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A massive redevelopment will push Casey House forward in its mission of eradicating HIV/AIDS and both eliminating the stigma surrounding living with the illness and providing support to improve the quality of life of its clients.

First founded in 1988, Casey House has long been a leader in providing care and support. The opening of its new 58,000square-foot facility - a massive increase from its former 10,000 square foot space will allow the organization to reach more people and increase its spectrum of care.

In its old incarnation, Casey House provided in-patient services. Now, in addition, it will feature a day health program and outreach to bring care to people with complex medical and social needs. Those initiatives will help ensure clients can remain active in their community and live fulfilling home lives while still having their medical needs met.

It will continue to serve as a worldwide leader in care for those living with HIV/ AIDS, and the larger facility and new programs will allow Casey House, located

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Both the day health program and the community care will provide intervention for acute medical problems while also giving isolated clients much-needed social interaction. It will also help connect clients with care outside the facility when they have other health care needs that cannot be met at Casey House.

When it first opened, the stigma surrounding HIV/AIDS was far greater than it is now. Its first client was brought in by medics wearing HAZMAT suits, and when that client was greeted with a hug, he reported it was the first time he’d been touched in months.

While attitudes toward HIV/AIDS have largely progressed in the intervening 29 years, stigma still exists. The organization’s Smash Stigma study showed that 79 per cent of millennials who responded said they would be nervous or ashamed to share their HIV status if they tested positive.

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(Above) A man who gave his name as ’Anthony’ straightens up a memorial last week for ’Gypsy’, who died recently from an overdose, at Moss Park; (Left) Nick Boyce and Sarah Ovens, volunteers with the Toronto Overdose Prevention Society, check out their new, warmer all-season tent.

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Toronto Overdose Prevention Site volunteers want red tape eased to allow indoor site stopped or reversed 85 overdoses, including some in the park away from their tents. Since they set up shop, no one has died in the area due to overdose while they have been open.

Some have died after the tents have closed down for the day or before they have opened in the afternoon, however.

While the group was in talks

to move their operation indoors to the nearby Fred Victor Centre, they were later told they must wait for an "exemption" to allow use of that site.

"We thought that we had agreements with us moving indoors and operating the site unsanctioned until we were able to get the sanctioned site up," said TOPS volunteer Sarah

Evans.

Johnson pointed out that the Fred Victor Centre has thus far been unwilling to open without an exemption in place. In the interim, TOPS’ proposals to open trailers or rent a storefront location to provide more protection from the elements have been rebuffed by the city.

"There seems to be concern

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ith colder weather approaching, volunteers at Moss Park’s overdose prevention site are calling on all levels of government to implement immediate action to battle the opioid epidemic.

The opening of an insulated tent by the province’s Emergency Medical Assistance Team (EMAT) last Thursday was designed to help clients and the group of volunteers who run the site stay warm as the weather turns, remaining in place 24/7, though only staffed from 4 to 10 p.m. The makeshift tents being used by the group prior to the installation of the new tent were not insulated and were put up every afternoon at 4 p.m. and taken down each evening at 10.

The new heated tent offered problems of its own, however.

Gusts of wind blew it over on the weekend and, more importantly, the presence of oxygen tanks in the tent mean that clients can not light up inside the tent. That reduces its usefulness for those who are looking to use the overdose prevention site to smoke drugs.

"It’s not a fix-all but we’re doing our best to make it work, and EMAT’s been really great," said Toronto Overdose Prevention Site (TOPS) volunteer Matt Johnson. "We’re in the middle of negotiations to ensure the service can run properly (in the new tent)."

At a news conference in Moss Park last week, a group of volunteers spoke out against inaction that has seen their hopes of moving their operation to a nearby indoor location slowed by bureaucracy.

They noted that the need for fully operational sites is growing in the city as the opioid crisis grows and more and more people are overdosing.

"In the month of September, we saw 28 overdoses that we responded to. In the month of October, we’ve seen 43," said TOPS volunteer Zoe Dodd at the news conference. "We know that the drug supply...is increasingly getting toxic and we know that this is an emergency response that was needed and essential."

In its first 12 weeks, TOPS oversaw 1,976 injections and 3,064 drug inhalations, distributed 1,246 naloxone kits and

about anything that would make our site appear more permanent," Johnson said. "For some reason, tents are okay but trailers aren’t."

The group could also look toward finding a different indoor site with another community service provider should their planned move into the Fred Victor Centre continue to experience obstacles.

