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Regent Park Film Festival extends fundraising drive JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com A fundraising push to ensure the Regent Park Film Festival’s programs remain free of charge has been extended.

The downtown not-for-profit has offered free screenings and workshops since its inception in 2003, relying on memberships and donations to keep going.

The festival held a Hot Summer Sun Membership Drive over the summer in hopes of raising $5,000.

“We’re a little more than halfway there, but we’re hoping for a big push to get to our goal,” said the festival’s interim executive director Elana Trainoff.

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“We have our ongoing ‘Lights, Camera, Action’ membership drive and people are always able to support us through that.

Hot Summer Sun was a way to bring more attention to our ongoing drive.”

The drive offers three membership levels, with various perks for a $25 “Lights” membership, a $100 “Camera” membership and a $250 “Action” membership.

“The funding goes into the operation of the festival and our year-round activities – hiring workshop facilitators, covering artist fees and general costs to operate the festival itself,” Trainoff said. >>>GRASSROOTS, page 14

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Nearly 35 years after Canadian icon Terry Fox began his crossCanada run to raise funds and awareness for cancer research, more than 1,500 are expected to take up his cause at the UCC/ Forest Hill Terry Fox Run. The yearly event is one of hundreds of Terry Fox runs taking place across Canada.

Formerly known simply as the UCC Terry Fox run, it is the second-largest such run in Toronto and the third-largest in Ontario,

and has been re-branded to represent as much.

“The run itself is through Forest Hill, so we wanted to make the name represent more of what it’s about,” said event spokesperson Chris Henry. “It’s a nice run through the parklands of Forest Hill as well as past a lot of the nice houses in the area.”

While it is known as a Terry Fox “run,” Henry pointed out it is hardly closed off to those who have put in months of training. >>>COMMUNITY, page 12

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Actor Scott Edwards takes on various roles in Richard III JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com From a young age, Scott Edwards knew the stage and screen were the life for him.

Edwards, who will play a variety of roles in the upcoming Kadozuke Kollektif production of Richard III: The Pleasures of Violence, grew up in the village of Newburgh, near Kingston, and was known as a born dramatist since he was a child.

“It was probably because I was such a bad student, so I was kind of known by my parents, my family and the community as being an actor,” he joked.

While he always enjoyed putting on a show, he shied away from the stage when he first went to high school in Kingston. His natural talent shone through, however, and he was not able to stay away from it for long.

“A drama teacher saw something in me and dragged me into a rehearsal for Guys and Dolls and

after that, I just wound up at every rehearsal,” he recalled.

Finally, Edwards’ love for the craft won out, and he wound up studying theatre performance at Humber College. He joined Kadozuke Kollektif almost immediately upon graduating.

“There were a group of us just starting out as we came out of school and we created our own company, Madhouse Theatre, which lasted all of one show,” he said. “Then Tatiana (Jennings, Kadozuke’s artistic director) said she wanted to create a group that worked together, trained together and stayed together.”

That has helped inform Kadozuke’s style, in which they spend long stretches of time workshopping and engaging their minds.

“It allows artists to play and really ask questions – you work together and try to answer questions over months and months and months and sometimes you find the answer and sometimes you realize there isn’t really an answer,” Edwards said.

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A drama teacher saw something in me and dragged me into a rehearsal for ‘Guys and Dolls’ ...

That technique has turned Richard III into a labour of love.

The classic Shakespearean play is at turns faithful to the original and a completely unique production that came out of more than two years of crafting and recrafting it.

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true to Richard III, but when we first started looking at it, we cut as much as half of it,” Edwards said.

The company also added scenes and multimedia elements, including 3D film projections. The specialized stage and projections – Edwards noted projectors are located on the floor and three walls of the theatre – make choreography integral.

“The last little while, it feels like we’ve just been running, running, running, making sure we hit our marks, get the choreography perfect and build that muscle memory,” he said. “But when you’re doing it, it’s a whole different feeling being in the middle of a moving picture.”

While one person was responsible for the filming of those projec-

tions and their use during the show, Edwards has learned enough about that kind of work during his time with Kadozuke.

