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But his newest fan (who slept through the performance) arrived after a long and tiring journey for Daren and his wife Joanne. Ori, born on May 4, came into this world thanks to modern medicine, following in vitro fertilization (IVF).

The Regent Park couple has been married for 10 years, the first few of which they hadn’t worried about having children, thinking it would happen when it happened. But as the years went by, they became concerned.

By 2013, they became serious about wanting children and found out there was an infertility factor for both of them.

In 2015, they did their first round of IVF, which, at the time with medications and testing, cost approximately $20,000. The procedure did not result in a pregnancy.

Less than a year later, they tried again. By the time of their second attempt, Ontario started funding IVF. With a cap on spending, not all couples get the funded procedure clinics are given an allotment which they disburse through such means as a lottery system or wait-list.

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Joanne and Daren Herbert hold their baby Ori inside their Toronto condo. Joanne went through in vitro fertilization (IVF) a modern medicine which is helping people become parents who otherwise would not be able to. ahead with the procedure whether they had to pay for it or not, and about a week before they were due to pay, they found out their IVF cycle would be covered.

"We honestly didn’t know where the money was going to come from," Joanne said.

"But, our bigger challenge was to get pregnant, not to worry about the money. We said to ourselves that when we’re 80, we’re not going to look back and say, ’thank goodness we saved that $20,000’."

The second time around was successful and Joanne gave birth at age 40.

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"She’s pretty chill. She just communicates when she needs something, like when she wants a diaper change. When you don’t change it, she’ll lose her mind a little bit. But, if you pay attention to her, she’s pretty clear."

The province pays for one cycle of IVF per patient, which normally costs around $10,000. Medications cost between $3,000 and $5,000 and optional genetic testing costs about $5,000. These latter costs are not funded by the province.

"The government should be complemented on funding this and recog-

nizing the importance of funding fertility treatments," Ottawa-based fertility specialist Dr. Art Leader said. Leader is a board member of Conceivable Dreams, a group advocating for IVF funding.

"It’s the right thing to do because it’s helping people build families. Families are the core of our society. And if you want to be selfish about it, somebody’s got to be earning money and paying taxes so that you and I can retire."

Infertility affects about one in six reproductive-age couples in Ontario.

It’s also on the rise, said Leader.

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around infertility drops, the number of diagnoses rises.

There are also real reasons for an increase in infertility. The biggest is that people are waiting longer in life to have children.

"People are going to school longer, not everybody can get a full-time job, so they’re waiting until there’s financial stability, so people are waiting longer. Unfortunately, fertility declines after 32," he said.

Another, but lesser, reason for increasing infertility rates is the environment. This includes everything from pollution in the air, toxins in our produce,

metabolic steroids used in the animals we eat and more.

But science is improving too, Leader said.

The first person born following IVF was in the U.K. in 1978. In the ’80s, IVF success rates were about 5 per cent. Today, it’s 45 per cent. Success rates for women under age 35 are actually greater than 50 per cent, he said.

While IVF success rates are rising, Conceivable Dreams board member and Toronto lawyer Sandra Alsaffawi is encouraging women to talk about their fertility. In school, girls are taught how not to get pregnant; they don’t get taught they’re only fertile three to five days a month or that there is an expiration on their fertility.

She wants women to avoid having to go through the IVF process like she did unsuccessfully.

"Nobody chooses IVF," she said. "It’s not fun, it’s invasive, it’s painful."

Women are required to visit their clinic daily for testing, take daily medications and give themselves a shot in the stomach that hops up their hormone. It’s a long process, and it’s expensive, even if the government pays for the procedure.

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Perth/Dupont librarian calls it a career Carmen Martino reflects on long career and passion for people AARON D’ANDREA adandrea@metroland.com On one of her last days at Perth/Dupont library before ending her career as a librarian, Carmen Martino was busy assisting customers at the front desk.

A reporter, arriving for an interview with Martino, took a seat and watched as guests cruised into the tiny library in the Junction Triangle to say hello to the librarian.

After the line of customers disappeared, Martino kindly told her co-worker she would be on break, and took the journalist upstairs to grab a seat in the programming room, a small

room overlooking Dupont Street in which she has spent many years.

Friday, June 30 would be her last day in that room and in the library as she retired after working 40 years at the branch.

"I am a speck in this big organization (Toronto Public Library). I am nothing, but I love my job," she said.

"That’s the difference - I love my job."

