by Mike Adler/Metroland

learning coaches. They host meetings for parents, and stay open until 10 p.m. as subsidized community spaces.

They hire parent volunteers as lunchroom supervisors and clerical staff; many were teachers or administrators back home, said Oakridge’s principal, Heather Groves.

After years of effort, Oakridge and Hearne just got artificial turf laid on the field between them.

The neighbourhood lacks recreational green spaces for children, and so many were on the field, grass wouldn’t grow.

Parents said, "Our kids have to stay home in the buildings because there’s nowhere to play," said Sohail Shaikh, Hearne’s principal.

Many Oakridge parents, now predominately South Asian, arrived in Canada with one or more university degrees, though

those may not be recognized here. They’re dedicated to their children, Shaikh said.

Kingsway South, between Dundas Street West and Bloor Street West, is a very different place.

It’s an "extraordinarily homogenous" neighbourhood of single-family households led by professional couples, and blessed with parks and good neighbourhood schools within walking distance, said Pamela Gough, the area’s public school trustee.

Kingsway’s children, she said, are well-supported by families attentive to their needs, and emerge from schools having had high-quality education and guidance. "You’ve got the basics for success right there."

Raising the Village notes only three per cent of children in Kingsway South were not participating in either arts or sports,

compared to 54 per cent in Glenfield-Jane Heights.

Public school trustee Tiffany Ford, who represents that North York neighbourhood, said many parents along Jane Street and other marginalized communities find it hard to get children into arts and sports programs.

Sometimes lack of information, transportation or the costs of programs can be a barrier, said Ford. "As a resident, I can see there’s a lot of programming here, especially in Jane-Finch, but it’s still not enough."

Toronto’s six-year-old Child and Family Network (which includes school boards, United Way and Ontario’s education ministry) based Raising the Village’s "inequities score" on five factors (see sidebar), chosen "because they are known social determinants of child health."

Family poverty is given the most weight, but parental unemployment, low parental education, lack of knowledge of English or French, and housing "below adequacy, affordability or suitability" standards count too. Neighbourhoods with the least "inequities" get a negative score.

Oakridge is highlighted as the one with greatest inequity, but the score "doesn’t do justice to the whole story," said Parthi Kandavel, its public board trustee.

Some poverty in Oakridge spans generations, and social problems result, but many are recent immigrants or refugees working hard to make their way out of social housing, Kandavel said.

"The supports are there and should help. Will it change the outcome?"

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TEN WITH MOST INEQUITIES (Very High): Oakridge 1.80 Thorncliffe Park 1.70 Regent Park 1.59 Flemingdon Park 1.56 Milliken 1.55 Scarborough Village 1.49 Kensington-Chinatown 1.40 Black Creek 1.35 Mount Olive-Silverstone-Jamestown 1.35 Glenfield-Jane Heights 1.32 Source: Raising the Village

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Tougher penalties could curb distracted driving The symbolism was perhaps a bit heavy handed, but the message was crystal clear.

In the continuing effort by police to convince drivers that texting or talking on cellphones while behind the wheel can be disastrous, Toronto police recently put a hearse into service as an unmarked vehicle.

The grim visual, part of a weeklong effort to combat distracted driving in the city, was intended to convey the message to motorists that using mobile hand-held devices could land you or someone else in that sombre vehicle, so common to funeral processions.

If the approach seems dramatic, it’s important to point out that authorities are fighting an uphill battle when it comes to ending distracted driving, as they are with impaired driving, despite decades of powerful messaging and RIDE campaigns.

This month the OPP held its own distracted driving campaign and laid more than 2,400 distraction-related charges over the period of a week. The OPP say deaths linked to distracted driving are outpacing those due to speed, so far in 2017.

Last year, police observed the phenomenon become even more common than drunk driving. By the end of August last year, there were 38 distracted-driving deaths, compared to 19 impaired-related fatalities. Overall, 2016 saw 309 traffic fatalities on OPP-patrolled roads, up from 301 the year before, and distracted driving was one of the main causes.

In Ontario, texting, talking into a hand-held mobile device, even eating while driving, can result in a fine between $490 and $1,000, plus the loss of three demerit points. A ticket can also result in a $200 or more uptick on your insurance bill. Distracted driving has been illegal in this province since 2009.

Insurance Bureau of Canada statistics show that a driver is 23 times more likely to be involved in a collision if texting while driving and four times more likely if talking on a cellphone. Eighty per cent of collisions involve some sort of driver inattention.

But drivers continue to do it.

A Canadian Automobile Association survey, conducted late last year, revealed that 33 per cent of Canadians admit to texting at red lights.

If stiffer penalties are what’s required (Transport Minister Marc Garneau is calling for national standards on fines) then they should be implemented. We can’t allow distracted drivers to continue to make our roads more dangerous.

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On poverty, Toronto listens to experts Years ago, Cassandra Chambers was in a parking lot in Scarborough’s Bay Mills area talking to six youths who, like her, were West Indian.

They believed their only option was playing basketball or rapping, things "the whole society and media told them they were good at," she remembers.

To them, high school "was an elaborate daycare."

Chambers took those kids to Union Station, then randomly stopped people "who looked like us," on their way to accounting, media and marketing jobs.

One man did mineral trades. Two youths got placements with him, and Chambers, trained as a legal assistant, became a social worker, running a program called Youth Outside

MIKE ADLER Edges of Toronto the Block that has "survived on nothing," turning natural abilities into scholarships and jobs.

