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JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com The long-anticipated park planned for 11 Wellesley St. W. is starting to take shape, and it’s time for the public to make their voices heard. The 1.55-acre park was secured following a long and sometimes contentious process that saw the formerly provincially owned land put up for sale a few years back. Originally slated to become the site of an opera house, local councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam and resi-

dents lobbied to have it become a public park rather than have it sold off to the highest bidder and used to build condos. While a developer did buy the land in 2013, the new land owner, Lanterra Developments, was amenable to working with the councillor and local stakeholders to preserve a majority of the site as green space, with a 60-storey tower taking up the northeast portion of the lot near Wellesley and Bay streets. “We managed to get this space by combining parkland >>>TWO, page 13

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SickKids patient gives back to hospital that saved her life Craft-a-thon event in Bedford Park community surpasses initial $5,000 goal JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com When young Ella Goldberg was rushed to the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) after an accident last summer, the initial prognosis was grim. The young girl had fallen

off a horse while at summer camp and sustained 20 skull fractures and a severe brain bleed. Though Ella’s outlook was not good, doctors worked tirelessly to save her. Much to her parents’ relief, those efforts were successful and while the youngster is still recovering,

that she survived the fall is testament to the great work being done at the hospital. Less than a year later, Ella is doing what she can to give back, with a fundraising crafta-thon hosted by family friend Dara Fox at her Bedford Park area craft shop, Designher Co.

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on Sunday. “Ella’s been a customer of ours and I’ve known the family for about four years,” Fox said. “I heard about what happened and thought hosting a craft-athon would be a way to give back and to bring in more money than I could personally give.” The craft-a-thon, which invited local families to drop in,

make beaded bracelets and have a bite to eat, was a massive success. Fox had originally hoped to bring in $5,000 through the event, but that figure swelled to roughly $14,000 by the time it was over. Ella’s mother, Teri Goldberg, recalled the horror of hearing of her daughter’s accident and the terrible feeling when doc>>>HOSPITAL, page 12

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Mayor Tory heads to San Francisco, then China and Japan, to help sell city DAVID NICKLE dnickle@insidetoronto.com Mayor John Tory will be flying to Silicon Valley and San Francisco to try and drum up business, then jumping off to points further east for an Asian business mission to China and Japan. In total, Tory will be gone for two weeks, he told reporters Friday. “I have come to believe, and I’ve listened to the business community and education community, that it is an important part of the mayor’s job to sell the city,” said Tory. “If I’m not out selling the city, who is? We … know the

Tory will be meeting with tech leaders and representatives of the film industry, to sell Toronto as a place to invest in the company of Economic Development Chair Michael Thompson, Councillor Shelley Carroll and Councillor Mary-Margaret McMahon. Councillor Chin Lee will join them for the China mission. As well, Toronto Board of Trade President Janet De Silva and Janet Ecker, president and CEO of the Toronto Financial Service Alliance, will also take part in the business mission. Tory will be visiting Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Chongqing as well as Tokyo and Sagamihara, Japan.

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Rob Ford’s family to pay funeral costs to Toronto Family to pay cost of visitation DAVID NICKLE dnickle@insidetoronto.com Rob Ford’s family will reimburse the city the full cost of his visitation and funeral – reportedly costing around $19,000, they said in a statement. “We have always fully intended to reimburse the city the full costs related to Rob’s funeral and memorial,” reads the statement, delivered via Ford’s executive assistant Dan Jacobs’ Twitter account. “We were initially told that this amount would be minimal, under $1,000, which is well under what we are now told the final tally is. “We still fully intend to reimburse the city and are now simply waiting to be given a strict accounting of

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The hearse bearing the casket of former mayor Rob Ford makes its way to St. James Cathedral on Wednesday.

all the costs incurred.” The late councillor Rob Ford lay in repose at Toronto City Hall for two days at the end of March, and then was remembered at a public funeral at St. James Cathedral, where city staff also assisted in facilitating guests and logistics. The cost, according to

the city, was $18,678, and included the cost of opening Toronto City Hall on Easter Monday when it is normally closed and unionized staff receive overtime pay. Visit insidetoronto.com for more local stories, news from city hall, sports, blogs and more.

