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Plenty of things to do this week in Bloor West, mark your calendars / 15

TRANSIT TTC to buy more 60-foot buses / 13

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inside Bloor West in brief: Free film screening at Revue Cinema; Ward 14 Environment Day/ 6

PHOTOS Colborne Lodge holds Easter event in High Park

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LISA RAINFORD lrainford@insidetoronto.com Gerry Doutre, president and CEO of Ultima Foods, admitted he knew little about community kitchens as he was named celebrity chef Lynn Crawford’s second-in-command during a special cooking event at The Stop. Last Wednesday, just eight months after debuting its yogurt, ‘iögo,’ Doutre was excited to help launch Ultima’s “iögo, supporting goodness” program in support of community kitchens across Canada. “Congratulations to you folks for this,” Doutre said, his sleeves rolled up in The Stop’s kitchen. “I know this much about community kitchens. I think it’s really cool.”

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just completed: The City of Toronto has just completed another off-leash area for dogs on the boardwalk at Lake Shore Boulevard (just east of the Humber River) and Windemere Avenue. Kiya checks over the new pen with owners Mary and Patrick earlier this week.

Junction event to raise funds for local charities LISA RAINFORD lrainford@insidetoronto.com T h e Ju n c t i o n Re s i d e n t s Association ( JRA) is gearing up for its signature event, the ever-successful ‘Function in the Junction’ fundraiser. Since its inception three years ago, the community dinnerraffle-live entertainment event has raised more than $20,000 for local organizations and

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charities. This year’s Function takes place this Saturday at the Masonic Temple, 151 Annette St. Proceeds will go toward The Red Wagon Collective’s Gathering Space: Monday Art Group at Evangeline Women’s Residence, owned and operated by the Salvation Army in the Junction. Women from the community gather every week with women living at Evangeline to

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make art. The Function boasts a threecourse meal prepared by local eateries, including Agora Café, North of Bombay and Avec Panache. live entertainment Following the sit-down dinner, live, local entertainment – duo Cherina and Davina – and a live auction, starts at 8 p.m.

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Admission is a $5 suggested donation. Tickets can be purchased at sponsors, Agora Café, 3015 Dundas St. W. and Latitude 44 Gallery, 2900 Dundas St. W. To raise additional funds, the JRA is hosting a ‘Pennies for Painters’ initiative. Drop off pennies at both these businesses.

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the old fashioned way: Above left: Visitors to Colborne Lodge in High Park not only had a tour of the house over the weekend, but children had a chance to dye their own eggs, using natural colours. Mira Trivedi shows off her egg to mom Leena; Above right: Children colour their eggs during Easter programming at Colborne Lodge on Sunday.

Clay and Paper Theatre is seeking four to eight post-secondary student performers for its summer production of Our Last Best Hope. These are full-time, 35 hours per week positions from June 3 to Aug. 18 (11 weeks) with a variable schedule, including performances in the evenings and on weekends. The program is funded by HRDC’s Canada Summer Jobs program at the minimum wage of $10.25 an hour. As a member of the summer troupe, performers/animateurs will participate in the art of puppet construction, puppeteering, and outdoor performance skills and will engage in outreach workshops in the community of Dufferin Grove Park. Musical ability will be honoured, as will construction skills. Submit a resume and a short statement about why you would like to join the theatre’s motley crew to clayandpaper@sympatico.ca by April 15.

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Couple’s first film uses neighbourhood as backdrop Dufferin Grove area to be featured in Brand New You LISA RAINFORD lrainford@insidetoronto.com Shawn Whitney and his wife Kathryn Palmateer are parents to two daughers, one four years old and the other three months, but they are eagerly anticipating the debut of their latest co-production, a feature-length film. Palmateer, a photographer and Whitney a development consultant and writer, wanted to pool their resources and blend their talents to create a movie – but with a catch: It had to be made with little to no money. “We both felt like all we were working on were projects for other people. We wanted to do something

ourselves,” said Palmateer, sitting in the kitchen of the couple’s Bloor Street West and Dufferin Street-area home on a Friday morning. “We thought, ‘Let’s just do it.’” Whitney says he was inspired by reading about advanced technological singularity and inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil, who wrote The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology, a 2005 non-fiction book about artificial intelligence and the future of humanity. “Then, he got this crazy idea,” said Palmateer with a laugh. Brand New You, a science fiction story, centres around Santiago Morales, a 30-year-old widower. After the sudden death of his wife, Viviana, Morales decides he’s going

