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Phoenix will rise at 200 Wellesley St. E. JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com With a little help from Mother Nature, work has started on what many believe will become the world’s tallest mural.

The mural, which will adorn the south wall and a small portion of the west side of the

Toronto Community Housing building, at 200 Wellesley St. E., is set to reach some 250 feet up the side of the apartment complex.

Youth from the Sustainable Thinking and Expression on Public Spaces (STEPS) initiative have been hard at work painting the lower portion of

the 32-storey building while professional muralists have begun on the upper portion.

The mural will depict a phoenix rising up the side of the building, a fitting symbol given the way building residents banded together after they were displaced by a fire that blazed through their building in Sept.

2010.

“The mural depicts a number of symbols from the various communities who live here in St. James Town and the phoenix is a reference to the fire and the strength of the people who live here,” said Vera Belazelkoska of the STEPS initiative. >>>mural, page 5

As Canada’s judicial system continues to allow more and more young offenders to fall through the cracks, a small group is looking to help get those in the youth criminal justice system back on the right path.

The Cypher Writers’ Collective provides creative writing workshops to male young offenders aged 13 to 18 in Operation Springboard residences across Toronto.

Founded by York-based poet and educator Whitney French and downtown Toronto-based poet and essayist Jacob Scheier, the collective brings hip hop, spoken word and other artists to the open custody facilities to provide stable programming and a creative outlet for those they serve.

“Our goal is to help them exercise some form of writing,” French said. “Hip hop’s a core focus because the majority of the youth are involved in hip hop culture, but it’s not always that way.”

French added the collective does not buy into the glorification of violence prevalent in some corners of the hip hop world, but helps the youth express themselves in more positive ways.

“With hip hop, we focus more on bravado, which I love as a >>>hip hop, page 12

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Bloorcourt sculptor’s piece is part of AGO exhibit JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com

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he Art Gallery of Ontario’s upcoming exhibition featuring the works of acclaimed Chinese artist, architect and activist Ai Weiwei has given rise to an opportunity for a local sculptor as well.

Bloorcourt area resident Sean Martindale will have a piece honouring the Chinese artist on display at the AGO to coincide with the larger exhibition, Ai Weiwei: According to What.

Martindale’s sculpture, an impressive eight-foot sculpture of Ai Weiwei dubbed Love the Future / Free Ai Weiwei, was created when Ai was imprisoned by the Chinese government for speaking out against some of his country’s policies.

“I was always aware of (Ai’s) work, but I became more aware of it once he was ‘disappeared’ by the Chinese government,” Martindale said. “It opened my eyes to the actions the

Chinese government was taking not just against Ai Weiwei, but other political activists.”

The sculpture is made of reclaimed cardboard collected mostly from around the Chinatown and Kensington Market communities.

The base of the sculpture features a piece of cardboard with Made in China printed on it, highlighting the fact Canada continues to trade with China despite the human rights abuses perpetrated by the Chinese government.

“I wanted to do something in solidarity, not just with Ai Weiwei, but with all the people who have been imprisoned there just for wanting to express themselves,” Martindale said.

Love the Future / Free Ai Weiwei has already been exhibited in many locations, with its first public showing at the Whippersnapper Gallery near Dundas Street and Spadina Road.

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Sean Martindale’s sculpture of Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei was created out of cardboard largely reclaimed from the Chinatown area.

It has since been shown outside City Hall, Queen’s Park, the Chinese Consulate building and elsewhere.

While the piece draws

attention to the silencing of free speech in China, Martindale knows such freedom cannot be taken for granted anywhere.

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“Even here in Canada, we have to be vigilant to make sure we always keep our freedom of speech,” he said.

Martindale’s work, both in Toronto and beyond, tends to focus on a specific cause. Rather than looking for simple aesthetic appeal, he endeavours to get discussion going on important issues facing the world.

“A lot of my work focuses around public spaces and looks at environmental, social and economic issues, all of which – in my mind – are tied together,” he said.

His Poster Pocket Plants project, which he embarked upon with fellow artist Eric Cheung a few years ago, made waves as the duo cut up illegal poster advertisements posted around the city and folded the paper to create pockets in which they planted greenery.

