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TIFF ON KING: New this year, the Toronto International Film Festival kicked off its opening weekend by turning King Street West outside TIFF Bell Lightbox, from Peter to University Avenue, into a pedestrian promenade with a music mainstage, pop-up peformances, curated artworks and, of course, plenty of visits from the stars, including actor Tom Hardy, caught by many cameras (including our own) on Saturday. The film festival continues through to Sunday, although King Street West is no longer closed.

Interactive technology improving health JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com A new project featuring interactive technology will help residents in St. James Town monitor their health from a more holistic standpoint.

St. James Town is the densest neighbourhood in Canada, with its many high-rise apartments home to many newcomers to

the country. Given language and socioeconomic barriers, residents in the downtown community are less likely to have undergone routine health screenings than average Torontonians, while having higher rates of high blood pressure, heart disease and diabetes.

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and who knows where some people are getting their health information and how well they understand it,” said Margaret Coshan of Community Matters Toronto, a St. James Town-based organization that partnered with Self Care Catalysts to create the Healthy Living in St. James Town program.

The new program is an online resource that can be accessed

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Users can create their own personal “Health Storyline” to help them track symptoms and treatments, set goals and learn about their own health.

“There are thousands of health apps out there already, but most are about measurements – the number of steps you take exercising or pounds >>>USERS, page 15

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The annual Bells on Bloor cycling event has grown to include thousands. Now, a relatively new event is hoping to do the same.

Bells on Yonge, a sister event to Bells on Bloor, aims to draw attention to the need for a safe cycling network throughout the city. Though it is named for one of Toronto’s best-known roadways, event spokesperson Ken Brown said the group is not necessarily stumping for bike lanes along Yonge Street.

“We’ve been saying we’d like bike lanes in the Yonge Street corridor, but we’re not necessarily saying we need them on Yonge Street itself because we know that would upset some people,” he said.

“It may make more sense to put them on Duplex (Avenue) or another street like that, but we definitely need a north-south route.”

Brown noted there are some routes in the downtown core that provide relatively safe travel paths for cyclists, but he said contiguous routes are nonexistent, particularly coming from the north end of the city.

“You have pretty good (bike lanes) on Beverley and St. George, and along Sherbourne up to Bloor,” he said. “On Poplar >>>BELLS, page 12

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It was either tulips or garlic for festival founder JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com In the mind of Cabbagetown resident Peter McClusky, garlic’s reputation as a cause of bad breath has given the bulb a bad rap.

McClusky is the founder of the Toronto Garlic Festival, which will return for its fourth year this September.

He earned his love of garlic purely by accident. In 2009, he decided to indulge a long-standing interest in farming and volunteered and interned with various farmers outside the city.

He turned to garlic after one of those farmers gave him a quarter acre plot of his own, but that bore little fruit – or anything else, for that matter.

“I didn’t grow anything I planted that summer and didn’t have anything to show for it, but a couple of pumpkins,” he said. “I thought ‘what can I plant in September to make some-

thing of this year’ and the two things I knew I could plant were tulips or garlic.”

A couple of the farmers with whom McClusky had worked sent him some bulbs and when that crop proved successful, his love for garlic bloomed.

Still, while he was able to grow the bulbous plant, he found he had few opportunities to actually do much with what he grew.

“In early 2011, because I was growing my own garlic, I started to ask myself how I could sell it,” he said. “That was when I decided to start up my own festival.”

McClusky noted most people’s knowledge of garlic does not extend much past the grocery store variety.

While that is obviously the most common, he pointed out there are seven varieties of garlic and hundreds of strains thereof. “ T h e re a re d i f f e re n t colours, sizes and flavours,” he said. “Some of these have

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– Peter McClusky, pictured here on his garlic hobby farm. The Cabbagetown resident is founder of the Toronto Garlic Festival which will be held this year on Sunday, Sept. 21 at Evergreen Brick Works.

a very intense heat right away, some have a long tail spice-wise, some have that garlicky flavour and some are more mild.”

He likened the difference between the various types to the variety in wine, noting

a connoisseur would have different types of garlic for different dishes.

McClusky acknowledged that locally grown garlic is more difficult to grow – and a bit more expensive – than the generic supermarket variet-

ies. Given its use, however, that cost should hardly be prohibitive.

“You don’t use a lot of it in a dish – maybe two cloves – so for one dish you’re maybe spending 25 cents more,” he said. “For the difference in flavour, that’s really not a big price to pay.”

