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Junction residents still waiting for graffiti cleanup RAHUL GUPTA rgupta@insidetoronto.com It’s been over a year since Metrolinx promised to come up with a plan to clear graffiti off train noise walls installed before the launch of the UP Express, but residents say little has been done. Introduced in 2015 as part of 20-kilometres of non-continuous barriers along the Kitchener GO rail corridor and intended to lessen the noise from UP

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to good use by participating in the annual Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon on Sunday, Oct. 16, as a champion runner for the High Park Zoo. The pledges he collects will specifically support the Friends of High Park Zoo’s ‘Master Plan’ to improve the animal shelters and public spaces. “The zoo is really important,” Jewell told The Villager. “We need to ensure the zoo remains available and free for years to come.” >>>ZOO, page 7

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Healey Willan Singers Women’s Choir Audition WHEN: 10:15 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. WHERE: St. Martin in-the-Fields Anglican Church, 151 Glenlake Ave. CONTACT: 416-519-0528 COST: Free The Healey Willan Singers women’s choir is looking for new singers (both sopranos and altos) to join the ensemble. Family Time WHEN: 2 to 2:45 p.m. WHERE: Runnymede Library, 2178 Bloor St. W. CONTACT: 416-393-7697 COST: Free The Oct. 15 session will include a special puppetry presentation of Roald Dahl’s “The BFG.” The Gods of Asgard WHEN: 2 to 3 p.m. WHERE: Jane/ Dundas Library, 620 Jane St. CONTACT: 416-394-1014 COST: Free Celebration of the new book, “Magnus Chase and the Hammer of Thor”. For children ages seven years old and up.

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Author Talk: Bianca Lakoseljac WHEN: 7 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Annette Street Library, 145 Annette St. CONTACT: 416-393-7692 COST: Free Stone Woman author Bianca Lakoseljac will discuss the inspiration for this book and read an excerpt if

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Poetry Saved Our Lives WHEN: 4 to 6 p.m. WHERE: Jane/Dundas Library, 620 Jane St. CONTACT: Kara, 416-394-1014 COST: Free Join award winning spoken word champion, Ian Keteku, as he leads a spoken word workshop this fall. The workshop will provide youth with mentorship and artistic development opportunities, while allowing them to showcase their artistic poetic talent and develop their leadership skills. CHECK OUT OUR complete online community calendar by visiting www. insidetoronto.com where you can read listings from your Bloor West neighbourhoods as well as events from across Toronto. requested, and answer questions. Citizenship Education Mentoring Circle WHEN: 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. WHERE: Jane/Dundas Library, 620 Jane St. CONTACT: 416-394-1014 COST: Free Practice for the Canadian Citizenship Test, while enhancing your English reading skills. For landed immigrants and convention refugees, 19 years and older with LINC Level 4 and higher. Junction Seniors Gathering WHEN: 10 to 11 a.m. WHERE: Agora Cafe, 3015 Dundas St. W. CONTACT: 416-767-8844 COST: Free

Group meets twice a week at a local coffee shop for conversation, as a social network of neighbours. Debate WHEN: 7:30 p.m. WHERE: Swansea Town Hall, 95 Lavinia Ave. CONTACT: www.debating.ca COST: Free Toronto Debating Society has debates on different topics each meeting. Guests are welcome.

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Shout Sister Toronto South West WHEN: 7 to 9 p.m. WHERE: Roncesvalles United Church, 240 Roncesvalles Ave. CONTACT: www. shoutsisterchoir.ca COST: dues Shout Sister Toronto South West is

always welcoming new members. This is an all-inclusive women’s choir, which sings a variety of music.

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Dufferin Grove Organic Farmers’ Market WHEN: 3 to 7 p.m. WHERE: Dufferin Grove Park, 875 Dufferin St. CONTACT: Maria, 416-887-0651 COST: Free Every Thursday. HauntTO WHEN: 7:30 p.m. to 1 a.m. WHERE: HauntTO, 75 Perth Ave. CONTACT: Groups@HauntTO.com COST: $30 An interactive terror maze of psychological warfare, HauntTO feels like stepping into a real life horror movie.

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Swansea Book Club - They Left Us Everything WHEN: 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. WHERE: Swansea Town Hall, 95 Lavinia Ave. CONTACT: 416-393-7638 COST: Free They Left Us Everything by Plum Johnson, will be discussed.

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The BFG Puppet Show WHEN: 2 p.m. WHERE: Runnymede Library, 2178 Bloor St. W. CONTACT: 416-393-7697 COST: Free A puppet rendition of Roald Dahl’s “The BFG.” Calling all human beans

to join us after the show to make your very own dream jar. Hush Hush 2016 WHEN: 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. WHERE: Bloor/Gladstone branch of Toronto Public Library, 1101 Bloor St. W. CONTACT: 416-393-7237 COST: $125 Heroes and villains themed fourth annual party-in-the-stacks, with proceeds going to Toronto Public Library.

