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BREAK OUT THE BIKES: A cyclist and his little passenger take to the paths through Etienne Brule Park on Saturday. The Toronto Bicycling Network kicked off its 2014 cycling season there that day. See photos on page 18.

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THEY’RE HERE: (Clockwise from top left) The Cherry Blossoms were just starting to bloom on Sunday, but should be at full display later this week. Visitors came to High Park to check on the status, as did Xiusun Tran, who took the opportunity to snap some photographs. The city is ready for the volume of visitors expected this week, with a line of Porta Potties on stanby for guest use.

Discover spooky secrets at Doors Open events Torontonians are invited to explore the city’s secrets and spirits – the mysteries behind more than 155 architecturally, historically, culturally and socially significant buildings as part of the 15th annual Doors Open Toronto, May 24 to 25.

Close to 80 locations feature secret spaces, stories of spirit sightings and unexplained mysteries. Look for the mysterious keyhole icon while browsing the list of participating buildings or walking tours. Doors Open is produced by the City of Toronto in partnership with the broader community.

The following are a list of participating buildings locally: Colborne Lodge Museum, 11 Colborne Lodge Dr. Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Last admittance: 4:45 P.M. Set on top of a hill overlooking Lake Ontario, Colborne Lodge (1837) was designed by its owner, John George Howard as a country home for himself and his wife, Jemima. Over the years, they built several additions to the house, and in 1855, they made it their principal residence.

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Lambton House, 4066 Old Dundas St. Saturday and Sunday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. – last admittance 4 p.m.

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A mid-Victorian two-storey red brick hotel with yellow coins and diamond inserts built by Master Builder Wm. Tyrrell, Lambton House

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provincial election campaign comes and goes quickly. It will all be over on election day June 12.

We thought we’d give you an idea of the preelection campaign coverage you can expect from The Bloor West Villager.

First, while we believe in democracy – and that political parties are necessary in a parliamentary democracy – we will always encourage candidates to represent their constituents first and their party second. With major questions such as economic issues and of course the transit puzzle, we’d like to see how courageous candidates are in accepting or denouncing a specific party’s platform if necessary to reflect the expressed view of constituents within a riding.

In a city with such diverse our view transit needs, different geograhave different opinions on Look for our phies transit priorities. We’re going to be features on quite eager to see how provincial candidates balance the needs of key city issues the people and the needs of their party leader.

At The Bloor West Villager, we’re going to key our pre-planned coverage in coming weeks to three specific areas: transit, health care and whether Toronto should have special exemption from Ontario Municipal Board governance which, in practice, has a perception of delaying or even preventing proper growth.

During the final weeks of the campaign, you will see features comparing the platforms of key candidates in a riding. You’ll see longer feature stories explaining the issues and calling candidates to action.

Our website has its place, too. The insidetoronto. com website and sub-sites specific to the provincial election will feature an archived view of everything written during the short campaign.

Value your vote. Take the time to quiz candidates when they come knocking on your door. Take time to study what’s been said during the campaign through our pages, our website and what you can imagine will be comprehensive live election night online coverage.

There’s no shortage of provincial election issues in the neighbourhoods of Toronto.

We want to be a guide for the ones that have a direct impact on your daily life. We welcome your issues. We welcome your views. We hope candidates listen when you speak through our pages.

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Time to change the rules for city councillors seeking higher office G ood on Adam Vaughan for packing up his office.

The former journalist and now former city councillor up and quit this past week, after the writ dropped on the federal byelection in Trinity-Spadina.

Vaughan will be running for the federal Liberals, to try and take the riding from the New Democratic Party following Olivia Chow’s departure, to run for mayor.

Leaving aside whether Vaughan is the best person to go to Ottawa for the riding of Trinity-Spadina, his decision regarding his seat at city hall has made for one of the best departures from city hall in recent memory.

Unlike representatives at other levels of government, Toronto councillors and mayors are under no obligation to vacate their seats when they choose to run, mid-term, for MP or MPP.

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They can even, during the campaign period, continue to collect their full pay. If they lose, their old job is waiting for them.

Councillor-candidates don’t have a great record on resisting those perks.

Raymond Cho, just now serving the residents of Scarborough-Rouge River while running for the provincial Progressive Conservatives, says he’ll be donating his councillor salary to charity for the length of the campaign, but is still collecting it.