Love the Future / Free Ai Weiwei will be on display just inside the AGO’s main entrance to go along with the gallery’s Ai Weiwei exhibition.

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ntario’s chief coroner has announced an inquest into three shooting deaths by Toronto police involving people who were carrying edged weapons and “may have been experiencing the effects of a mental disorder at the time of their deaths” over the past three years.

The similarities to the fatal shooting of Sammy Yatim, 18, on a streetcar in the Dundas and Bathurst streets area on July 27 are many.

The coroner’s inquest set for October will look into the deaths of Michael Eligon, 29, in February of 2012 in East York; Sylvia Klibingaitis, 52, in North York in October of 2011; and Pickering resident Reyal Jardine-Douglas who was shot after stepping off a TTC bus on Victoria Park Avenue in August of 2010.

It’s too bad inquests were not called earlier as the question of how police deal with people who may be having a mental health crisis is an extremely important issue which needs clear and consistent guideacross Ontario. our view lines As it stands, Ontario’s Ombudsman Andre Marin is set SIU director to review the Yatim shooting. The province’s Special Investigations suggested Unit (SIU) is also looking into that inquest call shooting to determine if police actions were justified.

In the shooting deaths of Eligon, Klibingaitis and Jardine-Douglas, the SIU said the Toronto police officers were justified in using lethal force.

However, it’s important to note that in its report in May of last year into the Eligon shooting, SIU director Ian Scott said the incident raised a number of questions beyond his organization’s mandate. He said those questions would be best answered by a coroner’s inquest.

Among Scott’s questions were: Should front-line police officers receive different training to deal with these situations and should front-line police officers be issued Tasers?

In the Eligon shooting, the front-line officers responding to the call did not have Tasers. They also did not have access to the services of a crisis intervention team consisting of a mental health professional and specially trained police officer to help deal with such situations.

The same scenario played out in the Yatim shooting. A crisis team was not on hand and the officer with the Taser did not board the streetcar until Yatim had been shot.

We called for such an inquest in a May 2012 editorial and while we’re pleased action is now being taken; it should have been called sooner.

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Holyday will be missed by the mayor

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n a couple of days it’ll be official. Doug Holyday, the former mayor of Etobicoke, councillor for Ward 3 (Etobicoke Centre) and deputy for Mayor Rob Ford will have left the building, to become Toronto’s lone Progressive Conservative MPP at Queen’s Park.

Will Ford miss him when he’s gone?

Based on Holyday’s agile defence of the mayor’s nocturnal ramblings last weekend at the Taste of the Danforth? Almost certainly.

The mayor has been in this apparently inebriated place before: in this case in a state that most reasonable observers would surmise to be impaired, alone, near his SUV, looking for a party and finding one amid a gleeful crowd of east-Danforth revellers and their snapping, filming cellphone cameras.

Social media was abuzz; the mayor’s colleagues on council, aghast. Once

david nickle the city again, Toronto’s news media gathered outside the elevator in front of Ford’s office, to follow up on Ford’s assertion Sunday on radio that he’d just had “a couple” of beers and the whole thing was blown out of proportion. ford loses ally Holyday came out swinging, suggesting that those media – and presumably the good people of Greenwood and Danforth – were exaggerating the mayor’s condition, hounding him as no other politician has been hounded, and he worried about the “toll” all this attention would take on the mayor.

When a reporter asked: what about the “tone” of the mayor’s behaviour, Holyday feigned lawyerly

mystification at what that word meant. Then another reporter asked about the seemingly sloshed mayor’s proximity to his vehicle, counsel-cum-deputyfor-the-mayor Holyday demanded to know if the journalist was accusing Ford of driving drunk and if he knew that to be so for a fact.

The only bone that he threw (at least the only one not aimed at an eye) was acknowledging that the mayor might not get enough sleep sometimes, and should really get a driver. defends mayor

In short: Holyday spun it like a pro, turning Ford’s embarrassing and frankly pitiable lapse on Friday night into a partisan, mobdriven assault on a good man.

Aside from his own brother Councillor Doug Ford, the mayor has few allies on council that will

contort themselves so readily to cover his backside.

When Norm Kelly, Holyday’s named replacement, spoke with the media just hours before the mayor’s arrival on the Danforth, he made it clear that he was fundamentally interested in the wellbeing of the city and left it at that.

