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After-school care gets boost at Rose Avenue PS JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com A donation from RBC will ensure that children in St. James Town have the after-school care they need. RBC donated $30,000 to St. James Town Family Literacy Services as part of a $2.7 million investment in 105 community-based programs for children and youth across Canada. The St. James Town funding will go toward a vital after-school program at Rose Avenue Public School for local children from Junior Kindergarten through Grade 3.

“We have about 80 or 85 kids there and it has a healthy living, wellbeing focus to it,” said Chris Hallett of St. James Town Family Literacy Services, also known as Community Matters Toronto. “There’s a nutrition component, a wellness component and physical activities such as swimming.” Staff and volunteers also run yoga and meditation sessions, arts and crafts activities and more, while the program also includes dental screenings and other health initiatives. The much-needed funding is to >>>donation, page 15

City accused of turning its back on heritage homes LISA QUEEN lqueen@insidetoronto.com

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Cavalcade of Lights: Toronto City Hall is illuminated by fireworks during the Cavalcade of Lights event held Saturday night in Nathan Phillips Square. For more photos, please see page 12.

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Worried the character of Lawrence Park and other neighbourhoods is being lost as residents tear down their homes and build bigger houses in their place, heritage advocates are dismayed the city won’t step in to protect three homes. The city’s decision not to seek heritage designations for houses at 19 St. Leonard’s Ave., 102 Wanless Ave. and 105 Golfdale Rd., all in the Lawrence Park area, is “shocking and in our opinion cannot go unchallenged,” Geoff Kettel, chairperson of the North York Preservation Panel wrote in a letter. There is a bigger issue than simply

three homes, Kettel said. Potential heritage homes in communities such as Lawrence Park, North Toronto, Don Mills, Leaside and the Beach are at risk of being torn down and replaced with larger houses, he said. “Given their accessibility and adjacency to good transit and quality public services, these areas are facing tremendous development pressure for ‘massification’, if not intensification,” Kettel said. “Single family houses in these areas are being demolished at a rapid rate and frequently reconstructed with houses with quite a different character. “There is continuous erosion of >>>opponents, page 9

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a visit from santa It’s that time: Above, the Burlington Teen Tour Band marches along the parade route during the Santa Claus Parade Sunday. Left, old St. Nick makes his appearance. Below, a train load of toys makes its way along Bloor Street. Top right, Denise Garrido clowns around as she walks along the route. Right below, members of the M. M. Robinson High School drumline play to the crowd during the parade. For more photos of the parade, visit our website at http://bit.ly/WudDYm Photos/PETER C. MCCUSKER

Community pride evident in Who ART Thou? art show, sale JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com For the second straight year, a group of emerging artists from the Christie Pits, Annex, Seaton Village and surrounding areas will bring their work to a larger audience. More than a dozen artists will showcase their talents at the Who ART Thou? art show and sale, which was organized by area residents Monica Gupta and Dawn Vrablic. Silkscreener Ginny Brett is

one of the artists whose work will be on display. She will exhibit and sell silk-screened images depicting scenes from the neighbourhood. “Last year, I printed traditional Toronto street signs with the street names in the area on T-shirts and that was wildly popular,” she said. “We had people buying shirts from streets they didn’t even live on.” This year, her work will include local scenes such as Bill Bolton Arena, though the

images feature a twist. “I’ve been playing a lot with light, and the light in the arena is so bad,” she said. “I changed things to give the images a bit of a California feel.” While the community features a number of talented artists, Who ART Thou? focuses on those who are not as well known outside the immediate area. Some of those exhibiting works are relatively new to actually bringing their work

to the public. Brett herself has taken art courses but has seen art more as a hobby until last year’s event. She got involved because she was friends with Gupta and has seen her skills blossom due to her involvement in Who ART Thou? “Doing this last year, I was forced to use my training for the show,” she said. “I had just finished an art program and I find my art has really grown (since) the last (Who ART Thou?) show.”

