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Architect aims to help preserve Cabbagetown JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com Though his name may be unknown to many living downtown, there’s no denying the impact Rollo Myers has had on Toronto’s built form. Myers has spent much of the last three decades working to preserve heritage sites and buildings in Cabbagetown, the St. Lawrence area and other portions in and around the city core. Born in Australia, he first came to Canada at the age of 15 when his father got a job teaching at the University of British Columbia in 1960. Though his
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Years after enduring a sexual assault, downtown Toronto resident Tara Muldoon has finally reached a point where she can forgive her attacker. Her journey to that point has helped fuel a new book that looks at the notion of forgiveness as a whole. Muldoon has assembled first-person accounts from a variety of sources in the book, titled F-You: The Forgiveness Project. “The book itself focuses a
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father returned home five years later, Myers and his brothers opted to remain on this side of the Pacific. “I was at university (studying architecture) and I had a lot of friends here,” he said. While living in B.C., Myers founded Topographics Ltd., a company that designed a way to turn maps into threedimensional renderings. He first came to Toronto in 1970 when the company moved its head office here. He settled in Cabbagetown with his wife, which helped steer his path as a protector of the city’s built history. >>>MYERS, page 10
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lot on violence and compassion and looks at what happens when you face violence,” she said. “It’s about forgiving yourself, forgiving the perpetrator and the perpetrator forgiving himself.” Muldoon noted she had a hard time coming to grips with being sexually assaulted, adding it took years for her to be able to forgive not only her attacker, but herself. “I think we, as human beings, like to feel in control,” she said. “When something happens that’s beyond our control, we >>>BOOK, page 6