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With food, music and outdoor activities, the Homegrown Park Crawl promises to have something for everyone. The park crawl, taking place for the second straight year, stems from the movement – first brought forth by the David Suzuki Foundation – to turn all of Ward 19 (Trinity-Spadina) into a “homegrown national park.” While there have been plenty of small initiatives toward that end, the park crawl will focus on some of the larger green spaces along the path of the former Garrison Creek – namely Christie Pits Park, Bickford Park,

Fred Hamilton Park and Trinity Bellwoods Park. Accompanied by live musicians, participants in the Homegrown Park Crawl will parade from park to park, stopping in to have a little fun in each. Bands leading the parade from park to park include the six-piece Heavyweights Brass Band, afro-Brazilian stilt drummers MaracaTall and 16-piece percussion band Samba Squad. “We think once we get the music going, especially along the residential streets, people will all want to see what’s going on and join in,” said Jode Roberts of the David Suzuki >>>LAST, page 7

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This weekend’s growing Canadawide Culture Days, designed as the name suggests to give the public a chance to participate in art and culture in their community, is well represented in Toronto, including several midtown events. The Bloor Street Culture Corridor will come alive with activities: the Royal Ontario Mu s e u m w i l l s h ow c a s e Egyptian artifacts; the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema will offer

two free screenings; and the Gardiner Museum will host art demonstrations and Tafelmusik performances, among other attractions. Over at the Distillery Historic District on Sunday, Dance Ontario will host a free workshop at Dancemakers’ Studio Theatre, 9 Trinity St., Studio 33, from 4 to 6 p.m. For all Culture Days events, both locally and beyond, visit www.culturedays.ca

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Dancer Brendan Wyatt has come a long way from his upbringing in rural Saskatchewan. His upcoming show, elsewhere by dance company Adelheid Dance Projects, will see him take to the stage at Harbourfront Centre for a three-day run. Wyatt, who lives in the Cabbagetown area, developed a passion for dance early on in life and has pursued that passion ever since. “I started dancing when I was four and I just kept on dancing,” he said. “When I was 11, I auditioned for the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School and after I got in, I moved to Winnipeg and stayed in their training program for six years. It was like getting a university education at a time when most people my age were in high school.” After that, Wyatt came to Toronto where he spent three years studying contemporary dance at the Toronto Dance School. His firm grounding in both ballet and contemporary has allowed his career to flourish. “Having the ability to train in both styles allows me to pull techniques from both,” he said. Wyatt will be one of five dancers in elsewhere. The show allowed him to work with choreographer Heidi Strauss for the fourth time, and that familiarity has bred a strong working relationship.

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Brendan Wyatt will appear in the upcoming show elsewhere at the Harbourfront Centre Theatre.

“When you work with someone enough, they start to see certain aspects of you they want to highlight through the performance and choreo,” he said. “If they see things they don’t want to highlight, they know to put that aspect of your performance in the shadows.” Wyatt’s strengths as a dancer ensure his choreographers have plenty to work with. He won a Dora Award for his performance in “this time” and has been nominated for a Dora for outstanding choreography.

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elsewhere will allow him to stretch his own horizons with a show that leans heavily on feel and less on narrative. “It’s more of an atmospheric show; there’s a wide variety of states (the dancers) go through, but an audience member could certainly follow the piece and come up with a narrative for it,” he said. elsewhere will run at the Harbourfront Centre Theatre from Thursday, Sept. 25 through Saturday, Sept. 27.

