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Vulnerable residents work together to fight food insecurity in Toronto JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com

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hile solving the problem of food insecurity will require a concerted effort from all levels of government, there is a great deal being done at a more grassroots level to help make sure Torontonians can put food on their plates.

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Community Food Centres Canada (CFC), FoodShare, Building Roots and the Toronto Youth Food Policy Council (TYFPC) are engaging vulnerable Torontonians through a variety of programs and initiatives, providing not only food but opportunity.

CFC Chief Operating Officer Kathryn Scharf (www. cfccanada.ca) said awareness of food security issues is growing, as is action to

combat them. Her organization originated out of The Stop Community Food Centre on Davenport Road, and now there are three such organizations in Toronto and eight across Canada.

“With almost one in 10 households experiencing food insecurity, we don’t have a hard time finding communities that could use a Community Food Centre,” >>>BETTER, page 10

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In the wake of the mass shooting at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, Junction-based contemporary painter-sculptor Viktor Mitic felt compelled to lend his support to the victims and LGBT community.

He is doing so by donating all proceeds from the sale of his latest work, ‘Spectral Confederation’, that depicts the Confederate flag with its stars in LGBT colours.

“The Orlando shooting is a terrible event in LGBT history and I wanted to show support

for the victims and contribute whatever help I could as relief, but there’s more to it than just that,” Mitic told The Villager.

“Spectral Confederation is a piece where three contradictory elements come to life as one contemporary statement. It’s based on a Confederate flag, a symbol of oppression, and by merging the flag and LGBT struggle and by shooting it up with real guns, it sort of deweaponizes the flag at the same time as outlining the several deep issues surrounding the North American way of life.”

The piece has been appraised >>>miTic, page 23

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Better wages, improved access are the keys to fighting food insecurity >>>from page 1 she said, adding that finding local partners willing to help deliver services is a key part of what her organization does.

Scharf noted that while teaching healthy food skills, offering cooking groups and classes, providing afterschool programs where kids can have healthy snacks and creating community gardens are all great ways to combat food insecurity, the key is in making sure more Canadians can earn a living wage.

However, that’s something that will only come about when governments mandate it, said Scharf. “The key is to fight poverty, fight for housing, increase wages and social assistance rates. We can push for those things at a grassroots level, but we can’t make them happen.”

Darcy Higgins of Building Roots (www.pushfoodforward.com/buildingroots) agreed that a wage policy, along with better social support, is the best permanent solution, adding his organization is doing its best in the meantime to bring food access to where people need it most.

“We’re trying to bring fresh food at affordable prices to where people need it most,” he said. “We have a Moss Park Market that just opened in a shipping container on Toronto Community Housing property, and that’s a model we’re hoping to replicate in other communities.

We’re exploring and looking for partners across the city, especially in the suburbs.”

He said those battling food insecurity can also benefit from connecting with community agencies that can help teach them to cut costs and stretch their food

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The Toronto Food Council’s Food by Ward report looks at food security issues across the city on a wardby-ward basis.

Food needs vary by neighbourhoods JOANNA LAVOIE jlavoie@insidetoronto.com

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Michelle Porteous (right) and Jesenia Auceda make sandwiches at Sodexo Canada’s Feeding our Future Initiative at Campbell Company of Canada in Etobicoke this week. The program helps provide lunches for kids in need over the summer.

budgets further, by joining cooking programs run by not-for-profits, or by growing their own food, perhaps in community gardens near where they live.

The Ashbridge Estate near Queen and Greenwood is a prime example of using available space to bolster food security. A new community garden has been planted there by Syrian refugees to complement an existing community garden at the site. “There are so many communities – especially lower-income communities – where there aren’t stores for people to buy fresh food,” Higgins said. “It tends to be more convenience stores (instead of affordable grocery stores with more healthy

options) in those communities, so you have to look at other solutions.”

Toronto Youth Food Policy Council (www.tyfpc.ca) cochair Melana Roberts said projects to boost food security can range from relatively small in scale, such as new pop-up food markets being launched at TTC subway stations at Downsview, Kipling and Victoria Park stations, to Malvern Eats – a community lunch that hosts as many as 300 guests – to the CEED (community eco economic development), which could see hydro corridors turned into community gardens.

