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Police look for leads in 1983 murder Toronto police are appealing to the public for leads in a cold case murder dating back to 1983.

Graham Hugh Pearce, 36, died on Sunday, March 20, 1983 around 12:40 p.m. after being fatally stabbed in an apartment at 35 High Park Ave. Pearce’s roommate called police after arriving home to find Pearce dead on the bathroom floor.

Pearce was a single, gay man, who was a teacher in Peel Region, police said.

Police issued a YouTube video appeal Wednesday to the public asking for assistance in finding Pearce’s killer.

Toronto police homicide Det.-Sgt. Stacy Gallant said the investigation revealed Pearce had bar-hopped the night before his death on March 19, 1983.

“That night, he visited Boots Bar at the Selby Hotel on Sherbourne Street and Stages Bar at Yonge Street,” Gallant said.

Pearce drove home that night after 3 a.m. in his vehicle, a 1973 Plymouth, “along with his would-be killer or killers,” Gallant said.

Police identified a person of interest through evidence, Ronald Thomas Gale, then >>>PERSON, page 12

NO TIME TO WAIT

Families of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder are petitioning the province to change course on its newly released treatment program.

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Jennifer Majer holds her daughter Lila in their Etobicoke home on Saturday, as she reviews a petition to keep government-funded IBI therapy intact for children with autism. Lila has been on the waiting list for two years, and may now be ineligible.

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MOCCA makes its way to the Junction LISA RAINFORD lrainford@insidetoronto.com In anticipation of the end of the lease, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA) curator advisor David Liss set out on an arduous mission four years ago to find a new home for the charitable organization.

MOCCA has become a staple in the West Queen West Art and Design District having opened there a decade ago when the area was a little rough around the edges. The location was within the downtown core, in the centre of the action, however, Liss wanted to find a permanent home for the museum.

“The Toronto property market is pretty challenging,” Liss told The Villager during a mid-April afternoon conversation. “I’d outlined a vision of what we wanted. It’s a fairly specific type of building we need.”

So, Liss set about working with real estate experts over the course of the past four years. He met with more than 40 property developers and owners in Toronto, including private owners large and small. Through this process, Liss connected with Castlepoint Numa. Not only is its president Alfredo Romano a successful and profitable builder, but also one who thinks about making a contribution to the city.

“I realized that over a few meetings he seemed to me the right kind of personality. I felt early on that we’d identified a compatible individual,” Liss recalled.

Yet, it would be a few years before Liss exhausted his search and reconnected with Romano in 2014 to discuss details of Castlepoint Numa’s eight-acre ‘Lower Junction Triangle (JCT)’ project at Perth Avenue and Sterling Road that the stars would align.

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MOCCA will relocate to Castlepoint Numa’s eight-acre ‘Lower Junction Triangle’ project at Perth Avenue and Sterling Road. Newly minted as the Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto Canada, the museum will house 21st century art. Above, the exterior of the building. Below, a look inside the old auto building which will house the museum.

Once completed, the redevelopment, which will include, commercial, office, retail, cultural and residential space, will bring as many as 2,500 jobs to the neighbourhood, provide a home for 1,000 new residents while creating several community improvements, such as a new daycare facility, a new park and green open spaces as well as affordable housing. The site will boast 564,000 square feet of mixed-use space and

540,000 square feet of residential space. As part of the development, Castlepoint Numa will be creating a new entry point to the West Toronto Railpath as well.

MOCCA will take up residency in the auto building as the anchor tenant. Christened the Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto Canada, it will be devoted to art of the 21st century and is scheduled to open on May 2 next year.

The museum will occupy five

floors – 55,000 square ft. – of the 10-storey restored building. Built in 1919, the auto building represents an early example of industrial high-rise construction in Toronto and will remain a highly visible neighbourhood landmark in the emerging area.

“We’re going to be a part of this neighbourhood,” Liss said. “We’re still close enough to downtown and accessible by public transit. The art community has been making a

major shift westward since I moved to the Junction 15 years ago.”

With this new home, there is room for expansion in the future, he added. There are plans for a phase two, scheduled to open in 2020, that will see a new, custom building approximately 75,000 square ft. on the same site. It will allow the museum to host a larger audience, increase its exhibition and display spaces while being able to store developing collections. There will be research, workshop and meeting rooms as well.

“It would be an understatement to say that it will be simply the most significant tenancy we’ll have,” Romano said. “It adds dimension that goes beyond what a normal commercial business would bring.”

