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whom one remembered as “genuine, selfless, smiling and full of life.” Mourners packed Benjamin Park Memorial Chapel on Steeles Avenue West near Keele Street in North York for Rosen’s 90-minute funeral. Jackie Gaistman, Rosen’s partner, called her “my com-

pass.” “Sara is the fiercest, most genuine, brutally honest, inspirational, joyful, free-spirited, soulful, generous, strong, determined, feisty, loyal, courageous person I’ve ever met,” Gaistman said, calling her his wife. “Sara loved her parents and her brother Mark with every ounce

of her heart. Mark is living testament to Sara’s love, generosity, caring and courage. She was, and still is, such a hero.” Twelve years ago, Rosen donated her kidney to her brother, Mark. Since then, the siblings would celebrate an additional “birthday” every year >>>ROSEN’S, page 7

Inside Scadding Court Community Centre, a miniature closed-loop ecosystem is looking to help boost food security in the area while providing jobs and training for a handful of local youth. The centre’s new aquaponics system marks the latest in a long line of innovations at Scadding. In the 1970s, the centre opened the City of Toronto’s first community garden, and Aquaponics 707 (named after the community centre’s address at 707 Dundas St. W.) adds a new high-tech feature to the organization’s ongoing efforts to help find new sources of food. Aquaponics 707 features two barrels full of tilapia, and filters the waste from those fish to collect nutrients, which will feed a variety of plants being grown in separate water tanks. The fish will be fed specially sourced mealworms, maggots, earthworms and the like, which Scadding also plans to grow and harvest on-site. “This is the first (system) of its kind in a community centre in the City of Toronto,” said Scadding Court executive director Kevin Lee. “It will definitely >>>NEW, page 12

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Sean Provencher slips into a pair of high heels before taking to Yonge Street for the ‘Walk a Mile in Her Shoes’ event last Thursday at YongeDundas Square in support of the White Ribbon campaign and its message to end violence against women.

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C a n n i n g’s d a u g h t e r, Rehtaeh Parsons, died by suicide following an alleged sexual assault by four boys while drunk at a party. Canning said he believes that, had more people been willing to speak up against violence against women – including sexual violence – in years past, his daughter would still be alive today. “If people took on this kind of role 10 years ago, I think someone would have stood up for (Parsons) and stopped it,” he said. “Even the ones who slut-shamed and victim-blamed her would have known that what they were doing was not acceptable.” White Ribbon campaign executive director Todd Minerson noted that Walk a Mile in Her Shoes was key to mobilizing men and boys, who he said constituted “one of the missing links in the fight against violence against women and girls.”

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selves to being a camper for one year, Amici is committed to them for as long as they want to go,” he said. That allows children to continue to develop leadership and teamwork skills, develop a sense of independence and brush up on other talents. Each child can select from a

group of 40 member camps to find the one that most appeals to them. “There are all-boys camps, all-girls camps, different sizes (of camps) and different programs,” said Amici executive director Kate Horton. She added that many of the people who benefit from

Amici’s sponsorships are new Canadians who are looking to enjoy the traditional Canadian camping experience for the first time. Horton said Amici supporters come from all walks of life, but they tend to have one common bond. “They’re people who have

gone to camp themselves and know what it’s like or they’ve seen the impact camp has had on their kids,” she said. Over the past 50 years, Amici has sponsored 2,500 camp experiences, with each camper sticking with the program for an average of five years. One such camper, Khamil Alhade, first took part in camp at the age of 13 with the help of Amici. He enjoyed the experience so much, he wound up going back three more years and then working another three years as a camp counsellor. “Amici was super-helpful and made the process of picking a camp very easy,” he said. “They asked what I was interested in at camp and I told them leadership skills. I went and checked out a few camps and wound up at YMCA Camp Pinecrest, which was so, so beneficial to me.” Alhade noted that when he first got involved in camp, he was too old for most day camp programs but added he and his mother would have been unable to afford a full summer camp experience themselves.

