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BETWEEN-PERIOD PLAY: Ryerson University mascot, Eggy, joins the action during Hockey Day at the Mattamy Centre on Saturday. The Whitby Wildcats took over the ice in between periods of a Ryerson Rams game against the University of Waterloo. Ryerson won 5-1. See more photos from the game on page 3.

Museum asks public to share in its ROM ReCollects project JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com Having spent the past century showcasing history and prehistory, the Royal Ontario Museum is taking the opportunity to highlight its own storied past.

The ROM is looking to the public to share their own experiences at the museum through its centennial project ROM ReCollects. The project, which is being displayed online, offers stories, photos and videos dating back to the venue’s open-

ing in 1914.

Headed up by Julia Matthews and appearing on the ROM’s website, ROM ReCollects offers people a chance to add their own stories to the museum’s history or simply read up on >>>MOST, page 11

Meeting highlights divide over Central Tech dome JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com A public meeting to discuss the future of Central Tech’s field showed a strong divide between those in favour of proposed changes to the field and those opposed.

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Loss of green space stirring strong opposition >>>from page 1 duct the work on the $6 m i l l i o n p r o j e c t . Ra z o r Management would cover the cost of the project and then run the field.

Community groups would pay user fees to use the field.

Several members of the Harbord Village community and Adam Vaughan, the councillor in whose ward the school sits, have expressed strong opposition to the plan, citing a loss of access to the green space, the obscuring of Central Tech’s historic façade by the dome and traffic concerns, among other issues. “ We j u s t d o n’t h a v e green space in this area and Central Tech’s field is an important resource for residents here,” said Harbord Village Residents’ Association chair Tim Grant in an interview.

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I’ve personally played on it, I’ve coached kids on it, the field is not safe.

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“If we lose that field because of this plan, it’s gone forever.”

At a community meeting held last Thursday, however, Mayor Rob Ford spoke out in favour of the plan, saying there is a need for proper athletic facilities for youngsters in the area.

“I’ve personally played on it, I’ve coached kids on it, the field is not safe,” Ford said after the meeting.

Va u g h a n i s a n g r y i t appears the TDSB brokered a deal with Razor Management without holding enough community consultation.

Last fall, the councillor

applied to have Central Tech designated a heritage site in hopes of halting the project, or at least ensuring no dome is installed, thereby obscuring the view of the 100-year-old school.

Residents are upset over the fact that the field serves as one of the few green spaces in the Harbord Village community. The track is popular among joggers and the field itself is often used by local residents when Central Tech students are not playing on it.

Those residents were shocked to find the field fenced off in December when a soil study being conducted by Razor Management showed the ground to be contaminated with heavy metals.

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Students skate (board) through innovative TDSB program JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com The mainstream school curriculum leaves some students feeling alienated and unfulfilled. A new Toronto District School Board (TDSB) program being run out of the Scadding Court Community Centre manages to both help students meet the curriculum’s requirements and keep them engaged.

The Oasis Skateboard Factory gets students – many of whom had dropped out of traditional schooling – to earn credits by building a brand and creating their own skateboard company.

“I founded it five years ago out of an idea I had to keep kids interested in school,” said TDSB teacher and Oasis Skateboard Factory founder Craig Morrison. “It’s school, but it’s also a social enterprise.”

The school gives students a chance to actually manufacture skateboards, come up with and apply their own designs and market the brand. They also create buttons, T-shirts and other swag as promotional tools.

For student Jacob Eisenstein, the school offered challenges and opportunities not present in the traditional school system.

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Staff photos/JUSTIN SKINNER Above, left, Peter Mackinnon, left, and Jacob Eisenstein work on a skateboard at the Oasis Skateboard Factory on Friday. Above right, Hannah Duncan works on a skateboard.

out of a (school) package that will be marked and thrown away,” Eisenstein said. “This board we’re working on now, somebody paid for it. Somebody’s going to ride it.”

Fellow student Peter Mackinnon said the ability to create his own brand creates added incentive, as does the fact the students share in the profits. They receive a portion of the money from the sale of their

skateboards while the remainder goes toward supplies for the students’ work.

“Comparing what we’re doing here (to traditional high school), there’s just no comparison,” said Mackinnon. “We come here and we work hard, but it’s something we’re passionate about.”

The school is intensive, with students attending for five hours a day,

without breaks. There are snacks available in the classroom to allow the students to power through without stopping.

