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Council considers bigger library LISA RAINFORD lrainford@insidetoronto.com Toronto City Council was scheduled to vote this week on a proposal to replace the Perth/Dupont library with a new, 10,000-square-foot facility as part of a condominium project at Dupont Street and Campbell Avenue. This week’s vote is the final step in the approval process for the new Perth/Dupont library, set to be built at 299 Campbell Ave., according to Junction Triangle Library Expansion Committee co-founder Kevin Putnam. Council meets Wednesday and Thursday, after press deadline. “It has been a long haul since residents met four years ago on a hot August night to discuss how we could save the library, which was rumoured to be on the shortlist for closure,” Putnam told The Villager. The city, the library and the builder, TAS, have agreed on arrangements and signed off, Putnam said. The Toronto and East York >>>community, page 3

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Participants sign a statement of unity board during a meeting of faith groups at the Islamic Info and Dawah Centre on Saturday, held in response to recent anti-Muslim sentiments and actions in the community.

Inter-faith gathering unites for Muslims EMANUELA CAMPANELLA bwv@insidetoronto.com More than 200 people from different faiths gathered at a Toronto mosque Saturday to show their solidarity against anti-Muslim sentiments. After the Nov. 13 Paris terror attacks that killed 129 people and left hundreds wounded, a few hate crimes occurred in

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Church prepares home for Syrian family Humbercrest accepts furnishing donations LISA RAINFORD lrainford@insidetoronto.com Humbercrest United Church is in the midst of raising funds and collecting home furnishings and clothing to support a Syrian refugee family expected to arrive in Toronto this month. “It’s a family of four, four adults – a mother and her two daughters and husband of one of her daughters,” said Jane Ford, a member of the church congregation, who’s involved in the committee to help the family settle in their new city. The Baby Point neighbourhood church is looking for donations to help furnish a home for the family, a 67-year old woman, her two daughters, 32 and 30, and sonin-law, 27. “We have to set them up with permanent housing, clothing and food to get them started and furnish their home,” Ford said. The committee has created a list of necessary items including furni-

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Sam Jones, left, Fern Steggles, Rev. Jessica McCrae, Jane Ford and David Drake take part in the effort by Humbercrest United Church to collect items to furnish a home for a Syrian refugee family of four.

ture, electronics, sheets, towels and toiletries. It has distributed a letter door-to-door throughout the community that outlines the church’s mission, Ford said. This is not the church’s first foray into sponsoring refugee groups, according to its minister Jessica McCrae. It has supported groups

from Colombia and Afghanistan. Three years ago, the congregation was poised to sponsor a Syrian family of six – one of the children had connected with Humbercrest and at that time, the government approved the family to come to Canada. Yet, before they could, the father left the refugee camp where

they were living to find employment and never returned. “They suspect that ISIS took him and the family didn’t want to leave before they heard,” McCrae said. The congregation was committed to help and in early November learned another match had been made. Church members are preparing to help resettle the family nearby. Some examples of the items needed are a queen bed, linens and/ or duvet for a queen-size bed, bed lamps, area rugs and pillows, cutlery, mixing bowls, a roasting pan, a coffee pot, pots and pans, a kettle, drinking glasses, radio, computer, hair dryer, alarm clocks, bath towels, washcloths, shower curtain, sheet sets and laundry basket, cleaning supplies, dish soap and laundry detergent, shampoo, brushes, flour, sugar, tea, basic spices and jars. Subway tokens and financial donations are also welcome. Donations can be made by cheque and sent to the church at 16 Baby Point Rd. or online at www.canadahelps.org/dn/16674 (select ‘refugee fund’ from the drop-down menu).

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Learn to make felt wool mittens with artist Iryna Toustsik LISA RAINFORD lrainford@insidetoronto.com Since arriving in the Junction from Belarus five years ago, artist Iryna Toustsik immediately immersed herself in her new neighbourhood. That’s how she crossed paths with Janet DiBernardo, co-owner of the Dundas West and Keele streets-based Latitude 44 Gallery Framing and Decor. “She’s so community oriented,” DiBernardo told The Villager. “That’s how we met. She was volunteering for the Junction BIA.” On Sunday, Latitude 44 is hosting a workshop featuring Toustsik, who will teach participants how to make felted wool mittens. Toustsik has been creating all sorts of creatures, hats, scarves and mitts

out of felt since immigrating here with her husband, whose job led him to Toronto. They now have a three-year-old daughter. “For me, it’s fun to do it,” Toustsik said of the art form she learned in Belarus, but has honed here. Traditional fabric in Belarus Felt is a traditional fabric in Belarus, she said. It’s typically used for jackets, mittens, boots and the like. Toustsik specializes in needle felting and wet felting. “Her work is just remarkable,” DiBernardo said, showing off felted flower pins, decorative scarves and snuggly, colourful stuffed fish. Toustsik is in the midst of completing a horse she said she’ll likely turn into a puppet. This month’s

workshop is her second at Latitude 44. The first was held at Easter. Toustsik creates depending on her mood – that’s what inspires her. Not only is she an artist and a mother, but also a part-time student at Humber College where she’s taking event management. She sells her pieces at Latitude 44 as well as on Etsy, the peer-to-peer e-commerce website that’s focused on handmade or vintage items and supplies. In addition to her workshops, Toustsik hosts private felting parties in people’s homes. The Sunday workshop is from noon to 3 p.m. at Latitude 44, 2900 Dundas St. W. The cost is $65, which includes materials.