TOPS volunteers are hoping for more information regarding both the exemption and the optimal use of the EMAT heated tent in the near future.

Even if the exemption to allow the Moss Park site to set up shop in the Fred Victor Centre comes through quickly something the TOPS volunteers are skeptical of - they want to see red tape eliminated to allow other sites across the city and beyond to offer life-saving harm reduction and overdose prevention services.

They emphasized that the site, and others like it, are necessary in the battle against the opioid epidemic.

"Since we’ve been here, people have died outside of the hours that we’ve been operating," Evans said. "Folks that have used our site since we opened in August are dead.

They have died of overdoses overnight when we’ve not been here and early in the morning when we’ve not been here.

"Three months later, we’re down some friends, we’re down some co-workers...(governments) keep talking, we keep dying. We’re hoping that’s going to change."

The group of volunteers continues to call on all levels of government to push for amendments to legislation or for exemptions that would allow not only their site but others like it to open and provide life-saving harm reduction and overdose prevention services to those who need it.

While the Moss Park site was city’s first unofficial overdose prevention site, the city has since established three indoor sites: the South Riverdale Community Health Centre on Queen Street East, near Carlaw Avenue; the Parkdale Queen West Community Health Centre Queen West site on Bathurst Street; and at the Works at Toronto Public Health’s building on Victoria Street, near YongeDundas Square.

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Canada’s soldiers continue to pay the price Jeff Sandney, a master warrant officer who works at Denison Armoury in Downsview, calms his dog down when the garbage truck rumbles by.

As he relates in a story by one of our reporters, the golden retriever more than returns the favour: calming Sandney down when he is stricken with anxiety.

Now 52, Sandney joined the Canadian Armed Forces at 17, and served in Bosnia, Cyprus, Egypt and the Golan Heights. In Sarajevo, Bosnia he recalled "seeing people shot all the time".

"Now I get high anxiety out of the blue. You just start sweating, and you don’t like to be around people or crowds," he told our reporter.

His story, on the heels of the inspirational Invictus Games hosted in Toronto this past summer, reminds us of the price still being paid by our soldiers.

His story is a part of our extensive coverage that can be found on our www.insidetoronto.com website and in our eight Toronto print editions this Thursday, leading up to Remembrance Day this Saturday.

Other stories delve into the Royal Canadian Legion’s only Jewish branch in Ontario; an East York Legion branch that is recognizing our soldiers who have taken their own lives; an east-end woman, now 99, who was on one of the first ships of nurses in the days following D-Day; one Toronto high school – Central Tech – that has been indelibly shaped by wartime service; and the dilemma of dwindling membership faced by many Legion branches.

Another of our reporters attended a Toronto District School Board school in Etobicoke where about 50 students in an adult class – many of them immigrants – gathered to hear an active member of the Canadian Armed Forces. An immigrant from Pakistan, himself, Capt. Adeel Zafar, explained that some soldiers are still paying the ultimate price. The emotion rose in his voice as he remembered one Canadian soldier, a young man in his 20s, killed in Afghanistan.

Zafar acted as liaison officer, and escorted the soldier’s body 200 kilometres along the Highway of Heroes from CFB Trenton to the Ontario coroner’s office in downtown Toronto.

"There was not a single kilometre not filled with Canadians. Every overpass, every bridge, people were waving, saluting, holding banners and Canadian flags," Zafar told the assembled, including our reporter.

"A girl about six or seven was holding a placard that said, ’thank you, Larry.’ Tears started coming down. For 10 minutes, I couldn’t see. That’s how emotional I was."

That was the day, Zafar said, "it became real" to him what he and Canadian Forces members do.

Canadians should hopefully often think about, and be thankful for, the sacrifice of our men and women in service – and Nov. 11 remains an essential commemoration of that remembrance.

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Time to stop appointing caretakers It is time to end the practice of appointing caretaker councillors to public offices left vacant between elections.

Last week’s decision by Toronto council to appoint former parks bureaucrat Lucy Troisi to fill in the seat that Pam McConnell held before her death is maybe a stark example: councillors voted against a candidate who had significant endorsements from community leaders, a nod from the late councillor’s family, and instead supported one whose main endorsement came from two councillors in Scarborough.

It’s not to say that Troisi’s a bad choice for councillor, but she’s not the community’s choice, and Toronto council showed it-

DAVID NICKLE The City self in majority to not be terribly interested in matching the community’s choice. In the past, council has been better at it. When Scarborough East Coun.