Brett has lived in the area for years and finds the community focus a great change from so many other art shows, particularly given the neighbourhood pride evident in the Annex, Christie Pits and Seaton Village areas. “It’s a nice theme and it brings out a lot of familiar faces, which makes it even easier to enjoy,” she said. As with last year’s inaugural Who ART Thou? show, this year’s exhibit and sale will take place just in time to give

patrons a chance to get a head start on their Christmas shopping. Who ART Thou? will take place from Thursday, Nov. 29 to Sunday, Dec. 2 at the Beit Zatoun Gallery at 612 Markham St. There will be an opening night reception starting at 7 p.m. Nov. 29. For more information on the show, including details on some of the participating artists, visit www.whoartthou. ca

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Re-connect during Grey Cup festivities

his Sunday’s Grey Cup is more than just an opportunity to experience an annual celebration of a storied Canadian tradition. For Torontonians, this city is on display as the rest of the country watches. Being the 100th game, it’s a milestone event and we should be proud to be hosts. But the football game is also an opportunity for us to re-connect with and celebrate the city’s rich history in the sport. The first Grey Cup game was played at Toronto’s Rosedale Field Dec. 4, 1909. The University of Toronto Varsity Blues defeated the Parkdale Canoe Club 26-6. Of the 100 Grey Cup games, Toronto’s hosted nearly half of them at places such as Varsity Stadium, Exhibition Stadium and now the Rogers Centre. In addition to the Varsity and Parkdale teams – as well as the Argonauts – Toronto also once had a Balmy Beach team competing. Players such as Ted Reeve (a former Argonaut and Balmy Beach player) are enshrined in the our view city’s sporting history. Reeve’s name now adorns a sports Celebrate our facility in East York. Much has changed as Canadian football has evolved. history this While interest in the Argonauts may have waxed and waned in weekend recent years, the city’s connection to football remains strong. There’s a number of Toronto youth teams in the Central Ontario Minor Football League. Several high schools offer playing opportunities at different levels of competition and two universities, York and U of T, have varsity teams. A number of players on both of Sunday’s championship finalists, the Calgary Stampeders and the Argonauts, also have connections to the city. The great thing is, there are ways to celebrate and re-connect with the sport even if you don’t have tickets to the game. There are plenty of ancillary events taking place in the city. Also, treat this game as an opportunity to reach out to friends with whom you’ve had a connection through the sport. Perhaps you went to games together or watched them on television or played together in high school. When people get together, events like these can unite citizens and neighbourhoods. Friendships can be rekindled. New relationships can be forged. By hosting the milestone event, Toronto and its historic connection to Canadian football is being recognized. We should take this opportunity to renew and refresh the friendships that developed through our own connections to the sport. Toronto Community News is a division of Metroland Media Group Ltd. The Mirror is a member of the Ontario Press Council. Visit ontpress.com newsroom

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I am 10 years old and in Grade 5. I love to participate in extra-curricular activities in my school, and this teachers’ conflict is hitting kids like a ton of bricks. Teachers didn’t ask us what we wanted. Did they think this wouldn’t affect us? All kids in schools are affected by this horrible mess. It’s a disgrace to children and parents. Is there even an end to all of this? Does this mean extra-curricular activities will never be reinstated ever or just for the year? Our education doesn’t only occur in the classroom. It takes place on the playing fields, in the gymnasiums, on the diamonds and in so many other locations that extra-curricular activities take students. In closing, we need teachers back. It’s not their needs, it’s ours. How it gets done is up to the province and the unions. We learn to get along in the classroom, and the province and teachers should too. Kayla Herrington

Colle on executive committee a good move by mayor There have been a lot of dumb moves by the Mayor Rob Ford administration over the past year. But last Friday, the right-wing mayor and his so-very conservative team made a smart move, as they invited Eglinton-Lawrence Councillor Josh Colle to sit on their executive committee. Colle is a first-term councillor, and one of the more prominent voices – some would call him the de facto leader – of council’s so-called “mushy middle.” Now that is a deceptively unkind term to describe a group of councillors who essentially bring the kind of pragmatism that one would hope comes to nuts-andbolts municipal government, keeping their place on the political spectrum generally to themselves. More than the hated left,