In some ways, the Toronto Garlic Festival has become more of a focus than McClusky’s own garlic business.

“I started it to find a way to sell my own garlic but I’ve been so busy, I haven’t had time to sell much of my own

garlic,” he said.

The event has become so popular, McClusky and the organizers have even chartered shuttle buses to run every 10 minutes from Broadview subway station to the festivities at the Evergreen Brick Works.

“We tell people ‘don’t stink and drive – take the free shuttle,’” McClusky quipped.

This year’s festival will feature local garlic farmers showcasing their wares, beer from local craft brewers, chefs showing how to cook with garlic and even a garlic breath contest with results measured using a gas chromatograph from the Ontario Science Centre. There will also be live music, kids’ activities and more.

The Toronto Garlic Festival will take place from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 21.

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New community food program launched in Regent Park JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com With a more diverse group of residents moving into Regent Park, downtown agency the CRC is looking to meet the needs of longtime residents while bridging gaps between the old and the new.

The CRC is set to officially launch its new Community Food Centre, which brings a variety of food-based programs to the area. While some of the programs have been long-entrenched in the neighbourhood, as Regent Park has changed, so too have the needs of its residents.

“The CRC has been in the neighbourhood for 50 years, serving meals to people in

the community who didn’t have access to food,” said CRC Community Food Centre manager Emily Martyn. “Now, the single, homeless men that have used that program – that group isn’t there anymore, but there’s still a need for that program and others.”

To that end, the Community Food Centre will continue to serve healthy breakfasts and lunches to some 150 to 200 people per day. In addition, the CRC has begun serving weekly community dinners, offering cooking classes and food skills programming, providing community gardening opportunities and more.

“For some people, our main goal is still providing a meal, but beyond that, we’re

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looking at how food brings people together,” Martyn said. “The new Regent Park has market value condos as well as Toronto Community Housing units and food’s a good tool to bridge that social piece.”

The Community Food Centre runs programs out of a few local gardens, including one in the new park which opened in the area this summer, one out front of its site at 40 Oak St. “The one in the park we

run in partnership with eight other agencies in the community,” Martyn said. “Volunteers grow there and can bring food home to their families, and some of the food comes to our community kitchen for our healthy meals program.”

The garden in front of 40 Oak allows residents living in that building to grow and harvest their own food, with excess food going to those who use the CRC’s drop-in programs.

Individual families, meanwhile, grow food in allotment gardens spaced across Toronto Community Housing properties in the area.

Martyn noted that while the CRC Community Food Centre deals primarily with

issues of food security, it also plays a role in advocacy for other issues.

‘Other needs’ “We talk about how if someone has trouble accessing food, they may also have trouble accessing housing or other needs,” she said.

According to Christina Palassio of Community Food Centres Canada, the official launch of Regent Park’s new centre came about after a great deal of community consultation.

“We went in and talked to people to find out what the needs are in Regent Park and since then, we’ve hired a community action coordinator, a

gardens coordinator, kitchen coordinator and meals coordinator,” she said.

The CRC Community Food Centre will follow a model created at The STOP Community Food Centre in the city’s west end.

“It’s great to have two Community Food Centres working locally in the neighbourhoods they’re in, both of which are high-needs neighbourhoods,” Palassio said.

“They call attention to the need for food programs in the city and deliver food to people in a way that’s respectful to people, in an environment that’s dignified.”

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Ford, Tory make better Dungeon Masters than transit planners I never pegged Rob Ford and John Tory as the kind of kids who played a lot of Dungeons and Dragons (D&D) in high school.

Tory is bit old and suave to have gotten into the über-nerdy ’80s roleplaying game, and the only set of polyhedron dice kids like the Ford brothers would have had was the one they’d swiped from the cowering members of the Scarlett Heights D&D Club.

Still, as a recovering Dungeons-and-Dragons über-nerd myself, I’ve got to say: both Ford and Tory would have made wicked Dungeon Masters.

Armed with nothing but graph paper, some pencils and their unbridled imagination, both have come up with wonderful, fanciful maps that’ll keep parties of dungeon-crawlers busy for months – or years.

Of the two transit dungeons, Ford’s is undeniably cooler.

He’s drawn a veritable minotaur’s maze of subway lines on his $9-billion

david nickle the city plan to drive Torontonians underground: tunnels under Finch and Sheppard avenues in Etobicoke and Scarborough, a dank catacomb for the Eglinton Crosstown light rail line in Scarborough, and a downtown relief passageway beneath Leslieville and Corktown.

