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ANTI-ISLAMIC PICKETS TARGET DOWNTOWN MOSQUES FRIDAY Outrage was swift and strong towards a group of anti-Islamic protesters who picketed outside two downtown mosques last Friday. Within minutes of hearing about the protest outside the Dundas Street West mosque, people started posting their outrage on Twitter and Facebook. Farina Saddiqui/photo FULL STORY: www.insidetoronto.com/citycentre
DOWNTOWN MUSEUM LAUNCHES FIRST WORLD WAR HISTORY PROJECT When Private Henry Agassiz signed up to serve in The Great War in 1916, his proud portrait joined those of more than 2,200 of his fellow enlistees from T. Eaton Company’s Toronto store on the flagship’s walls. Mackenzie House museum in downtown Toronto is soliciting stories and photos from the families of those long-ago First World War veterans from Eaton’s. Dan Pearce/Metroland FULL STORY: www.insidetoronto.com/citycentre
YORK U GETS $113-FUNDING BOOST York University is getting a funding boost of more than $100 million. The provincial and federal governments, along with the university, is providing $113 million in funding to, in part, modernize labs in the faculties of science and health and create a new building for the Schulich School of Business. Submitted photo FULL STORY: www.insidetoronto.com/ citycentre
THE WAITING GAME Navigating health care’s lists, lineups. Justin Greaves/Metroland l See THE WAITING, pages 10-11
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LOCAL EVENTS l Friday, February 24 OYAP Leadership Conference WHEN: 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. WHERE: Columbus Centre, 901 Lawrence Ave W, Toronto CONTACT: jessica.dalinda@tcdsb.org COST: The Toronto Catholic District School Board is pleased to announce the 12th annual Ontario Youth Apprenticeship Program (OYAP) Leadership conference.
Laugh Out Loud in Leaside WHEN: 7 p.m. - 11 p.m. WHERE: Leaside Memorial Community Gardens, 1073 Millwood Rd., Toronto CONTACT: charlene@charlenekalia.com COST: $90 Hosted by Charlene Kalia, the 8th annual "Laugh Out Loud in Leaside" benefits The Maddie Project. Meditation public talk WHEN: 7 p.m. - 9 p.m. WHERE: Isobel Bader Theatre, Victoria University, 93 Charles St W, Toronto CONTACT: 416-7628033 COST: $15 advance - $18 at the door Kadam Morten Clausen will offer practical advice on what lasting happiness is and how we can achieve it. l Saturday, February 25 Annual Conference WHEN: 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. WHERE: Canadian Organic Growers, U of T
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Visit insidetoronto.com/events to submit your own community events for online publishing. Conference Centre 89 Chestnut St. Toronto, Toronto CONTACT: 416 466-9584 COST: Early Bird Admission $75 After Feb 10th $95 Students, Senior Canadian Organic Growers Toronto11th Annual Consumer ConferenceOrganic: Inspiring Change For your health, for the earth, for a change. Islam and Blackness Panel WHEN: 6 p.m. - 9 p.m. WHERE: Centre for Social Innovation Regent Park, 585 Dundas Street East, Toronto CONTACT: Rania, admin@raniawrites.com, www.Blackmuslims.eventbrite.ca COST: Intersectional panel discussion explores the experiences of diverse Black Muslims with antiBlack racism inside Muslim communities and Islamic spaces. Mardi Gras 2017 - Oh Happy Day! WHEN: 7 p.m. - 9 p.m. WHERE: St Andrew’s Church, 73 Simcoe St, Toronto CONTACT: Dan Bickle, 416-593-5600, info@standrewstoronto.org COST: $25, Group rate $20 each for 4 or more online only.
Celebrate Mardi Gras and Black History Month at this joyous evening of Gospel classics and rocking Spirituals. Community English Country Dance WHEN: 8 p.m. - 10 p.m. WHERE: Trinity St. Paul’s Centre, 427 Bloor St. W., Toronto CONTACT: 416-578-1031, www.TorontoEnglishDance.ca COST: $10 / $7 students; family rates All based on walking, with no lead or follow and no gender-role difference. No partner or dance experience is needed. l Sunday, February 26 Yoga UNTAPPED at Steam Whistle Brewing WHEN: 10 a.m. - 11 a.m. WHERE: Steam Whistle Brewery, 255 Bremner Blvd (Roundhouse Park), Toronto CONTACT: Holly Postlethwaite, 416-362-2337, holly@steamwhistle.ca COST: $15 Bring your mat and get bendy at the Roundhouse. All of the proceeds donated to the The Ontario Ride to Conquer Cancer.
l Monday, February 27 19th Century English Gardeners WHEN: 7 p.m. - 9 p.m. WHERE: 35 Lytton Blvd, Toronto CONTACT: 647-933-6463 COST: The Toronto branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society hosts Ellen Maki on the subject of 19th century English gardeners, horticulturalists and nurserymen.