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this group has been the real bane of Ford’s existence on the floor of council. They have proven themselves anything but mushy, as they rejected the mayor’s budget, derailed his plans to build a subway instead of light rail lines, replaced his TTC board of directors and approved a plastic bag ban for January. The mayor and his team have so far responded with glares and threats of electoral retribution. But as 2013 approaches, that strategy is proving ever-more hollow, particularly as the mayor’s personal troubles

stack up. Bringing Colle onto the executive committee could signal an intelligent shift. Colle has made it clear he’s going to vote independently, whether he’s sitting on the mayor’s team or not. That doesn’t seem to have dissuaded anyone in extending the invitation. And it shouldn’t. Colle has proven himself to be a leader among the middle. It was his amendment to the budget this year that reversed cuts championed by the mayor and the budget chief. He’s often at or near the middle of the compromises that pull that middle vote one way or another. And over the next two years, the Ford administration has to have some wins. If 2012 was a lesson in anything, it was humility: that however great a man-

date Ford received in 2010 when he was elected, he can’t count on that alone to bring about consensus on council. If he wants to succeed, he’ll have to follow the example of other mayors and seek consensus. Ford has begun to do this in recent meetings – notably, backing off his dream of selling off 700 detached homes owned by the Toronto Community Housing Corporation in favour of a small selloff and big renewal. With Colle onside, he will have a means to determine how to make those compromises earlier and more strategically. It could mean a balanced budget that passes with the consent of council. It could, if he plays it right, mean a rebirth for the Ford mayoralty.

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There are at least nine players in the Grey Cup who grew up playing football in Toronto, and at least three who grew up in the shadow of the Rogers Centre, playing in local schools from our coverage area. All from the Toronto Argonauts they include: n ADRIANO BELLI, defensive tackle: retired at the end of the 2010 season after 11 years, but came out of retirement last month with three games left in the regular season. SNAPSHOT: attended Central Tech High School in Toronto and was an active member of their football team. As a senior, he was declared to be one of the top two football players in the city. In 1994, he played in the Metro Bowl, but lost to Northern Secondary School.

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Canadian Football League commissioner Mark Cohon arrives at Union Station Friday with the Grey Cup in hand to officially kick off Grey Cup Festival activities.

n MATT BLACK, 27, safety/ special teams: in his fourth year, all with Toronto, led special teams in tackles this year with 20 and added 13 tackles on defence – both career highs. He recorded two

fumble recoveries including one for his first career touchdown. He returned two punt returns 27 yards (13.5 average); and 10 kickoff returns for 153 yards (15.3 average), the longest 30 yards. SNAPSHOT: the multitalented athlete also played hockey, baseball and ran track at Northern Secondary School. He was also an allstar member of the Metro Toronto Wildcats in the OVFL where he won the league’s most outstanding defensive back award. n TRISTAN BLACK, 27, linebacker/special teams. In his fourth year, the last three with the Argos. Recorded a careerhigh 17 special teams tackles, second best on team, and seven on defence. He also picked off one interception and scooped one fumble recovery. SNAPSHOT: he attended Central Tech High School and was a two-time Toronto Star all-city selection, playing his OVFL club football with the Scarborough Thunder. n ALSO FROM T.O. Other

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Rosedale Cavalcade of Lights Festival WHEN: 2 to 6 p.m. WHERE: Summerhill LCBO, 10 Scrivener Square CONTACT: Clorraine Dennie, info@ rosedalemainstreet.ca COST: Free Lighting of the 50 foot blue tree on top the CP bridge at 10 Scrivener Sq. Entertainment and activities planned along Yonge Street from Woodlawn Avenue to Crescent Road including:$5 food and drinks, live band, horse and wagon rides, petting zoo, face painting, photos with Santa, carousel rides, merchant promotions and activities, strolling performers and more. High Strings – Deep Voice

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Canadian Artists for Civil Liberties Launch Party WHEN: 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. WHERE: Lee’s Palace, 529 Bloor St. W. CONTACT: events@ccla.org COST: $15 in advance; $18 at the door; $10 for CCLA members The Canadian Civil Liberties Association launches the new initiative: Canadian Artists for Civil Liberties. Join the group for a special evening of performances in celebration of fundamental freedoms and human rights. It will feature musical performances, a reading; a spoken word performance and burlesque performance. The evening will be MC’d by CBC Music’s Vish Khanna.

