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Blues for Red Door brings musicians together for charity Fundraiser to be held at Lula Lounge on Sept. 21 LISA RAINFORD lrainford@insidetoronto.com Upon hearing that the Red Door Family Shelter could be at risk for closure, Blues singer and band leader “Big Rude Jake” Hiebert decided to rally his musician friends and colleagues in support of the women, children and refugees fleeing domestic violence.

What he has come up with is a star-studded Blues Cabaret, which takes place Sunday, Sept. 21 at Lula Lounge, in the Dundas West and Dufferin streets-area, and features the likes of Danny Marks, Jerome Godboo, Mark “Bird” Stafford, Big Rude Jake, Johnny Max, and Alfie Smith, among a long list of others.

The Dundas Street West and Roncesvalles Avenue-area resident said the charity event came together quite quickly, within a few months.

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look like,” Hiebert said.

The show is setting itself apart from the stereotype in which an all-male band support female singers who tend to be easy on the eyes, he said. ‘Blues for Red Door’ has flipped this approach on its head presenting a cabaret of 10 top male Blues singers performing in front of an allfemale band. The event even features an appearance by a male burlesque performer to add some “cheek” and extra spice.

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“I’ve done some work at Lula Lounge for other people.

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East York resident swinger and vocalist Bradley Harder, from Bradley and the Bouncers, is a featured performer. He didn’t hesitate to agree to take part when his old friend Hiebert asked him.

Music is in Harder’s genes. He is the youngest of 13 children born into a Southern Baptist family. He and his siblings grew up singing together as a family choir.

“I didn’t think I’d become a professional singer,” Harder admitted.

He had several professions before taking up music fulltime, including cook and filmmaker. He says he’s looking forward to supporting such a good charity.

“It’s a cool lineup. We’re a small community. We all know each other and have been around,” he said. “We’re kind of like a family.”

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he Pan Am/Parapan Games are coming to Toronto next summer, bringing thousands of athletes and tens of thousands of fans and media with them.

Tickets went on sale this week, and Toronto residents have until Oct. 6 to order early-bird tickets for the events they most want to see by going to TORONTO2015.org/tickets While they are not on the same scale as the Olympics, the Pan Am Games will feature approximately 6,000 top athletes from 41 countries in North America, Central America, South America and the Caribbean competing in 36 our view sports.

From July 7 to 26, Toronto will be the place to be for competition Civic pride in many of those sports including track and field, aquatics, sparked by basketball, BMX biking, tennis 2015 Games and much more. And right after the Pan Am Games finish, the Parapan Am Games take centre stage in Toronto from Aug. 7 to 15.

What makes these games especially exciting is that not all of the events are centred in the downtown core. They’ve been spread out in facilities from the York University campus in North York to Centennial Park in Etobicoke and into east Scarborough.

It makes the Games accessible to so many more fans, and will in a number of cases give residents the opportunity to watch international athletics in facilities they can walk to from their homes.

From what we see and hear among our newspaper’s readers, there’s great excitement about next summer’s games.

Residents are looking forward to attending events in state-of-the-art facilities such as the Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre in Scarborough that will host aquatics, fencing, pentathlon and roller sports events next summer. They are also looking forward to the legacy of these facilities in their communities.

For more on the Games and their impact on our communities, see our feature series at bit.ly/Agn5R0 There’s also no small amount of civic pride involved in hosting these games.

A good part of the world will be coming to visit us next summer, and we are looking forward to showing them what a wonderful city Toronto is.

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Stalled mayoral race gives voters time to ponder the big questions

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he Ford family’s personal and political kerfuffle last week sent some serious shockwaves into the early part of this week of the mayoral campaign – serious enough to send things into a bona fide stall.

On Monday and Tuesday, three of four mayoral debates died on the vine.

Olivia Chow got out on Tuesday morning to host a news conference, rescheduled from last week, to let voters know that four west-end progressive councillors were behind her mayoral bid. John Tory, the candidate responsible for putting the kibosh on those three debates, held a news conference an hour later that was somehow less surprising: to remind voters that he intended to keep promises related to gridlock that he’d made during the summer.

