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JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com For many struggling to make ends meet, food banks provide a lifeline through access to fresh, healthy offerings. Those who have made a choice not to eat meat – whether for ethical, health or other reasons – have reduced options. Toronto resident Matt Noble is looking to bridge that gap with the opening of the Toronto Vegetarian Food Bank. His concept, which is slated to open at the Yonge Street Mission Jan. 31, is an extension of the nowdefunct Ontario Vegetarian Food Bank, which had locations in North York and Scarborough until they closed in 2013. “I was talking a lot with Malan (Joseph, the founder of the Ontario Vegetarian Food Bank) and there was talk about opening one downtown,” Noble said. “I said I would volunteer there when it opens, but I didn’t hear anything for months, and after that they said there was no funding for it.” Undaunted, Noble managed to connect with the Yonge Street Mission through his grandmother, who volunteered there, and secured some space. With that dilemma out of the way, he and a team of like-minded volunteers are still working out >>>FOOD, page 7

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MAYOR ON ICE: Skaters take to the ice during Mayor John Tory’s New Year’s Day skating party at the Nathan Phillips Square rink. For more skating photos, see page 12.

Regent Park welcomes revamped rink JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com The grand opening of an upgraded ice rink in Regent Park brought smiles to the faces of kids and parents in the com-

munity, with the rink promising to provide brighter futures to children living downtown. The rink, at Shuter and Sumach streets, had been a fixture in the community, but had fallen into disrepair in recent

years and was even derelict for a time. Thanks to a partnership between the City of Toronto, the MLSE Foundation, the Hockey Canada Foundation, Toronto Community Housing and the

Daniels Corporation, kids in the area will finally have a safe, professional-calibre skating surface to call their own. “A couple of things were really exciting about the opening of >>>RINK, page 2

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Rink completely replumbed, resurfaced with new boards installed >>>from page 1 the new rink,” said Ward 28 councillor Pam McConnell, who attended the rink’s opening on Jan. 3 along with Maple Leafs alumni Wendel Clark, Gary Leeman and Mark Osborne. “First was seeing so many young children from so many diverse backgrounds out there with their parents, learning to skate. Second was the excitement of the parents seeing their kids participating for the first time in our Canadian sport.” The Leafs alumni and Toronto police helped the kids learn to skate, helping to foster a sense of community around the rink. “Ice hockey and rinks haven’t been a part of a lot of (Regent Park residents’) cultural backgrounds, but it’s in their future,” McConnell said. The rink was completely replumbed and resurfaced, new boards were installed, and the clubhouse was revamped. A Zamboni will help maintain the ice surface, keeping it clean, even and safe. “It’s not just a new fence around an old rink,” McConnell said. “It’s a new rink from the ground up.” The rink is but the first step in an

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Former Toronto Maple Leaf Gary Leeman, left, signs autographs while fellow Maple Leaf Wendel Clark, right, helps Sutoda, 6, around the new ice rink Saturday at the Regent Park Athletic Grounds.

ongoing investment by the MLSE Foundation into the area. As early as this spring, work will commence on converting the surrounding area

into the new Regent Park Athletic Grounds, complete with a soccer and cricket pitch and basketball courts.

“All the way from Sackville to Sumach, we’ll have kids activities,” McConnell said. “It will build strong, healthy kids and keep them away

from negative (activities.)” The MLSE Foundation has long been supportive of the Regent Park revitalization and was an eager partner in the rink rebuilding and the upcoming creation of the Athletic Grounds, directing $2 million in funding toward the communitybuilding space. “Once the vision for the Regent Park Athletic Grounds was developed, the Foundation was inspired by the amount of collaboration between the community and corporate partnerships that were established for the benefit of creating a holistic, engaged community,” said MLSE Foundation executive director Michael Bartlett. “We knew it was a project that we had to be a part of.” The foundation’s impact will not end with the construction of the new play spaces. “Once the grounds are completed, we will work with community and corporate partners to ensure that there are sport program opportunities at no cost for the youth of Regent Park,” Bartlett said.

