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Mattamy Homes CEO Peter Gilgan hugs his mom Mary outside St. Joseph’s Health Centre after donating $10 million.

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RAHUL GUPTA rgupta@insidetoronto.com Good Foot Delivery will pick up almost any package and drop it off promptly wherever you want in Toronto and the Greater Toronto Area.

There are some items Ryan Hollinrake will balk at, like for example, a recent request to transport a 20-foot pipe.

"Clearly someone didn’t read what we do," said Hollinrake, Good Foot’s affable managing director, laughing. "We’ll deliver your package as long as it fits on the TTC." The social enterprise company and non-profit employs more than 30 couriers, plus a small office staff. Last year, Good Foot delivered a record 11,500 packages. In a slow month, it will still move more than 800 parcels. As the company’s name suggests, all orders are delivered by foot or public transit.

"We’re not your typical courier company," Hollinrake said.

Not only will Good Foot pick up your parcel and deliver it for a fee, it will sort mail, deposit cheques, deliver an ice cream cake fast enough to prevent it from melting. Forgot your keys at a friend’s house? A Good Foot courier will pick them up and drop them off.

"We just had a customer who broke a pair of eyeglasses. We picked them up, took them in to get them fixed and then dropped them back off," Hollinrake said.

The company also has blue-chip clients and sponsors. Beanfield Metroconnect one of its largest customers often ships 10 parcels a day via Good Foot.

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(Above) Anton Ritchie, (left) and Jon Gauthier, of Good Foot delivery service, head out to pick up a parcel.

CIBC and TD Bank also make use of the service, and recently Facebook.

One aspect which separates the company from the rest of the industry: all of its couriers, dispatchers and trainers have some form of developmental disability, from autism to Down’s Syndrome.

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Unlike a harried courier faced with delivering a truck full of parcels, Good Foot couriers endear themselves to their customers, adding a little personality to the job.

The company was the brainchild of Kirsten Gauthier and her brother Jon, Good Foot’s first cou-

rier, launching in 2009.

Gauthier is now chair of the company’s board of directors.

Jon said the company started modestly with around three or four volunteer couriers. After hitting its fundraising goals the company was able to start paying its couriers and began to grow steadily.

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Jon, who has a developmental disability, continues to train new employees and handles social media marketing.

"We didn’t have a business plan or anything," he said. "We just presented a solution to a problem."

Good Foot is not just a place of employment, it’s a community hub for the couriers who will hang out well past their shifts.

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with the company having recently expanded its office space inside the Centre for Social Innovation.

Good Foot operates under a zero-profit model, with 100 per cent of revenues going to its employees, and day-to-day operating costs covered through charity donations. It supplements revenues with donations and in-kind sponsorships, like hot lunches for staff provided by local eateries. Beyond the odd federal grant, it receives no government funding.

Hollinrake, who has been with the company since December 2016, says it’s almost at a break-even point where it can pay its employees, as well as cover operating costs solely from revenue.

"We want Good Foot to be self-sustaining eventually," he said.

The company is steadily building up its donor base, attracting interest from Fortune 500 companies and people who just want to help.

Mike Wilson, the Toronto Maple Leafs super fan and largest private collector of the hockey team’s memorabilia recently hosted a charity fundraiser, inviting Good Foot’s entire staff to his Forest Hill home to check out the vast collection. In one night, the company collected some $40,000 in donations.

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Festivals celebrate Polish, Ukrainian heritage the area’s boutique shops and merchants and check out the Polish Artwalk taking place in many shops along the way.

There will also be an art zone, a car show, and more.

For more information, visit www.polishfestival.ca

Bloor West hosts two always anticipated festivals this weekend.

POLISH FEST The 12th annual Roncesvalles Polish Festival takes place Saturday and Sunday.

Enjoy great local and international music, including Polish folklore, polka, and euro dance bands and entertainment on multiple stages set up in the area, basically Roncesvalles Avenue from Dundas to Queen streets.

The popular ’Dance Under The Stars’ polka party will happen Saturday night.

According to the event’s website, guests checking out this year’s fest can taste Polish cuisine such as pierogis, kielbasa, bigos (meat pies), cabbage rolls, and more from over 40 restaurants, cafés, bakeries, and bistros in the neighbourhood.

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UKRAINIAN FEST

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The 21st annual Bloor West Village Toronto Ukrainian Festival will take over the streets of the neighbourhood this weekend, Friday to Sunday.

Discover Ukrainian culture in Canada at the street fest that has been happening since 1996.

According to the event’s website, there will be various forms of entertainment with Ukrainian performers from the Greater Toronto Area, rest of Canada, U.S. and Ukraine including dancers, vocalists, musicians and a special youth performance.

There will be two stages

set up for the shows and guests can take part in traditional Ukrainian dance on the streets of Bloor West Village in the evening of the first two days.

Vendor kiosks will offer authentic Ukrainian food, beverages, crafts and collectibles.

