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Junction resident Angela Browning says she’s so happy to be back in Dundas-Watkinson Parkette again after it was offlimits for about two months while under construction. She calls the park, situated on the north side of Dundas Street West between Keele and Annette streets, an “oasis in the middle of the city.” It serves as a surrogate yard for Browning and her neighbours, a place to meet friends, get some fresh air, and to enjoy nature. After undergoing renovations, the park now has an enhanced playground that’s 100 per cent CSA (Canadian Standards Association) Playground Standards compliant, ParkdaleHigh Park Councillor Gord Perks reported in a recent e-newsletter to constituents. The 900-square>>>park, page 7

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t has been 13 years since Ontario eliminated its official 13th year of school – then known as OAC – amid a controversial curriculum change that was supposed to end student streaming. The official 13th year, called Grade 13 until the 1980s when it was replaced by OAC (Ontario Academic Credit), was phased out in 2003 by the Progressive Conservative government. But could another change made when OAC was eliminated – introducing applied and academic course options – be making it hard for students to finish in four years with the credits they need to succeed and decreasing the likelihood some students will excel, while effectively continuing to stream students? Applied and academic credits are meant to be “mix and match,” but most students take courses in one or the other. Academic credits are typically required for university. “In a lot of cases, students pick applied because they think it will be easier, and then ironically they are much less likely to be successful in the applied stream. There’s so much evidence that says it’s a bad idea to divide kids, particularly in that first grade of high school. It limits choices, it closes doors, it sometimes sets kids up for failure,” said Annie Kidder, founder and executive director of advocacy group People for Education. “There are kids who either aren’t graduating, or who are getting

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Grade 12 students work independently during teacher Hugh Tran's math class at Father John Redmond Catholic Secondary School. These students, if they wish, can return for a fifth year of high school, but the province will only fund up to 34 credits.

to Grade 12 and realizing that there are doors that are already closed to them that got closed when they made that choice in Grade 8.” The courses replaced vocational, college and university streams, and are meant to teach the same curriculum in different ways. Academic courses study essential and related concepts with a theoretical approach, while applied teach essential concepts in a more practical, hands-on way. According to Ontario’s Education Quality and Accountability Office, of students who demonstrate strong math skills in grades 3 and 6, those who take applied math courses in high school are less likely to continue earning high marks. Lowered expectations, and in turn, lowered effort, for kids in applied courses has been floated by education experts as one potential cause for the disparities. In math, 83 per cent of Ontario

Grade 9 students in academic courses met or exceeded the provincial standard this year, while only 45 per cent of applied students hit the mark. In English, 92 per cent of Grade 10 students successfully completed this year’s Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test, while only 47 per cent of applied students were successful. A study by the Toronto District School Board, Ontario’s largest school board, suggests 60 per cent of students who take applied courses in Grade 9 don’t graduate within five years, compared to 14 per cent of those who choose academic. It takes 30 credits to graduate high school. A 34-credit threshold was introduced by the provincial Liberals in 2013. After 34 credits, the government decreases funding to school boards for most students. Students wanting to earn more than 34 credits must get approval from their board, and may have to take courses through

continuing education. “Over a decade ago, Ontarians moved to four years of high school, but many students are still taking that additional fifth year, even after graduating,” said a government statement at the time. “We need to shift the culture in our schools and encourage students to graduate and move on to the next stage in their lives after four years.” Needing to replace applied credits with academic or raise marks in a completed course, or switching career paths and needing different courses, to get to post-secondary programs, can leave students wanting more than 34 credits. “I think we need to allow for the vast amount of change that happens to young people,” Kidder said. “Obviously it can’t be unlimited and there have to be boundaries in this, but the problem always with capping anything is are there people who lose

