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City needs skate parks, creator of razed DIY park says DOMINIK KUREK dkurek@thetopic.ca

The creator of a do-it-yourself skateboarding park in the Junction Triangle neighbourhood that was razed by City of Toronto crews says more are bound to spring up and this might be the spark that is needed to make it happen.

“This demolition doesn’t stop any other skateboarders from going out and throwing some concrete against the wall, because they’re going to keep doing that anyway,” Syd Patterson, 22, told The Villager. “This might actually spark what we needed to get a legitimate space to use as our venue for expression.”

He’s referring to the media attention paid to the skate park that was torn down Nov. 7 at the dead-end of Paton Road, just northwest of Bloor Street West and Lansdowne Avenue, that he and his friends had been building since summer.

He’s not trying to start a revolution. He just wants a skateboarding facility close to home.

He intends to work with local councillor Ana Bailão, who had ● See LOCAL, page 7

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A Special Report on Child Poverty Hundreds of thousands of Canadian children are growing up in poverty.

In Ontario, more than 370,000 children (or 13.8 per cent) lived in a low-income household in 2013, only slightly better than the national average of 14.3 per cent.

Poverty often means food insecurity, an inability to fully participate at school and difficulty accessing services. See our story on page 3 to find out how Toronto’s young citizens are faring.

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Motorists urged to be prepared for winter weather

Snow is in the forecast ANDREW PALAMARCHUK apalamarchuk@insidetoronto.com

Motorists should get themselves and their vehicles ready for winter driving before the bad weather hits, CAA and Toronto police urge.

“The weather is set to turn, and we want to get drivers thinking about how to be best prepared and to stay safe in these conditions,” CAA spokesperson Jeff LeMoine said. “Changing your mindset so that you’re more patient, leaving yourself more time and space on the road, all of those things will help to keep us all safe.”

Police and CAA held a media event in Etobicoke Wednesday morning where officers used a special “skid car” to demonstrate techniques to get out of a skid.

“The easiest way to

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describe it is you steer where you want to go,” Const. Clint Stibbe said.

“The reality is in some cases when you do that, you overcorrect and then the vehicle begins to swing back the other way. You now have to compensate for that correction and you have to do it immediately.

If you have to sit there and think about it, you’re not prepared ... (and) you’ll be out of control and involved in a collision.”

Snow could hit Toronto on Sunday, and police see a spike in collisions whenever there’s a sudden change in weather conditions.

Stibbe said motorist behaviour should also change by slower driving and no sudden braking.

“We depend so much on our safety system in the cars. In some cases we’re putting so much faith in them that we’re overdriving the road conditions and the safety systems and essentially putting ourselves out of control.”

CAA offers these additional tips for winter driving: ● Stay on main roads ● Keep a phone charger in your car ● Avoid using overdrive or cruise control ● Slow down and move over for emergency vehicles ● Never pass a snow plow on the right-hand side ● Practice emergency braking to understand how your vehicle will react ● Ensure your gas tank is always above half full LeMoine said vehicles should also be made ready for the winter.

“You want to make sure your lighting system is fully working,” he said.

“Your windshield wipers should be functioning well because if you can’t see through your windshield it’s unsafe, and make sure your washer fluid is topped up, that your oil is in good standing.”

LeMoine also suggests

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CAA communications consultant Jeff LeMoine displays items that make up a vehicle winter emergency kit. having a survival kit and an emergency roadside kit in vehicles.

Having Kitty Litter is also a good idea.

“If your vehicle becomes stuck in a situation where the tires can’t grip the sur-

face of the road, sprinkling some Kitty Litter near the tires can sometimes help you gain just enough traction to get out of that situation,” said LeMoine.

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ing winter tires installed for better traction.

“They do make a large difference over all-season tires, and they can help reduce your stopping distance by up to 25 per cent,” LeMoine said.

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Child poverty rates in Toronto differ by race and ethnicity JONATHAN ZETTEL newsroom@insidetoronto.com Angela grew up poor and was determined to make a better life for herself. She owned a construction business with her husband, but in 2009, after he beat her during a night of drinking, she left with her three children.

Angela, who agreed to speak to us anonymously, said she never expected to wind up with “three kids on the street, basically looking for the kindness of strangers to help me out.”

The local women’s shelter would not admit boys older than 12 and Angela’s oldest was 15.

That night in the emergency room, a nurse offered her a basement apartment.