REGIONAL EVENTS l Friday, February 17 Canadian International Auto Show WHEN: 10 a.m. - 10 p.m. WHERE: Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 222 Bremner Blvd., Toronto CONTACT: autoshow.ca/ COST: Various prices The Canadian International Auto Show is the country’s largest consumer show - a leader in lifestyle, technology and all things automotive. Feb. 17-26. l Monday, February 20 Winter Stations 2017 WHEN: 8 a.m. - 11 p.m. WHERE: The Beaches, - From Woodbine to Victoria Park along the Waterfront CONTACT: info@winterstations.com COST: Winter Stations is now in its third-year, bringing temporary public art installations to The Beaches, Feb. 20 to March 27.
l Thursday, February 23 The Artist Project WHEN: 11 a.m. - 11 p.m. WHERE: Better Living Centre, Exhibition Place, 195 Princes’ Blvd., Toronto CONTACT: info@theartistproject.com COST: Various prices Visitors can explore and discover works of art from over 250 top contemporary artists from Canada and abroad. l Friday, February 24 38th Rhubarb Festival WHEN: 10 a.m. - 11 p.m. WHERE: Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander St., Toronto CONTACT: (416) 975-8555, http://buddiesinbadtimes.com/rhubarb COST: Various prices Canada’s longest-running new works festival is a hotbed of experimentation. Feb. 15-26. l Saturday, February 25 Bloor-Yorkville Icefest WHEN: 12 p.m. - 11 p.m. WHERE: Village of Yorkville Park, 115 Cumberland St., Toronto CONTACT: biamember@bloor-yorkville.com COST: Bloor-Yorkville neighourhood transforms into a showcase of incredible ice sculptures and live ice carving demonstrations for the entire family to enjoy, Feb. 25, 26.
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Paul Carr was married with three children when he decided he couldn’t suppress his sexual orientation any longer. "It was time to figure out what it was all about," he recalled of that life-changing moment when he came out to his family as gay in 1996. The man he started seeing suggested Carr join Gay Fathers of Toronto, a downtown peer support group. Dan Pearce/Metroland FULL STORY: www.insidetoronto.com/citycentre
Over the past few years, Virtual Reality has been making its way into the classroom to enhance student learning. Last year, Toronto-based VR company Yulio Technologies Inc. partnered with Ryerson University’s Department of Architecture Science to offer VR technology to its students and the Toronto District School Board is hoping to utilize the technology. Justin Greaves/Metroland FULL STORY: www.insidetoronto.com/citycentre
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With a large-scale secondary plan set to shape development in the downtown core for years to come, the Cabbagetown Preservation Association is taking an in-depth look at how that plan could affect its main street. Submitted photo FULL STORY: www.insidetoronto.com/citycentre
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Based in the area of Weston and Rogers roads, The York Lions Steel Band practices twice a week, performs at parades and travels to competitions. Even travel to competitions, mostly in the U.S., but occasionally as far as Australia and England, is free for the young musicians. Dan Pearce/Metroland FULL STORY: www.insidetoronto.com/citycentre
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MIKE ADLER Edges of Toronto "The voters in Ward 42 have sent a strong message that they want a councillor who supports the Scarborough subway extension," he said, pledging "to push ahead on the project that the people of Scarborough have voted for time and time again." These are anxious months for the subway. No matter how many votes it wins, whenever Josh Matlow, a Scarborough subwayhater, goes on television, or the Toronto Star trash-talks it, the subway is insecure. A third-party cost review, long delayed, comes out this year. There’s fear in Scarborough
about that. A new group, ConnectScarborough, has given out flyers at Scarborough Town Centre since January, signing people to a pro-subway petition it will give councillors when cost estimates are public. In a Valentine’s Day release, Scarborough Community Renewal Organization, born from a grassroots campaign to revitalize Scarborough on many fronts, announced its "strategic partnership" with ConnectScarborough. Pressure for the subway must continue until construction actually starts, says SCRO’s interim chairperson Jennifer McKelvie. The cost review also covers the Eglinton East light-rail line. That line can bring development and jobs back to East Scarborough, maybe break the back of poverty in five neighbourhoods. Tory promised it. ConnectScarborough and SCRO say they support it. It’s "shovel ready." But it’s not a subway. It has no chance.
So it falls on John Tory, and Toronto Council, to continue to make the case for further support and revenue powers. And if the fight is not lonely, it is uphill.