from that, and I think in this case 34 may be too low.” Education Minister Mitzie Hunter and Education Critic Patrick Brown declined to be interviewed for this article, after weeks of correspondence with their representatives, with Hunter citing a lack of availability. “When selecting their courses in Grades 9 and 10, students are not expected to make binding decisions about a particular educational or career pathway,” said Ministry of Education spokesperson Heather Irwin. “However, they should try to ensure that they have the prerequisites required for future courses they plan to take. Schools must make provisions to allow students to make changes in direction and must clearly describe these provisions in their school program/course calendar.” But the provisions, which can include a half-credit summer course, seem to present a barrier. During the 2014-2015 school year, only three per cent of schools reported students often transfer from applied to academic courses, while 43 per cent reported transfers happen never or not very often, according to a People for Education study. During a government announcement about child care Friday, Sept. 23, Metroland Media Central reporter Cynthia Reason asked Hunter if Ontario would consider reviewing the academic and applied separations in Grade 9. Hunter said the ministry is consulting with school boards, some of which, she noted, have requested the separations be eliminated.

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hen we’re young we make a lot of mistakes - big ones, little ones, and some that can be life altering. Unprotected sex can lead to unwanted pregnancy or disease. Drug and alcohol abuse can do permanent harm to a growing body and lead to life-long addiction. These are human mistakes, and as much as we might wish, they are impossible to guard against, particularly for young people whose judgement may not yet be refined. Surely, we should not design a school system that also provides risks of permanent harm to still-unwise young people who make a bad choice in setting their academic course. The curriculum change in 2003 - which followed the end of the Ontario Academic OuR ViEW Credit - was intended to end student streaming with the addition of applied and academic learning, Opportunities but as one education advocate this change has effectively hindered with says, laid a trap for students. The elimination of a fifth year curriculum of high school, along with a cap change on credits the province will fund (34 is the maximum unless the board approves it), essentially ties the hands of a student trying to get ahead. If a student decides early on to eschew academic courses for the apparently easier applied courses, upgrading later on may be hindered by bureaucracy. As Annie Kidder, founder and executive director of advocacy group People for Education, said in Metroland Media’s feature article on this issue “we need to allow for the vast amount of change that happens to young people”. The group’s report ‘Applied or Academic: High Impact Decisions for Ontario Students’ surveyed Ontario schools and found only 20 per cent of schools with grades 7 and 8 reported having a guidance counsellor on staff, and most of those positions were part-time. If a student in Grade 8 doesn’t have the maturity to envision their life after four years, then provisions need to be put in place to give these young minds the right support, at the right time. The Ministry of Education has heard from several boards wanting the applied and academic streams to be scrapped in Grade 9, to give kids a level playing field in their first year, then they can decide how to move forward. It would be a mistake to take options and opportunity away from students just as they’re getting started.

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Trump tape recalls Rob Ford’s video woes The U.S. presidential election – particularly, the rise of its Republican standardbearer – has felt a bit like a funhouse mirror for many of us watching in Toronto. Donald Trump, with his nativist populism, his “plainspokenness,” which frankly came across more as ugliness and bigotry but worked more like Teflon... well, it was something that we’d seen before here, first in 2010 when the late Rob Ford won the mayoralty against more qualified candidates and again in 2014 when his brother Doug Ford came close to doing the same thing. Of course it’s not the same thing. Neither of the Ford brothers were even half as incoherent as Trump has been, and neither made such a direct pitch to the so-called Alt-Right white supremacist crowd. But the trajectory, the ability to gather support to unlikely levels, had some similarities. And last week, another similarity emerged: the calamitous revelation, on

david nickle the city tape, of behaviour that to most people is beyond the pale. For Trump, that came in the leaked Access Hollywood tape, in which Trump boasts to then-host Billy Bush of his ability to use fame to get away with what amounts to sexual assault on women he finds attractive. For Rob Ford, it came in the form of a series of recordings: the long-denied video in which he smoked crack; a drunken video of a walk on the Danforth; a drunken rant at an Etobicoke restaurant disparaging then Toronto police chief Bill Blair; and, maybe most damningly, a lewd and drunken rant about Karen Stintz, the Toronto Councillor and former TTC Chair who was running against him for the mayoralty. It looks at this point as though the 11-year-old tape of Trump bragging about