Since then, Angela and her three children, who live in Owen Sound, have come face-to-face with poverty and learned firsthand how it undermines opportunities to rebuild.

In addition to lacking money for a car, telephone or food, Angela worries about her children’s mental and physical health.

Stress, anger, anxiety and a sense of isolation, coupled with the poor-quality, processed, high-carbohydrate diet provided by food banks have led to asthma, stomach problems and poor immunity.

“I couldn’t figure out why they were sick all the time,” she said, adding she would be called away from work frequently to tend to ill children, which made it hard to hold down a job.

Angela’s three children struggled with school and missed out on school trips and extracurricular activities because even $5 for pizza day was out of reach.

Housing was also a problem and the family has moved frequently.

In one instance, Angela asked her landlord if he could supply her with a letter of residence so that she could apply for social assistance - instead he gave her an eviction notice because he didn’t want “that type of people

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Sarah Shaikh, 13, (right) and Helen Liu, 12, make their meal selections during the July summerlunch+ program in East York.

With school lunch initiatives closed for the summer break, summerlunch+ aimed to fill the nutrition gap for local area children. living there.”

While 13.9 per cent of children across Ontario live in poverty, a staggering 25 per cent of those living in Toronto are below Statistics Canada’s Low Income Measure, as are 19 per cent of adults, the City of Toronto reported.

Toronto also has the highest rates of poverty and child poverty among Canada’s 20 largest cities, indicated a 2014 report, Colour of Poverty, by Children’s Aid Society of Toronto, Social Planning Toronto and Family Service Toronto.

There is “stark inequality” in children’s lives across Toronto neighbourhoods, stated a 2014 Social Planning Toronto report, The Hidden Epidemic: A Report on Child and Family Poverty in Toronto.

Low-income rates among children ranged from five per cent in Lawrence Park North and South, Leaside-Bennington and Kingsway South, to 10 times higher

- more than 50 per cent in Regent Park, Moss Park, Thorncliffe Park and Oakridge.

The report findings echoed others that found poverty varies greatly in Toronto by race and ethnicity, with people of African and Middle Eastern backgrounds three times more likely to live on low incomes than those of European backgrounds.

In April 2014, Toronto City Council voted unanimously to develop a poverty reduction strategy. Its target: to end child poverty within a generation by 2035.

Toronto’s strategy contains 17 recommendations and 71 actions to respond to the immediate needs of low-income Torontonians, to create pathways out of poverty, and to address the systemic causes of equality, the city stated.

The Toronto Poverty Reduction Strategy focuses on housing stability; service equity; transit

equity; food access; quality jobs and livable wages, and systemic change.

This month, a new children’s charity launched with a mandate to be a strong, independent voice for Canada’s children.

Children First Canada stated while Canada is the fifth mostprosperous nation in the world, the country is falling behind in its protection and care of its children.

“There is a big disconnect between what we perceive to be the case when it comes to the wellbeing of kids in Canada and what’s actually going on,” the charity’s founder Sara Austin, an international children’s rights advocate and former leader with World Vision Canada, said in a statement.

“While we assume Canadian children are well cared and provided for, child poverty and suffering has reached epidemic levels in cities and towns across the

country.”

The charity is calling on Ottawa to appoint an independent children’s commissioner to advocate for children, and to publish an annual children’s budget to track federal funding.

The Liberals promised a children’s commissioner during the 2015 election campaign, Austin noted in a speech Nov. 16 to a Toronto meeting of the Empire Club of Canada.

The government is “still studying the idea,” said a spokesperson for Jean-Yves, Duclos, minister of families, children and social development, last week when asked about the pledge.

The charity also wants Canadians to volunteer with children’s organizations, talk about the issue of child poverty with friends, neighbours and family, and donate to children’s charities.

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his is where it starts: sometime this month – or maybe next – a mid-size company in the Greater Toronto Area is pushed to outsource a department to stay viable. A person loses a job.

At first, he finds freelance work, then temporary manual labour gigs. Then, nothing.

A single parent, he looks at starting his own business, but that would require an infusion of cash. Or retraining, but that, too, would cost money, and leave the household without an income for an extended period of time.

The first things to go are the luxuries – TV packages, smartphones, music lessons. The SUV is traded in for a used compact car. Next come some harder choices – running the washing machine less often to save on hydro and water, fewer trips to the grocery store supplemented with items from the local food bank.