Doug Holyday, the city’s former deputy mayor, did forgo his salary when he ran in last summer’s Etobicoke-Lakeshore byelection for the Progressive Conservatives, but he didn’t stop being a councillor

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You can’t blame them for doing so, given how the rules are.

The question that Vaughan’s decision raises again, is: should the rules be changed?

until he won. Peter Milczyn came back to Toronto council after having lost against Holyday, and is now getting ready to run again for the Liberals there.

We could go on: Olivia Chow, Brad Duguid, Judy Sgro, Michael Prue, Bas Balkissoon, Jack Layton... they all took advantage of a system that allows ambitious politicians to maintain both their base and safety net as they make the jump to federal and provincial politics.

You can’t blame them for doing so, given how the rules are. The question that

Vaughan’s decision raises, again, is: should the rules be changed?

Federal and provincial representatives seem to get by fine with more severe restrictions on their ambitions.

When Olivia Chow decided to run for Mayor of Toronto, she quit her job in Ottawa, as did Jim Karygiannis, when he decided to run for a seat on council in ScarboroughAgincourt. Legislation forced them to genuinely commit to seeking the new office, in a way that Toronto councillors need not.

That is something that we should expect from any politician with ambitions.

Because really, an honest decision to move up cannot come without an honest decision to move on.

David Nickle is The Villager’s city hall reporter. His column appears Thursdays. Reach him on Twitter: @DavidNickle

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Runnymede Health Care Centre launched its National Nursing Week with a special ceremony Monday at the hospital. Pictured is president and CEO Connie Dejak with Runnymede nur ses.

Runnymede’s ‘heart’ honoured at National Nursing Week launch at health care centre Five days of presentations, displays offered LISA RAINFORD lrainford@insidetoronto.com Nurses at Runnymede Health Care Centre were treated to a continental breakfast as part of the opening ceremony for National Nursing Week, May 12 to 18.

Nursing week is the busiest event that the Runnymede and St. Johns roads hospital hosts. The five days will be jam-packed with presentations, activities, prizes and food.

Dr. Margaret Blastorah, assistant professor at the Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing at the University of Toronto was scheduled to make a presentation to nurses as was Dr. Natalie Archer about oral hygiene instruction. The week includes displays and fitness tips as well as a Zumba class and fashion show.

“I’m extremely proud and honoured that I get a request to speak at the opening of

nursing week. I know first hand what our nurses mean to our patients,” said president and CEO Connie Dejak.

“You are the heart of our organization. I have nothing, but the utmost respect for you. From the bottom of my heart, I want to say thank you. I’m very fortunate. You make my job very easy.” pride in work Dejak commended the nursing staff’s dedication and pride in their work.

This year’s theme, ‘A Leading Force for Change,’ highlights the central role nurses play, Dejak said.

Raj Sewda, Runnymede Healthcare Centre chief nursing executive admitted he had to look online to find out just how many nurses there are working in Canada. He discovered there are more than 287,000; one in 10 Canadians work in health care, he said.

“The largest group of health care professionals are nurses,” he told his audience.

“Three out of four employees at Runnymede are nurses.”

Nursing week provides the opportunity to pause and thank the 287,000 nurses who devote their time and energy to the profession, said Sewda, whether they’re ICU nurses or trauma nurses in Afghanistan.

“I’d like to challenge you this week to think outside the box, to see how we can make a difference,” said Sewda.

“Access to health care is not the same as it was years ago.”

Patient centered care and client centered care must extend to community centered and national centered care, he said.

“Let’s challenge the status quo,” Sewda said.

Tell us your experiences with the city’s nurses. Email us a letter to the editor: contactus@insidetoronto.com

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Grenadier Pond Awakes WHEN: 10:30 a.m. to noon WHERE: High Park, 1873 Bloor St. W. CONTACT: highparkwalkingtours@yahoo.ca COST: Free Christine Tu-Parker, Senior Aquatic Ecologist for the Toronto Region Conservation Authority, shows how the pond and its inhabitants greet the new season. Meet at the Grenadier benches.

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West Bend Community Association WHEN: 7 to 9 p.m. WHERE: Indian Road Crescent Public School, 285 Indian Road Cres. CONTACT: 647-478-8457, info@ thewestbend.ca COST: Free West Bend Community Association hosts its regular residents meeting guest speaker is mayoral candidate David Soknacki. New members welcome.

