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Alexandra Park kids score new equipment JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com Some 50 downtown kids scored free hockey equipment courtesy of Canadian Tire Jumpstart Charities and Bauer Hockey.

Those two organizations furnished kids from Alexandra Park and the nearby area with full sets of hockey equipment at a special ceremony at Scadding Court Community Centre, prior to local MPP Han Dong’s New Year’s Levee.

The equipment donated was worth some $100,000 and marked the first batch of equipment donated as part of

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a $500,000 commitment from Bauer to Jumpstart.

“In 2014, Jumpstart was able to help almost 10,000 kids get into the sport of hockey and stay in hockey,” said Jumpstart Charities executive director Landon French.

Local politicos, including recently-elected TDSB trustee Ausma Malik, councillor Joe Cressy and Dong, were all on hand to see the youngsters get their full sets of hockey gear.

Cressy said the donation from Bauer and Jumpstart was vital for the children and youth who received free gear. >>>PASS, page 2

Bringing a lost river back to life – in spirit JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com Midtown Toronto may not bear much resemblance to the idyllic natural land that once stood there, but a new project at Northern Secondary School is doing its part to change that.

The Northern Lakes project, headed up by a committed group of students, parents and staff members, is in the process of bringing historic Walmsley Brook back to the midtown area.

The brook, which once

flowed through the area, is now one of the city’s many Lost Rivers. Thanks to planning from students, advocacy from parent volunteers and money from the city, a plan to revive it in spirit 10 years ago is finally coming to fruition.

“It was initiated by some students in the school’s technical department, in the architecture program there, but then it kind of fizzled out,” said Cindy English, whose two daughters attended Northern and who still serves on the Northern >>>A WELCOME, page 12

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Pass down equipment >>>from page 1 “With donations like this, not only are we building community, but we’re giving every kid a sporting chance,” he said. “Healthy communities are ones where everybody, whether you’re from Alexandra Park or Rosedale, gets a chance to play.”

The free equipment was a huge boon to families in the largely low-income neighbourhood.

Better still, the gear will stay in the community once the kids outgrow it.

“The equipment donated today will help not just these kids, but it will help their siblings and their friends,” Dong said, at last Saturday’s event.

That’s the plan for Sarah Bachinski, a mother of three whose oldest child, eightyear-old Oscar, received a set of gear.

“Everybody knows hockey equipment is expensive,” she said. “We’re lucky enough to live just down the street from the rink and Oscar’s the kind of boy who likes to

play shinny every day. This equipment will help him this season and into next, and then he can pass it down to his siblings.”

Janet Denault noted her grandson has taken part in Scadding Court’s hockey program for two years and has benefited greatly from it, gaining self-confidence and independence.

The Scadding hockey program is definitely welcome for those with limited budgets, for whom hockey enrolment fees and equipment costs would normally be inaccessible.

“There is no way that I could afford to put him in a hockey program or take him anywhere else to play and I know he will be over the moon about having his own brand new set of hockey equipment,” she said.

For more information on Scadding Court Community Centre’s hockey program, visit www.scaddingcourt.org To learn more about Jumpstart Charities, call 1-844-937-7529.

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Top left, Canadian Tire Jumpstart Charities’ Drew West, right, and Darryl Arbour suit up with some help from Leo Alipour in the Alexandra Park rink dressing room on Saturday. At left, Malachi Whittaker gets a hand from his father Donovan putting on his new hockey gear. Above, Darryl Arbour hits the ice.

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Ward 19 to explore green laneway possibilities Pilot Laneway Puncture projects proposed for spring of 2015 HILARY CATON hcaton@insidetoronto.com The idea of transforming a local laneway into something more is gaining some traction in the city of Toronto. Some neighbourhoods have opened them up for street parties, others for garage sales, but what about as potential green space?

Ward 19 councillor for Trinity-Spadina Mike Layton and landscape architect Victoria Taylor are joining forces to explore this possibility, with two pilot Laneway Puncture Projects, so named because of the plan to strategically cut a thin strip of the concrete down the centre of the laneway to promote plant growth.