Teenage anxiety focus of touring school play JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com While much attention has rightly been paid to the issue of bullying in schools, the growing problem of anxiety among children and teens has gone sorely overlooked. Half Full, a new play by downtown Toronto-based Mixed Company Theatre, looks to remedy that situation. The play, which will tour schools across the GTA throughout April, looks at the unique stressors that can spur anxiety and other mental health issues, looking at everything from social media to school and sports performance to dating to life at home. Playwright Catherine Frid said she was surprised to learn just how prevalent anxiety is among youngsters these days. “I talked to my sister who’s a Grade 8 teacher about the issues young people are facing these days and expected to hear things like anorexia or bullying, but she said ‘no,

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Tony Babcock, left, Kevin Matthew Wong and Sherman Tsang perform a scene from the play, ‘Half Full’, at Mixed Company Theatre on Friday. The play about mental illness will tour local high schools throughout April.

the big issue is anxiety,’” Frid said. To get a sense of what causes anxiety among today’s youth, Frid and Half Full director Simon Malbogat ran workshops with more than 100 youth, learning not only

the biggest stressors, but also the technology and lingo that would help ensure the play would resonate with young audience members. “It was a fascinating process for me,” Frid said. “I had no idea about Snapchat (to

cite one example) but that’s something that’s really big for young people today.” Half Full follows Joshua, a high school student played by Kevin Matthew Wong, as he deals with the pressures of fitting in, being popular, looking cool to classmate/crush Saffy (played by Sherman Tsang), trying out for the school track team, traversing the social media minefield, keeping his grades up and worrying about his single mother’s uncertain job prospects, among other things. As he contends with these day-to-day issues, Joshua is harangued by Anx (played by Tony Babcock), a personified version of his anxiety that undermines him and criticizes him at every turn. As the play progresses, Anx becomes darker, more sinister and more omnipresent, with his hold on Joshua’s thoughts growing. “One of the big challenges was how to show the anxiety Joshua is feeling throughout the play,” Frid said. “You can show it through dialogue a bit, but it wasn’t until we realized

Josh’s angst could actually be a character in the play that it really came together.”

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I talked to my sister who’s a Grade 8 teacher about the issues young people are facing these days and expected to hear things like anorexia or bullying, but she said ‘no, the big issue is anxiety’. – Playwright Catherine Frid

While Half Full shows the downside of anxiety, it also notes there are perks. For instance, without any anxiety, people would feel no obligation to meet deadlines, study for tests or strive to better themselves. The key, Malbogat said, was to shine a light on the fact that it exists, that it can become problematic when it becomes too severe, and that it’s not a sign of weakness. “We wanted to look more at the stigma, to destigmatize

it,” he said. “The whole idea is for us to start a conversation. We all have it in one shape or form, so let’s talk about it.” To help spark conversation, Half Full is more than just a play. Following each staging, a facilitator runs a discussion with audience members, asking them what they learned and inviting them to share and even act out strategies to deal with anxiety. Tsang, who plays multiple roles in the play, noted she experienced anxiety when she was a high school student. She wishes she had seen something like Half Full to help her understand what she was going through was normal and there were people she could talk to and methods she could use to help keep her anxiety in check. “I had anxiety, but no one told me I had anxiety because it wasn’t really talked about,” she said. “It’s good to get that conversation out there.” For more information about Half Full or to look into booking a performance, visit www.mixedcompanytheatre.com or call 416-515-8080.

