The City Centre Mirror, January 05, 2017 by The City Centre Mirror

THURSDAY JANUARY 5, 2017

‘WINTER SWIMMING TOTALLY CHANGED MY PERSPECTIVE. I LOVE IT’ A polar bear and spirituality club is how they describe themselves. Every Sunday throughout the winter, the Toronto Winter Swimming Club dips into Lake Ontario’s icy depths. The club is world-renowned. Justin Greaves/Metroland l See WHO’S, pages 12-13

LEAFS CELEBRATE GRASSROOTS HOCKEY WITH OUTDOOR EVENTS Following a thrilling Centennial Classic win at BMO Field, the Toronto Maple Leafs’ organization is hosting a series of outdoor events at rinks across Toronto for a Winter Week celebration, including Regent Park Friday and Nathan Phillips Square on Saturday. Toronto Star FULL STORY: www.insidetorontocitynews

TWO EXHIBITS LOOK AT RACIAL PROTEST THROUGH THE YEARS A pair of upcoming photo exhibits at the Ryerson Image Centre will examine the history of black protest both in the 1960s and 70s and in more recent days, showcasing the works of both historic and modern local artistic talents. Jalani Morgan/photo FULL STORY: www.insidetoronto/citynws

ANTI-GUN-VIOLENCE CAMPAIGNERS AREN’T HOPEFUL FOR 2017 Founders of two Toronto-wide campaigns against gun violence say they don’t expect the city’s rash of shootings to disappear in 2017. Meanwhile, Mayor John Tory has asked Canada’s Public Safety Minister to limit the number of guns one owner can legally have. Metroland FULL STORY: www.insidetoronto.com

SIKH STUDENTS DISTRIBUTE CLOTHING, FOOD TO TORONTO’S HOMELESS Hundreds of Sikh students were spreading warmth in downtown Toronto Tuesday, Dec. 27, handing out warm wishes and clothing to the homeless. About 200 youth gave out nearly 300 care packages, which contain sweaters, hats, gloves, socks along with food and toiletries, to street people. Dan Pearce/Metroland FULL STORY: www.insidetoronto.com/citycentre

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CAMH EXPERT ASKS PARENTS TO LIMIT CHILDREN’S SCREEN TIME Technology is not all bad; but when its use gets out of hand, many other consequences come with it, says Lisa Pont, a social worker at CAMH. She stresses parents to limit their child’s screen time, including TV, video games, computer, phone, etc., to prevent other problems. Submitted photo FULL STORY: www.insidetoronto.com/citycentre

LEASIDE RINK TO GET $500,000 DONATION FOR SAFETY UPGRADES Even now, more than a decade after his death, longtime Leaside resident Dr. Tom Pashby is making a difference in boosting safety through the Dr. Tom Pashby Sports Safety Fund. This month, the fund will donate a lump sum of $500,000 to Leaside Memorial Gardens to increase on-ice and off-ice safety measures at the arena. Submitted photo FULL STORY: www.insidetoronto.com/citycentre

YOUNG SYRIANS HAPPY TO VOLUNTEER AT FOOD BANK Thorncliffe Park resident Heba Diab and her friend Hanan Nanaa sorted and handed out food at Scarborough’s Dorset Park Community Hub on Dec. 28. It was something Nanaa, 19, said she was glad to do to "show the Canadian people who the Syrians are." Justin Greaves/Metroland FULL STORY: www.insidetoronto.com/citycentre

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TORONTO ARMENIANS CELEBRATE A YEAR OF REFUGEE SETTLEMENT Canada promised to settle 25,000 Syrian refugees. Toronto’s Armenian Community did not know a tenth of that number would be coming to them. Days before the first planeload landed on Dec. 10, 2015, a committee of volunteers at the Armenian Community Centre straddling North York and Scarborough were told they would be meet the first group of Armenians from Syria. Justin Greaves/Metroland FULL STORY: www.insidetoront.com/northyork