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Chinese Brush Painting WHEN: 9 a.m. to noon WHERE: Swansea Town Hall, 95 Lavinia Ave. CONTACT: Swansea Area Seniors Association, 416-392-1953, swanseaareaseniors@gmail.com COST: 10 Classes at $100 Instructor led sessions on Thursday mornings let you discover your artistic talent, working in this delicate art form. Class open to seniors.

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>>>from page 1 remained the same since its inception, however, there was a geographical shift about 10 years ago, Lynch said. The neighbourhoods now include Bloor West Village, Swansea and the Junction. This year boasts 32 artists at 28 locations – the largest it has ever been.

Many sites are the homes of participating artists, providing visitors with a friendly, intimate setting in which to experience art. Some locations are picturesque commercial buildings, specially transformed for the art tour.

Artists are on hand at all display sites to welcome visitors and answer their questions.

Free maps are available at participating local merchants and online.

The map, said Lynch, whets one’s appetite. Some people want to visit every participat-

ing studio while others choose to zero in on a few places.

“The brochure gives a sense of what is available.

Every artist also has a profile on our website,” he said.

The artists like participating in the tour because it provides an opportunity to forge new friendships in their local community.

“There’s a lot of camaraderie that comes out of the tour,” Lynch said.

As many as a few thousand visitors will take the tour each year.

“Artists knock on our door each year to join,” Lynch said.

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Not all is lost, however, says Parkdale-High Park Councillor Sarah Doucette.

The Sunnyside pool, change rooms and washrooms will remain open.

“As you drive by, you can see it needs work. It’s an old building,” Doucette told The Villager on Monday.

Built in 1922, the pavilion is designated a heritage building and therefore its restoration must be done carefully, she said.

According to historical records, the original function of the pavilion was to provide changing facilities for swimming in Lake Ontario, however the lake was often too cold and so an adjoining public swimming pool was built in 1925. The pavilion was renovated in 1980 to provide updated changing facilities and a café along the beach as well as a garden.

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A rooftop patio had room for as many as 400 people.

Admission fees at the time were 25 cents for adults and 15 cents for children.

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Hosted by Scouts Canada Greater Toronto Council, this year’s breakfast takes place at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel in the Canadian

Room, from 7:30 to 9 a.m.

The breakfast helps to raise funds to provide safe, well-maintained facilities for thousands of youth to enjoy at the Haliburton Scout Reserve, or at the Woodland Trails facility, which provide summer activities for Scouts.

Included in these programs are canoeing, boating, fishing, orienteering and nature study at the 5,000-acre Haliburton Scout Reserve.

Scouts Canada strives to prevent having any youth turned away due to financial hardship. Thanks to

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West Toronto Lawn Bowling Club launches season The West Toronto Lawn Bowling Club’s season kicks off Saturday, May 17 at 3 to 6 p.m. New bowlers are always welcome, and the first visit, with free coaching, is free.

Come out and meet our friendly members and find a summer sport that is fun, healthy and very affordable.

The only requirements are flat-soled shoes.

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Three on-site legal aid staff lawyers offer consultations in immigration and family law Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Family law issues covered include child custody, separation, support payments and child protection.

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First Nation health concerns discussed Dayna Nadine-Scott of the National Network on Environments and Women’s Health, discusses the impact of long-term, low-dose exposure to pollutants on the Aamjiwnaang First Nation reserve, which has seen a drastic decline in male newborns in recent years.

The event takes place Tuesday, May 20, 7 p.m. at Annette library, 145 Annette St. For further details, call 416-393-7692.

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Cycle to support St. Joseph’s Health Centre Upcoming bike challenge inspired by local teens

“higher aspirations” this time around. Already, the hospital has doubled its corporate sponsorship this year, said the doctor.

“From my point of view, the event was inspiring,” Elmaraghy said.

Event co-ordinators have added an additional route to ensure more people – whether seasoned cyclists or those who simply enjoy a leisurely ride – can take part.

“We don’t want it to be something you have to train for,” the doctor said.

LISA RAINFORD lrainford@insidetoronto.com Registration is now open for St. Joseph’s Health Centre’s ‘Cycle 4 St. Joe’s,’ a 15K, 45K or 75k challenge that begins and ends at the Glen Eagle Golf Course in Caledon, Saturday, Sept. 28.