Up until the print deadline for this column Tuesday after-

david nickle the city noon, newly minted mayoral candidate Doug Ford was spending his time at the bedside of newly minted Ward 2 council candidate Rob Ford – so not saying much of anything.

The sound of shuffling feet was just about deafening.

Quiet times aren’t always a bad thing, though. And in this one, it might just be useful to sit a spell, and in the absence of blaring pitches of mayoral agendas – just think a bit about where we are, where we’ve been, and where we want to go. Until last week, Toronto was in what ex-mayoral candidate David Soknacki correctly pegged as a referendum on Mayor Rob Ford. For four years, Ford put many Torontonians through a meat grinder of embarrassment, insult, and privation. His

activities somehow provided some measure of comfort to others. We lined up on either side of that very sharp line Ford drew: with Ford More Years on one side, and really everything else on the other.

When Doug Ford gets going, he’ll be presenting Mayor Ford’s agenda without the drug use – and also without his little brother’s singular level of charisma that would make him a serious threat.

Which is to say: here on in, this election might finally just be about the ideas.

Well, not entirely the ideas: we’re all a little partisan, some casting ballots for New Democrats and certain Liberals, others voting for certain other Liberals and Conservatives.

Some of us feel strongly enough about that to pick a mayor now.

But for the rest of us: what an unexpected opportunity to pick not so much the person of the mayor, but the kind of

city we want.

In this quiet time we might ask: do we really want to pay more taxes to build a subway in Scarborough and more stations on an electrified GO line?

Would we rather spend that billion-dollar property tax levy to build a downtown relief line, and skim more tax revenue from the land transfer tax to build a downtown relief subway line and buy more buses?

Do we want to contract out garbage collection in the east end of the city or not? What about bike lanes? Painted, separated, or none at all?

It’s so much easier to think about these questions when we’re not also deciding how we feel about all the other ugly matters that have consumed us until now. Clarity is a rare and wonderful thing. Best savour it while it lasts.

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

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Offer your ideas on future of Joy Oil station The High Park Grenadier Fund (HPGF), a not-for-profit organization established in 2014 to promote philanthropy, corporate support and community engagement, is hosting an open house at the site of the former Joy Oil station at the bottom of Ellis Avenue on the Queensway.

The organization is seeking input from community members regarding the future uses of the site, such as bike or skate rentals, for example.

The open house takes place Saturday, Sept. 20 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The HPGF is working in partnership with the Toronto Parks and Trees Foundation and the City of Toronto.

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24 at Runnymede Presbyterian Church, 680 Annette St. at 3 to 7 p.m. as part of the Creme Fraiche weekly farmers’ market.

The market features locally grown produce and artisan food, including baked goods, tortilla dinner and Ontario cheeses. clean up dog area in high park next weekend The fall cleanup of the off-leash area in High Park will take place Saturday, Sept. 27 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Participants are asked to meet at Dog Hill where latex gloves and garbage bags will be provided.

People are asked to bring water, a light snack and to wear long sleeves and sturdy shoes to pitch in to help keep the park clean.

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Board pushing for a policy change >>>from page 1 and Senior P.S. was also at 120.4 per cent capacity. Many of these west-end schools are old – Runnymede P.S. is celebrating its centennial in 2016 – and are in desperate need of repair and maintenance.

“Kids deserve to be in safe, well-maintained buildings,” Wylie told The Villager. “The Toronto District School Board (TDSB) is working hard to clean house; to operate as efficiently as possible in the realm of facilities and maintenance.”

Yet, according to Director of Education Donna Quan, the TDSB has a backlog of infrastructure repairs for all its schools at a cost of $3.5 billion. In Ward 7 alone there is more than $76 million worth of repairs and maintenance required, Wylie said. The provincial government, which oversees the TDSB, says the board must sell those schools that are under capacity to fund capital renewal or repairs. “(However, the TDSB views this stance as short-sighted

given the population projections in Toronto that seem to point to an uptick in TDSB students – so they don’t want to sell off schools and then have no space a few years from now,” Wylie said.

