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Mountain climbers support cord bank JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com Forest Hill resident Robin Hibberd and his 16-yearold daughter, Sydney, have embarked on the journey of a lifetime in hopes of extending

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The duo are part of a team currently scaling Mount Kilimanjaro to raise funds toward the establishment of a National Public Cord Blood Bank. Organized by Canadian Blood Services, the #Climb4Cord

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At-risk youth from across Toronto have been given a unique opportunity to beautify the city’s subway stops thanks to a partnership between Arts for Children and Youth (AFCY) and Pattison Onestop.

The pilot project, called Art Responsibly, will see the youths’ art replacing traditional advertising posters in a number of TTC subway stops.

The initiative came when young AFCY participant Fitzroy Facey raised issues about being responsible when it comes to painting graffiti and other forms of art in the city.

“The subway posters were given to us and the young artists erased them and painted over them to express their thoughts on what it means to be responsible by being artful,” said AFCY executive director Julie Frost.

The posters tackle issues such as inclusivity, embracing diversity and shining a positive light on the LGBTQ community.

Professional muralists and youth leaders led painters from six different program locations across the city, including the Art Gallery of Ontario’s Free After Three program, Covenant House Toronto, Our Lady of >>>posters, page 6

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Annex singer performs at BuskerFest in downtown Yonge area JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com

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rmed only with her voice and a loop station, Annex resident Alissa Vox Raw (AVR - real name Alissa Klug) is getting set to take the Scotiabank BuskerFest by storm.

AVR has been singing on the Toronto scene for years, working with various bands and ensembles, but took to performing solo when she started using a loop station.

The device allows her to record stanzas of music as she sings and then replay them on a loop as she records additional sections.

The end result is a virtual choir of her own voice singing every part of her original blues-and-doowop-infused songs and even taking on the role of some instruments.

“I’ve always loved harmonizing with whatever

I’m listening to,” she said.

“Even when I’m listening to something without a harmony, I’ll just add one.”

She was first intrigued by the idea of using a loop station when performing with guitarist Mark Sepic in Yorkville.

He was looping guitar riffs while playing jazz standards and the effect opened up a new world of possibilities for AVR. “I sang the first line of a melody and didn’t know he was recording me,” she said. “I wound up with a whole choir of my voice singing Summertime and that planted the seeds.”

She began recording a cappella songs at home and often performs solo shows using only that as an instrument, though she is also proficient when it comes to playing various instruments including the guitar, the synthesizer and

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Alissa Vox Raw will sing a cappella with a loop station at the upcoming Scotiabank BuskerFest.

the djembe.

While her vocal prowess can carry a show, AVR still performs with accompanists from time to time.

Doing so with a loop station, however, poses

additional problems.

“If you make a mistake with a normal performance, people don’t notice, but with a loop station, that little mistake will keep looping back at

you,” she said.

When others are added to the mix, hitting the perfect notes at the perfect time become that much more crucial.

“The loops act as a kind of metronome for the song, so with a loop station, you have to be exactly in time with the looping at all times,” AVR said.

Her loop station performances have earned her plenty of stage time around Toronto and beyond – she played the Make Music New York Festival in June – and she is working on her debut album.

She finds her Annex area home perfectly suits her musician’s lifestyle.

“I’ve always wanted to be downtown as long as I’ve lived in Toronto and here, both (subway) lines are very convenient,” she said. “It’s a great neigh-

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with a normal performance, people don’t notice, but with a loop station, that little mistake will keep looping back at you.

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bourhood and great for getting around the city.”

AVR will perform at the Scotiabank BuskerFest, which will run from Thursday, Aug. 22 through Sunday, Aug. 25 in the downtown Yonge area.

For further details on BuskerFest, including a lineup of performers, visit www.torontobuskerfest. com

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For more information on AVR, visit at www.alissavoxraw.com

Experience food and culture of the Philippines from Aug. 7 to 11 Eighth annual Kultura Filipino Arts Festival expands beyond Kensington Market JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com Filipino culture is taking centre stage in Regent Park, Kensington Market and the Wychwood community with the return of the Kultura Filipino Arts Festival.

Now in its eighth year, the festival highlights the arts and cuisine of the Philippines.

Hosted by the Kensingtonbased Kapisanan Philippine Centre for Arts and Culture, this year’s festival has expanded beyond its prior boundaries.

“We’ve taken it out of our headquarters in Kensington Market and we’re bringing the

finale to Artscape Wychwood Barns and hosting a participatory art event at Daniels Spectrum,” said Kapisanan Executive Director Caroline Mangosing.