What he learned thanks to Camp Pinecrest and the support of Amici has stayed with him throughout the ensuing years. “I learned hard skills like cooking and cleaning, and I learned a sense of responsibility,” he said. “I developed skills on how to interact with challenges in a positive way – I use to look at a problem and just stop there instead of trying to work to move past it.” Because Amici relies on philanthropy to fund its campers, it holds an annual fundraiser that sees participants portaging and paddling in downtown Toronto. The event, Canoe Heads for Kids, will have participants carry canoes west along the Waterfront Trail from the Harbourfront Canoe and Kayak Centre, nearly reaching the Humber River before canoeing back to the downtown core. Canoe Heads for Kids will take place Saturday, June 4, with registration open until Saturday, May 21. For more information on the event or on Amici Camping Charity, visit www.amicicharity.org

Toronto stories featured in sport film festival JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com The worlds of sport and celluloid are set to intersect with the return of the Canadian Sport Film Festival (CSFF) at TIFF Bell Lightbox. The festival will feature 23 films that focus on the highs and lows of sports, delving beyond the action on the field or in the ring to offer profiles, examine social issues and share powerful stories. While many see sport as being completely separate from thought-provoking film, CSFF founder and executive director Russell Field noted the selections at the CSFF should change that perception. “In many ways, our purpose is to dispel the idea that sport is somehow separate from culture,” he said. “The filmmakers use sport to tell stories that go beyond

sport. “More and more, the film community is starting to see sport as a compelling narrative.” This year’s features include a number of Toronto-based stories, including: • Sully’s – which looks at the man behind the local boxing gym of the same name; • Ron Taylor: Dr. Baseball – a profile of the longtime Toronto Blue Jays team physician; • and Eastern – a glimpse into the final season for Easter n Commerce Collegiate’s basketball team before the school shut down. “When the rumours first started up that the school might close, I thought it would make a great story,” said Eastern director Luke Galati. “Eastern had a pretty well-known basketball pro-

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gram – they had been great for years.” Galati filmed plenty of interviews with coaches,

players and alumni, including former NBA all-star Jamaal Magloire. The film itself focuses on

four players on the school’s final basketball team. Coming from different neighbourhoods across Toronto, Eastern looks at their stories, dreams and how their time in the basketball program shaped them. “It was amazing to see the hope and optimism that was there with these young players,” Galati said. “Even with the school closing down, there was such a positive tone. They might not all have come from the highest socio-economic backgrounds, but they still all had high hopes.” Another of the festival’s highlight films, as selected by Field, is the opening night screening of Fighting for Peace, which follows two young boxers in one of Rio de Janeiro’s poorest and most violent favelas, a slum within urban areas in Brazil. “It’s also an NGO (non-

governmental organization), Fighting for Peace, that uses boxing to help get kids off the street,” he said. “The personal stories of these two young boys are extremely engaging.” Now in its eighth year, the CSFF has become more than just a collection of sportsrelated films. Field said the festival promotes both film and sport through various initiatives. “This year, we’ve focused a lot more on youth and outreach to young people,” Field said. “We’ve done workshops that get kids physically active along with film screenings and chances for kids to create their own stop-motion animation.” The Canadian Sport Film Festival runs from Friday, May 20 to Sunday, May 22. For show times, tickets or information, visit www.sportfilmfestival.ca

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Council needs to step up to make Toronto sustainable If recent history has taught us nothing else, let us remember this: that left to their own devices, Toronto’s political leadership is about as good with a budget as a pack of 12 year olds with their parents’ credit cards. It had always been so, at least within the lifespan of amalgamated Toronto. In 1997, Mel Lastman was elected the city’s first mayor on a promise of a three-year property tax freeze – delivered at the same time as the city was reconstituting itself into the largest municipality in the country at the behest, but without the support of the provincial government. Lastman’s first term set a tone that subsequent councils have maintained: namely, that marginal property tax increases are the most injurious thing a government might inflict upon homeowners – about an equivalent evil to reducing services upon which those homeowners had come to rely and limiting promises of improved ser-

david nickle the city vice to come. And so over the years, council has approved projects, maintained services and kept property tax increases slim to none. This week, Toronto’s city manager Peter Wallace brought out another in what is developing into a series of despatches, delineating what to many has been obvious for years. Toronto has been able to maintain the fiction of a growing city and a low property tax environment thanks to factors that are either entirely beyond its control (a booming real estate market that pours in revenue through the municipal land transfer tax) or measures of which council should frankly be ashamed (approving capital projects for future years with no means of financing). At some point, very soon, the boom’s going

to end and the projects will have to be built. Wallace first pointed this out to councillors in the fall shortly after he took the job. That early report gave Mayor John Tory a small amount of political cover, to propose that the city maintain a 0.5 per cent levy on the property tax bill currently in place to help finance the Scarborough subway, to finance more transit infrastructure. This report, coming to next week’s Executive Committee, provides an imperative for more of the same: a debate on what other ways we might find, to support ourselves in the style to which we’ve become accustomed. To whit: revenue tools. These conversations haven’t gone well in the past. In the last term of Council, politicians balked at supporting any revenue tools, even as they voted to go forward on subway expansion in Scarborough. Former mayor David Miller was able to get a couple

of major revenue tools through council, but the battle over the land transfer tax and vehicle registration tax nearly broke council. Will it be any different now? It’s not encouraging. Toronto council this term has shown just as little appetite for long-term financial planning as ever. Under the leadership of Tory, council approved a billion-dollar rebuild of the Gardiner Expressway’s elevated lanes, against expert advice. The Scarborough subway, absent all but one stop, remains on the books. And this week, Tory made it clear himself that one thing he won’t support is any significant increase to Toronto’s bargain-basement property tax rates. There’s no doubt about it: the arrested 12 year olds on Toronto council have a lot of growing up to do.