Other allies on the executive committee weren’t much more supportive following the Friday night crawl.

Fact is that there are few such as Holyday left on council, so able to combine patrician grace and charm with such wellhoned yet utterly-malleable partisan instincts, to assert that black is indeed white and defend a mayor who won’t accept the intervention he appears to need.

He’ll be missed all right.

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Mural a symbol for St. James Town Community >>>from page 1 The project has been tied up by bureaucratic snafus, and the inclement weather has posed additional problems with wind making it too dangerous for the professional muralists to ride scaffolds up the side of the building and rain making it impossible to paint at all.

Some have also expressed opposition to the mural, which Belazelkoska said is largely due to miscommunication.

“It’s mostly from people who have been told the funding for this was through (Toronto Community Housing) money and that the money should go toward fixing their building,” she said. “The money’s not coming from TCHC at all.”

Belazelkoska said the lion’s share of the funding – $24,000 of the roughly $40,000 required – came from StreetARToronto, a City of Toronto program to beautify streets and communities.

The remainder of the funding was donated by the Ontario Trillium Foundation, the Ontario Arts Council, ING Direct and through in-kind donations.

While the mural raised some hackles when the misinformation

was being spread, Belazelkoska said attitudes have begun to change.

“We’ve had a lot of people come up to us and say ‘I’m telling people the truth about your mural (that the funding did not come from TCHC,)” she said.

Young painter Samantha Goh, 18, said the turnaround in the community’s attitude has been remarkable.

“We’re getting some really positive feedback from the people living here,” she said. “There’s also been some negative feedback, but that’s getting less and less.”

The youth – most of whom live in St. James Town or attended school at Jarvis Collegiate – have been planning the mural throughout the year, with painting starting in earnest in early August. Along with organizers from STEPS, the youth canvassed residents and held community information sessions to try to spread the word.

While the painters acknowledge some are still opposed to the mural, most residents have positive reactions.

“We had one lady who was against the mural at the beginning who came by yesterday and said she loves the

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Top photo: Ameerah Rashid, left, and Samantha Goh work on a mural at Wednesday afternoon, while volunteers work on prepping the wall.

idea now,” Goh said. “She even put her handprint in paint on the side of the wall.”

The taller portions of the mural will provide huge challenges to the professional muralists tasked with painting the upper segment of the building.

Jason Rouleau of Toronto Muralists said it will likely take some 20 gallons of primer and 40 gallons of paint to complete the mural.

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Work on the mural will continue through August with an official unveiling set to take place in September after the work is done.

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“Wind’s the biggest challenge for something this high, for sure,” he said. “There’s also going to be a challenge in laying out the image and making sure it’s proportioned.”

He pointed out having a chance to work on a mural believed by organizers to be the world’s tallest adds an even greater sense of pride to the work.

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egent Park’s Paintbox Bistro has made a name for itself as a restaurant, a job creator and a key social support in the community.

Now it can add educational venue to its list of functions.

Paintbox Bistro is home to the Junior Jazz Jam program, a collaboration between the Daniels Corporation and radio station JAZZ.FM91, which sees professional musicians performing free interactive concerts for children and families.

The series is designed to foster a love and appreciation of music while teaching youngsters some of the ins and outs of the art form.

The Junior Jazz Jam series started with a performance by the FreePlay Duo in late July and continues with its second installment on Saturday, Aug. 17.

Parkdale resident and longtime Canadian Children’s Opera Company (CCOC) member Sophia Perlman will lead the second session with the Sophia Perlman Quartet.

“It’s fun exploring how to make music with kids and I’ll be taking it into a jazz context,” she said. “I want to find songs from the Great American Songbook that are earworms and really get them excited about singing and about music.”

Perlman, who grew up in the Kensington Market neighbourhood, has plenty of experience working with kids, having spent years doing outreach work with the CCOC’s OPERAtion KIDS program. OPERAtion KIDS brings opera to children at schools and afterschool programs.

“We need to give kids a way to find their passion for music,” she said.

Junior Jazz Jam is an extension of JAZZ.FM91’s mandate. The not-for-profit broadcaster and arts organization brings more than

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Sophia Perlman will perform as part of the Junior Jazz Jam series at Paintbox Bistro this weekend.

music, offering educational and cultural programming to listeners.

