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Comicon hits Toronto CALLING ALL FANS: Far left, Eden Cautkier and Zachary Smith, dressed as Catwoman and Robin, check out Toronto ComiCon 2015 Saturday afternoon at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. Left, Matthew Hoddy works on a drawing. Below, comic book enthusiasts shop. Right, a Stormtrooper walks through the crowd at the event. Staff photos/NICK PERRY
The Canadian murder ballads of singer-songwriter Jon Brooks Album release show for ‘The Smiling & Beautiful Countryside’ at Hugh’s Room, April 8 JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com
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ith past albums delving into such heady topics as poverty in the inner city and war stories, it may not seem surprising that downtown-based singersongwriter Jon Brooks’ newest work contains more humour than his past endeavours. What is surprising is that the humour is wrapped in another dark genre – Canadian murder ballads. Brooks’s latest album, The Smiling & Beautiful Countryside, offers social commentary while avoiding heavy-handedness or moralizing. “I wanted to basically do an album of songs that interested me thematically and sonically instead of going on the fool’s errand of writing songs that I
think will get me airplay on CBC radio,” he said. Despite its often-dark subject matter, Brooks said he aims to write songs that are “spiritually uplifting and politically relevant.” The Smiling & Beautiful Countryside ranges from comic hyperbole to the stark and horrifying acknowledgment of missing First Nations women in Canada. Still, Brooks acknowledges there are certain challenges faced by some he himself has never had to deal with. “It doesn’t help that I’m a fat, white guy in my 40s,” he said. The Smiling & Beautiful Countryside focuses on two types of killers – the human and the corporate. As with Brooks’ other works, the theme provides an undercurrent throughout the album. While the
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he said. “I always think a song’s more impotent on its own than it is when it’s part of looking at the full spectrum of an idea.” Brooks’ music career was interrupted when he stepped away to work on more lucrative endeavours and returned to university
to get a degree. During that time, he worked as an usher at the Princess of Wales Theatre, a bike courier and a beer brewer for Steam Whistle among other gigs. “It wasn’t until I married a woman with money who encouraged me to get back into it that I decided I could pursue this as a career,” he said. While many artists love
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John Tory valuing consensus over obedience: evolutionary, not weak Mayor John Tory gets a lot of credit for fulfilling some pretty basic expectations as a mayor: he is diligent and compassionate, tries to be fair and at least attempts to apply common sense to organizational matters. This was in great evidence Monday, when he joined councillors and music industry representatives to report out on a trip they’d all taken to Austin, Texas. He met with tech companies, sat down with Austin’s new mayor, saw some Canadian bands at the South by Southwest music festival, and he came back with the beginnings of a plan to boost Toronto’s music industry, promote tourism and attract hightech jobs. Good behaviour, good ideas, a consensus at the end of it… and all so staid that just a single
david nickle the city reporter was assigned to follow him around. At the same news conference, Tory dealt with some other issues, notably, a scathing critique by the Ombudsman, now departing, that he hadn’t done enough at council to ensure her office was adequately funded. Tory seemed hurt that she would criticize him: he had, after all, tried to whip the vote at council to boost the tiny office’s budget back to a more adequate funding level. He simply couldn’t persuade a majority of council to support his true plan. Now looking at recent history, it is inconceivable that a mayor just a few
months into his job would find himself unable to win a vote at council, and would have to resort to an unworkable compromise. Mel Lastman, David Miller, even Rob Ford could generally get what they wanted from council and wouldn’t, on key matters, take no for an answer. Tory has in recent months made it clear he eschews that style of leadership, at least on council; that he values consensus over obedience. It’s easy to call that weakness, but it would be nice to think it was evolutionary. In the final year of the last term, after all, Scarborough-Agincourt Councillor Norm Kelly started that ball rolling when he took over most of Ford’s duties at the behest of council. Kelly spent the entire year well aware that
he served at council’s pleasure, and often abandoned issues rather than try and whip the vote. It was clear that council enjoyed this consensus approach to governance and if not much got done, well, not much got broken either. Tory fits into this newly self-aware council well. In the broad strokes, he pushes policies and ideas that appeal to the centrist majority on council, abandons difficult ideas like the contracting out of garbage when it seems they won’t fly, and most importantly, behaves himself. It is a marvelous way to govern when one’s government is of one relatively sane mind. When it starts to leave the rails? Tory may find that expectations suddenly rise.