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Regent Park Community Centre launches good food programs JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com Hundreds of residents from the Regent Park area came out to taste food, plant garlic, listen to music and more as the Regent Park Community Food Centre held an official launch ceremony. The Thursday, Sept. 18 launch event offered plenty for guests, from samples of healthy food to selfies in the new Regent Park to a chance to get together with their neighbours to celebrate the community. The centre – the second of its kind in Toronto after The Stop in the city’s west end – came about through a partnership between Regent Park agency the CRC (formerly the Christian Resource Centre) and Community Food Centres Canada, with funding from the Ontario Trillium Foundation. It will provide social opportunities, cooking classes, gardening groups, meals and more for those in the area. “The Regent Park Community Food Centre will be a welcoming place where people can grow, cook, share and advocate for good food,” said CRC board chair Norm

Williams. Community Food Centres Canada president Nick Saul said the CRC was an ideal location for a Community Food Centre given that it met a number of the criteria his organization looks for when seeking out partners. Situated in a state-of-the-art building at 40 Oak St., Saul said the CRC more than met the need for a suitable space for a Community Food Centre. “We’ve seen a lot of places operating out of basements and small spaces,” he said, adding the CRC site will ensure people can use the centre with dignity. “This is a home, and I’m a big believer that the physical determines the social.” He added the CRC has long been providing food programs in the area, which also made it an ideal partner. “We’re looking for partners with a history of doing good food work, but who need a little help amplifying these programs,” he said. CRC executive director Louise Moody noted the new Community Food Centre will allow the CRC to expand its community garden-

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Richmond Station chef Soohyeong Le, right, prepares vegetarian shwarma during the launch of the Regent Park Community Food Centre on Thursday at the CRC.

ing programs, reach out to more residents through community meal programs, help coordinate the use of the new park in Regent Park and boost its work in other areas, as well. “We have a community advocacy

program where people can find their voice and support each other,” she said. “At our Food Skills program, people can learn new skills and engage with each other.” The centre came about after considerable community consultation.

Councillor Pam McConnell noted while there was some concern the plan to open a Community Food Centre may turn out to be just talk, the realization of the new venture has made all the work that went into it worthwhile. She added the programs will help bridge social gaps within Regent Park, where the revitalization has brought together a diverse group of residents. “When you have a trowel in your hand, it’s a great leveller,” she said, referring specifically to the centre’s gardening programs. “It doesn’t matter what language you speak or how many pennies you have in your pocket, you’re all in that soil together.” She added the centre and its programs will help boost food security for many residents in the area, ensuring they have access to hot, healthy meals. “It will take the people of Regent Park and make them healthy,” she said. “It will give our children the gift of good health.”

For more information on the centre, visit http://cfccanada.ca/regentpark-cfc

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outdoor festival at Christie Pits: Top left, Brian Wyatt, left, and Niky Brown share a blanket and the music during the Bloor Ossington Folk Festival held Saturday at Christie Pits. Above left, the band Club Django, including Tony Oldland, left, John Farrell, Abby Sholzberg, Leslie Dawn Knowles and Gerry Duligal, performs. Above, Gwen Cunningham, 2, left, dances to the music as Ana Lucia Molina Cunningham, 4, and Madeline Molina Cunningham, 5, take in the sounds. At right, Dead Projectionists guitarist Alex Goyetche performs. Photos/NANCY PAIVA

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t travels underground right across Toronto, beside busy roads, near the backyards of homes and an elementary school, has been around for almost 40 years and yet many residents have no idea it even exists. However, all that is quickly changing for the Enbridge oil pipeline known as Line 9. Environmental groups are concerned with a federal decision earlier this year to allow bitumen oil, known as tar sands oil, to be pumped through the pipeline. In today’s edition, residents can learn more about Line 9. Environmentalists say the bitumen oil is heavier than the light crude oil Line 9 presently carries, and the consequences of a spill due to a breakage in the line could be dire, especially since the line crosses Humber, Don and Rouge our view the rivers. The environmental concerns Torontonians are heightened by the age of the which was built in 1976, and must be part line, by the fact that bitumen oil is of planning considered more corrosive than light crude. Enbridge, however, rejects the notion that bitumen oil will be flowing through Line 9. A spokesman said light crude will be the bulk of what Line 9 carries as the refineries that take the oil are not “heavy” refineries. Whether the capability of those refineries changes to deal with bitumen in the future remains to be seen. As part of the approval by the National Energy Board (NEB) to allow bitumen oil through the pipeline, Enbridge is carrying out work related to pipeline integrity and the creation of an emergency response plan. And it’s in this emergency plan that Toronto residents need to be especially involved. Toronto councillor David Shiner said the City of Toronto is working with Enbridge on emergency response plans, but much of what needs to be done is under the jurisdiction of the federal government. Enbridge has filed a plan with the NEB and says it is waiting for a response before making the details public. When those details become public, residents must be given numerous opportunities for input on the emergency response plan. Given the thousands of homes and roadways located close to Line 9, residents’ awareness of Line 9 and an understanding of what to do in an emergency must become a priority for Enbridge, the federal government and Toronto.