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Regular ‘Y’ workouts for 93-year-old author JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com At the age of 93, with a series of books under her belt and a regular routine at the Toronto Central Grosvenor Street YMCA, downtown Toronto resident Elizabeth Quan is certainly not slowing down. Quan has been a long-time Y user, and her adherence to a fitness routine has done more than keep her fit and healthy – it has even helped her career as an author. “I was talking to someone in my fitness class and we hit it off right away,” Quan recalled. “He asked what I do and I said I’m a writer. He said ‘I might know somebody who knows somebody who knows somebody,’ and it turns out he did.” That connection helped her get two books published – Once Upon a Full Moon and Beyond the Moongate. Written for young adults, the books serve as unflinching memoirs of Quan’s childhood and early family life. The downtown resident came to writing late in life. She spent years as a painter before turning to the written word in 1999 with Quan: My Life, My Art. That book offered poetry and essays in which she ruminated over her career, during which she

became a protégé of Toronto artist and curator Jack Pollock. “I started doing my own exhibits and somebody said I should show my work to (Pollock,)” she said. “He liked what he saw and told me to bring in everything I did. Whenever I brought in a new bunch, he would put them in two piles – ‘junk this one, go with this one, go this way.’” She wound up showcasing her work around the world, but as her career took off, her marriage was sputtering. ‘I thought I was making it’ “Jack Pollock said to put my artwork first in my life and my family life went to pieces,” Quan said. “I thought I was making it in the art world, but then there was a bad fire in my house in which my husband died.” That prompted Quan to quit painting. Saddled with anguish over the loss of her husband, she could barely sleep or eat, and her health began breaking down. For her 65th birthday, her daughters bought her a one-year membership to the YMCA, which helped her break out of her doldrums. “I knew about health back then, but I didn’t follow all the rules,” she

said. “I had such huge stress in my life, but I think I needed to be sick in order to make myself see how to be well.” She soon started taking courses at the University of Toronto, near her St. George Street home, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in East Asian Studies in 1982, 35 years after she earned her first degree in physiotherapy. While working toward her second degree, she took a creative writing course, which spawned her second career as an author. “My teacher told me to go into autobiography, and when I said there were parts of my life that I didn’t want to write about, the teacher said ‘you must write about whatever you don’t want to write about,’” Quan recalled. She recently completed another book, Until Forever After – The Shaping of a Marriage, a selfpublished work, which depicts her parents’ long relationship. She remains devoted to the Y, which helps to keep her looking and feeling far younger than her 93 years. “It’s really made a huge difference in my life,” she said. “I love coming here, seeing the people and joining the classes.”

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Ninety-three-year-old author and Illustrator Elizabeth Quan works out at the Central YMCA on Friday.

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ccm@insidetoronto.com Toronto-born investigative historian and bestselling author Peter Vronsky is a man deeply influenced by personal experiences. Growing up in post-World War II Toronto triggered a lifelong fascination with global politics and military history. On two separate occasions he unknowingly came face-to-face with serial killers that in turn ignited in-depth explorations into the grim subject of the social history of sequential homicide. “I grew up in the decade just after the conclusion of the Second World War. Our culture was very much focused on it, having just emerged from that cataclysmic event,” he said. “Then over time, the significance of other wars began to work its way into my consciousness.” Similarly, random run-ins with marauding, devilish murderers left their indelible marks on him. “That’s as good a starting point as any,” he said. “Anything can happen to you once, but after encountering a second serial killer, I thought ‘what’s the mathematics of that?’”

