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Breaking ground on new Casey House JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com Over the course of its 27-year history, Casey House has helped countless people living with HIV/AIDS in Toronto, providing in-patient and home care, along with other supports. The construction of a new

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tion and those it serves. “It will let us provide an expanded continuum of care – not just our in-patient and home care, but a day program with nurses, social workers and caregivers there to provide support,” she said. The day health program will focus on bridging care gaps in a

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Union Station to house ‘zones of immersion’ largest public art installation in city’s history JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com When it is unveiled prior to the Toronto 2015 Pan Am/ Parapan Am Games, the Union Station redesign will feature one of the largest public art installations in Toronto’s history. Those looking for a sneak peek of the installation can do so at Yorkville’s Gallery Gevik throughout much of April. Designed by Stuart Reid, Union Station’s zones of immersion will feature 166 panels making up a massive glass mural seven feet tall and stretching 500 feet in length. Reid’s Gallery Gevik installation In Transit will feature full-scale drawings that formed the core of the Union Station work. “Zones of immersion has been a long, long haul,” said Reid, an Annex area resident who teaches at the Ontario College of Art and Design. “They started a competition for the project in 2007. I won it in 2008 and then it just seemed like everybody kind of sat on their hands for 2009 and 2010.” “Now there’s a huge push to get everything installed for the Pan Am Games, but it will all be up and ready,” he said. The installation features drawings and writings, which Reid based on his own trips on transit. He would see other subway riders and draw them from memory as they went about their normal commute. While the subway has seen its share of interesting stories, Reid looked at people in more general terms. “I didn’t examine other people like specimens, but there are shared experiences we all have riding the subway,” he said. “I don’t know that there’s a typical commuter, but I tried to get into the mindset of the people I saw on the subway. I wanted to reflect the indi-

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vidual and collective lives going there.” The images capture the paradoxical nature of public transit, where most people are in their own worlds, completely alone even as they are surrounded by others. “You’re kind of in a noman’s zone when you’re waiting for the train,” Reid said. “It’s a social space, but it’s also a very anti-social space despite all this human activity, and it’s fitting for Union Station, which is sort of the edge of centre and at the centre of the edge of the (subway) line.” While zones of immersion shines a light on the everyday world of the commuter, Reid hopes it gives people a chance to reflect on – and even discuss – its content. He aims to humanize the otherwise random faces

people see on a regular basis on transit. “It’s sort of a ‘who is Toronto’ there in front of you,” he said. “It’s 500 feet long, and I hope it’s something people enjoy while they’re waiting there, instead of being bombarded by ads.” Some panels will feature stream-of-consciousness text, breaking up the images of commuters in transit. The In Transit show will show some of the work leading up to the installation, though it will not feature any of the 200-pound tempered glass panels being installed in Union Station. Reid will be on hand for an official opening reception, which runs from 1 to 5 p.m. on Saturday, April 11.

In Transit will run through April 30 at Gallery Gevik, 12 Hazelton Ave.

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Parapan-Am preview The 2015 Americas Wheelchair Basketball Challenge held at the Mattamy Athletic Centre last week offered a sneak preview of four of the teams who will be competing at this summer’s Parapan Am Games and also the facility that will be hosting it. This much anticipated game from last Thursday saw the Canadian men’s team, who are the defending 2012 Paralympic champs from London, lose to the U.S. 67-54. Argentina and Brazil were the other competing teams. Above, Toronto’s own Adam Lancia, right, drives past a United States defender. At right, Canada’s Nik Goncin (12), Bo Hedges (6) and Tyler Miller battle for a rebound.

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Comedian Scott Thompson is returning to the stage with the rest of the Kids in the Hall at the Danforth Music Hall.