Martino said that as part of her speech she delivered at the library on June 27.

"I walked in front (of the crowd) completely blank, because I thought of it so many times . and every time I thought about it, I had a different thing I was going to say," she said.

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No day was the same at the library, as Martino explained, "You never know who’s going to come through that door."

Reflecting on her time at Perth/Dupont, she smiled as she remembered all the times she’s met people as adults who she knew when they were babies.

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"Books will always be the library’s most important role, but I think they’re complementing that with all the new technology that they’re investing in," she explained.

But the thought of leaving Perth/Dupont and no longer engaging with the public while sitting behind the desk brought tears to Martino’s eyes.

"I’ve been really lucky in life because I’ve had the perfect job," she said. "I’ve come in every day wanting to be here. I really thank the community for opening their hearts to me, for being kind, for lifting me up when I needed it and I’ll never forget them."

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Downtown baby boom calls for civic attention Ah, to be young, living in a vibrant and accessible city - and, of course, in love.

It is a dream that is coming true for a growing number of young people who’ve chosen to start their lives in the condominium canyons of downtown Toronto. After sequestering themselves in a smallish apartment, small enough to encourage them to step out and enjoy the bars and restaurants and activities of downtown Toronto, it is inevitable that some of them will meet and fall for each other.

It is only a step or two from there to where we are now: a downtown crowded with a new cohort that is even younger.

Babies.

Social Planning Toronto, an advocacy group looking at urban form and social justice issues, has released a report looking at the age and sex data from the latest census across all of Toronto’s neighbourhoods.

And while the numbers of youngsters are constant across the city compared to previous censuses, there is a noticeable baby bump in the downtown. Over the past decade, the number of children younger than five has increased dramatically: some parts of the downtown by threefold, others by 70 to 90 per cent. If nature continues to take its course, there will be more now and even more in the future.

This presents a challenge that city planners have been expecting for years but have still been struggling to meet: the need to transform Toronto’s downtown from its old role as a commercial and cultural centre into a collection of intensified residential neighbourhoods where space is at a premium.

As it sits now, downtown Toronto is not especially family-friendly. Park and open space are very limited.

There will need to be more classroom space as those toddlers move through the preschool stage to school age.

The core will need more community centres, and a lot more licensed child care that’s affordable and close by.

And developers raising condominium towers and rental units will have to make larger units a more common feature in their projects. It’s tough enough to squeeze two people into 600 square feet, after all - never mind a growing family.

There are worse problems to have, of course. A whole clutch of growing families in a dense neighbourhood has been a dream of progressive urban planners for more than half a century, and that is exactly what we have downtown.

Now, all we’ve got to do is make it work.

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Byelections should always trump appointments Picking the councillor for Ward 44 in Scarborough was a long and occasionally entertaining process.

Council had decided to appoint a councillor to fill the east-end Scarborough seat following Coun. Ron Moeser’s death in April, and as always in these cases, aspiring city councillors came out of the woodwork. A total of 48 of them put in applications, and most of those also came to a special council meeting last week to make their case.

They needn’t have bothered. Councillors had already made up their minds on one of two obvious choices: a former city councillor with a reputation for fair-mindedness and a former city bureau-

DAVID NICKLE The City crat with a reputation for fair-mindedness, both of whom had a good handle on the issues in Scarborough Southwest.

All 46 others may as well have stayed home or simply withdrawn their applications, rather than give the stump-speech deputations that they did, in front of a city council listening as politely as it could.

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Of course, it wouldn’t have done to tell anyone that, because doing so would only highlight how undemocratic it is for a city council to pick its own membership.

This doesn’t happen at other levels of government. When a vacancy occurs federally or provincially, there’s a byelection - period.

Picking their representative is a part of a citizen’s democratic franchise.

As matters transpired in Ward 44, the electors there at least had their franchise respected. Jim Hart, the former bureaucrat, worked with the late Coun. Moeser for a year and will almost certainly fit well with the will of voters in 2014.

But, that is not neces-

sarily always going to be the case. When the late Jack Layton left his Ward 30 seat to lead the federal New Democratic Party, there was a move afoot by conservative-minded councillors to install a right-wing appointee as caretaker until the next election. They didn’t prevail, but the only thing that prevented them was a hard push from council’s left and centre.

The only thing that will prevent that in the future is byelections - all the time, no matter what.

