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The ever-changing City of Toronto can often bring about charges of NIMBY-ism as people oppose proposals and projects that they feel would alter the character of their neighbourhood.

The growing YIMBY ( Yes in My Backyard) Festival is looking to turn that idea on its head, with an eye to promoting positive change to make the city more livable for all.

The YIMBY Festival originated in 2006, at a time when the West Queen West neighbourhood was in transition.

With developments going up all around the area – without enough community consultation, according to some residents – and battles against >>>INFORMATION, page 12

Some residents not resting easy at proposed men’s shelter JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com

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spooktacular: Bubbles fill the room during the Boost Spooktacular held Sunday afternoon at Berkeley Church to benefit the Boost Child and Youth Advocacy Centre.

The prospect of a new emergency men’s shelter near Bloor Street West and Ossington has ruffled some feathers in the area, even

among those who acknowledge the need for more shelter beds in the city.

With Toronto’s 4,300 shelter beds at 95 per cent capacity on average – meaning that on many nights, there aren’t

enough to serve the city’s homeless population – a plan arose to build a new 30-bed shelter for men 16 and older, to be operated by the Christie Ossington Neighbourhood Centre (CONC).

More than 100 people filled the Bickford Centre cafeteria on Monday to hear more about the plan, ask questions and offer comments.

The shelter would provide a place to sleep for 30 vulnerable

men, who would also be able to access other CONC services to get help with employment, health care, skills training and more. In this way, it would differ greatly from a women’s shelter >>>CONC, page 12

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Annual display scaring up funds for SickKids JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com The zombies will be out on haunted Heddington Avenue this Halloween thanks to midtown resident Barbara Gordon’s latest display.

Gordon has helped turn her street into a popular Halloween destination for trick-or-treaters with her annual exhibits, which have ranged from Disney films to popular series such as Star Wars, Star Trek and Harry Potter.

This year, the theme will be The Walking Dead. In addition to a homemade mannequin of character Michonne, Gordon will have zombie mannequins on her lawn, plus a large painting and a Walking Dead-themed pumpkin.

Gordon is a huge fan of the series, but acknowledges that choosing it as a theme

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This year I thought ‘aw, to hell with it. I’ll go scary.’

– Barbara Gordon

marked a departure from previous years.

“Every year, people would say ‘it’s Halloween. Why aren’t you doing something scary?’” she said. “I always told them it’s for kids, but then this year I thought ‘aw, to hell with it.

I’ll go scary.’”

The themed paintings have become a trademark, not just in front of her own house but in front of neighbours’ homes as well. Each year, she distributes huge paintings from years past to others along Heddington, who are all too happy to have the colourful characters decorating their lawns.

“It all started in 1997 when I decided to make a

big painting for my son,” she said, pointing to a 101 Dalmatians painting adorning a neighbour’s lawn. “I started doing new ones each year and then I thought it would be nice to offer them to neighbours who might want to put them up.”

Given the appeal of a welldecorated street, Gordon said she and her neighbours have to be prepared for visits from hundreds of trick-or-treaters each year. She estimates that most years, she hands out between 800 and 900 pieces of candy.

“Last year, even in the pouring rain, we got 600 kids, easy,” she said.

While the evening is aimed at bringing a little Halloween spirit to the street, Gordon has found a way to ensure it benefits more than just the kids who drop by for candy. She now uses her annual Heddington

Halloween Display to raise funds for the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids).

Funds come through donations and through nominal fees her neighbours pay to have her paintings adorn their lawns.

“I’ve already made $500 and it’s a week before Halloween,” she said outside her home on Friday, Oct. 23.

This year, she will also offer face painting on her front lawn, allowing children and adults alike a chance to get zombified or done up in their choice of designs.

That will take place from 1 to 5 p.m. at 44 Heddington Avenue on Saturday, Oct. 31.

For more information on the Heddington Halloween Display, including a link to donate to Gordon’s SickKids page, visit www.barbgordonsings.com/ halloween.html

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Barbara Gordon works on her Heddington Avenue ‘Walking Dead’ Halloween display, that will be a benefit for the Hospital for Sick Children on Oct. 31.

