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Over the course of its 100-year history, Central Technical School has had plenty of esteemed graduates pass through its halls, including many who have served in Canada’s military during times of war and peace. The school will kick off its centennial celebrations tomorrow with a ceremony recognizing some of the veterans as it re-dedicates the school’s war memorial and cornerstone. “The school’s 100th anniversary is in 2015, but we wanted to get things started early,” said Central Tech alumnus Maurice

Bicci (class of 1978), who is helping organize the anniversary celebrations. One of the veterans, Al Wallace, was captured during the Second World War and was held as a prisoner of war in Stalag Luft III, the prison camp depicted in the film The Great Escape. The celebrations recognizing the veterans is well-timed, coming a few days before Remembrance Day ceremonies across the city. The city itself will recognize the efforts of Canadians who have served with a Remembrance Day ceremony at the Cenotaph at Old City Hall at 10:45 a.m. Monday, Nov. 11.

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It will take place at Daniels Spectrum from Nov. 13 to 16. For information or to reserve seats, visit www. regentparkfilmfestival. com toronto polish film festival TIFF Bell Lightbox will showcase some of the best in Polish film when the Toronto Polish Film Festival returns for a fifth year. The five-day festival will open with a red carpet gala featuring both Polish and American filmmakers. The festival will run from Wednesday, Nov. 13 through Sunday, Nov. 17. For more information, visit www.ekran.ca

The Royal Canadian Air Force will host a special Remembrance Day ceremony to honour those who have served in the Canadian military. The event will take place on the steps of the Mount Pleasant Cemetery Mausoleum, near a monument dedicated to Canadian war hero William Baker, from 10 to 11 a.m. on Monday, Nov. 11.

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Amnesty International is hosting the eighth annual Reel Awareness Film Festival, showcasing documentaries that tackle human rights issues. Filmmakers, community activists and other experts will be on hand to discuss the issues raised by the films. The festival will take place at the Carlton Cinema from Thursday, Nov. 14 through Sunday, Nov. 17. For more information, visit www.aito.ca/reelawareness

FoodShare Toronto is looking to increase food security in various neighbourhoods across the city with the launch of a new Mobile Good Food Market vehicle. The vehicle will serve communities with gaps in access to affordable

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The York Lions men’s soccer team earned provincial bragging rights Sunday, edging cross-city rival Ryerson Rams 1-0 in the Ontario University Athletics (OUA) championship game last Sunday at Birchmount Stadium. Both teams advance to the nationals this week in Fredericton. night for the Humane Society winfo

The next orientation session for those interested in volunteering with the Toronto Humane Society is Nov. 17 at noon. Volunteers, 18 and older, help socialize both cats and dogs among other duties. Email volunteer@ torontohumanesociety. com Those interested in temporarily housing animals from the society can attend the next foster orientation session on Nov. 17 at 2 p.m. RSVP to foster@torontohumanesociety.com Visit www.torontohumanesociety.com for details. at Toronto Library webooks

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rom his days growing up in Italy through his time spent in California to his current life in Toronto, painter Marco Sassone’s art has covered a wide array of subjects. His career in the arts will be recognized with a retrospective exhibit of his works, dubbed Sanctuary, at Berenson Fine Art Gallery. Sassone’s career spans a period of more than 40 years, and his fans include Sophia Lauren, Tina Turner, the late Ella Fitzgerald and the late Luciano Pavarotti. He noted that showcasing such a long and prolific career in one show was a daunting task. “It was a challenge selecting pieces to fill in all the gaps over 40 years but I think the gallery did a good job of it,” he said. Sassone’s art was typically run in cycles, with various series placing a focus on new subject matter every few years.

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Artist Marco Sassone has an upcoming exhibit spanning his entire career at the Berenson Fine Art Gallery, which runs from Nov. 7 through to Dec. 12.

During his time in California, for instance, he focused on urban landscapes for years before shifting his gaze to the plight of the homeless in

the early 1990s. In Toronto, his railroad track series offers perspectives on various underpasses and railways in the city he now calls home.