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Grassroots archives play a valuable role in what has been called “the battle of memory”. Mainstream media and institutions of power consign inconvenient histories, struggles and alternative visions. People’s history projects, such as grassroots archives, preserve and share stories of resistance, hidden histories and alternative visions. How can we preserve the history of our movements? Where can we preserve them? Discussion.

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Gift Styling Workshop with a Green Touch WHEN: 10 a.m. to noon WHERE: Central Eglinton Community Centre, 160 Eglinton Ave. E. CONTACT: Nancy Lyon, 416-392-0511, www. centraleglinton.com COST: $30 Learn how to re-purpose things you have collected over time and you never thought you could use. Price includes all materials..

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t wasn’t until Forest Hill native James FitzGerald was asked to participate in a new reading series at the Parkdale Activity Recreation Centre (PARC) Monday that he learned what the west-end drop-in centre is all about. The 62-year-old award winning author and journalist, who has lived in Roncesvalles Village for the past three years, had driven by the centre many times but never been inside until a few months ago when he was asked to be the first author featured in PARC’s new Book With Us series. PARC, FitzGerald said in an interview prior to Monday’s presentation, is a place for art, writing and activity, and humanizes the every day experience for people with mental health struggles and allows them to shed the stigma that comes from psychiatric labeling. “I think ultimately it does not do a person a service to give them some label like bipolar or schizoaffective disorder,” he said. “It becomes part of their identity and they are stuck with it.” That de-pathologizing, which he said he sees at PARC, is a topic of great interest to FitzGerald; it is a subject addressed in his 2010 book, What Disturbs Our Blood: A Son’s Quest to Redeem the Past. FitzGerald was the 2010 winner of the Writer’s Union Trust Prize for What Disturbs Our Blood. His first book, Old Boys, was an oral history of Upper Canada College that exposed sexual abuse at the school. It was published in 1994 and led to three teachers being charged and a class action lawsuit. What Disturbs Our Blood is a family memoir intertwined with the history of Canadian medicine and psychiatry. Both FitzGerald’s grandfather, prominent Canadian physician John (Gerry) FitzGerald and his father John (Jack) FitzGerald, also a leader in Canadian medicine, were driven beyond sanity by the pressures in their careers and were immersed into mental health treatment including electric shock therapy and insulin shock therapy,

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which FitzGerald said led to both men’s demise. FitzGerald grew up in Forest Hill in a privileged family and attended private school. “We had everything on the outside,” he said. “And yet there was madness in our family. There was also brilliance and brilliant achievements, but both men cracked up in their mid-life crisis in their 50s.” His grandfather was founder of the internationally renowned Connaught Laboratories and the University of Toronto School of Hygiene. He initially studied psychiatry and did internships at John Hopkins Hospital and Sheppard Pratt psychiatric hospital before becoming the clinical director and chief pathologist of the Toronto Asylum for the Insane. He also served as Dean of Medicine at the University of Toronto. But at the height of his career, John FitzGerald had a mid-life crisis and fell into a deep depression. He was given insulin shock therapy at an asylum in the United States. “When he got out he killed himself,” FitzGerald said. “The treatment didn’t make him better, it made him more suicidal.” That was 10 years before FitzGerald was born and his grandfather’s story was kept a family secret. The pattern continued with FitzGerald’s father, Jack FitzGerald, who was a pioneer in his field of medicine and opened the first allergy clinic in Toronto. It was when FitzGerald was 15 or 16 that his father had a nervous breakdown and fell into a depression. He tried to kill himself