“Filipinos are all over Toronto – there’s no one concentrated area where the Filipino community has settled in the GTA – so it made sense to bring it to new venues.”

The participatory art event opened the festival Wednesday, Aug. 7 and saw residents in Regent Park, Cabbagetown and the surrounding area help create a bahay kubo, or Filipino hut.

Led by Toronto-based

Filipino artists Julius Poncelet Manupul, Kristina Guison and Tim Manalo, residents were asked to paint their own vision of home onto thin strips that were woven onto the hut’s frame.

“The theme is around community and universality of home,” Mangosing said.

Thursday, Aug. 8 will see a 12-course fundraising dinner featuring Filipino cuisine held at Lamesa Filipino Kitchen at 669 Queen St. W. Food will continue to take centre stage at the festival for the closing event with a culinary competition at Wychwood Barns, which will pit cooks against one another to see who can create the

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The Kultura Filipino Arts Festival takes place Aug. 7 to 11.

best Filipino street vendorstyle food.

“Filipino food hasn’t

gotten a lot of shine in Toronto so we’re hoping this changes that,” Mangosing said. “Toronto’s a very foodie city so we think this will open some eyes.”

She cited fish balls – which are similar to Chinese fish cakes but rolled into a ball and deep fried – and battered, deep-fried quail eggs known as kwek-kwek as her own personal favourites.

The cook-off will take place alongside live performances from Filipino singers, dancers, DJs and more at Kultura Live!

The growth of the Kultura festival mirrors the growth of Toronto’s Filipino population. Mangosing said the first

waves of Filipino immigrants began coming to Canada in the 1960s and 1970s, many of them settling in and around Toronto.

“About 50 per cent of all Filipinos in Canada live in Ontario and most of those are in the GTA,” she said.

“In 2010, (the Philippines) were the largest source of immigration to Canada.”

The festival will also include play readings and art installations in Kensington Market.

The festival runs until Aug. 11.

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motions are running high in the aftermath of Sammy Yatim’s shooting death. News that the 18-year-old died in a confrontation with police, was met with shock and grief. The footage of the incident from cellphone video escalated that emotion.

It’s become common, with mobile video devices in every purse and pocket, that emergency situations involving police are captured and shared online with thousands of viewers.

We become spectators – in this case, standing on the curb, watching as police yell orders at an individual who’s alone on a streetcar in the middle of the night. Shots are fired. Sirens blaze. More shots, more yelling. Then there’s a crackling – it could be a Taser - and our view sound the video comes to an end.

Based on what appears to Await findings have happened, people are in uproar. They’re demanding in shooting of an justice for the teen’s death, sinSammy Yatim gling out the officer who fired his weapon. Some groups are going so far as to blame the police force as a whole – as we saw during last week’s march outside 14 Division headquarters. A petition has been launched to bring ‘justice for Sammy Yatim’.

But it needs to be impressed upon people that the facts are not yet known. Of course, it’s a tragedy that a young man died but we can’t be so quick to lay fault - especially not when that judgment is based upon a dark, blurry cellphone video.

The province’s Special Investigations Unit (SIU) is looking for answers. Police Chief Bill Blair acknowledged the need for those answers and promises full cooperation with the SIU, including a full review of the policies, procedures and training of the officers involved. Ontario’s Ombudsman, André Marin, is also set to review the fatal shooting.

People need to step back, be patient and await the findings. Even Yatim’s family spoke out, saying they hold no ill will against the Toronto police force.

And when the investigation is complete, the police need to be transparent in sharing the findings and the recommendations and must follow through on holding accountable anyone who may be at fault.

We may not have been there to know exactly what happened, but we know enough to never want another police standoff to end so tragically.

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Mayor’s influence on provincial byelections debatable Much has been made of Mayor Rob Ford’s deliberate and enthusiastic involvement in the two provincial byelections that recently took place in the city.

Over the course of the campaign, Ford stumped and shouted, alleged corruption, berated, paraded and, of course, endorsed two candidates from the party of his late father. He put as much energy into the enterprise as one might expect a mayor to put into mayoral duties: so much so that he caught the disapproving eye of the Minister of Municipal Affairs Glen Murray and raised the ire of Ford’s executive committee ally Peter Milczyn – both of whom were trying, without success, to plant a Liberal flag in the riding of Etobicoke-Lakeshore.