“There was a lot of consultation in the (Regent Park) community to find out how to serve this area from an arts perspective,” said Mark Micklethwaite of JAZZ.FM91.

“We’ve done other programming in Paintbox Bistro, including a live-toair (broadcast) in March with local artists like (pianist) Thompson Egbo-Egbo and (spoken word artist) Mustafa Ahmed.”

The Junior Jazz Jam series will give residents a chance to enjoy brunch as their children take in the shows, which double as music lessons.

“The whole idea for the series is to present a broad range of music and provide a lot of opportunities for

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We need to give kids a way to find their passion for music..

– Sophia Perlman

interaction with the kids,” Micklethwaite said.

The second Junior Jazz Jam featuring the Sophia Perlman Quartet will take place at Paintbox Bistro, 555 Dundas St. E., from 10 to 11 a.m. on Saturday.

Subsequent sessions will feature DRUMHAND on Sept. 21, Thompson Egbo-Egbo on Oct. 19, Heather Bambrick on Nov. 23 and Regent Park School of Music director Richard Marsella on Dec. 14.

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Etobicoke choir member, Bob, said “Joining My Pop Choir was one of the best decisions I’ve made. Just learning a great song like California Dreamin’ together, in harmony, with everyone is amazing but then there’s this sense of community you feel when you’re gathered together singing, laughing, making mistakes and then getting it.”

Choir members agree that there are tremendous physical and psychological benefits to being a part of My Pop Choir. “It’s virtually impossible to think of anything else when you’re at a “YOU DON’T NEED SINGING EXPERIENCE OR KNOW HOW TO READ MUSIC AND THERE ARE NO AUDITIONS OR SOLOS. THE EXPERIENCE IS ABOUT FUN, FREEDOM AND LEAVING YOUR WORRIES AT THE DOOR.”

session. It’s therapeutic! There’s almost as much laughter at My Pop Choir sessions as there is singing,” says Oakville choir member Jenny Anderson. “No one thinks they’re a particu-

Asked where the idea of My Pop Choir came from, Jacqueline says that she is like other My Pop Choir members. “I love to sing and looked for something like this; a place where I could feel comfortable, not feel judged, sing pop and rock, not religious songs. I couldn’t find what I wanted, so I created it.”

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Hip hop artists enlisted to help >>>from page 1 non-violent form of expression,” she said.

To help with the programming, the collective has enlisted the help of hip hop artists Progress, Spin El Poeta and Jaydahmann to facilitate the workshops.

While it was tough sledding getting the program off the ground, it has since gained some traction.

“When we first started approaching people, there was a lot of hesitation and non-interest from the facilities and from some of the youth,” French said. “Now that we’ve been at it for a while, we’ve heard from the youth and from some of the staff (in the facilities) that they’re looking forward to it.”

French admitted to some nervousness on her own part when the collective first started out as well.

“I’ve done work with high school students through the TCDSB (Toronto Catholic District School Board), with CAMH (Centre for Addiction and Mental Health) through

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“For us to be there every week is very powerful for them,” French said.

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The collective also imparts a sense of agency to the youth, both by making them responsible for their own work and by underscoring the responsibilities they left behind when they were placed into the youth criminal justice system.

“We ask them to name some people who rely on them and then, without preaching at them, we say ‘well, these people are relying on you, but you’re not there for them,’” French said.

The facilitators force the youth to take accountability for their actions while acknowledging that life or other circumstances often contributed to them being arrested.

“We don’t want to make them feel like they’re bad kids, but at the same time, we make sure they understand that in most cases they had choices to make,” French said.

T h e Cy p h e r Wr i t e r s’ Collective is hosting a benefit to raise funds for its programs with its resident hip hop artists, the Youth Funk Band and an open mic.

The event, dubbed Free Write, will take place at Revival Bar, 783 College St., from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 16.

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Police chief Bill Blair has sought out a retired Ontario chief justice to review the Toronto Police Service’s useof-force options in dealing with emotionally disturbed people.

Blair made the announcement during a news conference at police headquarters Monday, just over two weeks after 18-year-old Sammy Yatim was shot and killed by a police officer while wielding a knife on an empty streetcar on Dundas Street.