being able to grab women by the genitals has become a deal-breaker, at least with his nominal Republican allies and most likely with the electorate. It is worth remembering, however, that while Ford’s many drug-andalcohol-fuelled videos did isolate him from his allies on council, it did no such thing with the electorate. Ford didn’t even have to appear especially contrite in order to reclaim the love of the so-called Ford Nation portion of the electorate. When he returned from rehab, his apology for his behaviour morphed halfway through into a stump speech – something that Trump mirrored in his own apology the Saturday morning after the tape appeared, when he characterized the tape as locker-room talk and then dismissed it as a distraction from his message. We’ll never know whether Rob Ford could have won a second term as mayor after the self-inflicted damage of his first term – his cancer

diagnosis saw to that. But his brother Doug’s campaign made John Tory’s election to the mayoralty in 2014 a near thing, despite Doug’s own very Trump-like campaign gaffes. The election of Rob Ford’s nephew Michael, in the summer byelection for his old Ward 2 seat, was never really a question. It’s hard to say whether Donald Trump will, with weeks still to go in the campaign, be able to rally in the United States in the same way that the Fords had been able to in Toronto. Probably he won’t. But whether he does or not, it’s a sure bet that the sizeable minority of voters who’ve held tight with Donald won’t let a little tape, no matter how vile its contents, sway their loyalty to the Trumps. Like Ford Nation here in Toronto, they’re not going anywhere.

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Andrew Collins Trio launches CD with hometown gig Band performs at Hugh’s Room Oct. 21 LISA RAINFORD lrainford@insidetoronto.com Multi-instrumentalist and composer Andrew Collins, founding member of renowned Canadian string bands Foggy Hogtown Boys and the Creaking Tree String Quartet, terms his latest project “a little bit of a departure.” Working with his Andrew Collins Trio, their sophomore CD, titled ‘And It Was Good’, is thematic rather than a compilation of songs, which had been his usual approach. “This album is a concept album,” the five-time JUNO nominated musician who lives in Roncesvalles Village told The Villager. The compositions delve into the story of creation. Each piece represents a day and what was created on that day. Despite its subject, the album is not religious, but rather conceptual, he said. Collins, alongside Mike Mezzatesta, and James McEleney, will officially launch the CD at Hugh’s Room, on Friday, Oct. 21, at 8:30 p.m. Asked how he juggles three musi-

cal groups along with other projects, Collins said that for many musicians, it’s a way of life. It also doesn’t hurt that he’s got a lot of different interests musically as is the way for most of his colleagues and friends. “With the (Foggy Hogtown Boys), it’s straight blue grass music,” Collins said. “It’s more explorative music with the trio. All my musical interests are fulfilled.” No stranger to Hugh’s Room – Collins lives nearby – he says the venue has “a great sounding room” and “a nice audience.” Although he’s always loved music, it wasn’t until he was 23 that he began playing the mandolin. “I’d had guitars when I was a kid, but I’d practice for a few weeks and then lose interest,” he said. “When I finally broke down and bought a mandolin, I discovered I really loved playing.” This led to collaborating with other musicians, which only cemented his desire to practice and perform. Seeing the David Grisman Trio for the first time at a concert in Washington inspired Collins to purchase a man-

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Roncesvalles Village resident Andrew Collins, centre, helms the Andrew Collins Trio, which officially launches its sophomore CD, ‘And it Was Good’ at Hugh’s Room, on Oct. 21. Pictured with him are his bandmates, guitar, fiddle and mandolin player Mike Mezzatesta (left) and bass player James McEleney.