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Education still short changed in government deal

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eaching a tentative agreement with Ontario high school teachers has sparked calls for the Kathleen Wynne Liberals to reveal exactly what the two parties agreed to on March 29. For the moment, thanks to a media blackout, that information doesn’t look likely to come until after members of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation (OSSTF) vote on those changes Thursday. To say this dispute should never have gone this far is an understatement; however, it has and Ontarians deserve to know exactly what was discussed, and what we ‘may’ be on the hook for. Changes to contract conditions the Liberal government imposed on teachers early this year seem to have our view made a difference, with the labour dispute possibly coming Province must to an end this week. Issues suraddress issue of rounding sick leave, maternity unpaid days and local low enrolment leave, bargaining, appear to have been resolved with OSSTF. However, this does little for a provincial school system that needs serious rethinking – especially in the City of Toronto. In what seemed to be a whisper in the wind, teachers with the Toronto District School Board face layoffs come 2013-2014 as the city’s public schools face another budgetary shortfall. On the chopping block are nearly 250 secondary school teachers, cuts to guidance teachers, clerical staff, and even schoolbased safety monitors. These cuts will only slice in half an estimated budget deficit of $50 million. This should raise concerns, and some serious discussions as to where the education system in Toronto, and the province is heading. The problems facing the TDSB – low enrolment being the biggest issue – demand attention. That infrastructure and capital repairs are in dire need of attention also demand some focus. Cutting a deal with teachers before these issues are at least discussed is, in some ways, shortsighted. Perhaps it’s time to bring back the controversial Accommodation Review Committees, that began in fall 2009 to address declining enrolment, better utilize school facilities, and create a better learning environment, but with a provincial mandate. That way, we can get education back on track.

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Toronto lacks maturity to do what’s needed for transit

hen Toronto council shut down Mayor Rob Ford’s move to kill surface light rail transit and replace it with a single subway along Sheppard Avenue, it may have seemed to some that this was a modal war: that council simply didn’t want to build subways, preferred light rail transit and didn’t love the former municipality of Scarborough as much as Ford did. What it really was about, though, was money. The Scarborough subway plan Ford put forward came with a promise of unrealistic levels of private sector financing and without a sense of how the city would actually pay to operate the new line. It was really in answer to this, that in the months following the defeat of the mayor’s plan, councillors tried to discuss financing options.

david nickle the city It didn’t get very far. It’s the way things go at city hall these days. It’s a lucky thing, in retrospect, that former premier Dalton McGuinty thought to take responsibility for transit planning and financing away from Toronto politicians, and hand it off to Metrolinx. On Tuesday, Metrolinx released the initial foray into what will be a major, and necessary, public debate into how it might fund transit expansion in the Greater Toronto Area, in the form of a not-very short list of taxes, fees and other revenue tools. They are all politically risky, the sorts of things that municipal councils are loathe to approve. They are also, necessarily, regional

in scope, recognizing the fundamental truth that the subway along Yonge Street in Toronto serves people who live outside Toronto as much as it does Torontonians. If subsidy comes from anyone, it should come from everyone. It takes a government that is both large and mature to extract that subsidy. Could Toronto do it? Well, we’re certainly big. But as to maturity? Ford provided an eloquent demonstration Tuesday, when asked what he thought of the short list of revenue tools. He made a retching sound. Then he started talking about casinos again. Hopefully Metrolinx and the minority Liberal government will prove themselves better up to the job.

David Nickle is The Villager’s city hall reporter. His column runs every Thursday.