While the most visible part of the school experience revolves around creating skateboards, students also meet English requirements by writing artist statements, zines and articles for professional skateboarding magazines.

“It’s the core elements of English but it’s connected to real-world results,” said Oasis Skateboard Factory teacher Lauren Hortie.

“Looking after the business side of their brand looks after the math part of curriculum, too, but it’s presented more as a job and something they can call their own.”

The students’ work has been showcased at the Baitshop – a skateboard shop in Parkdale – and at the Toronto Design Offsite Festival among other places.

Creating and cultivating their own brands gives the students more of a sense of agency over their work, and as a result the Oasis Skateboard Factory has close to a 100 per credit completion rate. That is remarkable for any school, let alone one in which most of the students have already dropped out of the conventional schooling system.

With 26 students enrolled, the school is at capacity, though Morrison and Hortie hope to see it expanded further.

“We would love to have a storefront space where we have a window so the public can see the great work that these students are doing,” Hortie said.

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Rams on ice Left top, Ryan Vilim gets a closer look at the Conn Smythe Trophy during Hockey Day events at the Mattamy Centre on Saturday afternoon. Left below, Ryerson University netminder Troy Passingham, left, and defenseman Dean Willmott fend off a scoring attempt by the University of Waterloo’s Matt Amadio during Ontario University Athletics action at the Mattamy Centre. Ryerson went on to win the game 5-1. Below, Ryerson University forward Jason Kelly (42) celebrates a Rams goal.

Below right, Jivelle Mendoza and her father Franciso cheer on the home side.

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he ice storm that hit Toronto at the end of last month imposed severe hardship, physically, emotionally and financially, upon hundreds of thousands of residents.

Which makes the behaviour of councillors and the mayor at the special meeting held last Friday and this Monday to approve a call to seek financial help from the provincial and federal governments to help cover ice storm costs so disappointing.

There are many issues surrounding the storm’s impact, costs associated with it and how the city’s leadership dealt with the crisis. The meeting was held to deal with those important items, yet it turned into a forum for petty politics and blatant electioneering.

We deserve better from our officials. And they need to our view elected know most voters can see through what they were up to at the meetWarning: ing, and it will only reflect badly on themselves. After unanimously Voters are approving Monday morning what watching was a no-brainer of a decision to ask for federal and provincial disaster relief funding to cover two-thirds of the estimated of $171-million cost to the city for the ice storm and the flooding in July, the silliness started.

Councillor Karen Stintz, who has said she intends to run for mayor in this year’s election, said Mayor Rob Ford should have handed over authority to Deputy Mayor Norm Kelly during the ice storm instead of taking the limelight for himself.

Ford fired back at her and then went on to take shots at Kelly, accusing him of not being a leader during the crisis. Kelly accurately said the meeting was “degenerating into an embarrassing melee.”

To wrap it up, Councillor Doug Ford, Mayor Ford’s brother, called Councillor John Parker “pathetic.”

That came about after Parker made a remark about Mayor Ford thanking city staff for their work during the ice storm.

Pathetic is what we would call the entire meeting.

The request for funding could have been quickly dealt with Friday. Of course it was going to be a unanimous vote. The only reason the meeting continued was because too many councillors were using it for selfish motives. With this being a municipal election year, voters in this city need to take a hard look at our representatives. The behaviour of many of them on Monday and Friday should not have improved their re-election chances.

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Rob Ford shows he’s in fighting form Anybody still thinking Rob Ford won’t be a formidable force in the 2014 mayor’s race need look no farther than this week’s special ice storm council meeting to disabuse themselves of the idea.

It’s not that the mayor suddenly revealed himself to be suddenly improved at the job he still nominally holds.

He’s still just as scandalridden in 2014 as he was at the end of 2013. And he’s not making any more friends on council.

But for all that, Ford showed the world this week what a political pit-fighter can do in a forum where all his opponents still feel they ought to constrain themselves by civility.

Ford properly entered Monday’s forum, the second day of the two-day meeting, after council had dispensed with the crucial non-question of whether the city should ask for provincial and federal aid

david nickle the city to deal with the cost of the December ice storm. After a speech in which he praised city and Hydro staff and chided his colleagues for not doing so themselves, the fight was on.

The marquee match came when TTC Chair and mayoral hopeful Karen Stintz rose to take on Ford.