"Cultural pavilions will feature interactive cultural activities and displays of historical and contemporary interest," the website said, adding there will be sidewalk sales by local shops and businesses.

The festival takes place on Bloor Street West, between Jane Street and Runnymede Road.

It begins at 5 p.m. on Sept. 15 and ends at 7 p.m. on Sept. 17.

There will be a parade taking place on Bloor Street West from High Park to Jane Street at 11 a.m. on Sept. 16.

For more information, visit www.toronto.ukrainianfestival.com.

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Top, the 12th annual Roncesvalles Polish Festival runs on Roncesvalles Avenue from Dundas to Queen streets. Above, the 21st annual Bloor West Village Toronto Ukrainian Festival takes place takes place on Bloor Street West, between Jane Street and Runnymede Road.

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Time to get engaged with election year coming up Doug Ford’s decision to choose a rematch for mayor, rather than a seat at Queen’s Park, will hopefully put both elections on the radar of Toronto voters.

The provincial election is June 7; while municipal elections across the province, including Toronto’s, are set for Oct. 22.

The outcome of both elections will help determine the future course of the city.

Ford made it known at his announcement, at the 23rd annual Ford Fest held in the backyard of his mother’s Etobicoke home, that he would seek Toronto’s top job as mayor on familiar themes: the war on cars and stopping the gravy train at city hall.

Those themes resonated for him in the last election where he finished a surprisingly close second to Mayor John Tory, and prior to that it successfully worked for his brother, Rob. It’s going to be hard to get even that far this time around. Doug Ford is facing an incumbent, always a harder task, especially when the incumbent is polling as well as Tory has. And for two, it will be tough to pin Tory down on Ford’s talking points. Tory hasn’t raised property taxes at a much greater rate than Toronto Council did under Rob Ford. He’s no enemy of motorists, either. While he’s supported bike lanes, he’s also supported the replacement of the car-friendly Gardiner Expressway. And Tory is, well... a Tory, a former leader of the Ontario Progressive Conservative party.

By comparison, the late Rob Ford had it easy running against the legacy of a progressive mayor (David Miller) who wasn’t even up for re-election.

In any event, spending money wisely, whether at city hall or Queen’s Park, is a job requirement of all candidates.

More attention needs to be focused on more pressing issues, especially public housing and transit. Public housing is crumbling while the ambitious transit building we are in the midst of, including the Scarborough subway extension and Tory’s signature SmartTrack, is suffering from dubious and haphazard planning. Both municipal and provincial candidates need to be pressed to come up with both the money to fund these long-simmering big-ticket items, along with a rational plan to make sure that money is spent well.

Doug Ford’s entry into the race stirred up his vaunted Ford Nation and hopefully it will energize all voters to get up to speed with the issues and with the candidates as they start to emerge over the next few months.

The Bloor West Villager, published every Thursday, is a division of the Metroland Media Group Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Torstar Corporation. The Metroland family of newspapers is comprised of more than 100 community publications across Ontario.

The Bloor West Villager is a member of the National NewsMedia Council. Complainants are urged to bring their concerns to the attention of the newspaper and, if not satisfied, write The National NewsMedia Council, Suite 200, 890 Yonge St., Toronto, ON M4W 2H2. Phone: 416-340-1981 Web: www.mediacouncil.ca

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Keesmaat wrote the book on truth to power "You often say we should speak truth to power."

That was Andy Byford, the unflappable CEO of the Toronto Transit Commission, to the TTC’s board meeting the day after Labour Day. He was answering questions from commissioner Glen De Baeremaeker, and gently explaining to the persistent city councillor that the TTC couldn’t let buses from Durham Region use the overcrowded Scarborough Centre bus platform without risking collision.

De Baeremaeker wasn’t happy about that, and muttered that there was no power around the table at the commission that he could see.

Both of them, bureaucrat and politician, had an

DAVID NICKLE The City apt and well-timed point.

Just a bit before the Labour Day weekend, another top bureaucrat, Jennifer Keesmaat, made it known that she was leaving city hall. In a relatively short five-year career as chief planner for the City of Toronto, Keesmaat had exemplified both points: she spoke truth to power and, in a way that disturbed and surprised many of her po-

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litical so-called masters, she wielded it too - if, that is, one counts persuasiveness as a power in its own right.

Keesmaat was something of a bureaucratic pioneer in that regard. She was hired from the private sector in 2013, under the Rob Ford administration and in a bureaucratic environment that would make any public sector worker quake in their boots.

Keesmaat didn’t seem to care about any of that. She took to Twitter with gusto, unapologetically advancing a progressive urbanist agenda. She told a Toronto and Region Board of Trade luncheon crowd that councillors were pretty hard to deal with sometimes. Surviving those councillors and Mayor Ford, she took

on the new mayor John Tory - or at least his Gardiner Expressway rebuilt - in another public address. She did finally help craft the Scarborough subway plan, but she made her opposition known publicly and then privately through the process.