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Community has outgrown current library >>>from page 1 Community Council approved the plan unanimously in November and the library board gave their final approval late last month. “This is very, very good news. It’s been a long time coming,” Putnam said. The branch’s current location at 1589 Dupont St. will remain open until the new library is built. Then, the old location will be sold with proceeds going toward the new library, Putnam said. Putnam credits Davenport Councillor Ana Bailão for ensuring the new, much larger library, would become a reality. The new library will be a great addition to the neighbourhood, and a much needed one, Bailão said. “I think the development as a whole will be an enhancement,” she said. Currently one of the smallest branches in Toronto, the Perth/ Dupont library has been ranked as one of the city’s lowest circulation branches, however, there are waiting lists for almost every program. Those who frequent the library know it’s overcrowded. And so, as the city contemplated closing libraries four years ago, Junction Triangle residents rallied to create a public-private partnership to fund an expansion of their library. Residents came together and worked with the councillor, who worked with the developer. Bailão was able to secure $1 million in Section 37 funding (money allocated for community use by developers). TAS agreed to sell the space to the library board for $1 million – even though it’s worth more. The remainder of the money needed to finish the interior will be made through the sale of the old library. It is not yet determined whether the development at 299 Campbell Ave. will be condominiums or apartments. Either is permitted. “I think it’s still a couple of years away,” Putnam said about the new library’s opening. “People are very excited – thrilled to bits about the new library.”

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oronto has been in fiscal denial, off and on, since it was amalgamated in 1998. That was when Mel Lastman was elected mayor, promising to freeze property taxes for the first three years of the new mega-city. He pulled it off, but not in a fiscally responsible way. Rather than finding internal efficiencies and cutting services, most of the city’s financial problems were deferred down the line in the service of a tax freeze. When David Miller took over two terms later, the city and council did better, but it was a tooth-andnail fight to implement the land transfer tax and vehicle registration tax, which let council get away with more minor efficiencies and modest property tax increases thanks to a booming real estate market. Those taxes and a municipal workers strike sent Rob Ford into the mayor’s office and while that regime made some mostly unpalatable cuts, once again our view ambitious spending and timid revenue-seeking put Toronto back in the hole. Proposal the The early months of John first of new Tory’s time in the mayor’s seemed to continue revenue grabs office this unrealistic mash-up of promises of frugality with bigticket commitments. For a time, it looked as though the reconstruction of the Gardiner Expressway, SmartTrack, the Scarborough subway and countless other enhancements were going to bankrupt us all. That’s why we’re happy to see that Tory has effectively abandoned his promise to keep property tax increases at or below the rate of inflation. It’s not that we think higher taxes are a good idea. But the alternative – planning to build a city the size of Toronto on an unsustainable fiscal plan – is folly. Tory’s plan to charge a 0.5 per cent a year levy to build transit and housing is at least a step toward erasing that folly. The tax increase is relatively small: $13 a year for the average homeowner, for five years, on top of whatever inflationary increase they see on their tax bill. By itself, it is neither a great burden, nor the complete solution to Toronto’s needs. There will have to be more revenue grabs. But that’s for another day. For now, we can at least applaud that the days of denial seem to be done.

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Mayor John Tory has defied early expectations when it comes to governing a complex Toronto John Tory can be a tough mayor to interview. That’s not to say that our mayor is evasive, or dishonest, or, like the last one to hold the job, openly hostile to journalistic prying. Tory is none of those things. The problem, rather, is the opposite: Tory thinks aloud, considering all points of view and in the end, states nearly all of them – in addition to agreeing with the premise of the question in case that hadn’t come up in one of the other answers. It can be frustrating work, trying to parse the mayor’s views from all that. A lead becomes a multiple choice question. From that, one might conclude that the mayor is simply unprincipled – and by a narrowly political definition of the word, that might be so. Tory does not hold fast with the principles of one

david nickle the city faction or another of our political spectrum. He might have done so in the past. But now, Tory seems content to take his pick. This he has demonstrated ably over his first year in office. For a time, it seemed as though Tory might be of a piece with council’s right-wing intelligentsia: he championed a costly rebuild of the Gardiner Expressway favoured by Conservative members of council, and held fast on the costly Scarborough subway for which former mayor Rob Ford took credit. He has sung the praises of the private sector and made jokes about the folly of big government as well as any right-wing pol might be expected to.