“Since joining there, I’ve done enough work with that to branch off to where I’m working nine to five in digital media,” he said.

He has also earned roles on television series such as Breakout and Transporter: The Series, though he considers his work with Kadozuke his ideal world.

“It’s just become such a passion project for me,” he said.

The actor has lived in various places throughout Toronto, including the Christie Pits area and downtown, with his longest stint in the Kensington Market neighbourhood.

Richard III, The Pleasures of Violence, will run from Sept. 10 to 14, 18 to 21 and 25 to 27 at Kadozuke’s own Zuke Studios.

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Battles need to be driven by more than NIMBYism

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ometimes, the NIMBY (not-in-my-backyard) argument just doesn’t work.

While it’s our democratic right to speak up when we’ve got something to say and we’re proud that resident and business groups do so in Toronto, make sure your issue is bigger than just you.

Do your homework. Ensure you’ve got strong arguments and consider the bigger picture – is this change needed for the greater good?

A group of Scarborough residents lost their NIMBY battle last week and were told to ‘suck it up’ after city council approved a controversial TTC bus garage in their neighbourhood.

Despite arguing the location was inappropriate, the matter went through because the land was zoned heavy industrial (thus, buyer beware when you moved in, they were told), finding a new site would delay the project and drive up costs. TTC our view staff maintained there weren’t any other locations available anyway.

Have something So residents were asked to ‘shoulder the load’ for the good of the to say before city. you speak out In that case, the project was needed and the location made sense, regardless the lack of alternative sites.

Buyer beware can also be applied to homes that exist under flight paths.

In Etobicoke, a residential group from Markland Wood is still pushing to change an increase in night flights from Pearson airport that fly over their homes, even though Transport Canada approved the changes last summer. City council recently agreed to have its city manager review the issue, though the local councillor reminded residents, ‘the airport is also a business.’

And just last week, Parkdale-High Park MPP Peggy Nash sent a letter to the Canadian International Air Show on behalf of her constituents to suggest the annual air show be relocated. Citing the ‘deafening’ and ‘frightening’ noise, she said it’s a major disturbance for many Toronto residents.

It’s also a six-decade tradition that draws thousands of spectators and whose planes comply to noise regulations set out by Transport Canada. Plus, it’s over in three days. Chances the complaints will yield any change are slim.

Take serious stock of your chances before pitching a NIMBY battle, because most are not worth the time.

But if you’ve got the numbers, the facts and the political will, kudos to you for trying.

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olitics is a gamble.

Voters place their bet on election day when they put their tax dollars on one candidate or another who they think will best represent their interest over the next four years.

Candidates and their campaign teams place multiple bets throughout the campaign. Some of those bets are small – and some of them are huge.

Olivia Chow put all her money on the table Tuesday morning – with a financing plan that would raise a lot of money for transit and school breakfast programs, and for better or worse raise the profile of a campaign that over the summer seems to have stalled in the middle ground.

Chow’s plan – to raise the land transfer tax on homes selling for more than $2 million by one per cent, for an estimated $20 million a year – is a big step away from that middle ground. Until now, Chow’s campaign has

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been one of deathly moderation.

She would keep taxes low, but not freeze them; kill the costly Scarborough subway plan and return to a fully funded light rail plan to replace the Scarborough RT; add some buses; and do complicated things having to do with housing and small business and youth to provide marginal improvements. And in her person, she would provide the only sure-fire way to make sure Rob Ford wouldn’t be mayor.

All of that combined seems to have mainly inspired the voters who supported her strongly in early 2014 to look elsewhere in the summer.

Chow’s new fiscal policy might well drive off even more support. She is proposing a tax increase after

all – an increase to a tax upon which even former mayor David Miller (whose council imposed the thing) didn’t dare campaign.

The only candidate charting in polls at all who’s talking about the necessity for tax increases is David Soknacki, and he’s stuck in single digits.

The only candidate proposing specific tax increases is criminal lawyer Ari Goldkind, and he’s not charting at all.

This land transfer tax idea is definitely an all-ornothing kind of thing. But one can see how Chow and her advisors think it might have some appeal.