SKI AND SNOWBOARD DEAL INCLUDES TORONTO SKI HILLS

Q&A WITH NEW TORONTO TRANSPORTATION GM BARBARA GRAY Barbara Gray was recently introduced as Toronto’s new general manager for Transportation Services, overseeing a vast network of over 5,000 kilometres of roads, more than 7,000 kilometres of sidewalks and over 2,500 traffic signals. She recently sat down with Metroland Media Toronto at city hall to discuss her vision for Toronto’s transportation network. Metroland FULL STORY: www.insidetoront.com/northyork

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The Canadian Ski Council is offering a SnowPass deal for Grade 4 and 5 students. The pass is available for $29.95 and allows skiing and snowboarding three times at each participating ski area, including Earl Bales Park, 4169 Bathurst St., and Centennial Park Ski Chalet, 256 Centennial Park Rd., in Toronto. Metroland file photo FULL STORY: www.insidetoronto.com/northyork

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In addition to covering local news and events across our communities in the city, reporters at Metroland Media Toronto now also carry beats on specific topics that we’re hoping will be of interest to readers. Dan Pearce/Metroland FULL STORY: www.insidetoronto.com

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Temporary route change During track and bridge work on The Queensway, Lake Shore Boulevard, and improvements at Humber Loop through 2017

Buses will temporarily replace streetcars west of Roncesvalles Avenue, on The Queensway and Lake Shore Boulevard, and will bypass Humber Loop.

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501/301 Queen streetcars will operate between Roncesvalles Avenue, downtown, and Neville Park Loop. 501L/301L Queen buses will operate between Dufferin Street (Dufferin Gate Loop) and Long Branch Loop, via Queen Street, The Queensway, Windermere Avenue, and Lake Shore Boulevard. 501M Queen will operate a clockwise service linking The Queensway with Lake Shore Boulevard, Marine Parade Drive, and Park Lawn Road. Customers can transfer between streetcars and buses at any point between Dufferin Street and Roncesvalles Avenue. When transferring between 501 Queen streetcars and buses using PRESTO, do not tap onto the next vehicle when boarding.

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More than a decade ago, the city, United Way, and the province saw poverty deepening around the edges of our freshly-amalgamated home. University of Toronto Professor David Hulchanski, in his The Three Cities Within Toronto, makes plain how fast the city has divided since the 1970s into an ever-wealthier centre and waterfront, and other places where incomes consistently dropped. The city chose nine "’hot spots’ of high need and low infrastructure" in 2005, then bumped that up to 13 "priority neighbourhoods". It pledged people in these neighbourhoods would get money, community hubs and help organizing themselves. A few years ago, the city changed the "priority" label. Recalculating, it started calling its highest-needs districts Neighbourhood Improvement Areas because that sounded better, and

MIKE ADLER Edges of Toronto today 31, out of 140 census neighbourhoods, are NIAs. Nearly all are in Toronto’s old suburban belt, and attached to other NIAs: northwest North York meets North Etobicoke’s Rexdale and Jamestown, and to the south a string of other NIAs through what was once the City of York. Go east, and Thorncliffe Park meets Flemingdon Park and Victoria Village in another corner of North York; below that, the former East York’s Crescent Town touches Oakridge across Victoria Park Avenue in Scarborough, where

seven other NIAs clump together south of Highway 401. This happened to those neighbourhoods because industries left and a new wave of development never came. The apartments got older, the traffic crawled, people in the houses aged, subways weren’t built and MoneyMarts thrived. They became part of The Other Toronto. Most often, most of us see that second Toronto through a car window or on the news, in buildings glimpsed after a shooting, or roads after a pedestrian dies running for a bus. But what happens in The Other Toronto should interest us as much as what happens on Queen Street or in Rosedale. It’s in this Toronto’s neighbourhoods where people on modest incomes can still afford to live. We need to hear from people in these neighbourhoods, and in 2017, I’m going to do my best to talk to them about the city they live in.