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Autumn Splendour Photo-Buff Walk WHEN: 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. WHERE: High Park, 1873 Bloor St. W. CONTACT: John Howard, highparkwalkingtours@yahoo.ca COST: Free Bring your camera or photo device and shoot nature’s colourful glory with High Park photographer David Allen. Meet at the benches across from the Grenadier Restaurant.

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Meet Yvonne Ohara: she’s done it 800 times TAMARA SHEPHARD tshephard@insidetoronto.com Yvonne Ohara is in the exclusive 800 club. Recently, the Etobicoke woman became one of only a handful of Ontarians to donate blood an astounding 800 times. “Blood is the ultimate renewable resource,” said Ohara, 68, who works for Toronto police. “You don’t know when you, a family member or a friend may need some blood.” Every two weeks, Ohara heads to CBS headquarters at 67 College St. to donate a bag of platelets, which she can donate 24 times a year. Ohara began donating blood at age 21. She said she was drawn to more specialized platelets and plasma donation after seeing other donors on different blood-drawing machines. “The nice thing about plasma and platelet donation is you’re essentially matched with (a recipient),” Ohara said. Platelets, a component required to make blood clot, is in need by people with diseases associated with prolonged bleeding, such as cancer and bone marrow

therapy. Platelets have a shelf life of only five days. Plasma donations help people with some bleeding disorders, liver diseases, and in some operations. Blood donation is a family tradition for Ohara. Ohara’s father, Charles Overton, began taking her at age four to his blood-donation appointments, including at the former Hospital for Sick Children, which is now CBS headquarters where Ohara donates. Overton donated 99 times until his age made him ineligible. Michael Scharlemann, Ohara’s husband, has donated blood 78 times. He made a stem cell donation after being notified he was a match on the national unrelated bone marrow registry. “The trick is to get donors younger, in high school and in college,” Ohara said. “Make it a family tradition. Go with your parents or friends to a mobile clinic at the mall.” Across Canada, CBS must collect 17,000 units of blood every week. Since blood products have a limited shelf life, demand is constant. “Roughly every minute, every day, someone in Canada needs blood,” CBS stated.

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Yvonne Ohara celebrates her 800th blood donation with Canadian Blood Services. Ohara has been donating for 47 years.

Blood and blood components are used to treat a number of injuries and illnesses, including various forms of cancer, hip and joint conditions, transplants, traumas, such as car accidents, blood disorders, and many

others. Across the country, less than four per cent of eligible Canadians donate blood, CBS reported. One in 60 Canadians donate, despite the fact one in two is eligible.

Meanwhile, half of Canadians report they or a family member have required blood or blood components for surgery or medical treatment, CBS stated. Type O negative blood is in highest demand. It can be

used in emergency situations on anyone when there is no time to test a patient’s blood. People with Type O negative blood are considered universal donors. One person may donate whole blood up to six times a year, improving the lives of as many as 18 people, CBS stated. The entire process takes just over an hour. The standard blood donation is approximately 450 millilitres, slightly less than half a litre or two cups. An average adult’s body contains about five litres of blood. This year, CBS has revised its donation eligibility requirements. Health Canada approved CBS’s request to reduce the blood-donation waiting period for men who have sex with men from five years to one year. CBS tests blood donations for syphilis, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, HIV-1 and 2, Human T-Cell lymphotropic virus HTLV-I and II and West Nile Virus. CBS also revised its donation eligibility requirements to mitigate the risk, which it pegs at one in 8.3 million, of the Zika virus entering the Canadian blood system. Anyone who has traveled outside of Canada, the continental United States and Europe is now ineligible to give blood for 21 days after their return.

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Could we elect a Trump-like leader? Here in Canada, the prospect of a Donald Trump presidency is a terrifying one. The real-estate mogul and reality television star has been building support on a campaign of bigotry, misogyny and violence. While his campaign is still trailing that of former secretary of state, senator and first lady Hillary Clinton, the gap in polls is narrow and it is conceivable that Trump might prevail. The leader of our closest neighbour, biggest trading partner and longtime ally might be a whitesupremacist-approved, lying, narcissistic tyrant. The only comfort we might take in this distressing scenario: at least something like that could never happen here. Or could it? Our parliamentary system of government treats executive power very differently the American bicameral OuR ViEW than system. In some ways a prime with a firm majority can It can happen minister exercise far more power than a in the U.S., so president whose party doesn’t also control both the House of why not here? Representatives and the Senate. A Trump-like prime minister could make profound and potentially damaging changes to our country, with few to none of the checks on the power of a like-minded president. Our nomination process means it’s less likely that any party would choose such a polarizing figure as its leader, and in a federal election, voters aren’t faced with a simple choice between two candidates as happens in the U.S. But, it would be naive to think that Canadians are immune to the kind of xenophobic bigotry and nativism that has fuelled Trump’s rise. At its core, Trump’s success depends on two things – people who are profoundly worried about their future and a society where systemic racism makes it easy to blame “the other” for its problems. We have both here. In 2015, when Stephen Harper’s Conservatives banned women from wearing niqabs when taking citizenship oaths, vowed to revoke citizenship to dual citizens convicted of terrorism and floated the idea of a snitch line for “barbaric cultural practices,” the party had strong support. Now, Conservative leadership candidate Kellie Leitch is promoting a plan to screen out immigrants who hold “anti-Canadian values.” Does that mean that Canadians are ready to consider handing a Donald Trump the key to 24 Sussex Dr.? We like to think not. But we’d like to think the same of our friends south of the border.