But as the year has gone on, he’s defied those expectations. After talking with business leaders and sport boosters, he backed the city away from another Olympic bid. He used another meeting with the blue-blooded business crowd at the Economic Club of Canada to unveil plans for an annual tax hike to pay for a major round of construction and repair of public affordable housing and transit infrastructure. He flew to Paris right after that, to huddle with world leaders trying to find ways to battle, halt and possibly reverse climate change and when he came back, he announced plans to help Toronto recycle more garbage, consume less energy and get around on foot and on bicycles. This is not the sort of thing you’d have expected

from a guy named Tory. Now some of this might be written off as evidence of a shifting of the political winds. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals came to power on a wave of progressive policies and right-wing repudiation. I would buy that more easily if I hadn’t been exposed so early and often to the push-me-pull-you dynamic of Tory’s psyche. And while it’s a frustrating psyche to try and codify, it might actually turn out to be a healthy one when it comes to governing a big, complex place like Toronto, where public mood and social reality can shift in a heartbeat. Vision, clear and consistent and predictable, might well have had its day.

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Holiday puppet show comes to Annette library Annette Library, 145 Annette St., presents the Penguin Holiday Puppet Show, Saturday, Dec. 12 from 2 to 3 p.m. Come laugh along with Mike Harding of Applefun Puppetry. The show is 45 minutes long and after, everyone will learn how to make a paper puppet to take home. Space is limited. Call 416-393-7692 for details. Vegan Holiday Potluck held in bloor west The Vegetarians of High Park group hosts a Vegan Holiday Potluck Friday, Dec. 18 in Bloor West Village. Participants are asked to bring a vegan dish to share (no meat, dairy, eggs or honey) and to bring their own plates and cutlery, along with a serving spoon for your dish if necessary (note: there may be no access to a stove, microwave or fridge). The address and directions will be sent the week before the event to those who have RSVP’d.

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Amazing Opportunity to Live/Work In Alderwood! Modern & Well Maintained Corner Store-Front Complete W/ Two Large Self Contained 2 Bed/2 Bath Apartment Units. Retail Area Features Large Foyer/Reception, Huge Open Workspace, Separate Office, 2 Washrooms, Recently Finished Basement & Rear Entrance. Great Location Close To Hwys & Transit. Won’t Last Long!!! Only $719,000!

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ER ANOTH SOLD

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Voices Chamber Choir presents Handel’s “Messiah” WHEN: 7:30 to 10:15 p.m. WHERE: Church of St. Martin in-the-Fields, 151 Glenlake Ave. CONTACT: Ron Ka Ming Cheung, 416-519-0528, www.voiceschoir.com, voiceschamberchoir@yahoo.ca COST: $35.00

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Christmas Carol Service WHEN: 7 to 8:30 p.m. WHERE: Runnymede Community Church, 60 Colbeck St. CONTACT: 416-767-1401, www.runnymedechurch.org, info@ runnymedechurch.org COST: Free Traditional Christmas carols by

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Baby Time WHEN: 10:30 to 11 a.m. WHERE: Jane/Dundas Library, 620 Jane St. CONTACT: 416-394-1014 COST: Free Bouncing and tickling rhymes, songs and stories for babies from birth to 18 months with their parents or caregivers. Drop-in.

Christmas at Colborne Lodge WHEN: noon to 4 p.m. WHERE: Colborne Lodge at High Park, 11 Colborne Lodge Dr. CONTACT: 416392-6916, clodge@toronto.ca COST: Adults $7.08; seniors/youths $4.42; children $4.25 Warm up by the hearth at Colborne Lodge and take in the sights and smells of a Victorian Christmas. Tuesday to Sunday from noon to 4 p.m. until Jan. 3., except Dec. 24 and 31, when it’s open from noon to 3 p.m.

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School of Art Open House WHEN: 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. WHERE: Toronto School of Art, 980 Dufferin St., Second Floor CONTACT: Renee, 416-504-7910, tsa-art.com, info@ tsa-art.com COST: Free Visit the end-of-term celebration featuring student galleries.

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Anti-Muslim sentiments hit too close to home >>>from page 1 world around us,” said Ilyas Ally, a member of the mosque and an organizer of the event. “We’re constantly going from one incident to the next and sometimes it’s beyond our borders, but then sometimes it has ripple effects right here in our city,” Ally said. “And so with all of that negativity, it’s so nice that we have a positive event like this where all of us can come together and hopefully learn from each other and re-commit to working together for a better society.” The leader of the mosque Imam Shabir Ally also spoke to the crowd, asking all Muslims to denounce the recent terror attacks around the world and make it loud and clear that the violence has nothing to do

with Islam. “They (terrorist) have misappropriated some of the teachings of the Qur’an. They have misconstrued this and are using it for their own political and other objectives,” he said. “We think they are misguided and it is the responsibility of persons like myself who are studying the Qur’an and Islamic history to help those young men and women to see where they are misguided and bring them back to the right path,” he added. With rabbis, pastors, imams and politicians speaking to the crowd, the message of the night was clear: everyone stands united against hate crimes. “Any type of anti-Muslim sentiment, any type of hate crime, any type of discrimination is completely

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Ana Bailão. “And as we make these statements in light of these horrible attacks that we had in our city and in our country, we have to make them loud and clear…. We are a better country because we are so diverse...”

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