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Fringe mayoral candidates battle to bring issues forward We are a free country – or at least a free enough country to allow anyone with citizenship, some cash and a birth certificate showing they’re out of short-pants to run for public office. When it comes to actually holding that office... well, we’re not quite free enough to let just anybody do that. Fame, money – even infamy, is a prerequisite. The mayor’s city-councillor brother Doug Ford, who entered the mayoral race last weekend with a hasty Saturday afternoon canvass and a cobbled-together platform, was polling 23 per cent before he even cleared his throat for his first scheduled debate Tuesday. John Tory and Olivia Chow both rode into the campaign with public CVs sufficiently massive to attract money with an almost gravitational force. Those other candidates? The 60-odd who registered to run in the municipal election for the city’s top job?

david nickle the city Nobody wants to hear from them. Ari Goldkind, a criminal lawyer with a progressive platform and a genially aggressive style, has been complaining for months about the fact that debate organizers won’t invite him to the table to test his ideas against Chow’s and Tory’s and Ford’s. On Monday night, the Forum poll finally found he charted. Morgan Baskin, an articulate young community activist, has been running a youth-oriented campaign from the fringes, but rarely had a chance to debate issues. There are others – dozens – and each and every one of them, I suspect, will be a little miffed that I didn’t name check them in this column. To those, I offer no apology: absent ideas or coherent expression of some, a candidate deserves

every inch of the fringe they inhabit. But candidates like Goldkind and Baskin are a different matter. Both are attempting to inject reasonable and thoughtful alternatives into the debate, all while wearing appropriate business attire (something by no means a given among the fringe candidates). They don’t have CVs (at least not the kind that get you elected mayor), they aren’t famous... aren’t even infamous. But they seem like they have a plan. It’s kind of sad in one way, seeing these welldesigned campaigns and earnest candidates ignored. In another way, it’s frustrating to watch these two candidates seeming to do nothing so much as squander their time in the limelight. It’s tough to blame debate organizers to want to limit the roster to those candidates who have a shot at victory.

It’s tough to blame voters who turn away from the well-dressed stranger on the street, when there’s so much at stake for the whole city, in choosing between seasoned and frankly electable political leaders. The fact is that the way our political season is structured, it’s very difficult in our imperfectly free country for intelligent and useful ideas to work their way up from the bottom. That’s not to say they can’t, but it’s a tough row to hoe, having to sell both one’s controversial notions and one’s own untested credibility at a time when all eyes are looking elsewhere. Here’s hoping that Goldkind and Baskin and other fringe candidates dreaming impossible dreams in October find some energy for advocacy and outreach between November and the next election.

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Last year’s park crawl attracted 1,000 visitors >>>from page 1 Foundation. “Everyone’s welcome to join in the parade.” Roberts noted the day will be about more than simply taking in parks in TrinitySpadina. “Each of the parks will have its own theme and each of the themes will have an activity to go along with it,” he said. “The themes are butterflies, bees, birds and trees, so the activities will be things like honey sampling and bird calls over a megaphone.” The parks will have additional activities as well, with a focus on keeping little ones entertained. While participants can join in at any point along the parade route, there is the promise of a reward for youngsters aged 12 and under who take part in the entire event. Last year, at least a thousand people came out last fall for the inaugural Homegrown Park Crawl, and tickets for food from local restaurants sold out in advance of the event. “ We have more food vendors this year and we’ve

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changed things up so the start and the end of the parade (at Christie Pits and Trinity Bellwoods respectively) are more food festivals,” Roberts said. People are encouraged to bring their own plates and mugs to cut down on waste, and Roberts said those looking to get food tickets should do so soon. An early bird special, which runs until Friday, Sept. 26 will allow buyers to get five tickets for $20. After that, tickets will be $5 apiece. The event will culminate with a presentation by David

Suzuki at Trinity Bellwoods Park following the parade. Suzuki will be in town that weekend as part of his foundation’s Blue Dot Tour and will be an added highlight to an already fun day. “I think a lot of people will join in just to hear him speak,” Roberts said. The Homegrown Park Crawl will take place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 5.

