THURSDAY MARCH 9, 2017
PROTESTERS AGAINST ISLAMOPHOBIA GATHER IN SOLIDARITY Hundreds of Torontonians gathered at Nathan Phillips Square to show their support for their Muslim friends and neighbours and speak out against Islamophobia. Staff/Metroland FULL STORY: www.insidetoronto.com/citycentre
FILMMAKER OFFERS CLOSE-UP LOOK AT LOSING HER SIGHT Toronto filmmaker Maria Terese Larrain was devastated when she lost the sight in both eyes, one after the other. She has made the most of her situation, however, chronicling her journey into blindness in her latest film, "Shadow Girl." Submitted phto FULL STORY: www.insidetoronto.com/citycentre
CAUGHT IN A POWER STRUGGLE PHOTOGRAPHER CHALLENGES RACE PERCEPTIONS THROUGH ART FOLLOWING TRUMP TRAVEL BAN Adam Zivo couldn’t sit idly by when US President Donald Trump attempted to block migration from seven Muslim-majority countries in late January. He started a campaign to challenge Islamophobia. Submitted photos FULL STORY: www.insidetoronto.com/citycentre
Ontarians like GTA farmer Daren Goodchild are struggling with surging hydro rates. Susie Kockerscheidt/Metroland l See CAUGHT,
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Saturday, April 22, 2017 at 7:30 p.m. Sony Centre for the Performing Arts Legends of Motown is a 15-piece cast of singers and musicians performing live look-a-like/sound-a-like tributes to The Supremes, The Four Tops, The Temptations, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson, The Jackson 5, Stevie Wonder, Martha and the Vandellas and more and features all your favourite songs of the Motown era.
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With dazzling choreography, authentic costumes, stunning vocal performances and a fabulous live band, this high-energy show with the most timeless music of our lives is not to be missed!
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l Saturday, March 11 Breakaway to the Hockey Hall of Fame this March Break! WHEN: 9 a.m. - 6 p.m. WHERE: Hockey Hall of Fame, 30 Yonge Street, Toronto CONTACT: Courtney Evans COST: $12-18 Try your hand at goaltending, shooting, play-by-play calling, and even hosting your own sports broadcast. Visit HHOF.com for March Break promotions. March 11-19.
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Cage WHEN: 8 p.m. - 10 p.m. WHERE: Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane, Toronto CONTACT: 416.866.8666, info@soulpepper.ca COST: $36 Cage asks us to re-think, and re-experience what it is to see and hear and be. March 11-24.
J.S. Bach: St. John Passion WHEN: 7 p.m. - 11 p.m. WHERE: Trinity College, 6 Hoskin Ave., Toronto CONTACT: Emily Bird, emilykbird3@gmail.com, http:// www.corunumensemble.com/ COST: Admission by Donation Cor Unum Ensemble, Toronto’s newest Baroque Ensemble, presents St. John’s Passion, led by guest director and Early Music specialist, Adrian Butterfield.
l Sunday, March 12 Toronto Green Market - Spring Edition WHEN: 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. WHERE: The Great Hall, 1087 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontario, Toronto CONTACT: Felicia, greenmarkettoronto@gmail.com, https://www.facebook.com/ events/224153771370956/ COST:
l Wednesday, March 15 Men’s Bridge WHEN: 1 p.m. - 4 p.m. WHERE: Leaside United Church, 822 Millwood Rd., Toronto CONTACT: Jim Krafchik, 416-488-7720 COST: $3 Possibly the only male-only Bridge Club in Toronto where older guys value camaraderie over skill - Every Wednesday.
l Friday, March 10 National Home Show WHEN: 10 a.m. - 9 p.m. WHERE: Enercare Centre, Exhibition Place, 100 Princes’ Blvd, Toronto CONTACT: Brittany, brittany@punchcanada.com, https://nationalhomeshow.com/ COST: $13-20 Discover everything connected to your home at North America’s largest home and garden event. March 10-19.
Canada Blooms WHEN: 10 a.m. - 9 p.m. WHERE: Enercare Centre, Exhibition Place, 100 Princes’ Blvd, Toronto CONTACT: 416-447-8655, info@canadablooms.com, http://canadablooms.com/ COST: $0-20 The largest flower and garden festival in the country, Canada Blooms celebrates the very best in Canadian gardening and floral design. March 10-19. l Saturday, March 11 Unearthing Toronto’s Oldest Marketplace WHEN: 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. WHERE: Market Gallery, 95 Front St E, Toronto, ON M5E 1C3, Toronto CONTACT: 416-392-7604, marketgallery@toronto.ca, http://
www.toronto.ca/marketgallery COST: The Archeology of the North St. Lawrence Market explores the history of the market through archaeological finds, archival photos, maps and plans. Saturdays until March 18. ROM’s Big Blue March Break WHEN: 10 a.m. - 7 p.m. WHERE: Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park, Toronto CONTACT: 416-586-5797, programs@rom.on.ca, http:// www.rom.on.ca/en/whats-on/ march-break COST: Free with Museum admission March 11-19, drop-in activities run from 10:30 a.m. to 30 minutes before closing unless otherwise noted, free with Museum admission. Sugar Shack TO WHEN: 11 a.m. - 8 p.m. WHERE: Sugar Beach, 11 Dockside Dr., Toronto CONTACT: info@sugarshackto.ca, http://www.sugarshackto.ca/ COST: Bigger, better, and sweeter than ever, Sugar Shack TO is a free, family-friendly, winter event on Toronto’s waterfront. Saturday and Sunday.