Edges of Toronto is a column about how people see live in Toronto differently, depending on where they live. Reach Mike Adler at madler@insidetoronto.com

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We’re looking to find stories on topics that matter or are of interest to our audience. Topics that, in many cases, we really haven’t focused on before. Parenting, history, technology, health and schools were key selections we felt deserving of more attention.

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ey in this digital age? These are areas we hope to explore. ’The Diverse City’ will aim to give voice to minority groups, indigenous people and the LGBTQ community, and investigate issues relating to how we’re all different our successes in embracing that and the challenges that exist where it fails. All timely subjects for discussion considering the malcontent kicked up south of the border after president-elect Donald Trump’s win. How this affects us as Canadians remains to be seen, but we’ll be watching. Another area of the city we want to spotlight is what we’re calling ’The Other Toronto’. These are the pockets of population, much of it concentrated in the city’s suburbs, that are home to immigrant communities and working-class families. Often isolated and struggling with challenges like neighbourhood crime and poor education rates, these Torontonians deserve our attention. What stories of success, resilience and identity are happening in our backyards? What needs to happen to improve the lives of our neighbours? Mike Adler’s column today explains more. We want to be there for these people and tell their stories on a regular basis in the hopes it may make a difference down the line.

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GOING IN SEARCH OF THE OTHER TORONTO IN 2017

In a city as large, diverse and ever-moving as Toronto, covering the news can often feel like a drop in a bucket. There’s so much happening here, and it’s a city full of strong communities that often carry their own unique identity. In the Metroland Media Toronto newsroom, we do our best to represent the communities we serve online and in print. Admittedly, we can’t do it all or be everywhere we’d like to be. That said, we’re still going to do our best to make an impact. So beginning this year we’re renewing our focus - continuing to report on local news and events, city hall, crime and transit issues but we’re also introducing several new beats. We’re looking to find stories on topics that matter or are of interest to our audience. Topics that, in many cases, we really haven’t focused on before. Parenting, history, technology, health and schools were key selections we felt deserving of more attention. Considering how many struggle with the cost of living in the city, we’ve also dedicated a reporter to a ’Money Matters’ beat to help break down financial issues. Debt loads can be crippling and it’s shocking how many people lack the financial literacy to be able to manage it. How secure is our mon-

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multiplex craze took hold, the Eglinton Grand started to lose some of its lustre, with film fans heading to newer theatres with greater selection. "The theatre started to wane in terms of financial viability and they finally packed it in in 2002," D’Uva said. Local residents started up a group to save the theatre from the wrecking ball, and Dynamic stepped in with an eye to restoring and maintaining everything that made it such a cherished venue for so long. "One of the biggest things was that the marquee had to be retained," D’Uva said. "It’s got more than 1,000 bulbs in it and it was a costly venture to re-

store, but to a lot of people that marquee is the Eglinton Grand." The company spent $3 million restoring many elements of the venerable theatre, upgrading electrical, heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems, and converting the screening room into an event space. Dynamic also added a chandelier with audiovisual equipment, a bar and other touches that would help the facility meet the needs of its new clientele. Those elements were designed to complement instead of concealing the Grand’s art deco style which remains evident in historic statues, light sconces and other features throughout the venue. The venue has also been

made 100 per cent wheelchair accessible through the addition of a full-service elevator, helping to modernize the venue and bring it up to Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act standards without compromising on its vintage feel. That feel, D’Uva said, is what brings people back. From its landmark status as a distinctive part of the streetscape near Eglinton Ave. W. and Avenue Rd. to its refurbished interior, it remains a throwback to the storied past not just of Toronto but also to the days when Tinsel Town was king. "People love how it still feels like the good old days," D’Uva noted. "It’s got that Hollywood feeling."

