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Part 1 of this two-part series investigates the growing problem of sex trafficking in Greater Toronto. More girls are growing up online, spending as much time with social media as they do in school. They don’t know pimps are watching. Predatory men and boys are waiting on Instagram, Snapchat, free dating sites, anywhere they can catch a girl at the right moment.

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CULTURA FESTIVAL CONTINUES EVERY FRIDAY IN JULY WITH MUSIC, BUSKERS What started out with a crowd of 250 and a modest number of performers has grown to thousands of spectators and highquality entertainment in the heart of North York. Now in its seventh year, Cultura Festival will take over Mel Lastman Square every Friday night until July 29.

Staff/Metroland FULL STORY: bit.ly/cultura2016 WHY YOU SHOULD READ MORE: Plenty of performers will be there with Cultura also raising funds for local organizations.

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Harry Potter fans – the countdown begins until Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts One and Two arrives on store shelves, and insidetoronto.com has five copies up for grabs. Scholastic Canada announced it would be publishing the script book based on an original story by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany.

The city’s culinary scene will be on display for the next two weeks as Summerlicious gets underway, running until Sunday, July 24. Three-course prix fixe lunch menus are priced at $18, $23 and $28 and dinner menus are priced at $28, $38 and $48.

Reservations are recommended.

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FULL STORY: bit.ly/liciousto WHY YOU SHOULD READ MORE: Several new restaurants will be taking part at this year’s Summerlicious event.

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HOME-SHARING APPS NEED TIGHTER REGULATIONS TO ENSURE FAIRNESS Fairbnb.ca, a coalition of hoteliers, condo owners and rental housing advocates, came to city hall recently to ask council to regulate home-sharing apps, which they say competes with hotels and motels that have to pay commercial property tax and are subject to regulations.

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FULL STORY: bit.ly/homereg WHY YOU SHOULD READ MORE: See what Fairbnb.ca says are the problems with Airbnb and other home-sharing apps.

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BLACK LIVES MATTER SAYS MAYOR JOHN TORY HAS INAPPROPRIATELY TAKEN SIDES

TAXI INDUSTRY SKEPTICAL TORONTO CAN ENSURE ALL UBERX DRIVERS ARE INSURED

“I want to make it clear that Mayor Tory has no place in this discussion and he needs to stay in his lane,” said Rodney Diverlus. “We are not interested in politicking back and forth. We are not interested in his sound bytes and his vapid interest in this community.” David Nickle/Metroland

Toronto Transit Alliance says Municipal Licensing and Standards must demand ride-hailing drivers, such as Uber, present their certificate of insurance when they register with the city.

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FULL STORY: bit.ly/blmtory WHY YOU SHOULD READ MORE: Read about Tory’s invitation to Black Lives Matter and what he is trying to do.

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Visual art, spoken word, beatboxing, and breakdancing will take centre stage at the Unity Festival held July 20 to July 23.

The festival will feature youth performers from Toronto and across Canada at Super Wonder Gallery, 876 Bloor St., and at Yonge-Dundas Square.

E.S. Cheah/photo FULL STORY: bit.ly/unityfestivalto WHY YOU SHOULD READ MORE: Paul Nguyen, founder of janefinch.com, will be participating in a social/political discussion.

Sodexo Foundation’s Feeding Our Future program will help provide 40,000 free lunches to inner-city campers over the summer.

FULL STORY: bit.ly/feedingfuture WHY YOU SHOULD READ MORE: Second Harvest is also involved.

FULL STORY: bit.ly/baycrestgrad WHY YOU SHOULD READ MORE: See what valedictorian Eva Kurtzman, 91, (pictured here) had to say at the ceremony.

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Some 70 seniors, ranging in age from 60 to 91, were honoured during a ‘graduation’ ceremony at Baycrest Health Sciences recently. The honourees took part in a free program held in partnership with Programs for 50+ at The G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education at Ryerson University. Staff/Metroland

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FAMILY OF DUCKS RESCUED BY OPP AFTER ‘FOWLING’ UP TRAFFIC ON HIGHWAY 401

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Do you know this Canadian solider who was stationed in The Netherlands?

I was given a rather interesting assignment recently on our Canadian Association of Research Libraries tour in the Netherlands.

The Canadian soldier (corporal) seen in the photo below is one of the liberators of the Netherlands in Second World War. In a period between September 1944 and early April 1945, he was housed with a family in Eindhoven, a city in the south of the Netherlands. The family name is Andersson and their address was Franciscus Sonniusstraat 18 in Eindhoven. The name of the mother was Alida Catharina Andersson (born 1908) and the father was Henricus Johannes Andersson (born 1907). They had three sons: Anton (born 1936), Pieter (born 1940) and Hans (born 1946). The picture was sent by the soldier to the family in Eindhoven after the war. In the picture are his wife and son in Canada. We do not have his name or city the picture was sent from.