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To the editor: I would prefer to see a casino built at Woodbine Racetrack. They have made no secrets about their desire for an expanded facility. They had been planning for it as far back as five years or more. The Ontario Jockey Club has a long history in Ontario and they are made up of Ontario racers and race fans. Far more of the royalties and fees paid to them will stay in Ontario and help our economy. Downtown Toronto does not have the open spaces needed for this venue. Many people and much too much money has gone into the fabric of the downtown to be dug up and cast off as worthless. Glenn Kitchen

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The Stop’s community kitchen is ‘heart of what we do’ >>>from page 1 that’s not a bike ride?’ We’re in food, that’s our business, so here we are.” Ultima Foods has committed to financially contributing to The Stop as well as two other community kitchens close to its facilities in Quebec and it will donate iögo products to the three community kitchens. Ultima has also implemented a corporate volunteer program for its employees, who will take a day off work per year to participate in community kitchen activities in their neighbourhoods. Joining Doutre at the launch, which involved preparing and cooking a threecourse meal of spice-rubbed chicken, pesto pasta salad and pear spice cake, was Nick Saul, president and CEO of Community Food Centres Canada and former executive director of The Stop for 14 years. “In this country, three million people are food insecure, What this means is, they’re

unsure of where their next meal will come from. They’re missing meals so their children can eat,” said Saul. “Our inelegant response to this vulnerability has been the food bank.” When Saul first arrived at The Stop, “you had to check your humanity at the door.” The building was falling apart and the food was not aesthetically pleasing nor very edible. “ We knew we had to change things,” he recalled. “It was extraordinarily difficult for people to walk through the door. They wanted a more respectful, dignified place. We decided to create programs for people to be gardeners, to be cooks.” The Stop, said Saul, is a place where people can try a recipe, can come together with others in their community for a meal. “No one wants a hand-out. They want to be involved and engaged. You can participate at your own pace,” he said.

kitchen is “the heart of what we do,” said its executive director Rachel Gray, who took the helm in July. Approximately 70 per cent of people who use The Stop’s food bank are volunteers, Gray told The Villager. 2,000 community kitchens

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Celebrity Chef Lynn Crawford peels carrots alongside Zoomer Media’s Tianna Robinson in the Stop Community Food Centre’s kitchen during the launch of iögo’s supporting goodness program held last week.

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There are 2,000 community kitchens across Canada, pointed out Crawford, who as star of the popular show Pitchin’ In meets and cooks with farmers, growers, fishermen and ranchers, who “work so hard to give us this,” she said gesturing to the vegetables in the middle of the prep table. “I can’t wait to work with my sous-chef, Gerry,” Crawford said. “This is a really good thing. I only do things that are real and from the heart – this is about supporting goodness and community.”

For more information, visit www.iogo.ca and www. thestop.ca

Green 13 hosts talk on future of city’s future weather Environmental advocacy group Green 13 hosts guest speaker Franz Hartmann, executive director of the Toronto Environmental Alliance, for a special presentation and discussion about the future of Toronto’s weather and climate. In the wake of extreme weather events, the city commissioned a consulting agency to examine monitored data (2000-2009) and to model results for 2040-2049. The result: the Toronto’s Future Weather and Climate Driver Study, which outlines the severe weather we can expect in 2040 due to climate change. The event takes place at the Swansea Town Hall, 95 Lavinia Ave., Tuesday, April 9 from 7 to 9:30 p.m.

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Restaurant – Pasta Bar and Grill, opens its doors – and its kitchen – for The Stop Community Food Centre. Renowned chef Keith Froggett will prepare a four course meal with a team of The Stop’s kitchen volunteers. Proceeds will

benefit The Stop’s critical programs. Tickets, including wine pairing, are $250 per person. To purchase tickets, contact Danielle at Danielle@thestop.org or call 416-652-7867 ext. 225. film screening at revue cinema wfree

Join Parkdale-High Park politicians Peggy Nash (MP) and Cheri DiNovo (MPP), and the Roma Community Centre at a free screening of Gypsy Caravan: When the Road Bends at the Revue Cinema, 400 Roncesvalles Ave., on April 8.

