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AFTER MANY HURDLES, CENTRAL TECH FINALLY OPENS NEW FIELD After much discussion with the community, work stoppages and other setbacks, Central Technical School has finally been able to open its new domed field, which will offer students and the public improved athletic facilities in the Bloor and Bathurst area. Staff/Metroland FULL STORY: insidetoronto.com/citycentre-toronto-on

METROLAND MEDIA TORONTO APPOINTS GEORGIA BALOGIANNIS AS MANAGING EDITOR Georgia Balogiannis has been named Managing Editor, Metroland Media Toronto announced. Balogiannis is responsible for managing the daily operations of the newsroom, as well as contributing to the editorial strategy of the nine community newspapers and its news website, insidetoronto.com Dan Pearce/Metroland FULL STORY: Insidetoronto.com/citycentre

FEEDING OUR KIDS: WHAT IS TORONTO DOING TO COMBAT CHILD POVERTY Hundreds of thousands of Canadian children are growing up in poverty. In Ontario, more than 370,000 children (or 13.8 per cent) lived in a low-income household in 2013, only slightly better than the national average of 14.3 per cent. Poverty often means food insecurity, an inability to fully participate at school and difficulty accessing services. Metroland file photo FULL STORY: Insidetoronto.com/citycentre

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ONE FINAL BASH PLANNED FOR HONEST ED’S Honest Ed’s has long been a place where people of all stripes could feel welcome. A party being planned by the Centre for Social Innovation aims to honour that legacy and promote and highlight Toronto’s diversity and inclusivity. Staff Photo/ADAM DIETRICH FULL STORY: Insidetoronto.com/citycentre

A month of holiday magic in the Distillery Historic District kicked off Friday, Nov. 18 as the seventh annual Toronto Christmas Market opened for another season. Dan Pearce/Metroland FuLL STOry: http://www.insidetoronto.com/toronto-community/

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Anti-Toronto campaigners have started a Free Scarborough campaign, trying to force the province to hold a vote reversing amalgamation which created the Megacity in 1998, at least for Scarborough. Meanwhile, North york councillor Giorgio Mammoliti says amalgamation is also bad for the other former suburban cities merged with Toronto. Mike Adler/Metroland FuLL STOry: http://www.insidetoronto. com/toronto-community/

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SLEDGE HOCKEY EXHIBITION COMING TO ANGELA JAMES ARENA Spectators can watch a sledge hockey exhibition between players from Ontario and Korea at Angela James Arena in Flemingdon Park. This is in lead up to December’s World Sledge Hockey Challenge in PEI, which will see Korea, Norway, silver medallist Canada, and the defending champions the United States in competition. Sabrina Leeder/photo FULL STORY: http://www.insidetoronto.com/toronto-community/

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WE’RE DIFFERENT, TORONTO. LET US OUT CAMPAIGN SAYS Anti-Toronto campaigners have started a Free Scarborough campaign, trying to force the province to hold a vote reversing amalgamation which created the Megacity in 1998, at least for Scarborough. Meanwhile, North York councillor Giorgio Mammoliti says amalgamation is also bad for the other former suburban cities merged with Toronto. Mike Adler/Metroland FULL STORY: http://www.insidetoronto.com/torontocommunity/

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voted not to merge. A generation has passed since Scarborough’s city hall became the half-empty, mostly irrelevant relic of 1970s architecture it is today. Independent Scarborough is gone. Its residents have as much chance of escaping Toronto as people in Leaside, Forest Hill or Long Branch. But an ache remains, not just in Scarborough but everywhere away from the Megacity’s core. At its heart is one conviction: our money flows downtown, and doesn’t return. “We can only remember how happy we were,” says

Mike Adler is a reporter for Metroland Media Toronto. Edges of Toronto is a column about how people see life in Toronto differently, depending on where they live. Reach Mike Adler at madler@insidetoronto.com

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“One day - and then the next - both kids go to school without breakfast. These are the faces of child poverty in our communities.” The City Centre Mirror is published every Thursday at 175 Gordon Baker Rd., Toronto, ON, M2H 0A2, by Metroland Media Toronto, a Division of Metroland Media Group Ltd. The Mirror is a member of the Ontario Press Council. Visit ontpress.com Dana Robbins, Publisher | John Willems, General Manager Joanne Burghardt, Regional Editor-in-Chief Grace Peacock, Editor-in-Chief | Georgia Balogiannis, Managing Editor Cheryl Phillips, Regional Director of Advertising | Anne Beswick, Retail Sales Manager Mike Banville, Director of Circulation and Distribution Operations

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Giorgio Mammoliti, a North York councillor. “All we get are scraps to appease us in the suburbs.” Downtown’s Rail Deck Park, perhaps to cost billions, is far away. In neighbourhoods called Rustic and Oakridge, the city asks residents to show up, vote and then, just maybe, it will put lights in the park or replace cracked sidewalk planters. Suburban councillors fought to save traditions of their former cities, but these were mostly about leaf collection and parking. Those former cities are older now, and poorer. An independent Scarborough in 2018 would have responsibilities its leaders couldn’t fathom as its subdivisions were built. I don’t know what you call your neighbourhood, or why. Does North York still exist for you? Does East York? That’s part of this column, finding out. McDermott still dreams the impossible dream. We’re stuck with each other.