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They held a byelection in Scarborough this month. The subway won. You might hear a man called Neethan Shan won, but the subway got more votes. In Toronto, some people believe governments do nothing but fill bags with money, which they throw into holes in the ground. The point most candidates in Ward 42’s byelection made is Scarborough never gets its fair share from those bags. And for a fair share, think subway to Scarborough Town Centre. Sure, many wanted more than that, but Scarborough’s one-stop subway extension has grown to be what matters most. Scarborough’s councillors, MPPs, and Mayor John Tory have staked so much on the subway, so many times, it just must happen. It’s become the area’s main goal. So, on the night of the byelection, Tory made it clear Shan’s victory was also the subway’s.
Lastman’s successor, David Miller, made the case with slightly more gentility, and did indeed manage some successes: a gas tax federally, transit infrastructure funding provincially, and, locally, new powers to tax under a new City of Toronto Act. The late former Mayor Rob Ford had little time for intergovernmental relations, but even he did his bit - attracting some federal investment from the Ford-friendly Harper Conservative government to build a subway in Scarborough. So it falls on John Tory, and Toronto Council, to continue to make the case for further support and revenue powers. And if the fight is not lonely, it is uphill. Toronto Council’s initial foray - to impose tolls on the Gardiner Expressway and Don Valley Parkway - went nowhere with Premier Kathleen Wynne. The mayor has shifted his demands that the province put money into transit infrastructure, housing, maintenance of those two highways and port lands flood protection. Tory is relying on the federal government to help secure this money - specifically, that federal funding for local projects be tied to provincial cost-sharing. Will it work? In politics, that’s always up in the air. But like his successors, Tory is in the right. It should work. For Toronto’s sake, it must.
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When Toronto Council debated its budget last week, Mayor John Tory felt like the loneliest mayor ever. At least that’s what he said, in his speech capping the daylong debate on the 2017 operating and capital budgets. "I can tell you, it’s been pretty lonely so far," Tory told his colleagues - many of whom were critical of his decision to keep the property tax increase relatively low at 2 per cent. Tory pointed out that marginally higher tax increases on Torontonians’ homes won’t make much difference to Toronto’s larger fiscal difficulties. What would make a difference, he said, was a few more voices turned toward Ottawa and Queen’s Park, to press the case that he has been pressing: Toronto needs more money, and perhaps more powers, to finance its many needs and aspirations as the largest city in Canada. It is a compelling case, and Tory has not been alone in making it. Mel Lastman, amalgamated Toronto’s first mayor, made it most bluntly, when he called Premier Mike Harris a "liar" for promising that the amalgamation of Toronto and provincial downloading of big-ticket services would be "revenue neutral" for the city and the province. His method brought in a number of one-time fixes, but was largely a rearguard action.
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LEASIDE STATION Metrolinx is building the Eglinton Crosstown, Toronto’s new 19-kilometre light rail transit (LRT) line that will run along Eglinton Avenue with a central 10 km underground section. The Crosstown will connect Mount Dennis in the west to Kennedy Road in the east, and the new service will be up to 60% faster than the bus service today. With 25 stations and stops and connections to 3 TTC subway stations, 54 local bus routes, 3 GO Transit lines and the UP Express, the Crosstown will improve travel times and change the way we move through the heart of the city.
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Join us at our upcoming open house and learn about the future Leaside Station, one of 15 underground stations on the new Eglinton line now under construction. Join Metrolinx and its constructor, Crosslinx Transit Solutions (CTS) to find out: • • • • •
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Tuesday, March 7, 2017 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Leaside Memorial Community Gardens 1073 Millwood Road Thanks to the support of donors like Wilfred and Carol Chung - whose gift in appreciation of their son Gregory’s own cardiac treatment established the Dr. William G. Williams Research Directorship in Cardiac Data Analytics – SickKids leads the fight against cardiac disease. Our cardiac surgical survival rate is 98.5%. Which means kids like Jadon, who received groundbreaking treatment at SickKids, can go home to their families. fundthefight.ca
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TAMARA SHEPHARD tshephard@insidetoronto.com Anne Robinson, 55, is eagerly anticipating her double hipreplacement surgery later this month after living in “excruciating pain” since 2013. “I’m so thrilled. I can’t wait. It truly is a miracle,” she said. Robinson’s road to surgery has been long, frustrating and emotionally and financially taxing. Diagnosed with osteoarthritis three years ago, Robinson had first noticed pain in her knees in
her 40s. In 2012 while teaching in China, Robinson felt pain in her hip during exercise “almost like it had dislodged,” she said. Then, a brain bleed forced her to fly home to East York in September 2013. An orthopedic surgeon had her hips X-rayed. The doctor’s interns said they saw nothing unusual. Robinson was told she was “too young” for surgery, and prescribed pain medication. “I became so angered, so frustrated,” she recalled. “My pain is excruciating, and they’re telling me nothing is wrong. My life is hijacked. I can’t work. I can’t