Although Ford hasn’t marked them on the map he sent out last week, one might expect a more than a few pit traps along that one.

Tory’s plan is not technically a transit dungeon – Smart Track is all above ground – but the serpentine rail line wending through Scarborough, downtown Toronto and, if you listen to Olivia Chow, some living rooms in Etobicoke, is certainly sitting on a dragon’shorde of gold.

Tory would have been the kind of Dungeon Master that made it easy

for his players, letting them wander from level to level picking off under-fed goblins and picking up chests of gold and magic swords and rings as they went – ultimately, becoming a very popular Dungeon Master.

It’s all great fun sitting around a table rolling dice, fighting through imaginary dungeons and counting up fanciful gold.

Tentative plans The trouble is that both Tory and Ford’s transit plans are asking voters to roll dice on very real schemes; schemes that are going to cost real money and plough through real neighborhoods.

The plans are probably a step up from the labyrinths that teenage gamers sketch out after they’ve done their homework, but they are nearly as tentative.

This week, when Chow called Tory on the physical impossibility of laying track along the route he sketched through Etobicoke, Tory

admitted that yes, he would dig a tunnel for that portion of his surface subway after all.

Financing questions And neither he nor Ford have provided much comfort in their financing plans – both relying on the unproven tax increment financing model to pay the very significant cost of those projects, and Ford floating a further range of financing mechanisms that a team of experts spent considerable energy definitively refuting during the Sheppard subway debate this past term.

Really, that shouldn’t surprise anyone.

This kind of thing has always played much better over a long night in a suburban basement rec room than it does in the real world.

Any über-nerd could tell you that.

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Pauletta Washington in Concert in Toronto WHEN: 7:30 to 9:15 p.m. WHERE: Church of the Holy Trinity, 10 Trinity Sq. CONTACT: Diane Louie, dianelouieevent@gmail.com COST: $28 Pauletta Washington, wife of Hollywood actor Denzil Washington, explores the universal meaning of “home” through spoken word and her world music ensemble: eight musicians playing instruments from India, the Middle East, South Asia and the Americas.

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Public Lecture: The Wheel Of Life WHEN: 3 to 4 p.m. WHERE: Deer Park library, 40 St. Clair Ave. E. CONTACT: Helen Sjölund, 647-4675307 COST: $7 donation Hear ancient traditions, speak about the wheel of life, afterlife and the possibility of returning to the land of the living.

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Scotiabank AIDS Walk for Life Toronto WHEN: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. WHERE: YongeDundas Square, 1 Dundas St. E. CONTACT: www.aidswalktoronto.ca/, aidswalk@ actoronto.org COST: Free Proceeds benefit the AIDS Committee of Toronto (ACT).

Farmers’ Market at Evergreen Brick Works WHEN: 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. WHERE: Evergreen Brick Works, 550 Bayview Ave. CONTACT: Marzio Silva, 416596-1495 More than 60 farmers and food producers take part in Saturday’s Farmers’ Market, open all year long.

Newcomers Toronto Fair WHEN: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. WHERE: Sheraton Centre Toronto, 123 Queen St. W. CONTACT: COST: Free tickets at www.newcomerscanada.ca/ toronto, $10 at the door New to Toronto or looking to stay longer in Canada? Get the help you need to settle and succeed.

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Destination: Thailand WHEN: 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. WHERE: Yonge-Dundas Square COST: Free The Thai festival is a cultural event organized by the Royal Thai

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Embassy in Ottawa to celebrate Thai culture in Canada and transform the square into a mini Thai street corner with food and more.

Free Walking Tour: Immigration Stories WHEN: 11 a.m. to noon WHERE: various CONTACT: heritagetoronto. org to register COST: Free Suitable for learners of English as a second language. Tour the neighbourhood around city hall. Hear stories of the hardships they faced and the contributions they made.

Bells on Yonge WHEN: 12:15 p.m. WHERE: Duplex Parkette (east end), 2906 Yonge St. CONTACT: Ken Brown, 416-9204984, www.bellsonyonge.ca Bells on Yonge is a community bike ride to promote a safe cycling route in the Yonge corridor. Organizers have requested a police escort to city hall where they will meet with

Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement at Yonge & Eglinton WHEN: 7 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Central Eglinton Community Centre, 160 Eglinton Ave. E. CONTACT: Nancy Lyon, 416-392-0511, ext. 225 COST: $130 for 10 classes Feldenkrais combines mindfulness with unique movement patterns to restore energy and revive creativity.