Through a series of carefully-laid-out prosecutorial questions, she attempted to establish that Ford’s decision not to declare a state of emergency during the ice storm flowed from his unwillingness to surrender power to his Deputy Mayor Norm Kelly and that doing so harmed the cleanup.

She didn’t stand a chance.

It was like watching a Marquis-of-Kingsbury boxer take on one of the droogs from A Clockwork

Orange.

When Stintz tried to set things up and ask the mayor if he agreed the city would have been better served by having one mayor in charge, Ford shot back that he was in charge and did just fine, and went on to assert that Stintz herself had done nothing to help get the TTC up and running.

By the time Stintz was able to counter that attack and push her core argument to the fore, she was reduced to trying to shout over the mayor, who wondered, “What are you so angry for?”

If Stintz goes ahead and files her papers for the mayor’s race, that’s what she’ll be facing, debate after debate: a taunting, confident incumbent who in spite of any evidence you might care to throw at him won’t back down.

Stintz wasn’t the only one to buckle in the face of Ford’s bulldozing style.

When Councillor Joe Mihevc went after Ford’s voting record, Ford turned it around and went after Mihevc’s travel record.

When Kelly tried to correct Ford’s mischaracterization of his own work ethic, Ford went on the attack.

Scarborough-Rouge River Councillor Raymond Cho’s almost plaintive questioning of the mayor’s aggressive tactics was met with more mockery, as the mayor bobbed and weaved and laughed off attacks from all corners.

In the end, it wasn’t so much that Ford left the room looking particularly good, as that he’d left everyone around him looking foolish and flustered.

As this election year progresses, any candidate hoping to deny Ford a second term is going to have to find a way to fortify their inner calm.

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Loma open house for potential clients wCasa Liberty Entertainment Group is hosting an open house at historic Casa Loma to showcase the site’s features.

Guests can tour the castle for free to determine whether it would be suitable venue for events they are holding.

The event take place from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday.

Reading series at Kensington Market Fans of science fiction, fantasy and horror are invited to the Chiaroscuro Reading Series in Kensington Market.

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MuscleFit Chair classes will help those with mobility issues, while Women on Weights teaches women to use free weights safely.

Some existing classes have new times.

For more information on the new classes, visit http:// bit.ly/1iOgALM wildlife photography wanted The Royal Ontario Museum invites photographers to share their nature photos as part of the ongoing Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibit.

Photographers can submit their pictures via Twitter or Instagram with the hashtag #ROMWPY, and some will be selected to be displayed on screens throughout the museum.

The exhibit runs until March 23.

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Regent Park Relocation Mentorship mentors will donate one hour each month to help others re-acclimate themselves in the community.

To take part as a mentor or a protégé, call 647-775-8145, extension 7041. helping youth gain employment Canada Summer Jobs provides funding to help employers create summer job opportunities for students. It provides funding to not-for-profit organizations, public-sector employers and small businesses to create summer job opportunities for young people aged 15 to 30 years who are full-time students intending to return to their studies in the next school year.

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Free hockey skill training at Regent Park Youngsters in the Regent Park area can hone their hockey skills with free Wednesday night training sessions at the Regent Park South rink.

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Spirits and Spice WHEN: 7:30 a.m. to 11 p.m.

WHERE: Marché Toronto, 181 Bay St. The Caribbean Scholarship Foundation unveils its first official fundraiser, Spirits and Spice Festival, a partnership with world-renowned restaurant

brand Marché. The event takes place until Friday. The Caribbean Scholarship Foundation (CSF) is a registered charitable organization.

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Amnesty International Toronto presents The Square WHEN: 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.

WHERE: Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, 506 Bloor St. W. CONTACT:

Corey Smith, 416-559-8320, coreyhartsmith@gmail.com Amnesty International Toronto is proud to present a limited engagement of the award-winning documentary The Square.

The Square follows a diverse group of Egyptian activists, armed only with cameras and the power of social media

as they risk their lives to build a liberated society.

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Special screening of “Walesa. Man of Hope” WHEN: 6 to 8:30 p.m.

WHERE: Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, 506 Bloor St. W. CONTACT: Aleksandra Beer, 647-8319020, www.ekran.