“The tracks symbolize departures and arrivals and the struggle that every immigrant goes through,” he said. “It’s also a good look at Toronto with urban

landscapes and lots of converging lines that look at Canadian culture, since the tracks connect people and were used to carry lumber and transport other goods.” The pieces are all focused on tracks found right in the middle of the city. The painter, who now lives near Bloor and Jarvis streets, has also spent some of his time in the city painting urban cityscapes. “I’m working on a series of watercolours which works well for me now because it’s a little less demanding,” he said. “I cover the entire surface of the paper because it’s a lot of night scenes – Sherbourne at night, Bloor Street at night,” he said. Sassone is perhaps bestknown for his homeless series, which he painted from 1990 to 1994 while living in San Francisco. “There, you would see many people who were close to everybody living on the streets – they knew them,” he said. “In Toronto, it’s much more organized. You see (the homeless) in

a few corners of the city but in San Francisco at the time, there were no programs to help these people or get them into shelters.” Sassone has lived in Toronto since 2005, when he moved here at the urging of his wife. While most of his life has been marked by long-distance moves, he plans on staying in the city for the foreseeable future. “The departures and arrivals you see in the railroad tracks (series) is like my life, almost – as soon as I start feeling comfortable in a city, I feel almost like I have to leave,” he said. “But I’m happy here, especially for work, because I’m always discovering lots of new material to paint.” Sanctuary will run at Berenson Fine Art Gallery, 212 Avenue Rd., starting tonight through Thursday, Dec. 12 with an opening gala scheduled on the first night.

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Former Annex resident returns to city to record fourth album Singer Kim Beggs comes home after embarking on solo music career in Yukon

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JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com While she currently calls the Yukon her home, singer/ songwriter Kim Beggs’ recent record release in Toronto served as a homecoming of sorts. Her new album, Beauty and Breaking, marks her fourth release and features cameos from people she knows from her time living in the city. Her past releases have earned her four Western Canada Music Award nominations and two Canadian Folk Music Award nominations. Beggs was born in Quebec but moved to Toronto with her family as a young girl. While here, she lived in the Annex for years, attending Clinton Street Junior Public School and Lord Lansdowne Public School, where she

I had planned to pursue a calm kind of life, but then I started to write songs and found they kept coming out of me. – Kim Beggs

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Singer/songwriter Kim Beggs returned to Toronto, the city where she grew up, to record her latest album, Beauty and Breaking.

made many of the friends she keeps in touch with from the city. She moved to the Yukon in her early 20s, where she first embarked on a solo music career.

“I had planned to pursue a calm kind of life, but then I started to write songs and found they kept coming out of me,” she said. While Beggs enjoyed live music while living in Toronto,

particularly during her teenage years and young adulthood, she did not put much stock in ever embarking on a musical career of her own. “When I was young, I started to play guitar and sing but I was also incredibly shy and had a lot of stage fright,” she said. “In high school, if I had a solo, I’d laugh through the whole thing because I was so nervous.” Her songs cover the folk

and roots genres and share her values and touch on universal themes she explored in depth during her time in the Yukon. “I look at the fact that there’s a little darkness in everybody and that’s ok,” she said. “It’s about embracing the darkness and the heart and emotions that go along with that.” While in Toronto, Beggs worked at her grandmother’s gold store at Bay and Bloor streets, which she credits with teaching her the value of work and keeping her out of trouble. She recorded Beauty and Breaking in May in Toronto with producer David Baxter. The album features more than a dozen musicians and appearances from Beggs’ elementary school friend Mary

Loo and fellow elementary school friend Joyce Wong Schumann’s eight-year-old daughter Kaylen. “Kaylen was about the same age her mother and I were when we knew each other, so that was a really special addition to the album,” Beggs said. While she loved her time in the city, Beggs has no intention of moving back to Toronto, having adopted the Yukon as her home in the 20-plus years she has lived there. “Toronto was a really, really great place to grow up,” she said. “When I went to the Yukon, I was going on an adventure and when I got there, the lifestyle really spoke to me.” For more information on Kim Beggs or to purchase her music, visit www.kimbeggs.com