The registration fee is $75, which includes pre-ride fuel, a picturesque ride through Caledon, a souvenir cycling jersey and lunch.

inspired by local teens, avid cyclists and high school friends. In the fall of 2012, Roncesvalles Village resident Hayden Mayeur, then 15, and Lansdowne and St. Clair avenues-area resident Jonathan Garcia Limani, then 14, decided to embark on an approximately 130 kilometre bike ride from St. Joe’s to Niagara falls with the goal of raising more than $20,000 for the west-end hospital.

“This ride means a lot to both of us because we know that St. Joe’s takes care of a lot of kids and it’s where we’d go if we ever needed help.”

Mayeur told The Villager before their ride in 2012.

People may participate as an individual or as part of a team. Each participant is asked to raise a minimum of $250. The event goes rain or shine. For further details, visit www.cycle4stjoes.ca

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Registration is now open for St. Joseph's Health Centre's Cycle 4 St. Joe's fundraising event that takes place Saturday, Sept. 28 in Caledon.

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ticipated in St. Joe’s inaugural event and was the highest fundraiser collecting more than $10,000.

surgeon at the hospital, an avid cyclist who is on the event committee.

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Gabbys: Proudly serving great neighbourhoods since 1989 Not your typical restaurant, Gabby’s provides great food, family-friendly dining, sports and late night socializing, all under the same roof.

Providing a neighbourhood spot where you can bring the kids or watch the game with friends, has been the driving force behind Gabby’s restaurants since opening in 1989.

With the bar and flat screen TVs in the back, and the cozy restaurant in the front, you can come for the food or fun, day or night.

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Gabby’s is still owned and operated by the original Sherman and Warfield family. After opening their first location at 3263 Yonge Street, the family has successfully expanded the business in the GTA. They remain living in Toronto and still work in the restaurants seven days a week. The family’s choice to stay local and connect to the community allows them to offer the best food, drink and atmosphere best suited for each neighbourhood.

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Nestlé employees return to work after deal reached LISA RAINFORD lrainford@insidetoronto.com Nestlé Canada employees reached an agreement with their employer Monday afternoon after more than 360 workers at the chocolate factory at Dundas Street West and Lansdowne Avenue went on strike, Saturday, May 3.

The ratified collective agreement was “overwhelmingly” supported by the membership of Unifor Local 252, according to its national representative Barry Lines.

The collective agreement recognizes increased wages and increases in the defined benefit pension plan.

“It was a tough fight, but successful,” Lines told The Villager. “We are the only Nestlé factory in the world that still has a defined benefit pension plan.”

The company says it is “pleased” its employees will return to work shortly.

“We are pleased that we have finalized a new collective agreement with Unifor, the union representing production and skilled trades employees at our Sterling Road factory in Toronto,” said Catherine O’Brien, vice-president of Corporate Affairs at Nestlé Canada, in a statement. “The ratification vote was held on May 12 and our employees have accepted the terms of the agreement. We are pleased that our employees will return to work tonight and that we were able to achieve resolution.”

The employees, who make a variety of Nestlé chocolate bars, including Kit Kat and Aero, had been in a legal strike position since midnight, Saturday, May 3. As many as 365 workers went on strike after negotiations with Nestlé broke down. Union members were particularly concerned about securing and improving their defined benefit pension

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“We were able to make significant impact in the current defined benefit plan,” Lines said.

The plan now recognizes employees’ past years of service.

Nestlé first came to the table with the goal of eliminating the defined benefit pension plan altogether, which was a “non-starter” for the union.

Serving more than 305,000 workers across the country, Unifor represents approximately 88,000 workers in manufacturing, 9,600 of whom work in the food and beverage industry.

Unifor was formed Labour Day weekend last year when the Canadian Auto Workers and the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers unions merged.

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A fourth R will be added to the list of educational foundations Toronto’s Catholic students will undergo standardized testing for next school year.

In addition to reading, writing and arithmetic testing, Catholic elementary school students will now also be asked to complete a standardized “religious knowledge assessment”, Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB) trustees decided at their April 30 board meeting.

In a vote of 5-3, trustees approved the motion put forth by Scarborough/North York Trustee John Del Grande proposing the testing for students in grades 4 and 7.

“Catholic schools are extensions of the Catholic church and home, and it is our responsibility to ensure we are developing wellformed Catholic students who are knowledgeable about core tenants of our faith,” Del Grande’s motion reads, noting the standardized religious knowledge assessment will seek “to measure pieces of the Religious/Family Life program pertaining to retention/understanding of faith tenants and liturgical practices.”