Former mayoral candidate Karen Stintz new CEO of Variety Village MIKE ADLER madler@insidetoronto.com Karen Stintz said she believes in Variety Village, and soon the former midtown Toronto councillor and mayoral candidate will run it.

Stintz was announced last Thursday as the new CEO of the fully accessible recreation facility in Southwest Scarborough.

Later, she called her new position the kind of challenge she welcomes.

“People believe it is a good fit,” said Stintz, who was elected to council in Eglinton-Lawrence in 2003 and held her seat until last year.

“I don’t see it as that far from home, and I see it as an opportunity to do something

that I love,” she added.

“I have a passion around kids and fitness and sport.

That’s what Variety Village is.”

Current CEO John Willson will stay until the end of November, he said, to give Stintz “a full education of the place.”

Willson, who arrived at the Village as interim CEO seven years ago as the Danforth Avenue facility was in a “very difficult financial situation,” said he’s asked for a successor for 18 months and Stintz is a wonderful choice.

After running some annual deficits, Variety laid off 21 staff and suspended some programs during the recession of 2008.

Fundraising efforts at the

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I see it as an opportunity to do something that I love. I have a passion around kids and fitness and sport. That’s what Variety Village is.

– Karen Stintz

time were also struggling, and supporters saw the denial of federal funds in 2009 to replace the Village’s power system, leaky roof, and obsolete windows and doors, as another blow.

The place has come a long way since, and finished the last year with a small surplus, said Willson.

“We’ve made tremendous

progress here over the years, tackled most of the major structural and governance problems the place has,” he said Thursday, but added this seemed like a perfect time to pass the torch.

In writing a job description, Willson recommended the next CEO be “very much of a generalist,” rather than someone with specific skills

in the field of disability.

It’s important to focus on the organization as a whole, and to make sure all programs are fully funded, he said. “If you stray from that fundamental rule, you can get into financial difficulty very quickly.”

Charities, Willson said, “live or die on fundraising,” predicting Stintz will improve Variety’s fundraising performance. “She’s got that tremendous energy.”

Gary Crawford, the local councillor, said though Willson has done exemplary work, he’s excited to see Stintz at the helm.

“She knows how to get things done. She has a passion and vitality,” said Crawford, who worked with Stintz to get a bus stop out-

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“She does care a lot about youth and what Variety does.”

Crawford, who met Stintz just after the announcement, said the facility still has a long list of capital projects to be done. But with a new federal government and Bill Blair off to Ottawa as the new Scarborough Southwest MP, things are looking better for federal investment at the Village.

“That’s on top of my list.

It’s on top of Karen’s list right now,” Crawford said.

Willson said he still has “big dreams” for the Village, and so do other people.

“There should definitely be one in the west end of Toronto,” he said.

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ith fall’s darker days now taking hold, and the turning back of the clocks early this Sunday morning as we go back to standard time, pedestrians are at an increased risk of being struck by a vehicle on our city’s streets.

Toronto police will be warning drivers, pedestrians and cyclists to be extra cautious once Daylight Savings Time ends at 2 a.m. Sunday.

Caution should be the operative word at all times, but it’s especially important in these dark days of November as the number of incidents in which pedestrians are struck by vehicles rises significantly in Toronto.

The first week of November last year saw five incidents in the city involving pedestrians being struck in one day (Tuesday, Nov. 4, two days after Daylight Savings Time ended).

What we – drivers, pedestrians, cyclists and everyone else who uses our roads – need to do is be that much more aware of the dangers, focus on the safety of all, and take some basic precautions to increase the odds of everyone our view going about their day safely, but especially in the morning and evening rush hours. That’s when We can all the advancing darkness, along take basic with confusion due to the time in the morning hours, precautions change has its greatest impact on the roads.

The most dangerous time of day is between 5 and 7 p.m., police say. Pedestrians being struck by drivers making left turns are the most common incident, as it takes a moment for driver’s eyes to adjust from the brightness of the headlights coming toward them to the darker intersection. This problem is made worse if the pedestrian crossing is wearing dark clothing.