There is an alternative to selling off property as a way of generating the desperately needed funds for repairs and maintenance. It comes in the form of Education Development Charges (EDC) – funds from condominium developers building new residential complexes. But, there’s a catch.

As the regulations are currently written, school boards can only use EDCs for the purchase and upgrade of land.

In addition, one of the conditions of EDCs is boards must prove that they are at capacity in the elementary or the high school system – which the TDSB is not. Ward 7 may be mostly over capacity, but there is space across the board.

“It is so unfair we are being penalized for having empty

seats in classrooms as far away from where the demand is,” said out-going Ward 7 Trustee Irene Atkinson. “It is ridiculous to bus students from Ward 7 to North York or Scarborough where there is space.”

To add salt to the wound, the Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB) is at capacity and is currently collecting $841 per condo unit built in the city. Recently, the city approved 7,000 new condominium units, which will generate as much as $5.9 million in EDCs for the TCDSB. That’s why the TDSB is calling on the province for permission to collect fees from developers to pay for renovations, maintenance and school construction.

A Ministry of Education spokesperson Lauren Ramey says the ministry has indeed received the TDSB’s recommendations on modifying the EDCs.

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Buyers can certainly reconvert the space, but they would consider the costs of such a conversion when making their offers on the home.

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The event still took place as scheduled on Monday, but with only Chow taking part. Earlier in the day, Tory’s campaign team released a media statement confirming he would not attend the Big Transit Mayoral Debate, which was co-organized by the advocacy group TTCriders and the Ryerson University Student Union.

Tory blamed “extraordinary demands” on his time along with Doug Ford’s entry into the mayoral race for his withdrawal from the debate.

Chow used the opportunity to hold a solo Q and A on her transit plans – and continually criticize the absent Tory in the process.

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Toronto Cat Rescue Adopt-a-thon WHEN: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. WHERE: Pet Valu, 1660 Bloor St. W. CONTACT: Alison Finkelstein, 416-538-8592, chanagittel@rogers. com COST: adoption fee applies Toronto Cat Rescue hosts an adopt-a-thon.

Adoption fee is $100 for kittens, $50 for cats a year and older. For cats eight years and older, the adoption fee will be waived, in lieu of a donation of the adopter’s choice to Toronto Cat Rescue. All fees payable by cash only. Cats are spayed or neutered, vaccinated (and receive a rabies vaccination if age appropriate). Fee also includes six weeks of free pet insurance. If you are a resident of Toronto, the adoption fee also includes a one-year cat license.

Bark for Life - High Park WHEN: 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. WHERE: High Park, 1873 Bloor Street West CONTACT: Brittany Russell, 416-323-7151, brussell@ ontario.cancer.ca COST: 15 Bark For Life is a fun walk event for dogs and their owners to raise funds and awareness for the Canadian Cancer Society. Bark For Life is a fundraising event that will be supported through individual donations collected by registered event participants and their dog friends.

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WHEN: 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. WHERE: High Park, 1873 Bloor St. W. CONTACT: highparkwalkingtours@yahoo.ca COST: Free A beloved book of art and poetry comes to life as the group visits the sites of the scenes depicted. Commentary by the Walking Tours volunteers. Meet at the benches near Grenadier restaurant.

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Open House @Lambton House WHEN: 12 to 4 p.m. WHERE: Lambton House, 4066 Old Dundas St. W. CONTACT: Lambton House, 416-767-5472, admin@ lambtonhouse.org COST: Free Lambton House is open each Sunday to the public for visits and tours. Free.

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Free Group Fitness and Gentle Exercise Classes WHEN: 2 to 3 p.m. WHERE: Four Villages CHC, 3446 Dundas St. W. CONTACT: ESS Support Services, 416-243-0127 COST: Free Ongoing exercise program for adults aged 55+ that focus on increasing strength, balance, and flexibility. Different levels welcome. Hosted by Etobicoke Support Services for Seniors.

