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Toronto’s economic development committee voted Tuesday to approve the plan to make the sign permanent and come up with another, more portable version. Committee Chair Norm Kelly said the sign, which has become a fixture since it was created to promote the 2015

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“I can tell you that people around the world have responded very favourably.

It also helps to highlight City Hall. One of the most retweeted photos of Nathan Phillips Square is the sign — an iconic City Hall with explosions and fireworks going off in the background said Kelly.

Indeed, according to city staff the sign has taken flight on social media, with 122 million social media impressions since it was installed July 5, 2015.

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Cherry blossoms about to bloom The cherry blossom trees in High Park are anticipated to hit full bloom in two to three weeks, a spokesperson at the High Park Nature Centre said yesterday.

“Some of the buds are just starting to turn green,” the centre’s Mallory Parks said.

Once most of the buds are bursting with green, it will take about two weeks before the blossoming begins. Peak bloom lasts only for about a week. The nature centre has a cherry blossom watch on its website and is

encouraging everyone to check back daily for updates.

Thousands of people from Toronto and beyond visit High Park every spring to participate in the centuries-old Japanese tradition of sakura hanami, which translates roughly into ‘cherry blossom flower viewing.’

For daily updates, and information about planning a visit to see the Cherry Blossoms, visit www.highparknaturecentre. com

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community gathering: Children take to the floor during the family happy hour dance event hosted by The Junction Project on Friday at the Magic Oven. The event raised $160 towards a $1,000 annual fundraising campaign that will be used to run an art camp, a summertime Family FamJam, Mini Market and other programs at the Junction’s Vine Avenue Parkette.

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Couple battles for survival on ‘Game of Homes’ LISA RAINFORD lrainford@insidetoronto.com Davenport area residents Kim and Harry Chung thought they’d be at each other’s throats, yet the couple who have been married almost a decade called their experience on the W Network’s reno competition series ‘Game of Homes’ a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

“Overall, it was a great experience,” Kim told The Villager in a phone conversation about a week before Season 2 of the series was set to air. “Through this experience we strengthened our relationship.”

For eight weeks, the Chungs battled it out against three other amateur home renovation teams of two while living in a rundown house and attempting to out-reno their rivals’ room-by-room.

“It was pretty intense,” Harry recalled. “We were living in a construction zone. We

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Harry and Kim Chung, Davenport area residents, are appearing on the W Network’s home renovation show ‘Game of Homes.’ The series’ second season premiered Tuesday.

didn’t get to see our families; it was very tough.”

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season, the show had a new host, Dave Salmoni, of ‘Expedition Impossible’ and

‘Rogue Nature,’ new resident judges Colin McAllister and Justin Ryan of ‘Colin and Justin’s Home Heist’ fame, and guest judges, who included Jillian Harris and Todd Talbot, known for ‘Love It or List It Vancouver.’ Judged for their style, skill and stamina, the reno teams were pitted against each other on a mission to win the grand prize: a home, including furniture, plus a plot of land to put it on. Teams were also awarded each episode and prize included a trip for two to Tahiti.

The second season premiered Tuesday on the W Network. Although the Chungs remained tight-lipped about details of the show and its outcome, they did reveal that it was very competitive, with lots of drama, epic moments, unexpected events and lively characters.

“Would we do it again?

Yes,” Kim said. “If anyone has the opportunity to do

something like this, I’d say try it. It’s an experience you won’t forget.”

The Chungs stumbled upon the casting call in a local cafe.

Married nine years, they have two children, five and a half and two years of age. The show’s promotional material describes them as “the classic over-extended sandwich generation.”

Winning a home would mean financial freedom for their family; it would mean being able to spend more time with their children.

Harry is a handy-man, who has renovated the family’s bathroom, while Kim is a real estate agent.

“We worked really, really hard. There were a lot of sleepless nights,” Kim said.

“Although we had limited renovation experience in terms of skill level, we were very, very eager to learn.”

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Bloor West Village Players close season with comedy farce Fox On the Fairway opens April 22 Bloor West Village Players completes its 2015-16 season with another comedy, ‘Fox On the Fairway,’ by Ken Ludwig, the author of Village Player’s 2012 comedy hit ‘Lend Me a Tenor.’