Obviously, pedestrians need to think about wearing brighter clothing and not to be distracted by cellphones while crossing the street.

Along with the increased need for caution Sunday due to the time change, we also remind our readers to be extra careful on the roads Halloween night this Saturday as excited trick-or-treaters hit the streets.

By taking a few moments to think, and being aware of the increased dangers, we can make this Halloween and November safer for all.

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Trudeau’s election comes with lack of mandate Politics often seems a kind of echo chamber. Themes and movements bounce back and forth, distorting as they go but recognizable for longer than might make sense.

It’s tempting to trace the election of Justin Trudeau’s majority back through the election of Kathleen Wynne, the improbable spectacle of an NDP government in Alberta – even the ascent of gentleman John Tory in Toronto – as a particularly resonant echo. nod to the left wing All of these elections mark a repudiation of the hard right conservatism exemplified by the nowformer Harper government, the Progressive Conservatives in Ontario, the depraved populism of Etobicoke’s Ford family, and a nod, at least, to the left wing big-government ideas that the New Democratic Party used to

david nickle the city get behind.

In none of these cases, of course, is it a sea-change toward precisely those ideas.

When Tory won the 2014 Toronto mayoralty race on a platform of big transit infrastructure and progressive social policies, he was closely followed by Doug Ford in support, leaving New Democrat candidate Olivia Chow in the dust.

Similarly, Wynne and Trudeau may have their majority governments, but they didn’t mop the floor with their right-leaning opponents.

Trudeau did very well, but it was hardly a rout.

If Harper had chosen to stay, he would have led a healthy official opposition – a far cry from the electoral massacre visited upon the federal Progressive Conservatives

in 1993, when the caucus was reduced to only two.

Lots of people supported Harper, and the Fords, and former Ontario Progressive Conservative leader Tim Hudak in his plan to gut the public service.

The common thread?

Lots more people decided that they definitively did not want any of those politicians anywhere near the levers of power, and collectively sent someone else along instead. voter trust It’s a funny sort of mandate – not really a mandate at all, when you think of it – that makes it more difficult than usual to chart success.

Do a plurality of people in Toronto really think Tory’s central campaign promise of building SmartTrack is a good idea, or are they just relieved to know that the Fords won’t be in power?

Voter trust in Ontario

Premier Wynne is a big question, as her Liberal government embarks on a very Conservativesounding sell-off of Hydro One. And as for Justin Trudeau and the new Liberal government in Ottawa: do his supporters also support his deficitrunning plan, his support of Bill C-51 in some form or another, or whatever else the Liberals choose to bring about?

Perhaps, but it appears from polls and the numbers that what Trudeau’s supporters really want is that he replace Stephen Harper.

This is the downside of strategic voting. It is both a way of saying what it is that you don’t want, and not particularly caring about what it is you do.

The echo is, as echoes often are, discouragingly empty.

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Davisville Public School gets $14.7 million boost from province JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com Davisville Public School has received a much-needed injection of provincial funding to ensure the overburdened facility can better meet the needs of its students.

On Monday, St. Paul’s MPP Dr. Eric Hoskins announced the school would receive more than $14.7 million from the Ontario government to help rebuild the school and ensure it meets current standards.

“As a growing area of our community, Davisville was a personal priority of mine,” Hoskins said.

The funding is part of an $11 billion, province-wide funding plan by the provincial government to help build and improve schools. Davisville was earmarked for the funds since the school was in a state of disrepair and its rooms were not suitable for modern class sizes. The site once housed the Toronto School for the Deaf, which created specific classroom needs that differed from those of students in more conventional schools.

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Midtown schools are pressed for capacity. It’s a good problem to have, but it’s still a problem.

– Josh Matlow, city councillor

Davisville was also pressed for capacity, and the new facility will vastly increase the number of students it can accommodate. Currently, the school houses 573 Davisville students and Spectrum Alternative Senior School students, surpassing the building’s capacity of 538 students. The new facility will provide spaces for 728 elementary school students and a new full-day kindergarten class.