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Children’s author Philippa Dowding set to release sequel The latest novel by children’s author Philippa Dowding, who lives in the Ossington Avenue and Bloor Street West area, is set to hit the bookshelves, Saturday, Oct. 22. Titled Ever ton Miles is Stranger Than Me, it’s a sequel to The Strange Gift of Gwendolyn Golden, which was nominated for an Ontario Library Association (OLA) Red Maple award in 2014. When she wrote it, Dowding said

she had no intention of writing a sequel, but she soon found out that fans wanted answers. “I was going to leave it as a stand-alone, but The Strange Gift of Gwendolyn Golden was nominated for an OLA Red Maple Award and almost everyone I met during the book tour and award ceremonies asked me, what happens next,” the author told The Villager. “So, I started the sequel and answered a lot

of questions that I raise in book one. I realized as I wrote, there was a lot to say.” Just like Gwendolyn, Everton is a Night Flyer, too. An unlikely pair, the teens face “dangers they never imagined,” like a fallen Spirit Flyer, and the eternal darkness of The Shade. Not only does Gwendolyn have to deal with her new life as a night flyer, but also as a Grade 9 student in high school. Perhaps, it won’t be so

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Park design must benefit all users: Councillor Perks >>>from page 1 m e t re p a r k b o a s t s a n upgraded seating area with chess tables, new pavers and timber edging, new plant beds, an updated, accessible drinking fountain, and new benches. Yet members of Friends of Watkinson Park, including Browning and Kim Jackson, said that the original design, which their group collaborated on with the city and its designer, was “nature based.” “This is a typical park with cement curbs,” Browning said. “There’s cement everywhere.” Added Jackson, “People liked the openness and the green space. We really emphasized that to the city.” Additionally, the original design included a much smaller play structure. “The new one takes up twice the space as the old one. That was a disappointment,” Jackson said. “We lost a lot of green space.”

As with any piece of public space, Perks pointed out, there are different users and requirements the city must adhere to safety-wise and accessibility-wise, as well as market-wise. “Most got some of what they wanted, not everything,” the councillor said. $125K redevelopment The park’s $125,000 redesign began in January 2015 at a West Bend Community Association meeting where a preliminary concept drawing was presented. That initial proposal was playground heavy and several residents, including Browning, said they wanted a more natural park while maintaining some aspects of the play area. At a public meeting last fall, a final design concept was agreed upon. Both Friends of Watkinson Parkette and the city’s designer presented designs that would be combined into one final concept. Browning and Jackson say

that changes to that agreed upon concept were changed late in the process without their consultation. They say they’re upset with the lack of communication. “Our original design was ignored. We feel it was a missed opportunity on the part of the city to do something really interesting here,” Jackson said. Yet, Perks said that at the beginning of the process, staff presented a “plain, vanilla park,” and after a lot of work with Friends and community members, the park’s new design is “unique.” Regardless of their concerns about the park’s final design, the group is planning a party to celebrate the grand reopening of the park on Saturday, Oct. 15, from 3 to 8 p.m. The event, open to the public, will include food, music, magic, open mic poetry reading and a 50-50 draw. To find out more, visit http://watkinson.ourpark. ca/

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Art Exhibition WHEN: 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. WHERE: Katzman Contemporary, 86 Miller St. CONTACT: Dario Del Degan, 416654-9515, info@katzmancontemporary.com COST: Free A series of exhibitions features the first commercial/artist-run/project space crossover. Play Reading Group WHEN: 1 to 4 p.m. WHERE: Annette Street Library, 145 Annette St. CONTACT: 416-393-7692 COST: Free This month’s reading will be from Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. Drop in. Experience not required. The BFG Puppet Show WHEN: 2 to 3 p.m. WHERE: Runnymede Library, 2178 Bloor St. W. CONTACT: 416-393-7697 COST: Free A puppet rendition of Roald Dahl’s “The BFG.” After the show make a dream jar. Drop in. Hush Hush 2016 WHEN: 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. WHERE: Bloor/Gladstone branch of Toronto Public Library, 1101 Bloor St. W. CONTACT: Kirsten, 416-393-7237 COST: $125 Heroes and villains themed fourth annual Hush Hush party-in-thestacks, with proceeds going to Toronto Public Library.