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Rob Ford has absented himself from his role as mayor of the City of Toronto Toronto City Council is in disarray, and it will likely remain so for some time. That is the one thing that one can safely write, in a column that met a late Tuesday afternoon deadline: just a few hours after Mayor Rob Ford made his stunning admission – that he has indeed smoked crack cocaine – and a few minutes after his late-in-the-day news conference that he still means to be mayor. Things are moving quickly, and no doubt as this shows up in newspaper boxes and mail slots things will have no doubt developed. But this remains: the mayor has admitted to smoking crack cocaine, sometime last year, while in office. In doing so, regardless of whether he stays in his office, he has effectively absented himself from his role as mayor. Council won’t, and really

david nickle the city shouldn’t, support him. Council is going to have to find a way to steer itself over the next year. At the next council meeting, council will take some steps toward doing that. Willowdale Councillor John Filion has brought forward a motion to temporarily strip the mayor of all his powers, seizing for council the ability to appoint an executive committee and deputy mayor. Denzil Minnan-Wong, the Don Valley East Councillor who has been one of Ford’s more effective lieutenants on that executive committee, is asking the mayor to simply leave and look after himself. There was also word Tuesday that the mayor’s brother Doug could be off

the budget committee, after he demanded Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair’s resignation over the chief’s comments when he unveiled the existence of the video that appears to show Rob Ford smoking crack. That sets up an infrastructure that might allow council to control its own agenda. But the task will just be beginning. In a few weeks, council will have before it the 2014 operating budget to debate and pass. This is an area where a strong mayor either leads with a plan, or provides an idea to oppose. Who will give voice to the vision for this budget? Karen Stintz? One of the other pretenders to the mayoralty next year? Now, almost certainly council will keep the city running, the tax rates reasonable and the services intact. But anyone who thinks it will

be smooth need only look at the flailing debate over subways versus light rail versus other subways to abandon that idea. Co u n c i l w i l l a l s o b e making up its mind on the Billy Bishop Airport extension some time before the next election. Once again, some sort of decision will emerge – but it, like the budget, will emerge from chaos. If Ford were gone, then Norm Kelly, the avuncular councillor from ScarboroughAgincourt, could ably step in and guide matters, in the manner of Ford’s mandate. But as deputy to the crippled wreck that the Ford administration will have become, it will be difficult for him to do any better. Ford has left an awful, filthy mess for others to clean up.

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Holocaust survivors visit Northern secondary students JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com Though nearly 70 years have passed since the Holocaust ended, the lessons learned through the atrocities committed by the Nazis throughout the Second World War are still tragically relevant today. Students at Northern Secondary School got a more personal look recently at the horrors perpetrated by the Nazis with a visit from Holocaust survivors Edith Gelbard and Nathan Leipciger. Gelbard spoke with Grade 9 and 10 students during an early morning, Oct. 30 assembly while Leipciger shared his story during a second-period assembly. Both were just children when the Nazis carried out the genocide of Jews throughout much of Europe. Leipciger was born in 1928 in Chorzow, Poland and experienced hardships in

the Sosnowiec Ghetto before being taken to a number of camps, including AuschwitzBirkenau and two sub-camps of Dachau. “Imagine that you and your family are living together in one room with eight people sleeping on the floor,” he said of life in the Ghetto. “There’s sickness, a terrible smell, vermin, lice, bedbugs. As bad as that is, it is not as bad as what happens next.” In 1943, he and his family were taken to Auschwitz, where intervention from his father prevented him from being killed quickly. While he and his father managed to work in a labour camp, his mother and sister were not so fortunate. They were gassed on Yom Kippur. “I never even had an opportunity to say goodbye to my mother,” he said. Leipciger knew when he saw trucks carrying large numbers of people to the gas chambers exactly what was going on, but was powerless

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to stop them. “Once you’re in AuschwitzBirkenau, there are no secrets,” he said. “Your family is going to be murdered or is being murdered by gas and if you don’t behave, you’ll share the same fate.” While he was liberated on May 2, 1945, Leipciger was so weakened, he contracted typhoid fever almost

immediately after the Allied forces freed him. Fortunately, a nun helped him recover his strength. He admits to asking “why me?” when he was living in Nazi camps, something he still wonders to this day, albeit from a different perspective. “Why did I survive?” he said to the students. “That

question, dear friends, has not left me to today and I don’t think I’ll ever find out.” Gelbard was born in Vienna, Austria in 1932, though her family fled first to Belgium and then to France, where she and her brother were hidden away in an orphanage in Moissac, France. The town’s residents – at great risk to their own safety – sheltered and protected more than 100 Jewish refugee children. Gelbard’s story in Moissac is recounted in the book Hiding Edith. “After I was hidden in a children’s home, I wound up being hidden in a high school,” she said. “For their work, the entire town is being honoured by Yad Vashem.” While Gelbard survived the Holocaust, her father was not so fortunate. He was captured by the Nazis and was killed in Auschwitz in 1942. For Gelbard, speaking to students and audiences is