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I have met the Don Quixote of Toronto’s suburbs. He’s out there, mostly on weekends, trying to free Scarborough from the clutches of Toronto by gathering signatures door to door. About 400,000 should do it. Then Kathleen Wynne must listen. Ontario’s premier will hold a vote, and return Scarborough, after two decades of abuse, back to its fiscallyresponsible people. “It’s been an abysmal failure, amalgamation,” says Robert McDermott, leader of the Free Scarborough Campaign. “It was undemocratic, forcefully and arrogantly put through.” McDermott is a realtor who tried running for council in Scarborough, and led a Toronto-wide slate of candidates against our municipal land transfer tax. That didn’t work, and neither will this. Mike Harris didn’t listen in 1997, when people in each of Toronto’s former cities

found at insidetoronto.com They present research that says more than 370,000 Ontario children (or 13.8 per cent) lived in a low-income household in 2013, only slightly better than the national average of 14.3 per cent. They also found that more than 800,000 students take part in more than 4,000 school meal programs across the province. Certainly, initiatives such as the recent changes to the Child Tax Benefit program will help address the problem. As well, accurate, detailed information garnered through the recently restored long-form Census will aid in creating a focused poverty plan. But it could be years before such strategies bear fruit. Other avenues that need to be explored include economic development initiatives that focus on maintaining - and creating - local jobs, investments in training and seeking out ways to help Ontario Works clients secure meaningful employment without worrying about clawbacks to benefits. Most of all, students need to learn life skills and strategies that will help put them on a path to a successful future. Make no mistake: child poverty is family poverty, and it is a cycle we need to break. We all have a part to play. Let’s get to it.

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DREAMING ThE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM OF BREAkING UP TORONTO

This is where it starts: sometime this month - or maybe next - a mid-size company in the Greater Toronto Area is pushed to outsource a department to stay viable. A person loses a job. At first, he finds freelance work, then temporary manual labour gigs. Then, nothing. A single parent, he looks at starting his own business, but that would require an infusion of cash. Or retraining, but that, too, would cost money, and leave the household without an income for an extended period of time. The first things to go are the luxuries - TV packages, smartphones, music lessons. The SUV is traded in for a used compact car. Next come some harder choices - running the washing machine less often to save on hydro and water, fewer trips to the grocery store supplemented with items from the local food bank. One day - and then the next - both kids go to school without breakfast. These are the faces of child poverty in our communities. In a Metroland special investigative series, reporters from community papers across southern Ontario examine the issue of child poverty, which may at first blush not be visible some areas of Toronto. One of the stories is online and in print today, the rest can be

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CITY NEEDS SKATE PARKS, CREATOR OF RAZED DIY PARK SAYS

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The City of Toronto has dismantled an unauthorized skate park at the foot of Paton Road in the Bloor Street and Lansdowne Avenue area.

DOMINIK KUREK dkurek@insidetoronto.com The creator of a do-it-yourself skateboarding park in the Junction Triangle neighbourhood that was razed by City of Toronto crews says more are bound to spring up and this might be the spark that is needed to make it happen. “This demolition doesn’t stop any other skateboarders from going out and throwing some concrete against the wall, because they’re going to keep doing that anyway,” Syd Patterson, 22, told The Villager. “This might actually spark what we needed to get a legitimate space to use as our venue for expression.” He’s referring to the media attention paid to the skate park that was torn down Nov. 7 at the dead-end of Paton Road, just northwest of Bloor Street West and Lansdowne Avenue, that he and his friends had been building since summer. He’s not trying to start a revolution. He just wants a skateboarding facility close to home. He intends to work with local councillor Ana Bail&atilde;o, who had reached out to him, on the creation of a replacement park. The demolition of his park was crushing, but not surprising, he

admitted. Bail&atilde;o moved a motion at City Council that will allow Toronto staff to work with Patterson and his friends on the creation of a new skate park in the area. Whether the new park is built by skateboarders or City staff is still to be decided, Bail&atilde;o said, but she notes that the City should tap into the energy of Toronto’s youth to create spaces for youth, and not be afraid of stepping outside the box. “I think there has to be guidelines, but I think we shouldn’t be afraid, us as individuals and staff here at City Hall and all bureaucracies, to push the boundaries a little bit sometimes. That’s how innovation happens, that’s how community engagement happens,” she said. Dufferin Grove Park is home to Patterson’s closest City-run skate park, only about a kilometre away, but it is seasonal and lacks concrete ramps among other features skateboarders want. His nearest two concrete skate parks are in south Etobicoke and at Ashbridges Bay in the eastend. There’s also a small, concrete “skate spot” near Lansdowne and Queen Street West. As far as the city’s core goes, skate parks are lacking, said Migs

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This map shows Toronto’s skate park network. Bartula, co-chair of the Toronto Skateboarding Committee. The committee, comprised mostly of skateboarders, formed in late 2013 to work with Toronto’s Parks, Forestry and Recreation department to guide skate park development. They helped develop the Toronto Skateboard Strategy, which council passed in November. The strategy will guide the creation of skateboard facilities and supports community engage-

ment in these developments. Bartula said a north Etobicoke skate park will be rehabilitated in the near future and a new park is planned for Scarborough-Agincourt, plus other projects are in the planning stages. “We have the ball rolling,” he said. “The youth don’t want to keep doing surveys and hearing about this, that, paperwork and meetings. They want to see things get built so they can use it.”