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Annual Toast to Autumn WHEN: Noon to 7 p.m. WHERE: Lithuanian Hall, 1573 Bloor St. W. CONTACT: www.toasttoautumn.com, info@toasttoautumn.com COST: Free Live music, food and beer, art and craft vendors, pumpkin carving, face painting, photobooth and more. See Paul James with Paul James Band, The Dreamboats, HMCS York Band, Victor Bateman Trio and more. Oktoberfest polka dance-off contest with Ed Guca & the Polish Canadians.

The Mystic World of Dreams WHEN: 6:15 to 8:15 p.m. WHERE: Annette Street Library, 145 Annette St. CONTACT: 416-393-7692 COST: Free Dr. Marina Quattrocchi author of Dreamwork Uncovered shares dreams that altered the course of her life.

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w Sunday, Oct. 16

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

w Monday, Oct. 17

Kidlit Book Group WHEN: 6:30 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Runnymede Library, 2178 Bloor St. W. CONTACT: 416-393-7697 COST: Free Adults meet to discuss outstanding works of children’s and young adult

Happiest Hour Comedy WHEN: Tuesdays from 7 to 9 p.m. WHERE: Orchard Bar, 1174 Bloor St. W. CONTACT: chantelmarostica@ gmail.com COST: PWYC A line up of comedic talents.

literature. Copies of Wonder by R.J. Palacioare available at the library. Toronto Swing Dance Society WHEN: 7:30 p.m. WHERE: Lithuanian Hall, 1573 Bloor St. W. CONTACT: info@TorontoSwingDanceSociety.ca COST: Full series: $40, non-members $60 West Coast Swing Lessons with instructor Julie Epplett. Beginners always welcome. No partner required.

w Tuesday, Oct. 18

Junction Seniors Gathering WHEN: 10 to 11 a.m. WHERE: Agora Cafe, 3015 Dundas St. W. CONTACT: Margarett, 416-767-8844, seniors@ junctionra.ca COST: Free

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Introduction to Arduino WHEN: 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. WHERE: High Park Library, 228 Roncesvalles Ave. COST: Free Learn how to use an Arduino microcontroller. A laptop and arduino kit is provided. Register: tpl.ca/100years

Shout Sister Toronto South West WHEN: 7 to 9 p.m. WHERE: Roncesvalles United Church, 214 Wright Ave. CONTACT: members@shoutsisterchoir.ca COST: dues All-inclusive women’s choir is welcoming new members.

w Thursday, Oct. 20

Swansea Homework Club WHEN: Thursdays from 4 to 5:30 p.m. WHERE: Swansea Town Hall, 95 Lavinia Ave. CONTACT: 416-3921954 COST: Free Homework help and learning strategies for children in Grades 5 to 8.

w Friday, Oct. 21

Baby Sleep Seminar WHEN: 11:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. WHERE: Annette Street Library, 145 Annette St. CONTACT: 416-393-7692 COST: Free Triona Coakelin, sleep consultant will help you learn about the importance of baby and toddler sleep.

w Wednesday, Oct. 19

Tech Day WHEN: 1 to 5 p.m. WHERE: High Park Library, 228 Roncesvalles Ave. CONTACT: bbertrand@torontopubliclibrary.ca COST: Free Pop-Up Learning Lab. 3D printer demonstration.

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There was no shortage of options to choose from when deciding on what films would be featured as part of the series. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (the original) will be screened as the debut film of the series on Monday, Oct. 24 at 7 p.m. (Doors open at 6 p.m.). Tickets include a box of custom chocolates by master chocolatier David Chow. “That was the first movie I thought of to put in the series because it’s so well known – it has cult status,” James said. “Willy Wonka is larger than life, creative, business savvy, and a food inventor. He epitomizes what chefs should be.” There are many “fantastic” films that feature dinner scenes, James said, citing Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice as one example. The 1985 film about a recently departed

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