MOCCA is moving into an already up-and-coming arts neighbourhood, Romano said.

“In less than a kilometre from the site, there are dozens of galleries, workshops and artists,” he said. “MOCCA is coming in on a trend that’s already started. They’re going to solidify the neighbourhood as an arts destination.”

The Sterling Road site is much larger than MOCCA’s existing Queen Street West location.

“Our former site was quite modest. We couldn’t develop educational opportunities.

We’ll be able to have exciting and innovative educational programs,” Liss said. “We want to engage audiences throughout the city. We’ll have the space and the staff.”

Predicting that it will be one of the most “exciting cultural destinations in Toronto,” Liss said the new museum is something that the city, the country and the art community deserves.

To find out more, visit mocca.ca

Cantores Celestes choir concert this Saturday T h e Ca n t o re s Ce l e s t e s Women’s Choir presents its spring concert, Saturday, April 23, at 7:30 p.m. at Runnymede United Church, 432 Runnymede Rd. For this concert, the choir will explore songs of the universe with a selection of music celebrating universal themes.

The choir will continue its tradition of giving to charity with a $1,000 donation in support of bringing a Syrian family to live in Toronto.

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Spring is here and the Junction Residents Association ( JRA) is again organizing a community cleanup day Sunday, April 24.

Create a team (or two) with your friends, family, or neighbours.

Pick up gloves and bags at the Green P parking lot on Pacific Avenue, starting at 10 a.m.

Find a park, laneway, street or any other public space that needs your help.

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W

e are 112 days into 2016.

In those 112 days, the homicide rate in Toronto has doubled from the same time last year according to the Toronto Police Service.

That’s alarming any way you look at it.

As of Monday, 26 people have been murdered in the city. Some in broad daylight, others in the middle of the night. Residents awoken by gunshots, alerting them to another funeral, another cordoned off community, another family grieving.

But these crimes in the early part of the year, are not an indicator Toronto is embarking on a murderous rampage of vendettas.

A Toronto police investigator (who spoke on condition of anonymity) interviewed by The Villager addressing this spate of violence the city, directly connects the our view in increase in murders to the abanof the controversial Public needed donment carding practice by officers. Read story at http://bit.ly/26dMECk to help Police advocates say that cardsolve crime ing is the thin line between those who obey the law and those who do not. But the fact is, carding is a relatively recent innovation and Toronto police have been solving and preventing crimes for decades before such a program existed.

One thing that hasn’t changed in that time is us: people who are willing to keep an eye on the streets, and who help police investigate when a crime occurs.

Crime Stoppers has been an effective way for the public to help keep Toronto safe for a long time. The tip line is anonymous. Use it.

The carding debate is actually a distraction from the real matter at hand. What we should be talking about is the state of our city and how we can ensure it remains safe for everyone – no matter your race, age or gender. Toronto has a population of 2.6 million people, numbers from 2011 show. Twenty-six murders among 2.6 million people is not a very high ratio, but each one has a devastating impact on those who knew and loved the victim. These numbers, though, are not indicative of a city where people are shuttering themselves away, afraid to leave their homes.

What is needed is more active participation from the public to help prevent crime and bring criminals to justice. The more active we are in reporting crimes and suspicious behaviour, the safer we will be. And hopefully by next year this time, 26 lives will be saved.

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Drums of city’s cycling war seem to be silenced It is springtime and even in this slow, hesitant, let’sbe-honest-way-too-chilly springtime, it’s hard not to think about bicycles.

Now that is not to say we all think the same thing about bicycles.

Alongside light rail, UberX, the Gardiner Expressway and subways, subways, subways, the place of two-wheeled locomotion divides opinion in this town better than a curbseparated bikeway.

It was only six years ago that an entire election was fought over bicycles, after over-reaching cycling advocates managed to convince council to paint bike lanes on Jarvis Street.

That was it: the ‘war on the car,’ and everybody was in: the motorists from Don Mills and Leaside and Rosedale, who favoured Jarvis as a fast route downtown; the bicyclists who favoured Jarvis Street as a less bumpy alternative to the cracked and heaving lanes on Sherbourne a few

david nickle the city streets over. And of course politicians and newspaper editorialists, who found the controversy to be an effective delineation of the left and the right in matters of urban planning.

The lanes didn’t last long after the 2010 election.

Bizarrely, that removal led to a kind of truce.

