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With spring finally arriving and the streets of Chinatown once again bustling, Toronto police 52 division is ramping up policing efforts in the area. On Monday, April 11, the division rolled out Project Blue Monkey in cooperation with the Chinatown BIA. The 10-week project will see more officers patrolling the streets of Chinatown over the summer
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Lake Shore Boulevard will have lane restrictions over the next few months as Toronto Hydro conducts construction from York Street to Rees Street. The move took effect as of Monday with Lake Shore westbound reduced to one lane of traffic.
in September. If the project works out, it could contribute to an even longer stretch of separated bike lanes along Bloor. Cycling advocates have argued for years that Bloor Street/ Danforth Avenue would be an ideal east-west cycling route. But the track would impact on-street parking. The pilot will mean that overall there will be a reduction of 135 pay-and-display
Two lanes will re-open on weekdays, but only during the rush hour periods from 3 to 7 p.m. Construction is expected to take place 24 hours a day and seven days a week, which city staff expects will reduce the amount of time to complete the work.
parking spots on Bloor Street – which would m e a n t h e To r o n t o Parking Authority would lose $840,000 a year in parking revenue. That would mean $255,000 for the remainder of 2016. The cycle track will also cost about $7,000 per lane-kilometre a year for snow clearing, and annual sweeping costs are estimated at $12,000 per lane-kilometre. The route would amount to five lane kilometres, which would add an annual maintenance cost of $95,000.
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Fundraiser aims to help Canadians with vision problems Comedians will band together again on Thursday, June 16 for Comic Vision in support of the Foundation Fighting Blindness JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com The Foundation Fighting Blindness (FFB) is hoping laughter will help provide a cure for the nearly one million Canadians with serious vision problems. The organization’s Comic Vision gala fundraising initiative came to the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) for the first time on Thursday, April 14, bringing Comedian Steve Patterson (of CBC’s The Debaters), Derek Edwards and Peter Anthony on stage to help raise funds for eyesightsaving research.
The dressy affair, which included a meal, drinks, live auction and other draws, was part of a national Comic Vision tour, with the shows aiming to raise $1 million combined. “This is the first time we’ve held it at the ROM and we’re very excited,” said FFB president and CEO Sharon Colle. “It’s great to be able to say we sold out our first show here.” Comic Vision is one of a series of FFB fundraisers taking place in the city throughout the year, including the Cycle for Sight bike ride
from Toronto to Collingwood on June 18 and a second Comic Vision show at Palais Royale on June 16. “We’re the largest funders of sight-saving research in Canada,” said Colle, adding that the FFB focuses on research that targets vision problems with genetic causes such as retinitis pigmentosis and age-related macular degeneration. Research funded includes work with stem cells, gene therapy and retinal prostheses. All told, the FFB has committed to funding 19 research projects this year alone. Owen Macgowan, 11, is
one of those who stand to benefit from the research. Diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa a year and a half ago, he has little peripheral vision and his condition is slowly worsening. He noted that the diagnosis helped explain why he would bump into things while cycling or trip over things when walking that most people would have noticed and avoided. “It’s just like tunnel vision – I can’t really see much around me,” he said. “Whenever we (he and his parents) went to Mexico when I was younger, they would say ‘look at the stars’ and I would say ‘what stars?’ because I couldn’t see what they were talking about.” While Macgowan’s condi-
Owen Macgowan, an 11-year-old with retinal pigmentosis, speaks to guests at the Foundation Fighting Blindness' Comic Vision fundraiser, held at the Royal Ontario Museum on Thursday night. Staff photo/JUSTIN SKINNER
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Ontario Ministry of Labour investigating building collapse FANNIE SUNSHINE fsunshine@insidetoronto.com The Ministry of Labour is investigating two companies following the partial collapse of a Bathurst Street and Eglinton Avenue building and scaffolding Monday. Mi n i s t r y s p o k e s p e rson Janet Deline said the investigation is focused on Crosslinx Transit Solutions Constructors, a consortium comprised of EllisDon, SNC-Lavalin, Aecon and ACS, and demolition and recycling company DelsanAIM Environmental Services Inc. The ministry issued three investigation requirements, including a do not disturb order for Crosslinx Transit Solutions Constructors, and document requests for both companies, Deline said. “The documents could be for training, equipment, maintenance (compliance),” she said, adding she didn’t have specific information relating to the document requests. She said a stop work order would be up to the inspector to implement, adding the investigation could take up to one year to complete. “Work is probably not taking place (Tuesday), but could go ahead in the next few days,” she said.
Anne Marie Aikins said site demolition began several weeks ago and the Forest Hill stop is one of 25 stations being built. All demolition work along the line was temporarily suspended immediately following the collapse, but fully resumed Tuesday.
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The Ontario Ministry of Labour is investigating a building collapse Monday afternoon on Eglinton Avenue just west of Bathurst Street that injured seven people - although none of them seriously.