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Taking Charge of Your Health WHEN: 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. WHERE: St. Joseph Urban Family Health Team, 27 Roncesvalles Ave. CONTACT: Reeses, intake co-ordinator, 416-243-0127 Ext.237, www. esssupportservices.ca, COST: Free ESS Support Services in collaboration with St. Joseph’s Family Health Team are offering a free six-week Chronic Disease Self-Management Program. This program is open to persons living with any chronic condition, and participants will receive a free 300-page guide. Please call to register or for more information.

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Councillor All-Candidates’ Debate Ward 13 at Swansea Town Hall WHEN: 7 to 9 p.m.

WHERE: Swansea Town Hall, 95 Lavinia Ave. CONTACT: Veronica Wynne, 416-7623773, debhuinn@ gmail.com COST: Free The Swansea Area Ratepayers Association, The High Park Residents Association and The Old Mill Residents Association hosts an allcandidates’ debate for those vying for the Ward 13 seat. Residents are invited to come out to participate in the debate.

Toronto three-for-three in Ontario Cup The Ontario Cup provincial soccer championships were held over the last two weekends (Sept. 6/7, 13/14) in Oshawa with all three participating Toronto teams successful.

Here’s the rundown: WOMEN’S SENIOR: In a strongly contested game against the Vaughan Azzurri Sept. 7, Scarborough GS United did not give an inch, winning 2-0 to advance to the national club championships

for the second consecutive year. After a scramble in the box in the 25th minute, Samantha Cawkell drove home the opening goal.

While the Azzurri had several chances, a strong GS United defense kept them at bay.

In the second half, Kristin Boujos added a second goal in the 82-minute mark.. The National Championships Jubilee Trophy competition is slated for October 8-13 in Vaughan.

UNDER 15 BOYS, TIER TWO: Weston Wolves defeated Mississauga Croatia 4-1 on Sept. 13. Chinedu Okpali scored a pair of goals for Weston while single markers went to Dean Myrie and Francesco Santelli.

UNDER 17 BOYS, TIER TWO: it went to penalty kicks, with the two teams unable to resolve a 1-1 tie which Toronto High Park FC won 4-3 to claim the provincial championship.

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High Park Club Presents a Curling Open House WHEN: 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. WHERE: High Park Club, 100 Indian Rd. CONTACT: Johnathon Hoskins, 416-536-8054, www. highparkclub.com, info@highparkclub.com COST: Free High Park Club is hosting an open house for people to try out curling. Visit the club, meet members and find out about the many activities and events that take place at the club. Experienced curlers will be on the ice to instruct interested visitors in the basics of curling.

Swansea Horticultural Society WHEN: 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. WHERE: Swansea Town Hall, 95 Lavinia Ave. CONTACT: Ellen Mitchell, 416-767-2574, e.mitchell@rogers. com COST: Free General meeting with guest speaker Heinke Thiesse from Credit Valley Horticultural Society. Topic: fabulous foliage.

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Junction Residents Association hosted meeting LISA RAINFORD lrainford@insidetoronto.com The neighbourhoods of Parkdale-High Park need more affordable housing, agreed seven of the 11 Ward 13 municipal election contenders who spoke at an allcandidates’ meeting hosted by the Junction Residents Association Sept. 11.

Not only did they agree on the need for more, but also on how affordable housing should be integrated into new condo development.

Candidate Rishi Sharma, a founding member of the High Park Coalition, a resident group dedicated to fighting over-development in High Park, said developers must set aside units for affordable housing.

“Low-income residents must be integrated with highincome residents. I think this is very important,” Rishi told the couple dozen residents who attended the meeting at the West Toronto Baptist Church.

Candidate Taras Kulish, a lawyer who specializes in intellectual property and works with the Canadian branch of HOPE Worldwide, an international charity recognized by the United Nations, agreed segregation is not the answer.

In 2006, with help from Parkdale-High Park MP Peggy Nash, Kulish said he helped establish the Youth Academy at Cooper Mills, a Toronto Community Housing complex in the Dundas Street West and Scarlett Road area.

“Volunteers were not feeling safe there,” he recalled. “This was a result of the segregation approach. Buildings need to be integrated.”

Alex Perez, who emmigrated from Mexico with his wife, has an architectural background.

The volunteer of several organizations, who said he has always been interested in community politics, agreed with his counterparts.