Crowdfunded project shares The Way of the North JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com Unbeknownst to many Torontonians, the northern portion of their own province is home to Polar Bear Provincial Park – a large wilderness area that lives up to its name by serving as habitat for polar bears, along with caribou and moose. Corktown resident Mariah MacDonald is hoping to shed light on this underappreciated park and the lifestyles of the Cree who call the small community of Peawanuck home through a new television show, “The Way of the North.” MacDonald will accompany native Peawanuck resident Sam Hunter as they experience everything from hunting for food to survival tactics to leisure activities in the northern Ontario community. “We’re going to do a pilot episode and hopefully it will get picked up,” said MacDonald, who met Hunter

The production team has started an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign to help defray the costs of the trip, though MacDonald noted they will be able to film a pilot episode whether they reach their target or not. Fundraiser ends April 12

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Mariah MacDonald, left, and Sam Hunter are working together on, ‘The Way of the North’, a television show that will look at life inside northern Ontario’s Polar Bear Provincial Park.

when they were both attending the Toronto Film School. “It will be me following Sam Hunter and learning about his lifestyle.” MacDonald noted the Peawanuck community is notable in that it has stayed true to its First Nations roots. A Metis Torontonian herself, she finds the lifestyle up north, where polar bears roam free, fascinating.

“I haven’t really been able to explore my own background, but I’ve always wanted to learn more (about First Nations traditions) and there aren’t many places you can learn better than up there,” she said. “Peawanuck is a unique community because not many communities live as traditionally as they do.” Of course, filming The Way of the North will come with challenges – notably due to

the dangers inherent in working in a park that is home to polar bears. “It’s important to have an experienced guide like Sam because it can be very dangerous up there if you don’t know what you’re doing,” she said. There is also the issue of climate change, which has impacted life up north for wildlife and humans alike. The pilot episode, which will

be filmed this month, will follow Hunter and MacDonald as they go on a goose hunt, which will allow Hunter to get enough food to last his family much of the year. “Things up there are changing and geese get harder to hunt when it gets warmer,” MacDonald said. “That’s one of the hardest parts of filming up there – you can go a while without seeing what it is you want to film.”

The campaign, which runs through April 12, will simply allow them to cover the costs of special equipment needed for the trek and the filming in the wild. “Sam’s funding the majority of it, and we’ve had donations for a ticket from an airline and funds from Tourism Northern Ontario,” MacDonald said. Once the pilot episode is filmed, MacDonald hopes there is sufficient interest in the show to have it picked up for a full season. For more information about the show or to contribute to the crowdfunding campaign, visit www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-way-of-the-north

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hen it comes to how the Toronto council seat belonging to the late Rob Ford will be filled, there should be no debate. Obviously, the city must call a byelection for Ward 2 Etobicoke North. Ford, the former mayor between 2010 and 2014 and before that Etobicoke North councillor from 2000 to 2010 and then again from 2014 until his death last month after a battle with cancer, would have wanted it that way. The man believed in the power of the people and the voice of the voter as being supreme. To do anything but call a byelection, would be a serious error on the part of council. our view Toronto The first step for councillors be to declare Ford’s Ward 2 Ford would will seat vacant, and that is expected happen at the May 3 meeting. have wanted to That’s a legal requirement it that way under the City of Toronto Act: that the seat be declared vacant within two council meetings of a councillor’s death, resignation or other reason why it can no longer be filled by the previously elected councillor. Since there’s already been a council meeting, late last week after Ford’s funeral which took place March 30, next month’s council meeting is when his seat must be declared vacant. At the May 3 meeting, councillors can consider one of two options as to what they can do to fill the seat – either they call a byelection or they appoint someone to be a ‘caretaker’ councillor for the ward until the next municipal election in 2018. The City of Toronto Act gives councillors a lot of leeway as they are actually only required to appoint if it is less than 90 days prior to the next municipal election. There is no maximum amount of time left in a term that requires a byelection over an appointment. The decision is at council’s discretion. Given that there are more than two years left on this term, it seems clear that councillors should decide to call a byelection. It’s the right thing to do. Once called, the byelection must be held within 60 days of the seat being declared vacant. We look forward to a date for the Ward 2 Etobicoke North council seat taking place in late June or very early July. That’s what’s best for democracy, the people of Etobicoke North and Toronto council as a whole.