Councillor Denzil MinnanWong, who chaired the Public Works and Environment Committee, created a Berlin Wall of sorts on Toronto’s roads, pushing the creation of fully separated cycle tracks: first on a no-longer-bumpy Sherbourne, and then through the downtown on Wellesley, Richmond and Adelaide Streets. Bicycles and cars on these streets have their own separate but parallel routes. It seems to be working out well.

Now here we are, in

the spring of 2016, and on Monday, April 25, the Public Works and Infrastructure Committee is taking another step towards what might be a permanent armistice. The committee will be looking at a half-million dollar pilot project, to put cycle paths on Bloor Street West. It’s a short stretch, two and a half kilometres long, between Shaw Street and Avenue Road. If council goes along with the plan, it will go in in September. Oh, what a difference six years and a few cycle tracks make! In 2010, the city’s cycling office might have been proposing a pilot to cross the Rubicon.

Bloor Street has long been the prize in the eye of cycling advocates, because of its city-spanning scope.

One could take Bloor Street and the Danforth all the way from Scarborough to Etobicoke, in a single notvery-sweaty ride (Bloor and Danforth don’t have any challenging hills to speak of). The late former mayor

Rob Ford would have printed up a whole new batch of fridge magnets to rally the troops.

These days? John Tory took care when asked about it this week to explain this was only a pilot project and would be assessed without bias when it was finished.

But the drums of war seem largely silent.

At the same committee meeting, councillors will be considering a few other bike lane projects – these ones, the old-fashioned paint-on-pavement kind.

There are 11 of these, and they’re all over the place: most, it’s true, a quick pedal from the downtown, but one up on Sheppard West crossing the Addington Greenbelt. These kinds of lanes used to be big fights too, and maybe they still will be. But in these early days of the season...Hope springs eternal.

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Hundreds of petitions circulating to retain autism treatments for kids CYNTHIA REASON creason@insidetoronto.com

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f you listen carefully to coverage of last week’s Question Period from Queen’s Park, you might just hear a sweetly sung rendition of ‘Five Little Pandas’ amidst the heated debate over recent changes to the Ontario Autism Program.

While protestors like her mom vocally shamed Premier Kathleen Wynne for a program shift they charge will rob a “lost generation” of autistic children of the long-awaited therapy they so desperately need, little Lila Majer sang through the protests unruffled – at one point even trying to get members of Wynne’s Liberal government to sing along with her as the debate raged on.

The Etobicoke four year old, who was first diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) at age two, is just one of thousands of autistic children anticipated to be negatively impacted by the changes, which will essentially cut off funding for “lifechanging” Intensive Behavioural Intervention (IBI) therapy – which comes with an estimated price tag of about $50,000 a year – at age five.

Among that lost generation are the 1,377 autistic children in Ontario currently aged five and older already receiving IBI who will now be transitioned out of the therapy, another 835 children over the age of five who are still on the IBI wait list and will now be deemed ineligible to receive the therapy, and a further 1,331 kids just under five who are expected to “age out” of the funding while waiting their turn on the IBI list.

Then there are the kids like Lila, who will likely have her governmentfunded IBI therapy cut short under the new strategy.

“Lila will receive some therapy, but once she turns five this therapy, which she so desperately needs, will no longer be available to her,” said Lila’s mom Jennifer Majer, who was among more than 200 parents and children There are an estimated

Staff photo/BENJAMIN PRIEBE

Lila, left, Jennifer, Shaun and Weston Majer inside their Etobicoke home on Saturday. Lila has been on the waitlist to receive government-funded IBI therapy, but may not get the chance.

on hand at the Ontario Legislature on April 12 to protest the changes.

Lila, who is currently enrolled in costly private Applied Behavioural Analysis (ABA) and speech therapy, is finally nearing the top of the IBI list after nearly two years of anxiously awaiting her turn for the intensive one-on-one training, Majer said.

“So, when I read about the changes, I just started to cry. It feels like a slap in the face; like this wait has been for nothing,” she added, noting that the family had even forgone registering Lila in kindergarten for next fall, because they expected her to be enrolled in IBI for about two years come October.

“Had we known that there was a plan to change the program, we would have done things differently – we would have made more sacrifices in order to get Lila the (IBI) therapy that she needs and deserves sooner.”