Ford might take some of the credit for preventing that, and decisively helping his deputy mayor, Doug Holyday, deliver the first Toronto Progressive

david nickle the city Conservative seat in a decade. The claim would be more credible, of course, if he’d been able to do the same for the PCs in Scarborough-Guildwood.

It might be more reasonable to say that Holyday was in an excellent position to do so, all on his own.

The long-serving municipal politician has had good years and bad over the course of his career — sometimes better known for utterly losing his temper on the floor of council, and sometimes, over these past few years, for bringing genial calm to a tumultuous field.

While Holyday has never been anything but partisan, he’s proved essential to the Ford administration, delivering in negotiations with unionized workers what could be some of the most lasting changes to the way

the city does business.

When Ford was dealing with what seems will be only the first part of his alleged crack video scandal, Holyday was a supportive second-in-command. He was also an appropriate scold, joining much of the public in urging the mayor to address the allegations against him head on.

That Holyday would win in a riding that had been confidently Liberal for a decade isn’t surprising. That Ford’s candidate should lose in a riding to the east of there, in spite of everything... well, if a mayor’s word means anything in influencing a vote, that is a bit of a surprise.

Ford and his family have been a-courting in Scarborough since the 2010 municipal election. Ford promised and could well be on the cusp of delivering a subway there.

Scarborough folk were lined up through the trees at his first-ever Scarborough FordFest

party. Personally, he polls well there, too.

Yet he could not transfer that combination of elbow grease and pixie dust to influence a provincial vote.

It might be the office itself doesn’t hold much influence. When Ford’s predecessor David Miller waded into federal elections in a less partisan way, he tended to pick candidates in individual races that had a decent chance of winning. Mel Lastman knew enough to stay out completely.

It might well serve as a sobering lesson to the Fords, who obviously enjoy campaigning and do seem to have a knack for it: regardless of how much fun it is out on the hustings for some other level of government, their energies might best be applied to dancing with the ones that brought them, and doing the job they were elected to do.

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Young working professionals with MS self-help group WHEN: 7 to 8:30 p.m. WHERE: Lawrence/Yonge area CONTACT: Lynn Laccohee, 416-967-3032, lynn. laccohee@mssociety.ca COST: Free Young working professionals (20 to 40 years old) with multiple sclerosis get together for information sharing and emotional and social support.

Meeting location will be provided after registration.

Fung Loy Kok Taoist Tai Chi Awareness Day WHEN: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. WHERE: Yonge-Dundas Square CONTACT: Chris Farano, 416-656-2110 Demonstrations of Taoist Tai Chi arts by more than 800 practitioners, free classes, a discussion of the importance of dual cultivation of body and mind, Dragon Dance and parade.

Hands-On Cooking Workshop with the Wild Blueberry Association of North America WHEN: 6 to 9 p.m.

WHERE: Evergreen Brick Works, 550 Bayview Ave. CONTACT: 416-4615270 COST: Free

sound bites from these performances will then be reconstructed into a new composition.

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Sail-In Cinema WHEN: 8:45 to 11 p.m. WHERE: Sugar Beach, 25 Dockside Dr. CONTACT: cinema@ torontoport.com Toronto Port Authority (TPA) is returning to Sugar Beach for its third year of the much anticipated free movie festival, Sail-In Cinema. For three nights in August, Sugar Beach will be transformed into Toronto’s largest outdoor theatre where lovers of film and the outdoors alike can watch movies on a two-sided screen anchored to a barge on Lake Ontario.

Check out our complete online community calendar by visiting www.citycentremirror.com. Read weeks of listings from your neighbourhood as well as events from across Toronto.

4000, COST: Free Fortune Cooking features the best dishes, restaurants, music, dance and artists from East Asia to Southeast/ South Asia. Come see what’s cooking in this influential continent.

Dawn Woodward from Evelyn’s Crackers is hosting a Baking with Wild Blueberries workshop. Learn how to make a yeasted wild blueberry tart, red fife-blueberry quick bread, heirloom cornmeal cake with blueberry compote, and rye buckwheat bread with dried wild blueberries, as part of Evergreen Brickworks Wild Blueberry Month.