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Is Toronto Hydro Mayor Tory’s next gold mine? There has to be gold in here somewhere. That sentiment, or a variation of it, has been a mantra for political leaders and would-be leaders since amalgamation. Former premier Mike Harris and his municipal affairs minister Al Leach were the first to see the mythical El Dorado in the 416 area code when they amalgamated the city from seven municipal governments into one. Surely, pulling all those bureaucracies together into one would save hundreds of millions of dollars. When that didn’t pan out, provincial scolds like former Scarborough Tory MP Steve Gilchrist helpfully suggested that amalgamated Toronto might sell off Metro Hall. But that never made sense in the end, as the former seat of Metro government housed a sizeable part of the city’s bureaucracy. Privatize garbage collection city-wide? Maybe one day it’ll save the cash-

david nickle the city strapped city millions, but Toronto had to break free of job protection language in collective agreements to even consider the idea. Now that’s happened, maybe contracting-out advocates will make one more attempt, and may pull it off. It’s hard to say whether Mayor John Tory will succeed at one of the most often-sought gold mines in the Toronto portfolio: that being Toronto Hydro, the electricity distribution company wholly owned by the City of Toronto. Certainly, many before him have tried and failed. Mel Lastman mused about selling it off. Jane Pitfield, running to unseat David Miller in 2006, gave it a go on the hustings, as did Karen Stintz in 2010 – and in neither case were they able to get near a mandate to do so.

Tory has been ruminating about a Hydro sale for months at least – or a species of Hydro sale, perhaps similar to the notion that Karen Stintz floated in 2010. Stintz argued that selling off about half of the city’s interest in the company would raise enough money to pay for the downtown relief subway line. She also suggested that leasing the company could work, if it weren’t possible to avoid the provincial taxes placed on the sale of more than 10 per cent of the asset. Either of these options might work well for Mayor Tory’s purposes. He, too, needs to finance a downtown relief line, and could also use some coin to build his scaled-back SmartTrack plan. A couple of weeks ago now, Tory turned his attention very publicly to the nuts-and-bolts workings of Toronto Hydro, in particular dealing with the multiple outages in highrise downtown Toronto condomin-

ium towers like CityPlace. The culprit, Tory noted first in a news release and then in front of reporters at the Toronto Board of Trade, was aging infrastructure serving growing areas. And he made it very clear that he not only wanted to get some power flowing from the utility, but also some cash, which he said should not be at the cost of public accountability. This is going to be a delicate balance. It’s hard to imagine very much money coming out of a partial sale of a power grid already in dire need of upgrade and repair – particularly one that will offset the loss of part of the annual dividend Toronto gets, amounting to approximately $60 million. But it looks as though in the short term at least, we’re going to dip our pan into that river one more time.

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Ru n n y m e d e L i b ra r y i s scheduled for closure as soon as mid-November to accommodate some necessary repair work, ParkdaleHigh Park Councillor Sarah Doucette reported in her weekly e-newsletter to constituents. The work at the local library at 2178 Bloor St. W. could keep it closed for four to five months to allow for interior alterations. These include a replacement of the service desk; relocation of the self-service checkout; the introduction of an automated self-service check in; reconfigured space for public workstations; additional seating and study space; and new flooring and finishes. The addition of mobile shelving will improve sightlines while offering more flexible use of space on the main floor. Improvements to the front door and vestibule will also be made. Changes to the second floor will include the recon-

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and refreshments, according to Friends’ Simone Stock, who says volunteers are still needed as are champion runners. The Master Plan, Stock s a i d , w i l l e n s u re t h a t Toronto’s community zoo remains an accessible, family-oriented destination spot for environmental education for many generations. Last year’s champion runners raised about $6,000. cheering stations The Friends of High Park Zoo is putting on one of as many as 12 neighbourhood cheering and entertainment centres at the marathon. The cheering centres are part

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to deal with what he referred to as an ongoing urban issue. The agency also has a publicly posted a management policy which defines the graffiti as vandalism, whose presence “causes people to feel unsafe and creates a perception that the area is uncared for...” street mural coming

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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-

McCuaig also suggested at the time a regular program of cleaning the noise walls is necessary

While there remains no timetable for cleaning, Metrolinx will soon introduce a new street mural along Dundas, Annette Street and Dupont Street, which in addition to showcasing public art is also intended to deter tagging. The piece will display on the concrete bases of the five-metre-high noise walls. The piece, titled PA SYSTEM, is already under installation. Conceived by local established graffiti artists Alex Hatanaka and Patrick Thompson, the mural described by the artists as vibrantly depicting the changing of natural landscapes when seen from a fast moving train - will be painted with high-quality latex and spray paint, and sealed with an anti-graffiti coating.

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LEFT: Instyle Kitchen and Bathrooms proposed designer drawing of a kitchen layout. RIGHT: The completed renovation.

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