The Ministry of Children and Youth Services (MCYS) announced the rollout Prevalence rates have

40,000 123% risen

children and youth in Ontario with ASD.

in the last decade.

of the new Ontario Autism Program on March 29. The $333-million investment over five years attached to the new program, the ministry asserts, will “provide children and youth with critical interventions faster.”

While the average wait time for autistic children across Ontario to access IBI services is more than two years, here in the Greater Toronto Area, the wait list ranged from 25 to 39 months as of September 2015, the MCYS confirmed in an email statement to The Guardian.

“This is unacceptable and why we’re taking steps to help (families) get the support and services they need in a timely manner,” the statement reads, noting extensive research has shown IBI has the greatest impact on children between the ages of two and four.

“Wait times for intensive programs are increasing and children are waiting too long for services that can have the highest impact on their needs.”

Also quoting IBI’s lengthy wait

times under the old Ontario Autism Program, the premier herself argued change was needed lest children continue to “languish” while waiting for treatment.

To those ends, she said the new Autism Program will strive to cut wait times in half over the next two years and ultimately down to just six months by 2021.

To do so, however, the program caps government-funded access to IBI services at five, at which age children will be gradually transitioned to ABA therapy, which uses scientific principles of learning and behaviour to increase functional life skills such as communication, social, emotional and daily living skills.

To help with that transition, MCYS has also pledged one-time funding in the amount of $8,000 for each of those families with children five years and older – who, under the new strategy, will now be ineligible for IBI – toward the purchase of community services

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the United States, in 2002,

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1 in 150 children

1 in 68 children

that number had risen to

or supports based on their children’s specific needs as they transition off the waitlist.

Critics, however, argue that the positive strides of the new program do not have to come on the backs of that “lost generation” of five, six, seven and eight year olds who will no longer have access to IBI. Parents of such children and their supporters have rallied together to form the Alliance Against the Ontario Autism Program – a Facebook group that now boasts more than 2,230 members like the Majers, who have gone on to stage #AutismDoesntEndAt5 protests in cities including Ottawa, Toronto, Mississauga, Barrie, Hamilton, Burlington, Durham Region, Niagara, Kingston, Belleville, St. Catharines, Kitchener, London, Sudbury and beyond.

Monique Taylor, the NDP critic for Children and Youth Services, was more scathing in her review of the new program.

“The facts are very clear. The government is abandoning kids with ASD over the age of five,” the Hamilton Mountain MPP said during a recent press conference at Queen’s Park.

Taylor has since spearheaded a petition asking the government “to immediately ensure that all children currently on the waiting list for IBI therapy are grandfathered into the new program so they do not become a lost generation.”

While signatures continue to mount, Taylor’s office confirmed this week they have so far received petitions numbering “well into the hundreds.”

The Majers are among those helping to collect petition signatures on behalf of families, like theirs, devastated by the changes.

“It’s just like if you were on a list for a heart transplant or a lung transplant and you waited and waited, and just when you finally got close to the top of the list, they said ‘actually, now we’re going to only give transplants to people under the age of 30, because they have a better chance of living a longer life,’ You’d be pretty appalled and disgusted,” Majer said.

“It might not be life or death, but IBI is life-changing therapy and these kids have been waiting years and years for it. And now, it’s just being taken away.

It’s not fair and it’s not right – and we’re not going to stop fighting for it.”

On average, children

wait more than

2 years

Information courtesy: Ministry of Children and Youth Services

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w Saturday, April 23

Earlscourt Park Cleanup Day WHEN: 10 a.m. to noon WHERE: Earlscourt Park, 1200 Lansdowne Ave. CONTACT: Jennifer Martin, friendsofearlscourtpark@gmail.com COST: Free Friends of Earlscourt Park is hosting the 4th annual Community Clean-Up. Meet by the playground. Garbage bags and gloves will be supplied.

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The Ecology of Grenadier Pond WHEN: 10:30 a.m. to noon WHERE: High Park, 1873 Bloor St. W. CONTACT: highparkwalkingtours@yahoo.ca COST: Free Spring brings big changes to Grenadier Pond and the pond centres much of the local ecosystem. Senior Aquatic Ecologist Christine Tu-Parker connects the activity. Meet at the benches across from Grenadier Café.

Easter Bazaar WHEN: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. WHERE: Ukrainian Canadian Social Services, Toronto, 2445 Bloor St. W. CONTACT: Olena, 416-763-4982, toradmin1@ucss.info COST: Free Perogies, cabbage rolls, Ukrainian Easter eggs and breads, home-baked goods, ceramics, embroidered and woven goods, and more.