“One thing we wanted to focus on is how we can beautify them to make them a more inviting place for people

to spend time, make them a little more than just the concrete lane at the back of a house,” Layton said.

There are more than 2,400 laneways across the city currently used by businesses and residents alike as thoroughfares, garbage pickup locations and community parties.

Children also use residential laneways as playspaces.

According to Taylor, the strategic incision into the concrete would be made at the central drainage channel in the laneway that would be either three or four-inches wide to create a linear puncture garden.

A variety of plants that need minimal tending and benefit from extreme exposure to low nutrient, dry soil conditions with fluctuations of moisture would be planted, such as Orange and Yellow Hackweed, Butterfly Weed, or

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An artistic rendering of laneway puncture project.

Prairie Smoke, for example.

“The plants that grow there don’t need much of anything to survive,” Taylor explained.

“They just grow.”

Plants growing in laneways already occur without human interference, said Taylor who added all plants need is that tiny crack, sunlight and some moisture.

Layton agrees: “You see it everywhere; nature reclaiming spaces in laneways.”

The project still needs

approval from the city’s transportation department, which will be in charge of making the cuts in the concrete. According to Layton, there hasn’t been a decision on which laneways will be the test site.

However, it will be the laneways slated for resurfacing in the next few years that will be the locations of the pilot project, said Layton.

“We’ve identified several laneways that are scheduled to be repaved in the coming

years so we’re not just doing this to waste money, we want to see if it works,” he said.

If it does work, the project could spread to laneways in interested neighbourhoods across the city.

The linear garden would be maintained by local residents and would be a temporary project for the two chosen neighbourhoods. The project has already been discussed among some residents in Ward 19 for the past four or five months and the feedback has been positive, Layton said.

“I think inviting people to explore the laneways as they do the front of their houses would make laneways a much more special place in our neighbourhoods.”

According to Layton, the next technical steps are still a bit unclear, however he will be working on encouraging community engagement about the project through community consultations and volunteers canvassing in different neighbourhoods and

informing them of the project, in the coming months.

“We want to get them involved, we want to have their agreement that they’d like to see this happen to their laneway before we go ahead,” Taylor told The Villager.

“The community has to say, yes. We’re not going to force this on anybody.”

Although choosing which neighbourhood in Ward 19 will be the test sites for the puncture project is still to be determined, Layton remains optimistic the community is willing to shake up its laneways with some green alternatives.

“The best projects in the public realm are owned by the community around them that will put the TLC in them that they need,” Layton said.

“We’re looking for that type of neighbourhood and I know we have that type of neighbourhood in Ward 19.”

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Scadding Court helping create active, healthy children with new classes JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com

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ith winter in full swing, what little green space there is around Alexandra Park often remains vacant, with families not eager to brave the frigid temperatures for a little exercise.

Thanks to the Scadding Court Community Centre (SCCC), however, there is still a way for parents of young children to ensure their kids do not have to spend the entire winter cooped up in their homes.

The community centre offers its own indoor park, with everything from buildings blocks and play mats for very young children to rideable toy cars, bikes and bouncy balls for pre-school children.

There is little question the indoor play area is a welcome feature in the densely populated downtown community.

“It’s a Godsend during the winter because kids can basically be housebound when the weather gets too

cold,” said local resident Heidi Mamaril, whose young daughter Eva loves playing at the park. “Living downtown in an apartment, she wouldn’t get a chance to play like this without (the indoor park.)”

Healthy Foundations While the park itself is hardly new, its offerings have recently been expanded with Healthy Foundations family fitness classes now on tap.

“It’s a parent-child participation program and it’s got activities people can do here at our indoor park or at home because it doesn’t require any special equipment,” said Brenda Morse, SCCC coordinator of childcare and family resource programs.

The free program teaches skills that improve gross motor skills, balance and general health and wellness.

Sandy Wright, an early childhood educator at Scadding, said the goal is to introduce the concept

of holistic, healthy living to children and parents alike.