One day – and then the next– both kids go to school without breakfast. These are the faces of child poverty in our communities.

In a Metroland special investigative series, reporters from community papers across southern Ontario examine the issue of child poverty, which may at first blush not be visible some areas of Toronto. One of the stories is online and in print today, the rest can be found at insidetoronto.com They present research that says more than 370,000 Ontario children (or 13.8 per cent) lived in a lowincome household in 2013, only slightly better than the national average of 14.3 per cent. They also found that more than 800,000 students take part in more than 4,000 school meal programs across the province.

Certainly, initiatives such as the recent changes to the Child Tax Benefit program will help address the problem. As well, accurate, detailed information garnered through the recently restored long-form Census will aid in creating a focused poverty plan. But it could be years before such strategies bear fruit.

Other avenues that need to be explored include economic development initiatives that focus on maintaining – and creating – local jobs, investments in training and seeking out ways to help Ontario Works clients secure meaningful employment without worrying about clawbacks to benefits. Most of all, students need to learn life skills and strategies that will help put them on a path to a successful future.

Make no mistake: child poverty is family poverty, and it is a cycle we need to break.

We all have a part to play. Let’s get to it.

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Dreaming the impossible dream of breaking up Toronto I have met the Don Quixote of Toronto’s suburbs.

He’s out there, mostly on weekends, trying to free Scarborough from the clutches of Toronto by gathering signatures door to door.

About 400,000 should do it. Then Kathleen Wynne must listen. Ontario’s premier will hold a vote, and return Scarborough, after two decades of abuse, back to its fiscally-responsible people.

“It’s been an abysmal failure, amalgamation,” says Robert McDermott, leader of the Free Scarborough Campaign.

“It was undemocratic, forcefully and arrogantly put through.”

McDermott is a realtor who tried running for council in Scarborough, and led a Toronto-wide slate of candidates against

MIKE ADLER Edges of Toronto our municipal land transfer tax.

That didn’t work, and neither will this. Mike Harris didn’t listen in 1997, when people in each of Toronto’s former cities voted not to merge.

A generation has passed since Scarborough’s city hall became the half-empty, mostly irrelevant relic of 1970s architecture it is today.

Independent Scarborough is gone. Its residents have as much chance of

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escaping Toronto as people in Leaside, Forest Hill or Long Branch.

But an ache remains, not just in Scarborough but everywhere away from the Megacity’s core. At its heart is one conviction: our money flows downtown, and doesn’t return.

“We can only remember how happy we were,” says Giorgio Mammoliti, a North York councillor.

“All we get are scraps to appease us in the suburbs.”

Downtown’s Rail Deck Park, perhaps to cost billions, is far away. In neighbourhoods called Rustic and Oakridge, the city asks residents to show up, vote and then, just maybe, it will put lights in the park or replace cracked sidewalk planters.

Suburban councillors fought to save traditions of their former cities, but

these were mostly about leaf collection and parking.

Those former cities are older now, and poorer.

An independent Scarborough in 2018 would have responsibilities its leaders couldn’t fathom as its subdivisions were built.

I don’t know what you call your neighbourhood, or why. Does North York still exist for you? Does East York?

That’s part of this column, finding out.

McDermott still dreams the impossible dream.

We’re stuck with each other.

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Councillor Ana Bailao holds tough talk about revenue tools

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Discussing revenue tools for the City of Toronto is a difficult and often heated subject to talk about with constituents, but that’s exactly why Ward 18 councillor for Davenport Ana Bailao wanted to have it.

As a part of her Ward 18 Talks series, her office hosted a panel discussion about why revenue tools

last week.

The panel included associate professor Matti Siemiatycki from the University of Toronto, the chair of Municipal Committee of the Toronto and York Region Labour Council, Maureen O’Reilly and the director of the Ryerson City Building Institute, Cherise Burda.

According to Siemiatycki, the City of Toronto has $33-billion worth of projects that have been

approved by the city but remain unfunded; this includes items like transit and Raildeck Park. In order to fund these projects, the city has a tough decision to make between cuts and where to find revenue, he said.

“We can’t just pick one (revenue tool) and think it will solve all our problems, we need a lot of them and we to be strategic about it,” Burda added.

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that would yield some of the larger pay offs include, a parking levy with the potential to raise $171 to 535 million; Road Pricing/ tolls which could raise $89377 million; and municipal personal income tax, with the potential to raise $125515 million.