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March Break at the AGO WHEN: 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. WHERE: Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas Street West, Toronto CONTACT: Meagan Dolmage, 416-
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l Friday, March 10 ROM Winter Fridays - Discounted Admission for All Ages WHEN: 5 p.m. - 10 p.m. WHERE: Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park, Toronto CONTACT: 416.586.5797, programs@rom.on.ca, https:// www.rom.on.ca/ COST: visit rom.ca for details Fridays to March 17, enjoy discounted admission from 5:30 10 p.m., and roam the galleries, or check out our newest special exhibition!
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CHAPLIN AND EGLINTON STATIONS 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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MIKE ADLER Edges of Toronto Standing up for a neighbourhood is hard when you can’t find free spaces to meet in. Falstaff Community Centre bursts with youth and kids from nearby highrises. The association met there last week, in one of the only free spaces it can get. As one man pointed out, though, everyone in the room lives in a house, and is white. Most Rustic residents aren’t. The community centre will close soon for renovations, but not before September, and the city says it’s looking at "relocation
options" for programs. But relocate where? For many in Rustic, the York Recreation Centre, at Eglinton Avenue and Black Creek Drive, is two long bus rides away. People voted in the city’s lengthy "participatory budgeting" process for small park improvements - a gazebo in Rustic Park, a white wall for movies at Maple Leaf Park. But sewer work has held those projects up. New lights installed in Maple Leaf aren’t turned on. Yet there’s hope. Rustic’s large, affordable house lots are attracting buyers. People are moving back because they like the area, says Carlo DiBenedetto, one of its few business owners. DiBenedetto says the residents’ group needs more warriors, more advertising, and events which are more enjoyable, maybe with food. Giacometti and others approve. "If you’ve got the fire, we need the fire," she says
So Wynne’s Liberals are waving a shiny 25 per cent hydro cut over here, while over there, our expensive hydro system continues to plod along.
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Rustic is an in-between place. Luisa Giacometti says it’s part of a neglected Toronto, "caught in the middle" between Mount Dennis and Jane-Finch, neighbourhoods she believes get more attention, and more money. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, she says, the area was a haven for drugs and prostitution. "There was violence constantly." Residents from both the highrises and bungalows between Lawrence Avenue and Hwy. 401, east of Jane Street, turned things around. "We worked hard at it," says Giacometti. One night, 400 filled a meeting at Nelson A. Boylen Collegiate. Today, though, Boylen, its pool drained, is entering its third year empty, awaiting a sale. Active residents got older, moved away. The Jane Falstaff Community Association Giacometti and others created still meets, but the few leading it, she says, "are getting burned out."
the province owes to private power providers - from 20 years to 30. So we’re deferring costs to future generations in order to get some immediate relief. And we’re incurring about $25 billion in extra interest charges over that time. Additional relief will be coming through low-income and rural subsidy programs, but that too comes at a cost of $2.5 billion over the next three years charged to Ontario’s treasury and taxpayers. As tempting as it is to celebrate lower bills, with an election year in 2018, we need to hold all parties to account to do more than float distractions. Ontario generates more power than it knows what to do with and we’re forced to sell it to our neighbours at a discounted rate. Sometimes we have to pay for them to take it. The sale of Hydro One has locked us into guaranteed contracts with private power providers whether we need that power or not. There’s little transparency as to the details of private contracts and that takes accountability right out of the system. We need a comprehensive plan and a system overhaul. Keep that in mind when you’re told to celebrate your June power bill. It’s not nearly enough.