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group Queers Against Israeli Apartheid to participate. Chow maintained city council had already dealt with the issue, on the advice of the city manager and the city lawyer, and concluded the group’s message critical of Israel’s policy towards Palestinians was not hate speech. At the evening event, the matter came up again. “I just happen to believe that in a city that prides itself on embracing diversity, I don’t believe that people should be going around spewing hateful language, and that that language should be supported by public funding,” said Tory. He added he felt the same way if a parade were funded in the Jewish community that included a group that was

virulently anti-gay. Chow maintained the stakes were too high when funding the Pride parade. “I don’t understand why we would revisit this decision,” she said. “It was a very divisive discussion in the community. I can’t imagine what message we’d be sending if they lost their funding. What message would we be sending to the Pride organizers?” The debate otherwise ranged to a happy consensus, as both Chow and Tory made it clear they had both connections and respect for Toronto’s LGBT community. Both agreed the city needs to fund health programs for people living with AIDS, either at or if necessary above the rate of inflation. Both agreed the city needs to do

much to educate the public against trans-phobia. Early on, when asked which city they saw as a leader in LGBT communities, Tory listed Milan, Tel Aviv and Seattle but finally settled on San Francisco. “It isn’t just the history but it is because if you look they have the largest gay archive — a whole bunch of things — and they have started to look at seniors in the LGBT community,” he said. Chow thought about San Francisco, New York, and Madrid, but she maintained Toronto has few if any equals in its promotion of its LGBT community. “Right here on Church Street,” she said. “That’s my definition of the LGBT community.”

Chow also suggested she would work to create a homeless shelter for LGBT youth. “I know the community well enough to know that homeless youth is very, very vulnerable,” she said. Tory maintained the city needed to look to federal and provincial support in order to expand programs for young people. “It’s increasingly important that we have the kinds of reliable partnerships — stable, consistent partnerships — in all of these areas,” he said. “Whether it’s on the health care side, support for seniors and young people — or other things we have tonight.” Chow, however, maintained it was entirely possible to start those programs without any help but the city’s.

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“In the 1990s my office helped start the lesbian and gay youth hotline,” she said. “Administratively my office provided the phones and the space to start then they were able to stand on their own and find space. Sure, later on the United Way and other governments came on board. But it’s important when there’s a need... let’s take the leadership and get it started. If it’s right other governments will come in.” Chow and Tory were the only mayoral candidates on stage. Rob Ford had not responded to an invitation, and Doug Ford declined the invitation.

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OLIVIA CHOW PROFILE: touting realistic and immediate solutions EDITOR’S NOTE: This is one in a series of profiles on the leading contenders to be Toronto’s next mayor MIKE ADLER madler@insidetoronto.com Olivia Chow is talking about Rob Ford and tapping her foot on stones around the murky koi pond in her small backyard garden, encouraging the fish to come up. The former New Democratic Party MP has said most Torontonians share her “progressive values.” But if that’s true, she’s asked, why did so many vote for the “gravy train”-fighting Ford in 2010? There was an “obsession” in the city then about the Ford campaign’s “slick one-liners” and the kinds of cuts to city government that could be made, she conceded. “There’s a lot of buyer remorse, right? People who say, ‘Wow, he sold us a good line, and he totally disappointed us.’” Jo h n To r y, w i t h h i s

SmartTrack rail plan, is no different, said Chow, 57, who, at home during an unexpected lull in the campaign, seemed freer to smile and laugh than she does at debates. Like Ford before him, Tory is “selling something that’s not realistic, not designed by experts, and between Ford and Tory’s policies they will leave a whole lot of people behind.” The ailing Ford expanded past pledges to build subways before he dropped out of the mayor’s race and was replaced as candidate by his brother and former campaign manager Doug Ford. “Nothing they say is about now, how your life can be improved now. How bus services can be improved now.” But while Tory declares his transit plan to be “bold,” Chow’s – build approved and funded light-rail lines, pay to plan a downtown relief subway line, add more buses – was described by one of her political allies, Joe Mihevc, as reasonable and “modest.”