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they’re Off and running Above, besides continuing its tradition of raising tens of thousands of dollars for local charities, Sunday’s B&O Yorkville run also had a new twist – serving as Canada’s 5K championships. Here, the elite runners kick off the national championship race.

Full results and charity info at www.yorkvillerun.com. At right, the St. Michael’s Buzzers kicked off their provincial Junior A hockey regular season Friday, losing their home opener at St. Michael’s College Arena on Bathurst Avenue 8-4 to the North York Rangers. Here, Ashur Elliot of St. Mike’s is in deep on the forecheck. Complete league schedule and stats at http://ojhl.pointstreaksites.com

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community PROGRAMS FOR THE CONSTANTLY CURIOUS

THOUGHT EXCHANGE Satisfy your curiosity with an eclectic collection of lectures and discussions across the city.

The Life Cycle of Stars

The Experience of Music

Using the latest images from space telescopes, Dr. Michael Reid from the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics tells the story of how stars are born, live and die — a cycle that has been playing out for nearly fourteen billion years.

A discussion of how the public experience of music has changed greatly, from live performances to the marvels of modern day technology.

Mon. September 22, 6:30 pm Yorkville Branch (22 Yorkville Ave.) Neighbourhood Votes Toronto Neighbourhood Centres, a network of non-profit neighbourhood centres across Toronto presents short, locally produced documentaries about Toronto’s pressing issues, from youth employment to homelessness to the meaning of citizenship.

Sat. November 1, 2 pm Northern District Branch (40 Orchard View Blvd.)

Great Books: Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist Dr. Michael Johnstone from University of Toronto discusses Oliver Twist’s unsentimental depiction of poverty and the criminal underworld of 19th century London.

Fri. November 7, 2 pm Wychwood Branch (1431 Bathurst St.)

Tues. September 23, 1 pm Toronto Reference Library (789 Yonge St.)

City Centre in brief

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5k in support of wThetoronto sickkids saturday morning Toronto 5K this Saturday, Sept. 13 is in support of SickKids.

A rare Saturday event, in order to allow participants to access subway to the event, it starts at 8 a.m. at Sir Winston Churchill Park on St. Clair Avenue, just east of Spadina Road, where it also finishes.

The race route basically loops around the park, involving St. Clair Ave., Russell Hill Rd, Boulton Drive, Macpherson Avenue, Davenport Road, Christie Street and back on to St. Clair. More info at http://www.toronto5k.com annual red and blue bowl wToronto’s game saturday afternoon two football-playing universi-

ties (the University of Toronto and York University) are hooking up for their annual Red and Blue Bowl Game this Saturday, Sept. 13, 1 p.m.

The University of Toronto Varsity Blues will host this year’s 45th version at the Varsity Centre.

The Varsity Blues won last year’s encounter 56-35 to extend their alltime lead over the York Lions in the series 27-17.

Ryerson University does not field a football team.

Other university sports have also started including field hockey, soccer, rugby and baseball with several more around the corner, such as basketball, volleyball and hockey.

Check out complete schedules and standings at http://www.oua.ca Who to vote for Oct. 27? wWhere check out our website do you begin trying to figure out

who to vote for in the Oct. 27 municipal election? Well we’d like to think you can start at bit.ly/torontovotes2014 There is one mayor and 44 city councillors in Toronto. Add to that school board reps and you’ve got a whole heap of people to choose from.

We have a page for each ward in the city, listing the candidates for various positions. We have invited candidates to answer a few questions – giving voters the opportunity to get to know those wanting to lead our civic government.

We think (community) residents need to vote. And we also think voters need to be informed when they go to the polls.

And candidates, if you haven’t already submitted your information, please email press@insidetoronto.com for instructions on how you can participate.

Bells on Bloor drew up to 2,000 riders last year

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>>>from page 1 Plains to St. Clair, you can ride relatively safely, but there’s no straight line (of bike paths.)”

He hopes Bells on Yonge helps to draw attention – and crowds – to the issue of bike lanes, and noted that there has been some progress made in talks with city staff.

“North of Sheppard, they’re looking at the possibility of putting lanes on Doris (Avenue) or Beecroft (Road), which would definitely help,” he said.

Bells on Yonge started up two years ago, as did sister ride Bells on Danforth. Organizers hope those two rides can grow

to become as popular as Bells on Bloor, which drew between 1,500 and 2,000 people last year.

“We’re hoping for about 100 people this year,” Brown said. “It’s a fun ride and we’re trying to get some publicity and raise the profile of the ride a bit.”