Although that didn’t win her universal affection, particularly among right-wing councillors, Keesmaat managed to leave the job almost entirely unscathed. Indeed, the most rampant speculation was that she might wish to run for office herself something that she’s so far denied any interest in.

Probably just as well for her. In terms of influence and capacity - in terms of power - it would be a step down.

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When it comes to women’s health, we always give 100%

Period Purse biannual fall blitz hits Toronto A nonprofit Toronto organization is collecting used purses filled with feminine hygiene products for the city’s homeless women.

The Period Purse’s biannual fall blitz begins Sept. 9. and runs until Sept.

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In the spring, the group collected roughly 1,800 purses throughout Ontario, and close to 1,000 were donated by Torontonians.

More Than Pies on Annette Street in Bloor West Village is the main drop off point. The non-profit’s website has listed other drop off locations across the city.

It’s looking for old purses big enough to fit a box of tampons and a pack of pads along with other items.

Also, extra toothbrushes, toothpaste, hotel samples, Kleenex, deodorant, cream, scarfs, mitts, hats

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Bloor West resident Jana Girdauskas came up with an idea to gather old purses and fill them with hygiene products to give to homeless women.

Another drive is under way this month. and chocolate could be donated.

Check out www.theperiodpurse.com or www.facebook.com/theperiodpurse for more drop off locations and information. * What is uReport? uReport enables our readers to submit photographs and videos from local events, written reports on things happening around Toronto, letters to the editor, and event listings.

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A developer is seeking a zoning amendment to construct an 11-storey, mixed-use building on vacant industrial land on St. Clair Avenue West between Weston Road and Jane Street.

Etobicoke York Community Council voted at its Sept. 6 meeting to schedule a community consultation meeting sometime this fall on the proposal with York SouthWeston Councillor Frances Nunziata, who repre-

sents the area.

Kingcrest Investments Ltd. is proposing to build 267 condo units, of which 47 per cent would be onebedroom and 45 per cent would be two-bedroom, on property that’s the former site of the New York Pork slaughterhouse.

Currently, the proposed development does not comply with city zoning permissions related to the density, building height and side yard setbacks proposed, an Aug.

10 preliminary city planning report states.

The land is currently zoned industrial.

Conformity with the city’s Official Plan, overall height of the proposal and compliance with the St. Clair Avenue West Design Guidelines, the Avenues and Mid-Rise Buildings Study and Mid-Rise Building Performance Standards are among several issues to be resolved, the city planning report indicates.

Development would see 1,000 units More than 1,000 new units of apartments and townhouses could be coming to the southwest corner of Lansdowne Avenue and Davenport Road.

Emsatec Canada has applied to the city to build three apartment buildings of 24, 28 and 32 storeys, and four blocks of three-storey townhouses at 980 Lansdowne Ave. Etobicoke York Community Council voted at its Sept. 6 meeting to schedule

a community consultation meeting on the proposal this fall with Davenport Councillor Cesar Palacio, who represents the area.

The apartment buildings would be constructed on lands known as Phase 6 in the Davenport Village Secondary Plans. The townhouses would be built on the southern half of Phase 7.

The reason for the development application is to allow an increase in the number of residential units per-

mitted under the Davenport Village Secondary Plan, an Aug. 10 city planning report states.

Shadow impacts, appropriate setbacks, assessment of traffic and transportation impacts, and identification of community benefits are among the issues to be resolved, the report indicates.

A public meeting held under the Planning Act is planned for the third quarter of 2018.

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The hospital will call a section the Gilgan Family Wing to honour his family’s relationship with St. Joe’s.

"Peter Gilgan’s gift is transformative for St. Joseph’s," said Maria Dyck, St. Joe’s foundation president and CEO, in a news release. "It’s one of the largest in our history and will help us improve our facilities to support our westend neighbours."

The Promise Campaign has a $70-million goal to improve the hospital’s services, which sees over 500,000 visits every year.

According to the release, his donation will modernize and enhance spaces for patients with new equipment and technology, and the hospital will create specialized areas to meet the community’s health needs.

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Philanthropist Peter Gilgan’s $10-million donation will be ’transformative’. communities," said Promise Campaign co-chair Victor Dodig, CEO and president of CIBC, in the release. "This transformative gift is pivotal to supporting this community, for the people who call it home today and for future generations."

Gilgan has donated more than $175 million to support health care, education and other causes.

In February, Gilgan, along with the Canadian

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Donation one of hospital’s biggest

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Cancer Society, donated $12 million to Women’s College Hospital.

In September 2014, he contributed $30 million toward construction of a new patient-care tower for critically-ill patients at St. Michael’s Hospital.

He also gave $40 million to SickKids Hospital in 2012.

Furthermore, he donated $10 million to help build a new hospital in Oakville in 2010.

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Guests are also being asked to bring a water bottle for refilling as organizers will provide water, refreshments and food at various stations.

Furthermore, there will be live music, a radio station broadcasting live and an area with activi-

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