To begin with, it deals with a hole in Chow’s transit platform – specifically, for her to increase bus service by 10 per cent would require more buses than the TTC has on the road. A land transfer tax increase covers that tidily. And it’s difficult to argue compassionately against funding more

school breakfast programs.

As well, it is likely only a handful of Torontonians even remotely likely to vote Chow would be impacted by a land transfer tax increase on $2 million homes, and a thimble-full would be impacted enough to complain about it: hardships endured by such a tax grab are surely the first among first-world problems.

Of course, that scarcely matters in the daily pileons that occur in a Toronto mayoralty race, and in coming out with this policy the Chow campaign has painted a target on their candidate for Tory and Ford certainly and perhaps Soknacki as well.

But the calculation has obviously been made: better to be talked about as a tax-and-spend progressive, than not talked about at all.

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Of all the moments Second World War veteran Morris Lazarus remembers, one encounter is particularly vivid.

“We were on this patrol, the largest patrol we ever had,” Lazarus recalled of an incident in Anzio, Italy, in 1944. During that mission, he said the commanding officer told him to tell his men to spread out in case they were attacked.

Lazarus, who fought in the Second World War for nearly three years, remembered passing on the message at the time, but failing to obey the instruction himself.

“I didn’t know where to go,” he laughed, and said he began wandering in an open field. “I saw a group of men coming toward me and I made a quick analysis.”

They were coming from his line and were wearing a similar uniform so Lazarus figured he was encountering his men. Moments later, he was face to face with five Germans, pointing their guns at him.

“I was in deep trouble because I was by myself,” he said. He noted a whole unit was behind him, but were hesitant to shoot due to where he stood. One of the men came right up to him and asked if he could speak German. Lazarus, who grew up with German neighbours in his hometown of Regina, responded in the language affirmatively.

“As I slowly raised my hands, all hell breaks loose,” Lazarus said. The next thing he knew everyone from both sides started to fire. “I had felt the bullets go by me, but not into me,” he said.

When it was all over, the opposing side had fallen.

Lazarus and the man he shared his foxhole, a vertical, bottle-shaped hole, were one of the few survivors of his platoon that day.

Somehow, he wasn’t even wounded, he said. This was just one of the many times Lazarus narrowly escaped death during the war that saw Allied troops defeat the Axis

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Second World War veteran Morris Lazarus relaxes at his north Toronto home.

military alliance after six years of fighting.

At 96, Lazarus is now the oldest and one of the few remaining sergeants of the First Special Service Force, an elite American-Canadian commando unit. Also called The Devil’s Brigade, The Black Devils, The Black Devils’ Brigade, and Freddie’s Freighters, they served during the Second World War, which lasted from 1939 to 1945. Both American and Canadian modern special operations forces trace their heritage to the First Special Service Force.

Lazarus recalled another story when he was travelling on a boat toward Naples, which was attacked, killing more than 100 American troops. Once again, the veteran survived. “There were a lot of casualties ...but I was lucky,” he said.

Lazarus joined the army when he was 22 in St. Thomas, ON, after spending some time in the London regiment. For him, being part of the war meant travelling across Italy and Southern France through many combats. He was taken prisoner twice in Europe, was badly wounded once and spent days leading troops and hauling heavy equipment up the nearly 2,000-foot high Monte la Difensa, one of the first operations.

But Lazarus also remembered lighter moments of his time serving, such as decorating a hospital in Africa where he was being treated during

Christmas, living in a castle for a few days and spending time in “posh” Monte Carlo, Monaco, with a comrade during a special assignment.

He said he met some of his best friends during the war.

After the war was over, the veteran moved back to Canada and ran a women’s fashion store, married and had four daughters. Plastered on the walls of his North Toronto home are pictures of his family, his numerous awards and thank you cards from speaking engagements.

While life continued for this lively veteran, Lazarus said he felt serving in the war “was more fun.”

For him, being courageous in service meant remaining calm and collected, even during the face of a major crisis. His trademark was making it difficult for others to get a rise out of him.