The former journalist and investigative TV news producer for the likes of the CBC, CTV, and CNN is also a professor in Ryerson University’s Department of History. When he’s not teaching courses ranging from international relations, military history, terrorism and the history of serial homicide, he’s busy working on his third book in a trilogy of disquisitive books on serial killers. The forthcoming “Serial Killer Chronicles: A New History of Serial Murder Today” (Penguin Random House Berkely) is due in 2016 and dives into the global macro history of serial murder. Vronsky was checking into a hotel in New York City in 1979 and was on an elevator, when a man who boarded the car Vronsky was on annoyed him. That man turned out to be Richard Cottingham. “I had unknowingly encountered this Alfred Hitchcock movie-like monster. He slammed me on the side of my knee with what I thought was a bag full of bowling balls,” he recalls. “It turns out they were the two decapitated heads of women he had recently murdered in that

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hotel.” Twelve years later when Vronsky was on assignment in Moscow he was approached by Andrei Chikatilo who offered to be interviewed by his film crew for a documentary he was working on. Three weeks later, Chikatilo, aka the Red Ripper, was arrested. He

was convicted in 1992 of sexually assaulting, murdering, and mutilating at least 54 women and children in the former Soviet Union. Interestingly, both murderers shared a common trait, Vronsky noticed: they were both utterly forgettable people. “If I had been asked to describe (Chikatilo), I couldn’t have. I remember the knot in his tie and the glasses he wore, but his facial features were so indistinct,” he said. “The same with Cottingham. It wasn’t his face that I remember so much as he had a weird haircut.” Meantime, Vronsky continues to focus on his 2011 narrative “Ridgeway: The American Fenian Invasion and the 1866 Battle That Made Canada” (Penguin Global). The book delves into the history of the first nine Canadian soldiers to die in combat near Fort Erie, Ontario, in a battle that predates Canadian Confederation. “It’s a battle that’s completely forgotten. We swear to our service people that we will remember them, but here’s nine guys who died defending Canada in Canada,” he said. “Since the 1930s, we decided

we weren’t going to commemorate them anymore. Is that the fate of World War I veterans in another 20 to 30 years?” It was by happenstance that Vronsky stumbled over archived records related to the Ridgeway Nine while working on his thesis focused on the history of the Toronto Police Service. “All history is not the way we thought it was but there are subtle and profound differences. In this case, we have a profound difference between the history of Confederation that we’ve been taught in school and the fact that Canada was facing a terrorist, national crisis when the country was born,” he said. “We were faced with invasion from the United States a year before Confederation, and collectively, we don’t know anything about it.” Vronsky is scheduled to speak about the Battle of Ridgeway at the Royal Canadian Military Institute (426 University Ave.) on May 20, 2015.

Visit www.petervronsky.org for more information about him.

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hings are beginning to happen in this city to relieve traffic congestion. Short-term, the TTC has a host of projects on the way to assist in that (see our list online at bit.ly/1vZ2zyN). A longterm strategy is just as critical, but also important is getting everyone in this city to do their part. Businesses in this city fuel the very need for commuting. Deliveries need to be made. People run errands, grab coffees and many use their cars to do so. But where these efforts plug up our roadways, people need to think differently about how they or their business impacts traffic. How can they change what they’re doing and be a part of the solution, rather than the problem? On Monday, Toronto police and the city’s parking enforcement began their blitz on illegally parked cars in the city’s core. Any vehicle caught causing congestion because they were our view stopped in a live lane was ticketed or towed. We all need to Though the law isn’t new, John Tory made the rigbe part of the Mayor orous enforcement part of his traffic solution six-point plan to reduce traffic congestion in early 2015. Commercial delivery and courier companies are a necessity for businesses downtown. But unless they want to foot expensive towing bills, they’re going to have to find new ways to operate to avoid jamming up the streets during rush hour. The strength of our economy is directly impacted by traffic in the city, so business leaders have a vested interest in getting people and goods moving. The loss of $6 billion in productivity each year is projected to grow to $15 billion by 2031. Businesses need to think outside the box to change their impact: perhaps consider flex time, satellite offices or allow staff to work from home. Tory’s suggested fewer events be hosted downtown and making sure marathons and charity walks aren’t monopolizing major roadways. Residents should ask how they can change their own commuter routines so they are more considerate of other drivers. And the city should measure the outcome of this enforcement campaign and apply that success to other commercial neighbourhoods in need of relief. A sustainable, long-term transit strategy may be driven by the city but cannot happen without everyone making their own contributions to the cause.