Ron Moeser passed away earlier this year, they chose another former bureaucrat, Jim Hart, who’d also worked with Moeser and so would mirror his style.

But council could have

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to municipalities. At the federal and provincial levels of government, a vacancy must be filled by a byelection.

There is no provision for appointments and if a seat is vacated close to a general election then it sits vacant.

The same holds true provincially.

That’s a good system to emulate.

Constituents shouldn’t have to rely on their elected representative’s political opponents to provide them with fair representation, in Toronto or anywhere.

David Nickle is a reporter and columnist covering Toronto City Hall for Metroland Media Toronto. He can be reached at dnickle@insidetoronto.com. Follow him on Twitter at @davidnickle

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picked David Soknacki, the former budget chief under Mayor David Miller. A good choice, but hardly a carbon copy of the late Moeser in style and politics.

And who knows how good a choice Hart or anyone is to represent a ward?

In an appointment, the people are notably silent.

That’s why it might make sense to look at ending the practice of appointing politicians to office, period. Currently, council has the choice of a byelection or an appointment. Generally, earlier in a term council will hold a byelection and later it will appoint. But provincial law only requires an appointment if a vacancy occurs after March 31 of an election year.

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hen the Earls Court Branch 65 of the Royal Canadian Legion opened its doors 90 years ago, in the years between the two world wars, it had a membership of 900. Today, its membership sits at just 29, and branch president Joan Fenech has surrendered its charter and closed those doors.

Fenech, who has been a member of the legion for 40 years, has been at Earls Court for the past 18.

"I transferred down to this one because I felt this one needed help," she said.

The members will go to the Maple Leaf/Swansea Branch 266/46, not far off - the legion itself isn’t going anywhere, not right away. But the dramatic contraction at Earls Court is a stark example of the general dwindling of the Royal Canadian Legion over the past decades.

According to Tom Irvine, the first vice-president of the Royal Canadian Legion, the legion has been losing members at a rate of about 8,000 a year. Part of that is due to death - the largest cohort of members are veterans of the Second World War, a conflict that ended more than 70 years ago - but it has been a challenge to attract and retain veterans of more recent conflicts.

Part of that, said Irvine and others interviewed for this article, has to do with the way that the Canadian military recruits and deploys.

In the first two world wars, units tended to gather from particular towns or counties. Since the Second World War, that’s changed.

"Now when the boys come home, the guy from P.E.I. probably joined the regiment in New Brunswick, and when he’s discharged he’s back in P.E.I. and his comrades are across the country," said Irvine. So that easy connection growing up with the people you served with and coming home with some of the same people doesn’t foster a local legion branch with strong individual ties.

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Jack Newman, 87, who was a Sergeant in the Canadian Army reflects at the Remembrance Day service at Prospect Cemetery in 2008. The ceremony was held by members of the Royal Canadian Legion, Earlscourt Branch 65. Today, the Royal Canadian Legion is suffering dwindling membership, as the majority who frequented the legion served in the Second World War.

LEGION AT A LOSS Can non-serving members fill the ranks?

DAVID NICKLE dnickle@insidetoronto.com But it’s more than that for some.

Capt. Ryerson Maybee is a 42year-old reservist who served in Bosnia and Afghanistan. He did join the Mount Dennis Legion branch for about a year. But he only went a few times over that year.

"I think the difficulty is that while I recognize the services that they provide - particularly with as-

sisting governments and accessing services, in terms of the social aspect of the legion ... the branch didn’t have very many veterans in it," he said. "They had a lot of associate members. I got put off at it. I didn’t have much in common with the people there."

Associates and affiliates are the bane of many members looking to use the legion as a social club, but

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Irvine points out that members who haven’t served are essential as the legion has continued to evolve.

"Fifty years ago there were only past service members ... there was no other class," he said. "Over the years we invited family members as associates. Every associate was a family member of a person in the service. So as the service numbers declined in branches, the family

members pitched in. They started taking over the branch because there’s nobody else to fill the shoes. If it wasn’t for the associates, the legion would be dead now."

Sgt. Craig Hood is a reservist in the Queen’s Own Rifles, and he has no problem rubbing elbows with associate members - or anything with regards to the legion. It is, he notes, a "huge organization" which offers profound benefits for soldiers returning from sometimes traumatizing service.