“We are so pleased that the province is funding this priority project within the TDSB – the Davisville/ Spectrum students, parents and community look forward to programming in a facility that meets their needs,” said Ward 11 trustee Shelley Laskin.

Councillor Josh Matlow said the

funding was much-needed, particularly in a midtown community that is growing quickly.

“While we continue to debate development applications, the city hasn’t kept up with infrastructure,” he said. “Midtown schools are pressed for capacity. It’s a good problem to have, but it’s still a problem.”

A Yonge-Eglinton study that provides elementary pupil enrolment projections foresees a shortage of 697 student spaces by 2024 in the immediate area. Matlow hopes funding will provide the TDSB with some incentive to sell some of its land to the City of Toronto for the creation of a community hub, which could feature an expanded gym and community space among other features. That would provide the area with muchneeded public amenities.

“There’s this mythology that midtown Toronto is a bunch of wealthy neighbourhoods with a bunch of rich people, but that’s just not true,” he said. “We also have people living right at or under the poverty line and the highest percentage of tenants in the city.”

Feed Tomorrow Week showcases benefits of healthy meal programs JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com With an estimated one in three children in Toronto living in poverty and 40 per cent of students going to school hungry every day, the need for nutritious meal programs in schools cannot be emphasized enough.

The Toronto Foundation for Student Success (TFSS) is doing what it can to ensure that all students go to school with food in their bellies, which helps keep them alert and able to concentrate.

At a special event marking this year’s Feed Tomorrow Week, the organization showcased the benefits of its healthy meal programs, which it operates in schools city-wide.

“We support (meal programs) that are run by parents at the locations and work with a lot of partners in government and other organizations,” said TFSS executive director and CEO Catherine Parsonage at a Feed Tomorrow Week event at St. Lawrence Market recently.

“We’re trying to open up 100 new programs between September and December this year to reach out to more of the schools with the most

at-risk children.”

TFSS also works closely with school boards to identify where the need is greatest, using funds from supporting organizations such as Breakfast Clubs of Canada (BCC), the Muslim Welfare Centre and others.

“The programs help students understand nutrition as well, and there are efforts at some locations to teach the children about the safe handling of food,” said Alexandra Brown of the TFSS board of directors.

Lisa Clowery of Breakfast Clubs of Canada (BCC) said the work TFSS does is invaluable in helping organizations like hers ensure students do not face a long school day on an empty stomach. BCC handed over a cheque for $545,000 to support school meal and snack programs during Feed Tomorrow Week.

“Because the Toronto Foundation for Student Success is so prevalent on the ground, they’re the best way for us to get food to children,” Clowery said.

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Information booths, displays expected from more than 100 organizations >>>from page 1 development were lost in the council chambers, the decision was made to bring about a change in focus.

“There had to be a shift in order for community organizers to be seen and respected,” said YIMBY Festival spokesperson Caitlin Colson. “The thought was ‘what if we give community groups a more proactive role instead of having them be a nagging voice at the back of the room?’”

The YIMBY Festival celebrates grassroots community and citybuilding organizations from across Toronto.

While the festival was sparked by unhappiness over development, it has come to encompass a wide variety of organizations that cover topics including green space, climate change, housing, food security, transit, children’s and youth programming and more.

“We’re building a huge network of city-builders,” Colson said. “We have small organizations with just a few members, which are a good contrast from our big tablers like Waterfront Toronto.”

The festival also no longer focuses on bringing about a change in thought from politicians, preferring instead to showcase some of the opportunities out there for everyday people to mobilize and take part in a cause near and dear to them.

“We’re definitely still reaching out to politicians because that’s where the festival started, but we’re inviting all people who are looking to get involved in making Toronto better,” Colson said.

“We often get a lot of students who come out, which is great to see.”

In addition to information booths and displays from more than 100 participating organizations, the YIMBY Festival will also feature a variety of programs throughout the day, from dance, button-making, drawing, a miniJane’s Walk and more.

This year’s YIMBY Festival will take place at the Ted Rogers School of Management, 55 Dundas St. E., from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 31.