“We’re working with Toronto Public Health and looking at four different sites where (CEED) could work,”

she said, noting those sites include Rexdale, northeast Scarborough, Flemingdon Park and the Danforth and Victoria Park area.

FoodShare (www.foodshare.net), meanwhile, helps organizations bring food to communities by combining their buying power. Rather than having each organization make connections and buy goods, they can pool their resources and make bulk purchases from the Ontario Food Terminal, stretching those dollars further. Many other organizations are helping to keep vulnerable Torontonians fed, but they recognize their work is simply addressing the symptoms of poverty that leads to food insecurity.

Food is an essential pillar of city building.

That’s the premise behind a recently released report titled Food by Ward: Food Assets and Opportunities in Toronto.

The report, which took about a year to put together, was initially launched by the Toronto Food Policy Council (TFPC) as a way to engage with municipal candidates during the 2014 election on the topic of food security.

Now that the election is over, the TFPC is continuing to work with elected officials as well as community organizations and individuals to advocate for more food security programs and initiatives.

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by Ward provides a snapshot of food assets across Toronto’s 44 municipal wards, said Rachel Gray, chair of the Toronto Food Policy Council, during a recent interview.

Gray, executive director of The Stop Community Food Centre in Bloor West, said the findings of Food

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She said the areas that tend to be lacking the most are the suburban, and often lower-income, parts of the city where people usually need a vehicle to go to the grocery store. The outer portions of the city are also often where marginalized individuals live, including those on fixed incomes, and newcomers.

However, food insecurity problems can be improved when people and organizations come together, Gray said. n Visit www.tfpc.to/food-by-ward to view the report.

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staged sit-in protest by the Toronto chapter of Black Lives Matter last Sunday at the Pride Parade certainly has people talking.

But are they talking for the right reasons?

Given the status as an Honoured Group for the parade, Black Lives Matter effectively halted the parade for half an hour as they issued a list of nine demands.

The annual parade that capped off Pride Month only began to move again once Pride Toronto executive director Mathieu Chantelois signed the document, seemingly agreeing to those demands, which included reinstating and committing to increase community stages as well as the removal of police floats in Pride marches OuR ViEW and parades.

The latter, not surprisingly, has been getting a lot of attention Continue with Toronto Police Association dialogue of president Mike McCormack conPride Toronto for signinclusiveness demning ing the paper and accusing Black Lives Matter of “hijacking” the grand event Sunday.

People on Twitter had plenty to say about it too, many siding with police and recognizing their contributions over the years to support the growing Pride movement.

It seems counterproductive and counterintuitive to exclude police from a parade celebrating inclusivity, especially as some in the LGBT community also work in the police force.

While the protest brought both public and media attention to Black Lives Matter, the reasons for the protest were overshadowed by the tactics. People are talking about whether it was appropriate or justified to do what they did during the parade, rather than how events like Pride can be even more inclusive and welcoming to other marginalized communities.

Perhaps continuing the dialogue at the upcoming community meetings on anti-racism that the provincial government is hosting this summer is a good place to start.

The first meeting is scheduled to take place in Toronto on July 14 with another in Scarborough on Sept. 13.

For effective change to occur, Black Lives Matter must first gain the public’s empathy and support for their cause.

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Black Lives Matter parade protest not surprising It’s hard to know what to make of the Black Lives Matter – Toronto (BLMTO)/ Pride Toronto dust-up.

That, of course, won’t stop me from weighing in on the spectacle – even if it wasn’t really much of one.

To recap: Black Lives Matter – Toronto, a group that has seen great success staging discomfiting public protests, accepted an invitation from Pride Toronto (another group that has in the past seen great success staging discomfiting public protests) to be an “honoured guest” at this year’s Pride Parade.

And things went exactly as you’d expect: a discomfiting public protest, in the form of a disruption to the Pride Parade that was only able to resume once Pride Toronto had “agreed” to a list of demands from BLMTO. Among those demands?

No coppers please, at future Pride parades.

The pearl-clutching began. The Toronto Police Association demanded Pride

david nickle the city Toronto apologize for signing off on the deal. Mayor John Tory, through his office, joined voices on Toronto council including local councillor and longtime Pride supporter Kristyn Wong-Tam to make it clear that police should be welcomed at the parade for if nothing else than the purpose of keeping open lines of communication between the LGBTQ2S community and the police.