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For the first 66 years of its existence, the Eglinton Grand brought guests to faraway worlds via the big screen. Over the past 14 years, it has helped to create more lasting memories by hosting weddings and high-profile events. Throughout it all, the theatre has retained its old school art deco charm - it was recently named a site of historic significance by Parks Canada - while transitioning from Famous Players’ prime Toronto venue to an events venue run by Dynamic Hospitality and Entertainment Group. Designed by famed firm Kaplan and Sprachman

Architects and opened in 1936, the Eglinton Grand was once the gleaming jewel among Toronto movie theatres. "Because they had the financial wherewithal and because it was going to be the flagship location for Famous Players, there wasn’t much spared in terms of budget," said Dynamic co-managing director Sam D’Uva. "It was hailed as one of the best theatres not just in Canada, but across North America." The theatre cost $200,000 to build - roughly $3.4 million in 2016 dollars and it became the go-to place for moviegoers looking to catch the latest big screen gem. Unfortunately, as the

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Shoppers say goodbye to iconic bargain store Honest Ed’s Property will be handed over to developers AARON D’ANDREA adandrea@metroland.com Joanne Sleightholm and her husband, Blair, were scurrying around Honest Ed’s trying to get their hands on some memorabilia before the iconic bargain store closed its doors for good. "It’s going to be awful driving by this corner without the bright lights," she told Metroland Media Toronto. "I can’t believe that’s coming." Honest Ed’s, on the southwest corner of Bloor and Bathurst streets, was open for the last time on Saturday, Dec. 31. Shoppers young and old filled the store to try and get a piece of Honest Ed’s history, like its handcrafted signs, unique shopping bags, Mirvish theatre posters and more. "We came here when they had a celebration two years ago," she said. "They made me a sign with my name on it, and it says, ’Joanne is for the birds.Cheap! Cheap! Cheap!’" The store was opened in 1948 by Ed Mirvish, and quickly became a landmark with its unique appearance that featured bright lights, funny slogans and discounted prices. "There was always an element of excitement in here," Joanne said. "There was always an element of fun." Andii Bykes, 31, was in the store on Friday, Dec. 30, to buy George Michael’s album Faith on cassette. Bykes began shopping at the store because he was on a budget, and said he will miss the "deals." "It’s nice to see all the antiques they have here now," he said. "But you can come in a get a can of

pasta for 99 cents, and that’s where it’s at." The store’s manager, Russell Lazar, who’s been working at Honest Ed’s for 59 years, said he has a lot of favourite memories of the store over the years. "There’s so many wonderful promotions that we’ve had over the years the birthday parties for Ed, 25 years of birthday parties and participating in the turkey giveaways for almost 30 years - there was so many unusual and unique promotions," he said. "But some of my favourite memories were being with Ed Mirvish for decades and continuing afterwards with David." Lazar, who oversaw the organization of Ed’s annual July 24 birthday parties, recalls having almost 60,000 people going through the store some years during the course of the event.

"The street was just jammed, the party would go outside and everything was free," he said. "There was great entertainment, great food, drinks, giveaways and those are some memorable things and we all just sat there and enjoyed the day." After being open for more than 65 years, Lazar added now is the, "right time for Honest Ed’s to leave." "It’s a whole different world of retail, but we’re all gratified that we’ve been around for many decades," he said. Honest Ed’s, along with much of the adjacent Mirvish Village, will become the site of a new mixeduse complex by developer Westbank, which could add up to 1,000 housing units to the city. The property will be officially handed over to the developers on Jan. 31.

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Above, shoppers pick through holiday decorations on Saturday, the final day of retail business at Honest Ed’s. Top, mounted Toronto police officers attend outside the store.

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A member of the Toronto Winter Swim Club braves the freezing temperatures of Lake Ontario off the shore of Humber Bay Park west. The group meets every Sunday throughout the year.

Who’s up for a dip? U of T professor warns ’with the potential benefits come extreme risks’ TAMARA SHEPHARD tshephard@insidetoronto.com A polar bear and spirituality club is how they describe themselves. Every Sunday throughout the winter, the Toronto Winter Swimming Club dips into Lake Ontario’s icy depths at Humber Bay Park West in Etobicoke. Yaro Polowianiuk, 53, is a decade-long club member after taking part in an annual charitable New Year’s Day polar bear dip at Oakville’s Coronation Park. "I like the way I feel after swimming. I feel energetic," Polowianiuk said, clearly passionate about cold water. "I’m much healthier than I used to be." The club is world-renowned.