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More hurry-up-and-wait for Nathan Phillips Square

y, did Toronto councillors and the mayor get off to a running start this week. Mayor John Tory and councillors looked at all sorts of ways to speed cars and trucks on their way with traffic management as police got busy towing illegally stopped vehicles during rush hour. The Public Works and Infrastructure Committee wasted no time putting staff to work studying whether or not to contract out garbage collection. Tory was so excited to get going that he nearly fell over on an icy Toronto sidewalk. And that was just by Tuesday. In all this hustle-andbustle, it was good to be reminded that not everything in Toronto is an around-the-clock project, and there are still some parts of the city where people know how to slow

david nickle the city down and smell the roses. And where better to do that than in Nathan Phillips Square. On Monday, the city’s Government Management Committee kicked off the term hearing from the team that’s managing the nine-year, $60-million project to spruce up the square outside Toronto City Hall. The project got its start under the David Miller administration in 2007, with a design by PLANT Architect and a budget of $40 million. The cost of that project has ballooned to about $60 million, with elements added and removed through the years as political whims shifted. This week staff recommended adding back many of the elements of that

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revitalization that had been removed – which would add $11 million to the project. If everything is added back – which is up to council – the $70 million project to improve Toronto’s civic square will be finished in 2016. If a concurrent repair of the ceremonial ramp going to the roof of city hall is included, that will be 2019. If the city can find a restaurateur with $4 million to spend on building a restaurant there, we’ll have one of those too. Although after the failure of city hall’s own Café on the Square restaurant,

it’s unlikely they’ll find anyone. Until then, Nathan Phillips Square will be some flavour of the way it is now: partially open, dotted with hoarding, kind of arid. All for a project that in the end was intended to – let’s be honest – marginally improve the political and cultural centre of our city. It’s this example – along with the decades-long rehabilitation of the Gardiner Expressway and the continuing mirage of subways in Scarborough – that reveals Toronto’s true political cult heritage, and against which the new hurry-up culture of the Tory administration finds itself. Council can hurry up as much as it wants now. Before too long, we will all get down to the regular business – of waiting.

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cent whole foods (fresh produce), though he understands items such as dried beans and other legumes are often cheaper and could allow the organization to reach more people. While the bank will be downtown, it will be open to those in need from throughout the GTA, whether they are between jobs, working for little pay or otherwise having

trouble meeting their financial commitments. “There are a lot of people who work jobs that don’t pay a lot or they’re on social assistance that covers rent and maybe a phone to look for work but doesn’t leave them with anything left over,” Noble said. “Food is usually where people have to cut back.” Noble first became a vegetarian 10 years ago after

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to have the Toronto Vegetarian Food Bank open one day a month, though Noble said that could change depending on funding and demand. “We don’t know what to expect and how many people we’ll have come in,” he said. “We’ll start out going with the last Saturday of every month because people have bills coming up on the first. If the demand’s there and we have

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Writer’s experience at SickKids fuels play JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com Having gone through the fear and uncertainty that comes with having a child in need of serious medical attention, Cabbagetown resident Diane Flacks has plenty of experience to draw on when penning her upcoming play, Waiting Room. Flacks’ son was diagnosed with abdominal and heart conditions, and that harrowing experience has stayed with her over the past eight years. “My son was in SickKids for most of the first year of his life and we were not only asking questions about him, we were asking questions about what we should expect from medical staff,” she said. “He had literally dozens of people caring for him in the almost year he lived there, and we had some of the best and some who were less great, but we’re grateful for everything they did.” Waiting Room was born out of that experience, but

it is a highly fictionalized account, set in a fictional children’s hospital. In the play, a couple deals with the swirling emotions that revolve around having a seriously ill child and questions whether the child’s doctor is the right person to provide care after he embarks on an innovative, but risky course of treatment. Flacks is a veteran writer for stage and screen, and her resume includes an Emmynominated stint as a writer for The Kids in the Hall. She credits an absurd sense of humour for a lot of her success, both in her career and her life. “I think I’ve come to see things through that lens – even in the most dire, brutal situations, I look through that lens,” she said. Waiting Room features some dark humour, but clearly falls on the dramatic side. While relatively few people – thankfully – have gone through the fear of having a child spend a year in hospital,

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Diane Flacks’ new medical drama, ‘Waiting Room’, is slated to run at the Tarragon Theatre starting Jan. 14.