The film is from 7 to 9 p.m. with music and dancing to follow at Ciros Restaurant and Bar at 1316 Bloor St. W. This event is to celebrate Romani culture and raise awareness of the issues and challenges facing the Roma people. sidewalk repair suswStreetcar pends streetcar service service in both directions on Roncesvalles Avenue is suspended from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. until April 5 to accommodate repairs currently being done on the sidewalks between Queen Street West

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and Dundas Street. The work began on April 1 and should be completed by April 12, according to the city. The sidewalk repair work is part of the two-year warranty associated with the construction of the TTC tracks, road, sidewalks and associated streetscaping on Roncesvalles Avenue. Bus service will be provided to accommodate transit users. ward 14 environment day wCouncillor goes april 6 Gord Perks and the City of Toronto will hold the

annual Ward 14 Community Environment Day Saturday, April 6 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Sorauren Park, along Wabash Avenue. On hand will be a limited supply of free compost for pickup as well as exchange of green bins and kitchen containers. Residents can also drop off old materials for recycling such as small electronics and household hazardous waste. For details, visit www.gordperks.ca

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The Bloor West Villager congratulates Bloor West Village BIA Chair Alex Ling for being a recipient of a commemorative medal to mark the 60th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II’s accession to the throne. Each Member of Parliament was given 30 medals to present to constituents who have made significant contributions to their communities. MP Peggy Nash (Parkdale-High Park) presented her riding’s medals in a public ceremony for the medal recipients and their guests on January 20 at Swansea Town Hall. Recipients were selected by a volunteer advisory committee struck by Ms Nash, and the committee received a large number of nominations. They come from many walks of life: the arts, business, elected office, the media, sports, volunteer and service organizations, and neighbourhood renewal organizations. Mr. Alex Ling is the founder of the first Business Improvement Area in the world (Bloor West Village BIA), is the longest serving BIA board member in the world (over 40 years, 24 as chair), and is also the founder of the Toronto Association of Business Improvement Areas (TABIA). In 2005 a fountain at Bloor and Jane streets was erected and dedicated to him in honour of his work for the community.

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TO BUY MORE BIG BUSES ◗TTC The TTC’s board of commissioners approved the p u rc h a s e o f 1 2 6 m o re articulated buses to run on high ridership routes, at its meeting last week. The 60-foot vehicles, which are also known as artics, have separate sections divided by a pivoting middle hinge and can hold up to 112 riders total. The high-passenger capacity makes them ideal for rush hour service, says the TTC. SHARE PROGRAM RATES SET TO RISE ◗BIKE

The popular bike share program Bixi is raising membership rates for 2013. Beginning this week, it will cost $97 plus tax to purchase a one-year membership, $41 for a monthly pass, to access Bixi’s 80 stations and 1,000 bicycles available year-round through the program. That’s an increase of two per cent. This is the first time costs have risen since its debut in Toronto two years ago. Bixi says the price hike is due to inflation and increased operating costs.

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West-end road closures are planned for two weekends in April due to GO Transit construction work. Beginning this Friday at 8 p.m. and lasting until 5 a.m. Monday, April 8, Martin Grove Road will be closed to traffic between Bethridge Road and Vulcan Street. Then on Friday, April 19, Kipling Avenue will remain closed all weekend before reopening 5 a.m. on Monday, April 22, morning. The closures are because of girder installation for rail bridges going up in the area as part of Metrolinx’s GO Georgetown South expansion project. POWER LINE WORK THIS MONTH ◗STREETCAR

Also in April, the TTC will conduct night work on the overhead power lines at the Bingham streetcar loop. Though the TTC promises minimal noise from the

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�� construction to take place Monday to Friday between 1 and 6 a.m., residents living around Kingston Road and Victoria Park Avenue may hear beeping sounds coming from the hydraulic trucks during the work period. The work, which is part of upgrades required for the TTC’s new streetcars, is expected to last six weeks. FUNDING OPEN HOUSES ◗TRANSIT