The ride will kick off at 12:15 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 14 at the corner of Yonge and Hendon streets, just south of Finch station. A second start point will see riders depart from Duplex Parkette, a few blocks south of Lawrence Avenue, at 12:45 p.m., and yet more riders are expected to take off with the group from Ramsden Park at

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1:30 p.m. Riders can join in at any point along the way en route to City Hall.

Bells on Bloor and Bells on Danforth will take place the same day, with all three rides ending at Bikestock, which kicks off at 2 p.m. at Nathan Phillips Square.

“Bikestock’s a really fun event for cyclists – there will be plenty of activities and musical groups,” Brown said.

For more information about Bells on Yonge, visit www.bellsonyonge.ca.

Fo r i n f o r m a t i o n o n affiliated events, visit www. bellsonbloor.ca, www.bellsondanforth.ca or www.bikestock.ca

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(Bathurst St./Wilson Ave. – north and south of Highway 401) Municipal Class Environmental Assessment Notice of Study Completion The City ofToronto has completed three Municipal Class Environmental the area loosely bounded by Dufferin Street, Lawrence Avenue West, Avenue Road and Sheppard Avenue West (please see map).The objective of the studies is to provide recommendations to reduce the risk of future runoff before it is discharged to the city’s watercourses.

The City has accepted the consultant’s recommendations to help reduce • • • • •

Continue promotion of source control measures which help to manage stormwater where it originates (e.g. roofs, driveways, roads, etc.)

Upgrade or replace storm and sanitary sewers at select locations Install additional catchbasins at locations with excessive surface ponding Seal (e.g. plug) sanitary sewer maintenance hole covers in select low-lying areas Construct underground relief sewers and storage facilities at certain locations

Opportunities for Review The studies were carried out following the requirements for Schedule ‘B’ projects under the Municipal Class EA. A Project File Report for each study has been completed and placed on public record for a 30-day review period starting August 21, 2014 and ending on October 15, 2014.

The reports are available for review at: Barbara Frum Library 20 Covington Rd. (Bathurst St/Lawrence Avenue) 416-395-5440

Armour Heights Library 2140 Avenue Rd. (at Wilson Avenue) 416-395-5430

Centennial Library 578 Finch Ave. W. (west of Bathurst Street) 416-395-5490 If you have any outstanding issues with these projects, please address them to the City staff listed below and we will attempt to seek a mutually acceptable resolution.

Mae Lee (Rigmea) City of Toronto – Public Consultation Unit 19th Fl., 55 John St., Toronto, ON M5V 3C6 Tel: 416-392-8210 Fax: 416-392-2974 TTY: 416-338-0889 E-mail: rigmea_lee@toronto.ca

If concerns regarding these projects cannot be resolved in discussion with the City ofToronto, a person or party may request that the Ontario Minister of the Environment make an order for the project to comply with Part II of the Environmental Assessment Act (referred to as a Part II Order), which addresses individual environmental assessments.

The Minister must receive the request in writing by October 15, 2014 at the address below, and a copy must also be sent to the City contact. If no requests are received by October 15, 2014, the City may proceed with the project as outlined in the Project File Reports.

The Honourable Glen Murray Minister of the Environment 77 Wellesley St. W. Ferguson Block, 11th Fl. Toronto, ON M7A 2T5 Issue Date: August 21, 2014

Information will be collected in accordance with the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. With the exception of personal information, all comments will become part of the public record.

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Investigation of Basement Flooding and Stormwater Runoff Quality Control – Study Areas 17, 18 & 19

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Thomson now running in Trinity Spadina w MIKE ADLER madler@insidetoronto.com Sarah Thomson, whose second run to be mayor of Toronto ended Tuesday, Sept.

9, says media in the city were against her candidacy from the beginning.

“We could not get press. We were trying and trying,” said the magazine publisher, who registered as a candidate for councillor instead in TrinitySpadina Ward 20.

Last month, Thomson asked supporters through a website poll if she should switch her goal to a council seat, and 88 per cent approved, saying, “run for council, you can make a difference there,” she said in an interview after making the change.

Thomson said she could fight for the ideas she championed as a mayoral candidate, among them securing additional dedicated funding

for public transit and imposing road tolls on outsiders using Toronto roads.

“People didn’t want that to disappear,” she said.

As a mayoral candidate in 2010, Thomson dropped out of the race too late to have her name removed from the ballot, but asked supporters to back George Smitherman in an effort to prevent a Rob Ford victory.