Please contact me with info Madeleine Lefebvre, chief librarian, Ryerson University Library, mjlefebv@ryerson.ca

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look at the price of food: you go in to buy apples, you buy a lettuce, a celery. Six bucks, eight bucks. It’s crazy. Then you come along the last thing in the line, the taxes.

You increase taxes? Where the hell will they get the money?”

Upstairs, Lastman’s successors spent the day grappling with the need for a 2.6 per cent cut to all programs in order to write a budget that’s sustainable.

Property taxes have actually been shrinking over the years, and services have become more expensive.

Under questioning from councillors, staff acknowledged services are going to be constrained and necessary growth in services will be nearly impossible. The tricks that saved Lastman and his successors – deferring expenses through what turned out to be bad leasing deals, or ballooning revenue from our ever-bubbling land transfer tax, rescues from more sympathetic provincial governments – won’t be available for long. So that means service cuts in the short term, and in the long term? Maybe revenue tools. But Lastman wasn’t so sure about those. A little alcohol tax, some tobacco tax… maybe hotels would be fine. “But if they start hitting on other taxes they’re in trouble, because the people can’t afford them and they’re going to get fed up with politicians completely,” warned Lastman. With words of wisdom like that from amalgamated Toronto’s founding father, it seems pretty clear that we’ve all been in trouble for a very long time.

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It was only appropriate that as Toronto Council began to debate its budget directions for 2017, surviving mayors of Toronto’s preamalgamation municipalities should be gathered to unveil a display of portraits and a bit of a light history lesson on amalgamation.

Former Toronto mayor Barbara Hall was there along with exEtobicoke mayor Doug Holyday, former York mayor Frances Nunziata and East York’s last mayor Michael Prue.

And of course, there was Mel Lastman – North York’s first, last and only mayor; and arguably one of the preeminent co-authors of the financial conundrum that Toronto is facing today.

Lastman was North York’s favourite son, a successful municipal politician whose boosterish approach to governance made his re-election in North York a certainty and made him a good bet to win the mayoralty in the first election of amalgamated Toronto.

It was a good bet but by no means a sure thing, and to nail it down, Lastman relied on two things: the love of his North York constituents, and a promise to freeze property taxes for three years straight.

This, he did for the first three costly years of amalgamated Toronto. And they set a standard – impossible to meet, but always there – of very low property tax increases. Because of that, revenue has never quite kept up with demand.

On Tuesday, Lastman offered a reminder of his original pitch.

“People don’t understand. Take a

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SUMMER DAYS HAVING FUN AT THE CULTURA FESTIVAL, TORONTO OUTDOOR ART EXHIBITION AND THE TASTE OF DOWNSVIEW Out and about: (Counter clockwise from left) Bing Wong (foreground) tries to keep up with the hula hoops up with some encouragement from Kavita Matthews during Cultura Festival events at Mel Lastman Square Friday evening; Silvia Jaquerz (centre) and her partner Jean How dance under a canopy of trees and lights during the Cultura Festival (Staff/Metroland); Artist Lucky Jackson displays a number of her favourite standee creations, which she inks by hand and then prints onto plywood, at the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition in Nathan Phillips Square Friday; Artist Shey Selehi poses with her art installation made entirely of cigarette wrappers and butts at the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition (Benjamin Priebe/Metroland); Stefano Picone digs into his plate at the Taste of Downsview hosted by the Downsview Residents Association at Downsview Park’s Orchard Pavilion last weekend, while Paco Diablo serves a plate of food. (Dan Pearce/Metroland)

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PORTUGAL FANS PREDICT THEIR COUNTRY’S WIN AGAINST FRANCE DURING EURO CUP During Sunday’s Euro Cup final, fan Amine Akel had high hopes for his team winning despite Portugal’s superstar Cristiano Ronaldo being forced out of the game with a knee injury.

Dan Pearce/Metroland FULL STORY: bit.ly/portugaleurowin WHY YOU SHOULD READ MORE: Read fans reaction during the final game featuring Portugal and France.

SYRIAN REFUGEES NEED MORE HELP

KEN GREEN CELEBRATES 60 YEARS OF OFFICIATING FOOTBALL THIS SEASON

Governments need to make new plans and continue tapping the goodwill of Canadians to help.

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It was 1956 and University of Toronto student Ken Green responded to a newspaper ad to officiate a football game. Sixty years and many trophies and awards later, he is set to retire at the end of the year.

