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STUDENTS PACK RELIEF KITS Volunteers include 30 Syrian refugees

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JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com Having taken in 30 Syrian refugees last year and helped them develop their English skills, Ryerson Community School continued to provide support to those from the war-ravaged country, packing relief kits for some 8,000 people still living in Syria. Students at the downtown school recently packed 1,400 relief kits with much-needed toiletries such as toothbrushes, toothpaste and soap, along with water purification tablets. Working in tandem with volunteers from Global Medic and the International Development and Relief Foundation, the students took turns packing supply kits and loading them into boxes so they could be transported overseas. "Last year, 30 Syrian new Canadians came to our school and that was a great experience for us," said Ryerson Community School principal Kien Luu. "This year, we wanted to reach out and help in another way. It’s part of our school’s commitment to helpl See SUPPORT, page 10

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Toronto Youth Cabinet led push for financial literacy learning across Ontario JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com When it comes to providing a quality education, those who stand to benefit most - youth - are often left without a voice at the table. With financial literacy set to earn increased attention in Ontario classrooms, however, students across the province may want to give thanks to the Toronto Youth Cabinet (TYC). First established 1998 by Toronto City Council, the TYC started out as a way of getting youth involved in municipal decisions. Nearly two decades later, the group has lent a youth voice to issues ranging from housing to transit to employment to education. With the provincial government’s late March announcement that financial literacy would be one of the major planks of a career studies pilot program, one of the TYC’s main objectives have been achieved. Students will now get a firmer footing in terms of earning and saving, budgeting and money management. The TYC’s focus on boosting financial literacy education started in 2016, when Prakash Amarasooriya joined the team and took on the role of school boards lead. He noted that in talking to youth about shortcomings in the education system, the lack of financial literacy education was a common refrain. "We did research to see how financial literacy was taught in schools - we looked into the Ontario curriculum - and there were mentions of it but it wasn’t really directly addressed," said Amarasoori-

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Toronto Youth Cabinet members Edwin White Chacon (left), Prakash Amarasooriya, Bri Gardner, Riley Peterson and Tom Gleason were instrumental in making financial literacy a bigger part of the Ontario curriculum. ya. "It was dispersed throughout other courses, but it wasn’t a focus. It felt more like an afterthought." There had been repeated calls for mandatory money skills to be taught in high school from various groups and politicians. The TYC also approached the Ministry of Education last summer to raise the issue, but felt their initial overtures were rebuffed. "What we got from them was that they thought they were doing a good enough job with financial literacy," Amarasooriya said. Not content with that response, the TYC created a five-phase plan to increase the pressure on the

government to devote more class time to financial literacy. They started with a petition and followed it up with a press release, and the attention those steps garnered was enough that the final phases of their plan - taking the matter to the legislature, conducting workshops and airing videos from youth talking about the importance of financial literacy education - were not necessary. "Fortunately, the attention we got in the media was enough that we started to see the slight differences in the minister’s statements over the next two to three weeks," said TYC ex-

ecutive director Tom Gleason. "It went from ’We’re confident things are working well’ to ’Changes are coming.’" Gleason added that the TYC’s actions received nearly unanimous consent from people from across the political spectrum. Amarasooriya noted financial literacy education will better prepare students for life outside the classroom in ways many core courses may not. "It will help students take a look at their goals, values and (financial) decision-making and help them understand what their needs are and what their wants are," he said.

"They’ll also get familiar with things like mortgages, financing and leases, or TFSAs and RRSPs. Those things can be confusing or daunting when you don’t really know about them, and this will help students understand them better." That knowledge will better enable young people to take control of their financial futures, giving them the tools they need to make smarter decisions. Making the careers course and its associated financial literacy education mandatory will be another big win for students across the province. "People from disadvan-

taged neighbourhoods will get as much in-school learning about financial literacy as people from affluent neighbourhoods," Amarasooriya said. "And where putting a useful topic in another course was shown to be ineffective, this will make it way more useful to students." Education Minister Mitzie Hunter said she was happy to hear from the TYC when it approached her with its call for increased financial literacy in schools. Having taken her role in the ministry last June, she was quick to see the importance of such instruction. "They came to me to talk about ’How do we bring this into schools?’ and I was really pleased to let them know that I was very supportive of this and wanted to see it happen," she said. Hunter added that she was impressed with the TYC’s commitment and preparation in bringing about change, noting that having engaged youth makes the education system work better not only for the students but for the province as a whole. "It’s very important to me that I hear (from) students and connect with them on their learning and on their education," she said. "Listening to students and allowing them to share their ideas and their perspectives around their learning is extremely important." With the TYC and other engaged youth organizations taking on leadership roles, there will surely be no shortage of ideas and perspectives coming the minister’s way.

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l Friday, April 14 The Good Friday Concert - Music for a Most Holy Day WHEN: 4 p.m. - 11 p.m. WHERE: Yorkminster Park Baptist Church, 1585 Yonge St., Toronto CONTACT: E. Burns, 9sparrows.arts@gmail.com, www.9sparrowsarts.org COST: With Special GuestsAnne Lindsay, Celtic violin and Sharlene Wallace, Celtic harp.