both a part of her healing process and a way to leave a legacy that will hopefully prevent atrocities similar to the Holocaust from being perpetrated today. “I’m an old lady now, so for me to share my story and see the reaction from the students gives me a lift,” she said. “The kids repeat my story to their friends – one tells a friend, who tells another friend and the story goes on.” Leipciger shares his story to show the damage that hatred, xenophobia and racism can cause. “It’s an important piece of history that has to be taught to young people,” he said. “The Holocaust was not the last genocide – it’s still going on in the world today.” Leipciger and Gelbard spoke at Northern as a lead-up to Holocaust Education Week, which started Nov. 3 and runs through Saturday, Nov. 9.

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Read Africa Ball: Join us for an African Cultural Experience WHEN: 7 p.m. WHERE: Fermenting Cellar, 28 Distillery Lane CONTACT: torontocityevents7@gmail.com COST: $75 A unique event celebrating African culture through music, art and artifacts, that will bring people together in Toronto In support of CODE. A meaningful evening that will make a difference in the lives of thousands of children. A Concert of Remembrance WHEN: 7:30 to 9 p.m. WHERE: Christ Church Deer Park, 1570 Yonge St. CONTACT: E. Burns, 416-241-1298 Nine Sparrows Arts Foundation and Christ Church Deer Park presents A Concert of Remembrance.

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North Toronto Group of Artists Art Show WHEN: 6 to 9 p.m. WHERE: Blessed Sacrament Church, 24 Cheritan Ave. CONTACT: Sheila Victor, slvictor@ rogers.com COST: Free Twenty-two fine artists show their works at Blessed Sacrament Church. Gala opening tonight by invitation only) and show Saturday.

pubintern@anansi.ca COST: Free Groundwood Books, in partnership with Small Print Toronto, hosts a party to celebrate turning 35. Groundwood authors Cybele Young, Matt James, Cary Fagan and Griffin Ondaatje will be there, among others. Kids are invited to a fun-filled afternoon of activities and author readings, music, crafts, treats and more.

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3,000,000 Jewish lives and culture and history lost during the Holocaust. Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, program director of the museum’s Core Exhibition, will discuss the museum’s mission, supported by video, architectural images and developing displays. The presentation will also include a candle-lighting ceremony commemorating the 75th anniversary of Kristallnacht. This is a Holocaust Education Week event.

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EcoFair at the Barns WHEN: noon to 4 p.m. WHERE: Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie St. CONTACT: www. gn21.ca/ ecofair-2013 COST: Free The EcoFair is a family oriented event that informs and inspires people to make greener choices in their homes and communities.

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Remembrance Day Ceremony at Mount Pleasant Cemetery WHEN: 10 to 11 a.m. WHERE: Mount Pleasant Crematorium and Mausoleum, 375 Mount Pleasant Rd. CONTACT: Norman Marion, 705-424-1200, ext. 2815 The public is invited to a Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) hosted Remembrance Day ceremony to honour those who have served in Canada. The ceremony will be held on the steps of Mount Pleasant Cemetery Mausoleum (outside the Mausoleum between Yonge Street and Mount Pleasant Road) where a monument was recently dedicated to the most decorated war hero in the history of Canada, the British Empire and Commonwealth of nations, Lt.-Col.l/ wing commander William Baker.

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Beyond Bubbie WHEN: 8 to 10 p.m. WHERE: Miles Nadal JCC, 750 Spadina Ave. CONTACT: Dara Solomon, 416-635-5391, ext. 5187, COST: $10 Beyond Bubbie is an evening dedicated to food, family and the stories that link them together. Appealing to all the senses, this is an opportunity to celebrate Toronto’s rich and diverse food traditions and the shared tradition of learning recipes from your grandmother.

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Community History Project Lecture Series with the Toronto Historical Association WHEN: 7 to 9 p.m. WHERE: The Tollkeeper’s Park, 750 Davenport Rd. CONTACT: tollkeeperscottage@gmail. com COST: $10 A series of lectures of local Toronto interest.