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ROSE AVENUE PUBLIC SCHOOL EMBODIES INCLUSIVENESS, CARING In the diverse St. James Town neighbourhood, students at Rose Avenue Public School are showing what it means to be inclusive and empathetic through a variety of initiatives led by the young students themselves. Staff/Metroland FULL STORY: insidetoronto.com/citycentre-toronto-on

WEIGH IN ON THE FUTURE OF YONGEDAVISVILLE PUBLIC REALM Midtown residents took to the streets in the Yonge-Davisville area on Saturday, Nov. 19 to examine and discuss the public realm in the midtown neighbourhood, citing bike lanes and wider sidewalks as being some of their top priorities. Justin Skinner/Metroland FULL STORY: insidetoronto.com/ citycentre-toronto-on

FROM NURSE TO PATIENT: CANCER SURVIVOR GIVES BACK Having helped countless cancer patients through her work at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Shannon Nixon knows the value of the research done there. Having battled cancer personally, she is that much more aware of its importance. Staff/Metroland FULL STORY: insidetoronto.com/citycentre-toronto-on

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ngela grew up poor and was determined to make a better life for herself. She owned a construction business with her husband, but in 2009, after he beat her during a night of drinking, she left with her three children. Angela, who agreed to speak to us anonymously, said she never expected to wind up with “three kids on the street, basically looking for the kindness of strangers to help me out.” The local women’s shelter would not admit boys older than 12 and Angela’s oldest was 15. That night in the emergency room, a nurse offered her a basement apartment. Since then, Angela and her three children, who live in Owen Sound, have come face-to-face with poverty

and learned first-hand how it undermines opportunities to rebuild. In addition to lacking money for a car, telephone or food, Angela worries about her children’s mental and physical health. Stress, anger, anxiety and a sense of isolation, coupled with the poor-quality, processed, high-carbohydrate diet provided by food banks have led to asthma, stomach problems and poor immunity. “I couldn’t figure out why they were sick all the time,” she said, adding she would be called away from work frequently to tend to ill children, which made it hard to hold down a job. Angela’s three children struggled with school and missed out on school trips and extracurricular activities because even $5 for pizza day was out of reach. Housing was also a problem and the family has moved frequently. In one instance, Angela asked her

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The Aroma of France and Korea WHEN: 7 p.m. WHERE: Alliance Francaise, 24 Spadina Rd. CONTACT: , 416-922-2014 Ext.37, , culturel@alliance-francaise.ca COST: Free A chamber music concert, focused on works for flute, clarinet, piano and vocal. Program includes various French composers classical music, Korean-Canadian composer and the Toronto Messiaen Ensemble artistic director, Gideon Gee-Bum Kim’s new work based on a Korean folk tune.

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One of a Kind Show and Sale WHEN: 10 a.m. WHERE: Enercare Centre, Exhibition Place, 100 Princes’ Blvd CONTACT: oneofakindshow.com/ toronto/index.php COST: Various Connecting makers and buyers who have an appreciation of boundless creativity, local production, and exquisite craftsmanship.

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Q&A WITH YORK AUTHOR OF TWO NEW BOOKS Life and wellness coach, and lifelong Toronto resident Virginia Presseault has recently published two books. One is a mystery/humour novel; the other is a life-coaching book. Maria Sergeyev/photo FULL STORY: http://www.insidetoronto.com/toronto-community/

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ACTRESS BRINGS HER LOVE OF THEATRE BACK TO GUILDWOOD Rochelle Bulmer was back on the worn parquet floor of the gym at Guildwood Junior Public School, where she graduated from Grade 6 in 1997. But this time she was there to spread love of the arts. Thanks to a Ontario Trillium Foundation Grant, Play, A (Mini) History of Theatre for Kids, by One Little Goatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s artistic director Adam Seelig, is touring public schools in Toronto at no cost to the school board. Mike Adler/Metroland FULL STORY: http://www. insidetoronto.com/torontocommunity/

QUEEN WEST THEATRE CENTRE CLOSES CAPITAL CAMPAIGN AFTER $500K GIFT The Theatre Centre in Queen West announced it received a $500,000 gift from the former lieutenantgovernor of New Brunswick Margaret Norrie McCain, which helped close its $6.2-million capital campaign. Metroland file photo FULL STORY: http://www.insidetoronto.com/parkdale-toronto-on

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