Once chosen, Davenport could see benefits such a more transit stops and streetcars in the ward and repairs to Toronto Community Housing

buildings, said Bailao.

For some residents in attendance the road tolls seemed fair, tax those outside of the city using the roads to help with congestion, but others, like Stella Kariginnakis didn’t see it that way.

“No. I refuse to pay another cent. I’m not prepared to pay a penny more. I’m taxed out,” Karigiannakis said during the question and comment portion of the panel.

Bailao sympathizes, but says there are benefits the community will be able to see. People are frustrated, she said and just need to see the value of what they’re paying for.

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Local councillor to help skateboarders ‘push the boundaries’ for solution

● From front reached out to him, on the creation of a replacement park.

The demolition of his park was crushing, but not surprising, he admitted.

Bailão moved a motion at City Council that will allow Toronto staff to work with Patterson and his friends on the creation of a new skate park in the area. Whether the new park is built by skateboarders or City staff is still to be decided, Bailão said, but she notes that the City should tap into the energy of Toronto’s youth to create spaces for youth, and not be afraid of stepping outside the box.

“I think there has to be guidelines, but I think we shouldn’t be afraid, us as individuals and staff here at City Hall and all bureaucracies, to push the boundaries a little bit sometimes. That’s how innovation happens, that’s how community engagement happens,” she said.

Dufferin Grove Park is home to Patterson’s closest City-run skate park, only about a kilometre away, but it is seasonal and lacks concrete ramps among other features

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The City of Toronto has dismantled an unauthorized skate park at the foot of Paton Road in the Bloor Street and Lansdowne Avenue area. skateboarders want.

His nearest two concrete skate parks are in south Etobicoke and at Ashbridges Bay in the east-end. There’s also a small, concrete “skate spot” near Lansdowne and Queen Street West.

As far as the city’s core goes, skate parks are lacking, said Migs Bartula, cochair of the Toronto Skateboarding Committee.

The committee, comprised mostly of skateboarders, formed in late 2013 to work with Toronto’s Parks, Forestry and Recreation department to guide skate park development. They helped develop the Toronto Skateboard

Strategy, which council passed in November. The strategy will guide the creation of skateboard facilities and supports community engagement in these developments.

Bartula said a north Etobicoke skate park will be rehabilitated in the near future and a new park is planned for Scarborough-Agincourt, plus other projects are in the planning stages.

“We have the ball rolling,” he said. “The youth don’t want to keep doing surveys and hearing about this, that, paperwork and meetings. They want to see things get built so they can use it.”

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Christmas Bazaar WHEN: 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

WHERE: St. Pius X Catholic School, 71 Jane St. CONTACT: t2christie@ gmail.com COST: Free Features local craft vendors, children’s games, silent auction and raffle items donated by local merchants. Funds raised will provide library books, classroom supplies, Christmas baskets for needy families and more.

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Christmas Collectible Market WHEN: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. WHERE: St. Vincent de Paul Church, 263 Roncesvalles Ave. CONTACT: lurkerm1e@lycos.com COST: Free Vintage gifts: records, toys, teacups, China, jewels and much more. Christmas candy, Christmas cards, crafts, handmade knitwear and vintage Christmas ornaments.

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769, COST: Free The library provides instruments to share, but bring your uke if you have one. This program is for children ages six to 12. Parents and caregivers welcome. Drop-in, no registration required.

Adopt-a-Street-Tree Info Session WHEN: 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. WHERE: Gladstone Public Library, 1101 Bloor St. W. CONTACT: Erin@ yourleaf.org COST: Free LEAF and the City of Toronto release the Adopt-a-Street-Tree Manual, a guide for Torontonians on how to care for commercial street trees in their communities.

Come learn about existing Adopta-Street-Tree pilot projects and find out what resources are available to help you start your own.

● Sunday, Nov. 27

Buckthorn Busting and Potluck WHEN: 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. WHERE: Grenadier Restaurant, 200 Parkside Dr. CONTACT: stewards@highparknature.org COST: Free Help remove the invasive Buckthorn and restore the park’s ecology. Session followed by a potluck lunch. Meet in front

of the Grenadier Restaurant at 10:30 a.m.