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Far left, Denboer Farms’ Rob Cote keeps a close watch on the farm’s stall at the Ontario Food Terminal farmers’ market. The Otterville, Ont.-based farm owned by the Den Boer family grows 13 different crops and multiple varieties of each including five types of radishes. It caters to higher-end supermarkets.

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LEGAL NOTICE To Anyone Who Attended: The Ernest C. Drury School for the Deaf (formerly the Ontario School for the Deaf, Milton); The Sir James Whitney School for the Deaf (formerly the Ontario Institute for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb; and/or The Ontario School for the Deaf), the Robarts School for the Deaf Or are the Family Members of Someone Who Did

A Lawsuit May Affect Your Rights. Please Read this Notice Carefully Instead, the lawyers will be paid only if there is recovery of money or other benefits for the Class. If there is success, the lawyers would either receive a portion of recovery or be paid by the Province of Ontario.

What are your options?

Stay In the Class Action: You do not have to do anything to stay in the class action. You will be legally bound by all orders and judgments of the Court, and you will not be able to sue independently the Province of Ontario about the legal claims in this case. If money or benefits are obtained, you will be notified about how to ask for a share.

Staying in this Class will not impact the residence or services and supports received by class members from community based agencies which are funded by the Province of Ontario.

Get Out of the Class Action: If you want to keep your independent right to sue the Province of Ontario over the claims in this case or if you do not wish to be bound by the orders and judgments of this case, you need to opt out or remove yourself.

If you remove yourself, you cannot get any money or benefits from this lawsuit. To ask to be removed, send a letter to School Abuse Class Action Administrator, c/o Crawford & Company Inc., 3-505 133 Weber St. N., Waterloo ON N2J 3G9 or go to www.Schoolsforthedeafclassaction.ca. The letter should say that you want to be removed from Welsh v. Ontario class action and must include your name, address, telephone number and/or email address, and signature. The deadline to opt out is September 1, 2017.

More Information?

Go to www.Schoolsforthedeafclassaction.ca, call toll-free 1-855-823-0656, TTY: 1-877-627-7027 or write to: School Abuse Class Action Administrator c/o Crawford & Company Inc. 3-505 133 Weber Street North Waterloo ON N2J 3G9 Schoolabuseclassaction@crawco.ca Getting information to people who can read.

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This notice is to advise of a lawsuit brought as a class action relating to the Ernest C. Drury School for the Deaf (formerly the Ontario School for the Deaf, Milton) (“Drury�), the Sir James Whitney School for the Deaf (formerly the Ontario Institute for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb and the Ontario School for the Deaf) (“Sir James Whitney�), and the Robarts School for the Deaf (“Robarts�), collectively referred to as the “Schools�. It involves anyone who was a student at Drury since 1963 to the present, Sir James Whitney since 1938 to the present, and Robarts since 1973 to the present and certain of their family members. If you know a student of the Schools who cannot read this notice, please share this information with them.

If you are within this group, you have a choice of whether to stay in the Class or not, and you must decide this now.

What is this case about?

The lawsuit says the Province of Ontario failed to properly care for and protect people who attended or resided at the Schools.

The lawsuit says that students were emotionally, physically, and psychologically traumatized by their experiences at the Schools. The Province of Ontario denies these claims. The Court has not decided whether the Plaintiff or the Province of Ontario is right.

Are you included?

You are included in this lawsuit if: r ZPV BUUFOEFE PS SFTJEFE BU %SVSZ BU BOZ UJNF CFUXFFO and August 23, 2016 and have not otherwise released your claim r ZPV BUUFOEFE PS SFTJEFE BU 4JS +BNFT 8IJUOFZ BU BOZ UJNF between 1938 and August 23, 2016 and have not otherwise released your claim r ZPV BUUFOEFE PS SFTJEFE BU 3PCBSUT BU BOZ UJNF CFUXFFO and August 23, 2016 and have not otherwise released your claim r ZPV BSF UIF QBSFOUT TQPVTFT DIJMESFO PS TJCMJOHT PG TPNFPOF and who is included in the lawsuit and who attended or was in residence at one of the Schools between 1978 and August 23, 2016 r ZPV BSF BO FTUBUF USVTUFF GPS B QFSTPO XIP XBT B TUVEFOU PS family member of a student who is included in the lawsuit and that person was living on or after August 10, 2013 Who are the lawyers who represent the class?

Koskie Minsky LLP are the lawyers for the plaintiff and the class. You don’t have to pay Koskie Minsky LLP for this case.

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