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Eglinton Crosstown Project: Allen Road Construction Update The Eglinton Crosstown is a 19 kilometre light rail transit (LRT) line that will run along Eglinton Avenue, with a more than 10-kilometre underground central section. The line will connect Mount Dennis in the west to Kennedy Road in the east, and the new service will be up to 60% faster than bus service today.

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Please take care when travelling near construction areas. Pedestrian walkways will remain open. Watch for additional signs directing pedestrians. Pedestrian detours may be required.

Crosstown Community Office We understand that construction can be disruptive, and we will do our best to keep you informed. If you would like more detail about this work or any other aspect of the Eglinton Crosstown project, please do not hesitate to contact us. We thank you for your continued patience as we work to bring more transit to Toronto.

For more Crosstown information:

Visit the Crosstown Community Office at 1848 Eglinton Avenue West (at Dufferin) Email: crosstown@metrolinx.com Tel: 416-782-8118 TTY: 1-800-387-3652 Web: www.thecrosstown.ca

Paul Henderson on Sports and Spirituality.

WHEN: 10:30 a.m. to noon WHERE: Lawrence Park Community Church, 2180 Bayview Ave. CONTACT: John Suk, Minister, 647-2854907, lawrenceparkchurch.ca COST: Free Paul Henderson, hero of the 1972 Canada-Soviet Union Hockey Summit, will speak on “How I Became a Better Hockey Player After I Became a Follower of Jesus.”

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Extraction and launch shafts, used for the entry and removal of the tunnel boring machines, will be located within the Eglinton Avenue roadway both east and west of Allen Road.

What: Extraction and launch shafts are required to be in place prior to the arrival of tunnel boring machines near the Eglinton West Station. The construction of the extraction and launch shafts requires:

ca COST: $20 The film presents the story of Lech Walesa, an ordinary shipyard worker and electrician who became a leader of a revolution in Gdansk that caused the end of the Soviet dictatorship in eastern Europe and made Walesa a future president of Poland and The Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Screening with English subtitles. Doors open at 5:30 p.m.

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French Immersion Parent Information meeting WHEN: 6 p.m. WHERE: St. Francis of Assisi Catholic School, 80 Clinton St. CONTACT: St. Francis of Assisi Catholic School, 416-3935206 French Immersion parent information meeting for September 2014.

Yonge Street Mission’s PATH Clothing Drive WHEN: 7:30 a.m. WHERE: Underground PATH, Downtown Toronto CONTACT: The PR Department, 416-5353939, info@prdepartment. ca COST: Free YSM is having their annual clothing drive for the 16th

year, with 17 drop-off locations inside the underground PATH in downtown Toronto.

Donate gently used clothes and/or donate a few minutes of your time. T-Fal will donate $5 to YSM for each person willing to help by ironing one item of clothing.

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Eco-Fair at OISE WHEN: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

WHERE: University of Toronto - St. George Campus, 252 Bloor St. W. CONTACT: CynthiaC.Chan@mail.utoronto.ca COST: Free OISE’s Eco-Fair is to share educational initiatives in Environmental and Sustainability Education (ESE) by local community organizations and NGOs.

w Wednesday, Jan. 22 Parents: Are You Properly Protected?

WHEN: 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.

WHERE: Central Eglinton Community Centre, 160 Eglinton Ave. E. CONTACT: Register, Nancy Lyon, 416392-0511, ext. 225 What is the difference between term, whole life and universal life insurance?

Shayba Razi will discuss these questions and more.

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2014 Manulife Walk for Memories WHEN: 9 a.m. to noon WHERE: Brookfield Place, 181 Bay St. CONTACT: 416-322-6560, www. alzwalk.to The community comes together to raise money for the Alzheimer Society of Toronto while honouring and remembering those with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias. The Manulife Walk for Memories is an easy indoor walk that begins at the Allen Lambert Galleria in Brookfield Place, loops through Toronto’s underground PATH and then ends right back at Brookfield Place.

Check out our complete online community calendar by visiting www.citycentremirror.com. Read weeks of listings from your neighbourhood as well as events from across Toronto.

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Cabbagetown artist donates portion of new CD to Kiwanis Club JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com After raising the money to record his latest album through an IndieGogo campaign, musician Charlie Mills is looking to give back, and is keeping his own generosity close to his Cabbagetown home.

Mills is donating a portion of proceeds from his 2013 offering, Work In Progress, to the Kiwanis Boys and Girls Club on Spruce Street.