And finally Pride Toronto’s executive director Mathieu Chantelois made it clear himself that signing a deal with BLMTO, while he was trying to simply get the parade moving, wasn’t going to be binding, and ultimately, Pride and the community would make the final decision. It would be an excellent bet that police will be back in the parade next year.

It’s tempting to look at all

this from the outside and dismiss it as silliness, or an “inside-baseball” dispute… tempting to see this as a bit of a nadir for Black Lives Matter, pulling a disruptive stunt at what was otherwise a healing event for a community still processing the massacre in Orlando – all to extract promises that won’t be kept, and for the most part are over internal Pride matters that might have been dealt with as well using nothing more than a few stern emails.

That is, however, missing the point of successful protest movements like Black Lives Matter, which are combatting not only very small issues, but very, very large ones.

A few days earlier, Metropolitan Community Church pastor and gay rights activist Brent Hawkes stood with police Chief Mark Saunders for what had been billed an historic apology by police for the bath house raids in the early 1980s that destroyed the lives of clos-

eted gay men, and ruined businesses.

An apology was a big thing, but also a small thing – and Hawkes spoke that day of how he had contacted the chief, and negotiated an apology, and that sometimes, negotiation was necessary.

The only trouble? At the end of all that negotiation, Saunders did not in fact apologize; he very deliberately expressed “regrets” for police actions, and promised to do better – and really, with that, closed the matter as far as police were concerned.

It’s comforting to think that change can happen with comfortable negotiation. But the reality is that genuine change requires an irritant to motivate it. Black Lives Matters understands that, and so of course they showed up in full, irritating glory on Sunday.

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Swansea Summer Reading Fun WHEN: 10:30 to 11:15 a.m. WHERE: Swansea Town Hall, 95 Lavinia Ave. CONTACT: 416-392-1954, frontdesk@swanseatownhall.ca COST: Free A program for under 8’s in the Rousseau Room co-sponsored by Swansea Town Hall and Swansea Memorial Library. Special entertainment today and Aug. 11.

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Junction Seniors Gathering WHEN: 2 to 3 p.m. WHERE: Pascal’s Baguette and Bagels, 2904 Dundas St. W. CONTACT: 647-235-0843 COST: Free Meet twice a week for conversation as a social network of neighbours. Tuesdays

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Exploring Spring Creek Ravine WHEN: 10:30 a.m. to noon WHERE: High Park, 1873 Bloor St. W. CONTACT: highparkwalkingtours@yahoo.ca COST: Free Arborist Steve Smith investigates the geography of the defining feature of High Park’s east side. Meet at the benches across from wGrenadier Restaurant.

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Black Lives Matter expects demands to be implemented Pride Toronto says decisions about future parades will be made by its membership and the community DAVID NICKLE dnickle@insidetoronto.com Black Lives Matter – Toronto will be watching over the next year to see if Pride Toronto implements the nine demands to which organizers appeared to agree on Sunday afternoon — including a total ban of police presence at the annual Pride Parade.

“Now it’ll just be a matter of seeing how those demands are followed up,” said Black Lives Matter – Toronto spokesperson Leroi Newbold in an interview Monday.

One of the more controversial demands is one that asks police not be present at the parade. Newbold clarified that Black Lives Matter not only wanted police to not partici-

pate in the parade, but also not to police it, leaving security to Pride organizers.

“We are asking Pride to take a look at what it means for black communities to have a police presence at Pride,” said Newbold. “For example there are many black LGBT youth who’ve had interactions with police. I think it’s important for some people to under-

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stand that even the presence of police at an event like this creates an unsafe environment.”.

Early indications are that that and the other eight demands won’t necessarily be implemented by the Pride Committee. In an interview with The Toronto Star, Pride Toronto’s Executive Director Mathieu Chantelois said that although he signed an agreement to cede to the demands, the next course of action will be decided by Pride’s membership and the community.

“What’s important for people to know is that I’m not deciding what’s in the parade, Alica (Hall, co-chair of Pride’s board of directors) doesn’t decide what’s in the parade, Black Lives Matter doesn’t… decide what’s in the parade,” he said. “Who’s deciding what’s in the parade is the membership, and my community… We will let them have the final word. What I did (Sunday) was made the parade move.”