A tribute to the great English farces of the 1930s and 1940s, ‘Fox On the Fairway’ is filled with mistaken identities, slamming doors, and over-the-top romantic shenanigans. It’s described as a “furiously paced comedy that recalls the Marx Brothers’ classics.

“Farce is an art form,” director Katherine BignellJones, said in a statement.

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and premium on split-second timing, it takes many hours of hard work by cast and crew to create.”

She credits her “dream team of brilliantly talented people” – including her cast of Conor Ling, Kristy Paillé, Steve Ness, Richard Hoffman, Whitney Alexander and Allyson Landy.

‘Fox On the Fairway’ opens April 22 and runs until May 14 at 8 p.m. (with Sunday matinees May 1 and 8 at 2 p.m.), at the Village Playhouse, 2190 Bloor St. W. Tickets cost $22.

To reserve a ticket, call the box office at 416-767-7702 or online at www.villageplayers.net

Community Environment Day collects your trash A Ward 13 Community Environment Day takes place Saturday in the city parking lot at 2001 Lake Shore Blvd.

Safely dispose of a number of household items, including cell phones, small electronics, printers and fax machine, household hazardous waste, fluorescent bulbs, computer components, small TVs, unused medications, old batteries, propane tanks and inkjet and laser cartridges.

The event takes place from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m.

Visit www.ward13.ca about film wlearn star Hedy Lamarr

Back Lane Studios, and Revue Cinema, present the latest installment of the Extraordinary Women series with a screening of ‘Calling Hedy Lamarr’, a documentary about Hollywood star Hedy Lamarr, on Sunday.

The film includes clips from her films, including scenes from the controversial 1933 ‘Ecstasy’, made when she was still a teenager in Europe. In the 1940s, she and a musician friend formulated a jam-proof radio system for guiding torpedoes. Their frequency-hopping concept underpins our present-day wireless technology.

Ryerson Dean of Science Imogen Coe, Ryerson computer science professor Alex Ferworn and Globe and Mail critic Nathalie Atkinson will discuss Lamarr’s life and career – and clarify exactly why we can thank Lamarr for our cell phones.

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new pilot project that allows library patrons to borrow a musical instrument simply with their library card is a big step in the right direction.

The Sun Life Financial Musical Instrument Lending Library officially launched this past week at the Parkdale library, now giving the opportunity for aspiring musicians to sign out instruments ranging from violins and guitars to a full-size keyboard and a banjo.

It’s a step in the right direction in making music more accessible to the community especially for the youth as well as those who can’t afford to buy goodquality instruments.

Just as several organizations have seen the value in youth playing sports by subsidizing expensive equipment, this program shines a light on the value of youth playour view ing music to enrich their lives.

It’s also a step in the right Pilot project direction in making Toronto a opens music to music city by cultivating homegrown talent. everyone It was fitting that in attendance at the launch event were two successful Canadian musicians – Juno Awardwinning artist Chantal Kreviazuk and her husband, Our Lady Peace frontman Raine Maida.

Maida told Metroland Media Toronto that he didn’t have access to musical instruments until his brother bought one when he was 12 years old.

To ensure more kids have that opportunity to play music, Maida and Kreviazuk donated a guitar and keyboard of their own to add to the 100 instruments already in the collection.

The community can support this initiative, too.

Residents can donate their own gently used or new musical instruments to this pilot program, which runs until the end of 2017, and help it grow and expand to libraries across the city.

Instrument donation drive

There’s a Musical Instrument Donation Drive, which continues until May 7, and things are off to a great start.

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NDP crisis has been a long time in the making Last weekend, the New Democratic Party membership did what is unthinkable among mainstream Canadian party politics and ousted their leader Tom Mulcair. The shockwaves carried across the land: the NDP, stalwart voice of Canadian progressive thinking, is in crisis!

Of course, the NDP has been in crisis for years and particularly for those of us watching from Toronto.

Although you certainly can’t blame the late Jack Layton, it’s easy to mark the beginning of that crisis with the former federal NDP leader’s electoral success and then his death, both in 2011. The NDP was briefly the Official Opposition in Ottawa. As Stephen Harper’s Conservatives used their majority government to alienate much of the country, the NDP became a de-facto government in waiting.

But it wasn’t just that collection of newly elected MPs that walked away with expectations raised. Layton

david nickle the city himself offered inspiration from his death bed. Love, he told the country, is better than anger. Hope is better than fear and optimism, better than despair.