The collapse occurred where three storefronts on Eglinton Avenue’s north side were being demolished to create a secondary entrance to the Eglinton Crosstown Light-Rail line station. The former House of Chan, Israel’s Judaica and the Halleluia Restaurant were scheduled to be torn down for the entranceway.
Metrolinx spokesperson Vanessa Barassa said the front wall of 876 Eglinton Ave. W., the former House of Chan, collapsed just before 2:30 p.m. as the building was being prepared for demolition. The wall took the scaffolding with it, and collapsed a covered walkway in front of the building on passing pedestrians.
A male, female, and their seven-month-old baby, along with another male, were taken to hospital with minor injuries, while two people were treated in a trauma centre for serious but non-life threatening injuries, said Toronto Paramedic Services spokesperson Kim McKinnon. A third person who suffered minor injuries
was also taken to the trauma centre. “The infant was in a stroller and the stroller was all twisted and bent,” said Toronto Fire Services division commander Bob O’Halloran. “But fortunately the infant is not injured at all so the stroller possibly saved that baby.” Metrolinx spokesperson
“When the collapse occurred, due to an abundance of caution, Crosslinx temporarily stopped demolition at the other site to review plans,” Aikins said. “Safety is always a first priority.” I n a Fa c e b o o k p o s t Monday, Metrolinx said the company will fully co-operate with the Ministry of Labour’s investigation. “As with all serious incidents, there will be a full investigation,” the post said. “As the investigation into this incident is ongoing, we cannot comment further at this time. Metrolinx is cooperating fully with the ongoing investigation.” - With files from Metroland Media Toronto staff
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e are 112 days into 2016. In those 112 days, the homicide rate in Toronto has doubled from the same time last year according to the Toronto Police Service. That’s alarming any way you look at it. As of Monday, 26 people have been murdered in the city. Some in broad daylight, others in the middle of the night. Residents awoken by gunshots, alerting them to another funeral, another cordoned off community, another family grieving. But these crimes in the early part of the year, are not an indicator Toronto is embarking on a murderous rampage of vendettas. A Toronto police investigator (who spoke on condition of anonymity) interviewed by The Mirror addressing this spate of violence the city, directly connects the our view in increase in murders to the abanof the controversial Public needed donment carding practice by officers. Police advocates say that cardto help ing is the thin line between those solve crime who obey the law and those who do not. But the fact is, carding is a relatively recent innovation and Toronto police have been solving and preventing crimes for decades before such a program existed. One thing that hasn’t changed in that time is us: people who are willing to keep an eye on the streets, and who help police investigate when a crime occurs. Crime Stoppers has been an effective way for the public to help keep Toronto safe for a long time. The tip line is anonymous. Use it. The carding debate is actually a distraction from the real matter at hand. What we should be talking about is the state of our city and how we can ensure it remains safe for everyone - no matter your race, age or gender. Toronto has a population of 2.6 million people, numbers from 2011 show. Twenty-six murders among 2.6 million people is not a very high ratio, but each one has a devastating impact on those who knew and loved the victim. These numbers, though, are not indicative of a city where people are shuttering themselves away, afraid to leave their homes. What is needed is more active participation from the public to help prevent crime and bring criminals to justice. The more active we are in reporting crimes and suspicious behaviour, the safer we will be. And hopefully by next year this time, 26 lives will be saved.
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Drums of city’s cycling war seem to be silenced It is springtime and even in this slow, hesitant, let’sbe-honest-way-too-chilly springtime, it’s hard not to think about bicycles. Now that is not to say we all think the same thing about bicycles. Alongside light rail, UberX, the Gardiner Expressway and subways, subways, subways, the place of two-wheeled locomotion divides opinion in this town better than a curbseparated bikeway. It was only six years ago that an entire election was fought over bicycles, after over-reaching cycling advocates managed to convince council to paint bike lanes on Jarvis Street. That was it: the ‘war on the car,’ and everybody was in: the motorists from Don Mills and Leaside and Rosedale, who favoured Jarvis as a fast route downtown; the bicyclists who favoured Jarvis Street as a less bumpy alternative to the cracked and heaving lanes on Sherbourne a few
david nickle the city streets over. And of course politicians and newspaper editorialists, who found the controversy to be an effective delineation of the left and the right in matters of urban planning. The lanes didn’t last long after the 2010 election. Bizarrely, that removal led to a kind of truce. Councillor Denzil MinnanWong, who chaired the Public Works and Environment Committee, created a Berlin Wall of sorts on Toronto’s roads, pushing the creation of fully separated cycle tracks: first on a no-longer-bumpy Sherbourne, and then through the downtown on Wellesley, Richmond and Adelaide Streets. Bicycles and cars on these streets have their own separate but parallel routes. It seems to be working out well. Now here we are, in
the spring of 2016, and on Monday, April 25, the Public Works and Infrastructure Committee is taking another step towards what might be a permanent armistice. The committee will be looking at a half-million dollar pilot project, to put cycle paths on Bloor Street West. It’s a short stretch, two and a half kilometres long, between Shaw Street and Avenue Road. If council goes along with the plan, it will go in in September. Oh, what a difference six years and a few cycle tracks make! In 2010, the city’s cycling office might have been proposing a pilot to cross the Rubicon. Bloor Street has long been the prize in the eye of cycling advocates, because of its city-spanning scope. One could take Bloor Street and the Danforth all the way from Scarborough to Etobicoke, in a single notvery-sweaty ride (Bloor and Danforth don’t have any challenging hills to speak of). The late former mayor
Rob Ford would have printed up a whole new batch of fridge magnets to rally the troops. These days? John Tory took care when asked about it this week to explain this was only a pilot project and would be assessed without bias when it was finished. But the drums of war seem largely silent. At the same committee meeting, councillors will be considering a few other bike lane projects – these ones, the old-fashioned paint-on-pavement kind. There are 11 of these, and they’re all over the place: most, it’s true, a quick pedal from the downtown, but one up on Sheppard West crossing the Addington Greenbelt. These kinds of lanes used to be big fights too, and maybe they still will be. But in these early days of the season...Hope springs eternal.