The Pride Parade was brought to a standstill when members of Black Lives Matter – Toronto (which had been invited as an honoured guest) stopped in their tracks at Yonge and College streets, backing up other parade floats behind them, and demanded immediate action on a set of nine demands.

Chantelois met with them at the parade and signed the

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A Toronto police officer works the Pride parade on Sunday as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau makes his way through the crowd. If Black Lives Matter – Toronto gets its way, it will be the last time Toronto police attend or participate in the parade.

nine demands. Newbold said the group is taking the commitment seriously, but noted that the issues that the black queer community has had with Pride are longstanding.

“We did get a sign off so we’ll continue,” Newbold said. “This isn’t the beginning of the black community’s resistance, we’ve been having these conversations for years. They may not have been getting the media attention but we’ve been having them for years.”

Councillor Kristyn WongTam was conciliatory July 4 and defended Black Lives Matter – Toronto’s decision to protest in the context of the larger tradition of protest that is at the heart of Pride.

“That’s a very appropriate place for political dissent

and political messaging,” said Wong-Tam. “Nobody should take that away from Black Lives Matter. Pride is not just about beer gardens and $10 corn on the cob. It’s much more. Our community is only ever stronger when we come together. It is important to continue the conversation. There are racialized and vulnerable people in our community that don’t always feel welcome.”

With that said, Wong-Tam said she doesn’t agree with asking police to stay away from the parade.

“If the police aren’t there they get criticized for not being there, and now that the police are there, singing and dancing in the street, they’re criticized for participating,” said WongTam.

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Black Lane Studio’s program teaches students filmmaking LISA RAINFORD lrainford@insidetoronto.com A Roncesvalles Village shoemaker who creates footwear for stage and screen; a retrospective of Sunnyside Beach and Amusement Park; and the notorious Alonzo Boyd Gang, whose criminal record boasts bank robberies, jail breaks and gun fights are just a few examples of the topics secondary school students delved into as part of the notfor-profit Back Lane Studios’ CityShorts program.

As part of the filmmaking pilot project, Grade 12 students were tasked with creating three-minute documentaries that focused on a particular aspect of Roncesvalles Village. The CityShorts program is now expanding to offer week-long documentary filmmaking

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Participants of the not-for-profit Back Lane Studios’ CityShorts program Genesis Perez (left), Magadalena Hajer and Johanna Castro interview gallery owner Olga Korper for their documentary short, ‘Olga Korper, Queen of Arts’.

workshops for youth ages 11 to 14 this summer.

The first five-day workshop already started with more planned. It costs $150 plus HST to participate.

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variety of topics, all local stories. We’ve done the preliminary research and will provide general information. They can pick the one they want to do,” McCabe explained.

The workshops will teach visual storytelling, camera techniques and sound and editing.

For example, if the topic is the condo boom in Roncesvalles and the surrounding neighbourhood, the film crew would work to determine what exactly the story is before heading out to shoot lots of photographs of new residential developments, McCabe said.

Local filmmakers will be

paired with workshop participants to mentor them as they create their short films. These experts include McCabe, a veteran educator, filmmaker and producer, who has produced more than 150 social justice documentaries with her students, designed and implemented new media curriculum and founded the Just Docs Festival; and Jordan McTavish, who has developed and produced more than 90 short format productions for film festivals, TV and the web.

“The goal is to expand into other neighbourhoods,” McCabe said. “We’re going to look at Parkdale in the fall.”

Currently, Back Lane Studios is working with Humberside Collegiate Institute’s after-school film club. Students are in the midst of creating short films for the school’s 125th anniversary in 2017. “ Their focus is their archives. They’re interviewing former teachers and students from 20, to 30, to 40 years ago,” McCabe said.

Back Lane Studios is currently relying on grant money to fund its initiatives, but is looking for funding partner-

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Councillors’ motions to help ease community’s concerns >>>from page 1 Councillor Sarah Doucette told constituents in her weekly e-newsletter following the June 23 committee meeting.

Once reviewed, the report will go back to the committee in September, followed by a vote by Toronto City Council at its meeting in October.

“Based on feedback from residents, and working with the Ward 11 councillor and others who have had shelters open in their wards, I put forward a number of initiatives and strategies to strengthen community supports in the local area,” the Ward 13 councillor said.