“I teach in the area and I’ve done some volunteer work at (the Boys and Girls Club’s) after-school literacy program,” Mills said.

“Living and working in the area, I know it’s a great neighbourhood, but there are kids who live with a number of challenges. Whether it’s because they have two parents who work very hard and can’t always be there, or they’re living in a single parent family, a lot of them need a safe place to go and play after school.”

Mills raised $1,100 through

his IndieGogo campaign to help fund the recording of his album and he is looking to give back at least that much from album sales.

For each full album sold, he will donate $2 to the Boys and Girls Club, and he will also donate the full proceeds whenever someone purchases the single ‘Friendships’.

“I wanted to pay it forward on this album,” he said.

“It made sense to donate everything from the sale of ‘Friendships’ because that’s what the Boys and Girls Club is all about.”

While traditional album sales are easy to keep track of, donating through online purchases posed a more unique problem. Mills said iTunes made it too difficult to track the number of album sales, so he opted instead to sell the album on his Bandcamp

account.

Mills lists such Canadian icons as Gordon Lightfoot, Neil Young and The Tragically Hip among his influences, and his music definitely serves as a piece of Canadiana. ‘Last Urban Hoser’, the debut track from Work In Progress, even name-checks Toronto neighbourhoods such as Leslieville, Queen West and Cabbagetown.

“You naturally write what

you know, so while I don’t write to be overtly Canadian, that just sort of comes out,” he said.

The rest of the album touches on universal themes, such as relationships and the human condition. “‘Friendships’ is about growing up and seeing people less – you get sentimental, but you understand things change,” Mills said.

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Cabbagetown musician Charlie Mills is donating a portion of the proceeds from his latest album to the Kiwanis Boys and Girls Club on Spruce Street.

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Work is set to begin below Eglinton on the eastern tunnel portion of the light rail line, with much of the work taking place between Brentcliffe Road and Yonge Street.

Just as with the western section from Black Creek Drive to just past Eglinton West Station, the construction will include relocating utilities, building “headwall” supports and completing access and extraction points through which massive boring machines will eventually excavate tunnels east.

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Jarrett Walker, a respected transit network consultant from Portland, Oregon will give a keynote speech and engage in discussion with chief city planner Jennifer Keesmaat at an event, which is part of the ongoing Feeling Congested? initiative.

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As of this week elevator service at Main is down until March 23 to allow for a major overhaul of the existing structure.

TTC is recommending making use of Victoria Park or Kennedy station from the east, and Broadview or newlyrenovated Pape Station to the west as possible alternate destinations for riders with accessibility concerns. Also closing for major repair work are the south-end escalators located near the passenger pick-up area in York Mills station. They are scheduled to be out of service until late September.

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“It’s more than just a history,” said Matthews, the museum’s former librarian.

“It’s events, people’s impressions and feelings – people talk about their connection with the museum, either as kids early on in their lives or later on as adults.”

V i s i t o r s t o t h e RO M ReCollects website can visit different eras in the museum’s history or check out stories based on different themes, including myths and legends, working and volunteering, controversies and more.

“The most popular so far has been the ROM cat,” Matthews said, referring to Roma, a feline that roamed the museum’s halls in the 1960s. “All big museums used cats for rodent control back then. I heard the cat could get outside and walk around Philosopher’s Walk, which is certainly something we wouldn’t do now.”

Guests’ stories give the history added heart as those who came to love the museum and all it has to offer speak of what the ROM means to them. Guest Erin Thompson confessed to how she broke one of the museum’s rules as a young girl when confronted with a sculpture of a lion from

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“I would stare at his wild eyes and his teeth and imagine how the colours must have once been bolder,” she wrote. “While my parents would walk away I would stand there alone in front of him, wander up to him cautiously, and in spite of the sign, I would hold my hand flat to pet him. I was an eightyear-old rebel, trying to tame a wild lion.”

Matthews said the most recent era – from 2010 to the present – has received fewer submissions than most of the others, though the ROM is looking to beef up each section with more tales.

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stories together from all these different eras, to me that makes for a really rich view of the museum’s past,” she said. “A timeline of the past 100 years wouldn’t give you the same view.”

Ma t t h e w s n o t e d t h e museum did not advertise the launch of its ROM ReCollects program widely, but said it has been gaining steam as word spreads. At this point, people must visit the website to contribute, though it may be possible in time for people to share their stories during visits to the museum.

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