The 44-year-old who has also served in Bosnia, Afghanistan and across Canada, has found plenty of people to talk to at his home branch in Ajax.

"My branch is fortunate - we have 200 veterans from World War 2 to the present day, a few Afghanistan veterans, a lot of British veterans that have served in operations I hadn’t even heard of," he said.

"There has been lots of opportunity to sit down at the table, talk and share stories, find common ground in those generational differences ... different kinds of service ... different operations. It’s healthy."

Capt. Maybee said that he has found that camaraderie in his regimental mess, and Hood says that the clubs have a lot to offer.

"But sometimes you want to talk to someone who’s not as connected to you as closely as regimental family is," he said.

And the legion, with its associate members, also offers something else: a connection between veterans and their communities said Sgt. Hood "We kind of lost our way over the years and decades and centuries of having that bond between the community and those warriors," he said. "The legion has those family members who are connected; they’re the ones most affected by our service. When we come home and are unpacking our emotional baggage, they’re the ones that have to put it away."

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Central Tech contributed greatly to war effort

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s Canadians battled on the beaches and in the trenches during the Second World War, Central Technical School (CTS) in Toronto was doing its part to help in the war effort.

The school has a long history of supporting the Canadian Armed Forces, and that long history is evident at the school, where the names of alumnae who served prominently displayed and a museum room that details how Central Tech played a critical role in the conflict.

"Our Remembrance services are an important part of who we are - we try to do something fresh each year to teach students the role the school played," said Fernanda Pisani, chair of the CTS Alumni Archives. "In 1939, our yearbooks featured writings by students who were thinking of enlisting overseas, and many students did go overseas."

Those students remained part of the Central Tech family despite being thousands of miles away, as they were sent special editions of the yearbook and other correspondence to help keep their links to home fresh.

They took part in some of the war’s most noted - and deadliest battles. Veteran and CTS alumnus Ron Beal took part in the ill-fated Dieppe Raid of 1942, where he was captured and spent over two years as a prisoner of war.

"At Dieppe, we had the privilege of being the first Canadians to see action," he was quoted as saying in CTS’ 100th anniversary yearbook. "They got us in but they couldn’t get us out."

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The Central Tech Alumni Association’s Fernanda Pisani examines a group photograph of soldiers that trained at the school during the Second World War, in the school’s archive/museum.

Fellow alum Albert Wallace was also a POW and was kept at Stalag Left III, the prison featured in the classic film "The Great Escape" which detailed a POW prison break. Wallace was among those who served as consultants on the film.

As alumni fought overseas, the school itself was a hotbed of activity, open 24 hours a day during wartime. After school hours, students would leave and "emergency classes" would see soldiers taught by the Army, the Navy, and the Royal Canadian Air Force. Those classes focused on fields that were essential in the

war effort, from aircraft and automobile mechanics to tank repair to broadcasting.

"The aircraft program was quite unique to Canada, not just to Toronto," Pisani said.

A shooting range was installed under the school to enhance soldier training, and a wind tunnel was used to test military aircraft.

The soldiers who studied at Central Tech would also play in local sports leagues and were associated with the school. Central Tech’s field was used as a training ground for cadets.

"Our school got quite the rep-

utation as bullies because the soldiers would beat all the other teams," said Rob Longworth of the CTS Alumni Association.

The school also had female students who pitched in with the war effort. Students in the "household arts" program known in more recent years as home economics - were each tasked with sewing one complete garment for British children living in bombed out areas. All told, they sewed and shipped some 400 garments.

The school will recognize its veterans at a special ceremony on Friday, Nov. 10.

Ceremonies are planned throughout the area, with the City of Toronto, the province of Ontario and others hosting events to commemorate those who have made the ultimate sacrifice while serving in the Canadian Armed Forces.

The Cenotaph at Old City Hall will host one such event, with veterans and others laying flowers to remember the fallen. That event will start at 10:45 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 11.

Queen’s Park will also feature a special ceremony at 10:45 a.m. on Nov. 11, with the province honouring fallen heroes. Those who cannot attend are invited to watch online at www.youtube.com/user/premierofontario At Mount Pleasant Cemetery, the Royal Canadian Air Force will lay poppy wreaths at the steps of the cemetery’s mausoleum. That event will begin at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 11, with a moment of silence at 11.

The Downtown Yonge BIA will have pipers playing The Lament at nine major intersections along Yonge Street at 11 a.m. on Nov. 11to pay tribute to the fallen.