Co-ed program provides free ice time and equipment >>>from page 1 from the days when it was first set up by a group of neighbourhood parents. “It’s here to help kids experience the game of hockey independent of their financial situation,” she said. That means getting team sponsors to help cover some costs and taking in equipment donations to cover others. “Almost all the equipment’s donated,” Takeda said. “Kids might have to pick up a piece (of equipment) here or there – we do what we can to provide equipment for everyone but we don’t always have everything.” She noted there is always a need for more donations, with helmets in particularly short supply this year. Austin Paulin, who has played in the league for the past five years, is one of the many players and volunteers who help ensure the league runs smoothly. In addition to getting ice time himself, he works as a timekeeper for

other games and helps out with younger children in the Timbits tiny tykes games. “I’ll help out however I can,” he said. “If they need me to run across the rink to get something, I’ll usually do it.” Paulin, one of the few 15-year-olds to play in the league, noted he had a hard time getting a chance to play before coming across the MPHL. “I only have one arm, so a lot of leagues didn’t want to take a risk by letting me play,” he said. “I came here five years ago and I’ve been here ever since.” Because the MPHL focuses so strongly on local youth with financial needs, it is important to keep registration mostly limited to an area bounded by Yonge Street to the west, Bloor Street/ Danforth Avenue to the north and Coxwell Avenue to the east. Takeda noted some families from outside the area have been grandfathered into

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the system, but the ice time is reserved almost exclusively to youngsters from downtown. “We had families coming in from Brampton and driving

in with Cadillac SUVs to play free hockey and that’s not really the point of what we do,” she said. “It’s to serve the downtown community.” The league was boys-only

until 1985, after which it became co-ed to allow everyone to have an opportunity to play. Most of the members come from the downtown core, and

many of those have never before had the opportunity to lace up a pair of skates. Fortunately, the league itself has no shortage of volunteers and fellow members willing to help out. “Sometimes, parents will come out and get the equipment and say ‘Oh my gosh, I don’t know where any of this goes on my child,’” Takeda said. “It’s very much a community here, so if they need help, there’s always someone there who will lend a hand.” Beatriz Hoque has had plenty of exposure to the MPHL, with three of her children coming through the system. “I have volunteered here for years, since my oldest used to play in house league,” she said. “Now he refs here and my two younger ones come and play every Saturday.”

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they need a little extra help,” the Mission is hoping to build he said. “The vast majority of up its store to ensure there the people we serve would is enough supply to help prefer not to have to use a families at risk through the food bank. It takes swallowing holiday season. a lot of pride to have to rely Fo o d i t e m s c a n b e on us for some.” dropped off at the Christian The greatest area comes Community Centre, 270 in proteins of all kinds, from Gerrard St. E. chicken or turkey to tuna. Cash donations can be made “We also have a need for via the Mission’s website at www.ysm.ca/give Halal chicken because we serve such a multicultural community here,” Ryan said. Fruits and vegetables – preferably canned to make them easier to distribute – are also in demand, as are milk and eggs, rice and cereals. The food bank also 1000’S OF BRAND NAME TOYS LOWEST PRICES IN CANADA distributes more than just food and is calling for people to donate diapers and toiletries. “If people are buying shampoo or toothpaste, 77 Fima Cres. 60 East Beaver Creek Rd. maybe that means they (South of QEW / (North of Hwy #7, can’t afford to buy Gardiner & Hwy 427) 1st St. West of 404) milk,” Ryan said. (416) 532.1114 (905) 771.8714 The food bank’s supHours: plies have been low 10:00-4:00 Wednesday Thurs & Fri 10:00-8:00 since the summer and Saturday 10:00-5:00 the situation has grown Sunday 11:00-5:00 particularly dire since Open Remembrance Day Monday November 11th 10-3 Thanksgiving. With SEE FLYERLAND.CA Christmas coming in FOR FLYER AND FOR INFORMATION less than two months, ON OUR MISSISSAUGA LOCATION

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New treatment suite at SickKids will help kids with neuroblastoma JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com Kids with neuroblastoma – an aggressive cancer that affects the nervous system – will be given a better chance of making a recovery with the opening of a new treatment suite at the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids). The $5 million Garron Family MIBG Suite will allow for specialized and targeted treatment that reduces the length of therapy required and could produce fewer side effects than traditional chemotherapy. MIBG (metaiodobenzylguanidine) therapy consists of a radioactive iodine isotope and the MIBG molecule, which are injected into the patient. The MIBG locates tumours and carries the iodine directly to them. The radioactive iodine then affixes itself to the tumours, shrinks them and destroys the metastasized cancer cells.