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Yonge Street plan calls for several public squares Paralympic Champs >>>from page 1 Eglinton midtown area is one that balances the intensity and vitality of urban Yonge with a spacious green landscape that makes it unique to other areas of the city,” Iardas said. “It’s this very special character that we want to preserve and enhance.” While many of the open spaces and parkettes included in the plan already exist, by developing a Secondary Plan for the area, it would ensure they would be protected. The amendment to a Secondary Plan would also ensure continuity in the Yonge/Eglinton community, which is split between three city wards. Making matters trickier in the area is the fact that developments in the southern part of the area are reviewed at Toronto and East York Community Council while those further north fall under the auspices of North York Community Council. The Yonge Street plan calls for public squares where several midtown avenues meet Yonge, including Sherwood, St. Clement’s, Erskine, Montgomery, Eglinton, and Soudan. “The idea is that all these sites would be designed together and coordinated to create a really great
space for the community,” Iardas said. Broadway and Roehampton avenues would become a promenade with enhanced greenery as sites along those streets between Yonge and Rawlinson Avenue. That multi-use promenade would link Eglinton Park, Northern District Library, North Toronto Collegiate Institute, Northern Secondary School. “Setbacks would be applied in the area at a minimum of 7.5 metres along one side of Broadway and one side of Roehampton such that not only is that promenade achieved, but also the greater landscaping that we’re expecting in that green, spacious character,” Farish said. Farish noted many parts of the plan, including wider setbacks on some streets, would not be achievable until plans came through calling for redevelopment. The Secondary Plan would also not apply to existing development applications. “It’s not achieved unless there is some kind of development,” he said. “Should an application come in (after the Secondary Plan is in place) and we have this in place (it would take effect.)”
While Monday’s meeting looked primarily at public realm considerations, with further public consultation and planning slated to tackle built form and development limitations. St. Paul’s councillor Josh Matlow said the plan would set strict guidelines that would ensure the Yonge/ Eglinton area would maintain its character while hopefully minimizing additional burdens on its already taxed infrastructure – particularly transit and schools. He noted developments in the area are often referred to the Ontario Municipal Board, when they can be rubber-stamped without the community and its needs being taken into account. “The stronger the plan is, the better chance we have when presenting at the OMB to make a strong case,” he said. The draft secondary plan policies are slated to be reviewed by the City of Toronto next month. Anyone looking to weigh in on the plan can view it online at www. toronto.ca/planning/midtowninfocus and add their voice to the process by contacting Ian Malczewski of Swerhun Facilitation at imalczewski@swerhun.com by Monday, March 30.
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��������� ������� THE HISTORIAN’S PERSPECTIVE
Heritage preservation process is too cumbersome to be effective: proponents City needs to address backlog of heritage property nominations and put the onus on developers to prove why they can’t reuse a building, say historians DOMINIK KUREK dkurek@insidetoronto.com
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roponents of preserving local historical architecture say the process to designate heritage properties in Toronto is too complicated and slow to be effective and is often trumped by the desire to intensify. It’s why buildings such as Stollerys, a 114-year-old downtown building that housed a clothing store, was cleared for demolition in January before preservation advocates could get the property designated as a heritage building, said Scarborough archivist Rick Schofield. “There’s a huge backlog of buildings that could be threatened and we want to have them listed (on the city’s inventory of heritage properties), not designated. As a result, things like the Stollerys building were demolished because it wasn’t listed.” Properties listed on the inventory are flagged by the city’s Heritage Preservation Services for review when applications for municipal permits or approvals are made. Property owners must provide 60 days’ notice of intent to demolish. Getting on the list is the first step towards city staff ultimately seeking to designate the property under the Ontario Heritage Act, giving it long-term protection against any devel-