Dennis O’Connor, who sat on the Ontario Court of Appeal from 1998 to 2012, will examine how police respond to the emotionally disturbed and will make recommendations on the force’s policies, procedures, training and equipment.

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“There’s an enormous public concern about the way in which these incidents are responded to. I understand that concern, I share that concern.”

Blair said he’s “very much assured” that the report will be made public.

The province’s police w a t c h d o g , t h e Sp e c i a l Investigations Unit, is continuing to investigate Yatim’s death.

The officer who fired the shots that killed the teen has been suspended with pay.

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Blair said he has a responsibility to both citizens and officers “to ensure that we are absolutely thorough in the conduct of an objective and intense study of all of the ways in which we might be able to improve the policy framework that we operate under.”

O’Connor has conducted two high-profile public inquiries: the Walkerton Inquiry (2000 to 2002) and the Maher Arar Inquiry (2004 to 2006).

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Upgrades, closures, construction New name for subway station recognizes district intersection wFinancial A makeover of the financial district’s most prominent intersection is nearly complete.

New banners and street pole wraps are up at King and Bay streets, part of an extensive streetscape renovation commenced in early summer.

The renovation includes new street signs, black metal garbage receptacles to replace the less durable plastic “turtle” bins and a thorough power wash of the intersection’s sidewalk.

The improvements are scheduled for completion by the end of August. track replacement work wStreetcar

The intersection of King Street West and Spadina Avenue remains shut for another week as streetcar track replacement work continues.

The intersection was closed Tuesday, Aug. 6 for two weeks. On Aug. 20, one lane in either direction on King and

rahul gupta TO in TRANSIT two lanes south on Spadina will re-open as construction crews work to complete track and road work.

While the closure continues both the 504 King and 508 Lakeshore streetcar lines as well as replacement buses for the 510 Spadina route will divert around the intersection.

The work is scheduled for completion by Aug. 31. station closure set to start wPape

The TTC is set to shutter Pape Station to complete extensive renovation work.

The station has been under construction since 2009. It will close for 12 days as of Aug 19 to speed up the remaining projects, which include installing an elevator, tiling and ceiling work and finishing the redesigned station bus bay and new enclosed passenger waiting area.

The shutdown was initially

planned for June but delayed by a job action by tile workers contracted by the TTC. To learn more about the Pape station renovations visit www.pape.ttc.ca. subway supports removed wCancelled

Last week, construction crews began relocating overhead power lines along Eglinton Ave. W. to pave the way for the removal of support piles belonging to a long cancelled subway project.

While the first stage of tunnel construction for the Eglinton Crosstown light rail transit (LRT) project proceeds below Eglinton toward Allen Rd., Metrolinx must remove the support piles located east of the Allen – vestiges of the old Eglinton subway halted in 1995 – so as not to interfere with future tunnelling.

The relocation work is expected to last several weeks.

For more information visit www.thecrosstown.ca

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nearby Black Creek Pioneer Village RAHUL GUPTA rgupta@insidetoronto.com The subway station once known as Steeles West is getting another name change following a compromise by the TTC’s board of commissioners.

Part of the six-stop TorontoYork Spadina subway extension, the Steeles West name was changed by the board last September to Black Creek Pioneer Village in honour of the heritage attraction located 800 metres from the station’s planned site at the intersection of Steeles Avenue West and Northwest Gate.

But during this week’s TTC board meeting, a majority of commissioners agreed to support a compromise floated by commissioner Maria Augimeri to again rename the station Pioneer Village.

Augimeri, who strongly supported the original name change, said the compromise would still allow the TTC to showcase the historical city

attraction.

“I think cutting the name down still gives the appropriateness of the site,” she told her fellow board members during the meeting held last month at City Hall.

But commissioner John Parker argued the name change would mislead visitors into thinking Black Creek Pioneer Village is right by the station.

“If we’re careless with our naming we’re going to give the appearance the station is something that it isn’t,” he said, urging the board to return the original Steeles West moniker.

Following the decision, TTC chair Karen Stintz promised Pioneer Village will remain the permanent name of the station, which is scheduled to open the middle of 2016.