Flacks’ play will undoubtedly resonate with parents and non-parents alike. “My experience is similar enough to a lot of people I’ve met, but it’s more about being capable of making choices, even hard ones, and about finding hope in a tough situation,” the playwright said. Flacks has wr itten a

number of plays, including acclaimed solo works Myth Me, By a Thread, Random Acts and Bear With Me, and has worked as a writer and actor in various venues across North America. She is also Nightwood Theatre’s 2014 playwrightin-residence, and is currently working on a piece titled Unholy for that company. “It’s about another light and uncontroversial topic – women and religion,” she said. Flacks and her family have lived in Cabbagetown for the past decade, with her two sons growing up in the downtown neighbourhood. Her youngest son, whose experiences planted the seeds that became Waiting Room, is now a happy and healthy eight year old. Waiting Room, directed by acclaimed director Richard Greenblatt, will run from Jan. 14 through Feb. 15 at the Tarragon Theatre.

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Church accessible after reno FANNIE SUNSHINE fsunshine@insidetoronto.com The new year is bringing new changes to a long-standing church. Glenview Presbyterian Church, which has been part of the Yonge Street and Lawrence Avenue area since 1929, has undergone yearlong renovations to make all three levels of the building wheelchair accessible. The $1-million project started last January and includes two renovated washrooms (one was wheelchair accessible and had to be brought up to current standards, the other was not wheelchair accessible), three new wheelchair ramps, and an elevator for all members and visitors to access all three floors, said Nancy Thornton, convenor of the accessible project. “It’s almost completed,” she said of the renovations. The main floor, which has always been wheelchair accessible, houses the church hall and parlour, while the upper level includes a board-

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room, a classroom and several offices. The basement has one large meeting room and four smaller ones. The basement and upper level are used to hold meetings for various organizations, such as Scouts Canada, Thornton said. “We looked at our facilities and the needs of our congregation and the people using our space,” she said of the decision to renovate, adding one Scout is in a wheelchair, one member uses a walker and another gets around in a motorized scooter. “We wanted everyone to use the lower to upper levels.” The church will host a public open house to celebrate the new accessible space on Saturday, Jan. 24 from 2 to 4 p.m., at 1 Glenview Ave. The following day, Rev. Stephen Farris, moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Canada, will officially open and dedicate the new space at noon. “We have always been active in the community, and now we will be able to continue to do so,” Thornton said.

Ryerson students focus on Parkdale’s gentrification Online crowdfunding campaign looking to cover costs HILARY CATON hcaton@insidetoronto.com

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Seven Ryerson University students are looking to shed some light on the dark side of gentrification in Parkdale with their documentary ‘This House is Not a Home’. Scheduled to be released in March 2015, the documentary, which includes interviews with tenants and local organizations, aims to paint an intimate portrait of Parkdale’s current gentrification conflict through the eyes of select residents and how they’ve chosen to push back. “It’s a compilation of stories. It’s an intimate look at the residents and the repercussions of a neighbourhood undergoing gentrification,” said Jamie Hurcomb, the film’s writer and editor. “We have a good mix of different people to speak on the issue and who don’t have this sense of security in their own home.” Hurcomb, along with her production team Bellboy Pictures, includes producers Adam Hopwood, a former Parkdale resident, and Yazdan Tabrizi, cinematographer Dylan Morgan, director Katrina Singleton, audio supervisor Eric Clark and art director and lead animator Amika Cooper. Filming began