Club member Alla Kibzoun brought home a bronze medal from the 2012 Winter Swimming World Championships held that January in Jurmala, Latvia. Watching a video of a 2015 club swim on its website, www.winterswim.ca, brings chills. The sky and the lake are a cold bluegrey. Canadian geese, white swans and ducks swim in the frigid waters, unaffected by the swimmers standing a few feet away at the water’s edge. "There’s a very steady, nasty wind from the lake. It’s a very cold feeling," Polowianiuk said. "You go completely red, almost like a lobster. The first time I jump in, it’s very short; in and out. I go back to the

shore and do 20 to 25 pushups. Then I’m ready for another shot when I stay in longer." People’s tolerance of cold-water swimming varies widely. Still, none of them wear wetsuits. "Some people go in only once, in and out. Other people go in and stay. One guy, a former firefighter, he can stay there for a long time. It’s very individual," Polowianiuk said. Not even Toronto’s cold weather alert on Sunday, Dec. 18, warning of -20 C with the wind chill, deterred the avid swimmers. Getting undressed down to swimsuits is the greatest challenge, Polowianiuk said. l See WINTER page 13

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mers "significantly decreased" with the duration of the swimming period, the study reported. "After four months, the swimmers felt themselves to be more energetic, active and brisk than the controls (people not in the study)," the study indicated, mirroring Polowianiuk’s experience. Further, the study stated all swimmers who suffered from rheumatism, fibromyalgia or asthma reported that winter swimming had relieved their pain. Those findings would not be news to the Toronto club. Most of its members hail from Russia, where cold-water swimming is a "very common way of life," said Polowianiuk, a Belarusian from Poland. Polowianiuk loathed the winter, but now he revels in its plummeting temperatures. "I used to think ’winter time is a drag. It’s too cold. I can’t take it,’" he recalled. "Now, I like it. I think, ’Oh, this coming Sunday it’s going to be minus-whatever temperature. Perfect. Perfect.’ "Winter swimming totally changed my perspective. I love it. I think, ’Why did I miss having this in my life for so long?’"

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"Your mind is screaming, ’It’s so cold. Don’t do it,’" he said. "But when you rush into the water, it comes with deep rewards. You don’t feel the cold. You feel adrenaline. You feel good." Polowianiuk said the frigid dips aid his work as a massage therapist. "I noticed those aches and pains I had in my wrists, joints and back from my job all disappeared when I started swimming," he said. When massage clients come in with a cold or flu, he doesn’t get it, he added. "There is no chance I will get it. It’s like water off a duck’s back," he said. "I haven’t had a cold since I started swimming. I don’t take any flu shots. There’s no reason to get it." Dr. Greg Wells is a University of Toronto assistant professor of kinesiology and physical fitness who works as a faculty member at the university’s human physiology lab. The scientific jury is out, Wells said, on whether cold-water exposure correlates to disease resistance. In fact, there is little scientific research generally on the health risks and

benefits of cold-water swimming, Wells said. One of Wells’ grad students specifically studied the effect of cold-water immersion on inflammation. "We found at the right temperature, for the right duration, cold water reduces inflammation," Wells said. "In an acute case, like a sprained ankle, you put ice on it and it can relieve pain. But inflammation is necessary for healing. It’s a fine balance." Winter swimming isn’t for everyone. Polowianiuk said he asks anyone eager to try it if they have any serious health issues. "Whether we know it’s beneficial or not, it’s dangerous," Wells said. "With the potential benefits come extreme risks. You need to take that into account when deciding whether or not to try it. "If you’re sick or have chronic disease, jumping into very, very cold water is a very, very bad idea." A 2004 Finnish study published in the International Journal of Circumpolar Health concluded winter swimming improves general well-being. Tension, fatigue, memory and negative mood states in cold-water swim-