In fact, that was his biggest survival tactic.

“People often ask me, weren’t you scared? But I always told myself, there’s no sense in having fear if you can’t cope with it,” he said. “I went to every battle never thinking about getting killed.”

The Second World War officially began 75 years ago this year, on Sept. 1, 1939. Seven days later on Sept. 10, Canada declared war on Germany, the country’s first independent declaration of war.

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Construction to begin on west headwall for Laird Station Construction on the Crosstown progresses along Eglinton Avenue with the arrival of headwall work at Eglinton Avenue and Sutherland Drive.

The Crosstown is the largest transit project in the history of the region. When the service is complete, it will provide a reliable transit option that will get you across town 60% faster than bus service today and provide considerable benefit to Toronto.

What, Where and When?

Crews will be constructing the west headwall for Laird Station beginning in early September. Station headwalls create the frame for future underground stations and are required to be in place prior to the arrival of tunnel boring machines at each of the station locations along the Crosstown route.

A jet grout plant will be required to construct the headwalls. It will be located on the roadway at the northeast corner of Sutherland Drive and Eglinton Avenue East in a fenced off area separate from the public roadway. The setup of the grout plant is expected to start in early September.

Work at Eglinton Avenue and Sutherland Drive will take approximately four to six months and will occur in two stages – each stage is expected to last two to three months.

In the first stage, a work zone will be set up on the southeast side of Eglinton Avenue and Sutherland Drive while work is done on the south part of the headwall. In the second stage, the work zone will move to the northeast side of Eglinton Avenue and Sutherland Drive while work is done on the north part of the headwall.

Motorists and Pedestrians There will be some restrictions for motorists and pedestrians along Eglinton Avenue during this work. Traffic will be reduced to one lane in either direction on Eglinton Avenue East. As well, northbound traffic on Sutherland Drive will be prohibited at Eglinton Avenue. Access to Sutherland Drive southbound will not be restricted.

Traffic delays are expected. We ask motorists and pedestrians to take care when travelling near construction areas. A paid-duty officer will be on site for the duration of this work.

For complete details about this work, please visit ‘What’s New’ at www.thecrosstown.ca.

Crosstown Community Office We understand that construction can be disruptive, and Metrolinx is committed to open, honest communication with the public and the local neighborhoods regarding the construction activities along Eglinton Avenue. Please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions or for more information about the project.

We’re building transit to get you moving. It will be worth the wait. Thank you for your continued patience.

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Andrew Scott, left, Jay Ferguson, Chris Murphy and Patrick Pentland, members of the band Sloan, get together at the Gladstone Hotel.

Toronto rockers set to release 11th album NATALIE CHU plv@insidetoronto.com

Call it a feat or just the inevitable, Canadian indie-rockers Sloan are back with new music.

“We’re like Country Style coffee instead of Starbucks,” joked drummer Andrew Scott, a West Queen West resident. “I mean we’ve managed to stay around for so long.”

Scott, along with fellow-band members Patrick Pentland, Jay Ferguson and Chris Murphy met for an interview at Queen Street West’s Gladstone Hotel to discuss the upcoming release of their 11th studio album, Commonwealth.

“It was a great, fun project that we wanted to do for a long time,” said Pentland. “Commonwealth is like a statement of sorts, and it looks good written out.”

The Halifax rockers, turned Toronto residents, knew they were going to settle with a four-card motif on their album artwork, signifying each individual’s side of music.

The first single off the album, ‘Keep Swinging (Downtown)’, written

by Pentland is a catchy rock number reminiscent of the veterans’ previous offerings.

“With four people, we split everything four ways,” Pentland added in regards to the album’s direction. For Sloan, sharing the songwriting has always been part of their history as a band, but this time it’s a little more distinct.

“We’re one of the few bands that have four singer-songwriters in the band, so we could do something like this,” said guitarist Ferguson, who lives in Little Italy.

Listeners can look forward to a 15-track album with equal contributions from all members, including Scott’s side, a 17-minute magnum opus track ‘Forty-Eight Portraits’.