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Project will also conduct workshops to help seniors stay safe >>>from page 1 and business owners in the community wary. “(Crime) has improved a lot in Chinatown, but there are always some independent incidents where people cause problems,” he said. “A few days ago, at Huron and Dundas, there were a couple of robberies where people tried to rob two people.”
policemen patrolling the streets all the time, and the response is faster (if an incident does occur.)” Project Blue Mo n k e y w i l l focus primarily on issues that plague much of the downtown core, such as theft from cars
Yu added that car break-ins have been an ongoing problem in the area, as well. “(Project Blue Monkey) really helps stop that,” he said. “ We have more
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Mural adds flair to downtown’s Progress Place Progress Place serves more than 800 people who are battling mental illness JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com Given how the word “community” sums up the feeling at downtown community centre Progress Place, it’s only fitting the term was selected as a focal point for the centre’s new graffiti wall. Progress Place is a “clubhouse” for people battling mental illness, providing social opportunities, education and employment support, fitness and nutrition, a cafeteria, housing and more. With more than 800 members, the clubhouse is typically bustling with men and women from all walks of life. “Community was really fitting, because for our members, this really is their community,” said Progress Place President and CEO Criss HabalBrosek. “The whole emphasis is on rebuilding a community of people, giving them opportunities to return to school or work, make friends and have a network of people they can rely on.” For people with complex mental health issues, some of whom have
been hospitalized, that sense of community is as good as gold. Often, they lose friends and can even lose touch with family members, and the people they meet at Progress Place become their new social circle. “I was pretty much a shut-in,” said Progress Place member Howard Huang. “I’d never worked a day in my life, but (Progress Place) encouraged me to take that leap.” Through Progress Place’s transitional employment (TE) program, which sees members earn placements at various companies, Huang managed to start building a resume while ensuring he felt comfortable in a workplace setting. “The sense of community with co-workers versus friends is very different,” he said. “Getting out there was a lot better than I expected. I didn’t feel like a worker ant, I felt valued as part of a team.” To help members on their path to stable employment, Progress Place also has a boutique with new clothing and accessories, starting at a nickel. “When I did my first TE, I didn’t
have anything that was business casual, so I came here and I was able to buy a whole outfit – shoes, belt, shirt, pants – for under $20,” Huang said. Habal-Brosek noted that, in asking for a small fee for the items, it helps to foster a sense of pride in members. Those who are not ready to return to work are given a sense of purpose. There are no paid staff working at the cafeteria or cleaning the building. Instead, members all pitch in by taking on daily tasks, from cleaning bathrooms to preparing meals to doing intake for new members. “People here are counting on each other, and everyone feels a sense of belonging; they feel needed and wanted,” Habal-Brosek said. Progress Place is open 365 days a year, ensuring that sense of community and belonging is always there, and members can enjoy everything from movie nights to visual media work to DJing to quiet study. “Education is important here and there’s an education room where people can come and study,” Huang
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said. “There’s guidance for how to apply to post-secondary education and getting grants, and they even support people on campus.” Following an unveiling of the new “community” mural, clubhouse members Sara and David – who asked that their last names not be used – said it adds some much-needed flair to a communal meeting room in the Progress Place basement. “You look at it and you feel like it really represents the clubhouse,”
David said. “Before, (the room) was a bit utilitarian.” Sara said she enjoyed learning the art of graffiti, as the team was led by a volunteer from the Toronto-based charitable organization Unity. “(The volunteer) led us through it and showed us the importance of flow,” she said. “It looks really professional.”
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