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Make Some Noise WHEN: 7 p.m. WHERE: Bloor/Gladstone Library, 1101 Bloor St. W. Top indie improvisers will perform in different parts of the library, broadcasting wirelessly to the main lobby where audience members can create their own sound mix. The collected

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Fortune Cooking WHEN: 11:30 a.m. WHERE: Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. CONTACT: A Linton, 416-973-

Crazy Cloth: A High Tech Trip into Toronto History and Culture WHEN: 10:30 a.m. WHERE: Textile Museum of Canada, 55 Centre Ave. Learn about the labs at Ontario College of Art and Design, how the Great Fire of 1904 was started by a necktie and more. You’ll be using tablet computers in and around Toronto’s Fashion District. Staring point will be revealed when registered. Cost, $10 or $8 for children 12 and under. Visit www.heritagetoronto.org

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Clothing Swap in Support of Horizons For Youth WHEN: noon to 4 p.m. WHERE: Arts Market, 846 College St. CONTACT: http://bit.ly/13aCZ00 COST: Free Update your wardrobe, be part of a sustainable movement and help support homeless or at risk youth by joining the Arts Market at Clothing Swap. Bring gently used clothing and swap them. Pay what you can.

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>>>from page 1 Victory Catholic School, St. Barnabas Catholic School, St. Dorothy Catholic School and Rockcliffe Middle School.

“One really important feature of this program is the posters (the artists) created were placed in the closest stations to where they were made,” Frost said.

“These are the stations these youths use, so they can see their work in public. It fits with the whole notion of empowering youth to be active and constructive social engagers.”

The posters each come with hashtags to encourage the public to offer their opinions, with the responses catalogued to help inform future incarnations of Art Responsibly should it move beyond the pilot phase.

The project even offered employment opportunities for some young artists, who took on support and mentorship roles.

Youth artist Andrenne Finnikin was one beneficiary

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Posters painted by youth in at-risk communities will be displayed in TTC subway stations as part of the Art Responsibly project.

of the employment programming, helping to create multimedia posters using painting and photography at St. Barnabas.

She said the posters are a good way to empower youth while beautifying the subway system.

“It’s a nice platform for young people to express themselves and it’s nice to have art in the subways

instead of looking at just another ad,” she said.

“It’s definitely something we’re proud of and it was a new experience for many of the youth. Some of them have never painted on a larger scale.”

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The posters will be up in six subway stations – St. Patrick, College, Eglinton West, Kennedy, Wilson and Runnymede.

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Cabbagetown Youth Centre summer showwcase Aug. 15 Young performers from the Cabbagetown Youth Centre will demonstrate their artistic skills when the centre hosts its annual summer showcase.

The show, dubbed Headlines, will feature singing, dancing, spoken word performances and more from children aged seven to 14.

The performances will highlight the impacts of social media and pop culture on youngsters.

Headlines will take place at

the Rosedale School of the Arts, 711 Bloor Street East, at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 15. Tickets are $7 and will be available at the door.

Preservation Association, the walk will highlight Cabbagetown’s finest artists, including those who have won Governor General’s awards and Toronto Arts Awards and those who have been named to the Order of Canada.

The walk will kick off at the corner of Winchester and Parliament streets at 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 10.

Cabbagetown writers and artists host guided wtour Aug. 10 Cabbagetown writers and artists will earn a little more acclaim with a guided tour of the neighbourhood.

Hosted by the Cabbagetown

of Toronto’s Hart House for the National Student Food Summit 2013 Aug. 16 to 18.

The three-day conference will look into community food issues and offer idea sharing, networking opportunities and more. This year’s conference theme is “Cultivating Change on Campus.”

For more info visit http://studentfoodsummit.ca

National Student Food Summit at U of T Hart wHouse Aug. 16 to 18

with the closure of the King Street and Spadina Avenue intersection.

The intersection was closed off to cars and public transit as of 10 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 6. The intersection is expected to remain closed until Tuesday, Aug. 20 as the TTC replaces streetcar tracks there.

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Mayor names Scarborough-Agincourt’s Norm Kelly as his new deputy mayor

Toronto’s first human case of WNV reported

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A 68-year-old man is the first person in Toronto infected this year with the West Nile virus, the city’s public health department said.

The unidentified man was infected in mid-July and is recovering at home.

He was never admitted to hospital for treatment, public health said in a statement Aug. 2.

D r. B a r b a r a Ya f f e , Toronto’s associate medical officer of health, is urging residents to protect themselves against infection as the seasonal risk of the virus is increasing.

“Now that we have seen our first confirmed case of West Nile virus, we are entering into the period of greatest risk for contracting West Nile virus,” she said.

Last year, Toronto had 94 human cases of West Nile virus.

Scarborough-Agincourt Councillor Norm Kelly is Toronto’s new deputy mayor – a position that will become official as soon as Etobicoke Centre Councillor Doug Holyday either resigns, or the provincial government makes his election as MPP for Etobicoke-Lakeshore official.