“I mean, we know that in this day

and age we have to be on our feet to stay relevant, so we tried to be creative and put something out there that was unique,” Scott said.

Sloan, who celebrated two decades in the business with their album Double Cross in 2011, have long since been praised for their prolific songwriting and staying power.

But despite each member’s individual talents and musicality, nobody has released a solo album. Does Commonwealth, essentially four solo EPs, signal a change?

“It could be. I mean, I guess so,” said Murphy. “The recording process was not much different than what we normally do, it was really more of just a sequencing difference,” he said.

Murphy attributes the band’s willingness to embrace the juxtaposition of each member’s musical styles to their success. While the album may not be seen as a traditionally cohesive whole, it works.

“This was the time to do it. This doesn’t mean that we’re now solo acts any more than we ever have been,” he said.

Music aside, the ability for the members to co-exist as friends over the past 20 years has been equally impressive. What has been the secret to their longevity? what secret?

“Well, if there was a secret we wouldn’t tell you,” Pentland laughed.

“But there have been other bands, like Rush, that have lasted as well.”

Murphy agreed, adding there’s another, more practical element.

“Well, you make sure everybody’s paid the same so that no one’s going off as a millionaire. And that’s all you can do, really.”

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Bid to raise fees for builders blocking streets for construction will have to wait A city councillor’s bid to raise fees for builders who block public streets or sidewalks for construction will have to wait until next year.

Last week, Josh Matlow argued blocking part of a public road to build a condominium is an unfair, congestion-causing practice that should end in Toronto.

He said developers pay the city an upfront fee of only $500 and a “very minimal” monthly amount thereafter for each cubic square metre they occupy.

“For them, this is peanuts,” Matlow added in an interview, saying many downtown and midtown streets have lost lanes and sidewalks for years as a result.

“It’s costing our economy and our quality of life every day.”

Matlow and John Filion, a North York councillor whose ward sees plenty of condo construction, proposed a city council motion calling for an investigation on whether this practice can end.

If there are situations where construction must block a lane or sidewalk, Matlow said he wants the city to charge higher fees, and as added incentive, escalating the charges after each month the public area stays closed.

The motion didn’t get the two-thirds vote it needed to avoid being referred to a city committee after a new council takes office in December.

Committee approves land buy wExec

Toronto’s executive committee approved the use of city funds to secure a “gem” of future parkland between Yonge and Bay streets.

Surrounded by condominium towers, the 1.5-acre park, at 11 Wellesley St., has been cobbled together with land from several addresses on Wellesley and Breadalbane Street, to the south.

It was assembled with the co-operation of Lanterra, a developer which bought land on the block from the

province’s Infrastructure Ontario.

The committees’ approval means the property purchase can be completed in 2015, though the amount the city has agreed to pay will be kept confidential until then.

Residents at the Wednesday, Aug. 20 meeting said the park is one of the last opportunities in a parkland-deficient area.

“We now have this gem that’s nestled in our neighbourhood,” said Cathy Carnevali.

People from the area, supported by several neighbourhood associations and nearby business improvement areas have fought 20 years for a park on that block, said Toronto Centre-Rosedale Councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam, adding though their efforts to create a 2.1-acre park weren’t successful, “this will be truly a City of Toronto success story.”

Wong-Tam said the community will help raise some of the money needed to landscape the park.

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Summer Music in the Garden presents Jewish Music from the Carpathian Bow WHEN: 7 p.m. WHERE: Toronto Music Gardens, 475 Queens Quay W. CONTACT: 416-973-4000, info@ harbourfrontcentre.com COST: Free The Veretski Pass Trio, one of the world’s great klezmer ensembles, presents pre-Second World War Jewish melodies from Ukraine, Carpathian-Ruthenia, Bessarabia and Rumania, in their unique, energetic village-style arrangements.

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Vegetarian Food Festival WHEN: Sept. 5 to 7 WHERE: Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. CONTACT: Nicole McIsaac, vegfoodfest.com COST: Free Mouth-watering burgers. Thick and juicy hot dogs. Fluffy cupcakes smothered in frosting. All meat and dairy free. Chef demonstrations, author presentations, celebrity panels and more than 130 food vendors throughout the weekend.