using morphine and again in 1970 only to be found by James FitzGerald’s sister who saved him. He spent the rest of his life, until his death in 1992, drugged and lethargic. It was with his father’s second suicide attempt that FitzGerald, a budding journalist, said he started to delve into his family’s secrets of suicide and mental health. “That was the turning point because that was when I started asking questions,” FitzGerald said. He started researching and asking questions of his father and grandfather’s aging colleagues and his mother to learn more about these men who were virtual strangers to him. It wasn’t until he went to the CAMH archives in 1995 and, by what he calls a “cosmic coincidence”, found 60 confessional letters written by his grandfather at the end of his life to a psychiatrist friend. “They had been sitting for 40 years untouched on a shelf,” he explained. “That week that I decided to walk in there (the wife of the friend) decided to donate them to the CAMH archives.” He read them all in one sitting, uncovering the dramatic and emotional life of a man who was a complete stranger to FitzGerald up to that point. “Then I realized I had a book,” he said. That book, What Disturbs Our Blood, is a true to life psychological drama and mystery novel exploring the fine line between high achievement and madness. “It is not a love letter to psychiatry,” FitzGerald said. “It is a kind of indictment of the history of psychiatry.”

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Opponents don’t want heritage designation hanging over their heads >>>from page 1 the cultural heritage resources of these neighbourhoods as a result of developer-compliant committees of adjustment, lax demolition laws and variable OMB (Ontario Municipal Board) chairs.” The issue has become particularly significant in Lawrence Park, with several homeowners battling heritage advocates at North York community council over the last few months. Even if communities want their neighbourhoods to become heritage conservation districts to preserve historical homes, Kettel said many individual homes could be lost during the long process of establishing the areas. But homeowners are upset the preservation panel has tried to have their homes designated as heritage houses against their wishes. They argued they have a right to enjoy their properties without having a restrictive heritage designation hanging over their heads, adding the

‘There is continuous erosion of the cultural heritage resources of these neighbourhoods ...’ ~ Geoff Kettel, panel chair preservation panel has often based its findings on flimsy criteria. “This is an insignificant nomination and this is not a heritage property,” Clint Becker, owner of 19 St. Leonard’s, told councillors at the June 13 community council meeting. An architectural expert disagreed with the panel’s assessment of the house and the previous owners, who lived there for 40 years, oppose the heritage designation, he said. In reports to council, Robert Freedman, director of urban design of the city’s planning division, said the three properties should not be included on the city’s

inventory of heritage properties or designated under the Ontario Heritage Act because they don’t meet criteria. In earlier reports, he also said nominations of the properties could not be completed at this time due to “current demands on limited resources of Heritage Preservation Services.” “While HPS endeavors to be proactive on the identification and protection of heritage properties, there is currently a large backlog of properties to be evaluated and only a single staff person to undertake evaluations of individual properties for the entire city of Toronto,” Freedman said. In addition, community preservation panels are expected to provide thorough historic research and documentation when nominating properties, which was not met for the three properties, he said. Bill Aird, president of the North York Historical Society, is upset heritage properties may be lost due to a lack of city staff.

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Day of Gifting helps aspiring actors in Regent Park The Regent Park Youth Theatre Program is already helping low-income youth who might not otherwise be able to pursue their interest in theatre. Now the two North York Grade 12 students who run the non-profit program have found another way to help teens in need. Lauren Brown and Lauren Runnalls are holding A Day of Gifting on Monday.