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Mayor John Tory speaks with reporter David Nickle at the half-way mark of his leadership. termine how well we’ve done." Tory called his rocky relationship with the activist group Black Lives Matter "a learning experience to me. Because I’m a consensus builder I react with hesitation who are confrontational. But I understand better now that there are people who to get themselves on the radar screen will put their ideas together more aggressively. It’s my job to listen and distill that message." Tory said that dealing with Toronto’s inherent diversity - in 2016, BBC Radio released a study showing Toronto was the most diverse city in the world - will be a continuing challenge. Transportation (Getting Unstuck): Two years into his mandate, Tory is navigating a rhetorical crisis. Dec. 20, he told reporters that "the war on the car" is over as he introduced his new transportation director, Seattle transportation planner

Barbara Gray. It’s been a bit of a problem, however - as Tory has also been heard supporting controversial bike lanes on Bloor Street and road safety measures that seem to give primacy to road users other than automobile drivers. Tory maintained that he is offering a balanced approach to transportation he noted with some relish that he’s been sharply criticized by the left for supporting the elevated Gardiner. "What I’ve done is established a system that’s a balanced plan," he said. "People will need to drive cars and trucks and transit on the road but there are other people who want to make use of those transportation corridors." Intergovernmental relations: At the risk of appearing "immodest," Tory said he believes he has done well persuading the provincial and federal government to

invest in public transit in Toronto. "If we look at where we were and where we are, we’re way further ahead because we’ve adopted a businesslike approach," says Tory. "But I will say to you I’m not as encouraged yet about housing. I’m actually disappointed on how far we haven’t come on housing." Tory said he was pleased that Kathleen Wynne has shown support for his and council’s plan to toll the Don Valley Parkway and the Gardiner Expressway and offered a warning for Progressive Conservative leader Patrick Brown, who’s vowed to scrap them. "He’s going to have a lot to answer for," Tory said. "He may have those answers but the point it to just say you’re doing away with tolls. that’s the easy part. The easy part for me was that I was going to build the transit...the hard part was how was I going to break it to the public that it wasn’t free."

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to deal with the alienation of the so-called Ford Nation group of voters was to "get results on things bothering people." In 2016, Tory maintained that he and his council "are making progress at satisfying everybody’s concerns. If you look at those concerns, they’re the same things I ran for office on: traffic; housing; taxes. Those things were all irritants." Diversity: The first half of Tory’s term has been a rough ride on diversity matters - from run-ins with Black Lives Matter, to the confusion of the issues surrounding police spot-checks and carding of black youth to a disproportionate degree. "I think (we’ve taken) steps to put regulations in place to address how street checks are done (are encouraging)," Tory said. "As usual, the proof of the pudding is going to be in the eating. And when we implement those regulations in the New Year, that will de-

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In December of 2014, John Tory sat down with Metroland Media Toronto at the end of a long and hard-fought campaign to become amalgamated Toronto’s fourth mayor, to talk about four themes that emerged from the race between himself, former Councillor Doug Ford and former MP Olivia Chow. Those themes emerged from a compilation of promises, debates and issues that emerged: broadly speaking, they were leadership (on repairing Toronto Council and the divided city); diversity (building a city where no one’s left behind); inter-governmental relations (on becoming Toronto’s chief salesperson and head shamer); and transportation (on becoming unstuck). Just over two years later, we sat down again in a yearend interview with Mayor Tory - coincidentally halfway through his term - to check in and see how he’s done. Leadership: Since the election, Tory claims a measure of success in both dealing with rifts on Toronto Council and the city in which a sizeable portion of the electorate rejected him in favour of a more divisive campaign from first Rob and then Doug Ford. On a divided Council, Tory said: "I would say (I did) as well as one could. We’re not dealing with a high school debating society, we’re dealing with people with different ideologies, different views, often depending on where’ they’re from. It’s a challenge to bring consensus but if you look at the votes where I’ve obtained well over 30, I think that’s indication of a certain degree of consensus building." And on the stickier matter of a divided city: in 2014, Tory said that the best way

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