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Toronto’s embarrassment of riches spells trouble Toronto has always been a city bursting at the seams. We don’t have enough road capacity for all our cars and trucks, and our public transit system is underdeveloped and overcrowded. We are just getting a handle on our aging sewer infrastructure, which has been neglected for decades and has shown it after heavy rains. Mitigating poverty and homelessness has been a constant struggle, and our stock of subsidized public housing cannot keep up. Now we can add another pressure to the list of forces bedevilling Toronto: Wealth - in the form of the city’s obscenely overvalued stock of housing that is decidedly not subsidized. According to the Toronto Real Estate Board, the price of a house in the Toronto area has risen by 33.2 per cent over the past year, and now sits at $900,000 on average. That is good news for people who’ve bought their home in the past decade. It augurs badly for young families or anyone else hoping to put down roots in our communities through the traditional and powerful route of home ownership. The choices for those of more limited means are unappetizing. Even those earning high-five-figure salary will have a hard time gathering a down payment and paying a mortgage on a $1-million property, but attempting to do so is one option. Rental housing is another possibility - but hyperinflated real estate costs have had the effect of hyperinflating the rental market, too. A third option - simply seeking housing elsewhere - is the perhaps the most viable for house-hunters, but disastrous for a city. As Canada’s largest city and the country’s major financial centre, Toronto has always been marked as a focal point for wealth, but that has never been the city’s sole identity, and certainly not its best identity. At our best, we live the city’s motto; Diversity Our Strength. And diversity is sorely curtailed, in a city where the price of entry is on average $1 million. It’s encouraging to see our political leadership at all three levels of government taking note, even if it is somewhat belated. Whether the actions that have so far been proposed - taxes on vacant units and offshore investor purchases to cool speculation, and changes to the Tenant Protection Act to mitigate gouging rent increases - will be enough, is another question. There is another solution; a catastrophic market correction that will cost people their homes, but eventually set the ship right. Let us pray it doesn’t come to that.

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Prayers in the rain for troubled Jamestown The rain starts falling as they walk up Jamestown Crescent. Memories come back, every one of them painful. "Beckles got shot at this door, right up there. We had a prayer rally up here," says Rev. Carmen Lewis. Gordon Beckles, 46, died on his porch in March 2015. Lecent Ross, 14, was killed as a handgun went off four months later. "Her mom is just up here. Oh, there’s just been so many of them," says Al Bowen, a local pastor. Bowen points his borrowed pink umbrella at where Candice Rochelle Bobb, 35, was shot in a car last May. Her unborn son died three weeks later. In front of Jamestown’s food bank, members of the Etobicoke Strategy begin

MIKE ADLER Edges of Toronto to pray. They’re persistent visitors to this and other neighbourhoods, inspired by a Boston movement bringing faith leaders and police officers together on community walks. Two women load groceries into a hatchback nearby. Bowen asks God for more trust in Jamestown, "because when trust is in

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curity cameras, better lighting. Lewis greets a group of children standing outside, asks if they’re enjoying the rain. Do the community walks work? "You find that people are more willing to come out and talk, even with police around," says Const. Anthony Amantea, but notes there were two shootings in Jamestown this year. "It’s hard to say whether it’s getting better." As the group walks back to their cars, King says he lives in a safe community. "Why can’t these people?" Seeing they can is a responsibility for all of us. Reach Mike Adler at madler@insidetoronto.com.

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place, the wall of silence goes lower." The rain and wind increase. Andrew King, another pastor, asks God to guide police working in the community. "Wash away the crime, the grime, Father," he says, asking God to remove the "negative element" here, to give hope to Jamestown’s children, food to its cupboards, jobs to people not working. "They may not know it," he adds, "but we’re interceding for them, praying for them." Vincent Crisanti, the local councillor, says the city and its Toronto Community Housing Corporation do their best. He points to new courtyard stone among the drab townhouses, more se-

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Committee approval for massive redevelopment DAVID NICKLE dnickle@insidetoronto.com A plan for the massive redevelopment of the southwest corner of Bloor and Bathurst Streets has sailed through Toronto and East York Community Council. If the proposal by Westbank Developments is then approved by Toronto Council later this month, it will mean that the iconic Honest Ed’s department store and Mirvish Village will soon be replaced by rental highrises, a park and new street retail. It will have been a long time coming. Westbank came forward with plans to redevelop the lands in 2014, and have worked with the city and with representatives of four communities - the Annex, Seaton Village, Palmerston and Harbord Village going through a series of proposals for a rental housing / retail project.

per cent of the total number of units. It maintains 23 heritage buildings, keeps Ed Mirvish Laneway open for small-scale retail, includes an on-site park, and will provide new space for the African Canadian independent bookstore A Different Booklist. The shop that has existed for more than two decades on Bathurst Street will have a new 35,000-squarefoot space for A Different Booklist Cultural Centre. As well, there will be a child care facility. It’s all scaled back from previous iterations, and both local councillors - Joe Cressey and Mike Layton praised the developer and the community for coming to a compromise. "This could have been a very short dance," said Layton. "It could have gone straight to the OMB in 2014, but they stuck with us and they showed a willingness to change. They eliminated a building.

"When we bought this site, we knew we were walking into something that was going to be complicated and important we also knew we were walking into a great opportunity to do some community building," said Westbank’s Ian Duke. "The only preconception we came with was that it would be 100 per cent built rental. Everything else we came to with an open mind." After extensive consultations with the community and city planning staff, the final plan includes 804 residential units - at least a quarter of them larger, family units. As well, the development will include a replacement of the retail space, a pedestrianization of Markham Avenue, and 1,000 bike parking spaces. The development will also provide affordable rental housing on site, to a minimum value of $4 million - approximately four

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They provided a new park. There was significant flexibility." Layton acknowledged that the development won’t please everyone. "Are the buildings too tall? Yeah, they’re a little too tall. Are the lineups for the Bathurst Eastbound subway in the morning going to be longer? Will everybody support this? No. But if Westbank shows flexibility in the site we’re going to build something spectacular in the area." Cressey praised residents who participated. "Neighbourhoods have a right to say no to something that will harm the neighbourhoods but communities have a responsibility to say yes to good new developments. "It’s been critical we get it right and I think we’ve done that."

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