opment that may adversely of the Smith home, which was affect the property’s heritage in a terrible state. attributes. “Those homes belonged to Schofield said Scarborough are our forbearers,” Harris said. is lucky its important heritage “Those are the generations buildings had been listed on who did all the hard work, the former municipality’s heriphysically, of cutting down the tage registry, preserving them trees and creating the towns in the amalgamated city. and the streets that we have Before amalgamation, to get today. It honours them a registry listing, all a person and it gives us examples needed was to provide an that we can use when address and a reason why a teaching about what it property should be listed. Now, used to be like.” even though any citizen can Preservation architect nominate a property for the Catherine Nasmith said inventory list, the process to heritage properties are do so is complicated and time under threat because the consuming, requiring much system to protect them is research to prepare it. wrong, saying conservaIn the west, preservation tion should be seen as an advocate Denise Harris said environmental issue. Toronto currently is more “I think we should be moving away from having a list of the proactive in preser ving ‘special ones’ and we really heritage buildings than the former city of Etobicoke was, need to think about all the but there’s such a backlog of buildings in the city, not just nominations for the through a cultural inventory list that lens, but through BY THE the city’s Heritage an environmental Preservation lens,” she said. Services can’t get “ We shouldn’t through without be throwing additional staffperfectly good ing. buildings in the Properties currently listed in garbage.” Despite the city’s inventory of heritage this, she said Nasmith properties. the city today said 20 to 35 would likely per cent of not have all landfill Toronto properties allowed waste is designated under the Ontario Heritage Act. building several waste, and properties that constructo be demolished that tion accounts Properties expected to be Etobicoke did for 50 per cent added to the inventory in before. Among of all the natuthe next two years as the city rolls out new heritage those is the 1797ral resources districts. built home of Lt. humans conCol. Samuel Smith sume. *All approximate. Source: in Long Branch, To o m u c h Heritage Preservation Services which was likely energy, time and physical resources the second oldest home in the city, right are spent to build a after the Scadding Cabin, built property for it to go to waste, in 1794, which is preserved she said. today. Preser vation groups Harris said the council of shouldn’t be scrambling to save the day couldn’t see the value a building from demolition,
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Nasmith said. “It should be the other way around. Developers should have to prove why they can’t reuse a building.” When a municipal council refuses a demolition permit, the city has to prove to the OMB why the building has heritage value and why its value outweighs the potential benefits of governmentsanctioned intensification, she said. But, there are victories, too, such as the Weston Heritage Conservation District (WHCD), where an entire community was designated under the Ontario Heritage Act. Designation was split into three phases, due to the neighbourhood’s size, with the first phase, consisting of 114 homes, getting designated in 2007. Work on Phases 2 and 3 is ongoing. The district preserves the streetscapes, allowing homeowners to make interior changes to their properties, some of which are more than 150 years old. “In Weston, it’s meant to be a community building exercise, not a community dividing exercise,” said WHCD president Cherri Hurst.
Above, the 1797-built home of Lt. Col. Samuel Smith in Long Branch in 1955 not long before it was demolished. At left, Church Street in Weston in 1910, now preserved as part of the Weston Heritage Preservation District. WHAT’S YOUR
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ONLINE DISCOVER ADDITIONAL stories online about heritage properties, including in-depth interviews with the historians and preservationists mentioned here, and frequently-askedquestions about the heritage designation process. Visit http:// bit.ly/1HzqRdE ALSO, CHECK OUT the Toronto Time Capsule while you’re at it, to see our growing collection of local historical columns, genealogy columns and more! insidetoronto.com/history
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��������� ������� THE DEVELOPER’S PERSPECTIVE
Designations are an expensive and timeconsuming challenge JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com
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s much as heritage designations can add to the character of a neighbourhood and provide links to Toronto’s past, there’s little question they can provide headaches for developers. Projects that are approved on heritage sites can prolong work times and ramp up costs as workers have to work around the protected building. In some cases, a heritage designation can even scuttle a project after a developer has invested time and money on a site. The Wesley Mimico Place project – which will see the historic Wesley Mimico United Church site redeveloped to include 30 seniors residences, community space and a smaller church space at 2 Station Rd. in Etobicoke – is in the midst
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I don’t think it’s acting in good faith to use heritage to try to control the development process. It’s an abuse of power. – Sam Mizrahi, 1 Bloor St. W. developer