Evan Tummillo, who grew up in the ward, played organized sports and continues to volunteer in the neighbourhood, said “ghettoization” does not work in the City of Toronto.

“We fail by creating these (low-income) communities,” he said.

Incumbent Sarah Doucette, who has lived in the area for 18 years, said she has worked to protect and enhance services in Ward 13 such as community pools, the High Park Zoo, the new Sunnyside Bike Park and bus service along Dundas Street West.

She said has fought hard to maintain affordable housing through rental replacement in new development.

She cited the Daniels condominium set to be built at High Park Avenue and Bloor Street West. The original property had 13 residential units; the new condo will have 14 affordable units. At 1990 Bloor St. W., which currently has 19 units, the developer wanted to segregate the replacement units.

“We said, ‘No, we want them integrated,’” she said. “We need to do rental replacement. We need to protect our tenants.”

Candidate Thomas Dempsey, a retired teacher who has deep roots in the neighbourhood, said he’d like to increase access to affordable housing.

“We need to get more apartments built,” he said. “I’d ask the city to reduce the tax rates for residential apartments.”

Local resident Mary Breen wanted to know which of the Top 3 mayoral candidates

would the Ward 13 candidates prefer to work with.

Thomas Dempsey said he could work with any of them.

Although, he said he would prefer to work with John Tory because he supports his SmartTrack proposal.

Independent candidate István Tar, a native of Hungary, said he would like to work with Olivia Chow.

Doucette agreed.

“I can work with anyone,” Doucette said. “I’d like to work with Olivia Chow because she has a transit plan that can be implemented now.”

Doucette said she also liked Chow’s support of more child care and after-school programs.

Tummillo called Rob Ford “the elephant in the room.”

“He’s an interesting man, but he is only one vote on council,” he said.

Perez said he’d work better with Olivia Chow or John Tory while Kulish and Sharma chose not to respond to the question saying they’re committed to fighting for residents’ wishes.

Another Junction resident wanted to know specifically how Doucette, Kulish and Tummillo would address Toronto’s congestion and gridlock, particularly for drivers. Doucette said the city must keep its roads in better condition. A lot of streets are currently being dug up in preparation for the Pan Am Games.

“Construction is the main reason we have gridlock,” she said. “We need to keep our roads in better repair.”

Tummillo said Toronto needs more parking lots in the downtown core. He cited former mayoral candidate David Soknacki’s proposal to remove parked cars as a solution, as well as more one-way streets. Kulish suggested a car tax and underground parking to get cars off the roads.

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“It will focus first of all on maintaining and providing a line item to make sure that cycle lanes are properly maintained,” said Tory in front of reporters Tuesday morning. “Second will be to have greater bicycle infrastructure at transit stations including the SmartTrack stations... thirdly, I will make a reasonable, achievable, measurable commitment to have more separated bike lanes and a network of real separated bike lanes, rather than these promises people make to build hundreds of kilometres of bike lanes.”

Tory made the comments standing between construction fences that are blocking off much of Wellesley Street

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He called the news conference to reiterate promises he had made earlier in the campaign, to personally oversee a committee that would work to mitigate inconvenience from road work.

Tory said he would be unveiling the details of his bike strategy in the coming days or weeks of the campaign.

Tory said that he had recently ridden downtown in the company of members of the advocacy group Cycle Toronto – for the first time in his life, he said.

He decried the lack of progress on making separated bike lanes – currently, there are three kilometres of lanes that are partially separated in the downtown core – and said he would make it a priority to do so.

With the municipal election campaign in full swing, Rogers TV Cable 10 has published its schedule of all-candidates’ debates to be televised for Parkdale-High Park wards 13 and 14 and Davenport wards 17 and 18.

Live television debates are scheduled as follows:

* Saturday, Sept. 27, 2 p.m. ParkdaleHigh Park Ward 14; * Saturday, Sept. 27, 5 p.m. Davenport Ward 17; * Wednesday, Oct. 1, 7 p.m. ParkdaleHigh Park Ward 13, and * Thursday, Oct. 2, 7 p.m. Davenport Ward 18.

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