Though his main project of late has been decidedly darker fare, downtown Toronto-based actor/comedian Scott Thompson is about to get back to his roots. Thompson, who currently plays the role of Jimmy Price on the crime drama Hannibal, is set to hit the stage for a new tour with the Kids in the Hall, the seminal sketch comedy troupe with whom he first rose to fame. For Thompson, the tour will serve as a break from his work as a forensic scientist on Hannibal, a role he feels he landed in part because of his renown in the sketch world. “I auditioned for it and I think Brian Fuller, the show’s creator, was just a fan of Kids in the Hall,” Thompson said. He noted, despite a laundry list of projects over the years, the world of drama remains a different sort of beast –

particularly when playing a character like Price. “It’s a challenge doing something so scientificallybased, but the character I play on the show is a kind of comic relief,” he said. “The biggest difference is when you’re doing dramatic stuff, you have to keep your face a lot stiller.” He welcomes the chance to take the stage once again with fellow Kids in the Hall Dave Foley, Bruce McCullough, Kevin McDonald and Mark McKinney. Though the Kids disbanded in the mid-1990s, they have toured on occasion since. “A year ago, we did a bunch of new material in Toronto and it went very well, and we did a festival in Austin with new material,” he said. “For this tour, we’ll be doing a mixture of old and new stuff, but we just love performing together.” The troupe hashed out new material largely via Google documents and other online means, getting together when

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their busy schedules permitted. Thompson noted even some of the new material will serve as a more mature reflection on their early work, with returns from popular characters from the Kids’ original television run. “We’re obviously talking about different things because we have a different perspective now,” he said. “We thought we knew what we were talking about, but we didn’t. We have a sketch about (Kids in the Hall recurring characters) Fran and Gordon that’s about older people having sex, and that’s a topic we wouldn’t have touched back then.” Thompson acknowledged that there were some hard feelings both leading up to and after the Kids’ breakup,

but said time has healed those wounds. “We’re like a family, and we’re at an age now where there’s no reason to blow everything up,” he said. “The idea now is just that we’ll always be together in some way, like the mafia.” As with every Kids in the Hall tour, Thompson is looking forward to seeing the mixed crowd that comes out to catch the shows. While many in the audience remember the troupe from as far back as the 1980s, there are always plenty of younger faces who have become fans of the Kids’ timeless and absurd comedy more recently. “It’s great to be able to go out there and perform and not feel like a nostalgia act,” he said. The Kids in the Hall will kick off their new tour with shows from April 23 to 26 at the Danforth Music Hall. For tickets and showtimes, visit www.ticketmaster.ca/ Kids-In-the-Hall-tickets/ artist/803945

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Mayor John Tory’s fortunes lie in hands of city’s provincial and federal cousins It may well be that when all the accounts are in, the success or failure of Mayor John Tory’s debut term as mayor will be decided by factors entirely beyond his control. To a degree this is so with most political leaders. A moribund federal government can be buoyed by a robust economy; a competent provincial government, sunk by a collapse in the markets. And a mayor, particularly in a city like Toronto, really succeeds or fails based on the actions of both of those levels of government. If goodwill flows from above, it will also rise from the electorate. Of course, a smart mayor can make lemonade with a stack of lemons from unfriendly governments. But Mayor Tory has through both the city’s circumstance and his own

david nickle the city declarations tied his own hands. Firstly, Toronto has great and immediate needs for moneys beyond its means. The Spadina subway extension is need of $150 million more in order to be finished, and neither the province nor the federal government has shown any indication of willingness to assist with the overrun. On Monday, Tory affirmed his election promise to deal with the repair backlog at Toronto Community Housing, spending $864 million over the next decade to fix the housing stock and calling on other levels of government to join in. And that’s just this week. Toronto will need

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billions of dollars from the provincial and federal governments if it is to move ahead with Tory’s SmartTrack plan. Toronto really did need some $86 million this year, to balance its budget, and didn’t get it. Tory is putting everything – literally everything – on his ability to work with Liberals provincially, and nominally Conservatives federally, and do so well enough to cause them to let these billions of dollars flow. Tory believes it’s a good bet. Since before he even joined the race for mayor, Tory’s biggest selling point has been his ability to sell

the city to a blue-chip Rolodex of government and business contacts. But if in a year or so nobody’s buying, Tory may have to do things that violate his other election-year brand: that of a fiscally conservative business leader who is unwilling to burden taxpayers with more taxes and fees. If he does those things – which is to say, looks at additional revenue sources like tolls or a sales tax – then he might be able to fulfill at least a portion of his agenda. But for people who voted for Tory in 2014, will the shift be acceptable enough to come back and support him for a second term? Tory really does need the federal and provincial governments to listen. His fate is in their hands.