of grappling with the former problems. The project will see much of the church, which was first built in 1923, preserved – albeit at no small cost. “It’s added about $650,000 worth of costs to the project,” said Deirdre Gibson of Robert Reimers Architect Ltd., the firm tasked with the redesign. “We have to replace copper with copper. We’re taking out old bricks, cleaning them and reinstating them.” Wesley Mimico United Church was adamant the original church building be
largely preserved. Another challenge was the fact that the City of Toronto’s own Heritage Preservation Services are, in Gibson’s estimation, woefully understaffed. “The city staff at Heritage Preservation Services want to be helpful and they love their heritage buildings, but there aren’t enough of them,” she said. She added that the Etobicoke York Community Heritage Preservation Panel were extremely helpful in moving the project along, writing letters of support. Still, the lack of staffing made for slow going at times. “It’s been a three-year journey and we wish it hadn’t been,” Gibson said. For developer Sam Mizrahi, a last-minute bid for a heritage designation nearly put an end to his proposed “The
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One” project at 1 Bloor St. W. on the site of the former Stollerys men’s wear store. Councillor Kristyn WongTam started the process to have the building designated a few months after Mizrahi purchased it in October. “We did over a year of investigating and due diligence before we bought the site and (heritage designation) was never even on the radar,” Mizrahi said. “Any time we asked about it, the response we got was indifference.” Mizrahi secured the proper demolition permits and began tearing down the Stollerys building legally, shortly after
word of the move to preserve the building got out. He finds it suspicious, to say the least, that no move was made to preserve the building and no attention was paid to its potential historic value until after his company purchased the land. He said he believes heritage designation is often used as a cudgel to thwart developers as opposed to a means of protecting buildings that have architectural value. “I don’t think it’s acting in good faith to use heritage to try to control the development process,” he said. “It’s an abuse of power.”
THE CITY’S PERSPECTIVE
The pace of development may surpass city’s ability to evaluate properties, Heritage Toronto CEO says >>>from page 1 ing – it is iconic. If it were to become a glass and steel condo, the heart of the community would be ripped out. It wouldn’t look like Davisville anymore.” Matlow said he is hoping a heritage designation on the site will help keep that heart in its place. But of course it’s no guarantee. A successful appeal to the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) by a deep-pocketed developer can still see that designation overturned. It is better than nothing, however. Toronto has an inventory of about 10,000 heritage properties, with a two-thirds of those designated. When a property has no protection, whatever its heritage value may
be, owners can demolish the building in short order. Consider the Stollerys story. The demolition shocked many but was entirely lawful. A city review of the property’s heritage value would have taken some time. City staff cannot say exactly how long the list is of sites nominated – but not yet reviewed – for the inventory, but Heritage Toronto CEO Francisco Alvarez estimated the list is about 1,500 long. Until earlier this month, the city only had two staff to sift through those applications – some made by city councillors, but many by residents. And it could take years until a site was simply listed, nev-
ermind put through the more rigorous process for designation. In the 2015 budget, Toronto council approved adding eight
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Councillor Josh Matlow at the Davisville Starbucks.
planning staff to move matters along more quickly: specifically, to begin studying properties on a neighbourhood-wide basis, to create so-called Heritage Conservation Districts where many properties would be preserved. But even with the additional resources, nothing will happen quickly. There are 16 neighbourhoods that have put in a request, and over the next year the increased staff will only be able to approve three or four. “Given the pace of development in Toronto right now, it still might not be enough to provide the level of customer service to individuals and developers,” Alvarez said. “The delays mean we may lose
buildings, particularly residential buildings, that don’t get evaluated in time to get onto the list.” Earlier this year, Matlow convinced councillors to seek another way to speed historical designations up, by creating a third designation for historic properties that would list properties of possible historic significance as “identified.” Any plans to redevelop those properties would have to wait 60 days for an assessment. Also on the books is a plan to lessen the ability of the OMB to reverse or disallow heritage designations. That report is expected in June.
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300
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ESCALADE KING MATTRESS #91299
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