Kelly, 71, spoke with reporters Friday afternoon to make Mayor Rob Ford’s job offer official.

“Ladies and gentlemen of the fourth estate, the Mayor has invited me to be the Deputy Mayor of the City of Toronto and I’ve accepted the invitation to serve the residents of the City of Toronto, the City I love, in this new capacity,” said Kelly before taking questions.

Kelly said the new job as Mayor Ford’s wingman will mean he’ll likely resign as chair of the city’s Government Management Committee. He wouldn’t speculate on how his new role would evolve.

“I haven’t sat down with the mayor and discussed how our relationship would be carried out in the next year and a half,” he said. “Until that happens, anything I say would be speculative.”

The role of deputy mayor has altered significantly depending on the mayor himself, Kelly acknowledged.

Under Mayor Mel Lastman, former councillor Case Ootes played a prominent role, often acting as spokesperson for both the mayor and the city and taking the lead in labour negotiations.

Under David Miller, former councillor Joe Pantalone played a diminished role.

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... I’ve accepted the invitation to serve the residents of the City of Toronto, the City I love.

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But Holyday has been a key member of Ford’s administration, carrying out difficult negotiations with the city’s unionized employees, and stepping up on behalf of the mayor as legal challenges and scandal overwhelmed the administration.

This past winter, Holyday was preparing to take over the job as it appeared as though the courts were going to force Ford to leave office on conflict of interest grounds.

Kelly wouldn’t comment on the prospect of taking over the top job.

“I’m looking at the here and now,” he said. “The advice

that I would give (the mayor) would be advice I would give him privately.”

Kelly said as deputy mayor, he would commit to supporting the core of Ford’s mandate and agenda.

“There has to be a commitment to the core policies and core direction of the mayor but that leaves a lot of other things open to one’s individual vote,” he said.

In general, Kelly said he

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couldn’t “think of any place better to be in politics today than in Canada’s largest city, North America’s fourth largest city, at a time when competition around the world is being conducted by cities and urban regions.”

He said he supported the expansion of the Billy Bishop airport, “as well as doing things economically and socially to improve the quantity and quality of life in Toronto.”

When asked why the mayor had picked him for the job, he responded, “That’s the first question my wife asked me. I think working together over the last two and a half years, we’ve gotten to know each other and he’s gotten to rely on advice I’ve given him publicly and privately.

Either that, or he owed me old football debts and didn’t want to pay up.”

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Toronto emergency services kick off blood donation campaign 2013 Sirens For Life campaign goal is to collect 1,200 blood donations by Sept. 2 ERIN HATFIELD ehatfield@insidetoronto.com Deborah Hunte said she is alive because of the people who give blood.

“I’m here today, I’m breathing today, I’m working today because people donate blood,” said Hunte at the kick-off to the annual Sirens For Life campaign to raise blood donations.

Hunte, a downtown resident, has a genetic blood disorder called sickle-cell anemia and has received blood more than 20 times in her life. Her twin sister died 13 years ago because of complications from sickle-cell anemia, but Hunte said she enjoyed 36 years of life with her – also thanks to Canadian Blood Services and the people who donate blood.

The Sirens For Life campaign, which kicked off July

10 at Toronto Police Service 14 Division on Dovercourt Road, is an annual competition between the Toronto Police Service, Toronto Emergency Medical Services, Toronto Fire Services and other emergency services to donate the most units of blood over the course of the summer.

The organization with the largest percentage of blood donations wins bragging rights.

“I won’t spend a lot of time talking about who the potential winner of this competition will be, given the obvious answer is that the police will certainly do the best,” joked Acting Toronto Police Service Deputy Chief Frank Bergen.

The police know the need for people to give blood, Bergen said, because they witness it first hand when attending car crashes and the like.

“A person who is injured in an auto collision may require as much as 50 units of blood,” Bergen said.

“This year to date, the Toronto Police Service has investigated 25 collisions with life-threatening injuries. That would translate to requiring 1,250 units of blood.”

The 2013 Sirens of Life goal is to collect 1,200 blood donations before Sept. 2.

Charmaine Lodge, Canadian Blood Services director of donor and clinic services, said summer is typically a challenging time of year for collecting blood.

Donations take a dip because people are out of town or don’t book appointments to donate because they are out enjoying the weather, Lodge said.

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oronto police have launched a monthlong crackdown on the illegal use of motorized electronic bicycles, commonly known as e-bikes.

Police began handing out tickets to e-bike users for improperly using infrastructure intended for regular bicycles. City bylaws do allow the vehicles to travel in bike lanes and park trails, but only if the bike’s motor is turned off. The fine for not doing so is $305.