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About $1.3 million still needed for new site >>>from page 1 Jarvis and Isabella streets on Monday, welcoming Premier Kathleen Wynne, Toronto Centre MPP Glen Murray, Toronto CentreRosedale Councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam, former minister of health George Smitherman and others to the event.

bittersweet occasion “It’s really a bittersweet occasion that brings us here to break new ground,” Wynne said. “It’s sweet because this building will do so much good. It’ll help to restore health, hope and dignity to so many women and men in our province, and it’s bitter because after so many years of struggle and loss, we’re still dealing with this tenacious disease.” Founded by a group of volunteers including noted community builder June Callwood in 1988, Casey

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Casey House client Todd Kaighin makes an address during the groundbreaking ceremony held Monday for the organization’s new building at Isabella and Jarvis streets.

House was one of the first organizations in the city to treat those living with HIV/ AIDS with compassion and respect. At the time, the virus was widely misunderstood, and those diagnosed with it were often viewed with fear or disdain, even by their own friends and families.

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“In a terrifying time, Casey House was built in the name of humanity and an unfailing faith in the power of love,” Wynne said. Murray recalled the 1980s, when AIDS was still largely unknown, and ignorance and fear surrounding the illness ran rampant.

“I remember the health minister of the day, federally, saying ‘AIDS is a moral issue, not a health issue and there will be no federal funding,’” he said. While understanding of the disease has increased dramatically, the need for the kind of support provided by Casey House is as

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Easter Origami WHEN: 2 to 4 p.m. WHERE: Lillian H. Smith Library, 239

College St. CONTACT: 4160393-7746 COST: Free Fold special Easter-themed origami. Community Easter Party WHEN: 5 to 8 p.m. WHERE: College Street United Church, 452 College St. CONTACT: 647-919-9103 COST: Free Chili and hotdogs, games, egg decorating and Easter Basket making, parade and prizes.

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TIFF Kids International Film Festival WHEN: 9 a.m. WHERE: TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King St. W. CONTACT: 416-599-8433, http://tiff.net/kids COST: $9 for kids, $13 for adults and $10.50 for students/seniors Runs through to April 19. “Indelible Adventures” Book Signing at Indigospirit! WHEN: noon to 2 p.m. WHERE: Indigospirit, First Canadian Place, 100 King St. W. CONTACT: Upon A

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GREEN PROGRAMS Start a garden project or take part in a program on our environment.

Toronto Seed Library Workshop and Seed Exchange

15 Ways to Garden Large in Small Spaces

A workshop with expert seed savers. Bring seeds to share or borrow some from the Toronto Seed Library.

Create unity, drama and colour in your garden with step-by-step plans for a small garden space.

April 18, 11:30 am Palmerston Branch 560 Palmerston Ave.

April 22, 6:30 pm Toronto Reference Library 789 Yonge St.

The First Green Wave: Pollution Probe and the Origins of Environmental Activism

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Author Ryan O’Connor traces the rise of Toronto’s environmental movement through the story of Pollution Probe, one of Canada’s pioneering environmental activist organizations. April 21, 6:30 pm Toronto Reference Library 789 Yonge St.

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Star Books, indelible-adventuresbooksigning.eventbrite.ca, COST: Free Join author Terence Wallis for his Indelible Adventures book signing with surprise giveaway valued at $20.

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Psychic Fair at Yonge & Eglinton WHEN: 4 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Central Eglinton Community Centre, 160 Eglinton Ave. E. CONTACT: Nancy Lyon, 416-392-0511 COST: Free Palms read, tarot cards, fortunes told - all for fun, of course. Free admission. Enjoy reasonably priced tea, coffee and delicious snacks at the Clairvoyant Cafe. Door prizes and more. This event is for entertainment purposes only and is a fundraising event for CECC.