“We decided that since obesity rates are rising within little ones, it was important to educate parents about a healthier style of living, teach them some simple exercises they can do with their kids and introduce them to the Canada Food Guide,” she said.

The exercises are simple and cater to youngsters, with one branch of programming for one- and two-year-olds and another for three- to- five-year-olds.

“It’s just about encouraging a healthy style of play with exercises that help with agility, balance and coordination,” Wright said.

The program’s benefits will be manifold.

In addition to fostering healthier kids, by becoming more physically active and being able to take on the gentle challenges posed by the exercise routine, it will help youngsters build confidence and self-esteem.

Improved health has also been shown to increase

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Eva Mamaril takes a ride at the Scadding Court Community Centre indoor park,

kids’ performance in school.

Best of all, the program is completely free.

“We want to make sure it’s available to everyone, so they have to register but

they don’t have to pay,” Morse said.

Currently, the program overlaps with Scadding’s weekly indoor park program, which runs from 10 a.m. to noon on Thursdays.

There are plans to offer the workouts on other days of the week as well, however.

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For more information on Scadding’s indoor park, call Sandy Wright 416-392-0335.

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When handed lemons, opposition makes lemonade Playing opposition at city council is delicate work.

With no official party system and in its place a coalition of disparate interests in orbit of a – usually – popular mayor, it’s tough to get traction.

Contrarian councillors outside that orbit are left to spend their days scouring agendas, waiting for disincentived senior staff to return calls and emails, and working the press gallery to try and get their ideas in front of the public.

The pitfalls are many.

During the David Miller era, right-of-centre councillors stumbled around for years before forming a coalition called The Responsible Government Group that tried with scant success to critique the mayor’s agenda.

Councillors on the left took a different approach with mayor Rob Ford in 2010, taking the give-himrope-to-hang-himself tack until finally, he did so.

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david nickle the city approach is going to work with sober, steady old John Tory, who has an ambitious agenda and the resolve to keep potential opposition away from committees that might affect that agenda.

And so it is that on Monday, progressive councillors adopted another strategy: if the mayor gives you lemons, make lemonade.

The lemons Tory gave Gord Perks, Mike Layton, Sarah Doucette, Joe Cressy and Maria Augimeri were seats on the Parks and Environment Committee: a committee historically known for light agendas and little influence.

That will likely not be the case this term.

As of Jan. 12, the committee has a subcommittee: the Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Subcommittee.

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The subcommittee will begin holding public meetings promptly, to talk about ways in which the city can move into a leadership role in battling climate change, worldwide.

Chairing it will be Perks, who in addition to representing Parkdale-High Park, has had a long career as an environmental advocate.

Also on the committee are Doucette, Layton and Cressy.

The subcommittee will begin holding public meetings promptly, to talk about ways in which the city can move into a leadership role in battling climate change, worldwide.

Following from that, the subcommittee will likely bring recommendations to the Parks and Environment Committee, which, owing to its membership, will

send those recommendations to council.

And from there, into the new mayor’s lap.

It will be awkward: climate change mitigation can be expensive, and politically challenging, as it enters into areas where Torontonians are divided: everything from green energy programs to anti-car initiatives and the dreaded “bag tax” from the Miller era.

One courting the redmeat conservative support from Ford Nation will have a hard time backing much of that agenda.

But failing to back some of that agenda will play just as badly with the centreleft and pure centre voters, for a mayor hoping to maintain a broad base of support. It will be interesting to see how this uniquely passive act of aggression plays out.

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MacDonald is playing the role of Belinda McKay, older sister of lead character Ian, in the upcoming television series Young Drunk Punk, which was written

by Canadian comedy icon Bruce McCulloch of Kids in the Hall fame.

Young Drunk Punk is a fictionalized account of Calgary from McCulloch’s childhood.

The chance to play a major role in a comedy series marked a new direction in MacDonald’s burgeoning career. She started out in musical theatre, but soon found that wasn’t her cup of tea.

“I did my first professional musical theatre show when I was 16,” said MacDonald, now 26.