Chow objected that the relief line, “a game-changer for the city” and long overdue, is not modest, but as for Tory, “he copied the provincial plan (for electrification of GO rail lines), and just put a slogan on it. How’s that bold?” Tory’s “faith-based transit scheme,” she said, asks Toronto’s voters to “park your rationality” as they did with a subway-promising Ford four years ago. “We’re still paying for it. We should not do it again.” Tory and the Fords also support extending BloorDanforth Subway further into Scarborough. That extension would take years longer, have fewer stops, and cost taxpayers $1 billion more than the fully-funded and approved light-rail line Chow would build instead. But the subway, also the choice of provincial politicians, is undeniably popular in Scarborough, where Chow has been running a distant third. Has her position cost her crucial votes? “You know, I have to tell

the truth; that’s who I am,” she responded, looking a bit less comfortable. “I also have the courage to say no to an investment that doesn’t make sense.” Chow was a Toronto councillor from 1991 to 2005. Her husband and council colleague Jack Layton had his own mayoral run – an unsuccessful one – before becoming a New Democrat MP. Chow was elected an MP herself in Trinity-Spadina in 2006, five years before Layton, by then federal NDP leader, won the party unprecedented Official Opposition status in 2011 but died of cancer a few months later. Chow, who resigned to run for mayor in March, is regularly attacked on Twitter by right-wingers opposing her “far-left socialism.” She seemed more upset that Tory, who formerly led Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives, has been keen to attach the NDP label to her during debates. “He knows full well that the municipal government

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doesn’t have parties. You work across the aisle. And I’ve done that for 14 years (on council),” she said, charging Tory was “scaremongering” – trying to paint her as a tax-andspend politician, when her record during Mel Lastman’s six years as mayor is of sup-

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Central Tech kicks off defence of TDSB title The top high school football team in the Toronto District School Board for the past three seasons has come from midtown – and they’ll be trying to extend that streak another year with the season kicking off this week. Central Tech are the defending city champs, d e f e a t i n g E t o b i c o k e’s Richview Collegiate 56-36 in last season’s title match. The previous two years, it was Northern Secondary taking the honours, winning the championship in 2012 10-2 over Central Tech and in 2011, 14-11 over Scarborough’s Agincourt. Both powerhouses kick off the current campaign tomorrow. Central Tech is at Leaside High School (which was last in the city final in 2010, losing 16-14 to Etobicoke’s Richview Collegiate) for a

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Environmental groups are stirring up protest at the possibility that tar sands oil could be pumping through our neighbourhoods MARK A. CADIZ mcadiz@insidetoronto.com