The new suite makes that treatment possible while shielding the patients’ family and medical professionals from radiation. “MIBG needs some very special equipment and tools to be able to be successful,” said Dr. Sylvain Baruchel of SickKids. “Five to seven days after the infusion, the patient will emit some kind of radioactivity that needs to be controlled and this is why we needed to build a special facility with lead in the walls, lead on the floor, shielding around the bed so everybody’s safe.” The new MIBG suite will provide a boon to children who, like nine-year-old neuroblastoma survivor Lilah Petersiel, must deal with an aggressive cancer at a young age. While Lilah is now healthy, many are not so fortunate. “I believe that survival rates for children with high-risk neuroblastoma have remained constant at approximately 30

per cent,” said Lilah’s mother, Tami Moscoe. “These children and their families are in desperate need of better treatments so the cancer can remain in remission and they need those treatments to be accessible and affordable. It is absolutely amazing that MIBG treatment will now be available right here at SickKids.” The new suite was made possible thanks to support from SickKids donors Myron and Berna Garron. Their generosity will help add another tool to the tool kits of children dealing with neuroblastoma. “The Garron Family MIBG Suite is the first of its kind in Ontario,” said SickKids president and CEO Mary Jo Haddad. “MIBG therapy has demonstrated very promising results as a highly effective therapy for the treatment of children with high risk or relapsed neuroblastoma, a cancer that begins in the nerve tissue of our very youngest patients.” consumer feature

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Armistice Day was renamed Remembrance Day after World War II to commemorate soldiers from both world wars. It is now used as a way to pay

hommage to any fallen soldier. In Canada, official national ceremonies are held at the National War Memorial in Ottawa. Events begin with the tolling of the Carillon in the Peace Tower, during which members of the Canadian Forces participate and congregate at Confederation Square. Similar ceremonies take place in provincial capitals across the country. Very often moments of silence are offered for lost lives.

What about the poppies? One of the unifying symbols of Remembrance Day is the poppy that is worn to honor lost soldiers. The bold, red color of the flower has become an enduring symbol of those who died so that others may be free. The poppy became a symbol for a specific reason. Some of the most concentrated fighting of World War I took place in Flanders, a region in western Belgium. As a result of the fighting, most signs of natural life had been obliterated from the region, leaving behind mud and not much else. The only living thing to survive was the poppy flower, which

bloomed with the coming of the warm weather the year after fighting in the region had ceased. Poppies grow in disturbed soil and can lie dormant in the ground without germinating. Without the war, they may have never come to the surface. John McCrae, a doctor serving with the Canadian Armed Forces, was moved by the vision of poppies flowering in Flanders and wrote a poem titled “In Flanders Fields.” After the poem was published, it received international acclaim, and the poppy became a popular symbol of those lost in battle. Men traditionally wear the poppy on the left side of the chest, where a military medal would be placed. Women wear it on the right side because that is where a widow would wear her husband’s medals. Remembrance Day is celebrated every year, providing people humbled by the sacrifices of soldiers an opportunity to remember those soldiers’ efforts to secure freedom.

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Mothers Against Drunk Driving launches Red Ribbon campaign ANDREW PALAMARCHUK apalamarchuk@insidetoronto.com In 2008, Angeliki Souranis’ 20-yearold son Craig was killed in an alcoholrelated crash. As a tribute to him, Souranis shared her story Tuesday following the launch of the annual Mothers Against Drunk Driving Red Ribbon campaign. Souranis, now the president of MADD Canada, said Craig was a passenger in a van driven by an

inexperienced young driver who had been drinking. “He crashed the van. My son was ejected, and the van landed on him, killing him instantly,” she said. “I had always told my son about drinking and driving, and I should’ve also stressed getting into a car with an impaired driver.” Souranis said the “profound grief” she and her family have gone through is difficult to explain. Police, fire and EMS personnel gathered at Toronto police head-

quarters to kick off the campaign, which runs until Jan. 6. As part of the initiative, volunteers will distribute millions of red ribbons to attach to vehicles, key chains, purses and backpacks as a reminder to drive sober. “I want all of the people in our city to understand the importance of this campaign to bring greater awareness to the need to keep our roadways safe,” Police Chief Bill Blair said. Deputy EMS Chief Cindy Nicholson said the devastation caused by drunk

drivers stays with first responders. “I certainly saw some of those awful tragedies and when you finish dealing with the patient, then you’ve got the collateral damage of the family,” she said. “It’s horrific to watch them come into the hospital and realize that their loved one is gone.” Nicholson said she still has memories of an alcohol-related crash she responded to as a paramedic in the late 1980s that took the life of a child.