Older Lesbians Book Group WHEN: 1 to 3 p.m. WHERE: 519 Community Centre, 519 Church St. CONTACT: Eleanor Batchelder, 647-235-0843 eob62@yahoo.com COST: Free The group will discuss The Juliet Stories, by Carrie Snyder. Light refreshments.

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Toronto Silent Film Festival presents: Diary of a Lost Girl WHEN: 7 to 9 p.m. WHERE: Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Ave. CONTACT: www.torontosilentfilmfestival.com COST: $15 A luminous Louise Brooks presents a striking performance as Thymian; a young innocent woman betrayed by society’s hypocrisy, her family and the men and women she encounters. Never released in North America, this film was viciously attacked in the press and by censors. Festival runs through to April 14.

The Advocacy Centre for the Elderly (ACE) WHEN: 1:15 to 2:30 p.m. WHERE: Central Eglinton Community Centre, 160 Eglinton Ave. E. CONTACT: Sherri 416-3920511, ext. 228 to register COST: $5 for non-members ACE is a community-based legal clinic for senior citizens. Microloan Info Session WHEN: 6:30 to 8 p.m. WHERE: CSI Spadina, 215 Spadina Ave. CONTACT: 416-462-0496, info@ accessccf.com COST: Free ACCESS Community Capital Fund provides micro-loans from $300 to $5,000, as well as

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WHEN: 10 a.m. to noon WHERE: SPRINT Senior Care (Merton), 140 Merton St., Second Floor CONTACT: http:// on.alz.to/site/Calendar/143868 396?view=Detail&id=101621 COST: Free This is a free, four-week beginner’s cooking class and support group for male partners caring for someone with dementia. Get hands-on cooking experience, meet other caregiversand have fun.

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>>>from page 1 at factors such as accessibility, signage, quality of service and possible ageism by staff. Wells said a series of focus groups were held in which local seniors spoke of possible problem areas in the Yonge/ St. Clair area as well as the area’s strengths when it comes to age-friendliness. “We’ll have our volunteers meet in person with the owners and managers of stores to identify things that are positive and things that might need improvement,” she said. “From there, the stores will develop their own action plan and we’ll follow up at a later date.” The project is being funded by the Ontario Trillium Foundation, with money going toward covering volunteer expenses and paying a project director to take on

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the study full-time. TCA executive director Chris Braney said he wasn’t aware of any overarching problems when it came to the age-friendliness of the Yonge/ St. Clair neighbourhood, but he feels an assessment will benefit everyone. “It will help businesses increase the flow of seniors coming to do business there and it will give seniors more

access and let them know they’re being recognized,” he said. He added the neighbourhood is a good starting point for the Age-Friendly Business Assessment, given its relatively large senior population and its walkability. It is also close to the TCA’s midtown offices. While focus groups have been held for the Yonge/St. Clair study, the TCA is looking for volunteers to conduct the site-by-site assessments, which Wells said will start once the weather warms up. Similar studies are also starting up in the Malvern and Agincourt neighbourhoods in Scarborough.

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Americas wheelchair basketball challenge with a 3-2 record. The host Canadian men’s wheelchair basketball team held a friendly tournament, which offered a sneak peek at some of the top teams set to compete at the 2015 Parapan American Games in August. The tournament ended with a 67-54 loss to the United States on March 26 at the Mattamy Athletic Centre in Toronto.

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Sharon, Lois and Bram playground in June Rowlands Park JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com Kids in the Davisville Village area will be able to go out to play along a spider’s web one day... soon. St. Paul’s councillor Josh Matlow unveiled plans for the Sharon, Lois and Bram Playground inside June Rowlands Park on March 25, with a variety of areas and activities named after songs by the famed children’s entertainers. Features will include the Splish Splash splash pad and the Itsy Bitsy Spider Music Garden complete with musical instruments, climbable elephant sculptures and more. “It got unanimous positive

feedback from the community,” Matlow said. “It really animates the park in a familyfriendly way.” Part of the play structure will be replaced by a newer structure of similar size, and the sandbox will be improved. New wayfinding signs will also add colour and flair. Matlow is particularly enthusiastic about the park’s ties to the famed trio, with Bram in particular living close to the park. Sharon, Lois and Bram will be honoured in a fitting way – through music. “There will be a small theatre-of-the-round where kids can go up and sing and perform and there will be musical instruments built into the playground,” he said.