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ine 9 has some Toronto Line 9 is a contentious residents fearing the issue. Where do you stand idea of tar sands oil on the debate? Email us passing close to their backyards while others have no a letter to the editor at idea the oil pipleine even letters@insidetoronto.com exists at all. Scarborough resident, Ruth will require Enbridge to carry Gill, a member of Scarborough out activities related to pipeBitumen Free Future (SBFF), is line integrity and emergency concerned about the expected response plans. transport of bitumen oil, commonly referred to as tar sands Students from Cresthaven oil, that could flow through Public School in North York the pipeline. While Enbridge recently turned to YouTube to says the line will be used express their views after they mainly for conventional oil, discovered the pipeline was Gill remains uneasy about right beside their school. the possibility. “Creating awareness was Given its location near the big issue. Most students many homes and creeks, she were completely surprised is especially worried about the and unaware of the pipeline,” consequences of a leak or oil Grade 2 teacher Nancy Gillis spill from the said. line. “With the “A l l t h e With the (National v i d e o t h e y major rivers were hoping Energy Board) approval, t o b u i l d in Toronto are crossed they can pump as much awareness to help by Line 9. of the tar sands oil and people realIf there is as they want and we ize what was a bitumen spill, it will wouldn’t know. really around them.” affect all of – Sabrina Bowman, those creeks In Environmental Defence and r ivers Cresthaven’s potentially YouTube video, reaching Lake Ontario,” Gill students between grades 2 said. and 6 wondered if the pipeline Bitumen is extremely thick was really “the big bad wolf of and sticky and is more difficult the story,” highlighting our own heavy reliance on oil to move than conventional oil. With the bitumen, increased as the heart of the problem. friction in the pipeline is a See the video at http://bit. concern which has environly/1ue220l mental groups on edge about The particular section of the 38-year-old pipeline’s Line 9 in question, referred safety. to as Line 9B, stretches 639 Early this spring, the kilmometres from North National Energy Board (NEB) Westover, just northwest of approved Enbridge’s proposed Hamilton and travels through expansion project of Line 9, Etobicoke, North York and subject to 30 conditions that Scarborough, bound for

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Montreal, Que. The pipeline enters Etobicoke south of Eglinton Avenue West from Mississauga heading north alongside a portion of Hwy. 401. It then turns east north of Finch Avenue heading eastbound through North York and Scarborough. As it leaves Scarborough’s eastern border it travels through Rouge Park lands. Enbridge spokesperson Graham White said Line 9 has been misrepresented by those opposed to it, and it is not a tar sands oil pipeline. “Line 9 will carry primarily light oil as it did prior to the planned reversal. The destination refineries are ‘light’ refineries and do not have significant capability to refine heavy products like bitumen oil,” he said. However, Enbridge has permitted shippers to transport different oil blends which includes heavier grades such as bitumen. The 38-year-old pipeline could start transporting the heavier grade bitumen as early as December, say some environmental groups. Sa b r i n a Bow m a n , o f Environmental Defence, is skeptical of Enbridge’s assertion that the line will pump mainly light oil. “With the NEB approval they can pump as much of the tar sands oil as they want and we wouldn’t know,” she said. Since the NEB approval, a series of integrity digs on the pipeline have been taking place to help support the planned capacity increase, said White, with one work site being at G. Ross Lord Dam and Park in North York. Environmental groups cite an Enbridge spill that

saw 3.3 million litres of oil go into Michigan’s Kalamazoo River on July 25, 2010 as cause for concern. That spill is estimated to have cost Enbridge more than $1 billion and is reportedly the largest on-land oil spill in U.S. history according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Last December, in light of the growing concerns, Toronto City Council requested Enbridge have an emergency response strategy in place for Toronto in order to minimize the impact of any potential spill. Wa rd 2 4 W i l l ow d a l e Councillor David Shiner has been a part of the city effort to implement safety emergency response plans. At the moment, he said there are no such plans in place in the Greater Toronto Area. “We are trying to make sure Enbridge can make the line as safe as it possibly can make it,” Shiner said. “But the city can only do so much since it’s an issue that needs to be handled at the federal level. The federal government gave permission, but hasn’t pressured Enbridge, as much as the City of Toronto has done to implement safety procedures. Right now the city doesn’t have the capacity to respond to a disaster.” Enbridge filed an Emergency Response Action Plan this past July with the NEB and is waiting for feedback before releasing details about it later this October. Having spoken to communities along Line 9, Environmental Defence said most residents they contacted were unaware of the pipeline and the possibility of it carrying tar sands oil. While White said that between May 2012 and July

Staff photos/IAN KELSO & MARK A. CADIZ

From top, a pump station near Centennial Park in Etobicoke; and demonstrations near Dufferin Street and Finch Avenue in North York; and near Rexdale Boulevard and Kipling Avenue in Etobicoke.

2013, Enbridge met with more than 60 municipalities, 150 emergency responder groups, six conservation authorities, landowner groups, 14 Aboriginal communities and the provincial governments of Ontario and Quebec regarding the line. In a community meeting

about Line 9, SBFF handed out Tamil and Chinese pamphlets in order to improve the communication gap among north Scarborough residents, who they said knew nothing of the pipeline.