in September, as they captured footage of Parkdale residents during a rent control rally. The group was able to get in touch with different residents through Parkdale Community Legal Services (PCLS), who offered to connect them to a handful of people who were having issues with landlords or real estate companies. Various Parkdale landmarks are shown throughout the film including PCLS, The Parkdale Library and apartments on Jameson Avenue. Hurcomb said it wasn’t hard to get Parkdale residents to open up about their struggle with gentrification. “I think they want people in Toronto to know about what’s going on in this neighbourhood,” she said. “We had to deal with really delicate and intimate and personal aspects of gentrification, like the sense of security and not feeling safe in your own place, the idea of not being able to establish any roots and being pushed out.” The group of university students have also launched an Indiegogo campaign online

that hopes to crowdfund $2,500 to help cover the cost of camera rentals outside of the university as well as entry fees to different film festivals. So far, Bellboy Pictures has raised more than $670. According to Hurcomb, the film focuses on the idea of home and its subjective meaning. She would ask the residents in the film to describe what home means to them. “They would use words like security, safety and comfort, but because of what’s going on that’s in jeopardy right now,” Hurcomb said. Singleton, the documentary’s director, explained too often the public simply sees the benefits of gentrification: new coffee shops, a more vibrant night life or modern condominiums and apartments, and not think twice about the negative effects. The main message of the film is to get the public to open its eyes and pay attention to what’s happening, she said. “People are just getting a very face value idea of gentrification. It’s a real problem and not enough people are

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Bellboy Pictures team Eric Clark, left, Dylan Morgan, Katrina Singleton and Jamie Hurcomb.

paying attention to it, most people just notice new shops and restaurants,” Singleton said. “But it’s a real problem that’s affecting people in a really horrific way. People’s lives are being completely tossed upside down, just for the sake of trendiness and so people can make more money. It’s really messed up.” When working on this project, both Hurcomb and

Singleton were shocked by the blatant mistreatment of tenants by real estate companies, who would offer cash incentives to tenants in order for them to vacate the unit on their own accord and called it a relocation project. “I had no idea that went on. That’s blatant gentrification and they’re not even trying to hide it,” Hurcomb said. “They’re just giving them

money to leave the building and they don’t care where they go, they just want them to leave, so they can renovate and increase the rent and make money off of that. I didn’t know it was that bad.” The film will be a short, running approximately 25 minutes.

For more info, visit www. indiegogo.com/projects/ this-house-is-not-a-home

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Skaters lace up for the mayor’s New Year’s Day skating party around Nathan Phillips Square and join in the DJ Skate Night at Harbourfront Natrel Rink

The ice is nice: Top left, Mayor John Tory, centre, and his wife Barbara Hackett take to the ice during the mayor’s New Year’s Day skating party at the Nathan Phillips Square rink. Bottom left, skaters take to the ice during the Mayor’s skating party. Below, skaters enjoy the lights and sounds of DJ Skate Night at the Harbourfront Natrel Rink Saturday night. Right, Tory, right, and his wife lace up.

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INTERVIEW: Mayor John Tory an ‘impatient agent of change’ DAVID NICKLE dnickle@insidetoronto.com It’s been a little over two weeks since John Tory became mayor as he sits down for his year-end interview in late December, and he’s impatient. Not in a bad way, or so he insists. Having spent the past 11 years in a not-alwaysreciprocated courtship with Toronto voters, the 60-yearold Tory says he’s hoping to make impatience into a primary virtue of his mayoralty over the next four years. “I see myself as an impatient agent of change, who isn’t bound by the fact that it’s always taken six months to get something done around here,” Tory said. “I just accept the fact that it doesn’t necessarily have to be the case. I think that, yes, it will really help to have someone who has come in from outside.” Tory is capping off what seems like a running start as amalgamated Toronto’s fourth mayor. Since taking office, he’s

done the usual things a mayor does: setting up an executive committee on council and staffing his office, and getting on with his agenda and convincing council to get behind SmartTrack, one of the most prominent pieces of his campaign, at the same time announcing an ambitious plan to ease gridlock in the downtown core. But it is not only his own campaign promises he is trying to enact. Tory has had a notable beginning, picking elements of his opponents’ campaigns that make sense. Early on, he announced he would be trying to improve Toronto Transit Commission bus service – and just days after the interview, he has made it clear he wants private construction to minimize road closures. Both ideas are very near to his opponent Olivia Chow’s platform – which he criticized at the time – and Tory hasn’t been shy about acknowledging that. “I would like it to be the hallmark of how I operate,”

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Mayor John Tory sits in his office in late December.