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Public Lecture: Trees of Creation WHEN: 3 to 4 p.m. WHERE: Deer Park Library, 40 St. Clair Ave. E. CONTACT: Helen Sjölund, 647-4675307 COST: Recommended donation (voluntary): $7

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Summer Music in the Garden presents Soundscapades: An exploration of a city full of sound WHEN: noon to 7 p.m.

WHERE: Harbourfront Centre, Toronto Music Gardens, 475 Queens Quay W. CONTACT: info@harbourfrontcentre.com COST: Free Using more than 80 percussion instruments, TorQ Percussion Quartet presents a program of music created collectively by all four members and reflecting the diverse sounds, landscapes and people of the City of Toronto.

The Shoppers Drug Mart Weekend to End Women’s Cancers benefiting Princess Margaret Cancer Centre WHEN: Sept. 6 and 7 WHERE: Rogers Centre, One Blue Jays Way CONTACT: 416-815-WALK (9255) COST: Free

The two-day 60-kilometre walk takes place Sept. 6 and 7.

The 38th Annual Cabbagetown Festival of the Arts WHEN: Sept. 6 and 7 WHERE: Cabbagetown, Parliament and Carlton CONTACT: David Blackmore, 416921-0857, http://oldcabbagetown. com, cabbagetownbia@gmail.com COST: Free The 38th annual Cabbagetown Festival of the Arts, Toronto’s longest running community festival, is back today and tomorrow with bands

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The Leslieville Flea at Harbourfront Centre WHEN: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. WHERE: Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. COST: Free The Leslieville Flea is a curated market selling vintage, salvaged, up-cycled goods, furniture, antiques, collectibles and select artisans.

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Just like the movies: Clockwise from top left: Jason Heyward dresses as Deadpool during Fan Expo 2014 on Sunday at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. Movie props by AHH! It’s ALIVE! Special FX Team are put on display. Kendrick Grilli dresses as an Imperial Officer accompanied by his remote control droid.

Phil Attenburg wears Ghostbusters regalia as he tries Oculus’ virtual reality video game. Adam Wrickly gets zombified by a professional makeup artist at the event.

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Community feel to run draws big crowds to UCC/Forest Hill >>>from page 1 “It’s a community fun run, not a race, so dogs and strollers are more than welcome,” he said.

While the run has always drawn a large crowd, social media and networking saw its numbers boom from roughly 20 per cent last year, to 1,500.

This year, Henry hopes to see it grow even further, to at least 1,600.

Last year alone, the run brought in nearly $187,000 toward cancer research, bringing the community’s overall total to more than $7 million since 1981.

“We have a great group who come out year after year,” he said. “We had a family come out from Philadelphia a few

years ago because the son did a project on Terry Fox and they had lost a family member to cancer, so they decided to do a proper Terry Fox Run.” “They’ve come back every year since.”

The UCC/Forest Hill run features both five-kilometre and 10-kilometre routes and is open to cyclists, inline skaters, runners and walkers. There is no minimum pledge to join, and participants will be able to enjoy a community barbecue and picnic at the end of the run.

“We’ll have a kids’ fun zones with obstacle courses and kids’ slides, Lego car racing and face painting,” Henry said. “There will also be a team area because we’ve

had plenty of organizations, workplaces, families and friends competing (to raise the most money).”

There will also be live music by local band CellerDoor and opportunities to donate more to the Terr y Fox Foundation.

The UCC/Forest Hill Terry Fox Run will take place from 8 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Sept. 14. Other midtown and downtown Terry Fox Runs are the annual Mooredale, Central YMCA and Ward’s Island runs and a new run at CityPlace.

For more information on the UCC/Forest Hill run, visit www.marathonaday.ca

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Ashkenaz Festival Bryan Samuel, above, and Amanda Zimmerman, at right, perform Sunday at Harbourfront Centre at the the Ashkenaz Festival, an annual showcase of Jewish music and culture.