“As far as I’m concerned, that’s it,” said Stintz who did not vote in favour of the name change.

She promised the station’s construction timeline would

not be delayed because of the name change.

TTC CEO Andy Byford also did not support the decision, noting changing the name to Pioneer Village will result in additional costs to re-design the station’s architectural cornice plus materials fees.

Earlier it was revealed a name change to Black Creek Pioneer Village would have cost the transit commission at least $25,000.

He was also concerned the TTC was deviating from its traditional practice of naming stations in order to make them easier to find.

“We have a tried and tested policy of naming stations after major roads and intersections,” said Byford following the meeting. “It’s also the most user-friendly policy.”

The station is still described as Steeles West on the TTC’s project website for the Spadina subway extension.

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maple leaf gardens marks first birthday wFormer A year into its run, Ryerson’s Mattamy Athletic Centre has experienced quite the run.

The centre, located in the former Maple Leaf Gardens, was officially re-opened Aug. 13, 2012 with an ice rink that has served Ryerson students and the public.

The centre has hosted events ranging from an NHLPA charity

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The centre was named one of North America’s 10 most historic stadiums by ESPN.

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The festival offers free street concerts and shows in Harbord

The Toronto Chinatown Festival is set to return for the 13th year.

The downtown festival celebrates Chinese culture with multicultural street food, merchandise booths, performances, panda mascots and a grand parade.

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DAVID NICKLE dnickle@insidetoronto.com Mayor Rob Ford’s wordslurring appearance at the Taste of the Danforth is indicative of nothing but too much public scrutiny says Doug Holyday, Ford’s outgoing deputy mayor.

“I just think that this mayor has gone through such scrutiny,” said Holyday, responding to the flurry of photographs and videos that appeared on social media Friday night, Aug. 9.

“Everything he does is under such scrutiny, that no other politician has had before that I know of. I just hope it doesn’t take a toll on him.”

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However, it follows other allegations including an alleged video wherein the mayor appeared to be smoking crack cocaine. And following this incident, some of his fellow councillors expressed renewed concern about the image the mayor is projecting.

“I think he himself should look at his actions,” said Parkdale-High Park Councillor Sarah Doucette.

“He represents the city. I just came back from England, and there, people asked me about the (crack) video.

That’s gained international attention.”

Don Valley East Councillor D e n z i l M i n n a n - Wo n g wouldn’t speak about Ford directly. But he told reporters, “I think it’s important to show good judgement and at political events where you’re representing the city, he needs to be careful,” said Minnan-Wong.

Holyday, however, maintained the videos proved nothing about the mayor’s conduct.

“I thought they were inconclusive, and I really couldn’t determine a lot of what was being said and who was saying it. They’re phone videos and they’re not top quality.”

Holyday said he has never seen the mayor take a drink. “ Whether he does or doesn’t, I haven’t seen that occur,” said Holyday.

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Shrinking shelter system putting more people on the street: Vaughan Homeless up 24% since 2009 survey DAVID NICKLE dnickle@insidetoronto.com Toronto’s 2013 count of street homeless shows that the numbers of those sleeping outdoors has increased by 24 per cent since 2009 – and the number of seniors in the homeless population has doubled in that time.

As well, more than 15 per cent of the 447 individuals surveyed on the night of April 17 said they were veterans of military service.

That question – are you a military veteran – was asked for the first time in the 2013 survey, so it’s impossible to compare it to the snapshot studies completed in 2006 and 2009.

But other demographics among those homeless who slept outdoors showed marked increases since 2009.

Over a third of the group identified as Aboriginal – an increase of 18 per cent – and the percentage of seniors increased from 4.7 per cent in 2009 to 10 per cent in 2014.

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surprise him.

“You see it on the streets and see it in the way the housing referral system is being used,” said Vaughan.

“There are more people on the streets now because the shelter system is shrinking.

We have stopped building housing and as a result there is no capacity to solve the problem.”

Vaughan said Torontonians need to apply pressure to the federal and provincial

governments to invest in new affordable housing.

“We have land and ways of building housing but we need money,” said Vaughan.

“We have to start building housing – not just repairing it. Otherwise we are going to end up with tragedies on city streets this winter.”