Tory said. “The fact is I’ve said all the way along and I really want to stick to this: you try to make decisions based on the facts and the evidence.” Tory said he was struck, following his briefing with TTC Chair Andy Byford, that the reduction in loading standards from the 2011 budget had led to intolerable crowding, particularly for transit users in the farther-flung parts of Toronto.

Those neighbourhoods, not coincidentally Tory believes, were also where former councillor Doug Ford maintained dramatic support: the stalwarts of Ford Nation. Tory said he’s hoping to achieve results in the next few years that will woo those constituents who’ve voted for the Fords’ red-meat politics away from what he believes to be an alienation borne of isolation.

As he met with councillors during the transition of power, Tory asked the same question again and again: What can be done to bring Toronto together? “It’s not about politics, it’s not about the Fords, it’s about what causes people to feel alienated about the city,” he said. As to what needs to be delivered through 2015, the impatient mayor lays out the following: “I’d like to say most of all that people will have noticed that the environment here is a more professional, practical, and stable environment,” he said. “It is infinitely more likely that you’ll get some results because you’re actually operating a stable, productive, professional environment with a mayor who’s a professional leader. “I’d like them to see not that traffic has disappeared in the city, but a lot of things that are described as common sense are getting done,” Tory said. “I’d like to say that people will

see some continued modernization in the city in the way it does things. I’d like them to see some improvement in transit services. I’d like to see on the housing front that we’ve taken some steps to deal with the governance issues at the Toronto Community Housing Company. I’d like to see some signs that other levels of government are on board.” And he said he wants councillors, many of whom have spent four years getting the cold shoulder from the previous mayor, to be a part of it. “A lot of (councillors) when they come in here it’s for the first time or the second time, even if they’ve been here a while,” Tory said. “Well I’m going to change that. They’re not going to say that after they’ve been here the eighth time. I’m not a Pollyanna about this – I know there are going to be difficult days, and days that I’m not getting done what I want to get done easily. But you know, you can make it way better than what it was.”

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Swissport is a people-focused organization â&#x20AC;&#x201C; without our people we simply cannot meet our goals and achieve our vision. We offer a great working environment with Health and Dental benefits for all of our employees. The positions are for Canadian Citizens/Permanent Residents, requires continuous heavy lifting and a G2 driverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s licence.

All candidates must pass a Transport Canada background check. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. For more information, go to:

R0013086997

CITY CENTRE MIRROR | Thursday, January 8, 2015 |

www.swissport.com

www.saintelizabeth.com

Job title: In-home caregiver for children Terms of employment: Full-time - Willing to work with various unusual schedules including early morning, late evening, overtime and week-end. Duration: 2 years. Hourly base salary: CAD$11.00. Location: Toronto, Ontario. Employer: Mark Daily duties: Supervise and care for 3 young active boys in employersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; residence; Bath, dress and feed children; Prepare formulas and change diapers for children; Oversee childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s activities, such as meals and rest periods, as instructed by employers; Instruct children in personal hygiene and social development, as instructed by employers; Tend to the emotional well-being of children; Discipline children according to the recommendations of the parents; Organize and participate in activities to provide amusement and exercise, as instructed by employers; Plan, prepare and serve meals for children and perform other housekeeping duties; Take children to appointments, when necessary; and, Maintain a healthy environment in the home. Education & Experience: Secondary school (post-secondary education is an asset); 1 year of child-care and household management experience as a live-in caregiver during the past 3 years or 6 months of full-time classroom training in caregiving. Work setting: Private home. Work location information: Option of live-in arrangement in private household at no cost for the duration of the employment; Private and furnished accommodation will be provided.

Languages: Ability to understand, speak, read and write English. Contact information: Email: recruitment543@gmail.com

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