Read more about Canadians’ sacrifice and service here: Insidetoronto.com/ remembranceday toronto2017

Archived photos offer glimpse into life on home front From wounded warriors and mourning mothers to curious kids and celebratory civilians, the First and Second World Wars touched the lives of all Canadian citizens - and Toronto residents were no exception.

This Remembrance Day, Metroland Media Toronto dug into the Toronto

Archives’ vast collection of First and Second World War-era photographs to select a handful of images that offer a glimpse into life on the wartime home front.

The photos chosen depict those among the scores of injured Canadian soldiers who recuperated from their battlefield

wounds within refuge of Toronto’s hospitals, as well as some of the families left behind by their less fortunate comrades.

They also showcase the innocence of youth against the backdrop of war overseas, and the jubilant celebrations upon war’s longawaited end – Cynthia Reason

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(Clockwise from top right) In this First-World War-era photo, General Sir Arthur William Currie - a Second World War commander of the Canadian Corps is pictured visiting with wounded soldiers at the Christie Street Veterans’ Hospital/Toronto Military Orthopaedic Hospital. Opened in 1919, the factory-turned-hospital treated the legions of veterans wounded in the war, as well as those injured in the Boer War and the Fenian Raids of 1866; Snapped during the V-E (Victory in Europe) Day celebrations on Bay Street in downtown Toronto, this photo from May 7, 1945 captures the jubilance experienced by the whole city upon the announcement that the war ended. Taken on June 26, 1941 at Toronto’s Sunnyside Beach, this photo depicts a pair of bren gun carriers from Borden Camp rolling past a flock of bathing-suited youth during the "Toronto Invasion" – an army training exercise in which troops had to "defend" Toronto from an enemy plot to seize the city.

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REMEMBRANCE DAY 2017 Moss Park Armoury home to four Canadian forces units JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com For many, the notion of the Canadian Armed Forces providing aid in Toronto is a foreign concept, limited to the time in 1999 when Mel Lastman called the army in to help clear snow.

Should military service be needed, however, the reservists who train and parade at Moss Park Armoury are ready to do their part.

Located at 130 Queen St. E., the Moss Park Armoury is home to four reserve units: 25 Field Ambulance, the 48th Highlanders of Canada, the Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada, and the 7th Toronto Regiment Royal Canadian Artillery, along with cadet corps for

youth. The units share the space, each taking over the armoury’s main area for a night each week, with leaders of the Highlanders taking the fifth night.

Many of the reservists, such as Sgt. Jimmy Alban of 25 Field Ambulance, have served overseas, and many have pitched in to help handle domestic crises such as the severe flooding experienced in Quebec earlier this year.

Alban noted that each unit has its own space in the Moss Park Armoury, as well as storage space for food, supplies and emergency items such as tents, first aid kits and more advanced medical supplies.

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Large vehicles both inside and outside the armoury can be deployed to serve as mobile medical centres or command units. The larger vehicles have running water, generators and vital equipment, and can be deployed quickly in case of emergency in Toronto or in outlying areas.

"If there’s a big disaster, or something like the snow (in 1999) it would take forever for units to get here from Barrie or Borden or Petawawa," Alban said. "So if there’s ever a really big emergency here, we have a big group of people ready to assist the people of Toronto."

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"The question was what do we do to improve a facility that was woefully outdated, to provide care for the vulnerable men living in the shelter," said WongTam, "and also understand what was going to be the impact for the local community."

The proposed new structure will be nine storeys, and offer 378 long-term care beds, 130 transitional assisted living beds, 100 emergency shelter beds, 21 affordable housing units and a 4,000 square metre community service hub.

Beaches-East York Coun. Janet Davis praised the change.

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These are men at the ends of their lives. The way they are being housed now ... they are being housed in a shelter and it’s not acceptable."

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The George Street Revitalization Project as it’s known will see a complete redevelopment of 294-349 George District in Toronto’s Garden District, and a reworking of the massive shelter and long-term care building known as Seaton House.

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At the new WE Global Learning Centre at 339 Queen St. E., the province last week unveiled YouthVoiceON, a new online tool that allows youth aged 14 to 29 a chance to connect directly with government through social media.

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"We know that young people have great ideas about how to make our government, our province even more awesome than it is, but we don’t always have a really good way to find out from (youth) what those good ideas are," said Ontario Minister of Advanced Education and Skills Development and Digital Government Deb Matthews.