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CONC well-versed in running a shelter >>>from page 1 previously run on the site. That shelter simply offered sleeping mats on the ground floor for women, without the additional supports.

Trinity-Spadina councillor Mike Layton, who hosted the meeting,

noted the new shelter would help to fix the housing shortfall, both by giving men a place to stay and by providing supports to help them gain more stable housing.

“It’s not widely covered these days…but we struggle with shelter

deaths in our city,” he said.

The new shelter came about after the City of Toronto’s department of Shelter, Support and Housing Administration sent out a request for expressions of interest, asking organizations to submit proposals to

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create new shelter spaces across the city. CONC was one of nine proposals accepted.

Layton noted there were certain conditions put in place to ensure accountability at the CONC shelter, based on concerns voiced by those in attendance at a public meeting earlier in October.

Those conditions included the creation of a community liaison committee to help both shelter residents and the public get acclimated to one another, a community response plan, City of Toronto oversight of the shelter’s operation and more.

Gordon Tanner, a project director with the city’s Shelter, Support and Housing Administration department, said that CONC is well-versed in running a shelter – the agency currently operates another shelter on Davenport Road – which leads to a strong conviction that the new facility will be run responsibly and will not adversely affect neighbours.

“We’re feeling very confident that this is an agency that can take on this new challenge with 30 new beds on Bloor Street,” he said.

Despite those assurances, some at the meeting expressed concerns over safety and the prospect of some shelter inhabitants moving in and not availing themselves of the services they need to move on.

Tanner said the city would attend CONC meetings and conduct regular site visits to ensure everything was being run above-board, but pointed out the issue of some men staying a long time in the shelter service was not something the city would – or should – concern itself with. The goal, he said, was first and foremost to ensure everyone had shelter.

The shelter proposal will go before council on Nov. 3. If approved, work on the shelter is expected to be completed in February of 2016. Anyone with comments is asked to contact Layton at councillor_layton@toronto. ca or contact his office at 416-3924009.

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Toronto universities fizzle in football, but sizzle in soccer and field hockey Football is, arguably, the signature sport of the fall season, which is too bad for Toronto since its universities tend to sizzle in soccer and field hockey, but fizzle in football.

Toronto has two football-playing universities and both have again missed the playoffs, the University of Toronto (which finished 3-5) for the 20th straight year and York University (which finished 1-7) for the 11th straight year.

When it comes to soccer and field hockey, however, the news is much better.

MEN’S SOCCER In men’s soccer, the York University Lions are the two-time defending provincial (and defending national) champions and they haven’t lost a beat so far this year, finishing the regular season with the Ontario University Athletic’s (OUA) best record (13-1-2). The second best was the University of Windsor (12-2-2) wile third and fourth went, respectively, to Ryerson University (11-2-3) and the University of Toronto (113-2). Those top four teams all get byes from mid-week preliminary round games and will host quarter-final games Sunday.

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final-four has yet to be determined – depending on the outcome of the quarter-final games – but York U is hosting the Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) championships Nov. 12 to 15.

WOMEN’S SOCCER In women’s soccer, the York University Lions boasted the best record in the OUA (undefeated at 15 wins and a tie) and will host a quarter-final game Sunday. The U of T Varsity Blues are in the playoffs in fourth place at 9-6-1 and host a mid-week preliminary round playoff game. (The Ryerson Rams finished out of a playoff position in eighth spot.)

WOMEN’S FIELD HOCKEY In women’s field hockey, the University of Toronto tied with the University of Guelph for first place with 11-1 records while York University had the third best record at 5-5-2 (Ryerson does not field a field hockey team).

U of T is hosting the OUA final four this weekend, including playing against York U in a semifinal game Friday at 2 p.m.

Toronto Varsity Blues are the defending OUA champs and have won three of the last four years.

Toronto and Guelph have combined to win all the OUA championships since 2004 – Toronto winning seven of them and Guelph four.

All-time, since 1971, U of T is far ahead with 29 championships. On six of those occasions, U of T went on to win the national title, the last one being in 1988.

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