The Healey Willan Singers Women Choir presents Christmas Joy WHEN: 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

WHERE: Church of St. Martin in-the-Fields, 151 Glenlake Ave. CONTACT: 416-519-0528, www. healeywillansingers.com, healeywillansingers@yahoo.ca COST: $20 adults/$15 seniors/students Come and enjoy an afternoon of Christmas choral music featuring the Healey Willan Singers women’s choir. The choir opens their 10th season with a program including John Rutter’s Dancing Day. Visit the choir’s website: www.healeywillansingers.com

● Monday, Nov. 28

Green 13 Monthly Meeting WHEN: 6:15 p.m. to 8:15 p.m.

WHERE: Annette Street Library, 145 Annette St. CONTACT: 416393-7692 COST: Free Green 13 is a group of Ward 13 residents concerned about the impact humans are having on our climate and environment.

The group meets monthly. New members are welcome.

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Kitchen wall down the norm When considering a kitchen renovation, particularly in older village homes where space is at a premium, many homeowners are opting for removal of the structural wall between the kitchen and the dining room to make better use of the main floor living area.

“The change is dramatic,” says Michael Lamarche, partner at Instyle Kitchens and Bathrooms (416-833-4343, www.ikb.ca).

“Removing a wall transforms the main floor of the house from a tight and cramped area to a place where family and friends can gather and enjoy themselves in a more inviting, designed space,” he says.

Removing the dividing wall frees up space, making the living and dining room more functional. The wall down reno also allows more light to shine from room to room, making the open-concept area feel lighter and brighter.

Some customers are concerned with how a wall down renovation will affect the structural integrity of the home. Instyle takes care of everything from engineered permit drawings to cabinet styles and con-

5 things to do this weekend ● Friday through Sunday

One of a Kind Show and Sale WHEN: 10 a.m.

WHERE: Enercare Centre, Exhibition Place, 100 Princes’ Blvd CONTACT: oneofakindshow.com/ toronto/index.php COST: Various Connecting makers and buyers who have an appreciation of boundless creativity, local production, and exquisite craftsmanship.

104th Grey Cup festivities WHEN: 11:30 a.m.

WHERE: BMO Field, 170 Princes Blvd. CONTACT: greycupfestival. ca COST: Various The Grey Cup is coming to Toronto. The big game is Sunday, at newly renovated BMO Field but before then there’s plenty going on including the Grey Cup Festival. See website.

The Toronto Christmas Market WHEN: 12 p.m. to 9 p.m.

WHERE: Distillery District, 55 Mill St. CONTACT: torontochristmasmarket.com COST: Free Admission is free Tuesday to Friday. Closed Mondays. Runs until Dec. 22.

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Amal Aden, 8, waves to her mom as she whirls around in the swing carousel, complete with painted face at a previous year’s KidzFest. This year’s Kidzfest at Yonge-Dundas Square runs Nov. 26.

● Saturday, Nov. 26

Kidzfest WHEN: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

WHERE: Yonge-Dundas Square, 1 Dundas St. E. CONTACT: www. downtownyonge.com/kidzfest/ COST: Free Join Downtown Yonge BIA at Yonge-Dundas Square for a day of fun for kids of all ages, meet Paw Patrol’s Chase & Little Charmer’s Hazel, ride the Ferris wheel and much more!

Cavalcade of Lights WHEN: 3 p.m. to 11 p.m.

WHERE: Nathan Phillips Square, 100 Queen St. W. CONTACT: toronto.ca/cavalcade COST: Free Will mark the official start of the holiday season in Toronto. It features the first lighting of Toronto’s official Christmas tree and an evening of live performances, a skating party and fireworks display.

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struction to a three dimensional cabinet layout, giving the customer a bird’s eye view of what the project will look like at completion. The Instyle team has completed kitchen wall down renovations in more than 200 homes in the area.

To better understand how a wall down renovation will transform their home, new customers are encouraged to visit past customers who trusted Instyle with their renovation projects. New customers can talk to previous customers about the experience of taking on such a large renovation project and working with

Instyle Kitchens and Baths.

As an added bonus, at the time of the kitchen renovation/ wall down, many customers request that all of the existing hardwood flooring be removed.

This way, Instyle can put down a new subfloor and new hardwood.

Instyle Kitchens and Bathrooms is located at 361 Jane Street. For more information on this or any type of project call 416-833-4343 or www.ikb. ca and request a no charge estimate and consultation. Please note showroom visits are by appointment only.

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Christmas returns to High Park’s Grenadier Café The fifth annual High Park Christmas celebrations will take place Sunday, Dec. 4 at the Grenadier Café patio from 2 to 5 p.m.