Matthews noted that youth have already helped steer a provincewide transformation in how students access student aid. That has led to onethird of Ontario post-secondary students paying nothing for college or university, with another 200,000 receiving grants to reduce tuition.

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Hannah Alper, a 14year-old blogger, activist, author and motivational speaker, exemplifies how engaged many young people can be when given a chance. Having pushed for social change through WE, she hopes more young people use YouthVoiceON to bring about progress of their own.

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North York

Fall / Christmas Bazaar at Danish Lutheran Church Saturday, Nov 18th 11:00 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.

72 Finch Avenue West KVTU XFTU PG :POHF

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School Bus Safety Trainer Attridge Transportation is the premium operator of school buses & coach service throughout Ontario. An immediate opening is available for the position of School Bus Safety Trainer.

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Multiple positions are available in Niagara, Hamilton, Halton, Peel & Toronto Applicants should email a resume to: ayoung@attridge.com

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Metroland Central’s Toronto Distribution Centre requires a Casual part time Stacker for afternoon/day/night shifts for its warehouse operation. The stacker will report to the Mailroom Supervisor and/or Production Manager

Please contact Sathees Selvarajah at sselvarajah@insidetoronto.com or fill out an application at 175 Gordon Baker road, M2H 0A2 t 6OEFSTUBOE BOE BEIFSF UP BMM )FBMUI 4BGFUZ 1SBDUJDFT Procedures and Policies t 8SBQ BOE TFDVSF BMM CJH BOE TNBMM TLJET t 5BH TLJET DPSSFDUMZ BOE SFNPWF UIFN XJUI B QVNQ USVDL t &OTVSF 5"#" TIFFUT BSF QMBDFE PO UIF DPSSFDU CVOEMFT t $SFBUF BOZ MPTU 5"#" TIFFUT t #VOEMF TUSBQQJOH

Handyman,

Maintenance Person for Townhouse complex. Min 2 yrs exp. Start ASAP. Own vehicle, truck or van.

25 hrs/wk. Mon - Fri. only. Fax resume 416-281-2816

PT Drivers

for Multiple Funeral Homes. May suit semi/retired people.

Also looking for night/weekend help Serving 13 locations in the GTA. Email resume: chantelle.desbois@ sci-us.com

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Apply in Person Monday to Friday from 8am to 4pm Hudson’s Bay Company 100 Metropolitan Road Scarborough, ON M1R 5A2 Tel: 416-238-6769 *Please bring Photo ID and your Resume* General Help

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David 416-231-9948

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Hudson’s Bay Company NOW Hiring 700+ Warehouse Staff

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Client Service Administrator

The Catholic Women’s League

Coins, jewelry, Amber, lvory, Military, Watches, Toys, G.I. Joe, Star Wars, Cups & Saucers, Silver, Gold, Records, Old Postcards/Photos, Guitars, Old Pens, Lighters & Old Advertising etc.

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Mississauga 1425 Dundas St. East Unit 1 Dixie & Dundas 905-361-1020

Markham 8567 McCowan Road McCowan & Hwy 7 905-209-7474

East Scarborough 3434 Lawrence Ave. East Markham & Lawrence 416-289-0808

Brampton 150 West Drive Unit 18 Hwy 410 & Queen St. 905-45 7-6565

Scarborough 85 Ellesmere Road, Unit 1 Parkway Mall 416-510-8576

West Oakville 210 North Service Road 905-815-1118

Etobicoke 1000 Islington Avenue Unit 3 Islington & Queensway 416-259-5197

South Scarborough 8 Lebovic Avenue Unit 3B Eglinton Town Centre 905-750-7979

Danforth 568 Danforth Avenue Danforth & Carlaw 416-465-9998

Pickering 1725 Kingston Road, Unit 14 Brock Rd. & Kingston 905-239-7922

Richmond Hill 10520 Yonge Street Unit 20 Yonge & Elgin Mills 905-884-8771

Whitby 80 Thickson Road South, Unit 3 Dundas & Thickson Rd. 905-444-9500

North York 588 Sheppard Ave. Bathurst & Sheppard 416-398-2444

Oakville 2501 Hyde Park Gate, Unit C2 Hwy 403 & Dundas St. W 905-829-0999

Burlington 1-3500 Fairview Street 905-639-7580 Leaside 95 Laird Drive (Leaside Village) 416-422-0505 Stock Yard Village 1980 St Clair Ave. W Unit C109 (At the Junction) 416-902-7750

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