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They won’t be ready to ride until 2014, but for one day at least the TTC unveiled the first of the new sleek modern light rail vehicles to replace the city’s aging streetcar fleet. Representatives from all three levels of government were on hand at a press conference last week at the TTC’s Hillcrest complex to tour the new streetcar. The new low-floor Bombardier LRVs will be 25 feet longer than their articulated predecessors, allowing for 68 more passengers. The interior of the vehicle will contain no steps, allowing riders with mobility issues to board with ease, according to a fact sheet provided by the TTC. The new vehicles, which have a top speed of 70 kilometres per hour, are fully air-conditioned and provide space for bicycles as well as designated areas for wheelchairs and mobility scooters. TTC spokesperson Brad

‘The vehicle can now move off more quickly from a stop so that the vehicle behind doesn’t catch up.’ ~ Brad Ross, TTC spokesperson Ross said the new streetcars will run on the Presto fare system. Each vehicle will have Presto card readers riders can tap, as well as two automated ticket dispensers that will issue receipts that double as transfers. POP Having a proof of payment system (POP) in place will improve service and reliability, Ross said. “The vehicle can now move off more quickly from a stop so that the vehicle behind doesn’t catch up, and that’s when we get into situations like bunching and gapping,”

Ross said. It will still be more than a year before the public will get a chance to ride the new streetcar, but Ross said the TTC will make the test model it unveiled this week available for people to board. He said the vehicle will be on the streets in 2013, but only for testing purposes. If all goes well, the new vehicles could be in service in early 2014, but nothing is confirmed as of yet, Ross said. He said both the 510 Spadina and the 504 King routes could be the first lines the new streetcars run on, which are expected to run on all 11 of the city’s existing streetcar lines. Of the $1.2-billion price tag for the cars, two-thirds of the cost will be covered by the city and the TTC while the remaining third comes from the province. The TTC has also allocated a share of the federal gas tax fund – $108-million – toward the order of 204 vehicles to be manufactured at Bombardier’s Thunder Bay plant.

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food for the youngsters. St. James Town resident Surabhi Khare noted the program has made a big difference both for her family and in the life of her five-year-old son. She said the program’s emphasis on physical activities and healthy eating have been invaluable for the youngster. “These are things that are so important for children to know,” she said. She added that the pro-

gram’s arts and crafts portion helps children improve their motor skills while bringing children from junior kindergarten through Grade 3 together helps children with socialization. “My son is learning how to cope with older kids and how to make friends,” she said. Because Khare works until five or six p.m. most nights, the program lets her know her son will be safe until she is available to pick him up after work.

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“It’s very easy because the after-school team gets him right after school is finished and then at 5:30 or 6, I can walk over and go pick him up,” she said. While St. James Town Family Literacy Services receives some $60,000 a year from the Ministry of Health Promotion, its total annual cost runs close to $100,000. RBC supports the organization and its many initiatives in St. James Town on a consistent basis, but the

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Toronto transportation staff will look at ways to educate cyclists about the dangers of streetcar tracks, but the city’s works committee balked at a proposal to remove several kilometres of out-of-service tracks in locations around the city. The committee was looking at the issue of cyclists and streetcar tracks in part in reaction to the death of a cyclist who caught his tire in streetcar tracks on Wychwood Avenue, off St. Clair Avenue West in August. The cyclist died when he struck his head after falling off his bike. The tracks on Wychwood were out of commission and local councillors and cycling advocates said it made sense to fill in or remove the tracks to prevent future accidents. In total, there are 3.5 kilometres of disused streetcar tracks throughout Toronto. Trinity-Spadina Councillor Mike Layton moved the recommendations to simply report on filling in the streetcar tracks. “We know what a problem this is,” he said. “You know that certain care needs to be taken on streetcar tracks. And sometimes it’s dark,

Toronto Council should flat-out reject any attempts to locate a casino in Toronto on strict public health grounds, Toronto’s Board of Health has recommended. The board voted to refuse the casino after considering a report from Toronto’s Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. David McKeown, looking at the public health impacts of locating a gambling casino in Toronto. The report is one of two major reports council will be considering as it decides whether to invite the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation to establish a casino in Toronto. The report from McKeown recommended any casino be subject to 10 conditions, to mitigate the significant health problems surrounding problem gambling. The recommendations include limiting the hours of operation, restricting the number of slot machines, eliminating loyalty programs, keeping ATMs off the

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