Both Doucette and colleague York South-Weston Councillor Frances Nunziata put forth complementary motions – which passed unanimously – to address community concerns regarding the proposal.

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work with staff and the community liaison committee to design the exterior of the shelter to ensure that it’s functional and attractive; • and a ‘Safe Growth’ plan for the York-WestonJunction area to address issues of safety and security, a ‘community response’ plan that outlines standards for responding to neighbours’ concerns and to conduct a safety audit of Runnymede Park.

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SUMMER KIDS KI FESTIVAL10am

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STAGE SHOWS DELICIOUS FOOD STROLLING ENTERTAINMENT SIDEWALK SALE BABY CONTEST ACTIVITY CENTRES CARNIVAL GAMES INFLATABLES

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Simply the Best! Tribute to Tina Turner, Donna Summers, The Supremes, Gladys Knight and much more

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SUMMER KIDS FESTIVAL 10am-5pm SATURDAY JULY 16, 2016

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Bloor West Villager’s Baby Contest.

Newborn - 18 Months. Every contestant receives a gift bag just for participating.

Magic Show with Ryan Neary Wonderful World of Circus Aladdin’s Adventure Meet and Greet with Aladdin and his Friends Once Upon a Time - Princess show Meet and Greet with the Princesses Aladdin’s Adventure Meet and Greet with Aladdin and his Friends Once Upon a Time - Princess show Meet and Greet with the Princesses Magic Show with Ryan Neary Wonderful World of Circus

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SUMMER KIDS FESTIVAL IN BLOOR WEST VILLAGE Everyone is getting ready for the annual Bloor West Village Street Festival scheduled for July 16.

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Dr. McKeown and others noted the lack of opposition to all three sites – unusual, given the controversy surrounding similar municipal initiatives, such as the opening of shelters in neighbourhoods.

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The visual artist is perhaps best known for his controversial approach to art. He uses firearms in the creation of his work, a skill he acquired

during national service in his native Serbia. Mitic fires live ammunition at images he’s painted of such celebrities and iconic personalities, like John Lennon, Quentin Tarantino, and Jesus. His bullet-ridden paintings have been said to ‘offer an acerbic commentary on society’s attitudes towards guns, violence, and obsession with fame.’ Initially, Spectral Confederation, completed last

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Controversial Canadian artist Viktor Mitic, a Junction resident, is donating all the proceeds from the sale of his latest work to help the victims of the recent mass shooting at a night club in Orlando, Florida. The piece, 'Spectral Confederation', has been appraised at more than $20,000.

year, was done in response to the Charleston church shootings in South Carolina.

“But, like much of my work, I like to appropriate the composition from other sources and contribute discussion revolved around the destruction of art,” Mitic said. “The Confederate flag is an interesting symbol – it contains the duality of freedom and oppression depending on which southern American group you talk to. It’s always interesting to find such black and white opinions on any given symbol or motif.”

Mitic said he also wanted to transform a symbol of hate into something else – by combining the LGBT colours into the flag, it indicates that the LGBT community is part of the south.

Reaching out to some LGBT groups in the U.S., Mitic said they directed him to Equality Florida, an organization that secures “equality and justice for Florida’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community” which is in the midst of a crowdfunding cam-

paign to raise money for the victims of the mass shooting.

Since June 12, the campaign has raised almost $7 million of its $10-million goal.

All proceeds from the sale of Spectral Confederation will go towards the campaign.

Born in Belgrade, the Serbian capital, Mitic attended art schools in Europe in his teens and early 20s before moving to Canada where he studied art and art history at

the University of Toronto.

“I think I always knew that this would be the only thing I could be doing,” he said of his full-time art career. “It’s somewhat of an addiction. Once you find yourself entrenched in art and producing work, it’s very difficult to let go.”

Mitic uses lots of symbols in his work, pop icons, religious ideologies, and previous works of art.

“The gun itself is a symbol

too, a symbol for power. They are represented everywhere in popular culture,” he said.

“I want to explore the concept between beauty and violence.”

To make a donation to the crowdfunding campaign, visit www.gofundme.com/ PulseVictimsFund And for further information about the artist and Spectral Confederation, visit viktormitic.com

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