New Democrats, at least politically, cherry-picked: Optimism and hope, that the party that had traditionally been a third-party left-of-centre conscience, might persuade voters to allow them to lead; and also fear, that if they led too much with their leftof-centre conscience then they’d never win.

It was a bad and selfdestructive lesson. The Ontario NDP forced a costly provincial election in 2014, rejecting in conscience the most left-of-centre provincial budget that a Liberal government had ever put forward. Leader Andrea Horwath made some gains for the party,

but in Toronto lost some of the party’s most historically secure seats. The same year, Olivia Chow turned a commanding lead in the polls to a third-place finish in the Toronto mayoralty race, with a campaign that did tack more to the left, but was timid and unambitious. And last year, Mulcair did much the same thing federally, when he led the party to a place somewhat to the right of the Liberals, and predictably collapsed.

It was enough to wipe the slate clean for New Democrats in Toronto. Now there seems to be strong interest in the grassroots of the party in turning back to its progressive roots, embracing as many members have, the so-called Leap Manifesto, which urges the party to return to its environmentalist, socially- and economicallyinclusive roots.

But don’t count out the lure of power to eclipse conscience. Alberta New Democrat Premier Rachel

Notley is still providing a lone successful example of the pragmatism that has proved so toxic to the party. At the convention, she provided a reminder the only way to make that stick for more than one term is to lighten up on the pipeline opposition.

You’d like to think that in this age of surging U.S. presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders and “Sunny Ways” Justin Trudeau, the original Canadian party of hope and social justice and change would be in an unambiguous position to capitalize on the mood, and maybe use that to take their shot at forming a serious progressive government one day.

Instead, the NDP is tangled in its own ambitions.

Disentanglement will take time, and when it’s over, who’s to say what will be standing in its place?

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Davenport Diamond Grade Separation Metrolinx, an agency of the Province of Ontario, is working to transform the way the region moves. As part of plans to use GO rail corridors as the backbone of an electrified rapid transit network that connects communities and people through a reliable, frequent rail and light rail service, we are looking at ways to remove the Davenport Diamond rail-to-rail crossing to increase reliability and safety.

The Project As a unique piece of rail infrastructure, options to remove the crossing have been reviewed and previous meetings have focused on the feasibility and community impacts from the reviewed options. Over the past year, meetings were held to assist in improving the design with continued input from the community.

Come and Learn More As part of the Transit Project Assessment Process initiated on January 28, 2016, this meeting will include a presentation of the results of the environmental studies. This meeting will also give the community an opportunity to ask more questions in advance of the start of the formal 30-day public consultation period.

Date: Wednesday, April 27, 2016 Time: 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.

Location: St. Sebastian Elementary School 717 Brock Avenue Toronto, ON M6H 3P1 * This location is accessible.

Stay Connected All comments and feedback received will be documented and will help inform the Transit Project Assessment Process and the Environmental Project Report that will be submitted to the Minister of Environment and Climate Change. Stay up to date on the project by connecting with Metrolinx by: • Visiting metrolinx.com/RERDavenport • Contacting us at RERDavenport@metrolinx.com and signing up for the electronic project

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A prescribed burn is a deliberately set and carefully controlled fire that burns low to the ground and consumes dried leaves, small twigs and grass stems, but does not harm larger trees. Prescribed burns are part of Toronto’s long-term management plan to protect and sustain the city’s rare black oak savannah habitat. A fire boss with extensive prescribed burning experience created the 2016 burn plan, and will be implementing it with assistance from Parks, Forestry and Recreation staff. Toronto Fire Services and police have been notified and will assist if required.

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This program recognizes all types of paid and unpaid caregivers, including family members, neighbours, friends and health care workers who selflessly provide skilled and compassionate care. Nominees might include a wife caring for her chronically-ill husband, a son helping his elderly mother live independently, or a personal support worker whose home visits are essential to a person with disabilities.

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND OTHERS All claims against the estate of the late MORIA JENNIFER COLLINS, late of the City of Toronto, who died on October 21, 2014, must be filed with the undersigned personal representative on or before May 16, 2016, after which the Estate will be distributed, with regard only to the claims of which the undersigned then shall have notice.

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Waste Removal

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Home Renovations

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Decks & Fences

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Waste Removal

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Masonry & Concrete

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ISLINGTON NURSERIES

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