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Will councillors go for a ranked ballot system? You don’t want to make judgements on character based on a single vote or action – we humans are more complex creatures than just one vote and we do things for all sorts of complicated reasons. But it’s hard to not draw some pretty firm conclusions about the character or at least motive of councillors who don’t support ranked ballot voting in Toronto. The system, not currently in use anywhere in Canada but applied in countries throughout the world, allows voters to rank their choices on a ballot. If their first choice candidate fails to get more than half the votes, their second choice is counted instead. This goes on until some candidate or another gets half of the total first, second, third and quite possibly 15th-place votes. The point is that only candidates who can appeal to half the voters in their jurisdiction get to be councillors. In the last term of coun-

david nickle the city cil, a majority of councillors voted to ask the provincial government to give Toronto the option to use ranked ballots rather than the firstpast-the-post system that’s currently in place. Then a couple of things happened. The first was the 2014 election. In total, 29 councillors were elected with more than 50 per cent of the vote, and 11 of those 29 were elected with less than 60 per cent of the vote. Mayor John Tory had just 40.3 per cent of the popular vote. The second was a latenight vote in 2015, when Ward 5 Councillor Justin Di Ciano, elected for the first time in 2014 with 54.1 per cent, put forward a motion to tell the province council didn’t mean what it said and was very happy with first-past-the-post system. If the province puts

the ranked ballot system in place, his motion said, Toronto should be able to opt out or require a referendum to impose it. And that won, 25-18. But the province didn’t listen, and this week announced that despite Toronto’s second thoughts, a municipality can select its representatives using ranked ballots if council agrees. No need for a referendum; just a vote of council. And we’ll see how that goes when this inevitably comes before council again. I’m not optimistic that it will go any better. A council chamber populated only by very popular councillors would not be the same one we have today. It’s not to say that the 14 councillors and one mayor who couldn’t get 50 per cent plus one on the first ballot would all be gone; they might well have made it up in second and thirdplace choices. But some, like vote-poor Ward 16 Eglinton-Lawrence Christin

Carmichael Greb would have had a real challenge parlaying her 17.4 per cent of the vote into a majority. But broadening her base of appeal, she might have. Who could say? From a campaign strategist’s point of view, particularly one working for an incumbent, that uncertainty makes for a real problem. Simply feeding one’s political base doesn’t ensure a lifetime in municipal politics under a ranked ballot system. In fact, what it does do is ensure that simply catering to one vocal minority in a ward will pretty much guarantee defeat at the polls, because that leaves one a first choice of that minority, and a second choice for no one. For politicians worried about their careers, that’s terrifying. For voters and taxpayers, that’s empowering. It’s a ray of hope. David Nickle is Metroland Media Toronto’s city hall reporter. His column runs every Thursday. Reach him on Twitter: @DavidNickle

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TIFF Kids International Film Festival WHEN: 11 a.m. WHERE: TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King St. W. CONTACT: 416-5998433, customerrelations@ tiff.net COST: $9 to $13 The festival offers a diverse slate of programming from Canada and around the globe, using the power of film not just to entertain children and parents but also to foster new ideas. Sinfonia Toronto Concert WHEN: 8 to 10 p.m. WHERE: Glenn Gould Studio, 250 Front St. W. CONTACT: Margaret Chasins, 416-499-0403, http://www. sinfoniatoronto.com/web/ home.aspx COST: Free Sinfonia Toronto’s next concert features violinist Brian Lewis. Concert WHEN: 8 p.m. WHERE: Alliance Francaise, 24 Spadina Rd. CONTACT: 416-9222014, ext. 37 COST: http:// fr.brownpapertickets.com/ event/2252593 Belgian pianist Olivier de Spiegeleir performs the best soundtracks of the cinema. Balkan Folk Dance Party WHEN: 8 to 11 p.m. WHERE: University of Toronto schools, 371 Bloor St. W. CONTACT: Walter or Judy, 416-978-0623, ofda. ca/wp/ifdc COST: $10, $6 for students, under or unemployed Balkan Folk Dance Party with Live music by T.O. Balkan Folk Ensemble. Pot luck refreshments (finger foods).