“I studied it at a school for performing arts before I moved to Toronto and to be honest, I kind of got sick of musicals. I never completely fit in with the musical crowd so I decided to focus on film and television.”

Naturally, then, her first big role on screen came in Score: A Hockey Musical, which opened the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival. Since then, however, she has become more a fixture in the horror/ thriller camp, with roles in The Barrens and the Jennifer Lawrence vehicle House at the end of the Street.

She managed to combine her musical background – and weariness with that world – with her horror chops in the 2014 film Stage Fright, which sees a musical theatre-hating murderer wreak havoc on a musical theatre camp.

Young Drunk Punk sees MacDonald play a sexy siren role, a character MacDonald wasn’t sure she could pull off.

“She’s very different from

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Kensington Market resident Allie MacDonald portrays Belinda McKay in the new Bruce McCulloch-helmed series, Young Drunk Punk.

myself; I didn’t see myself in the part when I first read the breakdown,” she said. “I was supposed to do hot and sexy and play kind of a maneater.

I really grew into her, though, and started to really enjoy being Belinda. It was fun playing a character with so much confidence who’s always in a good mood.”

MacDonald even found some of her character’s confidence and general happiness rubbing off on her, something that was helped by working on set under the guidance of McCulloch. Having grown up after the Kids in the Hall had their heyday, she saw the show’s writer as more of a mentor than a star.

“For me, it was more about getting to know Bruce as a person,” she said. “I really liked working and acting around him because he made me feel confident and funny.

Especially by the end of the show, the group of us was like a family.”

Having her dog Matilda on set also helped foster

that familial atmosphere.

Matilda, a rescue dog, does not appear in Young Drunk Punk, but she became such a fixture around the shoot that she became the show’s unofficial mascot.

“I love taking care of Matilda – she’s my furry little baby,” MacDonald said.

The Nova Scotia-born MacDonald has plenty of work these days. In addition to Young Drunk Punk, which she hopes is picked up for a second season, she recently filmed the TV movie Trigger Point and an episode of the upcoming television series Killjoys.

When not working, she takes time to relax and enjoy her Kensington Market neighbourhood.

“I’m kind of a homebody and I can be antisocial, so the Market kind of forces me to be around people, which is definitely a good thing,” she said.

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City of Toronto looking to reuse felled trees JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com Whether due to pests, disease or age, Toronto’s trees sometimes have to come down. Now, the city’s department of Economic Development and Culture is looking to do something with the unused wood.

Traditionally, those trees – particularly those that have died of infestations from such invasive species as the emerald ash borer beetle – have been ground up and sent to landfill. Rob McMonagle of the City of Toronto said, however, that practice could be set to stop.

“We have an initiative to try to utilize all the trees coming down,” he said. “What we’re planning to do is show how much we can actually produce as a pilot project and then provide that wood to various companies.”

The pilot project began just before Christmas and will run through this week.

The city demonstrated the project Saturday in the Distillery District.

The district’s massive Christmas spruce tree came down and private company Sawmill Sid was on hand to saw it into planks to be donated to Habitat for Humanity.

Other logs from felled Toronto trees were also sawn into pieces for reuse, with smaller pieces of wood being used by on-site artisans to create crafts.

While the spruce was ideal for Habitat for Humanity, the vast majority of the city’s trees will be

repurposed in other ways.

“Habitat is interested primarily in building homes, so they’re more limited to spruce and traditional softwoods,” McMonagle. “Most of our trees are hardwood so they’re much more valuable for making furniture and flooring.”

In addition to the value the city will get out of the wood by selling it to private industry, some of the wood will also be used for the city’s own purposes to cut down on costs.

The program could also help with job creation.

The city has installed a sawmill at its Nashdene Public Works Yard in Scarborough to test the logistics and feasibility of maintaining a tree-repurposing program on a permanent basis.

Sidney Gendron, owner of Sawmill Sid, said the program could work beyond just the City of Toronto.