CodeRedTO will hold a series of upcoming open houses across the city to weigh in on the question of funding transit expansion. The non-partisan group is asking residents to chime in on transit funding and other issues. Local city councillors and representatives from Metrolinx are expected to participate. The meetings take place during April and May beginning at Thorncliffe Public Library on April 13. For a full list of dates visit www.coderedto.com

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Unresolved questions surround a controversial lease extension between a newsstand operator and the TTC, says a board member for the transit agency. Don Valley West Councillor John Parker still has questions about the 15-year, $40.7-million contract extension between the TTC and Tobmar Investments, which operates the Gateway Newsstands. The lease, which also covers other Tobmar holdings such as bakeries and kiosks, was initially approved by the board, but the decision was reversed after a third-party review ordered by TTC chair Karen Stintz in January indicated interest from another bidder. At last week’s TTC board meeting, Michael Aychenthal, CEO of Tobmar Investments, which operates Gateway, said he had informal conversations with the TTC regarding the

consolidation of its various leases with the transit agency, including 65 newsstands in the subway system prior to a formal meeting July 25, 2012. That came as a surprise to Parker, who along with the rest of the TTC board approved the recommendations last autumn based on a staff report which stated the lease extension proposal came “unsolicited”

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Aychenthal. “Domenic said go ahead and submit a proposal and we’ll review it.” Aychenthal said that initial conversations led to further correspondence with TTC and eventually a meeting was scheduled on July, 25, when an offer was formally submitted by Gateway. The TTC’s chief financial officer Vince Rodo insisted any conversations about a lease

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extension were initiated by Gateway, which has operated newsstands in subway stations for the last 19 years. “We said to Gateway we can’t make any promises or agreements,” said Rodo to the board. “If you want to tell us what you want to do to extend the contract, you tell us what that is and we’ll consider it. That was the nature of the conversation.” The TTC will conduct a review of its correspondence with Gateway and present a report to the board’s next meeting on April 24, said TTC spokesperson Brad Ross. A final decision on whether to open up the bidding process for the lease will also be made then.

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Free Anyone aged 17 years and older is invited to come out and donate blood. Film Screening: Gypsy Caravan WHEN: 7 to 9 p.m. WHERE: Revue Cinema, 400 Roncesvalles Ave. CONTACT: Peggy Nash, 416-769-5072, peggy.nash.c1c@parl.gc.ca COST: Free Attend a free screening of the awardwinning movie Gypsy Caravan at the Revue Cinema on International Roma Day. Shot by legendary cinematographer Albert Maysles, Gypsy Caravan features five Romani bands from four countries who take their music around North America on the World Music Institute’s tour, sell-

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Bl r West Buddies Ask The Experts hosted Easter this year in my home Q Iand decorated with fresh flowers

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Dear Flora, Some flowers are relatively harmless while others can cause stomach upset. There are some flowers which can be very toxic to your pet – even fatal. One of the most common and popular at this time of year is the Easter Lily. All lily flowers and all plant parts should be considered toxic, and even just a nibble can be fatal. Vomiting, lethargy and decreased appetite are the most common initial signs. They are followed by increased drinking and urination. This can progress to complete kidney failure, which is characterized by the lack of production of urine. Our kidneys are essential to life and we cannot live without them, thus this severe degree

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A good question, on the one hand having pets growing up can provide great benefits to children. On the other hand, you want your children to be safe. If you have had your dog for awhile and you trust him/her, then you should be alright. I would start with supervised meetings between your dog and children, and proceed based on how these go. If you are unsure in the slightest at any time of your dog, I would not leave them alone unsupervised. The

Suzanne Lyons B.Sc., DVM, Veterinarian Bloor Animal Hospital 416-767-5817

other issue is teaching your children how to properly approach your dog so as not to elicit a negative response. Obviously you cannot do that too effectively until they are older, but it is important to teach them, as many dog bites are due to family pets reacting to painful or fearful stimuli from family members or friends. It is not that these dogs are aggressive, but that they have limited options to show their fear or

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