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Fashion Art Toronto WHEN: 5:30 to 11:59 p.m. WHERE: Daniels Spectrum, 585 Dundas St. E. CONTACT: www.fashionarttoronto.ca COST: $15 and up Fashion Art Toronto, formerly known as |FAT| Arts & Fashion Week, returns April 12 to16 for 50-plus runway shows and performances, photography exhibits, interdisciplinary art installations and a selection of curated fashion films. WHEN: 2 to 10 p.m. WHERE: Hard Rock Cafe, second Floor, 279 Yonge St. CONTACT: Grace Tomines, bboyleague.org, grace.tomines@gmail.com COST: $20 Come watch these dancers from East to West, battle for the top spot.

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Wychwood Vintage Clothing Show WHEN: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. WHERE: Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie St. CONTACT: Jeff Gadsden, 647-236-3277, www. antiqueshowscanada.com COST: $10 Vintage dealers from Toronto, Montreal and all parts of Ontario come to Wychwood for Toronto’s favourite vintage clothing sale.

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Poet In Residence WHEN: 6:30 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Toronto Public Library - Bloor Gladstone Branch, 1101 Bloor St. W. CONTACT: fsmith@torontopubliclibrary.ca COST: Free From Homer to Eminem, Brian Brett presents a visual tour of the great narratives of poetry around the globe and through time. Sing for the Children WHEN: 7:30 p.m. WHERE: Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe St. CONTACT: Craig Fried, 647-430-5933COST:

$50 Featuring, for the first time ever, a collaboration with British jazz singer Simon Spiro, Broadway star Mike Burstyn, and the world famous cantor Helfgot.

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Toronto Probus Club WHEN: 10 a.m. to noon WHERE: Holy Rosary Parish Hall, 356 St Clair Ave. W. CONTACT: probus.toronto@ gmail.com COST: Free Artist Doug Purdon will be speaking about Crime Art in Today’s World. The Probus Club of Toronto welcomes professional Business men and women who have retired from their jobs or business and want to maintain a social network. Lecture - Trudeau WHEN: 7 p.m. WHERE: Alliance Francaise, 24 Spadina Rd. CONTACT: 416-9222014, ext. 37 COST: Free Join Alliance Française de Toronto for a lecture dedicated to Canadian former prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau.

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Julian Weekes was shot in Corktown early Saturday.

Toronto police are looking for information following the city’s 22nd homicide of the year. Julian Weekes, 27, was shot in Corktown in the early morning on Saturday, April 2. He later succumbed to his injuries. Police were called to a Shell gas station at Parliament St. and Richmond St. E. at roughly 2 a.m. Saturday, where the victim was found barely alive

after being shot multiple times. Despite efforts by paramedics to keep him alive, Weekes was pronounced dead at the scene shortly thereafter. Weekes is said to have been shot outside Annie’s Bar on Queen St. E., where he had been attending a memorial event for his friend Ceyon Carrington, who was fatally shot in Leslieville on March 23. According to police, Weekes

went to the gas station after being shot. He was apparently intoxicated and was last seen walking and running along Queen Street. Anyone who was with Weekes on the night of the shooting or who might have witnessed the shooting is asked to call police at 416808-7400 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-2228477, or to leave a tip online at www.222tips.com

Four men charged with murder in connection with 2014 death Police have charged four men with first-degree murder in the 2014 death of a Toronto Community Housing building tenant. Police were called to 200 Wellesley St. East Wednesday, Dec. 3 around 11:45 p.m. and found a man suffering from trauma. Wasfi Ghalban, 47, was pronounced dead at the scene. Fo u r m e n – Ph i l i p

Frauts, 40, of Toronto; Kyle Schindermann, 31, of Toronto; Lance Burkhard, 33, of Richmond Hill; and Christopher Fuller, 33, of Richmond Hill – were arrested and charged Wednesday, March 30. Anyone with information is asked to call police at 416808-7400 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-2228477.

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