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supplier support and through the chain itself. He was greeted by SickKids Foundation president Ted Garrard, SickKids head of cardiovascular surgery Glen Van Arsdell and SickKids ambassador Jonathan Richardson as he made the impressive donation. “There’s no better institution in the world for kids,” he said. “I met Dr. Van Arsdell a couple of years ago and his love of the game (keeping

children healthy) is incredible. Given how much he loves what he does, well that got to me too.” Richardson, 13, has been nicknamed “Captain Cardiac” by his friends at school. While still in utero, he was diagnosed with a heart defect that left him essentially with half a heart and he has subsequently undergone three open heart surgeries, the first when he was only three days old.

Blayne Lastman, right, owner of Lastman's Bad Boy, speaks at SickKids hospital and donates $208,000 to the hospital's Labatt Family Heart Centre, to be used to improve the quality of life and treatments for patients.

“It’s my home away from home,” the youngster said of SickKids. “It’s where my doctors and nurses took care of me. Every year when I come for my check-up, they say hi, tell me how much I’ve grown and how well I’m doing – and I am doing well.” The $208,000 brought the total amount donated by Lastman’s Bad Boy to more than $400,000 over the years.

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Rosen’s partner called his life with her a ‘magical journey’ >>>from page 1 marking the date of the transplant, said Rosen’s father, Allan. Rosen, 38, was a 15-year Toronto firefighter, who worked out of Station 443 on Islington Avenue in central Etobicoke. She had planned to take a year’s sabbatical from her job this September to attend law school on a full scholarship. Rosen died last Thursday in a mountain biking accident while out riding with a colleague at Kelso Conservation Area in Milton, Ont. Gaistman called his life with Rosen a “magical journey” because of Rosen’s “joy of life, excitement and passion. You made everyone around you laugh, feel happy, feel worthy, feel respected. You made everyone want to enjoy life. You always fought for what was right. “It is your strength that is helping me get through this terrible tragedy.” A strong sense of self, determination, and a spirit to fight for what was right were themes woven throughout the stories Rosen’s father told from his daughter’s life. He recalled how she stood playing with water in a sink while other children in her class gathered as per a teacher’s instruction. How she pulled an astounded 240-pound

male firefighter, wearing 75 pounds of weights, from a smoke-filled room during a training exercise. How she persevered to another fire hall and was hired when the platoon chief of the first hall she approached said they weren’t set up to accept women firefighters. “Do you have a lock on the door? Do you have a bunk?” Rosen had asked. How emotionally struck she was when she was with the first fire crew to respond to a devastating fire in two barns at Woodbine Racetrack in August 2002 that killed 31 horses. How unreservedly she had offered a kidney to her brother when his health began to fail. And how she then became a vocal advocate for organ donation. Many mourners wept when Allan Rosen closed his eulogy by saying, “I won’t hear my daughter say ‘I love you’ anymore. Goodbye, Sara. I love you.’” Fra n k Ra m a g n a n o, president of the Toronto Professional Fire Fighters’ Association, shared messages of condolence offered by

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Toronto firefighters. “Sara was powerful and fierce. People like Sara make you want to do more in the world to help others,” one firefighter said. Another offered: “She was honest, caring and full of life. She was always looking to make things better.” Mike McCoy, Toronto fire deputy chief of operations, said Rosen carried out her duties with “courage and compassion.” He first met Rosen in 2005 when he was her platoon chief.

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The TTC’s longtime head of planning has finally called it a day after a career spanning more than three decades. For 21 years of his career with the city, Mitch Stambler was the commission’s chief planning official, having a hand in developing transit expansion projects and plans. Stambler had a direct role creating the Transit City light rail network plan, and he was also part of planning for the Spadina subway extension.