“We’ve been a strong advocate of promoting the repurposing of all these trees coming down, not just in Toronto, but all over Ontario,” he said. “There are so many trees coming down and we can turn that into revenue.”

Repurposing city trees to meet other uses does have some history in the city. Last year, wood from the Maple Leaf Forever tree – a famed Leslieville silver maple that was felled in a storm – was used to make bookshelves, a guitar, a bench to honour the late Federal NDP leader Jack Layton, commemorative medallions and much more.

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A welcome addition to the school’s landscape, says principal >>>from page 1 Secondary School foundation.

“It’s been a long process.

About six or seven years ago, we went to Michael Walker, who was the councillor at the time to ask for Section 37 money for the project. He retired and things didn’t get passed along.”

Northern Lakes is similar in some ways to a gardenbuilding project at nearby

Maurice Cody Junior Public School, which tied nature to the school curriculum.

English also played a vital role in that project and hopes to see the return of nature to more of the midtown area.

“Our agenda at the time (of the Maurice Cody project) was to expand the presence of the environment and the lost rivers of the neighbourhood,” she said. “We wanted to make a nature corridor

that reflected what was once where our homes are now.”

She still hopes to see the plan expanded, possibly linking it to seniors’ residences or other facilities.

For now, however, she is happy that work on Northern Lakes has begun.

Large armourstone pieces wind along the front of the school, following the path of Walmsley Brook, providing a place where people can con-

gregate and enjoy a tranquil space in the busy midtown area.

“You walk out the (school) doors and you see the rocks, the path that just invites you to walk down it,” she said.

“Kids can go outside, unwind, sit under a tree, listen to birds and forget about the stress of their day.”

Given the amount of red tape the project faced over the years, there were cer-

tainly times when it seemed Northern Lakes might never take off. English credited continued support from project advocates such as TDSB trustee Shelley Laskin and councillor Josh Matlow for the fact it is now happening.

Laskin has long supported the concept, and Matlow recently secured $75,000 in fees from a developer to help fund the program.

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principal Ron Felsen said the project is a welcome addition to the school’s landscape.

“It looks like a winding, lazy river and it replaced some big, decaying planter boxes on the property,” he said. “We’re looking to replace the shrubs adjacent to the sidewalk and replace them with more stones because those shrubs aren’t good for anything, but collecting plastic bags.”

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George Brown College offers an online tool to help find employment JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com Given the difficulty in finding work these days, particularly for those just getting out of school, George Brown College has come up with a new tool designed to help its students – and job-finders as a whole – find employment.

George Brown’s Career Coach, an online tool, offers a statistical look at job opportunities in a variety of sectors and includes such data as the number of people employed in the field in Toronto, entry-level to high-end wages for each career and trends predicting how much each field is set to grow or shrink over the next four years.

“Part of our strategic focus as a college is shown in our mantra, ‘We understand employment,’” said George Brown College vice president of research and innovation Robert Luke. “We want to give our students and prospec-

tive students information they can use to choose a career path that is right for them, but one that also helps them find work.”

The information on the website comes from Economic Modeling Specialists International and uses figures gleaned from Statistics Canada.

Career Coach provides information on more than 500 career options, and can partner young people’s career ambitions with programs at the school to help them break into the sector of their choice.

Those using the tool can even see the length of study program they will need to qualify for the positions listed.

Not all career paths require educational programs offered

by George Brown, but the school endeavoured to make the online tool as comprehensive as possible.

While the tool will provide obvious benefits to students and prospective students,

it can also serve as a useful employment aid for the general public.

“It’s not just for our students,” Luke said. “If someone’s deciding on a new career path, (Career Coach) provides a really good snapshot of employment.”

For each career path, the tool shows a listing of job openings either in that field or in a related field.

In addition to providing regularly-updated glimpses at the city’s employment landscape, Career Coach also allows grads and those seeking new jobs with a resume builder that can help job-seekers.

“It’s provides a way of scaffolding the articulation of skills so potential grads can stand out,” Luke said. “What did you learn in your studies or your work? Not just the main skills, but skills that are tacit... assumed skills.”

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