Pointing to a poster with photos of hundreds of people who have lost their lives to drunk drivers, Souranis said, “It saddens me to no end to know that our sadness is multiplied hundreds and thousands of times.” Souranis stressed it’s a choice to drive impaired. “It’s a choice, and you are risking not only your own life, but all those around you,” she said. “MADD is not against drinking. All we want is for people to think ahead, to plan ahead.”

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The City of Toronto is studying different ways to address deteriorating road conditions, traffic problems, pedestrian safety, drainage problems and basement flooding in the Lawrence Park neighbourhood. Measures that improve storm water quality and reduce storm runoff will also be incorporated.The map in this Notice shows the Lawrence Park Neighbourhood Study Area.

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The study is being conducted according to the Municipal Class Environmental Assessment process, and will result in a series of recommended projects for the area, known as a Master Plan.The study will define the problem, consider and evaluate alternative solutions, assess impacts of the preferred solutions, and identify measures to lessen any adverse impacts.

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The Young Professionals for SickKids (YPS) is hosting the second annual ‘Breakfast of Champions’ event at the Toronto Board of Trade. Enjoy an intimate breakfast with celebrity Champions who are encouraged to share their insights, achievements and experiences while offering advice to the attendees. Kirstine Stewart, the Managing Director of Twitter Canada is the keynote speaker. Proceeds raised at the event will support an Endocrinology Fellowship at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids). For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit http://www.breakfastofchamps.ca

NOVEMBER 8 – 30: FIFTEEN ART EXHIBIT

This is an exhibition of 15 diverse Canadian artists who have come together to display a variety of works including traditional painting, sculpture, photography and installation. The exhibit is open November 8 to 30 from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. at the Joseph D. Carrier Gallery. Proceeds from a silent auction benefit SickKids. For more information, please visit www.15artists.ca

NOVEMBER 10: DOWNSVIEW HALF MARATHON & 5K

The annual Downsview Half Marathon and 5K is a scenic run through one of the highest points in Toronto. SickKids Foundation is one of three charities you can choose to support by participating. The runs begin at 8:30 and 8:50 a.m. respectively at Downsview Park following a Remembrance Day ceremony. There are free kids’ races for ages one to 10 and lots of pre and post-race activities for everyone. For more information or to register, please visit: http://www.downsviewhalf.com/

NOVEMBER 14: STRIKE OUT KIDS STROKE EVENT

RAHUL GUPTA rgupta@insidetoronto.com A report from an advisory panel convened by the premier to examine transitfocused taxes and fees says Metrolinx’s Big Move plan could be further modified. The Transit We Need, the new report from the Transit Investment Strategy Advisory Panel, suggests elements of The Big Move – which aims to build more than 100 kilometres of new transit connections across the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area over 25 years – may require “strategic modifications” due to the financial constraints of the provincial Liberals. “As a result of both changing conditions and emerging priorities, the panel does not view The Big Move as written in stone,” states the report, listing a number of factors such as a provincial stimulus plan in the wake of a worldwide economic recession that created a higher provincial budget deficit, and the need to tie infrastructure construction to job creation. The 13-member panel was

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This 10th annual fundraiser supports the Paediatric Stroke Program at SickKids. The event is an opportunity for early holiday season shopping, coffee, treats and most importantly, an opportunity to make a difference. It is being held from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. McLean House, 2075 Bayview Ave. For more information, please visit www.strikeoutkidsstrokes.ca

This annual gala supports the Herbie Fund, which helps children from around the world travel to SickKids for life-saving and life-altering treatment. This year’s glamorous Mistletoe Ball themed “Midnight in Paris” will be held at The Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Toronto and will feature live entertainment including international jazz sensation Molly Johnson, mouth-watering cuisine and exclusive silent and live auctions. For more information, please visit www.herbiefund.com

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