The crackdown will last until Saturday, Aug. 31.

Distracted driver simulation A web simulation from the Canadian Automobile Association (CAA) shows just how much distracted drivers miss when not paying attention to the road.

Ta k i n g i n t o a c c o u n t weather and road conditions, the simulation allows users to see the dangers caused by distracted driving.

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rahul gupta TO in TRANSIT way during a rainstorm, for example, could mean traveling through five intersections and past 200 pedestrians – all while distracted.

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The TTC chair hit back at a newspaper editorial decrying political interference in transit planning.

Posting on her personal blog, Councillor Karen Stintz took a recent Toronto Star column by Toronto Region Board of Trade CEO Carol Wilding to task, insisting politicians should make the final decision on the fate of a transit project, and not Metrolinx, to keep the best interests of taxpayers in mind.

“Metrolinx continues to ask the city for input because it (the city) understands that building political consensus is paramount for better taxpayer investment into public transit,” Stintz wrote.

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The latest addition to the 56-kilometre path running parallel to Lake Shore Boulevard is between Yonge and Lower Jarvis streets.

According to Waterfront To r o n t o , t h e trail addition is intended to complement a newly opened sidewalk in the area and provide a safe passage for cyclists and pedestrians.

The addition was ready by the end of July.

For more information, visit www.waterfrontoronto.ca Rahul Gupta is The Mirror’s transit reporter. His column runs every Tuesday. Reach him on Twitter: @TOinTRANSIT

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RAHUL GUPTA rgupta@insidetoronto.com The TTC opened up its Union Station construction site late last month to members of the media, where work is proceeding on an additional subway platform.

The $161.5 million project, which began in May 2011, is part of an extensive renovation of Union Station and is expected to open in the summer of 2014 in a partially finished state.

Intended to double the station’s existing passenger capacity, the project is one of the most challenging the TTC has ever undertaken due to the pressures of keeping subway service going, said TTC Project Manager Malcolm MacKay. “It’s a technically challenging job in that we’re excavating beside an existing facility and logistically difficult because we’re trying to operate our business of moving people.

Our business is not construction and we have to keep our eye on that,” said MacKay

Wednesday, July 31.

The new south platform will serve the Yonge line and will be partitioned from the existing platform via a decorative 12-by-eight foot multipaned glass wall spanning the length of the new subway platform to serve as both a public art showcase and barrier, MacKay said.

He said going with the barrier design between subway platforms rather than widening the existing structure would mean less disruption for existing train service at Union and smaller project costs.

2014 opening “If we were to widen and put platforms on each side we would be giving up the existing infrastructure we have in place and doubling the excavation required for the project,” MacKay said.

He said the opening of the new platform in 2014, even in an unfinished state, will pave the way for a much-needed renovation of the existing

central platform, which has not seen extensive work since Union Station opened as part of the Yonge line back in 1954.

The work is part of an extensive revitalization of Union Station, which has double the daily passenger traffic of Pearson International Airport and is used by major transportation providers such as the TTC, GO Transit and VIA Rail.

Other projects under way as part of the $700 million-plus revitalization, which is funded by all three levels of government, include a new glass roof and atrium over the GO Train shed and passenger platforms, a northwest extension of the PATH passenger walkway and a new retail concourse.

Delays have forced the scheduled date for all planned station renovations to 2016.

Metrolinx is also moving its offices to the station’s newly renovated east wing

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While Hibberd noted the cause makes the climb more than worthwhile, he admitted it will pose a daunting challenge.

‘A LOT OF RUNNING’ “I’ve done a lot of running on the Beltline through Forest Hill and fairly long hikes through the Don Valley, but the one thing you can’t train for is altitude,” he said.

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Robin Hibberd and his daughter Sydney are climbing Mount Kilimanjaro to raise funds for the creation of a national cord blood bank. They left Aug. 3 for Mt. Kilimanjaro.

which gives us an advantage because our bodies will have more time to acclimatize, which gives us a better chance of successfully summiting.”

Hibberd will likely benefit from some past experience in high-altitude racing – he has run at 10,000 feet in Chile – but knows there are other ways in which the climbers’ bodies will have to adjust.

“We’ll be going from about

25 degrees (Celsius) at the bottom to –10 at the peak, so we have to make sure we’re prepared for that, too,” he said.

The #Climb4Cord team left Canada last Saturday and began their climb up Mount Kilimanjaro Tuesday.

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