To see the preliminary results of the 2013 Street Needs Assessment, visit www.toronto.ca/housing/ SNA2013interim_report.htm

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Articles for Sale

Articles for Sale (Misc.)

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Apartments & Flats for Rent

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Burton Electric Inc. 416 419-1772

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Pot lights Service upgrades Breakers/Panels FREE ESTIMATES

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BI-WEEKLY AT 2.9% APR FOR 84 MONTHS WITH $0 DOWN FREIGHT AND FEES INCLUDED. HST EXTRA Limited time lease and finance offers available from Toyota Financial Services on approved credit. *All-in price of a new 2013 Corolla CE Automatic (Model BU42EPC) is $20,644. All-in price includes freight and fees (PDE, EHF, OMVIC fee and air condition tax, where applicable). HST, licensing, registration and insurance are extra. †0% purchase finance APR on a new 2013 Corolla CE (Model BU42EPC) for 84 months equals a bi-weekly payment of $113 for 182 bi-weekly payments with a down payment or trade equivalent of $0. Cost of borrowing is $0 for a total obligation of $20,644. $2,000 Cash Customer Incentive is valid on retail delivery of a new 2013 Corolla CE Automatic for all Toyota retail customers except customers who lease or purchase finance through Toyota Financial Services at a special rate of interest offered by Toyota as part of a low rate interest program.

Advertised lease and finance rates are special rates. Offers valid to retail customers (excluding fleet sales) when purchased from Downtown Toyota. Cash Customer Incentive will take place at time of delivery, include tax and will apply after taxes have been charged on the full amount of the negotiated price. Vehicles receiving Cash Customer Incentives must be purchased, registered and delivered between August 1 and September 3, 2013. ** $200 Gas Coupon is valid on the purchase of any new 2013 or 2014 Toyota purchased at Downtown Toyota only until August 31st, 2013. One coupon per new vehicle purchased and $200 Gas coupon offer may not be combined with any other offer. ~For information purposes only. Effective rate on a new 2013 Corolla CE with an all-in price of $20,644 is 2.9% APR, taking into consideration the $2,000 Cash Customer Incentive waived by the customer. ΩDealer Fees may be added and may be comprised of administration/documentation fees, VIN Etching, anti-theft products, cold weather packages or other fees. Fees may vary by Dealer. Offers are valid between August 1 and September 3, 2013, and are subject to change without notice. All rights are reserved. Please visit or call Downtown Toyota 416 465 5471 for full details.

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*For a limited time receive 0% purchase financing for up to 84 months OAC on a new 2013 Nissan Rogue (except Rogue S FWD CVT Transmission Model W6RG 13 AA 00) or $5,000 Cash purchaser’s discount. Cash purchaser’s discount is based on non-stackable trading dollars and is applicable to all 2013 Nissan Rogue models except W6RG 13 AA 00. The $5,000 cash purchaser’s discount is only available on the cash purchase of select new 2013 Rogue models (excluding the W6RG 13 AA 00 trim Model). The cash purchaser’s discounts will be deducted from the negotiated selling price before taxes and cannot be combined with special lease or finance rates. This offer cannot be combined with any other offer and is valid until September 3rd. Conditions apply. See Nissan Downtown for complete details. **Offer available to mall qualified retail customers who lease, finance, (and take delivery), or cash purchase a 2013 Rogue on approved credit between August 1, 2013 and September 3, 2013. **Purchase or lease a 2013 Rogue by September 3, 2013 and you can choose to receive a Preferred Price Petro-Canada Gas Card redeemable as follows: 40 cents per litre savings applies to 2,600L on a 1013 Rogue. See Nissan Downtown or visit www.choosenissan.ca for details. Offer available only to qualifying retail customers. **First two (2) monthly lease/finance payments (including all taxes) will be waived, up to a maximum of $600 (inclusive of taxes) per month. Consumer is responsible for any and all amounts in excess of $600 (inclusive of taxes). After two (2) months consumer will be required to make all remaining regularly scheduled payments over the remaining term of the contract. This offer cannot be combined with the $5000 cash purchaser’s discount on all 2013 Rogue models except Rogue S FWD (W6RG 13 AA 00), CVT transmission. **No Charge Extended Warranty is valid for up to 60 months or 100,000 Km (Whichever occurs first). Some conditions/limitations apply. The No Charge Extended Warranty is the Nissan Added Security Plan (“ASP”) and is administered by Nissan Canada Extended Services Inc. In all Provinces NC ESI is the Obligor. See details at www.choosenissan.ca . Offers subject to change, continuation or cancellation without notice.