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“Sharon, Lois and Bram will select the instruments themselves, and they’ll be tuned so they can play Sharon, Lois and Bram songs.” The upgrades to the playground are part of an ongoing series of upgrades to local parks and playgrounds in St. Paul’s, with revitalizations going on in Forest Hill Road Park, Charlotte Maher Parkette and park grounds on Belsize and Glebe Manor. “What I’ve heard from residents is that their public spaces, and especially their parks and playgrounds, are priorities for them,” Matlow said. While the Sharon, Lois and Bram Playground is expected to be up and running in full by next spring, there is more

in store for June Rowlands Park. “We’re coming up with a master plan for the park and we’ll have further consultations with the community about that,” Matlow said. “We’ll be looking at creating a space in the park that’s senior-friendly, making improvements to the farmers’ market area and looking at the prospect of starting up a community garden.” He cited parks, such as Dufferin Grove, which boasts plenty of community activities, as a possible blueprint to be followed, though he wants local residents to steer the planning process.

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Help decide the future of the Gardiner Expressway East We invite you to join us at two upcoming public meetings where you can comment on the current phase of the Environmental Assessment on the future of the Gardiner Expressway East. The Study Waterfront Toronto and the City of Toronto are jointly carrying out the Gardiner Expressway / Lake Shore Boulevard Reconfiguration Environmental Assessment (EA) and Integrated Urban Design Study. The EA will determine the future of the Gardiner Expressway East and Lake Shore Boulevard East, from approximately Jarvis Street to approximately Leslie Street. The study area for the EA is displayed on the map below. The four alternative solutions that have been considered to date are: • Maintain the elevated expressway; • Improve the urban fabric while maintaining the existing expressway;

• Replace with a new above-or-below grade expressway; and, • Remove the elevated expressway and build a new boulevard.

In the last phase of the EA, the evaluation of the alternative solutions concluded that the remove option best met the evaluation criteria. Following direction from the Public Works and Infrastructure Committee of Toronto City Council, the upcoming public meeting will share the results of the following work: 1.

Review the remove option under the EA process to mitigate concerns about traffic congestion.

Prepare an additional hybrid option that combines the maintain and replace components to preserve expressway linkage and functionality between the Gardiner Expressway and the Don Valley Parkway, and evaluates it against the EA criteria and the following: • Transportation functionality; • Public transit components; •

Impacts on key economic sectors;

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Environmental impact; and

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Cost benefit;

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Neighbourhood growth and compatibility

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Future land use considerations;

Get Involved Interested persons are invited to participate through two upcoming public meetings, one of which will be webcast, and online opportunities. If you can’t attend in person, you can participate and watch the meeting online – and at any time afterwards – at www.gardinereast.ca.

Gardiner Expressway East Public Meeting (Downtown) Wednesday, April 15, 2015 6:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. at the Bram & Bluma Appel Salon, Toronto Reference Library 789 Yonge Street, Toronto (Bloor Street subway station) Open house begins at 6:30 p.m.; presentations at 7:00 p.m. Please register at: https://gardinereapublicmeetingdowntownapril15.eventbrite.ca

Gardiner Expressway East Public Meeting (Scarborough) Monday, April 20, 2015 6:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. at the Blessed Cardinal Newman H.S. Cafeteria 100 Brimley Rd S, Toronto Open house begins at 6:30 p.m.; presentations at 7:00 p.m. *PLEASE NOTE THIS MEETING WILL NOT BE WEBCAST* Please register at: https://gardinereapublicmeetingscarboroughapril20.eventbrite.ca

For more information or to be added to the project mailing list, contact info@gardinereast.ca, or call (416) 479-0662. To learn about the project or contribute your insights and views please visit www.gardinereast.ca.

Follow us on: Information will be collected in accordance with the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. With the exception of personal information, all comments will become part of the public record.