Visitors will have a

chance to sing along with The Withnells; enjoy hot chocolate and cookies; roast marshmallows; take part in face painting, tattoos and a raffle; make a tree ornament; and check

out a Toronto Fire truck.

Santa will be at the Reindeer Pen from 2 to 3 p.m. and at the Grenadier Patio from 4 to 5 p.m.

A tree lighting happens at 5 p.m.

The event is sponsored by the High Park Grenadier Fund. For more information, visit www.highpark.org

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Celebrate Incredible.

Help us recognize the junior citizens who make our communities better. Nominate someone age 6–17 for a 2016 Ontario Junior Citizen Award!

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Annaleise Carr, 2012 and 2014 Ontario Junior Citizen, Simcoe, ON At 14, Annaleise Carr was the youngest person ever to swim across Lake Ontario. Two years later, Annaleise swam across Lake Erie. Combined these efforts raised awareness and hundreds of thousands of dollars for Camp Trillium, a family camp for children with cancer.

Her book, Annaleise Carr: How I Conquered Lake Ontario to Help Kids Battling Cancer, inspires others to take on great challenges and help their fellow citizens.

Do you know someone who is involved in worthwhile community service, is contributing while living with a limitation, has performed an heroic act, demonstrates individual excellence, or is going above and beyond to help others? If so, nominate them today!

Nominations are open until November 30, and nomination forms are available from this newspaper, and the Ontario Community Newspapers Association at www.ocna.org or 416-923-7724 ext. 4439.

PUBLIC MEETINGS Mon., Dec. 5 Etobicoke Olympium 590 Rathburn Rd. Etobicoke

Tue., Dec. 6 Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Toronto 5183 Sheppard Ave., E. Scarborough

Wed., Dec. 7 Mitchell Field Community Centre 89 Church Ave. North York

Thu., Dec. 8 Toronto Reference Library, Epic Hall 789 Yonge St. Downtown

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Metroland Media Toronto appoints Georgia Balogiannis as Managing Editor

Georgia Balogiannis has been named Managing Editor, Metroland Media Toronto has announced.

Balogiannis is responsible for managing the daily operations of the Toronto newsroom, as well as contributing to the editorial strategy of the nine community newspapers and its news website, insidetoronto.com “In the time Georgia and I have worked together she has demonstrated her passion and commitment to her team and community news,” Grace Peacock, Metroland Media Toronto Editor-in-Chief, said in a statement. “I have no doubt her enthusiasm for journalism and this city will serve our readers well.”

Balogiannis had been an acting managing editor with Metroland Media Toronto for the past year and prior to that served as news editor for seven years.

“This appointment has honoured and humbled me,” Balogiannis said in a statement, noting while she’s from the city’s eastend, she has always considered the entire City of Toronto her home. “While each community is unique, what binds us is our collective desire to affect change in the areas we live.”

Balogiannis began her career at Metroland as a 21-year-old, but a passion for all kinds of journalism

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Georgia Balogiannis has been appointed Managing Editor for Metroland Media Toronto. led Balogiannis to pursue a career in television. She worked at CKVR as a writer and assignment editor, and then went on to work at 680 News as an anchor and producer before returning to her roots in print journalism.

Balogiannis said her TV and radio experience positions her well to lead a news team responding to breaking news online, quickly and accurately.

She values teamwork, and exhibits understanding and compassion in her leadership role.

“We have a dedicated team of journalists here.

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Idea makers. These are the traits that make a journalist great, and I’m fortunate to

be able to play a small part in our success as a news organization,” she said.

Balogiannis sits onprogram advisory committee for the journalism department at Centennial College, her alma mater.

This year, Balogiannis is one of the lead editors on an ambitious digital and print project, titled The Millennial Mission. The project examines: how post-secondary institutions are preparing millennials for the workforce, what employers are seeking from graduates, and what type of entrepreneurial opportunities millennials are creating for themselves.

Balogiannis holds a journalism diploma from Centennial College.

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The concert will feature the Canadian première of Carol Barnett's choral piece The Day of Hope, while ParkdaleHigh Park MP Arif Virani will narrate a moving written piece of the same name.

The Day of Hope was written for the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize Forum in honour of Iranian Muslim human rights lawyer and Nobel Prize recipient Shirin Ebadi. It features Persian texts from the 11th to 14th centuries and Ebadi's own words.

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