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^$2,000 Delivery Credit is available on the cash purchase/lease/finance of a new Lexus 2013 RX 350 sfx ‘A’ models only, and will be deducted from the negotiated purchase/lease/finance price after taxes. Limited time offer is subject to change without notice. †Complete Lexus Price for a 2013 RX 350 sfx ‘A’ is $47,080. ~2013 RX 350 F Sport package shown: $60,030. Complete Lexus exus Price includes freight /PDI ($1,995), EHF Tires ($29), EHF Filters ($1), A/C Tax ($100), and OMVIC Fee ($5). Taxes, license, registration (if applicable), dealer fees and insurance are extra. *Lease and finance offers provided through Lexus Financial Services, on approved credit. 1.9% lease rate/0.9% financing rate available on all new Lexus 2013 RX 350 models. *Representative lease example based on a 2013 ES 350 sfx ‘A’ on a 48 month term at an annual rate of 2.9% and a Complete Lexus Price of $41,630. Monthly payment is $399 with $4,350 down payment or equivalent trade in, $0 security deposit and first monthly payment due at lease inception. Total lease obligation is $23,494. 80,000 kilometre allowance; charge of $0.20/ km for excess kilometres. *Representative lease example based on a 2013 RX 350 sfx ‘A’ on a 48 month term at an annual rate of 1.9% and Complete Lexus Price of $47,080. Monthly payment is $498 with $3,700 down payment or equivalent trade in, $0 security deposit and first monthly payment due at lease inception. Total lease obligation is $27,616. 80,000 kilometre allowance; charge of $0.20/km for excess kilometres. **Representative finance example includes taxes and is based on a 2013 RX 350 sfx ‘A’ on a 24 month term at an annual rate of 0.9% and Complete Lexus Price of $47,080 (excluding taxes). Monthly payment is $2,153. Cost of borrowing is $481 for a total obligation of $51,682. Limited time offers only apply to retail customers.

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Bi-weekly payments are $92. No down payment required. Cost of Borrowing is $0. Finance offers include Delivery and Destination of $1,550 fees, levies, and all applicable charges (excluding HST). Finance Offers exclude registration, insurance, PPSA and license fees. Delivery and Destination charge includes freight, P.D.E., dealer admin fees and a full tank of gas. Financing example: 2013 Elantra GL 6-Speed Manual for $19,285 (includes $750 price adjustment) at 0% per annum equals $92 bi-weekly for 96 months for a total obligation of $19,285. Cash price is $19,285. Cost of Borrowing is $0. Example price includes Delivery and Destination of $1,550 fees, levies, and all applicable charges (excluding HST). Finance example excludes registration, insurance, PPSA and license fees. Delivery and Destination charge includes freight, P.D.E., dealer admin fees and a full tank of gas. �Fuel consumption for 2013 Elantra GL 6-Speed Manual (HWY 5.2L/100KM; City 7.1L/100KM) are based on Energuide. Actual fuel efficiency may vary based on driving conditions and the addition of certain vehicle accessories. Fuel economy figures are used for comparison purposes only. �Price of models shown: 2013 Elantra Limited is $24,985. Prices include Delivery and Destination charge of $1,550 fees, levies, and all applicable charges (excluding HST). Prices exclude registration, insurance, PPSA and license fees. Price adjustments are calculated against the vehicle’s starting price. Price adjustments of up to $750 available on 2013 Elantra GL 6-Speed Manual. Price adjustments applied before taxes. Offer cannot be combined or used in conjunction with any other available offers. Offer is non-transferable and cannot be assigned. No vehicle trade-in required.

Based on the June YTD 2013 AIAMC report. †�Offers available for a limited time, and subject to change or cancellation without notice. See Downtown Hyundai for complete details. Inventory is limited, dealer order may be required. ††Hyundai’s Comprehensive Limited Warranty coverage covers most vehicle components against defects in workmanship under normal use and maintenance conditions.

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