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Eglinton Crosstown Update: Station Open House The Eglinton Crosstown Project is building the Eglinton line, a 19-kilometre light rail transit (LRT) line that will run along Eglinton Avenue through the heart of Toronto, with a 10-kilometre underground tunnel in its central section. When complete, the line will connect Mount Dennis in the west to Kennedy Road in the east, and will move passengers up to 60 per cent faster than bus service along Eglinton Avenue today. Join us at our upcoming open house and learn about the future station on the Eglinton line in your neighbourhood. Starting as early as June 2016, the next phase of construction begins at Eglinton Station, and many other Crosstown stations will be under construction before the end of 2016. Join Metrolinx and its constructor, Crosslinx Transit Solutions (CTS), at the open house to find out: • what construction is happening in your neighbourhood • why it needs to happen • how it may impact you • who to contact if you have questions/concerns • when construction is happening

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>>>from page 1 help with food security in the area, and will help us provide jobs and training for youth (who will maintain the system) and skills development.” The plants – including lettuce, kale, bok choy, watercress, basil and more – will go toward local programs or be sold off at reasonable prices, with the proceeds supporting the running of the system and other Scadding initiatives. “We’ll make it so people can buy a whole plant and a bag of water, and with some of them, like kale or basil, they can keep growing them in a jar on their windowsill and eat from it for the rest of the summer,” Lee said. The fish themselves will also grow in their barrels until they, too, are ready to eat. Lee hopes to partner with a Toronto restaurant to sell some of the food grown on-site. “There’s no bugs, no pesticides – it’s all natural and it doesn’t get any more local than this,” he said.

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He noted the tilapias will take as long as six months to grow enough to be meal-worthy, while the water-grown veggies will take far, far longer. “If we do it properly and the system finds the right balance, we could produce a few hundred pounds in a week,” Lee said. The system was made possible

thanks to $25,000 in development fees provided by councillor Joe Cressy’s office, though Lee noted Scadding went all-out to create a polished, professional-looking aquaponics facility given its public location.

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If we do it properly and the system finds the right balance, we could produce a few hundred pounds in a week. – Kevin Lee, Scadding Court executive director

Other organizations could conceivably come up with something far cheaper. It will also serve as an educational resource. Local schools will be able to come in and check out the mini-ecosystem, and Lee welcomes others to drop in and learn how to implement similar initiatives elsewhere. “We want to show other communities how they can do the same thing for very little money,” he said. That hope isn’t limited to other community centres and Torontobased organizations. Scadding is partnering with Ian Clarke from OCAD to look at the possibility of setting up an off-grid climatecontrolled aquaponics system in the far north.

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Northern Heat Rib Series WHEN: 10:30 a.m. to 11 p.m. today and tomorrow WHERE: Yonge-Dundas Square, 1 Dundas St. E. CONTACT: 416-979-9960 COST: Free Rib fest and barbecue bash features the best rib teams in Canada along with foods from many of the cities different cultures.

w Saturday, May 21

Beasley Bear’s Teddy Bear Picnic WHEN: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. today to Monday WHERE: Centre Island, CONTACT: www.centreisland.ca/ centreville/ ridesattraction COST: Free Combines outdoor fun with physical education to teach schoolaged children about the importance of living a healthy lifestyle.

w Tuesday, May 24 Toronto Jewish Chorus WHEN: 7:30 to 10 p.m.

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HarbourKIDS Circus WHEN: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. today to Monday WHERE: Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. CONTACT: 416-9734000 COST: Free Circus artists and curators offer contemporary circus acts that will have you gasping in awe, doubling over with laughter and even joining in. WHERE: St. Michael’s College, 100 St. Joseph St. CONTACT: www.templesinai.net COST: $25 The Toronto Jewish Chorus, will be uniting in harmony.

w Wed., May 25

History of Medicine in Canada WHEN: 7 p.m. WHERE: Alliance Francaise, 24 Spadina Rd. CONTACT: 416-9222014, ext. 37 COST: Free Catherine Frelin and the Société d’Histoire de Toronto invite you for a lecture dedicated to the long running history of medicine in Canada and the new challenges it faces. The lecture will take place in French.

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Feedback Film Fest WHEN: 7 to 9 p.m. WHERE: Carlton Cinemas, 20 Carlton St. CONTACT: Matthew Toffolo, 416-568-9046 COST: Free Featuring the best of Documentary Short Films from around the world. Films from U.S.A., Canada, Netherlands, Jordan, U.K., Italy and Argentina. RSVP. In Conversation with Moby WHEN: 7 to 9 p.m. WHERE: Lakeside Terrace, 235 Queens Quay W. CONTACT: Alex Davis, http://ifoa.org/ events/in-conversationwith-moby COST: $10 Join IFOA Weekly and Moby for the launch of his new memoir Porcelain.

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