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Toronto PFLAG’s inclusive poster campaign goes viral JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com

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Toronto Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) started a poster campaign in fall 2012, which has gone viral with requests for the poster coming from around the world.

While it was no surprise the posters caught on in the Toronto area, Toronto PFLAG was pleasantly surprised when they began getting requests for the posters from further

and further away.

“I don’t know what happened, but it started when we got requests from a school in Maryland and spread from there,” Creighton said. “We got

You paid how much!?

said. “Older students will tell them ‘that’s the point – you can’t tell.’”

Toronto PFLAG’s poster campaign was inspired by a similar campaign run out of a private school in Ireland. It has become so popular, Creighton said, that one Toronto PFLAG parent has become what the organization calls its “postmistress.”

Of course, the posters are not free for Toronto PFLAG, who are responsible for the printing and delivery costs. A $20,000 donation from BMO has helped ensure those costs are covered.

Toronto PFLAG expects that, with the start of the new school year, orders will once again start pouring in.

“I expect in a couple of weeks, we’ll start getting requests,” Creighton said.

“We respond to requests from wherever – if we can get (the posters) to them, we’ll send them.”

For more information on PFLAG’s poster campaign, visit http://torontopflag.org

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“We started getting a lot of calls and the campaign was so successful, we decided to run the program the following year.”

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What began as a campaign designed to open the minds of Toronto students to their LGBTQ peers has made waves all over the world.

Toronto Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) started a poster campaign in the fall of 2012, with local middle schools and high schools receiving copies of the posters.

The campaign features two posters, one with a group of teen boys with the caption “He’s gay and we’re cool with that” and another with a group of teen girls reading “She’s gay and we’re cool with that.”

The posters were aimed to stop students from using violence, slurs or other forms of bullying to marginalize their LGBTQ peers.

“We sent the posters out through the TDSB and said ‘if you want additional posters or you want us to come and speak at your school, give us a call,’” said Toronto PFLAG

requests from Germany after an exchange student saw the posters in the U.S.” Larger orders have come in from Vancouver, Washington, D.C. and other locales. The original plan was to print 1,000 of the posters, but Toronto PFLAG is currently having more printed, bringing the total number of posters distributed to 7,000.

While the posters were originally targeted at middle school and high school students, Creighton noted requests have come in for younger students, as well, with some elementary schools requesting the materials.

Naturally, Toronto PFLAG was happy to help spread the message of inclusiveness to younger kids.

One message that hits home for younger students in particular is that LGBTQ students are just like any other.

“Some younger kids look at the posters and try to (determine which of the students in the poster is gay),” Creighton

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Grassroots festival has continued to grow

Lorraine Segato parachutes into Regent Park artist-in-residence role

>>>from page 1 The Regent Park Film Festival features local and international productions, with a focus on issues that impact inner-city areas such as the community the festival calls home. The organization offers additional workshops, screenings and programming throughout the year with an eye to sparking discussion on a wide variety of social issues.

In recent years, it has expanded its reach, bringing programming to other neighbourhoods with a large social housing component.

“Although we’re rooted in Regent Park, we do reach out

As buildings continue to rise up throughout Regent Park, the community has welcomed its first ever artist in residence.

Lorraine Segato, lead singer of popular 80s band The Parachute Club, has taken on the role after moving into the area and is looking forward to supporting the neighbourhood’s burgeoning arts scene.

“There’s a tremendous amount of creative talent in Regent Park and more people should know about it,” she said. “I can help through my own projects, collaborating on projects with others and just bring attention to the area.”

Segato has already jumped into her new role, recording a new gospel-style arrangement of The Parachute Club’s iconic single “Rise Up” with guest vocals by Regent Park spoken word artist Mustafa the Poet. Proceeds for the new single, dubbed “Rize Time,” will provide additional funding to support the artist-inresidence program.

“Mustafa did an intro piece where he talked about what’s going on the community, and it really works great,” Segato said.

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and try to bring programs to other neighbourhoods that share some of the same features,” Trainoff said.

While it started out as a grassroots festival under the guidance of a few residents, the event has continued to grow, to the point where it welcomed 3,000 people last year. This year, Trainoff said organizers are hoping to welcome 5,000 guests to the festival, which will run from

Nov. 19 to 22.