Having been poor, she’s wanted to speak to officials about barriers between city services and low-income people who need them.

She’ll do that as a member of Toronto’s Lived Experience Advisory Group (LEAG), formed last month to guide the city’s anti-pov-

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The group is diverse in cultures, ages, levels of poverty. Hearing what other members struggled through inspired Chambers, showing her, "One, you know you’re not alone, and two, you can help."

How do you interview for a job when you’re missing teeth, or don’t have a phone?

Chambers has asked around to find clothing for people seeking jobs. "That helps one or two, but the reality is the number of people in poverty that want to work is in the thousands," she says.

LEAG will focus on getting over the obstacles keeping people poor. Many LEAG members are experts in this, surviving addictions, criminal charges,

post-partum depression as single mothers, sudden unemployment; some used the city’s shelter system, says Pam McConnell, downtown councillor and Toronto’s poverty reduction advocate.

The group’s not an experiment, she says. "It’s the way in which we should do business."

Chambers, who lives in Malvern and recently became an artisan baker, believes the anti-poverty strategy is "on a good path."

Programs fail because they’re done by people who’ve never been poor, she says, but this is "coming down the ladder, and asking, ’What are you facing, what is your fight?’"

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Period Purse’s five-week campaign finishes with 380 purses AARON D’ANDREA adandrea@metroland.com Jana Girdauskas started her Period Purse campaign with one purse - now she has finished with 380.

"I’m completely overwhelmed," the 40-year-old mother told The Bloor West Villager. "The kindness and generosity of people is mind-blowing."

Five weeks ago, the Bloor West Village resident came up with an idea to donate old purses filled with feminine hygiene products like tampons and pads to Toronto’s homeless women.

She reached out to her local mom’s Facebook group and asked if anyone had used purses for her to

donate, and that’s when the idea took off.

"It’s not so lovely to have this monthly friend . but it’s a birthright of ours," she previously told The Villager. "Thinking of having it on the street has to be the worst place."

On March 24, Girdauskas held a packing party inside Windermere United Church in Bloor West Village, and close to 40 volunteers turned out and prepared 313 purses for distribution.

"It’s something that’s so simple, yet so needed," said Pina Santoro, one of the volunteers at the event.

"How many purses do we have sitting in our closet, and how easy is it to go and fill it with pads, tampons and other feminine hygiene products because it’s what we use every day and we completely take it for granted."

Girdauskas has partnered with several Toronto shelters and charities, and she and volunteers will be

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Furthermore, the project has expanded to five other cities in Canada: Ottawa, Durham, Brantford, London and Victoria, B.C. And in April, she plans on organizing a drive in Toronto’s east-end.

"It wasn’t in my vision at all," she said of the project’s growth. "I just can’t say no, and I’m just running with how this project is going."

Girdauskas added she hopes to keep the campaign operational yearround.

"I’ll have to see what works best, maybe we do blitzes twice a year, and in the smaller cities once a year," she said. "It’s definitely an organization that I’m going to have to continuing leading yearround."

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Bloor West Village resident Jana Girdauskas, top, came up with an idea to gather old purses and fill them with hygiene products to give to homeless women. Bottom left, volunteers Amelia Patterson, 7, (left) and Carol Nelson sort through hygiene products while Joa Roth, bottom right, carries an armful of purses during the Period Purse packing event held at the Windermere United Church on Friday, March 24.

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Julian Katz, 31, the owner of Stasis Preserves Deli & Pantry at 476 Roncesvalles Ave., was given a 30day extension after meeting with city officials on March 22.

That was the date by which he was originally supposed to have the ramp removed, after being served notice by city officials on March 15. In addition to being deemed unsafe, officials said the ramp limits sidewalk space for pedestrians and was built without a permit.

"It’s a big challenge for people to not have access," Katz told Metroland Media Toronto in a previous article. "We just wanted to be inclusive in the neighbourhood and give people that option to shop here if they

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The City of Toronto has told Julian Katz to remove the accessibility ramp from the front of his business, Stasis Preserves Deli & Pantry. He said he wants to work with the city to find a way to modify the ramp, rather than destroy it. wanted to."

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Prime ‘New Toronto’ Investment Property W/50X90Ft Frontage On North Side Of Lake Shore Blvd West. Rapidly Growing Area W/Many Recent High Profile Commercial Transactions As Well As Double Digit Increases In Residential Property Values Both North & South Of Lake Shore Blvd W. Unique Building W/Multi Unit Residential At Rear W/Lane Access & Block Construction Double Store Front On Lake Shore. Large Upside

Outstanding Find in Dufferin Grove W/Loads Of Potential. Corner Building W/Wide Frontage Dewson/Concord. Main Convenience Store Being Operated Within The Owner’s Family For 50 Yrs. Close To Highly Rated Schools, W/To Vibrant Social/Retail Areas, Coffee Shops In Dufferin Grove, Little Italy/Steps To Ossington and Short Bus Ride To Subway. This Is A Great Investment Opportunity!

Pristine, Two Unit, Updated & Reno’d Semi. Meticulously Maintained. High Demand Dovercourt/Wallace Area. Across The Street From Subway. Numerous Upgrades Incl: Roof ‘16, Engineered Firs ‘17, S.S Appliances ‘14, Windows ‘14 & Bathrooms Main & Lower. Bright, Spacious & Airy With Large 1 Bdr Unit Upstairs. Legal Pad Pkg. For 1 Car.