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FINDING THE FIRE AGAIN IN RUSTIC
Our hydro bills may be going down this summer, but don’t pop the bubbly just yet. While Ontario residents will see an average 25 per cent reduction on the bottom line, what they won’t see is what it’s going to cost future generations and the current structural inefficiencies and ongoing bad planning that make electricity expensive for us in the first place. Premier Kathleen Wynne announced the savings this month saying it was the fair thing to do. She heard from families struggling with their bills and struggling to understand why rates have skyrocketed. Unfortunately, because the history of hydro and its mismanagement is such a long and complicated one, politicians looking to distract would-be voters benefit from its current complexity. People don’t get it and don’t have the time, the comprehension or the willingness to figure it out. What they do get is how hard it is to pay a huge bill. So Wynne’s Liberals are waving a shiny 25 per cent hydro cut over here, while over there, our expensive hydro system continues to plod along. The lower bills come from refinancing the term of payment
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PROVINCE FUNDS DENTAL CARE FOR 85,000 TORONTO KIDS If you don’t have dental coverage, an appointment to see the dentist can get pretty expensive. So, Ontario has made it easier for families to send their children to the dentist. Healthy Smiles Ontario provides dental coverage to 85,000 Toronto children and youth, and 320,000 across the province. Staff/Metroland FULL STORY: www.insidetoronto.com/citycentre
COLLEGE STREET BEAUTIFICATION PROJECT TO RESUME IN JULY In a joint meeting held by councillors Ana Bailao and Mike Layton, residents and business owners were updated on the status of the beautification project on College Street that was supposed to be completed by November. Justin Greaves/Metroland FULL STORY: www.insidetoronto.com/citycentre
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PARK GROUPS AREA EXPANDING TO TORONTO’S UNDERSERVED AREAS Start small, and you can get people out of their apartments and into the parks between them, even in Toronto’s underserved neighbourhoods, volunteers say. The city’s green spaces are key to building “social connection” and a sense of neighbourhood, say Park People, a network for Toronto’s local park groups. Staff/Metroland FULL STORY: www.insidetoronto.com/northyork
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POLICE AND ABORIGINAL ELDERS TEAM UP TO HELP HOMELESS Police from 51 Division are working with aboriginal elders to help First Nations people dealing with homelessness, mental health issues or addiction get support through an innovative program started by the Downtown Yonge BIA. Justin Skinner/Metroland FULL STORY: www.insidetoronto.com/citycentre
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Daren Goodchild is one of many Ontarians struggling with surging hydro rates. He lives on a farm in rural Markham and says the electricty costs of running his small farm have become insanely high.
Caught in a power struggle Residents, critics wary of hydro rate cut that defers costs onto future generations JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com This summer we’ll see a break on hydro bill costs, but some residents particularly hard hit by high rates and delivery fees, aren’t buying it. Daren Goodchild, a horse farmer from Markham, has felt the pinch. The electricity bill for his small farm from October to December in 2016 totalled $592, including $130 in delivery fees alone. With an electric wellpump for water and an oil-burn-
ing furnace in his 160-year-old home, the costs of running the farm are fast spiralling out of control and he feels there’s little hope of slowing it. "It’s gotten to the point where we have changed our behaviour as best we can but it doesn’t seem to make a lick of difference," he said. Premier Kathleen Wynne announced March 2 that the government would reduce hydro rates by 25 per cent, which includes the eight per cent rebate on the Ontario portion of the HST. In order to do this, the plan refinances the
payments to private power providers who signed on for 20-year contracts. Under the new plan, the province has increased the payment term from 20 to 30 years, which will incur $25 billion in interest charges over that time. Goodchild said the Liberals are just kicking the can down the road. "Instead of reducing rates, it is going to cost us more in the long run," he said. "This is not going to help us whatsoever. They’re dol See RESIDENTS, page 11
them to take our power." Transparency on the government’s current energy contracts is also lacking, said Todd Smith, PC energy critic. "In my own riding of Prince Edward-Hastings, I’ve watched power companies ask for and get extensions from the government that drag the project out years beyond what was envisioned by the original deal," he said. "That’s not something you do if you’re on the side of the people paying hydro bills." Mark Rodger, a lawyer with Borden Ladner Gervais and an expert in the utility sector, mean-
while, said delivery charges are a necessary hit. Simply being hooked up to hydro costs money even when energy is not being used. Those costs could be cut, however, should some of Ontario’s 60plus utility companies merge. By having different companies running their own distribution systems, he said, it adds $1 billion in costs. "Through consolidation, you can remove those costs through efficiency gains," he said. - with files from John Edwards, Simon Martin and David Nickle
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ing this for votes." The government’s new measures also include helping lowincome residents and broadening the rural and remote rate protection program by subsidizing rural homeowners who have unusually high distribution rates. The savings could be between $12 and $75 depending on consumption and rate plan. Those subsidies will cost the government’s treasury, and taxpayers, about $2.5 billion over the next three years. Critics say lowering the cost of hydro artificially without addressing broader structural issues is a mistake. "Nothing in the government’s new plan changes the underlying costs of the power system," said energy consultant Tom Adams. He challenged the notion that Wynne’s plan was like refinancing a mortgage. "Not true. Her plan is like refinancing monthly rental costs. The monthly rent payments will go down, but after the next election the renter will be in much worse trouble." Adams says Ontario is actually enjoying something of a "power cost sweet spot" at the moment, with relatively affordable nuclear power. But that’s about to change, he said, with some of the province’s nuclear generating units up for refurbishment in the near future. "A decline in nuclear production and a sharp increase in cost is about to happen," Adams said. Keith Brooks, programs director at Environmental Defence, is pleased the government’s plan includes conservation initiatives like the $200 million Affordability Fund, which helps people make their homes more energy efficient. But he said the government’s reforms make no changes to the supply mix - the amount of power we get from nuclear versus gas versus wind. ". To keep costs low, we need to see more renewables in Ontario’s future," he wrote in an opinion piece for Metroland Media. "Wind and solar power costs are plummeting, while costs for nuclear power are rising. Renewable energy has created a solid foundation for a clean economy one that Ontario now needs to build upon." Ontario’s PC and NDP energy
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