To learn more about the Line 9 plans, visit the Enbridge site at http://bit.ly/XUx13l

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terms of transit, and that’s a and University Avenue. comfortable service which is Another three trips originatalso reliable,” said Chang, in ing from Front and University will travel to the intersection of a recent interview. To get LVE up and running, King Street West and Strachan Line Six is looking to raise Avenue starting at 7:20 a.m. $2,500 via an online donawith the final trip scheduled tions campaign. for 8:50 a.m. It’s currently 60 per cent of TTC spokesperson Brad the way toward that target. Ross said there are no plans Anyone who donates a minito halt the service, but it will mum of $25 will reserve a seat be monitored. for every day of the week on “For now, no concerns. a chartered mini-coach bus Should that change, we will procured by Line Six. engage directly with the “We don’t see ourselves as operators,” said Ross over any different from a school email. group, or organizing a trip to If the Liberty Village service a Blue Jays game or a church proves a hit, new Line Six congroup organizing a bus to go to nections could start appearNiagara Falls,” said Chang. ing in other transit-starved If not enough money is corners of the city. raised, anyone who already For more information, or to contributed will get a full make a donation, visit www. refund, promised Chang. ridelinesix.com LVE will offer four morning trips each day of the trial run, Best Buy CORRECTION NOTICE running every 45 min- NEWSPAPER RETRACTION FOR THE BEST BUY utes starting at 7 a.m. SEPTEMBER 19 CORPORATE FLYER Please be from the intersection advised that the 160GB iPod classic – Black (WebID: of Pirandello Street and 10129512), which was advertised in the September 19 flyer on page 15, may not be in stock because East Liberty Street to the it has been discontinued. corner of Front Street We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused our valued customers.

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Avoiding injuries in seniors Tips for fall from Toronto Central CCAC

As the last days of summer fade and the coolness in the air becomes the norm, so does concern for those who are frail, have mobility challenges or are otherwise vulnerable. Older adults often welcome the arrival of fall with both happiness that the hot weather has passed and trepidation about what’s to come. Cooler temperatures herald many realities that may cause physical stress to an elderly person. These include the beginnings of frost, and later on, snow and ice. The prospect of managing on a slippery surface such as a sidewalk or stairs can be daunting for someone who is physically fragile. The logistics alone of navigating a walker or using a cane without slipping is one that can cause much anxiety in seniors. For those who may be physically compromised, the prospect of suffering a fall, whether it’s indoors or outside, is a very real fear. The Toronto Central Community Care Access Centre (CCAC) has a team of Care Coordinators who work with a large number of elderly clients. Through working with the elderly, the CCAC has learned some simple but effective tips to help their clients and other seniors to keep safe from injuries caused by falls.

Here are some proven strategies for the elderly in preventing unexpected slips and falls:

INDOOR • Make sure to always have one hand free in order to hold the handrail – also consider putting handrails on both sides of the stairs • Proper indoor lighting is key to reducing falls – brightly lit household areas will reduce the incidences of unexpected slips • Take one step at a time making sure your foot is firmly planted on the stairs before putting your weight on it • Always wear shoes or slippers with non-slip soles • Ensure that indoor stairs have appropriate treads or non-slip runners • Keep electrical cords out of the way by attaching them to walls and under carpets, in order to reduce the possibility of trips and falls

OUTDOOR • Newly-fallen leaves pose a risk for seniors by providing a slippery surface that makes the area prime for falls. Have leaves raked (by a support worker, neighbour or loved one) and cleared as soon as they appear • Monitor the weather and be prepared: Have a plan in place to spread ice salt to steps and walkways before venturing outdoors on a frosty morning • Cracked or uneven stairs or walkways are unsafe for seniors. Check for any bumps and have them repaired • Ensure that sturdy handrails are installed on both sides of outdoor stairs For more information about supports and community services for seniors, contact the Toronto Central Community Care Access Centre (CCAC) at (416) 506-9888

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