Law in the Library: Wills and Estate Planning WHEN: 7 to 8:15 p.m. WHERE: Annette Street Library, 145 Annette St. CONTACT: 416-393-7692 COST: Free Edward Olkovich, estate expert, will simplify what you must do to make a will.

WHEN: 10:15 to 11:15 a.m. WHERE: Swansea Town Hall, 95 Lavina Ave. CONTACT: Swansea Area Seniors Association, 416-392-1953, swanseaareaseniors@gmail.com COST: $48 for 13 weeks Learn the fox trot, salsa, rhumba, waltz, samba and meringue. No partner needed and lots of fun.

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Shout Sister Choir Toronto South West WHEN: 7 to 9 p.m. WHERE: Emmanuel-Howard Park United Church, 214 Wright Ave. CONTACT: Oriole Claxton, members@shoutsisterchoir. ca COST: dues The choir is always welcoming new members.

After School Club WHEN: 4 to 5 p.m. WHERE: Jane/ Dundas Library, 620 Jane St. CONTACT: Kara, 416-394-1014 COST: Free Join the After School Club and learn new things, make stuff, meet other kids and have fun. For children ages six to 12 years old.

April’s theme is Science Fun.

The StreetKnit Project WHEN: 6:30 to 8:15 p.m. WHERE: Annette Street Library, 145 Annette St. CONTACT: 416-393-7692 COST: Free Join the StreetKnit Project on the last Tuesday of each month to put your knitting needles together and help keep someone without a home warm this year.

w Wednesday, April 27 Fundance for Seniors

Small Business Network WHEN: 7 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Bloor/ Gladstone Library, 1101 Bloor St. W. CONTACT: 416-393-7674, bloor-

gladstoneprogramming@gmail.com COST: Free Small Business Network is for small business owners or people who are thinking about starting their own business. At this session, meet Derek Hopfner and Shane Murphy, co-founders of Law Scout. Derek and Shane discuss why they created Law Scout, innovation in the professions, and lessons learned from starting a technology company.

w Thursday, April 28

Dufferin Grove Organic Farmers’ Market WHEN: 3 to 7 p.m. WHERE: Dufferin Grove Park, 875 Dufferin St. CONTACT: Maria Pia Perez, 416887-0651, dufferingrovemarket.ca, piiiaperez@gmail.com COST: Free Eat local and organic, year-round, at one of Toronto’s oldest farmers’ markets.

Swansea Town Hall & STHA AGM WHEN: 7:30 to 9 p.m. WHERE: Swansea Town Hall, 95 Lavinia Ave. CONTACT: 416.392.1954, www. swanseatownhall.ca, frontdesk@ swanseatownhall.ca COST: Free Business will include the election of new board members and review of the past year at the Town Hall.

Speeches by MP Arif Virani, MPP Cheri diNovo and Councillor Sarah.

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The committee voted unanimously to ask the provincial government to make changes to legislation so that civilians can do the work that currently must go to Toronto Police Service members. The committee also asked that city staff begin creating a plan to hire special constables to direct

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Covering the required cost of a special duty police officer can be onerous. One officer costs $68 an hour with a three-hour minimum, and that’s just the start. There are administration fees and the cost of supervisors for multiple officers.

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Mayor Tory seeks guidance on pot DAVID NICKLE dnickle@insidetoronto.com Mayor John Tory will be seeking guidance on how to deal with what he termed “an inordinate” number of medical marijuana dispensaries popping up in Toronto neighbourhoods in advance of new marijuana legislation.

“We have laws, and those laws are clearly in a state of flux,” Tory said.

“But you can’t afford to have a broad-scale mockery made of the existing laws. And it’s doubtful to me that the number of people in genuine need of medical marijuana would

justify the number of dispensaries – I’m told there are as many as 20 of them in Kensington Market.” sale in kensington Tory made the comment the same day as federal Health Minister Jane Philpott told the United Nations that Canada will introduce legislation in 2017 to legalize the sale of marijuana.

The announcement came in concert with 4/20, the annual festival for committed pot-smokers that marks 4:20 p.m. on April 20.

That morning, Tory said

that he’ll be writing to the federal government asking how the city should proceed over the next year, when the legal status of the sale of marijuana will be unclear.

“It’s time to make these inquiries to see, is there something we have to do?” Tory said. “We can’t just have the wild west and have an indefinite number of these dispensaries.”

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