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FULL STORY: bit.ly/syriahelp2016 WHY YOU SHOULD READ MORE: Learn why ‘Month 13’ is hard.

FULL STORY: bit.ly/greenretire WHY SHOULD YOU READ MORE: Interesting look of what football has given the man who started with no knowledge of the sport.

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ESCAPING THE TRAP:

Preying on the vulnerable from homeless girls to the girl next door Girls are growing up online, and many in Greater Toronto spend as much time with social media as they do in school, chatting, liking, posting.

They don’t know pimps are watching.

Predatory men and boys are waiting not just at the shopping mall, but on Instagram, Snapchat, free dating sites, anywhere they can catch a girl at the right moment. experts say that could be after she argues with her parents, or expresses vulnerability about her looks.

“They’ll tell her how smart she is, how pretty she is, that she’s a grown-up who can make her own decisions and doesn’t have to listen to her parents,”

says Michele anderson, human trafficking advocate for Toronto’s Covenant House.

Sixteen is a typical age, but girls as young as 12 are targets.

“They tell their life stories online,” saying things like, “I look fat today,” said Det.-Sgt. nunzio Tramontozzi, head of the Toronto Police human trafficking team.

Trolling, traffickers start out by assuring the girl, “You’re not, you look great,” he said.

“Within days, they hook them.”

Online luring is one reason sex trafficking happens around Greater Toronto

NEXT: How Ontario’s new antitrafficking strategy could convict more traffickers and offer crucial support to more survivors.

This is some of the language and words used which could indicate a girl is trapped in “The Game” (prostitution).

Sources: East Metro Youth Services, kidsmediacentre, Toronto police detective

MORE ONLINE Karly’s story: From being homeless and a drug addict who engaged in the sex trade as a teenager, Karly found a way out and is now giving hope as a peer counselor to women and girls who survived sex trafficking or are still in the sex trade. (bit.ly/karlystory) Signs a girl is being lured: Experts say sex trafficking masks itself as a typical relationship for a girl. Parents and friends can spot these and other warning signs a girl is in a dangerous relationship. (bit.ly/luringsigns) JUL 14 2016 |

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“He played on those vulnerabilities, knowing I wanted this relationship to be my forever.”

Olivia worked as his girl for two years, in hotel rooms from Burlington and Oakville to Markham, Richmond Hill, and downtown Toronto.

“To some degree, the industry itself met a lot of my needs. Now I felt good at something. I felt desired.”

Leaving was difficult. She was incredibly scared for her reputation, and her trafficker threatened to send her sex ads to people she cared about.

One day, a police officer posed as a John, checking Olivia’s identification to see if she was underage. She wasn’t, and wasn’t too receptive to his questions, but kept his card.

It was six months before she called, hoping to escape and rebuild her life.

Some trafficked women and girls finally, literally run for their lives. Others are held in place by ingrained feelings of love, dependence or fear.

Luring is sometimes done by women, most often by friends who are victims themselves.

Some are told they could be “partners” with their trafficker if they recruit replacements.

Recruiting is a means of selfpreservation, a chance to have sex with fewer people, said Carly Kalish, a therapist for the Scarborough-based East Metro Youth Services.

“The illusion of being their partner is a big part of why you stay, but it’s never actually the case,” she said.

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- a hub for this type of crime through which victims are moved quickly from hotel to hotel - not just to homeless girls, but to the girl next door.

If a child looks for validation or acceptance in an online space, and someone offers it, “that’s an adrenaline rush, that’s dopamine,” said Debbie Gordon, director of kidsmediacentre at Centennial College.

Online culture puts pressure on children to get approval for posts, or to build up followers, without really caring who those followers are, she said.

Some may say, “If I show more, take more risks, the next selfie will get more likes,” added Gordon. “You see so many kids taking such incredible risks.”

A trafficker will suggest meeting for dinner or coffee, and will shower a girl with expensive designer purses or cell phones, said Anderson.

They’ll then head to a hotel, where the girl is introduced to some of the trafficker’s friends, and she’s forced to have sex with them in exchange for the gifts she received.

“They’ll say, ‘What, you think this is all free?’” Anderson said.

If the girl resists, blackmail ensues.

Or the trafficker gets aggressive and abusive.

Victims are typically allowed home at night, but the threat of physical violence always looms if they dare tell anyone what’s happening, Anderson said.

In Olivia’s case, the trafficker was someone she knew from high school, entering her life when she was about 20, struggling with her mental health and severely low self-esteem.

There was a honeymoon phase where she felt special and loved. Olivia (not her real name) began living with the trafficker, feeling like she hit the jackpot.

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Part 1 of a series investigating the growing problem of sex trafficking in Greater Toronto

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