walk without help. I’ve gone through a lot of my savings.” A new family doctor referred Robinson to a new orthopedic surgeon. “’You have the hips of a 90 year old,’” he told her and quickly booked her surgery. “I want to live a rich, healthy life like everybody else,” she said. “People need to advocate for themselves or have someone represent them. You are the one in pain. You know you’re not imagining it. If one doctor says no, get that second or third opinion.” Robinson is one of thousands of Canadians on waiting lists for medical procedures. There’s “no question” wait times are a concern, said Mi-
chael Decter, chair of patient advocacy group Patients Canada and coauthor of Navigating Canada’s Health Care published in 2006. “The most important thing for me to say is patients don’t have an easy way of measuring a lot of things in health care but they do know how long they wait,” he said. “It’s not just that waiting is filled with fear for patients and sometimes accompanied by a great deal of pain but there is also, in a significant number of medical conditions, a worsening outcome if you wait.” O See WAIT, page l See WAIT, pagexx 11
From your ďŹ rst visit with your family doctor to treatment, here’s how long you can expect to wait for procedures in Ontario, based on median wait times from 2016:
Neurosurgery: 44.8 weeks
Ophthalmology (eye surgery): 29.4 weeks
General surgery (such as hernia repair or appendix or gall bladder removal): 7.6 weeks
Cardiovascular surgery: 5.5 weeks
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Radiation oncology (cancer treatment): 3 weeks
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A United Kingdom website, treatmentabroad.com, which provides information about travelling overseas for health care, shows a range of prices for medical procedures performed in countries around the world. Fees listed in British pounds were converted to Canadian dollars. For example, a knee replacement in the United States could cost you $41,000, while in Spain it could cost $14,668 and in Latvia it could cost $1,968. The price for heart bypass surgery in Lithuania is $16,567, while in Turkey it’s $6,486. If you need surgery for breast removal due to cancer, you could expect to pay $4,945 in Poland and $3,109 in Thailand. In vitro fertilization fertility treatments comes with a price tag of $10,385 in the United Arab Emirates, $6,181 in the United Kingdom and $3,679 in Russia.
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zerland, Sweden and Germany, Barua said. Other countries offering universal health care at less expense and shorter wait times have welcomed the private sector working as a partner in the system, charge patients a co-payment to help temper demand and pay hospitals based on the procedures they perform rather than a global budget, Barua said. “There are a lot of countries with universal health care. But we are one of the more expensive systems, we’re among the top spenders on health care but we have some of the longest wait times in the world,� he said. “Personally, I do think it is quite remarkable that we expect patients to endure these long wait times without having any form of recourse within the country and in many situations it can mean patients being in pain for years, it can lead to loss of income and in some cases, it actually leads to a deterioration in the condition. When you consider all that together, it is worrying, especially since it doesn’t have to be that way. It’s not the price we have to pay for universal health care.�
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Gynecology: 14.7 weeks
While there is a patchwork of impressive initiatives aimed at improving wait times, overall there has been “slippageâ€? following initial progress following the 2004 federal-provincial health care accord, Decter said. “We think the Canadian system can be ďŹ xed. We’re optimistic about that,â€? he said. “But there’s a lot of rhetoric about patient-centred (care) and a lot of the things that are being done in the name of making the system more patient-centred are really reorganizing the provider side without much patient involvement.â€? Ontario’s Ministry of Health is committed to improving access to surgical services and Diagnostic Imaging, spokesperson David Jensen said. “Ontario has invested over $1.9 billion for more than 3 million additional procedures to help reduce wait times since 2003/04,â€? he said in an email, adding the government is investing $77.89 million a year to add 6,468 surgical procedures and 237,250 hours of operation for MRI and CT tests.
Ontario has also been recognized as a “strong performerâ€? on wait times for hip replacement surgery, knee replacement surgery, cataract procedures, cancer radiation and coronary artery bypass graft, he said. Bacchus Barua, senior economist with the Fraser Institute and coauthor of last November’s Waiting Your Turn: Wait Times for Health Care in Canada, isn’t impressed with wait times trends. “Unfortunately, when we look at Canada as a whole, this is the longest wait time that we’ve ever recorded in Canada in the history of the survey (which began in 1993),â€? he said. “I think medical wait times in Canada have become the deďŹ ning feature of Canada’s health care system.â€? The average wait time from referral from a family doctor to treatment is now 20 weeks, 115 per cent more than in 1993 when it was 9.3 weeks. While Ontario has the shortest average wait time at 15.6 weeks, that’s not a laudable standard when measured against other jurisdictions with universal health care such as Swit-
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