Read our in-depth story at http://bit.ly/Zg3iTH

TORONTO AND REGION CONSERVATION AUTHORITY BLACK CREEK (ROCKCLIFFE AREA) FLOOD MANAGEMENT CLASS ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT NOTICE OF FILING DOCUMENT FOR REVIEW

tunnel borers are close to dufferin st.

Tunnel borer machines (TBMs) excavating the west underground portion of the Eglinton Crosstown LRT have nearly reached Dufferin Street.

About 2.5 kilometres of tunnelling is complete since last spring, with both “Dennis” and “Lea” digging underneath Eglinton Avenue West. They are expected to reach Allen Road by December, according to Metrolinx.

The two massive drilling machines have continued to carve out the Crosstown’s underground route, departing from Black Creek Drive last spring. Once the machines reach the Allen, they will be extracted and redeployed east to Yonge Street, said Metrolinx senior executive Jack Collins.

A second set of TBMs will also tunnel from east of the Don Valley towards Yonge Street.

All tunnelling is expected to be done by late 2016 after which station construction can begin.

The first phase of the Crosstown is scheduled to open in 2020 when it will run underground and overground

rahul gupta TO in TRANSIT between Black Creek and Kennedy Station. subway wwellesley station gets wifi

Subway riders at Wellesley Station now have access to wireless internet.

As of Monday, Wellesley became the fourth station in the TTC subway network to receive the TConnect Wi-Fi service, joining Bloor-Yonge, St. George and Bay stations.

Riders at the station can now log onto the service while waiting for their trains.

While the service is free, users will need to view an online ad before they can gain access.

Wellesley is the first of three stations to begin offering free Wi-Fi by the end of the month. College and Union are scheduled to join the list in the coming weeks.

The service has proven a hit with subway riders, with at least 60,000 log-ons per week, according to service provider BAI Canada.

open house on wlast crosstown lrt Metrolinx is holding the final of three open houses early next week to update local residents on the progress of Crosstown LRT construction.

The meeting takes place from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m.

Monday, Sept. 15 at the Unity Church of Truth, located at 173 Eglinton Ave. W., east of Avenue Road. At the meeting Metrolinx staff will be on hand to answer questions and listen to concerns from local residents. Contact Metrolinx’s Crosstown Community Office at 416-782-3652 for more information. open house on wlast crosstown lrt

There’s still time to gain discounted admission to an upcoming forum for Complete Streets. The public forum takes place Monday, Oct. 6 at the Daniels Spectrum cultural centre in Regent Park.

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Grace Soyao of Self Care Catalysts said the need for an app such as Healthy Living in St. James Town is crucial for a neighbourhood as diverse as the one it serves.

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is currently in its fledgling stages and is expected to grow organically as more needs are identified within the community.

“There are so many things we can do with this,” Coshan said. “For instance, we’ll have videos up so if seniors can’t make it to their exercise class, for example, they can just go on their family computer and do the exercises at home.”

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Coshan said St. James Town has a large number of doctors, many of whom will double-check the information before it is passed along to residents.

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Now in its eighth year, the Toronto Urban Film Festival (TUFF) will see one-minute silent films screened on Pattison One Stop’s platformlevel video screens throughout the subway system. The films, submitted by filmmakers from around the world, will provide transit users with a welcome diversion as they await their trains.

“The films will play every 10 minutes on 290 screens across the TTC,” said TUFF Executive Director Sharon Switzer. “We’ll also have TUFF uninterrupted at St. Andrew station, where the films will be playing non-stop.”

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In addition to providing free entertainment for commuters, TUFF also provides opportunities for filmmakers to show their work to a large audience.

“It reaches a phenomenally broad audience,” said Toronto filmmaker Wrik Mead, one of three people to earn TUFF Artist Spotlights. “If you have a film shown at TIFF, you’ll maybe get two screenings with 300 people at each, so you’ll reach 600 people. Here, the possibilities are endless.”

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He noted while TUFF provides opportunities for artists, the format also provides its share of challenges for the filmmakers.

“It has to be 60 seconds on the dot – not 61, not 59,” he said. “It’s hard to get a whole storyline in 60 seconds.”

Joanne Mau and Gordon Yao, two young filmmakers who won last year’s City of Toronto Naish McHugh Award for Emerging Filmmakers for their short film Reminisce, also lauded TUFF for the opportunities it provides to up-and-coming directors.

“It was the place of our professional debut,” Mau said. “When (commuters are) waiting for their subway, we’re their only form of entertainment.”

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