In addition to the membership push, festival organizers are in the process of planning an October gala screening and cocktail reception to help raise funds to defray its costs.

“Our mandate is to keep all our programs accessible and free and we’re committed to doing what we have to to make that happen,” Trainoff said.

The festival also benefits from grants and funding from a variety of arts organizations and corporate sponsors.

For more information on the Regent Park Film Festival, including the Hot Summer Sun membership drive, visit www. regentparkfilmfestival.com

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Lorraine Segato Her role as the community’s first ever artist in residence also means she will have a say in what that position entails.

“I’m mostly there to help, to nurture and to bring my expertise to what’s already in the community,” she said.

While Segato only moved into Regent Park recently, in time for her two-year residency, she has already been impressed with what she has seen in the neighbourhood’s arts community.

She knows she cannot simply instill her own artistic vision in a community that already boasts established organizations such as ArtHeart, the Collective of Black Artists (COBA), Native Earth Performing Arts and many others.

“I’m making my way to events and meeting with groups and key people, making myself known and building trust,” she said. “There are a lot of organizations around

that do a lot of great things, so I want to build a template that shows how the artist in residence can support each of them in a way that’s best for those organizations.”

The Regent Park Artist in Residence program was started by the Daniels Corporation, the lead developer of the Regent Park Redevelopment.

As part of the redevelopment, Daniels has helped to bolster the community’s arts scene through the construction of the Daniels Spectrum facility, a 60,000 square foot cultural hub near Dundas Street East and Sackville Street.

“It’s a beautiful venue – I think it’s the best-kept secret in the city right now,” Segato said, noting that many from outside Regent Park have yet to pay a visit despite the fact the site is constantly hosting new events.

The Daniels Corporation has also forged a partnership with the Regent Park Women and Families Quilting Group and introduced a local arts procurement program.

In addition to her work as artist in residence, Segato is working on her own projects, including a new album and a one-woman show.

“It’s a really happy time in my life with the residency and a lot of new projects coming to fruition,” she said.

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The first of a planned fleet of 204 new light rail vehicles made their official debut on Sunday, Aug. 31.

While the initial deployment is small – for now only two of the new streetcars are running – the TTC hopes to have all its new vehicles in service within five years.

Even if most streetcar riders will have to continue relying on the current fleet for the immediate future, those that do board the new vehicles this week – along the 510 Spadina line – will get to enjoy many of its modern features such as air-conditioning, low floors and bike storage.

At nearly 100-feet long with a passenger capacity of 251, the new vehicles are far more spacious than their predecessors, with wider seats and corridors.

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The first of the new streetcars went into service on Sunday on the 510 Spadina route to rave reviews by riders.

the Presto smart fare card is introduced towards the end of the year – of fare vending and ticket validation machines located onboard.

While most of the TTC’s streetcar ridership will likely not need to use the machines – 60 per cent of streetcar riders use Metropasses according to the TTC – those that do will receive Proof of Payment (POP) receipts which also double as transfers, said Bob Hughes who demonstrated how to use the new machines during a briefing on the new streetcars.

It takes about 20 seconds to insert the exact amount of coins, the machines don’t offer change, and print out a transfer and just a few seconds to validate a ticket.

It remains to be seen if mandating POP – which is currently in effect on the 501 Queen line and after the New Year will be added to every streetcar route – will result in long lineups especially in peak periods of riders scrambling to pay their fares.

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With the start of the school year, the TTC has adjusted bus and streetcar service on several routes.

Beginning this week, bus service for the 196 Rocket express to York University will increase Saturday evenings, all day Sunday and on holidays with vehicles now coming every 10 minutes from 15. As well, an express bus, the 198, has launched, offering speedier weekday trips between Kennedy station and University of Toronto Scarborough Campus.

In the west end, the 45 Kipling bus will temporarily bypass Six Points Interchange reconstruction work taking place at Bloor Street, Dundas Street and Kipling Avenue. More service is also scheduled for after peak morning periods, between 9 and 10.

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