In an interview with the Bloor West Villager last week, Del Grande said the assessment will not – and cannot – act as a test of TCDSB students’ faith, but more as a measure of their religious knowledge retention.

“Religious education is one of the subjects that really doesn’t get graded at an overall level on a report card, but it’s a core component of what’s being taught in our classrooms and we want to make sure there’s a

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standardized way of assessing our students,” he said.

“One of the purposes of Catholic schools is to provide a Catholic education...and while it’s impossible to test faith, you can test to make sure there’s that basic knowledge in terms of understanding the core curriculum and core teachings.”

Del Grande said reaction to his motion has been mixed, with teachers unions objecting to the new standardized religious knowledge assessment and parents mainly supportive of the move.

Teresa Pierre, president of the Catholic parents group Parents As First Educators (PAFE), said she is in full support of the move for the “better accountability and greater fidelity to the faith” the testing will bring.

“Parents will appreciate the greater accountability for student achievement in the religious curriculum provided by regular testing,” she said in a statement.

“Even more important, we will be able to identify students who are behind, so they can get help, and those who are ahead, so they can be given more challenging work.”

Etobicoke Trustee Ann Andrachuk, meanwhile, was one of the three trustees present at the April 30 TCDSB meeting who voted against implementing the

measure.

While Andrachuk previously supported Del Grande’s standardized religious knowledge assessment proposal when it was being piloted in the mid-2000s, she said she has since had a change of opinion.

“What we determined from the (pilot) testing was that, in fact, our students were doing very well from the knowledge point of view in the religious testing,” she said in an interview this week.

“My experience with the kids in our schools, at least locally for me, is that they’re putting their faith into practice. And for me, that speaks volumes,” she added. can’t ask for more “So I don’t think (testing) is one of those necessary tools any longer, the way I initially did when I was a new trustee on the board. If they’re walking the walk and talking the talk, then we can’t ask more for our kids.”

Del Grande said he believes the new standardized religious knowledge assessment program will be in place in TCDSB schools in time for the 2014-’15 school year (although Ukrainian rite schools will be exempted at this time due to the Roman Rite focus).

His motion was supported by Trustees Patrizia Bottoni ( Ward 4 - North York), Frank D’Amico (Ward 6 - York), Garry Tanuan (Ward 8 - Scarborough) and Angela Kennedy ( Ward 11 - East York/Toronto).

Tr ustees Andrachuk, Jo-Ann Davis ( Ward 9 Toronto) and Nancy Crawford ( Ward 12 - Scarborough) voted against it.

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They are expected to reach the Allen later this year, when they will be redeployed beyond Eglinton West subway station to continue the dig east towards Yonge Street.

A second pair of TBMs will then continue to excavate east from Yonge.

Meanwhile at street level, Metrolinx, which is co-ordinating construction of the almost $5 billion light rail project, has announced headwalls construction - concrete support structures which also serve as the boundaries for the Crosstown stations - is complete at Oakwood Avenue.

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Crosstown LRT construction activity is well underway on both sides of Allen Road along Eglinton Avenue.

Tunnelling continues for the first of two underground sections planned for the Eglinton Crosstown LRT, which comprises 10 kilometres under Eglinton Avenue from Black Creek Drive to Allen Road, and then from the Allen to Laird Drive.

Since last May, two tunnel borer machines (TBMs) have been excavating and installing concrete tunnel liners at a rate of approximately 10 metres per day.

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The tunnel boring machine at Keelesdale Park when construction first started.

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RBC pledges $1.25 million to new Humber River Hospital CLARK KIM ckim@insidetoronto.com The community campaign to fundraise $225 million to help build the new Humber River Hospital got another step closer in reaching that goal with a $1.25-million corporate donation.

RBC pledged the financial gift last Wednesday to go toward the new hospital’s Child & Adolescent Mental Health Inpatient Unit, which will be named after the RBC Foundation.

“We’re extremely grateful for RBC’s generous donation,” said Jack Kay, Humber River Hospital capital campaign co-chair, noting they have now surpassed the $60-million mark in the fundraising campaign. “It will take many community and corporate leaders to build a hospital.”

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“This whole floor is mental health so we have a continuum of care,” Devlin said.

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